Grant-making organizations are constantly looking for ways to improve their workflows and outcomes. Many organizations use software products like Fluxx to organize their grant award processes with mixed results. While these products are useful, they often lack reporting functions that can provide a more complete view of the organization's grants and where they stand in the process. That's where Moser Data and Analytics experts come in. Our experts can connect your grant-making software data with data from other sources, including survey results, human resources software, accounting software, and more. The results are far-reaching, and will help to optimize your business processes, save time, identify biases, and provide centralized data and reporting. 

I thought this was going to be the usual type of testing-related webinar. You know, the ones where the talk on the topic is a vehicle for pitching a testing tool? This time was different though, not in the format or the presentation, but in the claims the presenter was making. At one point she said “This tool doesn’t just automate your manual test cases, it writes them for you.” I have heard a hundred times about test automation tools that claimed to eliminate manual testing, but never had someone said that their tool could terminate the tester too!  Well, maybe that’s an exaggeration, the elimination of human beings was never claimed specifically, but it sure sounded like it.

In today’s dynamic business world, companies need technology support services that enable them to scale quickly, respond to market trends, and stay competitive. Moser Consulting has several departments that provide various technology solutions to businesses, with one of their divisions being the Core Technology Services Division. One department within this division offers professional technical services for short to midterm projects and staff augmentation for long-term projects. We will delve into this department's offerings and explore the potential growth areas where it can be an asset to businesses.

Digital equity helps to ensure all individuals and communities have the information technology capacity needed for full participation in our society, democracy, and economy. Meanwhile, accessibility refers to the practice of ensuring that products, services, information, and technologies are designed and implemented in a way that allows all individuals to access and use them with equal ease and effectiveness. It involves removing obstacles and providing accommodations to ensure inclusivity, making sure that everyone, regardless of their situation or abilities, can participate fully and independently in our digital world.

A virtual private network, or VPN, is an encrypted connection over the Internet from a device to a network. The encrypted connection helps ensure that sensitive data is safely transmitted. It prevents unauthorized people from eavesdropping on the traffic and allows the user to conduct work remotely.

Running a successful business requires more than just passion and drive. It is crucial to have a clear understanding of your organization's strengths, weaknesses, and opportunities to make informed decisions that help achieve long-term success. This is where business analysis and technical writing come in. By partnering with Moser Consulting, businesses can leverage the expertise of experienced business analysts who can help identify areas for improvement, streamline operations, and drive growth. In this blog post, we will discuss the benefits of business analysis and technical writing and why it is essential for businesses to consider these services.

In today's world, a company's success largely depends on its ability to provide its employees and users with a seamless, engaging, and efficient experience. A good user experience (UX) can make or break a company's success. This is why UX teams have become increasingly important for businesses of all sizes. 

Tutorial on how to create a web application on Streamlit using Snowflake and Python.

Snowflake's mission revolves around making data accessible, usable, and valuable to everyone. One of the pillars that have made Snowflake an industry leader is its unwavering commitment to being easy to use and turnkey.

The realm of data and analytics has been undergoing a profound transformation in recent years, and at the core of this revolution lies Artificial Intelligence (AI). AI's ability to process massive amounts of data at unprecedented speeds and uncover valuable insights has reshaped industries and accelerated progress across the globe. In this blog post, we explore how AI is taking over data and analytics, revolutionizing the way we gather, interpret, and utilize information.

One of the primary ways AI is revolutionizing data and analytics is through its advanced data collection capabilities. Traditionally, data collection was a time-consuming and labor-intensive process, but with AI-powered tools, data can now be gathered more efficiently, accurately, and in real-time.

As data-leveraging tools grow more powerful than ever, so has our desire for quick and convenient access to insights. Tableau’s mobile layout feature allows users to quickly reference the data they need regardless of circumstance. Read along for several tips to seamlessly convert your existing Tableau dashboards to a mobile layout in a way that is digestible and powerful for your audience.

The digital landscape of today presents a multitude of data handling platforms and processes, requiring diverse expertise. It's become clear that understanding the division of roles is critical, particularly the distinction between Data Engineers and Database Administrators (DBAs).

Usability testing is a crucial step in designing any product or application. For our team developing Clear Path , designing the usability tests was a very important part of the process. Since our Jira app was a new application being developed from scratch, there is even more of a need to understand the user experience and improvements that can be made based on user feedback. Before conducting the tests, designing the usability test is equally important to ensure you are receiving the information that would help make your product better.

When first designing our usability test script, there was discussion about whether to use a usability test or user acceptance test (UAT). Although these types of tests are used interchangeably, they have differences that need to be considered. Being a new app, it was a question for our team on whether to do usability testing or user acceptance testing. So, what is the difference between these two types of tests?

Technology has become a central part of modern life. With that has come the availability of Big Data. This blog will explore what Big Data is, where it comes from, how it is used, and why it is important to utilize.

How would a social media app know a user’s google authentication information? After all, google is a separate software and its data is stored separately from that of other applications. The answer is an Application Program Interface (API). APIs are a set of rules and protocols that allow different software programs to communicate and share data. APIs are critical to software and hardware development. In fact, the mouse and keyboard you are using to navigate this blog post are working correctly because of a well-defined API. It’s important for developers and users alike to understand how their various applications work together seamlessly.

In a world increasingly reliant on digital information, the ability to harness and interpret your data is a crucial aspect of maintaining a competitive edge. This is where Honeycomb Analytics comes in. We provide a comprehensive solution designed to centralize your data into a usable and reliable platform, providing analytics at your fingertips. Our system is designed to decrease the time to value for clients who need consumable data more than complex platforms and integrations. Harness the power of data analytics technology to make informed decisions quickly and modernize your business approach with a data-oriented strategy for success. New insights can be found in even the most familiar places, and these insights might be the key to your business staying ahead in today's fast-paced markets.

You have two choices for building the user interface for your Forge app – the UI kit, and custom UI. The UI kit allows you to create a straightforward UI using a set of Atlassian-supplied components, put together using relatively simple code. Custom UI gives you more room to use Atlassian-supplied and third-party hooks, components and such, while also allowing you to employ more complex HTML, CSS, static resources (such as images) and source code, all of which can be hosted in Atlassian’s cloud with custom UI but not the UI kit. Both types of UI involve writing code in a React-like pattern, which makes sense in that various components available from Atlassian are based on React.

In a prior installment of this blog [1], we discussed getting your Forge app up and running in a "Hello, World!" way on a test Atlassian instance. Now, perhaps your company has an Atlassian instance that employees use daily, and you'd like to test your Forge app in the real world by installing it on that instance. Another scenario is that you’re now ready to have customers for your app, so you need to distribute it to them.

Forge is Atlassian’s next-generation framework for building apps that integrate with Confluence, Jira, or Jira Service Management. Forge provides Web UI elements, APIs and deployment environments that enable developers to create fully-featured apps within Atlassian’s cloud infrastructure through the use of JavaScript, HTML, CSS and other Web technologies. Forge apps can be distributed via the Atlassian Marketplace as software to which any Atlassian Cloud customer can subscribe.

In today’s growing technological world, it is important to have effective project management tools for companies to achieve their development goals. Jira is a powerful project management tool that aims to streamline workflows and improve collaboration. Taking this with the variety of different business and industries Jira clients are in, there can be a desire to customize capabilities to their needs. Our team at Moser decided to create a custom tool to develop clear work paths for project management, as well as visually see the dependencies and path to completion for Jira tickets. The tool “Clear Path for Jira” started out as an idea, and then turned into a working tool that Jira users can use today.