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New enterprise-ready cloud technology automates the visual testing process by imitating the human eye and brain at scale – protecting brand integrity in the era of digital transformation

SAN MATEO, Calif., February 13, 2018 – Applitools (https://applitools.com/), the leader in Application Visual Management, today announced a major new release of its innovative Automated Visual AI Testing Platform. Version 10 of Applitools Eyes provides enterprise customers with new UI baseline management, team collaboration, expanded third-party tool integrations and improved analytics dashboards. Launched in 2015 to complement automated testing and Application Development Management, and focusing on the user interface, Applitools uses sophisticated algorithms that imitate the human eye and brain with 99.999 percent accuracy. It helps test automation engineers, DevOps teams, developers, manual testers and business executives ensure a visually perfect user experience on every single browser and device.

Applitools’ Automated Visual AI Testing Platform v10 is available now. For more information or to open a free account, visit: (https://goo.gl/uiUuCT).

In addition, Applitools also announced today a new category framework – Application Visual Management (AVM) – that encompasses a growing class of commercial and open source tools that now monitor, test and ensure the visual integrity of end-user visual interface. This AVM framework helps manage the UI during software pre-production, release and continuously in production environments where browsers, operating systems, microservices and dynamic content have created enormous complexity. Click here to learn more.

“Our vision at Applitools is to support an emerging and critical form of software testing and monitoring that uses automated Visual AI technology to create a visually perfect customer experience on every device, 24/7,” said Gil Sever, CEO of Applitools. “To better protect a brand’s integrity in the era of digital transformation, this new release of Applitools Eyes will help large enterprise customers scale Application Visual Management practices across DevOps, CI and CD monitoring; front-end development and digital brand management for business leaders and designers.”

“Automated Visual AI Testing ensures USA Today readers across over 200 publications and digital brands enjoy an exceptional UI experience,” comments Greg Sypolt, director of quality engineering from Gannett | USA Today. “In the era of dynamic content and digital transformation, Applitools is vital to providing the automated test coverage we need to protect our brand’s UI.”

How Applitools Supports Application Visual Management

With thousands of possible iterations of a company’s digital brand in the marketplace, technology is vital to significantly reduce User Experience (UX) bugs that negatively impact customers. Application Visual Management technology helps complete the test automation chain to catch bugs in the User Interface (UI) before they can impact customer churn, a company’s revenue, or a company’s brand image.

Launched in 2015 and used by more than 300 enterprises, including some of the largest in the world, Applitools Eyes saves up to 80 percent of testing time, and improves the visual testing coverage by a factor of five – running across different browsers, form-factors, devices and localization layers. Version 10 is a major step forward in addressing enterprise-grade scale, and new capabilities include:

• Improvements to the Visual AI Core – Applitools continues to advance its Visual AI technology with Version 10, providing a 99.999 percent accuracy rate based on its fast-growing and industry-leading data sets of automated visual AI tests. The company has executed nearly 100 million visual tests to date on its visual AI engine, analyzing billions of individual UX elements. Version 10 includes significant improvements to its Layout Algorithm for dynamic content use cases.

• New UI Analytics Dashboards – New Applitools Eyes analytics dashboards allow individual engineers, team leaders and business stakeholders to review analytics that surface root-cause visual test failures relevant to a specific environment. Users can review visual test execution status and baseline status updates, bugs squashed and coverage levels specific to individual tasks and test assignments. The new drill down capability also provides a more detailed analysis into a single test or single user view.

• Advancements in UI Baseline Management – Test automation engineers can now complete the test automation lifecycle with a visual component spanning hundreds of application UI baselines, for the entire R&D team across any branch, simultaneously. New capabilities in Version 10 enable automated baseline updates for similar changes, and can ticket the UI bug or update the baseline with a single “accept” or “reject” command followed by a JIRA ticket. Testers also can see an aggregated view of all “similar” UI bugs, prioritized by frequency of occurrence, which can save dozens of hours per application release for a single user, and hundreds of hours during the pre-release phase for large teams.

• Team Collaboration and Ecosystem Integrations – Applitools Eyes now includes new collaboration features to help connect cross-functional teams and provide unified visibility of Visual Testing results based on existing CI, rendering services, bug tracking and collaboration tools – as well as most Appium or Selenium test languages. New validation regions for test-step viewers allows users to provide context on potential UI issues to shorten release time. Major new integrations with MicroFocus and Slack (available in March) further support enterprise collaboration by seamlessly integrating with nearly every testing, development and delivery tool in the market today.

