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  • Harness Empowers Developers with Cloud Agnostic End-to-End Software Delivery Platform

    AWS GovCloud, Azure and GCP integrations provide DevOps and financial management teams with a CI/CD platform for multi-cloud deployments and complete cost visibility across all of their public cloud resources

    SAN FRANCISCO – April 15, 2021 – Harness, the leading platform for software delivery, today announced end-to-end integrations with Amazon (AWS) GovCloud, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) to help DevOps and engineering teams perform multi-cloud software deployments. Harness was initially developed to deploy pipelines and provide cost management for applications hosted in Kubernetes environments; they are now expanding on that vision with the first CI/CD and cloud cost management platform fully available across the three major public cloud platforms.

    This is extremely important for companies like GoSpotCheck. GoSpotCheck hosts its applications in multiple clouds including AWS and GCP. Consequently, GoSpotCheck had to build and maintain individual pipelines for each cloud, a time-consuming process requiring expertise in the API’s of both providers. These pipelines weren’t agnostic or portable across clouds, stacks, and platforms.

    “Our deployment pipelines were complex and not cloud agnostic.” – Nick Wilson | DevOps Lead

    Today with Harness, GoSpotCheck is able to easily move microservices between clouds with zero downtime. Harness abstracts the interaction with each cloud provider so the deployment is easily switched between clouds providers without requiring knowledge of the underlying API’s. Software Delivery pipelines are agnostic, portable, and dynamic – requiring minimal maintenance by engineers or the DevOps team.

    According to Gartner, more than 81% of organizations running in the cloud use two or more public cloud providers. To compound this, each cloud provider requires dedicated engineering expertise and tools to manage specific cloud provider nuances. This slows down engineering teams that are already burdened with too many tools. Today’s enterprises need a full-stack CI/CD platform that permits them to move seamlessly between the big three public cloud providers (AWS, Azure and GCP), while allowing them to lower cloud costs. Harness enables customers to consolidate their build, deploy, verify, and cost management processes into a single, streamlined platform without worrying about the complexity of a multi-cloud environment.

    “We’re noticing a direct correlation between containerized software deployments and the move toward cloud-native architectures,” said Jyoti Bansal, CEO and co-founder, Harness. “As more enterprises look to do more with their software and reduce infrastructure costs, they’re turning to multi-cloud architectures to improve uptime, avoid vendor lock-in and gain price leverage. With these integrations, Harness is answering that call, providing an abstraction layer between cloud deployment complexity and developers, so every company can deliver next-generation software faster than ever.”

    By granting customers access to all the major public clouds directly, Harness provides the same profound deployment and cost management experiences expected when managing applications hosted on Kubernetes. Harness’ latest integrations with each of the major public cloud providers include:

    Amazon AWS GovCloud

    Developers working in the public sector need to work with tools that fit into their air-gapped regulatory environment. This often means building their own software delivery tools or using the few tools available on the market. Harness already supported AWS ECS, AWS AMI, AWS CodeDeploy, AWS Lambda, and more. Now, developers can use Harness to deploy new software to applications hosted in secure government environments, giving customers and their partners the flexibility to architect secure cloud solutions that comply with government regulations and compliance regimes such as:

    • FedRAMP High baseline

    • Department of Justice (DoJ) Criminal Justice Information Systems (CJIS) Security Policy

    • U.S. International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR)

    • Export Administration Regulations (EAR)

    • Department of Defense (DoD) Cloud Computing Security Requirements Guide (SRG) for Impact Levels 2, 4 and 5

    This integration also allows cloud operations and financial management teams to have complete visibility across all of their public cloud resources.

    Microsoft Azure

    Harness already supported Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets (VMSS), Azure Web App, and Azure Gov Cloud type workloads. With today’s news, they also support Azure native deployments and cloud bill analysis, providing critical additional capabilities for customers running Harness CI/CD on Azure Cloud. Harness now assists with Azure Serverless technologies and ARM support with blueprints, management, and resource groups. Customers also gain deep visibility into their Azure costs within Harness Cloud Cost Management.

    Google Cloud Platform

    Harness already supported some GCP deployments such as Google Kubernetes Engine, Google Cloud Run Workloads and Google Cloud Functions in the Deployment Templates feature but lacked critical integrations to bring it to feature parity with its AWS offerings. Now, Harness supports the deployment of native GCP applications, and integrates with Google Secrets Manager, Google Key Management Service, Google Cloud Storage, Google Container Registry, Stackdriver, GCP Workload Identity, and Google Cloud Build.

