Although the two companies haven’t always been friendly, Microsoft and Salesforce have announced plans to work together. As part of the deal, Salesforce will offer apps for Windows and Windows

A new ZDNet Cloud Priorities report finds that among the enterprises surveyed, the most common reason for adopting SaaS was to build a more agile business model, cited by 45

Xamarin has announced the release of Xamarin 3, the latest version of its cross-platform mobile development tools. According to the company, the update includes improvements in four key areas: Xamarin

Microsoft has confirmed that it purchased French mobile analytics vendor Capptain for an undisclosed amount. Capptain offers a variety of tools for marketing mobile apps, including analytics and push messaging

A growing number of enterprise software vendors appear to be embracing the principles of design thinking. A phrase coined by Stanford University’s Institute of Design, “design thinking” is an approach

As software as a service offerings have matured and proliferated, conventional wisdom has said that it’s smarter for enterprises to purchase software from these experienced vendors rather than build it

Counterpoint technology has released a new research report that sums up the state of the U.S. smartphone market in the first quarter of 2014. Key takeaways include the following: Smartphones

Enterprise software vendor SAP has announced the release of its Mobile Platform 3.0, which unifies the company’s mobile development tools with a single software development kit (SDK). Based on a

eWeek recently conducted an interview with Steve Mills, senior vice president and group executive for Software & Systems at IBM, and they discussed cloud computing, IBM’s BlueMix PaaS and other

Gogo, the service that most major U.S. airlines use to power their in-flight wi-fi, has announced a new API that will help developers create apps to be used during air

During his keynote address at the OpenStack Summit, Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth made a surprise product announcement. He took the wraps off a new cloud-in-a-box offering that the company calls

SAP and Microsoft have signed an agreement that has the two enterprise software powerhouses working together in three key ways: SAP applications will be certified to run on Microsoft’s Azure

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

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