Software Development

Medical Device Industry Survey Reveals Increase in Agile Development

MINNEAPOLIS, May 15, 2018 – Perforce Software, a provider of solutions to enterprise teams requiring productivity, visibility, and scale along the development lifecycle, released the results of a global survey of medical device professionals. Key findings show increased concerns for mitigating risk and proving compliance during the development process. 

“Balancing compliance and risk management with fast-paced innovation is a tough challenge for medical device developers,” said Tim Russell, Chief Product Officer, Perforce. “This year’s survey results illustrate how well respondents are addressing the challenge.”

Panaya Explores Benefits of Enterprise Agile Delivery at Scale

Hackensack, NJ – May 15, 2018 – Panaya, the leader in SaaS-based testing and Agile delivery platforms, has released a paper on Enterprise Agile Delivery (EAD) that features Forrester’s December 2017 report, The State Of Agile 2017: Agile At Scale. The paper explores Enterprise Agility adoption and growth, which Panaya believes offers key techniques and best practices to help accelerate Agile delivery rollouts and scale Agile and DevOps in the Enterprise. 

Redgate launches first extension for SQL Operations Studio

Cambridge UK, Wednesday, 9 May 2018 - The latest Public Preview release of SQL Operations Studio, the first cross-platform database development tool from Microsoft, has been enhanced with an extension from Redgate Software. Already known as the leading Microsoft tools vendor, Redgate has further developed its hugely popular and free SQL Search tool to integrate with and plug into SQL Operations Studio.                

E-commerce tips: Future proofing your Magento website for better UX

What is an e-commerce site without mobile-ready designs? Obviously antique! Mobile devices are the present and the future of e-commerce and marketing. Mobile users took over desktop traffic a long time ago. Irrespective of your website builder platform and CMS, you need to take a step towards optimizing your website for your mobile using customers right now. A good mobile-ready site is easy, light, fast and navigation-friendly.

Why is jQuery a Preferred Development Software and How Can You Make It More SEO-Friendly?

Web developers and programmers are always in search of new tools and procedures that will improve the performance of their websites. They also need to learn and implement search engine-friendly techniques to ensure that their sites are adequately optimized and able to perform as per the latest Google algorithm updates.

Ever since its release back in 2006, jQuery, the cross-browser, open-source library, has been used around the world, and its popularity has grown to such an extent that it is currently the most popular JavaScript library available to developers. In fact, some experts deem jQuery to be the best web development software based on its growth rate and usage.

Sensorpro announce a new capability to help marketing teams meet GDPR requirements

Now Marketers can easily design a Subscriber experience with signup forms, welcome emails and website code that can be used right away.

"GDPR is important to our pan-European deployment," said Sam Giles, Applications Analyst at WD40. "The Sensorpro GDPR capability with multi-language Signup forms & Subscriber activity dashboard are important tools that help compliance requirements."

The Sensorpro GDPR module includes:

Redgate enhances DevOps offering with major SQL Server monitoring upgrade

Cambridge UK, Tuesday, 27 March, 2018 - Redgate Software, the leading Microsoft SQL Server tools vendor, has taken another step forward in its quest to make database DevOps easier to adopt. Its proactive monitoring tool, SQL Monitor, now fully integrates with the deployment tools in Redgate’s portfolio, to provide an at-a-glance view of exactly what change was deployed and when.

Alongside significant improvements in the way the tool manages large environments, and the performance diagnostics it delivers, it makes the tool an extremely powerful monitoring solution for any SQL Server estate of any size.

My question to Mozilla: Whose web is it anyway?

Mozilla, the makers of Firefox, just announced that they are looking to block in-page popups (also known as overlays). These are the kind of things that commonly interrupt you to ask you to sign up to newsletters or to 'Like on Facebook'. In-page popups are very different to the traditional (and much more intrusive) popups which all popular browsers now all block, something that isn't at all controversial.

Merrill Corporation secures Axios North America Project of the Year with DevOps Initiatives

Washington D.C., USA – February 20, 2018: Axios Systems, one of the world’s leading providers of “fit-for-purpose” IT Service Management (ITSM) and IT Operations Management (ITOM) solutions, is delighted to present its Project of the Year award to Merrill Corporation, an Information Technology and Services Organization.

Headquartered in St. Paul, Minnesota, Merrill Corporation employs thousands of personnel in 34 global locations. With over 50 years of experience, Merrill aims to successfully help organizations secure sharing of sensitive content, distribute critical financial and regulatory disclosures and create customized and compliant communications.

Chris Graham: Why Google AMP is a threat to the Open Web

Like others in the IT community, I have become increasingly concerned with Google's behavior with their AMP technology.

For those who aren't really aware what AMP is, it's Google's proprietary solution for speeding up mobile pages. Webmasters implement AMP, which is a kind of Google-sanctified and Google-code-driven version of your webpage. It works very well and solves an important problem. Often when you search Google on a mobile device it will show AMP articles at the top of the results, so you get access to fast content first, which is reasonable in and of itself.