2015 State of Embedded Analytics Report

The 2015 State of Embedded Analytics Report looks to provide insights to executives, product managers, and technology leaders on why and how organizations embed analytic capabilities within their applications. We delve into the strategic vision, the business case, and the implementation approaches for embedding analytics.

At Logi Analytics, our vision is to create a smarter world by making analytics available to everyone. The traditional approaches to business intelligence are fading, marred by a long track record of expensive and ineffective solutions. In order to create data-driven organizations, applications must bring data and insights to life in an agile, intuitive, and resource-efficient way.

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APIs Fueling the Connected Car Opportunity

The connected car offers manufacturers and dealers ways to deliver a better consumer experience post purchase and will prove strategic to developing consumer loyalty in the long term. Today’s connectivity technologies empower the automotive sector to deliver increased value via a number of innovative features, including:

• The ability to remotely start or unlock a vehicle

• Real-time diagnostic information to prevent minor issues from turning major

• Connection with insurance companies, to take advantage of “good driver” discounts

• Integration with car part suppliers in order to better manage inventory

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API Monetization: How to Unlock the Value of Your APIs

It should come as no surprise that exposing business data outside of the enterprise creates a range of new security and management challenges. API Management solutions make it simple for even the most security-conscious organization to open their information assets without impacting data security or the performance of backend systems. So in the end, you can focus not on the risks of API monetization, but rather, on the rewards.
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APIs in Mobile Apps: Delivering the Right Balance Between App Security and Usability

In order to take full advantage of the app opportunity, businesses must open up their traditional boundaries and connect valuable and sensitive data to the outside mobile world—it’s what today’s consumers expect.

From home, the office or on the road, people want the convenience of being able to login to their email, check their credit card balances, buy new clothes, book travel, share links with social networks, copy images into reports, upload files to the cloud and more. While businesses work feverishly to answer the demand, they need to be aware of the extreme security threat involved in enabling these mobile initiatives.

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Best Practices and Applications of TLS/SSL

SSL/TLS has been and will be a core enabling technology critical for securing communications. The most significant challenge facing the SSL ecosystem is its implementation. Researchers have recently published reports indicating widespread errors and shortcomings in the implementation of SSL/TLS in mobile applications. These issues often result from flawed use of SDKs or APIs used by developers.

This paper lists necessary steps to take to create a stronger, more trustworthy SSL implementation. All SSL client non-browser applications should follow all these practices to ensure strong authentication, confidentiality & integrity.
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Building an Android App using MobileData Cloud

Learn more about the benefits of Bluemix. This webcast focuses on building an Android application using the MobileData service. Walk-through the real process and workflow used to build and link the MobileData service within your application.
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The Product Delivery Problem (Hint: It’s Not You)

For product managers and their counterparts, the road to launch is a fight to keep every task, every detail, every change grounded in business goals. It’s not enough to be fast. Or to deliver the right product. You need to do both. This requires:

• Balancing the needs of many stakeholders to define a set of requirements for what’s being built, why and how.

• Prioritizing and re-prioritizing “must-have” mandates from multiple voices—everyone from front-end users to engineers to sales to support.

• Ensuring that what gets built is what every one expects.

This white paper outlines surefire ways you can establish and maintain a strong connection between intended outcomes, development methodologies and customer value.

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A Modern Take on the Agile Manifesto

When the Agile Manifesto was published in 2001, our workplace looked very different from how it does today. Despite major changes in how we work, our interpretation of the Manifesto hasn’t changed in over a decade. So what does today’s Agile look like? Do the values of the Manifesto still apply? How can we evolve Agile concepts to tackle today's product-delivery challenges in a new way?

Download this eBook for an opportunity to rethink the Agile Manifesto. View Agile in a new light and deconstruct which concepts were home runs and which still need to evolve.

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