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Streamlining and optimizing its business workflows and processes is one of the most valuable things any organization can do behind the scenes. That’s where ERP (enterprise resource planning) software comes in. With use cases ranging from sales and finance to logistics and human resources, ERP platforms help integrate, standardize, and centralize all of your processes and data.

Everyone knows that more and more data is moving to the cloud. According to the latest research, 94% of all enterprises use cloud services and 48% of businesses store classified and important data in the cloud. While the cloud is ubiquitous, in practice it consists of data infrastructures in various locations around the world. The question of where the cloud data infrastructure storing your specific data is located is becoming increasingly important.

As businesses look to scale-out storage, they need a storage layer that is performant, reliable and scalable. With Apache Ozone on the Cloudera Data Platform (CDP), they can implement a scale-out model and build out their next generation storage architecture without sacrificing security, governance and lineage. CDP integrates its existing Shared Data Experience (SDX) with Ozone for an easy transition, so you can begin utilizing object storage on-prem.

Manual regression testing is time-consuming, costly, and difficult to scale as your team grows. As you add more features to your product, you have to hire more people and spend more time completing your regression test suite in every software release cycle. Automating your regression test suite can help your team scale up testing without adding more headcount.

You say to-MAY-toe, I say to-MAH-toe. I hear the questions daily - "Did you validate the system? Did you verify the feature?" The words validate and verify are used interchangeably, but what do they really mean? Is there a difference? In the world of software development and quality assurance, yes… and you need to do both.

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This article is the next in our series about building a toy programming language in Ruby. Alex Braha Stoll shows us how to implement the interpreter for function definitions, variable declarations, and more.

A hands-on article about how to build and test your Android app on physical devices on the cloud with Espresso, AWS Device Farm, and Bitrise.

Imagine you were suddenly transported to a foreign city where you don’t speak the language—in fact, every person you encounter speaks a different language, and you aren’t even sure which one they are. That’s the situation faced by many developers and users today as they try to integrate different software and systems. One of the greatest challenges of modern computing is its complexity.

It’s the eternal struggle for any business to add more value while keeping costs down. Luckily, modern business technology makes this a little easier with the employment of the right API. An API ecosystem revolves around software that specializes in linking together incongruent apps, products, and services. The API is more than middleware – it’s grown into an innovative business concept that can transform your business and digital strategy.