Darryl K. Taft

LAS VEGAS — IBM announced a redesign user experience for its Cognos Analytics business intelligence software. The redesign is based on the same self-service design principles as Watson Analytics. IBM Cognos Analytics enables users to access, analyze and share business performance information across workgroups. The Web-based service can scale to tens to thousands of users. […]

LAS VEGAS—IBM launched a new Apache Spark-as-a-Service offering to help organizations better wrangle big data for real-time insights. Announced at the IBM Insight 2015 conference here, the availability of IBM’s Spark-as-a-Service offering—IBM Analytics on Apache Spark—on IBM Bluemix follows a successful 13-week beta program with more than 3,000 developers using it to build intelligent business […]

Bluetooth this week announced a no-cost software-based development kit that helps developers learn Bluetooth technology quickly and bring products to market faster. The Bluetooth Developer Studio will ensure that building for the Internet of things (IoT) is simple, consistent and fast, while still providing security, reliability, control and convenience. It enables developers to focus on […]

IBM announced a new data exchange to help marketers engage customers in a more personalized manner. The new IBM Universal Behavior Exchange (UBX) enables marketers to deliver personalized experiences based on customers’ behaviors and preferences. The exchange is a key component of the IBM Marketing Cloud and it helps marketers easily connect data across their […]

IBM announced that the Indian systems integrator Wipro has agreed to use IBM’s Bluemix platform-as-a-service (PaaS) technology as the development platform for the agile creation and deployment of mobile, analytics and machine-learning solutions for clients around the world. As part of the collaboration between the two companies, Bangalore, India-based Wipro has committed to train and […]

How Perfecto’s Wind Tunnel Uses User Profiles to Test Mobile Apps When testing your mobile app to ensure it delivers a great digital experience, you need to know what type of person uses your app and how they are using it. Georgia, Corporate Road Warrior, 47 Years Old Main traits: Traveler who is always connecting […]

MapR Technologies, provider of a popular distribution for Apache Hadoop, this week announced the availability of Apache Drill 1.2 in its distribution as well as a new Data Exploration Quick Start Solution. The addition of Drill enables users to more quickly glean business insights from all their data in Hadoop and other sources. In addition, […]

The Pittsburgh Penguins are using 113 Industries’ Pi service, powered by IBM’s Watson cognitive computing system, to help transform the fan experience before, during and after each home game The Pittsburgh National Hockey League (NHL) franchise is using 113’s Pi service to analyze large volumes of fan-based data to develop specialized offers and services and […]

Xamarin, a maker of cross-platform mobile development solutions, today announced that it has acquired RoboVM, which provides tools for native iOS and Android development in Java. The Xamarin enterprise mobility solution enables native iOS and Android application development in C#. Thus, the acquisition brings together the top two languages in enterprise development and a path […]

Zend Technologies announced a suite of products and services to empower companies and developers to harness the power of the soon-to-be released PHP 7. PHP 7, which was expected to be released this month, according to its timeline, will be the latest version of the PHP programming language and includes features that improve performance, speeding […]