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How do we know when a user story is « done? » Can we say that the user story is done when it is coded and all acceptance tests for it are passed? Business representatives may say yes, but they do not know all the peculiarities of software development. So, such criteria as quality are not fully visible to them.
Alors que la vaccination progresse et que les restrictions COVID-19 s’assouplissent, les entreprises du monde entier revoient leurs politiques internes pour répondre aux demandes de flexibilité des collaborateurs. L’évolution mondiale vers le travail à domicile a conduit à de nouvelles préférences de la part des employés et à une meilleure compréhension de la manière dont la productivité et la collaboration peuvent se poursuivre avec succès, malgré le travail à distance.
Depuis des décennies, SAP a adopté un environnement de travail basé sur l’indépendance, et ce pour toute les localisations. Nous avons ainsi créé une main-d’œuvre véritablement mondiale et soutenu les employés grâce à la technologie mobile, qui permet de travailler partout et à tout moment.
Nos récentes enquêtes auprès des employés sur l’avenir du travail après le COVID montrent que les employés souhaitent continuer à bénéficier de cette flexibilité. Plus de 80 % des employés de SAP déclarent vouloir allier travail à domicile ou à distance et temps passé au bureau.
Aujourd’hui, SAP s’appuie sur les méthodes éprouvées de travail à distance que ses employés apprécient depuis des décennies et dans le monde entier pour créer une nouvelle politique entièrement flexible et basée sur la confiance. Nous continuons à croire en un environnement de travail basé sur la confiance et la responsabilisation, car nos collaborateurs sont au cœur de ce que nous faisons.
Aujourd’hui, SAP s’engage à fournir une configuration adaptée à chaque poste, chaque style et chaque lieu
Notre engagement en faveur de la flexibilité vise à garantir que nos collaborateurs puissent disposerde tout ce dont ils ont besoin pour être productifs, créatifs et inspirés. Le tout, en gérant l’entreprise de manière responsable et en répondant aux exigences commerciales. Nous avons de plus constaté dans les enquêtes sectorielles que les femmes et les jeunes diplômés souhaitent particulièrement bénéficier d’un environnement de travail flexible. Grâce à notre engagement, nous espérons et croyons que SAP sera une entreprise de choix pour ces groupes d’employés précieux.
L’une des pièces maîtresses de l’approche flexible du travail de SAP est notre technologie. Le logiciel SAP SuccessFactors offre une solution de gestion de l’expérience des employés (HXM) de bout en bout, de l’accueil des employés jusqu’à l’évolution de leur carrière, améliorant ainsi leur engagement, leur croissance et leur fidélisation, quel que soit leur lieu de travail. Qualtrics nous permet de rester en phase avec le ressenti des employés en offrant une visibilité instantanée de l’expérience vécue par les employés dans le monde entier. Pour permettre une collaboration facile et fluide, quel que soit l’endroit où se trouvent les personnes, nous travaillons à l’intégration de Microsoft Teams dans l’ensemble de notre portefeuille, ce qui permet un choix plus large d’outils d’accès.
Chez SAP, c’est avec honneur et humilité que nous avons été choisis plusieurs fois comme employeur de choix dans les pays où nous sommes implantés. Notre engagement en faveur de la flexibilité est une autre expression de notre profond respect pour nos collaborateurs.
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Want to know which of the top blogging platforms you should consider using this year?
Blogging is still one of the best ways to draw attention to your brand, generate thought leadership, and build your credibility. Research suggests that US internet users spend 3x more of their browsing time on blogs than on email. Additionally, people view about 20 billion blog pages on average each month.
So, how do you join the blogging revolution? You’ll need the right platform.
Essentially, a blogging platform is a CMS (Content Management System) which supports blog creation. Many come with additional tools like SEO support and integrations with email marketing too. There are tons of great blogging platforms out there, which means knowing where to start searching can be tough. To help you, we’ve put together this list of the leading blogging platforms.
Before we sort through our list of the leading blogging platforms, let’s start with a quick overview of what the best blogging solutions typically include. Notably, depending on what you’re going to be using your blog for, you may have other features to prioritize besides those listed here. These features will act as a starting point for your comparisons:
Uploading, publishing, and sharing your blog shouldn’t be a headache.
