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  • Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Momentum Accelerates with New Hires

    Nearly 2,000 new employees will support customer growth, product innovation, and data center expansion

    Redwood Shores, Calif.—Oct 8, 2019

    Oracle today announced plans to hire nearly 2,000 employees worldwide to work on its growing Oracle Cloud Infrastructure business. The new roles, which include software development, cloud operations, and business operations, will support Oracle’s rapidly expanding infrastructure customer base, and come as the company rolls out new product innovations and rapidly opens cloud regions around the globe.

    “Cloud is still in its early days with less than 20 percent penetration today, and enterprises are just beginning to use cloud for mission-critical workloads,” said Don Johnson, executive vice president, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. “Our aggressive hiring and growth plans are mapped to meet the needs of our customers, providing them reliability, high performance, and robust security as they continue to move to the cloud.”

    Oracle Cloud Infrastructure’s portfolio has experienced significant growth. Recent product innovations include new automated cloud security services, the launch of Autonomous Linux, and a host of new cloud data services. Only Oracle Gen 2 Cloud is built to run Oracle’s leading suite of enterprise cloud applications and uses machine learning to deliver category-defining autonomous services, including Oracle Autonomous Database and Oracle Autonomous Linux. Additionally, Oracle is the only cloud infrastructure company in the world that delivers enterprise applications. This gives customers huge cost and competitive advantages and enables them to extend their applications as they grow.

    In the past year, Oracle has opened 12 new Gen 2 Cloud regions and currently operates 16 regions globally, the fastest expansion by any major cloud provider. Continuing its rapid cadence of Oracle Gen 2 Cloud region launches, Oracle plans to add 20 more regions by the end of 2020, bringing the global footprint to 36 total regions. Eleven countries or jurisdictions will have region pairs that facilitate enterprise-class, multi-region, disaster-recovery strategies to better support those customers who want to store their data in-country or in-region.

    Today, Oracle is the only company delivering a complete and integrated set of cloud services and building intelligence into every layer of the cloud. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure’s growing talent base will ensure customers continue to benefit from best-in-class security, consistent high performance, simple predictable pricing, and the tools and expertise needed to bring enterprise workloads to cloud quickly and efficiently.

    In addition to rapid hiring, Oracle will make additional real estate investments to support the expanded Oracle Cloud Infrastructure workforce.

  • Sauce Labs Recognized for Outstanding Workplace Culture With Trio of Comparably Awards

    Continuous testing leader earns high marks for Happiest Employees, Best Compensation, and Best Work-Life Balance

     

    SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 08, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Sauce Labs Inc., provider of the world’s most comprehensive and trusted continuous testing cloud, today announced it has won another three Comparably Awards for 2019 across the following categories: Happiest Employees, Best Companies for Compensation, and Best Companies for Work-Life Balance. With this recognition, Sauce Labs has now won seven prestigious Comparably Awards in 2019, including earlier wins for Best Company Outlook and Best Company for Professional Development.

    Known for providing transparent assessments of company cultures based on the input of actual employees, Comparably.com identified the top large and small/mid-size companies in each of the three categories based on anonymous sentiment ratings provided by employees between September 12, 2018 and September 12, 2019.

    Sauce Labs ranked #33 on the list of small/mid-size companies with the happiest employees. It ranked #38 on the list of companies for best compensation and #47 on the list of companies for best work-life balance.

    “Our continued growth is first and foremost a reflection of having a diverse team of employees who are passionate about automated testing and dedicated to seeing our customers succeed with their digital initiatives,” said Aled Miles, CEO, Sauce Labs. “We’re honored to have our workplace culture once again recognized by Comparably, and remain committed to fostering a work environment in which our employees can grow, thrive and partner with our customers to achieve great outcomes.”

    To determine the most recent round of rankings, Comparably looked at nearly 10 million ratings from employees at over 50,000 companies across the U.S. Winners were determined based on actual employee responses to a combination of questions aimed at gauging their insight into issues critical to a strong workplace, including compensation, work-life balance, and perks and benefits.

    “Sauce Labs multiple Comparably Award wins is phenomenal because it is a direct reflection of how happy employees are about their total compensation package and work-life balance,” said Jason Nazar, CEO, Comparably.

