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  • Banking Technology Recognizes GigaSpaces Real-Time Analytics and Extreme Transactional Processing Platform

    GigaSpaces Customers Daiwa Capital Markets and Société Générale Shortlisted for Three Awards Based on Innovative Successful Deployments  

    New York, NY — November 14, 2018 — GigaSpaces, the provider of InsightEdge, a leading in-memory real-time analytics platform announced today together with two of its customers that they have been shortlisted for three Banking Technology Awards; Best Use of IT in Treasury and Capital Markets for Daiwa Capital Markets and Société Générale, Top Digital Innovation for Daiwa Capital Markets and Best Use of Data for Société Générale.  Now in their 19th year, the Banking Technology Awards recognize excellence and innovation in the use of IT in financial services worldwide.

    The Daiwa Capital Markets project leverages GigaSpaces in-memory computing platform as the underlying core software architecture in the DATS – Daiwa Algorithm Trading System. Société Générale has deployed their SDS: SGCIB Data Services, a heterogeneous distributed worldwide data services platform, with GigaSpaces.

    “Financial services organizations require the capabilities to obtain real-time insights that fuel optimized operations, services and enhanced customer experiences,” said Karen Krivaa, VP Marketing at GigaSpaces.  “We are proud that our customers have received recognition, leveraging our technology to continuously innovate on differentiated services as they face fierce competition for today’s increasingly demanding customers and stricter regulations.”

     The GigaSpaces in-memory software platform ingests, processes and analyzes data from multiple sources in real-time across millions of events at sub-second latency. The data can be leveraged as a “single-source of truth” for hundreds of concurrent mission-critical applications delivering  instant insights and smarter actions. Whether deployed on cloud, on premise or hybrid, the always-on platform simplifies big-data and analytic workloads so developers and business analysts can easily build the right applications to optimize their business initiatives. Financial Institutions around the globe are leveraging GigaSpaces InsightEdge and XAP for applications including algorithmic trading, risk management, post and intraday trade processing, trade matching and reconciliation, instant payment processing, fraud detection, customer service applications and many more.

    About GigaSpaces

    GigaSpaces provides leading in-memory computing platforms for real-time insight to action and extreme transactional processing.  With GigaSpaces, enterprises can operationalize machine learning and transactional processing to gain real-time insights on their data and act upon them in the moment.  The always-on platforms for mission-critical applications across cloud, on-premise or hybrid, are leveraged by hundreds of Tier-1 and Fortune-listed organizations worldwide across financial services, retail, transportation, telecom, healthcare, and more. GigaSpaces offices are located in the US, Europe and Asia.

    More at www.gigaspaces.com and blog.gigaspaces.com.

  • CHAOSSEARCH Raises $9M to Bring Unlimited Log Data Retention, Search and Analytics to AWS S3

    Powerful New Indexing Technology Extends the Elastic Stack (ELK) to Address Limitations with Log Storage, Management and Analytics

    Boston, MA – November 14, 2018 – CHAOSSEARCH, the first log search and analytics platform built for AWS S3, today announced it raised $9M in a Series A funding. The round was co-led by .406 Ventures and Glasswing Ventures, with participation from existing investor, Stage 1 Ventures. CHAOSSEARCH was founded in 2017 as Chaos Sumo with a mission to simplify data storage, management and analytics for AWS S3. The new funding will accelerate this mission and expand the company charter to enable DevOps teams to extend their log and event data retention and usage. With the addition of this funding, Graham Brooks, partner at .406 Ventures, and Rudina Seseri, founder and managing partner at Glasswing Ventures, will join the company’s Board of Directors.

    “We are excited to receive support from leading investors .406 Ventures and Glasswing Ventures, both of whom bring deep domain expertise in data and cloud,” said Les Yetton, CEO and Co-Founder, CHAOSSEARCH. “We’re focusing initially on extending access to the long tail of data for ELK environments, but see a big opportunity to unlock the potential of AWS S3 as an intelligent, searchable data analytics platform.”

    New Investment Reflects the Log and Event Data Opportunity on AWS S3

    “CHAOSSEARCH is a potential game-changer for big data analytics, enabling unprecedented performance for log and event data access and visibility,” said Graham Brooks with .406 Ventures. “They have introduced unique capabilities to the growing global DevOps market that enable much better big data retention and management, deeper customer and application analytics, cost-effective long-term security log retention for anomaly detection, and new opportunities for companies to build unique new SaaS offerings on top of their own data.”