• Faster and Smarter Visual Test Management – With a 3X improvement to test execution time (individual tests now run in seconds, not minutes), Version 10 of Applitools Eyes is faster than ever. In addition, a new SDK is available for PDF forms, allowing customers that use these formats in highly regulated industries, such as financial services and healthcare, to leverage automated visual testing on PDF forms to check for compliance. XCTest Screenshots have also been added to extend visual test coverage to this screenshot type.

“The software delivery process is becoming highly automated, and automated testing plays a huge role in terms of quality, performance and customer experience. It’s great to see new innovation targeted at the visual aspects of application management,” said Joe Colantonio, founder of TestTalks and Guild Conferences.

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About Applitools

Applitools is on a mission to help test automation, DevOps and development teams release and monitor flawless mobile, web and native apps in a fully automated way that enables Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI-CD). Founded in 2013, Applitools uses sophisticated AI-powered image processing technology to ensure that an application appears correctly and functions properly on all mobile devices, browsers, operating systems and screen sizes. Applitools has more than 300 customers from a range of verticals, including Fortune-100 companies in software, banking, online retail, insurance, pharmaceuticals, and more. Applitools is headquartered in San Mateo, California, with an R&D center in Tel Aviv, Israel. For more information, please visit a.

New Era of Enterprise DevOps Propels Record Revenues, New Customers, and Backing of Top Investors

BOSTON, MA – February 12, 2018 – XebiaLabs, the recognized leader in Enterprise DevOps and Continuous Delivery software, today announced that it has completed 2017 with 117% growth in new business and secured a Series B growth investment of over $100M from investors, including Susquehanna Growth Equity and Accel, along with many existing shareholders. Today’s news validates XebiaLabs’ unparalleled success and leadership in the thriving DevOps market, a momentum that will be fueled by this new injection of capital.

Enterprise Scalability – The Next Frontier of DevOps

XebiaLabs was founded in the early days of DevOps to help IT teams develop and deploy software more simply and quickly. As companies in many industries now rely on software in every part of their business to compete, their success depends on their ability to deliver software quickly, safely, and effectively—and in a way that is sustainable and scalable across an entire organization and vast, hybrid infrastructure.

Forrester Research declared in a recent blog post that 2018 will be “The Year of Enterprise DevOps,” acknowledging the growing number of companies that have reached an inflection point where they are moving from individual projects in which one team automates one application, to enterprise-wide initiatives that can support thousands of software developers and applications. Traditionally, every developer had to write one-off custom code to release software to end users. As companies transform the way they build and deliver software, they need developers to spend 100% of their time building the actual business applications.

KeyBank, a financial services institution headquartered in Cleveland, OH, with over 20,000 employees, saw the strategic importance of software and turned to XebiaLabs and its DevOps platform for help. John Rzeszotarski, SVP, Director of Continuous Delivery and Feedback at KeyBank explains: “A large and complex organization like KeyBank with several hundred applications requires security, governance, and traceability for all its application releases. Moreover, organizations that are striving to remove bottlenecks and meet the speed of the business need a powerful and simple means to execute each release. XebiaLabs has provided us a platform that can automate even our most complex software applications quickly and reliably.”

Growing Number of Global 2000 Companies Turn to XebiaLabs to Scale DevOps Across their Organizations

XebiaLabs is spearheading this new era of enterprise DevOps as more and more companies turn to them to support their growing DevOps initiatives. In 2017, new business grew by 117%, as the company added dozens of new Global 2000 clients, including AIG, Bank of America, Toyota, Alliance, DavitaHealthcare, TD Bank, Scotiabank, Raiffeisenbank, Anthem, and NASA. XebiaLabs also once again received important accolades from top industry analysts, Gartner and Forrester Research, who have ranked the company as a leader in its field.

“This past year was our strongest to date, and today’s investment will perfectly position us to lead a new era where the essential focus is on scaling DevOps across the enterprise,” said Derek Langone, CEO of XebiaLabs. “Tapping into the experiences of these exceptional VC firms, who have guided software industry leaders such as Facebook, Dropbox, Slack, Cloudera, PagerDuty, and Atlassian, will be invaluable as we work with them to define the future of enterprise DevOps.”

