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Exciting New Tools for Designers, July 2020

Some of the changes we are seeing with where we work are starting to pop up in the type of new tools made for designers and developers. More tools with remote collaboration as a key feature are increasing in popularity. (You’ll find a few of those here.)

Here’s what new for designers this month.

Webdesign Toolbox

Webdesign Toolbox is a collection of tools, apps, and resources all in one location for designers and developers. The best part of this resource is that it is human-curated, so every tool is quality checked and makes the list because it has been tested and researched. Search the collection by design, dev, stock, typography, UX, or workflow tools (and more) and use them to help create more efficiently. The collection is constantly growing, too.

CodeStream

CodeStream might be the new-world workflow tool for web designers and developers. It is made for remote teams to review code right inside your IDE without breaking from development flow. You can post and review changes and comments are all independent of the code itself, even though they link to it.

Litur

Litur is a color management app for iOS. Use it to find and collect color swatches, create custom palettes, and even check color combinations against accessibility standards. The app can even generate color codes for you from swatches you find from a photo or image upload or create. The app works on mobile and desktop Mac devices and is a paid app.

Editor X

Editor X, which is still in beta, is a website building tool that combines advanced design and prototyping capabilities with secure web hosting and integrated business solutions. Go from an idea straight to production in a highly intuitive design workspace. The best feature might be exact design precision tools.

Grid Cheatsheet

Grid Cheatsheet is a visual and code-based set of “cheats” based on the W3C CSS Grid Specifications. What’s nice is it makes these guidelines easier to understand and use if reading through them makes you a little uneasy.

Tutorialist

Tutorialist brings together some of the best development tutorials on the web. All of the tutorials are free videos available on YouTube, and this project collects them all in one place.

Pure CSS Halftone Portrait from JPG

Pure CSS Halftone Portrait from JPG is a beautiful pen from Ana Tudor that shows how to change the visual representation of an image. The examples are brilliant and in true halftone fashion. The code snippet works with color, or black and white images as well.

VoiceText for Slack

VoiceText for Slack is another work from home productivity tool. Integrate it with Slack and send messages with text that’s transcribed right in your channels. It’s a free integration and supports 18 languages.

Feature Peek

Feature Peek is a developer tool that helps you get frontend staging environments on demand and gather team feedback earlier in the development process. It’s made for use with GitHub and works with a variety of other tools as well.

Formbutton

Formbutton is a simple and customizable pop-up form. (And we all know websites have plenty of them right now.) It connects to other services you already use, such as Google Sheets and MailChimp, and is simple to set up.

Blocksy Theme

Blocksy is a WordPress theme that’s made for non-coders. It’s a zippy and highly visual theme made for Gutenberg. It works with other builders and allows the user to customize pretty much everything visually. (There’s even a dark mode.) The theme is packed with tools and options and is a free download.

Oh My Startup Illustrations

Oh My Startup Illustrations is a set of vector illustrations in several categories featuring a popular style on many projects. Use the characters and scenes to create a semi-custom story for your startup project.

1mb

1mb is a code editor and host where you can create a static website with a custom domain and SSL included. The editor works in-browser and everything is saved in the cloud.

Linear

Linear is an issue tracking Mac app for teams. It’s designed to help streamline software projects, sprints, and tasks, and can integrate with standard tools such as Github, Figma, and Slack.

Hosting Checker

Hosting Checker solves a common issue – a client wants you to work on their website, but has no idea who hosts it. Hosting Checker shows the user hosting provider and IP address the website uses, along with where its server computers are located and the host’s contact details. It also claims to be 82% faster than other similar tools.

Spike

Spike alerts you to website incidents before customers. Create alerts and get a phone call, text message, email, or Slack notification right away. The tool provides unlimited alerts and integrations to you can stay on top of issues before they become real problems.

Magnus UI

Magnus UI is a framework that helps you building consistent user interfaces in React. It comes with plenty of components ready to use and you can customize the theme.