    Rudina Seseri with Glasswing Ventures added: “CHAOSSEARCH is laying down the critical groundwork of building a solution that decouples storage from compute, reducing data size and storage costs and allowing searchability on storage services like S3. We are delighted to invest in CHAOSSEARCH and its exceptional tech entrepreneurs who are creating the foundational infrastructure needed to enable an AI/machine learning-enabled world.”

    An Innovative and Cost Effective Approach to Taming Log and Event Data on AWS S3
    CHAOSSEARCH is the only platform that enables DevOps teams to store, search, query and visualize terabytes of historic log data on their existing AWS S3 infrastructure, instantly reducing their data footprint and operational overhead and cutting operational costs by up to 80 percent.  Built for teams using the ELK Stack, CHAOSSEARCH extends the Elastic API onto S3, turning it into a warm ELK-compatible logging solution and opening up access to terabytes of log data with out-of-the box Kibana data visualizations.

    “The Jitterbit API integration platform processes unlimited data in a linearly scalable way but the question was – how do we do the same for search?” said Betsy Bilhorn, SVP of Product for Jitterbit. “CHAOSSEARCH has proven to be easy to use and lightning fast at doing just that, all within our own S3 infrastructure. We’re very excited for the new capabilities we’ll be bringing to market powered by CHAOSSEARCH.”

    “Historically, companies could not scale their log and event analytics at an effective cost, or even consider AWS S3 as the only backing store,” said Thomas Hazel, CTO and Founder, CHAOSSEARCH. “CHAOSSEARCH has solved these limitations by building a cloud first, high-performing database that enables text search and relational analytics directly on the customer’s S3 account. CHAOSSEARCH’s patent-pending Data Edge index technology changes everything.”

    Key features of the CHAOSSEARCH platform include:

    • Turns AWS S3 into a easy-to-use, searchable ELK compatible logging solution – with no changes required to existing ELK compatible applications
    • Automates the discovery, organization and indexing of log and event data types and sources
    • Visualizes hot and warm log clusters from a single Kibana instance
    • Offers unlimited data retention, all securely within customer’s own AWS S3 infrastructure
    • Enables integrated text search and relational queries from a single platform
    • Empowers Machine Learning-based insights and predictive analysis with access to massive data sets over time
    • Provides high performance at low cost with pricing starting as low as $20 per GB daily volume

    Those interested in CHAOSSEARCH can sign up to a free trial, available as a cloud service on AWS, here. The CHAOSSEARCH team will also be at AWS re:Invent 2018, booth 238, and will be showing the platform at the event.

    About CHAOSSEARCH

    CHAOSSEARCH is a cloud-native log and event data management and analytics service on AWS empowering SaaS businesses to store, search, query and visualize terabytes of data within their own S3 infrastructure. CHAOSSEARCH automates the discovery, organization and indexing of all log data types and sources. With AWS S3 and Elasticsearch API extensions, the service enables historical trend and machine learning analytics over large datasets at a fraction of the cost of alternative solutions, delivering both relational and text-based analysis through a single console with an integrated Kibana interface. For more information or to start a free trial visit https://www.chaossearch.io.

    About .406 Ventures

    .406 Ventures is an early stage venture capital firm investing in market-changing enterprise technology companies founded by visionary entrepreneurs. With over $650M under management, the .406 Ventures team comprises former entrepreneurs and operators who apply real-world experience and strong company-building skills to assist their entrepreneurs in creating value. .406Ventures’ Data and Cloud investments include Abacus Insights, CloudHealth Technologies, Digitalsmiths, Gamalon, indico, Mashery, Reltio and Simon Data, among others. For more information, please visit www.406ventures.com.

    About Glasswing Ventures

    Glasswing Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm dedicated to investing in the next generation of AI and frontier technology startups that enable the rise of the intelligent enterprise. We leverage our deep domain expertise and our world-leading advisory councils to invest in exceptional founders who are driving the AI revolution and fostering growth for the ecosystem. For more information about the firm please visit: http://glasswing.vc.