“In fact, we recently introduced an industry-first DevOps intelligence solution, XL Impact,” Langone continued. “XL Impact allows companies to take a critical step in improving software delivery – tracking and reporting on the business impact of their DevOps initiatives.”

Growth Investment to Service New Era of Enterprise DevOps 

XebiaLabs’ unparalleled track record of building the enterprise DevOps market, its forward-thinking product innovation, such as its DevOps intelligence product, XL Impact, and this new 100M+ investment, will enable the company to service increasing enterprise demand. XebiaLabs will invest in staffing to drive further DevOps innovation and thought leadership. The company also recently announced the addition of a new Chief Product Officer, Robert Stroud, a recognized industry thought leader and former Principal Analyst with Forrester Research. XebiaLabs will continue to work closely with new and existing clients and increase its global reach as the industry-standard DevOps platform for enterprises.

“XebiaLabs has a deep understanding of the challenges specific to enterprise software delivery,” said Martin Angert, Director at Susquehanna Growth Equity. “Our investment, together with the recent release of XL Impact, will further extend XebiaLabs’ lead as the gold standard for enterprise DevOps.”

Arun Mathew, partner at Accel, added: “XebiaLabs handles a company’s complexity at scale—a previously impossible feat. This, coupled with their market-leading DevOps platform and innovative technology, makes us excited to be working with such a talented team that recognizes the dynamic obstacles companies go through as they streamline to a DevOps approach.”

As part of the investment, Martin Angert, director at Susquehanna Growth Equity, and Arun Mathew, partner at Accel, will join XebiaLabs’ Board of Directors.

Learn More

• Gartner Magic Quadrant for Application Release Automation: https://www.xebialabs.com/MQ and Gartner Critical Capabilities for Application Release Automation: https://xebialabs.com/cc
• Forrester Wave Continuous Delivery and Release Automation Q3, 2017 report: https://xebialabs.com/resources/analyst-reports/the-forrester-wave-q3-2017/
• Announcing XL Impact: http://blog.xebialabs.com/2017/11/13/announcing-xl-impact/
• KeyBank Gets Deployment Control and Speed: https://blog.xebialabs.com/2017/09/07/keybank-gets-deployment-control-and-speed-with-xebialabs-and-openshift/

About Susquehanna Growth Equity, LLC

Susquehanna Growth Equity, LLC (SGE) invests in growth stage technology companies in the software, information services, internet and financial technology sectors. SGE is backed by a unique and patient source of capital, which enables the firm to give management teams and entrepreneurs freedom and flexibility to maximize growth. The firm has invested in over 50 companies over the last 10 years, and has portfolio companies across the US, Canada, EU, and Israel. To learn more, please visit us at www.sgep.com.

About Accel

Accel is a leading venture capital firm that invests in people and their companies from the earliest days through all phases of private company growth. Atlassian, Braintree, Cloudera, DJI, Dropbox, Dropcam, Etsy, Facebook, Flipkart, Jet, Lookout Security, Qualtrics, Slack, Spotify, Supercell, and Vox Media are among the companies the firm has backed over the past 30 years. The firm seeks to understand entrepreneurs as individuals, appreciate their originality and play to their strengths. Because greatness doesn’t have a stereotype. For more, visit www.accel.com.

About XebiaLabs 

XebiaLabs develops enterprise-scale Continuous Delivery and DevOps software, providing companies with the visibility, automation, and control they need to deliver software faster and with less risk. Global market leaders rely on XebiaLabs to meet the increasing demand for accelerated and more reliable software releases.

The shift to internet infrastructure services in hybrid and multi-cloud environments is creating new challenges for app delivery owners who want to ensure the best end-user experience. It is not practical to expect one set of cloud and network services to deliver best-in-class performance in all app delivery situations. With internet conditions changing every moment across the globe, and their potential impact to performance and infrastructure costs, it is impossible for enterprises without a dynamic app delivery solution to consistently deliver world-class experience.

As an industry leader helping enterprises accelerate their journey to cloud, Citrix continues to innovate with its app-centric management of network resources. To help address the complexity and speed of connecting users to their apps and to data elements over countless network paths in the internet, Citrix is announcing the acquisition of Cedexis, a real-time, data-driven service for dynamically optimizing the flow of traffic across public clouds, data centers, CDNs, and ISPs. Cedexis technology intelligently routes traffic across dozens of CDNs, and hundreds of data centers and POPs globally.

