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L’ERP Intelligent : la clé pour renforcer la résilience financière aujourd’hui et demain

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L’argent est roi, certes mais pas que. C’est également l’un des éléments clés pour assurer la résilience et la continuité de l’activité sur le long terme. Il joue un rôle dans les challenges qui touchent l’entreprise, comme par exemple l’expérience collaborateur et client, le partenariat avec les fournisseurs ou mêmes les résultats financiers. Avec SAP S/4HANA, les entreprises peuvent répondre à tous ces enjeux en optimisant leur bilan.

Selon les partenaires de McKinsey, Kevin Laczkowski et Mihir Mysore, il est essentiel de combiner les compétences centrales avec des leviers financiers (tels que l’optimisation du bilan) pour renforcer la résilience, en prévision d’une récession ou d’une reprise.

Pour obtenir un tel avantage concurrentiel, il faut disposer d’informations intelligentes issues d’une infrastructure technologique axée sur l’intégration. En intégrant étroitement les systèmes et les données communes, les entreprises peuvent tirer parti de la rapidité et de l’agilité des outils in-memory pour dégager des modèles et perspectives cachés. Ce faisant, les entreprises peuvent consolider leurs opérations, maintenir des relations étroites avec leurs clients, développer l’agilité des chaînes logistiques dynamiques et gérer les ressources de manière plus synchronisée.

Une résilience optimisée grâce à des données ERP en temps réel et une connectivité intelligente

Bien que les systèmes hérités puissent automatiser différentes parties des opérations de gestion, ils ne peuvent pas fournir les informations en temps réel nécessaires pour régler le problème des surstocks ou offrir un service client à l’instant t. Trop souvent, les décisions sont basées sur des modèles transactionnels historiques peu centrés sur le client et trop rigides pour laisser place aux idées novatrices qui nécessiteraient d’être distribuées et adaptées dans toute l’entreprise.

Dès que l’entreprise passe à un progiciel de gestion intégré (ERP) intelligent, c’est une plateforme pour la reprise, la croissance et la résilience qui prend vie. Et en cette ère criblée d’incertitudes, il est grand temps de prendre conscience de cette force. Mais les dirigeants doivent d’abord sélectionner et implémenter une solution ERP qui offre des avantages quantifiables à l’échelle de l’entreprise : depuis le service client, les ventes et les stocks, jusqu’à la gestion du fonds de roulement, du coût des articles, de la main-d’œuvre et des frais généraux.

Envisagez de passer à SAP S/4HANA. Ses retombées n’ont pas tant affaire avec la taille de l’entreprise et le secteur d’activité. Il s’agit surtout de mettre en place un système informatique complet et unifié que tous les employés peuvent adopter et comprendre de façon intuitive. La solution relie directement les processus externes et tiers aux processus internes et aux structures de données, de manière suffisamment cohérente et flexible pour rendre des informations intelligentes rapidement accessibles, visibles et exploitables. 

Grâce à une visibilité accrue, des outils de prévision précis et des données pertinentes générées en temps réel sur les partenaires internes et externes, les entreprises peuvent, par exemple, abaisser considérablement leurs coûts de stock et améliorer leur taux de rotation de plus de 20 %. Nous ne parlons pas ici d’une réduction ponctuelle des dépenses, mais d’une vaste baisse continue des frais généraux dans les domaines du transport, de l’entreposage et de la manutention, avec en outre moins d’obsolescence, de frais d’assurance, de taxes, de dommages et de pertes au niveau des stocks. Même en ces temps où les taux d’intérêt diminuent, les entreprises peuvent réduire leurs coûts de stockage.

Voici les autres avantages à tirer de l’utilisation de SAP S/4HANA pour optimiser votre bilan :

1. Opérations hautes performances

Avec les fonctionnalités des solutions ERP intelligentes, les entreprises peuvent fabriquer et acheter les produits ou services dont elles ont besoin, et les livrer en temps voulu et à l’endroit convenu. Et tout s’opère avec l’agilité nécessaire pour ajuster les plans opérationnels et les pratiques, afin de répondre aux attentes des clients.

Les fonctionnalités prédictives de SAP S/4HANA permettent de revoir rapidement la planification des besoins en composants en tenant compte des données en temps réel. Elles permettent d’éliminer les décisions hypothétiques lors de la gestion des opérations internes, et de minimiser les en-cours de fabrication et les stocks de produits finis de manière optimale et précise.

2. Plus grande collaboration au sein du réseau de fournisseurs

L’amélioration des pratiques d’approvisionnement donne souvent lieu à des négociations plus poussées avec les fournisseurs, ce qui se traduit par des réductions de coûts et une hausse de 30 %d’efficacité dans les achats de matières premières (intrants). L’intégration et la collaboration étroites entre les fournisseurs renforcent la capacité de l’entreprise à planifier les changements, à négocier et à fournir une meilleure assurance qualité, avec plus de répercussions positives sur l’expérience finale du client.

SAP S/4HANA peut aider les entreprises à identifier et à éliminer les goulots d’étranglement dans les processus des chaînes logistiques, ainsi qu’à répondre à l’évolution de la demande. Les responsables opérationnels utilisent ces informations pour ajuster les quantités de produits et les délais de livraison. Leurs fournisseurs qui bénéficient d’une visibilité sur les besoins des consommateurs peuvent alors mieux remplir leurs obligations et répercuter les économies qui en résultent sur le prix de vente.

3. Optimisation de la main-d’œuvre

Avec des possibilités de prévision et d’organisation plus étendues, les cas de ruptures de stock et d’interruptions sont moins fréquents. Ces bons résultats offrent d’autres avantages : la gestion plus avisée des ressources, une meilleure qualité et une formation revalorisée ; moins de temps consacré aux commandes urgentes et reprises précipitées et moins d’heures supplémentaires effectuées par les collaborateurs ; et une contraction des travaux effectués dans des conditions stressantes et ne répondant pas aux attentes.

Avec SAP S/4HANA, les entreprises bénéficient d’une visibilité accrue sur l’évolution des priorités. Elles peuvent automatiser la communication avec les clients et fournisseurs, et fixer des dates de livraison judicieuses, ce qui est essentiel pour fidéliser les clients.

4. Opérations financières maîtrisées

Grâce à une expérience de livraison et de réception plus automatisée ainsi qu’à des contrats clients et fournisseurs bien négociés, les organisations peuvent optimiser leur solidité financière de manière à augmenter leur fonds de roulement.

SAP S/4HANA sert de base pour automatiser la gestion du recouvrement et des liquidités grâce à l’apprentissage automatique et à l’intelligence artificielle (IA). Cela peut conduire, en retour, à une baisse du nombre de jours de retard des créances et à des délais de facturation réduits de plus de 50 %, tout en limitant la fraude et en augmentant les liquidités disponibles. De plus, le processus de vérification automatisée passant par la mise en correspondance de trois facteurs favorise les remises fournisseurs, la planification de la trésorerie et les prévisions financières afin d’optimiser le capital à portée de main.

5. Cohérence et rentabilité du service client et des ventes

À l’aide des données expérientielles et opérationnelles qu’elles exploitent pour comprendre leurs clients, les entreprises peuvent exécuter des modèles de gestion ciblés et différenciés. Par exemple, les modèles de tarification qui répondent de manière créative aux besoins des clients peuvent prendre en charge le stock géré par le fournisseur, la facturation basée sur l’utilisation, les configurations de produits uniques et d’autres stratégies d’intégration à long terme.

En connectant étroitement les besoins des clients aux services de ventes et production, SAP S/4HANA donne aux entreprises les moyens d’offrir un service client plus prévisible et différencié, contribuant au chiffre d’affaires et à la fidélité des clients. Les améliorations apportées dans la gestion de la relation client donnent lieu à des livraisons dans les délais, avec moins de retours et de reprises, quelle que soit l’unicité du produit.

Gagner en force grâce à un bilan optimisé

Dans la dimension économique, nous arrivons à un point où les priorités des directeurs financiers dépassent le cadre de la finance. En plus de gérer les flux de trésorerie, les délais de recouvrement des créances ainsi que la comptabilité clients et fournisseurs en vue d’optimiser les flux de trésorerie, ceux-ci guident les tâches organisationnelles pour améliorer les processus de gestion et l’intelligence à l’échelle de l’entreprise. Plus important encore, après examen de leurs bilans et comptes de résultat, ils élaborent de nouvelles stratégies pour faire face aux incertitudes du marché actuel.

Avec une telle approche de la direction financière, les entreprises sont plus à même de se différencier et de pénétrer le marché de façon organique, tout en réduisant les créances et les stocks, en optimisant le nombre d’articles gérés en stock et la main-d’œuvre, et en accroissant le volume des ventes. Et plus les entreprises font preuve de résilience grâce à SAP S/4HANA, plus leur situation financière s’améliore : les cours des actions affichent une tendance à la hausse, les bénéfices augmentent et le chiffre d’affaires est plus prévisible.

Découvrez comment SAP S/4HANA peut vous aider à obtenir un bilan consolidant la résilience de votre entreprise, pour surmonter les difficultés d’aujourd’hui et se préparer au monde de demain. Consultez l’article « What Companies Should Do to Prepare for a Recession » (Ce que les entreprises doivent faire pour se préparer à la récession) de la Harvard Business Review et découvrez l’ERP intelligent d’aujourd’hui, SAP S/4HANA.

