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If you're looking for a way to improve the efficiency of your enterprise applications, consider a citizen integrator—a tool that makes it easy for people without coding expertise to create integrations between their apps. Read on to learn more about citizen integrators and what tools they need to be successful.

According to a study by Seagate, only 32% of data available to enterprises is put to work. The remaining 68% is unleveraged. One of the challenges noted is: making the different silos of collected data available. Using automation to bring together figures from disparate systems helps leaders make confident and reliable decisions backed by real-time information. This overview discusses how to use CDC Change Data Capture to enable real-time analysis.

With tech constantly innovating, various tools and software need to be able to work simultaneously. API's are what makes this possible. The API provides software with a way to interact and communicate. This is how different applications connect, whether it's two internal apps or integrating an app into another company's platform. However, with APIs, as in any software integration, many challenges are likely to arise. To mitigate these challenges, an API management strategy should be in place.

Nurturing your customer prospects is a crucial task to increase your conversion rates—so how can you make sure that valuable leads don’t fall through the cracks? That’s exactly where software like Marketo comes in. Marketo is a marketing automation tool to help standardize and automate your marketing funnel, helping push your prospects along the buyer’s journey from awareness to acquisition.

While Salesforce is an excellent tool for storing and managing information about your contacts, leads, accounts, and other metadata pieces, the power of the system lies in its ability to integrate with other applications. One particularly powerful integration comes from integrating data in a Postgres database into Salesforce. Read on to learn more about Heroku Postgres, Salesforce, and how to transfer data most efficiently.

The world of business is increasingly becoming more dependent on APIs. For companies looking to take advantage of the latest technologies to improve their own business, it makes sense to start building a solid framework around API. Here are 13 reasons why you should be investing in APIs for your business.

“Businesses that manage their data effectively derive unique insights from it and tend to move quicker and be leaders in their industries.” That’s according to Kim Stevenson, Senior Vice President and General Manager of NetApp Foundational Data Services However, that data is only helpful if you can find what you need when you need it and put it to good use. This guide discusses CDC Change Data Capture to provides up-to-date information for real-time analytics.

Customers today expect feature-reach and user-friendly access to technology that makes their lives easier. They expect to use this technology to engage with companies anywhere, anytime, and with any device. Organizations must be able to not just meet, but exceed, these expectations. Failing to do so could result in lost revenue as customers move on to competitors.

We're excited to announce that Xplenty has acquired the fastest real-time data replication platform on the market, FlyData. This further expands our product suite and adds database replication to our customer offering. This was the highest requested feature from our customers, so we're happy to announce that we now have CDC (change data capture) capabilities.

For decades, ETL (extract, transform, load) has been a mainstay of organizations’ data integration workflows, moving information from various sources to a centralized data warehouse. More recently, however, businesses have been shaking things up with reverse ETL, which flips the sources and targets by sending data from your warehouse to third-party systems like Zendesk.