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  • Workboard Announces Microsoft Teams Integration to Bring Strategic Priorities into Everyday Conversations

    May 7, 2018 – Redmond, WA – Workboard, a pioneer in Active Strategy ManagementTM, is proud to announce integration of its flagship solution for intelligently setting, measuring and executing strategic priorities with Microsoft Teams. This powerful combination brings business priorities and related facts, KPIs and execution managed in Workboard into business conversations and daily line of sight in Teams.

    With the Workboard integration, even large enterprises can operate at disruptive speed.  Executives and their teams can now:

    • Use WoBot, an intelligent chatbot, to get and update business objectives, results and KPIs, project boards, meeting agendas and tasks in real time.  Ask “how are we doing on the business plan?” “what are Mary’s risks?” or “What is the workstream status?” and get instant answers.
    • Drop objectives and key results (OKRs) and their KPIs on progress to plan into their chat with colleagues to make fact-based decisions without ever leaving the thread.
    • Have continuous access within Teams to Workboard’s Running Business ReviewsTM, business objectives and key results, and project Kanban boards so it’s easier to focus on strategic outcomes than the status quo.
    • Host video calls, screen shares and meetings in Teams that include Workboard’s Smart AgendasTM. Strategic priorities, OKRs, KPIs, risks and execution status are automatically on the agenda. Actionable takeaways and decisions are captured for better follow through.

    The seamless integrated solution is ideal for enterprise leaders and teams that want to align, communicate and achieve their strategy with lower friction and higher velocity.

    “Microsoft Teams is a true hub for work conversations with an elegant chat, video and voice experience,” said Deidre Paknad, Workboard CEO and Co-Founder. “For agile data-driven enterprises, the Workboard Teams integration is a tremendous results accelerator because it enables them to bring strategic priorities into daily focus, discussions and decisions.”

    “Our mutual customers rely on Workboard’s Active Strategy ManagementTM Solution to activate their strategic priorities with greater speed and agility,” says Mike Ammerlaan, Director, Microsoft Office 365 Ecosystem at Microsoft Corp.  “We are pleased Workboard has integrated with Microsoft Teams to help customers reduce internal friction in achieving their strategies.” Try the Workboard integration for Microsoft Teams today! https://www.workboard.com/microsoft/

    About Workboard

    Workboard is the pioneer of Active Strategy Management solutions which helps organizations to set, measure and execute strategic priorities faster. Company founders, who combined hold 18 patents and two Smithsonian Innovation Awards, created a new solution category when they recognized that market and technology acceleration would require a corresponding acceleration in how companies iterate and activate strategic priorities. Workboard already counts IBM, Microsoft, Samsung, 8X8, Catalina, Disys, eSilicon, TrendKite, Influitive, Tasktop and others among its hundreds of customers. For more information, visit https://www.workboard.com or follow the company on Twitter @WorkboardInc.

     

  • Everbridge Expands Reach and Partnership Ecosystem of IT Alerting™: New Generation IT Response Automation Platform

    Enterprises Realizing the Value of Purpose-built Incident Response Automation to Expedite Response to Security Breaches and Other Critical IT Events

    BURLINGTON, Mass., May 3, 2018 – Everbridge, Inc. (NASDAQ: EVBG), the global leader in critical event management and incident response automation has broadened the capabilities of its IT Alerting™ platform while growing its partnership ecosystem during the past quarter.  This has increased industry recognition, new strategic technology partnerships, and significant innovations for its customer base.

    According to a recent IDG survey measuring critical IT incident response effectiveness, the time spent to engage an IT response team can incur costs ranging from $222,000 to more than $340,000 per major incident.  With new and varied challenges facing enterprise IT organizations at a global level, the need for enhanced alerting platforms capable of uniting teams has never been greater. Enterprise customers are selecting Everbridge’s IT Alerting solution to unify their approach to response management and to streamline communications, collaboration, and orchestration processes to resolve incidents faster.

    “An increasing number of organizations worldwide have recognized and adopted Everbridge IT Alerting to respond to the rapid rise in critical IT needs at a global level,” said Vick Vaishnavi, General Manager, IT Alerting Business at Everbridge. “It is no longer feasible for enterprises to maintain manual response processes in the face of IT incidents such as cyber-attacks, and application or infrastructure failures, nor does it make sense to adopt a solution that fails to quickly engage the appropriate personnel and notify impacted business users. Everbridge leverages new generation technology to provide closed-loop incident response automation that consistently alerts and notifies the right stakeholders during an IT incident.”

