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  • Tricentis Appoints Technology Industry Veteran Kevin Thompson as CEO

    Industry disruptor and cloud software leader to drive Tricentis’ next level of growth

    MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Tricentis, the world’s #1 testing platform for modern cloud and enterprise applications, today announced the appointment of Kevin Thompson as chairman of the board and chief executive officer. Former CEO, Sandeep Johri, will be leaving the company after strategically leading Tricentis through nearly eight years of unprecedented growth and success. Johri will remain involved with the company as a member of the Tricentis Board of Directors.

    “We are excited to welcome Kevin Thompson as Tricentis’ new chairman and CEO to further accelerate the company’s rapid growth trajectory. Kevin is a proven leader and has significant experience leading and scaling world-class, global technology organizations,” said Wolfgang Platz, Founder and Chief Strategy Officer of Tricentis. “We would also like to thank Sandeep Johri for his dedication to Tricentis. Under his leadership, Tricentis has grown 35X and scaled into a global industry leader.”

    Thompson has an impressive background leading global technology companies and is a seasoned executive and cloud software veteran. After serving as the CFO and COO of SolarWinds from 2006 to 2010, Thompson then served as President and CEO from 2010 to 2020 – taking the company from $20 million in revenue to over $1 billion in revenue and becoming a global leader in IT Management. Prior to SolarWinds, Thompson was SVP and CFO of analytics company SAS and EVP and CFO of software company Red Hat.

    During his time at SolarWinds, Thompson played a pivotal role in the company’s growth and trajectory toward the company’s IPO in 2009, its transaction to go private in 2016, and its second IPO in 2018. Thompson led the SolarWinds effort to further establish the company as one of the leading IT management and monitoring partners in the industry and, while doing so, was featured in Forbes magazine as one of America’s top CEOs.

    “I’m thrilled to be joining such a strong organization with the potential to truly disrupt the software industry and provide immense value for companies around the world,” said Thompson. “Joining as CEO provides an incredible opportunity to drive Tricentis into the next phase of growth, build upon the company’s industry leadership, and continue offering the leading AI-driven, end-to-end continuous testing platform to accelerate software delivery and innovation.”

    Over the last year, Tricentis hit several notable achievements, including reaching high double-digit growth in annual recurring revenue (ARR) in 2020. Additionally, the company announced a key strategic partnership with SAP, a significant expansion into the federal market, and the acquisition of leading performance testing company Neotys. Tricentis helped advance testing from script-based to model-based test automation, and ushered in a new era with the recent introduction of Vision AI, a next-generation AI-driven test automation technology.

    The company’s momentum over the past year encompasses notable industry awards, including being named a Deloitte Technology Fast 500 winner and recognition by the 2020 BIG (Business Intelligence Group) Awards for Business. Additionally, Tricentis was recognized as a 2020 Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice for Software Test Automation and a leader in the Forrester Wave™ for Continuous Functional Test Automation Suites for the third consecutive time.

    To learn more about how Tricentis is helping companies around the world tackle automated testing and accelerate digital transformation and innovation, visit https://www.tricentis.com/customer-stories/.

    About Tricentis

    Tricentis is the global leader in enterprise continuous testing, widely credited for reinventing software testing for DevOps, cloud, and enterprise applications. The Tricentis AI-based, continuous testing platform provides a new and fundamentally different way to perform software testing. An approach that’s totally automated, fully codeless, and intelligently driven by AI. It addresses both agile development and complex enterprise apps, enabling 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 McKesson, Accenture, Nationwide Insurance, Allianz, Telstra, Moët Hennessy-Louis Vuitton (LVMH PCIS), and Vodafone. To learn more, visit https://www.tricentis.com or follow us on LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook.

  • TigerGraph Continues to Drive Graph Analytics and AI Market Momentum, Unveils TigerGraph Cloud on Google Cloud Platform and Expanded Global Developer Community

    Graph Leader Also Reveals Connectors for Snowflake and Tableau, Announces Hackathon Winners, and Shares Early Release of Graph-Powered Analytics Book at Graph + AI Summit 2021

    REDWOOD CITY, CA – April 21, 2021 – TigerGraph, provider of the leading graph analytics platform, today announced that the company continues to accelerate the adoption, application, and use of graph analytics on the cloud with broadened support across all cloud providers. TigerGraph Cloud is accessible with Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, and now, GCP. The company also announced connectors for Snowflake and Tableau, meaning users can access relationship analytics directly from their Snowflake and Tableau dashboards; valuable data insights are now just a few clicks away. TigerGraph made these announcements and shared details about its growing global developer community and more at Graph + AI Summit 2021, the industry’s only open conference devoted to accelerating analytics, AI, and machine learning with graph algorithms.

    “AI augmentation will create nearly $3 trillion in business value in 2021, with graph being recognized as a foundational capability within today’s organizations,” said Dr. Yu Xu, founder and CEO of TigerGraph. “Businesses have struggled to capitalize on AI because it requires contextual awareness and an understanding of the data across multiple entities. Graph technologies can answer these critical business questions in minutes, where it takes weeks with other data management systems. Our vision behind hosting Graph + AI is to unite the ecosystem, and we’re seeing more of these attendees this year. The fact that there is a 200% increase in Graph + AI Summit registrants — just six months after the first Graph + AI World event — speaks to the ever-increasing appetite for graph among today’s forward-looking companies.”

    Expanded Product Functionality

    TigerGraph has expanded its product functionality with new TigerGraph Cloud support for Google Cloud Platform workloads. Just two months after announcing a $105 million Series C funding round, the largest funding round to date within the graph database and analytics market, TigerGraph Cloud is now the only distributed graph database-as-a-service available on all three major cloud platforms — AWS, Azure, and GCP.

