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  • BMC Strengthens Mainframe Intelligence, Security, and DevOps with New and Enhanced Offerings

    BMC AMI and Compuware solutions help enterprises accelerate innovation with expanded AI, new integrations, and increased automation for the mainframe

    HOUSTON, Jan. 6, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — BMC, a global leader celebrating 40 years of delivering software solutions for the Autonomous Digital Enterprise, today announced several new capabilities and enhancements for the BMC Automated Mainframe Intelligence (AMI) and Compuware portfolios that enable BMC mainframe customers to protect uptime and availability, defend the mainframe against cybersecurity threats, and advance enterprise DevOps.

    BMC Strengthens Mainframe Intelligence, Security, and DevOps with New and Enhanced Offerings
    BMC Strengthens Mainframe Intelligence, Security, and DevOps with New and Enhanced Offerings

    “Businesses today are under increasing pressure to ensure 24/7 availability, while optimizing their systems for speed, agility, and ease of use,” said Tim Grieser, Research Vice President for Enterprise System Management Software, IDC. “The ability to adapt is critical for business survival, let alone a successful evolution to a digital enterprise. Resilient, intelligent modern mainframe platforms leverage tools including AIOps to allow customers to reinvent their business for the digital age.”

    Introducing BMC AMI Ops
    The new BMC AMI Ops solution takes the best of MainView, the BMC solution for optimizing mainframe systems management, and enhances it with artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) through an upgraded and intuitive user interface designed for both new and experienced mainframe users. The solution’s new AIOps features allow organizations to identify and respond to problems before they can affect service levels and secure communications between enterprise systems with a RESTful API to support automation.

    Expanding Mainframe Security 
    The BMC AMI Security solution’s new security controls, out-of-the-box security checks, and additional indicators of compromise allow customers to increase threat detection and response capabilities. Integrated with the Compuware Application Audit capability, customers can now capture relevant data about user access and behavior so they can quickly detect breaches and mitigate financial and brand reputation damages. These new offerings, along with the BMC Security Assessment and Penetration Testing services which identify vulnerabilities and weaknesses in configurations, software, and security controls (conducted either onsite or remotely), further harden and defend the mainframe against malicious actions and data threats.

    Adding Functionality to Compuware zAdviser and Topaz for Total Test
    DevOps teams can now see which Compuware DevOps toolchain products and capabilities are underutilized with the new Compuware zAdviser dashboards. In addition, they can deliver applications and services faster with the Compuware Topaz for Total Test product’s enhanced automated testing capabilities, which simplify automated test case creation, expand test coverage with negative testing, and reduce rework.

    Optimizing Workflows with Control-M and Compuware ThruPut Manager
    A new integration between the Control-M and Compuware ThruPut Manager solutions ensure jobs run at or before their expected times, resulting in shorter, more efficient, and cost-optimized batch processing. Users can now use ThruPut Manager to customize the prioritization of mainframe jobs based on data from Control-M, BMC’s industry-leading application workflow orchestration platform.

    Optimizing Data Management with BMC AMI Data for IMS
    The new and improved BMC AMI Data for IMS is the evolution of BMC solutions for IMS™. It delivers optimized mainframe IMS transaction and data management so enterprises can improve availability of critical business services, meet and exceed SLAs, and better support agile application development with fewer resources.

    “Our customers tell us they want to innovate and modernize faster in their mainframe environments while also improving business resiliency and platform security,” said John McKenny, SVP and General Manager of ZSolutions at BMC. “The comprehensive set of BMC AMI and Compuware capabilities delivered today enables enterprises to make significant progress on all fronts with AI and ML-powered insights that drive intelligent operations, adaptive cybersecurity, and deeper insights into mainframe development. Combined with expanded automated testing capabilities that improve Agile development and delivery, enterprises can innovate faster and meet the growing demands of digital business growth.”

    Additional Resources

    • Get up to speed on what’s new in BMC mainframe solutions here
    • Learn more about the BMC AMI portfolio at www.bmc.com/ami
    • Discover what it takes to be an Autonomous Digital Enterprise at www.bmc.com/ade

    About BMC
    From core to cloud to edge, BMC continues to build on a 40-year heritage of shaping digital transformation for organizations around the world. We deliver the software and services innovations that help over 10,000 global customers, including 84% of the Forbes Global 100, thrive in their ongoing evolution to an Autonomous Digital Enterprise.