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Fonctionnalités clés d’un ERP moderne : quelques exemples remarquables

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Les nouvelles technologies peuvent changer la donne dans le milieu des logiciels d’entreprise. Pourtant, c’est à l’amélioration de l’expérience utilisateur que l’on attribue une véritable valeur. De la même façon, quand on parle de conversion au numérique, il ne s’agit pas de continuer à faire les mêmes choses avec de nouvelles technologies, mais de transformer les méthodes de gestion des entreprises. Les technologies innovantes fournissent de nouvelles fonctionnalités rimant avec nouvelles opportunités pour les entreprises et les particuliers.

SAP HANA est l’une de ces technologies qui changent la donne pour les logiciels d’entreprise. Bien plus qu’une simple base de données, il s’agit de la base sur laquelle repose SAP S/4HANA. Grâce à SAP HANA, les données sont utilisées autrement, c’est-à-dire d’une manière plus intelligente et prédictive.

SAP S/4HANA s’accompagne de cas d’apprentissage automatique intégrés (par exemple, automatisation intelligente pour la conformité fiscale, réapprovisionnement piloté par la demande, prévision des livraisons fournisseurs, affectation intelligente du personnel et des ressources, et prévision des performances de vente), grâce au socle d’Intelligence Artificielle (IA) qui sous-tend SAP HANA.

Tels sont les ingrédients qui forment une nouvelle expérience utilisateur caractérisé par le passage « de l’information à l’action », car les utilisateurs peuvent obtenir des informations pertinentes qui facilitent la prise de décision. Cette fonctionnalité est l’une des clés d’un progiciel de gestion intégré (ERP) moderne, optimisé par SAP HANA. Cette visibilité sur les informations permet d’obtenir une vue d’ensemble complète et en temps réel sur une entreprise, notamment sur les informations concernant les liquidités, les statistiques de commandes, les actifs et la satisfaction des clients. Même si les systèmes ERP hérités offraient également cette possibilité dans une certaine mesure, les informations étaient issues d’instantanés de données statiques et obsolètes, basés sur des agrégats précalculés dans les bases de données. Ces limites technologiques étaient source d’incertitudes et nous empêchaient de prendre des décisions parfaitement éclairées, notamment en raison de notre incapacité à réagir en temps réel à des événements imprévus.

Le modèle de données unifié dans SAP S/4HANA permet aux entreprises de s’appuyer sur une source d’informations unique, une autre fonctionnalité clé d’un ERP moderne. Le modèle de données unifié calcule des indicateurs de performance clés (KPI) à la volée, en s’appuyant sur des postes individuels réels au lieu d’agrégats sans horodatage, ce qui permet de refléter la réalité à l’instant t. Les clients peuvent voir leur stock en temps réel. Cependant, le modèle de données lui-même n’est que la base d’un nouveau niveau de visibilité. Afin que ces informations soient exploitées concrètement, des fonctionnalités d’analyse intégrées préviennent les utilisateurs des événements de gestion dès qu’ils se produisent. Par ailleurs, elles guident les utilisateurs pour les aider à éviter les problèmes et les exceptions.

Il en va de même pour la finance, où le journal universel rassemble des tables et des livres auxiliaires qui auparavant étaient séparés. Cette fonctionnalité permet une clôture en douceur et une consolidation à la demande qui donne aux dirigeants une vue complète sur toutes les données pertinentes, ce qui les aide à prendre des décisions avisées et rend l’entreprise plus agile. Elle enregistre également toutes les données financières au même endroit et permet ainsi un traitement parallèle cohérent entre tous les livres auxiliaires et les flux de valeurs. De plus, le journal universel s’intègre parfaitement à SAP HANA de par sa structure simple, sans agrégat ni hiérarchie. Grâce à la technologie in-memory, il est facile et rapide d’établir des rapports à partir des données du journal universel. Les ledgers représentent un volet essentiel dans le journal universel. En extrayant les données d’une table à une autre, ils permettent un reporting prompt et efficace des données financières en vertu des différentes normes comptables et attributs.

En ce qui concerne l’agilité, selon une étude réalisée par l’Economist Intelligence Unit Ltd. auprès de 800 directeurs et dirigeants financiers, la gestion des changements inattendus par rapport aux prévisions financières et l’adaptation des processus financiers à la rapide évolution des modèles d’affaires font partie des principaux défis que les dirigeants financiers doivent relever dans l’exécution de leurs activités quotidiennes. En outre, 90 % des dirigeants financiers pensent que le service financier doit simplifier la planification d’entreprise collaborative pour veiller à ce que les plans opérationnels soient alignés sur les plans financiers et stratégiques.

La possibilité d’exécuter la planification, l’analyse du compte de résultat et le reporting du groupe en se basant sur le même ensemble de données bouleversera la finance à jamais. Cela étant, nous nous dirigeons vers une vision plus tournée vers l’avenir. Pour parvenir à cette fin, il convient de combiner intelligemment les données en temps réel (de même que les données de planification, de prévision et de simulation), afin de détecter les risques et les opportunités pour y réagir sans tarder. Cela rend les processus encore plus efficaces et intelligents, tout en offrant de nouvelles opportunités pour la finance à l’avenir. Lors de périodes de pandémie comme celle que nous connaissons aujourd’hui, cela a donné à nombre de nos clients la force de traverser la tourmente et l’agilité nécessaire pour évoluer dans des environnements en constante évolution.

Mais la visibilité seule ne suffit pas pour combler le fossé entre les systèmes analytiques et transactionnels, fossé qui s’observe chez les systèmes ECC hérités. L’automatisation, l’aide à la décision et l’IA ne peuvent pas être pleinement exploités en raison de cette fracture technologique. C’est là que la partie « action » entre en jeu : les utilisateurs professionnels reçoivent alors les conseils dont ils ont besoin pour prendre des décisions et réaliser des opérations dans les workflows et les processus intelligents hautement automatisés.

Il existe de nombreux exemples d’utilisations innovantes de SAP S/4HANA sur SAP HANA dans divers domaines : MRP (planification des besoins en composants) Live, MRP piloté par la demande, gestion des stocks, finance, disponibilité à la vente, traitement des reliquats et nouvelle configuration des produits à variantes.

Prenons, à titre d’illustration, MRP Live, l’Application MRP et les fonctions prédictives de MRP. Avec MRP Live, les clients peuvent planifier et évaluer de très gros volumes de données en temps réel. Par rapport aux anciens cycles MRP et évaluations, MRP Live et l’Application MRP peuvent être exécutés plus fréquemment ; aussi, le gestionnaire peut améliorer de manière significative les KPI tels que les niveaux de stock et les accords sur le niveau de service proposés aux clients. En outre, avec les fonctions prédictives de MRP, il est possible d’exécuter des simulations de l’usine. Cette approche MRP nouvelle génération dans SAP S/4HANA convertit automatiquement les exceptions en propositions de solution.

Nos clients qui utilisent MRP Live sont des entreprises de toutes tailles, qui opèrent dans toutes les régions et tous les secteurs (notamment, machines et composants industriels ou encore biens de consommation). Thermo Cables, une entreprise de taille moyenne basée en Inde, utilise SAP S/4HANA et ce faisant, elle a fait croître son chiffre d’affaires grâce à une visibilité accrue, couplée à des processus de gestion clés (cycles MRP exécutés sur des données en temps réel, par exemple) et un accès instantané aux rapports couvrant toutes les fonctions de l’entreprise. Nous pouvons également citer ANTA, un fabricant de vêtements de sport, qui a pu améliorer le mécanisme de calcul MRP et réduire de 80 % le temps nécessaire pour modifier les nomenclatures grâce à la modification des données par lots. Avec SAP S/4HANA, ANTA a également réussi à rehausser l’efficacité en matière de consommation des stocks de 90 % grâce aux mises à jour automatiques reçues pour un grand nombre de commandes.

Le MRP piloté par la demande, une composante de SAP S/4HANA, vérifie régulièrement la situation de la demande et du réapprovisionnement, puis propose des niveaux optimaux de marge et de stock dont la mise en œuvre est à portée de clic. La demande et le réapprovisionnement peuvent désormais être ajustés plus souvent et plus régulièrement, ce qui se traduit par un pilotage plus efficace des processus adjacents. Auparavant, les entreprises menaient une fois par an un projet d’optimisation des stocks dans une feuille Excel. À présent, cette tâche est remplacée par un processus de routine automatisé qui assure la meilleure capacité de livraison, tout en optimisant les actifs et les liquidités de l’entreprise en question.

La pandémie de COVID-19 nous a montré à quel point les chaînes logistiques mondiales sont fragiles et peuvent être perturbées rapidement. Mais les logiciels d’entreprise ont aidé les organisations à rester agiles pour réduire les incertitudes et l’impact financier sur leurs activités.

Comme je l’ai décrit au début, quand on parle de conversion au numérique, il ne s’agit pas d’exécuter les mêmes activités en exploitant les nouvelles technologies, mais de transformer les méthodes de gestion des entreprises. C’est ce à quoi les entreprises doivent se préparer si elles veulent surmonter les défis d’aujourd’hui.

Thomas Saueressig est membre du Conseil de direction Ingénierie de produits de SAP SE
Cet article est initialement paru sur LinkedIn.

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Get Ready For Next Month’s Google Shakeup

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Google has been talking about the Core Web Vitals tool and the Page Experience Update for about a year now.

With the update scheduled to roll out in May 2021, now is the time to make sure your websites are prepared for it. It’s taking a lot of the best practices Google has recommended over the years and making them an official part of the search algorithm, so not taking this seriously could negatively impact your sites’ rankings.

Today, we’re going to look at everything Google has told us about the update and how to use the Core Web Vitals tool to ensure your site rankings don’t drop once it rolls out.