    IT Alerting: True End-to-End IT Response Automation

    This quarter, Everbridge has announced several critical enhancements to its IT Alerting platform and now offers true end-to-end IT Response Automation to restore services faster. These updates include:

    • Smart Orchestration™, which utilizes advanced cognitive analytics techniques to go beyond Targeted Notifications and integrate communication with collaboration and workflow automation.
    • Integration Platform-as-a-Service (iPaaS™) for IT Alerting, enabling enterprise IT organizations to easily build their own integrations with the tools and solutions they already use, such as IT monitoring, application performance monitoring (APM), network performance monitoring (NPM), security information and event management (SIEM), event correlation, ticketing systems, DevOps, security, configuration management databases, patch management, and release and change management.
    • Everbridge has expanded its Technical Alliance Partnership eco-system in the quarter to include Ayehu, Cherwell, IBM, and Zenoss.  These ready-to-use integrations make it easy for Everbridge customers to automate the response to incidents across all areas of IT–service operations, IT security operations, DevOps, and business continuity/disaster recovery.

    “For digital and IT transformation to take hold, the dialogue across IT functional teams, and between IT and the business it serves, will need to be optimized,” said Dennis Drogseth, Vice President, Enterprise Management Associates. “Enterprises are beginning to recognize the need for a new kind of digital war room that goes well beyond basic notification and equips an organization with tools for team integration and collaboration, response management, and decision making. Everbridge continues to address the needs of today’s enterprise by eliminating communications silos that inhibit incident response.”

    Security Operations Depth

    The integrated Everbridge IT Alerting platform provides flexibility to easily ingest events from current and future security information and event management tools. Everbridge has honed its security operations capabilities and knowledge through its new partnership with the Advanced Cyber Security Center (ACSC), a non-profit and cross-sector regional collaborative that focuses on building a stronger community defense by harnessing the collective resources of its members to solve common cyber security problems.

    Everbridge is also lending its technology and expertise to the IBM Resilient Intelligent Orchestration Ecosystem, a robust hub of enterprise-grade, bi-directional integrations supported by the world’s leading security companies. Delivered via the IBM Security App Exchange, the integration of Everbridge’s communication, collaboration, and smart orchestration platform with the advantages of the IBM Resilient platform enables customers to respond to critical IT events and mitigate business impact and reputation costs through consistent, predictable, and shorter incident resolution times.

    Industry Recognition

    As Everbridge continues to successfully address incident response from multiple perspectives, from DevOps to systems operations to security ops, industry experts have taken notice of the platform’s impact. IT Alerting was recently selected as the winner in Pink Elephant’s 2017 IT Excellence Awards for Innovation of the Year, which honor individual and corporate commitment to IT excellence and ITSM best practices. At RSA 2018, IT Alerting was selected as a winner of the 2018 Info Security Products Guide Global Excellence Awards® for New Product of the Year and recognized for its cybersecurity response orchestration capabilities as a new emerging provider.

    To learn more about Everbridge IT Incident Response Automation, visit www.italerting.com

    About Everbridge

    Everbridge, Inc. (NASDAQ: EVBG) is a global software company that provides enterprise software applications that automate and accelerate organizations’ operational response to critical events in order to keep people safe and businesses running faster. During public safety threats such as active shooter situations, terrorist attacks or severe weather conditions, as well as critical business events such as IT outages, cyber-attacks or other incidents such as product recalls or supply-chain interruptions, over 5,000 global customers rely on the company’s SaaS-based platform to quickly and reliably aggregate and assess threat data, locate people at risk and responders able to assist, automate the execution of pre-defined communications processes, and track progress on executing response plans. The company’s platform sent over 2 billion messages in 2017, and offers the ability to reach more than 200 countries and territories with secure delivery to over 100 different communication devices. The company’s critical communications and enterprise safety applications include Mass Notification, Incident Management, Safety Connection™, IT Alerting™, Visual Command Center®, Crisis Commander®, Community Engagement™ and Secure Messaging. Everbridge serves 9 of the 10 largest U.S. cities, 8 of the 10 largest U.S.-based investment banks, 25 of the 25 busiest North American airports, six of the 10 largest global consulting firms, six of the 10 largest global auto makers, all four of the largest global accounting firms, four of the 10 largest U.S.-based health care providers and four of the 10 largest U.S.-based health insurers. Everbridge is based in Boston and Los Angeles with additional offices in San Francisco, Lansing, Orlando, Beijing, London, and Stockholm For more information, visit www.everbridge.com, read the company blog, and follow on Twitter and Facebook.

     

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    Everbridge

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  • Datical Announces the General Availability of Datical 5

    Enterprise-class platform enhances database release visibility and increases developer productivity

    AUSTIN, Texas – May 3, 2018 – Datical, the leading provider of database release automation, today announced the general availability of Datical 5, its enterprise-class platform for automating database releases to deliver efficiency, speed and risk reduction for database deployments.

    Unveiled through a beta program in early February, Datical 5 speeds software deployment by providing a central command center to achieve a unified pipeline for application and database changes, freeing up time for development, test and database administration teams to create and deliver better application experiences — faster. For the first time ever, developers are now empowered to continuously manage and rework database code changes, allowing for seamless and efficient collaboration across the DevOps pipeline.

