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  • Software Sales Veteran Matt Cillis Joins Instana as Chief Revenue Officer

    Former Splunk and CloudBees Executive Joins Leadership Team

    Chicago, Il – October 1, 2020 – Instana, the leading provider of automated observability solutions for cloud-native microservice applications, announced today that software industry veteran Matt Cillis has joined its executive leadership team as Chief Revenue Officer (CRO).

    Cillis has over a decade of experience working with leading software organizations as a revenue focused executive. In his new role as CRO at Instana, he will oversee the strategy and execution of revenue and customer operations for the organization.

    “I’m thrilled to welcome Matt to our leadership team as Chief Revenue Officer,” said Mirko Novakovic, Instana co-founder and CEO. “With steady growth and demand for our enterprise observability platform, Instana will lean on Matt’s sales and field operations leadership experience to help guide continued revenue growth.”

    Prior to joining Instana, Cillis served as Vice President of Sales at CloudBees. Before that, he was Director of Sales for Splunk focusing on major accounts.

    “I’ve seen Instana radically change the way organizations approach application performance and observability,” said Matt Cillis, Instana CRO. “I look forward to being a part of such an exciting company and building on the momentum Instana has gathered for itself.”

    Instana’s Enterprise Observability Platform with automated Application Performance Monitoring (APM) solution discovers all application service components and application infrastructure, including multi-cloud infrastructure such as Google Cloud Platform, AWS and IBM / Red Hat Marketplace, orchestration like Kubernetes, OpenShift and Docker, adding visibility in both application performance and the CI/CD pipeline.

    Instana automatically deploys monitoring sensors for each part of the application technology stack, traces all application requests and profiles every process – without requiring any human configuration or application restarts. Application and infrastructure changes are detected in real-time, with adjustments to both the internal model and visualizations – application, infrastructure and service maps – identifying changes and any performance impact in seconds. Learn more about Instana’s Enterprise Observability solution at https://instana.com.

  • Exasol Research Finds 58% of Organizations Make Decisions Based on Outdated Data

    Data decisions report from Exasol finds average data queries take too long to run, yet organizations need daily data insights to make informed business decisions

    ATLANTA–(BUSINESS WIRE)–New research shows that 58% of organizations make decisions based on outdated data. The finding comes from a report “Accelerating data-driven decision making: 5 ways to turn crisis-mode into business as usual” commissioned by Exasol, the high-performance analytics database, published today. The report reveals that 84% of organizations are under increasing pressure to make faster decisions as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, yet 58% of organizations lack access to real-time insights.

    The report further reveals that 63% of respondents confirm that daily insights are needed to make informed business decisions, but these are hampered by long query run times. 75% of respondents have to wait between 2 hours and a full day for a query to come back, and only 15% of respondents’ query run times are between 15 and 60 minutes. More than half (56%) believe they can’t make informed decisions based on their organization’s data.

    “As a healthcare, retail, or financial services business you cannot afford to make decisions based on yesterday’s data,” said Rishi Diwan, chief product officer (CPO) of Exasol. “If the pandemic has made one thing clear it’s that business conditions can turn on a dime, yet 6 in 10 businesses find themselves saddled with decision-making infrastructure that is just not responsive enough. At Exasol, we enable industry leaders like Piedmont Healthcare, Zalando, or Grant Street Group to respond to evolving business conditions in real-time.”

    Exasol’s report is based on a global survey of 2,500 data decision makers and reveals ample pessimism among data and IT professionals regarding the extent to which current infrastructure set-ups can power a crisis recovery. According to the research:

    • More than half (51%) believe their organization’s data infrastructure will need improvements in order to help them recover from macro or micro economic challenges.
    • The top areas highlighted for performance improvement include data literacy (84%), data infrastructure (55%) and data quality (33%). However, 85% report action being taken to improve literacy across the business, which is an encouraging sign.
    • Of the 36% of organizations that have increased the size of their decision-making teams during the COVID-19 pandemic to compensate the long time-to-insights, 86% have experienced an increase in decision-making speed.
    • More than two thirds of respondents (69%) reported receiving a higher number of data analytics requests from both multiple business departments and their end-users in recent months.

    Going forward, 45% of respondents agreed that demand for data analytics will continue to rise. While the bulk of these requests is expected to come from marketing, operations and sales, demand from all areas is expected to increase, adding to the urgency for organizations to review their data-driven decision-making capabilities.