What We Know About the Google Page Experience Update

Google first told us about the page experience update back in May 2020. Here’s what we know about the upcoming update:

Google’s Search Algorithm Will Change in May 2021

Although there’s no specific day given, we do know that the page experience update will go live sometime in May 2021.

The Goal is to Reduce Friction on the Web

It’s not as though user experience is something that designers and developers overlook when building websites. Heck, there’s an entire disciple of UX design dedicated to it.

That said, Google hasn’t taken too hard line of an approach in enforcing its page experience suggestions, like mobile-first design, removing intrusive pop-ups, or improving page speed. With this update, though, Google is now telling every site owner that performance, accessibility, technical best practices, and SEO must be built into their websites.

Of course, the goal isn’t to create more work on your side of things. Google believes that by encouraging developers to build better web experiences that consumers will experience less friction and businesses will be more profitable as a result.

The Update Will Include Older Signals

According to Google, the page experience update is going to combine a bunch of older signals with the new Core Web Vitals:

The Core Web Vitals tool will now merge all of that data we once had to gather from various Google apps. That’ll make it more convenient for designers and developers to improve the on-page experience across a variety of areas.

The Page Experience Algorithm Will Change Over Time

Per Google:

Because we continue to work on identifying and measuring aspects of page experience, we plan to incorporate more page experience signals on a yearly basis to both further align with evolving user expectations and increase the aspects of user experience that we can measure.

So, don’t expect this to be a one-and-done thing. You’ll have to rely on the Core Web Vitals tool, and pay close attention to updates out of Google, to ensure your sites are keeping up with Google’s page experience standards.

Your Other Google Apps Have Already Been Updated with Core Web Vitals

If you hadn’t noticed, Google has already updated its other apps in anticipation of the page experience update.

Google PageSpeed Insights, Search Console, and Lighthouse all have Core Web Vitals data in them.

Here’s an example of how Lighthouse’s report on the Amazon website now looks:

By including these metrics within the tools you’re already using, you don’t necessarily have to add the Core Web Vitals tool to your growing toolbox. That said, there are some really valuable reports in there, so I’ll show you why you may want to add it anyway.

Google’s Top Stories Will Be Affected

In the past when someone did a news-related search on Google, they’d see “Top Stories” results like this one:

Until now, the only pages shown here were AMP-enabled ones. 

Once the page experience update goes live, though, the AMP requirement is going away. So long as a page meets the page experience criteria along with Google News content policies, it can now rank in this section.

Google Search Results May Show a Page Experience Indicator

In the Top Stories example above, notice the AMP indicator I highlighted in yellow. Google is thinking about adding something similar to any search result that fulfills its page experience criteria.

While I think a small, eye-catching icon might draw a little more attention from Google users, I’m not sure if it’ll be that big of a deal to them. People working in this industry certainly know what that lightning bolt means, and we’ll also be the ones who recognize the page experience indicator, but I’m not convinced it’ll matter to users. 

That said, this is something Google is thinking about rolling about, so it’s something to be aware of. At the very least, you can consider it a badge of honor when showing your websites to clients and prospects who want to see what you can do for them.

Content Is Still More Important Than Page Experience

Even if a website checks off all the page experience boxes, there’s no guarantee that it’ll start to rank better than websites that haven’t. The quality and value of the content on the page still matters greatly.

Using Core Web Vitals to Measure Page Experience

Alright, so let’s take a look at this Core Web Vitals tool. Here’s what the tool looks like when you enter the “Measure” tab:

It’s like most other Google analyzer tools. You enter the URL you want to audit and let the tool run. The results then spit out something that looks like this:

Core Web Vitals are graded on four categories:

  1. Performance measures the loading speed, interactivity, and stability of the page.
  2. Best Practices focus on the technical aspects of the page, including things like having an SSL certificate and making sure images fit within the parameters of the mobile screen.
  3. SEO checks on the typical SEO signals like metadata, structured data, and so on.
  4. Accessibility reports any issues with visitors not being able to see or access parts of the page.

If you scroll down just a little bit on the page, there’s more data available. It mainly has to deal with the technical stuff, like page speeds and unoptimized code:

Now, this isn’t really anything new. We can get this data about load time, interactivity, and content stability from Google’s other apps.

The real value is in the report, which you can access up top next to the date of your audit.

Open the report and you’ll find specific suggestions and pro tips to optimize each part of the page experience, like this SEO report:

Just like other Google tools, this one can teach you a lot about what makes one site more rankable than another. So, make sure you update your web design strategy going forward to integrate all of these ranking signals.

While you’ll have to do annual audits on your sites to see how much Google has changed the page experience signals, you’ll create less work for yourself if this baseline set of criteria are met with every site you build.

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SAP France accompagne la nouvelle promotion d’entrepreneurs sociaux de makesense avec l’aide de ses collaborateurs

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SAP France accompagne, aux côtés de l’incubateur makesense, des startups à vocation sociale et environnementale depuis 2014. Les collaborateurs SAP sont toujours plus nombreux à s’engager dans la démarche et à soutenir ces startups qui souhaitent changer le monde. Cette année, l’équipe de mentors SAP compte Frédéric Chauviré, Directeur Général de SAP France, qui va apporter son soutien et ses connaissances à cette cinquième promotion.

Les collaborateurs SAP accompagnent chaque startup sur un volet technologique pour les aider à tirer le meilleur de leur phase de prototypage et à consolider leur business model. SAP France s’inscrit dans ce partenariat d’une part pour contribuer à changer le monde et d’autre part pour dérouler un programme de mécénat de compétences qui participe au bien-être de ses collaborateurs.

La particularité de cette année se trouve dans les différents niveaux de maturité des startups avec des projets jeunes qui ont besoin de soutien pour se positionner sur leurs marchés. Ainsi, les mentors SAP les accompagnent, les challengent et affinent leurs projets afin de les rendre pérennes.

Ce partenariat permet à SAP France d’avoir un impact externe auprès de l’écosystème startup en stimulant et en développant les équipes internes et d’avoir un impact interne en créant une expérience collaborateur unique. Ainsi, l’initiative fournit aux collaborateurs SAP des opportunités de développement et en même temps libère leurs potentiels.

Cette cinquième promotion, composée de 8 startups, sélectionnée par makesense et SAP, sont suivies par 4 à 5 collaborateurs SAP, pendant 4 mois, à raison d’un rendez-vous par mois.

  • Silo accompagne les industriels dans leur lutte contre le gaspillage via la création de circuits de valorisation de leurs surplus, invendus et invendables
  • JokaJobs propose une application qui rend la recherche d’emploi ludique et efficace pour des jeunes qui présentent des freins à la mobilité
  • Tirelires d’Avenir propose une aide financière pour les jeunes en rupture familiale et sans ressources financée par du don direct.
  • Metishima œuvre pour une approche inclusive d’intégration par l’emploi des personnes issues des migrations, à travers la valorisation des compétences et expériences acquises dans leur pays d’origine.
  • Freepry accompagne les acteurs de la mode dans l’implantation de corners seconde main, à l’aide de son logiciel.
  • Want To Help est une plateforme de mise en relation entre bénévoles et associations pour les jeunes et par les jeunes.
  • Oïkos est un projet de média-marketplace éco-responsable visant à éduquer et conseiller le consommateur et proposer de la mode et de la beauté clean.
  • New Age valorise le commerce de proximité zéro déchet en beauté et hygiène, l’entraide entre entrepreneures et des ateliers pour tous.

L’accompagnement proposé ravi les entrepreneurs mentorés. En effet, 1 entrepreneur mentoré sur 2 estime que l’apport de SAP était déterminant dans son prototypage ou dans l’identification des besoins de compétences pour sa startup. 30% d’entre eux estiment avoir progressé en communication ou marketing grâce à l’accompagnement des collaborateurs SAP et 25% estiment que le mentoring leur a permis d’obtenir un partenariat commercial ou stratégique.

La collaboration SAP et makesense s’est déjà illustrée de manière positive et notamment avec la startup Colette. Cette dernière aide les étudiants et jeunes actifs à se loger en cohabitant avec des hôtes qui ont une chambre à louer, favorisant ainsi la cohabitation entre générations. Ce sont 500 hôtes et plus de 1 000 jeunes qui sont déjà membres de Colette et notamment SAP qui propose cette offre, depuis un an, à ses jeunes collaborateurs mais aussi à ceux qui partent en retraite.

« Que nos entrepreneurs soient en phase de prototypage de leur solution ou plus avancés avec des enjeux de commercialisation, les mentors SAP s’adaptent pour leur être le plus utile possible. Ils partagent leurs compétences et mobilisent leur réseau, c’est vraiment incroyable d’avoir des collaborateurs qui se donnent autant pour les projets qu’ils accompagnement ! » explique Karell Hertzog, startup program manager makesense.

« Nous sommes très fiers de ce programme d’accompagnement. Notre rôle d’acteur engagé doit générer  un impact plus large sur la société. Je suis très enthousiaste  de démarrer le mentoring des entrepreneurs sociaux sélectionnés par makesense. Les projets ont tous un intérêt social, environnemental et solidaire qui contribue réellement à changer le monde. Je remercie également tous les collaborateurs SAP, toujours plus nombreux, à s’engager dans des causes qui ont du sens », explique Frédéric Chauviré, Directeur Général SAP France.

The post SAP France accompagne la nouvelle promotion d’entrepreneurs sociaux de makesense avec l’aide de ses collaborateurs appeared first on SAP France News.

Source de l’article sur sap.com

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The Most Comprehensive Grammarly Review Ever

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Who is Grammarly for? Can a grammar checking tool like Grammarly replace a human editor and proofreader? Is the Grammarly checker worth it? Are the Grammarly free checks sufficient for me, or should I upgrade to Grammarly Premium? Should I install Grammarly on Chrome? How effective is Grammarly for Word? Is downloading the Grammarly desktop app worth it? You have questions…all of which we’re going to answer.

