Tag: Application Development

Mobile is Strategic

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November 27, 2015

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Misuse of mobile phones were so common that some people had to change their HR & Information Security policies to refrain from misuses.Initial days of mobile adoption focused on being able to call anyone at anytime and not having to be around a phone to be able to answer them.

However, the technology quickly made it feasible to do some useful and cool things using the mobile phones and today, they have taken over everything from generic communications to end user engagement as in marketing.

Mobile focused Marketing is touted as one of the highest focus zones for marketing today, that is because of the sheer number of access and continuous access.

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Top 5 DevOps… Development Operations

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October 8, 2015

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DevOps practices include the creation of a common process for the developer and operations teams; formation of teams to manage the end-to-end provisioning and practices for promotion and release; a focus on high fidelity between environments.We are discussing the top 5 key DevOps in-demand today.1. Application Development Life Cycle Management (ADLM)
This service is about application development & its life cycle management. We achieve this through a suite of technologies and practices that generally includes metadata integration, workflow and process management facilities. The services tie together the management of at least two stages of development, underlying change versions and configurations, and include the ability to customize the process flow of application development, integration and maintenance projects.

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5 Ingredients for a Successful Tech Start-up

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September 18, 2015

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Startups are popping up like mushrooms everyday, pretty much every startup has the same message.
“We are a startup, we are in search of funding…“How wonderful will it be to get funding… the startups that get funded are celebrities.

They do get exemplary treatments in the media circuits, suddenly they are news worthy materials.

Of course they could be having something very serious and sincere, disruptive to market kind of service, by way of addressing immediate business or social problem.

Whenever this happens, you will notice that several similar startups popup at every zone.

They even book similar names.

If FlipKart became famous, then there are so many others with names ending with the same old KART.

Not many among them succeed and the ones that do succeed have some very common points that can be traced as a pattern.

Here is a look at exactly five common aspects of successful start-up companies.

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Psychology of Software Product Development

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September 10, 2015

You know what would be boring…?

A lesson on psychology! So as to make the article interesting, let us progress with a story arc format consisting of the good, the bad and the funny side!

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The Good Side of the Story!

We have known people and have worked for people who understand nothing about technology, but have a defined domain knowledge or expertise or clarity of purpose to pursue use of technology to expand their skills to a global arena through automation made feasible by technology.

By automation, we are specifically talking about delivering value through use of software, rather than manual tasking.

Say for instance, an auditor who does auditing of major hospitals, food & beverage industries have found that the process could be optimized by use of an iPad type device that will carry the standardized forms for compliance regulation and works, just works! On both offline and online mode.

This simplification is a welcomed simplification; business needs efficiency, less paper work, more quality coverage and accuracy.

This forms the clarity of purpose behind the development of software product.

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Oh Woe Is Me! The Sad Tale of Failed Software Product Development

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January 31, 2013

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I met Emily at a recent IT conference. She was part of a panel discussing application and product development. Emily cautioned the audience about the perils of developing a software application for sale. Any packaged application vendor will tell you that developing a software product is not risk free. It is costly and can be disastrous. You need the right skills, processes, methodologies and oversight. Emily talked about her company’s experience and how they abandoned the project after years of work and a gargantuan budget overrun.

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