    “One way that organizations compensate for the long time-to-insights during the COVID-19 pandemic is by expanding the number of people with decision-making authority,” said Mathias Golombek, chief technology officer (CTO) at Exasol. “Our research clearly shows that organizations want to increase their speed and agility regarding data-driven decisions. Data-democratization and self-service analytics across the organization are the ultimate goal, but existing legacy systems are struggling with these workloads. That’s where a reduction of query response times from hours to seconds is a game changer.”

    “If you want to evolve towards a data-driven agile enterprise, you need to start with your existing data infrastructure. Not only must it be set up to support your future growth, but it should also enable data democratization,” said Philip Howard, Bloor Research. “You should also look at whether your infrastructure can deliver the time to insight – the performance – that you need. Can it scale across all your knowledge workers? Because if it doesn’t do all of these things, then it’s not supporting your business goals and you need to think about changing it.”

    To download a complimentary copy of the report, “Accelerating data-driven decision making: 5 ways to turn crisis-mode into business as usual”, visit: https://direc.to/e_V4.

    About Exasol

    The Exasol high-performance analytics database is built to run faster than any other database, delivering next-level performance, scale and ease of use. Analyze billions of rows in seconds; run high-performance analytics securely in the cloud or on-premise; deliver frictionless analytics with self-indexing that automatically tunes performance; and scale out analytics for one transparent price. To learn more, please visit: www.exasol.com

  • Chili Piper Announces Jeremy Robbins as Vice President of Enterprise Sales

    Dedicated enterprise sales leader focused on building a high-powered team to drive sales efforts in accounts with more than 1000 employees

    New York — September 29, 2020 — Chili Piper, the leader in Inbound Revenue Acceleration, today announced the expansion of its leadership team with the appointment of Jeremy Robbins as vice president of enterprise sales. This appointment follows the company’s Series A fundraise of $18M in August with Base10 Venture Capital, Gradient Ventures (Google’s AI fund) and Flashpoint Ventures.

    Robbins joins Chili Piper with 15 years of sales experience. Previously at Bright.md, he was vice president of sales leading an enterprise sales team to sell AI-based SaaS solutions to healthcare organizations to treat patients virtually. Priorly, he was the enterprise sales director at Workday for eight years contributing to the company’s explosive growth in large enterprise accounts. Robbins earned a B.S. in Business and Finance from the University of Wisconsin-River Falls.

    “Chili Piper has incredible and exciting potential as a hot, SaaS startup. I’m thrilled for the opportunity to grow its footprint rapidly by empowering multiple revenue teams inside of large enterprises with our automated offerings,” said Robbins. “By connecting buyers to revenue teams instantly, Chili Piper removes friction and enables enterprises to maximize pipeline generation, increase revenue and improve customer satisfaction. I’m excited to build and lead a sales team that helps enterprises realize this value.”

    Chili Piper has more than 500 customers today including large enterprises such as Intuit, HP, Twilio, Forrester, Square, and Spotify. With the addition of Robbins, the company reinforces its mission to address the $100B+ CRM market and serve customers worldwide by penetrating larger enterprises faster.

    “We are growing rapidly as revenue teams change the ways they connect with their customers,”  said Nicolas Vandenberghe, CEO of Chili Piper. “We are at the start of something amazing and need to apply more focus on our enterprise sales efforts. This is why we’ve hired a proven enterprise sales leader and will continue to invest in building a high-performing enterprise sales team around him. We see this as a huge revenue growth opportunity for us in the future.”

    About Chili Piper

    Founded in 2016, Chili Piper is the leader in Inbound Revenue Acceleration, with a mission to reinvent the system of action for revenue teams – their calendar and inbox. Chili Piper automates the antiquated processes in scheduling and email that cause unnecessary friction and drop-off in the sales process – resulting in increased productivity and conversion rates throughout the funnel.

    Companies like Square, Twilio, QuickBooks Intuit, Spotify, and Forrester use Chili Piper to create an amazing experience for their leads, while converting double the amount of leads into held meetings. Chili Piper is a fully distributed company leveraging global talent with employees in 40 cities across 15 countries. To learn more, visit https://www.chilipiper.com/

     

  • DevOps Institute Announces 2020 Global SKILup Festival and First Round of Speakers

    Virtual DevOps festival offers career fair, upskilling opportunities, and a full-day conference, featuring keynote speakers Mirco Hering and Patrick Debois  

