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  • Cherwell Now Offers Automated Discovery and Dependency Mapping (DDM) Powered by Resolve Systems

    August 5, 2020 – Colorado Springs, COLO. and Campbell, CALIF.

    Cherwell Software LLC, a leading provider of IT Service Management (ITSM) and Enterprise Service Management (ESM) solutions joins forces with Resolve Systems, a leader in enterprise automation and AIOps, to help companies better manage their complex IT environments through workflow automation and auto-discovery and dependency mapping. Cherwell is now an official reseller of Resolve products and can seamlessly deliver the integrated offering to their customers. Cherwell selected Resolve’s automated discovery and dependency mapping solution based on its robust capabilities and customer success.

    The collaboration between Resolve and Cherwell provides a complete solution for streamlining IT operations and accelerating service delivery. Combining best-in-class ITSM and robust discovery and dependency mapping immediately provides customers deep visibility into complex, hybrid environments, while also forging a strong foundation to advance AIOps initiatives.

    “By partnering with one of the leaders in enterprise service management and ITSM, we’re able to offer a comprehensive solution to automating IT operations and accelerating service desk transformation,” Rob Kelsall, VP of Global Sales Engineering for Resolve. “We look forward to helping Cherwell customers achieve agile, autonomous operations, starting with automated discovery and dynamic dependency mapping.”

    “As a fellow leader in the domain, we couldn’t be more pleased that Resolve is expanding their collaboration with us. Together, our goal is to offer exceptional, end-to-end solutions for the entire enterprise,” said Scott Gainey, chief marketing officer of Cherwell.

    By combining Resolve’s discovery and dependency mapping solution with Cherwell ITSM, customers can:

    ·   Eliminate manual work by automating discovery and real-time updates to their Cherwell CMDB

    ·   Identify and track dynamic, multi-layer relationships between applications and hybrid infrastructure

    ·   Auto-generate complex topology maps to visualize infrastructure relationships and facilitate troubleshooting

    Resolve integrates seamlessly with Cherwell’s flagship offering, Cherwell Service Management — delivered on Cherwell’s powerful and flexible no-code CORE™ platform. Cherwell enables IT, HR, Facilities, and other teams to implement, automate and modernize service and support processes to meet new and evolving needs — at a fraction of the cost and complexity of other tools.

    Resolve’s discovery and dependency mapping product is part of their comprehensive automation and AIOps platform, which is integrated with Cherwell’s IT Service Management® solution. Resolve provides full-stack visibility into complex, hybrid IT environments by performing agentless auto-discovery of all physical and virtual entities, mapping dependencies, and creating topology maps that enable IT teams to see what they are managing. This integration can be found on the Cherwell Marketplace.

    To learn more about Cherwell’s new discovery and dependency mapping, powered by Resolve, visit cherwell.com/products/it-service-management/discovery-and-dependency-mapping/.

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    About Cherwell

    Cherwell (@Cherwell) empowers organizations to transform their business through the rapid adoption and easy management of digital services. Cherwell’s adaptable platform has enabled thousands of organizations to modernize their business operations with customizable service management, automation, and reporting across the enterprise. For more information, visit: https://www.cherwell.com.

    About Resolve Systems

    Resolve helps IT teams achieve agile, autonomous operations with an industry-leading, enterprise automation, and AIOps platform. By combining insights from artificial intelligence with powerful, cross-domain automation, Resolve handles a wide array of IT operations – from dependency mapping, event correlation, and predictive analytics to intelligently automating actions based on those findings. Purpose-built to address challenges posed by increasing IT complexity, Resolve enables organizations to maximize operational efficiency, reduce costs, quickly troubleshoot and fix problems, and accelerate service delivery. See why the Fortune 1000, leading MSPs, and the largest communication service providers on the planet trust Resolve to power millions of automations every day. Learn more at resolve.io or follow us on Twitter @ResolveSystems.

     

  • Copado Announces Government Cloud to Help Federal, State and Local Agencies Leverage DevOps to Accelerate and Scale Digital Transformation Projects

    New cloud infrastructure delivers the scale, security and governance required for modern projects with an isolated and compliant platform for government customers, contractors and federally funded research projects

    Chicago – Aug. 4, 2020 – Copado, a leading native DevOps platform for Salesforce, today announced Copado Government Cloud to help government agencies accelerate the time-to-value of Salesforce digital transformation projects. With Copado DevOps, federal, state and local governments can optimize and measure innovation delivery on the Salesforce platform with full visibility and accountability to ever-changing regulatory and security environments. Copado will enable agencies to respond faster, deliver more digital services, scale to unprecedented demands and connect to its citizens.

     

    Due to COVID-19, government agencies are working to address the exponential demand for digital solutions to meet the needs of the public. This demand is overwhelming delivery capacity. Additionally, government projects require a high level of quality, compliance and governance to reduce risk and protect against increased digital threats.

