The Futurum Group’s latest Signal report on Software Development Platforms names Microsoft, AWS, and Google as the top three providers, each achieving Elite status with scores above 90. Microsoft led across all five measured attributes — business value, innovation, vision, execution, and ecosystem — underscoring its longstanding developer focus. AWS and Google continue to close the gap with strong AI integration and ecosystem growth, while challengers like Oracle, IBM, Red Hat, GitHub, Atlassian, and Salesforce also scored competitively.
Redefining Engineering Excellence: How Product Skills Amplify Your Impact in the Era of AI
AI allows engineers to delegate tasks to a ‘personal junior engineer’. This raises an important question: What’s next for software engineers?
Why We’re Swimming in Dashboards and Drowning in Data
Knowing how to use a dashboard is table stakes in the enterprise. Information technologies generate countless volumes of data from multiple sources, and dashboards are meant to harness all of […]
DevOps Chat: Maximizing the Benefits of DevSecOps
When discussing security in DevOps, we often focus on the security tools instead of the DevSecOps process itself. In this DevOps Chat, ZeroNorth CEO John Worrall takes us to the […]
Don’t Tool Up a Broken Value Stream
A well-known failure mode for business process automation is to automate a broken process. The same goes for tooling up value stream management (VSM). If you have an overly complex […]
Software Development Management Drives Business Value
How much business value does your software group generate for your organization? That’s the existential question an international corporation’s software leader poses, kicking off the 2017 book “The Business Value […]
Developers Have More in Common With Marketers Than They Think
Marketing professionals and developers together are critical in advancing customer experience More than a decade ago, in the early age of digital transformation, industry analysts and insiders began discussing the […]
DevOps Chat: ‘War, Peace & IT’ With Marc Schwartz
Marc Schwartz is one of those rare individuals who is not only a great IT exec, but he also can analyze what works and doesn’t work and write it up […]
Too Many Projects: Breaking Initiative Overload
Initiative overload. Those words send a chill down the spine of IT leaders everywhere. Not only are overloaded teams juggling too many projects, morale is usually low, with long hours […]
3 AWS Design Patterns to Maximize DevOps Value
Many business leaders are planning to make DevOps the cornerstone of their IT transformation strategy. But, as surprising as it might sound, skepticism abounds regarding how major vendors address the DevOps transformation challenges—they confuse DevOps […]
