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  • Lumu Closes $7.5 Million To Help Companies Measure Cyber Compromise In Real-Time

    SoftBank and Panoramic Ventures Co-Lead Funding in Fast-growing, Miami-based Startup

    Miami, FL – March 10, 2021 – Lumu, creators of the Continuous Compromise Assessment cybersecurity model, today announced that it has closed its Series A round of funding for the amount of $7.5 million. The round was co-led by SoftBank Group Corp’s SB Opportunity Fund and Panoramic Ventures. Proceeds from the new round of funding will serve as growth capital for sales and marketing initiatives, and additional research and development. Lumu also announced that Dr. Paul Judge, Managing Partner of Panoramic Ventures and a member of the Opportunity Fund’s investment committee, has joined the company’s board.

    “We believe that Lumu will help businesses change how they operate cybersecurity by putting them in control of the impact of cybercrime in their organizations. Ricardo is a proven entrepreneur with a track record of building and operating disruptive companies in the cybersecurity space,” said Paul Judge. “SoftBank’s commitment to fueling the growth of black, Latinx and other minority-owned companies remains a priority.”

    Lumu is a cloud-based solution that collects and standardizes metadata from across the network, including DNS queries, Network Flows, access logs from perimeter proxies and/or firewalls, and spam box filters, and then applies Artificial Intelligence to correlate threat intelligence from these disparate data sources to isolate confirmed points of compromise. Lumu is founded by cybersecurity veteran Ricardo Villadiego who previously founded Easy Solutions which was acquired by BC Partners and Medina Capital in 2016. He has held positions at IBM, Internet Security Systems and Unisys Corporation.

    “Despite billions of dollars per year being spent to secure corporate networks, attackers continue to find ways to penetrate their defenses and worse still, often remain undetected inside the network for months or even years. Lumu’s Continuous Compromise Assessment model flips the conventional security model on its head by assuming that the network is compromised and forces you to prove otherwise,” said Ricardo Villadiego, Founder & CEO of Lumu. “These industry leading venture firms’  investment in Lumu validates the imperative need for organizations to measure compromise continuously and intentionally as the core initiative to improve their cybersecurity posture.”

    Since officially launching at the RSA Conference in February 2020, more than 1,300 customers across a range of industries and geographies have signed up for Lumu’s offering and adopted its model of Continuous Compromise Assessment. During this time, the Lumu Platform has analyzed more than 55 billion metadata records and detected more than 11 million adversarial contacts.

    ISS’s former CEO Tom Noonan; and Palo Alto Networks’s former CEO, Lane Bess, are also part of the investment round.

    About Lumu

    Headquartered in Miami, Florida, Lumu is a cybersecurity company focused on helping enterprise organizations illuminate threats and isolate confirmed instances of compromise. Applying principles of Continuous Compromise Assessment, Lumu has built a powerful closed-loop, self-learning solution that helps security teams accelerate compromise detection, gain real-time visibility across their infrastructure, and close the breach detection gap from months to minutes. Learn more about how Lumu illuminates network blindspots at www.lumu.io.

    About the SoftBank SB Opportunity Fund

    SoftBank’s Opportunity Fund is a $100 million venture fund dedicated to supporting and building a community of outstanding Black, LatinX and Native American founders and entrepreneurs in the U.S. For more information, visit theopportunityfund.com or follow the Opportunity Fund on LinkedIn.

    About Panoramic Ventures

    Panoramic Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Atlanta that takes a “wider-view” approach to investing by targeting the Southeast and Midwest and placing a focus on underserved and diverse founders and university startups. Panoramic opens new doors for overlooked founders, giving more entrepreneurs access to capital to build leading tech companies. For more information, visit www.panoramic.vc or follow Panoramic Ventures on LinkedIn, Instagram, or Twitter @panoramicvc.

     

  • Logi Analytics Expands Leadership Team with Key Executive Hires

    SVP of Engineering and VP of Alliances and Channels join executive team to drive continued growth

    MCLEAN, Virginia — March 9, 2021 — Logi Analytics, the leading provider of embedded analytics solutions for software teams, today announces the appointment of Vijay Pendyala as Senior VP of Engineering and Jeff Seifert as VP of Alliances and Channels. Pendyala and Seifert bring extensive expertise that will help drive innovation for Logi Analytics’s embedded analytics development tools and accelerate global partner network growth.

    “The traditional business intelligence (BI) market continues to struggle with adoption failing to provide the information people need to make better decisions,” said Kevin Greene, CEO of Logi Analytics. “A recent study found 99% of analytics users spend time searching for data they cannot readily find. At Logi Analytics, we start with the end-user in mind. Our suite of low-code, low-cost application development tools provide the analytics layer for applications, allowing end-users to gain insights in the applications they are already using every day. Vijay and Jeff’s track record of driving innovation and building partnerships with companies around the world will accelerate our innovation agenda and global customer growth so that more application end-users can gain the insights they need to make better decisions. I’m thrilled to have them on board.”