There are many website builders out there that seem to have blogging tacked on as an “extra” rather than having it built into the foundations of the software. This often leads to a clunky backend experience when you’re building your site.
If you’re a new blogger or don’t want to spend time messing around with HTML and coding, make sure that your blogging environment is easy to use. The simpler it is to distribute your content, the more likely you’ll stick to your blogging strategy.
Many of the top blogging platforms come with a fee to think about. Even if you use an open-source platform for blogging, you still need to consider domain names, hosting, and security costs. Finding the right balance between spend and return on investment is crucial.
Remember, just because a blogging platform is cheap doesn’t mean it’s good value. Similarly, expensive software may not be the best for your business. Ideally, you want something that’s going to deliver a good blogging experience, combined with plenty of opportunities to grow your readership for the lowest possible price.
If you want to get the best return on investment, focus on the kind of monetization options you can access with each platform. Medium, for instance, has a partner program that allows you to earn money on the posts that customers read. Platforms like Wix, WordPress, and Squarespace can all offer earning opportunities too. You can use them to place certain content behind a paywall, create subscriptions, and sell products or services.
Most blogging platforms will come with at least some tools to help you build your online presence. Wix and WordPress integrate with Google marketing, so you can purchase PPC campaigns and track your organic content through an SEO dashboard.
The majority of CMS tools equipped with blogging capabilities also come with integrations for your email marketing service. This ensures you can create automated campaigns that inform your audience whenever a new blog post goes live.
One of the best things about WordPress is how many plugins you can access to boost your readership levels. Access to extra tools like SEO solutions, landing form creators, and pop-ups can all boost your chances of converting and capturing leads.
If you’re keen to save money on your blogging platform, you might be tempted to start with a free version of a popular service. This is fine when you’re just testing the waters. However, you will need to spend extra if you want to remove the ads that other website builders put on your site. For instance, Wix’s free version will place ads on your pages and show the Wix identity in your footer.
To build your own brand identity, you’re going to need to replace that CMS branding with your own. Look for a blogging service where you can buy your own domain name, customize your themes, and add your own colors, images, and logos into the mix.
While tools like Medium won’t run ads on your campaigns, they also don’t allow you to customize your site to showcase your brand personality. It’s much easier to build a memorable identity when you can control what your site looks like.
This ties in a little with the “ease of use” factor above. Before you invest in any blogging platform, think about how much work it’s going to require. A hosted blogging platform is pretty easy to manage because you don’t have to worry about security and uptime yourself.
Products like Wix and Squarespace will give you access to SSL certificates, patch security issues on your behalf, and handle other complicated site maintenance issues. WordPress and other open-source solutions require you to take more of a hands-on approach. You’ll need to manage your own web hosting and check the security of your site regularly.
This feature is often overlooked in some guides to the best blogging platforms, but it’s also growing increasingly more important in today’s digital age. If you want your website to work for years to come, you need to make sure it’s flexible. This could mean that you look for something that allows you to upload different kinds of content, like written blogs and connecting podcasts.
It could also mean investing in a service that has a lot of integrations and add-on options available. Plugins are fantastic for extending the functionality of your blog without having to move your entire site to another location.
The right plugins can even allow you to transform your blog into a store if you decide to start selling your services or products later.
Now we’ve covered what to look for in a blogging platform, we can begin to explore some of the top platforms on the market today. We’ve chosen these platforms for their ease of use, flexibility, performance, customization options, and value.
The best-known and most popular blogging platform in the world, WordPress is the go-to choice for most bloggers and website creators. Currently, there are around 64 million websites actively using WordPress as their chosen CMS. Usage stats also show that around 400 million people visit WordPress websites every month.
WordPress powers most of the internet as one of the most flexible and easy-to-use platforms around. The biggest decision most users need to make is between WordPress.com and WordPress.org.
You can create a blog for free at WordPress.com, and the company will host your site for you. However, you have to use a subdomain (rather than your own domain) with the free version. You’ll also lose control of your ads with the free package until you upgrade to a premium plan.
