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Real-time analytics can keep you up-to-date on what’s happening right now, such as how many people are currently reading your new blog post and whether someone just liked your latest Facebook status. For most use cases, real-time is a nice-to-have feature that won’t provide any crucial insights. However, sometimes real-time is a must. Let’s say that you run a big ad agency.

Most companies offering any kind of service or product answer this question from consumers or potential clients all the time: "How much does it cost?" Or, the much harder question: "How much will it cost if I choose these services with these extras for my particular company/house/yard/situation, etc.?" The tough part is that pricing services or software usually involves too many variables.

The ETL (extract, transform, load) process depends on quickly, efficiently, and securely transferring information between sources and targets. However, there are multiple options for data transfer protocols, including FTP and its close relative SFTP. So what’s the difference between FTP and SFTP, and how can you decide which one to use for your enterprise data? We have all the answers below.

NetSuite is a powerful Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) platform that gives organizations a way to use one platform for countless essential business operations. However, it also offers a goldmine of revenue-increasing capabilities. These 20 methods for increasing revenue reveals the true potential of using NetSuite for critical business processes.

Organizations have numerous departments and employees of all skill sets using the same CRM. When it comes to Salesforce, transferring data and files from an external location can be complicated, especially when dealing with confidential information. A great solution to securing the data transfer is to use an SFTP. Here is a step-by-step guide on how to integrate your systems from SFTP to Salesforce.

Building a Heroku ETL pipeline can seem like a daunting task. The process seems complicated, and it's hard to know where to start. This post will show how easy it is to build an ETL pipeline with Heroku and Hadoop — and how Xplenty can help simplify the process.

Automated ETL (extract, transform, load) and data integration workflows are essential for the modern data-driven organization, and they can swiftly and efficiently migrate data from sources to a target data warehouse or data lake. But ETL must run at regular intervals — or even in real-time — so how can you know which information is fresh and which information you’ve already ingested? Solving this problem is the goal of change data capture (CDC) techniques.

In the age of digital transformation, EDI (Electronic Data Exchange) technology is used to create new business information flows that never existed on paper. As the technology grows, companies need to incorporate more than traditional EDI standards. There are country-specific laws (HIPAA, GDPR, etc.), data collection and protection guidelines, privacy laws, business intelligence guides, and more.

Extracting your data from multiple sources and collecting it in a centralized data warehouse is hard enough—but how do you keep it safe once it arrives? Organizations use a variety of data security methods to protect sensitive and confidential information, including share-level security (all users sharing a password) and user-level security (with separate accounts and passwords for each user).

Enterprise resource planning, or ERP, the software helps companies manage their day-to-day activities in most departments. It offers organization and compliance features that streamline the process and make it user-friendly. ERP software shoppers probably know they need top-quality ERP software, but how do they know how to choose the right one for their needs?