    About Stage 1 Ventures

    Stage 1 Ventures is an early stage venture capital firm that is seeking to build partnerships with great entrepreneurs that are flexible and who want to build meaningful companies. We want to assist you with our global network of relationships as well as provide the capital you need to fuel the growth of your company.  For more information, please visit www.stage1ventures.com.

     

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  • Datree launches a partnership with CircleCI

    Datree, the GitOps management platform, has partnered with CircleCI, the leading automated Continuous Integration and Delivery system. As a CircleCI Technology Partner, datree has released CircleCI Orbs to help companies achieve technical excellence and improve production stability. Datree’s first CircleCI orb helps companies keep control of their package versioning, ensuring that only stable, approved software versions are pushed to production.

    CircleCI automates the deployment of software, taking the code in a repository, building it, testing it and then pushing it live to a staging or production environment. CircleCI introduced Orbs to make it easy to configure the platform to work with other tools.

    Datree is a centralized policy engine that works at the Git control level, automatically checking every pull request before it’s merged into production. Datree helps developers to follow best practices, preventing mistakes or misconfigurations from ever being included in a repo.

    Datree’s Orb for CircleCI brings datree’s advanced features to the entire CI/CD pipeline. For example, developers can use the datree Orb to align and control versions of packages across different repositories, projects and teams. Specific examples include:

    • UI package versioning alignment, stopping discrepancies between different versions of the same package UI components across different projects.
    • Internal package versioning alignment, ensuring the same up-to-date version of an internal package is in use across different projects.
    • Open source, letting developers create a blacklist of risky versions of specific open source packages.

    “CircleCI makes build, testing and deployment easy and fast,” said datree CEO Arthur Shmunk. “We’re excited to partner with CircleCI to an Orb for datree’s Git-level gatekeeper, giving developers control over their repositories and code at all stages in the Software development and deployment process”

     

  • Codefresh Removes Barriers to Helm Ecosystem by Launching Integration with Microsoft Azure

    Codefresh exposes and makes easier what Helm is really designed for

    Mountain View, CA, November 13, 2018 — Codefresh today announced integration with Microsoft Azure hosted Helm Repositories, an important step in making it incredibly efficient for teams to adopt Helm by removing the barriers to the Helm ecosystem.

    As the Helm ecosystem grows, Codefresh is leading the way with Microsoft making it easier to build, test, and deploy Helm Charts with an easy-to-use Codefresh GUI, and store them in the Azure Container Registry. This is valuable for teams using Kubernetes as users can package Kubernetes applications with the charts and the images they reference together.

    The Codefresh integration with Azure offers:

    • Login with Azure to add repositories to Codefresh; no additional authentication configuration required
    • Consume and push Charts from Codefresh
    • Manage Chart deployments in all connected Kubernetes clusters
    • Geo-replicate charts across multiple regions, using the Azure Container Registry Geo-replication

    Dan Garfield, Codefresh’s Chief Technology Evangelist, said, “Codefresh exposes and makes a lot easier the pattern that Helm is really designed for, which is to make your application, package it, store it, and then consume it.  That way, you have disaster recovery built in because you can always roll back.”

    As the first Kubernetes-native Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) platform, Codefresh helps developers instantly build, test, and deploy to Kubernetes, and gather feedback on apps, resulting in up to 24-times faster development times.

    “As CNCF is focused on fostering innovation within the cloud native ecosystem, we’re thrilled to see members like Codefresh and Microsoft Azure working to support the needs of such a fast-moving community,” said Dan Kohn, executive director of Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), incubator of Helm.

    Krishnan Subramanian, Rishidot Research analyst and cloud computing and open source expert, added, “By providing a managed Helm repository, Codefresh helps Helm to fulfill the high and much anticipated market expectations of the package manager as a key component in the mass adoption of microservices. This buy-in from Codefresh and Microsoft legitimizes Helm, meaning more enterprises will take full advantage of all Kubernetes has to offer – to speed development, improve security, and easily update and manage applications – and ultimately reduce time to market.”

    “Helm Chart Repositories are a natural and obvious addition to Azure Container Registry as we see more and more customers moving into production needing a means to deploy a collection of images and configurations. Being able to geo-replicate Helm Charts alongside their referenced images using common authentication streamlines chart deployments. We continue to be impressed by the focus and experiences Codefresh brings to container native development, and the creative and customer focused team,” Steve Lasker, Principal Program Manager, Microsoft Container Registries.

