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Automate (and scale) your Android deployment with Bitbucket Pipelines

We’ve launched a new Android template in Bitbucket Pipelines. This template helps you automate building and testing an Android project in a Docker container, using Gradle as your build tool. Access the template code here or go to the Pipelines tab of your repo and select the Android template. This blog walks you through how this template is structured and has tips on how you can scale it.

Better Customer Operations Equals Increased Company Revenue

Customer operations refer to customer-centric business functions like sales and service which extend support to the customer. These were earlier perceived to be a cost center, but that notion has changed over the past decade. Customer operations are now regarded as the Swiss army knife of business operations. This is largely due to the fact that it supports several core business functions such as Sales, Marketing, Branding, and Product Development.

Optimizing SAP Extended Warehouse Management (EWM) with Better User Experience (UX) on the Edge

Optimizing SAP Extended Warehouse Management (EWM) with Better User Experience (UX) on the Edge While technology plays a large part in the efficiency of warehouse operations, employees are the foundation. Prioritizing User Experience (UX) on employees’ mobile data entry devices, from handheld devices to fork truck-mounted barcode scanners, is crucial to maximizing productivity.

Top VMware Horizon Performance Challenges for VM Administrators

Over the last year, most organizations have deployed or expanded digital workspaces to support employees working from home. One of the most popular technologies for digital workspaces is VMware Horizon. In this blog, we discuss the top performance challenges that administrators of VMware Horizon deployments have to tackle.

How To - Improve Your Secure Web Gateway Rollout With Endpoints

The principles of network security didn’t change overnight, but our abrupt transition to a remote workforce dismantled traditional concepts of how we secure our network. Offices were designed for people to access their resources on-site or through a few well-defined locations; security took the form of inline firewalls, web gateways, and VPNs that were routed through a datacenter or other resource hub.

Phoenix Project: Sometimes you have to look back to look forward

It has been eight years since The Phoenix Project was published and a lot has changed since then! I started to think about what we’ve learned in that time. It starts with the theory of constraints. I still see it all the time. Organizations take actions which are merely temporary, putting out fires but not solving for the underlying causes of those fires.

7 Best Network Infrastructure Mapping Tools

Network infrastructure mapping tools that help you maintain up-to-date maps can be the difference between quickly diagnosing a problem or wasting hours of your time. Similarly, network maps can help everyone in your organization better understand and optimize a network you inherit. In many cases, however, network maps contain stale information or don’t exist at all.