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CaliberMind Onboards Customer Data With Fivetran

With automated data integration, CaliberMind uncovers data insights for customers. As a Customer Data Platform (CDP), CaliberMind delivers data-driven insights to its customers. To do so, it must connect to its customers’ data sources, extract, process and transform the data, run it through specially designed analytic models, and, finally, present data back to the customer as insights. CaliberMind uses Fivetran to offload the task of ingesting data from its customers’ applications.

3 Solutions for Avoiding Plain-Text Passwords in Insomnia

When testing APIs, software engineers often repeat identical values across multiple requests, but who wants to waste time typing the same values every time? Insomnia’s environment variables solve this problem by allowing you to define a value once as an environment variable and reference that value wherever it’s needed. Insomnia also enables you to override certain variables using sub-environments or folder environments.

The Easiest Way to Monitor Node.js: Automatic Instrumentation

Monitoring for your Node.js apps can be hard. The tricky part is understanding what you need to monitor, instrumenting your code, and then making sense of all the data that’s been emitted. (That’s almost every part you might say 😅 ). At AppSignal, we dogfood our product and understand the pain users feel ourselves. The key points we focus on are the ease of use, flexibility, and developer experience.

NodeSource Brings arm64 Support to its Node.js Binary Distributions

NodeSource is excited to announce support for the aarch64 (ARM 64-bit) architecture in Enterprise Linux based distributions! It includes: In the last decade x86_64 was the dominant architecture in Enterprise Linux based distributions, but since 2018 there has been a significant increase in arm64 downloads. Also, big tech companies such as Apple and Amazon are adopting the arm64 processor.

Appian 20.4 - Driving Hyperautomation into 2021

With the Appian 20.4 release, we’ve made it faster and easier to build new applications, extend legacy systems, and automate any business processes. 2021 is the year of Hyperautomation. Your workforce will be fully enabled by AI, bots, and other automation technologies in seamless interactions and processes. Appian is the only platform that orchestrates people, processes, bots and AI in a single workflow.

People-Powered Digital Transformation

Digital transformation is one thing. Getting people involved is another. Right now, there’s a disconnect between the culture of digital transformation that companies say they aspire to create and the organizational behavior they actually have, says Lisa Heneghan, Chief Digital Officer and a member of the Executive Committee of KPMG, UK. But here’s the good news: Organizations that invest in bridging the people gap will benefit the most from innovation, according to Heneghan.

Solutions Analyst: The Career for Innovative All-Rounders

Every business wants to stay agile. They invest in analytics to learn about their customers and their internal state, and they use these insights to make bold and innovative decisions. But then they run into a common problem: how to put those decisions into action. This is where a solutions analyst comes in. These multi-talented creative thinkers will look at the current state of play and identify the smartest path forward.

Digital Transformation: What Does It Mean for Different Industries?

Digital technologies have been advancing at a breakneck pace, and companies are taking advantage in order to beat their competitors and better serve their customers. According to the 2018 “State of the CIO” report, 40 percent of IT budgets are now allocated for the express purpose of digital transformation regardless of industry. What’s more, 70 percent of companies say that they either already have a digital transformation strategy, or they’re working on putting one into place.

Federated Learning, Machine Learning, Decentralized Data

Two years ago we wrote a research report about Federated Learning. We’re pleased to make the report available to everyone, for free. You can read it online here: Federated Learning. Federated Learning is a paradigm in which machine learning models are trained on decentralized data. Instead of collecting data on a single server or data lake, it remains in place—on smartphones, industrial sensing equipment, and other edge devices—and models are trained on-device.

How Cloudera Supports Government Data Encryption Standards

As part of our ongoing commitment to supporting Government regulations and standards in our enterprise solutions, including data protection, Cloudera recently introduced a version of our Cloudera Data Platform, Private Cloud Base product (7.1.5 release) that can be configured to use FIPS compliant cryptography.