    About The Comparably Awards

    The Comparably Awards honor companies and leaders, large and small, that are helping to drive positive cultural change. Rankings are based entirely on current employee feedback and derived from sentiment ratings provided throughout the year by anonymized employees. There are no fees or costs associated, nor is a nomination required. Each list Comparably publishes seeks to recognize an important aspect of workplace culture, and the companies and business leaders who make the cut tend to have markedly higher approval ratings than their peers.

    About Comparably

    Comparably is a leading workplace culture and compensation site with a mission to make workplaces more transparent and rewarding. Employees can access the platform’s salary comparison tool, rate their companies and CEOs, and see what workplaces are really like through the lens of comprehensive and structured data based on gender, ethnicity, age, experience, department, location, education, and company size. With nearly 10 million ratings from employees across 50,000 U.S. companies since its 2016 launch, Comparably has become one of the most trusted third-party sites for workplace culture and fastest-growing SaaS solutions for employer branding. For more information, go to www.comparably.com.

    About Sauce Labs

    Sauce Labs ensures the world’s leading apps and websites work flawlessly on every browser, OS and device. Its award-winning Continuous Testing Cloud provides development and quality teams with instant access to the test coverage, scalability, and analytics they need to rapidly deliver a flawless digital experience. Sauce Labs is a privately held company funded by Toba Capital, Salesforce Ventures, Centerview Capital Technology, IVP, Adams Street Partners and Riverwood Capital. For more information, please visit https://saucelabs.com.

  • Applitools Expands its Offering to Deliver Intelligent Functional and Visual Testing through Visual AI and Ultrafast Grid

    Enhanced offering drives 2.8x* faster release cycles, 2.6x* improvement in bug detection, and fully eliminates false positives through Visual AI while significantly reducing the complexity, effort, and cost of test automation

    SAN MATEO, Calif., October 8, 2019 – Applitools, the leading provider of Visual AI for intelligent functional and visual testing, today announced the expansion of its offering to provide comprehensive, end-to-end test automation capabilities for any type of web or mobile applications. Applitools’ world class Visual AI technology combined with its new Ultrafast Grid provides unparalleled test automation performance including significantly faster test runs, improved detection of bugs, significant reduction in test authoring and maintenance time and effort, faster test results reviewing, elimination of false positives, and more than 50 percent reduction in the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO).

    Based on the “2019 State of Automated Visual Testing Report”*, an independent research study of over 350 global companies, teams using Visual AI in their test automation frameworks report a 53 percent* increase in test coverage, a 2.6X improvement in quality, and a 2.8X increase in release velocity.*

    *Download your free copy of the 2019 State of Automated Visual Testing Report

    “Since integrating CI and using Applitools for test automation, there’s been a vast improvement in release times down from three to four weeks to just one week or less,” said Greg Sypolt, Director of Quality Engineering at Gannett | USA Today. “Not only does Applitools help us get a better return on our investment, but we’re able to capitalize on our vision of becoming ‘digital-first’ by reliably delivering content to millions of digital news consumers using an array of desktop browsers, mobile devices and operating systems.”

    Development and QA teams can now use Applitools to catch both functional and visual bugs early in the dev cycle and fix them in a fraction of the time relative to any other existing solution, thereby driving faster release cycles, superior software quality, and highly reliable automatic maintenance. In the Test Automation University course “Modern Functional Test Automation Through Visual AI”, course instructor Raja Rao shows a real world example in which by using Applitools Visual AI, devs and test engineers are able to build and maintain a functional test 80x times faster with 21x more stability than with existing approaches today, while dramatically expanding test coverage.

