Information Technology

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.

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.

Confirmit Reflects on 2019: A Year of Global Expansion and Forward-Thinking Initiatives

Confirmit leads with technological developments, greater global reach, and industry recognition across the globe

London, UK, Oslo, Norway and New York, NY, 3 December, 2019 – Confirmit, the leading global solutions provider for Voice of the Customer (VoC), Voice of the Employee and Market Research (MR) is poised to enter 2020 with enhanced technology, greater global alignment, and top industry recognition to meet the evolving needs of its global client base.

The Cloud Trap: Strategies to Avoid Lock-In

Attend any major tech conference and it’s a good bet that someone will be on stage talking about the accelerating rate of change in technology. It’ll most likely be the keynote speaker, listing several examples to help the audience grasp the power of exponential change that we’re experiencing today and will continue to experience moving forward. This isn’t a knock against industry evangelists for continuing to harp on this very important point.

CleverTouch Marketing Achieves 3-Star Status in Best Companies Accreditation Programme 2019

Hampshire-based Marketing Technology consultancy recognised as an organisation with ‘extraordinary’ levels of workplace engagement

Alresford, UK, 29 November 2019 – CleverTouch Marketing, Europe’s most respected Marketing Technology consulting and service provider, has been awarded 3-Star status in Best Companies Accreditation Programme 2019 for its ‘extraordinary’ levels of workplace engagement, it announced today.

Unknown danger: 74% of Internet users unaware of QR Code Spam despite growing problem

27 November 2019, London – Seventy four per cent of British internet users have never heard of QR code spam, according to a recent representative survey commissioned by European email provider GMX. This is despite a significant increase in QR code spam being detected by GMX email security experts. They analysed how spammers change their methods by running so called ‘honey traps’, which are special email accounts without spam filters which aim to attract as much spam as possible. The analysis of the contents of these traps show that QR code spam is trending in 2019 top spam methods.