    “As a trusted partner to hundreds of brands and retailers, delivering a seamless and efficient online client experience is core to our business, and we can’t afford any bottlenecks in our CI/CD process,” said Devon Siegfried, database architect, Radial. “Datical 5 helps us bring automation to the operations side of DevOps, clearing the path from development to production for the entire application, including the database. This not only gives more time back to database teams, but it also allows us to continue to bring new innovations to market that exceed client expectations.”

    In additional, Datical announced new Datical 5 capabilities to its existing list of features:

    SSIS Support

    As organizations continue fueling key business decisions with data, there has been a growth in ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) workloads. However, as software releases accelerate and production database schemas evolve to support new capabilities, teams responsible for ETL processes are falling behind. To help organizations make decisions with the latest data, Datical has new capabilities to support Microsoft SSIS, one of the industry’s most popular ETL solutions. Specifically, Datical 5 can version SSIS packages and orchestrate when SSIS jobs are performed alongside schema changes. With these capabilities, organizations can effectively manage database releases and simultaneously coordinate ETL workloads to ensure that no data is lost in deliberating important business decisions or in meeting audit and compliance requirements.

    Integration with Development Automation Tools

    As organizations mature in their adoption of Agile and DevOps practices, the market has witnessed growing consumption of deployment automation and orchestration tools. These tools tie together individual automation tools and technologies, streamline approvals processes and provide a single pane of glass for stakeholders to manage the entire software development process. Datical plugins for XebiaLabs’s XL Deploy and IBM’s UrbanCode Deploy have been updated so that teams relying on Datical 5 and either of these deployment automation solutions can immediately bring the database into view as they orchestrate software releases.

    “As enterprises continue to look for new ways to solve deployment challenges and modernize automation, Datical is at the forefront, empowering development teams with the tools needed to streamline the entire software development lifecycle,” said Pete Pickerill, co-founder and VP of product strategy, Datical. “Our new capabilities make it easy for application teams to focus on what is most important — the data.”

    Availability

    Datical 5 is now generally available. For more information, contact Datical.

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    About Datical, Inc.

    Datical’s mission is to transform the way businesses build software so they can deliver better customer experiences faster. Datical solutions deliver the database release automation capabilities technology executives need to get the most out of their Agile, DevOps and Continuous Delivery investments. With Datical database release automation organizations can shorten the time it takes to bring applications to market while eliminating the security vulnerabilities, costly errors, data loss and downtime often associated with current database deployment methods. For more information, visit www.datical.com, call 737-402-7187 or connect via @datical.

    Contact

    Danielle Salvato-Earl
    Offleash for Datical
    (650) 922-7287
    datical@offleashpr.com

  • AlertSite Raises API Monitoring Bar by Providing Teams Unparalleled End-to-End Visibility into API Health

    With Latest Release, AlertSite is the Only Comprehensive API Monitoring Platform to Quickly and Easily Monitor Performance, Availability, and Functional Correctness of APIs in Real-time

    SOMERVILLE, Mass. – May 3, 2018 – SmartBear, the leader in software quality tools for teams, has introduced several new API Monitoring capabilities in AlertSite, a market leader in performance monitoring for web, mobile, and APIs. AlertSite transformed web monitoring with the introduction of Déjà-Click to enable the rapid creation of monitors for websites and web applications, and now AlertSite is transforming how teams monitor their APIs by introducing the most comprehensive platform for API Monitoring. The new API Monitoring capabilities in AlertSite enable operations, DevOps, and development teams to gain unparalleled end-to-end visibility into API performance, availability, and functional correctness in real-time, across production, staging, and engineering environments.

    As APIs increasingly serve as the foundation for digital transformation, the need to ensure these APIs are highly reliable and performant is critical, which has resulted in the rapid adoption of API Monitoring tools. However, there are several challenges with existing API Monitoring tools that often prevent teams from being able to gain the visibility they need into the real-time health of their APIs.

    First, the complexity of APIs can make it overly complex and time-consuming to create API Monitors. Second, most API Monitoring tools only provide basic insights into whether an API is up or down, but do not provide sufficient visibility into functional correctness or performance. Third, most API Monitoring tools blast false alerts several times a day, which often results in real alerts being missed. Finally, API updates are released more frequently than ever as a result of microservices growth, and monitors often require extensive re-work to prevent blind spots as APIs change.