    BOCA RATON, Fla. – September 28, 2020 – DevOps Institute (https://devopsinstitute.com/), a global member-based association for advancing the human elements of DevOps, today announced the 2020 Global SKILup Festival, a week-long global event dedicated to DevOps upskilling, a deep-dive into technology trends, and career advancement. The world’s first such unique festival, sponsored by Rancher and AppDynamics, will take place virtually from Dec. 7-11, 2020. Global SKILup Festival runs continuously across global time zones and includes:

    • December 7 – Career Fair
    • December 8-9 – Get SKIL’d Up Learning Days
    • December 10 – 18-hour Global SKILup Day Virtual Conference
    • December 11 -SKILup Recap

    Register for Global SKILup Festival at: http://www.devopsinstitute.com/skilup-festival/

    “DevOps Institute’s Global SKILup Festival is a week focused entirely on advancing the Humans of DevOps – whether by attending the career fair, optimizing learning and certification opportunities or by hearing from top enterprise and industry thought leaders on a wide range of DevOps-related topics,” said Jayne Groll, CEO of DevOps Institute. “As we close out an unprecedented year, we have crafted this week-long event with a variety of activities to celebrate the resiliency of the tech community and help us all move forward with the Skills, Knowledge, Ideas and Learning for the ‘new normal’.”

    The cornerstone of the Global SKILup Festival is the Global SKILup Day Conference on December 10. The 2020 event features Keynote sessions from:

    • Mirco Hering, Global DevOps Practice Lead / ANZ Modern Engineering Practice (Managing Director), Accenture
    • Patrick Debois, Director of DevOps Relations, Snyk

    Additionally, the first round of industry leaders and subject matter experts confirmed to speak at Global SKILup Day include:

    • AJ Ajantha Godahewa, Senior Java Engineer & DevOps  Engineer, Caterpillar Inc.
    • BMK Lakshminarayanan, Solutions Architect, Bank of New Zealand
    • Bryan Finster, Staff Software Engineer, Walmart
    • Eric Robertson, Vice President of Product Management, Onit
    • Helen Beal, Chief Ambassador, DevOps Institute
    • John Willis, Senior Director Global Transformation Office, Red Hat
    • Lisa Chan, Head of DevOps, Petronas
    • Mahfuzur Rahman, Global Change and Release Manager, Pepsico
    • Sean Mack, Chief Information Officer and Chief Information Security Officer, Wiley
    • Sendil Kumar, Senior Software Engineer, Uber
    • Shivagami Gugan, Head of Site Reliability Engineering and Cloud, Emirates Group

    SKILup Festival Schedule

    The week-long festival offers numerous opportunities for DevOps professionals to SKILup, advance their careers, and expand their networks, including:

    • SKILup Careers Fair

    ​​​​​​​Monday, Dec. 7

    Network with HR and hiring representatives and discover DevOps career paths at leading organizations around the globe. Hear from the hiring leaders themselves which skillsets are most important. Explore emerging and available DevOps roles.

    • Get SKIL’d Up Days
      Tuesday, Dec. 8, and Wednesday, Dec. 9
      Get SKIL’d Up Days are dedicated to getting as many DevOps Humans SKIL’d up as possible across the globe. Get SKIL’d up days include but are not limited to training sessions across multiple global regions, live labs, and hackathons.
       
    • Global SKILup Day
      Thursday, Dec. 10
      The second annual Global SKILup Day is back on December 10. Global SKILup Day is a one-day conference that runs continuously across global time zones for 18 hours. The conference features a powerful line-up of ‘how-to’ sessions around the process, people and technical aspects of DevOps – led by some of the industry’s leading subject matter experts. The 2020 agenda will focus on sessions on Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), DevSecOps, Cloud and Cloud Native, Observability, Continuous Delivery Ecosystem, Kubernetes and more.

     

    • SKILup Recap
      Friday, Dec. 11
      The final day of Global SKILup Festival Includes regional fireside chats from our local SKILup Chapters and activities dedicated to recapping the week.

    If you are interested in learning about sponsorship opportunities for the Global SKILup Festival, please contact: CustomerService@DevOpsInstitute.com.

    To access more DevOps resources, connect with more Humans of DevOps and continue your upskilling journey, become a DevOps Institute community member: https://devopsinstitute.com/membership/.

    Share This: The @DEVOPSINST just announced Global SKILup Festival featuring a virtual career fair, various #upskilling opportunities & a global 18-hour conference! Learn more:  http://www.devopsinstitute.com/skilup-festival/  #SKILupDay

    About the DevOps Institute
    DevOps Institute is dedicated to advancing the human elements of DevOps success. As a global member-based association, DevOps Institute is the go-to learning hub connecting IT practitioners, education partners, consultants, talent acquisition and business executives to help pave the way to support digital transformation and the New IT.