    For more information about how companies can deliver next-generation software on AWS, GCP and Azure, visit harness.io. To join the Harness community of industry-leading partners, apply here.

    About Harness

    Based in San Francisco, Harness is the only end-to-end platform for complete software delivery designed to provide a simple, safe and secure way for engineering and DevOps teams to release applications into production. Harness uses machine learning to detect the quality of deployments and automatically roll back failed ones, saving time and reducing the need for custom scripting and manual oversight. Harness customers include NCR, Kohl’s, Discover Financial, Nationwide Insurance and McAfee. Follow Harness on Twitter or try Harness for free at harness.io.

     

  • Tecton Unveils Major New Release of Feast Open Source Feature Store, the Fastest Path to Production for Machine Learning Data

    SAN FRANCISCO, April 15, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Tecton, the enterprise feature store company and primary contributor to Feast, today announced Feast 0.10, the first feature store that can be deployed locally in minutes without dedicated infrastructure. The new release makes it possible for data scientists to reap the benefits of a functionally complete feature store with no infrastructure overhead or maintenance. Feast has seen strong adoption to date with more than 1,700 GitHub stars and contributions from Agoda, Cimpress, Farfetch, Google Cloud, Tecton and Zulily.

    “Our data science team is excited for Feast’s new release! The simplified architecture will integrate with our existing infrastructure with minimal effort. Feast will help us centralize our features which promotes consistency, reusability and visibility of our prediction data,” said David Frantz, a senior software engineer at Porch, a home services platform company that connects homeowners with quality home improvement, repair and maintenance professionals.”

    Feature stores have emerged as a critical component of the infrastructure stack for machine learning (ML). They solve the hardest part of operationalizing ML: building and serving ML data to production. They allow data scientists to build better ML features and deploy these features to production quickly and reliably.

    Until today, feature stores have not been lightweight or flexible enough to address the needs of individual data scientists and small data teams. Feast 0.10 is delivered as a Python software development kit (SDK) that can be deployed locally in minutes. Furthermore, Feast 0.10 is modular and integrates with existing data stacks, eliminating the burden and requirement of deploying and maintaining dedicated infrastructure.

    “Fast follower enterprises need to digitally transform their businesses and compete in a volatile post-COVID-19 environment. ML can help them, provided they implement accurate ML models that avoid infrastructure complexity. Data scientists must transform mountains of data, distil the right features, then use those features to train and deploy models. Feast 0.10 offers an open source feature store to support this–and inevitable retraining and redeployment when the data drifts–on top of existing infrastructure,” said Kevin Petrie, Vice President of Research at Eckerson Group.

    “We originally open sourced Feast to share our feature store technology and accelerate the deployment of all ML-powered applications. Feast 0.10 is a major milestone towards making feature stores easy to adopt for data teams that are just getting started in their operational ML journey,” said Willem Pienaar, creator and an official committer of Feast and architect at Tecton.

    Pienaar and Mike Del Balso, co-founder and CEO of Tecton, will be giving a live demo of Feast 0.10 and speaking about their shared vision for the future of operational ML at apply(): the ML Data Engineering Conference on April 21 and 22. The virtual conference will feature speakers from 30 organizations including DoorDash, Etsy, Google, Lemonade, LinkedIn, Microsoft, Netflix, Pinterest, Spotify and Stitch Fix. For more information, simply visit: https://www.applyconf.com/.

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    About Tecton
    Tecton’s mission is to make world-class ML accessible to every company. Tecton enables data scientists to turn raw data into production-ready features, the predictive signals that feed ML models. The founders created the Uber Michelangelo ML platform, and the team has extensive experience building data systems for industry leaders like Google, Facebook, Airbnb and Uber. Tecton is the main contributor and committer of Feast, the leading open source feature store. Tecton is backed by Andreessen Horowitz and Sequoia and is headquartered in San Francisco with an office in New York. For more information, visit https://www.tecton.ai or follow @tectonAI.

