Systems | Development | Analytics | API | Testing

Announcing Kong Studio: Design and Testing Built For Microservices

Today we’re thrilled to announce a brand new product area for Kong – Kong Studio, an integrated design and test environment for Kong Enterprise customers. We are excited to make the leap in extending our service control platform to include pre-production use cases focused on improving the way that customers build and test their microservices and APIs.

Basics of Data Integration: Why is grammar so important?

How many times have we wondered whether school lessons will ever be useful in the outside world? I never thought of the importance of trigonometry until I tried to fit a large sofa through a narrow doorway! In a similar way – unless your career path takes you in certain directions – many may question the value of grammar in real life. After all, when text-speak, emoticons and all manner of colloquialisms dominate our daily communications, how important is grammatical correctness?

Why budgeting for data analytics will grow business

With so many people in so many parts of the business with a variety of data analysis skills wanting access to data for business intelligence, IT is expected to provision access to it all. However, IT’s budget and resources are relatively flat. There is a growing gap between business expectations and what IT can deliver.

The Future Is Bright: A View Into the New Hitachi Vantara

Just two weeks ago, I shared the exciting news that Hitachi Vantara and Hitachi Consulting will unite in January to accelerate digital value creation for our customers and partners and unlock new synergies across the greater Hitachi Group. The news has been incredibly well received and we are excited by the positive response the announcement has generated around the world.

How to build a data-driven company culture

Raise your hand if you agree that “data driven decision making” is one of the biggest buzzwords in data? Not to say it’s not important, but it’s a phrase that has been beaten to death by every marketer and salesperson out there. And even though every company is trying to march to the drum of “data driven decision making”, we still can’t seem to wrangle it like a fish escaping our catch.