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  • Exadel Expands Executive Team with Appointment of Chief Technology Officer Oleg Boyko and Chief Revenue Officer Marc Caponegro

    Boyko and Caponegro bring decades of experience in their respective fields to support Exadel’s rapidly growing digital transformation and software engineering solutions and services

    WALNUT CREEK, Calif., December 16, 2020 — Exadel (www.exadel.com), a global provider of digital software engineering solutions and services, today announced Oleg Boyko as Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and Marc Caponegro as Chief Revenue Officer (CRO). Boyko, who started his career at Exadel as a developer, has since accumulated 20 years of experience in developer management and IT leadership roles. Caponegro is an experienced sales, marketing and channel executive with a successful demonstrated history of working in the information technology and services industry.

    “It is an honor to come back to the company that helped launch my career and assume the role of CTO,” said Boyko. “Exadel is rapidly growing and I’m looking forward to guiding and leading our engineering teams to continue to outpace the competition in terms of innovation. This next year holds many uncertainties, but with an Agile approach and unwavering commitment to our product engineering culture, I’m confident we will continue to advance our technical offerings to best serve our clients’ needs.”

    After starting as a developer at Exadel, Boyko transitioned to ABN AMRO Bank where he served as Development Manager for eight years overseeing the delivery of innovative ecommerce products for the Business Banking portfolio. He then continued at Royal Bank of Scotland, spending the next eight years in charge of Digital Channels Development for the Global Trade Services organization. During the past four years Mr. Boyko worked at BMO Harris Bank as Senior Technology Officer responsible for platform modernization and digital transformation initiatives. He holds a B.S. in Biology from Loyola University Chicago and an M.S. in Distributed Computing Systems from DePaul University.

    “I’m excited to start this new chapter as Chief Revenue Officer at Exadel,” said Caponegro. “Leading global direct and channel sales along with marketing in the IT industry has been a passion of mine for 30 years and I’m honored to join Exadel in the midst of its rapid growth. We have ambitious goals for this next year, but I’m confident that we will meet or exceed them with the talent and track record of this team.”

    As an accomplished Sales Executive, Caponegro brings extensive key enterprise account management, knowledge, experience, team performance management and revenue growth to Exadel. Caponegro successfully created and launched Global Direct Sales, Channel & Alliance Sales, Marketing and OEM programs with several companies from start-up and is very accustomed to working in both an entrepreneurial and large Global Enterprise environment. He brings the experience and knowledge of working for the largest multi-billion-dollar sales & global channel/distribution companies to complement his early stage and start-up company success.

    Recent roles include a series of executive positions with Arundo Analytics, Pena4 Corporation, EMC Corporation, and as President and CEO of his own start-up where he built an IT integration company and had a successful exit when the company was acquired.

    Caponegro has proven success engaging with Global Fortune 1000, healthcare, SLED and federal verticals to design go-to-market strategies that optimize efficiency and results.  He holds a B.S. in Marketing from Seton Hall University.

    Exadel is actively hiring. If you are interested in submitting an application please visit: (https://exadel.com/about-us/careers/)

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    About Exadel

    Exadel is an enterprise software development company that supports organizations at any stage of their digital transformation journey. For over twenty years it has helped companies redefine the way they do business by developing their core products and platforms, and facilitating transition to the cloud. Exadel has a long history of developing its own products, platforms, and open-source solutions that accelerate the services it provides and add value to customers. A Forrester-recognized market leader in distributed Agile, the company has a long track record of partnering with the biggest names across most industries. For more information on Exadel services and areas of expertise visit exadel.com and follow us on Linkedin and Twitter @exadel.

  • Maven Bolsters Leadership Team With CRO, COO

    Todd Dorsey joins as CRO and Rachel Firestone is promoted to COO to drive Maven’s revenue and operational growth

    PITTSBURGH –– December 17, 2020 — Maven Machines, a premier fleet management and telematics software company in the commercial trucking and transportation industry, today announces the appointment of Todd Dorsey as chief revenue officer and the promotion of Rachel Firestone to chief operating officer. Dorsey, with his experience in revenue-driving roles within sales, account management, and business development, combined with his SaaS industry expertise, will strategically enhance Maven’s position within the fleet management technology industry. Firestone has been promoted from her position as vice president of customer success to an operational leadership role at Maven as the company scales its operations and expands its core business processes.

    “Todd and Rachel both come into their new leadership roles here at Maven with incredible expertise and experience,” said Avi Geller, CEO of Maven Machines. “Their insights into our customers, product, and industry, along with leading our operational and revenue-driving initiatives, will allow us to continue to successfully grow our business. They’ll help accelerate our growth goals as we become the premier, enterprise-level software company for operations and fleet management in the trucking industry.”

    Dorsey joins Maven from T2 Systems, the largest parking technology provider in North America, where he served as the vice president of sales. He was responsible for the business development and account management teams across T2’s multiple enterprise solution suites that include SaaS technology, hardware platforms, and professional services. Additionally, with 30 years of results-driven sales and customer success experience, Dorsey has helped organizations grow with his strategic business and team development expertise. Dorsey, as CRO of Maven, will lead the sales department, while also working closely with product, marketing, operations, and customer success teams.