  • Introducing Skuid Chicago, for building apps with even less code and better user experience

    Leading application design and development toolkit announces new features and enhancements for improved UX in business applications

    CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (PRWEB)April 15, 2021

    Skuid, a leading toolkit for creating unique and adopted Salesforce experiences, introduced the Skuid Chicago release today, a set of features and enhancements providing more declarative support to app designers and builders. App development teams create custom digital experiences up to 10 times faster with Skuid, dramatically increasing user adoption and business innovation.

    The Skuid Chicago release delivers a vast array of features to enhance the employee and customer experience, including:

    • Calendar anything. A completely overhauled calendar component transforms any date/time data into a powerful user experience. For example, imagine viewing active service cases on a calendar, and when clicking an item, viewing all data related to that case and taking immediate action.
    • Ditch the spreadsheets. Keep users from the pain of using separate spreadsheets outside of your CRM by delivering better features inside your CRM. Key upgrades to Skuid Tables, Lists, Decks, Filter Sets, and more, bring dynamic, hybrid spreadsheet-database approaches to the Salesforce ecosystem.
    • Simplify upgrades. Last year, Skuid introduced an entirely new set of components, called Skuid Ink, in tandem with a new version of its API. Now customers can quickly and easily convert their existing apps and pages to the new components and API with a simple, yet robust point-and-click migration utility.

    The launch of Skuid Chicago meets an urgent need for delivering better customer, partner, and employee-facing applications faster than ever before. Over the last year, businesses have grasped the importance of UX in designing and building these apps. A recent Forrester report, Design For Work: Boost Productivity And Satisfaction By Transforming Enterprise UX, identified that UX quality directly affects business results in several ways: digital transformation is more successful because employees adopt required tools and processes, employees try harder and feel invested in their jobs, and companies that spend on UX increase market share.

    “Customers now demand digital-first experiences, but companies struggle to deliver,” said Ken McElrath, founder and chief strategy officer of Skuid. “The causes are clear: siloed data, mountains of code, and a resulting lack of agility in an ever-changing economy. Still, employee and customer experience continues to gain momentum as a prime concern. Customers, partners, and employees want apps that delight. Otherwise, they simply won’t use them. The Skuid Chicago release makes it possible for app developers and designers to execute on the experience design priority. With Skuid they can connect disparate data, create seamless customer experiences, and deliver delightful app experiences faster than ever.”

    The Chicago release comes on the heels of two of the biggest revenue growth quarters in the company’s eight-year history (Q4 2020 and Q1 2021). In addition, the company recently named Ryan Niemann, former CEO of Cirrus Insights, as its new CEO to continue market expansion.

    CUSTOMER QUOTES

    • “The new list sorting capabilities and CSV export actions will make it easy for us to manipulate the data without switching between spreadsheets and Skuid.” -Meredith Meyers, Technology and Innovation Manager at American Enterprise Institute
    • “As a long-time Skuid builder, the migrator tool gets me excited to move to V2. It has streamlined the migration process and will help us take advantage of the new enhancements across existing pages.” -Rich Slack, President at Chrysalis
    • “I love this calendar.” -Rich Slack, President at Chrysalis
    • “The new calendar is amazing. We can take full advantage of its power by integrating it with our project management system.” -Eric Wahlberg, Salesforce Manager at Mary Ann Liebert, Inc.

    About Skuid
    Generic applications rarely match the unique needs of your people, which kills adoption, productivity, and ROI. Admins and developers dramatically increase app adoption and innovation with low-code, Lightning-native tools from Skuid. Thousands of builders have used Skuid to create custom digital experiences—up to 10 times faster—for millions of users across dozens of countries, dramatically increasing adoption and innovation. Discover the #1 toolkit to accelerate custom Salesforce app design, development, and adoption at https://www.skuid.com

  • New Relic Named a Leader in the 2021 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Application Performance Monitoring for the Ninth Time

    Gartner recognizes New Relic in the Leaders quadrant for its completeness of vision and ability to execute

    SAN FRANCISCO—New Relic, Inc. (NYSE: NEWR), the observability company, announced it has again been recognized by Gartner, Inc. as a Leader in its “Magic Quadrant for Application Performance Monitoring” report by Federico De Silva, Padraig Byrne, Josh Chessman published on 9 April 2021. New Relic is honored to be named a Leader by Gartner nine times.

    In the report, Gartner notes that, “New Relic’s approach of ingesting multiple telemetry data types and making them available for analysis both via their telemetry data platform (TDP) and as part of their APM differentiates New Relic from most other vendors.”

