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React and Respond in the Business Moment With Qlik Application Automation

Unless you’ve hidden under a rock for the past decade, you can’t have failed to notice that data in today’s enterprise is very much alive. It’s always moving, constantly changing, and we’re continually using it to create new business value. However, while data fluidity and visibility have blossomed, the opportunity to use that data to drive business actions seems to have withered in comparison.

Multi-Factor Authentication for Rails With WebAuthn and Devise

If someone steals your password, they can pretend to be you. That's why many companies provide two-factor or multi-factor authentication via a fingerprint scan, a YubiKey, an authenticator app, or SMS. In this article, Petr Hlavicka will give you a solid foundation of knowledge about multi-factor authentication and will walk you through implementation with Rails, Webauthn, and Devise

Avoid another analyst fire drill with the modern data and analytics stack

In a recent webinar by TDWI, 45% of analysts reported that “every day seems to be a different fire drill.” No surprise to anyone in the industry. As much as analysts need to be focused on more strategic tasks, their skills are frequently deployed to answer basic questions. Greater self-service capabilities for end-users would no doubt alleviate these fire drills, but this is not yet a reality for the majority of companies.

Ruby Flip Flop: What It Is and When to Use It

Apart from being a synonym to a sandal, a ruby flip-flop refers to a system that comprises two alternating (on/off) states that one can switch between. This can be pretty helpful when you want to loop through arrays and capture contiguous subsets that lie between specific bounds (you’ll understand more of what I mean as you read along). However, not many programming languages have leveraged a mechanism like this.

A payments testing checklist for seamless transactions

Payments testing mimics each step of the payment process to verify that connections, transactions, and paths for communications are working. The best payments testing strategies include a thorough range of tests, from functional to performance to location. Need a place to start? Follow this checklist when developing a payment gateway testing strategy. A good strategy should detail exactly what information is needed, common flags for problems, and the markers of a successful payment gateway.

Five e-commerce payments gateway testing use cases

Without payments gateway testing, you risk cart abandonment, over or under-payments, penalties, and increased customer support costs. These risks occur when web or mobile app payment transactions run into issues. To avoid these issues, online retailers should create test cases, conduct periodic checks, and update their processes to ensure the system’s integrity. From functional testing to usability testing, there are many ways to test payment processing.

Top 7 Talend Alternatives and Competitors

On the surface, Talend seems like the ultimate data integration platform. It's open-source, maintains multi-cloud integration, supports data governance frameworks like GDPR and CCPA, and handles both ETL and ELT, providing you with more flexibility for data management. Dig a little deeper, though, and you'll notice this platform has an outdated user interface and limited capabilities, and you'll probably need to upgrade to its enterprise version to execute data integration.

Converged Analytics In Financial Services

In financial services, data has always been viewed as a strategic asset. To manage this data, organizations have invested heavily over several years and across a number of technology generations in the underlying data infrastructure. This approach has left a large data technology legacy along with silos of data linked to specific infrastructure and applications.