19Jan2020

Transform Your Customer Onboarding Experience

Banking, Digital Transformation, Digital Business Automation, Account opening, Customer onboarding

Every online customer interaction with your banking institution is a chance to make an impression. The experience of signing up for a new account can be the crucial factor in distinguishing your banking institution from your competitors. It remains a...

05Jan2020

Microservices vs. Monolithic Architecture

Microservices, Application Modernization, Microservices Architecture, Monolithic

Why Microservices Give You Better Business Agility, Resiliency, and a Shorter Time-to-Market When you hear the term “Microservices,” you often hear it in conjunction with the word “Monolithic,” when talking about software architecture. You may wonder why these words are...

22Dec2019

Five RPA Top Trends in 2020

Robotic Process Automation, RPA, Digital Workforce, AI

RPA or Robotic Process Automation is a hot topic in IT as businesses start looking at ways of freeing up their employees for more high-valued work. Closely related to Artificial Intelligence (AI) and automation, RPA has grown in recent years...

15Dec2019

Apache Kafka – Definition and Use Cases

Integration, Agile Integration, Apache Kafka, Message Queues, Real-time event streaming

If you’ve been working in or with IT for any length of time, you’ve probably heard of Kafka. And you learned that over one third of the Fortune 500 companies use Kafka in their applications and programs. Most of the...

08Dec2019

Why Microservices Architecture will Increase Your Business Agility

Microservices, Application Modernization, Cloud-native apps, Microservices Architecture

Is your software as agile as it needs to be? Does it have scalability or is it a constant nightmare for your DevOps team to maintain? Can it integrate with new devices and new features? If it doesn’t, maybe it’s...

01Dec2019

Digital Transformation and The Challenges of a Changing Culture

Digital Transformation, People, Innovation, Digital Culture

There is no doubt that digital transformation is essential for businesses wanting to stay competitive into the future. In fact, 67% of business leaders say that they need to be more digitized by 2020. The problem is that even the...

24Nov2019

Moving From ESB to Agile Integration

Integration, Microservices, agile, ESB, API management, Cloud-native apps, SOA, System Integration

Many enterprises find themselves at a crossroads when it comes to managing their dependency on legacy systems, difficult to coordinate with more forward-thinking technology integrations like cloud-native apps and IoT. It is the reason many businesses struggling to remain competitive...

10Nov2019

How Extending RPA Capabilities Enables Digital Transformation

Digital Transformation, Digital Business Automation, Robotic Process Automation, BPM, RPA, IBM Datacap, IBM ODM, IBM FileNet

Many companies end up hitting a wall in their attempts at full workflow automation. A lot of solutions fail to provide the combination of intelligence, stability, and flexibility needed to move an organization beyond the automation of basic repetitive tasks....

03Nov2019

Cloud-Native Apps | Definition and Benefit for Your Business

Microservices, Cloud Computing, cloud native applications, devOps, Kubernetes, Hybrid Cloud

There is some confusion on what cloud-native apps are and how they work for those business owners who don’t have advanced technology knowledge. Usually when you have an article or discussion about cloud-native apps or DevOps, there are too many...

28Oct2019

Kubernetes in Minutes

Microservices, Cloud Computing, devOps, Kubernetes, Containers, Hybrid Cloud

If you’ve heard of kubernetes but don’t quite understand what it is or why it’s important, you’re not alone. Most business leaders are relatively well-versed in technology but kubernetes are a little more advanced. Basically, when your technology experts discuss...

22Oct2019

5 Automation Pillars Redefining Your Business

Digital Transformation, Enterprise Content Management, Business Process Management, Business Rules Management, Digital Business Automation, Robotic Process Automation, BPM, ECM, RPA, Process automation, data capture, Task Automation

Automation is not a new trend. It’s been a way of life for a large portion of the human existence. Inventions have always come about through the need to fix a problem or simplify a process. The difference is that...

09Sep2019

How BPR Impacts Customer Experience

Digital Business Automation, Business Process Reengineering

Business process re-engineering, or BPR, is a strategy that’s been around for nearly 30 years. With new advances in technology, BPR has taken on even more significance for companies that want to stay ahead of the competition and meet customer...