A personal plan on WordPress.com starts at about $4 per month, and it removes all ads from your site. The more functionality you need, the more you’ll need to upgrade. WordPress.com is very easy to use and requires minimal initial setup, but it’s not very scalable. There are no custom themes, and you don’t technically “own” your blog this way.
WordPress.org is a different story. With WordPress.org, you’re accessing an open-source blogging platform that allows you to build your site from scratch. You do need to purchase your own domain name and hosting with this service, but the software is free to use.
WordPress.org is a lot more appealing to most bloggers because it’s so customizable. Features include:
Pricing: WordPress.org is different from most blogging platforms because the foundation technology is free. You just pay for the a-la-carte options, like plugins, hosting, and domain name subscriptions. This means you can choose how expensive your site is going to be.
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Squarespace is one of the more popular website design and blogging tools for people with a creative streak. Unlike WordPress.org, Squarespace gives you everything you need to build your own website straight out of the box. This includes hosting, the option to purchase your own domain name, and access to a range of beautiful templates.
Squarespace stands out for its focus on small business owners. You can choose from a range of stunning designs and customize them however you choose with a convenient drag-and-drop builder. There’s also a fantastic customer service experience available from Squarespace, with a team that’s ready to help you with anything you need.
Like many other hosted blogging platforms, you start on Squarespace by choosing the templates you like and customizing from there. There are some limitations in what you can do here, particularly if you have a lot of coding knowledge, making Squarespace less appealing to growing companies or larger brands. On the plus side, you do get features like:
Pricing: Compared to some of the other leading blogging solutions on the market, Squarespace is also quite affordable. The personal package at $12 per month will power a website with a stunning blog. You can also upgrade to the Business version for $18 per month, or if you decide to start selling your own products through your blog, you can transition to “Basic Commerce” at $26 per month.
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Medium is a different kind of blogging platform to many of the options mentioned here. This isn’t a tool you can use to build your own websites, like Wix or Squarespace. Instead, it’s a community you join with a monthly membership fee.
Medium comes with a built-in audience, so you can immediately start speaking to customers and generating results from your content. As mentioned above, there’s also a Partner Program, which is free to join. The Partner Program allows you to earn money if people are reading your blogs regularly.
For companies or individuals who just want to generate brand awareness but don’t want to invest in an entire blog-ready website yet, Medium can be a powerful choice. You can easily share posts and view what other people are posting. The biggest downside is that you can’t build an entire community and earn a fortune through your website with Medium.
Medium is more like a social networking site, where you can begin to develop thought leadership than a true space to carve out your piece of the online world. But it does feature things like:
Pricing: You don’t have to be a paid member of Medium to sign up for the partner program and start publishing blogs. This does make it a pretty good way to enhance your existing blogging strategy if you’re trying to generate more attention online.
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LinkedIn is among the most popular platforms for professionals in the world. It’s the go-to place for people in search of reliable ways to develop their professional network. Currently, there are around 756 million members on LinkedIn. When they’re not searching for connections with their peers or chatting about work opportunities, they’re checking out the content on the platform.
If you’re keen to develop your position as a thought leader but prefer social media accounts to full websites, LinkedIn is the perfect choice. The more you publish on LinkedIn, the more you’ll attract new people who might want to work with you, invest in your company, or just work as part of your team.
LinkedIn is a great place to generate attention if you’re in the B2B marketplace because most professionals already have their own account. You can also earn social proof by getting people to “endorse” your work. Some of the features of LinkedIn for bloggers include:
Pricing: It’s free to access a basic membership with LinkedIn, but you will be limited on some of the features you can unlock. For instance, you can only send messages to people already in your network, and you’ll have limited analytics. LinkedIn Premium gives you slightly more functionality, with Business accounts starting at around $29.95 per month.
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Easily one of the most popular website building solutions for beginners, Wix can help you build both a blog and a fully-featured website. You can even design your own store with Wix and start selling products whenever you choose.
Wix is a straightforward site builder which you can use to build a site in a matter of minutes. There are hundreds of website themes to choose from, and you can also add as many customizations as you choose with the convenient drag-and-drop editor. The blog manager section of the CMS is also simple and intuitive, with SEO and analytics built in already.
