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The pandemic has been unkind to many retailers, with customer expectations shifting seemingly overnight. During the great recession of 2008–2009, e-commerce grew, and brick-and-mortar retail declined. As the economic recovery took hold, that trend continued while off-price, discount, and emerging players succeeded by appealing to new consumer demands. For example, in January 2020, fast-paced home delivery was perceived as a unique selling point offered only by select stores.

Natural language query (NLQ) is fundamentally a feature designed to democratize self-service analytics, and help make it more pervasive throughout the organization.

Interested in learning about different technologies and methodologies, such as Databricks, Amazon EMR, cloud computing and DataOps? A good place to start is reading articles that give tips, tricks, and best practices for working with these technologies. Here are some of our favorite articles from experts on cloud migration, cloud management, Spark, Databricks, Amazon EMR, and DataOps!

Not all apps are made the same. Native mobile apps, web mobile apps, hybrid mobile apps and progressive web apps (PWAs) are different in many ways. When choosing the right type of app for your business, you’ll want to carefully consider the advantages and disadvantages of each, then make sure you use the right testing approach. Below, we explain how these four types of apps vary, how to choose the right app type for your business, and what that means for your testing strategy.

Erin Byrne is a Senior Customer Solutions Engineer at Qlik and shares her practical advice to successfully divest your SAP systems. Erin has worked with SAP systems for over 20 years, has built more than 100 SAP systems and managed in excess of 30 divestiture projects.

The latest United Nations IPCC report paints a sobering picture. Climate change looks likely to accelerate in all regions as we approach the critical global warming threshold of 1.5°C. Such an uptick in temperatures will increase sea level rise and intensify the frequency and magnitude of extreme weather events. For cities, these changes will make governance more difficult in nearly every respect.

Node.js v17.0.0, the latest major version of the popular JavaScript runtime, has just been released. It supersedes v16 in the Current release line of the runtime. V16 is now in line to be promoted to the long-term support (LTS) channel on October 26, 2021, as it’s an even-numbered release. Despite being a relatively minor update, this release brings several refinements to the runtime, including more promisified APIs, JavaScript engine upgrades, and OpenSSL 3.0 support.

This article will explain in a nutshell how you can easily build your own CI/CD pipelines for your mobile apps, based on your specific business needs.

Disaster Recovery (DR) is crucial to every organization. Business continuity is important whether you live in an area prone to natural disasters or need to prepare for unseen events like a data center outage. But how do you ensure that the changes behind the scenes don’t impact the end user? Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform (AAP) is the automation tool of choice for many enterprises.

Every new software, method, or tool comes with certain growing pains and takes some time to get used to, although it’s almost always worth the adoption effort, a major part of which is testing. Test automation dramatically improves your processes, saves you time and resources, and ultimately leads to higher-quality software. But you can’t just jump into it and expect the automation to produce the results you want.