    “Engineering teams from the largest global enterprises to hypergrowth digital startups leverage New Relic to plan, build, and operate mission critical digital experiences,” said Bill Staples, president and chief product officer at New Relic. “With New Relic One we are moving beyond APM to offer a true observability platform where enterprises large and small can unify all telemetry and monitoring workflows in a single platform.”

    “As pioneers of the APM category, we’re excited to lead the industry’s evolution from APM to the broader, more comprehensive practice of observability. Gartner’s sustained recognition of New Relic as a Magic Quadrant Leader we believe encourages us to accelerate this fundamental industry transformation by further aligning our platform’s roadmap and consumption model with the needs of our customers and the value that end-to-end observability delivers to all engineers.”

    New Relic One is an open, cloud-based observability platform that enables engineers to quickly and easily visualize, analyze, and troubleshoot their entire software stack. The highly scalable SaaS platform offers simple adoption and deployment with low data ingestion costs and a consumption-based pricing model. Using open source data collection, New Relic One is designed to provide a connected, real-time view of all your operational data in one place so developers can respond faster, optimize better, and build modern software.

    To learn more, download your copy of the Gartner 2021 Magic Quadrant for Application Performance Monitoring.

    About Gartner Magic Quadrant

    A Gartner Magic Quadrant is a culmination of research in a specific market, giving buyers a wide-angle view of the relative positions of the market’s competitors. By applying a graphical treatment and a uniform set of evaluation criteria, a Magic Quadrant helps buyers quickly ascertain how well technology providers are executing their stated visions and how well they are performing against Gartner’s market view.

    Gartner disclaimers

    Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in its research publications, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings or other designation. Gartner research publications consist of the opinions of Gartner’s research organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

    About New Relic

    The world’s best engineering teams rely on New Relic to visualize, analyze, and troubleshoot their software. New Relic One is the most powerful cloud-based observability platform built to help organizations create more perfect software. Learn why developers trust New Relic for improved uptime and performance, greater scale and efficiency, and accelerated time to market at newrelic.com.

    Forward-looking statements

    This press release contains “forward-looking” statements, as that term is defined under the federal securities laws, including but not limited to statements regarding New Relic’s ability to unify workflows in its observability platform, expectations of industry transformation and further alignment of New Relic’s platform with customer needs, including any anticipated benefits, results and future opportunities related thereto. The achievement or success of the matters covered by such forward-looking statements are based on New Relic’s current assumptions, expectations, and beliefs and are subject to substantial risks, uncertainties, assumptions, and changes in circumstances that may cause New Relic’s actual results, performance, or achievements to differ materially from those expressed or implied in any forward-looking statement. Further information on factors that could affect New Relic’s financial and other results and the forward-looking statements in this press release is included in the filings New Relic makes with the SEC from time to time, including in New Relic’s most recent Form 10-Q, particularly under the captions “Risk Factors” and “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations.” Copies of these documents may be obtained by visiting New Relic’s Investor Relations website at http://ir.newrelic.com or the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov. New Relic assumes no obligation and does not intend to update these forward-looking statements, except as required by law.

  • High-performance data management is critical for delivering business results with cloud data and AI platforms, says MIT Technology Review Insights

    CAMBRIDGE, Mass., April 15, 2021 – A new report by MIT Technology Review Insights explores how decision-makers from leading organizations excel by deploying advanced cloud-based technologies, including analytics and machine learning capabilities.

    The report, “Building a high-performance data and AI organization,” is produced in association with Databricks, and is based on a survey of 351 global senior data officers as well as in-depth interviews with data and analytics leaders at organizations earning $1 billion or more in annual revenue across 14 sectors, including Total, The Estée Lauder Companies, McDonald’s, L’Oréal, CVS Health and Northwestern Mutual. The findings are as follows:

    • Just 13% of organizations excel at delivering on their data strategy. This select group of “high-achievers” deliver measurable business results across the enterprise. They are succeeding thanks to their attention to the foundations of sound data management and architecture, which enable them to “democratize” data and derive value from machine learning.

    • Technology-enabled collaboration is creating a working data culture. The chief data officers interviewed for the study ascribe great importance to democratizing analytics and machine learning capabilities. Pushing these to the edge with advanced data technologies will help end-users to make more informed business decisions—the hallmarks of a strong data culture.

