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Building a Modern Data Fabric on a Strong Foundation: Hitachi Vantara and MongoDB

The pursuit of business insights is a central focus the enterprise. More than a mere natural resource, data is fueling strategic decision making and as a result, the future of business. Hitachi Vantara is committed to helping accelerate data-driven experiences with cloud-ready infrastructure, advanced data management solutions, and expert services. But no company or provider in the 21st century can go it alone.

AML and KYC Compliance: Challenges, Trends, and Opportunities

We recently visited New York City for the Transform Finance FinCrime Festival to hear from financial leaders on the state of the anti-money laundering (AML) and Know Your Customer (KYC) landscape. Appian’s very own Guy Mettrick, Financial Services Industry Manager, also had the opportunity to share his thoughts on ensuring compliance while keeping in mind the importance of a customer journey.

What Is "Test Efficacy" and Why Is It Important in Visual Testing?

Humans are visual, both on and off-screen. Research shows that 94% of online visitors will form their first opinion on your business based on the design of your website. For e-commerce, 88% of shoppers are less likely to return to a website that gave them an unpleasant experience. These two simple statistics highlight how detrimental it can be to have an inconsistent product UI/UX out in the market.

Snowflake's Newest Workload for the Data Cloud: Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity is a data problem at its core. Yet, security teams haven’t achieved tremendous success in utilizing the modern data stack that data analytics teams have enjoyed for years. Security teams face constant pressure from vulnerabilities and breaches in their infrastructure and supply chains because they remain on a proverbial island with antiquated technology. Cybersecurity leaders must uplevel their strategies by implementing a modern security data lake.

Scale up to a collaborative and multiplayer architecture with serverless WebSockets

There’s unprecedented demand for multiplayer products. That is, products with features that support realtime, shared live and collaborative experiences between users. There’s been explosive growth in the unified communications and collaboration (UC&C) sector through the pandemic, but collaboration isn’t just about the Zooms and Slacks of the world.

The History and Evolution of Business Intelligence (BI) Platforms

Business intelligence (BI) is the ability to view and analyze data to provide actionable insights - but this ability wasn't always so available. The BI tools and platforms developed in the early days were very different to the modern analytics capabilities we have today In this article, we will discuss further about the history of business intelligence platforms. We will begin with the definition of business intelligence and its scope.

Artificial Intelligence in Test Automation

When you hear “Artificial Intelligence,” (AI) what do you think of? You might picture advanced humanoid robots or futuristic technology from sci-fi movies. But as it turns out, this “futuristic” technology is already integrated into our lives. It exists in our phones, televisions, and homes to make everyday tasks simpler. When it comes to software testing, AI can be implemented into your testing initiatives to increase efficiency.

Rendezvous with k6

Rendezvous is a French word commonly used in the load testing word. It sounds so fancy! I believe Mercury first coined and implemented it (I may be wrong) in LoadRunner. NeoLoad has it with the same name, and JMeter calls it Synchronizing timer. But what is it really, and how may we use it? Rendezvous is a function that stops the virtual users when they reach that instruction in the script. The function makes them wait until more virtual users get to that step or a timer runs out.