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The busiest shopping season of the year was chock full of glitches, aggravating harried shoppers and business owners alike. Did your X-mas gifts get diverted, delayed, or returned to sender due to a glitch?

Rapid software release is the new norm – and that has pushed many companies to ditch their monolithic software development approach in favor of SOA. More companies are embracing microservices – an SOA-style approach for developing and deploying business logic as small, independently deployed services – for a number of reasons: it reduces risk, is faster to deploy and it easily scales.

While checking in recently with one of Anodot’s newest clients, I got the sort of feedback that every product owner loves hearing. I asked, “During this past month, have you been able to check alerts triggered for your region? Do you use them? Do you have any feedback?” They replied, “The alerts are spot on. Thanks all.” The company then went on to adopt Anodot across more teams. So why are we so obsessed with alerts being spot-on?

Start your engines. The holiday season has officially begun! With the upcoming shopping frenzy surrounding Black Friday and gift buying, it is one of the most important times of the year to avoid glitches like the ones below.

At the advent of the technological era, developers found themselves wasting hours of valuable resources on manual QA. As software was released, teams manually confirmed that it was bug-free and reliable, all the while testing new features and checking for regression of existing features. Unfortunately, this manual approach was prone to mistakes, created long delays in workflows and was tedious and time-consuming.

Augmented analytics is trending. You’ve read about it, you’ve heard about it, you may even be in the process of acquiring systems running it. But what exactly is it, and how can you recognize it? As the guys building augmented analytics, we’re here to dispel some of the hype. On the highest level, augmented analytics is the machine learning processes geared at making data more accessible and actionable for both data scientists and business users.

The digital era has brought vast cultural transformations – the sharing economy, microtransactions, lightning-fast communication and much more. Much of this has also resulted in considerable innovation in revenue-related areas. Companies from various industries today manage a large number of revenue streams from different revenue models.

If you aren’t frightened enough this Halloween, spend some time reading these tales of glitchy horror! Then, save your company from becoming a ghost story with Anodot’s anomaly detection and keep your platforms running smoothly.

The telecom industry has always seemed to navigate well through tech changes. As the industry has evolved, it’s managed to transform from landline to mobile carriers, then from voice calls to messaging and data-centric networks. In many developed markets telcos are creating ecosystems for the data-driven economy. The next frontier is shaping up to be one driven by machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI).