Progress announced the Q4 2024 release of its award-winning Progress® Telerik® and Progress® Kendo UI® component libraries.
SmartBear announced the acquisition of Bitbar, provider of a mobile app test automation platform and device cloud.
The addition of Bitbar’s technology to the SmartBear product portfolio extends the company’s ability to empower organizations to fully embrace automation in order to deliver higher quality software faster. Bitbar offers customers the highest level of performance and scalability and is the most configurable among mobile app test platforms, allowing organizations to more easily integrate with CI/CD pipelines using APIs.
Bitbar is a natural complement to the SmartBear CrossBrowserTesting solution and strengthens the company’s ability to help customers ensure their web and mobile apps will run properly anywhere. With this acquisition, SmartBear will be able to spread the value of the Bitbar platform to the large and growing set of software development teams who are SmartBear customers.
Enterprises building software are struggling to meet the requirements of their customers. The need to deliver high quality mobile apps and web applications across operating systems, browsers, desktops, and devices has never been bigger, and to meet this challenge, organizations are looking to accelerate their automation rates to keep up with rapidly changing business demands. By allowing development and test teams to continue using their preferred technologies and processes, SmartBear simplifies this challenge.
Bitbar also supports a wide variety of frameworks used by developers (such as XCUITest and Espresso) and QA automation engineers (such as Appium), allowing them to automate tests with their framework of choice. Simply put, Bitbar lets customers do things they can’t do with other solutions, making it the clear choice to bring into the SmartBear portfolio.
“Bringing the Bitbar IP technology, along with the innovators who built it, into the SmartBear family is a big win for our customers,” said Christian Wright, Chief Product Officer and Executive GM at SmartBear. “With support for any test automation framework, unlimited device concurrency, and flexible deployment models, Bitbar enhances our customers’ ability to release better, higher-quality software faster.”
“We built Bitbar to make developers' lives easier, helping software organizations to be agile and flexible," said Marko Kaasila, CEO and Co-Founder of Bitbar. "Joining SmartBear means bringing the most flexible web and mobile app testing platform to more forward-thinking DevOps teams. Combining forces with an organization so committed to open source was just a natural next step. Our customers will continue to enjoy the platform they know and love, while now being able to leverage the broad range of SmartBear tools to make better software and deliver value faster."
Industry News
Check Point® Software Technologies Ltd. has been recognized as a Leader and Fast Mover in the latest GigaOm Radar Report for Cloud-Native Application Protection Platforms (CNAPPs).
Spectro Cloud, provider of the award-winning Palette Edge™ Kubernetes management platform, announced a new integrated edge in a box solution featuring the Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) ProLiant DL145 Gen11 server to help organizations deploy, secure, and manage demanding applications for diverse edge locations.
Red Hat announced the availability of Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (JBoss EAP) 8 on Microsoft Azure.
Launchable by CloudBees is now available on AWS Marketplace, a digital catalog with thousands of software listings from independent software vendors that make it easy to find, test, buy, and deploy software that runs on Amazon Web Services (AWS).
Kong closed a $175 million in up-round Series E financing, with a mix of primary and secondary transactions at a $2 billion valuation.
Tricentis announced that GTCR, a private equity firm, has signed a definitive agreement to invest $1.33 billion in the company, valuing the enterprise at $4.5 billion and further fueling Tricentis for future growth and innovation.
Check Point® Software Technologies Ltd. announced the new Check Point Quantum Firewall Software R82 (R82) and additional innovations for the Infinity Platform.
Sonatype and OpenText are partnering to offer a single integrated solution that combines open-source and custom code security, making finding and fixing vulnerabilities faster than ever.
Red Hat announced an extended collaboration with Microsoft to streamline and scale artificial intelligence (AI) and generative AI (gen AI) deployments in the cloud.
Endor Labs announced that Microsoft has natively integrated its advanced SCA capabilities within Microsoft Defender for Cloud, a Cloud-Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP).
Progress announced new powerful capabilities and enhancements in the latest release of Progress® Sitefinity®.
Red Hat announced the general availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.5, the latest version of the enterprise Linux platform.
Securiti announced a new solution - Security for AI Copilots in SaaS apps.
Spectro Cloud completed a $75 million Series C funding round led by Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives with participation from existing Spectro Cloud investors.