SpreadSimple

SpreadSimple uses data in Google Sheets to create styled websites with features such as filtering, search, sorting, cart, order collection via forms, and much more. Update the sheet and instantly see changes on the website.

WebP vs. JPEG

Google is starting to suggest using it’s WebP image format to decrease load times, because of the lighter file size. But is WebP better than the traditional JPEG? Developer Johannes Siipola tested the file types at different sizes to answer the question. The answer is a bit complicated, but sometimes it might be better; read the full analysis for more.

Oh Dear

Oh Dear is a website monitoring tool that can help you keep a check on websites. Monitor uptime, SSL certificates, broken links, and more with notifications that come right to you if there’s an issue.

Airconnect

Airconnect is a Zoom video conferencing alternative that you can use for your brand with a custom header, colors, and portal for clients. The tool includes video calling as well as the ability for customers to access their data and automate your onboarding process.

Free Faces

Free Faces is a curated collection of free typefaces that you can browse and use in projects. Search by type style with visual results that include a download link.

All the Roll

All the Roll is a fun novelty font for just the right type of project. It includes 167 characters with swash characters that can be added before or after certain letters.

Backrush

Backrush is a handwriting-style typeface with easy strokes and a pen-like feel. It includes thicker letterforms with nice swashes and a full character set.

Thuner

Thuner is a slab display font with interesting quirks. It’s made for larger than life designs. It includes a full uppercase character set and numerals.

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How to Approach Data Migration in 3 Stages

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Moving data from one system to another can be a complex process. In this post, we have broken down how to approach data migration in 3 stages:

  • Before you migrate
  • Ready to migrate
  • Once you’ve migrated

Your requirements will take into consideration:

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Eye Vs AI: Harnessing Technology to Successfully Track User Attention

Attention is the new gold; brands are in a constant competition for our attention.

A big portion of our time we spend online, where we are bombarded with insane amounts of information and advertisements. It’s hard not to become overwhelmed in this world of consumerism. We have had to become good at quickly evaluating which information is important, especially on the internet.

Good marketing specialists know that they have mere seconds to turn a potential customer into a lead. People are not going to spend a lot of time examining your advertisement or landing page, either it clicks or not. Moreover, most users do not read the articles, they scan them. First impression plays a huge role in the success of your business, so do not leave that to a chance.

You really don’t want your customer to ignore that special sale, subscription option, or another call to action on your webpage. That is why you need to know where that gold-worthy attention goes when a user opens your landing page. Here’s where technology can come in handy.

Eye-Tracking in Web Design

It is very important to know where your website visitor’s attention goes first. How to get that info? Eye-tracking is the answer.

Eye-tracking technology can be used to optimize your website conversions. By tracking eye movements, technology will recognize which content is most intriguing for the users. It will reveal whether people pay most attention where you want them to, which elements are distracting or not visible enough, and where sales are lost. This information is invaluable if you want to succeed in the current market.

This information is invaluable if you want to succeed in the current market

How does it work? An eye tracker, such as webcam or goggles, measures movement of an eye. Collected data is analyzed and presented as a heatmap, highlighting which elements of your design attract most attention. Having in mind that browsing time rarely exceeds a few seconds, this information is very valuable when you try to understand your audience.

You wouldn’t want to spend much time on your website design just to discover it does not generate desired conversion rate. By employing this technology you can make changes based on reliable data rather than intuition and guarantee your business future success.

By now you may think that you definitely need to carry out this eye-tracking study, but there is a catch. A high-quality behavioral observation or eye-tracking is a time-consuming, budget eating complicated process.

If you want to draw conclusions from heatmaps, you would need to include at least 39 participants in a study. One individual test may last from 20 minutes to an hour. Time quickly adds up when you include preparation and analysis of the results. The average eye tracker price is around $17,500 and it may vary between several thousand dollars and $50 000. Of course you can hire a company to carry out this research for you but it may cost you several hundred dollars a month. Luckily, technological innovations allow us to acquire the same insights about users’ attention flow much cheaper and faster than conducting or buying an actual eye-tracking study.