    AlertSite has taken a different approach to addressing the needs of operations, DevOps, and development teams who need end-to-end visibility into the real-time health of their APIs. With the new API Monitoring capabilities in AlertSite, teams can:

    • Instantly create API Monitors in a way that matches their operational cadence and technical skillset: If embracing DevOps and the Shift Left, simply upload existing OpenAPI Specification (OAS) files. If running a rapid release cadence that doesn’t leave time to re-work monitors when APIs change, simply upload existing SoapUI test scripts. If teams are not highly technical, simply leverage an intuitive point-and-click wizard.
    • Gain end-to-end visibility by monitoring a sequence of related API calls, where information must be passed from one API call to another to complete an API transaction
    • Define granular, targeted alerting to ensure the right people receive alerts for different errors, steps, APIs, and different calls within a chained API transaction
    • Trust that the alerts are real with a powerful set of validation checks, such as retrying the run from another location to ensure there are never any false alarms
    • Monitor both public and private APIs through the AlertSite global network and private nodes either in the data center or from remote locations

    “We’re thrilled to continue innovating to provide new API Monitoring capabilities in the AlertSite platform,” said Anand Sundaram, VP of Products, Performance Testing & Monitoring at SmartBear. “We’ve made it painless and simple to get real-time insights into the performance, availability, and functional correctness of your APIs, coupled with the flexibility to create API monitors through native capabilities like endpoint and multi-step monitor creation, as well as SoapUI test scripts and OAS definition reuse.”

    In addition to the new API Monitoring capabilities in AlertSite, SmartBear continues to invest in supporting the growing API economy with tools that manage the entire API Lifecycle. The SmartBear API Lifecycle product line includes open source tools such as Swagger and SoapUI, SwaggerHub for designing, developing, and documenting APIs using the OAS, Swagger Inspector for testing and instantly generating OAS files for any API, SoapUI Pro for automated API functional testing on REST and SOAP services, LoadUI Pro for API load testing, and ServiceV Pro for API and database virtualization.

    For more information on the new API Monitoring capabilities in AlertSite, join the webinar, “Trailblazing the API Monitoring Landscape,” on Wednesday, May 16, 2018. Sign up at:

    https://smartbear.com/resources/webinars/api-monitoring/

    About SmartBear Software

    Supporting more than six million software professionals and over 22,000 companies in 194 countries, SmartBear is the leader in software quality tools for teams. The company’s products help deliver the highest quality and best performing software possible while helping teams ship code at nearly impossible velocities. With products for API testing, UI testing, code review and performance monitoring across mobile, web and desktop applications, SmartBear equips every development, testing and operations team member with the tools to ensure quality at every stage of the software cycle. For more information, visit: http://smartbear.com, or for the SmartBear community, go to: LinkedIn, Twitter or Facebook.

    Contact:

    Tracy Wemett

    BroadPR

    +1-617-868-5031

    tracy@broadpr.com    

     

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  • Stack Overflow Launches Stack Overflow for Teams

    Stack Overflow Launches Stack Overflow for Teams

     

    Stack Overflow for Teams provides a private version of the popular platform to help teams ranging from 10 to 500 developers improve communication, reduce chaos, and increase efficiency

    NEW YORK, New York – May 3, 2018 – Stack Overflow, the largest, most trusted online community for developers to learn, share their knowledge, and build their careers, today announced the launch of Stack Overflow for Teams, the new platform that allows development teams of any size to quickly find answers to questions without disrupting their workflow.

    Leveraging the well-known Q&A format from stackoverflow.com, Teams is a private, internal central knowledge source where team members can find answers to their questions quickly and efficiently. Stack Overflow for Teams presents a near-instantaneous answer to any work-related question. Where internal wikis and documentation quickly become outdated and messaging platforms make it impossible to rediscover information, Teams provides an intuitive, searchable platform with answers that are editable and crowd-sourced by one’s peers, meaning answers will always be up-to-date and provided by colleagues who are subject matter experts. This ever-evolving resource scales as the team grows, enabling team members to find up-to-date information now and in the future.

    “By and large, developers just want to get on with their work,” said Joel Spolsky, co-founder and CEO of Stack Overflow. “Our Teams platform not only allows developers to quickly find the answer they need to keep working, but it also allows them to share their own knowledge internally, increasing the expertise and productivity of their teams.”

    Alex Miller, General Manager of Teams & Enterprise at Stack Overflow, added, “Our Enterprise platform, which is used by hundreds of thousands of developers on teams from global leaders like Bloomberg and Microsoft, has proven an invaluable resource for large development teams to collaborate and share knowledge in a way that optimizes for efficiency and scalability. With Teams, we now extend the benefits of that platform to companies with teams of any size.”

    In addition to the familiarity of Stack Overflow’s platform coupled with the benefits of a private, internal knowledge source, Stack Overflow for Teams offers a number of useful features:

    • Unlimited private questions and answers: Team members can ask as many questions as they need, and unlike monolithic internal wikis, they can expect relevant answers from team members to their specific questions.
    • Intuitive archiving feature: Tags allow users to sort through questions and answers by topic in order to dig deeper into a subject of interest. When an answer to a given question populates, the user will also see related questions and answers that could prove useful.
    • Member profiles: The Teams platform showcases each user’s specific skill set and the topics about which they frequently answer questions, so team members know whom to consult within their organization if they need further insight.
    • Seamless integration into the workflow: Stack Overflow for Teams is on stackoverflow.com, already a popular daily destination for developers. Furthermore, Teams integrates with existing tools like Slack, so Q&A fits easily into a team’s existing workflow and communication processes.

