Sunday December 22, 2024

New Akamai Tool Aims To Bring Bots Under Control

 Akamai released a new Bot Manager tool today designed to give companies finely tuned control over Bot traffic on their websites. The numbers vary, but research has shown that about half of traffic on the web comes from bots. Bots are small programs that interact with a website and can be used for good or […]

IBM Launches Quarks Open Source Development Tool To Build Efficient IoT Apps

 IBM introduced a new open source development tool today called Quarks, which is supposed to help manufacturers and programmers develop efficient applications based on Internet of Things (IoT) sensor data. Quarks is actually based on the IBM Streams product, a proprietary enterprise tool for processing large amounts of live data, but it’s been designed from the ground up to… Read More Tweet This […]

As Primary Season Opens, OpenText Releases Election News Tracking Tool

 After months of debates, social media chatter, outrage and craziness, the presidential primary season finally opens today with the Iowa caucuses. In response to that milestone, OpenText announced it was releasing a new tool to help voters track news around the elections and parse that by candidate and issues. The tool is called Election Tracker 16 […]

Prototyping Suite InVision Is Acquiring Design Tool Macaw

 InVision, a prototyping tool we’ve covered before, is acquiring code-based design tool Macaw. As a refresher, InVision is a product and prototype design tool used by hundreds of companies including Uber, Twitter, and Airbnb. Launched in 2011, the company has since raised around $80M in four fundraising rounds. The acquisition, which is InVision’s first, comes after a long… […]

SAP Melds Social And Learning In New Tool

 For many years, we’ve had social tools and formal learning management systems, but we have never really had anything that combined the two — until today, that is when SAP announced a new system called SAP Jam Collaboration for learning. The new tool is designed to bring various aspects of corporate learning together in a […]

Software Testing Tool Developer QASymphony Raises $5M

 QASymphony, which makes software testing tools like qTest, has raised a $5 million Series B. The company, which has offices in Atlanta, Georgia and Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, will use the capital on product development and marketing. Read More Tweet This Post

Software Testing Tool Developer QASymphonyRaises $5M

 QASymphony, which makes software testing tools like qTest, has raised a $5 million Series B. The company, which has offices in Atlanta, Georgia and Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, will use the capital on product development and marketing. Read More Tweet This Post

New Perforce Tool Gives Developers What They Love And IT What It Needs

 Perforce introduced a new product today in conjunction with GitLab called GitSwarm, which allows developers to work with their code and only their code, while giving IT a centralized view of the entire codebase — essentially allowing everyone to have their cake and eat it too. “What makes sense is combining two workflows where developers can live […]

New IBM Tool Wants To Bring Shadow IT Under Control

 This morning IBM introduced a new tool called IBM Cloud Security Enforcer, whose purpose as you might guess is helping IT to root out unauthorized cloud apps inside organizations. The use of cloud apps outside of IT’s purview has sometimes called Shadow IT because the cloud enables users to provision their own tools. This tends to make IT admins […]

InVision Prototyping Tool Lands $45 Million In Series C Led By Accel

 InVision, the prototyping tool that boasts clients like Uber, Twitter, and Airbnb, has today announced the close of a $45 million Series C round of funding. The round was led by Accel, alongside participation from existing investors FirstMark Capital and Tiger Global Management. InVision launched in 2011 with a relatively bare-bones prototyping tool. Designers could […]