If your business is considering an advanced analytics solution, your IT and management team has probably already done some research and concluded that the concept of augmented analytics designed to support business users is the right way to go. To democratize data, improve dat...

If your business is focused on data-driven, fact-based decisions, your business users may be leveraging an analytics solution to gather, find and analyze data. Business goals include improving results and productivity, and getting the best results out of your data, as well as...

If you are trying to decide whether to use native mobile application development or a hybrid mobile application development approach for your project, there are numerous considerations and you will, of course, have to look closely at your business requirements. This article fo...

Digital Transformation (Dx) isn’t just the flavor of the month or a buzz term circulating in the business community. It is a reality and a crucial component of business success. One might ask what all the fuss is about. Technology consulting firm, Gartner predicts that, ‘Throu...

No matter the size of your business or in what industry your market is involved, the concept of analytics is more important today than ever before. Businesses competing locally or on a global scale are all engaged in market competition and, in order to grow and succeed, every...

According to a Statista survey mobile apps are projected to generate more than $935 billion US dollars in 2023. The market shows no sign of choosing between iOS and Android so any mobile application development you consider will likely be best designed as a hybrid mobile appli...

Gartner predicts that ‘… augmented analytics will be ubiquitous, but only 10% of users will use it to its full potential.’ One of the primary reasons that augmented analytics is not adopted and leveraged to its full capacity is that the business chooses a solution that is not...

You hear it every day of your life. "Experience counts." With experience comes valuable knowledge and, presumably, a history of what works, what has been tried, and how to navigate life and business. But, there is a growing phenomenon in the IT community, one that challenges t...

If your business is ready to implement a BI tool and augmented analytics solution, there are some things you will need to do first. If you plan correctly, you will enjoy a successful implementation. If you do not perform an assessment, understand your requirements and choose t...

By some estimates, the PHP development environment is used in more than three million websites, and more than a million of those are in the United States. If your business is considering PHP as a development option, there are many good reasons to do so. As always, it is a good...

Gartner predicted that ‘…data preparation will be utilized in more than 70% of new data integration projects for analytics and data science.’ If your business is not already including this approach in analytics and decision-making, it is missing a crucial link to success. Self...

A recent survey found that 93% of application teams report improvement in user experience as a result of embedded analytics, and 94% of teams report improved customer satisfaction with embedded analytics. The concept of embedded BI is simple. By leveraging APIs, the augmented...

If your business wants to generate more revenue and increase its customer reach, it may be considering a mobile application project. When it comes to Native mobile apps, there are many considerations but, if your business wants to focus solely on an Apple iPhone app developmen...

When a business engages the services of a software development partner to build a custom ERP software application, there are many factors that inform the success of the project. Understanding your requirements is just the beginning. As your business interviews and considers pr...

When a business launches a mobile application project, it must decide how available development platforms will help it achieve its goals. What is their target market? What kind of application have they conceived and what kinds of devices will it need to satisfy in order to be...

If your business is ready to engage an IT Staff Augmentation Partner, you have already decided you need and want help. Whether your enterprise wants support for a one-time software application development project, ongoing support for enterprise systems or trained expertise in...

If your business is trying to decide whether to launch a Digital Transformation initiative, you may be wondering how this effort will affect your team members. Will your team perceive this effort as adding work to their already heavy workload, or resent having to learn new sys...

When your business puts its trust in an IT consulting partner or offshore software development vendor, it must ensure that the service provider has the skills and knowledge to execute the project – from concept to deployment and beyond with support, maintenance, upgrades and g...

As more businesses focus on iPhone mobile application development, in-house IT teams, IT consultants and iPhone development experts look to the wealth of tools available to create iPhone video applications, audio, GIS, GPS, email, calendar, enterprise application, social netwo...

There are many reasons a business might choose Shopify eCommerce for your business needs. The Shopify Development environment offers many benefits to a business and many benefits to eCommerce developers. In previous articles, entitled, ‘4 Things That Make Shopify a Popular eCo...

No one development environment is right for every software development project. The Apache Development environment provides numerous benefits for many types of projects. In our previous article, entitled, ‘Four Important Advantages of Apache Spark’, we discuss some important a...

Businesses have many needs, not the least of which is technology. Whether the organization is trying to satisfy internal business user requirements, senior executive requirements, internal IT requirements, customer technology requirements or requirements related to collaborati...

In our previous article, entitled, ‘The Four Components of the MEAN Stack Framework Streamline and Integrate the Development Environment’, we detailed each of the components of the MEAN Stack framework and how each component contributes to the overall, comprehensive nature of...

In our previous article, entitled, ‘Six Great Applications for the Angular Approach to Development’, we provided a number of ideas for the Angular approach to software development. There are certainly many more ways in which a business or a software developer might use Angular...

Liferay Content Management Systems (CMS) has been around a long time and it is very popular as a CMS solution for numerous types of industries, businesses and functions. As with any good software solution, upgrades are the lifeblood of the business and keep customers coming ba...

If your business is considering a hybrid mobile application project, the concept of cross-platform mobile application development may seem daunting but it need not be. In this article, we will first summarize the various ways a business can conceptualize cross-platform hybrid...

The mobile application market is bigger and provides more opportunities than ever before and its potential is nearly limitless! As businesses line up to create and sell mobile applications, they strive to avoid missteps. It is imperative to choose the right foundation for your...

Oh the woes of an Android owner. There are so many iPhone devices out there now that, even the impressive growth of the Android market seems to be overshadowed by the iPhone owner and developer base. But, that should not discourage a business, an IT consultant or a developer....

Your business has decided to create a mobile application for the market and you are wondering which platform to use. You have a lot riding on the success of this product and it seems logical to put your money on the iPhone environment and on iPhone application development, if...

Spark is a distributed open-source cluster-computing framework and includes an interface for programming a full suite of clusters with comprehensive fault tolerance and support for data parallelism. Spark can be used effectively to provide support for Java, Scala, Python and R...