WHY IT MATTERS: Digital Transformation

La popularité des services payants de visionnement en ligne a dépassé pour une première fois celle des services de télévision par câble ou fibre optique dans les foyers québécois. L’enquête intitulée Portrait numérique des foyers québécois révèle en effet que 71 % des adultes québécois sont abonnés à au moins un service payant de visionnement en ligne tel Netflix, Amazon Prime ou Disney+ alors que 66 % sont abonnés à un service de télévision par câble ou fibre optique. L’enquête rapporte que le taux d’abonnement à un service de télévision par câble ou fibre optique a diminué de 6 points de pourcentage au cours de la dernière année et de 13 points de pourcentage depuis 2018.

This report surfaces insights from Zylo’s dataset – the most comprehensive in the industry – comprising 5 years of SaaS spend, license, and usage data and more than $21B in SaaS spend under management. This year’s edition highlights outcomes of a year of exponential SaaS growth and a new way of working.
- How your SaaS portfolio and spend stack up
- How SaaS is impacting software management and governance
- The top opportunities to optimize your SaaS portfolio (and how to get started)

With the table thus set for the continued importance of online shopping, it’s an ideal time to start planning your annual eCommerce strategy. Our recommendation is that whether you experienced success in 2021 or need to go back to the drawing board, the road to improvement lies in effectively using the experiences and data of the previous year.

The best protection against being hacked is well-informed developers. Make your development team into security experts today.

APM continues to be critical for modern, multicloud observability. Read the report where Gartner defines the market as "software that enables the observation of application behaviour and its infrastructure dependencies, users, and business key performance indicators (KPIs) throughout the application’s life cycle," and see why we’re positioned highest and furthest in both Completeness of Vision & Ability to Execute.

Josh Evans talks about the chaotic and vibrant world of microservices at Netflix. He starts with the basics- the anatomy of a microservice, the challenges around distributed systems, and the benefits. Then he builds on that foundation exploring the cultural, architectural, and operational methods that lead to microservice mastery.

“Self-hosting” is a practice that pretty much describes itself: running your own internet services, typically on hardware you own and have at home. This contrasts with relying on products from large tech companies, which the user has no direct involvement in. A self-hoster controls it all, from the hardware used to the configuration of the software.

Visual editors for HTML, CSS, and SVG: Customize, curate, and publish designs faster than ever.

Le référencement local est devenu de plus en plus important. En 2020, plus de 65% des recherches ont été effectuées avec des intentions de recherches locales, c’est à dire une pratique visant à positionner une entreprise sur une requête impliquant un critère géographique. 

Performance chapter of the 2021 Web Almanac covering Core Web Vitals (Largest Contentful Paint, Cumulative Layout Shift, First Input Delay) as well as First Contentful Paint and Time to First Byte

The goal of the Web Almanac’s Structured Data chapter is to explore how structured data is currently being used across the web. We hope that this will provide insight into the landscape, the challenges, and the opportunities at hand.

Choose more than one vendor solution, if necessary. Vendors in the enterprise search functionality segment have cognitive search solutions that apply to the widest number of use cases and include website search and digital commerce. However, the actual features offered by these vendors vary greatly and may not be the best choice for digital commerce. For example, some vendors in the digital commerce functionality segment have sophisticated tools for merchandising that many more general-purpose solutions lack. It is reasonable and not uncommon for enterprises to have more than one cognitive search solution depending on use cases, data sources, content types, and other factors.

Application leaders can not meet market needs or business objectives with monolithic digital experience platforms and must update tech stacks, decompose monoliths and deliver task-oriented capabilities. To future-proof the stack, a composable DXP must be used to deliver composable user experiences.

API usage, and the need to govern it, is increasing rapidly driven by remote working, platforms, ecosystems, innovations, digital transformations and regulations. Application leaders should use this Magic Quadrant to find the right API life cycle management vendor for their organization’s needs.

In this report, Gartner explains the role of marketplace solutions and describes 11 technical and operational imperatives for organizations to consider.

In this article, I’ll walk you through the architecture of processing big records files within AWS services.

This talk describes experiences with building and deploying Piranha, an automated code refactoring tool to delete code corresponding to stale feature flags. The Piranha workflow has been used continuously at Uber since early 2018 to help delete more than 4K stale flags (> 200KLoC) across Java, ObjectiveC, and Swift code.

Websites that took all the right vitamins.

Digital commerce continues to grow as a crucial element of modern business. This survey looks at the changing trends in commerce over 2019, right up to the start of the COVID-19 global pandemic. Application leaders responsible for digital commerce technology can use this research to understand trends and changes in their use.

Key Findings

1. The percentage of revenue surveyed organizations generated from digital commerce increased substantially in 2019.
2. The classic choice between “buy or build” has shifted to “buy and build.” The majority of survey respondents bought at least part of their digital commerce platform, but also extended or customized it.
3. Cross channel 360-degree view of the customer is increasing, but slowly due to its complexities.The top three reasons for embracing digital commerce are to grow revenue, drive toward a greater digital business initiative and improve customer satisfaction.
4. Organizations still struggle with adding new features to their digital commerce platforms and delivering the desired customer experience (CX).

You might have seen webhooks mentioned in your apps' settings and wondered if they're something you should use. The answer, in a nutshell, is probably yes. Webhooks are one way that apps can send automated messages or information to other apps. It's how PayPal tells your accounting app whe

Our toolkit will introduce you to the market’s landscape of new eCommerce tools and highlight the opportunities for your store.

Find your path through the stages of digital transformation:

1. Getting started - Successful projects are used as proof of concept to convince team leaders to champion further change.
2. Evolving and unifying - Discussions about digital strategy become more formal as organizations begin to define their path to transformation.
3. Transformation into a digital-first organization - Digital transformation isn’t an endpoint — it’s the process that takes you from a slowly evolving traditional organization to an agile, tech-enabled business.

To evaluate which edition is best for your business, we highlighted the key differences between Magento Open Source and Adobe Commerce on various parameters such as business size, cost, features and support.

20 years ago Apple seized music, and turned it into a lever for its broader business. It failed to do the same to TV, and lost control of music, but won massively in games, where it now makes more money than the entire global digital music industry. Now, perhaps, it’s looking at advertising.

Visual testing is a pragmatic yet precise way to verify the look of UI components. It’s practiced by companies like Slack, Lonely Planet, and Walmart. This handbook gives you an overview of visual testing in Storybook.