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Managing Data During Performance Testing

Introduction We are going to talk about data in this blog post, predominately test data required for performance testing. This is something that makes the life of a performance tester extremely difficult and awkward as because of the huge quantities required, in the right state, that match the criteria required for your test to run. We often have to approach the use of large quantities data for the purpose of performance testing in a number of ways.

How we've built successful channel partnerships in Japan

Recently I was in the US and people were just blown away when I told them about the success of our business in Japan. Our Japanese business grew nearly 40% last year and this year is shaping up to be great as well, but it’s not something that has happened overnight. The reality is that it’s tough to do business in Japan and it’s taken us over four years to get it right.

PSD2 is spurring innovation in fintech industry, and ISVs need to keep up

By the September deadline, Europe’s banks and fintech companies should be compliant with the Second Payment Services Directive (PSD2). Rather than focusing inwards on business operations, PSD2 is an outward-looking directive. It encourages open access and competition in the banking industry. Organisations across the breadth of the industry are required to open their payments infrastructures and customer data to third parties.

Why Fortune 500 companies are re-building their API integrations

These days, companies are overflowing in data and tolerating ancient API-integrations. Across all industries. Buried in that data are trends that point to customer insights, inefficiencies and synergy opportunities that could provide a competitive edge to a company. Or, just help a company catch back up to its competitive peers. But how to best harness this data?

Why Fortune 500 companies are re-building their API integrations

These days, companies are overflowing in data and tolerating ancient API-integrations. Across all industries. Buried in that data are trends that point to customer insights, inefficiencies and synergy opportunities that could provide a competitive edge to a company. Or, just help a company catch back up to its competitive peers. But how to best harness this data?

Generating a Heat Map with Twitter data using Pipeline Designer - Part 2

First of all, sorry about the delay in getting the second part of this blog written up. Things are moving very fast at Talend at the moment, which is great, but it's led to me having to delay in getting this second part out. I've been spending quite a bit of time working with the Pipeline Designer Summer 2019 release. Some really exciting additions are coming to Pipeline Designer, but we will look into those at a later date.

The $0 data integration project

Sometime ago, when I was with another software company, I was involved in a large implementation of our software. The deployment required our software to connect with a legacy customer application, so an integration between the two products had to be developed. When the Sales person put together the proposal, he quoted this integration for $0 because “it’s so simple, I could create it myself”.