By combining Citrix innovations in its industry-leading networking portfiolio with Cedexis technology, our customers can deliver a superior experience to their end users. Whether it is for business to employee (B2E) apps, business to business (B2B), or business to consumer (B2C) apps, enterprises can drive better end-user engagement, higher workspace productivity and infrastructure efficiency by lowering IT’s costs for cloud and network services. The combined power of Citrix and Cedexis can significantly improve app performance in hybrid and multi-cloud environments using Cedexis’ dynamic and programmable intelligent traffic steering technology.

This acquisition further differentiates the Citrix secure digital perimeter (SDP) approach to security and performance. With modern distributed applications powered by micro-services in hybrid and multi-cloud environments, Citrix can now offer dynamic real-time intelligent traffic management that enables infrastructure orchestration and real-time actionable insights into end-user engagement. Citrix can deliver high quality of experience regardless of load and latency across different network paths.

Cedexis extends our ability to provide customers with deeper real-time insight into network performance and enables intelligent traffic steering for applications in multi-cloud environments.

IT can reduce network and cloud costs while providing the best end-user experience. It’s like combining GPS and a self-driving car to ensure traffic takes the most efficient and effective route; it is a game changer.

“IT teams will be able to respond and act quicker when troubleshooting network issues, managing load across clouds, and handling capacity changes to scale with business needs,” said Steve Shah, VP of Product Management at Citrix. “Moreover, IT can reduce network and cloud costs while providing the best end-user experience. It’s like combining GPS and a self-driving car to ensure traffic takes the most efficient and effective route; it is a game changer.”

With this acquisition, Citrix is able to offer even more flexibility and choice to our customers as they accelerate their journey to the cloud. Citrix will enable IT with real-time traffic steering based on user telemetry data, as well as advanced analytics and insights that dynamically adjust to apps and networking conditions. This will improve operational performance and ensure business continuity for all hybrid and multi-cloud deployments.

Citrix and Cedexis are a natural combination. We see tremendous value for our customers and partners, along with significant growth potential for our solutions.

“Citrix and Cedexis are a natural combination. We see tremendous value for our customers and partners, along with significant growth potential for our solutions,” said Ryan Windham, CEO of Cedexis. “Citrix is the clear leader in software-defined networking that helps IT adopt and manage complex cloud environments. It makes sense to combine our offerings into a comprehensive secure digital perimeter approach, which unifies and delivers the apps, data and services people need to be productive.”

Citrix provides solutions to connect people to applications and data regardless of where they are and where the data and applications reside. And not just connect: Citrix helps enterprises securely deliver the best user experience to power how we work and live today.

Company also unveils new features to ElectricFlow that further eliminate release anxiety and increase visibility and control of software delivery pipelines

SAN JOSE, Calif., February 6, 2018 – Electric Cloud (http://electric-cloud.com), the leader in Adaptive Release Automation and Continuous Delivery, recently announced it has received two industry awards – The DevOps Dozen and The Devies – for its flagship DevOps platform, ElectricFlow (http://electric-cloud.com/blog/2018/01/electricflow-wins-best-commercial-devops-solution-2017-devops-dozen-best-devops-innovation-devies-awards/).

In the third annual devopsy.kinsta.cloud’s DevOps Dozen, ElectricFlow was recognized as the “Best Commercial DevOps Solution.” The DevOps Dozen Awards, which features industry leaders, including Jayne Groll, Robert Stroud, Helen Beal, George Hulme and Ericka Chickowski as judges, provides an opportunity for the community to vote for their favorite tools, resources and thought leaders.

In DeveloperWeek’s annual Devies Awards, ElectricFlow received “Best Innovation in DevOps.” The Devies are an annual award event taking place during DeveloperWeek, the world’s largest developer expo and conference series. Each Devies award is judged on whether the developer technologies have attracted attention, are generally well-regarded by the developer community, and are leaders in their sector for innovativeness.

In addition to the recent accolades from industry awards, Electric Cloud recently announced ElectricFlow Version 8.2 which further eliminates “release anxiety” with more visibility and control of the software delivery pipeline. The new version simplifies the complex nature of software releases for today’s businesses by providing the industry’s only unified DevOps platform enabling teams to easily plan, schedule and track all types of releases – from green field applications and microservices to legacy applications, mainframe and more.