    Before joining Maven in July 2020 as vice president of customer success, Firestone served in operational leadership, product management, and consulting roles for over 20 years. As a principal field readiness architect for Workday, a leading provider of enterprise cloud applications for finance, HR, and planning, she led the global services rollout for new product lines and served as the deployment subject matter expert for talent and learning products. In her previous role at Maven, Firestone showcased her ability to lead external-facing operations and customer growth initiatives, and most importantly, she put the success of Maven’s customers first. In her new role, she will continue to lead the organization’s growing customer engagement department, while also overseeing operations and human resources departments.

    “Maven is uniquely positioned to take on the complex operational problems that can prove costly to fleets, especially as freight demand increases,” said Dorsey. “Maven’s cloud-based, unified software suite is the best solution for fleets that are looking to optimize operations and data to drive profitability.”

    This announcement follows Maven Machines’ $7 million Series A. To learn more about Maven Machines, please visit www.MavenMachines.com.

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    About Maven Machines:

    Maven Machines is reinventing transportation management. With Maven’s powerful, easy-to-use software platform, trucking and transportation fleets leverage mobile cloud and industrial IoT technologies to optimize efficiency, safety, and profitability. Maven utilizes machine learning and data analytics for real-time, automated dispatch, planning, route optimization, and fleet management solutions. Maven’s exponential growth is largely driven by close industry partnerships, empowering fleets to produce measurable results with innovative technological solutions. For more information, please visit mavenmachines.com.

  • Merico Releases Powerful Code Analytics Platform For Developers to Capture & Articulate Contribution Value

    The free analytics tool for developers launched at Open Core Summit Digital 

    SAN FRANCISCO, CA /  Merico is announcing the launch of Merico Build at Open Core Summit. Merico Build is a powerful analytics dashboard that provides developers with a solution to articulate strengths and achievements directly from their code, empowering skill and career growth from signals that typically remain hidden or go unrecognized. Notably, Merico is making the product free for all developers worldwide.

    The company behind this software, Merico, is a leading innovator in code contribution analytics based in San Francisco, California with a global team led by veteran software researchers.

    Merico Build

    Merico Build is free for any developer anywhere to analyze their repos to realize more value in their coding lives certifying their skills, expertise, and competencies to let their code speak for itself. Merico Build was developed to empower developers with insights and badges that enable self-improvement, career progress, and job applications.

    Merico CEO Jinglei Ren explains the need for this product: “Developers write code for more than just work, however it’s a challenge to articulate and celebrate that contribution which often goes unrecognized or hidden. How do you translate those contributions into growth, career outcomes, or skill development? We’ve created a product to solve exactly these questions.”

    Furthermore “It’s more important than ever for developers and hiring companies to have a clear sense of strengths, capabilities, expertise and experience in a manner that is data driven,” says CEO Jinglei Ren. “Merico Build solves this problem by providing the most advanced contribution analytics in the market.”

    Features:

    • Enables developers to automatically extract insights from their repositories
    • Empowers developers to improve coding practices with data
    • Translate contribution into shareable metrics articulating value and strengths
    • Certify skills and expertise based on code contribution and Git history
    • Benchmark accomplishments and competencies with peers and heroes

    Jinglei is a former researcher at Microsoft Research who holds a Ph.D. from Tsinghua University in Beijing. He was a visiting scholar at Stanford University and Carnegie Mellon University. Cofounder Hezheng Yin was leading the original research that catalyzed Merico while studying for his Ph.D. in Computer Science at UC Berkeley. Cofounder Roland Vogl brings a wealth of experience as an executive and academic with expertise in informatics.

    Investor Backing

    In August 2020, Merico raised a $4.1 million seed round led by GGV Capital, with participation from Legend Star and previous investor Polychain Capital. The venture was originally funded by OSS Capital and Open Core Summit founder Joseph Jacks.

    “Merico build provides a complete picture of the development process to individuals and global companies,” says Jinglei. “These insights help teams around the world to better understand a developer’s performance, productivity, quality and strengths.”

    According to the Merico team, many assessments rely on superficial measures that treat all code as being created equal. Merico’s analytics tool accounts for these complexities and nuances by extracting real insights directly from the code, accounting for impact, density, complexity, bugs, and other essential facets.

    “We are so proud to offer a coherent and data-driven solution for the creators of software to be directly recognized and rewarded for the value of their intellectual contributions to software projects, including OSS and proprietary projects.” says Mr. Vogl, Merico cofounder.

