By Phara E. McLachlan, Natheava LLC Virtually every enterprise talks about IT asset management (ITAM) strategy, but how many have successfully integrated it into their IT culture? The evidence suggests only about a third; in 2009, only 32 percent of…
While there are lots of great off-the-shelf field service software applications on the market today, from the likes of Oracle, Microsoft and Salesforce, a custom application is sometimes more useful for companies with industry-specific requirements. Nautilus Hyosung America, a North…
By Maureen Polte, Flexera Software Application sprawl is a major challenge for IT operation teams. The modern enterprise has accumulated many applications over the years that must be actively maintained and supported. The number of applications in the typical portfolio…
Field service software is a hot area right now and getting hotter as companies recognize the importance of providing good customer service. According to Aberdeen Group, the worldwide field service management (FSM) market is worth around $18 billion annually and…
Red Hat officially closed on its acquisition of enterprise Java tools vendor JBoss for $350 million last June. Ever since, Red Hat has been growing its Java application tools business and expanding its development products and projects. Red Hat executives…
Sumeet Singh, founder and CEO of AppFormix, has been busy over the last 12 months. In June 2015, Singh raised $7 million in a Series A funding round, to help build application visibility, performance and scheduling technology. The technology expanded…
By Adam Fingerman, ArcTouch With 90 percent of enterprises planning to increase mobile app development this year, it’s safe to say that enterprise mobility remains a hot topic. The value that mobile apps can bring to an enterprise is undeniable:…
By Tim Hegedus, Miro Consulting As of July 1, 2016, the Microsoft Enterprise Agreement will double its license user/device minimum from 250 to 500 users or devices. Organizations that fall into the 250 to 499-license category must take action before…
For years companies have bemoaned the scarcity of mobile development resources. Gartner last summer said that by the end of 2017 market demand for mobile app development services will grow at least five times faster than internal IT organizations’ ability…
Puppet is widely used by organizations today as part of a DevOps model and to help enable configuration management, as well as application deployment. Now Puppet is wading into the Docker container world, by providing Puppet’s namesake application as a…
