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Your Digital Transformation Success or Failure Depends on these 6 IT Department Roles

Thanks to the onset of the global COVID-19 pandemic, more and more businesses find themselves in urgent need of a digital transformation to stay afloat. This includes both organizations who were previously interested in the idea but who didn’t think it would happen quite so quickly, along with those who never really gave it much thought at all.

7 Best Outlook Alternatives in 2021

Do you think email is still the fastest way of getting stuff done? As you might have guessed from the title, we beg to differ. Yes, Microsoft Outlook is one of the most popular desktop email clients. However, Outlook hasn’t been designed to get things done in a more productive manner. If you’ve used this tool to communicate with your clients or coworkers, you might have wondered if there’s a faster way of doing things.

How to use Miro to collaboratively create UX research roadmaps

As UX researchers, we take our cues from the product development organization on where we should spend our time. We need access to the big picture. Without that, we risk being brought in too late on projects, unable to influence product and business decisions. To fill this need, our team at Kira conducted a workshop with product managers and designers to collaboratively create a research roadmap — and we’re sharing our process in this post.

Etched in memory: How we designed our DBaaS backup and recovery process

In this blog (Part III), we will discuss the motivation and high-level architecture of the DBaaS Backup and Recovery procedure for databases hosted on DBaaS. This blog discusses the motivations behind the Backup/Recovery process and it’s high-level design and architecture of the various components that constitute it.] These are the high-level motivations/goals for the Backup and Recovery design for DBaaS. There are two major design components.

Rethinking team documentation with Confluence and Miro

Staying on the same page with a remote team is no easy task, which is why the team document is a remote work lifeline. Documentation can both act as an artifact — a final presentation to share with others — and serve as a living workspace — where we draft our thoughts and collaborate with our team online.

How Zendesk's UX team keeps innovation moving on a global scale with Miro

Zendesk is a customer service software company with support and sales products designed to improve customer relationships. Their platform gives customer service agents the tools they need to rapidly and efficiently serve on the front-line of their brand’s customer experience.

The 4 Cornerstones of M-Files Intelligent Information Management in 2021

2020 was a year of unprecedented challenge for the whole world — when what we thought of as normal did not exist anymore. Everyone had to adjust to new ways of working and a business community that was suddenly closing its doors after a long period of increasing global movement. In M-Files, we face the same challenge of suddenly moving to home offices across the globe. For us, it was quite straightforward though, as M-Files is designed to enable remote work from anywhere.