    For updates, visit Merico:

    Merico develops the most advanced analytics tools to help engineering teams understand and optimize productivity and code quality. Its international workforce spans North America, Asia and Europe. Merico’s solutions foster excellence through transparent measures and benchmarks that enhance code quality, productivity, and team alignment.

  • DISCO Closes $100 Million Q4 Funding Round

    Addition of $40 Million Debt Financing to October’s $60 Million Equity Financing will Further Fuel Product Innovation and Global Expansion

    AUSTIN — December 17, 2020 — DISCO today announced the completion of its $100 million fourth-quarter financing, bringing total investment in DISCO to $235 million and valuing the company at $785 million. The financing includes the previously announced $60 million in equity from Georgian, LiveOak Venture Partners, Bessemer Venture Partners, the Stephens Group, and Breyer Capital, and an additional $40 million in debt from Comerica, closed this week.

    Investor confidence in DISCO demonstrated by this financing, coupled with the company’s recent rankings on the 2020 Deloitte Technology Fast 500 and the Forbes Cloud 100, validate DISCO’s position as the leader in legal technology. More than 700 corporations, law firms, and government agencies partner with DISCO to help them find evidence in litigation and investigations. Lawyers use DISCO in some of the most important cases in the world, including the opioids litigation and public investigations into government responses to COVID-19 worldwide.

    “Legaltech is booming now, and the industry’s real growth has only just begun,” said DISCO CEO Kiwi Camara. “Over the next five to 10 years, legaltech will emerge as the next high-growth category of enterprise software. We are delighted to see investors acknowledge DISCO’s position as the category creator and category leader for legaltech. Legal departments and law firms are embracing the power of artificial intelligence to automate away the parts of the practice of law that don’t require human legal judgment, freeing great lawyers to do the work that only they can do.”

    DISCO will continue to invest in building AI-powered solutions that address the entire litigation lifecycle. DISCO solutions include the DISCO cloud technology platform, software products like DISCO Ediscovery and DISCO Case Builder, and productized legal services like DISCO Managed Review. DISCO is aggressively expanding its sales and marketing capabilities in North America, and will continue to grow its presence in EMEA and APAC. The company is also building its strategic channel program and engagement with global service providers.

    “Comerica is thrilled to continue our long-term partnership with the DISCO team through the expansion of our existing financing relationship,” said Kevin Urban, Senior Vice President & Group Manager, Comerica Technology & Life Sciences. “DISCO continues to differentiate itself in the market with its products, services, and vision for how technology can transform the legal function.”

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    About DISCO

    DISCO is a legal technology company that applies artificial intelligence and cloud computing to legal problems to help lawyers and legal teams improve legal outcomes for their clients. Corporate legal departments, law firms, and government agencies around the world use DISCO for ediscovery, case management, compliance, disputes, and investigations. For more information, visit www.csdisco.com.‍

     

  • Kintaba Launches ‘Automations’ to Seamlessly Manage the Incident Response Process to Major Outages

    Kintaba is a modern incident management platform built by ex-Facebook engineers

    The company launched out of stealth earlier this year in February with $2.25 million in seed funding led by New York’s FirstMark Capital.

    NEW YORK, NY — (BUSINESS WIRE) — Kintaba, the incident management platform built by ex-Facebook engineers, today launched Automations, a new feature that helps teams automate decision-making during major incidents and outages.

    Traditionally, Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) and DevOps teams cobble together various software tools and processes to manage high severity incidents; everything from text messages to chat apps to task managers to Google Docs to alerting systems. By intelligently automating incident management processes, Kintaba’s Automations helps teams loop in the right people at the right moment, freeing response teams to focus on resolving the problem versus “managing” the incident.

    “Taking the busywork and overhead out of Incident Management helps make sure that everyone at the company feels empowered to participate in the response process, even if it’s their first time being involved,” said John Egan, CEO and Co-Founder of Kintaba. “With the introduction of Automations, incident reporters and responders alike can feel confident that the right people will be included at the right time to help resolve the incident.”

    “That’s not just the SREs either — that may include legal, PR, or even the account reps for the customers impacted by the outage. That’s a big differentiator for how Kintaba views the world: Incident Response should be an open, company-wide initiative and Automations makes that more attainable for our users.”

    According to Atlassian’s State of Incident Management 2020 Report, 97% of respondents say it is important to improve their organization’s incident response process next year. The top pain points highlighted are “the lack of coordination across departments” and “the lack of automated responses.” With the launch of Automations, teams and companies using Kintaba can define a rules-based decision tree for engaging the right responders and subscribers with active incidents.  For example, if an incident is categorized as impacting PII (personally identifiable information), the Automations system can be configured to instantly add the current oncall for the legal team and the customer success manager for the impacted customer as a responder, while simultaneously adding the CIO as a subscriber.  These automations can be triggered both at the moment of incident creation and as the incident progresses, so that the response team evolves organically with the analysis and mitigation process.

