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Maximising the potential of business intelligence with data warehouse automation

Data is a business's most valuable asset. When given the ability to harness its power, organisations can transform their data into meaningful business intelligence (BI)-and act on this to stay ahead in an ever-more competitive landscape. This is where the enterprise data warehouse (EDW) comes in. An EDW centralises and consolidates data from many sources-storing it in a denormalised structure called a star schema-making it easy to analyze, visualise, and forecast essential business metrics.

CircleCI Breach: How to Rotate All Stored Secrets ASAP

Yesterday, CircleCI, a Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) service, notified the world it had been breached via a critical advisory from its CTO. As a major software delivery pipeline service, CircleCI users store myriad credentials for various services in CircleCI’s “Secrets Store” infrastructure.

How To Help Doctors Better Organize Their Work Schedule?

Organizing a doctor's work schedule is a difficult task given the amount of complexity and unpredictability that comes with dealing with patients. To ensure the highest level of care and attention, it is essential that doctors plan ahead to make sure they are able to effectively manage their workload. It's important to remember that organization is not just about having a plan but also about developing strategies to ensure the plan is followed. Here are some tips to help doctors better organize their work schedules.

A better way: 3 incident response areas prime for automation

By automating some rote parts of incident response, you reduce decision fatigue and help responders get to solving the problem faster with less stress. In this post, we talk about three areas of the incident response process that are prime for automation.

What is Automated Diagnostics? How to reduce escalations and accelerate resolution with automation

Join PagerDuty’s Jake Cohen (Senior Product Manager) with RedMonk’s Kelly Fitzpatrick for a conversation and demo on automated diagnostics, process automation, and incident response. It’s all about automation helping first responders determine if there is an issue, which domain experts (if any) should be brought in to assist, and resolving the issue as quickly as possible.

The Optymyze CEO Explains 5 Ways To Automate Your DevOps Workflow

The phrase "time is money" couldn't be more accurate in the business. Increasing efficiency and productivity can considerably impact the bottom line for organizations that rely heavily on their development and operations teams. You can reduce manual steps, save time and money, and improve quality overall by automating specific tasks in your DevOps workflow. Here are five ways entrepreneurs like the Optymyze CEO use automation to enhance their DevOps workflow.

What skydiving taught me about automation

Back in the day, before I was a father, before I was a husband, back when I was more of an adrenaline ‘junkie’, one of my ongoing adventures was skydiving. I wouldn’t necessarily call it a hobby as I never followed through with a certification, but I took my fair share of jumps. When I first started I would go with either a ‘static line’, where a cord hanging from the plane would pull my chute, or go on what is called ‘tandem’.