Given the array of ongoing challenges businesses face, including those posed by hybrid work and COVID-19, business automation is more important than ever. In large organizations, many business units have long been using robotic process automation (RPA) to automate simple manual tasks such as copying and pasting data. While RPA can address local needs quickly and easily, it can’t scale to deliver the complete end-to-end automation, also called hyperautomation, that modern companies need.

In the age of transformation, agility is critical for companies to remain competitive. Continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) is an automated software delivery process that empowers development teams to respond to market demands quickly. The process helps companies deploy new features as often as every few hours. This is ideal for teams using APIs to modernize legacy systems as a part of their digital transformation strategy.

Business transformation is about fundamentally changing how a business operates to keep pace and remain competitive in the new digital-first environment. The goal is to adopt modern technology to improve the customer experience and corporate culture through improved operating models and technology. Read more about the elements of business transformation, why it matters, and how companies like Netflix have huge business transformation success.

If you’re looking to buy software for your business, you might struggle to find a solution that does exactly what you need it to do. The more complex the need — application lifecycle management, for example — the less exact the fit. Your final decision will probably depend on which makes more sense for you: customization or configuration. A highly configurable tool may cost more on the front end, but your total cost isn’t just the price tag.

Cloud-to-cloud migration can be an expensive, cumbersome, and overwhelming process with no guarantee of success. Yet, moving data from cloud to cloud is becoming more and more common in the public sector as operations are being migrated to the cloud more completely. Factors like complexities in environments, sheer volume of historical data, and application nuances can greatly impact the success or failure of a cloud migration effort.

We are excited to announce that Profile Dashboards are now live within Moesif! We have designed Profile Dashboards to enable customer-facing teams with a convenient way to monitor and analyze your customer’s account health. This new feature provides customer specific information in an easy and consistent fashion. Profile Dashboards allow you to see a personalized dashboard for specific users and companies.

Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) is a framework used by businesses, investors, and consumers to determine how conscious an entity is with respect to those three concepts. Consumer awareness paired with an increase in government regulation have shifted businesses’ priorities. For many large corporations, ESG now tops the list. Today’s consumers want to know where their products and services come from and that the companies behind them operate with ESG factors in mind.

Debugging APIs can be a challenge for any developer dealing with RESTful APIs. Trying to create an exact API request, especially for highly complex requests with large API request bodies and multiple headers, is essential but also tough to do. By using a tool like Postman to create a request for debugging purposes and as an API client, you can easily replay an API request with the exact configuration of the original request.

Some exciting new improvements have been launched with React 18. When React 18 was announced a year ago, the team promised a gradual adoption strategy. Now, a year later, this is exactly what they've done and you can upgrade your app to the newest version. React 18 comes with a few breaking changes, depending on how you use it.

In the second part of our Alexa tutorial series, we explore Alexa Skills, learn how to design a voice user interface (VUI), and build a custom Alexa skill called "Bitrise CI" from scratch.