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Eight apps win The Worthy Web hackathon

Progress announces the winners of its global hackathon The Worthy Web, a six-week virtual competition which attracted 1,200 participants from 83 countries and garnered 52 submitted projects.

The Worthy Web Hackathon - 1,200 developers, 83 countries, and $40,000 in prizes

Winners of The Worthy Web Hackathon announced. 1,200 developers, 83 countries, and $40,000 in prizes.

Technology company Progress has announced the winners of its global hackathon, The Worthy Web. The six-week virtual competition was attended by nearly 1,200 participants from 83 countries, with 52 projects submitted.

Progress announces winners of hackathon

A six-week virtual global hackathon called The Worthy Web announced its winners on Friday. The hackathon conducted by Nasdaq-listed Progress had attracted 1,200 participants from 83 countries who submitted 52 projects. Held across April 7 to May 24, the challenge gave developers a chance to build apps for humanity using Progress’ Telerik and Kendo UI developer tools and projects were accepted in nine categories and competed for total prize money of $40,000.

From DevOps to DevSecOps: challenges and benefits of integrating security into DevOps

IDC predicts that public cloud services spending in Asia Pacific will reach US$48.5 billion in 2021. This is not a surprise as cloud has proven to be a key driver of innovation in our increasingly digitized economy, and a core contributor to resilience in the context of the pandemic.

How innovation attracts and retains employees in the IT industry

Competition for talent in the IT sector is hot and companies are constantly challenged to think of new ways to attract, retain and inspire their most valuable team members. Money remains a key factor but a growing number of businesses are realizing the importance of other factors, including access to innovative solutions and inspiration that motivate and bring additional value to the employees and employers alike.

Progress releases Sitefinity Insight for post-COVID ‘reality’

Progress - which describes itself as a “high impact” applications comapny - says Sitefinity Insight will help marketers pivot to the post-COVID reality and deliver “differentiated customer experiences”. 

“The new capabilities will arm marketers for the post-COVID reality and help them reduce data complexity, reliance on IT teams and adjust personalisation based on audience behaviour,” Progress said.

Almost 40 percent of remote workers in Mass. won't be back in the office until January, at the earliest

Returning to the office is taking longer than many people initially imagined, and the number of colleagues who come in every day will likely be changed for good.

That’s the word from the Massachusetts Competitive Partnership’s latest survey, conducted this spring and made public on Tuesday, of what office life will look like after the COVID-19 pandemic recedes. The business group’s survey covers some 113,500 employees in the state, working for 110 companies in various industries, primarily east of Interstate 495.

Progress Updates Sitefinity Insight

Progress has added digital marketing capabilities in the latest release of Progress Sitefinity Insight, a cloud-based analytics, personalization, and optimization system, and enhanced the Progress Sitefinity Cloud platform for managing digital experience and improving operational efficiency.

Juneteenth Moves Closer to Federal Holiday Status

The House voted 415-14 to make June 19, or Juneteenth, a national holiday commemorating the end of slavery in the U.S., the first new federal holiday created by Congress in nearly four decades.

Cheers broke out across the House chamber late Wednesday, as Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D., Texas), the bill’s sponsor, read the final vote tally. The Senate unanimously passed the bill Tuesday, and President Biden will sign the bill into law on Thursday afternoon, according to his schedule.

Why network monitoring is the key to future-proofing today’s businesses

In 2020, millions of people abruptly transitioned to working from home to help mitigate the transmission of COVID-19. Seemingly overnight, remote setups were implemented across industries to keep employees safe. But this rapid transformation put the company networks those remote employees were accessing at high risk. With increased vulnerability, new security threats have grown both more common and more cunning, making it increasingly important for businesses to adopt new ways to optimize network monitoring, in order to keep their infrastructures safe.

What is the Best Digital Experience Platform for your Organization?

A digital experience platform (DXP) simplifies many business and technical challenges, both tactical and strategic so that companies can operate more effectively through digital. That directly translates into streamlined internal processes, better employee productivity, cost-savings, and a quicker, higher return on investment. 

With all these benefits ripe for the taking, you’d think many organizations would be jumping at the opportunity to implement a DXP. But for many organizations that are still growing in their digital maturity, it isn’t that easy. 

Based on a survey conducted by Progress and Pulse, only 12% of marketing and IT decision-makers have landed on a DXP that meets their organization’s specific needs. Perhaps more surprising is the fact that the wealth of different features may actually make the choice harder—35% of organizations have not implemented a DXP because the solutions available on the market offer capabilities they may not even use, and they don’t want to overpay.

Top 3 personalization pitfalls to overcome to elevate customer experience

The pandemic has driven businesses to focus on improving the customer journey by leveraging digital experience platforms. With this shift towards online platforms, personalization has become a factor in delivering experiences that speak to the customers themselves. Modern companies are now realizing that marketing tactics that interrupt the customer experience do not help the brand. Instead, they need to understand and uncover what the people are interested in to be able to deliver their message effectively.

Tighter data regulations mean we need to run tighter, embedded data protection programs

Guest Opinion: Six years ago, GDPR made its appearance on the international data protection scene. Since then, the global and local regulatory landscapes around data protection and cybersecurity have greatly expanded.

Interview with Phil Dunlop, General Manager, EMEA, of Progress

The value of agility and flexibility have never been more apparent than they were over the past year. When the coronavirus pandemic changed the rules on how many organizations operate, businesses had to take matters into their own hands in response.

COVID-19 showed digital accessibility is critical. Advocates don't want you to forget

Over the past year, Jennison Asuncion has seen apps like Zoom, a lifeline during the pandemic, expand accessibility features like automatic closed captioning. Messaging app Slack, another critical communications tool, has also become more compatible with his screen reader, which speaks aloud what's on his phone or computer. Now Asuncion, who is blind, can more easily access his messages.

CI/CD pipelines explained: Everything you need to know

Speed is the key to modern software development. The monolithic all-or-nothing paradigm of traditional waterfall software development has largely been replaced by rapid iterative techniques that support development and release. These techniques go by several names, including continuous integration, continuous delivery and continuous deployment.

SD Times news digest: Kendo UI’s latest release

Progress announced the new release of Kendo UI R2 2021, which introduces Kendo UI for Angular, jQuery and Vue as well as  KendoReact.

Kendo UI for Angular delivers new components such as BottomNavigation, MultiSelectTree, Skeleton and Circular Gauge to enhance users’ interaction with the app, data visualization and performance. 

Progress MOVEit safely transfers data, allows collaboration and improves scalability

The global pandemic has ushered hybrid work models where people move between remote and on-site work. Progress introduces Progress MOVEit 2021 to help businesses adjust to the hybrid workforce and to safeguard their data.

The Future of Enterprise IT Post Covid-19

If we allow ourselves to be optimistic, we can see it on the distant horizon: the end of Covid-19 is in sight. Given the stunning changes wrought by Covid – including the rise of remote work and the acceleration in cloud and data analytics – the dawn on this new era raises major questions for business technology.

Best network monitoring tool in 2021: Top expert picks

When you manage a large network, nothing is worse than servers that fail. Well, that's not completely true. Nothing is worse than servers that fail -- and you don't know they've failed. Hmm... even that's not completely true. Nothing is worse than servers that fail, and once you find out they've failed, you can't figure out why. That's a formula for a very unpleasant day.