    TigerGraph’s distributed native graph architecture helps organizations scale fast and analyze many different aspects of data to form new models and generate new insights. TigerGraph Cloud users can:

    • Use TigerGraph Cloud for free using free tier instances
    • Preserve their investment in a graph platform that is designed to scale as their business grows
    • Choose their preferred cloud platform for graph workloads (no vendor lock-in)
    • Buy TigerGraph Cloud credits for additional discounts and pay using their pre-paid or committed spend on GCP
    • Connect their TigerGraph platform with other data services and applications, including Kafka, Spark, Snowflake, Tableau, SageMaker, and developer services including Python (PyTigerGraph)
    • Build analytics or machine learning applications with industry use case library of 20+ starter kits with pre-built schema, sample dataset, and queries for all major use cases including fraud, anti-money laundering, entity resolution, customer 360, recommendation, knowledge graph, cybersecurity, network analysis, influencer detection, and others

    As transactional and analytical workloads move to the cloud, TigerGraph has become the graph database of choice to connect, analyze, and learn new insights from data. The company’s release of new connectors for Snowflake and Tableau (Salesforce) make it even easier for companies to integrate TigerGraph with both upstream and downstream data services. Connector capabilities include:

    • TigerGraph’s Snowflake connector, which simplifies and speeds up data transfer from Snowflake data warehouse to TigerGraph
    • Dedicated drivers for Tableau and Microsoft Power BI provide users with a rich capability for no-code analytics and visual dashboarding
    • Standard JDBC and ODBC database connectors provide the foundation for a wealth of integrations

    Expanded Global Developer Community

    In addition to extending its product capabilities, TigerGraph is listening to its developer community by rolling out new support and services. TigerGraph’s Developer Community is a global network for developers that fosters a collaborative, supportive, and developer-centric environment. Developers are invited to join a virtual ecosystem located on TigerGraph’s website (community.tigergraph.com) where they can share information, ask questions, and collaborate with developers at all skill levels. While other technology companies rely on their users to share troubleshooting information in their communities, TigerGraph is actively engaged with its product team to interactively answer questions. This ongoing effort is led by TigerGraph’s manager of developer relations and liaison to the product team, Jon Herke.

    TigerGraph enables developers to work in a team-like environment rather than troubleshooting issues alone without resources. Developers can share the courses they created, hackathon entries, blogs they are writing, and ask general questions about using TigerGraph. Herke runs a daily session on digital distribution platform Discord where developers ask impromptu questions, discuss clever solutions, or simply chat. In fact, other companies and products have replicated TigerGraph’s Discord Community due to its success in attracting and maintaining a lively, active developer community.

    If you would like to be immersed in the latest TigerGraph ecosystem activities, join the developer relations team on TigerGraph Discord (Developer) Community every weekday at 8:15 a.m. CST to listen in or become active in current open-source efforts including:

    • tgcloud-jupyter – a JupyterLab extension allowing data scientists to interact with TigerGraph Services while staying in their data science environments
    • TG-RASA-Pipeline – a data pipeline tool that connects TigerGraph to RASA (chatbot platform) allowing RASA users to have knowledge graph machine learning pipelines
    • pyTigerGraph – a Python connector to TigerGraph allowing users to integrate TigerGraph into their data science workflows or operational services
    • TigerFlow – a flow-based (low to no-code) data pipelining orchestration tool that enables users to drag and drop nodes onto a canvas allowing them to quickly set up data flow that streams into TigerGraph

    Expanded Developer Community Event Participation

    The strength of TigerGraph’s community is on full display at Graph + AI Summit 2021, which features 40+ Sessions, live workshops, and speakers from JPMorgan Chase, NewDay, Pinterest, Jaguar Land Rover, and more. The virtual conference, April 21-23, features keynotes, speakers, real-world customer case studies, and hands-on workshops for data, analytics, and AI professionals.

    TigerGraph’s Graph + AI Summit  Web App Hackathon attracted 200 developers from over 30 countries. Participants used one of TigerGraph’s 20+ Cloud Starter Kits to design innovative web application solutions on top of TigerGraph Cloud. TigerGraph teamed up with industry leading partners Streamlit (UI dashboarding solution for data scientists), Graphistry (Graph visualization product), and Galvanize (education training company). The winners, both women, will be presenting their projects at Graph + AI Summit: Linxiu Jiang and Qi Chen created Graph Shortest Path & Centrality based on “Airport Dataset: Explore the Graph and Network Analysis for Airports Around the World.” TigerGraph’s Web App Hackathon developer participants have remained actively involved with the TigerGraph Developer Community even after contest results were announced.

    New “Graph-Powered Analytics and Machine Learning with TigerGraph” Book

    TigerGraph is also announcing the early-release version of its O’Reilly book, “Graph-Powered Analytics and Machine Learning with TigerGraph.” This practical guide shows data scientists, data engineers, architects, and business analysts how to get started with a graph database using TigerGraph.

    The early-release version includes multiple chapters with hands-on exercises that will teach readers how to combine machine learning with graph. Readers can run the exercises on TigerGraph Cloud free tier and other free tools. Readers will also receive additional chapters throughout 2021.

