Whitepaper – How APIs power digital transformation for energy and utilities

Energy and utilities providers face more uncertainty than ever before as they grapple with price volatility, geopolitical and regulatory instability, newly viable technologies, and increasing calls to decarbonize. As a result, utilities’ IT teams are under pressure to deliver effective digital transformation through differentiated customer experiences, improved employee productivity and capital efficiencies, and product portfolio expansion to open new revenue streams.

Download this energy and utilities whitepaper to access:

  • Case studies of Siemens and BP’s API-led innovations to improve customer and stakeholder experiences.
  • Best practices to unlock critical data while also supporting the adoption of new technologies including mobile, cloud, blockchain, and IoT.
  • Top digital technologies for energy and utilities companies to increase efficiency and reduce time to market.

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eBook – Transform your digital retail experience

The world of retail is changing dramatically. Retailers used to have anonymous, transactional relationships with their customers; but now both retailers and customers want a deeper relationship. The retailers that win today are the ones that use technology to build those personal customer experiences and transform their digital retail experience. However, it isn’t always easy to implement new solutions with existing systems.

Read this eBook to discover:

  • Why existing approaches are not sufficient for the pace of digital transformation that retail demands
  • How to drive technology change in your organization, creating a greater capability to innovate and transforming the digital retail experience for your customers
  • How to adopt an API-led approach to integration that packages underlying connectivity and orchestration services as easily discoverable and reusable building blocks

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Whitepaper – A 3-step guide to insurance transformation

Traditional insurers are no longer safe with insurtechs challenging incumbents to rethink their business and operating models. This mass disruption creates increased pressure on IT to deliver intrinsic business value, including new services, customer touchpoints, and experiences. Successful insurance transformation requires rethinking the traditional IT operating model to allow IT to focus on creating reusable assets that empower lines of business. Doing so increases IT’s delivery capacity, making businesses more agile.

Read this whitepaper to learn:

  • An overview of the challenges insurers are facing in the industry.
  • How a new IT operating model – API-led connectivity – allows IT teams to unlock data from legacy systems and drive reuse across the enterprise.
  • Strategies for using APIs to create a single view of the customer and build connected customer experiences.

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Whitepaper – Open Banking platform strategy

Financial services has seen more disruptive technologies introduced over the past three years than any other industry. But in today’s climate, customers now rely on digital banking experiences to make critical financial decisions. Now more than ever, banks must provide these critical and useful services for customers, and they are turning to Open Banking to do so.

Read this whitepaper to learn:

  • Three strategic mindsets that drive digital transformation in banking.
  • A four-step guide to building an Open Banking digital platform strategy with APIs.
  • How one global top tier bank developed a digital platform to transcend disjointed customer experiences.

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Coronavirus on Campus: 7 Ways to Use Your CMS as a Super Tool for Crisis Management

Is your college or university prepared to meet the challenges that come with disasters and emergencies?

As if wildfires, polar vortexes, tornadoes, and hurricanes weren’t enough to disrupt business as usual, the world is now grappling with COVID-19, or Coronavirus. No doubt your college or university has developed a crisis plan of some sort, but there’s no better time than now to make sure you have the tools in place to help your campus stay safe. Remember, knowledge is power and in many cases, it can be a lifesaver.

Delve into the ways a powerful, flexible, and scalable CMS can help you disseminate messaging, update your audience, educate students and faculty about crisis concerns, and keep them safe.

Knowing that our team at OmniUpdate can be just as affected by potential threats, we put together this white paper to explain how you can better leverage your content management system (CMS) as a super tool to wield when dealing with the pending disaster and aftermath of campus crises.

In this white paper, you'll learn how to:

  • Implement the three Bs of crisis planning.
  • Craft messaging that is helpful, empathetic, and direct.
  • Develop a microsite or designated web pages for crisis management.
  • Deploy Emergency Alerts that advertise ways to learn more.
  • Use email and social media to disseminate information.
  • Leverage the cloud for your website and CMS.

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Choosing the Right Campus CMS

Every great college or university deserves a great content management system.

In fact, every higher education institution needs a great web content management system (CMS)—it’s no less essential than a student information or learning management system. Without a CMS—or with one that’s a bad fit—you’ll find it increasingly difficult to realize recruiting goals and deliver the online experience your audiences expect.

This white paper offers a sample needs assessment for evaluating a CMS for a higher ed institution and typical areas of overspending that can occur.