    Pendyala brings over 20 years of engineering experience building software products. Most recently, Pendyala spent two years as the Senior Vice President of Engineering at Guavus, where he led architecture, engineering, data science and technical operations. He previously held leadership roles with a variety of companies including Hewlett Packard Enterprise and PeopleAdmin.

    “I’m excited to join the Logi Analytics team. This new leadership role provides me with the opportunity to capitalize on my years of enterprise software product and innovation experience,” said Pendyala. “As Logi continues to add cutting-edge features and functionality to its suite of embedded analytics development tools, I hope to empower software applications teams with the possibilities the perfect application can provide.”

    Seifert adds an abundance of channel, business development and alliance strategy experience to the Logi Analytics team. Seifert recently served as IBM’s Global Business Unit Executive, Channel Sales, where he led the creation of comprehensive and transformative partner programs across global markets including channel, OEM and strategic technology alliance initiatives, experience that will play a critical role in the continued momentum of Logi Analytics’s global partner network.

    “The BI industry exists because of the failure of applications to do their job. Logi Analytics caught my eye years ago with its novel approach to the analytics space which embraces application teams, rather than choosing to compete with them like the traditional BI players,” said Seifert. “I am eager to help build an ecosystem of global partners looking to help build, manage and deploy mission-critical applications that power enterprises and industries across the globe.”

    This news comes on the heels of Logi Analytics’s recent announcements, its 2021 State of Analytics: Why Users Demand Better survey and strategic collaboration with BlueVolt Platform to help empower channel-focused partners.

    For more information on Logi Analytics and its executive team, please visit www.logianalytics.com/.

    About Logi Analytics

    Logi Analytics empowers the world’s software teams with the most intuitive, developer-grade embedded analytics solutions, along with a group of dedicated people invested in your success. Logi leverages your existing tech stack, so you can quickly build, manage, and deploy your application. And because Logi supports unlimited customization and white-labeling, you have total control to make the application uniquely your own. Over 2,200 application teams have trusted Logi to help power their businesses with sophisticated analytics capabilities. Logi Analytics was recently awarded the 2020 “Best Business Intelligence Solution” Proddy award by Product School, in addition to being named a leader in Business Application Research Center’s (BARC) BI & Analytics Survey 21 across several categories, including Operational BI, Embedded BI, and Cloud BI.

    Logi Analytics is headquartered in McLean, Virginia, with offices in Ireland, England, Ukraine, and China. Learn more about what’s possible with Logi at LogiAnalytics.com.

  • Open Mainframe Project Kicks Off First Quarter with New Members, Additional COBOL and Linux on Z Resources and Launch of the 2nd Annual Open Mainframe Summit

     

    • OMP welcomes ASG Technologies, BMC Software and High School Technical Services to its global ecosystem
    • COBOL Check, a new testing framework for COBOL applications, will complement the COBOL Training Course and leverage the support of the COBOL Working Group
    • ConsoleZ is a new project that will modernize z/VM and zLinux

    SAN FRANCISCO, March 9, 2021 – The Open Mainframe Project (OMP), an open source initiative that enables collaboration across the mainframe community to develop shared tool sets and resources, today welcomes ASG Technologies, BMC Software and High School Technical Services as well as COBOL Check and ConzoleZ to its growing global community.

    “Despite the pandemic, Open Mainframe Project experienced record growth over the past year,” said John Mertic, Director of Program Management at the Linux Foundation. “We more than doubled the number of projects hosted and that is a direct result of the commitment and talent of our members and contributors. Their passions are pushing projects to meet technical milestones and members are collaborating on governance, which has helped Open Mainframe solidify our role as the premiere resource for devops technology and education.”

    COBOL and Linux on Z Continue to Take Center Stage

    COBOL’s ability to support digital transformation is measurably faster and lower-risk than any of the alternatives, which is why there is an estimated 200 billion lines of code being used today. COBOL’s value to the IT industry and global economy is sometimes underestimated, as is its contemporary usage and viability. COBOL is up-to-date technology, supporting the latest advances and innovations such as micro services, containers and cloud.

    COBOL Check aims to enable unit testing for COBOL applications, including those hosted on IBM Z systems, and can support micro testing off-platform on Windows, OS X, Linux, or Unix. It has no dependencies on resources hosted on the Z system, which makes it easy to implement and key to supporting future technologies. For developers, COBOL Check will reduce code modifications and offers a shorter lead time to production. The program also improves the design, understandability, maintainability, and longevity of core business applications and supports IBM’s mainframe modernization program by enabling restructuring of existing applications of APIs. COBOL Check will complement the COBOL Training Course and will leverage the support of the COBOL Working Group.

    ConsoleZ strives to modernize Linux on Z by offering a new open source tool for z/VM and zLinux. It is a web user interface that gives browser access to z/VM console data and CP commands, while limiting access to certain teams. It can save more time and resources so teams don’t have to interact with many z/VM LPARs. ConsoleZ is secure, efficient and has a better user interface.