I have been using Grammarly regularly for proofreading my documents and emails since 2015 and have witnessed its evolution as a product firsthand. After checking over three million words during this period, I can confidently say that Grammarly has come a long way. Raising $200M in total funding at a valuation of $1B+ so far, and with more than a million downloads per month, Grammarly is now a top-1000 website by traffic worldwide.

I write a lot, so Grammarly has been my go-to writing assistant for correcting passages and enhancing my writing. I first tried the Free version, and in May 2020, I upgraded to the Premium version, finally! Grammarly Premium is a great tool that takes care of most of your writing, proofreading, and plagiarism-checking needs for intensive work.

In this article, I’ll explain what Grammarly is, its features, what it does (functions of all versions and products), the pros and cons of using Grammarly, my rating of Grammarly, who should use the Free version, and who should use the Premium version and the difference between the two. I’ll also explain how to use Grammarly properly. I’ll then compare it with other popular tools and suggest which ones suit your needs. In the end, I’ll leave you with my final assessment and FAQs.

What is Grammarly?

Grammarly is an online digital writing assistant that checks for a range of English grammar and spelling mistakes. It also helps enhance the writing through its excellent context-based clarity suggestions (Premium version).

Grammarly is a writing aid that checks not only for spelling slights, grammar rules, and clarity issues but also identifies the tone of the writing to provide relevant instructions through its Error Cards. It also has a plagiarism checking tool, which is available with the Premium version.

Grammarly employs AI (Artificial Intelligence) and NLP (Natural Language Processing) to check the content for all possible syntactic and semantic issues. Although it has an extensive database, it is still incomparable to human proofreading and professional editing, especially when it comes to understanding the context of the writing.

Grammarly Overview For Beginners – Compatible, Accessible

Grammarly is astonishingly easy to use, primarily due to its compatibility via the Browser Extension/Add-on, from which you can use it on millions of websites. Moreover, its other product forms, i.e., the Online Editor (Web App), Desktop Application, MS Word/Outlook Add-in, and the Grammarly Keyboard for iOS/Android, make it accessible everywhere.

How Does Grammarly Work?

It automatically detects issues in the content in the Desktop App, the Online Editor, and the browser (even in Google Docs, which is in Beta at this time) via its add-on. Yet, for the MS Word Add-in, you have to click the Grammarly button to activate the app. Grammarly explains all detected issues via an Error Card that contains relevant information for each item. You can implement it by clicking the suggestion, ‘Ignore’ the problem, or ‘Add to Dictionary’ (in case of a spelling issue). You can also provide feedback (if you think that the suggestion is wrong). The Free version checks only for spelling and critical grammar mistakes. The Premium version also reveals a ton of advanced ‘Clarity Issues.’

The Tone Detector helps you estimate the entire document’s tone, which can be valuable for many writers who target a particular audience, e.g., formal writing for the business audience.

Limitations of Grammarly (For Beginners)

Grammarly, overall, excels at almost all the things it does, and therefore the free version is recommended for everyone. Grammarly provides a generic readability score. Advanced grammar checks like the clarity checker, the plagiarism checker, and many other features are not available for the free version.

Grammarly is dominant amongst its competition, but it doesn’t solve all English language problems. It is useful at picking syntactic mistakes but still misses significant semantic errors, which can be a problem for people who are not particularly adept at English — as they won’t notice these slips.

The Good The Bad & The Ugly
Ease of use – simple, intuitive, and efficient interface English language only Tad expensive (notably the monthly subscription at $29.95 per month)
Context-based grammar checking Not 100% accurate (primarily misses linguistic bloopers) No free trial for the premium version.
Fantastic grammar checker Business account starts at three users and charges per number of users (can be a bit expensive for small businesses) Only one account (license) for the premium version. You can use it on up to five devices.
Convenient tone detector Insufficient as a standalone tool (doesn’t do everything) Incomplete sentences can sometimes go undetected
The insightful error cards are instructional and productive (they help you to improve your writing) Unlike ProWritingAid and Hemmingway Editor, it doesn’t provide much information about the whole passage, Grammarly’s scoring is generic right now No substitutes are suggested in many cases. Example: synonyms, rephrasing suggestions for the intricate text, etc.
Integrates well with MS Word, Outlook, WordPress, emails, social media, and millions of websites The free version is limited to fundamental grammar and spelling mistakes Cannot determine contextually incorrect sentences (it cannot perceive the meaning of the written document)
Knowledge-base The premium version identifies repeated words but sometimes doesn’t provide a suitable alternative to use Short on vocabulary suggestions (not as competent as the free thesaurus writing tool)
The Grammarly keyboard is available for Android & iOS for FREE Free version shows the number of advanced clarity mistakes but doesn’t tell you what those mistakes are and where they are The formatting tool is rudimentary. You have to write in another text editor and then import it to the Grammarly Editor to format your writing accurately
Personal dictionary Google Docs is not supported yet (in Beta). Restricted to English only, and it also doesn’t translate other languages as Ginger does.
The adjust goal option allows you to customize Grammarly’s feedback. It can miss simple semantic issues, which sometimes can be caught by text editors like Google Docs and MS Word.
Formatting remains the same if you import/upload a document, but it changes if you copy/paste. Plagiarism Detector is not available for the free version.
Weekly writing stats (sent to user email) can help you identify your problem areas The browser extension can malfunction, i.e., opening and closing the Grammarly editor within a website (sometimes) duplicates the content
Option to download the detailed performance statistics as a PDF Sometimes Grammarly doesn’t catch all mistakes on the first try. You have to refresh or scroll to let it run again and see if it finds new issues
Grammarly blog teaches English grammar rules, writing techniques, and more
Context-based checker is more accurate than competitors
Provides rephrasing suggestions for complicated sentences
The premium version excels at catching inconsistencies

Who Should Use Grammarly?

Free:

Everyone

Despite being limited, Grammarly (free version) is a phenomenal tool. Therefore, I would heartily recommend it to everyone. It’s free, and it’s convenient.

The free version should be everyone’s go-to tool for proofreading social media statuses, tweets, and comments. It is also crucial for editing all sorts of short-form writing, such as emails. Professional writers can also use the free version to catch typos and basic grammar mistakes.

Premium:

  • Professional Writers
  • Authors
  • Bloggers
  • Students
  • Businesses that require extensive writing
  • Marketers/Advertisers
  • Content Creators
  • Editors and Proofreaders

Apart from all the necessary features offered in the Grammarly free version, Grammarly Premium provides several other valuable elements such as an advanced clarity checker and a robust plagiarism checker. All these help you enhance your writing effectively.

Grammarly Premium is a helpful tool for people who are already adept at English as it still requires plenty of work on catching semantic errors. Businesses and Professional writers who do intensive writing should give the Premium version a go. From writing, editing, and proofreading to plagiarism checking, it is almost an All-in-One solution (though not a substitute for a human proofreader – at least yet).

Who Shouldn’t Use Grammarly?

Free:

  • Students
  • English Learners

People, especially students who cannot learn from their mistakes, should avoid relying on Grammarly as it can hinder their learning process.

Granted, Instructional Error Cards and Weekly Writing Stats (emailed to the user) can pinpoint your weak points, but educating yourself from there on is entirely up to you.

Just like ‘Auto-correct’ hinders people’s ability to learn proper spellings, Grammarly can do that for learning grammar rules.

Premium:

  • Amateur Writers
  • Infrequent Users

Grammarly is an excellent tool, but it still makes slips, which can be misleading for amateurs who don’t have a solid grip on the English language. Therefore, if you are not proficient enough in English, you should only subscribe to Grammarly Premium if you can remember that it is not a replacement for a human teacher or a proofreader. Or, you can continue using the Free version, which is competent enough to check fundamental grammar and spelling oversights.

Furthermore, businesses and professionals who are infrequent users can stick to the Free version if they feel they will not be making the most of the Premium version.

Grammarly vs. Basic Text Editors

A comparison with basic text editors will illustrate Grammarly’s true potential:

Microsoft Word

Microsoft Word is the most popular and feature-packed text editor. It includes a basic grammar and spelling checker that catches typos in real-time. However, MS Word is very limited in its grammar checking capabilities.

I’ve written many articles using Microsoft Word, which were considered error-free by the text editor. However, when I put the same documents in Grammarly’s Editor, there’d always be some critical mistakes caught by the Free version and some clarity or consistency mistakes pointed out by the Premium version.

Grammarly finds inconsistent punctuation that MS Word missed.

Google Docs

Google Docs is another mighty text editor, which is free to use. It also has numerous features, including spelling and grammar checking. Google Docs’ grammar and spelling check software only flag issues with an alternative in its database; otherwise, it ignores them. It auto-corrects the obvious spelling blunders. It can also pick missing determiners (articles) better than Microsoft Word. However, once again, when compared to Grammarly, Google Docs falls far behind in exposing slip-ups.

Grammarly in Google Docs.

Google Docs performs a little better than MS Word when it comes to punctuation, yet it is incomparable to Grammarly, which is in Beta for Google Docs.

How to Write Better With Grammarly

Grammarly proofreads content written in English (American, British, Australian, and Canadian) and gives detailed performance statistics. Weekly Writing Statistics are emailed to the user account, and you can download a complete PDF that extensively illustrates your performance.

From scoring to pointing out all mistakes and amendments, Grammarly doles out a comprehensive document that you can use to improve your weak areas. Grammarly can function as your teacher in this regard if you learn from these mistakes and try to improve your performance, especially in areas pointed out by the software.