    Details about the integration for Azure Helm Repositories can be found in Codefresh’s new blog, “Codefresh adds native integration for Azure Helm Repositories.” In addition, Codefresh is hosting a webinar on Wednesday, November 28 at 10:00 a.m. Pacific, Updating Kubernetes With Helm Charts: Build, Test, Deploy with Codefresh and Azure hosted by Microsoft Azure’s Lasker and Codefresh’s Garfield.

    About Codefresh, Inc.
    Founded in 2014, Codefresh is the first Kubernetes-native CI/CD. After GA in 2017, Codefresh has already gained over 20,000 users. Unlike legacy solutions, Codefresh pipelines are uniquely designed for cloud-native technologies like Kubernetes and Helm. Codefresh is headquartered in Mountain View, CA and backed by world-class investors: M12, Microsoft’s venture fund, Viola Ventures, Hillsven, CEIIF, UpWest Labs and Streamlined Ventures. Learn more about Codefresh at https://codefresh.io/. Follow on LinkedIn and Twitter at @codefresh.

     

  • Near-Zero Debugging Time: OzCode Unveils Industry’s First Debugging-as-a-Service

    OzCode’s highly visual and insightful service offers time travel production debugging to provide fastest insight on how and why code fails

    Herzliya Pituach, Israel, Nov. 13, 2018 – With a promise to reduce arduous debugging time from hours and sometimes days down to mere minutes, OzCode, a startup making debugging more visual and insightful for software developers, today launched the industry’s first Debugging-as-a-Service (DaaS). Accessible through the Microsoft Azure cloud platform, OzCode’s Azure DevOps solution provides collaboration, root cause analysis, and unique (patent-pending) time travel, allowing developers to pinpoint the exact moment of failure in a distributed cloud environment.

    The production-debugging toolset includes:

    • “Prebugging” allowing developers to see into the future and fix bugs before they happen
    • Automatic redaction of personally identifiable information (PII) to comply with regulatory constraints
    • “Live coding” to obtain instant verification of changes before re-deploying
    • Fast, intuitive analysis of crash dumps
    • Automated tests from production use-cases
    • Full traceability that integrates into the existing bug tracking DevOps workflow

    “Studies show that roughly 50 percent of a software developer’s time is spent debugging. OzCode’s DaaS solution reduces that time significantly and makes it possible – for the first time – for coders to find the problematic source code easily and quickly,” said Omer Raviv, Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of OzCode. “Our goal is to drastically reduce the amount of time spent on debugging, and thereby improve the lives of our fellow developers.”

    With product features supported and tested by a community of outside developers and engineers, OzCode was first created as an integrated development environment (IDE) extension for Visual Studio, now used by more than 1,000 customers and 5,000 developers. The next release of OzCode’s Azure DevOps will provide more robust production debugging capabilities and integrate with any developer, on any cloud.

    “OzCode creates amazingly powerful debugging experiences that save countless debugging hours,” said Mattias Karlsson, Technical Fellow and Microsoft Azure MVP. “It helps me as a developer gain a deep understanding of the root cause of every bug and makes sure that I can provide the best possible fix for it. I am excited to see them bring this new, much-needed innovation into the production debugging and DevOps space.”

    Leading Israeli venture capital RDC (jointly owned by Elron and Rafael) and TPY Capital led OzCode’s funding round to support the production debugging product development with $3.5 million in seed capital.

    “OzCode has clearly taken the DevOps experience to an entirely new level,” said Kobi Katz, VP and CIO at Rafael. “By revolutionizing the role of the DevOps community and facilitating far better and more frequent software launches, OzCode puts the developer’s focus on innovation rather than the tedious task of fixing bugs. This ultimately produces direct and significant business results for OzCode customers.”

    “During the due diligence process, we were thoroughly impressed with what the OzCode team has managed to achieve to date. With only little in the way of capital or human resources, the company had obtained a cult-like following of thousands of developers who’ve seen their daily routine dramatically improve by using OzCode’s technology,” said Guy Yamen, Managing Partner at TPY Capital.

    Following the round, Yaron Elad and Kobi Katz from RDC, and Guy Yamen from TPY Capital will join OzCode’s Board of Directors.