    Continued Growth of the Ecosystem

    Open Mainframe Project, which launched in 2015 by The Linux Foundation, is now comprised of 43 business and academic organizations. Today, the project welcomes ASG Technologies, a leading provider of solutions for the information-powered enterprise; BMC Software, a global leader in software solutions for the Autonomous Digital Enterprise; and High School Technical Services, which offers coding and technology services in 50+ topics for students and adults.

    “The world’s largest organizations continue to rely on the mainframe,” said Jeff Boatright, Senior Vice President, Development at ASG Technologies. “As they accelerate digital transformation, advancing the mainframe ecosystem is more critical than ever. We’re thrilled to join Open Mainframe Project and contribute our expertise in enabling organizations to modernize mainframe culture, processes and tools and to empower the next generation of mainframe professionals.”

    “We’re excited to bring the combined expertise and experience of BMC, Compuware, and RSM Partners to the Open Mainframe Project to support ongoing innovation on the mainframe,” said John McKenny, SVP and General Manager of ZSolutions at BMC. “With mainframe processing and transaction levels increasing in most industries, there is an increased need for compute power to support mission critical applications, and mainframe modernization is absolutely critical. We have a deep relationship and history of collaboration with the Open Mainframe Project and look forward to working with other members for an open source future of the mainframe.”

    “Through our live events and training services, we teach how to build and manage mainframe applications and promote best practices for mainframe design, development and maintenance,” said Matt Zand, Program Manager for High School Technology Services. “As a provider of advanced training to students and adults, HSTS is excited about partnering with Open Mainframe Project and contributing to the education and training projects like Mainframe Open Education, the COBOL Training Course and the Mentorship Program.”

    The new members will collaborate on vendor-neutral open source projects with the mission of building community and adoption of open source on the mainframe. The project strives to build an inclusive community through investment in open source projects and programs, career development, and events that provide opportunities for the mainframe community to collaborate and create sustainability.

    Open Mainframe invites you to…

    Ask Questions! The Linux Foundation is hosting an Open Mainframe Project Open House on March 9 at 1-2 pm PST. Current member companies Broadcom, IBM and Vicom Infinity as well as a professor from East Carolina University and graduate of the Mentorship Program will be online to answer questions and discuss the mainframe community. This session is open to anyone interested in membership in the Open Mainframe Project.  Register here.

    Apply! The annual Open Mainframe Project Mentorship program, which has helped more than 40 students learn more and gain experience with Linux, open source, and mainframes, is looking for mentees for the Summer Mentorship. Read more here and apply before March 31.

    Sponsor! The 2nd Annual Open Mainframe Summit will take place virtually on September 22-23, 2021. Last year, the digital event brought more than 380 registrants from around the world. This year, the Summit promises to be bigger and better with a stellar roster of speakers and more engagement and networking opportunities. To become a sponsor, click here.

    For more details about Open Mainframe Project, visit https://www.openmainframeproject.org/.

    About the Open Mainframe Project

    The Open Mainframe Project is intended to serve as a focal point for deployment and use of Linux and Open Source in a mainframe computing environment. With a vision of Open Source on the Mainframe as the standard for enterprise class systems and applications, the project’s mission is to build community and adoption of Open Source on the mainframe by eliminating barriers to Open Source adoption on the mainframe, demonstrating value of the mainframe on technical and business levels, and strengthening collaboration points and resources for the community to thrive. Learn more about the project at https://www.openmainframeproject.org.

    About The Linux Foundation

    The Linux Foundation is the organization of choice for the world’s top developers and companies to build ecosystems that accelerate open technology development and commercial adoption. Together with the worldwide open source community, it is solving the hardest technology problems by creating the largest shared technology investment in history. Founded in 2000, The Linux Foundation today provides tools, training and events to scale any open source project, which together deliver an economic impact not achievable by any one company. More information can be found at www.linuxfoundation.org.

    The Linux Foundation has registered trademarks and uses trademarks. For a list of trademarks of The Linux Foundation, please see its trademark usage page: www.linuxfoundation.org/trademark-usage. Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds.

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  • Linux Foundation Announces Free sigstore Signing Service to Confirm Origin and Authenticity of Software

    Red Hat, Google and Purdue University lead efforts to ensure software maintainers, distributors and consumers have full confidence in their code, artifacts and tooling

    SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., March 9, 2021 –  The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization enabling mass innovation through open source, today announced the sigstore project. sigstore improves the security of the software supply chain by enabling the easy adoption of cryptographic software signing backed by transparency log technologies.

    sigstore will empower software developers to securely sign software artifacts such as release files, container images and binaries. Signing materials are then stored in a tamper-proof public log. The service will be free to use for all developers and software providers, with the sigstore code and operation tooling developed by the sigstore community. Founding members include Red Hat, Google and Purdue University.