Now available, ElectricFlow 8.2 enables customers to plan software releases with precision, by milestones and dates, from a single Release and Environment Calendar. Other updates include improvements to managing microservices sprawl as well as easier onboarding of new teams and applications.

To learn more about the new features in ElectricFlow 8.2, visit: (http://electric-cloud.com/blog/2018/01/announcing-electricflow-8-2-unified-platform-plan-schedule-track-kinds-releases/).

Download the community edition today to orchestrate your delivery pipelines, and to deploy anything, anywhere – for free: (http://electric-cloud.com/products/electricflow/).  

“The complexities organizations face with software delivery are mounting, and the move to DevOps is now more critical than ever,” said Carmine Napolitano, CEO of Electric Cloud. “We built ElectricFlow to help enterprises eliminate organizational silos, streamline delivery pipelines and DevOps processes, and reduce waste to help them focus on the bottom-line business value. To be acknowledged by devopsy.kinsta.cloud and DeveloperWeek for our advancements and success stories with ElectricFlow is an incredible honor.”

Connect with Electric Cloud

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• Connect with Electric Cloud on LinkedIn
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About Electric Cloud, Inc.

Electric Cloud is the leader in DevOps Release Automation and Continuous Delivery. We help organizations like E*TRADE, Gap, HPE, Intel and Lockheed Martin deliver better software faster by orchestrating, automating, and accelerating application releases.

Moving DevOps Enterprise Summit from San Francisco to Las Vegas will create a more dynamic attendee experience, an increase in sessions and greater networking and community building opportunities

PORTLAND, Ore., January 31, 2018 – IT Revolution (http://itrevolution.com), the industry leader for advancing DevOps, today announced the DevOps Enterprise Summit 2018 USA event (DOES18), is relocating from San Francisco to The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas. The event will take place from Oct. 22-24, 2018 (https://events.itrevolution.com/us/). The new conference venue in Las Vegas will support an expansion in conference programming and expanded networking opportunities for technology and business leaders looking to identify the tools and practices they need to develop and deploy software faster and to win in the marketplace.

To receive notifications about important deadlines for the conference, sign up at: http://eepurl.com/bV9G2L

“As we continue working to better serve our growing community, the DevOps Enterprise Summit Las Vegas venue empowers our organizers to help create deeper connections, stronger collaboration and elevated learning experiences,” said Gene Kim, founder of IT Revolution and co-author of The Phoenix Project and The DevOps Handbook. “We are thrilled to be able to find more ways to help business and technology leaders overcome barriers to DevOps adoption, and help their organizations win in the marketplace.”

What is the DevOps Enterprise Summit?

The DevOps Enterprise Summit is a vendor-neutral conference for technology and business leaders who are transforming how large, complex organizations deliver and operate software to help their organizations win in the marketplace.

Entering its third year in Europe and fifth year in the US, its goal is to accelerate DevOps adoption and increase the likelihood of those initiatives succeeding, enabling the cultural norms, technical practices and architectures that help organizations achieve the highest levels of performance.

The event features experience report and subject matter expert talks from technology leaders at top global brands that leverage DevOps to thrive within an increasingly software-driven economy. Through keynotes, breakout sessions, collaborative workshops and space to interact within an expo hall, attendees gain insights into the evolving technical and architectural practices and the methods needed to lead widespread change efforts in large organizations.

For more information about DOES18 USA, please visit: (https://events.itrevolution.com/us/).

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About IT Revolution

IT Revolution assembles technology leaders and practitioners through publishing, events, and research. Our goal is to elevate the state of technology work, quantify the economic and human costs associated with suboptimal IT performance, and to improve the lives of IT professionals.

Gene Kim to be joined by John Willis for live event in Portland to launch the release of new audiobook, ‘Beyond the Phoenix Project’

PORTLAND, Ore., February 7, 2018 – IT Revolution (http://itrevolution.com), the industry leader for advancing DevOps, today announced the fifth anniversary edition of The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win (https://itrevolution.com/book/the-phoenix-project/) and the release of a new audiobook, Beyond The Phoenix Project. In celebration, IT Revolution is hosting a live event featuring a reading of Beyond The Phoenix Project with author Gene Kim and The DevOps Handbook co-author, John Willis. The event, “Beyond the Phoenix Project LIVE” will take place February 27 at the Portland Art Museum at 7 p.m. PST.