    About OzCode, Inc.
    OzCode offers a visual and insightful Debugging-as-a-Service (DaaS) that cuts debugging time by half so developers can concentrate on writing code. With funding from RDC (Elron’s joint venture with Rafael) and TPY Capital, OzCode has reinvented debugging using innovative, production-ready tools for root cause analysis, collaboration, and real-time bug triage across platforms. For more information, visit www.oz-code.com. Find us on Twitter at @oz_code or LinkedIn.

  • DevOpsGroup Expands into the Home of FinTech

    [London, 8thNovember 2018] High-performance IT consultancy DevOpsGroup has expanded its presence in the capital and made Rise London the newest addition to its UK locations.

    Rise is located in the heart of Shoreditch and is home to a thriving community of FinTech companies, as well as the Barclays Accelerator.

    Cardiff-headquartered DevOpsGroup, which specialises in DevOps and cloud engineering, plans to use the contemporary tech hub as a base for staff, client engagement, recruitment, and community events.

    James Smith, Co-Founder and CEO of DevOpsGroup, said: “We’re thrilled to be expanding to London with an office at Rise, a catalyst for innovation in the capital. Our new office will allow us to continue diversifying our team, generating value for our customers, and supporting the fast-growing DevOps and FinTech communities in London and beyond.”

    Accelerating growth 

    This latest news follows the recent headlines surrounding DevOpsGroup as it undergoes rapid expansion. In 2018, the IT consultancy has raised £3 million in funding from the Business Growth Fund (BGF), hired over 35 people, and rebranded from DevOpsGuys to DevOpsGroup to reflect growing diversity in the team.

    Last month saw DevOpsGroup ranked 13th in the prestigious Fast Growth 50 list of Wales’ fastest growing companies. Between 2015-17, the consultancy saw growth of 286% and is on course to make a huge impact in a global market predicted to reach $12.85 billion by 2025 (figures taken from Grand View Research).

    A world-class facility

    Operating globally, Rise connects innovative start-ups and scale-ups to transform financial services and is backed by Barclays’ global network of experts, mentors, investors, and partners.

    Steve Thair, Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer (CPO) of DevOpsGroup, said: “Rise London is a great fit with our company values and ethos. As well as being a highly contemporary and vibrant location, the space is also home to a large community of technology businesses and entrepreneurs who are disrupting the industries in which they operate.”

    Tony Margiotta, General Manager of Rise London, said: “Rise brings together the world’s top FinTech innovators to create the future of financial services. Having new members DevOpsGroup joining us part of our growing community is super exciting. I look forward to a great collaborative relationship here in our London home.”

     

  • MapR Announces Clarity Program for Cloudera and Hortonworks Customers with New Platform Update and Free Data Assessment Service

    The Clarity Program Provides a Clear Path for AI, Cloud, Containers and IoT

     

    Santa Clara, Calif. –November 7, 2018 –MapR® Technologies, Inc., provider of the industry’s next generation data platform for AI and Analytics, today announced the Clarity Program, a new product release and a free assessment service that provides a comprehensive understanding of a customer’s current data environment and the best practices to achieve a clear path to support AI, cloud, containers and IoT deployments.

    “Many companies have a data lake in place and have questions about how to get to the cloud, support hybrid environments, leverage containers, and extend data processing at the edge,” said Mike Leone, senior analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group. “These questions are more important than ever as customers look to understand how the Cloudera Hortonworks merger impacts product roadmap and the timeliness of future innovation. MapR answers all these questions with a generally available product today.”

    The Clarity Program consists of MapR Data Platform updates that include capabilities and new features that address:

    • Broad Support for AI – MapR supports diverse data management and logistics capabilities with standard interfaces to directly support tools such as TensorFlow, Caffe, and PyTorch. MapR Clarity also includes the recently announced support for RAPIDS open-source software from NVIDIA and the ability to inject data flows directly into GPU-driven data science projects. New features for the MapR Data Science Refinery include support for the Helium repository browser and ability to share Zeppelin visualization packages across multiple containers. The Clarity Program provides these AI related capabilities today which clears up confusion caused by incomplete competing solutions.
    • Synchronized Cloud and Multi-Cloud – MapR underscores cross-cloud synchronization and data replication with new S3-compatible API support. Not only can on-premises file-based applications directly use object storage across clouds, MapR can coordinate data access and flows with existing Hadoop installations forestalling the need for wholesale replacement. Data synchronization across locations, whether on-premises, cloud or at the edge, remains a challenge for existing alternatives as well as merged solutions.
    • Stateful Containers – MapR includes support for frictionless data access for containerized stateful applications, direct data access with native Kubernetes volume drivers and the ability to use containers and Kubernetes directly with NVIDIA containers. Supporting stateful applications in containers remains a challenge for alternative solutions today.
    • Integrated IoT – MapR extends to the edge with uniform management, security and data protection which includes integrated support for streams. There is no separate streaming cluster to manage or secure with MapR. New capabilities include support for Kafka KSQL that provides support for interactive and non-interactive SQL and allows launching stream applications with no need to write code in Java or Python.
    • Uniform Data Governance – The MapR Data Platform extends from on-premises to cloud to edge with a common management, data security and data protection model. Data security and management is not based on data type or access method, it is a unified part of the platform and can extend across locations and across processing types without introducing security gaps or duplicate management tasks. Competing solutions fall short by tying data security to the access methods.

    “Every day we ingest a very large volume of machine generated data, so having a fast, reliable data analytics platform is critical to our business,” said Charles Wheelus, principal data scientist at Cequint.  “We made the switch to the MapR Data Platform from Hortonworks and our data ingestion now runs flawlessly. Before switching to MapR, our data ingestion often required manual intervention, resulting in a loss of productivity. Stepping up to MapR has drastically reduced administration time, freeing us to focus on delivering value to our partners and customers.”

    “The announced merger of Cloudera and Hortonworks has put a spotlight on the fact that the shared underlying data platform is the same and there are 10 or more overlapping projects that need to be consolidated,” said Jack Norris, senior vice president, data and applications, MapR. “Customers are running on a platform that is bound to have disruptive changes ahead with this ‘merger mess’, including halted innovation and uncertain migrations. MapR is focused on helping organizations best leverage their current investments and quickly meet their continuing business needs and outcomes with a platform that is already years ahead.”

    The Clarity Program also includes a free StepUp assessment service to leverage MapR Professional Services’ expertise and offers a comprehensive program to understand the current customer’s data architecture, workflows, applications and uses cases. The Professional Services team will engage with customers to provide:

    • High-level architectural approach, performance planning and recommendations
    • Feature mapping to address defined gaps and needs
    • Step-by-step implementation plan for on-premise, cloud, edge execution

     

    About MapR Technologies

    MapR Technologies, provider of the industry’s next generation data platform for AI and Analytics, enables enterprises to inject analytics into their business processes to increase revenue, reduce costs, and mitigate risks. MapR addresses the data complexities of high-scale and mission critical distributed processing from the cloud to the edge, IoT analytics, and container persistence. Global 2000 enterprises trust the MapR Data Platform to help them solve their most complex AI and analytics challenges. Amazon, Cisco, Google, Microsoft, SAP and other leading businesses are all part of the MapR ecosystem. For more information, visit mapr.com.

  • Airbus uses CollabNet VersionOne for Value Stream Management

    ATLANTA, Nov. 6, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — CollabNet VersionOne (www.collabnet.com), a global leader in Enterprise Value Stream Management, Agile management, Git version control and DevOps, announces that Airbus is deploying CollabNet VersionOne VS to establish value stream management (VSM), which is a powerful new way to make software development and delivery more effective.

    Enterprise VSM shows businesses the effect software has on the organization, throughout the software lifecycle. This visibility allows companies to keep software decisions aligned to business objectives. However, in order to visualize the development and release pipeline end to end, you need to use a solution such as VS to scale Agile and DevOps and analyze critical indicators of the speed and quality of software product creation.

    VS helps companies focus on managing complex interdependencies in scaled Agile delivery, and to connect software deliverables to business value objectives. Those attributes help customers such as Airbus transition to an enterprise value stream management based model.

    The transition from the waterfall approach to Agile often begins with the use of different project management tools to handle various steps across processes. This is a common approach but requires too much time just to keep processes smooth. Also, this model doesn’t provide a feasible path for scaling Agile and DevOps and achieving enterprise VSM.

    VS makes the shift from waterfall to Agile and DevOps easier by overcoming those limitations. VS unites and orchestrates the flow of work and processes and enables value streams at scale, so teams can reduce waste and focus on work that delivers value to the customer and business.