    “sigstore enables all open source communities to sign their software and combines provenance, integrity and discoverability to create a transparent and auditable software supply chain,” said Luke Hinds, Security Engineering Lead, Red Hat office of the CTO. “By hosting this collaboration at the Linux Foundation, we can accelerate our work in sigstore and support the ongoing adoption and impact of open source software and development.”

    Understanding and confirming the origin and authenticity of software relies on an often disparate set of approaches and data formats. The solutions that do exist, often rely on digests that are stored on insecure systems that are susceptible to tampering and can lead to various attacks such as swapping out of digests or users falling prey to targeted attacks.

    “Securing a software deployment ought to start with making sure we’re running the software we think we are. Sigstore represents a great opportunity to bring more confidence and transparency to the open source software supply chain,” said Josh Aas, executive director, ISRG | Let’s Encrypt.

    Very few open source projects cryptographically sign software release artifacts. This is largely due to the challenges software maintainers face on key management, key compromise / revocation and the distribution of public keys and artifact digests. In turn, users are left to seek out which keys to trust and learn steps needed to validate signing. Further problems exist in how digests and public keys are distributed, often stored on websites susceptible to hacks or a README file situated on a public git repository. sigstore seeks to solve these issues by utilization of short lived ephemeral keys with a trust root leveraged from an open and auditable public transparency logs.

    “I am very excited about the prospects of a system like sigstore. The software ecosystem is in dire need of something like it to report the state of the supply chain. I envision that, with sigstore answering all the questions about software sources and ownership, we can start asking the questions regarding software destinations, consumers, compliance (legal and otherwise), to identify criminal networks and secure critical software infrastructure. This will set a new tone in the software supply chain security conversation,” said Santiago Torres-Arias, Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Purdue / in-toto project founder.

    “sigstore is poised to advance the state of the art in open source development,” said Mike Dolan, senior vice president and general manager of Projects at the Linux Foundation. “We are happy to host and contribute to work that enables software maintainers and consumers alike to more easily manage their open source software and security.”

    “sigstore aims to make all releases of open source software verifiable, and easy for users to actually verify them. I’m hoping we can make this easy as exiting vim,” Dan Lorenc, Google Open Source Security Team. “Watching this take shape in the open has been fun. It’s great to see sigstore in a stable home.”

    For more information and to contribute, please visit: https://sigstore.dev

    About the Linux Foundation

    Founded in 2000, the Linux Foundation is supported by more than 1,000 members and is the world’s leading home for collaboration on open source software, open standards, open data, and open hardware. Linux Foundation’s projects are critical to the world’s infrastructure including Linux, Kubernetes, Node.js, and more.  The Linux Foundation’s methodology focuses on leveraging best practices and addressing the needs of contributors, users and solution providers to create sustainable models for open collaboration. For more information, please visit us at linuxfoundation.org.

     

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    The Linux Foundation has registered trademarks and uses trademarks. For a list of trademarks of The Linux Foundation, please see our trademark usage page:  https://www.linuxfoundation.org/trademark-usage. Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds.

  • InMotion Hosting Announces the Acquisition of RamNode

    InMotion Hosting (IMH) announces the acquisition of RamNode.com, a provider of affordable and high-performance unmanaged VPS Hosting.

    LOS ANGELES, March 8, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — InMotion Hosting today announced the acquisition of Atlanta-based RamNode.com, an established provider of high-performance unmanaged virtual private servers (VPS).

    Under the terms of the deal, RamNode.com, its customers, staff and 5 data centers in Los Angeles, Seattle, Atlanta, New York City and the Netherlands will now be under the InMotion Hosting umbrella. InMotion Hosting intends to continue to leverage the current team at RamNode and RamNode.com will be managed as a separate entity with no changes to its core product line.

    Nick Adams founded RamNode in 2012 when he identified the need for affordable unmanaged servers and RamNode was among the first to go big in this space with SSDs and a focus on high performance. Nick approached InMotion Hosting in late 2020 about the possibility of IMH acquiring RamNode. He expressed great satisfaction with the entire experience and with his decision to transition RamNode to IMH. “Everything I have seen indicates that InMotion Hosting wants the business to grow and wants to put time and effort into it and has a vision and the strategy to make it happen. If I had the resources of IMH, what they are planning is exactly what I would do. That is what gives me high confidence that RamNode is in the right hands.” Nick also added, “InMotion Hosting decided to take on the entire team at RamNode, which was of particular importance to me.”

    When asked about his own departure from the company, Nick mentioned that, “It’s been a good run and I am honored that I was able to serve RamNode’s customers for over 9 years. But it’s time for me to move on to another challenge, something that also allows me to find a better work-life balance.”

    The acquisition was completed seamlessly in early February and was facilitated by Web Ventures (webventures.io), the acquisitions arm of InMotion Hosting. This is the first web hosting company acquisition by Web Ventures, who have so far focused on products in the WordPress ecosystem. Their portfolio includes W3 Total Cache, weForms and Sprout Invoices among others.

