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You’ve heard of throwing ideas at a wall until something sticks–as a product manager, you may find you’re doing the same with application features. For application teams, creating sticky applications that customers can rely on and continue using for years to come is key to maximizing revenue. Elements like intuitive interfaces, personalized experiences, seamless integrations, and valuable core functionalities all contribute to this stickiness.

Data is one of the most valuable commodities an organization has. Every company stores and manages a substantial amount of information. But how do you gain revenue from it? Here, we discuss three ways you can monetize data with an embedded analytics investment.

In large organizations, Confluent Cloud is often simultaneously accessed by many different users along with business-critical applications, potentially across different lines of business. With so many individual pieces working together, the risk of an individual outage, error, or incident affecting other services increases. An incident could be constituted by a user clicking a wrong button, an application’s misconfiguration, or just a bug—you name it.

The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) launched an ambitious program with a name as intimidating as the effort to re-imagine the security architecture of the Department of Defense (DoD). Thunderdome is DISA’s zero trust network access and application security architecture.

The COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting economic uncertainty forced businesses to rethink how they approach growth. This especially rang true in the financial services industry, where financial trends have the most direct impact. Curiosity, collaboration, and adaptability all became key to surviving this new climate.

In modern enterprises, the exponential growth of data means organizational knowledge is distributed across multiple formats, ranging from structured data stores such as data warehouses to multi-format data stores like data lakes. Information is often redundant and analyzing data requires combining across multiple formats, including written documents, streamed data feeds, audio and video. This makes gathering information for decision making a challenge.

Organizations use enterprise resource planning (ERP) programs to meet the needs of an always-on culture in which a business's ability to pivot efficiently is important. Our five key takeaways about ERP integration and its business potential are.

The payments industry is evolving rapidly, fueled by technological advancements, changing consumer behaviors, and a growing appetite for real-time transactions. As this transformation unfolds, new standards have been introduced to ensure the payments ecosystem's safety, security, and efficiency.

For data engineers, the Generative AI (Gen AI) era is a transformative shift in how we approach data architecture and analytics. Professionals at the forefront of this shift will be gathering in San Francisco, at the Data+AI Summit June 10-13. Attendees will be exploring tools that integrate with Databricks Intelligent Data Platform that decrease data management costs and improve data's impact on business outcomes.