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The centerpiece offering from professional services firm Equidato is SophiaTX, an enterprise blockchain platform.

As with other enterprise-class blockchain offerings, SophiaTX follows a permissioned delegated proof of stake architecture. This approach makes it suitable for enterprise use cases that require security and compliance.

Where SophiaTX stands out is its ability to integrate with a range of enterprise applications, including ERP applications, among others. For enterprises who are looking to add distributed ledger technologies to existing business models, SophiaTX’s enterprise centricity positions it as an early front runner in this market.

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As a leader in the mobile advertising attribution and analytics market, Kochava serves advertisers who require insights into how well their ads are performing across different devices.

Kochava is able to glean information on particular users across devices without the use of cookies, which are problematic on many mobile platforms. In addition, the company can track individuals along the customer journey from initial interaction with an ad to the point of conversion.

In order to build comprehensive audience models for its major brand advertisers, Kochava offers Free App Analytics, a free mobile measurement platform that serves smaller advertisers in exchange for making their data available to the Kochava platform.

Kochava is now in the process of building out Xchng, a blockchain-based digital advertising platform with a token economy centering on buying and selling ads.

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While the primary driver of the low-code movement was to improve enterprise developer productivity and to create a more agile and collaborative development workflow, the evolution of these platforms has also opened the door to a new hybrid approach to application modernization.

Modernizing the enterprise application stack has been a persistent challenge for enterprise leaders. With tons of risk and little short-term upside, they have understandably put their modernization efforts in the critical, but not urgent category of their to-do lists — hoping beyond hope that the situation would somehow become more manageable in the future.

While this procrastination technique is rarely a good strategy, enterprise leaders may have caught a break.

As I discussed in the first two blogs of this four-part series, enterprise leaders have had few good options as they tried to address the application modernization dilemma. Forced to choose between modernizing or meeting new demand, the choice was simple — enterprises left modernization for another day.

A new class of technology companies, however, are taking advantage of the emergence of so-called low-code development platforms to create a new, third option for enterprise leaders. This new approach may finally offer enterprise leaders a way to simultaneously keep resources free to meet new demand while modernizing their application stack quickly and without the high costs and bad outcomes that typically came with outsourcing these efforts.

Low-Code: Changing Face of Development

To understand why this third path to application modernization is now possible, you must first understand how changing enterprise demands led to the evolution of what we now call low-code development platforms.

As long as there have been programming languages, there has been a desire to make the creation of applications easier and more accessible. For the most part, this evolution has played out in the form of new generations of languages that were progressively easier to use, more human-readable, and more extensible.

With each successive generation, productivity increased, and development became easier — enabling enterprises to more readily hire or train new developers.

Eventually, however, this led to even more radical attempts to improve productivity and accessibility. Efforts such as the Rapid Application Development (RAD) movement and early visual development tools aimed to reduce the amount of hand-coding necessary to develop applications. These early efforts, however, were cumbersome and often failed to deliver the promised productivity gains.

Still, as digital transformation began to take root within enterprise organizations, the demand for applications grew exponentially — and most enterprises simply did not have the resources to keep up using traditional hand-coded approaches.

As a result of these market demands, a new generation of development platforms entered the market that used visual interfaces, declarative models, and configuration approaches to create enterprise applications. With this approach, developers could build applications with little or no hand-coding — thus, the industry called these platforms ‘low-code.’

The promise of low-code platforms is that they enable enterprise developers to create more applications, develop them more quickly, adapt and change them more easily, and to do so in closer collaboration with application sponsors and consumers. Unsurprisingly, enterprise organizations are now adopting these platforms en masse to achieve these gains.

While the primary driver of the low-code movement was to improve enterprise developer productivity and to create a more agile and collaborative development workflow, the evolution of these platforms has also opened the door to a new hybrid approach to application modernization.

