A well-designed dashboard is a powerful launch point for data-driven conversations. Armed with the same collection of information, your business makes faster decisions based on a single source of truth. A great dashboard’s message and metrics are clear, its color enhances meaning, and it delivers the most relevant information to […]
Which Chart or Graph is Right for You?
You’ve got data and you’ve got questions, but what’s the best way to visualize that data to get the answers you need? Transforming data into an effective visualization or dashboard is the first step towards making your data make an impact. In this paper, you’ll learn about different chart (and […]
10 Signs Your Data Architecture Is Holding You Back
Demands on applications ─ and on developers ─ have never been higher. Modern applications need to run equally well across platforms, deliver rich experiences backed by real-time data and analytics, and play nicely with legacy technologies. To pull this off, your team needs to use the right tools on the […]
Dirt and the High Cost of Complexity
As the data requirements for applications become increasingly sophisticated, organizations often find that their data architecture, and in particular their relational databases, can’t keep up. In response, developers cobble together niche databases, with cumbersome pipelines to move data between them. Or, organizations move some of their applications and data to […]
Why the World is Going Multi-Cloud
In an economy increasingly defined by digital experiences, success depends on speed — on how quickly teams can build, test, learn from, and adapt new software applications and services. But moving from idea to prototype to production is time-sensitive. Go too slow and your competition might eat you for lunch. […]
Modern DevOps Teams Use MongoDB to Enhance Productivity
“DevOps” is a term that gets tossed around a lot these days. People speak about it as a development philosophy and a practice (and they’re right — it’s both). Despite the widespread popularity of DevOps, however, it’s often not used to its full potential. When DevOps is fully embraced and […]
Why the Document Data Model
Built around JSON-like documents, document databases are both natural and flexible for developers to work with. They promise higher developer productivity and faster evolution with application needs. As a class of non-relational, sometimes called NoSQL databases, the document data model has become the most popular alternative to tabular, relational databases. […]
Beyond Functionality: Making Offices Purposeful and Safe
So, what is the purpose of office space, now? Workplaces–pre-Covid–were functional. For the most part, they got the job done and delivered a solid baseline for productivity and collaboration. However, they came with a lot of unnecessary rules and policies that have now been identified as irrelevant once we shifted […]
Employee Reflection: What’s Your Office’s “Draw?”
Offices need a reason, a clear “draw” to get remote workers–who are more than content with remote work–to leave the comfort of their home. That means, offices must be able to accomplish things that cannot be done from home. working in your own home and in an office have staunch […]
5 Ways to Plan, Design, and Execute Employee- Centric Workplaces
Workplace strategy and design innovators Kate Lister (Global Workplace Analytics) and Mark Wartenberg (Nike) had a candid conversation about how to plan, design, and execute a workspace that’s centered around employees. A lot was discussed but here are five key takeaways that resonated with us: 1. We did a lot […]