December 2019

9 Improvements Your Tech Business Should Make Next Year

We're living in a time of extreme global competition and rapid technological changes. For your business to remain competitive, you have to stay on top of day-to-day improvements and advances in technology. You might think you have an automatic handle on shifts in technical knowledge since you're in the industry, but it's impossible to stay on top of everything unless you make a concerted effort to do so. 

Important Reasons Why Infographics are Crucial in Content Marketing

The online world is one colorful, versatile palette of content formats. Different businesses rely on a range of content kinds to appeal to their target audience and to differentiate themselves from their competitors, so you see brands post social media polls to drive engagement, sponsored posts to gain more visibility, Instagram imagery to inspire their followers, and YouTube tutorials to educate their audience. Of course, the relevance of the written word never wanes, so businesses still religiously stick to their blog-posting schedules. However, what is the relevance of infographics on this wide spectrum of content formats?

Crossword Consulting Approved as a CREST Penetration Testing Provider

5 December 2019 – London, UK – Crossword Cybersecurity Plc (AIM:CCS, “Crossword”, the “Company” or the “Group”), is delighted to announce that its Consulting division has received CREST accreditation for its penetration testing services. This means that the Company now holds certifications from CREST, IASME and Cyber Essentials Plus.

OutSystems Honours 2019 Global Low-Code Innovation Award Winners

London – 4th December, 2019 OutSystems honoured the 2019 Low-Code Innovation Awards recipients at its NextStep conference series recently held in Denver and Amsterdam. Winners were named from the Americas, EMEA, and APAC regions and represent a wide variety of industries and innovative low-code use cases.

The OutSystems Innovation Awards recognise, honour, and celebrate the organisations and people that are using OutSystems to make IT dramatically more proactive, productive, and essential to creating business value and driving innovation.

Leveraging Googlebots Detection of JavaScript Redirects for Ranking

In the last I/O developer conference held in May 2019, there was an official announcement from Google that Googlebot web crawler is up-to-date with the latest Chromium version. This featured update also made Googlebot capable of crawling the modern websites to access those features too modern browsers demands like the use of JavaScript.

IGEL Enhances the Security Capabilities of UD7 Endpoints

Powered by the AMD Embedded RX-216GD processor, the IGEL UD7 now features the built-in capabilities of the AMD Secure Processor

AWS RE:INVENT BOOTH #429, LAS VEGAS, Dec. 3, 2019 – IGEL, provider of the next-gen edge OS for cloud workspaces, today announced that it has integrated the AMD Secure Processor on IGEL UD7 endpoints, effectively creating a dedicated ‘chain of trust’ security system that further strengthens IGEL’s security posture. IGEL UD7 featuring the integrated AMD Secure Processor will be on display this week at AWS Re:Invent, Booth #429.

EnterpriseDB Named a Challenger in Gartner Magic Quadrant for Operational Database Management Systems

Recognition based on completeness of vision and ability to execute

BEDFORD, Mass., December 3, 2019 – EnterpriseDB, the enterprise Postgres company, today announced it has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the Challengers quadrant of the Magic Quadrant for Operational Database Management Systems. (Gartner “Magic Quadrant for Operational Database Management Systems” by Merv Adrian, Donald Feinberg, Henry Cook, published November 25, 2019) This marks the seventh year EnterpriseDB has been included in the report – and every time it has been published.

Mainframe shops favor a single authentication system that protects both mainframe and non-mainframe applications, says new survey

Crawley, UK, December 3, 2019 - IBM mainframe customers would prefer a single unified authentication system that lets users securely access both mainframe and non-mainframe applications, a new survey suggests. As well as improving the user experience, the research indicates this would encourage more mainframe customers to move away from relying solely on passwords in favor of stronger protection such as multi-factor authentication (MFA). Mainframe professionals also recognize that it is easier and more cost effective to deploy the same MFA solution across mainframe and other environments such as Microsoft Windows.

Achieving digital potential: new solutions to overcome limitations of legacy back-end systems

New whitepaper by Fincons Group outlines how Digital Integration Hubs can help the FS sector respond to evolving market pressures

Milan, 03 December 2019 – Fincons Group, a leading system integration company, releases today a new whitepaper tackling the challenges faced by Banks and Insurers of responding to pressure from new user experience expectations, increased regulatory constraints, and ultimately to the need to integrate data from internal and external sources with high query volumes.

Fincons Group outlines the key role that Digital Integration Hubs can play in helping FS companies respond to these pressures without putting their legacy systems at risk.