    • Machine learning’s business impact is limited by difficulties managing its end-to-end lifecycle. Scaling machine learning use cases is exceedingly complex for many organizations. The most significant challenge, according to 55% of respondents, is the lack of a central place to store and discover machine learning models.

    • Enterprises seek cloud-native platforms that support data management, analytics, and machine learning. Organizations’ top data priorities over the next two years fall into three areas, all supported by wider adoption of cloud platforms: improving data management, enhancing data analytics and machine learning, and expanding the use of all types of enterprise data, including streaming and unstructured data.

    • Open standards are the top requirements of future data architecture strategies. If respondents could build a new data architecture for their business, the most critical advantage over the existing architecture would be a greater embrace of open-source standards and open data formats.

    “Managing data is highly complex and can be a real challenge for organizations. But creating the right architecture is the first step in a huge business transformation,” says Francesca Fanshawe, editor of the report. “There are many models an enterprise can adopt, but ultimately the aim should be to create a data architecture that’s simple, flexible, and well-governed.”

    “The past year has been an accelerant of change as data-driven organizations look to adapt, innovate, and future proof their technology and architecture investments,” says Chris D’Agostino, global principal technologist at Databricks. “Now more than ever, enterprises need a modern data analytics strategy that is open, flexible, and empowers everyone across the organization to make faster, more informed decisions with a unified view of all their data—whether that’s using machine learning and AI algorithms or straightforward SQL and BI reporting”

    To download the report, click here.

  • insightsoftware Acquires Izenda, Diving Deeper into Embedded Analytics

    Deal follows insightsoftware’s recent acquisition of embedded analytics leader Logi Analytics

    Raleigh, N.C.– April 15, 2021 – insightsoftware, a global provider of enterprise software solutions for the Office of the CFO, announced today it has acquired Izenda, an application-based intelligence provider that brings critical data insights to end-users. Following insightsoftware’s acquisition of Logi Analytics, this acquisition further builds upon insightsoftware, Logi Analytics and Izenda’s common vision that delivering insights within existing applications empowers workers to make better decisions.

    Logi Analytics and Izenda’s combined portfolio of low-code embedded analytics development enables software teams to efficiently deliver powerful visualizations, dashboards and reporting within their applications. Izenda’s solution is used by hundreds of loyal software teams in over 2,000 applications. Those software teams will benefit from Logi Analytics’s leading portfolio of intuitive, developer-grade analytics, dedicated customer success organization, and scalable pricing models.

    “Expanding our capabilities in operational reporting and analytics was a top priority for insightsoftware in 2021,” said Jim Triandiflou, CEO of insightsoftware. “Acquiring Logi Analytics a few weeks ago was a big step in this direction. Adding Izenda furthers our position with over 2,400 application teams around the world.”

    A research study conducted earlier this year found that while 87% of organizations use analytics often or very often to make business decisions, an astounding 99% of knowledge workers spend time looking for information they could not easily find in their analytics solution. Unlike traditional BI and data discovery, embedded analytics delivers insights to users where they are already working – in their applications.

    “The world of embedded analytics is growing quickly and has fundamentally improved how business teams digest and analyze data,” said Christopher Carter, CEO of Izenda. “Joining forces with Logi Analytics opens up new opportunities to have a greater impact on our customers and business teams around the world, helping them get more out of their data to make better-informed decisions.”

    This announcement follows Logi Analytics’s recent acquisition by insightsoftware. The announcement demonstrates insightsoftware’s commitment to enabling Logi Analytics to solidify its leadership position in the embedded analytics industry as well as the organization’s ability to leverage its newfound resources.

    About insightsoftware
    insightsoftware is a leading provider of financial reporting and enterprise performance management software. We enable the Office of the CFO to connect to and make sense of their enterprise data in real time so they can proactively drive greater financial intelligence across their organization, which is how best-in-class finance teams operate. Over 25,000 organizations worldwide rely on insightsoftware’s portfolio of best-in-class reporting, analytics, budgeting, forecasting, consolidation, and tax solutions to provide them with increased productivity, visibility, accuracy, and compliance. Visit insightsoftware.com for more information.

    About Izenda

    Izenda is an application-based intelligence provider that brings critical data insights to end-users across industries. Thanks to Izenda’s embedded BI solutions, businesses can natively integrate analytics into their applications while conserving development resources and reducing time to market.

