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The changing educational environment is causing disruption. Schools and universities face increasing demands to provide high-quality support for their teachers, faculty, and leadership. Managing communication, ensuring operational efficiency, and tracking performance across departments are crucial for delivering an exceptional educational experience. However, without a centralized system, these goals are often met with inefficiencies, communication gaps, and missed opportunities for improvement.

Organizations are constantly seeking ways to improve efficiency, drive revenue growth, and foster collaboration across departments. Sales enablement has emerged as one of the most crucial shared services groups within companies, bridging the gap between sales, marketing, and product management to ensure teams work seamlessly toward common goals.

As we soon enter 2025, I want to share a fundamental truth that has guided our strategy at Apica: the quality of your observability insights depends entirely on the quality of your data management. Many organizations need to establish proper data management practices before implementing observability solutions. This is akin to trying to navigate using an unreliable map—you might be moving quickly but in the wrong direction.

In today’s fast-paced development environment, quality testing requires two critical elements: comprehensive monitoring and intelligent test data management. Today, we’re excited to announce that Apica has acquired Orson, combining industry-leading synthetic monitoring with advanced test data orchestration capabilities.

Splunk continues to partner with government agencies on their digital transformation journeys to help deliver their missions and provide faster and more intelligent services. We are committed to the success and support of the security requirements of our public sector customers, and I am thrilled to share the latest strategic investments Splunk is making to expand our FedRAMP program to include Splunk Observability Cloud for government customers.

Software deployment automation can simplify and speed up your delivery cycle. It can reduce risk, allow teams to easily test after changes are made, and help provide consistency for the overall development pipeline. If it sounds complicated, we’re here to break it down each step into a cheat sheet that provides tips and best practices for the software deployment automation process.

Optimizing app performance can be challenging, even for seasoned developers. Frontends groan under the weight of bloated assets, backends lag from sluggish database queries, and mobile screens freeze at the worst times. But it doesn’t have to be that way. Sentry’s latest update brings domain-specific views to Insights & Profiling, giving developers the clarity they need to solve issues quickly.

Ping is more than just a simple vocabulary term in the world of network diagnostics. It’s a fundamental tool that helps ensure the smooth operation of your network. Whether you’re a seasoned site reliability engineer (SRE), developer, or IT manager, monitoring essential ping metrics like latency, round-trip time (RTT), and packet loss is key to maintaining optimal network performance.

As Black Friday and Cyber Monday approach, eCommerce websites brace themselves for the year’s highest traffic. These retail-heavy events are prime opportunities for businesses to maximize their sales, but they also bring intense pressure on websites to perform at their peak. When it comes to online shopping, even a few seconds of delay or downtime can lead to frustrated customers, abandoned carts, and lost revenue.

Managing observability workloads can quickly overwhelm even the most experienced admin. Maybe you’re dealing with multiple departments, each needing its own collector configurations and pipelines. Every time you have to run a test or roll out a change, the process is cumbersome and introduces risk. Or perhaps you’re responsible for tracking hundreds of collectors across different environments and regions. In a scenario like this, troubleshooting individual issues feels nearly impossible.