A Hybrid Approach to Application Modernization

When enterprises turned to traditional outsourcers to help with modernizations efforts, the results were often poor. The reason is that the complex nature of these projects resulted in long, involved development efforts. To be successful, these projects would require substantial involvement by the enterprise’s most valuable technical resources (negating the value of outsourcing) or would leave the outsourcer flying blind until late in the project.

Neither choice led to a good outcome.

The emergence of low-code development platforms, however, made available a hybrid approach to modernization. Technology companies, like WaveMaker, realized that they could build a low-code platform that would enable them to rapidly prototype solutions and reduce development time. This capability, in turn, made it easier to engage with customers earlier and more often during the development process.

Moreover, the ability to rapidly adapt and change applications and to develop them from a business process perspective allowed both rapid iteration as well as the ability to interact with non-technical users (rather than in-demand technical resources) for direction and guidance.

Finally, the use of low-code development platforms enabled organizations to more closely partner with their technology providers to continually adapt the applications as business needs changed over time — helping to ensure that they will not need another round of modernization in the future.

The Intellyx Take

This hybrid approach to modernization is starkly different than the previous options available to enterprise leaders. In fact, it is an approach that is almost impossible to achieve without the use of low-code platforms.

The ability for a technology partner to rapidly prototype, develop, test, and iterate during the development of complex and highly integrated apps enables enterprise leaders to effectively get the best of both worlds: they free their resources to meet new demand, while reducing the costs and risks traditionally associated with outsourcing modernization efforts.

Perhaps even more importantly, the use of low-code platforms in modernization efforts provides a layer of protection for enterprise leaders. The ability to continually adapt and change these complex, mission-critical applications offers them a degree of business agility that may otherwise be difficult to attain.

None of this, however, allows IT to entirely escape its responsibility. The critical nature of these legacy applications will always require a degree of attention from IT. The difference is that with this hybrid approach, the organization’s most valuable and knowledgeable resources will only engage when their specialized expertise is truly necessary.

Leveraged effectively, this hybrid approach will allow enterprise leaders to strike the mythical balance needed to make application modernization a modern reality.

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Not too long ago, it was relatively easy to verify your identity when you were opening a bank account of making a big purchase. These sorts of transactions took place in person, and you could present your identification and other identifying documents to the organization that required them. Verification would often still take several days — but then again, in the analog world, so did everything. As the world has gone digital, however, identity verification has become a significant process bottleneck and is having a negative impact on the digital experience.

Jumio has created what it calls a Trusted-Identity-as-a-Service solution to solve this problem. Typically used during a customer onboarding process or a significant transaction, the company uses a multi-stage process to positively identify a person in seconds rather than days.

The company’s solution uses advanced machine learning-based algorithms to verify identification documents (e.g., drivers licenses or passports) and then requires the user to take a live picture of themselves in which the company is able to match the person with the identifying document and verify that the owner of the identification is present and taking the picture.

The solution can also request additional identification documents, and humans then review the majority of identity verification request for final validation. The company claims that it is this combination of advanced machine learning and algorithms with its human review that enables it to provide consistent identity verification that far exceeds the reliability of knowledge-based or two-factor authentication schemes, yet to do so in a fraction of the time of traditional methods — something that is particularly important as enterprises recognize the need to deliver exceptional digital experiences for their customers.

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Enterprise organizations often see the network as something akin to plumbing: vital, but best left out-of-sight and out-of-mind. Network analytics company Kentik, however, sees it differently. Its view is that the “network knows.” According to the company, having access to comprehensive and real-time network analytics are the key to identifying more security attacks, resolving critical problems or performance issues more quickly, improving partner SLA compliance, and delivering a better customer experience.

The company ingests data from network logs and, in some cases, agents, into its analytics cloud to provide its clients with real-time network traffic intelligence. Purpose-built as a big data platform optimized for deriving insights from network traffic, the company claims that it is its platform’s scalability, performance, and the ability to ingest and analyze what it calls full-resolution network data that sets it apart from traditional approaches to network performance monitoring and forensics.

