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insightsoftware's Open Business Data Fabric

Imagine you're in finance, juggling with data scattered across countless applications. Combining information from various sources for tasks like budgeting, forecasting, and regulatory unnecessarily hard. The traditional data warehouse approach promises a solution, but it comes with a hefty price tag. It's slow, expensive to maintain and requires constant IT involvement. Data Fabric offers a more promising approach. It connects to various data sources in real time, eliminating outdated information and providing a unified view for applications and BI tools.

2024 Smoke Testing Guide

As we move through 2024, early-stage quality assurance methods ensure you meet the changing software development landscape. As a preliminary test phase, smoke testing verifies that the application’s functionalities work as expected after updates or integrations. This article will explain why smoke testing is important, as well as practical applications, examples, and best practices for smoke testing in the early stages of development.

Proven Testing Strategies for Modern Payment Systems

Across industries, failed payments can have irreversible consequences. Ensuring a smooth and reliable payment process is not just about preventing revenue loss but also about maintaining customer trust and satisfaction. This underscores the critical importance of comprehensive payment testing to maintain transactional integrity and customer satisfaction in today’s digital economy. This article explores payment testing best practices to ensure excellence in digital transactions.

Databricks Follows Cloudera by Adopting Iceberg, While Snowflake Mulls Open Source Approach

A constant flow of breaking news from the data lakehouse space is making notable tech headlines this week. On Tuesday, Databricks announced that it will acquire Tabular, a data management company founded by the creators of Apache Iceberg, Ryan Blue, Daniel Weeks, and Jason Reidfor. The deal was for an unconfirmed sum, but some reports suggest that amount to be between $1B and $2B (and allegedly outbidding Snowflake).