    “We needed a good way of passing down knowledge between team members, because we saw the same questions being asked over and over in our instant message channels,” said Tim Golen, Engineering Lead at Expensify. “Almost immediately, we found that the Search function in Teams returned relevant results in a quicker, more accurate way than chat would. We anticipate Stack Overflow for Teams increasingly becoming our go-to resource for knowledge-sharing.”

    For more information, visit www.stackoverflow.com/teams.

    About Stack Overflow

    Stack Overflow is the largest, most trusted online community for developers to learn, share their knowledge, and build their careers. More than 50 million professional and aspiring programmers visit Stack Overflow each month to help solve coding problems, develop new skills, and find job opportunities.

    Founded in 2008, Stack Overflow partners with businesses to help them understand, hire, engage, and enable the world’s developers. To learn more about Stack Overflow’s business solutions–– technical recruiting, advertising, market research, and enterprise knowledge sharing––visit business.stackoverflow.com.

     

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  • Clearlake Capital-Backed Perforce Adds Enterprise-Grade Source Code Analysis to its Portfolio With Acquisition of PRQA

    PRQA’s Static Code Analyzers improve code quality and security for enterprise development teams enabling faster time to market

    Minneapolis, Minn., May 2, 2018 — Perforce Software (“Perforce”), a global provider of solutions to enterprise teams requiring productivity, visibility and scale during all phases of the technology development lifecycle, backed by Clearlake Capital Group, L.P. (together with its affiliates, “Clearlake”), today announced the acquisition of UK-based Programming Research Ltd. (“PRQA”), a leading provider of sophisticated, enterprise-grade static code analysis. The acquisition expands the Perforce portfolio of solutions by adding PRQA’s family of Static Code Analyzers that assess software reliability, security and compliance while reducing development time.

    Growth through acquisition is an integral part of Perforce’s business strategy to develop a comprehensive portfolio of leading enterprise scale software solutions for technology developers and development operations (“DevOps”) teams. The acquisition of PRQA represents Perforce’s fourth successful acquisition in the past two years, and its first under Clearlake’s new ownership, which was announced in early January 2018.

    “With this latest acquisition we continue delivering on our strategy to offer more solutions and capabilities that improve DevOps pipeline performance for enterprise development teams,” said Janet Dryer, Perforce CEO. “PRQA is a great match with Perforce as we both serve large global teams striving to deliver their solutions faster and with higher quality.”

    PRQA solutions are widely adopted by organizations whose products need to perform securely and reliably in mission critical and safety critical environments, such as automotive, aerospace, medical and other demanding industries.  Customers realize faster time-to-market due to the technology’s scale and accuracy in automated inspection of source code for high risk code and non-conformance to standards.

    “We are excited to support the Perforce management team as they continue to execute on its buy-and-build strategy,” added Prashant Mehrotra, Partner of Clearlake. “With this strategic acquisition of PRQA, Perforce now offers solutions for enterprise customers to address security and quality early in the software development lifecycle, enabling better continuous integration and continuous delivery.”

    “PRQA have been at the forefront of code quality management for over 30 years. We have some of the world’s top experts in code analysis at PRQA, and our products help our customers develop high-quality code more reliably and at a faster pace. By joining forces with Perforce we will be able to expand the reach of this great technology and deliver business value to a much bigger audience worldwide,” said Paul Blundell, PRQA CEO.

    About Perforce

    Perforce is a leading provider of enterprise scale software solutions to technology developers and development operations (“DevOps”) teams requiring productivity, visibility and scale during all phases of the development lifecycle. Enterprises across the globe rely on its agile planning and ALM tools, developer collaboration, static code analysis, version control and repository management solutions as the foundation for successful DevOps at scale. Perforce is trusted by the world’s most innovative brands, including NVIDIA, Pixar, Scania, Ubisoft, and VMware. Perforce has offices in Minneapolis, MN, Alameda, CA, Mason, OH, Boston, MA, the United Kingdom, Finland, Sweden, Germany, India, and Australia, and sales partners around the globe. For more information, please visit www.perforce.com.

    About Clearlake Capital

    Clearlake Capital Group, L.P. is a leading private investment firm founded in 2006. With a sector-focused approach, the firm seeks to partner with world-class management teams by providing patient, long-term capital to dynamic businesses that can benefit from Clearlake’s operational improvement approach, O.P.S.® The firm’s core target sectors are industrials and energy; software and technology-enabled services; and consumer. Clearlake has managed over $7 billion of institutional capital since inception and its senior investment principals have led or co-led over 100 investments. More information is available at www.clearlake.com.