The platform also correlates network data with application and business data that enables its clients to connect adverse network incidents to their corresponding business impact — something that becomes essential as more business processes and elements of the customer journey take place across applications and other digital engagements.

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We last covered Skuid in December of 2016. At the time, we shared how the company built a platform that enabled organizations to create custom applications to meet the needs of specific business workflows. With the company’s new release, dubbed Spark, it is extending that focus even further.

The new release is focused on improving the application development and use experience in three categories: design, development, and deployment. To begin with, the company has introduced new tools to ensure brand consistency across applications. The idea is that visual design impacts the application experience, so design standardization provides consistency of both branding and the experience while still giving users the freedom to create the applications they need.

The new release also includes what it calls app templates. Beyond the simple templates you might expect, however, these templates are really fully functioning applications that its clients can then customize as needed. These templates promise to make the development process even more accessible and to help its clients realize value even faster. Finally, the new release also includes support for native mobile applications to ensure a consistent experience across devices.

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Tim Berners-Lee, the famed inventor of the World Wide Web, has a new project: the Decentralized Web.

His thinking is that great Internet powers like Facebook and Google have largely taken over the egalitarian, Decentralized Web he invented. To fix this problem, we need a new set of protocols that will disintermediate such centralized control, returning it to the people – ‘re-decentralizing’ the Web, as it were.

Berners-Lee’s motives are commendable to be sure – but there’s just one problem. It will never work. And furthermore, as a figure from the Internet’s formative years, he should realize that.

The sad fact is that there have been decades of attempts at decentralized models of global network communications – and every single one of them ends up being a medium for criminal activity that ends up dominating any altruistic uses of the technology.

If it follows the course it’s currently taking, the Decentralized Web will fare no better. And yet, the current state of the Internet is unquestionably fraught with problems. There’s got to be a better answer.

Understanding Decentralization

Depending on the context, the notion of ‘decentralized’ is often confounded with ‘distributed.’ Today, decentralization is an important characteristic of permissionless blockchain platforms like Bitcoin – and in this sense, decentralization refers to the lack of a single point of control. In other words, no one is in charge of a decentralized network.

Decentralized architectures are inherently distributed, but the converse is not true. The open source Cassandra database, for example, is inherently distributed, but only works because it has centralized control.

The Internet, and by extension, the World Wide Web, were originally both decentralized and distributed, as anybody could stand up a web server anywhere they liked. Then, as Google became the predominant search engine, it didn’t actually control the web, but it increasingly controlled who would access which pages, amounting to the same thing.

Today, Google and Facebook control the majority of the online ad market, while Amazon dominates ecommerce. Which ads you see and which products you buy – and to an appalling extent, what opinions you hold – depend upon these three goliaths.

The Decentralized Web seeks to counteract such centralized power by returning control over web-based content to individuals via protocols that uniquely identify content itself, rather than the URLs of that content.

The approach makes sense on its face, but it has at least one fundamental flaw. If we look at the history of decentralized content, that flaw will become apparent.

Decentralization Before the Web

A typical BBS interface

Even before the web was a twinkle in Tim Berners-Lee’s eye, we faced a battle between centralized and decentralized content distribution – not over the Internet, but over dialup modem links.

Dialup services like CompuServe, Prodigy, and AOL offered the benefits of centralized services, including curated, legal content and advertising.

In contrast, bulletin board services (BBSs) provided the decentralized counterpoint. Anybody with a modem could stand up a BBS, simply by setting up their computer to answer the phone and connect to BBS software running on the computer.

The original motivation of BBSs were their eponymous bulletin boards – simple, text-based shared notifications that people could read and update. However, as modem speeds increased, people increasingly used BBSs to host binary files like images and software.

Since such binaries took far longer to download than the text-based bulletin board content, BBS phone lines soon became overwhelmed, as a single downloader might monopolize a line for hours at a time. To survive, BBSs had to scale up, adding numerous phone lines, modems, and computers, and coming up with ways to charge by quantity of content instead of a simple monthly subscription fee.

