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Scottish-sounding management consultancy McKinsey has donated Kedro to the Linux Foundation. Build back in 2019, McKinsey launched Kedro as an open source software tool on GitHub for data ...

This is guest blog post by James Fisher, Chief Product Officer, Qlik No, it’s not a typo – Explainable BI. Not to be mixed up with its close relative, Explainable AI. It is rapidly becoming ...

First, there was code. Then, the Earth cooled… and then there was low-code. Sometime after, there was also no-code and ultimately we saw that sometimes the two toolsets collided in a whirl of ...

This is a guest blogpost by Jay Heglar, Chief Business Officer, Domo. Contagion rate. Hospitalisation rate. Case fatality rate. We are now seeing the start of a new era where data takes a central ...

If there’s one word that has come up time and time again across the technology landscape in 2020 (apart from Covid-19 solutions etc.) then it has to be ‘observability’. This should come as no major ...

One of the only technology companies to have managed to stage its annual developer/customer/user-fast successfully in 2020 before the onset of Covid-19 by virtue of staging its convention in ...

Named (presumably) after the Greek winged horse, Pegasystems Inc (Pega to its friends) is a specialist in cloud software for customer engagement. Pega’s uses various AI techniques to (low-code) ...

Grafana comes from Grafana Labs -- it is a composable open source platform for metrics analytics, monitoring and visualisation.  It’s all about achieving observability, now that ‘observability’ is ...

Everybody loves a robot. To be clear, everybody loves a plastic robot, a movie robot or a friendly neighbourhood robot if it forms part of our increasingly prolific use of home (and indeed office ...

Software intelligence Application Performance Management (APM) company Dynatrace held its Perform conference in Las Vegas this week and the Computer Weekly Developer Network team was front and ...

Quiz time: list your top 10 Artificial Intelligence (AI) world hubs? Possible answers: Silicon Valley (obviously), Bangalore & Bengaluru (same place), Shanghai and Shenzen (both big footprints ...

Advanced analytics company QuantumBlack has released its racily-named CausalNex software product. This is the company’s second open source software development following its previous  launch of ...

Self-styled continuous intelligence company Sumo Logic has reached beta on two new analytics services that extend its Cloud Flex offering (a credit-based licensing strategy). Interactive ...

We live in a world of data analytics and software application development designed to function with ever-increasing levels of intelligence functionality based upon insight derived from analytics ...

Tableau has been acquired by Salesforce, but you wouldn’t know it if you attended the organisation’s annual data-developer conference this month. Why wouldn’t you know it? Because the firm is ...

Poorer areas of India and Ethiopia need access to clean water, civil engineering infrastructure development to improve sanitation as well as hygiene supplies and medicine. They need all of those ...

Tableau is known for its specialism in business intelligence, big data analytics and (perhaps most famously) for its interactive data dashboard technologies. But, Tableau still needs partners. ...

What’s not to love about log file management and trace analytics? Nothing apparently. Splunk managed to attract what was claimed to be somewhere over 11,000 attendees to Las Vegas for its .conf ...

Splunk has built new functions into its Security Operations Suite to modernize and unify its Security Operations Center (SOC) product. Anchored by the newly launched Splunk Mission Control, the ...

Splunk has ‘closed funding’ in Zonehaven, a cloud-based analytics application designed to help communities improve evacuations and reduce wildfire risk with data. The funding is the first ...

The Computer Weekly Developer Network team are big fans of business intelligence and big data analytics, interactive data dashboard technologies, data visualisation specialists and companies that ...

UiPath has been shopping, perhaps unsurprisingly. The software automation company specialises in the platform-level development of Robotic Process Automation (RPA) technologies. Having been on a ...

The Computer Weekly Developer Network team is off to Splunk .conf for the fourth consecutive year. Splunk is a Data-to-Everything Platform, helping organisations to get a complete view of their ...

During the Future Decoded conference in London, Microsoft discussed a paradigm shift in application development. But it was not setting out its plans for a new software developer’s kit, programming ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Travis Greene in his capacity as director of ITOM at Micro Focus – and this story forms part of a series of posts on CWDN ...

Sumo Logic CEO Ramin Sayar delivered his keynote at the company’s Illuminate 2019 conference to reinforce his assertion that there is ‘a massive intelligence gap’ throughout modern technology ...

BRM is now a ‘thing’... and it’s not in fact meant to relate to the noise that children make when they pretend to rev up the imaginary engines on their toy cars, instead, it stands for Business ...

Pentaho is still Pentaho, but these days it’s a product line and accompanying division inside of Hitachi… and not just plain old Hitachi Ltd, but Hitachi Vantara -- a company branding exercise that ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Ian Greenhalgh in his role as UK & US managing partner at Delaware. Spelled in lower case, delaware is a software ...