    We help advance careers and support emerging practices within the DevOps community based on a human-centered SKIL framework, consisting of Skills, Knowledge, Ideas, and Learning.  All of our work, including accreditations, research, events, and continuous learning programs – is focused on providing the “human know-how” to modernize IT and make DevOps succeed.

    Web | https://devopsinstitute.com/
    Twitter | @DEVOPSINST
    LinkedIn | /devops-institute
    YouTube | DevOps Institute

  • Onboard edge computing devices with SDO and Open Horizon

    By Joe Pearson, Engineering Strategy and Innovation Leader, IBM Edge Computing

    For many companies, setting up heterogeneous fleets of edge devices across remote sites has traditionally been a time-consuming and sometimes difficult process. This week at the Open Networking & Edge Summit conference, IBM announced that Intel’s Secure Device Onboarding (SDO) solution is now fully integrated into Open Horizon and IBM Edge Application Manager and available to developers as a tech preview.
    The Intel-developed SDO enables low-touch bootstrapping of required software at device initial power-on. For the Open Horizon project, this enables the agent software to be automatically and autonomously installed and configured. SDO technology is now being incorporated into a new industry onboarding standard being developed by the FIDO Alliance.
    Developers can try this out by using the all-in-one version of Open Horizon. Simply run a one-line script on a target edge compute device or VM and simulate powering-up an SDO-enabled device and its onboarding.
    Both Open Horizon and SDO recently joined the LF Edge umbrella, which aims to establish an open, interoperable framework for edge computing independent of hardware, silicon, cloud, or operating system. Thanks to IBM’s participation in the LF Edge open source community, contributors in the community are helping advance the future of open edge computing solutions.
    Simplifying edge device onboarding
    Our team uses the term “device onboarding” to describe the initial bootstrapping process of installing and configuring required software on an edge computing device. In the case of Open Horizon, that includes connecting it to the Horizon management hub services. We have simplified the software installation process by providing a one-liner script, so that a person can install and run a development version of Open Horizon and SDO on a laptop or in a small virtual machine.
    Before SDO was available, the typical installation process required a person to open a secure connection to the device (sometimes on premises), manually install all of the software pre-requisites, then install the Horizon agent, configure it, and register it with the management hub. With SDO support enabled, an administrator simply loads the voucher into the management hub when the device is purchased and then associates the configuration. When a technician powers on the device and connects it to the network, the device automatically finds the SDO services, presents the voucher, and downloads and installs the software automatically.
    Integrating SDO into Open Horizon
    The Open Horizon project has created a repository specifically for integrating the SDO project components into the Open Horizon management hub services and CLI. The SDO rendezvous service runs along side the management hub and provides a simple interface to bulk load import vouchers.
    Visit SDO GitHub
    LF Edge and open source leadership
    The LF Edge organization continues to strive to ensure that edge computing solutions remain open. In May 2020, IBM contributed Open Horizon to LF Edge. With Intel also contributing SDO to LF Edge, this ensures that another vital component of a complete edge computing framework is also open source.
    We’re excited to collaborate with Intel to expand the deployment of applications from open hybrid cloud environments down to the edge, making them accessible, secure, and scalable for the developer ecosystem and community.
    Visit our booth to watch the demo
    The virtual demo will premiere this week at the conference. Videos will be available in the virtual booth and via the LF Edge YouTube Open Horizon plalist, and representatives from both IBM and Intel will be on-hand to answer questions.
    The booth schedule is:

    • Monday, September 28. The booth is open 9:00 – 10:15 AM, EST. Booth Crawl at 4:00 – 5:30 PM, EST.
    • Tuesday, September 29. The booth is open 9:30 – 11:30 AM, EST.
    • Wednesday, September 30. The booth is open 10:00 – 11:30 AM, EST.

  • ServiceNow Delivers New Native Workflows in Microsoft Teams to Power the Future of Work

    ServiceNow Deepens Partnership with Microsoft to Deliver Transformative Employee Experiences

    Santa Clara, Calif. – September 22, 2020 – ServiceNow (NYSE: NOW), the company that makes work, work better for people, today announced the expansion of its partnership with Microsoft to deliver elevated digital experiences that meet employees where they are. At Microsoft Ignite 2020, ServiceNow introduced new workflows embedded in Microsoft Teams to improve employee productivity with seamless self‑service and faster case resolution. Powered by ServiceNow’s leading digital workflow platform, the Now Platform, the new capabilities also improve agent productivity by enabling them to more effectively collaborate and complete key tasks in Microsoft Teams.