     

    Copado delivers the quality, speed and scale required by federal, state and local governments to address these needs. Currently in process to be FedRAMP Moderate Authorized by the end of 2020, Copado offers the only Salesforce DevOps platform that scales to the needs of large government projects with the visibility, governance and analytics required to manage multi-million dollar budgets. The company continues to offer its platform free to COVID-19 specific projects to help the fight against the global pandemic.

     

    Since March, Copado has signed contracts with seven new government agencies. The company is helping five agencies rapidly build and deliver high-quality COVID-19 communication, reporting and tracking apps to its citizens. These include scaling and optimizing call, web, chat and text response systems. Copado has deep experience working with government customers including the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, the states of California, Kansas, Massachusetts, Missouri and Vermont, the Louisiana Department of Health, the District of Columbia, and international government agencies including the Province of Ontario, Canada.

     

    “Governments are scrambling to address the demands from constituents on many fronts since COVID-19 disrupted daily life. They are creating contact tracing apps, digitally delivering needed services and scaling existing services to handle exponentially higher demand — all with a remote workforce,” said Ted Elliott, Chief Executive Officer of Copado. “Copado can offer the scale, security and experience in optimizing Salesforce deployments to even the most sophisticated government projects. Beyond our own industry-leading DevOps technology, we are partnering with the leaders in government technology and services to ensure the highest levels of success in these projects. Copado DevOps gives government agencies the confidence to move at the pace of today’s uncertain world.”

     

    Copado is also partnering with Carahsoft Technology Corp., The Trusted Government IT Solutions ProviderⓇ, to streamline the procurement process. Under the agreement, Carahsoft will serve as Copado’s public sector distributor and make Copado DevOps available to government agencies as an AppExchange vendor for Salesforce’s Government Cloud through Carahsoft’s NASA Solutions for Enterprise-Wide Procurement (SEWP) V contracts and National Association of State Procurement Officials (NASPO) ValuePoint cooperative purchasing contract. The partnership is designed to help federal agencies modernize their Salesforce development cycles with a best-in-class DevOps solution.

     

    “Copado has experience working with large-scale government initiatives and can help any agency using Salesforce deliver their digital transformation project,” said Bethany Blackwell, Director of the Salesforce Team at Carahsoft. “With Copado, government development teams can align and collaborate around value delivery, gain visibility into the development lifecycle, identify and remove bottlenecks, and deliver more predictable, higher quality releases. We look forward to working with Copado and our reseller partners to optimize Salesforce deployments in government agencies.”

     

    As government agencies implement large-scale digital initiatives, Carahsoft’s technology and reseller partners offer a range of solutions that enable telework, support collaboration, ensure business continuity, and scale communications channels and security. Copado is the only solution for Salesforce delivery performance and management, all built natively on the Salesforce platform. Organizations rely on Copado to align people, processes and goals in order to quickly and confidently deliver digital customer experiences on the Salesforce platform.

     

    Copado is available through Carahsoft’s SEWP V contracts NNG15SC03B and NNG15SC27B and NASPO ValuePoint cooperative purchasing contract. For more information, contact the Copado team at Carahsoft at (877) 733-2007 or SalesforceISV@carahsoft.com.

     

    Additional Resources

     

    About Carahsoft
    Carahsoft Technology Corp. is The Trusted Government IT Solutions Provider®. As a top-performing GSA Schedule and SEWP contract holder, Carahsoft serves as the Master Government Aggregator™ for many of its best-of-breed technology vendors, supporting an extensive ecosystem of manufacturers, value-added resellers, system integrators and consulting partners committed to helping government agencies select and implement the best solution at the best possible value.

     

    The company’s dedicated Solutions Divisions proactively market, sell and deliver Copado, Salesforce, VMware, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Palo Alto Networks, Symantec, Veritas, McAfee, Dell, Adobe, F5 Networks, Google Cloud, ServiceNow, Open Source, Micro Focus Government Solutions, SAP, and Innovative and Intelligence products and services, among others. Carahsoft is consistently recognized by its partners as a top revenue producer and is listed annually among the industry’s fastest growing and largest firms by CRN, Inc., Forbes, Washington Technology, The Washington Post, Washington Business Journal, and Bloomberg Government. Visit us at www.carahsoft.com or follow us on Twitter and Facebook.

     

    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 500 enterprises as customers, including Fair Trade, MassMutual, Shell and Vlocity. With more than 50 million transactions per month, Copado has received the top rating of 100 percent positive feedback on Salesforce AppExchange. More information can be found at: https://www.copado.com/

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  • Unisys Strengthens Multi-Cloud Advisory Services, Offers Comprehensive Migration and Management Strategies with Enhanced CloudForte(r) Capabilities

    New capabilities help organizations plan and implement smart, efficient and secure infrastructure migration, application modernization and cloud management strategies

    BLUE BELL, Pa., August 3, 2020 – Unisys Corporation (NYSE: UIS) today announced it has enhanced CloudForte(r)-its integrated, multi-cloud and application optimization platform. The new CloudForte capabilities help organizations easily accelerate their move to multi- and hybrid-cloud environments and provide an optimized way to continually assess overall cloud environments including cost, security and performance. Enhanced offerings include CloudForte Navigator(r) 2.0, CloudForte Cloud Management Platform 2.0 and CloudForte Accelerators 1.0.
    CloudForte Navigator 2.0 provides clients at any stage of cloud implementation with a well-architected framework to modernize legacy infrastructure and applications for maximum value. Enhancements in Navigator 2.0 include:
    * Hybrid and multi-cloud management that features continuous assessments with remediation guidance on the best architecture and recommendations for migrating to the cloud and transforming applications;
    * Infrastructure and application modernization guidance for updating legacy software to modern business needs; and
    * Review of Kubernetes security against best practices to ensure secure cloud deployment, management and auto-scaling.

