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Banks are putting a fresh set of eyes on how they are using APIs to drive better business outcomes and deliver more value to their customers. This is a relatively new departure toward adopting digital transformation of key operations. Financial organizations are traditionally known for favoring conservative business models that often resist modernizing complex legacy systems or rapid change in product and service offerings. This has been changing rapidly as APIs become more prevalent.
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When you need to monitor internal-facing APIs or private URLs that are behind your firewall, you need a secure solution. This is where private locations come into play. Private locations allow you to create custom locations in mission-critical areas of your business. If your customer relationship management platform goes offline, for example, you could lose customers and revenue.
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More and more companies are embracing cloud-based apps and functionality mostly due to customer demand for seamless user experiences. So, it is no wonder that as SaaS applications are exploding, Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) serve as a bridge allowing developers to integrate tools seamlessly with cloud-based platforms.
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By Uptrends
With over 7 billion mobile users worldwide, there’s almost one device for every person on the planet. Not surprisingly, the most popular apps are dominated by social media, messaging and entertainment platforms. But consumers are also shopping and managing finances via mobile devices. And while most users are accustomed to waiting a few seconds for a web application response, mobile users are less forgiving and expect an instant reaction to their swipes and taps.
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By Uptrends
In order to better manage complex IT environments and comply with burgeoning regulations, financial services organizations must learn how to proactively manage disruptive internal and external issues and develop policies to prevent them happening again. The reason? The pace of change is rapidly increasing while the size of business-necessary components is shrinking.
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By Uptrends
Out with the old and in with the new? Yes and no. Although 2022 may have been an interesting year for the global website monitoring market, many of the trends that dominated this year will likely carry over into 2023. Here’s a peek at how some of the top website monitoring trends of the year will likely impact security, network infrastructures and user experience going into 2023.
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By Uptrends
Grafana is long known as a leading open source platform for those needing beautifully rich, composable operational dashboards. The notion of being able to connect disparate data sources to Grafana for improved monitoring of infrastructure, log analytics, and overall better operational efficiency is an increasingly alluring prospect for those in fintech, ecommerce, and other industrial sectors.
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By Uptrends
The countdown has begun. No, not for the excitement of New Year’s Eve festivities nor for an awe-inspiring space launch. We’re talking about Black Friday and Cyber Monday, the annual mad rush of frantic Christmas shoppers looking for deals after Thanksgiving. In 2021 on Black Friday, consumers spent $109.8 billion online, up 11.9% compared to 2020. Shoppers spent another $10.7 billion on Cyber Monday, 1.4% down from $10.8 billion in 2020.
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By Uptrends
If you are looking to improve the quality of your website and offer a superior user experience, then you are likely looking to improve SEO by whatever technologies are available to accomplish that goal. Google has been pushing out user-centric improvements — eliminating keyword stuffing, making page load time a ranking factor, and so on — meant to make navigating your website easier and improve SEO.
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By Uptrends
Security is one word that is at the tip of everyone’s tongue when it comes to ensuring that web browsers are up to date. In August 2022, after zero day vulnerability CVE-2022-2852 was identified as a critical risk, Google issued a new set of Chrome security updates and tech-industry folks carried on with business as usual. In general, security vulnerabilities of all types are an all-too-common game of Whac-A-Mole. Once a security flaw is discovered and patched, another pops up to take its place.
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By Uptrends
One of the greatest responsibilities of managing your website and IT estate is to stay on top of your uptime, applications and performance metrics. After all, visitors today expect websites to load within a few seconds and provide a seamless experience 24/7. Having an effective monitoring strategy and the right tools in place is essential if you want to retain your customer base and protect your revenue.
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By Uptrends
APIs fuel your website; know when they break. Use our advanced, multi-step API Monitoring to check your APIs for performance, function, and uptime.
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By Uptrends
Meet Web Application Monitoring. Test if your website's core functions, such as logins, signups, shopping carts and payment screens work, and know exactly what goes on when stuff breaks.
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Uptrends Solutions: Web Performance Monitoring. Monitor website steps such as shopping carts, logins, searches and forms.
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By Uptrends
We’ve had Web Application Monitoring for years. After recording, our Support team tweaks and tests transaction scripts for you (this is still an option). With Self-Service Transactions (SST), you can now write and manage your own scripts. If you have a Business or Enterprise account, you can start using Self-Service Transactions during the final stages of our beta testing.
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See how Fred Dilkes explains the ins and outs of performance monitoring for the 2016 holiday season in this free webinar.
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Uptrends is the ultimate monitoring tool to stay in control of the uptime, performance, and functionality of your websites, APIs, and servers. We are proud to say that we have become a trusted standard in website performance monitoring since our founding in 2007.
Your customers are everywhere. So are we. With an industry-leading number of 184 worldwide checkpoint servers, our website monitoring empowers you to find out where in the world your website’s latency is the highest, so you can take action in areas where it’s most necessary.
Proactively test with Synthetic Monitoring: When stuff breaks, get alerts from Uptrends, not your customers! Rest assured, and use Uptrends' Synthetic Monitoring service to maintain high availability and sky-rocket your web performance.
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Get data from real users with Real User Monitoring: While Synthetic Website Monitoring works as a bot, Real User Monitoring gets you data from site visitors as they browse your website. See exactly how your visitors experience your website!