Wix aims to make jumping into blogging as quick and painless as possible. Elements like comments, social tools, hashtags, and subscriber forms are already available, and you can add further plugins if you choose. There’s also the option to include sharing buttons for social media accounts like Twitter, Facebook, and more. Features of Wix include:
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The most basic features of the Wix website builder are free to use. With a free Wix account, you’ll get a subdomain where you can’t choose the name of your own website, unfortunately. However, you can add a custom domain for only $4.50 per month. If you want a full premium plan with Wix, costs start at $8.50 per month and extend to $24.50 per month.
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Lesser known than some of the options we’ve discussed so far but still brimming with value, Ghost is a minimalist blogging platform that’s all about content creation. Ghost promises a range of ways for you to turn your blogging into a business, with access to customizable templates, newsletter integrations, premium subscriptions, and more.
The dashboard for Ghost is clean and intuitive, with access to simple sections where you can add tags to your posts, create drafts, track published content, and access valuable insights. You’ll have an easy view of important metrics like email open rates and numbers of paid members at a glance. You can also find integrations to make your Ghost experience even better.
Ghost works alongside things like Buffer, Stripe, Twitter, Slack, MailChimp, and many other tools so you can take your blog to the next level. There’s no need for any coding knowledge, and because everything is written in JavaScript, it’s ultra-fast too. Features include:
Pricing: There’s a 14-day free trial to get you started with Ghost, then subscriptions start at $9 per month when billed annually for up to 1,000 members, 1 staff user, 2k views per month, and an SSL and CDN. The same plan is $15 per month billed monthly. Prices go all the way up to $199 per month billed annually, or $249 per month for 1 million views per month, 35,000 members, 15 staff users, and a 99.99% uptime SLA.
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Whether you’re blogging because you want to build your personal brand or you’re looking for a way to strengthen sales opportunities for your company, you’re going to need the right blogging platform. The options above are just some of the best blogging solutions available right now.
Remember, do your research and explore the free versions available whenever possible, so you can confidently invest in the software that’s best for you.
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CockroachDB is a cloud-native SQL database that features both scalability and consistency. The database is designed to withstand data center failures by deploying multiple instances of symmetric nodes in a cluster consisting of several machines, disks, and data centers. Kubernetes’ built-in capabilities to scale and survive node failures make it well suited to orchestrate CockroachDB’s databases. This is particularly for the reason that Kubernetes simplifies cluster management and helps maintain high-availability by replicating data across independent nodes.
This guide focuses on how OpenEBS LocalPV devices can be used to persist storage for Kubernetes-Hosted CockroachDB clusters.
The prefix tree is related to the greedy algorithm; let’s not talk about the relationship first.
Prefix tree is also called Trie, word search tree, etc. It is a tree structure used to store a large number of strings.
Every day design fans submit incredible industry stories to our sister-site, Webdesigner News. Our colleagues sift through it, selecting the very best stories from the design, UX, tech, and development worlds and posting them live on the site.
The best way to keep up with the most important stories for web professionals is to subscribe to Webdesigner News or check out the site regularly. However, in case you missed a day this week, here’s a handy compilation of the top curated stories from the last seven days. Enjoy!
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These days, companies have access to more data sources and formats than ever before: databases, websites, SaaS (software as a service) applications, and analytics tools, to name a few. Unfortunately, the ways businesses often store this data make it challenging to extract the valuable insights hidden within — especially when you need it for smarter data-driven business decision-making.
Standard reporting solutions such as Google Analytics and Mixpanel can help, but there comes a time when your data analysis needs to outgrow capacity. At this point, you might consider building a custom business intelligence (BI) solution, which will have the data integration layer as its foundation.
+2 points, c’est le gain en productivité attendu suite au déploiement de SAP ME sur une ligne de production du site Hitachi Astemo d’Angers. Autres bénéfices : une meilleure traçabilité, un contrôle qualité plus poussé et une visibilité accrue sur la production.