    Web Ventures’ core business philosophy is to be the transition partner for technology companies that have grown to a certain size and are unable to fuel further growth and innovation on their own.

    According to Sunil Saxena, co-founder of both InMotion Hosting and Web Ventures, the difference between Web Ventures and venture capital, or private equity firms, is that, “Web Ventures is rooted in the technology space. We built InMotion Hosting from the ground up and we truly understand the pain points of this industry. Our focus is not to tear down a business and flip for a quick profit. Instead we want to build on the foundation started by these entrepreneurs and synergistically work with their core values and offerings to take the business to the next level.”

    Both Nick and Sunil stressed the importance of company culture and values and how they found common ground there as they moved through the acquisition process.

    As per Sunil, “Really important was vetting the people and culture and the way business was done and how they treat their customers. One of the primary reasons that we proceeded with this acquisition is the people at RamNode and how they brought the business to this point and the critical role they will be playing to accelerate the business going forward.”

    RamNode’s newest products have OpenStack as their underlying infrastructure platform. InMotion Hosting, which offers a full suite of web hosting products and cloud solutions, recently announced the general availability of their on-demand private clouds on OpenStack. This synergy between the technical roadmaps of the two companies, along with the ability to invest in technology and resources, will allow InMotion Hosting to quickly fuel future innovation for RamNode customers including better products, better infrastructure, more data centers and a better user experience.

    For more information about RamNode, visit www.ramnode.com.

    About InMotion Hosting
    InMotion Hosting is a privately held technology company providing web hosting, cloud-based solutions and managed services to businesses and entrepreneurs across the globe. With hundreds of thousands of customers, around the world InMotion Hosting’s mission is to bring tools, platforms and outstanding customer service within anyone’s reach to transform their online presence. Since 2001, we have built our foundation around 24/7/365 US-based customer support and open source technology. Our partnerships include SuperMicro and the Open Infrastructure Foundation. For more information on InMotion Hosting and a full suite of digital services, visit www.inmotionhosting.com.

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  • Splice Machine Announces New Capabilities to Support Real-Time AI with Version 3.1 of its Scale-Out SQL Database

    SAN FRANCISCO, March 9, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Splice Machine, provider of the real-time AI platform built on the only scale-out SQL database with built-in machine learning, today announced version 3.1 of its database, which introduces new features and functionality to support enterprises with real-time AI projects. With 3.1, Splice Machine has added Spark 3.0 support for its database engine, which adds performance improvements, resource elasticity support on Kubernetes, GPU support, expansions to Spark’s ML libraries, and more.

    Splice Machine 3.1 greatly increases transparency of data used to create ML models. A new feature of 3.1 enables developers to query the database back in time with AS OF syntax to a specific date, providing a full audit and lineage for a regulator checking for bias or data drift.

    Last November, Splice Machine launched Livewire, an operational AI platform for industrial companies to deploy predictive applications and keep them up and running. With 3.1, Splice Machine has added new native Spark structured streaming ingestion, a new feature that makes streaming data resources incredibly easy to ingest. This is especially valuable for industrial accounts connected to distributed control systems (DCs) and historians, where it is essential to ingest data in real-time as it becomes available.

    “We are excited to be powering data engineers and data scientists with the tools they need to break down the chasms that stop ML and AI projects from being successful,” said Monte Zweben, co-founder and CEO, Splice Machine. “With 3.1, we have made vital leaps in database capabilities to successfully operationalize real-time AI applications and bring ML models into production.”

    With 3.1, Splice Machine has significantly enhanced its database capabilities, including new foreign key processing, richer trigger support and improved handling, indexes on expressions, and improved import and export capabilities as well as DB2 compatibility. Splice Machine now makes it virtually turnkey to migrate entire applications powered by IBM DB2 to a modern scale-out architecture with machine learning.

    For more information on Splice Machine 3.1, visit www.splicemachine.com.

    About Splice Machine

    Splice Machine makes it fast and easy to deploy AI applications. The company combines SQL database and machine learning technology into one seamless platform to slash software, infrastructure and people costs and to vastly improve data science productivity. Enterprises build new intelligent applications on the Splice Machine platform, extend existing applications with AI, and modernize their applications in the cloud with virtually no rewrites. The Splice Machine Livewire solution enables industrial clients to ingest live sensor data to predict operational problems in real-time to avoid costly outages. Splice Machine is available as a fully-managed cloud service on AWS, Azure, and GCP and is also available on-premises. For more information on Splice Machine, visit www.splicemachine.com.

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  • Boomi Accelerates Cloud-First Strategies With New Multicloud Capabilities for Flow

    Low-Code Workflow Automation Service Increases the Value of Customer, Employee and Partner Relationships Through Enhanced Integrated Experiences

    Chesterbrook, Pa. – March 9, 2021 – Boomi™, a Dell Technologies™ business and leading provider of cloud-based integration platform-as-a-service  (iPaaS), today announced enhancements to Flow, Boomi’s low-code workflow automation service, with support for multicloud and hybrid cloud deployments to enable cloud agility with built-in protection for sensitive data. With these new enhancements to Flow, businesses can increase the value of customer, employee and partner relationships by delivering trusted engagement, fast.

