A new study from McKinsey warns that profit pools in the healthcare industry are likely to be flat due to the ongoing effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. To combat this stagnancy, the study identifies a number of opportunities for innovation in the industry.
Major markets, such as the United States of America, Hong Kong, the United Kingdom, Japan, Singapore, and Australia, continue to follow the T+2 settlement cycle. However, in different jurisdictions, the talk about moving towards a T+1 settlement cycle is gathering momentum. In February 2021, the United States DTCC (Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation) released a two-year industry roadmap for shortening the settlement cycle for US equities to one business day after the trade is executed (T+1).
Savannah Whitman When your platform runs on APIs, all of those APIs need to run perfectly. Quickly resolving issues in your API isn’t just helpful, it’s mandatory. Latency and error monitoring are only the beginning: a healthy server isn’t the same thing as a healthy product. Resolving error cases and API abuse is easiest with full visibility into your API, which is where API analytics come in.
Continual is proud to announce that we are now SOC 2 Type 1 certified and compliant and SOC 2 Type 2 in progress. This certification is a publicly visible milestone that demonstrates our core commitment to keeping your data secure. We expect to make additional announcements around our security certification efforts over the coming months. Beyond third party attestations, Continual is built from the ground up with data security and governance in mind.
Have you ever heard someone complain about their tests being too fast? Me neither. Fast tests mean fast feedback. Whether you run them locally or in a continuous integration pipeline, the earlier your tests finish, the earlier you can react to failures and improve your code. Besides the productivity gains, it is well known that slow tests make developers grumpy. Nobody likes their developers grumpy. With all that said, creating a lightning-fast test suite isn't always as easy as you'd hope.
The road to the data-driven enterprise is not for the faint of heart. The continuous waves of data pounding into ever-complex hybrid environments only compound the ongoing challenges of management, governance, security, skills, and rising costs, to name a few. But Hitachi Vantara has developed a path forward that combines cloud-ready infrastructure, cloud consulting and managed services to optimize applications for resiliency and performance, and automated DataOps innovations.
Effective data management is the keystone holding together an organization’s digital transformation. When the data foundation is well-constructed, a company can enhance both its agility and its ability to monetize data and apply it to the pursuit of business objectives.
From April 25, 2022 on, Apple will start requiring all apps being built for Apple’s platforms, including iPhone (iOS), iPad (iPadOS), and Watch (WatchOS), to be built with Xcode 13, which already includes SDKs for iOS 15, iPadOS 15, and watchOS 8.
A new year is always a good time to check your expenses. One expense that keeps on climbing constantly in many organizations is related to the cloud expenses, expected to expand up to $1 trillion by 2024, according to IDC. While this can be a good thing, indicating the business is scaling and cloud resources are in high demand, there is often a lot of waste coming from inefficient cloud usage, unnecessary SaaS tooling, endless logs, and more.
