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3D Printing: On Standardizing 3D File Formats

By Formtek

Microsoft has recently organized a consortium of companies to create a standard and open file format for specifying 3D print objects.  The new file format is called the 3D Manufacturing Format (3MF) specification and an initial release of the specification is…

Big Data: Accenture Finds Big Companies Benefit Most From Big Data

By Formtek

A recent study by Accenture presents a rosy picture on the success and benefits of Big Data.  Their survey looked at businesses that have implemented Big Data projects in order to assess their impressions on the technology.  92 percent of…

HashiCorp Atlas: Automating DevOps Application Delivery on Any Infrastructure

By Dick Weisinger

Today HashiCorp announces the general availability of their Atlas commercial product.  Atlas is a cloud service that wraps their six open-source products: Vagrant, Packer, Serf, Consul, Terraform, and Vault.  The goal of the service is to dashboard and control the total DevOp application…

Internet of Things (IoT): Less Than 10 percent of Mobile and IoT data is ever Analyzed or Acted on

By Formtek

The IoT market is expected to grow rapidly.  IDC estimates that it currently is growing at a rate of 13 percent annually, growing from a value greater than $1.3 trillion this year to more than $3.04 trillion in 2020.  Today…

Enterprise Software: CRM Market Still Strong

By Formtek

The global CRM market grew 13.3% in 2014, reaching $23.2 billion, according to Gartner.  Of that money, 47 percent of it were for SaaS-based CRM applications. The report noted market share as follows: 18.4 percent – Salesforce 12.1 percent –…