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Why is RPA Important in the Success of Digital Transformation?

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  Digital transformation is about harnessing digital technologies, ramping up capabilities, and changing customer relationships, operational processes, sales, and service for the benefit of the business. Robotic Process Automation, or RPA, can be a catalyst in achieving successful digital transformation by automating mundane, repetitive, and time-consuming processes. It frees human resources from doing frustrating manual tasks and allows them to focus more on the critical areas of business. The use of RPA services is expanding at a rapid pace across industries and offers a host of benefits for organizations. These include cost reduction, optimized operations, reduced or minimized bugs or errors, improved customer experience, better management and control, and improved ROI. Statistics suggest that spending on RPA solutions in the year 2022 will be in the range of $2.4 billion in 2022 (Source: i-scoop. eu). Although organizations can look at RPA implementation without a full digital ...

Why Use Mobile App Security to Prevent Injection Attacks?

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  Mobile applications have become the new on-the-go touchpoints for users to browse the internet for information and execute various other activities. This has made mobile applications the new frontier for cybercriminals to let loose malicious codes and seek critical personal or business data. According to the Ponemon Institute, an IT firm dedicated to security-related research, about 59% of respondents reported an increase in malware attacks. Also, the mobile security report by Check Point Research unearthed the following statistics for 2021: l   97% of business enterprises or organizations faced threats from multiple attack vectors l   46% of enterprises had one employee download a malicious application l   40% of mobile devices globally are vulnerable to cyberattacks It is only by employing a multi-pronged approach to mobile testing that business enterprises can protect their critical data from cybercriminals. The focus areas for such enterprises ought to includ...

How to Choose a Reliable Testing Services Company - Top 5 Points

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  The critical role of quality in the success of any software application in the market is a foregone conclusion. It determines the brand equity, customer satisfaction, and revenue levels of any company. It must be understood that quality cannot be sacrificed for speed of delivery or any other consideration. Any state-of-the-art software product needs to get rid of vulnerabilities that hackers or threat actors can exploit easily. The answer to mitigating such possibilities is to undertake software quality assurance, preferably at every major step of software development, a la Agile or DevOps. Remember, the year 2021 witnessed 78.4 million ransomware attacks, which was higher than the previous three quarters (Source: Techrepublic). In fact, cybercrime is expected to cost businesses $10.5 trillion annually by 2025, which is substantially higher than the $6 trillion in 2021. With so much at stake, QA testing should be made an integral part of the SDLC, and businesses should look at hi...

How Application Security Testing Can Help Enterprises Overcome Security-Related Challenges

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  Is your business facing security challenges that are leading to client dissatisfaction? If not addressed soon, these can impact your brand equity negatively and allow clients to look for your competitors. One of the reasons for such challenges to flare up is the lack of integration of cyber security testing in the SDLC. Remember that approximately 84 percent of software breaches occur as a result of application layer vulnerabilities. This is due to the fact that today’s enterprise applications are vast in their sweep, with numerous components and multiple integrations with third-party software. Also, given the presence of a multitude of APIs, hackers have a goldmine of opportunities to cause security breaches. So, what needs to be done to overcome the challenges of safety, brand recall, and client retention? The answer lies in engaging professional and experienced application security testing services and preventing malicious cyber-attacks. The primary objective of any applicatio...

Top 3 Benefits of DEM You Can’t Ignore

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  Think of all the interactions you have on a day-to-day basis with workplace technology. You log onto the computer, sync up your device, open a browser, open your email, and then join a video call! All of these say a lot about the digital experience. But there may be times when the app might not work, or maybe you are not able to join the video call due to poor connection. From an IT perspective, the cloud application may look perfect, but the end-users may face technical glitches, which can badly affect their productivity. This is where digital experience monitoring (DEM) steps into the picture. What is a DEM? It is a management system that analyzes the usage and performance of data across applications, devices, and infrastructure to know how the user’s interaction with the technology impacts the overall digital experience. Since companies have shifted their services and applications to the cloud, it’s beyond the scope of IT to keep a check on all the components. People have ...

Why is Quality Assurance a Must in Medical Device Testing?

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  The healthcare sector has witnessed a breakthrough in the diagnosis and treatment of diseases with the advent of advanced medical technologies in the last few years. The breakthrough has enhanced the accuracy and efficacy of medical systems and streamlined the management of processes in healthcare. In this context, it is important to know the role of quality assurance and how it brought about a qualitative change in the delivery of treatment, especially during the pandemic through tele-medicine. Medical devices are essential in the healthcare industry as they help in the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of illnesses. Medical device testing has become crucial due to the growing complexities of software embedded in medical devices. The quality of such embedded software can be affected by a plethora of factors like hidden glitches, regulatory delays, and threat actors, among others. To meet the growing demands and to ensure the reliability of these medical devices, quality assu...

How to Achieve Enterprise DevOps Transformation in 5 Steps

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  DevOps has become the buzzword for many organizations across domains to streamline their value chains, drive excellence, achieve superior customer experience, and enhance productivity, efficiency, and revenue. It is a culture encompassing areas of software development such as testing, delivery, maintenance, and security. DevOps enables the stability of all programs, processes, and systems that are part of the digital infrastructure of any business enterprise. With digital transformation being embraced by businesses to achieve a host of outcomes, a DevOps transformation roadmap should be followed to make businesses competitive. According to Nutanix, 83 percent of business enterprises are embracing DevOps and incorporating it into their value chain. The key metrics in DevOps implementation by enterprises include deployment frequency, change failure rate, lead time for changes, and mean time to restore. However, implementing DevOps in large enterprises can be challenging due to th...