Darryl K. Taft

Adobe has announced the integration of its FrameMaker technical document authoring tool with its Adobe Experience Manager content management solution for building Websites, apps and forms so that customers can more easily create technical communications and deliver the information on multiple formats and devices. The goal of the integration is to facilitate better, more compelling […]

IBM and CSC announced the expansion of an existing partnership that will bring IBM’s mainframe capabilities and cloud infrastructure to bear for CSC and its customers. Under the agreement, IBM will deliver its Cloud Managed Services offering for its z Systems mainframe platform—known as IBM Cloud for z—to CSC customers. IBM will provide mainframe hardware, […]

LinkedIn, which develops lots of robust infrastructure software to maintain the operations of its social networking service, this week continued its strategy of open-sourcing technology with the contribution of Rocket Data to the community. Rocket Data is a non-blocking, immutable model management system with a persistent synchronization layer. It can use any cache and has […]

Tasktop, a provider of Software Lifecycle Integration (SLI) solutions for developers, is offering free integration support between HPE’s Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Octane solution and its existing HPE ALM/Quality Center (HPE ALM/QC). Launched last month, HPE ALM Octane enables development teams to build and deploy applications faster by using DevOps processes and developer toolsets like […]

9 Ways for Enterprises to Find Unused Apps and Weed Them Out Cleaning up application sprawl is crucial because it can increase operational, infrastructure and support costs and leave enterprises open to security risks. Trim Desktop Apps A Flexera survey showed that 64 percent of respondents said they have more desktop apps installed than required. […]

Retail brand Macy’s has tapped IBM and Satisfi to deliver a new in-store personalized shopping companion for customers. The new shopping companion, known as “Macy’s On Call,” is a mobile Web tool Macy’s is piloting that enables customers to interact with Watson. Watson is IBM’s cognitive computing system that interacts with users via natural language […]

Blockchain technology has been gaining a good deal of momentum in the technology world this year, with major vendors like Microsoft and IBM jumping on the blockchain bandwagon over its potential to revolutionize the way transactions are processed and managed. Moody’s Investors Service on July 21 released a report on the potential of blockchain, as […]

10 BI Mistakes That Could Be Killing Your Analytics Projects Avoiding common business intelligence pitfalls can help companies create a successful data-driven environment to inform faster, more efficient decision making. You Don’t Prime the Pump Business intelligence is meant to improve workflows, but with any new addition to office life, there may be some bumps […]

Stack Overflowlaunched the public beta of its newest product, Stack Overflow Documentation, which is the company’s effort to help developers better document their software. According to the 2016 Annual Developer Survey, poor documentation ranked as one of the biggest challenges developers face daily in building software. Jay Hanlon, Stack Overflow’s vice president of community products, […]

As it continues to work its way through its transition to higher value business initiatives, IBM also has been overhauling its workforce to focus on areas such as the cloud, cognitive computing, mobile and more. As part of its “workforce rebalancing” effort—as IBM refers to it—the company has eliminated several positions and replaced them with […]

IBM has announced second-quarter 2016 earnings results, showing another quarterly revenue decline as the company continues to transform itself around strategic imperatives including cloud and cognitive computing. For the second quarter, IBM generated $20.2 billion in revenue, down 2.6 percent from the same period a year ago. However, revenues from the company’s strategic imperatives—cloud, analytics […]

IPsoft, a provider of autonomic and cognitive technology solutions, has announced a partnership with consulting services firm Deloitte to bring IPsoft’s artificial intelligence (AI) technology to bear in Deloitte engagements. Deloitte will use IPsoft’s autonomic and cognitive computing offerings—IPcenter and Amelia—to deliver solutions and services to its customers. IPcenter is IPsoft’s autonomic IT management platform […]