    “Incidents often start out fuzzy and ill-defined, but then rapidly gain shape and definition,” said Zac Morris, CSO and Co-Founder at Kintaba and former mobile application security manager at Uber.  “As that happens, it’s important that the platform you’re working on enables automation when it’s valuable, and stays out of your way when your team needs to focus. Kintaba’s Automations does just that.”

    Quotes of Support
    ”Kintaba is an essential part of the Vercel reliability workflow. We tried many disjointed tools before, but Kintaba just clicked for our team. I recommend it to all engineering organizations I talk to.” — Guillermo Rauch, CEO at Vercel

    “Kintaba keeps us honest by automating our process: ensuring that we learn from our mistakes and continually improve our systems.” — Tom Elliott, Head of Engineering at Let’s Do This

    About Kintaba

    Kintaba is a modern incident management platform built by former Facebook engineers. It lets companies and teams implement best-practice incident response processes  without the overhead, creating a seamless workflow for more effectively responding to major outages. The company is headquartered in New York, NY..

  • Rockset Announces Retool Integration, Enabling Faster Internal Tools with Real-Time Analytics

    New release enables developers to build internal tools with powerful real-time analytics, in record time 

     

    SAN MATEO, Calif. — Dec. 17, 2020 — Rockset, the real-time indexing database company, today released an integration with Retool, the low-code platform that allows developers to build internal tools in a matter of minutes. With this integration, developers can build performant internal tools for customer support, marketing operations, customer 360, fraud investigation, logistics monitoring, and streamlining operations, in record time.

    Every business today is accelerating its digital transformation to meet the increasing demands of customers, partners, and employees. Instead of relying only on batch analytics and historical data, businesses are learning to use both historical and real-time insights to automate critical business processes and operate at a pace faster than ever before.

    “Gone are the days when employees tolerated static dashboards that took minutes to refresh. With millennials taking on increasing responsibility in the workplace, the reality is that nobody will use your internal tool if it is any slower than Instagram,” said Venkat Venkataramani, co-founder and CEO of Rockset. “Rockset is the first database that gives developers fast and easy access to real-time analytics at cloud scale, while Retool completely transforms the way internal tools are built. The joint Rockset and Retool solution allows anyone to build incredibly powerful, blazing-fast internal tools in just minutes.”

    Built by the creators of RocksDB, Rockset automatically builds a Converged Index™ on any data — including structured, semi-structured, geographical, and time series data — for high-performance search and analytics at scale. When combined with serverless operations, it is a game-changing approach to making real-time analytics fast, flexible, and easy. Retool is a low-code platform that speeds the process of building internal tools by delivering the UI building blocks to quickly launch internal apps. It also simplifies app development by easily connecting to APIs and data sources like Rockset.

    To build internal tools using Rockset and Retool, the developer workflow is simplified down to three steps:

    1. Continuously index different data sources: Connect to data sources such as MongoDB, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon Kinesis, Apache Kafka, Amazon S3, Google Cloud Storage, and more, for continuously indexing data.
    2. Create data APIs: Write a SQL query and save it as a Query Lambda to create a data API
    3. Build a UI using Retool: Drag and drop UI components that query data from Rockset using REST APIs.

    “Our goal is to change the way developers build software. We’ve saved engineers hundreds of thousands of hours building internal applications. But we’ve also saved millions of hours for the sales, marketing, support, operations, legal, and finance teams who spend hours every day on those internal applications,” said David Hsu, founder and CEO of Retool. “What stood out for me about Rockset is that it delivers millisecond-latency queries on the most recent data, without any of the usual operational burden. This means Retool users can now quickly build blazing-fast internal tools that enable rapid decisions on the freshest data.”

    Supporting Resources

    About Rockset

    Rockset is a real-time database in the cloud, built by a team of industry veterans with decades of experience in web-scale data management and distributed systems at companies including Facebook, Yahoo, Google, Oracle and VMware. Rockset is backed by Greylock and Sequoia. For more information, go to rockset.com or follow @RocksetCloud.

  • Sendbird Continues to Elevate Chat With Introduction of Powerful Messaging Features – Open Channel, IP Whitelisting, Message Threading, and Search

    Product capabilities are designed to enable new forms of digital interaction and compelling, highly scalable user experiences

    SAN MATEO, Calif. — December 17, 2020– Sendbird, the leading interaction API company across chat, voice and video for mobile, and web applications, today announced a number of impressive new capabilities uniquely developed to help people come together for outstanding digital chat experiences at large scale. They include new Open Channels with dynamic partitioning, as well as IP whitelisting, message threading and message search.