Technological innovations replace real eye-tracking study

AI-Powered Automatization of Eye-Tracking

In this task of understanding how internet users are interacting with your website, Artificial Intelligence (AI) seems to be an answer. AI-based technologies already have become prevalent in various services we use on a daily basis. For example, Netflix’s highly predictive algorithm offers viewers personalized movie recommendations. Medical researchers utilize eye tracking to diagnose conditions like Alzheimer’s disease or Autism. As these algorithms become better every year, AI also becomes an irreplaceable tool in business.

Over the years researchers have collected so much data that human behavior becomes really predictable

How can AI help you to understand your customer’s attention? The main feature of AI is that it can mimic human intelligence and constantly improve itself by learning from data. Predictive eye-tracking is based on deep learning and trained with previous eye tracking study data. Over the years researchers have collected so much data that human behavior becomes really predictable. Technology predicts which specific areas of your website attract most interest. In this way, AI enables you to speed up the UX research process and get insights about your design in a matter of seconds.

Too good to be true? There are already several available tools on the market, such as Attention Insight or EyeQuant. These predictive design tools are based on deep learning and trained with previous eye-tracking studies data. Up to date, they have achieved an 84-90% accuracy.

AI-powered attention heatmap

AI solutions for designers and marketers have already become major competitors to traditional eye-tracking studies. Due to active competition, predictive eye-tracking tools are constantly innovating and recently started generating heatmaps for videos. Another useful feature that provides decision-makers with quantitative data is a percentage of attention. Users can define an object that they want to test and get an exact percentage of attention that the object receives.

Conclusion

Since all digital products are competing for user’s limited attention, it has become one of the most valuable resources. Due to fierce competition, it is not enough to rely on your intuition and gut instinct while making important decisions anymore. Designers have a choice in this economy of attention, though.

Yes, there are eye-tracking studies that require a significant amount of time and financial resources.

However, you can make user-centric, data-driven decisions in a quick, scalable, and private way while your product is still under development. AI-powered predictive eye-tracking tools might be an answer. Attention is a new currency, and you must measure it.

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Why Do Websites Look the Same (And Should We Care)?

If we don’t question this kind of design homogenization, do we put ourselves at risk of perpetuating the same mistakes in the years to come? Or is it even a mistake to begin with?

Today, I’m going to look at four things that are likely causing this, and what you can do to break the mold.

1. Education

We used to have a design school in every city in the world, each with its own design style or, at the very least, the encouragement of its designers to be creative and come up with something new.

These days, though, traditional design education isn’t as popular as it once was. According to Design Census 2019, only about a third of working designers have a formal education and degree:

The rest have been trained through a variety of means:

  • Online learning (17%)
  • Self taught (12%)
  • Workshops (10%)
  • Mentorship (6%)
  • Certificate programs (4%)

Cost and convenience are definitely two factors influencing this shift towards online learning methods. And with a wealth of resources online to teach them how to design and code, why not go that route? Plus, designers have to keep learning new things in order to remain competitive, so it’s not as though a degree is the be-all and end-all of their design training.

Plus, there isn’t as much demand for it from employers. Unless you plan on working for one of the top global marketing agencies, many hiring companies just want to see proof in the form of a portfolio and maybe have you do a test job.

Now, I’m not saying that online courses and other informal design education don’t foster creativity. However, in order to make them cost-efficient and quick to get through, they have to focus on teaching essential best practices, which means less room for experimentation. Perhaps more importantly, their curriculums are guided by fewer voices. So, this could likely be one of the culprits.

2. Design Blogs and Vlogs

You have to wonder if all the design blogs out there (yes, like Webdesigner Depot) impair designers’ ability to break free from the homogeneity of websites.

I think the answer to that is both “yes,” and “no”.

Why, Yes?

What is the purpose of a web design blog? Mainly it’s to educate new and existing designers on best practices, new trends, and web standards.

By their very nature, they really should be teaching web designers the same kinds of things. Let me show you an example.

