In the pharmaceutical industry, an effective supply chain is critical, not only for operations but also for ensuring the safety and quality of products going out to market. The complex nature of pharmaceutical supply chains, combined with their stringent regulatory requirements, makes risk management a top priority.

In the ever-evolving landscape of software testing, the transition from manual to automated testing is a journey filled with misconceptions, challenges, and significant rewards. Recently, I had the privilege of hosting a conversation with two industry experts, David DiCocco and Alex Martins, who shared their personal experiences and insights on this topic.

Automation has unleashed unprecedented productivity and profits for organizations. By automating formerly manual tasks, businesses see efficiency gains, reduced human error, cost savings, and improved innovation. Automation frees employees for creative work and work that requires human intervention. To facilitate this, many organizations have stitched together a wide range of automation tools. This includes robotic process automation (RPA), generative AI, predictive AI, and business process management.

The managed IT services is evolving at a breakneck pace, driven by complexity and constant change. As highlighted in Gartner’s 2024 Hype Cycle for Managed IT Services, several emerging trends and innovations are set to transform the landscape. For leaders in sourcing, procurement, and vendor management, understanding these developments is crucial for strategic planning. This blog post explores key innovations in managed IT services, providing examples and insights relevant to our work at Testhouse.

The Crowdstrike outage impacted everything from getting groceries delivered to airplanes. What did we all learn? Understand and learn how to prevent software outages in the future.

The Snowflake AI Data Cloud is an end-to-end platform that supports all types of data, compute, use cases and personas across an entire organization. By delivering a single, unified platform for all users, it is no surprise that organizations continue to expand their use cases on Snowflake. And therefore, it is extremely important for us to reaffirm our commitment to price-performant queries for our customers on a consistent basis.

A predictable, stable environment (in terms of your operating system, system libraries, build tools, and programming libraries) is essential to each development step: from onboarding, to collaboration, continuous integration, quality assurance, and deployment. Deviation can cause one-off, intermittent, and even catastrophic failures. However, consistency can be elusive, even with the best intentions, best practices, and tools in place, because: Nix aims to solve some of these issues.