    Media Contacts

    Global

    Colleen Kulhanek
    Perforce Software
    Ph: +1 612-517-2069
    ckulhanek@perforce.com

    UK/EMEA

    Maxine Ambrose
    Ambrose Communications
    Ph: +44 1491 412944
    perforce@ambrosecomms.co.uk

    For Clearlake

    Kristin Celauro
    BLICKSILVER PUBLIC RELATIONS, INC.
    Ph: +1 732-264-1131
    kristin@blicksilverpr.com

    Jennifer Hurson
    BLICKSILVER PUBLIC RELATIONS, INC.
    Ph: +1 845-507-0571
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  • Instana Extends AI Powered APM Making It The Only Solution To Holistically Monitor Kubernetes Health Along With The Applications Under Management

    First APM Solution to Monitor, Understand, and Visualize Kubernetes and the Relationship Between Orchestrators and Application Performance

    San Francisco, CA – May 2, 2018 – Instana, the leader in APM solutions for monitoring dynamic containerized microservice applications, today announced enhanced observability of Kubernetes systems, making it the first APM solution that can monitor and understand orchestrated applications, the orchestration system and the interdependencies between them.

    “This announcement is a significant milestone for monitoring orchestrated environments by providing observability where there was previously a blind spot,” said Mirko Novakovic, CEO of Instana. “Kubernetes orchestration creates an environment of extreme abstraction between the application and the infrastructure.  This is a huge benefit for enabling high speed delivery of new code, but it creates real challenges with understanding performance issues.”

    The new Kubernetes monitoring features extend Instana’s AI-powered APM solution to automatically discover, monitor and analyze Kubernetes labels, clusters and pods in addition to the orchestrated application, itself. Not only does this provide unmatched Kubernetes system visibility, it contributes additional information to Instana’s AI-assisted monitoring and troubleshooting algorithms giving users holistic observability and relational understanding between their orchestrators and application performance.

    “While Kubernetes allows us to be more nimble in our operations by rapidly responding and adjusting to changes in our application layout, the new information from Instana helps us to improve our software delivery cycle time while adding and subtracting compute capacity,” said Andre Beunink, IT Director at  TrustedShops. “To reach our goals, we need precise real-time visibility and understanding of what is happening across the complete application / Kubernetes environment. Instana has risen to this challenge and delivered comprehensive observability. We now can immediately analyze the performance of any of our microservices as we deploy.”

    Instana’s APM solution enables IT organizations to deliver services and applications more quickly and efficiently by automating the management of business-critical applications in containerized environments. The company’s solution leverages automation and AI to automatically monitor, visualize and understand application performance for dynamic containerized microservice applications. Continuous discovery and mapping provides real-time infrastructure and application service visualization, even under constant change.

    With the new technology, Instana automatically discovers and monitors the full Kubernetes stack, leveraging tagging metadata to inform Instana how to model and monitor the services and applications under management.  This announcement essentially extends Instana’s automation, AI and real-time visualization to managed Kubernetes environments.

    The new Kubernetes monitoring features are available now and will be showcased by Instana at the annual KubeCon Europe conference in Copenhagen (Booth #S-C10). You can also learn more about Instana’s Kubernetes Monitoring capabilities and Kubernetes use cases at www.instana.com.

    About Instana:

    As the leading provider of Application Performance Management solutions for containerized microservice applications, Instana applies automation and artificial intelligence to deliver the visibility needed to effectively manage the performance of today’s dynamic applications across the DevOps lifecycle. Founded by Application Monitoring veterans, Instana provides true AI-powered APM to help organizations deliver high performance applications today and in the future. Visit us at https://instana.com to learn more.

    CONTACT:

    Cinthia Portugal

    Guyer Group

    Cinthia.Portugal@guyergroup.com

    206.619.818

     

  • DBmaestro Honored as Bronze Stevie® Award Winner for New Product and Service of the Year

    BOSTON, MA, May 2, 2018 – DBmaestro, the pioneer and leading DevOps for database solution provider, was the winner of the Bronze Stevie® Award for new product and services in the Software – DevOps Solution category for the 16th Annual American Business Awards.

    Nicknamed the Stevies for the Greek word meaning “crowned,” The American Business Awards are the nation’s premier business awards program honoring organizations operating in the U.S.A.

    DBmaestro was recognized for its Database DevOps Platform which enables continuous integration and automated deployment for databases to speed up release delivery, improve productivity, minimize errors, and increase security.

    Comments from the judges include:

    “Impressive operation that is offered by DBmaestro’s Database DevOps Platform is teams can work safely and simultaneously within the same database environments, eliminating the possibility of overriding critical changes which bring out more efficient work.”

    “The best part of this platform is a robust check-in/check-out policy mechanism at the database level which increases the security and prevents accidental overrides of changes or hotfixes with drift alerts so flaws can be prevented.”