    Don’t take our word for it! See for yourself how you can achieve these results by enrolling in the “Modern Functional Test Automation through Visual AI” course at Test Automation University (https://testautomationu.applitools.com/modern-functional-testing/)

    “Companies today are frustrated by the insufficient quality they get at the end of the day, in spite of the huge investment of time, manpower, and money they make in test automation tools and processes,” said Gil Sever, CEO of Applitools. “Today’s test automation tools are lagging behind the needs and pace of modern app development because they are code heavy, slow to run and maintain, and lack an intelligent visual analysis capability, while the visual interface is the most critical factor in user experience and user satisfaction. This is because existing functional testing tools are script-based and thus slow and cumbersome to deal with app testing in Agile and CI-CD environments. They are not able to provide the visual testing coverage needed for constantly changing apps, and cannot easily adapt to the variety of devices and browsers used by the millions of app users. Applitools now provides a comprehensive answer to these needs through its unique, world class Visual AI technology, which provides the necessary speed, coverage, and accuracy at a fraction of the effort and cost compared to any other toolset in the market today.”

    To create a free account and start using Intelligent Functional and Visual Testing through Visual AI, visit (https://applitools.com/users/register).

    “Today’s trend toward continuously releasing and validating software capabilities for an ever-larger number of devices often dramatically increases the overhead of consistently and comprehensively testing each release,” said Torsten Volk, Managing Research Director, Containers, DevOps, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence at EMA Research. “The Applitools approach looks at the UI as an end-user would, only flagging potential issues for manual review by human testers if they could be relevant for the actual user experience. This image-based approach cuts out a good chunk of the need for continuous test code adjustments and extensions, and it lowers the risk of still overlooking code changes that impact end users.”

    With Applitools, testing is no longer a bottleneck and it is now available to every developer and test engineer.

    Applitools is passionate about making certain that the testing process and its quality outcome keeps pace with Agile and CI-CD software development environments. To help make this vision a reality, Applitools is now offering a licensing model that allows its customers to test their apps as often as they need, on as many environments and browsers as they want, with unlimited users. That allows anyone in the organization to take part in the testing process and constantly test after every code commit without worrying about the cost. In this innovative commercial model, customers pay for the number of unique validation points (simply called “pages”) they want to test, no matter how many times these validations are being run, by any number of users, or in any number of environments. Applitools also fully supports open source projects and provides the option to add Visual AI to any open source libraries at no cost.

    You are invited to visit the Applitools pricing page for more details here. (https://applitools.com/pricing). 

    About Applitools

    Applitools delivers Intelligent Functional and Visual Testing powered by world-class Visual AI technology to help Developers, Test Automation Engineers, QA professionals, DevOps and Digital Transformation teams to release high-quality web and mobile apps and features faster.

    The company evolves test automation use cases — Functional Testing, Visual Testing, Web and Mobile UI/UX Testing, Cross-Browser Testing, Responsive Web Design testing, Cross-Device Testing, PDF Testing, Accessibility Testing and Compliance Testing — to transform the way organizations deliver innovation at the speed of CI-CD at a significantly lower Total Cost of Ownership (TCO).

    Hundreds of companies from verticals such as Software, Banking, Insurance, Retail, Pharmaceuticals and Publishing — including 50 of the Fortune 100 — use Applitools to deliver the best possible digital experiences to millions of customers on any device and browser, and across every screen size and operating system.

    Applitools is headquartered in San Mateo, California, with an R&D center in Tel Aviv, Israel. For more information, please visit applitools.com.

     

  • Contentstack Announces $31.5 Million in Series A Funding to Deliver Personalized, Omnichannel Digital Experiences

    Led by Insight Partners, the funding will be used to extend Contentstack’s position from core content infrastructure to a digital experience platform, accelerating digital transformation for companies of all sizes

    SAN FRANCISCO, OCTOBER 8, 2019 — Contentstack, the headless CMS pioneer and enterprise Digital Experience Platform, today announced $31.5 million in Series A funding led by Insight Partners with participation from existing backers Illuminate Ventures and GingerBread Capital. Teddie Wardi, Managing Director at Insight, will join Contentstack’s Board of Managers. The capital will be used to scale sales and marketing to deliver its superior product to more industries and geographies, as well as to build out the partner ecosystem and the larger community around Contentstack.

    The funding comes during an incredible year for Contentstack, with sales for the first half of 2019 growing more than 4X compared to the same period in 2018. With its explosive growth, Contentstack’s award-winning headless CMS now enables global brands to satisfy billions of requests for digital content and digital experiences across a wide range of industries, including retail, entertainment, finance, manufacturing, travel and technology.