    To access the early-release book version, visit: https://info.tigergraph.com/oreilly-book

    For more information on Graph + AI Summit and to view the agenda, please visit:  https://www.tigergraph.com/graphaisummit/#day1

    Register and secure your complimentary spot: https://www.tigergraph.com/graphaisummit/

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      About TigerGraph                                                                                                       

    TigerGraph is a platform for advanced analytics and machine learning on connected data. Based on the industry’s first and only distributed native graph database, TigerGraph’s proven technology supports advanced analytics and machine learning applications such as fraud detection, anti-money laundering (AML), entity resolution, customer 360, recommendations, knowledge graph, cybersecurity, supply chain, IoT, and network analysis. The company is headquartered in Redwood City, California, USA. Start free with tigergraph.com/cloud.

  • Exadel Marketing Technology Practice Releases Exadel Toolbox for Adobe Experience Manager at Adobe Summit 2021

    Exadel Toolbox is a comprehensive set of developer tools that compliment Adobe Experience Manager

    WALNUT CREEK, Calif., April 21, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Exadel (www.exadel.com), a software engineering company that delivers digital platforms and products, announced that its Marketing Technology Practice released Exadel Toolbox for Adobe Experience Manager, a comprehensive set of developer tools that complement Adobe Experience Manager. Exadel is an Engagement Sponsor of Adobe Summit 2021 where they will be giving away a free consultation on the Exadel Toolbox for Adobe Experience Manager.

    Learn more about Exadel’s Toolbox for Adobe Experience Manager: (https://exadel.com/solutions/toolbox-for-aem/).

    This initial release includes four different solutions — Exadel Authoring Kit, Exadel Backpack, Exadel Link Inspector and Exadel Environment Switcher — which each add to the developer experience while using Adobe Experience Manager:

    • Exadel Authoring Kit — is Exadel’s open-source solution that offers a set of tools that create Granite UI authoring interfaces for Adobe Experience Manager components from Java source code. The kit has grown from a basic set of routines into a comprehensive solution that makes different widgets work in a coordinated manner, provides greater interactivity with Adobe Experience Manager dialogues, and introduces some additional features (such as customizable data lists). The Exadel Authoring Kit makes Adobe Experience Manager development faster, easier to debug, and more accurate, while improving the overall user experience.
    • Exadel Backpack — is Exadel’s open-source take on the Package Manager that comes standard with Adobe Experience Manager. The intuitive Exadel Backpack allows authors to bundle data along with its dependencies and references (such as referenced images or documents), saving time, reducing errors, and adding transparency to the authoring experience.
    • Exadel Link Inspector — is a solution for discovering, reporting on, and remedying broken links. The tool expands on the out-of-box functionality offered by Adobe Experience Manager. Exadel Link Inspector identifies the page, location, and component of each broken link and gives the option to fix links once and propagate the change throughout all locations that contain it. Exadel Link Inspector also comes with a wide array of filters to narrow down link results. This is especially useful for sites with a high volume of pages, because it makes results easier to digest, analyze, and act upon.
    • Exadel Environment Switcher — switching between a wide variety of environments (Dev, QA, Pre-Prod, Production) and modes (Author, Publish) can be cumbersome and is solved by Exadel Environment Switcher. Once configured, this Chrome browser plug-in makes accurate switching as seamless as a couple of clicks. Configurations can also be shared across teams.

    “We are very excited to launch Exadel Toolbox for Adobe Experience Manager and its four initial solutions,” said Lev Shur, President of Exadel Solutions. “We consider this to be the beginning of a larger expansion of developer tools to help the marketing technology community get the most out of Adobe Experience Manager. We use our own tools on a daily basis, as they help us deliver additional value to our customers. Through Exadel Toolbox and the other solutions created by our Marketing Technology Practice, we are able to develop faster and more accurately. We look forward to sharing more with Adobe Summit attendees.”

    During Adobe Summit 2021, attendees will have the ability to contact Exadel’s Marketing Technology Practice team to set up a consultation with the creators of Exadel Toolbox. The consultation will include:

    • Demonstrations on how to use the various tools in the Exadel Toolbox
    • Consultation on how they can be applied to current project(s)
    • Help with installing the tools to save time while improving the quality of code

    “We’re very happy to see our partner Exadel making solutions that complement Adobe Experience Manager,” said Adam Egbert, Head of Solution Partner Programs at Adobe.

    About the Exadel Marketing Technology Practice

    The Exadel Marketing Technology Practice works hand-in-hand with client marketing teams to help them get the most out of the software and platforms that power their marketing strategies.

    Exadel provides the customization clients need to add content across multiple channels, integrate their existing systems, get their sites running perfectly for optimal user experience and authority and ultimately drive sales.

    About Exadel

    Exadel is a software engineering company that delivers the digital platforms and products our clients need to run and grow their businesses. For more than 20 years we have developed solutions that accelerate the speed, quality, and efficiency of our delivery while adding value to our customers. Since the advent of the cloud, Exadel has helped companies get the most out of their data, reducing expenditure and increasing scalability and access. A Forrester-recognized market leader in distributed Agile, we are proud of our long history of partnering with the largest brands across all industries. For more information on Exadel services and areas of expertise, visit exadel.com and follow us on Linkedin and Twitter @exadel.

  • DevOps Institute Announces the ‘Upskilling 2021: Enterprise DevOps Skills Report’

    With new data gathered from over 2,000 IT professionals worldwide, the report shows the continued adoption of DevOps must be supported through a learning organization and the continuous development of multi-faceted, skilled DevOps professionals

    BOCA RATON, Fla. – April 21, 2021 – DevOps Institute, a global professional association for advancing the human elements of DevOps, today announced the release of the “Upskilling 2021: Enterprise DevOps Skills Report.” In its third year, the report examines DevOps hiring trends around the globe within enterprise IT organizations of all sizes. In addition to DevOps roles, the report examines the top skill domains and associated must-have skills within these domains, which are essential for a successful DevOps journey. Data in the 2021 report is based on research gathered from an open survey of more than 2,000 respondents from organizations of all sizes around the world.