    Teams is Microsoft’s fastest‑growing business app to date. This was true in 2018, long before lockdowns started driving up numbers for remote work and learning. As of April 29, Microsoft Teams had 75 million daily active users, up 70% from just six weeks prior. That month, Microsoft saw more than 200 million meeting participants in a single day, generating more than 4.1 billion meeting minutes.

    “We’re helping customers solve for once‑in‑a‑generation challenges as they capitalize on the promise of digital transformation,” said Chirantan “CJ” Desai, chief product officer at ServiceNow. “We are doubling down on Teams to find innovative ways for workflows to elevate engagement, culture, collaboration, and productivity – no matter where people are.”

    “Now more than ever, people need to stay connected and organized together from anywhere,” said Rajesh Jha, executive vice president, Experiences and Devices, Microsoft. “ServiceNow is delivering end‑to‑end Teams experiences for the new normal. For example, meeting extensibility lets service agents more easily interact with the ServiceNow platform, collaborate in group chats, channels, and conferences, and respond to incidents.”

    The new capabilities announced today include:

    • Employee experiences in Microsoft Teams: Companies want to provide employees with support for whatever tools and devices they choose to use. By embedding ServiceNow natively within Teams, employees can submit requests, receive updates on in‑progress requests, take action on notifications, chat with virtual agents for automated assistance, and connect with live agents when virtual agents cannot assist – all without ever leaving Microsoft Teams.
    • Agent capabilities in Microsoft Teams: Agents spend most of their time in ServiceNow IT Service Management but want to more easily leverage the collaboration functionality in Teams to communicate with employees and collaborate with other agents. Now, agents can use Notify to launch the Teams client to engage with peers directly, push major incident updates to business stakeholders, and open direct chats with employees from an incident or request.  When used with the new Teams Meeting Extensibility feature, ServiceNow workflows enable agents to be more productive by resolving major incidents directly from within a Microsoft Teams meeting.

    The new capabilities are available for select customers as part of the Beta program today.

    “Organizations are relying on collaboration platforms more than ever before. Companies like ServiceNow are creating tools that complement and enhance the Microsoft Teams experience. Accenture is eager to test and deploy this new offering,” said Thomas Bruss, director of Enterprise Services at Accenture.

    Today’s updates come on the heels of the ServiceNow Now Platform Paris release, which features several high‑demand Microsoft integrations to help enterprises accelerate their digital transformation journeys. Customers can use these integrations to:

    • Optimize hybrid cloud spending and usage with Microsoft Azure support for ServiceNow Cloud Insights, 
    • Streamline new hire onboarding with ServiceNow employee experiences and Microsoft Azure Active Directory, and
    • Gain greater control and visibility into organizational assets with ServiceNow Software Asset Management and Microsoft Azure Active Directory.

    Additionally, the ServiceNow Virtual Agent Lite plugin for Microsoft Teams, also released in Paris, offers a limited version of Virtual Agent for IT Service Management standard customers. It launched with three prebuilt conversations for common IT support requests. These keyword‑based conversations run in the web chat client and in a virtual agent messaging integration with Microsoft Teams.

    Today’s announcement furthers the companies’ partnership announcement from 2019 to accelerate digital transformation for joint customers. Customers are accessing the value of this partnership with more than 25 joint solutions available between Microsoft and ServiceNow today. The companies have committed to continued ServiceNow‑Teams innovation to enable richer employee experiences from anywhere, at scale.About ServiceNow

    ServiceNow (NYSE: NOW) is making the world of work, work better for people. Our cloud‑based platform and solutions deliver digital workflows that create great experiences and unlock productivity for employees and the enterprise. For more information, visit: www.servicenow.com.

    © 2020 ServiceNow, Inc. All rights reserved. ServiceNow, the ServiceNow logo, Now, and other ServiceNow marks are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of ServiceNow, Inc. in the United States and/or other countries. Other company names, product names, and logos may be trademarks of the respective companies with which they are associated.

  • “2020 Postman State of the API” Reveals API Investments Will Remain Strong

    More than 13,500 respondents told Postman that while the pandemic put the world on hold, API development continues to surge.