Talend senior product manager David Talaga spoke to the Computer Weekly Developer Network this month to talk about data, programming, computer vision systems, advances in AI and garden weeds. Using ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Paul Clough in his role as data scientist at UK-headquartered business analytics company Peak Indicators -- Clough is also ...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) for human decision-making software company Fractal Analytics this week held its ai.lcy (pronounced: AI-el-see-why) event in London. The event, which is the third of a ...

Data integration/analytics/management company Tibco has come forward with a new release of TIBCO Spotfire X, its core data analytics tool The firm has now combined both real-time and historical ...

Machine Learning (ML) doesn’t just learn, it needs training… and there’s no ML training without a ML training model. The so who’s doing the training and who’s building the models? Enterprise AI ...

Question: In what kind of world do tech reporters gravitate toward log file machine data analytics conferences three years in a row in preference over (perhaps what might be) some of the other ...

It’s not every be company that gets to call its annual conference and user symposium after itself. IBMference doesn’t work, Dellevent is silly and Oraclefest sounds too much like a German bierhaus ...

Essentially open source Business Process Management (BPM) software company Bonitasoft has introduced its Bonita 7.7 iteration release. This is BPM software with Intelligent Continuous Improvement ...

It’s always a funny thing with enterprise technology firms, isn’t it? A company that you imagine to be laser focused on upper-tier ‘presentation layer’ technologies hits you with a message set ...

Low-code software application development company Appian holds its annual user conference and exhibition this week in Will Smith's favourite holiday hangout, Miami Beach Florida. First to the table ...

Developers need to know more about workflow automation, it appears. As analyst ‘thumb in the air’ pontificating predictions have ‘suggested’, the workflow automation market is expected to reach ...

There are many magic rings in this world Frodo, just as there are many job titles spanning the ever-growing realm of software application development, programming and all related disciplines that ...

Apple and IBM have been working together for a few years. Thought to be an unlikely couple by some, the two firms established a partnership in 2014 to work on integration projects. Fast forward to ...

Machine data analytics company Splunk has acquired security orchestration firm Phantom Cyber Corporation. Phantom is more widely known as a SOAR player – Security, Orchestration, Automation and ...

Visual analytics company Tableau Software has launched a new data engine technology called Hyper. The software is included in the Tableau 10.5 version release. Hyper is designed to 'slice and dice' ...

German enterprise software company SAP has used its TechEd Europe 2017 conference and exhibition to detail news of its SAP Leonardo Machine Learning Foundation (which is based on the SAP Cloud ...

For software application developers and analytical DataBase Administrators (DBAs) in the retail, banking, government services and related commercial 'shopping' space, the promise of a cashless ...

Hardcore technologists will be found in all departments in businesses because most will become tech companies at core.

Machine data operational intelligence platform specialist Splunk has gone all Alan Partridge. The company known for its down-at-the-data-layer technologies and its tongue-in-cheek t-shirts now says ...

It's Friday (okay  this is the Internet and this is here forever, but it's Friday at the time of writing)... and that means we all wish we could take the day off, work a four-day week (or less ...

TIBCO is in the middle of a raft of product updates and extensions. The data integration firm's TIBCO Spotfire Data Catalog is describe as a data connectivity and data management product with a ...

Digital transformation blah blah blah, there's usually more to TIBCO (The Integration Bus COmpany) than the usual industry padding and rhetoric, so what could its Now 2017 conference and exhibition ...

Big data analytics and infrastructure deployment company BlueData has attempted to explain why developers and data scientists working on the front line of big data implementations need to consider ...

As all tech experts know, it is only a matter of time before artificial intelligence (AI) takes over the world, eliminates all our jobs, creates Skynet and the terminator, and enslaves us all in ...

Open source database company MariaDB Corporation is on a politically charged mission to bring data analytics to the people, or so it says. Bourgeois analyst cognoscenti The firm has grandiosely ...

As we know, Microsoft now lists its platform interests in plural and points (along with Windows) to Office365, Azure cloud, .NET and onward to its newer approach to cognitive services. Running ...

Headline key: IFS gets IoT into ERP & EAM for EOI -- Industrial and Financial Systems gets Internet of Things [data] into Enterprise Resource Planning and Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) for ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network blog written by Andy Lowry in his capacity as development team lead at LateRooms.com -- Lowry has been writing software professionally ...

As a football fan, it’s not often I get to indulge in a bit of technology-football crossover, but the Leicester City fairytale is too good an opportunity to miss. It seems it’s also a story that ...