Meet the Citizen Developer

February 3, 2017 by George V. Hulme 7 Comments

Much has been written on the rise of citizen developers, but little about who they are and why they choose to do what they do The enterprise is always thirsty for new applications. More than ever, this thirst seems unquenchable. Consider a recent market analysis from Global Market Insights, which expects the enterprise application market […]

How to Avoid Trouble when Deploying Apps to Multiple Clouds

September 12, 2016 by Brian Wheeler 1 Comments

Deployment is where Dev meets Ops. The glue that binds the two is orchestration, which places operations guidelines in the application itself. Here’s how to avoid trouble when deploying your apps to multiple clouds. Things move faster when your infrastructure is the cloud. Applications go from concept to production in hours rather than weeks or […]

DevOps and Continuous Delivery: Not the Same

April 8, 2016 by Michael Schmidt 6 Comments

DevOps and continuous delivery are the same thing, right? Far from it. We peer through the fog to understand the difference between the two related but distinct methodologies. We live in an era of apps. More and more of our personal, social and work life is governed by apps—communicating with one another through social apps, […]

Mobile Testing’s Role in Staying Alive

April 5, 2016 by David Ben Horin 0 Comments

Have you ever forgotten to take your pills? You’re not the only one. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, half of the people prescribed medication eventually stop following their doctors orders. It’s a dangerous game of Russian roulette. Most of us simply forget. For the elderly, who take more medications with different […]

Avaya Delivers the Next Big Thing for Developing Digital Business Communications and Customer Service Smart Apps

March 7, 2016 by Miles Blatstein 1 Comments

Avaya Breeze Provides a Next-Generation Technology Platform With a Framework, Development Environment, and the Industry’s First eCommerce Delivery Mechanism for Embedding Open, Mobile Digital Communication ORLANDO, FL – Enterprise Connect 2016 – Booth #1707 — More than two-thirds of IT executives plan to increase spending on mobile, customer-facing and cloud migration applications over the next two years […]

DevOps Q&A: Datalink’s Dennis Vickers on MobileApps

February 16, 2016 by David Geer 1 Comments

Companies are custom-building mobile enterprise applications to enhance employee productivity on smartphones. DevOps.com recently spoke with Dennis Vickers, director of Software Solutions at data center services and solutions provider Datalink about this trend and where DevOps fits in to the process. DevOps.com: Why does applying smartphones to business initiatives require so much additional custom-built software? Vickers: […]

DevOps, Containers and Faster Time-to-Parity

June 1, 2015 by contributor 4 Comments

DevOps discussions often focus on the value of getting innovative applications to market quickly. And it’s true. Getting a cool new application into production quickly can help you differentiate yourself in today’s app-sensitive marketplace. But, in reality, most development is devoted to “Me Too” applications—and these apps are no less important to the business than […]

Five areas of software development innovation to watch

May 13, 2015 by contributor 1 Comments

Software development has undergone a massive transformation in the last two decades. From the first wave of breakthrough do-it-all PC applications such as Lotus 1-2-3 and Microsoft Office, to the launch of the first iPhone and its all-new “app” category, to the recent release of the iWatch and its projected evolution of apps, developers have […]