    “We were immediately impressed by Contentstack – the platform has received many industry accolades and remains beloved by well-known brands looking to create a more personalized customer experience,” said Teddie Wardi, Managing Director at Insight Partners. “Given the success of the product and the company’s seasoned and proven leadership team, we believe that Contentstack is poised to take advantage of the explosive growth that the DXP industry is experiencing. We look forward to working closely with the team to continue to scale the company and to further the rapid adoption of its platform globally.”

    Contentstack is the pioneering API-first enterprise SaaS platform at the intersection of content management and digital experiences. The first headless CMS to enable business and IT to easily collaborate, Contentstack removes silos between business units. Built for scalability, reliability, and security, Contentstack has been proven many times over to be enterprise-grade and robust. It has the most powerful, most advanced integrations framework on the market that supports a wide array of content types and delivery channels.

    “At the core of every successful customer journey is content,” said Jim Lundy, founder and CEO of Aragon Research. “Audiences now engage with brands via a multitude of channels and expect personalized experiences. In order to satisfy this demand, businesses need a modern platform that can integrate seamlessly across the entire martech stack and foster better collaboration between business and IT teams. Contentstack was among the first to recognize and act on this shift and its platform now enables businesses to receive significant returns on their investments into digital content and experiences.”

    Contentstack is the third venture by serial entrepreneurs Neha Sampat, Nishant Patel and Matthew Baier, the same team that previously built the award-winning Built.io platform and brand, which was acquired by digital transformation powerhouse Software AG in 2018. With the new funding, Contentstack will be able to attract top talent and build out its team as it expands operations globally.

    “By addressing growing market demand for modern content infrastructure, Contentstack has quickly slid into the leadership position for digital content experiences, with 2019 as the company’s most successful year yet,” said Neha Sampat, founder, and CEO at Contentstack. “With this support from Insight, we will deliver the most powerful omnichannel digital experiences to global brands who want to inspire and delight their customers.”

    Follow Contentstack
    Blog: https://www.contentstack.com/blog

    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/contentstack

    Twitter: https://twitter.com/Contentstack

    About Contentstack
    Contentstack™ combines the best of Content Management System (CMS) and Digital Experience Platform (DXP) technology. It enables enterprises to manage content across all digital channels and create inimitable digital experiences. Contentstack pioneered the headless CMS category and combines content infrastructure with the industry’s #1 integration capabilities to deliver a best-in-class Content Experience Platform (CXP). Renowned for earning the highest customer satisfaction in the industry, Contentstack has been recognized as the leading innovator in the Dynamic Experience Management category. The Contentstack platform was designed from the ground up for large-scale, complex, and mission-critical deployments. It is the preferred API-first CMS for SAP customers. Learn more at www.contentstack.com.

    About Insight Partners

    Insight Partners is a leading global venture capital and private equity firm investing in high-growth technology and software companies that are driving transformative change in their industries. Founded in 1995, Insight currently has over $20 billion of assets under management and has cumulatively invested in more than 300 companies worldwide. Our mission is to find,fund, and work successfully with visionary executives, providing them with practical, hands-on growth expertise to foster long-term success. Across our people and our portfolio, we encourage a culture around a core belief: growth equals opportunity. For more information on Insight and all its investments, visit www.insightpartners.com or follow us on Twitter @insightpartners.

     

  • Instana Adds Deep Inspection of GraphQL Queries and Performance to Microservice APM Solution

    Company is first APM provider to deliver complete GraphQL system and query details for application performance monitoring

    October 8, 2019, San Jose, CA at API World – Instana, the leading provider of automated application performance management (APM) solutions for dynamic microservice applications, today announced the extension of monitoring and tracing capabilities for applications using GraphQL as part of their infrastructure, including deep inspection of GraphQL queries. This latest extension makes Instana the first APM provider to monitor GraphQL and the applications making use of the unique data query engine.

    “Since application and microservice platform technology continues to evolve, it’s critical for application management solutions to keep pace,” said Chris Engelbert, Developer Advocate at Instana. “By monitoring and tracing GraphQL performance in addition to the application, Instana provides the exact data needed to optimize performance of GraphQL queries.”