    As digital transformation continues to accelerate, organizations are under increasing pressure to engage with many personas across a range of locations and devices. Trusted user engagement activates interest, invites customer loyalty, and harmonizes workflows – making it the differentiating capability that will make or break relationships between people and digital business. With Boomi Flow, businesses can deliver trusted user engagement that meets customers where they are, with support for multicloud architecture across application and workflow components.

    “The industry has been clamoring for a multicloud solution that can create integrated experiences and enable digital engagement with audiences in a seamless way,” said Ed Macosky, head of product at Boomi. “With Flow, organizations can seamlessly deploy and automate workflows and applications across diverse environments in ways that best fit their architectures. The net result is the ability to personalize the customer journey for different personas, creating unique avenues of interaction that build up brand loyalty.”

    Boomi Flow enables businesses to accelerate cloud-first strategies without introducing risk.  Organizations can run Boomi Flow applications in any cloud, including hybrid, multicloud, and on-premises deployments. Architected for easy synchronization and a minimal on-premises footprint to avoid future migration challenges, Flow supports data control and security with deployment flexibility and the ability to run apps from private clouds while leveraging the design convenience of a cloud-native workspace.

    “Boomi has served as the backbone of our digital transformation engine as we seek to better serve our partners and scale for rapid growth,” said Tim Heger, CTO and CISO at HealthBridge, which provides a first-of-its-kind financial solution that bridges the gap between the high cost of healthcare and an employee’s financial wellbeing. “Boomi Flow is enabling us to spin up crucial engagement portals for our partners in record time, carving months out of our development cycles, streamlining operations, and increasing time to production by about 10X.”

    Flow empowers customers to streamline operations with one touch deployment, better control of data movement, and enhanced governance of sensitive data. This means Flow enables the creation of custom workflows and applications – while complying with regulatory mandates and corporate policies around data protection. Customers who use Flow to build user engagement can take advantage of the benefits of multicloud deployment agility while keeping the Flow runtime and associated data within their private boundary, assuring the protection of sensitive data with improved management.

    Boomi Flow is now generally available. To learn more about Boomi Flow, please click here.

    About Boomi

    Boomi, a Dell Technologies business, instantly connects everyone to everything with our cloud-native, unified, open, and intelligent platform. Boomi’s integration platform as a service (iPaaS) is trusted by more than 13,000 customers globally for its speed, ease-of-use, and lower total cost of ownership. As the pioneer at fueling intelligent use of data, Boomi’s vision is to make it quick and easy for customers and partners to discover, manage, and orchestrate data, while you connect applications, processes, and people for better, faster outcomes.

    For more information, visit http://www.boomi.com.

    © 2021 Boomi Inc. Dell, Dell Technologies, Boomi, the ‘B’ logo, Atom, AtomSphere, Molecule, and Dell Boomi are trademarks of Dell Inc., or its subsidiaries. All rights reserved. Other names or marks may be the trademarks of their respective owners.

  • Applitools Trusted by Sonatype to Ensure App Quality in Nexus Lifecycle

    Sonatype increases time-to-market and eliminates bugs and visual drift in applications after adding Applitools Eyes to test automation lifecycle

    SAN MATEO, Calif., March 9, 2020 — Applitools, provider of a next generation test automation platform powered by Visual AI and Ultrafast Test Cloud, today announced the use of Applitools Visual AI on Sonatype’s Nexus Lifecycle which helps developers and security professionals make safer and smarter open source choices across the software supply chain. Sonatype first sought Applitools to address a core problem that was affecting the functionality of its web applications: visual drift due to code changes with unaccounted UI dependencies.

    To download and learn more about the full case study, visit: (https://applitools.com/case-studies/sonatype/). 

    When developing its Nexus Lifecycle product, Sonatype noticed that small changes in code altered the application visually in unanticipated ways. Sonatype used a range of functional test automation tools, but visual issues were not being detected. Functional tests would consistently pass, even as application changes rendered the UI unusable. Dev teams also tried pixel-diff comparators but indicated a high degree of false positives from pixel diffs.

    Prior to using Applitools Eyes, the Sonatype development team spent the equivalent of three full-time engineers working to uncover and address undetected failures each release. This work often functioned as a spot-check for 1,000+ pages of the application during development, slowing down the delivery of product to market.

    Since using Applitools Eyes, Sonatype has seen a complete eradication of visual drift in its applications. Today, if engineers make a change in their margins across a number of pages, all the differences show up as highlights in Applitools. Applitools also enables engineers to quickly accept identical changes across a number of pages – leaving only the unanticipated differences.