     The report is available for download at https://info.devopsinstitute.com/2021-upskilling-report-download

    “DevOps Humans remained in-demand, despite a global pandemic that upended our ways of life and business,” said Jayne Groll, CEO of DevOps Institute. “This is a testament to the importance and value of DevOps transformations at companies across industries and around the globe. The findings in the 2021 Upskilling Report give us clarity into the evolution of DevOps Humans and how IT organizations will shape their talent-based structures in 2021 and beyond.”

    The research and data analysis was led by DevOps Institute’s Chief Research and Content Officer, Eveline Oehrlich, with support from Platinum Sponsor, GitLab; Gold Sponsors, CloudBees and The LLPA; Bronze Sponsors, Tricentis and HCL Software; and Media Sponsor, MediaOps.

    Key Findings from the ‘Upskilling 2021: Enterprise DevOps Skills Report’ include:

    • Stop talking about being a learning organization and start acting. Seventy percent of survey respondents said that a learning organization was a predominant model–the DevOps way of working–while 45 percent leaned toward a safety culture. And, while 39 percent of IT teams are still struggling with a defined and systematic upskilling program, 52 percent of organizations already have a formally designed upskilling program or are currently developing one.
    • Hiring for DevOps initiatives is high. COVID-19 has not stopped the hiring of DevOps roles. Sixty percent of organizations are recruiting now or in the future.
    • Capabilities and skill development must go hand in hand. DevOps teams must assess which critical capabilities they can perform or not, across key areas. But capabilities must be supported with skilled DevOps Humans. Upon examining the priority domain skill categories, the survey data shows that the essential combination of skills for a successful DevOps human are across the automation, human, technical, functional, process and framework knowledge skill domain categories.
    • Pressure continues to force old IT operating models to change.  As new forms of hybrid computing are on the rise, it gives application developers more freedom to choose tools and programming languages. As this increases, IT operations teams not yet practicing DevOps feel more pressure to embrace DevOps.
    • Value Stream Management (VSM) skills are seen by 39 percent of respondents as a must-have skill within the process and framework skill domain. DevOps and Agile practices have been adopted to innovate and create more iterative approaches for software development and delivery. However, the value must come through the customer lens. This is where VSM comes in. In simple terms, understanding and examining value streams of software being delivered end-to-end enables teams to make complex processes visible and provides the ability to pivot towards further value improvement.
    • The adoption of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) as an operating model is 22 percent in 2021 compared to 15 percent in the previous year. SRE is needed to continue automation and reduce toil. Forty-seven percent of the survey respondents voted SRE skills as a must-have skill in the process and framework skill domain this year compared to 28 percent in the previous year’s survey.
    • DevSecOps is a key trend. Security is integral to protect the business and enforce internal and external policies of the company. DevSecOps makes security an equal consideration alongside development and operations. According to survey participants, DevSecOps achieved a must-have percentage vote of 56 percent in the automation tool category.
    • New models such as DataOps and ModelOps are showing up. DataOps was voted by 27 percent as a must-have skill domain in the automation tool skill domain, whereas ModelOps received 22 percent. These new models are shaping the ongoing iterations of DevOps operating models.
    • DevOps Engineers are the most in-demand job title this year. It represents 53 percent of recently recruited DevOps positions. The DevOps engineer’s responsibility might differ from company to company, but all should be engaged in upskilling themselves and their teams.

    “Our research shows that the future of DevOps at any organization is dependent upon the breadth and depth of capabilities and the supporting skills of the team members and within the team,” said Oehrlich. “A successful DevOps journey (actually any journey) has the DNA of a learning organization which means there is a commitment of continuous learning across all layers and players. Team members have changed their mental models to look at different views working in a collective and collaborative team. For example, problems and mistakes are opportunities to learn. This ability to continuously learn enables individuals and teams to work better together across boundaries regardless of process, team or technology boundaries. This mental continuous learning model will take time to develop, adapt and apply. Still, each individual can bring their skills and abilities to shape the bigger collective effort of DevOps. For everyone in IT, this is an exciting time to unlock your power, abilities and skills to accelerate your DevOps journey and that of your team and company. DevOps Human readiness and organizational learning must take on new importance now and in this next normal.”

    DevOps Institute Membership

    DevOps Institute now offers a tiered professional membership model. Membership levels include Basic, Premium, Government/Nonprofit, Educator, and Enterprise Membership options, with Student and In-Transition member tiers to follow. DevOps Institute Professional Membership offers exclusive access to leading DevOps resources, discounted certification exams, DevOps capability assessments, premium content, discounted DevOps simulation experiences, members-only networking opportunities, career center access, and more. Join or learn more at https://devopsinstitute.com/membership

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    About DevOps Institute
    DevOps Institute is a professional member association. Our mission is to advance the human elements of DevOps.

    We create a safe and interactive ecosystem where members can network, gain knowledge, grow their careers, lead and initiate, and celebrate professional achievements.

    We inspire thought leadership and knowledge by connecting and enabling the global member community to drive human transformation in the digital age.

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  • RapidAPI Raises $60M to Support Developer Growth and Fuel Expansion of Leading API Platform

    New fundraise supports company’s accelerated growth as API-first digital transformation becomes a top initiative across all industries

    SAN FRANCISCO- April 21, 2021 – RapidAPI, a next-generation API platform that enables developers and enterprises to find, connect to, and manage thousands of APIs, announced today that it has raised $60M million in its Series C funding round. The financing was led by Green Bay Ventures and includes new investor, Stripes. Existing investors include Andreessen Horowitz, DNS Capital, M12 (Microsoft’s Venture Fund), Viola Growth and Grove Ventures, bringing the total amount raised for RapidAPI to $122.5 million.  

