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Best Big Data API Management Platforms

Every time someone uses an app, information travels from a database to the user via an API. Single instances may not seem very important. As long as they perform the required task, people don’t think too much about how applications work. From a business perspective, the big data flowing through APIs could unlock important knowledge that helps tap into emerging trends and target customers better. To get the best results, companies need the best big data API management.

How to Migrate from the Open Source WSO2 Identity Server to the Subscription Version?

WSO2 Identity Server is the most popular open-source CIAM system on the market, and it is widely used by educational institutions and government agencies as an on-premise CIAM solution. Single sign-on/sign-out (SSO), identity federation, strong authentication, identity administration, account management, identity provisioning, fine-grained access control, API security, monitoring, reporting, and auditing are all possible with WSO2 Identity Server's seamless integration capabilities.

Monitoring Appian with Appian: Automating Threat Analysis and Information Gathering

In our previous blog posts covering our in-house Security Orchestration, Automation & Response (SOAR) application, we described the basic building blocks for the system and the steps we took to orchestrate interactions between a number of security tools. While building orchestration, we already introduced a significant amount of Automation powering features like threat intelligence collection and event polling.

Parameter Binding: Native API/Native Code vs SourcePro DB

In the previous article, we walked through an example of how to query and retrieve data from a MySQL database using the native MySQL C API and then compared that to the clean simplicity of using the SourcePro DB API. In this article, we are going to take that a step further and look at input parameter binding. Building off the system we discussed previously that manages the accounts for a credit card system, we are now going to implement a simple application that can add transactions to an account.

Top 9 Landing Page Optimization Best Practices

You might think that each marketer uniquely implements their landing page. However, there is a formula for landing page optimization, and following best practices will get you a healthy conversion rate. Even if you want a one-of-a-kind landing page, using tried-and-true principles will improve your results.

7 Habits of Effective API and Service Management

Organizations face many challenges every day, and every day new challenges emerge. You have the day-to-day obstacles to overcome and then there is new twist. Today, the biggest challenge emerging on the market is how to adopt and implement effective API and service management habits. The number of APIs and services a company uses is growing exponentially every day, managing them individually or with a corporate wiki is just not possible.

Aviva France Optimizing Insurance Processes to Speed Claims Settlement

Aviva provides life and general insurance to 33 million customers in France. The company has been using Appian as a platform and orchestrator of intelligent automation to enable better communications and collaboration between departments, customers, and systems. Since 2015, Aviva has been optimizing processes for operational efficiency. In just one claims example, Aviva increased the number of same-day claims settlement from 1% to 25%, plus a 530% jump for claims settled within three days.

The 4 main factors to consider as part of your test automation strategy

We recently talked to Angie Jones in a podcast episode dedicated to best practices in software testing. In this article, drawing on our previous discussion, we’ll share her thoughts about the main factors to consider to build a comprehensive test automation strategy.