    SAN FRANCISCO (Businesswire) September 24, 2020 –– Postman, the leading collaboration platform for API development, today released the results of its 2020 State of the API Report. The annual report, the largest and most comprehensive survey of the API industry, surveyed 13,586 API developers, testers, executives, and others to understand who is working with APIs, how they are getting their work done, and where they see the industry headed.

    Key survey findings:

    • API investments have remained strong: Close to half of respondents stated that investment of time and resources into APIs will increase over the next 12 months, while another third stated that investments into APIs will stay the same, despite a challenging economic environment.
    • The pandemic has changed the world, but it didn’t stop APIs: 89% of industry members surveyed stated that their organizations offered remote work options as a result of COVID-19. Nearly a third (30.6%) said that APIs played a role in their organization’s ability to respond to COVID-19 by facilitating customer communications, powering remote work options, and quickly responding to regulatory changes and government initiatives.
    • APIs are the nucleus of digital transformation: For those working on digital transformation initiatives, 84.5% state that APIs are playing a significant role in those initiatives.

    “Our annual survey reveals that the API ecosystem is expanding, investments are flowing, and momentum for an API-first philosophy is being embraced more and more, ” said Abhinav Asthana, Postman’s co-founder and CEO. “The data also shows us the importance of APIs and their role in responding to sudden and tectonic shifts in the way businesses, governments, and nonprofits operate, including pandemics.”

    Over 60% of survey respondents rated themselves as 5 or better (out of 10) in terms of embracing an “API-first” philosophy, which indicates a groundswell toward API-first. The API industry also continues to touch just about every job role, from developers to management to sales, and even to the C-suite. In fact, 1 in 10 of those working with APIs today are in management roles—from the C-suite through to directors and managers.

    “After a full review of the data, we found that more than 7 in 10 respondents said the most important factors they consider before integrating with APIs were reliability, security, performance, and documentation,” said Postman Chief Evangelist Kin Lane, who works with many companies that are integrating APIs. “However, less than half of the respondents indicated that pricing was an important factor.”

    Additional survey findings:

    • Lack of time (52.3%) is the number one obstacle to producing APIs. Lack of documentation (54.3%) is the number one obstacle to consuming APIs.
    • Respondents felt they should spend more time designing (11% of their time, in an ideal world) and automating testing (15%) for APIs, and less time debugging APIs (10%) than what they experience in real life: Only 8.7% of time is spent designing APIs and 11% of time is spent automating API testing, while 17% of time is spent debugging APIs.
    • REST (93.4%) is the dominant architectural style, followed by webhooks (34.4%), SOAP (33.4%) and GraphQL (22.5%). JSON Schema (75.6%) is the dominant API specification, followed by Swagger 2.0 (43.9%) and OpenAPI 3.0 (27.8%).
    • Microservices (48.7%) is the future technology respondents are most excited about, followed by Kubernetes (43.6%) and containers (42.2%).

    About Postman
    Postman is the leading collaboration platform for API development, used by more than 12 million developers and 500,000 companies worldwide. Postman is an elegant, flexible platform that is used to build connected software via APIs—quickly, easily, and accurately. Postman is headquartered in San Francisco and has an office in Bangalore, where the company was founded. Postman is privately held, with funding from Insight Partners, Nexus Venture Partners, and CRV. Learn more at http://www.postman.com or connect with Postman on Twitter via @getpostman.

  • Copado Acquires ClickDeploy to Empower Every Salesforce Customer to Accelerate Time to Value with DevOps

    Companies of all sizes can now take the first step of their DevOps journey with Copado for free

     

    Chicago – Sept. 23, 2020 – Copado, a leading native DevOps platform for Salesforce, today announced that it has acquired ClickDeploy. ClickDeploy offers the fastest, easiest, and free DevOps tool for customers starting on their DevOps journey. This acquisition enables Copado to deliver DevOps for all, expanding its product set to serve individual admins, small teams and large enterprise teams with complex DevOps processes. With Copado, all Salesforce customers are now empowered with the broadest and most comprehensive DevOps suite available to unlock the full potential of Salesforce regardless of where they are on their DevOps journey.

     

    “The pandemic only accelerated an already hot market for DevOps solutions, with businesses of all sizes moving at breakneck speed to deliver fast-tracked digital transformation projects,” said Ted Elliott, Chief Executive Officer for Copado. “With the acquisition of ClickDeploy, we can help any company take the first step on its Salesforce DevOps journey with a proven platform trusted by hundreds of customers. Copado covers the needs of every Salesforce team, no matter where they are on the maturity curve and in their journey, from simple deployments to the most complex enterprise needs. DevOps represents the best way to accelerate your Salesforce time to value.”