    “CloudForte Navigator helps organizations optimize their overall enterprise cost, security and performance,” said Vishal Gupta, senior vice president, Products and Platforms and Chief Technology Officer, Unisys. “Unisys offers a comprehensive, vendor-agnostic multi- and hybrid-cloud review to streamline their cloud assessment process and understand exactly where they can make informed infrastructure decisions as well as easily improve cloud security and application-migration processes.”

    The enhanced CloudForte Cloud Management Platform 2.0 brings together a Unisys-built capability and multiple partner products for hybrid cloud management. Unisys has added Morpheus Data, a Leader in Gartner’s 2020 Magic Quadrant, as a partner to enhance our Cloud Management Platform (CMP) capabilities.

    “With Unisys and Morpheus working together, clients have the best of all worlds. They benefit from an agile next-generation cloud management platform combined with the advisory service and support of a world-class solution provider,” said Brad Parks, Chief Marketing Officer of Morpheus.

    The enhanced CloudForte CMP integrates disparate technologies to create an agile, secure, and efficient environment in three key areas:
    * Automation and orchestration to allow faster customer innovation, including a unified user interface for management, governance, provisioning, and reporting on the client’s end-to-end hybrid and multi-cloud operations.
    * A validated reference architecture to ensure business optimization, providing a ready to use blueprint library, monitoring, security and identity management, among other features.
    * Advanced analytics to optimize cloud spend, synchronizing visibility of discovered and provisioned resources and constantly monitoring resource cost and utilization.

    CloudForte Accelerators 1.0 provides a well-architected, compliant templating system to accelerate Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Azure cloud infrastructure with the following capabilities:
    * Deploying Azure Landing Zones with security and best practices;
    * Automating deployment of repeatable AWS CloudFormation templates; and
    * Demonstrating use cases with refined documentation and guidance.

    To learn more about CloudForte, visit www.unisys.com/CloudForte.

    About Unisys
    Unisys is a global information technology company that builds high-performance, security-centric solutions for the most demanding businesses and governments. Unisys offerings include security software and services; digital transformation and workplace services; industry applications and services; and innovative software operating environments for high-intensity enterprise computing. For more information on how Unisys builds better outcomes securely for its clients across the government, financial services and commercial markets, visit www.unisys.com.

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  • Styra Introduces Rego Policy Builder for Declarative Authorization Service Making Open Policy Agent Accessible to More Teams

    Furthers the Open Policy Agent and Styra vision of unified authorization by democratizing the creation, implementation and understanding of policy-as-code solutions

    REDWOOD CITY, Calif. — July 28, 2020 — Styra, Inc., the founders of Open Policy Agent (OPA) and leaders in cloud-native authorization, today announced Rego Policy Builder for the Styra Declarative Authorization Service (DAS). With Rego Policy Builder, DevOps/platform teams can more easily build authorization policy in Styra DAS, with a point-and-click interface that speeds development of new rules and provides a policy interface that is easy to read. Continuing the vision of the OPA founders, this latest enhancement to the OPA control plane empowers more teams to take advantage of the speed and security of policy-as-code for unified authorization.
    The Styra DAS Rego Policy Builder provides a streamlined, graphical, purpose-built, point and click policy interface for OPA authorization rules. This visualization of policy-as-code enables DevOps, security and compliance teams to:

    • Take advantage of the speed and security of OPA, without investing up-front time to learn all the details of its custom policy language.
    • Speed development of sophisticated security, compliance and operational rules for modern cloud-native applications.
    • More easily communicate across teams to prove that security is in place, and built as intended.

    Styra DAS is the company’s turnkey control plane for OPA, which provides a unified toolset and framework for policy across the cloud native stack. Styra DAS helps enterprises set up policy-as-code guardrails for two crucial layers of the new software stack, Kubernetes and microservices, to help customers mitigate risk, reduce errors and accelerate software development. Purpose-built to deploy and manage OPA at scale, Styra DAS is a single control plane for authorization both within applications and for the infrastructure they run on.

