In this new era, taking an outside-in approach to digital business ecosystems can help organizations harness their existing resources and relationships to drive new innovation and efficiency. Digital business ecosystems encompass a network of partners, developers and customers facilitated by modern, cloud-first technologies. Recently, Google Cloud, in partnership with Oxford Economics, surveyed 1,000 CIOs of large organizations (over $2 billion in revenue) to understand their digital business ecosystem strategies. This executive summary dives into the key findings from this research.

As teams adopt Agile for managing software development, tools like Jira Software provide the foundation by promoting collaboration, transparency, commitment and flexibility. When it comes to testing, agile values testing as an integrated part of the SDLC, and testers are encouraged to work alongside developers. So what does Agile Testing in Jira look like and how can we increase agility in our teams?

With over 100+ types of product risks, it's impossible that all of your scripted/pre-planned tests will cover all potential threats to your software. Adding exploratory testing to your testing strategy ensures your software is thoroughly tested and meets the highest standards of quality. Through exploratory testing, you design and execute tests as you go. This iteration covers a wider scope of functionality and ensures your system works properly.

Many organizations struggle to share data internally across departments and externally with partners, vendors, suppliers, and customers. They use manual methods such as emailing spreadsheets or executing batch processes that require extracting, copying, moving, and reloading data. These methods are notorious for their lack of stability and security, and most importantly, for the fact that by the time data is ready for consumption, it has often become stale.

No matter the industry, every company is now in the business of developing applications and online experiences. To keep up with the competition, you need to stand out in all of the digital noise. For your app to succeed, it is critical that it delight your customers with a flawless experience, regardless of what device they use to access it. New features and updates need to be delivered quickly and frequently, but without compromising quality.

Most companies that build software have a strong DevOps culture and a mature tool chain in place to enable it. But for developers that need to embed a data platform into their applications to support data workloads, challenges emerge. DevOps for databases is much more complex than DevOps for code because database contain valuable data, while code is stateless. Instantly creating any number of isolated environments Reducing schema change frequency with variant data type

We all know that the process of testing can be, for a software tester, an everyday challenge. Rather than just an activity, software testing must be considered as one of the most important practices inside the Software Development Life Cycle. In this eBook, we will focus on performing test management and quality assurance in Jira Software. We will share awesome Jira apps used by Fortune 500 companies like Porsche, Audi, Vodafone, Lufthansa, Nike, Audi, Samsung and many others.

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If a company hopes to remain competitive in today's hyper-connected world, it must speak to individuals, not broad segments. Businesses must consider all types of data generated by their customers-contextual and real-time, structured and unstructured-to deliver relevant and precise results on the most appropriate channel and device.

Sudden changes in consumption patterns of customers, employees, and partners may lead companies to experience an increasing demand for their digital services. These may come as a result of market shifts, technological shifts, or due to times of uncertainty. The more adaptive and resilient companies are internally, the faster they can evolve alongside their customers and markets to overcome challenges during times of uncertainty.