DVT promotes disciplined approach to agile

The many benefits of the disciplined agile delivery (DAD) approach were outlined at the recent Agile Africa 2013 Conference by software development company DVT’s newly appointed principal agile consultant and coach, Riaan du Toit, whose talk was entitled Enterprise...

Gartner names MicroStrategy a challenger

MicroStrategy Incorporated, a leading worldwide provider of enterprise software platforms, has announced that it has debuted in the “Challengers” quadrant in Gartner’s 2013 “Magic Quadrant for Mobile Application Development Platforms” (MADP) report. “We are extremely...

Software development and smart computing

Forrester Research’s Global Tech Market Outlook 2013-2014 points out that software as a service (SaaS) and data-driven smart apps will be the major growth engines for the global software market. The report forecasts that the SaaS market will increase in 2013 by 25% to...

HP speeds delivery of application services

HP has announced the next generation of its data centre automation, orchestration and cloud management software, which is designed to enable enterprise IT to rapidly deliver services on a massive scale – on premises or via the cloud – to meet changing...

BlackBerry Jam sessions come to SA in July

The BlackBerry Jam Africa & Middle East Tour will come to South Africa in July providing South African developers a chance for more hands-on experience with the range of development tools available for the BlackBerry platform. The sessions will take place in...

Alpha Software launches Alpha Anywhere

Alpha Software has announced Alpha Anywhere, the first complete environment for rapid development and deployment of robust business applications for mobile devices and personal computers, including smartphones, tablets, PCs, Macs, Chromebooks, ultrabooks and...