23Aug2019

How the GDPR Affects Financial Institutions

GDPR, Financial Institutions

The General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR, is the set of regulations adopted by the European Union to dictate how personal privacy is handled. It went into effect in May 2018, but many US financial organizations are still considering the...

18Aug2019

Cloud Strategy Trends for 2019 and Beyond

Cloud Computing, IT Strategy, Trends

Cloud computing continues to be a driving force for the newest initiatives in technology. For companies still straddling the line between legacy applications and cloud solutions, it’s important to develop a sound strategy for your cloud computing implementation. This will...

12Aug2019

How Can Your Organization Benefit from IBM’s Acquisition of Red Hat

Cloud Strategy, Cloud Apps, OpenShift

IBM’s acquisition of Red Hat made a lot of waves in the tech industry and many insiders, and outsiders, have been watching to see how the chips fall on this partnership. This isn’t the tech giant’s first foray into cloud...

05Aug2019

Is It Time to Transform Your Legacy Applications to Microservices?

Microservices, Application Modernization, Cloud Strategy

Unless your IT infrastructure is brand new, it’s likely that you’ll need to wrestle with the prospect of updating your legacy applications at some point. This can be a difficult prospect because every change forces new choices with other aspects...

29Jul2019

Enterprise Content Management Modernization and Why Your Company Needs to Embrace Change

Enterprise Content Management, Modernization

Enterprise Content Management (ECM) was created out of a need to manage documentation as technology brought in new and more effective ways to communicate throughout your business. These robust software solutions sought to give your company a way to capture...

15Jul2019

What is Microservices Architecture?

Microservices, Cloud Native, CD/CI, devOps, SOA, Monolithic

What are Microservices? Microservices are an approach to software development that treats an application as a collection of services. They use a high degree of granularity to distinguish these services and include minimal protocol to couple these services together. The...

25Jun2019

CIOs Top Five Priorities for IT Investments 2020

Digital Transformation, Customer Experience, IT Leadership, Application Modernization

The IT department is the nucleus of every industry today. There is simply no way to compete without placing a priority on the types of digital transformation that offer your end users the best customer experience. For CIOs, that means...

16Jun2019

RPA Use Cases in Banking | Where Can I Leverage Robotic Process Automation?

Banking, Digital Transformation, Digital Business Automation, Robotic Process Automation

Robotic Process Automation (RPA) is quickly gaining traction across many industries. According to Forrester, the market will reach $2.9 billion by 2021, with the entirety of the AI market reach at about $48 billion. RPA is any technology that helps...

10Jun2019

Customer Experience: What Customers Want and Expect in Banking 2020

Banking, Digital Transformation, Customer Experience

Technology has changed the way we do business in every sector and banking is no exception. In the past few years, advances have been astounding. Five or six years ago, most people still wrote checks occasionally and stopping at the...

03Jun2019

Top Five Reasons You Need Robotic Process Automation in Banking

Banking, Digital Business Automation, Robotic Process Automation

Robotic Process Automation, often called RPA, enables companies to easily automate mundane, repetitive tasks in order to free up employees to perform higher value work. RPA covers a wide range of activities and is taking hold in every industry that prizes...

23May2019

The Power of Predictive Analytics for Marketing in the Banking Industry

Banking, Predictive Analytics, Marketing, Digital Transformation, Business analytics

Smart marketing campaigns rely on predictive analytics to help them assess information and accurately project their progress. In the banking industry, the thoughtful use of data is key in everything from customer acquisition to a personalized customer experience. Today’s banking...

10Nov2018

Manage Correspondences, Speed Up Decisions

Many organizations are facing a major challenge with the increasing volume of correspondences. Having an efficient process of communication is slowed down by the obsolete traditional paper correspondences in addition to the strict protocols that limit access to correspondence documents,...

05Jun2018

How To Write Awesome User Stories?

Overview In Software engineering, requirements gathering has multiple techniques. User stories are one of the most popular techniques in agile development. It’s a way to document stakeholders’ requirements in an informal manner. The primary focus of a user story, is...

03Oct2017

Test Driven Development Benefits & Techniques

Software Testing, Test Driven Development

Test-Driven Development (TDD) is a prerequisite for professional behavior: think about software as a sensitive discipline. I mean that there are tiny places of data that could crash the system if set the wrong way. Like software, the accounting is...

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