This is a Google search for “web design trends 2020”:

Most design blogs will publish trends predictions around January 1. And herein lies the problem. The writers/designers can only deviate so far from what we know to be true when writing on the same topic… so these sites end up with similar recommendations.

For instance, the top search results recommended similar things for 2020:

  • Dark mode
  • Hand-drawn illustrations
  • Immersive 3D
  • Glowing colors
  • Minimalist navigation
  • Geometric shapes
  • Inclusivity
  • Accessibility

When web designers receive the same guidance no matter where they turn, it’s only logical that they’d end up creating websites that adhere to those same practices.

Why, No?

Because I write for web design publications, I can tell you that there’s a big difference in the kinds of content some of them publish.

For instance, I find that WebDesigner Depot isn’t interested in rehashing what everyone else is writing about this month. We’re given topics that challenge us to think outside the box and present readers with meaningful insights and recommendations.

So, I think that finding design blogs that push the boundaries and don’t just want to recap what everyone else is saying is really important. That’s how web designers are going to master the basic skills they need to succeed while getting inspired to try new things.

3. Designs Tools and Frameworks

This is another one that’s not as cut and dried. I think it depends on the tools used and the intent to use them.

Where Issues Start to Arise

There are certain site builder solutions that you’re going to be hard-pressed to create something innovative with. The same goes with using templates from sources like Dribbble. It’s just the nature of the beast.

If your goal is to create a cheap website very quickly for a client, then you’re probably going to use a cheap builder to do so. With ready-made templates and a lot of the work already done for you, you can create something that looks good with little effort.

When you’re limited by time and cost, of course you’re going to rely on shortcuts like cheap site builders or boring (but professional) design templates.

How to be More Careful

You can run into these kinds of issues with more flexible content management systems like WordPress or frameworks like Bootstrap, too.

Whenever you rely heavily on ready-made templates, pre-defined styles, or pre-built components, you run the risk of someone else’s work informing your own.

The solution is simple: Use demos, templates, UI kits, and so on as a base. Let them lay down the foundation that you work from.

But if you want your website to look different from the sea of lookalikes, you’re going to have to spend much more time developing a unique visual style that’s equally as effective in its mission. Which also means moving beyond clients that have small budgets or low expectations.

4. User Data

Data gathering is an important part of the job you do as a web designer.

You research the target user (or the existing user, when applicable). You look at industry trends as well as the competition to formulate an idea of what you need to build and how you’re going to do it. And you also use resources like Nielsen Norman Group and Think with Google that put out definitive research on what users want.

Even with the most niche of audiences, consumers’ wants and needs are all basically the same. So, obviously, you have to design experiences that align with them. If you deviate too much from what they expect from your site or brand, you run the risk of creating too much friction.

Is This a Bad Thing?

It’s not in terms of usability. If we build simple, predictable and user-friendly interfaces based on data that successfully drive visitors to convert, that’s great. So long as the content remains strong and the UI attractive, there’s nothing wrong with that approach.

But…

This is the same issue presented by templates and site builders. If you do exactly what’s needed and not much more, your site is going to look and act just like everyone else’s. Which comes at the cost of your brand reputation.

Just look at Google’s Material Design. This design system may have made it easier for web and app designers to create new solutions that were user-friendly and responsive, but there was just too much spelled out. And this led to a slew of Material Design lookalikes everywhere you turned.

This is the whole reason why companies take the time to craft a unique selling proposition. Without a USP, brands become interchangeable in the eyes of consumers.

So, again, my suggestion here is to use data to formulate a strategy for building your website. But don’t forget to spend time adding a unique style, and voice of the brand to the site.

Wrap-Up

It seems like, despite all that we’ve learned to do, websites are becoming less and less diverse in terms of design. And I think a lot of that is due to the fact that it’s much easier to design websites today than it was ten, or even five years ago.

Modern-day education, resources, tools, and consumer data take a lot of the questions and the work out of building websites. Which is good… but only to a point.