    “We are honored for the recognition that we have received from the Stevie Award judges”, said Yariv Tabac, CEO at DBmaestro.  “Our solutions enable teams to work together to deploy quick, secure, reliable database changes. This is essential for IT agility to delivery on the promise of continuous development for accelerated innovation.

    Nineteen professionals worldwide participated in the judging process to select this year’s Stevie Award winners for the Product and Service Awards categories.

    “Each year the judges find the quality and variety of the nominations to be greater than the year before. The 2018 competition was intense and every organization that has won should be proud,” said Michael Gallagher, president and founder of the Stevie Awards.

    About the Stevie Awards
    Stevie Awards are conferred in seven programs: the Asia-Pacific Stevie Awards, the German Stevie Awards, The American Business Awards, The International Business Awards, the Stevie Awards for Women in Business, the Stevie Awards for Great Employers, and the Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service. Stevie Awards competitions receive more than 10,000 entries each year from organizations in more than 60 nations. Honoring organizations of all types and sizes and the people behind them, the

    Stevies recognize outstanding performances in the workplace worldwide. Learn more about the Stevie Awards at http://www.StevieAwards.com.

    About DB Maestro
    DBmaestro brings DevOps best practices to the database, delivering a new level of efficiency, speed, security and process integration for databases. DBmaestro’s platform enables organizations to run database deployments securely and methodically, increase development team productivity and significantly decrease time-to-market. The solution enables organizations to implement CI/CD practices for database activities, with repeatable pipeline release automation and automatic drift prevention mechanisms. The platform combines several key features for the database, including: pipeline release automation, database version control, governance and security modules and a business activity monitor. For more information, visit www.dbmaestro.com.

    Contacts:

    DBmaestro

    Minnie Katzen Mayer

    t: +1-978-405-3368

    1. minniek@DBmaestro.com

    Spicetree Communications

    Wes Rogers

    t: +1-912-506-0869

    1. wes.rogers@spicetreecom.com

  • Parasoft Revolutionizes API Testing with New SOAtest Smart API Test Generator

    Latest Parasoft SOAtest release introduces artificial intelligence to convert manual UI tests into automated, scriptless API tests

    Monrovia, CA – May 1, 2018– Parasoft, the global leader in automated software testing, announced today the release of the Parasoft SOAtest Smart API Test Generator. This innovative technology uses artificial intelligence to convert manual UI tests into automated API tests, lowering the technical skills required to adopt API testing. By leaning on smart technology to perform the heavy lifting, it’s easier for organizations build and scale a comprehensive API testing strategy, which until now has posed significant challenge to software teams. To learn more about the Parasoft SOAtest SMART API Test Generator, visit: www.parasoft.com/smart

    As stated in Gartner’s February 2018 Critical Capabilities for Software Test Automation, “Software test automation tools are evolving beyond core capabilities to support automated test-case generation, emerging AI-driven test-set optimization and intelligent test maintenance… Application leaders that are responsible for modernizing application development should: Evaluate and map potential tools against their use cases and technologies — and the skill sets needed to support them — and prepare to acquire more than one test automation tool to address all of them.”

    The Smart API Test Generator solves this core problem facing software development organizations today. In today’s software projects, up to 80% of testing time is spent either executing manual UI tests or fixing automated UI tests that have broken as a result of application change. As a result, manual testing isn’t keeping pace with development, and while organizations know that API tests can more precisely pinpoint the root cause of defects because they are closer to the code, easier to automate, and more resistant to application change, due to the higher learning curve and specialized skills required to adopt API testing, organizations tend to lean on UI testing and fail to realize the benefits of API testing.

    With the release of the Smart API Test Generator, Parasoft SOAtest is solving the API testing adoption problem by helping organizations bring this critical testing practice into their testing strategy as a simple extension of their existing manual testing efforts. Controlled by an easy-to-deploy browser extension, the Smart Generator monitors underlying API calls that are made while a user is manually testing an application, and then uses artificial intelligence to discover patterns and understand relationships between those API calls in order to create fully-automated, scriptless API test scenarios that users can interact with without knowing how to code an API test. Once built, those API tests are automatically imported into the industry-leading Parasoft SOAtest, which enables users to parlay their tests into a comprehensive API testing strategy, using SOAtest’s visual tooling, test flow logic, and data solutions to cover more application logic and build complete end-to-end tests, paving the way for more test maturity and automation.

    “Testing at the API layer represents a sweet spot on the testing pyramid, but until now it has been underutilized by most organizations due to the wall of knowledge required to understand and fully test the API,” explained Chris Colosimo, Parasoft SOAtest Product Manager. “With the new Smart API Test Generator, we have simultaneously enabled the broader testing community to jump over that wall and empowered the power-user to accelerate their testing efforts so that organizations can fully unlock the potential of API testing. And all you have to do to get started is install a plugin on your browser.”

