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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ServiceNow wants to acquire identity management platform Veza
ServiceNow is in talks to acquire identity management startup Veza for over $1 billion (over €863 million)....
DigiD administrator: We are and will remain Dutch
The acquisition of cloud service provider Solvinity by the American company Kyndryl has raised questions in t...
Anthropic launches Claude Opus 4.5, promising an AI breakthrough
Claude Opus 4.5 is the best model for coding tasks and agentic AI. At least, that's what Anthropic claims. Th...
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Manhattan Associates goes all-in on the cloud: The end of on-premises is near
Manhattan Associates updated its supply chain software this year exclusively with AI enhancements. In doing s...
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The rise (and fall?) of shadow AI
As software application development teams now start to embrace an increasing number of automation tools to pr...
Microsoft Foundry Agent Service offers a choice of more AI models
Microsoft has expanded Foundry Agent Service with a wide range of AI models. LLMs from Anthropic, DeepSeek AI...
GPT-5.1-Codex-Max can code for over a day
OpenAI introduces GPT-5.1-Codex-Max. This is an agentic coding model designed for long-running and complex de...
DealHub pens Subskribe deal for end-to-end subscription management
DealHub.io is announcing the acquisition of Subskribe, a subscription management and billing platform. The co...
Adobe buys marketing platform Semrush for $1.9 billion
Adobe is acquiring Semrush for $1.9 billion. The creator of Photoshop and Acrobat wants to expand its marketi...
Workday acquires Pipedream, and 3,000 integrations with it
With the acquisition of integration platform Pipedream, Workday is throwing open its doors to external applic...