WHY IT MATTERS: Digital Transformation

The 2022 edition of the Critical Capabilities for Analytics and Business Intelligence Platforms has the same 12 capabilities as the 2021 edition. However, the underlying questionnaire used to evaluate all 20 vendors was expanded, adding nine new subcriteria for a total of 79 questions.

TrackStreet is a MAP, UPP, Authorized Dealer, and Resale Policy platform, which enables you to clean your sales channels and drive growth online and off.
TrackStreet leverages artificial intelligence and automation technologies to relentlessly monitor and reduce brand, MAP, and resale pricing violations, enabling explosive multi-channel growth for many of the most recognizable and respected brands across a wide gamut of industries.

As customer and business demands accelerate, site reliability engineers, ITOps teams, developers and management need operational visibility into their entire architecture. But complex modern infrastructure and applications make answering questions about what happened, who was affected and how it can be fixed more difficult than ever. Observability systems enable you to inspect and understand your application stack — but what is observability, and how does it differ from simple monitoring?

- The complementary relationship between observability and monitoring
- The three critical pillars to achieve observability 
- How to build observability into your application environment 
- How observability helps you tame complexity and reduce MTTR

Here’s a list of categories that are the key pillars to today’s Modern Data Stack. Inside each, you’ll find the most popular companies within that category.

APM tools have become powerful analytics platforms that ingest, analyze and build context from traces, metrics and logs. Infrastructure and operations leaders choosing APM software must weigh these functions against core APM capabilities and the automation being provided by new and existing vendors.

Read GigaOm Radar for Cloud Observability, 2021 and discover how an observability solution can help you:
- Achieve higher application uptime
- Provide better user experiences
- Empower more productive engineering teams

Compare Grafana and New Relic on market position, pricing, and core strengths.

Congratulations on making it to the end of 2021. It's been a long year for everyone as we navigated the ongoing pandemic saga. From the perspective of advancing digital business, these past 21 months have seen leaps and bounds forward. But the circumstances that catalyzed this punctuated equilibrium of marketing's evolution have been hard for so many in so many ways. I'm not going to subject you to the phrase 'the new normal' again —

This frequently-updated page contains real-life examples and diagrams from Upsolver customers who are using AWS data lakes. While the Upsolver platform itself is a key component in all of these architectures, we hope even non-customers can learn from these examples when it comes to the use cases, considerations, and design patterns that go into a typical cloud data lake.

Data cleaning is a massive part of data pre-processing and model building for machine learning algorithms so it's something you can never miss.

Learn all the most important ecommerce metrics you should start tracking in your reporting dashboard!

“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.

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See side-by-side comparisons of the top 6 marketing automation vendors in one convenient guide. Compare costs, both upfront and ongoing, and get insight into contract terms. See a roll-up of ratings from the most popular review sites to hear what real users like you think of the various platforms out there.

This guide will show you:

• What integrated marketing is (and why it works!)
  
• Examples of integrated marketing campaigns (Good & Bad)
  
• The 5 essential steps for creating your own IMC campaign

At the top of most organizations' priority lists right now is how to keep their workers productive and engaged. Except for in-person businesses and essential workers, the workforce has largely been physically disbanded until the pandemic comes to an end, one way or another. In unprecedented fashion, technology has suddenly become one of the single…

If this all seems like it’s cobbled together, that’s because it is. I’m currently going through the process of setting this stack up for my local deli and I can attest to how frustratingly high-touch and difficult it is. But if the dine-in experience means filling four tops with mannequins and separating diners with plexi glass and shower curtains, restaurants better start preparing for a world where takeout is the new dine in no matter how steep the learning curve.

Digital marketing leaders use multichannel marketing hubs to orchestrate contextually relevant experiences across complex journeys. Vendors emphasize unified customer profiles supported by predictive insights to drive personalized interactions. Use this research to evaluate suitable MMH solutions.

Planbox receives the highest score in strategy AND current offerings in the latest Forrester Wave report on innovation management platforms.

• New designs based on ease of use for simplification of host controls, quick joining to meetings, and integration to conference room systems.
• Blended asynchronous (messaging, content, scheduling, tasks, recordings) and synchronous (voice, audio, screen sharing) collaboration in persistent rooms or workspaces.
• Equal capabilities across diverse endpoint types, from group video system codecs to desktops, laptops (through browsers or clients), smartphones, tablets and so on.
• Transcription and language translation for delivering webinars, town hall meetings and quarterly business reviews.
• Artificial intelligence (AI)-influenced technologies that improve the videoconference room experience by automating the meeting join and content sharing processes.
• Optimization of delivery to enterprise networks — for example, by supporting security via VPN or broadcast via CDN.
• Visibility into the enterprise video estate, with integrated management and reporting software providing information on meeting solution performance and usage.
• Integration with related collaboration investments, including UCC and cloud office.
• Pricing models that span a range from low-end freemium to high-end premium services.

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7 steps, from communication tools and performance reviews to team morale and helping new hires.

Google Cloud was named a Leader and received the highest score across all 10 Forrester New Wave™: Computer Vision Platforms, Q4 2019 evaluation criteria.

From assisting in chronic disease management to gamifying aesthetic medicine, we look at Tencent-owned super app WeChat as a vital part of healthcare in China.