In its 2019 Forrester Wave on the iPaaS market, the research firm identifies the companies leading the way to better integration. Forrester put the criteria used for its report into three buckets: Current offering. Each vendor’s position on the vertical axis of the Forrester Wave graphic indicates the strength of its current offering. Key criteria … continue reading
The rush to cloud has created a surge in iPaaS providers. As will all things, some are better than others. Among the facts you should know before making a choice are these: Is the provider profitable? Do they offer complete API management capabilities? Do they offer a hybrid solution? Do they do more than simply … continue reading
The rise of agile and mobile has fueled digital transformation across every industry, which has given rise to internal efficiency-focused initiatives like DevOps. With the prominence of mobile-first strategies within digital businesses, the speed and complexity of mobile create challenges for organizations looking to secure the data handled by mobile apps. If you are on the journey … continue reading
Noted SQL Server MVP and founding editor of SSWUG.org Stephen Wynkoop addresses the challenges of achieving quality data, the negative effects of poor data quality on your business, and the importance of the single customer view (SCV) to an effective data quality regimen. Wynkoop explores different data quality implementations in SQL Server, citing Melissa’s unique … continue reading
One of the challenges teams face when transitioning to continuous testing within DevOps is the oversimplification found in many models. These often underestimate the effort and time required. For new projects and small teams, you can begin with a pure agile approach, utilize the best new tools, and glory in the lack of technical and … continue reading
Organizations – and developers – need to innovate to stay competitive, and with release schedules shrinking all the time, it’s more likely that a business-threatening bug might slip through to production. Successfully implementing CT, which aims to avoid business-killing software failures, depends on continuous alignment between people, processes, and technology in the organization. Each of these three … continue reading
Today’s applications are architectured to work on hybrid, componentized, containerized, distributed, mobile/sensor environments, and so do the networks that sustain all these applications together. Complexity, traffic volume, intolerance to performance degradation and inefficiency will only increase, demanding real-time and holistic monitoring. There are several sources of instrumentation for network monitoring data such as: Endpoints metrics, events, logging, … continue reading
Time series data has historically been associated with applications in finance. However, as developers and businesses move to instrument more of their servers, applications, network infrastructure and the physical world, time series is becoming the de facto standard for how to think about storing, retrieving, and mining this data for real-time and historical insight. This paper … continue reading
Calendar help us keep track of our lives, and integrating these calendars into the software tools businesses and consumers use has become mission-critical for many software companies. But building those integrations is a complex process. We created this guide to help make your calendar integration process easy. In this guide, you will learn: The deceptively complex … continue reading
With workers reluctant to leave their favored tools to do other tasks, SaaS providers are creating APIs to deliver such things as email, workflow automation, and more into those tools of choice.. But building these features into your application is complex and time-consuming. This guide is designed to help organizations see the differences between building … continue reading
