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Yesterday, Thursday 15th September, Adobe agreed to buy the collaborative design tool Figma for $20bn. Figma is a browser-based tool that enables team members to work together simultaneously to create, modify and comment upon designs in realtime. It’s part of a new breed of online tools that enable the creative process to be live and collaborative. Figma was rumored to be in the running for acquisition by Microsoft, and Adobe has paid top price to snap it up.

In its 2022 Magic Quadrant™ for Data Integration Tools report, Gartner® observes that “organizations are increasingly seeking a comprehensive range of improved data integration capabilities to modernize their data, analytics and application infrastructures.”

In the first blog of this series, I used the metaphor of a bridge connecting two towns to illustrate the importance of establishing purposeful connections between your shift left and shift right testing initiatives. Modern product organizations that fail to engineer a bridge to link the two “towns” (shift left and shift right) will, at a minimum, suboptimally utilize precious human and machine testing resources.

There are a number of things to consider when automating your mobile app tests, but first and foremost is to decide which tests should be and can be automated. This means understanding the business goals that are most important to your organization, as well as the risks you want to manage and mitigate. Mobile app testing is ultimately about managing risk, and the only way to do that is to align testing practices with the most critical business processes and goals you need to cover.

This is a guest post for Integrate.io written by Bill Inmon, an American computer scientist recognized as the "father of the data warehouse." Inmon wrote the first book and first magazine column about data warehousing, held the first conference about this topic, and was the first person to teach data warehousing classes.

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The modern enterprise taps into over 400 different data sources to extract the insights that sharpen its competitive edge. The complexity, though, does not stop at the origin, where data is generated. To get valuable insights from raw data enterprises must extract data from its source, transform the data (clean and aggregate it), and finally load the data into a data warehouse or BI tool, where it is served to data scientists for analysis.