    “We are honored that Airbus selected CollabNet VersionOne VS as its solution for enterprise value stream management,” said company CEO Flint Brenton. “Aerospace innovation will lead to experiences that we can only imagine today. But to turn fresh ideas into reality faster than before, companies need to align their software development with their business objectives. We have the strongest solution available for that. We look forward to serving Airbus on its journey to enterprise value stream management.”

    About CollabNet VersionOne
    CollabNet VersionOne is the Enterprise Value Stream Management leader that accelerates high value software development and delivery, while improving quality and reducing risk. Our offerings provide global enterprise and government market leaders a cohesive solution, spanning idea through delivery, that enable them to capture, create, deliver and measure the flow of business value throughout their application development lifecycles.

     

  • Eggplant Strengthens its AI Powered Digital Automation Intelligence Suite

    Deepens AI capabilities for automating complex digital products and diagnosing problems; adds capabilities for automated usability testing

    LONDON & BOULDER, Col. Eggplant, the customer experience optimization specialist, today announced the latest enhancements to its Digital Automation Intelligence (DAI) Suite. These new capabilities further extend the level of intelligent automation and insight into the customer experience by assisting with the modeling and automation of complex systems, diagnosing problems identified in test and automating usability testing.

    DAI is an AI-driven approach that delivers continuous intelligent test automation, enabling organizations to test the end-to-end customer experience and predict the user impact of new product versions prior to release. By expanding automation and visibility, DAI allows organizations to truly optimize the digital experience.

    New additions in the Digital Automation Intelligence Suite include:

    Eggplant AI, the AI-powered test modeling and automated test creation product, is now able to provide intelligent reporting, allowing DevOps teams to understand why there are problems with a release rather than simply receiving failure notifications. These intelligent insights are based on Eggplant’s bug hunting algorithms and using these algorithms to rapidly identify the root-cause patterns that lead to failures. Eggplant AI has also been extended to allow the testing of vast enterprise software systems via sub-models, model versioning and other collaboration features. Sub-models allow a large, complex system model to be broken down to keep it easy to use and to manage.

    Eggplant Functional, the market-leading automation engine, will now provide organizations with the ability to analyze the usability of their software without requiring human feedback. Eggplant can spot problems that will cause user dissatisfaction that may lead to poorer business outcomes. These can include text that is difficult to read, bad color choices, or improperly rendered or obscured images.

    Other additions to the Suite include enhanced integration and collaboration capabilities to support large, enterprise teams.

    Quotes and Commentary

    “The days of testing just the functionality, rather than the digital experience and the business outcomes that flow from it, are over. Organizations must accelerate the speed of delivery while ensuring the quality and effectiveness of new digital products and services. The Digital Automation Intelligence Suite allows DevOps teams to transform their approach to testing, delivering digital experiences that always delight.”

    Antony Edwards, COO Eggplant

    Additional Resources

    About Eggplant
    Eggplant, the fastest growing test automation provider and a portfolio company of The Carlyle Group, provides user-centric, intelligent testing and performance solutions designed to optimize the digital experience, delight customers, and drive business success. Only Eggplant enables organizations to test, monitor, analyze, and report on the quality and responsiveness of software applications across different interfaces, platforms, browsers, and devices, including mobile, IoT, desktop, and mainframe. Learn more at eggplant.io

     

  • Value Stream Management Drives Tasktop’s Fast Growth in Fiscal Year 2018 with 95 Percent Subscription Growth Over Prior Year

    VANCOUVER, BC, Nov. 5, 2018– Tasktop, the leader in Value Stream Integration, today announced fiscal year (FY) 2018 highlights — covering the reporting period Oct. 1, 2017 to Sept. 30, 2018.

    The company reported 95 percent subscription growth over the previous fiscal year, with major gains in other areas including the following:

    • New customer brands from its direct business increased by 25 percent
    • Employee headcount grew by 23 percent

    According to Neelan Choksi, Tasktop president and COO, “Our Tasktop Integration Hub has taken the market by storm, proving invaluable to the industry in integrating the software delivery toolchain at scale, reducing integration setup by 75 percent and maintenance overhead by 90 percent, thanks to Tasktop’s innovative model-based integration. As a result, we’ve seen dramatic revenue increases and have subsequently invested further in products, employees and our customers. In addition to our people, we continue to invest in the Tasktop Integration Hub, so our customers can use a point-and-click user interface to configure complex integrations with speed and ease, while expanding the visibility into what flows to help organizations remove waste.”