     

    Copado will continue to offer ClickDeploy as a free option for any Salesforce customer looking to make the first step in their DevOps journey. Beyond a simple git approach, ClickDeploy has deployment capabilities that address the most common org-to-org challenges. With this fast, intuitive and free solution, Salesforce customers can eliminate change sets forever and master org-based deployments. Change sets remain a key challenge for every Salesforce admin and developer who needs to move fast on the platform and continue to be a top issue for discussion on the Ideas Exchange.

     

    “Salesforce DevOps is a journey and the first step in any journey is always the hardest,” said Tam Tran, founder and CEO of ClickDeploy. “We are excited about joining the Copado family and together delivering on the shared vision of DevOps for All. To everyone in the Salesforce community, your first step to DevOps success begins here.”

     

    Copado is redefining how to measure success on the Salesforce platform with its data-driven approach to delivering faster, higher quality releases and improving trust across customer transformation projects. Its best-in-class DevOps platform allows Salesforce customers to optimize and maximize their Salesforce investment.

     

    As Salesforce continues to lead the market in digital transformation, the technical sophistication and the size of the delivery teams continues to grow exponentially resulting in the need for a more disciplined delivery process based on DevOps best practices. Organizations that implement DevOps best practices have been shown to deploy more often, fail less often and recover faster.

     

    About ClickDeploy
    Headquartered in Sydney, Australia, ClickDeploy is a fast-growing Salesforce AppExchange Partner that offers enterprise-grade release management to businesses of all sizes. Hundreds of customers rely on ClickDeploy to manage their Salesforce deployments with a modern release process. ClickDeploy serves hundreds of customers around the world, with more than 100,000 deployments in 30+ countries. For more information, visit https://clickdeploy.io/
    About Copado
    Founded in 2013, Copado is a leading DevOps platform for Salesforce. For enterprises wanting to accelerate their Salesforce deployments, Copado simplifies the release process, increases developer productivity and maximizes return on investment. The platform is comprised of Agile Planning, Release Management and Compliance & Testing. Backed by Insight Venture Partners and Salesforce Ventures, Copado counts more than 200 enterprises as customers, including Fair Trade, MassMutual, Shell and Vlocity. With more than 7,500 installations, Copado has received the top rating of 100 percent positive feedback on Salesforce AppExchange. More information can be found at: https://www.copado.com/

  • Stackline Named ‘Best Ad Analytics Solution’ by the MarTech Breakthrough Awards

    Retail analytics and advertising provider recognized for developing and dynamically optimizing high-performing e-commerce advertising campaigns via real-time analytics and projections

     

    SEATTLE – September 23, 2020 – Stackline, a pioneering retail analytics and advertising provider for the world’s largest brands and manufacturers, today announced the company has been awarded “Best Ad Analytics Solution” by the MarTech Breakthrough Awards. Ad Manager, intelligent advertising automation tool and one of Stackline’s three retail technology solutions, utilizes real-time bidding, competitive advertising, profitability, conversion and incrementality data to develop and dynamically optimize high-performing e-commerce advertising campaigns.

    “Adopting and reinventing e-commerce strategy has become critical for brands, especially as US e-commerce sales have increased by nearly 80 percent,” said Stackline CEO, Michael Lagoni. “We’re helping retailers reach their sales goals with automation and insights, and as brands find success utilizing digital channels, they’ll not only continue their own marketing investments but gain the needed efficiency to stand out in a competitive market.”

    The “Best Ad Analytics Solution” designation is awarded to a company whose solutions and services went above and beyond in providing standout ad assistance to its customers. The MarTech Breakthrough Awards recognize the top companies, technologies and products in the advertising, sales and marketing technology industry, today. Winners from other MarTech Breakthrough Awards categories include Shopify, Adobe, Mailchimp and more.

    Stackline won by breaking through the retail and martech landscape with the data, tools and services a brand needs to grow its e-commerce sales. By providing a one-stop-shop of data, tools and services to manage the world’s biggest e-commerce brands, its vision and products have helped brands like General Mills, Levi’s, Sony, Starbucks and more, earn over $30 billion in e-commerce sales last year, alone.

    With three different tools, Atlas, Beacon and Ad Manager, as well as a services team that helps customers optimize e-commerce strategy, Stackline customers can unlock powerful insights and new opportunities for profitable growth. Collectively, Stackline products and expert support and industry expertise provide a macro- and micro-level overview of a brand’s industry and market, actionable e-commerce, advertising and marketing insights for over 2,000 customer brands in 14 different countries.

