Editor's Note: This post was originally published in November 2010, and has been updated in 2022 for comprehensiveness, with 6 additional key BI features added. Different organizations will invest in a business intelligence (BI) solution for different reasons, depending on their specific circumstances and industry.

With so many moving parts involved in crafting a modern customer experience, the need for a customer data platform (CDP) is unavoidable. A CDP platform can help ease the woes of customer data management by helping your business collect data and use it in real-time to help your marketing team reshape the customer journey.

Imagine you want to take data out of the Keboola’s ecosystem. But the unexpected happens - there is no devoted Writer component! You search through all the destination Writers - from Snowflake to Excel - but nothing works for you. This is when the Generic Writer comes in handy. The Generic Writer is a Keboola Component that allows you to send data to an API destination outside of Keboola.

Writing tests for an application is the most difficult but necessary element of a development process. Tests ensure correct code maintenance and enhanced code quality. In this tutorial, we’ll show the best way to handle side effects in your Node.js applications. But first, let's define side-effects.

The business intelligence dashboard, or BI dashboard, is a paradigm that’s well over 30 years old, and for many, it hasn’t evolved fast enough to address a fundamental limitation. Context. On its own, dashboards are a handy visualized report of key data pertaining to business performance, designed as a way to quickly consume important data at-a-glance.

The past few years have accelerated the need for every business, irrespective of their industry of operation, to provide dynamic digital experiences. Consumers now demand digital experiences that are simple, seamless, personalized, always on, and (inherently) secure from every organization they do business with. During this journey towards digitalization, businesses have often realized that this process enables them to open themselves up towards new business opportunities and modern business models.

Learn what are the 8 best KPI dashboards that experts recommend creating in order to monitor the performance of your small businesses.

When we first launched Kong Konnect Cloud last year, we provided developers and API owners a powerful way to secure and manage their API products powered by the world’s fastest API gateway. Users flocked to Konnect to reduce their operational costs by using our hosted runtime manager, service catalog, developer portal and analytics platform.

We’ve heard it called a million and one different things. Sometimes it’s “selective synchronization”, sometimes it’s called “environments”. What is clear though, is that there’s a real need to be able to manage multiple sets of configuration for Kong Gateway through a single interface. Today, we’re happy to announce Runtime Groups for Kong Konnect. Runtime Groups allow you to manage your configurations independently.

TL;DR: The Unity Cloud Content Delivery tool is a solution that helps deliver data to users in a synchronized way, which speeds up patching and enables live game updates. You can set up a project in Unity’s CCD cloud to deliver your game’s assets to customers’ devices. Additionally, you can integrate CCD with a CI/CD service to ensure consistent delivery of all parts of the updated app and to automate deployment, reducing the amount of manual work.