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Mobile App Dev: 3 Trends That Will Shake Up Your Strategy

Tech Guest Viewpoint: Driving Impulse Buy with Technology

There are waves that are converging that indicate 2016 could be the year when the impulse buy will be more likely than ever before based on a few simple buying drivers. These include the ability of marketers to provide the right offer at precisely the right time and the rise of mobile payment technology.

Why VARs choose the wrong vendors

There always seems to be tension in the VAR-vendor relationship, likely due to a miscommunication about expectations and goals between parties. This tension boils down to the fact that VARs are struggling to choose the vendors that best align with their business model and their go-to-market goals and objectives.

Progress Software Launches Program for New Developers

In an effort to help increase its own talent pool and the global developer community, Progress Software today launched Progress Academy, an education program to help new developers quickly acquire application development skills.

IT DevOps: One Size Does Not Fit All

Coming on the heels of agile development—a term first coined in 2001—is DevOps, which was first popularized in Belgium in 2009. Today, 15 years into agile development and six years into DevOps, it is becoming clear that these intertwined terms are quite broad, encompassing attitude and approach, platforms, tools and solutions. Agile development, with its Scrum meetings and quick turnaround cycles, did speed development but made deployment more difficult, because many organizations just couldn’t support fast cycle deployment.

Parse shutdown: What now?

Were you caught off guard by Facebook’s abrupt announcement on Jan. 28 statement that its Parse mobile backend as a service (MBaaS) was going to be shut down? You’re not alone. And we’d like to hear from you.

Progress, WaveMaker, others make the case for hybrid mobile app development

With the "borderless office" becoming a ubiquitous phenomenon, today's users demand mobile access to their enterprise applications, which opens up an important market opportunity for developers and software companies. The problem is that building individual native apps for each mobile platform is a complex -- and therefore expensive -- proposition. And it's one that can negate the value of a developer's time and effort, despite the end user demand.

Progress Software Supports Angular 2 in Telerik DevCraft

Progress Software this week delivered the latest release of its Telerik DevCraft suite, a .NET toolbox for Web, mobile and desktop development that introduces support for AngularJS 2, the popular JavaScript development framework.

12 questions to ask marketing automation vendors (before you buy)

Thanks to the increasing number of marketing automation tools available today, picking the right platform is a challenge for even the savviest organizations. These 12 inquiries can help you cover all of the bases before you invest in new marketing tech.

The Surprising Reason Women Are Held Back in the Workplace

The traits frequently keeping women from reaching their professional potential are the same traits that make them great leaders: empathy, the ability to multitask, and encouraging greatness in others. Today’s young workers are looking to be part of something larger, to make a difference in the world. They see wrongs and want to eradicate them. This is precisely where female leaders excel. They listen and motivate teams to achieve great things. Women bring a basket of skills to the marketplace that are hard to match, but more importantly, they are perfectly aligned to capitalize on the needs of a contemporary workforce.

A Developer Evangelist's Thoughts on Angular 2

Back in December, Google finally released a beta version of Angular 2, bringing performance improvements through offline compiling, pre-rendering, and view caching. Matt Werner spoke with TJ Van Toll, a developer evangelist with Telerik/Progress Software to share his thoughts on the new release. Telerik was involved in developing Angular 2 and has implemented the language into their KendoUI and NativeScript products due to enormous customer demand.

Announcing the 2015 Winner of Best CMS For Marketers

The 2015 CMS Awards were the most broad yet, with new categories being added into the mix to reflect the dynamic world of web content management. The award, "Best CMS for Marketers" was one such addition. Following the nominations stage, it was a closely fought battle between three big players; Sitecore, Kentico and Sitefinity. All worthy candidates of course, but the people could choose only one winner. I'm pleased to announce that the Best CMS for Marketers 2015 is...Sitefinity.

The Business of Data

Organizations increasingly rely on business data to gain valuable insights to improve internal operations and predict and reflect on customer behaviors. Whatever the environment, data is an essential asset that must be managed, accessed, and analyzed to provide useful information towards a business goal or strategy.

How IIoT and consumer IoT handle data differently

Industrial IoT applications must be able to handle large amounts of continuous data from business facilities. Find out why IIoT apps need to ensure top performance.

Google Leans on Microsoft for Angular 2 Launch

When Google introduced the beta of Angular 2 earlier this week, it did so with the help of more than 1,300 contributors to the Angular open-source project, not the least of which was Microsoft. Indeed, Google wrote Angular 2 in TypeScript—Microsoft's superset of JavaScript..."TypeScript brings a lot of productivity features that server-side developers love to the JavaScript world, such as type checking and API auto-completion," said TJ VanToll, a senior developer advocate at Telerik. "We at Telerik provide first-class TypeScript support in NativeScript, and having the same TypeScript support in Angular 2 makes it that much easier for us to integrate the two frameworks. The best thing is neither Angular 2 nor NativeScript depends on TypeScript, which means developers that want to use TypeScript get the benefits they're looking for, and those that don't aren't forced to use the language."

Angular 2.0 Hits Beta, Brings Major Changes to the JavaScript Framework

Angular 2.0 has just hit beta stage. This brings major changes to the popular JavaScript structural framework including a new architecture, TypeScript for development, new templating syntax, and removal of version 1.x APIs…TJ VanToll, a senior developer advocate at Telerik, a Progress company, provided ProgrammableWeb a statement about Angular 2.0: "The most important part of this new version of Angular for developers is that it is no longer limited to building apps inside the browser. Angular 2 is breaking that tie to the browser and making it possible for Angular to be used in other ecosystems.”

2-Minute Guide for Choosing the Best .NET-based CMS

As the demands of online consumers continue to emerge and expand, enterprises around the world look for a platform to promote their brands and products through a strong web presence. To survive, every brand and business needs to deliver seamless digital experiences across channels. And for this, it is imperative to find a CMS with features that align with business goals.

Google’s Angular 2 Release Pushes JavaScript Beyond the Browser

Javascript is the standard way of building applications that run inside the browser. Created in the mid-’90s by an engineer at Netscape this fairly simple programming language has allowed even those with little coding experience to create dynamic web sites and services. But in recent years, Javascript has evolved into something more.

How to plan for the cost of cloud computing

How much is that app you run in Azure? Or Amazon Web Services, Google, Rackspace or other cloud computing platform? As cloud app solutions fragment, with compute, storage, analytics and other services running in clouds from various providers with different pricing structures, getting a grip on the actual cost of cloud computing is no easy task. Yet, it can be done. Combine carefully chosen services with a long-term commitment and it's possible to achieve savings of as much as 74%. Like the 55-year-old song says, you better shop around.

Kickstart Docker in Your Enterprise

The world of virtualization has continued to change and evolve over the last 15 years with VMware leading the charge. Even though the idea of containerization has been in the operations world for over 20 years it really has only taken hold in the last couple of years. One of the massive drivers of this has been the rise of Docker.