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Red Hat ties Ansible automation to Kubernetes cluster management
Red Hat Inc. is again demonstrating why it paid $100 million for open-source automation startup Ansible Inc. in 2015. The company today announced it’s integrating its Ansible Automation Platform and Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes product lines to improve automation in cloud-native infrastructure. Red Hat said the move is “intended to help drive application modernization ...
Ujet adds virtual agents to cloud contact center platform
Ujet Inc. today upgraded its cloud contact center platform with intelligent virtual agent capabilities that the company says enable more natural interactions with customers. The five-year-old company, which raised $55 million in venture funding in June, has a platform that combines voice and chat interaction with analytics to help customer service representatives engage more effectively with ...
Catalytic CEO’s advice on using low-code/no-code tools: Follow the app store
Ensuring the successful adoption of any new technology requires governance standards. The fast-growing field of low-code/no-code software, involving tools for regular folks to create business applications, is no exception. “One of the challenges for IT today is upgrading their governance structure to recognize the decentralized model” that low-code/no-code demands, said Arnal Dayaratna, research director for software development ...
Micro virtual machine security is a tried-and-true endpoint protection tactic
When VMware Inc. announced its Project Monterey strategy to redefine the data center last week, executives effused about the potential of the distributed processing model to redefine cybersecurity. Using a combination of software-defined networks and microprocessor-equipped network interface cards running the full vSphere server virtualization stack, security specialists will be able to deploy large numbers ...
Hyland add intelligent data capture, robotic process automation to its expanding content management portfolio
Hyland Software Inc. expanded the scope of its content management portfolio today with the release of Hyland Experience Capture, a web-based scanning, classification and data extraction tool and the announcement of a robotic process automation suite called Hyland RPA. The announcements are part of an aggressive campaign by the company this year to broaden its scope ...
Low-code feeding frenzy continues as Airkit emerges with $28M in funding
Investors continue to pour money into the rapidly growing market for software tools that empower business users to develop robust applications, dubbed “low-code/no-code” platforms. The newest startup to get some love: Airkit Inc., a low-code platform targeted specifically at customer experience management. The company Tuesday announced the general availability of its platform along with $28 million ...
Ping Identity enters personal data control market and expands cloud authentication suite
Identity management software provider Ping Identity Holding Corp. has acquired a small maker of software for personal identity control and today is launching new services for multifactor authentication and risk management. The acquired company, ShoCard Inc., has developed a service for so-called “self-sovereign identity,” which permits individual users to control personal details and share them selectively ...
No-code startup Unqork raises massive $207M funding round at $2B valuation
The red-hot low-code/no-code market has given birth to another unicorn. Unqork Inc., developer of a no-code platform targeted at developers, said today that it has raised $207 million in a Series C funding, bringing its total fundraising to more than $365 million and its valuation to $2 billion, or double the amount that qualifies a ...
Low-code and no-code tools may finally usher in the era of ‘citizen developers’
When the U.S. government established the Paycheck Protection Program to help small businesses cope with the early stages of the coronavirus crisis, the tech staff at Kansas City-based Academy Bank NA rushed to put a loan-processing system in place to catch an anticipated flood of applications. The application was launched for friends and family members ...
Oracle broadly enhances NetSuite and bridges to Autonomous Data Warehouse
Oracle Corp. today is announcing a broad set of enhancements to its NetSuite software for small and midsized businesses, including customer self-service capabilities, machine learning features that identify transactions and recommend ecommerce site configurations, and new integration with Oracle’s flagship Autonomous Data Warehouse. The company, which was one of the first software-as-a-service providers, said its ...