Before any company deploys any web or mobile app, it needs to test, and that’s where Sauce Labs fits in. Sauce Labs announced on November 15 that it has raised a $70 million series E round of funding. The new…
Graph database developer Neo Technology announced on November 10 that it has raised a $36 million Series D round of funding, bringing total funding to date for the company up to $80.1 million. The new round of funding was led…
While process automation has long been the purview of IT organizations, Tibco Software is rolling out Simplr, a solution that it calls a “personal automation” software-as-a-service. The do-it-yourself tool allows “regular” users to automate repetitive tasks by building forms and…
By James Maniscalco, BackOffice Associates The promise of business process management (BPM) has been long predicted to become a key tenet of software implementation in the enterprise. Through much of the late 1990s when the internet and web applications started…
Data governance was a hot topic at the recent MIT Chief Data Officer and Information Quality (CDOIQ) Symposium. In a discussion titled The Evolving Role of the CDO in Healthcare: Challenges and Opportunities, panel moderator Nick Marko, a former chief…
Containers and databases seem like an odd mix. Containers offer a lightweight way to run applications, but databases tend to be massive. Yet Redis, Elasticsearch, MySQL and Postgres are among the Top 10 technologies running Docker containers, according to cloud…
Vendors big and small are making news at this week’s Strata + Hadoop event as they try to expand their portion of the Big Data market. Cloudera highlighted a trio of Apache Software Foundation (ASF) projects to which it contributes.…
Master data management (MDM) is quickly becoming the driving force behind organizing data that is shared across the enterprise. Most applications in use today share data with each other in one form or another. Keeping that data under control, while…
by Tyler Warden, BackOffice Associates Starting with its origins in master data management, data governance has traditionally focused on identifying the data elements that are key to an organization’s business and then investing time and money to ensure those data…
Teradata rolled out several new cloud-friendly deployment options for its analytic database at this week’s Teradata Partners Conference. Smart, given that earlier this year IDC predicted that global spending on public cloud services will enjoy a 19.4 percent compound annual…