Shopping online is one of the most popular activities on the Web. A person can shop anytime or anywhere–even in pajamas! Webpages are built to promote specific goods and services that can be purchased online and delivered to a personal/professional setting. Over the past ten (10) years, eCommerce has grown in leaps and bounds, particularly […]
Role of Data Integration in Data Analytics
They say go with your “gut feel” when making important decisions, but as data engineers and data scientists, you do not have the luxury of going with your gut, do you? Firstly, it is not you who is making the decision, and even if you are, it is better off going with a combination of […]
Why Data Replication Should Not Be Done Using ESB-Based Integration Tools
This is one of the common questions we get when prospects come looking for data replication tools. It’s more a question of Integration design patterns than of product implements. Let’s get started with what an ESB is – Enterprise Service Bus. This is an integration design pattern where messages are passed so that one or […]
How Business Automation is shaping Digital Transformation
Business automation is usually a function of how fast a company is growing or maturing. Customers are moving from old desktop/server apps with limited connectivity into more modern apps with APIs enabled. Now it’s more a “must have” rather than “nice to have.” APIs are built for improving automation and user experience, and it’s already […]
Why you need a Cloud Integration Platform
As Organizations move past their underlying Software as a Service (SaaS) systems, they perceive the expanding need to incorporate information and procedures between the open cloud and their on-premises databases and applications. The pain point was the development cost of creating the entire design of the middleware to connect one to another and of course, […]
Data Integration for HR Performance Review Applications
HR Performance Review, at its core, is to review the performance for the past review period and more importantly, set the goals/expectation for the forthcoming review period. Often the essential and critical second part of the performance review is not performed because people get stuck with the first part and disagree on the results and […]
Accounts Payable Automation with DBSync
Why AP Automation ? This is one of the common questions that we come across if a company should invest in automating their Accounts Payable process. Well, the answer is, many companies out there do this! Let’s face the fact that many companies do face a lot of challenges handling this part of the business […]
What is CRON and how it can greatly help you schedule Cloud Workflow jobs
Introduction Cloud Workflow presents a scheduler that allows automating the execution of a task over time. The corresponding schedule can be defined via a menu, where the user selects the necessary time expression or via a CRON expression. This article explains what a CRON expression is, and how to create a valid one for Cloud […]
5 Reasons Why customer should have Data Integration
Every piece of software that works with data represents, analyses, and transforms information in a specialized way. See how you can leverage data integration for increased operational efficiency.
OData and REST APIs: A comparison
An explanation of what is REST, how it is applied to the construction of RESTful APIs; what is OData and how it is used to build web services, and the differences between the two.