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Understanding OLAP Cubes - A guide for the perplexed

Companies move as fast as their slowest insight. In the era of big data, information is often produced faster than it can be consolidated and analyzed throughout the Enterprise. Analysts battle for the limited engineering resources, so they can construct data sets for their analytics endeavors to ultimately provide insights to fast-growing enterprises.

Essential Tools for Converting Organic B2B Traffic to Customers

Turning organic visitors to your website into loyal customers is the goal of every company that has an eye on growth. B2B traffic that finds your website through Google search brings the best new customers since those visits are organically searching for what you write about. Converting these organic visitors of your website into customers who will return and order should be the focus of business marketing efforts.

Integration Platforms for E-Commerce Businesses

The Top 5 Takeaways: Maybe your primary focus is online retail. Maybe you just have a small digital store selling merchandise relating to your main business concerns. Whatever the size of your e-commerce venture, integrating your systems and data is vital. You’re probably already dealing with a number of different platforms and SaaS providers, integrating with their APIs and their services to help run your business more smoothly.

AI and Machine Learning: how are they changing the mobile testing landscape?

By incorporating AI and machine learning into mobile testing tools, teams can become more efficient in test automation. In this article, we'll look at how the adoption of AI and machine learning will improve these tools and what the future of testing might look like.

Leader election in the browser with Ably

There is an entire category of problems in distributed computing that require a single client amongst a set of peers in a network to coordinate the behavior of all the other clients. It is common in systems responsible for processing queues of work that connect to downstream systems that don’t support concurrent connections. Or in systems where work is parallelized in a specific way.

Deploying Kong Mesh in Multiple Security Domains

It’s not uncommon for organizations to have to deploy solutions across (or among) multiple security domains. Here, we use the term “security domain” to refer to a segregated network environment, like a restricted internal network or a DMZ. This post will explore some design considerations when deploying Kong Mesh (and Kuma, the CNCF-hosted open source project upon which Kong Mesh is built) in environments with multiple security domains.

Forrester study reveals how much you really win by using ThoughtSpot

Tell us if this analytics scenario sounds familiar: your organization employs an analyst team that uses old technology, desktop data visualization tools, or homegrown reporting systems to manually build out static dashboards and multiple weekly or monthly reports. As a result, the data analysts have to manually generate and update business reports regularly, and teams cannot keep up. In turn, the rest of the organization is unable to make timely business decisions.

I Process Mined My Own Team and Here's What I Learned

Insight is a funny thing - everyone wants more of it, but sometimes, when we get it, we realize what we truly don’t understand. I got a major dose of insight recently when I used Appian Process Mining to take a look at how we could optimize some of our workflows, specifically content creation. At Appian, we have an AMAZING Creative team - and I’m not just saying that because we work together. I’m saying that because if they didn’t work here, I would hire them, without question.