    Strengthened Management Team

    The company made three major managements additions this past fiscal year, including the following:

    • Dominica DeGrandis, the foremost expert in Kanban Flow, joined Tasktop as director of digital transformation, where she is helping grow market awareness of Tasktop within the DevOps community and enabling organizations to better understand, visualize and optimize their value streams.
    • DevOps thought leader Carmen DeArdo joined Tasktop to head up its Value Stream Management consulting practice. As senior strategist, DeArdo is leading efforts to help customers experience project to product transformations.

    • Tim Beditz recently joined as vice president of operations, where he will create a consistent enablement program for the entire company so that all employees will have the same baseline understanding of the company and help provide experience and business leadership as Tasktop goes to market with new offerings.

    Growth

    Almost 500 organizations in industries such as healthcare, financial services, travel, government/public sector, transportation, telecommunications, oil and gas, education, retail and automotive, among others, became new customers this past year. In fact, its customer rollsinclude 43 of the Fortune 100.

    Customer Success

    Tasktop conducted a successful Technical Account Management pilot program in the first half of the year and followed up on that success by staffing a Customer Success department. The goal of the team is to partner with select accounts to bring them a defined technical advocate and trusted advisor to ensure its customers get the most value out of their Tasktop solution. In a second initiative, Tasktop created a new VSM consulting practice, noted above, led by DeArdo.

    Research

    Tasktop’s research of 300 of the largest U.S. enterprises revealed that many are now extending process automation beyond continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) in order to accelerate software delivery and time-to-market. In fact, 40 percent of them have connected or plan to connect four or more tools in the design and development stages that precede CI/CD. Meanwhile, 70 percent of organizations are integrating at least three tools and four artifacts.

    In addition, a  May 2018 report from Forrester (Elevate Agile-Plus-DevOps With Value Stream Management by Christopher Condo and Diego Lo Giudice) noted: “Practicing value stream management (VSM) allows companies to make their Agile plus development and operations (DevOps) development environments into real digital business drivers. With VSM, organizations implementing Agile-plus-DevOps will better understand the value they deliver, the efficiencies they gain, and the further optimization possibilities for each software product in their delivery pipeline.” The report further noted that “Tasktop provides integration capabilities across a broad range of DevOps tooling — a core VSM capability that enables traceability, visibility, and connections between the people, process, and technology.”

    In August 2018, The Forrester New Wave™: Value Stream Management Tools, Q3 2018 by Christopher Condo and Bill Seguin cited Tasktop as a strong performer in Value Stream Management (VSM) Tools. The report noted that “Tasktop is a best fit for companies that want a best-of-breed DevOps stack. Tasktop aims to integrate and coordinate value streams across your DevOps stack from ideation to production, but it will leave domain-specific work to other specialized tools.”

    Product

    In the first half of FY 2018, Tasktop augmented its Tasktop Integration Hub with an integration with Intland’s codeBeamer ALM, an application lifecycle management tool that enables teams to manage their requirements, software development, testing and quality assurance, risk management, variants management and more. Other new connections in FY 2018 included PTC Integrity, Git and Sparx Pro Cloud Server.

    Tasktop continues innovating at the pace of partners like ServiceNow, whose London release adds support for customers’ SAFe 4.5 initiatives. Tasktop’s customers can immediately adopt these new capabilities by connecting ServiceNow to the tools Agile teams are already using, such as Atlassian Jira and Microsoft Azure DevOps (formerly Team Foundation Server).

    Awards

    Tasktop was named to the 2018 Ready to Rocket List in the IT sector.

    About Tasktop

    Tasktop, a leader in Value Stream Integration and Management, automates and visualizes the flow of product-critical information across the software delivery value stream from initial customer request to delivery and back through the customer feedback loop for continuous improvement. Some 57 integrations with software delivery tools enable organizations to leverage a best-of-breed tool network that also provides end-to-end visibility and traceability. The backbone of the most impactful Agile and DevOps transformations worldwide, the company’s customers are the global leaders in financial services, insurance, government and manufacturing, many of whom are in the Fortune 100, including 11 of the top 25 banks in the world, the top six health plans and four of the top 10 US insurance companies. For more information about Tasktop, please visit: http://tasktop.com.