    “Applitools helped us automate our visual validation which allowed our engineers to focus more on creating business value,” said Jamie Whitehouse, Director of Product at Sonatype. “With unit tests, you check them in once and then run them forever. Once they’re running, you expect them to stay green and check them only when they’re red. Now, imagine being able to do the same thing with visual tests. You write them once and only check them when they’re red. Imagine how much more productive you would be if you didn’t have to worry about missing visual changes.”

    Applitools Eyes is the only AI-powered test automation platform sophisticated enough to handle the most complex and evolving challenges organizations face when delivering quality web and mobile apps. It’s core technology, Visual AI, has doubled in usage year-over-year, and recently crossed the milestone of one billion images analyzed.

    About Sonatype

    Sonatype is the leader in software supply chain automation technology with more than 400 employees, over 1,200 enterprise customers, and is trusted by more than 10 million software developers.  Sonatype’s Nexus platform enables DevOps teams and developers to automatically integrate security at every stage of the modern development pipeline by combining in-depth component intelligence with real-time remediation guidance. For more information, please visit Sonatype.com, or connect with us on Facebook, Twitter, or LinkedIn.

    About Applitools

    Applitools delivers a Next Generation Test Automation Platform through Visual AI and Ultrafast Test Cloud. We enable engineering teams to release high quality web and mobile apps at incredible speed and at a reduced cost.

    Applitools Visual AI modernizes important test automation use cases — Functional Testing, Visual Testing, Web and Mobile UI/UX Testing, Cross Browser Testing, Responsive Web Design Testing, Cross Device Testing, PDF Testing, Accessibility Testing and Compliance Testing — to transform the way organizations deliver innovation at the speed of CI/CD at a significantly lower Total Cost of Ownership (TCO).

     

    Hundreds of companies from verticals such as Tech, Banking, Insurance, Retail, Pharma, and Publishing — including 50 of the Fortune 100 — use Applitools to deliver the best possible digital experiences to millions of customers on any device and browser, and across every screen size and operating system.

     

    Applitools is headquartered in San Mateo, California, with an R&D center in Tel Aviv, Israel. For more information, please visit applitools.com.

     

  • ConnectALL Funds Scholarship for Students in STEM to Honor Female Technology Pioneer Betty Knight

    The University of North Georgia will award the Betty Knight – ConnectALL Scholarship to a deserving student seeking a degree in the technology field.

    ATLANTA – March 8, 2021 — ConnectALL, a leading provider of value stream management (VSM) solutions, today announced it will be funding a scholarship to the University of North Georgia (UNG) in honor of technology pioneer Elizabeth (Betty) Knight. The Betty Knight – ConnectALL Technology Scholarship is designed for students who wish to study a technology-related discipline and plan to enter a technology field. UNG, which is designated as a State Leadership Institution, offers a STEM program that includes degree programs in Computer Science, Cybersecurity and Mathematics.

    “My grandmother was an amazing woman in her own right, but her successes in the technology industry were truly extraordinary for a woman at that time,” said ConnectALL President and COO Lance Knight. “I place her in a very small group of female technology pioneers that include Ada Lovelace and Katherine Johnson, and I am honored to provide an incentive for others to follow in her footsteps.”

    The Betty Knight Legacy
    Betty Knight entered the IT field late in life, beginning with a personnel job at the GE Light Military Electronics Division (LMED) in Utica, New York. Knight took the IBM Programmers Aptitude Test (PAT) as a “control” and aced it, kick-starting a career that spanned nearly three decades. During that period, her achievements included designing an early timesharing network architecture, starting an online Seniors’ Forum that became the AARP, and creating and managing a version of Microsoft MSN Online designed specifically for senior adults.

    While encouraging women to enter technology fields, Knight had been seeking a way to honor Betty for several years, when it occurred to him to start a scholarship program. “We hope this financial assistance will provide aspiring technology pros with the support they need to move forward in the field,” said Knight. “We also hope our efforts will inspire women to enter a technology-related profession. International Women’s Day seems like the perfect time to make this award public.”

    “The Mike Cottrell College of Business at the University of North Georgia understands the importance of opening doors for women into the fast-growing, high paying careers in computer science, cybersecurity and information systems,” said Dr. Mary Gowan, Dean of the Mike Cottrell College of Business. “One of our goals is to increase the number of women in the talent pool for technology jobs, and we are doing that through our commitment to include middle school and high school young women in our GenCyber summer programs, through creating networking opportunities for women students with technology professionals, and through offering scholarships to support students in these disciplines. We appreciate that ConnectALL is lending a hand with our efforts.”

    This meritorious scholarship will be awarded to a student in the Mike Cottrell College of Business who is studying Computer Science, Information Systems or Cybersecurity at UNG. The winner will be determined by a committee, with preference given to a student who has exhibited a passion for technology since high school, is excelling in extracurricular competitions, and/or is actively mentoring others in the field.