    To learn more about Parasoft SOAtest Smart API Test Generator, you can attend a live webinar on May 24th – Automate API Testing with Artificial Intelligence, with Theresa Lanowitz from voke Research, where we will showcase the Smart API Test Generator and discuss how it solves today’s accelerated development and test challenges.

    About Parasoft:

    Parasoft provides innovative tools that automate time-consuming testing tasks and provide management with intelligent analytics necessary to focus on what matters. Parasoft’s technologies reduce the time, effort, and cost of delivering secure, reliable, and compliant software, by integrating static and runtime analysis; unit, functional, and API testing; and service virtualization. Parasoft supports software organizations as they develop and deploy applications in the embedded, enterprise and IoT markets. With developer testing tools, manager reporting/analytics, and executive dashboarding, Parasoft enables organizations to succeed in today’s most strategic development initiatives — agile, continuous testing, DevOps, and security.

     

     

  • IT Revolution Announces Agenda For DevOps Enterprise Summit London 2018

    Latest round of speakers added to the conference program include leaders from Adidas, IBM, Jaguar Land Rover, UBS, Microsoft and Capital One

    PORTLAND, Ore., May 2, 2018 — IT Revolution (http://itrevolution.com), the industry leader for advancing DevOps, today announced the DevOps Enterprise Summit London 2018 conference agenda is now live (http://bit.ly/2HsSzA5). The DevOps Enterprise Summit London 2018 (DOES18) features technical, architectural and experience reports from leaders that have pioneered change through DevOps. The event takes place 25-26 June, 2018 at the Intercontinental London – The O2.

    Attendees are encouraged to register now, as the event has previously sold out. Register here: https://events.itrevolution.com/eur/register/

    “We are excited to feature world-class speakers who not only are driving change in their organizations, but are pioneering new practices to help their organizations win in the marketplace,” said Gene Kim, founder of IT Revolution and co-author of The Phoenix Project, The DevOps Handbook and Accelerate. “For the first time, in addition to technology leaders, we’ll also be hearing experience reports from business leaders, product managers, project managers, and security managers, who will share how they benefit from, and are helping to, accelerate DevOps transformations.”

    The full program also highlights additional technology and business leaders who will be speaking, including:

    • Shaun Norris, Global Head, Cloud Infrastructure Services, Standard Chartered Bank
    • Markus Rautert, Vice President Platform Engineering & Architecture, Adidas
    • Jeffrey Snover, Technical Fellow and Chief Architect for Azure Storage & Cloud Edge, Microsoft
    • Ann Marie Fred, Senior Software Engineering Manager, IBM
    • John Rzeszotarski, SVP, Director of Continuous Delivery and Feedback, KeyBank
    • Jelena Laketic, Head of SWAT, UBS
    • Jayne Groll, CEO, DevOps Institute
    • Daniele Romano, Global Product Owner Continuous Delivery, ING
    • Huub van der Wouden, Program Manager, Lean and Agile Software Development, Dutch Railways
    • Zane Lackey, Chief Security Officer, Signal Sciences
    • John Schmidt, Director of Product Management, Capital One
    • Fin Goulding, Co-author of FLOW, International CIO, Aviva
    • Fernando Cornago, Senior Director – Platform Engineering, Adidas
    • Oksana Nekrasova, DevOps Engineering Manager, Dell EMC
    • Anton Rymkus, Principal Software Engineer, DevOps Architect, Dell EMC
    • Rob England, Managing Director, Teal Unicorn
    • Dr. Cherry Vu, CEO, Teal Unicorn
    • Chris Hill, Head of Systems Engineering, Infotainment, Jaguar Land Rover
    • Steve Mayner, SAFe Fellow and Principal Consultant, Scaled Agile
    • Dr. Richard Cook, Physician, Educator, and Research Scientist, Department of Integrated Systems Engineering, Ohio State University
    • Daniel Franzen, Enterprise Architect, Swedish Migration Agency
    • Jonas Elmqvist, Software Development Unit Manager, Swedish Migration Agency

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    About the DevOps Enterprise Summit
    The DevOps Enterprise Summit is a conference for technology and business leaders who are transforming how large, complex organizations deliver and operate software to help their organizations win in the marketplace.

    Entering its third year in Europe and fifth year in the US, its goal is to accelerate DevOps adoption and increase the likelihood of those initiatives succeeding, enabling the cultural norms, technical practices and architectures that help organizations achieve the highest levels of performance.

    The event features experience report and subject matter expert talks from technology leaders at top global brands that leverage DevOps to thrive within an increasingly software-driven economy. Through keynotes, breakout sessions, collaborative workshops and space to interact within an expo hall, attendees gain insights into the evolving technical and architectural practices and the methods needed to lead widespread change efforts in large organizations.

    About IT Revolution

    IT Revolution assembles technology leaders and practitioners through publishing, events, and research. Our goal is to elevate the state of technology work, quantify the economic and human costs associated with suboptimal IT performance, and to improve the lives of IT professionals.

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