
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

Salesforce introduces AgentExchange: marketplace for AI agents
Salesforce has announced AgentExchange, a new marketplace specifically focused on sharing and deploying AI ag...

Salesforce switches from best-of-breed to best-of-suite
Salesforce invests more firmly on the platform

Anthropic raises $3.5 billion with new funding round
Anthropic is the latest AI player to secure a massive sum of money to support its AI training business. The c...

Cost is the greatest barrier to ERP system adoption
For one in three organizations in wholesale and retail, industry, transport and warehousing, high costs are t...

Do you still need to manage Windows workstations and user profiles?
Give employees an efficient workplace

ServiceNow introduces new AI agents for telecoms
ServiceNow introduces AI agents that help telecom operators increase productivity within their entire service...

Microsoft Outlook suffers global outage
Update, 10:47 PM CET: the outage appears to be over. Original article, 10:18 PM CET: It is currently no...

Sora is now available in the EU, was patience a virtue?
The video generator Sora has been made available by OpenAI in the European Union, the United Kingdom and surr...

Elastic posts strong results and bets on AI revolution
Elastic posted revenue of $382.1 million and earnings of 63 cents per share. That's well above expectations. ...

OpenAI announces GPT-4.5, its latest model to power ChatGPT
OpenAI has just announced GPT-4.5, its latest large language model to power ChatGPT. It is the largest model ...