    Instana captures the GraphQL HTTP traffic and displays the executing query as plain text. Instana goes further, though, parsing the actual GraphQL queries – making Instana the only APM solution to provide complete comprehensive GraphQL monitoring as part of the automated solution.

    Instana’s automated Application Performance Monitoring (APM) solution discovers all application service components and application infrastructure, including GraphQL, Jenkins, Kubernetes and Docker. Instana automatically deploys monitoring sensors for each part of the application technology stack and traces all application requests – without requiring any human configuration or even application restarts. The solution detects changes in the application environment in real-time, adjusting its own models and visualizing the changes and impacts to performance in seconds.

    “Ultimately, application providers are driven to create the best possible user experience,” said Chris Farrell, Director of Marketing at Instana. “By providing monitoring and deep inspection of more components, Instana’s comprehensive and automated monitoring delivers the precise data application stakeholders need to optimize application performance, especially for platforms such as GraphQL.”

    Instana’s GraphQL monitoring and tracing is part of Instana’s larger dynamic application and infrastructure monitoring that includes support for everything from Java application code to specialty microservice querying platforms. The company will be showcasing their solution, including the new functionality, at API World in San Jose (Booth #207). Learn more at Instana.com

  • Signal Sciences Announces Integration with Pivotal Container Service

    Integration Allows Pivotal Customers to Leverage Award-Winning Next-Gen WAF and RASP Solution

     Austin, Texas  – October 7, 2019 Signal Sciences, the fastest growing web application security company in the world, today announced its Pivotal Container Service (PKS) integration. The integration ensures that Signal Sciences next-gen WAF and RASP solution interoperates effectively with PKS, and customers can now easily deploy Signal Sciences to protect against web application attacks, such as the OWASP top 10, account takeovers, API misuse, and bad bots.

     Visit Signal Sciences at Pivotal’s SpringOne Platform conference on October 7-10, 2019, in Austin, Texas to learn more. For information about additional Signal Sciences integrations, visit https://www.signalsciences.com/integrations/.

    PKS is a purpose-built container solution to operationalize Kubernetes for multi-cloud organizations. It enables organizations to easily and efficiently deploy, run, and manage Kubernetes in production. Signal Sciences’ support for PKS, in tandem with its longstanding integration with the Pivotal Application Service, gives enterprises granular visibility and insights into the threats that impact any app running on Pivotal Platform, so they can take action immediately.

    “With the significant increase in enterprise adoption of Kubernetes, we are thrilled that cutting-edge security providers, such as Signal Sciences, are investing in our Kubernetes platform,” said Angus MacDonald, general manager of strategic alliances and technical ecosystem for Pivotal. “With this partnership, Pivotal and Signal Sciences will provide customers greater flexibility to implement web application security solutions for their PKS or PAS based applications.”

    “Web application attacks are becoming increasingly common, sophisticated, and threatening. The best way to protect applications against them is to effectively monitor and profile incoming traffic to determine what is legitimate, and block the rest,” said Hala Al-Adwan, vice president of technology at Signal Sciences. “With this new validation, Signal Sciences brings easily deployable, scalable next-gen WAF and RASP to PKS, offering customers peace of mind with full coverage against Layer 7 attacks.”

    Signal Sciences’ next-gen WAF and RASP technology delivers the only application security solution that works across any architecture. Fast and easy to implement, it protects more than 27,000 cloud-native, legacy, and serverless applications and over a trillion production requests per month. Organizations across all industries deploy Signal Sciences to protect their most important web applications, APIs, and microservices against the full spectrum of threats.

    To learn more, read our blog here:

    http://www.signalsciences.com/blog/nextgen-waf-support-for-pivotal-container-service-pks

    Signal Sciences can also be found in the Pivotal Marketplace at  https://pivotal.io/platform/services-marketplace/identity-and-security/signal-sciences.

    About Pivotal Software, Inc.

    Pivotal combines our cloud-native platform, developer tools, and unique methodology to help the world’s largest companies transform the way they build and run their most important software applications. Our technology is used by Global 2000 companies to achieve strategic advantages in software development and IT operations. Learn more at pivotal.io.