    Sendbird developed the features in recognition that the ways people interact and connect with one another have fundamentally changed over the past year. This change has sparked a massive transformation in digital communications that touches everything from global interactions to how people form connections on a deeply personal level. With widespread adoption of new forms of communications, Sendbird has stepped up to power the world’s best chat experiences. Its latest features and enhancements allow users to engage with one another in environments ranging from just a few participants to groups with tens of thousands. The platform dynamically scales accordingly with no lapse in performance. This scaling capacity enables exciting new chat formats, such as virtual sporting events and concerts, to become active moments of interaction. Sendbird’s ability to connect the world in meaningful ways is more important than ever as marketplaces, on-demand and online communities, healthcare organizations and more continue to see explosive growth amid digital transformation.

    “Chat plays a more important role in people’s lives than ever before, essentially becoming the central nervous system of the internet,” said Sendbird founder and CEO John Kim. “We are changing what is possible by designing all kinds of new experiences. Today, we unveiled a number of new features that represent engineering feats, but more importantly, they were built to enrich the ways people connect. Sendbird is ready to define the future of digital interaction.”

    Taking Open Channel Chat to New Levels

    Sendbird has long been devoted to creating the world’s best large-scale group chat experiences for both public and private communities. Building on Sendbird’s recent groundbreaking launch of Supergroups, which connect up to 20,000 people in a private channel, the company has now introduced its new Open Channels for Sendbird Chat with dynamic partitioning that can host up to 20,000 members in public chats. Open Channels can also host up to 60,000 members in public chats if a customer leverages a dedicated server, further shattering chat boundaries and extending the possibilities in both public and private environments.

    Open Channels are ideal for hosting large public group chats with enthusiastic audience members in a live stream. It also works exceptionally well for large multiplayer gaming communities. What makes it extraordinary, however, is that Sendbird ensures an excellent, reliable experience, even at massive scale. By building dynamic partitioning into its open channels, Sendbird splits a large open channel into smaller sub-channels so that it’s easier to manage and for people to share and follow or participate in conversations. At the end of the chat session, the complete chat history across all the different sub-channels is made available to all participants in the open channel so that no one misses a thing.

    Open channels also support moderation features that make sure conversations adhere to the channel owner’s brand standards. This includes features such as ban user, mute user, spam flood protection, profanity filters, domain filters, regex filters, share media and smart throttling.

    Building on Layered Security Foundation to Extend Chat Security

    Additionally, Sendbird has taken another step forward with its industry-leading chat security. It now offers IP whitelisting in addition to existing TLS encryption for chat messages, AES256 encryption for files and adherence to compliance standards such as ISO 27001, SOC2 Type 2, GDPR, HIPAA and options for hosting chat on AWS GovCloud. Sendbird’s IP whitelisting provides an extra layer of security by enabling customers to create lists of whitelisted IPs in the Sendbird Chat dashboard. Only servers residing on these whitelisted IPs can make calls to the Sendbird Chat Platform API.

    IP whitelisting prevents bad actors from wreaking havoc if they somehow gain access to a customer’s API key. With IP whitelisting enabled, if a bad actor tries to make an API call from a server not listed with an approved IP address, the call would not go through and the agent would be restricted from accessing Sendbird applications. This feature is particularly important for businesses that handle sensitive user information– whether these are payments businesses, financial institutions, healthcare businesses or on-demand applications. It also continues to showcase Sendbird’s commitment to maintain the most stringent security in the industry so that organizations can confidently offer new, secure options to connect.

    Message Threading for Better, Cleaner Discussions

    Sendbird further differentiates its experience with the addition of message threading. Users now have the ability to start threads in their group chats. Threads can be created from any message to organize discussions and let users discuss topics in detail without adding clutter to a conversation’s main view. This ensures that channels stay readable and discussions become easier to keep track of.

    Message threading is especially useful in workplace messengers, where threads can be used for organized discussions around specific messages, especially in busy channels; extended discussions can be contained in threads instead of the main channel. Communities also benefit from message threading. Most community users are already comfortable using threads in large forums. Now, they can get that same familiar experience in group chat, using them for deep discussions around a specific topic without clogging up the group chat with details.

    Search – Find What You Want, When You Want

    Sendbird is also excited to announce the availability of the much requested Message Search for Sendbird Chat. Users send hundreds of messages everyday in many different channels. With the new feature, users can search across any conversation they are a part of. It is particularly useful for marketplaces where buyers and sellers might need to find a conversation about a transaction or with workplaces messengers to reduce repetitive questions. It also makes it simple for healthcare providers and patients to find relevant information on symptoms, appointments and treatment plans.

