Akhila Karanam, first Hyderabad girl to get STEM scholarship

Akhila Karanam, a second-year student at Keshav Memorial Institute of Technology, Hyderabad, is the first recipient of the Progress Software Akanksha Scholarship for Women in STEM in India.

Progress Announces First Recipient of the Progress Software Akanksha Scholarship for Women in STEM in India

Progress announced today the first recipient of the Progress Software Akanksha Scholarship for Women in STEM in India. The scholarship is part of the larger Women in STEM scholarship series, supporting women’s professional development in computer science, software engineering IT and/or computer information systems in Bulgaria, India and the United States.

Digital experiences, DevOps/DevSecOps and network security to drive local digital investments in 2022, says Progress's Yang

With many new product releases, an acquisition and greater overall demand, 2021 was a big year for Progress.

"All our customers are doing well," and the company attracted new customers during the year and has more in the pipeline.

In the light of that, Progress hired new talent around the region, including Australia and New Zealand, with some of them adding to the company's digital experience platform (DXP) skills.

Techxperts React: What the Union Budget Holds for the Future of Tech

While techxperts figure out how the RBI going to fare in the cryptocurrency game or how e-passports are going to become a reality, let us look at some prominent leaders in the industry who react to the Union Budget 2022.

Progress encourages and empowers women to pursue STEM education

Progress is a 40-year-old US-listed IT company. It acquired Chef, a global leader in DevOps and DevSecOps, for $220 million in cash, as part of an effort to advance adoption of best DevOps and DevSecOps practices in the mid-market. The company is now expanding its business in India and has new offices in Hyderabad and Bengaluru and is actively hiring DevOps engineers from India for global business.

Rethinking Tech Design with an Accessibility-First Approach

The tech industry is currently in the process of a major adjustment period. Increasingly, companies are realizing (either willingly, or painfully via lawsuit) that they need to start designing their applications and websites accessibility-first.

Best Network Monitoring Tools for 2022

Network monitoring is where business performance meets cybersecurity, making it a critical component of any organization’s development, security, and operations (DevSecOps) pipeline.

Progress updates UI libraries

Demystifying Grids For Developers and Designers

Designers and developers each have their own individual definition and use of grids, making the concept a relatively nebulous and unclear concept to all. To some, grids could mean layout and structure, while to others grids refer to interactive tables that manage data. Understanding the target audience is key here because there might not be a universally understandable direction which can lead designers to be misguided during the cross-collaboration process. When given the time, developers and designers can fully evaluate the user story and create a thoughtful user experience together through the use of grids. But first, we need to find common ground to work from.

Inspirational Women in STEM and Tech: Dr Shirley Knowles of Progress Software On The 5 Leadership Lessons She Learned From Her Experience

The 5 leadership lessons I’ve learned from my experience as a woman in STEM and further a woman in a predominantly male-dominated industry are the following: representation matters, leading with empathy, organizations need to sponsor non-profit organizations, authenticity is pivotal, and evolving the meaning behind leader positions. I hope some of these lessons will look unfamiliar to the untrained eye. It’s become easy to suggest common life lessons such as strategic development and fostering innovation — it’s time we approach leadership from a new perspective.

5 Strategies Leaders Can Follow To Set Effective Goals For The New Year

The key to hands-on leading with empathy is building a foundation of trust rooted in assessing everyone's level of capabilities and committing a degree of accountability across the organization

Tips to address the most common cyber security mistakes to get ready for 2022

There is no doubt that the pandemic has catapulted cyber threats at the top of organizations' business risks list. 

Almost 75 per cent of Australian businesses experienced as many as ten cyber incidents or breaches over the last year – the ACSC saw a 13 per cent increase in the cyber incidents reported.

Customer experience in 2022: What do the experts predict?

What is in store for CX and UX in 2022?

We’ve had some clues in 2021 – sustainability, inclusion, privacy, user-centricity, video, automation, empathy and trust. How will these play out in customer experience over the next 12 months?

SD Times news digest: Progress announces Fiddler Everywhere 3.0

Progress recently unveiled the newest release of its web debugging tool, Progress Fiddler Everywhere. With this, users gain support for HTTP/2, a revision of the HTTP network protocol. 

Network Monitoring Trends for 2022

Global networks and network users are spreading farther and more densely across the globe, and the enterprise network monitoring market is working hard to catch up and protect these new networking scenarios. 

Read on to learn about some of the top network monitoring trends and how they’re impacting network infrastructures, cybersecurity, and user experience (UX).

2022 DevOps Predictions

Industry experts offer thoughtful, insightful, and often controversial predictions on how DevOps and related technologies will evolve and impact business in 2022

The Rise of India’s Tier-2 & Tier-3 Tech Talent

In an exclusive interview with All Things Talent, Srikanth Reddy, Manager, Talent Acquisition, Progress, talks about women empowerment initiatives at Progress, how remote hiring has opened up opportunities for both employees and employers, and the emergence of tier-2 and tier-3 cities as future tech talent hubs.

{FDI watch: Progress} Expanding in India to tap into Indian IT talent to build global products

This 40-year-old US listed IT company is expanding its business in India putting up new offices in Hyderabad and Bengaluru and is actively hiring DevOps engineers from India for global business.

Indian IT has been transforming the country for decades now and continues to do so in areas like DevOps, cloud, digital transformation. India is expected to have a digital economy of US$1 trillion by 2025, which means digital is expected to have about 20% contribution to the economy.

Three considerations when upgrading network monitoring system

The work-from-home phenomenon is here to stay. Many existing staff prefer to work remotely and when they need new hires, organizations can add headcount from anywhere in the world. This has led companies in every sector to look again at the effectiveness of their tech stack.

In Southeast Asia, just 15% of respondents to a survey by EY said they would prefer to work from the office full-time. Working remotely full-time and having hybrid work arrangements scored 29% and 23% respectively.

Belonging: Your cure for the great resignation

With the Great Resignation in full swing, many employers are in panic mode. Each is trying to solve the major retention issues that are rocking the job market. Better pay and elevated titles aren’t enough to reduce attrition. What employers are missing is a crucial third factor: whether employees feel like they are included and belong at their organizations.