SAP has announced that it will be conducting layoffs across all of its divisions as a result of its move toward delivering more products on a software as a service

At TechEd 2014, Microsoft made a couple of big announcements related to its Visual Studio integrated development environment. First, a preview version of Visual Studio now supports Apache Cordova, an

Salesforce is tying together its two cloud development platforms: Heroku, which is targeted at startups and mobile development shops, and Force.com, which is more for enterprise application development teams. Both

Enterprise application development teams are increasingly turning to gamification to increase end user engagement. In fact, researchers at Gartner say 40 percent of Fortune 1000 companies will use gamification as

IDC has published the results of a new survey which asked U.S. enterprises with more than 1,000 employees to rank cloud computing vendors based on their quality of service. IBM

ReadWrite has published an interview with Eric Bowman, the vice president of architecture for Gilt.com, an e-commerce site that specializes in flash sales. Because the site experiences huge spikes in

PHP tool vendor Zend has announced the release of Apigility 1.0. The open source tool helps companies create their own APIs by encouraging certain development practices. “We took the opinionated

HP has announced plans to invest $1 billion over two years into research and development related to the OpenStack cloud computing platform. It’s calling this new effort “Helion,” and it

At EMC World, the EMC announced a new Hybrid Cloud package. It aims to makes it easier for enterprises to set up a private cloud computing environment and also use

Enterprises have rushed to embrace devops, a philosophy that promises to break down barriers between development and operations, promote collaboration and improve quality. But something of a backlash against devops

Microsoft has announced that it purchased GreenButton, a New Zealand-based company that specializes in cloud-based high performance computing. Microsoft previously made a $1 million investment in the smaller firm. GreenButton’s

Application analytics startup SoftWatch has published a new report which claims that most enterprise employees rarely use Microsoft Office and that companies could save money by switching to cloud-based alternatives.

Gregor Petri, research director at Gartner, is warning enterprises to look out for vendor lock-in as the cloud computing market matures. “As long as the supplier still has his sights

Oracle engineers have submitted a formal thesis of proposed enhancements to the Java Virtual Machine and Java language to support small, immutable value types. In their “State of the Values”

Focusing on small and midsize businesses (SMBs), security solutions specialist Sophos announced the latest version of Sophos Cloud, which is to include built-in Web security as well as policy-based Web

Although more businesses are using public cloud computing services, security concerns remain high. A Ponemon Institute report sponsored by security vendor Thales found that 49 percent of companies surveyed said

In a recent case, U.S. Magistrate Judge James Francis has ruled that cloud computing service providers must turn over data sought with U.S. search warrants, even if that data is

IBM has announced that it is expanding its portfolio of BlueMix cloud development services with thirty new offerings. BlueMix is a platform that attempts to streamline the development and hosting

IBM has launched a new enterprise app store that it calls the IBM Cloud Marketplace. It brings together more than 100 different IBM applications that are available on a software

If you’re looking for evidence that design is becoming more important to enterprise application development, take a look at enterprise software vendor Infor. The firm has recently taken several steps