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On Low-Code platforms

Post author By Andreas
Post date October 11, 2020

Drag-and-drop platforms enable developers to assemble applications without manual programming. Toyota, ConocoPhillips, and GlobalTranz are among those enterprises leveraging low-code to create business value.
From the article

No Code

Low-Code/No-Code seems to be the buzz word of the current industry. There are virtually no product releases anymore recently, that don’t include features from this category. Every vendor is aiming to push something with this label.

Only, the idea is about as old as the software industry itself.

The sole purpose of software is to make technology available to people with less technical background. Software, in particular enterprise software, is meant to scale. To enable large scale processes to work. These processes most often require diverse backgrounds and experiences to work together.

Standardised software products, rolled out across entire companies, if not value chains, promises to allow exactly that. With no coding required. At least not, after the integration project finished.

Low Code

What is different though, is the rapid speed of change. And low-code is the key to enable virtually everyone. The entire concept is about democratising technology a lot further. The big bet is to shorten integration projects and enable business users to innovate. With no IT-Department in the middle. Asking for huge budgets and long delivery periods.

Low Code, after all, is a very old idea, but with a new, much larger, audience for enterprise software. And that’s why it’s such a game changer for the industry.

CIO.com has an article: How low-code platforms are transforming software development | CIO

Tags growth, idea, low code, no code, thought

Business & MBA

Snyk to acquire DeepCode

Post author By Andreas
Post date September 28, 2020

Snyk, vendor of open source security software, announced their intent to acquire DeepCode, a Zurich based startup that build AI based security solutions for developers.

We are excited to integrate DeepCode’s technology to our developer-first vision and the Snyk Cloud Native Application Security platform.
From the announcement

Source: Accelerating our developer-first vision with DeepCode | Snyk

Tags deepcode, M&A, snyk

Business & MBA Security & Privacy

GAIA-X takes next steps

Post author By Andreas
Post date September 15, 2020

Heute haben 22 Gründungsunternehmen & -institutionen – je 11 aus 🇩🇪 & 🇫🇷 – die notariellen Gründungsunterlagen für die künftige #GAIA-X AISBL mit Sitz in Brüssel unterzeichnet. Mehr: https://t.co/BghPDQI47C pic.twitter.com/bQzwoAAO1Y
— BMWi Bund (@BMWi_Bund) September 15, 2020

Der Mitteilung des Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie (BMWi) zu Folge haben heute je 11 deutsche und französische Gründungsmitglieder die notariellen Unterlagen zur Gründung einer “Association internationale sans but lucratif“, kurz AISBL, unterzeichnet. Es handelt sich dabei um eine “Vereinigung ohne Gewinnerzielungsabsicht”, einer belgischen Gesellschaftsform, die dem deutschen gemeinnützigen Verein vergleichbar ist. Sitz der Vereinigung wird Brüssel sein.

Die juristische Geburt des Konzeptes GAIA-X stellt einen großen Schritt nach vorne für europäische Dateninfrastruktur dar.

Tags aisbl, brussels, data, europe, gaia, gaia-x, infrastructure, privacy

Business & MBA

Nvidia to buy ARM for $40B

Post author By Andreas
Post date September 14, 2020

Nvidia confirms $40B purchase of Arm, bringing together two chip giants https://t.co/TwaulveY6G by @dannycrichton
— TechCrunch (@TechCrunch) September 14, 2020

nVidia has a blog post over the proceeding. Of course, not only for the sheer size of the deal at $40B, not only techcrunch but also The Verge report on how Nvidia is acquiring Arm for $40 billion. The impact and consequence of the deal is suspected to be huge. ARM’s market share in mobile computing has been tremendous. Through their licensing modes, many mobile phones can remain affordable with decent CPUs and GPUs. With nVidia in the game, a huge single vendor emerges for the market, that some random sources expressed concern over market dominance.

Tags ARM, chip, computing, M&A, mobile, nvidia

Business & MBA Security & Privacy

Snyk closes mega funding round

Post author By Andreas
Post date September 9, 2020

Snyk closes mega funding round: the London based company offers open-source services and products for modern security. The company announced the funding round on it’s own blog. The company, founded by Guy Podjarny, grew rapidly since it’s founding in 2015. The product addresses modern security needs for a container driven IT world. With open source and developer first approaches it delivers an approach that hits a nerve. Increasing complexity of software development and dependencies to open-source components drives demand. Dependencies to open-source components are a twofold reality: They allow faster development for any product team. At the same time, they bring a level of complexity that requires additional management. This reality created a market for companies like Snyk, but also WhiteSource or BlackDuck, in the security space, with a special focus on software development.

Snyk helps software-driven organizations find and fix vulnerabilities in open source dependencies and container images.

We are truly humbled to announce the closing of our latest funding round—an investment of $200 million led by Addition—to modernize the security industry.
from the Snyk blog.

The funding round is a Series D. Snyk closes mega funding round: With previous rounds, the company expanded internationally before. This recent funding round let’s expect further rapid growth of the brand and product. The size of the funding sets expectations for the near future pace of growth.

Source: Snyk Closes $200M to Modernize Security Industry | Snyk

Tags containers, funding, london, security, series D, snyk

Business & MBA

Sumo Logic aims to raise $310 million in US IPO

Post author By Andreas
Post date September 9, 2020

Sumo Logic plans to go public. The company offers log management services, along with analytics for the purpose of management and observability of IT Systems. The offer comes differentiated as a fully managed solution, delivered from the cloud. Now the company apparently plans for an IPO, reports Reuters:

Source: Reuters – Big data firm Sumo Logic aims to raise $310 million in U.S. IPO

Tags big data, ipo, Sumo Logic

Product, Projekt & Agile

Magic Email

Post author By Andreas
Post date September 8, 2020

It’s not like email has been a perfect solution ever, to start with. In fact, email has been broken for most of its existence. Imagine all the rules and filters you need to stay on top of your inbox. When Internet became popular, soon spam became popular.

Email lists were usable only before eternal September began. Just the other day somebody at my employer responded to an email list that has thousands of subscribers. And so did everybody else.

Not to mention those emails that come with a good intention and make it past all filters into your inbox. Those typically span many pages and make you feel guilty for not reading because you’re busy.

Admit it, email is broken.

With the advent of new technology, there are new solutions. Magic Email, as announced by Producthunt in it’s weekly newsletter, is something that I’m totally not sure whether it’s an improvement or total troll. Built on GPT-3, that created some bus on the Internet recently, Magic Email allows you to do two things:

a) It will summarize long emails for you. That actually seems to be a good idea for those emails you just couldn’t get around to reading full detail. At least it will tell you whether it’s worth it to invest more time and go into the details buried in long prose.

b) The much more interesting feature it is, that magic email can write text for you. You just give it a bunch of keywords a simple statement and it will extend to a long email. This is exactly that part that makes me wonder whether the product is meant as a troll. Imagine all those guys responding to an email list. Instead of replying “please unsubscribe me”, GPT-3 will write an exhaustive email basically saying the same. The same level of detail will pull much more of your time. Unless you have Magic Email installed yourself of course.

Nevertheless, the product is amazing.

Magic Email is your AI-powered email assistant that summarizes your emails and generates professional emails from brief one-line descriptions. Get through all of your emails 5x faster so you can free up more time for your important work.
From Producthunt