    The investment comes on the heels of a  high-growth year for RapidAPI amidst a pandemic that drove a record number of developers and companies to the RapidAPI platform to advance their digital initiatives and accelerate the delivery of their software and services to the market. 

    Driven by the explosion of APIs, federation of API programs, acceleration of cloud initiatives, and the push to microservices, companies have turned to RapidAPI to modernize their infrastructure in order to remain competitive in today’s environment of digital disruption. 

    The recent fundraise will be used to support the influx of new developers to the platform, the onboarding of leading API providers to the public marketplace, and the expansion of the API platform, including RapidAPI’s Enterprise Hub  to serve the rapidly-growing  enterprise customer base.

    “As APIs become the building blocks for digital transformation efforts across all industries, we’ve seen a fundamental shift toward API platforms and tools like RapidAPI that are built to handle the realities of today’s complex, multi-cloud, multiservice, and multi-API environments,” said Iddo Gino, RapidAPI Founder and CEO. “RapidAPI’s next-generation platform is uniquely built for modern software development, providing a unified experience across the entire development life cycle, allowing millions of developers to connect with thousands of APIs and microservices.”

    Added Gino, “Over the course of the year, we’ve made significant investments in our platform, adding API testing and API design through the acquisition of Paw in February. The additional funding will enable us to continue to build a flexible API platform with the features and functionality needed to provide developers and organizations with a flexible platform that  integrates with an organization’s existing software development environment, making it easier to find, connect to, and manage APIs.”

    A Year of Developer Adoption, Product Innovation, and Enterprise Traction

    Recent reports, including the second annual RapidAPI Developer Survey Report , indicate that developer reliance on APIs accelerated during the pandemic and will continue to increase in 2021. In fact, according to the survey, 61% of developers used more APIs in 2020 than in 2019, and 71% plan to use even more this year.

    This trend was also apparent by usage of the RapidAPI platform. Over the last 12 months,  RapidAPI  has experienced significant growth across its platform. RapidAPI has almost 3 million developers on the marketplace, adding more than 750,000 new developers over the course of the year.  Additionally, there are now more than 35,000 APIs on the Marketplace, doubling the number from the same time last year. RapidAPI is continuing to add more than 1,000 new APIs per month, offering APIs from providers that include Microsoft, IBM, Twilio, SendGrid, Nexmo, Crunchbase, and more.

    Paid API subscriptions were also on the rise in 2020, as 12,000 new API subscribers were added to the platform. Another area of significant growth is with RapidAPI for Teams. RapidAPI for Teams enables developers to create a private workspace to share and collaborate on internal APIs and microservices within their team. Today, there are more than 55,000 teams on RapidAPI.

    RapidAPI has also seen an increase in the number of enterprises that are using the RapidAPI Enterprise Hub, a white-labeled version of its Marketplace that enables development teams, partners, and customers  to discover and connect to internal APIs as well as external API subscriptions. Over the last year, RapidAPI has more than doubled the number of companies using the RapidAPI Platform, including Fortune 500 organizations across the financial services, insurance, telecom, and hospitality sectors.

    Finally, the company expanded its API Platform to add a host of new capabilities and features from Gateway integration to support new types of APIs such as Kafka and new products such as RapidAPI Testing and RapidAPI Design by Paw,

    RapidAPI By the Numbers

    • 3 million developers have signed up on the RapidAPI Marketplace

    • More than 35,000 APIs are currently available on the marketplace, X are added every week.

    • Trillion+ API calls go through the marketplace

    • Doubled the number of enterprise customers: RapidAPI Enterprise customers include Fortune 500 customers across financial services, telecom, manufacturing, and hospitality

    • $60M Series C funding raised

    • $122.5M raised to date

    For more information

    About RapidAPI

    RapidAPI, the world’s largest API Marketplace, is used by millions of developers to find, test and connect to thousands of APIs—all with a single account, API key and SDK. For enterprise organizations, RapidAPI offers RapidAPI Enterprise Hub, a white-labeled version of the marketplace that enables the company’s developers, customers, and partners to find, manage, and connect to hundreds of internal APIs, as well as external API subscriptions.

  • New Research From Applause Finds Siloed Development Processes Impact How Brands Serve Customers

    Silos slow development and hurt QA efficiency, leading to more expensive, buggier releases

     

    New Applause In-Sprint Testing offering shifts testing left in the SDLC for a faster, more iterative process that results in higher quality and increased release velocity

     

    Boston–April 21, 2021 – Software development productivity is increasingly impacted by testing demands and siloed processes, according to new data from Applause, the worldwide leader in enabling digital quality. These issues negatively affect the speed at which brands can release new features to their end users; they also hit brands’ bottom lines – as bugs become more expensive and require added effort to fix when found later on in the software development lifecycle (SDLC).

    These findings come from Applause’s April 2021 survey of more than 1,800 QA, product, engineering and DevOps professionals across the globe on the state of shift-left testing.

    The survey found that, when done correctly, shifting testing left provides unique benefits. Respondents noted that the three top drivers for shifting left are to:

    • Reduce the number of bugs released to end users;
    • Save the costs of later-stage bug fixes;
    • Release features/builds faster.