  • SmartBear Expands Support of Codeless, Automated Testing for Mobile and ERP Applications

    SmartBear delivers the industry’s broadest capabilities to help customers automate testing for Salesforce, Oracle EBS, and SAP with integration of TestComplete and BitBar

    SOMERVILLE, Mass. — April 14, 2021 — SmartBear, a leading provider of software development and quality tools, has integrated TestComplete, its UI test automation tool, with BitBar, its native mobile device cloud. TestComplete users are now able to create a codeless mobile test and then use these tests in BitBar across devices. Additionally, TestComplete increases support for testing enterprise applications like Salesforce, Oracle EBS, and SAP. As businesses continue to accelerate digital transformation, this new version of the company’s test automation tool helps ensure web and mobile apps work as expected across devices, as well as the availability of critical applications needed by businesses.

    “The DevOps motion is truly underway, and testing can no longer be a bottleneck,” said Prashant Mohan, Senior Product Manager at SmartBear. “Whether you are a developer, tester, or business analyst, you need to test, and you need to do it quickly. By scaling tests across several browsers and devices in a matter of clicks or testing complex applications such as SAP and Salesforce, TestComplete provides a complete platform for automated testing of every application type, leading the industry in breadth of capabilities.” 

    Every company is now an ecommerce company and with the proliferation of web and mobile applications, the TestComplete BitBar integration, along with the existing TestComplete CrossBrowserTesting integration, adds incredible scale and ensures quality across all platforms and devices. Non-technical users and citizen testers can now use TestComplete to access device labs in the cloud, making them more efficient and able to do more with the time that they have for testing.

    The growth of enterprise applications necessitates the need to introduce test automation to introduce efficiencies and timely deployment. With the new integration with BitBar and CrossBrowserTesting, business analysts can ensure that their mission critical business applications like SAP and Salesforce work as expected across all browsers and devices.

    TestComplete offers breadth and depth of support, and delivers a seamless experience for testing web, mobile, and desktop applications. For more information on the new release of TestComplete, go to: https://smartbear.com/product/testcomplete/overview/.

    About SmartBear
    At SmartBear, we focus on your one priority that never changes: quality. We know delivering quality software over and over is complicated. So our tools are built to streamline your process while seamlessly working with the products you use – and will use. Whether it’s TestComplete, Swagger, Cucumber, ReadyAPI, Zephyr, or one of our other tools, we span from test automation, API design, collaboration, performance testing, test management, and more. Whichever you need, they’re easy to try, easy to buy, and easy to integrate. We’re used by 15 million developers, testers, and operations engineers at 24,000+ organizations – including world-renowned innovators like Adobe, JetBlue, FedEx, and Microsoft. Wherever you’re going, we’ll help you get there. Learn more at smartbear.com, or follow us on LinkedIn, Twitter, or Facebook.

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  • InfluxData releases InfluxDB Notebooks to enhance collaboration for teams working with time series data

    SAN FRANCISCO — April 14, 2021 — InfluxData, creator of the leading time series database InfluxDB, today announced the general availability of InfluxDB Notebooks, a new capability that improves communication for software development teams, ultimately enhancing productivity within InfluxDB Cloud. InfluxDB Notebooks is the first of the company’s new capabilities designed to make it easier for developers to collaborate around time series data within the platform.

    Developers rarely work alone; they almost always work in teams. One of the challenges of working together is communication — developers need seamless communication to streamline their development activities. InfluxDB Notebooks addresses this challenge by allowing developers to discuss time series data analyses and trends inside the platform rather than switching conversations to third-party messaging applications, which can slow them down significantly. This new capability allows users to create a durable artifact that shows teams how time series data is analyzed to solve business problems.

    “Development teams are more distributed than ever, but until now, they haven’t had the tools they need to seamlessly communicate around time series data,” said Russ Savage, director of product management at InfluxData. “To solve this problem, we’ve reimagined InfluxDB as a way to collaborate around data, not just store it. This new approach will dramatically save time for developers, so they can focus on building software.”