Hitachi Astemo est l’un des principaux équipementiers automobiles mondiaux. Son usine d’Angers, spécialisée dans les systèmes de freinage, a lancé un ambitieux projet de système d’information (SI) global, aujourd’hui passé en phase pilote. « Nous voulions nous doter d’un système de pilotage de la performance permettant d’assurer une traçabilité avancée, afin de répondre au cahier des charges des constructeurs automobiles premiums » précise Guillaume Neveu, Digital Manufacturing, MES – Un « core » model global, déployable sur l’ensemble des usines de la Business Unit. »
Les objectifs du projet étaient multiples : proposer une solution commune à tous les sites de production, permettant d’harmoniser les SI et tout en réduisant les coûts ; booster la productivité en accélérant les cycles de décision et les lignes de production ; améliorer la qualité des produits, leur traçabilité et le processus de contrôle ; avoir une meilleure visibilité sur la production des usines ; et, enfin, disposer d’un socle capable d’assurer la mise en œuvre d’une stratégie d’industrie 4.0.
« Il nous est rapidement apparu que le SI devait se concentrer sur un outil de pilotage de la production, ou MES (Manufacturing Execution System) » explique Guillaume Neveu. SAP Manufacturing Execution (SAP ME) a été choisi pour assurer la collecte des données et le pilotage de la production. Avec l’appui de SAP MII (Manufacturing Intelligence Integration) pour l’intégration avec l’ERP et les fonctionnalités avancées de management visuel.
Suite à une première tentative non aboutie, le projet a été redémarré en juillet 2020. « Après avoir mené l’audit de la solution existante, nous avons demandé à Wynsys de reprendre le projet et de construire une nouvelle offre. » précise Guillaume Neveu. Les attentes et fonctionnalités ayant bien été identifiées en amont, quatre mois ont été suffisants pour mettre en place la solution. Il faudra attendre toutefois fin mars 2021 pour que SAP ME soit déployé sur un premier site, celui d’Angers.
« Nous avons pris le temps de valider la solution de façon très poussée, afin de nous assurer que tout se passerait bien, explique Cedric Mauresa, Business Relationship Manager au sein de la SI. Aujourd’hui, SAP ME tourne parfaitement sur une des lignes de production de notre site d’Angers. Les simulations réalisées avec Wynsys nous montrent que la solution pourra prendre en charge l’ensemble des dix lignes de production de l’usine, dès que nous aurons la validation de la Direction de l’usine. »
Guillaume Neveu nous détaille ci-dessous les objectifs atteints et les points restant à développer :
Les superviseurs sont aujourd’hui en demande de ce type de solution. Ils gagnent en effet près d’une heure trente chaque matin grâce à la mise à disposition automatique de rapports détaillés, prêts à être analysés. Quant à l’OEE (Overall Equipment Effectiveness), il devrait croître : « Nous nous attendons à +2 points d’OEE, en plus des gains de productivité déjà programmés. » Mieux mesuré, l’OEE devient par ailleurs un indicateur plus fiable de la performance réelle des différents sites de production. Un argument clé pour améliorer la visibilité et la transparence des opérations.
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Psychologists tell us that by answering a handful of oblique questions, we can gain greater insight into our real desires. Today, we’re going to put that to the test with a simple fill-in-the-gaps story that will help you determine your ideal career in design.
We’ll tell you a short story, and ask you to add a few key details, from which we’ll work out what kind of career probably suits you; what kind of roles you should pursue, what kind of clients suit you best, and what type of day-to-day practice you’ll find most fulfilling. Remember: there are no wrong answers, and this is a guide only, you’re always free to make your own choices.
To begin, relax, and imagine the following scenario: You’re at the pinnacle of your career, and you’ve achieved more than you ever hoped; you’re internationally respected as a design leader, and to celebrate your work, you’re being given a lifetime achievement award by a design organization; the ceremony is tonight…
Images via Anna Shvets, Karolina Grabowska, Kumpan Electric, and Andrea Piacquadio.
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For many companies, getting products out the door faster is one of the main reasons to adopt DevOps. But speeding up software delivery is only one aspect of why companies should embrace an agile CI/CD approach. There are other things to take into consideration and, if you are a financial institution, the list can be even bigger.
I recently chatted with Ben Angell and Sanmat Jhanjhari of Nationwide Building Society as part of the virtual DevOps Enterprise Summit Europe. Ben leads the DevOps Engineering team and Sanmat is lead DevOps architect at the UK-based mutual financial institution, which is also the largest building society in the world.
