Apache Kafka has grown from an obscure open-source project to a mass-adopted streaming technology, supporting all kinds of organizations and use cases. Many began their Apache Kafka journey to feed a data warehouse for analytics. Then moved to building event-driven applications, breaking down entire monoliths. Now, we move to the next chapter. Joining Celonis means we’re pleased to open up the possibility of real-time process mining and business execution with Kafka.

You may have previously heard about TeamViewer if you’ve ever needed to remotely access another device for the purposes of maintenance or general work activities.

For decades, ETL (extract, transform, load) has been a mainstay of organizations’ data integration workflows, moving information from various sources to a centralized data warehouse. More recently, however, businesses have been shaking things up with reverse ETL, which flips the sources and targets by sending data from your warehouse to third-party systems like Zendesk.

Organizations at the forefront of their field leverage speed and agility to maintain their competitive edge. The key factor driving this agility is collaboration, which can only be achieved by providing every department with access to the data they need to perform their jobs more efficiently. According to Gartner, digital optimization blurs the classic ownership and activity boundaries within and beyond IT.

We're excited to announce that Xplenty has acquired the fastest real-time data replication platform on the market, FlyData. This further expands our product suite and adds database replication to our customer offering. This was the highest requested feature from our customers, so we're happy to announce that we now have CDC (change data capture) capabilities.

Success for any business starts with data that is easily discoverable, understandable, and of value to the people who need it. We call this type of data “healthy data.” You should look at a wide set of measures and metrics to determine whether data is healthy or not, but at the core of all healthy data is a high level of quality.

Forbes Insights defines the modernized data center as being built to change just as much as it is built to last. One of the key pillars for a modernized data center is an agile data infrastructure. The Forbes Insights briefing explains, “This means it’s not wedded to any specific deployment method or solution set.

Providing your analytics users the ability to get answers from their data is useful, but only if the solution can guide them to ask the right questions.

The goal of automating UI testing is to speed up the software release process and help developers catch front-end bugs sooner and fix them faster.‍ The potential benefits of automated UI testing for web applications are huge: Most software companies do UI testing by asking developers or QA engineers to write test scripts to test the front-end of the application within a web browser. The most popular automation frameworks are Selenium and Cypress.

As humans, we can keep a tab on 7 different things at the peak of our day. But when it comes to carrying out different sets of productive work, each of which needs our full attention, organizing becomes imperative. Speaking of organizing in work-related terms, although advancements in technology have offered us an array of automated tools to help out with task management, several professionals still prefer doing things the traditional way – manually.