What if a single software glitch could cost your company millions? In today’s digital world, that’s not just a possibility – it’s reality. As businesses double down on digital-first strategies, software powers everything from critical infrastructure to day-to-day consumer experiences. Even minor bugs can cause massive disruptions, halt business operations, and compromise customer trust. The margin for error has never been smaller.

In today’s fast-paced, data-driven business landscape, having a comprehensive view of your operations is essential for success. Dashboards provide a centralized, real-time visual representation of key metrics, tasks, and performance indicators, enabling teams to stay organized and make informed decisions. ClickUp’s customizable dashboards elevate this by allowing users to build and personalize their own layouts tailored to specific needs.

Over the past year, we’ve been dedicated to making Databox faster and more powerful for you and your team. We’ve introduced new features, visualizations, and integrations to help you leverage your data to make better decisions. In case you missed any of these updates, we’ve put together a roundup of the top highlights from 2024.

For insurance companies, balancing customer expectations with the rigorous requirements necessary to mitigate risks poses a challenge. Especially when you’re using manual underwriting processes. By turning to artificial intelligence (AI) in insurance underwriting, you avoid costly delays, streamline your employees’ processes, improve accuracy, and create an optimal customer experience. In this blog post, you’ll learn how AI facilitates greater efficiency in underwriting.

Privacy is no longer a growing requirement for doing business — it's the new status quo. The stakes for not protecting it have only intensified. Consumers have been demanding greater control and privacy over their data for years, and now vast numbers are taking action to protect it, turning off tracking, using cookieless environments and relying on ad blockers at rapidly increasing rates.

Heuristics is the key to turn you into the Turkish Olympic guy. It is something that comes with experience. At a certain point, experts all develop that “sense” in their field of work. Repeated exposure to hundreds of problems helps them recognize patterns that beginners don’t easily see. Heuristics is not always foolproof, but it's good for immediate problem-solving.

Data pipeline automation plays a central role in integrating and delivering data across systems. The architecture is excellent at handling repetitive, structured tasks, such as extracting, transforming, and loading data in a steady, predictable environment, because the pipelines are built around fixed rules and predefined processes. So, they will continue to work if you maintain the status quo, i.e., as long as your data follows a consistent structure.

According to Gartner, ‘By 2026, the market for software that enables hyper-automation will reach nearly $1.04 trillion, with a CAGR of 11.9%. Demand for hyper-automation is driven by a strong need for digital transformation due to talent shortages, increasing economic pressures, and competitive challenges.’

One of the benefits of Ruby's developer-friendly syntax is that it's straightforward to quickly build scripts to automate tasks. Web scraping with Ruby is fun, useful, and straightforward. In this article, we'll explore using HTTParty to pull a web page and check it for a given string. To be specific, we'll build a cron job in Ruby to check if a product is in stock on a website!

With the globe becoming more and more digitally linked, mobile applications are becoming an essential part of our everyday life. We use smartphone applications for a wide range of purposes, from healthcare and education to banking and shopping. It's important to understand, though, that not everyone uses these applications in the same manner.