by Impact Makers | Aug 20, 2019 | Advisory / Strategy, Data & Analytics
By Kevin Cox, AWS SAA, CCSK Lead Consultant, Impact Makers Existing Monitoring Systems There are hundreds of monitoring products in the marketplace that cover monitoring from enterprise scale to small and medium businesses. How can a monitoring system help your team?... 
by Impact Makers | Jun 27, 2019 | Data & Analytics
By Kevin Cox, AWS SAA, CCSK Lead Consultant, Impact Makers The typical process of patching on-premise systems Most IT environments have a requirement to keep systems up to date on vendor patches. Typically, in on-premise environments there are dedicated systems that... 
by Impact Makers | May 15, 2019 | Advisory / Strategy, Data & Analytics
By Kevin Cox, AWS SAA, CCSK Lead Consultant, Impact Makers What is technical debt? The term “technical debt” originated from Ward Cunningham, one of the authors of the Agile Manifesto. He once said that some problems with code are like financial debt. Technical debt... 
by Impact Makers | May 8, 2019 | Company
We at Impact Makers are reflecting on the memories of our long-time colleague and friend Katy Dynes. We are grateful to have spent time with Katy, who was a driving force behind our mission and culture since 2011. The impact that Katy made in her lifetime was... 
by Impact Makers | May 1, 2019 | Data & Analytics, Risk
By Suresh Gowda, ICP-ACC, CSM, CSPO, SPC4, AWS-CSA-Associate Senior Consultant, Impact Makers How to quickly recover from services outages Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), microservices, and cloud best practices can result in the creation of loosely coupled... 
by Impact Makers | Apr 3, 2019 | Data & Analytics
What is Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC)? Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) is the practice of defining templates that can be used to provision technology infrastructure to support software and applications. Traditionally, physical hardware configuration of network... 
by Impact Makers | Mar 27, 2019 | Advisory / Strategy, Company
Impact Makers recently hosted Capital Kanban’s “The Art of Agile: The Art of War Interpreted with an Agile Lens” with a fantastic turnout. Speaker Megan Windle, a Certified Agile Coach and Certified Scrum Master (CSM), compared the ideas in Sun... 
by Impact Makers | Feb 19, 2019 | Company
Impact Makers is very excited to announce that we recently achieved Advanced Consulting Partner status with Amazon Web Services (AWS). For reference, AWS is a cloud computing platform that offers over 100 services, and the Amazon Partner Network (APN) is a global... 
by Impact Makers | Jan 30, 2019 | Data & Analytics
Master data represents some of the most valuable information shared across an organization such as customer, vendor, product, and employee data. It tends to be static and non-transactional in nature, meaning it doesn’t change very often. Master data may also include... 
by Impact Makers | Jan 16, 2019 | Automation, Financial Services, Healthcare
Robotic Process Automation – using bots instead of associates to perform processing tasks – can be an effective way to increase speed and accuracy while redeploying associates on higher-value processes and projects. RPA implementations are commonplace across financial...