    With InfluxDB Notebooks, developer teams can quickly:

    • Design time series data pipelines with dynamic data, live code, and real-time visualizations — all with inline explanatory notes — effectively showing their work and sharing it with others
    • Share incident investigations to explain root cause following service outages, and build runbooks to avoid future outages
    • Document how IoT sensor data has been collected, normalized, enriched and downsampled to facilitate preventive maintenance and forecast device obsolescence

    InfluxDB Annotations will soon follow InfluxDB Notebooks and is another new capability that enables adding notes directly on dashboard cells to more quickly highlight and explain the meaning of anomalies in time series data and coordinate troubleshooting efforts. It will be used to capture context and share details about ongoing investigations into outlier data points that are underway. This will save teams time by eliminating the need for multiple people to repeat the same investigation.

    These new capabilities support better collaboration workflows between developers, SREs, and every stakeholder involved in time series collection, enrichment, and analysis. InfluxDB Notebooks lets teams weave together computational information such as code, data and statistics with narrative, and graphs, while InfluxDB Annotations helps developers share contextual clues so they can quickly determine the root cause of incidents and restore services faster.

    For more information about InfluxDB Notebooks, see the product documentation page and watch our Notebook Concepts video.

  • Armory Joins Continuous Delivery Foundation As Premier Member

    Armory provides enterprise version of Spinnaker, open source continuous delivery multi-cloud project housed under CD Foundation

    SAN FRANCISCO, April 13, 2021 – The Continuous Delivery Foundation (CDF), the open-source software foundation that seeks to improve the world’s capacity to deliver software with security and speed, today announced that Armory has joined the CDF as a premier member. Armory adds enterprise-grade proprietary features and support to the open-source Spinnaker project under the CDF.

    Spinnaker is a free and open-source multi-cloud continuous delivery software platform originally developed by Netflix and extended by Google. It is designed to work with Kubernetes, Google Cloud Platform, AWS, Microsoft Azure and Oracle Cloud. It has released hundreds of thousands of changes into production at Netflix and many other industry-leading companies like Adobe, Airbnb, Cisco, Grubhub, The Home Depot, JPMorgan Chase, Salesforce, Sony PlayStation, and Target.

    Armory joins CDF premier members CircleCI, Cloudbees, Fujitsu, Google, Huawei, IBM, jFrog, Netflix, and Salesforce in working together to make continuous delivery tools and processes as accessible and reliable as possible and  grow the overall ecosystem. Armory has been a General member since 2019.

    “We are moving up to Premier membership because the CD Foundation is the right governance model for continuous delivery software in general and Spinnaker specifically. This strong foundation directly benefits development teams by continuing to improve and strengthen the Spinnaker community. And with Armory providing needed enterprise-grade features and support, development teams can ship better software, faster,” said Daniel R. Odio, co-founder and CEO of Armory. “The CD Foundation is the exact right organization to help steer the course of development of Spinnaker, and we are enthusiastic about increasing our leadership role as part of the CDF.”

    Open source technologies such as Jenkins, JenkinsX, Spinnaker, Tekton, Screwdriver and Ortelius, which the CDF hosts, help development teams from companies of all sizes and industries improve their speed and productivity when creating cloud-native, legacy infrastructure, mobile, IoT, and bare metal applications.

    “Armory has been a part of CDF since the beginning, and this move to increase its participation in CDF is excellent for its customers, for CDF, and the broader continuous delivery software ecosystem,” said Tracy Miranda, Continuous Delivery Foundation Executive Director. “We know Armory well, and we’re thrilled to be working even more closely as we help enterprises worldwide accelerate the adoption of continuous delivery technologies and best practices as quickly and easily as possible.”

    Armory provides a collaborative software delivery platform with Spinnaker at its core. Amory’s enterprise-grade version of Spinnaker adds enterprise-grade features that make software delivery continuous, collaborative, scalable, and safe. Armory is a top contributor to the Spinnaker open source project.

    Spinnaker Summit

    The third annual Spinnaker Summit will be co-located with the CD Foundation’s cdCon (June 23-24, 2021). Registration for cdCon is free. Attendees need to add Spinnaker Summit registration as part of registering for cdCon.

    Options to Sponsor

    Spinnaker Summit and cdCon expect to host 3,000-plus virtual attendees, offer 45-plus sessions with 5 project-focused learning and collaboration tracks, plus engaging and inspiring keynotes on each day. The cdCon and Spinnaker Summit 2021 Sponsor Prospectus is available here (PDF).