What's covered in this white paper:

  • General explanation of a web content management system
  • Factors that should inform your CMS selection decision
  • Specific CMS features to consider
  • How to get started after you've made your selection

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The Complete Guide to Digital Accessibility Compliance for Colleges and Universities

Is an OCR letter in your school's future?

To avoid legal action from the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights, it’s time to make sure that all pages on your college or university’s website meet accessibility guidelines for all people—and that means anyone who has a disability.

But how do you go about implementing such a broad, complex rule?

In this white paper, you'll learn:

  • Background on accessibility laws.
  • What’s new in WCAG 2.1.
  • What is Universal Design for Learning.
  • Accessibility best practices.
  • How to develop a long-term digital accessibility plan.
  • 5 steps to solve common accessibility issues now.
  • Tools and resources to help your site become and stay accessible.

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Testing Essentials for the Age of Agile

According to Atlassian, 80% of all software organizations now practice a form of agile. However, three quarters of enterprises and over half of technology firms do not concurrently test code during sprints, causing bottlenecks in the release process.

Many companies have begun to invest in automation to fill the gaps, but it still only accounts for 15% of software testing. Watch the webinar to discover the essential steps in mastering an automation strategy and how to keep up with the demands of agile development, saving you valuable time and resources.

WHAT YOU'LL LEARN

  • How to build a cost-effective QA strategy for agile development.
  • The essential steps to get started with test automation and how to accelerate the process.
  • When to use automation vs. manual testing and how to find the right balance.
  • Agile best practices and pitfalls to avoid.

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Testing Essentials for the Age of Agile

According to Atlassian, 80% of all software organizations now practice a form of agile. However, three quarters of enterprises and over half of technology firms do not concurrently test code during sprints, causing bottlenecks in the release process.

Many companies have begun to invest in automation to fill the gaps, but it still only accounts for 15% of software testing. Watch the webinar to discover the essential steps in mastering an automation strategy and how to keep up with the demands of agile development, saving you valuable time and resources.

WHAT YOU'LL LEARN

  • How to build a cost-effective QA strategy for agile development.
  • The essential steps to get started with test automation and how to accelerate the process.
  • When to use automation vs. manual testing and how to find the right balance.
  • Agile best practices and pitfalls to avoid.

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Essential Guide To Agile Testing

The speed and adaptability of agile development is no longer a competitive advantage - it is a requirement. According to Atlassian, 80% of all software organizations now practice agile.

In spite of this need for agile, running an effective process remains rare. The rapid nature of agile often forces developers to choose between functionality and quality. But, you don’t need to. All you need to do is adjust your approach to testing.

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Is The QA Lab Dead?

The traditional QA lab cannot keep up with the demands of modern software development, unable to keep pace with developer speeds, cover the necessary level of devices and real-life use cases, and account for the entirety of an omnichannel experience.

Many organizations are opening their pockets to resolve these inefficiencies, but money alone won’t solve a traditional lab’s shortcomings. To succeed, organizations must adopt a new philosophy around QA.

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3 Ways Your Users’ Feedback can Boost Your Bottom Line

With so many competing apps and websites offering comparable products and services, the battleground on which brands compete has shifted away from what they are providing, to how they are providing it.

Leveraging user feedback early and often across the entire software development lifecycle guarantees the user experience you are providing reflects the same high level of quality you’ve established with your products and services. When you can differentiate your brand through your user experience - and improve your teams’ efficiency - your bottom line will reap the benefits.

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3 Ways Your Users’ Feedback can Boost Your Bottom Line

With so many competing apps and websites offering comparable products and services, the battleground on which brands compete has shifted away from what they are providing, to how they are providing it. Leveraging user feedback early and often across the entire software development lifecycle guarantees the user experience you are providing reflects the same high level of quality you’ve established with your products and services. When you can differentiate your brand through your user experience, and improve your teams’ efficiency, your bottom line will reap the benefits.

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Is The QA Lab Dead?

The traditional QA lab cannot keep up with the demands of modern software development, unable to keep pace with developer speeds, cover the necessary level of devices and real-life use cases, and account for the entirety of an omnichannel experience.

Many organizations are opening their pockets to resolve these inefficiencies, but money alone won’t solve a traditional lab’s shortcomings. To succeed, organizations must adopt a new philosophy around QA.

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Essential Guide To Agile Testing

The speed and adaptability of agile development is no longer a competitive advantage - it is a requirement. According to Atlassian, 80% of all software organizations now practice agile.

In spite of this need for agile, running an effective process remains rare. The rapid nature of agile often forces developers to choose between functionality and quality. But, you don’t need to. All you need to do is adjust your approach to testing.

View Now