    Accelerate Deployment of Open Policy Agent and Styra DAS Without Learning Custom Coding

    Traditional cybersecurity solutions have been implemented by infrastructure and operations (I&O) teams. These teams are skilled at systems interoperability, network communication, as well as identifying and mitigating key risks to businesses, but coding and development aren’t typically a core part of their job. However, as network, storage and compute moves to software-defined delivery methods common to cloud-native application development, IT, I&O, security, compliance, governance and general line-of-business teams can become increasingly isolated from new technologies such as Kubernetes, microservices and other code-centric solutions.

    The Styra DAS Rego Policy Builder is the latest step in bridging this gap. Styra solutions are all 100 percent policy-as-code and built on OPA, which provides developers, DevOps and platform teams the flexibility and control they need to implement guardrails in modern app environments.

    Development and platform teams can still build policy directly in Rego, the OPA policy language, but this new graphical solution speeds deployment for teams less familiar with Rego’s specific syntax and eases communication with security, audit and compliance teams.

    “From the first day we started building OPA, our vision was to provide unified authorization across the cloud-native stack. With this news today, we are further simplifying the on-boarding process of our policy-as-code solutions by giving teams a visual way to build authorization policy,” said Tim Hinrichs, co-creator of OPA and co-founder and CTO of Styra. “Rego Policy Builder is just the latest step in our journey towards our vision, and by democratizing policy, with a point and click interface, our customers save time, break down silos and build bridges to non development teams.”

    Availability 

    Styra DAS Rego Policy Builder is available now to all customers. Learn more about Styra here.

    About Styra

    Styra enables enterprises to define, enforce and monitor policy across their cloud-native environments. With a combination of open source (Open Policy Agent) and commercial solutions (Declarative Authorization Service), Styra provides security, operations and compliance guardrails to protect applications, as well as the infrastructure they run on. Styra policy-as-code solutions lets developers, DevOps and security teams mitigate risks, reduce human error and accelerate application development. Learn more at styra.com.

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  • Panzura Named ‘Market Leader’ in File-Based Cloud Storage and ‘Fast Mover’ in Unstructured Data Management by Gigaom

    Technical capabilities, product roadmap, execution and ability to innovate drive Panzura’s highly rated recognition

    CAMPBELL, Calif., July 30, 2020 — Panzura, creator of the fastest global cloud file system on the planet, was today named a ‘market leader and outperformer’ in file-based cloud storage and ‘challenger and fast mover’ in unstructured data

    management by Gigaom.

    The two reports recognizing Panzura for its market leadership are:

    Gigaom Radar for File-Based Cloud Storage

    In this inaugural report authored by Analyst Enrico Signoretti, Panzura receives the highest combined scores for Key Criteria and Evaluation metrics and is noted as excelling in:

    • Maturity – the maturity and solidity of the product, user acceptance, and overall ecosystem sustainability.
    • Innovation – differentiation, innovative aspects of the product and overall vendor approach to the market.
    • Feature play – a focused solution with differentiating features and technical product aspects.

    “Now more than ever, with hybrid cloud infrastructures and distributed organizations across the world, teams need the ability to access data from everywhere, seamlessly,” said Signoretti. “Panzura Freedom stands out for its tremendous capability to simplify teamwork among distributed team members who share files across different clouds and on-premises locations across the globe while keeping data under control.”

    Panzura Freedom is the only cloud file services solution to offer real-time, cloud-based file operations that, when combined with military-grade security, enables remote team members to work on the same unstructured data sets, or even the same files, at the same time — without overwriting each other or making multiple data copies. Its immutable data architecture keeps cloud-based data secured and inherently protected from cyber-attacks. Built-in active archive, enterprise-grade backup, and disaster recovery maximize enterprise up-time and replace services typically provided by a third party — delivering measurable operational efficiencies and savings.

    “Distributed teams need fast access to shared data, regardless of where they work,” said Jill Stelfox, chairman and CEO of Panzura. “However, the majority of enterprises rely on remote data centers for data storage, which undercuts employee productivity and ability to work from home. The longer this continues, the more IT stifles business user productivity and competitiveness, rather than driving it. We set out to solve the acute data access, control and collaboration issues that occur when enterprises move data files to the cloud and service globally distributed teams by creating the fastest cloud file service on the planet.”

    Gigaom Radar for Unstructured Data Management

    Immense business value is possible when turning unused data into something transformative to business outcomes. This report highlights the increasing importance for organizations to invest in solutions capable of delivering storage at scale and improving data searchability. Leveraging data stored in the system can minimize costs and increase control over critical security and compliance aspects.

    Panzura’s Vizion.ai Machine Learning-based (ML) data analytics is rated a challenger and fast mover that, when combined with Panzura Freedom (and other filers), enables enterprise customers to search and audit their entire cloud file storage in seconds. This allows users to take control of the data and exploit hidden value quickly.

    “We have come to a point where storing data safely and for a long time brings little benefit to an organization, and in fact can become a liability,” said Signoretti. “With the right processes and tools, organizations can turn data from a liability to an asset with unstructured data analytics solutions like Vizion.ai. Organizations can more readily understand what data is stored in the storage systems, no matter how complex and dispersed it is, mitigate risk and then exploit opportunities.”

