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Trello gets major update to help users prioritize tasks and eliminate distractions
The popular task management service Trello, which was acquired by project management company Atlassian Inc. in 2017, is getting a major facelift. The company today announced Trello Home, a new dashboard that provides a single view of a user’s tasks in one place, surfacing those with the highest priority to the top. The new dashboard ...
Appian gives low-code software developers new AI capabilities
“Low-code” software development platform provider Appian Corp. is branching out into the contact center with a new version of its product catering specifically to their needs. The company announced it’s also updating its main offering, enabling users to add new artificial intelligence capabilities to the applications they build. The announcements were made during a keynote today ...
As profits jump 33%, SAP says it’s gaining on its rivals
SAP SE, Europe’s largest enterprise software company, raised its guidance for the year after posting solid first-quarter earnings and closing its acquisition of Callidus Software Inc. SAP said early Wednesday in Germany that its earnings before certain costs such as stock compensation jumped 33 percent, to 708 million euros ($866.5 million), from the same quarter a ...
SAP launches cloud-based IoT systems for manufacturers
Enterprise software giant SAP SE is targeting manufacturers with a new suite of products aimed at helping them manage and monitor their systems and make them work better with other parts of the supply chain. The new offerings, part of SAP’s Digital Manufacturing Cloud, include the “SAP Digital Manufacturing Cloud solution for execution,” which integrates ...
Arcadia Data enables visual analytics for Apache Kafka streaming data
Business intelligence platform provider Arcadia Data Inc. is bidding to democratize real-time streaming analytics with a new visual analytics tool for the Apache Kafka publish-subscribe messaging system. Apache Kafka is open-source stream-processing software that aims to provide a unified, high-throughput, low-latency platform for handling real-time data feeds. It’s an extremely valuable tool for enterprises that ...
Apple makes its FoundationDB database open-source
Apple Inc. has made an interesting about-face, open-sourcing the FoundationDB database that the company acquired back in 2015. Although FoundationDB might not be one of Apple’s best-known projects, it does do a very important job, serving as the backbone of its iCloud service, which stores and synchronizes data for the company’s millions of users. Apple ...
Why Facebook is following Apple and Google to build its own computer chips
Embattled social media giant Facebook Inc. is set to join the trend among larger technology firms to reduce its dependence on silicon suppliers such as Intel Corp. and Qualcomm Inc. Tech giants such as Apple Inc. and Google LLC have been designing their own computer chips for some time already. Now, according to Bloomberg, Facebook is ...
Atlassian’s shares tumble as profit guidance disappoints again
Collaboration and software development company Atlassian Corp. Plc. has been left smarting by investors seeking an exit after posting disappointing earnings guidance for the second successive quarter today. The company, which beat market expectations with its fiscal third-quarter earnings, saw its share price tumble more than 11 percent in after-hours trading. It’s the second quarter ...
Sony is planning to cook up AI-powered robochefs
Japan’s Sony Corp. is stepping up its investment in artificial intelligence and robotics research, teaming up Wednesday with Carnegie Mellon University researchers to investigate the potential of using AI-powered robots in the kitchen. Food preparation, cooking and delivery might seem like an odd application for AI and robotics, but Sony believes that these skills could later ...
IBM prototypes in-memory computing architecture for accelerating AI jobs
One of the main stumbling blocks in using artificial intelligence to glean insights from large datasets is that most computer systems aren’t designed to handle these kinds of resource-intensive workloads. IBM Corp. researchers are trying to overcome these deficiencies with a new hybrid concept that could, in theory, make it much easier to perform analytics ...