
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.
Timeline

Freshworks acquires Flint, to bring automation and IT orchestration to their platform
Freshworks announced that they acquired Flint, an IT orchestrator and management platform for the cloud. This...

Unit4 upgrades cloud-based ERP solution
Unit4 has released version 7.7 of its Unit4 ERP solution. The added functionality should provide better plann...

Google is testing displaying traffic lights in Google Maps
Google is testing displaying traffic lights in the Google Maps Android app. The test is currently taking plac...

Google unveils Android 11 Beta 2 with design tweaks and modifications
Google unveiled Android 11 Beta 2, the updated test version of its mobile operating system (OS), introducing ...
Microsoft adds APIs to its Azure Cognitive Services for developers
Microsoft is including more Cognitive Services APIs to its Azure cloud platform in a bid to widen its array o...

Microsoft adds new Teams features, like AI-powered virtual spaces
Microsoft unveiled a couple of new features for Microsoft Teams as demand continues to rise due to the corona...

Not many enterprises can depend on their supply chains right now
Just before coronavirus pandemic disrupted world economies, one in ten enterprises were working on a robust, ...

IBM acquires RPA provider WDG amid automation market surges
IBM announced that it has signed a deal to buy WDG Automation, a Brazilian developer of robotic process autom...

SUSE acquires Kubernetes-startup Rancher Labs
SUSE acquires the Kubernetes-startup Rancher Labs to further expand its portfolio of Linux business solutions...

Nutanix Frame lets any application run from your browser
Frame was developed seven years ago as a stand-alone solution and was later acquired by Nutanix. At its intro...