A Primer on Big Data Testing

whitePaper | October 18, 2022

We talk about striving to be data driven. But in doing so, we’ve skipped an important step. Today, we must first aspire to be data-sharing organizations. That means becoming businesses where data is easily and proactively shared with every relevant person. Otherwise, there will be no driving possible. We’ll be left in the dust, lacking the gas — the data — to fuel us ahead in the digital economy. Gartner® said, “According to the Sixth Annual Gartner Chief Data Officer Survey,1 respondents who successfully increased data sharing led D&A teams that were 1.7 times more effective at showing demonstrable, verifiable value to D&A stakeholders.”

whitePaper | March 29, 2023

On the 8th of March 2023 SAP announced the evolution of SAP Data Warehouse Cloud (DWC) into SAP Datasphere during its ‘Data Unleashed’-digital event. Although this whitepaper has been updated to reflect all the changes and new developments, some of the images may still carry SAP Datasphere’s old name (Data Warehouse Cloud), in cases where no similar visualizations with the new namesake were available. If you have read this whitepaper before, you might just be interested in the topics that SAP highlighted in the days preceding and during the March event. In the section below you will find the most important takeaways in a nutshell, but we encourage you to read on if you want to know more!

whitePaper | December 29, 2022

Imagine that you are starting a family and you want to stay on top of your finances so you can manage your budget for your growing family. Because you have too many accounts for banking, loans, subscriptions, and bills to keep track of, you decide to sign up for a service that aggregates all your accounts in one place. When you register your account online, you follow the instructions carefully. You create a strong, unique password and set up multifactor authentication. You enter your bank account and loan information, home address, and other personal information. Your spouse also signs up, and you create a joint family account that combines your information.

whitePaper | December 22, 2022

We live in a digital world in which data analytics and artificial intelligence significantly impact our daily lives. They influence what we wear, what we eat, where we travel, and how we spend our free time. In medicine the impact of data has much more drastic effects, as access to high-quality medical data is a matter of life or death for patients every day. In this particular area, the desire to save human life by discovering modern methods of therapy and diagnostics often contradicts another fundamental right of the patient - the right to privacy and the right to dispose of one’s data.

whitePaper | October 6, 2022

Effective data analytics provides enormous business value for many organizations. As ever-greater amounts of diverse data become available, analytics can provide even more value.

whitePaper | November 10, 2022

In this hyper-competitive era, faster time-to-market plays a vital role in the success of an organization. Any lag accounts for the 'Cost of delay,' impacting the value a product could create otherwise. This is the primary reason teams are adopting an agile approach to software development, testing, and release. Unfortunately, teams that don't follow suit find it challenging to deal with this accelerated timeframe.