    However, many organizations still face challenges with their shift-left strategy. The survey found that the top two barriers to successfully shifting left are that developers are too busy coding and that development and QA efforts remain siloed. Organizations that have already shifted left face many of the same roadblocks:

    • Fifty-two percent of respondents said the time their organizations’ developers spend on testing is impacting their productivity.
    • Nearly half (44%) of respondents at large organizations that are already shifting left said their development teams spend a full work day every single week just testing new features.

    While the benefits of shifting left are clear, the right processes and technology must be in place to do so successfully. To help brands realize these benefits and the full potential of shifting left, Applause today announced the availability of its new offering, Applause In-Sprint Testing. The offering, which was previewed earlier this year as part of Applause’s Product Excellence Platform, helps organizations shift their testing earlier in the SDLC and augments internal teams’ ability to test smaller chunks of code quickly and in an iterative model.

    With Applause In-Sprint Testing, a developer sends a feature for testing directly to Applause’s SaaS platform with the click of a button. This simple, one-click process is enabled by Applause’s bi-directional integrations with the leading bug tracking systems. Once the feature goes to Applause, a pre-built team of testers sourced from Applause’s global community of digital experts starts testing the core functionality of the feature right away so that results can be returned almost immediately.

    The new offering not only speeds up release velocity and improves quality by making testing easier and more iterative throughout the SDLC, it also reduces context switching – which 44% of developers in Applause’s survey highlighted as a current issue at their organization.

    “Applause In-Sprint Testing is designed to help the world’s leading brands maintain and improve quality while keeping up with the speed demands of Agile methodologies,” said Jan Wolter, General Manager of Applause EU. “It takes only a single click to start testing and results are logged directly into the customer’s bug tracking system for ease of use. The entire process takes place within just hours, so that the customer’s developers get immediate results and don’t risk having to re-acclimate themselves to code from days or weeks earlier, as is often the case when organizations don’t have a solution like Applause In-Sprint Testing in place.”

    See the full results from Applause’s recent survey.

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    About Applause

    Applause is the worldwide leader in enabling digital quality. Customers are no longer satisfied with digital experiences that are good enough; they demand the exceptional. The Applause Product Excellence Platform provides the world’s leading brands with the comprehensive approach to digital quality needed to deliver uncommonly great digital experiences across the globe – with highly vetted testers available on demand, a complete and enterprise-class technology infrastructure, multi-point digital quality solutions and SaaS products, and expertise across industries and use cases. This harmonized approach drastically improves testing coverage, reduces costs and speeds time-to-market for websites, mobile apps, IoT and in-store experiences. Thousands of leading companies – including Ford, Google, Western Union and Dow Jones – rely on Applause as a best practice to deliver the exceptional products and digital experiences their customers love.

     

    Learn more at www.applause.com.

  • JFrog Expands Cloud DevOps Offering, Delivers All-inclusive Platform Subscription on the Google Cloud Marketplace

    Customers Can Easily Deploy the End-to-End JFrog DevOps Platform from the Google Cloud Marketplace to Accelerate and Secure their Application Delivery

    SUNNYVALE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–JFrog Ltd. (“JFrog”) (NASDAQ: FROG), the liquid software company, today announced that the JFrog DevOps Platform Enterprise+ plan is now available on the Google Cloud Marketplace as a SaaS subscription.

    The JFrog DevOps Platform, a multi-cloud, universal DevOps platform, uniquely drives continuous software releases from source to any deployment target. Google Cloud customers can now quickly and easily deploy the JFrog Platform with full Enterprise+ subscription capabilities in just a few clicks via the Google Cloud Marketplace. The JFrog Platform Enterprise+ subscription is a comprehensive DevOps offering from JFrog designed to enable large enterprises to support the needs of modern application delivery, at scale including binaries management, container registry, built-in security, CI/CD pipelines, and advanced distribution capabilities.

    The Enterprise+ subscription includes:

    • JFrog Artifactory – A universal package management and container registry solution
    • JFrog Xray – Enabling DevSecOps at scale with continuous scanning for security vulnerabilities and license compliance for open-source dependencies.
    • JFrog Distribution & Hybrid Edges – Accelerates secure software distribution across large-scale hybrid infrastructure footprints, edges, IoT, and remote offices
    • JFrog Pipelines – End-to-end CI/CD automation and orchestration
    • Admin dashboard, analytics, and 24/7 high-touch support

    “By offering our enterprise capabilities on the Google Cloud Marketplace, we are demonstrating our commitment to meeting customers where they are, and in the case of Google Cloud, a secure, flexible infrastructure,” said JFrog’s Casey O’Mara, Vice President of Worldwide Business Development and Global Alliances. “We are extending our flagship enterprise capabilities to enable customers to easily set up, configure, and deploy our solutions. With just a few clicks, you can have a secure, flexible, and cost-effective platform to accelerate your business end-to-end.”

    “We are delighted to continue our partnership with JFrog and offer their expanded solution on the Google Cloud Marketplace. JFrog’s end-to-end DevOps platform helps companies accelerate and secure software delivery from code to production in a single, central solution,” said Rayn Veerubhotla, Director, Partnerships, Google Cloud.

    This release demonstrates a continued partnership with Google Cloud, which includes integrations with popular Google Cloud services, such as Anthos, GKE, Google Cloud Run, and Google Cloud Storage.

    View the entire catalog of JFrog offerings available on Google Cloud Marketplace here – including the new Enterprise+ subscription as well as other subscriptions. You can also get started with the JFrog Platform on Google Cloud Marketplace for free, here.