    Message search improves the overall user experience and increases user engagement. It also enables developers to build message search experiences in in-app chat. Additionally, developers can build capabilities for users to search for messages from within the channel, as well as outside the channel.

    To learn more about all of the ways Sendbird elevates chat, please visit www.sendbird.com.

    About Sendbird

     Sendbird is the leading interaction API platform trusted by modern digital-first and mobile-first apps like Reddit, Delivery Hero, and Hinge. The company allows any app or website to quickly and easily embed rich real-time chat, voice and video into their app to help build connections with and between their users. Sendbird powers in-app chat for the world’s leading companies in industries ranging from marketplaces, on-demand and online communities to gaming, live video streaming and healthcare. It has SDKs for popular platforms, including iOS, Android, Javascript, React Native, .NET and Unity.

    Sendbird’s top global customers include Reddit, Yahoo! Sports, Gojek, Careem, OLA, Headspace, Carousell, Virgin Mobile UAE, YOLO, Dream11, Meetup, Paytm, Grand Rounds, Livongo, Nexon, TriNet, Accolade, Hinge and Kookmin Bank. It is backed by Shasta Ventures, August Capital, ICONIQ Capital, Tiger Global Management, Y Combinator and FundersClub. Sendbird is headquartered in San Mateo, California.

    Please visit https://sendbird.com for more information

  • nOps Delivers API Integration with AWS Well-Architected Tool to Optimize AWS Well-Architected Reviews

    December 16, 2020 – SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – nOps, a leading Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) cloud management platform for Amazon Web Services (AWS) and an AWS Advanced Technology Partner, announced a new API integration with the AWS Well-Architected Tool, available immediately. The company introduced additional new product features that support AWS Well-Architected Framework Reviews and enrich the product experience for partners and end-customers.

    The AWS Well-Architected Tool helps customers review the state of their workloads and compares them to the latest AWS architectural best practices. The tool is based on the AWS Well-Architected Framework, developed to help cloud architects build secure, high-performing, resilient and efficient application infrastructure. The new nOps API integration provides a seamless experience for AWS Partners to execute these AWS Well-Architected Framework Reviews. With the new integration, nOps partners can easily share information created by nOps during an AWS Well-Architected Framework Review with the AWS Well-Architected Tool for AWS program reporting requirements.

    “nOps is excited to deliver this integration with the AWS Well-Architected Tool,” said JT Giri, CEO and Founder, nOps. “We’re committed to creating the best AWS Well-Architected Framework Review experience for partners and their customers. This seamless integration between nOps and the AWS Well-Architected Tool increases the quality of AWS Well-Architected Framework Reviews while reducing the time needed to execute them.”

    “This is a bulls-eye,” said Nick Larsen, AWS Practice Lead at iOLAP, an AWS Advanced Consulting Partner and AWS Well-Architected Partner. “With nOps, you have the hands-down best partner productivity tool for executing AWS Well-Architected Framework Reviews. This API integration with AWS delivers an elegant last mile for sharing assessment data and submitting program information.”

    AWS recently announced its AWS Well-Architected Tool Partner Integration Program committed to helping AWS Partners that offer tools that support or enhance AWS Well-Architected. nOps is among the selected Launch Partners in the program.

    nOps announced additional new features in its platform designed to expand partners’ and customers’ abilities to optimize AWS infrastructure. These include:

    • “Workloads” on nOps: Creating workloads on nOps allows partners to build a set of resources that can be used in any of the AWS Well-Architected assessments (such as  AWS Well-Architected Framework Review or AWS Foundational Technical Review). Auto-discovery is nOps’ secret sauce in workloads – based on the resources added to the workload, nOps can auto-answer AWS Well-Architected assessment questions.
    • nOps integration with Jira Cloud: Partners can use nOps to integrate with Jira Cloud and their Jira workspaces and synchronize issues in a two-way integration. For example, as partners identify high-risk issues (HRIs) in their customers’ infrastructure for remediation, they can create and update issues, add comments, and change statuses. The resources function can group a list of tickets.
    • Ability to design AWS Well-Architected Framework Review reports: Partners can use the nOps templates generator to create their AWS Well-Architected Framework Review reports for different scenarios. They can design the report layout and insert marketing or services blocks and their findings from nOps’ auto-discovery feature. They can then use those templates to export their AWS Well-Architected Framework Review reports.
    • nOps custom rules: Partners and end clients can use the nOps custom rules engine to create queries on their infrastructure and use the custom rules in different places in the product, such as dashboards, reports, and email notifications.