    To find out more information and register today, see: https://events.linuxfoundation.org/spinnaker-summit/

    Additional CD Foundation Resources

     

    About the Continuous Delivery Foundation

    The Continuous Delivery Foundation (CDF) seeks to improve the world’s capacity to deliver software with security and speed. The CDF is a vendor-neutral organization that is establishing best practices of software delivery automation, propelling education and adoption of CD tools, and facilitating cross-pollination across emerging technologies. The CDF is home to many of the fastest-growing projects for CD, including Jenkins, Jenkins X, Tekton, and Spinnaker. The CDF is part of the Linux Foundation, a nonprofit organization. For more information about the CDF, please visit https://cd.foundation.

    About cdCon (June 23-24, 2021)

    Join Continuous Delivery leaders, industry icons, practitioners, and open source developers for a two-day virtual experience as we improve the world’s capacity to deliver software with security and speed. cdCon is the annual event by the Continuous Delivery Foundation that brings together technology teams, enterprise leadership and open source communities to drive the future of software delivery.

    This year’s sessions are designed for 3 different types of audiences:

    • Technology Teams: geared towards application developers, infra folks, DevOps engineers, security professionals, testers and any other practitioners involved with delivering software.

    • Enterprise Leadership: for senior leaders and decision-makers from organizations interested in measuring DevOps, scaling, transformation, security, FinOps, and developer productivity.

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  • Maven Machines Integrates with McLeod Software to Improve Fleet and Driver Workflow

    The partnership increases fleetwide efficiency for Maven and McLeod users by boosting productivity, enhancing the driver experience, and improving workflow capabilities

     

    PITTSBURGH –– April 7, 2021 — Maven Machines, a premier fleet management and telematics software company in the commercial trucking and transportation industry, today announces its integration with McLeod Software. Following the recent launch of Maven Workflow, truckload carriers can now send trip assignments via Maven’s cloud-based fleet management platform, and drivers can complete their assigned workflow more efficiently with the mobile app. Maven Workflow provides streamlined workflow capabilities in an easy-to-use interface. Additionally, Maven has designed RESTful, https-based APIs that fully integrate with TMS systems at truckload carriers.

    As a Certified Integration Partner with McLeod, Maven can now offer the Maven Workflow platform to McLeod customers. Maven’s open API suite works in tandem with LoadMaster’s Symphony Mobile Communications, and the full-circle integration increases functionality for both Maven and McLeod users.

    The McLeod integration partnership complements Maven’s new workflow platform, which enables the creation of flexible custom forms and unique stop and location-based trip workflows. The workflow product’s Trip Viewer fleet management portal and accompanying mobile driver app reduces driver training time and enhances the driver experience. Improving driver satisfaction and productivity is top of mind for many fleets; providing fleets with software that empowers rather than hinders drivers is crucial. Managers can also view real-time data and map updates, and the software works in combination with Maven’s suite of other fleet and ELD solutions for a unified experience.

    “Our partnership with McLeod gives more fleets the opportunity to connect their TMS with Maven’s flexible workflow and fleet management solution for increased solution interoperability,” said Avi Geller, CEO of Maven Machines. “By integrating our software solutions, we’ve managed to make workflow easier for all involved: planners, dispatchers, managers, fleets, and the drivers, themselves. Now, fleets can more easily plan and dispatch trips, onboard new drivers, enable more efficient employees, and meet customer demand, leading to increases in both efficiency and profitability.”

    Thanks to Maven Workflow’s intuitive interface and integration capabilities, users can save time with workflow software. Users no longer need to learn complicated new solutions, as Maven integrates seamlessly with transportation management systems, such as McLeod’s Loadmaster TMS, to provide a more comprehensive operations management option for fleets.

    “We are pleased to add Maven to the Symphony Mobile Communications suite,” said Robert Brothers, VP of Product Development at McLeod Software. “Our carrier customers want tightly integrated driver mobile workflow capabilities. LoadMaster’s operations platform is the perfect solution for those carriers that want complete, accurate and timely information for both the drivers, through workflows like Maven, and front-line operation personnel. McLeod strives to provide the intelligent connections to industry solutions that our customers desire.”

    This announcement follows Maven’s announcement of its new platform, Maven Workflow. To learn more about Maven, please visit www.mavenmachines.com. For more information about Maven’s partnership with McLeod Software, specifically, please visit www.mcleodsoftware.com/certified-partners/.