In other words, BBS economics had shifted. Providers had to charge more to stay in business, which meant they had to provide premium content – in the form of pornographic images and pirated software.

Before the Clinton administration relaxed the enforcement of obscenity laws in the 1990s, thus shifting the now-legal pornography business to the new World Wide Web, BBSs were one of the two most convenient places to obtain illicit hardcore porn – although the download speeds of the day limited it to poor quality images.

The Rise of Usenet

The other place to get your porn, of course, was Usenet. Usenet provided a large number of hierarchically-organized newsgroups – what we’re more likely to call forums today. Every hobby had a newsgroup, from roller coaster enthusiasts to model train aficionados.

Dating from the early 1980s, Usenet was originally a way for BBSs to synchronize with each other over dialup modem lines.

As modem speeds improved and Internet service providers (ISPs) began to offer consumer Internet access, the ISPs began to host Usenet servers, providing access to them either over the Internet as part of their regular fee, or sometimes at a premium.

In particular, ISPs would often charge a premium for groups dedicated to hosting binaries. Slowing down adoption was the fact that uploading such binaries to a Usenet newsgroup was a laborious process involving encoding and segmenting such files – but regardless, Usenet took over the porn distribution business from BBSs.

As the Web took off in the mid-1990s, the binaries remaining on Usenet took on a darker character, centering on illegal content such as pirated software and child pornography, as the other newsgroups filled with spam.

Eventually law enforcement took notice, and a cat-and-mouse game ensued. Criminals would move their wares from one unsuspecting newsgroup to another – all the while taking advantage of the inherently decentralized nature of Usenet for cover.

Peer-to-Peer Brings a Torrent

Rapidly increasing Internet speeds soon changed the game toward the end of the century, as it finally became practical to download video content and other large files. The predominant decentralized offering during this era was BitTorrent, a peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing protocol that enabled anyone to share files with anyone else.

By 2004, BitTorrent was responsible for one quarter of all Internet traffic, according to Wikipedia – mostly pirated videos, pirated software aka ‘warez,’ child pornography, and other illegal content catering to a wide range of tastes.

BitTorrent, however, did not provide a mechanism for providing its users either security nor anonymity, nor did it offer a payment infrastructure. As such, it was better suited for people sharing illicit content with each other rather than setting up businesses for that purpose.

In other words, BitTorrent was better suited for disorganized rather than organized crime.

The Dark Web is Born

Where there is a gap in the marketplace, somebody is bound to fill it – and lo, Bitcoin was born. Bitcoin gave the criminals struggling to build illicit businesses on technologies like BitTorrent the economic infrastructure they needed to build bona fide crime syndicates.

Even Bitcoin is not truly anonymous, however – and thus Monero and other even more crime-friendly cybercurrencies came along, fleshing out what had been a scattered bunch of lowlifes sharing warez with their friends into a full-fledged global black market we now know as the Dark Web.

Adding commerce to a decentralized, P2P web like BitTorrent opened up new contraband opportunities, and today illegal drugs are the most popular goods on the Dark Web.

What hath the Decentralized Web wrought?

The Intellyx Take

Placed into its historic context, today’s Decentralized Web movement is either woefully naïve or simply a front for further organized crime activity. The world doesn’t need yet another way to share content in a decentralized way, unless you count criminals who continue to seek new ways to avoid getting caught.

The moral of this story is clear. Illegal content is the original and most nefarious raison d’être of the Decentralized Web. In spite of whatever altruistic motivations you might have, any effort to create a Decentralized Web will call upon our basest nature and thus play into the hands of organized crime.

We are thus sandwiched between two evils: a Web dominated by a few major Internet players, and one where criminals run rampant.

We need a better answer. We desire an Internet where any two people can converse and conduct commerce with each other with no restrictions on free speech or freedom of action, and yet we also want to live in a society where we bring criminals to justice, while deterring others from crossing the line.

