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Sparkling Water now includes the ability to interface with Apache Spark, Rogue Wave is updating its MLlib and Scala to give Spark user’s more visual capabilities. open-source framework for Sparkling Water 2.0 builds off of Sparkling Water, which was designed to give its users APIs, developing Web applications RDDs and multi-tenant context, as well as machine learning algorithms. Sparkling Water also and services. According to the allows enterprises to use H2O algorithms company, this is the first with MLlib algorithms on Apache Spark. major release in four years. Other new features and improvements Zend Framework 3 features include the ability to run Apache Spark support for PHP 7 and middle- and Scala through H2O’s Flow UI, support ware runtime and perform- for the Apache Zeppelin notebook, visual ance enhancements. intelligence for Apache Spark, and real- In addition, version 3 of the time machine learning for data products framework features an archi- using Spark Streaming and H2O. tectural structure that allows H2O.ai recently built a team of data visualization experts who focus on AI and machine learn- developers to use components ing algorithms. The team’s progress will come to Apache Spark via Sparkling Water, which gives within Zend Framework apps users an easy way to understand their visualizations of algorithmic results. or any other framework in order to reduce dependencies, AppSource contains more dows and ReportPlus Embed- and more than 20 visualiza- and to enable reuse within the than 200 business SaaS apps, ded. tions to create custom dash- PHP ecosystem. add-ins and content packs, ReportPlus is a data visual- boards. Another key update to the including new business apps, ization service that gives solution is a new middleware according to a Microsoft enterprises the ability to see runtime. Expressive is announcement. how their business is perform- Rails 5.0 released designed to focus on simplici- Other updates from ing, and it runs either in the with Action Cable, ty and interoperability, and it Microsoft will enable cus- cloud or on-premise. Infragis- API mode enables developers to cus- tomers to gain more insight tics is now including an After four betas, two release tomize their solutions. from their data so they can embedded SDK with Report- candidates, and hundreds of build apps with embedded Plus in order to allow develop- contributors, Rails 5.0 is finally intelligence and analytics. ers to take the solution and Microsoft updates done. One of the most impor- Microsoft announced the gen- embed it into their applica- tant features of this release is give customers eral availability of Power BI’s tions. Action Cable, a new framework insight from their data publish to web feature to help The desktop version was that handles WebSockets in developers create visualiza- created in response to cus- Microsoft customers will be Rails. Action Cable is an inte- tions and then publish them to tomer requests. According to able to use their data in com- grated solution for managing a blog or website. Some fea- Jason Beres, senior vice pres- bination with new updates and connections, with two layers: tures available in Power BI ident of developer tools at capabilities, such as the intro- one for server-side processing, include free authoring tools, Infragistics, the company duction of Microsoft Dynamics and a JavaScript layer for one-click publishing to the 365, Microsoft AppSource, heard users wanted some- client-side interaction. web, and cross-device sup- and Power BI Embedded. thing that could publish According to the Ruby on port. Microsoft Dynamics 365 reports from their desktops Rails team, Action Cable moves Microsoft’s current and laptops, so it created makes designing live features CRM and ERP cloud solutions Infragistics allows ReportPlus Desktop.