Unless you’re building websites for clients who have absolutely no budget, you can’t afford to skimp on the creativity and personalization that will set their website apart. Yes, you need to adhere to tried-and-true practices and standards, but beyond that, you should be experimenting.

 

Featured image uses photo by Kari Shea.

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Show Them Your Assets – Tips for Handing Off Designs to Developers

You’ve been working away at your latest design project, and the client has given the go-ahead on your lovingly created digital concepts. Now it’s time to bring those designs to life, and you have a developer queued up to do just that.

So your part’s done, right? Not quite. You’re going to want to make sure your developer has the best head start they can in order to create the site as you imagined.

Below are a few tips to make that handover process a little easier.

Communicate to Make It Great

Get Talking

Scheduling a face-to-face meeting with your developer to talk over your project’s specifics and ambitions will help align your expectations and make the intent behind your concepts more clear. It’s quite likely they’ll even ask questions and request assets you haven’t even thought of yet!

It’s not just a one-and-done thing either, your developer’s going to have questions or requirements that arise as the project progresses. Deciding on a communication channel to allow easy discussion will help you both immensely.

Annotating Your Concepts

Developers might seem like magicians with the way they bring your websites to life, but they’re not clairvoyant! Annotating your concepts where advanced functionality is required reduces ambiguity and makes it more likely that your cool, quirky idea is going to make it to production. If it’s a feature that’s particularly unusual, you might want to find an example of a website or code sandbox that does something similar.

An example of Figma’s comment tool in use to make developer notes.

Figma and Sketch both have comment functionality in order to make annotations a little easier, also allowing multiple parties to comment. If dealing with PDFs, there is also an annotation tool available through Adobe Acrobat.

Specify the Basics

The basis of modern front end development revolves around DRY thinking. Some might argue thinking about code can be pretty dry, but we’re not talking about that – in this case, DRY stands for Don’t Repeat Yourself.  Most developers will tackle a project by starting with defining variables: what colors, font sizes, grid columns… anything that can be reused! Good, consistent design follows this same principle – although it’s a habit that can be hard to get going at first.

Tip: It’s always easier to define variables if this mentality is approached towards the start of the project!  

Colors

Make a style guide that specifies the colors you’ve used in your designs. Think about their logical applications to help signpost how they might work as a variable – for example, what colors did you use for paragraph text, hyperlinks and backgrounds? Did you consider colors to convey status messaging, such as successes, warnings and errors?

Typefaces

Which fonts have you used for your project? Is there a consistent set of font sizes you used throughout? If you haven’t already, maybe consider a ratio-based type scale – I like to use ModularScale to help with this.

Basic HTML Elements

Think about general styling for these basic html tags:

  • Paragraphs <p>
  • Headings <h1–h6>
  • Bullet lists <ul> and numbered lists <ol>
  • Emphasized text <b>, <strong> and <em>

Buttons

How about buttons and links? What should they do when they’re hovered over, focused (using the tab key on a keyboard) or disabled?

Forms Fields and Inputs

What should form fields look like? Is there any validation checking that should occur when a form is submitted?  How about checkboxes and radio buttons?

It’s unlikely that you’re going to be able to cover absolutely every single eventuality – allow your developer to use some common sense to fill in the gaps, and be available to them if they have any questions. In the words of John Maxwell and your aunt’s home office wall sticker, teamwork makes the dream work.

Get Your Favic-on

Favicons are widely recognized as the small icon that appears to the left of the site title on your browser’s tab bar. Nowadays, the application of your site’s favicon is much further reaching, showing up in Google search results and app tiles. There’s also extra theming options available, such as the ability to customize the color of Google Chrome Android’s browser bar color for your site.

Using a generator site such as realfavicongenerator takes the pain out of much of this decision-making, allowing you to upload specific graphics as desired, creating silhouettes of your icon for Windows Metro tiles and macOS Safari pins, and packaging everything into easy-to-use files and code.

 Compress Your Images

Nobody wants to load a 20MB image when they’re on a slow connection or a data plan – it pays dividends to plan ahead and downsize your images so that they’re production-ready for the web. If you’re worried image compression is going to harm your image quality, fear not – you can go a long way with image compression before quality is seriously compromised.

