Apache Kafka is a powerful piece of software that can solve a lot of problems. Like most libraries and frameworks, you get out of it what you put into it. Learn 10 rules that will help you perfect your Kafka system to get ahead.

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Embedding analytics in your application doesn’t have to be a one-step undertaking. In fact, rolling out features gradually is beneficial because it allows you to progressively improve your application. You can get new capabilities out the door quickly, test them with customers, and constantly innovate. Read more about how to simplify the deployment and scalability of your embedded analytics, along with important considerations for your: Environment Architecture: An embedded analytics architectur

As the value of modern in-app analytics becomes clearer, more companies are making analytics a priority before it becomes a problem. The longer you wait to modernize your application’s analytics, the harder you’ll eventually feel the pain of lost customers and missed revenue. If it sounds like a daunting task, that's because it is. But don't worry, Logi Analytics' Blueprint to Modernize Analytics will help you define your new solution, plot out how to get there and determine what you'll need in

There are so many analytics products out there that can assist Product Managers in delivering cutting edge experiences to their end-users which align to important KPIs. Discover five ways infused analytics help PMs exceed their key performance indicators.

Most companies realize the value third party analytics solutions offer in delivering a best-of-breed capability to market quickly. However, end-user expectations have moved beyond what embedded analytics can offer and now encompass a seamless user experience, easy to use self-service, and immediate data response times. Read this eBook to learn how to unlock the Hidden ROI of Embedded Analytics.

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Datadog

By modernizing and shifting legacy workloads to the cloud, organizations are able to improve the performance and reliability of their applications while reducing infrastructure cost and management. In this eBook, learn best practices on planning a successful migration, monitoring containerized applications in Azure, and monitoring PaaS and serverless applications in Azure.

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UserTesting

As a product leader, mitigating risk in your digital product development is one of your highest priorities—and likely what’s keeping you up at night. Reworks. Missed launch dates. Failed products. Churn. Wasted sprints. These are costly scenarios product leaders must try to avoid. Add to that the competitive need to get a product to market fast and you’ll find product teams shortening their sprint cycles, relying on minimum viable products, and most shockingly, forgoing customer feedback altoget

UserTesting

According to Forrester, organizations that have successful digital transformations and continued optimizations demonstrate a strong focus on how their overall experience meets the needs of their customers and employees. With this free resource from UserTesting, see how other organizations drive successful digital products, services, and experiences by doing things like: Prioritizing multichannel experiences.

Glassdoor ranks Product Manager as Top 10 on their 2022 Best Jobs in America list. The earning potential of a Product Manager, a big factor on this ranking, boasts a median base salary of $125,000+. While there are more than 41,000 Product Managers currently employed in the U.S. today, only a scant group will move up the ranks to achieve that coveted leadership level.

According to research from Harvard Business School, of the 30,000+ new products introduced every year, 95% fail—and it’s often due to poor product management. The benefits of improving the product team significantly impact your organization’s bottom line. How can you boost your team’s performance and help mitigate the risk of product failure? Double down on skills.

“Feedback is the breakfast of champions.” - Rick Tate. Customer feedback is a crucial element of every product-led growth company: it helps product managers prioritize, build, and sustain their products while working towards business growth. That being said, many product teams still struggle with collecting reliable feedback and generating actionable insights from it to identify the problems and opportunities.

Dresner Advisory Services has just unveiled their “2022 Business Intelligence Market Study,” an in-depth look at the business intelligence industry that ranks more than two dozen BI vendors in areas like product, service, support, and overall customer satisfaction. How does your current BI vendor stack up against the competition? Who’s the perfect vendor for your business needs?

Vanilla Forums

Updating and upgrading how you meet customer expectations should be a top priority for any company, and though it might sound like a weighty task, there is an uncomplicated solution: Community. Though we see this as an obvious connector, we realize that not everyone will. So, we have researched what customers truly want in a customer experience, and how community can serve that.

How can you drive the thinking on what to develop, why and how to do it — leveraging the insights from both team and stakeholders — all the way from idea to deploy? "Epic alignment" describes four broad approaches that help Product Managers excel.

Vanilla Forums

In Customer Success terms, an engaged customer is one that is immersed in your product. Ideally, they find value and success daily and help other customers to do the same. But how do you encourage engagement? Gamification is a proven solution that can strengthen relationships and loyalty between your Customer Success team and customers. Our eBook explains how, with topics like: What is gamification?