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Companies of all sizes and industries are unlocking new possibilities thanks to APIs (application programming interfaces). There are many common uses of APIs, from driving business agility to improving the customer experience. However, there are few sectors where APIs have so much potential as the logistics industry. From giant e-commerce retailers like Amazon to small mom-and-pop businesses, shippers, couriers, and delivery services can all benefit from using a logistics API.

GET STARTED In the 21st century, data is the center of every business. Therefore, how companies handle, optimize, and automate their valuable business data is becoming more and more important. To make data storage a bit easier, many companies are moving their big data over to cloud-based data centers.

Fraud, waste, and abuse (FWA) in government is a constant, multi-billion dollar issue that challenges agency leaders at all levels and across all sectors, from healthcare to education to taxation to Social Security. The scope and scale of public spending—federal outlays alone were approximately $6.6 trillion in fiscal year 2020 according to the Congressional Budget Office—make FWA an inherently difficult problem to solve.

You've probably used `Rails.cache` to read, write, and fetch cached data in Rails—but did you know you can also work with counters? In this series, Jonathan Miles introduces us to some of the lesser-known tools hidden in your Rails codebase.

Business intelligence reporting is a valuable weapon in an organization’s competitive arsenal. Here’s everything you need to know about it.

The UnknownHostException is an exception in Java that is thrown to indicate that the IP address of a host could not be determined. Since the UnknownHostException is a checked exception, it either needs to be thrown or surrounded by a try-catch block in code.

The SocketException is an exception in Java that is thrown to indicate that an error was encountered while creating or accessing a Socket. Since the SocketException is a checked exception, it either needs to be thrown or surrounded by a try-catch block in code.

Why turnover among chief data officers is so high and what can be done about it.

In the era of big data, an unprecedented amount of data is available to companies to drive growth. Yet up to 73% of companies’ data never get used. What are the bottlenecks to accessing data? And why is there such a wide gap between the data we have in our data lakes and data warehouses and the data we end up using for making business decisions? The smoking gun is in the hands of data democratization.

I recently sat down with CFODive to discuss the importance of modern financial analytics in transforming the way financial leaders and their organizations operate – a topic that is only becoming increasingly prominent. Business strategies have had to rapidly adjust to address market volatility, consumer trends, and unpredictable world events. These dynamics have forced finance teams to rethink how they are using data and analytics and take a more modern approach.