    The report further highlights other key Vizion.ai functionalities, including:

    • Scalability, ease of use, and efficient unstructured data management capabilities
    • Rapid deployment, ease of expansion through a series of applications available in the marketplace
    • Solid support for ElasticSearch and Kibana
    • A high variety of use cases and possibilities

    Trusted by enterprises like Datatility, Gensler, Goop, Barton Willmore and phoenixNAP, the cloud management dashboard provides a complete view of the entire cloud network, with powerful search and auditing capabilities, security event detection and prevention, and data management compliance with a one-click ELK (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) stack deployment.

    About Panzura

    Panzura is the fastest global cloud file system on the planet and the leader in collaborative multi-cloud productivity and data management for global enterprises. It manages hundreds of petabytes of data in the cloud for companies in the healthcare, financial services, media and entertainment, gaming, and architectural, engineering and construction industries as well as government agencies. Visit panzura.com for more information.

  • FortressIQ and Signavio Partner to Deliver End-to-End Process Intelligence Across the Enterprise

    Joint solution empowers businesses with unmatched process discovery, mining, mapping, modeling, and analysis, delivering a complete solution for data-driven business transformation

    SAN FRANCISCO, BERLIN – July 29, 2020 – FortressIQ, the company delivering end-to-end process insights for the modern enterprise, and Signavio, a leading provider of business transformation solutions, today announced a strategic partnership that delivers comprehensive process intelligence across the enterprise.

    Process intelligence is integral to enterprises undergoing business transformation. However, it can be a significant undertaking, with organizations often not knowing where to start, what to look for, and what to prioritize. Traditionally, companies leveraged a combination of process mining, interviews, and business analysts to understand and improve their processes from multiple angles, but this approach can be costly, time-consuming, and lacking in accuracy.

    Together, Signavio and FortressIQ provide a top-down and bottom-up modeling, discovery, mining, governance, and monitoring framework for all processes and tasks across an organization. With this joint solution, enterprise organizations looking to successfully achieve process transformation at scale no longer have to rely on disparate tools or manual approaches to accomplish their business transformation initiatives. Organizations now have the capacity to evaluate and prioritize improvement opportunities and cost reductions quickly, leading to truly transformational outcomes.

    “By partnering with Signavio, we easily merge essential human and data-driven approaches together so that enterprises can manage complex transformations with ease,” said Pankaj Chowdhry, CEO at FortressIQ. “As companies try to get the most value from their transformation initiatives, it’s imperative that they have the right tools to make it happen. We’re looking forward to providing customers with unparalleled support on their journey with a single solution for process automation, elimination, and optimization.”

    Features of this best-of-breed joint solution include:

    • Process discovery with no blind spots. Discover the full depth and breadth of a process, what systems execute, and what users do in context.
    • Perfect work instructions. Provide instructions with detailed, data-driven information (including tasks and screenshots) and measure against process compliance.
    • Human and data-driven Robotic Process Automation (RPA). Process models to design bot interactions, PDDs to drive execution, and process discovery and mining to analyze automation potential and performance at scale.
    • Top-down and bottom-up approach. Identification of potential for improvements can be triggered with a process analysis (top-down) or with a task analysis (bottom-up) approach.

    “We’re thrilled to partner with FortressIQ to deliver the most complete end-to-end process intelligence solution available,” said Gero Decker, CEO at Signavio. “FortressIQ’s process intelligence platform, combined with Signavio’s Business Transformation Suite, gives businesses unprecedented insight into their processes across the entire organization, at scale. We’re confident that the capabilities of this joint solution will provide tremendous value to customers who are seeking a streamlined way to optimize their processes and reap the benefits of automation.”

    About Signavio

    Over 1 million users in more than 1,500 organizations worldwide rely on Signavio’s unique offering to make process part of their DNA. With its powerful mining, modelling and automation capabilities, Signavio’s Business Transformation Suite is a cloud-based management platform that enables mid-size and large organizations to understand, improve and transform all of their business processes faster than ever and at scale, providing new levels of business process speed and real-time intelligence. Its intelligent decision-making tools address digital transformation, operational excellence and customer centricity, placing them at the heart of the world’s leading organizations. Headquartered in Berlin, with offices in the US, UK, France, Netherlands, Switzerland, Sweden, Canada, Singapore, Japan, India and Australia, Signavio has helped optimize over 1 million process models across the globe. www.signavio.com.

    About FortressIQ

    FortressIQ delivers real-time, end-to-end process insights for the modern enterprise. It leverages computer vision and artificial intelligence to add human-level observability to any application, with zero integration and universal compatibility. FortressIQ’s automated process discovery enables enterprises to uncover insights and analytics previously unattainable with traditional methods, so that they may confidently make decisions and strategically implement them across the enterprise. These capabilities assist in improving employee experience, system optimization, process redesign, value engineering, and augmented intelligence. Founded in 2017, FortressIQ is backed by Lightspeed Venture Partners, Boldstart Ventures, Comcast Ventures, Eniac Ventures, M12 and Tiger Global. To learn more, please visit www.fortressiq.com.