    The nOps platform is currently available in the  AWS Marketplace and through major distributors, including Ingram Micro Cloud.

    About nOps 

    nOps enables rapid-growth companies to monitor, analyze, and manage an AWS Well-Architected infrastructure that is cost-optimized, secure, reliable, efficient, and operationally excellent — and to help keep it that way through continuous compliance. Headquartered in San Francisco, nOps is an Amazon Web Services (AWS) Advanced Technology Partner and has achieved AWS Cloud Management Tools Competency status for delivering operations and governance best practices to help partners and customers identify solutions that enable their cloud strategy. For more info, visit www.nops.io and follow at twitter.com/nopsio.

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  • GigaSpaces InsightEdge Smart ODS Recognized as the Best Big Data Solution by the 2020 Tech Ascension Awards

    New York, NY — December 16, 2020 — GigaSpaces, the leading provider of in-memory computing platforms that drive digital transformation, announced today that it has been named as the Best Big Data Solution by 2020 Tech Ascension Award.

    GigaSpaces’ InsightEdge Smart ODS drives successful digital transformation by seamlessly aggregating and processing data in real-time from multiple on-premises, cloud-based databases and streaming data sources.  Executing data transactions, analytics and BI 30X faster than NoSQL and 6X faster than other in-memory platforms, Smart ODS enables enterprises to rapidly introduce new low-latency, always-on digital applications and services at scale and to power real-time online services such as online loan approvals, fraud and risk analysis, customer on-boarding, hyper personalized support and more.

    GigaSpaces’ cloud native platform’s in-memory speed and scale combined with unique AIOps functionality, delivers the easiest to deploy and manage portfolio of software platforms that meet the most challenging enterprise data and analytics processing needs. As more companies launch new digital services to thrive in today’s digital economy, the InsightEdge Smart ODS enables them to drastically reduce time-to-market, ensure rapid application response times and the highest performance levels, with lower total-cost-of ownership.

    The Tech Ascension awards judged applicants based on technology innovation and uniqueness, market research (analyst reports, media coverage, and customer case studies), hard performance stats, and competitive differentiators. The class-leading vendors that received recognition from the Tech Ascension Awards proved that their technology solves critical industry challenges and produces invaluable business outcomes for their customers.

    “It’s an honor to receive this industry and peer recognition,” said Karen Krivaa, VP Marketing at GigaSpaces. “We are fully committed to helping our customers drive growth and success in highly competitive markets with the agility to introduce new digital applications and deploy real-time operational analytics and BI across on-premises, cloud, hybrid and multi-cloud environments.”

    “Big data is helping organizations across the world enhance the customer experience, cost optimize, drastically improve operational efficiencies and enable more real-time actions,” said David Campbell, CEO, Tech Ascension Awards. “We’re very excited to recognize these big data leaders with innovative solutions that are helping organizations utilize rich, powerful data in unique and invaluable ways.”

     

    For more information about the Tech Ascension Awards, please visit www.techascensionawards.com

     

    About GigaSpaces 

    The GigaSpaces InsightEdge portfolio delivers fastest, scalable and easiest to deploy in-memory computing platforms to meet the most challenging enterprise data and analytics processing needs for accelerating and scaling real-time applications, analytics and operational BI on any data, at any load, across any environment. One-click integrations with on-premise and cloud operational data stores, automatic data modeling, business-policy data tiering and AI-driven autonomous scaling reduce time-to-market and ensure rapid response times and highest performance levels, with lower TCO.

    Hundreds of Tier-1 and Fortune-listed organizations and OEMs across financial services, retail, transportation, telecom, healthcare, and more trust GigaSpaces for powering their mission critical services to optimize business operations, comply with regulations and enhance the customer experience.  GigaSpaces offices are located in the US, Europe and Israel with partners around the globe; serving customers such as Morgan Stanley, Bank of America, CSX, Goldman Sachs, Société Générale, Crédit Agricole, Avanza Bank, SITA, Avaya, Frequentis, CLSA, Groupe PSA and UBS. For more information visit www.gigaspaces.com and www.gigaspaces.com/blog/, follow us on Twitter, or visit our YouTube and LinkedIn channels.

    About the Tech Ascension Awards 

    The Tech Ascension Awards elevate companies that possess cutting-edge, innovative technology that solve critical challenges in their respective markets. Tech Ascension winners rise above the crowded consumer and enterprise technology industries and receive validation from an independent organization. Applicants are judged based on technology innovation and uniqueness, market research (analyst reports, media coverage, customer case studies), hard performance stats, and competitive differentiators. The awards recognize leaders in cybersecurity, DevOps, big data and consumer technology. For information about the Tech Ascension Awards, please visit www.techascensionawards.com.