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Today’s organizations want stronger alignment between the cost of SaaS solutions and the value derived from these products. As a result, many software companies are looking at adopting consumption-based pricing models as an alternative to subscription models. With consumption-based models, customers only pay for what they use, and usage is tied directly to the value customers derive. Of course, consumption means software companies don’t experience revenue until customers use the solution.

By tracking the average revenue per unit over a given period, AUR has become one of the most important metrics for e-commerce, department stores, and retailers of all sizes. Especially when compared with price intelligence, competitor sales, and other data, AUR helps retailers unlock crucial insights and even automate pricing strategies and inventory management, helping to drive more sales. Learn how Integrate.io can help you tap into metrics like AUR and how it can grow your business.

Keeping software testing processes on track is an overarching goal every QA lead wants for their team. Yet, development projects aren’t always plain sailing. No one wants unhappy clients, and, worse, overworked QA engineers and developers. We all have to accept that activities don’t always stick to the initial planning. Requirements change near the final stages, feature requests are unclear to business values, leaving little time for critical areas to get tested.

We are thrilled to welcome Tuist on our list of Verified Steps. Read how you can incorporate the new Step into your Bitrise Workflow to create, mantain and interact with your Xcode projects a lot more effectively.

AWS Lambda has been around for a few years now, and it remains the most popular way to experiment with serverless technology. If you're not familiar with serverless, it's a model of development in which managing, provisioning, and scaling servers is abstracted away from application development. Servers do exist in a serverless world, but they are completely managed by the cloud provider, allowing developers to focus on packaging their code for deployment.

Using KPI Reports is a great way to track how your business goals are progressing. Want to learn how to make one? This guide will show you everything you need to know.

Last year, my friends at Appian commissioned some research through the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), Financiers ridden with technical debt. The results were interesting: Research from The Economist Intelligence Unit, sponsored by Appian, finds that just over a third (34%) of IT decision makers believe that the reduction or elimination of legacy IT would do most to help their organisation achieve its automation objectives.

Software developers try to implement applications that not only is responsive and fast with a very small number of users but also with multiple users using the application. To be able to measure this we need to rely on different types of performance testing. Performance testing should be an integral part of the agile release manifesto.

In this Kongcast episode, Josh Long, Spring Developer Advocate at VMware, dives into how Spring changed the way developers build Java applications and introduces you to Spring Native. Check out the transcript and video from our conversation below, and be sure to subscribe to get email alerts for the latest new episodes.

Experimentation and data drive growth. But the question is, how can you set up a self-driving experimentation machine that helps you run marketing tests. And is that the best use of your marketing team’s time?