This conundrum may very well be the primary challenge of our age, as the Internet is the most important enabler of the Digital Era. I don’t have the answer. Neither does Tim Berners-Lee. Do you?

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By Redaccion TYM

Moderado por el editor genérico de TechCrunch, Mike Butcher, el panel estuvo compuesto por 5 especialistas de las industrias financiera y del cripto, incluyendo al primordial analista de TI y cooperador de Forbes Jason Bloomberg, CEO de Celsius Network Alex Mashinsky, y CEO de Regulated Transactions en Titan DX exchange Rich Gupta.

Abordando la cuestión primordial de en qué momento las 2 industrias – la del cripto y Wall Street. – van a ” fusionarse”, Gupta aseveró que “la fusión ocurre acoplado antiguamente que “, y que la tecnología latente del cripto es adoptada por múltiples de las compañías. Particularmente, Gupta mentó el esencial papel de la implementación de cadenas de aislamiento en los procesos internos de explicación y cómputo.

El CEO de Celsius aseveró que las instituciones financieras tradicionales deberían en un inicio coger experiencia de primera mano en el manejo de criptomonedas y instruirse a “interaccionar con la tecnología”. Sin eso, “no tendremos ningún progreso”, aseveró Mashinsky.

Mashinsky todavía mentó su experiencia en reunir a 250 oficiales de cumplimiento de los primordiales bancos , mientras la que aseveró que ni una persona en la sala afirmó tener alguna criptomoneda.

Hablando desde determinado punto de aspecto diferente, Jason Bloomberg arguyó que una de las razones más esenciales a fin de que Wall Street se sostenga distanciado del cripto de momento es la “torpedo de tiempo” que es la naturaleza “sin permiso” de la criptomoneda, transformándola en un “mecenas del crimen organizado”.

Read the entire article at https://titularesymas.com/criptomonedas/blockshow-americas-2018-se-pone-en-marcha-con-el-panel-de-discusion-wall-street-vs-cripto/

By Cripto

Moderado pelo editor-chefe da TechCrunch, Mike Butcher, o painel era composto por cinco especialistas das indústrias de finanças e cripto, incluindo o analista de TI e colaborador da Forbes, Jason Bloomberg, CEO da Celsius Network Alex Mashinsky, e CEO da Transaction Regulated no Titan DX Troque Rich Gupta.

Abordando a questão principal de quando as duas indústrias – cripto e Wall Street – vão “fundir-se“, Gupta afirmou que a “fusão está acontecendo bem diante de nós” e que a tecnologia subjacente da criptomoeda está sendo adotada por vários empresas. Especificamente, Gupta mencionou o importante papel da implantação de blockchain nos processos de desenvolvimento e liquidação de back-end.

O CEO da Celsius alegou que as instituições financeiras tradicionais deveriam inicialmente adquirir experiência em primeira mão ao lidar com criptomoedas e aprender a “interagir com a tecnologia”. Sem isso, “não teremos nenhum progresso”, afirmou Mashinsky.

Read the entire article at http://www.cripto.digital/blockshow-americas-2018-entra-em-operacao-com-a-discussao-do-painel-wall-street-vs-cripto/

By Helen Partz

Moderated by TechCrunch’s editor-at-large Mike Butcher, the panel was comprised of five experts from the finance and crypto industries, including leading IT analyst and Forbes contributor Jason Bloomberg, CEO of Celsius Network Alex Mashinsky, and CEO of Regulated Transactions at Titan DX exchange Rich Gupta.

Addressing the main question of when the two industries — crypto and Wall Street — are going to “merge,” Gupta claimed that the “mergence is happening right before us,” and that the underlying technology of crypto is being adopted by a number of companies. Specifically, Gupta mentioned the important role of blockchain deployment in backend development and settlement processes.

Celsius’ CEO claimed that traditional financial institutions should initially acquire first-hand experience in dealing with cryptocurrencies and learn how to “interact with the technology.” Without that, “we are not gonna have any progress,” Mashinsky stated.