  1. Start by reducing the image resolution – for batch jobs, I use Adobe Photoshop’s image processor script to downsize images to fit 1920 x 1200 pixels
  2. Alternatively, if you’re working on a static project – where specific images will be used only in specific places – you could use your design software (nearly all mainstream UI software allows you to do this now) to export your images at 2x size to support devices with high pixel densities.
  3. I also convert my image color profiles to SRGB to ensure consistency across most modern display types (this one’s optional)
  4. I then take my newly downsized images and run them through imageOptim at 80% quality. Generally I would aim to get my images under 300kb – if there are any that are still significantly over this target once compressed, I’d run these through again at 70% quality (I wouldn’t recommend going lower than this, though).

Don’t forget you can also do this for PNGs! Enabling PNGCrush in imageOptim will let you significantly reduce the size of PNGs… just be ready for it to take a while.

Make Your Vectors SVG-Easy to Use

If your design contains graphics or illustrations you created using vector software, it can be used on the web as an SVG file. Usually, these files will be a lot smaller than JPGs or PNGs. You can export graphics in most (if not all) vector software in this format.

Optionally, you could use imageOptim or SVGOMG to compress the SVG code without sacrificing quality. Your developer might already use a script that does this automatically when processing the site for production, so it may be worth asking ahead.

Get Your Licenses in Check

If you’re using premium fonts, make sure you’ve purchased a webfont license so you can hand over the correct files to the developer. I’d recommend doing this sooner rather than later – although not often, occasionally web versions of fonts can have slightly different bounding boxes to their desktop counterparts, making it a real pain for developers to work with further down the line.

If you’ve been using samples of stock photos (or if you’ve been going crazy lifting whatever you can find on Google Images), make sure everything is kosher before you go live. Make sure you purchase licensed photos, and if certain photos you want to use require attribution, make the developer aware of this.

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SAP Business Technology Platform: Un trio entre excellence, intégration et extension des données

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WALLDORF, Allemagne – 18 juin 2020 – SAP SE (NYSE : SAP) a annoncé aujourd’hui de nouvelles capacités, des améliorations et une plus grande unification du portefeuille Business Technology Platform pour aider les entreprises à transformer les données en valeur commerciale.

La plateforme technologique de SAP permet aux développeurs et aux utilisateurs d’accéder à des services et des outils intégrés de bout en bout pour réaliser une valeur ajoutée dans trois domaines essentiels de l’informatique : l’excellence des données, l’intégration des processus et leur extension.

L’annonce a été faite lors de la conférence SAPPHIRE NOW® Converge, qui se tient en ligne du 15 au 19 juin 2020.

« De nombreux clients avec lesquels j’ai échangé ont exprimé le besoin d’agilité et de rapidité d’exécution, rendu encore plus urgent par la pandémie COVID-19 », a déclaré Juergen Mueller, CTO et membre du conseil d’administration de SAP. « Pour réaliser ces deux objectifs, la technologie devient encore plus importante, et SAP peut aider à relever ces défis. Nous avons apporté des améliorations significatives à chaque composante majeure de notre plate-forme technologique pour aider les clients de tous les secteurs à surmonter les obstacles liés à l’omniprésence des données, à la complexité des technologies de l’information et à la volatilité des affaires ».

Des organisations telles que Parkland Health and Hospital System à Dallas utilisent la SAP Business Technology Platform combinée à la Qualtrics® XM Platform pour la gestion de l’expérience ainsi que prédire l’activité et les ressources nécessaires pour l’accueil et le suivi des patients, un besoin critique pendant la crise COVID-19.

« À Parkland, nous nous consacrons à la santé et au bien-être des individus et des communautés que nous adressons en fixant la norme d’excellence pour les systèmes de santé publics et universitaires », a déclaré Scott Harrison, directeur des données du système de santé et des hôpitaux de Parkland. « Notre personnel clinique utilise des tableaux de bord numériqiues construits avec la Business Technology Platform de SAP pour l’analyse et la planification, et la plate-forme Qualtrics XM pour l’analyse des sentiments. Nous estimons qu’un socle technologique totalement intégré est essentiel pour les plus de 240 000 patients des urgences que nous soignons chaque année, et pour soutenir notre croissance et nos innovations futures ».

