The “State” of Stateful Kafka Operations
Apache Kafka has recently released version 2.5, which has brought its share of exciting new changes to the Kafka Streams DSL. A great time to look at our architectures, and determine how they can be…
Utilizing Machine Learning to Get the Best out of 2020
Anyone Can Gain an Advantage Using Machine Learning Machine Learning Among the Big Names As I sit in isolation, I try to find ways to ease my boredom. I check my phone and browse…
Access Management Isn’t Just for Web Applications — It’s for APIs, Too!
As more businesses enrich their user experiences for mobile devices and client-side browser technologies, they are forced to create publicly accessible APIs. So often, those APIs read and modify sensitive customer data, making them just…
End-to-End Testing with Cucumber and Selenium WebDriver
Introduction and Overview In custom software development, it’s not uncommon for companies to deprioritize automated end-to-end (E2E) testing1 in order to get to the desired solution as quickly as possible and for as little cost…
Benefits of Business Intelligence Tools: What You Get For Your Dollar
Return on investment (ROI) is important in any tool, and business intelligence (BI) tools are no exception. If anything, showing the cold hard numbers is even more critical for a visualization tool since the true…
Segmentation Sets the Table for Data-Driven Marketing Success
A good customer targeting strategy creates a 1-2 punch that increases the return on the investment, which is the holy grail of marketing.
Improving Identity Governance for the Cloud using SailPoint IdentityIQ
It is obvious that there are many benefits of cloud computing. Don’t worry, I am not going to document them here because that has already been done many times. By now, you already realize what…
Amplify Your Analytics: Drive Better Customer Outcomes With Data-Driven Decision-Making
Campaign success is directly tied to marketing dashboards. These dashboards track the effectiveness of each campaign, allowing for experimentation and optimization using key metrics like conversion rate, average order value, return on spend and ROI. Learn key ways to embed these scoreboards into your organization to increase revenue and decrease costs.
Automating Financial Reporting Using Alteryx
Log in to a health insurance carrier’s website. Select data fields and download. Repeat for the next set of data. Combine the downloaded data with policy information. Manipulate, format, and generate a financial report for…
Why Everyone Can Get Started With Machine Learning Today
Many people believe their companies aren’t quite ready to get started with machine learning or artificial intelligence. They will say, “We don’t have a data scientist,” or, “Our data isn’t clean enough.” However, companies that…