
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

Christian Klein: “SAP has the most modern cloud stack of all SaaS vendors”
SAP is still sometimes described as a tech dinosaur that does not innovate fast enough. Christian Klein has b...

Cisco and Splunk take first integration steps towards Unified Observability
Cisco is not wasting any time and has already completed the first integrations between its own product offeri...

Vanenburg changes name to Rappit
Vanenburg will become Rappit. The new name should have better international appeal and emphasize the focus on...

Google Gemini app now also available in Europe
The GenAI offering on smartphones has expanded once again. Google is launching its own Gemini app in more cou...

SAP bets 300 percent on Joule and AI
Today is the kickoff of SAP Sapphire in Orlando, and SAP only talks about one thing: AI, or as SAP has named ...

ChatGPT is available again
Update, 2:40 PM: ChatGPT was inaccessible to some users until noon. The status page that OpenAI maintains has...

Anthropic provides tool to build AI agents with Claude 3
Anthropic is giving its Claude 3 LLMs the new 'tool use' feature, which allows users to build their own AI-dr...

Google limits AI search results to combat advice of glue on pizza
According to the company, the AI-driven answers in Google Search were not always found to be "useful." Since ...

Salesforce paid 387 million for Spiff, well above market value
Salesforce paid nearly twice the estimated market value for its acquisition of commission platform Spiff at t...

OpenAI strikes another deal with media companies for use of their content
The list of media companies who feel compelled to make deals with OpenAI over the use of their articles conti...