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Choosing the best Digital Experience Platform (DXP) in financial services

Digital experiences play a different role in different industries and the financial services industry has its own specific set of needs to engage with customers. With the surge in customers banking online when branches closed during the pandemic, customers are now more digital-savvy than ever, with research by RFi Group revealing that 73% of British consumers are now using e-banking methods. Brand reputation now rests almost entirely on users’ digital experiences. The direct correlation of digital experience to business success cannot be underestimated by financial services organizations.

DevOps, Low-Code and RPA: Pros and Cons of low-code for effective enterprise solutions

A critical shortage of developers is expected to hit businesses hard in 2022, with 86% of IT decision makers citing lack of developers as their biggest challenge. Digital transformations worldwide have created an unprecedented demand for skilled software developers and IT professionals. In April 2021 alone, there were nearly 10,000 vacancies for software developers (9,783) compared to 5,630 at the same time last year. Organisations lacking the right talent will need to look within their existing teams for solutions to complete these digital missions.

Why Are Organizations Adopting GitOps for Continuous Deployment in 2022?

To develop infrastructure as code, a DevOps engineer will most likely produce files (such as YAML) locally and put the code in a git repository, which offers him version control for IaC and allows other team members to retrieve and participate. However, while making changes to the code, we may not have a clear protocol in place – such as pull requests, code reviews, or collaboration to discuss modifications made by other team members. It’s even difficult to figure out who did what. Even automated tests to run the codes in repositories are lacking. All of these errors, as well as others, eventually end up in the development environment.

Monitoring And Security In A Hybrid, Multicloud World

In my November 2021 article, I outlined how the digital transformation in many organizations had accelerated due to work-from-home mandates. The rapid changes seen as IT teams worked to deliver access to staff working from home drove the uptake of cloud services and SaaS applications from multiple suppliers. These changes did a lot to eliminate the concept of a well-defined and secure network perimeter.

DevOps and DevSecOps: what's on the cards for 2022?

In the past year, there have been incredible efforts from Australian organizations to digitize and innovate. As a result, developers have become an intrinsic part of organizations' digital agenda delivery.

Bridging the security gap in the software development life cycle

The timeliness of security checks during the software testing process is critical to more rapid and higher quality software development and yielding higher returns. Yet DevOps and security have historically struggled to integrate in the software development life cycle (SDLC). According to a Gartner study, through 2022, 90 percent  of software development projects plan to follow DevSecOps practices, up from 40 percent  in 2019.

Lessons from International Day of Women and Girls in Science

Over the last few years, conversations have started opening up about gender inequality and discrimination faced by women in education and work. This is naturally a great first step, but there is a danger of creating complacency around the subject.

International Day of Women and Girls in Science: How to support women in STEM

It’s no secret that there remains a significant gender gap in Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM) industries.

Women make up only 24% of those in the sector, despite progress in recent years. As Dr Shirley Knowles, Chief Inclusion and Diversity Officer at Progress points out, not only are women put off joining the sector, they “are often paid less and don’t get the same level of recognition as their male counterparts,” once in it.

What Is NoOps?

NoOps, short for no operations, is an IT environment where many of the functions needed to manage, optimize and secure IT services and applications are automated, abstracted and/or performed by someone other than a traditional centralized operations unit. NoOps is a loosely defined concept, with different vendors, analysts and customers using it to describe varying degrees of automation, the IT components it can be applied to, and which units are assigned the IT operations functions.

Akhila Karanam, first Hyderabad girl to get STEM scholarship

Akhila Karanam, a second-year student at Keshav Memorial Institute of Technology, Hyderabad, is the first recipient of the Progress Software Akanksha Scholarship for Women in STEM in India.

Progress Announces First Recipient of the Progress Software Akanksha Scholarship for Women in STEM in India

Progress announced today the first recipient of the Progress Software Akanksha Scholarship for Women in STEM in India. The scholarship is part of the larger Women in STEM scholarship series, supporting women’s professional development in computer science, software engineering IT and/or computer information systems in Bulgaria, India and the United States.

Digital experiences, DevOps/DevSecOps and network security to drive local digital investments in 2022, says Progress's Yang

With many new product releases, an acquisition and greater overall demand, 2021 was a big year for Progress.

"All our customers are doing well," and the company attracted new customers during the year and has more in the pipeline.

In the light of that, Progress hired new talent around the region, including Australia and New Zealand, with some of them adding to the company's digital experience platform (DXP) skills.

Techxperts React: What the Union Budget Holds for the Future of Tech

While techxperts figure out how the RBI going to fare in the cryptocurrency game or how e-passports are going to become a reality, let us look at some prominent leaders in the industry who react to the Union Budget 2022.

Progress encourages and empowers women to pursue STEM education

Progress is a 40-year-old US-listed IT company. It acquired Chef, a global leader in DevOps and DevSecOps, for $220 million in cash, as part of an effort to advance adoption of best DevOps and DevSecOps practices in the mid-market. The company is now expanding its business in India and has new offices in Hyderabad and Bengaluru and is actively hiring DevOps engineers from India for global business.

Rethinking Tech Design with an Accessibility-First Approach

The tech industry is currently in the process of a major adjustment period. Increasingly, companies are realizing (either willingly, or painfully via lawsuit) that they need to start designing their applications and websites accessibility-first.

Best Network Monitoring Tools for 2022

Network monitoring is where business performance meets cybersecurity, making it a critical component of any organization’s development, security, and operations (DevSecOps) pipeline.

Progress updates UI libraries

How can we accelerate diversity in the tech sector?

Whenever we think about Silicon Valley, we tend to picture groups of white men in their 30s coming up with the latest tech innovation. Films and TV series about tech reinforce this demographic, with women, Black people or those with disabilities rarely getting to feature. According to analysis of Office for National Statistics figures by the British Computer Society, women accounted for just 17% of IT specialists in the UK in 2019, and Black, Asian and minority ethnic workers 18%. Just 11% of IT specialists are reported to have a disability, and under a quarter (22%) over the age of 50.

The technologies set to boost the finance sector in 2022

With every sector taking a knock these past two years, many businesses have struggled to regain any momentum they had achieved before the pandemic took hold. The finance and banking sector in particular has faced unprecedented challenges, with a 1,318% year-on-year increase in ransomware attacks in the first half of 2021, causing many businesses to focus on survival rather than growth.

Three Tips for Intrusion Prevention with Managed File Transfer

With some organizations furloughing their cybersecurity teams during the pandemic, it’s clear that each business places cybersecurity somewhere different on the scale of importance. Security is an intrinsic aspect of any managed file transfer (MFT) solution. And organizations which are new to this must be aware of the various security options in order to make an informed choice. At the other end of the scale, some MFT users are paranoid about security, so it’s important to know that MFT is not a one-size-fits-all feature.