    About JFrog

    JFrog is on a “Liquid Software” mission to enable the flow of software updates seamlessly and securely from the developer’s keystrokes to production. JFrog’s end-to-end, Universal, Hybrid DevOps Platform provides the tools and visibility required by modern software development organizations to fully embrace the power of DevOps. JFrog’s Platform is available as open-source, self-managed, and SaaS services (with free tier) on the leading public clouds. JFrog is trusted by millions of developers and thousands of customers, including the majority of the Fortune 100 companies that depend on JFrog solutions to manage their DevOps and SecOps pipelines. Learn more at jfrog.com.

  • Perfecto by Perforce Addresses Critical Trends in Application Testing With Expanded Intelligent Test Automation

    New capabilities help businesses compete in post-pandemic experience economy by allowing more team members to automate end-to-end web testing

     

    MINNEAPOLIS, April 20, 2021 – Perforce Software, a provider of solutions to enterprise teams requiring productivity, visibility, and scale along the development lifecycle, announced today the launch of Perfecto Scriptless and support for Cypress framework. Perfecto Scriptless is a no-code test automation solution that uses AI to improve productivity. Cypress is one of the fastest growing JavaScript open-source test automation frameworks in the development community. Perfecto’s enterprise grade, intelligent test automation platform continues to be the go-to for businesses that need to elevate their digital experiences in the competitive post-pandemic experience economy.

    “The pandemic significantly raised consumer expectations for flawless online experiences,” said Eran Kinsbruner, DevOps evangelist for Perfecto. “We’re helping businesses address that demand for quality by making it easy for anyone and everyone on their team to automate tests and get feedback quickly — all in one place.”

    Perfecto’s latest release empowers a diverse range of team members — from front-end developers to business testers — to create automation using the skills they have and the methods they prefer. Development teams can shift left using their favorite framework while business testers scale their efforts by automating their own tests in minutes. Additionally, with Perfecto’s AI-driven reporting and analytics, every team member has immediate access to the test results, regardless of what they are testing or whether they are working together, remotely, or across time zones and regions.

    The capabilities are embedded in Perfecto’s enterprise-grade web and mobile testing platform known for solving the hardest challenges in testing.

    Perfecto Scriptless lets organizations:

    • Empower manual testers — non-technical testers and business testers — to create automation visually.
    • Streamline maintenance and test updates with AI-powered self-healing tests.

    By using Cypress within Perfecto, development organizations can:

    • Quickly automate their own end-to-end tests.
    • Shift-left testing at scale across multiple browser/OS combinations.
    • Integrate Cypress into their CI/CD pipeline.
    • Get feedback on test results in one secure, stable platform.

    “As new ways of testing emerge, organizations commonly struggle to adopt or adapt to them efficiently and without fracturing their process and workflows,” said Tim Russell, Perforce Chief Product Officer. ”Perfecto is taking all these moving pieces — market-led innovations like AI, shifting business needs and organizational dynamics, and rising open-source technologies like Cypress — and folding them into a single testing platform, so businesses have a comprehensive solution for intelligent test automation that can handle the scale, security, and sophistication that enterprises require.”

    To learn more, visit perfecto.io.

    About Perforce
    Perforce powers innovation at unrivaled scale. Perforce solutions future-proof competitive advantage by driving quality, security, compliance, collaboration, and speed – across the technology lifecycle. We bring deep domain and vertical expertise to every customer, so nothing stands in the way of success. Our global footprint spans more than 80 countries and includes over 75% of the Fortune 100. Perforce is trusted by the world’s leading brands to deliver solutions to even the toughest challenges. Accelerate technology delivery, with no shortcuts. Get the Power of Perforce.

     

  • strongDM hires former Slack and PagerDuty go-to-market leaders to drive next phase of growth

    First ever VP Sales and CMO hired to scale go-to-market operations for the only zero trust infrastructure access network that DevOps can deploy as code

    Burlingame, CA – April x, 2021- strongDM, the first infrastructure access networking company, today announced the appointment of two key executives. Mike Clapson, former Slack Enterprise sales leader, joins as strongDM’s first Vice President of Sales, and Nisha Ahluwalia, previously CMO at PagerDuty, has joined the company as its first Chief Marketing Officer.

    Mike and Nisha will build and scale the go-to-market functions to meet the demand of zero trust, as required by enterprises and startups alike. strongDM is the only way for businesses to adopt a zero trust model that also enables DevOps teams to implement access-as-code. End users get just-in-time access to every resource they need and security teams get the precise audit details they require.

    “I know first-hand what enterprises look for,” said Mike. “Big companies and growing businesses alike have a fragmented access model that slows users down, leaving security gaps and operational holes across shared keys and credentials. Legacy approaches waste technical staff’s time and are opaque, leaving Engineering Leaders and CISOs blind to what’s really going on within their environments.  strongDM’s approach is exactly what companies need to enable a modern work-from-anywhere model without compromising on either user experience or network security.”

    Mike Clapson brings over a decade of sales and enterprise experience to strongDM.  He has held multiple sales leadership roles at Slack, including their US Enterprise West Coast business and establishing Slack’s first APAC hub in Melbourne, Australia. Prior to Slack, Mike was at Mobify, a Salesforce Company, where he built and led the channel and partner sales organization, and prior to that, in Enterprise Sales at SAP.

    “I’ve worked with so many developer-focused companies, and their technical leaders are discerning buyers,” said Nisha. “Above all else, they want a no B.S. product that lets them focus on the things that matter most. strongDM is just that. It’s an unparalleled, substantive offering that solves for the underlying cause of a big problem, not just the symptoms. No matter what market trend or acronym you subscribe to, strongDM brings developers and security teams together with one tool everyone actually uses and loves – and I’m delighted to be a part of it.”

