Business metrics provide a quantifiable way to measure the success of a business. They help organizations to track their progress internally while also serving as a way to communicate the performance of a business to stakeholders and external parties. There are hundreds of metrics that could be factored into these calculations, but they need to be specific to an organization to be effective.
With skyrocketing inflation and growing severity of weather-related losses, 2022 was a tough year for insurers. We were spot-on with our 2022 predictions—such as the need to improve the customer experience, increased adoption of connected underwriting, and the growing importance of ESG. While many of last year’s trends will continue into 2023, we have identified several emerging trends for this year.
With operations in 70 countries, Allianz is a world leading insurance company and the preferred insurance brand. The company offers a large range of insurance policies for both corporates and individuals. Allianz has been present in France since the late 1950s and made a major acquisition there in 1998 with the purchase of the AGF company. 5 years ago, Allianz France decided to reorganize its IT to scale agile practices.
The performance and resilience of an application are used to measure the speed and scale of an organization. This is one of the key reasons businesses opt to modernize legacy applications using cloud-native technologies and platforms. According to a Gartner report, more than 95% of new digital efforts would be built on cloud-native platforms by 2025, up from less than 40% in 2021.
Load and performance testing remains a vital aspect of any software delivery process. Ensuring that your application supports the anticipated number of concurrent users prevents brand damage, system failures in production, and loss of revenue. There is a saying in engineering that the shape of the solution is dictated by the shape of the problem. Translating this to performance testing solutions, there are several common design elements that all load and performance testing solutions share.
As of k6 version 0.43.0, xk6-browser is now bundled in k6 as an experimental module! 🙌 Since announcing xk6-browser in November 2021 at Grafana ObservabilityCON, the team have been busy adding on new features to include browser automation in k6. The interest from the community has also increased, which shows that browser automation and frontend performance is as important as backend performance.
Every day in the US thousands of legitimate prescriptions for the opioid class of pharmaceuticals are written to mitigate acute pain during post-operation recovery, chronic back and neck pain, and a host of other cases where patients experience moderate-to-severe discomfort.
Advancements in technology and other factors have contributed to the continued growth of the eCommerce industry. This growth has led to the development of different eCommerce platforms, plugins, tools, and other resources that can help businesses drive revenue generation and save time during their operations. Unfortunately, it can get confusing for new eCommerce business owners to choose the right tools and resources.
Red Hat OpenShift is the industry’s leading enterprise Kubernetes platform that runs ubiquitously across on-prem, and the cloud. With Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA), a managed Red Hat OpenShift platform that runs natively on AWS, it is even easier to get kick-started on an enterprise-ready instance of Red Hat OpenShift in the cloud. Kong similarly distinguishes itself as a multi-platform, multi-cloud API Management solution pushing the vision of APIs.
