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GCP – Processing W2 & Payslips is now even simpler with Document AI
Documents like payslips and W2s are crucial to processes such as employment and income verification for mortgage loans, personal loans, personal finance, and benefits processing. Unfortunately, efficiently extracting data from these documents at scale can be challenging and time-consuming, with many organizations relying on manual examination of documents or automated approaches that don’t adequately capture […]

GCP – Announcing the GA of BigQuery multi-statement transactions
Transactions are mission critical for modern enterprises supporting payments, logistics, and a multitude of business operations. And in today’s modern analytics-first and data-driven era, the need for the reliable processing of complex transactions extends beyond just the traditional OLTP database; today businesses also have to trust that their analytics environments are processing transactional data in […]

GCP – Secure your life sciences data from the ground up
With the rapid growth in the quantity of healthcare data available, organizations are able to unlock deeper insights, advance innovation, and increase experimentation. The sector is now in a position to take advantage of cloud technology to accelerate clinical trials, expand research and development, and optimize supply chains. However, more sensitive patient data comes with […]

GCP – CISO Survival Guide: Vital questions to help guide transformation success
Part of being a security leader whose organization is taking on a digital transformation is preparing for hard questions – and complex answers – on how to implement a transformation strategy. In our previous CISO Survival Guide blog, we discussed how financial services organizations can more securely move to the cloud. We examined how to […]

GCP – Seamlessly export Pub/Sub Lite messages to Pub/Sub
Connecting one messaging system to another messaging system can be difficult. While many options exist, such as managed connectors, DIY connectors, and Dataflow jobs, we’re always exploring ways to make moving data even simpler. Today, the Pub/Sub Lite team is excited to introduce export subscriptions that can write messages from a Lite topic directly to […]

GCP – Accelerate integrated Salesforce insights with Google Cloud Cortex Framework
Enterprises across the globe rely on a number of strategic independent software vendors like Salesforce, SAP and others to help them run their operations and business processes. Now more than ever, the need to sense and respond to new and changing business demands has increased and the availability of data from these platforms is integral […]

GCP – Collaborating effectively in government with Google Workspace
Organizations that cultivate meaningful collaboration can critically impact employee retention and morale. Google Workspace was designed to connect people so they can create, build, and grow together. Workspace allows employees to shift their time and attention to the things that matter most, boosting their productivity by 14%. Just ask Lynn Martin, who recently emphasized that […]

GCP – Hierarchical Firewall Policy Automation with Terraform
Firewall rules are an essential component of network security in Google Cloud. Firewalls in Google Cloud can broadly be categorized into two types; Network Firewall Policies and Hierarchical Firewall Policies. While Network Firewalls are directly associated with a VPC to allow/deny the traffic, Hierarchical Firewalls can be thought of as the policy engine to use […]

GCP – Two networking patterns for secure intra-cloud access – Networking Architecture
In a previous article 6 building blocks for cloud networking, we discussed an easy to remember breakdown of cloud networking. This model is made up of network connectivity, network security, service networking, service security, content delivery and observability. In this article we would be looking at 2 simple networking methods for secure intra-cloud access. The […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling now forecasts frequently for more accurate predictive scaling
Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling now produces predictive scaling policy forecasts 4x per day, up from 1x per day prior to now. Reducing our forecast interval from 24 hours to 6 hours produces more accurate predictive scaling policies that quickly adapt to changing demand trends. All customers will benefit from this new default for predictive scaling. […]