Tickets for the live event are limited. To register, please visit: (http://bit.ly/2BIRGjm).

“We are thrilled to host a live event to celebrate the success of The Phoenix Project and feature a reading of our new audiobook, titled Beyond The Phoenix Project,” said Gene Kim, founder of IT Revolution and co-author of The Phoenix Project and The DevOps Handbook. “We not only wanted to celebrate the success of DevOps as a movement, but also celebrate with everyone who is helping elevate the state of technology work, help our organizations win the in the marketplace, as well as make technology work more humane. It has been an amazing journey to see where DevOps came from, the domains of knowledge it draws upon, and how books are often at the center of it all.”

About The Phoenix Project

The Phoenix Project is a novel that guides readers through a DevOps journey to help propel their teams into the future of IT. As the book surpasses its fifth year milestone, IT Revolution is celebrating a number of significant achievements, including:

• More than 400,000 copies sold worldwide
• Sales of the book continue to increase year over year
• The book is now translated into seven different languages – Japanese, Russian, Korean, German, Chinese, Polish and Turkish
• Parts Unlimited, the fictitious company in The Phoenix Project, and its characters are used in the official Microsoft DevOps training
• The book has been adapted into a tabletop simulation by GamingWorks

The fifth anniversary edition will be available at all major book retailers on February 27. It includes a new cover, an afterward and a significant portion of The DevOps Handbook. To learn more about the fifth anniversary edition, visit: (https://itrevolution.com/book/the-phoenix-project/).

New Audiobook – Beyond The Phoenix Project

The new audiobook titled, Beyond The Phoenix Project will be released on February 27 on Audible, Amazon and iTunes: (https://itrevolution.com/book/beyond-phoenix-project-audiobook/).

Gene Kim and John Willis present this seven part series that includes an oral history of the DevOps movement, as well as discussion around pivotal figures and philosophies that DevOps draws upon, from Goldratt to Deming; from Lean to Safety Culture to Learning Organizations. The audiobook is a great way for listeners to take an even deeper dive into topics relevant to DevOps and leading technology organizations.

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About IT Revolution

IT Revolution assembles technology leaders and practitioners through publishing, events, and research. Our goal is to elevate the state of technology work, quantify the economic and human costs associated with suboptimal IT performance, and to improve the lives of IT professionals.

 

Developers can use GitLab to automatically detect security vulnerabilities protecting code from attacks

SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF.—January 30, 2018– Today GitLab, the leading integrated product for the entire DevOps lifecycle, announced it has acquired Gemnasium, a company that provides software to help developers mitigate security vulnerabilities in open source code. GitLab is acquiring both Gemnasium’s technology and its team of experts, who will come on board to implement robust security scanning functionality natively into GitLab’s CI/CD pipelines. Automating application security testing allows businesses to develop and iterate software faster without sacrificing a strong security posture.

With open source software (OSS) adoption rapidly growing, the risk for vulnerabilities is at an all-time high. The number of open source modules in use continues to increase, so the surface area for vulnerabilities to be exploited has expanded far and wide. As the dependency tree goes deeper, it can be daunting or even impossible for developers to keep track of which software they are using and what ramifications its use may have on the business.

Gemnasium has created the best-in-class solution for managing security threats related to open source dependencies. With a larger database and advanced algorithms, their solution finds more vulnerabilities with fewer false positives. This allows developers to protect their code and spot vulnerabilities in open source software before attackers can expose an organization to threats such as malware injections, Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks and data breaches.

“As a team of engineers, we’re excited to join the GitLab team and bring the benefits of Gemnasium to the DevOps lifecycle,” said Philippe Lafoucrière, founder of Gemnasium. “Our goal has always been to help developers build the most secure software possible and joining GitLab allows us to do just that.”

GitLab has already begun adding native security functionality, such as the addition of Static Application Security Testing (SAST) in the 10.3 release, along with Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST) and Container Scanning in the 10.4 release. With the Gemnasium team coming on board, GitLab will further accelerate its security roadmap to bring developers a native and seamless experience for rapidly deploying secure code.

“GitLab’s vision is to provide best-in-class tools for the complete DevOps lifecycle in a single application,” said Sid Sijbrandij, CEO of GitLab. “Gemnasium is the best dependency monitoring solution on the market, and we are excited to be making its team part of the GitLab experience.”

