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Technology and The Essential Elements of Business Transformation

Business transformation is about fundamentally changing how a business operates to keep pace and remain competitive in the new digital-first environment. The goal is to adopt modern technology to improve the customer experience and corporate culture through improved operating models and technology. Read more about the elements of business transformation, why it matters, and how companies like Netflix have huge business transformation success.

Modernizing the Analytics Data Pipeline

Enterprises run on a steady flow of best-fit data analytics. Robust processes ensure these assets are always accurate, relevant, and fit for purpose. Increasingly, organizations are implementing these processes within structured development and operationalization “pipelines.” Typically, analytics data pipelines include data engineering functions such as extract-transform-load (ETL) and data science processes such as machine-learning model development.

5 Secrets to Understanding Value Shoppers

Our five key points: Value shoppers are the savvy buyers, the ones always on the lookout for the best deals and who knows where to find every discount and coupon. If you're an e-commerce retailer, the importance of understanding your value shoppers can’t be overstated. Consumers searching for a great deal will absolutely look elsewhere if they’re not impressed by your online offerings.

Data In Motion: NASA and Aurica

Some 300 million years ago, Earth had one continent called Pangea. Over millions of years, that vast single land mass broke up and drifted in different directions, creating the seven continents that exist today. Since the planet changed so dramatically over millennia, it raises an obvious question: How will it change in the future? The same forces, plate tectonics and continental drift, that broke up Pangea hundreds of millions of years ago still exert themselves.

Build or Buy Embedded Analytics: What's the difference?

Companies nowadays are well aware of the importance of embedded analytics when it comes to being data-driven. Today, building your own analytics infrastructure into your software applications for your customers is not the only option anymore. There is a growing market of embedded analytics tools that offer purchasable solutions for data analysis.

Message durability and quality of service across a large-scale distributed system

Ably is a distributed pub/sub edge messaging platform that acts as the broker in realtime data streaming pipelines. Publishers send messages to Ably, and we deliver those messages to subscribers. We guarantee: In this article, we describe how Ably can make such guarantees in the face of network outages. We cover the redundancy built into our server clusters and the design we have used to ensure message ordering and exactly-once delivery.