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  • ScaleOut Software Announces the Release of ScaleOut StateServer® Pro

    Next-Level Product Integrates Data Analytics with In-Memory Data Storage to Extract More Business Value from Fast-Changing Data

    BELLEVUE, Wash – ScaleOut Software today announced ScaleOut StateServer® Pro, a new software product release that adds integrated data analytics to the company’s battle-tested ScaleOut StateServer® in-memory data grid (IMDG) and distributed cache to help businesses gain more value from their fast-changing data.

    For more than fifteen years, ScaleOut StateServer has demonstrated technology leadership, peak performance, reliability, and industry-leading ease of use at hundreds of enterprise sites around the world. This software product stores fast-changing data in a wide variety of applications, including ecommerce, financial services, online learning, airline reservations, gaming and much more.

    ScaleOut StateServer Pro builds on this powerful foundation and takes in-memory data storage and distributed caching to the next level with integrated, data-parallel analytics. This advanced capability enables applications to extract immediate insights that identify issues and new opportunities, increasing the business value of their fast-changing data.

    “With the release of ScaleOut StateServer Pro, we are pleased to make powerful advanced features available to our ScaleOut StateServer users,” said Dr. William L. Bain, founder and CEO of ScaleOut Software. “We are excited to offer the latest ‘big data’ capabilities with integrated, easy to use APIs that enable our customers to uncover important new insights in their data.”

    Key ScaleOut StateServer Pro Benefits

    Operational systems manage huge workloads and need to be able to instantly access fast-changing data. With ScaleOut StateServer’s IMDG, businesses can eliminate database bottlenecks, dramatically reduce access latency, while automatically scaling throughput on demand. ScaleOut StateServer Pro extends these capabilities by integrating a software-based compute engine that enables applications to instantly analyze data stored within the IMDG.

    Key benefits include:

    • Immediate Insights on Fast-Changing Data: Applications in many industries can inspect stored data for patterns and trends and take faster action than before. For example, ecommerce applications can examine shopping carts to determine the most popular products; online learning applications can analyze session information to determine which students need extra help; and reservation systems can spot issues needing attention, such as emerging travel delays.
    • Automatic, Scalable Performance for Fast Results: ScaleOut StateServer Pro analyzes data within the IMDG to take advantage of the grid’s scalable computing power that combines the work of multiple servers. Linearly scalable throughput ensures consistently fast results even when managing large workloads.
    • Easy to Use APIs: Straightforward, object-oriented APIs in C# and Java, such as a distributed version of Microsoft’s popular Parallel.ForEach API, make it easy for developers to analyze large volumes of stored data in parallel within the IMDG. To maximize ease of use, ScaleOut StateServer Pro automatically ships application code to the IMDG, runs the analysis, and returns aggregated results back to client applications.
    • Minimum Data Processing Overhead: Because analysis algorithms are run within the IMDG, stored data does not need to first be queried and then transferred over the network to a client for processing. This minimizes network usage and avoids overloading the client’s CPU, especially for large workloads.

    Additional Resources: 

    For more information about ScaleOut StateServer Pro, please visit:

     ScaleOut StateServer Pro announcement blog post

    • ScaleOut StateServer Pro product page
    • Backgrounder on in-memory computing
    • The Amazing Evolution of In-Memory Computing blog post

    About ScaleOut Software
    Founded in 2003, ScaleOut Software develops leading-edge software that delivers scalable, highly available, in-memory computing and streaming analytics technologies to a wide range of industries. ScaleOut Software’s in-memory computing platform enables operational intelligence by storing, updating, and analyzing fast-changing, live data so that businesses can capture perishable opportunities before the moment is lost. It has offices in Bellevue, Washington and Beaverton, Oregon.  For more information, please visit https://www.scaleoutsoftware.com and follow scaleout_inc.

  • Applitools Announces Winners of Ultrafast Cross Browser Testing Hackathon

    Global competition showcases ability for dev teams to execute cross browser tests 30x faster than traditional cloud testing solutions

    SAN MATEO, Calif., July 29, 2020 — Applitools (https://applitools.com/), provider of a next generation test automation platform through Visual AI and Ultrafast Grid, announced the 100 winners of the Ultrafast Cross Browser Testing Hackathon. The hackathon hosted more than 2,200 software developers, quality engineers, and QA professionals from dozens of companies and countries around the world. The event ran from June 1st to July 7th, 2020, and collected more than 1,600 hours of cross browser testing data. Each contestant competed for $50,000 in cash prizes with the best 100 applications sharing the prize pool: https://applitools.com/hackathon/

    “Cross platform testing is hard, it’s no wonder why so many companies skip this,” said Oluseun

    Orebajo, Lead Test Practitioner at Fujitsu and Diamond Winner of the Hackathon. “The efforts to implement a comprehensive strategy using traditional approaches are astronomical. Applitools has totally changed the game with the Ultrafast Grid. What took me days of work with other approaches only took minutes with Ultrafast Grid! Not only was it easier, it’s smarter, faster, and provides more coverage than any other solution out there. I’ll be recommending the Ultrafast Grid to all of the clients I work with from now on.”

