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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 ...

The creation of tech startup Trint by a journalist brings home the importance of intimacy with a business problem

In this guest post, Chris Hodson, chief information security officer for Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) at internet security firm Zscaler, takes a closer look at why cloud security remains ...

Why is there so much publicity for 40 year old AI techniques, albeit with more processing power, bigger data files and more reliable communications lines?

What a season of technology events this is. Well, to be clear, what a season of technology events awaits us through the 'fall' period in 2018. All the tech symposia and conference proceedings about ...

What’s being ‘pushed to’ open source this last weekend or so? Answer: quite a lot. There’s a whole smörgåsbord of openness out there… but one project emanating from Redmond stands out for sure. ...

Australia's eCorner has signed a deal with Macquarie Cloud Services to help it use public cloud services to fend off growing competition from larger US providers. The Sydney-based e-commerce ...

Before we start, we need to understand how to pronounce cloud application development company Skuid. Go on, we dare you… we double dare you. Did you say skew-id, skood or scho-eey-dee? Wrong, it’s ...

New England headquartered application development company Progress is flexing its programmer credentials this month. The Massachusetts-HQ’d firm has now come forward with its Progress Spark ...

In this guest post, Allan Brearley, cloud practice lead at IT services consultancy ECS, advises enterprises to start small to achieve big change in their organisations with cloud. The success of ...

When IT vendors talk about the market, they tend to focus on how they would like the world to be rather than how it actually is. This often means they fail to connect as well as they could with the ...

Sainsbury’s is trialling its first ever till-free supermarket, entrusting us with the task of scanning our own items via our smartphones. This comes as good news for those of us who feel the ...

This is a guest blogpost by Neo4j co-founder and CEO Emil Eifrem, who explains why his sector needs its own ‘General Query Language’. In the same way that SQL helped facilitate the growth and ...

The following post is a guest piece written by Katrine Spirina in her role as an in-house technology journalist with software development company Ocsico covering trends in web and mobile ...

This is a guest blogpost by Neil Barton, CTO, WhereScape For CDOs, defining the data and analytics strategy for their organization is increasingly the most important aspect of their job, with 86% ...

Cloud giant Amazon has announced the open source release of its Alexa Auto SDK (Software Development Kit). The news comes from the company’s Amazon Voice Services (AVS) division. The SDK is ...

This is a guest blog post by Brendan O’Rourke, head of design at BriteBill, an Amdocs company. It’s no secret that today’s customers are more demanding than previous generations. They share their ...

SAP is about to embark upon the US leg of its SAP SuccessFactors SuccessConnect conference series… so what can we expect? With the European element of this conference having already been staged in ...

Open source log file analytics specialist InfluxData is insistent that we should take a ‘metrics first’ approach to log analysis. The company says believes in a metrics first approach that provides ...

Will Liam Maxwell’s departure be the straw that broke the camel’s back when it comes to government’s progress on digital?

As much as we try to embrace all the various wonders of modern technology, we still turn into Danny DeVito’s character as the bitter, resentful father in Matilda whenever we see a news story about ...

The Linux Foundation Deep Learning Foundation (LF DLF) has announced five new members: Ciena, DiDi, Intel, Orange and Red Hat. As an umbrella organization of The Linux Foundation itself, the LF DLF ...

Fintech driven challenger banks could make white label banking services attractive to businesses in various consumer facing sectors

What should you call your technology conference, exhibition, symposium and all-round shindig these days? The name choices are various, but fall into a group of usual suspects including: TechEd, ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Open Source Inside blog written by by Ben Slater in his role as chief product officer at Instaclustr. Instaclustr is known for its focus on providing ...

There needs to be a concerted effort to educate the population about the benefits open banking can offer individuals and society

The Computer Weekly Open Source Insider blog ran a story this June 2018 detailing work carried out by large-scale interactive geospatial analytics company MapD and its work to provide a higher ...

A backlash against a Fitbit feature which allows women to track their period has highlighted the need for more diverse technology teams. In the summer of 2018 Fitbit added “female health tracking” ...

In this guest blog post, student Abi Pearson describes how her work experience at industry body techUK made her consider a career in tech for the first time. I am a sixteen-year-old woman and I'm ...

Like a London bus, you wait forever for a geolocation related developer tool and then two come along at once. Last week we noted Here technologies and its geocoding capabilities. This week it’s the ...