    Nisha Ahluwalia comes to strongDM with 20 years of experience across all facets of marketing. As PagerDuty’s CMO, Nisha built and scaled their DevOps-focused marketing team in support of both product-led and enterprise sales growth. As VP of Product Marketing at RingCentral, she launched and managed its Office product line, instrumental to a successful IPO.  Prior to RingCentral, Nisha held several marketing roles at Cisco WebEx. Most recently, Nisha worked in an advisory capacity for early and late stage startups, and continues to be Chief Mom Officer, responsible for her children’s life operations.

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    About strongDM

    strongDM’s infrastructure access network gives businesses confidence in their access and audit controls at scale. Adopted by companies ranging from the Fortune 500 to fast-growing businesses like Peloton, SoFi, and Betterment, strongDM gives infrastructure teams the convenience, visibility and control they need, without those controls getting in anyone’s way. strongDM is based everywhere and backed by Sequoia Capital and True Ventures. Connect with us on LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube or head to www.strongDM.com to learn more.

  • Tencent Cloud Makes Metrics and Data Monitoring More Efficient Through Integration With Easy-To-Use Grafana

    Tencent Cloud Monitor Grafana App enables users safe and secure shared access

    HONG KONG, April 19, 2021 – Tencent Cloud, the cloud business of Tencent, today announced that it has joined forces with Grafana Labs, the company behind the open and composable observability platform built around the Grafana open source technology for dashboards and visualization, to provide cloud users all over the globe with the Tencent Cloud Monitor Grafana App, a plugin application which is an efficient and easy-to-use platform to quickly monitor and integrate metrics and data.

    Tencent Cloud has integrated Grafana to its platform, allowing users to access their monitoring data sources via a custom dashboard with a Tencent Cloud API key, and to share access safely and securely. Customers can also choose to embed Tencent Cloud monitoring graphs into their Grafana dashboards for multi-cloud management, in both the open source Grafana and commercial Grafana Enterprise deployments.

    The new plugin also eliminates the need for users to go through complex configuration processes via preset templates that are now available for data to be seen with minimal effort. Administrative tasks are also made easier, as administrators are able to simply share a URL for the dashboard – which can also be embedded into external websites. The plugin includes enhanced security features, and also comes with a new search feature on its data source configuration page as well as a total of 30 Tencent Cloud products.

    Poshu Yeung, Senior Vice President, Tencent Cloud International, said, “Tencent Cloud is excited for the benefits of our collaboration with Grafana, which provides cloud users all around the world with fast and quick integration of their metrics and data in a way that is as safe and secure as it is efficient and easy to use. With the company’s vision and mission of using tech for good, the new Tencent Cloud Monitor Grafana App perfectly illustrates our goal to bring more value to users, leveraging innovative technologies.”

    Simeon Yep, Director of Business Development, Grafana Labs, said, “Grafana Labs is excited to partner with Tencent Cloud as a plugin partner. The release of the Tencent Cloud Monitor Grafana App plugin will allow Tencent Cloud users an easy way to leverage Grafana Labs technology to easily monitor their metrics and performance. We look forward to exploring additional opportunities to partner with Tencent Cloud on ways to further enable an efficient analytics and monitoring experience for our joint customers.”

    The Tencent Cloud Monitor Grafana App plugin gives users load and performance monitoring metrics via multiple cloud products, including popular products such as Cloud Virtual Machine (CVM) and Cloud Databases (Tencent DB). Users can use cloud monitoring consoles, cloud monitoring APIs and other methods to retrieve relevant monitoring data. The app adapts to the open-source software Grafana and retrieves monitoring data by calling Tencent Cloud Monitoring API 3.0, and displays the data on a custom dashboard.

     

    The app plugin supports monitoring metrics such as:

    •                      API Gateway

    •                      Cloud Block Storage

    •                      Cloud Virtual Machines

    •                      Content Delivery Network

    •                      Cloud File Storage

    •                      Cloud Functions

    		 •                      Cloud Load Balance

    •                      Tencent DB

    •                      Cloud Message Queue

    •                      Direct Connect

    •                      Elasticsearch

    •                      Virtual Private Cloud

     

    An upgrade for Tencent Cloud API as well as a new high-performance API option are also currently in the works, guaranteeing the further development of cloud technologies.

    Tencent Cloud is a secure, reliable and high-performance public cloud service provider that fuses Tencent’s infrastructure-building capabilities with the advantages of its massive user platform and ecosystem. Tencent Cloud provides global access and a rich array of services to governments and organizations that need advanced infrastructure and a resilient environment, such as those in the online games, live broadcast and financial services sectors.

    As a strong testimony to Tencent Cloud’s top-notch security standard and competitive services in the global cloud computing industry, Tencent Cloud was recently named Frost & Sullivan’s 2020 Best Practice Competitive Strategy Leadership Award in Global Cloud Industry. It has also earned more than 20 international certifications, including but not limited to ISO22301, ISO27001, ISO20000, ISO9001, Trusted Cloud Services, CSA STAR, the Outsourced Service Provider Audit Report (OSPAR) standard and the Multi-Tier Cloud Security Standard (MTCS SS).

    Tencent and Grafana are separate, unaffiliated companies, and Tencent is not responsible for, and does not endorse, Grafana’s products and services.

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    About Tencent Cloud

    Tencent Cloud is Tencent’s cloud services brand, providing industry-leading cloud products and services to organizations and enterprises across the world. Leveraging its robust data center infrastructures around the world, Tencent integrates cloud computing, big data analytics, AI, Internet of Things, security and other advanced technologies with smart enterprise scenarios. At the same time, we provide a holistic smart enterprise solution for sectors including finance, education, healthcare, retail, industry, transport, energy and radio & television.