E-Commerce

Managing order statuses in Magento can be smooth and easy without going into the application code as long as we understand how those statuses work. First off, I’d like to point out that Magento has order statuses and order states; two concepts that are very similar to each other. The main difference between them is that order states are...

Systems Integration

The wide array of products from Talend – a data integration leader – has been geared towards offering uniqueness, completeness and clarity of data gathered by the organization. The range of Talend solutions helps companies to transform towards data-driven organizations, i.e. to a state in which decisions are made based on credible and reliable...

Systems Integration

According to the Gartner report “2016 CEO Survey: The Year of Digital Tenacity,” half of the CEOs surveyed anticipate digital transformation and assume that their industry will change beyond recognition during the next 5 years. Understanding this problem translates to the fact that, increasingly often, care of the “digital“ area of the company is...

Data Analytics & Machine Learning

If you are considering implementation of a Business Intelligence solution, you should definitely look at what is offered by Microsoft, an active player in this market. Although I’ll start today’s post with a brief description of Microsoft’s two most popular BI methods, later on I’ll focus only on the Power BI solution, and point to its most...

Systems Integration

In recent years, an increasing number of organizations have begun to feel the need to respond quickly to the flow of IT data. Stream processing of data in the system can fulfill this requirement. From this article you will learn: the business application of stream processing. what stream processing is and how it works. what’s on offer from the...

Systems Integration

The rapid development of e-commerce forces the transport, forwarding and logistics industry to quickly introduce new technologies to internal systems. To create a flexible architecture that will be adapted to continuous expansion and smooth exchange of data, it would be a good idea to integrate IT systems. Integration plays a vital role in communication...

E-Commerce

Before you choose the “universal” solution, stop for a moment and think about how you would like to see your sales systems in 3-5 years? What can change during this time and how often, or rather how fast, will you have to make modifications to keep up with the competition? Looking at the best – Amazon updates its applications...

Systems Integration

A few years ago, the notion of “API commercialization” was unclear and vague. Hardly any company grew its profitability by means of providing API. Today, it is common knowledge that the data held in-house and internal services are valuable and can generate returns. This applies not only to the internet industry companies but to every big organization....

Systems Integration

The model with a dedicated integration layer is an alternative way of SOA implementation. Read this post to find out: the strengths and capabilities of this solution the weaknesses and limitations that you’ll have to deal with when to use SOA with a dedicated integration layer SOA with a dedicated integration layer in the services area has similar...

Systems Integration

The model based on creating services without the use of a dedicated integration layer is one of the many ways to implement the concept of building a Service Oriented Architecture. Read this post to find out: the strengths and capabilities of this solution the potential and weaknesses of the solution when it makes sense to consider the SOA scenario...