Salesforce launches Revenue Cloud, for revenue process management
Salesforce announced its latest cloud vertical, Revenue Cloud. The new addition is aimed at businesses that want to create a single point of reference for customers' transactions. The whole thing will cover the process from renewal to revenue recognition.
Revenue Cloud is part of the Salesforce ... Read more
Microsoft announces Az Predictor for PowerShell
Command line helper will help casual users better use cmdlets in PowerShell.
Microsoft this week announced the release of Az Predictor, an intelligent command completion module for Azure Powershell. Az Predictor helps Azure developers find the cmdlet they are looking for efficiently, identify th... Read more
AMD and IBM work together on hybrid cloud and confidential computing
IBM and AMD have entered into an agreement that will see the two companies work together on open-source software, security, artificial intelligence workloads, high-performance computing and confidential computing.
The collaboration between AMD and IBM is likely to cement AMD's place in hybrid c... Read more
The release of .NET 5.0 by Microsoft is a significant step towards .NET unification
Microsoft has released .NET 5.0, which is the next significant release in the .NET developer platform. Microsoft promised to unify the different .NET flavours across operating systems, various form factors, and the Web. .NET 5.0 would be key to achieving that promise.
Microsoft announced the gen... Read more
Atlassian updates Jira Service Desk and changes its name
Atlassian has released Jira Service Management. The software for service managers is essentially an update for Jira Service Desk, with some new features added to the software.
Atlassian has announced the new software in a blog, where it explains the new features and shows some examples.
An im... Read more
‘Companies putting more emphasis on quality assurance’
Software companies are putting more and more emphasis on quality assurance. It's changing from an afterthought to an integral part of broader digital transformations.
This is shown in the World Quality Report 2020-21, published by Capgemini, Sogeti and Micro Focus. According to the three compani... Read more
New version of Node.js has new diagnostics features
A new version of Node.js has been released. Version 15.1.0 offers, besides the usual bug fixes and other things, a new diagnostics channel feature.
In a diagnostics channel a developer can keep track of all events that take place within an application. This is done in a separate object, so that ... Read more
Canonical wins biggest Russian telco for OpenStack 5G infrastructure
The Russian telecom giant MTS hopes to accelerate its rollout of 5G and other new services.
Russian telco MTS has decided to use Canonical’s Charmed OpenStack cloud computing platform to power the operator’s next-generation cloud infrastructure. They aim to use OpenStack to support future se... Read more
Python continues to gain in popularity, but still trails C
The programming language is now ranked second as Java falls to third.
Python, a top choice for data-science and machine-learning projects, is now in second spot behind C in TIOBE's latest index, knocking Java down into third place.
Python is a top choice for developers working on data-science... Read more
GitHub CEO denies that their source code was hacked
CEO Nat Friedman calls the repo post a fake and promises to make impersonation more difficult.
Recently a site called Resynth (resynth1943.net) posted a link to a Wayback Machine snapshot of a GitHub repo that appeared to come from GitHub CEO Nat Friedman. The poster had labelled the repo as: "T... Read more