Category Archive for: ‘Web’
Lessons learned from the Olympics 2012
I recently read this article which mentions the 2012 Olympics ticketing problems: 15 UK Web Performance Nightmares, and the damage they caused There are lots of well publicized web performance problems from Olympic ticketing to denied access to online bank accounts. The IT industry coughs up these problems on an increasingly regular basis, shrugs, and carries on. Software suppliers release product with …
New studies shows that Retailers are struggling to deliver the Omnichannel experience
It seems that brick and mortar stores are fighting back , this recent study shows that 88 percent of consumers admit to ‘webrooming’ – browsing online and then buying in a store. Link to the Accenture Study here The study found that half (49 percent) of consumers believe the best thing retailers can do to improve the shopping experience is to …
New load testing portal meets cloud, mobile, and enterprise testing needs of any organization
Moving into 2013 the demand for flexible, on-demand load testing is at an all-time high. Organizations have finally and overwhelmingly recognized the importance of application uptime to customer relations, brand reputation, and the bottom line, and are looking to take control of their web, mobile, and cloud application performance. With this in mind, Apica revealed today ApicaLoadTest.com, a comprehensive load …
Apica named one of the fastest growing technology companies
Great news! For the second year in a row, Apica has been ranked on the Deloitte Technology Fast 500 as one of the fastest growing technology companies in the EMEA (Europe, the Middle East, and Africa). We’ve been working diligently over the past year to add new partners; expand our geographic footprint; deliver even more comprehensive cloud, web, and mobile …
2013: The year of application optimization for the device-driven Internet
For the past few years, our friends at VMblog.com have run an annual prediction series forecasting the trends most likely to drive adoption of cloud and virtualization technologies in the upcoming year. This is the second year in a row that they’ve invited me to contribute, and I thought long and hard about the assignment. After a deep gaze into …
Web performance strong on Cyber Monday, busiest online shopping day of 2012
Retailers might have started offering online holiday discounts earlier than in years past, but that didn’t seem to have much effect on retail activity or sales this Cyber Monday. According to IBM, Internet sales rose 30.3 percent yesterday, making it the biggest online shopping day ever. Online traffic for the day has not yet been reported, but the exact number …
Record Black Friday online spending no match for retail website performance
Thanksgiving weekend: the truest test of website preparation and performance an online retailer can expect to encounter. It is the culmination of months of strategizing and testing, of not only determining the most jaw-dropping deals, but of ensuring one’s web infrastructure is strong enough to withstand the barrage of shoppers lined up behind their monitors, index fingers poised, ready to …