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Data is one of the most valuable commodities an organization has. Every company stores and manages a substantial amount of information. But how do you gain revenue from it? Here, we discuss three ways you can monetize data with an embedded analytics investment.

Medical affairs has grown to become a core pillar of the pharmaceutical industry, linking the work of research and development and commercial operations. However, for leaders in the industry, navigating the process and data complexities and communication silos involved can prove challenging.

In large organizations, Confluent Cloud is often simultaneously accessed by many different users along with business-critical applications, potentially across different lines of business. With so many individual pieces working together, the risk of an individual outage, error, or incident affecting other services increases. An incident could be constituted by a user clicking a wrong button, an application’s misconfiguration, or just a bug—you name it.

The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) launched an ambitious program with a name as intimidating as the effort to re-imagine the security architecture of the Department of Defense (DoD). Thunderdome is DISA’s zero trust network access and application security architecture.

The COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting economic uncertainty forced businesses to rethink how they approach growth. This especially rang true in the financial services industry, where financial trends have the most direct impact. Curiosity, collaboration, and adaptability all became key to surviving this new climate.

In modern enterprises, the exponential growth of data means organizational knowledge is distributed across multiple formats, ranging from structured data stores such as data warehouses to multi-format data stores like data lakes. Information is often redundant and analyzing data requires combining across multiple formats, including written documents, streamed data feeds, audio and video. This makes gathering information for decision making a challenge.

Our users surprise us every day. They constantly find new and exciting ways to use our apps, and create all kinds of edge cases with their behaviour. As developers, it’s impossible to predict every single edge case. What we can do, however, is train our apps to react, and this is the core of Reactive programming, a development paradigm which has rapidly gained popularity for Swift programmers in recent years.

Think about the monotonous task of extracting data from sources like spreadsheets and emails and typing it into various systems. Repetitive tasks and manual workflows lurking inside business processes slow down teams, introduce human error, and erode employee engagement. Slow, ineffective processes can also kill an organization’s time to market and customer satisfaction.

Organizations use enterprise resource planning (ERP) programs to meet the needs of an always-on culture in which a business's ability to pivot efficiently is important. Our five key takeaways about ERP integration and its business potential are.

An application programming interface (API) defines a set of rules and protocols that allow different software entities to communicate with one another. Open or public APIs offer free access to everyone with little or no restrictions. These public APIs allow developers to build innovative solutions and extend existing ones covering a variety of use cases. In this article, we cover some of the best open APIs from different categories.