    The software engineering community was challenged to author cross browser and cross device tests against a real-world app using both their preferred legacy cloud testing solution and Applitools Ultrafast Grid and Visual AI. Contestants could use any major test framework including Cypress, Selenium, WebdriverIO, and TestCafe. Programming language options included Java, Javascript, Python, Ruby, or C#, and winners were evaluated based on the following criteria:

    • Test Creation and Execution Time
    • Test Coverage and Analysis
    • Team Analysis and Collaboration
    • Test Stability and Auto-Maintenance

    “The Ultrafast Cross Browser Testing Hackathon was a wonderful experience which was challenging in multiple aspects and offered a great opportunity to learn cross browser visual testing,” said Tarun Narula, Technical Test Manager at Naukri.com and Diamond Winner of the Hackathon. “It’s really astounding to realize the coding time and effort that can be saved. Hands down, Applitools Ultrafast Grid is the tool to go for when making the shift to modern cross environment testing. Cheers to the team that made this event possible.”

    The top winners, companies and prizes include:

    “At Applitools, we constantly strive to empower and educate people with modern technology such as Visual AI. By gamifying the learning experience through our Hackathons and having them compare Ultrafast Grid to the traditional approaches they are familiar with, engineers learn and decide for themselves how these innovative solutions will impact their career and company,” said Raja Rao, Sr. Director and Head of Growth Marketing at Applitools. “We are truly grateful for the response from the global engineering community and to learn through their direct experience and feedback how much better the Ultrafast Grid actually is compared to traditional approaches to cross browser testing.”

    To learn how Visual AI tested 29 browsers in 19 seconds and caught 119 bugs, read this article from Applitools Automation Architect, Angie Jones: (https://applitools.com/ultrafast-grid). Or, contact a modern cross browser testing expert at Applitools to learn more.

    About Applitools

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

     

  • Pypestream Introduces Conversational Ads, Delivering Engaging and Personalized Experiences

    Upending traditional display ads, Conversational Ads move customers through sales and marketing funnels more effectively, creating dynamic, feature-rich interactions

    July 28, 2020 – NEW YORK – Pypestream, the leading conversational AI platform with all-in-one cloud messaging, announces Conversational Ads, an immersive brand experience driven by in-ad engagements. Conversational Ads transform present-day display ads by incorporating conversational AI alongside rich features like video, carousels, and surveys, creating authentic two-way messaging interactions between consumers and brands at scale.

    Pypestream’s patents on ad unit technology provided a foundation for this breakthrough in serving display ads as conversational experiences. This new sophistication shifts the display ad paradigm and takes ad engagement and personalization to a new level.

    Brands that implement Conversational Ads can tailor experiences to deliver personalized recommendations on a wide range of topics, from insurance policy quotes to eCommerce product promotions to streaming content subscription packages. These feature-rich interactions are powered with military-grade security and strict compliance with CCPA and GDPR. Conversational Ads can be targeted across thousands of publisher sites to both mobile and desktop devices.

    “Banner blindness has forced brands to make their ads bigger, bolder and brighter. Unfortunately, this strategy has exemplified the ‘law of diminishing returns’ in that consumers are just getting more annoyed and ‘turned off,” said Richard Smullen, CEO at Pypestream. “The answer is not to get louder but to get smarter, to get more personal, and with that, better understand the consumers and their intent. Conversational ads powered by AI achieve this at scale and as these new ad units gain adoption, the entire advertising landscape will shift to ongoing dialogues.”

    According to a report by Kargo, display ads have an 80% viewability rate but are only looked at an average of 1.9% of the total time a person is on a webpage. Pypestream Conversational Ads solve the engagement challenge by delivering personalized ad content based on customer data and interactions. Proving this, an early customer saw a 25% increase in engagement when serving Conversational Ads compared to industry average click-through rates for display advertising. By upending the traditionally one-sided experience, Conversational Ads can foster organic conversations at the exact right moment and help customers move through sales and marketing funnels.

    “When it comes to engaging with advertising, power lies in the hands of consumers. People are savvier than ever about interacting with ads on their terms and timetable. They want personalization and customer-centricity — and importantly, they want humanity from brands and an experience that’s conversational,” said Michael Kassan, Chairman and CEO of MediaLink. “Pypestream’s approach to reshaping customer interaction will help brands effectively forge that kind of relationship with people.”

    Brands implementing Conversational Ads can optimize and personalize customer journeys with Pypestream’s Dovetail™ AI, which recognizes and adapts to tone, sentiment and even emojis. Dovetail’s natural language understanding capabilities enable conversations to cover anything from product questions to pricing and paths to purchase.To learn more about Pypestream’s Conversational Ads, combining digital ad experiences with conversational AI, visit Pypestream.com.

