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Biggest technology acquisitions of 2020
Which mergers and acquisitions does 2020 have in store? If January alone is anything to go by, there will be no slowing of major deals across the industry, with security already proving to be a hot area.
Here are the biggest technology acquisitions of 2020 so far, in reverse chronological order:
It’s time to reevaluate your content management system (CMS)
A reliance on digital is our “new normal” due to COVID-19. Discover the five capabilities your CMS needs to withstand our foreseeable future. Will your CMS handle the new normal's five key must haves?
Exploring a content framework for compelling digital experiences
All digital experiences are built with content: images, text, video, audio, and even augmented and virtual reality. Content is not only used to communicate your company’s value, but to extend and connect its experience to all touchpoints end users may encounter. Because content plays such a significant role in digital experiences, it only makes sense it has its own experience framework.
Progress Adds New Connectors to its DataDirect Solution
Progress, a provider of application development and digital experience technologies, is releasing a new series of Progress DataDirect data connectors, bridging the gap between disparate back-office applications.
Progress Releases New Version of Test Studio
Progress announced the latest release of Progress® Test Studio®, the automated UI load and performance testing tool.
With this release, Progress Test Studio provides advanced responsive web testing and Optical Character Recognition (OCR) features. It is also the first to offer exclusive test automation support for Microsoft Blazor components.
Organizations seek digital experiences with IoT, AI and machine learning
Back in 2016, Progress conducted a survey to explore the state of what companies consider digital transformation. Fast forward four years and the marketplace has made great strides. The conversation has evolved to what many now call digital experience, which encompasses innovations in IoT, AI and machine learning.
Yogesh Gupta & His Ever-Growing Love For Technology
Long before I became Yogesh Gupta, President and Chief Executive Officer of Progress, I was Yogesh Gupta, Computer Science graduate, author and inventor”, says Yogesh to me. He goes on to explain to me how over the years, his passion for technology has only grown stronger. “And if my leadership roles at CA and CEO roles at FatWire, Kaseya, and now Progress have taught me anything, it’s that technology has a crucial role to play in finding solutions to our most urgent challenges."
Progress announced the release of Corticon.js, the new serverless rules engine created to quickly and easily build, test and deploy rules to critical JavaScript applications.
Progress Releases Serverless Rules Engine for JavaScript
Progress, a provider of application development and digital experience technologies, is releasing Corticon.js, a new serverless rules engine created to quickly and easily build, test and deploy rules to critical JavaScript applications.
Progress launches serverless rules engine for JavaScript apps
Progress has released a serverless rules engine for building, testing, and deploying rules for JavaScript applications, called Corticon.js. With Corticon.js, rules can be deployed as serverless functions or to mobile or IoT applications, eliminating the need for server-side processing.
Marlborough student wins major scholarship for Women in STEM
Rising to the top of a dozen high-caliber candidates, Marlborough resident Kaya Dorogi was recently announced as the first-ever recipient of the Mary Székely Scholarship for Women in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math). The $10,000 scholarship is awarded by Progress, a well-known leader in the application development and digital experience technologies field, and is renewable annually for four years in honor of Mary Székely, a founder and lead software engineer at Progress for over 30 years.
Digital Experience Strategies: Once Important, Now Urgent
Delivering digital experiences across all audiences was already a priority for many business leaders and their counterparts in web and application development. In the wake of COVID-19, that priority should be upgraded to “urgent.” Here’s why, and how Mark Troester, vice president of strategy, Progress, thinks businesses can get started.
Enterprise Digital Transformation Efforts for Enriched Employee and Customer Experience
Chatbots have proved to be beneficial in helping with internal and external communications for organizations, both large and small. Since the start of the COVID crisis, many employees have been asking HR questions such as when they’ll return to the office, what their insurance coverage looks like, and much more. Businesses can leverage chatbots internally by having these AI-powered machines serve as a helping hand to HR. Chatbots can help deliver answers to employees’ on more pressing questions, freeing up HR to handle more significant issues such as long-term planning for office reopening.
Marlborough Student Is First To Earn $10K Scholarship
A 2020 grad from Marlborough is the first recipient of a lucrative scholarship aimed at boosting women who plan to pursue a career in technology.
Kaya Dorogi, who graduated this spring from the Bancroft School in Worcester, will get $10,000 per year to study computer science at Columbia University. The scholarship is sponsored by the Bedford tech company Progress, and was set up to honor Mary Székely, a longtime software engineer at the company.
Progress Introduces DataDirect Connectors for DevOps
Progress announced the availability of a set of new data connectors to improve the integration of analytics and reporting within the DevOps process.
Complementing an expansive collection of pre-built, high-performing, standards-based data connectors, Progress has introduced connectors for TeamCity, GitHub, Aha! and Jira. With these new connectors, users can gain a more unified view of the DevOps process, enabling new levels of efficiency and performance, leading to improvement across the software development lifecycle (SDLC).
Many workers will never go back to the office post-coronavirus
Companies such as Progress Software will likely occupy that middle ground. In normal times, about 500 people commuted to the firm’s local offices in Bedford and Burlington.
They are all remote now. Once the pandemic ends, chief executive Yogesh Gupta expects to see between 300 and 400 in those offices on any given day. Some will commute every day, some will arrive every other day, and some will come once a week or less. “We will offer tremendous flexibility,” Gupta said.
Progress Launches Women in Technology Scholarship Fund at the American University in Bulgaria
“Although Bulgaria is one of the leading countries in Europe in terms of employment of women in the IT industry, we are still far from achieving balance,” says Maria Atanasova, Human Capital Director for Europe, Middle East and Africa at Progress and part of the leading team of the company in Bulgaria. More than 1.3M people are studying Information and Communication Technologies in the European Union, still, only 17% of them are girls and women. In Bulgaria, the number is significantly higher – 31%, and the country ranks third after Belgium and Romania.
It's Time for Business Leaders to Embrace DevOps for Business Continuity and Growth
Businesses today are powered by software, yet many continue to fall behind when it comes to adopting modern, agile development and deployment practices that bolster business continuity strategy and fuel faster product-market fit. Software and application modernization plans need to include provisions for DevOps; ignore at your peril.
DevOps is a fairly recent term that has taken deep root within the application development and deployment community. Or rather, recent in the consciousness of those on the periphery of this transformation, as Patrick Debois is credited with coining the term as far back as 2009. But DevOps is usually lumped in with "being agile" and, sadly, misunderstood.
How to Leverage Digital Experiences to Promote Customer Loyalty
COVID-19 has only served to spotlight the impact that digital experiences have on all aspects of our lives, especially when it comes to building out customer experiences with loyalty in mind. The current business reality, stemming from unprecedented global events, is forcing companies that previously relied on live events, face-to-face interactions, or brick and mortar commerce to leverage technology that amplifies connections with their customers and keeps them coming back.