GetSmarter

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Denodo customer presentation by Gerhard Lennox, Senior Data Engineer, 2U.

As GetSmarter’s online education system encountered rapid growth, the management team wanted faster deployment and announcements of their newer features and services. In response to that, GetSmarter IT created many microservices targeting business contexts or entities such as enrollment, registration, student portal, user interface, payments, billing, and communications. GetSmarter needed a way to accommodate the many-to-many reporting tool and avoid having to manage multiple database connections. The company needed a solution that would de-clutter the microservice based data architecture and...

Working Together, These Two Technologies Enable Digital TransformationAt the heart of any digital transformation, no matter the industry or the size of the company, there is an API strategy. Application programming interfaces (APIs) are the connection points between one application and another, and as such, they enable applications to build on each other, extend each other, and work with each other. Taken together, APIs represent a thriving ecosystem of developers that is showing no sign of slowing down.

Schoeman Loubser, Information Architect, GetSmarter presents how GetSmarter are using microservices to improve their business intelligence.