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December 2020

The role of the IT Manager in Leading Digital Transformation

As organizations embrace digital transformation, the IT industry has had to change along with it. Expectations are high for the potential effects of implementing new and emerging technologies and organizations are competing to keep pace. With this desire for rapid change, IT managers have been faced with mounting pressure to adopt tools, process and models of digital business as part of enterprise digital transformation initiatives.

Digital Transformation: What Does It Mean for Enterprise Organizations?

From tiny startups to massive Fortune 500 firms, businesses of all sizes and industries are making heavier investments in digital transformation initiatives. Yet despite this increased awareness and effort, too many large enterprises are still struggling to adapt to a rapidly changing business landscape.

What is Low Code?

Businesses are increasingly demanding new software solutions that are quick, efficient, and user friendly. Low code is a way to automate several steps of the application process while still providing rapid delivery. In simplest terms, low code is a way of building processes and applications with very little coding. There are several aspects of this type of software development you need to understand when fully answering the question, what is low code?

Digital Transformation: What Does It Mean for Small and Medium-Sized Businesses?

Small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) are the lifeblood of the economy: according to Deloitte, companies with fewer than 500 employees represent 99.7 percent of all businesses in the U.S., and employ 48 percent of the private workforce. Yet despite their sheer numbers, SMBs don’t have access to the power, budget, and resources that larger organizations can wield, particularly when it comes to digital transformation.

Distributed API Management: What You Need to Know

APIs (application programming interfaces) are an essential, yet often overlooked, component of the modern organization’s IT environment. According to a 2020 study, 83 percent of IT professionals and executives say that API integration is “critical” to their business strategy. These days, a single organization may rely on dozens or hundreds of third-party APIs, each of which may have a significant downstream effect on a company’s productivity and profitability.

Digital Transformation: What Does It Mean for Developers?

Businesses of all sizes and industries are increasingly turning to digital transformations in order to make smarter, data-driven decisions, thereby gaining a competitive advantage over their competitors and better serving their customers. Yet as more and more companies adopt this forward-looking stance, what’s the role of developers in this new world of digital transformation?

Building Enterprise Microapps with DreamFactory and Citrix Workspace

Microapps help employees get work done faster, providing a highly tailored user interface, mobile-first experience, and push notifications to quickly power through daily responsibilities. Thanks to the native microapp builder Citrix Workspace users have access to a particularly powerful solution for creating microapps, and the builder can easily plug into the DreamFactory platform in order to almost instantly generate modern user interfaces for twenty different databases including Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle, MongoDB, and others.

Top 8 API Security Threats Every API Team Should Know

Join us to unpack more than just the OWASP Security API list as we look to identify what every API developer should consider when building APIs. Does your current API management solution support security best practice or are you opening yourself up to data spills and violations? Connect Everything with Autogenerated APIs An enterprise-grade API platform available in the cloud or on-premise. Generate database APIs instantly to build applications faster.

API Functional Testing- A Critical Part Of Your Security Plan

Functional tests help you to both catch vulnerabilities before your API goes into production and also monitor the health of your API moving forward. Learn how to optimise functional testing to become a core aspect of your security plan and prevent unauthorized access and unsavory data spills.

Digital Transformation: What Does It Mean for Different Industries?

Digital technologies have been advancing at a breakneck pace, and companies are taking advantage in order to beat their competitors and better serve their customers. According to the 2018 “State of the CIO” report, 40 percent of IT budgets are now allocated for the express purpose of digital transformation regardless of industry. What’s more, 70 percent of companies say that they either already have a digital transformation strategy, or they’re working on putting one into place.

Top 5 API Integration Platforms for 2021

A quick search on “the top API integration platforms for 2021” brings up so many contenders that it’s difficult to understand your options. In fact, the top API integration platforms are so distinct in features that it’s surprising they all fall under the same “API integration” category. In this guide, you’ll find API integration platforms that serve as: So, which solution is right for your use-case?

Digital Transformation Challenges Organizations Need To Overcome

In recent years, Digital Transformation has become a strategic priority for organizations. Significant investment has been made across many companies to create strategic and organizational capabilities that enable them to compete in the contemporary digital arena. However, it is not trivial; organizations face numerous challenges in their digital transformation journey. There is no panacea, and the combination of tool and process choices can make or break an operation.