Mashinsky also mentioned his experience in bringing together 250 compliance officers from major banks, during which he claimed that not a single person in the room said they held any cryptocurrency.

Read the entire article at https://cointelegraph.com/news/blockshow-americas-2018-goes-live-with-wall-street-vs-crypto-panel-discussion

By PR.com

The year 2018 marks the year that law enforcement in the U.S. appears to be getting serious about this, and an imminent crackdown seems to be mounting almost exactly as one pundit predicted last year would be necessary. Jason Bloomberg is a world-renowned expert on trends that cause upheaval in digital transformation and enterprise technology, and his perspective on cryptocurrency is multifaceted but perhaps best synopsized by his reference to Bitcoin as the “blood diamonds of the digital era.” He’s written about the real, unspoken reason why Bitcoin stays afloat. He wrote in Forbes in March 2017, “the underlying value of Bitcoin really has little to do with its artificial scarcity or popularity as a medium of speculation. On the contrary – the only reason Bitcoin has value to anyone is because of the underlying value as a medium of exchange for lawbreakers. If we could flip a switch and eliminate all illegal uses of Bitcoin, there would be nothing left of the cybercurrency.”

Read the entire article at https://www.pr.com/press-release/762504

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Kubernetes has become the de facto container orchestration platform of choice in the enterprise, but implementing it at scale involves pulling together many different elements across compute, storage, and network infrastructure, a complex and time-consuming effort.

To simplify Kubernetes deployment and configuration, Robin Systems offers what it calls a ‘hyperconverged’ Kubernetes platform. This software-only platform includes resources for native storage, compute, and network capabilities, as well as an application management layer for controlling such resources.

The advantages of this architecture include the ability to dynamically adjust resources as well as ‘one click’ management for scalability, migration, updating, and patching of applications that run on Kubernetes.

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European cryptocurrency and blockchain conference BlockShow made its first US appearance in Las Vegas this week, attracting several hundred of the crypto faithful, intent on trading stories about how disruptive their new world of blockchain was going to be.

Five minutes and four password entries later you finally get your jelly beans, and you only have to pay a 10% transaction fee for the privilege.

However, in spite of the hype, fervor, and intense camaraderie, the cracks in the façade were as wide as ever, as any disruption was all talk and no action. Instead of changing the world, the participants could hardly put together a rational business plan.

Numerous entrepreneurs approached me during the conference, pitching me on their business ideas. With few exceptions, every business plan had some fatal flaw. Here are some typical examples.

Read the entire article at https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonbloomberg/2018/08/22/despite-denial-cryptocurrencys-decline-in-full-view-at-blockshow-conference/.

Intellyx publishes the Agile Digital Transformation Roadmap poster, advises companies on their digital transformation initiatives, and helps vendors communicate their agility stories. As of the time of writing, none of the organizations mentioned in this article are Intellyx customers. The author does not own, nor does he intend to own, any cryptocurrency or other cryptotokens, neither long nor short. Image credit: Jason Bloomberg.

By Pcaijing

该讨论会由TechCrunch的特约编辑Mike Butcher主持，并由来自金融和加密货币行业的五位专家组成，专家成员包括领先的IT分析师和《福布斯》撰稿人Jason Bloomberg、Celsius Network的首席执行官Alex Mashinsky以及Titan DX交易所的监管交易首席执行官Rich Gupta。

Read the entire article at http://m.pcaijing.com/p/14926.html

By Cripcy

これらの意見に対し、ITアナリスト兼Forbesの貢献者Jason Bloomberg氏は、
「米国金融業界が仮想通貨に近寄らない最大の理由は、「非許可(permissionless)」の性質があり、組織犯罪の手がかかっている、所謂“時限爆弾”であるからだ。」
と発言。

Read the entire article at https://cripcy.jp/blockchain/blockshow-americas-2018-goes-live-with-first-panel-wall-street-vs-crypto-discussion

By Xing

Are you struggling to align your ERPs with digital technology? Is it time you created agile data environments for SAP development and testing?