Try Grammarly for yourself.

All Grammarly Products

Grammarly is available in the following product versions:

  1. Grammarly for Business (3 or more users)
  2. Grammarly @edu (for Educational Organizations/Institutes)
  3. Grammarly Premium
  4. Grammarly Free

All these versions are usable in the following product forms:

1. Online Editor

Grammarly’s web application acts as an online editor to upload a document, copy/paste content, or write directly. It has a 4MB size-limit and a 100,000 characters-limit (about 60 pages). When you upload a file, a pop-up tells you that your document formatting will restore when downloaded.

Grammarly’s interface for the online version and the desktop app is identical, and it is outstandingly intuitive and accessible. A dedicated writing assistant panel on the right side contains valuable information and choosable options. It also lists and categorizes all the errors found.

A bar at the bottom contains a few formatting options and some length-related info about the passage.

2. Browser Extension

Typing in any online text editor activates the ’Grammar and Spelling Checker’ when the extension is on. It underlines (in red) all the issues in real-time. Hovering over the problem pops up an Error Card that contains corrections and more information about the mistake.

You can use the Grammarly icon at the bottom-right of online text editors to activate or deactivate the tool. This option is beneficial because sometimes you want to check your content but don’t want distractions while writing. I recommend turning on the extension after you have completed your draft and now want to begin the editing phase. You can also open the Grammarly editor within a website for added convenience.

The Grammarly add-on is available on all popular browsers – Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge Chromium, etc. And it is compatible with millions of websites and the web versions of many desktop applications, including WordPress, emails, social media, work platforms, and many more. Grammarly for Google Docs is in Beta right now. The Grammarly extension also gives you the option to ’Show Definitions and Synonyms via Double Click,’ which works like a dictionary within any website.

The Grammarly icon within your text editors tells you the total number of issues found on the Grammarly pop-up. However, you have to scroll through the document and find those problems yourself. It is not as efficient as the online Editor. The extension only shows the critical issues inside your online editor. It gives you the option to open the online Grammarly Editor to see the errors pointed out by the Premium version. The browser extension also works slower for lengthy content. It is convenient but only for short-form writing.

3. Desktop Application

The desktop application, like all other products, is online only and doesn’t work offline. An internet connection is necessary as Grammarly uses its database to process the document. The desktop app is identical to the online editor.

4. Microsoft Word/Outlook Add-in

You can integrate Grammarly into Microsoft Word and Outlook through their Add-in. Unlike other Grammarly product forms, the MS Word Add-in activates when clicked — otherwise, it stays dormant. When enabled, a right panel appears with suggestions, Error Cards, and statistics, just like the Online Editor and the Desktop App. Grammarly has no character limit for the MS Word Add-in.

5. The Grammarly Keyboard App

You can download Grammarly Keyboard for both Android and iOS through their respective stores. Now available for iPad as well, it is easy to use as it works like the auto-correct feature available in the smart devices. It gives suggestions when Grammarly encounters any grammar or spelling lapses.

Grammarly Pricing Plans

Grammarly is a tad expensive when purchased as a monthly subscription, which costs $29.95 per month. The quarterly ($59.95) and annual ($139.95) subscriptions offer better value for money. Through its weekly newsletter and other channels, Grammarly presents discount offers to its free users from time to time, which you can avail yourself of to get an even cheaper deal for the Grammarly Premium subscription.

Grammarly Pricing Plans for Premium Version – Monthly, Quarterly, Annual

Free

Grammarly Free is limited but still adequate for many as it gives you critical grammar and spelling checking capabilities. It is usable in all product forms.

Premium

Grammarly Premium, along with Spelling and Grammar Checker, offers an advanced Clarity Checker, Plagiarism Checker, and experimental Tone Detector. All Grammarly features are available for the Premium version.

Business

Grammarly for Business offers all the Premium features for three or more users. It also gives you an admin panel to customize your experience. You can add a personal dictionary, among other things, which will be accessible to all users. Grammarly for Business includes:

  • Individual accounts
  • Admin panel
  • Centralized billing
  • Team usage stats
  • Priority email support
  • Single sign-on

Grammarly Business Pricing Example

Grammarly @Edu

Grammarly @Edu is also an available option, of which educational institutes and organizations can avail themselves. It caters to a large number of accounts, as it targets students.

Grammarly Features

UI

Grammarly has hands-down the best interface among all the writing assistants. It is incredibly intuitive and user-friendly.

Compatibility

Grammarly integrates with millions of sites and text editors. It is also compatible with MS Word (both for Windows and Mac) and Outlook via an Add-in. It is still in Beta for Google Docs.

Grammarly is incompatible with some desktop apps, but you can use Grammarly in their web versions.

Supported Document Formats

For products where you can upload text documents, the supported document formats are: .docx, .rtf, .odt, .txt.

Languages

Grammarly is restricted to English only, including American, British, Canadian, and Australian English. Grammarly doesn’t support foreign language phrases, translation, etc., at the moment.

Grammarly Functions

Spelling Checker

Grammarly checks for spelling mistakes based on context. It is excellent at differentiating between commonly misspelled words. It can also tell Common and Proper Nouns apart (in most cases).

Grammar Checker

All Grammarly products on all plans help you check for grammatical errors and syntax issues in the provided document in real-time.

Plagiarism Checker

The Plagiarism Checker is not available for the free version. When I inquired about plagiarism in hard copy, patch plagiarism, and ProQuest, here’s what Grammarly Support had to say:

“We teamed up with ProQuest to provide even more accurate plagiarism checks: currently, Grammarly’s plagiarism checker searches major proprietary databases along with over 16 billion web pages. You can check ProQuest libraries here http://www.proquest.com/libraries/academic/databases/.

Please note that Grammarly catches verbatim plagiarism and slightly modified text that can be classified as unoriginal. As comprehensive as our algorithms are, significantly rephrased text oftentimes can’t be traced back to its source.”

Note: I checked this document with both; Grammarly Plagiarism Checker is not as robust as Copyscape, but it’s catching up fast.

Tone Detector

It detects a variety of tones based on the context of the given passage.

Grammarly Tone Detector

Clarity Checker

Grammarly checks for advanced issues for the Premium, Education, and Business versions. The Free version checks for limited conciseness; the rest is available on the Premium version only.

Grammarly Support

Grammarly offers support via its extensive, well-written, and user-oriented knowledge-base. Grammarly also provides support via email (24/7 for the Business version) if you can’t find a relevant answer in the knowledge-base.

Moreover, the Grammarly Blog teaches, among other useful things, the proper use of grammar in English.

Grammarly Blog

The Grammarly Blog teaches the rules of English grammar and gives tips on writing. It also specializes in teaching about the most common blunders, which are also a strong suit of the application.

Detailed Performance Statistics

You can view the ‘Statistics Summary Card’ by clicking the ‘See Performance’ button. Or you can download the detailed statistics via the Download PDF Report option. These statistics are in-depth and contain exhaustive information regarding the whole document, including your score, errors, reading time, speaking time, and more.

Grammarly Performance Stats

Adjust Goals

You can customize Grammarly’s feedback according to your needs. This option gives you an adjustable chart where you can set your preferences according to your needs. It helps with the document’s tone, the difficulty level depending on the target audience, and more.

Grammarly Adjust Goals

Get Expert Writing Help

Grammarly gives you the option to get your work checked by experts. It’s a particularly convenient option for those who cannot or do not want to rely on their proofreading skills better than finding and hiring someone yourself.

Grammarly Expert Writing Help

Is Grammarly Really Free to Use?

Grammarly has a free version with a powerful-enough spelling and grammar checker. It is available in all product forms – Online Editor, Browser Extension, Desktop Application, and Word Add-in. The Free version checks for up to 150 grammar rules.

It is superb at uncovering elementary grammar fallacies due to its context-based checking, powered by its robust AI and NLP software.

The Free version doesn’t show clarity issues. It reveals the number of clarity issues in the content, but it doesn’t tell you what and where those issues are.

Is Grammarly Premium Worth The Cost?

The Premium version shows advanced grammar issues such as clarity, conciseness, dangling modifiers, squinting modifiers, monotonous sentences, intricate text, split infinitives, and many more. It checks for over 400 rules of English grammar, far more than the Free version. Grammarly Premium also has a plagiarism checker within the interface, which is mighty-enough for online plagiarism checking.

Grammar Checks

When you run some text through any version and product form of the app, Grammarly will process the document for the following:

  1. Sensitivity
  2. Determiners
  3. Voice
  4. Conciseness
  5. Conjunctions
  6. References
  7. Nouns
  8. Fluency
  9. Word order
  10. Spelling
  11. Conventions
  12. Syntax
  13. Variety
  14. Formality
  15. Pronouns
  16. Prepositions
  17. Verbs
  18. Numerals
  19. Punctuation
  20. Modifiers
  21. Consistency
  22. Correctness
  23. Clarity
  24. Delivery
  25. Readability
  26. Engagement

However, Grammarly will not point out many of these mistakes for the Free version. It will only tell you the number of such problems in your content.

Grammarly Checklist

Grammarly Free in Action:

Let’s see some examples.

Verbs

Grammarly detecting the wrong form of a verb.

Context-Based Checking

Grammarly Context-Based Checking

Capitalized Words

Grammarly detects unknown words, and if you capitalize them, it considers them proper nouns. It can also miss the incorrect use of a term if you spell it correctly and put it within commas.

Grammarly while dealing with proper nouns, capitalization, and unknown words

Phrases vs. Sentences

Grammarly can differentiate between phrases and sentences. Therefore, you can write headings and subheadings in the form of expression.

