
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

Does an AI search engine have the potential to make Google Search obsolete?
OpenAI appears to be working on a search engine. Incorporating the benefits of generative AI into a search en...

Salesforce unveils SMB-focused Marketing Cloud Growth Edition
Salesforce also wants small businesses to be able to take advantage of GenAI to automate their marketing and ...

Update: Google Workspace gets Gemini Business and Enterprise plan
Update 22/02/2024 - Google introduces the new Gemini Business and Gemini Enterprise plans. The Workspace add-...

Google pays $60 million annually for content on Reddit through AI deal
Update, 22/02, 08:30 am, Laura Herijgers: Google would train its LLMs with Reddit content. Therefore, Google ...

Adobe launches AI tool that reads and summarizes PDF
Adobe recently released an AI assistant for its PDF tools, Acrobat and Reader. Users can ask for a summary of...

‘iOS 18 will be biggest update ever, full of AI functionality’
The rumor mill surrounding iOS 18 is running at full pelt. The upcoming release of the Apple operating system...

PaaS for SaaS: Oracle’s platform provides evergreen Fusion Apps
Oracle's cloud story has many facets. The common thread, however, is the glue in between, or platform (PaaS)....

Ailing MariaDB mulls over $37 million takeover bid
K1 Investment Management has made an acquisition bid of about 34 million euros ($37 million) to MariaDB. The ...

What is Retrieval-Augmented Generation?
As organizations deploy generative AI at an ever-increasing rate, its shortcomings are becoming all too appar...

SAP establishes Business AI division
The new business unit focuses on artificial intelligence in business environments. To support efforts at t...