We are excited to announce our upcoming webinar with guest presenter, Jason Bloomberg, Forbes writer and industry analyst, as he takes us through the current challenges facing SAP and how to overcome them.

Attendees will receive our exclusive whitepaper, Achieving Business Agility in an ERP-Driven World: “Driving Continuous Delivery for SAP” following the event.

Schedule

• Customer-driven digital priorities in the context of existing IT investments
• The modern challenges with SAP
• ‘Shift left’ testing and SAP
• Continuous Delivery for SAP
• And More!

Register for the webinar at https://www.xing.com/events/driving-continuous-delivery-sap-1825775

In today’s digital world, it seems everything is accelerating: customer demands, technology innovation, and the never-ending firehose of data. It’s becoming increasingly difficult to keep up.

Keeping up, however, isn’t good enough. To remain competitive, you must move faster in order to stay ahead. Slow applications won’t cut it any more. And slow data? Well, slow data are useless data.

On this webinar, industry analyst and agile digital transformation expert Jason Bloomberg will discuss the strategic importance of real-time, streaming applications, and how organizations must rethink their approach to building applications to remain ahead of the competition in today’s fast-paced digital world.

Next, Brett Rudenstein, VP Product Management, from VANTIQ will present several examples of companies that have built Web-scale applications following this new paradigm across multiple industries, including transportation, financial services, supply chain, and the Internet of Things.

Brett will also demonstrate how dead simple it is to build powerful, wicked fast real-time streaming apps using the VANTIQ Application Platform.

September 14, 2017

9:00 PDT / 12:00 EDT / 17:00 BST

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September 6

10:00 PDT / 1:00 EDT

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As digital transformation takes hold in enterprises across all industries, people are realizing that software must drive customer value. Software is truly ‘eating the world.’

The Web Scale companies — Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, and their ilk — have figured this out. Now it’s the enterprise’s turn.

Few of today’s enterprises, however, have the luxury of being 100% in the cloud. Far more common: a mix of on-premises technology (both new and old) as well as one or more clouds — a scenario we’re now calling Hybrid IT.

In this webinar, Intellyx president Jason Bloomberg will frame challenges of delivering Hybrid IT at Web Scale, and will discuss how today’s enterprises can achieve the benefits of Web Scale IT given the realities of the hybrid mix of technologies most large organizations bring to bear.

Next, Andrew Marshall of Cedexis will explain how its SaaS platform provides automated, predictive, and cost-optimal routing of apps, video, and web content, empowering even the most hybrid of enterprises to deliver customer value at Web Scale.

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September 21, 2017
9:30 PDT / 12:30 EDT / 15:30 BST

Jason Bloomberg, President of ZapThink and Renu Motwani, Sr. Director of Product Management at CA Technologies

The low code movement is erupting in the enterprise, creating some confusion but also providing opportunity. The boundaries between IT and Lines of Business are blurring as a need for agility and velocity drives adoption of less code-centric development tools. Low code approaches offer a way to simplify complex application development and data integration into graphical, declarative configuration, thus accelerating the development lifecycle and making developers more efficient and productive. This provides an opportunity to accelerate delivery of key initiatives without sacrificing quality.

Jason Bloomberg, president of ZapThink, will discuss the low code movement, its impact on the enterprise and developers, and its future. Renu Motwani, Product Manager for CA Live API Creator, will then discuss CA’s low code solution for creating and executing low code APIs and microservices, and provide a demonstration of its capabilities.

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Digital transformation has reached a tipping point. Everyone now understands that they must transform, but too many organizations get hung up on the technology and miss the key point: it all comes down to the customer experience.

Charles Araujo, Principal Analyst with Intellyx and Stantive CEO Doug Girvin will explore the emerging idea of The Digital Experience Platform and its role in digital transformation. In this interactive webinar exchange, Charlie & Doug will explore the four unrelenting trends that are driving this evolution and that will lead almost every organization to build a Digital Experience Platform in the near future.

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