When a business conceives a software application or a web presence, it is often more concerned with what the user or site visitors sees on the front-end. It must be appealing and attractive. But, the real magic happens behind the scenes and without good content management, what the visitor sees may be incomplete, inappropriate for their needs or badly organized.
Software product development is no small project! In order to be successful, the business needs more than an idea. Execution of that concept and the technical, quality, leadership and support skills and experience of a prospective IT partner are paramount. Any prospective IT consulting partner must have experience in developing a software product for market. In this article, we discuss five critical areas of consideration when selecting a software product development partner.
Why would anyone want or need to use predictive analytics? What good is forecasting anyway? Doesn’t it always end up being wrong? Well, no! That’s why wise businesses use these techniques to plan and forecast and to understand how a change they are considering might impact their business success. Nearly every organization today is using analytics to improve productivity, competitive positioning, market presence, financial investment strategies, price point planning, risk mitigation and many other business factors.
When a business undertakes the development of a software product, it has a significant risk of failure. Without the right training, skills and resources, the business can spend a lot of time and money and end up with a product that may damage its market reputation or, worse yet, never be launched.
When you launch an analytics solution within your enterprise, you are probably concerned about getting your business users to adopt that solution. If you can’t engage the business user and achieve user adoption, your return on investment (ROI) will be poor! But, it is important to understand that the right augmented analytics solution can provide the structure and foundation for business users without requiring them to have a sophisticated knowledge of algorithms and analytical techniques.
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When considered within the brief but dynamic history of technology, Java is old-school. It has been around a long time and has worked to keep pace with the market and the needs of the users, as well as the evolving landscape of technology. Here we discuss four highlights of the Java universe and the benefits and uses of these tools.
The Client is start up business in Australia. The focus of the Client business is to provide a service to align the needs of those who own parking lots or spaces with individuals, drivers or businesses that require a parking space or spaces and align the needs of the parking owners and the drivers so that paid parking can be made easier for individuals, businesses and private parking operators.
The Elegant MicroWeb team worked with the Client team to achieve the start-up vision with a mobile solution that would connect parking lot and parking space owners with drivers and individuals looking for a parking space and allow for an easy search, booking, profile management and payment for drivers and reporting, management of spaces and availability for parking lot and space owners and more. This solution is designed to save time, money and effort for space and lot owners and to enable drivers to more easily locate, reserve and pay for parking on a one-time or ongoing basis to optimize the driver parking search and help the city to reduce congestion.
As an in-house IT manager, a CIO, a CTO or a business professional, you may already have grasped the critical need for additional help on an IT project – whether it is ongoing assistance or help for a standalone project. You see the full picture. You know your IT team is overwhelmed, you know their skill set and you know you can’t get the job done with the existing knowledge and resources you have. You also understand the importance of getting that job done quickly and effectively.
You started your business with high hopes and you find that you have more ideas and more plans for expansion and growth than you can handle with your existing skills and team members. If you are a start-up or an entrepreneur and find yourself in a constant state of creation with little to no resources to make your dreams a reality, you might want to consider a technology partner.