    ABOUT CONNECTALL
    ConnectALL is a value stream management company dedicated to helping customers achieve higher levels of agility, traceability, predictability and velocity. ConnectALL’s services and solutions help organizations to connect people, processes and technology across the software development and delivery value stream, enabling companies to align digital initiatives to business outcomes and improve the speed at which they deliver software. ConnectALL’s value stream management solutions and services allow companies to see, measure and automate their software delivery value streams. ConnectALL has been recognized as “Best in Show” in the Value Stream Management category of the 2020 SD Times 100 and recognized by numerous third-party analyst firms as a key player in value stream management. Visit us at https://www.connectall.com.

  • Conexiom Marks Record Year of Growth Driven by Increased Global Demand for Sales Order Automation

    Leading automation platform added record number of customers, doubled headcount, and secured funding from leading growth equity firm ICONIQ Capital

    VANCOUVER, British Columbia—March 4, 2021 — Conexiom, the leading provider of sales order and invoice automation solutions, today announced record growth in revenue, employees, and customers, despite the pandemic’s impact on global business. Conexiom also reported a company-best net promoter score (NPS) of 72, signifying its ongoing commitment toward increased satisfaction and successful business outcomes for customers.

    “Out of all our successes in 2020, I am most proud of our NPS score of 72,” said Ray Grady, president and CEO of Conexiom. “An NPS of 72 is almost unheard of in the software industry. This score truly reflects the value that our product and customer success teams deliver on a daily basis. Our customers know they can trust Conexiom to help them achieve their business goals, exceed ROI, and deliver a superior customer experience.”

    Industry-leading manufacturers and distributors, such as Chevron, HP, and Bunzl, chose Conexiom’s automation platform in 2020 to maintain business resiliency during the pandemic and to provide ongoing, unprecedented operational efficiencies that reduce costs and errors, and improve customer service levels.

    Conexiom is on a mission to eliminate the expensive, time-consuming, and error-prone manual processing of sales orders and invoices. Companies large and small require an automation platform like Conexiom’s to eliminate manual entry and approvals in the order capture process, and to transform complex, unstructured data into touchless, structured data that is 100% accurate and delivered seamlessly into the customer’s ERP.

    With over $15 trillion in manual B2B sales orders in the U.S., North America and Europe alone each year, the opportunity sales order automation presents hasn’t gone unnoticed. Based on this growing opportunity, ICONIQ Capital infused $40 million into Conexiom last summer as a strategic growth investment.

    “2020 was certainly a unique and rewarding year for Conexiom as we partnered with wholesale distributors and manufacturers worldwide in the most trying of times,” said Grady. “We believe that the growth we have seen—despite the lingering and evolving pandemic—underscores the impact a purpose-built sales order and invoice automation platform can have on a company’s top and bottom line, as well as the experience they deliver to customers.”

    Conexiom’s momentum stems from a productive 2020 that started with Grady’s hiring in February. Since then, the company has strategically built out its leadership team. Key executive hires include Bob Burns as chief financial officer, Judd Marcello as executive vice president and chief marketing officer, Justin Finnegan as executive vice president of services, John Cadigan as vice president of cloud operations and chief security officer, Dominic Aelberry as vice president of EMEA sales, and, most recently, Erik Severinghaus as executive vice president of business development.

    Overall, the Conexiom team doubled in size in 2020, and the company shows no signs of slowing down. Conexiom plans to grow its employee base again this year and is particularly focused on roles that deliver greater value for customers, such as engineering, account management, and account services.

    The company recently announced a strategic expansion into EMEA with Aelberry at the helm, as well as a new Salesforce integration, Conexiom for Salesforce Service Cloud and B2B Commerce, now available on the Salesforce AppExchange. In addition to the Conexiom for Salesforce integration, Conexiom also offers a robust integration platform with pre-built solutions for leading ERP providers, including Epicor and SAP.

    Conexiom is becoming recognized as the leading platform for customers looking to fully automate complex and mission-critical trade documents, including RFPs, sales orders, AP documents, ASN, SPA, tax certificates, and more. G2 recently awarded Conexiom “High Performer” status in the order management category of its winter ratings.

    “The biggest takeaway from 2020 and the pandemic has been digital transformation as a business imperative—it’s no longer a distant hope or wishful thought,” Grady said. “Increasingly, we’re seeing global and prominent regional manufacturers and distributors turning to Conexiom as they realize the time to modernize business processes and automate is now.”

    For more information about Conexiom, visit Conexiom.com.

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    About Conexiom

    Conexiom’s SaaS automation platform eliminates manual entry and approvals in the order fulfillment process by transforming complex data into 100% accurate, touchless documents, delivered seamlessly into the ERP. Manufacturers and distributors across the globe, such as Grainger, Genpak, Prysmian, Rexnord, USESI, and Compugen, trust Conexiom to improve efficiency, speed and accuracy, increase profitability, and elevate the customer experience, while eliminating unnecessary costs from manual approaches.

    Conexiom is based in Vancouver, British Columbia, and has offices in Kitchener, Ontario; London, England; and Chicago, Illinois. For more information, visit Conexiom.com.