In the cloud era, building on platforms you don’t own is normal

When Salesforce launched Force.com in 2007, it was the culmination of years of work to bring together a way to customize Salesforce and eventually to build applications on top of the platform. By using a set of Salesforce services, companies could take advantage of work that SFDC had already done, speeding up building time and […] Continue reading In the cloud era, building on platforms you don’t own is normal

4 enterprise developer trends that will shape 2021

It’s time to shift focus from delivering software to delighting customers. Welcome to a new era of modern software delivery. Continue reading 4 enterprise developer trends that will shape 2021

Security for Cloud Services: PaaS Deep Dive

In my last blog, I gave you some insight into some of the starting steps for adjusting your security strategies for a SaaS-enabled world. Here, I explore some of the additional adaptions to consider with PaaS. Traditional IT organisations have seen sig… Continue reading Security for Cloud Services: PaaS Deep Dive

Zendesk shifts to platform play with Zendesk Sunshine launch

Zendesk has always been strongly focused on customer service in the cloud. They began to look at this more broadly in September when they purchased Base to move into sales automation and CRM. Today, the company announced Zendesk Sunshine, a new platform for creating customer-focused applications on top of Zendesk’s toolset. All of this appears […] Continue reading Zendesk shifts to platform play with Zendesk Sunshine launch

SAP latest enterprise player to offer cloud blockchain service

SAP announced today at its Sapphire customer conference it was making the SAP Leonardo Blockchain service generally available. The latter is a cloud service to help companies build applications based on digital ledger-style technology. Gil Perez, senior vice president for product and innovation and head of digital customer initiatives at SAP, says most of the […] Continue reading SAP latest enterprise player to offer cloud blockchain service

Oracle to expand automation capabilities across developer cloud services

 Last fall at Oracle OpenWorld, chairman Larry Ellison showed he was a man of the people by comparing the company’s new autonomous database service to auto-pilot on his private plane. Regardless, those autonomous capabilities were pretty adv… Continue reading Oracle to expand automation capabilities across developer cloud services

Oracle adds AI development service to platform offerings

 Oracle came late to the cloud and it’s been playing catchup in recent years trying to add a wide range of services that customers are going to be demanding from a cloud vendor. To that end, the company added artificial intelligence as a service to its dance card today at Oracle OpenWorld. The company has been busy today with a flurry of announcements including a new autonomous database as… Read More Continue reading Oracle adds AI development service to platform offerings