L’unité commerciale Henkel Adhesive Technologies, leader mondial des adhésifs, des mastics et des revêtements fonctionnels, met au point une application pour ses quelques 4 500 représentants commerciaux, basée sur la SAP Business Technology Platform. « Nous voulons créer un environnement de travail numérique moderne et efficace, en augmentant la vitesse et l’efficacité des activités de vente et en renforçant ainsi l’expérience des clients dans le monde entier », a déclaré Sascha Latzberg, Directeur Sales & Channel Excellence CRM chez Henkel Adhesive Technologies. « Notre plateforme numérique CRM nous permet d’être rapides et flexibles et accroît l’indépendance des représentants commerciaux qui se déplacent et travaillent depuis leur domicile. Avec l’aide de la SAP Business Technology Platform et de nos analyses avancées, nous pouvons exploiter les données CRM pour obtenir des informations qui nous aident à créer une valeur ajoutée pour nos clients ».

Que ce soit sur site, dans le cloud ou dans un modèle hybride, la SAP Business Technology Platform permet aux entreprises de :

Excellence des données

Cette année marque le dixième anniversaire de SAP HANA, qui compte désormais plus de 32 400 clients. La dernière version, SAP HANA 2.0 SPS 05, devrait être livrée à la fin du mois de juin. Elle prendra en charge des scénarios hybrides avec la plate-forme de données SAP HANA Cloud et offrira de nouvelles fonctionnalités, notamment l’extension de stockage natif SAP HANA améliorée pour simplifier la gestion des données et réduire le coût total de possession. Selon les prévisions d’IDC, les clients de SAP HANA obtiendront un retour sur investissement moyen de 679 % sur cinq ans. Le Cloud SAP HANA fournit une base puissante de gestion et d’analyse des données pour les solutions d’innovation telles que le Cloud SAP Data Warehouse.

Elle est maintenant disponible sur Amazon Web Services, en plus de Microsoft Azure, pour offrir une plus grande flexibilité et un plus grand choix aux clients qui passent au cloud. SAP prévoit un essai ouvert pour SAP HANA Cloud début juillet.

SAP Data Warehouse Cloud et SAP Analytics Cloud comprennent une gamme étendue de scenarios pré-construits de bout en bout qui répondent aux questions commerciales et techniques clés des entreprises qui cherchent à obtenir rapidement des informations à partir de données.

La dernière mise à jour de SAP Data Warehouse Cloud inclut du contenu métier pour le secteur du retail. Un écosystème en pleine croissance, avec des centaines de partenaires devrait fournir davantage de contenu et de connecteurs de données pré-construits pour le Data Warehouse Cloud de SAP sur le SAP App Center.

Afin d’aider les utilisateurs et les analystes à créer plus facilement des modèles de données compréhensibles en utilisant des termes commerciaux, la nouvelle fonction de couche commerciale de SAP Data Warehouse Cloud est prévue pour le début du troisième trimestre 2020. SAP Data Warehouse Cloud offrira également également une fonctionnalité intégrée de flux de données, permettant aux clients de choisir parmi une large gamme de connecteurs pour construire des processus d’intégration de données hautement évolutifs vers et depuis n’importe quelle source de données.

SAP Data Warehouse Cloud est plus étroitement intégré à SAP Analytics Cloud pour un environnement de données et d’analyse plus unifié. Cela permet d’obtenir une image claire et précise de toutes les données afin de transformer les analyses en véritables informations commerciales. La plateforme SAP BusinessObjects™ Business Intelligence 4.3 est sortie le 12 juin 2020 et est plus étroitement intégrée à SAP Analytics Cloud pour une transition plus facile vers le cloud. Les fonctionnalités de planification et de prévision sont intégrées dans la dernière mise à jour de SAP Analytics Cloud pour une planification plus rapide et plus puissante, et sont actuellement disponibles pour un essai gratuit.