    About Pypestream
    Pypestream provides all-in-one cloud messaging to usher customer-centric enterprises into the digital age with “always-on” automation. The conversational AI platform enables rich user experiences backed by military-grade security and a patented carrier purpose-built to handle any volume. The world’s leading companies place Pypestream at the center of their CX strategy, and earn dramatic increases in NPS, cost efficiencies, and new opportunities for revenue generation.

  • Tricentis Significantly Expands SAP® Partnership to Help Customers Accelerate Adoption of SAP Releases and Migration to the Intelligent Enterprise

    Tricentis testing solutions to break top barriers to cloud and SAP S/4HANA adoption

    Mountain View, Calif. — July 27, 2020 — Tricentis, the world’s #1 continuous testing platform, today announced an expansion of its strategic partnership with SAP SE (NYSE: SAP), the market leader in enterprise application software. Tricentis’ SAP partnership is based on its market position as a leader in automated testing and proven track record helping businesses using SAP solutions to achieve fast SAP releases.

    The Tricentis platform will be sold through the SAP global sales force and channel as an SAP Solution Extension. It will also be integrated with SAP ALM offerings. Additionally, Tricentis’ base-level test automation capability will be embedded in SAP’s Solution Manager and SAP Cloud ALM.

    Tricentis helps businesses using SAP solutions wherever they are on their journey to the intelligent enterprise – from updating ERP applications to consolidating solutions to migrating to SAP S/4HANA®. Because traditional testing methods are the number one barrier to software delivery  and represent nearly 30 percent of IT budgets , Tricentis reduces uncertainty when upgrading SAP applications, while simultaneously shrinking the time and costs involved.

    As the volume and velocity of SAP updates have increased in recent years, customers are finding their traditional testing methods require significant manual effort and can be a challenge to deploy in a timely manner. Tricentis’ SAP partnership enables businesses using SAP solutions to use Tricentis’ continuous testing solutions to keep up with the accelerated pace of updates.

    “With a next generation continuous testing platform, businesses using SAP solutions can unleash the full power of the intelligent enterprise,” said Sandeep Johri, Tricentis CEO. “Tricentis is partnering with SAP to help customers keep up with the rapidly increasing pace of SAP releases. With this partnership, customers can turbocharge their SAP releases with a modern, continuous testing platform that helps to eliminate testing approaches that are not only slow and costly, but ultimately ineffective.”

    “Businesses using SAP solutions will benefit tremendously from our partnership with Tricentis,” said Marc Thier, SVP of Application Lifecycle Management at SAP. “Through this partnership, we will help ensure that the adoption of SAP software is accelerated, customers get the most out of their SAP solutions, and costs for continuous testing of cloud and hybrid landscapes are significantly reduced.”

    Through the partnership, SAP plans to introduce the following new solutions to help customers modernize testing and accelerate releases:

    • SAP Change Impact Analysis by Tricentis – Provides AI-powered impact analysis that identifies potential risk to business processes after an SAP software update. This enables customers to focus testing on areas of highest risk and deliver high quality releases with dramatically reduced testing effort.
    • SAP Enterprise Continuous Testing by Tricentis – Delivers end-to-end business process testing spanning SAP and third-party applications. It includes automation of up to 90% of tests to help ensure the entire chain is tested and everything will continue to function properly after an update.
    • SAP Load Testing by Tricentis – Optimizes the SAP user experience with scalable, on-demand performance testing for SAP Fiori® and modern cloud applications, such as SAP® SuccessFactors® and SAP® Ariba® solutions.

    Through the agreement, customers will be able to experience the benefits of modern test automation, including increasing testing speed by 10x, reducing costs by 50%, and providing 90% risk reduction.

    “SAP made a great decision in choosing Tricentis,” said Venkata Thirtala, VP Supply Chain, Order to Cash and Procure to Pay IT Solutions at McKesson Corporation. “This partnership between SAP and Tricentis will provide a best-in-class solution, allowing us to further enable faster innovation, deploy releases without disrupting core business processes, and adopt a modern testing portfolio which keeps pace with today’s rapidly changing business needs.”

    “We adopted the Tricentis platform and it has been instrumental in our digital transformation and our migration to SAP S/4HANA.” said Sujata Dutta, Vice President at Vodafone. “We have not only been able to speed everything up dramatically, but also were able to significantly reduce our business risk and costs. This partnership underscores the tremendous value Tricentis brings to SAP environments.”

    About Tricentis

    Tricentis is the global leader in enterprise continuous testing, widely credited for reinventing software testing and delivery for DevOps and agile environments. The Tricentis AI-based, continuous testing platform provides automated testing and real-time business risk insight across your DevOps pipeline. This enables enterprises to accelerate their digital transformation by dramatically increasing software release speed, reducing costs, and improving software quality. Tricentis has been widely recognized as the leader by all major industry analysts, including being named the leader in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant five years in a row. Tricentis has more than 1,800 customers, including the largest brands in the world, such as Accenture, Coca-Cola, Nationwide Insurance, Allianz, Telstra, Dolby, RBS, and Zappos. To

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