Many times, a business treats an engaged customer like a random prospect. Marketing systems may not correctly target with relevance, finance systems may apply discount rules across the board, or customer support systems may treat every client with the same indifference.

Have you ever thought about how you can make payments for a movie without standing in line or pay utility bills without stepping out of your home via Paytm or Google Pay? Yes, you can name many applications that make instant payments happen. But how is this happening? How are conventional banks getting replaced with digital transactions? The answer would be embedded financial services.

The PHP E_WARNING constant refers to run-time warnings. Warnings are non-fatal errors in PHP that do not halt script execution.

Over the past few months industry analysts have been making some pretty controversial recommendations for data management in the cloud. For a thoughtful and entertaining analysis, I strongly recommend you spend a few minutes watching the keynote session by Pat Moorhead, CEO Moor Insights & Strategy, at the Evolve 2022 Data event in New York. His takeaway: “The world is very much going to be hybrid and multi-cloud.” His delivery—priceless.

The financial services industry is vast, complex, and almost infinite in its diversity. So, too, are the regulatory agencies overseeing this industry. For example, the US market's regulatory framework is incredibly complex: More than 50 state or local and more than a dozen federal agencies coexist to keep the financial services marketplace healthy, competitive, and safe for consumers. The missions of the agencies overseeing the financial services industry vary as widely as the sector itself.

Trying to determine what applications your organization needs? The application integration question can be a challenging exercise. According to a recent study, only 30% of companies succeed at digital transformation. Their lack of innovation proved one key point: companies must be agile and quick enough to implement new technologies if they wish to remain competitive.

To build a mobile app that can be easily scalable, you need to build a solid foundation. At the Mobile DevOps Summit, Scott Campagna shared tips to update mobile infrastructure to create better customer experiences.

Too many data teams focus on data movement and creating data pipelines without aligning those activities to business outcomes. Data teams are meant to make data flows work so much of their focus involves managing data connections across the data ecosystem. Pulling data from Salesforce or ensuring reverse ETL from a data warehouse helps support successful data movement and overall data pipeline development. It doesn't always align to a more effective supply chain or cost savings.

When responding to our clients, we can utilize various status codes defined by the HTTP protocol. Others wish to fully utilize HTTP's library of codes to inform their clients of any issues; some APIs simply use the most fundamental codes and develop their own error-signaling systems on top of them. This tutorial explains the CRUD actions and the status codes you should employ for a clean API design.

There may be dozens of off-the-shelf and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solutions available, but organizations still need to write their own applications if they expect to compete. We live in an experience economy, meaning every IT effort and spend inside modern enterprises must focus on providing better digital experiences internally and externally. These unique digital experiences, delivered using application software, are the key to standing out from the crowd and unlocking top-line growth.