     

  • Trend Micro Survey Finds Lack of IT Security Input In DevOps Introduces Cyber Risk for 72% of Companies

    Global survey reveals organizations need tools that support DevOps security

     

    DALLAS, October 7, 2019 – Trend Micro Incorporated (TYO: 4704; TSE: 4704), a global leader in cybersecurity solutions, today announced findings from a survey that reveal organizational silos create unnecessary security risk for global businesses. The lack of security involvement in DevOps projects was reportedly creating cyber risk for 72% of IT leaders.

    In an effort to better understand the DevOps culture, Trend Micro commissioned independent research specialist Vanson Bourne to poll 1,310 IT decision makers in SMB and enterprise organizations across the globe about their organizational culture.

    “It’s no secret that developers and security teams have a history of butting heads,” Steve Quane, executive vice president of network defense and hybrid cloud security for Trend Micro. “We want to help businesses breakdown those barriers by providing technology and solutions that work for developers, IT and security teams. To do that best, we have to understand how the DevOps community and IT security teams collaborate – so we asked them for input directly. Understanding their goals will help us continue to provide solutions that help them do their jobs, and help the end results be secure.”

    DevOps is a bigger priority today than a year ago for 79% of companies, but 34% admitted security teams are not always consulted in project plans. This is despite 94% of respondents stating that they have encountered security risks when implementing projects.

    This challenge is also highlighted in newly published research from ESG1 , also commissioned  by Trend Micro along with other cybersecurity vendors, which states that only 20% of cloud-native application security product purchases for DevOps projects are actually made by IT security teams. To tackle the issue, ESG found that 68% of organizations have, or plan to have, a centralized team to handle DevOps security.

    ESG’s survey found only 30% of orgs include a member of their cybersecurity team from the beginning of their software development process.

    Trend Micro has designed its solutions to help DevOps and security teams operate more seamlessly. Find out how here: https://www.trendmicro.com/en_us/business/products/hybrid-cloud/development-operations.html.

    1Source: ESG Research Survey, Leveraging DevSecOps to Secure Cloud Native Applications, July 2019

    About Trend Micro

    Trend Micro Incorporated, a global leader in cybersecurity solutions, helps to make the world safe for exchanging digital information. Our innovative solutions for consumers, businesses, and governments provide layered security for data centers, cloud environments, networks, and endpoints. All our products work together to seamlessly share threat intelligence and provide a connected threat defense with centralized visibility and control, enabling better, faster protection. With more than 6,000 employees in over 50 countries and the world’s most advanced global threat intelligence, Trend Micro secures your connected world. For more information, visit www.trendmicro.com.

     

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  • Tricentis Announces Lineup for Accelerate: Automation @ The Speed of Change

    Industry experts will gather to share research, strategies, and innovations on Enterprise Automation, RPA, Continuous Testing, DevOps, and scaling open source test automation

    MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif and VIENNA Austria – October 4, 2019 – Tricentis announced the speaker lineup for Europe’s largest automation conference: Accelerate 2019 Vienna. The event will take place November 13-14 at the Marx Halle, Vienna.

    The industry has already witnessed seismic shifts in development methodologies, system architectures, migration to cloud, and more.  Accelerate is all about understanding these changes and exploring the strategies required to stay ahead. That’s why the theme of Accelerate Vienna 2019 is Automation @ the Speed of Change.

    Agenda

    This year’s agenda features 100+ sessions across 3 tracks (Enterprise Automation, Continuous Testing, RPA). Agenda highlights include:

    • Forrester VP and Principal Analyst Craig Le Clair unveiling Forrester’s latest research on what’s really required to adopt and scale enterprise automation
    • “The Next Great Debate,” which promises to take a brutally honest look at how automation is impacting the workforce
    • The latest innovations in intelligent automation for SAP, Salesforce, and low-code/no-code platforms
    • Real-world strategies, tips, and tricks from leading enterprises such as Allianz, Starbucks, Dell/EMC, Linde, ANZ, SPAR, Telstra, Intercontinental Hotel Group, and Worldpay
    • Hands-on workshops for topics ranging from resilient automation, to SAP testing, to risk-based test design, to agile test management and reporting
    • The unveiling of the ACT framework for Automated Continuous Testing

    Sponsors

    Accelerate 2019 Vienna is supported by sponsoring partners including Accenture and Wipro as the Platinum sponsors, Automators, BearingPoint, Qualysoft and Sogeti as the Gold sponsors, and Expleo, MobileLabs, and QualiTest as the Silver sponsors. Exhibitor sponsors include Pactera, Sixsentix, Tasktop, The Testing Consultancy, and T-Systems.