Grammarly differentiating between sentences and phrases

Multiple Mistakes in One Sentence

Grammarly catching multiple mistakes in one sentence

Determiners

Grammarly pointing out the wrong determiner-article use

Incomplete Sentences

The Grammarly algorithm is not good enough yet at recognizing incomplete sentences. Grammarly is far from perfect, as evident from these examples. Google Docs suggested ’was because’ for the last line instead of ’is because,’ but Grammarly missed that.

Grammarly can miss incomplete sentences.

Grammarly is only making one suggestion that the article use may be incorrect here in the below image.

Cannot detect incomplete sentences (sometimes) if other issues exist

Grammarly suggests you change the first line in the below image because it believes it’s caught a sentence fragment. You accept the suggestion, and it becomes the second line, which is, again, a sentence fragment, according to Grammarly.

Grammarly ‘sentence fragment’ suggestions

Sometimes, the suggestions are right as well.

Grammarly recognizes sentence fragments in some cases

Punctuation

Comma

Grammarly is a sniffing-hound-on-steroids when it comes to commas — both missing and wrong ones. It pinpoints the exact location where you should place a comma in a sentence. Whether it is between clauses, a list of items, or something else, Grammarly knows if you have missed a comma or placed a wrong one. It also exposes the famous “Oxford Comma.” Grammarly now points out any inconsistent punctuation (curly vs. straight commas, for example) in your articles.

Grammarly pointing out the missing Oxford Comma

Hyphen

First, it points out the missing hyphen. Once you rectify the error, it points out the wrong capitalization. Grammarly works in steps for multiple errors in a sentence.

Grammarly catching a missing hyphen.

Semi-colon & Colon

Grammarly catches the incorrect use of the semi-colon & colon.

Period

Grammarly points out a missing period

Missing Apostrophes

Grammarly can catch missing apostrophes

Grammarly Premium in Action:

Apart from correctness that checks for critical grammar mistakes, the Premium version has options to check for clarity, delivery, and engagement, along with many more correctness checks.

Clarity

Clarity check is not available for the Free version; all other versions of the app have it. It catches linguistic issues that a fundamental grammar checker cannot reveal. These include dangling modifiers, split infinitives, misuse of passive voice, intricate text, inappropriate colloquialisms, etc.

Text Inconsistencies

Grammarly Premium can detect inconsistencies and gives you the option to select one form if a word has been used inconsistently in the same document. It can also detect inconsistent punctuation, for example, curly and straight commas.

Grammarly Premium identifies text inconsistencies.

Rephrasing Suggestions

For unclear or complicated sentences where there might be an issue of a dangling modifier or something else, Grammarly suggests an alternative way to write the same sentence.

Grammarly Premium giving rephrasing suggestions

Wordy Sentences

Grammarly can also note if you have used many unnecessary words in a sentence. If there are more words and less content in a sentence, then it suggests you rephrase it. This option can help you make your content non-fluff.

Passive Voice Misuse

Grammarly is so-so at deciphering when the passive voice is right to use and when you should avoid it in a sentence. My experience is that, more often than not, it will recommend that you rewrite a sentence if it detects passive voice use anywhere.

Grammarly – always – detects passive voice use.

Intricate Text

Grammarly exposes unclear and hard-to-follow sentences in the written piece. Sometimes it gives alternatives (if one is available in its database), but usually, it only tells you to rephrase the sentence to make it more understandable.

Monotonous Sentences

If you continuously write similar sentences in a passage, Grammarly will detect these sentences’ monotonous nature and advise you to rephrase them.

Grammarly detecting a monotonous passage

Sound Confident Suggestion

Grammarly suggesting alternatives to sound confident

Politeness Suggestion

Sound more diplomatic with Grammarly!

Delivery

Grammarly Premium catches informal sentence structure like a preposition at the end of a sentence. Some other informalities include inappropriate colloquialisms, split infinitives, etc.

Grammarly points out informality.

Engagement

Grammarly Premium points out overused words and suggests using an alternative here, but sometimes it doesn’t provide suitable options like the Thesaurus Writing Tool.

Grammarly suggesting engaging alternatives

Most of the time, the suggestions are worth considering, though.

Grammarly is suggesting more engaging alternatives

Grammarly Free vs. Grammarly Premium

The Grammarly Free version catches all critical issues as it checks for 150 Grammar Rules to determine errors in a document. The Premium version looks for over 400 Grammar Rules and detects far more problems than the Free version.

I wrote an article and checked it through both the Free and the Premium versions. Here is the difference between how the stats of both look like before making the suggested changes:

Original Stats (before checking with Grammarly Free)

Original Stats (before checking with Grammarly Premium)

After editing another article and making the suggested changes, here’s how the Free version stats look like:

Grammarly Free Stats

After editing the same article using the Premium version, the stats look like the following:

Grammarly Premium Stats

Grammarly vs. Human Proofreader

Grammarly is a marvelous tool, but it is incomparable to human proofreading. Grammarly cannot detect the sense and meaning of the written text. It catches blunders using English language and grammar rules as efficiently as a machine can. However, some mistakes can slip through Grammarly if there is no syntax error, but just a linguistic or semantic misuse.

Grammarly didn’t suggest anything for a nonsense sentence

Grammarly is not an alternative to human proofreading

Pros of using Grammarly in 2021

Context-Based Grammar Checker

Grammarly is evolving with time and has gotten pretty accurate in identifying common mistakes. Its extensive database helps Grammarly recognize errors based on the context.

Real-Time Grammar and Spelling Checker

Grammarly scours the whole text for errors when you provide it a written document. Thankfully, it also checks for blunders as you write or edit your text in any product form – Chrome Extension, Online Editor, Word Add-in, Desktop App (Windows and Mac), and the Grammarly Keyboard for iOS and Android.

Accessible Interface and Robust Editing

With Grammarly, you get a highly-efficient software, which is not only a phenomenal editor but also incredibly easy to use.

Customizations – Set Goals and Personal Dictionary

You can customize your Set Goals and your Personal Dictionary with the ‘Add to Dictionary’ feature in the Error Cards. This element is convenient for proper nouns and personal vocabulary (even words from a different language).

Tone Detector

Based on your Goals, Grammarly, through its tone detector emojis, cautions you of your tone – the vocabulary and phrasing you are using. You can adjust goals keeping in mind your target audience and choose the most appropriate words to use.

Clarity Checker

Apart from basic grammatical mistakes, Grammarly helps you fix linguistic oversights. It tracks down a wide range of slip-ups, including dangling modifiers, intricate text, split infinitives, passive voice misuse, redundancies, and many other slips. In essence, the Clarity Checker elevates the level of your writing.

Plagiarism Checker

It is a bonus in all senses of the word. It might not be essential to the app, but it certainly assists users. Grammarly plagiarism checker is not the absolute best in the industry, but it does the job swiftly. It checks plagiarism across 16 billion pages on the internet and ProQuest’s database.

Error Cards

Error cards are compact, simple, and instructional. They serve their purpose elegantly. Any shortcoming that you experience in Grammarly’s usage so far is due to its still-not-so-extensive database. Error cards also fall short when it comes to giving suggestions due to this very reason. Otherwise, they are usually handy.

Free Version

You can proofread, remove typos, and analyze the content quickly via the app’s free version. You can also use it before buying the Grammarly Premium subscription.

The Grammarly Keyboard

Supported on both Android and iOS, The Grammarly Keyboard App functions like the auto-correct feature. It gives real-time suggestions about the proper use of grammar and spellings in the written text. Grammarly is now available for iPad and supports hardware keyboards as well.

Grammarly Support

Grammarly provides customer support via its extensive database and email. By now, almost all popular queries have a database entry. Furthermore, the Grammarly Blog assists with learning English grammar rules.

Knowledge-base

Grammarly has amassed a plethora of information in its database, which helps run the application smoothly. This knowledge allows the app to identify problems based on the context. You will find accurate solutions for most common issues, thanks to its extensive database growing with time.

Grammarly Blog

The Grammarly Blog focuses on teaching people English grammar rules and common mistakes in their writing. There are dedicated articles for each item; separate sections cover different punctuation like Commas, Hyphens, etc.

Writing Stats

The weekly writing stats sent via email and the downloadable detailed performance stats PDF give you comprehensive feedback on your writing. This feature helps you pinpoint your mistakes better than anything else available in the market.

Insights

Grammarly Insights are the real-time feedback that the application provides regarding your writing. It bases it on your Set Goals. You can customize this feedback according to your needs, which can be amazingly valuable if you cover different audiences. Insights also include the reading time and speaking time, which is particularly useful to Vloggers, YouTubers, etc., who can quickly determine how much time their script will take on the video.

Reliability

Grammarly is the most popular and best-in-class digital writing assistant tool, growing exponentially both in features and number of users, indicating that it will provide the best services to its customer base.

Grammarly is notably popular among professional writers, bloggers, publishers, marketers, and businesses, showing that Grammarly has a demanding clientele to please. Therefore, their standards are supposed to be (and they are) higher than the competition.

Product Investment

Having more than a million downloads per month and being a top-1000 website by traffic globally, Grammarly has raised $200M in total funding at a valuation of $1B+ so far, which speaks volumes of its success, investors’ trust in the product, and its projections.

Cons of using Grammarly in 2021

Free Version is Limited

The Free version identifies only critical grammatical errors, typos, and limited ‘conciseness.’ Moreover, it only lists the number of total advanced clarity issues in the text with an ‘Ad’ that keeps asking you to buy a Premium subscription for these issues. It also doesn’t support plagiarism checking.

