APIs have been in the technology canvas for nearly two decades now, with almost all the major software vendors releasing their APIs after the year 2000. For example, Salesforce and eBay released their APIs in 2000, Amazon in 2002, and Facebook in 2006. Today, APIs are a fundamental building block in digital business and integrations.

Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM), a subgenre of IAM, enables organizations to scale and ensure secure, seamless digital experiences for their customers, while collecting and managing customer identity data purposefully. Powerful CIAM solutions provide a variety of key features including customer registration, social logins, account verification, self-service account management, consent and preference management, single sign-on (SSO), multi-factor authentication (MFA), and adaptive authentication as well as other nice-to-have features.

While organizations seek to unleash an enigmatic customer experience, building consumer confidence around these applications and experience takes time and effort. Taking advantage of the billions of Internet of Things (IoT) endpoints in 2021 to accelerate their business transformation would need CIOs to rethink their digital strategies and priorities. Read this white paper to know how.

Current estimates suggest widespread adoption of open source software (OSS) in organizations worldwide. Compared to sectors such as operating systems and big data, adoption in the security and identity management sector has been low until now. While there were a number of open source projects around libraries for security and identity management-related functionalities, there were only a few projects based on an end-to-end security or identity and access management (IAM) solution.

With the fast-growing popularity of cloud computing, an increasing number of organizations are now moving towards cloud-based solutions. Gartner predicts that1, "by 2020, 90 percent of organizations will adopt hybrid infrastructure management" where some parts of a solution would be in the cloud while other parts would be in traditional on-premises data centers.

Budgets are critically important. For the CFO's standpoint, budgets are the roadmap for an organization's future. As budgeting and planning take on more importance in the wake of financial uncertainty, the economic landscape calls for transformation and innovation.

Organizations across all industries need more accurate and faster business insights, and finance teams are producing an ever-increasing volume of operational reports to meet that need.

Forecast latency, throughput and headroom before every deploy.

Driver based budgeting (DBB) is rapidly gaining attention. As business environments rapidly change, business leaders are seeking to gain greater agility and responsiveness. DBB is an innovative approach to planning and budgeting designed to identify the variables that have the greatest impact on a company's performance. By tying budgets to those critical variables, finance leaders can build flexibility into budgets, enabling them to adjust quickly to changing conditions.

A unique combination of evolving tax regimes and regulations, disruption to global trade triggered by the pandemic, a strengthening focus on the environmental, social and governance (ESG) agenda, and increasingly powerful technologies is bringing about change for multinational companies and their tax teams. It's also creating an exciting opportunity to completely reset multinational enterprises' (MNEs) approach to tax planning and forecasting by investing in high performance software. This will enable tax teams and professionals to add significant value to their organizations.