    About Tricentis

    With the industry’s #1 Continuous Testing platform, Tricentis is recognized for reinventing software testing for DevOps. Through agile test management and advanced test automation optimized to support 150+ technologies, we provide automated insight into the business risks of your software releases—transforming testing from a roadblock to a catalyst for innovation. The result is accelerated software delivery speed, improved cost efficiency, and reduced business risk.

    Tricentis is the only vendor to achieve “leader” status in all three top analyst reports (i.e., the “Triple Crown.”) This honor is based on our technical leadership, innovation, and a Global 2000 customer base of 1600+ companies, including global enterprises such as Allianz, ANZ Bank, Cisco, Dolby, Experian, First Data, HSBC, Merck, Office Depot, Samsung, Swiss Re, Starbucks, Telstra, UBS, Vodafone, Whole Foods, and WorldPay. Customers rely on Tricentis to achieve and sustain test automation rates of over 90 percent—increasing risk coverage while accelerating testing to keep pace with Agile and DevOps.

    Tricentis has a global presence in Austria, Australia, Belgium, Denmark, Germany, India, Netherlands, Singapore, Switzerland, Poland, United States and the UK. To learn more, visit https://www.tricentis.com or follow us on LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook.

     

  • DevOps Institute Declares December 10 as ‘Global SKILup Day’

    The world’s first non-stop, continuous learning virtual event dedicated to upskilling features unique ‘how-to’ DevOps sessions led by domain experts such as Gene Kim, John Willis, Helen Beal, Mirco Hering, Damon Edwards, Karen Ferris and more 

    BOCA RATON, Fla. – October 1, 2019 – DevOps Institute (https://devopsinstitute.com/), a member-based association for advancing the human elements of DevOps, has declared December 10 as ‘Global SKILup Day’ — a day dedicated to getting upskilled, based on the S-K-I-L Framework: Skills, Knowledge, Ideas, and Learning.

    The world’s first annual Global SKILup Day features 18 hours of open and continuous virtual learning based on unique and actionable “how-to” sessions. Global SKILup Day will be streamed across different time zones and geographies to accommodate the global DevOps community.

    Global SKILup Day aligns with the pillars of DevOps Institute’s SKIL framework that engages the heart, mind, body, and soul of the DevOps practitioner by a holistic approach to Skills, Knowledge, Ideas and Learning. The Global SKILup Day agenda reflects the spirit of the SKIL framework by including presentations that focus on human, process and automation know-how.    

    DevOps Institute selected December 10 as Global SKILup Day as a day for the Humans of DevOps to both end the calendar strong and to start the new year fresh with new knowledge.

    Register to save your virtual seat for Global SKILup Day at https://devopsinstitute.com/globalskilupday/

    “Global SKILup Day is a unique opportunity for humans to come together as a global DevOps community, work together to bridge the skills gaps identified in the Upskilling: Enterprise DevOps Skills Report, and inspire IT professionals for lifelong learning and career success,” said Jayne Groll, CEO at DevOps Institute. “We need to elevate human transformation to the forefront of the industry and enable critical skills advancements through expert ‘how-to’ sessions. The first annual Global SKILup Day features a globally available online event aimed at increasing domain expertise and empowering a highly skilled DevOps community.”

    These educational sessions will be led by some of the most experienced and well-known influencers from the DevOps, Agile, ITSM, Cloud and SRE communities. to deliver actionable knowledge in the new IT  world. 

