3 Reasons to Develop an iPhone Mobile Application for Business!

If you are considering developing a business application to make your team members more productive, to share data and information while employees are out of the office or to complement and engender workflow or process improvements, there are a lot of reasons to choose the iPhone environment for your mobile application. In this article, we look at three reasons a business should consider iPhone as the primary platform for its mobile application development.

Data Engineering, DWH and ETL: Elements for Success!

Manage Your Data with DWH and ETL to Build Knowledge and Engender Success!

It is a sad fact, but it’s true. Poorly structured, badly maintained data is useless to a business. Imagine spending all day, every day adding critical information to your business knowledge library and not being able to access the data in a meaningful way. That is the unfortunate truth for many organizations.

4 Things That Make Shopify a Popular eCommerce Platform for Developers and Businesses!

If you are an eCommerce developer, you probably know most of the popular products and work with solutions like BigCommerce, Magento, Volusion and others to develop and deliver software and websites that meet your client requirements. Among the solutions growing in popularity is the Shopify eCommerce offering. In this article, we look at four things that make Shopify a popular eCommerce platform for developers and businesses.

3 Reasons to Use Apache Spark!

If you are a developer, contemplating a software development project that must support Big Data, a large user base and/or multiple locations, Apache Spark should definitely be on your short list of considerations for a computing framework. In this article, we look at three reasons you should use Apache Spark in your Big Data projects.

Self-Serve Data Preparation Prepares You for the Future!

Don’t Be Afraid of Self-Serve Data Preparation! It’s Easy. You Can Do It!

Oh, the mysterious world of data preparation! It is daunting and confusing and…wait, no! It doesn’t have to be. If you aren’t employed as an IT professional, a business analyst or a data scientist, you probably see this arena as confusing and intimidating and you probably want nothing to do with data preparation. BUT, when you need a report, or you have to provide a recommendation to your boss in a staff meeting, you desperately need that data and that analysis, don’t you?

2 Examples of Projects that Leverage Java and JSON for Web Services!

Java has some amazingly simple tools to make a developer’s life easier. One such tool is the JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) open standard file format and data interchange format. It leverages standard text to store and transfer data objects and makes it significantly easier to build Web Services solutions. It can be leveraged in any language including Java, PHP, .NET, etc. It is easy to read and write and easy to parse and generate data and it is a popular data-interchange language for developers around the world. In this article, we look at two specific web services projects utilizing JSON to build the foundation for business solutions.

How Do I Improve Results for My Small eCommerce Business?

Small eCommerce Businesses Can Improve Results with Analytics!

If you are a business owner with an eCommerce or online shopping site, you probably spend a lot of time trying to understand your business results. There are numerous surveys that address the market and the activity in online shopping. Regardless of which survey you read, you are probably surprised to know that more than 2 billion people shop online. But, those numbers don’t tell the whole story. It is also important to understand that people will often check prices online while they are standing in a retail store just to see if they can find something at a better price. So, they don’t always buy your services or products just because they visit your site. And, you are probably not surprised to know that your competition is growing every day. You know that better than anyone.