    For more information about Stackline, visit Stackline.com.

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    About Stackline

    Founded by industry veterans, Stackline is a retail intelligence and software company that helps more than 2,000 of the world’s most dynamic brands manage and grow their e-commerce businesses. Proprietary algorithms collect and analyze sales, advertising, content, and marketing metrics to provide clients unmatched visibility into their online retail channels, and teams of experts build and execute tailored strategies to accelerate growth.

  • Spot by NetApp Delivers Availability, Automation, and Cost Savings for Cloud Workloads With Microsoft Azure Spot Virtual Machines

    New capabilities for Elastigroup from Spot by NetApp allow customers to effortlessly apply Azure Spot Virtual Machines to a broader swath of production workloads with up to 90 percent cost savings

    SUNNYVALE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–NetApp (NASDAQ: NTAP), a global cloud-led, data-centric software company, today announced the availability of Elastigroup for Microsoft Azure Spot Virtual Machines (VMs). NetApp recently acquired Spot, a leading cloud compute management and cost optimization company whose suite of tools includes Elastigroup.

    Elastigroup from Spot by NetApp simplifies and automates compute infrastructure provisioning and autoscaling while allowing cloud consumers to dramatically reduce their compute spending by up to 90 percent, along with providing high availability. Elastigroup offers these benefits by reliably harnessing cloud providers’ excess compute capacity. Until now, Elastigroup supported Azure’s low-priority VMs, but now is offering full support of Azure Spot VMs. This support helps Azure customers enjoy dramatic cost savings coupled with the enterprise-level SLA of Spot by NetApp.

    Elastigroup makes it easier to use multiple instance types and sizes within a single cluster for enhanced performance at scale. And built-in blue/green capabilities help customers perform easier upgrades of their clusters and continuous delivery pipelines.

    “Until now, Microsoft Azure customers who wanted to use Spot VMs needed to choose workloads that were noncontinuous and not bound to specific time frames,” noted Amiram Shachar, vice president and general manager of Spot by NetApp. “Supporting Azure Spot VMs broadens NetApp’s collaboration with Microsoft Azure, building upon previous successes such as Azure NetApp® Files, Cloud Volumes ONTAP for Azure, and Cloud Insights. We are looking forward to further strengthening our collaboration with Azure to the mutual benefit of all our customers.”

    As a company, NetApp is focused on building innovative solutions around Azure products and services, such as Elastigroup for Azure Spot VMs and Azure NetApp Files.

    “Elastigroup has been key to keeping our cloud infrastructure management at a minimum while significantly cutting our compute costs,” said Yoni Eini, CTO and co-founder, Upsolver. “As we increase our Azure footprint, Elastigroup will be our go-to solution for running a wide range of workloads on Azure Spot VMs.”

    Benefits of Elastigroup

    • Spot by NetApp offers an enterprise-level availability SLA for fault-sensitive workloads such as web applications, microservices running behind a load balancer or application gateway, high-performance computing (HPC) workloads, and Hadoop and Spark workloads.
    • Seamless blending of optimal pricing options within a single cluster.
    • Elastigroup offers automated fallback to Pay-As-You-Go and back to Spot VMs as appropriate.
    • Heterogenous VM scaling for any VM type and size with Elastigroup automatically scaling the desired VMs without the need for creating an Azure Virtual Machine Scale Set per instance type and size.
    • Load balancers and application gateways are automatically updated to drain HTTP connections, and to register and deregister nodes as needed.
    • For enhanced continuous delivery with hassle-free blue/green deployments, Elastigroup seamlessly replaces and upgrades application versions, ensuring an extra level of high availability for workloads.
    • With cron-based scheduling, pay only for the resources needed, so teams can schedule on/off hours for their cloud compute infrastructure.

    For more information about Elastigroup from Spot by NetApp, read our blog.

    About NetApp

    NetApp is a global cloud-led, data-centric software company that empowers organizations to lead with data in the age of accelerated digital transformation. The company provides systems, software and cloud services that enable them to run their applications optimally from data center to cloud, whether they are developing in the cloud, moving to the cloud, or creating their own cloud-like experiences on-premises. With solutions that perform across diverse environments, NetApp helps organizations build their own data fabric and securely deliver the right data, services and applications to the right people—anytime, anywhere. Learn more at www.netapp.com.

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