According to a new Gartner report, 2013 was a very good year for application infrastructure and middleware software vendors, with worldwide revenues increasing 5.6 percent. IBM was the number one
Observations at the Gartner Portals, Content and Collaboration Summit, show that Cloud providers are having to work harder than ever to engage customers and ensure a positive experience for their
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
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
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
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
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
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