
Applications

Everyone uses applications on a daily basis. Building, integrating and running them requires quite a bit from people and systems. Application development has recently undergone a huge metamorphosis. In particular, the emergence of cloud-native application development has caused fundamental changes. AI, especially GenAI, has also caused a major shift. Finally, the world’s largest OS, Microsoft Windows, also makes regular appearances on this page. You will stay up to date on all relevant application developments here.
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PTC’s SaaS platform nears completion: Creo is going to the cloud
Within PTC Atlas, all components of the PTC portfolio are to become available as SaaS. Today it is the turn o...

SAP Sapphire: what’s new in ERP?
At its annual Sapphire conference, SAP is announcing innovations to modernize ERP. AI plays an important role...

Sapphire 2023: SAP goes big on AI, what does it mean for business processes?
A very dominant theme at SAP's Sapphire 2023 conference is definitely AI. By adding artificial intelligence t...

Twitter encrypts your DMs – with caveats
Twitter users can now encrypt their direct messages, providing an added layer of security, albeit with some c...

Confluent announces new capabilities to ensure data quality
This week Confluent announced new Confluent Cloud capabilities. They should "give customers confidence that t...

Amazon also wants to reinvent search with AI
Bloomberg has discovered that Amazon has vacancies open to come up with its own AI search functions aided by ...

Web browsing and plugins now available in beta for ChatGPT Plus
The paid ChatGPT Plus is getting more functionality, OpenAI recently announced. Among other things, beta func...

AWS gives managed database Aurora update for cost savings
AWS is giving its managed database environment Aurora an update that helps customers save more on their cloud...

Google Drive finally gets spam folder
Taking inspiration from its trusty sibling Gmail, the Drive interface is now equipped with a shiny new spam f...

Elon Musk says he’s found a new CEO for Twitter
Elon Musk claims he will step down as CEO and already has a replacement waiting in the wings. The new CEO's n...