Découvrez comment des entreprises telles que Porsche AG, Geberit AG, et Idorsia Pharmaceuticals Ltd, prévoient d’utiliser la puissance du Cloud SAP HANA, du Cloud SAP Data Warehouse, du Cloud SAP Analytics et de la plate-forme SAP Cloud.

Intégration

Grâce à la nouvelle tarification simplifiée de SAP Cloud Platform Integration Suite, les clients peuvent bénéficier d’un package basé sur la valeur et d’une tarification attractive ainsi que d’un achat et d’une consommation simplifiés des services d’intégration. Les clients peuvent désormais s’inscrire une seule fois pour utiliser toutes les fonctionnalités au lieu de devoir passer par plusieurs services sous licence. Cela leur offre la possibilité de consommer un service de la suite à la demande à tout moment grâce à un système de mesure simplifié basé sur des messages. En outre, SAP fournit des packs d’intégration pré-construits entre les applications SAP avec des messages standard sans frais supplémentaires.

Extension

Les améliorations apportées aux flux de travail grâce à la suite SAP Cloud Platform Extension Suite et les nouveaux ensembles de contenus de processus en direct aideront les clients à adapter et à étendre leurs processus commerciaux à la volée et en temps réel pour répondre à l’évolution des demandes et accroître l’efficacité.

Les experts en processus métier peuvent désormais gérer les flux de travail sur les processus en cours d’exécution, comme pour l’approbation des dépenses d’investissement, en utilisant un outil dédié pour découvrir, configurer et exécuter les extensions d’applications, le tout sans l’aide d’un service informatique. Il en résulte un temps de valorisation plus court et des coûts de mise en œuvre plus faibles.

Honeywell et SAP ont récemment annoncé qu’ils s’étaient associés pour créer une solution commune basée sur le cloud pour le secteur de l’immobilier. La solution, qui devrait être basée sur Honeywell Forge et SAP Cloud Platform, vise à rationaliser les données opérationnelles et commerciales pour gagner en efficacité, à améliorer les performances de l’entreprise en obtenant des informations commerciales précieuses et à améliorer la gestion de l’expérience des employés grâce à une analyse puissante des données sur les sentiments.

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MQTT Data Throttling

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This article was first published on the MQTT.Cool blog.

Most MQTT brokers currently available on the market provide native support for WebSockets, thus enabling any MQTT JavaScript library to establish communications by encapsulating MQTT messages into WebSocket frames: This is called the MQTT Over WebSocket

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La Création De Valeur À Partir Des Données De L’Automatisation

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Selon l’ 2019 Gartner quatrième rapport annuel de Chief Data Officer (CDO) de l’Enquête, la mise en œuvre d’une base de données et d’analyse de la stratégie a été classé comme le troisième plus important facteur de succès quand il s’agit d’un CDO de l’organisation.

Quand il s’agit de données, nous sommes tous conscients des quatre « Vs » — variété, de la vitesse, de la véracité et de volume – pourtant, pour de nombreuses organisations, leur entreposage de données de l’infrastructure n’est plus équipés pour y faire face. En outre, la valeur, la cinquième « V », est encore plus insaisissable. Donc, en tenant compte de l’ampleur de données que de nombreuses entreprises modernes ont signifie que répondre à ces défis exige une nouvelle approche de l’automatisation en cours de la fondation.

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Cyber Hackers Are Advancing! 8 Tips To Ensure Ultimate Security Online

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With the vast amount of internet fraud, security breaches, and digital crime, the call to fortify your key business data has never been louder!

Well, the world wide web is not what it used to be. As businesses grow globally, and more business infrastructures are connected, cybercriminals have come to realize the importance of the data that organizations are protecting. Also, the recent surge in technological advancement has made everyone from solopreneurs to large scale firms more vulnerable to attacks now more than ever.

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