Gemnasium.com will be winding down with an expected end-of-life date of May 15. The Gemnasium team encourages users to migrate to GitLab CI/CD or explore similar services like Snyk, SourceClear, WhiteSource and BlackDuck. For more information, visit https://gemnasium.com/blog/gemnasium-joins-gitlab.

About GitLab
Since its incorporation in 2014, GitLab has quickly become the leading self-hosted Git repository management tool used by software development teams ranging from startups to global enterprise organizations. GitLab has since expanded its product offering to deliver an integrated source code management, code review, test/release automation, and application monitoring product that accelerates and simplifies the software development process. With one end-to-end software development product, GitLab helps teams eliminate unnecessary steps from their workflow, significantly reduce cycle time and focus exclusively on building great software. Today, more than 100,000 organizations, including Ticketmaster, ING, NASDAQ, Alibaba, Sony, and Intel; and millions of users, trust GitLab to bring their modern applications from idea to production, reliably and repeatedly.

Panaya Test Center leverages advanced technologies to replace manual methods for increased collaboration and higher quality software, essential for enterprise agility and digital transformation

HACKENSACK, NJ, January 31, 2018  – Panaya, the leader in SaaS-based testing and continuous delivery solutions announced today the availability of Panaya Test Center 2.0 (PTC), a test acceleration platform that helps organizations drive innovation by accelerating and standardizing enterprise application testing. PTC 2.0 introduces machine learning capabilities that automatically create real-life test cases based on actual usage, improving testing relevance and efficiency while generating audit-ready test documentation for proof of compliance, including e-signatures.

Since launching Panaya Test Center in November 2016, Panaya has more than doubled its number of customers to over 300 Global 2000 companies, and is successfully positioned as an alternative to HPQC (HP Quality Center).  Maximilian Mayrhofer, Global Program Manager at Allianz Global Investors expressed that, “We would not have been able to do the testing that we did if we hadn’t had the automation and the acceleration potential that Panaya brought to the table.”

PTC 2.0 helps IT keep pace with rapidly changing requirements while reducing testing efforts by 30-50% without sacrificing scope or quality. The testing process is accelerated by standardizing test cycles as both technical IT and business users adopt the same testing methodology, automating manual methods of testing, and providing increased visibility into every test cycle –  including large scale UAT cycles.

In May 2017, Panaya announced Autonomous TestingSM for SAP, eliminating the pain associated with business knowledge capture and the process of creating and maintaining manually engineered scripts for zero touch test case creation and maintenance. PTC 2.0 introduces Omega, the machine learning engine behind Autonomous TestingSM, which uses machine learning algorithms to automatically create real-life test cases based on Business User activities captured in production.

With PTC 2.0, users can save time by accelerating manual testing traditionally managed in Excel and Word. Every test execution is effortlessly documented – including test evidence and a record of steps for test reproduction, seamlessly engaging all relevant business and IT stakeholders as they adopt the same testing methodology. Martin Spiegler, Project Manager at Eissmann Group Automation noted this achievement, “In total, we achieved 50% time savings on all regression tests, as we recorded our test cases and can re-use them every time.”  Finally, audit-ready test documentation provides proof of compliance, including e-signatures for test runs and the monitoring of the signature process, essential for heavily regulated industries including medical devices, pharmaceuticals, and financial services.

“Providing visibility into business processes and workflow, and ensuring business process quality is often challenging for companies,” said IDC analyst Melinda-Carol Ballou, in the white paper Optimizing Business Processes for Competitive Success.” Organizations that evolve away from the restrictions and confines of manual business process quality approaches (with use of Microsoft Word, Excel, email etc.) benefit significantly from increased visibility, management and analysis, with the ability to reuse existing effective business processes.”

Jake Klein, CEO at Panaya added that, “Despite the fact that IT departments invest heavily in automation, manual methods are still used for 80% of enterprise application testing. Panaya Test Center 2.0 leverages advanced technologies to replace inefficient manual methods so that our users can collaborate and create higher quality software faster, which is essential for enterprise agility and digital transformation.”

About Panaya

Panaya, an Infosys company, enables organizations to accelerate application change and continuously deliver innovation with its Enterprise Agile Delivery Platform. Panaya provides cloud based application delivery, and testing solutions that ensure collaboration between Business and IT. Enabling enterprise agility with faster release velocity and uncompromising quality, Panaya delivers an optimized user experience with end to end visibility of the application lifecycle. Since 2008, 1,600 companies in 62 countries, including a third of the Fortune 500, have been using Panaya to deliver quick quality change to enterprise applications.

