As products of all kinds embed various levels of intelligence, software becomes a key differentiator—making the integration of software into the product development process critical. Intersection of ...

Ever stopped to think what it takes to get a premium car out of the driveway? The sheer volume and complexity of the software that is behind a car like the BMW i3, with its sophisticated navigation ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I track enterprise software application development & data management. Back at the early dawn of prehistory, we used to reserve ...

With all the hoopla about Software-as-a-Service apps and mobile computing, it’s easy to forget that infrastructure software—everything from operating systems to middleware to databases—remains the ...

The sellers of today's software products have already learned what their counterparts in the hardware industry have known for years – that it is primarily the ongoing support provided to customers ...

The application software division is Oracle’s second biggest revenue generator after its database product portfolio. The company has a variety of application software products across verticals such as ...

Pegasystems released a new AI-powered capability last summer called Blueprint that could look at all kinds of inputs to ...

(1) A set of application programs that are built from a common set of software modules. A software product line (SPL) implies a formal procedure for designing the modules based on predicting how they ...

Mark Lack, who’s in charge of business and financial reporting at Mueller Inc., a manufacturing firm in Ballinger, Texas, is only half-joking when he says the water cooler is his best source of ...

Oracle Corp. ( ORCL) is the world's largest database software development company with revenues in excess of $38 billion and a market capitalization over $175 billion. The company competes in the ...