Premium Version is a Tad Expensive

The biggest drawback of Grammarly is that it is a tad expensive for many. Grammarly Premium can be a costly subscription at $30 per month if you don’t have much writing to proofread.

Semantic Issues

Grammarly is good at picking fundamental grammar mistakes – even context-based grammar issues, but it still cannot understand what you have written. If you write a nonsense sentence with no grammatical fault, Grammarly will consider it a correct sentence. It can also happen with incomplete sentences.

Insufficient

Grammarly is a mighty grammar checker but lags behind when it comes to rating the whole document. Its scoring is based on mistakes and length of words and sentences only, unlike some other tools that provide a more comprehensive text scoring. Grammarly is also not an alternative to human proofreading as it can’t understand the meaning of the written content.

Limited Vocabulary

Grammarly has a limited vocabulary in its database so far, which leads to inaccurate synonym suggestions at times. The Thesaurus Writing Tool, another free digital writing assistant, has an extensive vocabulary due to its vast Thesaurus.com database and offers far more vocabulary suggestions and alternatives.

Alternatives Not Provided for Every Issue

For many suggestions like Intricate Text, Split Infinitives, etc., Grammarly doesn’t provide an alternative. You have to rephrase the sentence yourself. Grammarly only points out bloopers sometimes, which can be a little frustrating for amateur writers.

Not Supported Everywhere

Grammarly is not supported everywhere yet. The most prominent places are Google Docs (in Beta at the moment – which doesn’t include Grammarly Premium corrections and the Pop-up Grammarly Editor) and desktop applications. However, it works on the web versions of these desktop applications via its browser extension.

Insufficient Formatting Options in the Editor

Grammarly Editor is imperfect for writing purposes. It is incomparable to authoritative text editors like Microsoft Word and Google Docs. So you have to write your text in another editor and import it in Grammarly for proofreading if you want proper formatting of your document.

Irritating and Aggressive Advertising

Grammarly wants you to upgrade all the time. When using the Free version, you’ll get constant notifications to upgrade to Premium to check for issues that are not available in the Free version.

Only One Language Supported

Grammarly doesn’t offer support for languages other than English. There is also no option available for translation like Ginger.

Only One Account for Premium

The Grammarly Premium account gives you only one license for use on up to five devices. It is an obstacle for people with multiple accounts for different purposes. Grammarly Premium is already expensive, so buying two licenses is not feasible for the majority.

Top 5 Free Grammarly Alternatives 2021

Grammarly stands out as the most prominent and well-received tool when you compare all popular digital writing assistants. It has been endorsed and appreciated by countless publishers and writers. Grammarly has become a top product in the digital writing industry with its robust marketing and significant NLP and AI improvements.

Grammarly Inc. has secured enough funding as of late 2019 to improve its natural language learning database to enhance its AI-based application further. Keeping all this in mind, it is evident that Grammarly is dominating the market. Still, there are a few products that come close for one reason or the other. Here are the top 5 Grammarly alternatives in 2021:

ProWritingAid

Pros: Long-Form Writing (Books, etc.), Writing Insights, Separate Checking of Issues, MS Word Add-in, Efficient Browser Extension

Cons: Short-Form Writing, Fewer Errors Detected, Not for Amateurs, No Free Version

ProWritingAid is considered a worthy alternative to Grammarly (notably for long-form writing – books, etc.), but it falls far behind Grammarly for short-form writing.

ProWritingAid is accurate, feature-rich, and integrates well with apps and websites, but the interface is not as user-friendly as Grammarly’s. It also reveals fewer issues as Grammarly has advanced context-based grammar checking capabilities.

ProWritingAid offers better pricing and value for money (Premium is $60 per year, $70 with Plagiarism Checker), and it also has a Lifetime Plan. However, it doesn’t have a free plan like Grammarly. The Online Editor has no word limit, unlike Grammarly’s 60-pages or 100,000 character limit.

ProWritingAid provides many options/tabs to check for each issue separately, handy for longer articles or books. However, it is not as user-friendly for short writing pieces.

It also presents a better analysis of the whole document and provides a lot of information regarding your writing, which you can use to improve your writing style.

ProWritingAid has an easy-to-scroll-through panel at the right-side that contains corrections and suggestions, which you can use to see all issues without scrolling the entire document.

ProWritingAid has the following tabs to check for each issue separately:

  • Grammar
  • Spelling
  • Overused
  • Readability
  • Cliche
  • Sticky
  • Diction
  • All Repeats
  • Echoes
  • Thesaurus
  • Dialogue
  • Consistency
  • Pacing
  • Pronouns
  • Alliterations
  • Homonyms
  • Transition
  • Acronym

Ginger

Pros: Keeps Formatting, 60 Languages & Translation, Built-in Dictionary, Browser Extension, Free Version

Cons: Fewer Issues Detected, Fewer Insights, Interface is just OK, no MS Word plugin

Ginger is also a notable competitor of Grammarly. It has a free version, and it integrates well with different websites. However, it doesn’t have an MS Word plugin. It is also not as accessible due to its clunky interface.

Ginger is not as powerful as Grammarly, but it is still a decent alternative. Ginger’s annual subscription is $89.88 (cheaper than Grammarly’s).

Ginger keeps the original formatting of the text document, which is pleasant. It also has a Translator within the app that supports 60 languages. Also, there’s a built-in dictionary, which you can use to find alternatives to overused words.

WhiteSmoke

Pros: Cheap, Integrates with Platforms, Gimmicks – i.e., Templates, etc.

Cons: Interface is awful, Fewer Mistakes Caught

WhiteSmoke is cheap to use, but it has a horrible interface. It integrates with many platforms, but it is incomparable to an advanced tool like Grammarly. It has some useful gimmicks like templates for specific writing purposes, i.e., Sorry, Thank You, Condolences, etc.

The annual subscription of WhiteSmoke costs $79.99. However, it is not advanced enough to be considered better value for money.

Thesaurus Writing Tool

Pros: Free, Vocabulary suggestions on hovering the cursor over a word, Blog

Cons: Editor is dreadful to use, Ruins Formatting

Thesaurus Writing Tool is a free-to-use online text editor powered by Thesaurus.com. You can copy/paste or write directly in the Editor. It doesn’t retain the original formatting, which makes it a bit uncomfortable to use. Just click on the ‘Check for Grammar’ button, and it will work its magic. It also has a dedicated blog that teaches you how to write better.

The Thesaurus Writing Tool is unimpressive when checking grammatical errors, but it is highly potent in vocabulary suggestions. Its interface is simple but insufficient. Hover over any word, and it will show you a vocabulary card with a lot of synonyms. Clicking on any suggestion will replace the original term with the selected item. The replaced word gets a yellow underline. An undo option is available if you are not happy with your word selection.

Hemingway App

Pros: Free, Information about Text, Text Readability Score

Cons: Ruins Formatting, Fewer Mistakes Caught

Hemingway App is yet another incredible tool that is quite capable and straight-forward. It is convenient for analyzing your document as it scores the content based on its readability. It has a free web app and a paid desktop app. You can copy/paste into the online Editor or write directly, but it messes up the formatting.

Hemingway App identifies the use of passive voice, adverbs, and difficulty of reading. It recognizes long sentences – even the easy-to-read ones – as complex, which affects the document’s grade.

Final Verdict: Grammarly Review 2021

Using advanced NLP and AI, Grammarly free is hands-down the best and must-have writing, editing, and proofreading tool for everyone that checks for spelling and critical grammar mistakes. Easy to use, compatible with most popular products, and trusted by millions of users, Grammarly instantly elevates your writing everywhere; statuses, comments, emails, documents, tweets, you name it! Trying out the free version before upgrading to a premium plan also makes sense.

Grammarly Premium is a more robust and advanced tool with numerous amazing features like an advanced clarity checker, tone detector, and plagiarism checker. The Premium version is unparalleled when complemented with knowledge of the English language and some other tools. However, it is insufficient as a standalone tool because it can make slips (especially semantic ones).

I highly recommend Grammarly Premium to professionals (freelancers, writers, bloggers, authors, publishers, and editors) who require intensive use of the app. Similarly, Grammarly for Business is a good investment if your team does intensive writing. Non-intensive users should stick to the Free version as it suffices.

Aa one user said, “Grammarly Premium helps you sound like a pro, or at least helps you avoid looking like a fool!”

FAQs About Grammarly

Is Grammarly a good app?

Yes, Grammarly stands out among its competitors as it has advanced context-based grammar checking capabilities, thanks to its up-to-date natural language processing and artificial intelligence.

Is Grammarly Premium worth it?

Yes, for the most part. However, it is a tad expensive for many. It is suitable for professionals and businesses that have lots of writing needs. It identifies several advanced grammar issues that the Free version only counts. However, it is not a substitute for human proofreading as it can make linguistic mistakes that a human can easily find.

Is Grammarly supported in Google Docs?

It is in Beta at the moment. So, it should be available shortly. At the moment, it is imperfect as it only specifies the number of errors. You have to scroll the document to find those mistakes (underlined red) on your own. It has already started working in the comments, though.

Is Grammarly supported in Quora?

Yes, Grammarly works with Quora.

Is Grammarly supported in Medium?

Yes, Grammarly is available for Medium.

Can Grammarly replace a professional editor?

No, it can’t. Grammarly can make simple semantic mistakes because it doesn’t know the meaning of the written text, so it cannot replace a professional editor. It is only suitable for catching syntactic issues.

Is Grammarly supported in Microsoft Word?

Yes, a plugin is available. It is an efficient plugin as it gives similar options in Microsoft Word as it does in its online editor and desktop application. Grammarly is now available for both Windows and macOS versions of MS Word.

