Systems | Development | Analytics | API | Testing

Businesses have been adopting more apps over the last decade. The right applications make it easier for them to communicate with customers, analyze data, improve efficiency, and refine their business practices. The number of apps used by businesses jumped incredibly during 2020 as the pandemic made it more difficult or impossible for employees to work from their offices. As organizations rely more heavily on diverse applications, they need reliable API management tools with self-service features.

In order to gain an advantage over their competitors and improve customer experience, organizations of all sizes and industries are using new technologies to undergo digital transformation. According to IT research and advisory firm Gartner, 87 percent of senior business leaders say that digital modernization of their company is a top priority. An emerging theme of many digital transformations relates to ‘application integration’ – but why do these have such a close association?

Conventional wisdom says that new app development projects should begin as monolithic systems. This perspective suggests that you should wait until later to refactor the monolith into a microservices-based architecture — i.e., don’t use microservices until your use-case and scaling demands require them. But is this viewpoint still correct?

Traditionally, companies purchased the technology they needed to complete tasks efficiently and accurately. Today’s technology doesn’t evolve in a straight line, though. It grows at an exponential rate that shortens the life span of tools. When technology moves so quickly, an organisations needs to adopt a hyper selective approach – and in doing so move towards the phenomenon of the ‘composable enterprise’.

When many CIOs look at their technology assets they often see a random collection of applications, legacy systems, microservices and hardware. It can be difficult to make sense of an organisations technology-stack and how these seemingly disparate components are integrated and connected.

The Heroku cloud platform has long been a popular solution for teams seeking a convenient application hosting solution. Today we’re thrilled to contribute to the Heroku ecosystem with the release of our DreamFactory Heroku Add-on. Heroku users can now launch hosted DreamFactory instances directly from the Heroku dashboard, and easily generate APIs for a wide variety of data sources, including PostgreSQL.

We’re pleased to announce the release of DreamFactory 4.4! Our releases tend to be thematic, and 4.4 focuses on big data. Four new connectors are now available to commercially licensed enterprise users, including: If you’d like to give any of these features a test drive, please contact our sales team at [email protected] to arrange for a free 14 day trial! If you’re an existing client please contact your account executive to make arrangements!

The amount of knowledge needed for application development has fallen rapidly over the last decade as more companies take advantage of no-code and low-code platforms. Today, citizen developers can build new business applications in graphics-based environments with drag-and-drop functionality. Instead of reaching out to IT professionals to improve functionality and solve business problems, they can use development tools made specifically for non-IT professionals.

Microapps are small applications designed to perform specific tasks. Many companies have leveraged the benefits of microapps because of the poor user experiences associated with monolithic enterprise apps and their overly burdensome features. As a result, microapps offers a suite of productivity improvements to many organisations and enhance the usability of large enterprise applications.

Implementing a digital transformation agenda can be a complex activity for many organisations. Balancing risks and opportunities requires effective governance to ensure that digital transformation initiatives are adequately planned, funded and implemented.