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Is being on-call a reason to quit?

“Well, that’s the job.” Have you ever heard that from your colleagues or bosses when it came to being on-call? Imagine you started a new job 3 months ago and were looking forward to it from the start. You are on-call one weekend a month and thought there wouldn’t be many incidents from Friday evening to Monday morning. But by now you’ve noticed how much being on-call duty actually stresses you out. You get restless as soon as your shift starts.

ManageEngine vs. ServiceNow: Service Desk Alternatives

Comparing service desk software is not simple. However, it's an absolute must before you acquire or switch help desk solutions. But that task is about to become lighter since we have an ITSM tool comparison in the making, and today it's ManageEngine vs. ServiceNow day! We've been helping businesses of all sizes across the globe to implement InvGate Service Desk for years now, which has provided us with a pretty good understanding of business needs and pain points.

Canonical joins the Connectivity Standards Alliance

September 21st, 2022 – Canonical, the publisher of Ubuntu, announces today that it has joined the Connectivity Standards Alliance as a participant member. In this role, Canonical will help the alliance to develop open standards for the Internet of Things (IoT) and advocate for the role of open-source software in this domain. Canonical is the first company offering a major independent Linux distribution to join the alliance.

Improve and calculate customer retention rate

An integral part of running a business is recognizing that even your most loyal customers will eventually leave if they think their needs are not being met. To keep your business thriving, you must focus on customer retention and improving your retention rate. This article covers some important tips to learn how to calculate your customer retention rate and what you can do to improve it.

Welcome to the Now Platform Tokyo release!

The world of work continues to tackle a rapidly shifting business landscape and the “great reprioritization.” Leaders are looking for ways to differentiate their organizations to gain a competitive advantage and seeking out technologies that deliver tangible outcomes quickly and flexibly. That’s why I’m proud to introduce the Now Platform® Tokyo release.

Speed up XCUITest execution with parallelism and test splitting

In this article, I’ll show you how to reduce the execution time of XCUITest (UI tests on iOS simulators) by splitting and running them in parallel. Automated tests and CI/CD platforms like CircleCI are necessary for iOS application development. It is important not only to introduce them once but to improve them continuously. When application code grows and automated tests increase, the execution time of build and test in CI/CD gets longer.

StackState 5.0 UI; Gain a Rapid Understanding and a Speed up Discovery

Do you experience this: Your brain seems to explode because there is so much you try to fit into ”working” memory? It can happen on a Friday afternoon, after a busy work week. Or on a Monday, looking at your calendar while figuring out how to fit in all those meetings and still get real work done.

Digital Transformation: Cloud Migration Strategy Checklist

Companies moving their applications and services to the cloud is nothing new, but doing business there requires a solid cloud migration strategy. The list of things to consider is longer than you might think. Fortunately, xMatters has done it successfully and has helped its own customers move to the cloud too. In this article, Product Marketing Manager Erin Jones gives a checklist you can use to get your cloud migration right.