    Keynote Speakers Include:

    • Helen Beal, DevOpsologist at Ranger4 – Europe
    • Dominica DeGrandis, Director of Digital Transformation at Tasktop – Americas
    • Damon Edwards, Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer at Rundeck – Americas
    • Karen Ferris, DevOps Culturalist – APAC
    • Mirco Hering, Global DevOps Practice Lead at Accenture – APAC
    • Gene Kim, Founder of IT Revolution, Author of the upcoming book The Unicorn Project and co-author of The Phoenix Project, The DevOps Handbook and Accelerate – Americas
    • Andi Mann, Chief Technology Advocate at Splunk – Americas
    • Jennifer Petoff, Global Program Manager – SRE Education – Site Reliability Engineering at Google – Europe
    • Sanjeev Sharma, Vice President, Global Practice Director – Data Modernization and Strategy at Delphix – Americas
    • John Willis, Founder at Botchagalupe Technologies – Americas

    Additional Speakers will be announced as they are confirmed.

    For more information and to register, visit: https://devopsinstitute.com/globalskilupday/ 

    Share This: Calling all #HumansofDevOps! @DEVOPSINST has declared Dec. 10 Global SKILup Day. Save your virtual seat today for all-day access to non-stop continuous learning: https://devopsinstitute.com/globalskilupday/ #Upskilling #GetSkilled

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

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

    Web | https://devopsinstitute.com/

  • CollabNet VersionOne’s Value Stream Infrastructure Supports Business Agility with the SAFe Framework

    CollabNet VersionOne will demonstrate its commitment to enabling SAFe in the enterprise at the 2019 Global SAFe Summit

    ATLANTA and SAN DIEGO, October 2, 2019 — CollabNet VersionOne (www.collabnet.com), a global leader in Enterprise Agile Product Delivery and Value Stream Management, will share its latest insights and solutions that support software business agility as a sponsor at the 2019 Global SAFe Summit. Hosted by Scaled Agile, the event takes place in San Diego, California September 29 – October 4. CollabNet VersionOne plans to demonstrate how its Value Stream Infrastructure serves as a reference architecture to provide support for SAFe’s commitment to Business Agility.

    “Enterprises need to foster collaboration, encourage measurement and provide full visibility into the software delivery process,” said Dean Leffingwell, SAFe creator and chief methodologist. “CollabNet VersionOne has been a long-standing supporter of SAFe, and we are pleased they are a sponsor of the 2019 Global SAFe summit. We look forward to hearing more about how their products and solutions support business agility, and how that relates to the adoption of Value Stream Management as a catalyst for successful software delivery and digital transformation.”

    “Agile product development, the combination of Agile and DevOps practices, is no longer enough. Product development must be tied back to business value at every step of the software delivery lifecycle in order to be successful.” said CollabNet VersionOne CEO, Flint Brenton. “While SAFe is the operating system for business agility, CollabNet VersionOne provides the infrastructure to make it happen – connecting all the teams, tools and processes an organization has in place to gain context and visibility needed to speed time-to-market and deliver business agility.”

    To learn more about VersionOne, its market-leading and award-winning enterprise Agile management solution, please visit: https://www.collab.net/products/versionone. CollabNet VerisonOne experts will provide demonstrations of VersionOne and educate attendees on how it supports the SAFe framework through features that align with software business agility.

    “We are proud to sponsor the 2019 Global SAFe Summit and share our support of SAFe, said Eric Robertson, vice president, product marketing management at CollabNet VersionOne. “We believe SAFe is an outstanding proponent of software business agility, ensuring that value is at the core of all enterprise software development and delivery. CollabNet VersionOne’s Value Stream Infrastructure provides the foundational support that ensures any enterprise can take full advantage and achieve Business Agility.”

    The 2019 Global SAFe Summit is happening at Marriott Marquis, in San Diego. Attendees come to connect with SAFe coaches, thought leaders and change agents to share best practices, gather advice and network and discover firsthand how organizations use SAFe to continuously deliver value to customers.

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    About CollabNet VersionOne

    CollabNet VersionOne is the Enterprise Agile Product Delivery and Value Stream Management leader that accelerates high value software development and delivery, while improving quality and reducing risk. Our offerings provide global enterprise and government market leaders a cohesive solution, spanning idea through delivery, that enable them to capture, create, deliver and measure the flow of business value throughout their application development lifecycles. www.collab.net.

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