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New Investors Include ClearSky Security, Comcast Ventures and SAP; Funding to Accelerate Adoption of First Product to Help Enterprises Meet Specific GDPR Requirements

NEW YORK and TEL AVIV – January 29, 2018 — BigID Inc., a leader in enterprise data protection and privacy for personal data, today announced that it has raised $14 million in Series A funding. New investors in the round include ClearSky Security, Comcast Ventures and the SAP.iO Fund, among others. Previous investors, including BOLDstart Ventures, also participated in the Series A round. The round brings total funding to date to $16.1 million. BigID will use the funding to grow its engineering team in Israel and expand global sales and marketing to accelerate the adoption of the company’s data-driven personal information (PI) protection, privacy and governance platform.

BigID also announced today that ClearSky Security Managing Director and former Blackstone CISO Jay Leek joined its board of directors.

Based in the U.S. with engineering headquarters in Tel Aviv, Israel, BigID was founded by veterans of the identity, data protection and big data markets to transform how enterprises protect and manage the privacy of personal data. The company’s platform uniquely combines machine learning with identity intelligence to find, track and de-risk identity data at petabyte scale.

“On the eve of GDPR and in the midst of endless mega breaches, we’re in a new era of personal data rights,” said Jay Leek. “Individuals now have a fundamental right to their data. For data controllers – the enterprises collecting and storing this data – this right means that they will need to be more accountable and transparent with the way they protect customer data. BigID is uniquely positioned to help companies meet the new set of data governance, protection and compliance requirements, and is an exciting opportunity for ClearSky Security.”

BigID launched its initial product in mid-2017 to help organizations address the data protection, privacy and governance requirements of emerging regulations like China’s Cybersecurity Law and the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which goes into effect on May 25, 2018. In doing so, the company is first to market with a solution that:

• provides enterprises the unique ability to find any person’s data across an enterprise to meet GDPR Data Subject Requirements;
• enables real data-driven inventory and mapping to automate GDPR Article 30 Record Keeping requirements; and
• empowers enterprise data protection officers (DPOs) with an ability to capture GDPR-required purpose-of-use, consent and retention information without error-prone manual processes.

“Enterprises already favor SAP solutions for their out-of-the-box compliance and governance features, as well as their integrations with SAP’s market-leading GRC offerings,” said Ram Jambunathan, Managing Director of SAP.iO. “We are excited about the potential for BigID to further enhance the ability of SAP customers to discover, map, and correlate personal data across their enterprise business applications to orchestrate and automate the GDPR compliance processes.”

According to Gartner,¹ “Privacy protection is critical to consumer and employee trust. Moreover, evolving privacy legislation creates a new business case for compliance with regulatory requirements. Privacy management programs include requirements directing IT operations and personal data protection throughout the entire data life cycle.” The report continues, “Therefore, a privacy management program, sometimes described in the form of a standard, has to have a holistic view for the entire organization.”

“Customers are the lifeblood of any business and unless an organization can properly safeguard the security and privacy of their customer data they will not survive in the digital economy,” explained Dimitri Sirota, CEO at BigID. “Regulations like GDPR crystallize the need for companies to understand their data. BigID gives companies a first-of-its-kind way to find, secure and govern their identity data across the data center and cloud. After all, you can’t know your customer unless you first know their data.”

BigID announced its Series A funding in conjunction with CyberTech Israel, the most significant conference and exhibition of cyber technologies outside the United States. BigID will demo its product suite in Booth 35 at the event January 29-31, 2018. To schedule a demo outside of CyberTech Israel, go to http://bigid.com/demo or contact BigID at info@bigid.com.

¹ Gartner “The Four Do’s and Don’ts of Implementing Your Privacy Program,” Bart Willemsen, Prateek Bhajanka, August 24, 2017.

 

About BigID Inc.
Based in New York and Tel Aviv, BigID uses advanced machine learning and identity intelligence to help enterprises better protect their customer and employee data at petabyte scale. Using BigID, enterprises can better safeguard and assure the privacy of their most sensitive data, reducing breach risk and enabling compliance with emerging data protection regulations like the EU General Data Protection Regulation. Learn more at http://bigid.com or visit http://bigid.com/demo to schedule a demo.