Is Grammarly available for Mac?

Yes, Grammarly’s desktop app is available for macOS. Grammarly is available for both Windows and macOS. Grammarly for MS Word is also available for Mac now.

Is Grammarly supported in WordPress?

Yes, it is supported. You can use Grammarly in WordPress via its browser extension.

Is Grammarly supported in Gmail?

Yes, it is. You can edit your email using the Grammarly browser extension within Gmail. However, it is not the best solution for lengthy content. For extended text, the Online Editor, the Desktop App, and the MS Word Add-in are better options.

Does Grammarly work offline?

No, it doesn’t. Grammarly uses its database to run the app, so an internet connection is necessary.

Does Grammarly help you improve your writing?

Yes. If you read the weekly stats, detailed performance stats PDF, and Grammarly Blog for grammar rules and writing tips and try to implement them in your writing, Grammarly can significantly improve your writing capabilities.

Is Grammarly Safe and Secure?

Yes, Grammarly is quite safe, as Google verifies it. Moreover, Grammarly is as secure as any other site that uses SSL/TLS encryption. It is also reliable for plagiarism checking as it doesn’t violate your privacy.

What is the Grammarly cancellation refund policy?

You can get your money back if you are not satisfied with the Premium subscription by contacting Grammarly support within ten days.

Is Grammarly a reliable checker?

Yes, Grammarly outperforms its competitors. Yet, it cannot surpass a professional human editor.

Is Grammarly available for Android/iOS?

Yes, it is. You can use the Grammarly Keyboard to edit your text for grammar and spelling errors by installing the Grammarly Keyboard app from the Play Store or the App Store. It works like the auto-correct feature. Grammarly is now available on iPad as well.

Check out Grammarly for yourself.

 

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How to Create and Debug a Plugin in NopCommerce 4.40

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Introduction

In this article, I will share the steps to create a plugin in nopCommerce 4.40 including debugging of plugin install-uninstall and PreparePluginToUninstall methods. To demonstrate this, I am using the visual studio 2019 version 16.9.0. NopCommerce 4.40 has been upgraded to .NET 5 & C# 9 and many other features. 

In this article, I will create a simple plugin with the install-uninstall without any other features. But, it’s better to understand how the nopCommerce plugin is working and how you can debug the install-uninstall method of nopCommerce. This is because if you’re going to directly develop features, it will create a small problem. So, better we understand it first. Otherwise, you are maybe facing issues like I made a change in my HTML view, but you won’t see the impact on-page.

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8 Domain Name Myths Every Web Designer Should Know

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A domain name is an essential element of every project, product, and company. It’s central to a brand and has a disproportionately large impact on user experience. Not only that, but it also impacts SEO and ultimately revenue.

Domain names are also one of the most commonly retailed elements in web technology, with most designers hoarding a small empire’s worth of domain names “just in case” the right side-project comes along.

Because so much of the information and advice on domain names is provided by companies selling domain names and is therefore not impartial, we wanted to bust some of the myths you’ll encounter.

Myth 1: Anyone Can Own a Domain Name

In fact, almost no one can own a domain name. As demonstrated by the (probably) annual renewal notices you receive, you are merely renting a domain name.

You pay a registrar, who registers the domain with ICANN (The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) — or an entity to whom ICANN has delegated the responsibility for a particular TLD.

Even when renting a domain, you do not have the right to use it; thousands of UK-based businesses have had .eu domains stripped from them as a result of being removed from the EU.

Myth 2: There’s a Perfect Domain For Every Project

Domains do not have inherent value; they acquire value over time.

25 years ago, if you were building a search engine, the ‘perfect’ domain might have been search.com, find.com, or perhaps look.com — the particularly cynical might have opted for webads.com. You almost certainly wouldn’t have registered google.com because it says nothing about search.

Any domain name can acquire value through longevity, SEO, and branding

google.com acquired its value through a simple, relentless branding strategy and a generous dollop of luck.

Any domain name can acquire value through longevity, SEO, and branding.

Myth 3: Your Domain Name Should Contain Keywords

If you’re at the point of registering a domain name, either your business is new, or your digital strategy is. In either case, you have hopefully carried out keyword research, but without a live site, your keyword research hasn’t been validated. In other words, you don’t know what your keywords are.

Even if you’re confident that you know exactly what your keywords should be at this time, your keywords may change. The pandemic has required most businesses to pivot to some degree. eatoutny.com isn’t much use if legal restrictions have forced you to switch to a delivery business — unless you’ve also registered eatinny.com.

Furthermore, in the area of ecommerce, customers tend to view keyword-heavy domain names as budget options because they are like generic-brand goods. It may be that your business will only ever be a budget option, but it’s not a wise business decision to restrict your options.

There is an SEO benefit to keywords in a domain, but it is minimal and will almost certainly vanish in the next few years — even for EMD (Exact Match Domains) — because it is too close to gaming the system.

Myth 4: You Don’t Need a .com

As frustrating as it may be to seek out a .com you’re happy with, nothing says “late to the party” like a .biz domain.

A .co extension is slightly better in some regions because the .co.** format is commonly used; .co.jp for example. However, .co tends to be typed as .com by users accustomed to the more common format.

nothing says “late to the party” like a .biz domain

It’s possible to opt for pun-based names using regionally specific TLDs like buy.it, or join.in. This kind of strategy will play havoc with your local search strategy because computers don’t understand puns; you’ll potentially do quite well in Italy or India, though.

If you’re registering a domain for a non-profit, then .org is perfectly acceptable. However, carefully consider whether a domain is worth the lost traffic if you can’t also register the .com (because people will type .com).

The one exception is industry-specific TLDs that communicate something about the domain’s contents to a target demographic. For example, .design is a great extension for designers, and .io is fine for an app if it targets developers (i.e., people who understand the joke). You should also register the .com if you can, and if you can’t, carefully consider whom you’re likely to be competing with for SERPs.

This is not to say that anything other than a .com is worthless, just worth less than the .com.

Myth 5: A Trademark Entitles You to Register a Domain

Trademark registration and domain registration are two entirely different processes, and one does not entitle you to the other. This has been legally challenged a few times and fails far more often than it succeeds.

Trademarks are rarely blanket registrations, which means the trademark owner needs to declare the industry in which it will operate; there was no enmity between Apple Inc. and Apple Corp Ltd. until the former moved into music publishing and no one could download the White Album onto their iPod.

There is, however, a limited value in registering a domain that has been trademarked elsewhere. Not least because you will be competing against their SEO, and if they’re big enough to trademark a name, they’ve probably grabbed the .com.

Myth 6: Premium Domains Are a Good Investment

Premium domains are domains that have been speculatively registered in the hope of attracting a huge resale fee. The process is commonly referred to as ‘domain squatting.’

Domain squatters bulk-register domains in the hope that one of them will be valuable to someone. As a result, they are forced to charge exorbitant fees to cover their losses; a premium domain will cost anything from 1000–100,000% of the actual registration cost.

Setting aside the cost — which would be better spent on marketing — premium domains often come with legacy issues, such as a troubled search engine history, that you do not want to inherit.

Myth 7: A Matching Handle Must be Available on Social Media

The business value of a social media account varies from company to company and from platform to platform. Even if it is valuable to you, numerous marketing strategies will accommodate a domain name: prepending with ‘use,’ or ‘get,’ or appending with ‘hq,’ for example.

More importantly, it’s unwise to allow a third-party to define your long-term brand identity; sure, Facebook is huge now, but then so was the T-Rex.

Myth 8: You Need a Domain Name

A domain name is an alias, nothing more. You don’t actually need a domain name — what you need is an IP address, which a domain name makes human-friendly.

Think of domain names as an accessibility issue; humans are less able to read IP addresses than computers, and domains bridge the gap. (See how helpful accessibility is?)

While a domain name is beneficial, question whether a sub-domain or even an IP address would do. Registering a domain is an exciting stage of a project that many people never get past, leaving themselves with a huge collection of domains that they pay an annual fee for, and never actually develop.

What Makes a Good Domain Name

Now we’ve dispelled some of the myths surrounding domain names, let’s look at the key characteristics shared by good domain names:

A Good Domain Name is Brandable

A brandable domain is non-generic. It’s the difference between a sticky-plaster and a band-aid. Unique is good, rare is acceptable, generic is a waste of money.

A Good Domain Name is Flexible

Keep it flexible. Don’t tie yourself to one market or one demographic. Your domain name needs to work now and fifty years in the future.

A Good Domain Name is Musical

Six to 12 characters and two to three syllables is the sweet spot. Names in that range have a musical rhythm our brains find it easier to retain and recall.

A Good Domain Name is Phonetic

There are 44 word sounds in the English language. Other languages have similar totals. If you use a domain name that is pronounced phonetically, it will be easy to communicate.

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Database synchronisation techniques – The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

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There exists two types of synchronisation techniques to make sure you avoid concurrency issues and race conditions when updating database records. These are as follows.

  • Optimistic locking
  • Pessimistic locking

Optimistic locking is usually performed by using native database mechanism such as RowVersion in SQL Server, TimeStamp in MySQL, or ETag in Cosmos DB. These are special field types that changes automatically as the record is updated, allowing you to inject the values of these fields as a criteria to your update invocations. For an example of how this works, imagine the following schema.

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API Security Weekly: Issue #120

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This week, we take a look at the security issues in cheap video doorbells and security cameras, as well as tutorials and webinars on protecting APIs running in Kubernetes, JSON web tokens (JWT), and web and API authentication and authorization.

Oh, and we also have a link to DZone community awards where you can vote for this newsletter!

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