Blogs

On January 28, 2021 we had our second Table Talks on How to Make the Most of the Zuora Central Sandbox hosted by the Zuora Community with Kenta Tomura Sr. Solutions Architect Caleb Saunders, Sr. Customer Success Architect Andrew Keith, Sr. Application Support Engineer Matt Colangelo, Sr. Customer Success Manager Our AM and PM sessions followed our Zuora Central Sandbox Webcast on January 26th and they were geared towards answering customer questions in an interactive settings. Below is our presentation, recordings, and questions. Learn More View Presentation [Playlist] How to ...

At our November 7th Table Talk, we were joined by product managers Aparna Unnithan, Prachi Bhatia, and Karn Singh who gave an overview of Application Lifecycle Management and best practices to CI/CD. Part of our deploy-faster initiative is investing in a full suite of tools to help your IT team to improve testing and deployment agility: Application Lifecycle Management Data Management Tenant Management Support Management Application Lifecycle Management Watch Video Application Lifecycle Managemen t allows you to manage your users, data, and environments to ensure testing agility and ease of deployments.Part ...

Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) is important. It helps organizations manage the process of developing, deploying, and maintaining software applications. Having a clear process and strategy will help you increase the quality of your deliverables as it makes sure that all stakeholders are on the same page throughout the entire lifecycle of the application. ALM ensures that the application is delivered on time, within budget, and with the desired quality. Additionally, it helps identify and address potential issues early on, which can help to minimize the impact of those issues on the project. In this Table Talk, Technical Sales Specialist @Cor Slegers ...

On November 15th, we were joined by Zuora product speakers @Cor Slegers , @Aparna Unnithan , and @Kenta Tomura where they demonstrated Zuora’s system health dashboards including: APIs Dashboard Bill Run Dashboard Payments Dashboard Workflow Dashboard HPM Dashboard - presentation only Other dashboards like Data Query, Notifications, Presentments, Tax integration, Usage, etc. - presentation only The team walked through each dashboard and shared guidelines on how to turn the insights into actions. If you missed the session, please check out the presentation and video below. Learn More View Presentation From ...

The ability to process big jobs quickly helps our customers realize some pretty audacious goals even during peak traffic periods. On July 14th, the Community hosted a Table Talk with @Kenta Tomura , Senior Manager of Product Strategy where he discussed several factors that could affect Zuora performance and introduced Zuora’s Performance Booster which increases your ability to scale internal operations at peak periods with Zuora’s Parallel Processing Engine. Three of the most contributing factors to Zuora performance issues involve bill and payment runs and API Concurrency. Bill and Payment Run Performance Bill run performance is affected ...

On April 27th, Zuora Community hosted a Table Talk on Central Sandbox Best Practices which included an introduction to Central Sandbox with best practice sharing and a discussion of how to choose which Sandbox to use (API or Central) to complement your environment strategy. The Table Talk also included demos of recently released capabilities for self-service refresh dashboard of Central Sandbox and Deployment Manager. Both of these capabilities continue to deliver on our commitment to improve overall experience for our technical users by: providing an easier, on-demand option to refresh production data in Central Sandbox without submitting ...