In grade school, Joe Kennedy taught himself how to code video games on his home computer. Today, Kennedy is a Partner and Technology Consulting Leader with PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PwC). In the video call leading up to this week’s Digital Masters interview, Kennedy looked remarkably dapper in a navy blue blazer, dress shirt and slacks and a handlebar mustache curled to perfection.

When developing customer-facing software, the end user’s overall experience is vital to business retention and next stages of development. Just as it’s essential for software developers to deliver crisp customer experiences, the same applies to businesses responsible for assuring the quality of customer experiences.

What can you do with data collected on Heroku PostgreSQL? How will you analyze it and integrate it? With Xplenty, of course! Xplenty lets you connect to a PostgreSQL database on Heroku, design a Dataflow via an intuitive user interface, aggregate the data, and even save it back to PostgreSQL on Heroku or other databases and cloud storage services.

All DreamFactory APIs are private by default, requiring at a minimum an API key for authentication purposes. The API key is associated with role-based access control (RBAC) which determines what actions the client responsible for supplying the API key can undertake with regards to the API. OAuth 2.0 makes adding an authentication system to your app or web page considerably easy. Many different service providers support the OAuth 2.0 spec and, in turn, so does DreamFactory.

Today’s enterprise data analytics teams are constantly looking to get the best out of their platforms. Storage plays one of the most important roles in the data platforms strategy, it provides the basis for all compute engines and applications to be built on top of it. Businesses are also looking to move to a scale-out storage model that provides dense storages along with reliability, scalability, and performance.

It seems like only yesterday that the cloud was considered the destination. For technology decision-makers, choices boiled down to: “Do I want this thing in my data center, or would it be better, cheaper and faster in the cloud?” The cloud was the place to be.

We are thrilled to announce the final piece of our test management portfolio, Zephyr for Jira, the No. 1 installed Agile test management app in the Atlassian Marketplace, has been renamed Zephyr Squad. This rename follows the rename of TM4J to Zephyr Scale in November. This completes our Zephyr product portfolio, which now includes Zephyr Squad, Zephyr Scale, and Zephyr Enterprise.

With web applications and public APIs becoming increasingly important to how organizations interface with their customers and partners, many are turning to dedicated tools that can help protect these assets.