When you are contemplating a new software product development project or a software application development initiative, your team may benefit from expert IT consulting. There are many considerations and decisions to be made to successfully execute this type of project and one of them involves the type of technology, architecture, development frameworks and tools you will use to best meet your requirements.
If your business is trying to achieve Digital Transformation, you know how challenging the initiative can be. Digital Transformation (aka Dx) is focused on improving the business by capitalizing on technology and software solutions to increase effectiveness, productivity, collaboration and time to market. If planned and executed properly, it helps the business to achieve agility, improve customer satisfaction and increase scalability as the business changes and grows.
If you have an idea for a mobile application, you have to decide whether to create the app for Android or Apple devices…or do you? Today, every successful business or consumer app is designed to operate on iOS and Android devices and it is easy to understand why. Both operating systems are popular, and Android, Apple Phones, iPads and Smart Watches all represent growing markets for business and consumer apps. Users do not want to be constrained by single platform choices. They might, in fact, have both types of devices and use them in the office or at home. SO, if you are going to design a new mobile application, you will want to plan on hybrid mobile application development.
Trust me, I get it! The need for expert, experienced software application developers is constant, and in this rapidly changing technology environment, it is sometimes difficult to sustain cutting-edge IT skills and provide expert resources to accommodate the changing and growing needs of the organization. In order to meet business requirements, an enterprise must maintain a balanced, skilled IT team to enhance and support the business with innovative, high-value, low-cost applications development, and maintenance and support services, backed by timely, proven processes and methodologies.
If you have a small or medium sized business, and your team has some great ideas for software applications, or software products, software re-engineering, user experience design, or maybe even a mobile application, it is understandable that you would be frustrated! If you have an in-house IT staff, they are nearly always swimming against the tide. There is too much to do and too few resources and you may not have the skill set or training to tackle these types of products. But, IT consulting and expertise is costly, right?
PHP is a powerful tool for software application and software product development. It is a popular development language and, as such, a business considering a software development project has access to many skilled developers and those developers have access to a rich community of developers to provide feedback and counsel and a myriad of tools designed for PHP development to streamline and improve the development process.
As Gartner says, Digital Transformation is ‘the changes associated with digital technology application and integration into all aspects of human life and society. It is the move from the physical to digital’.
I recently spoke to a friend who was grappling with a real problem. She had just come from a staff meeting where senior executives announced their intention to create a business application for sale to the market. Senior management was quite excited about the opportunity but all my friend could see were problems. The idea itself was great but the execution would definitely be an issue. The existing internal IT staff did not have the time, the resources or the skills to get the job done but my friend knew she would have to find a way.
There is nothing more damaging to a business than the inability to leverage great, innovative ideas to improve services, increase revenue and enhance positive market visibility. Often, these shortcomings are due to resource or skills limitations, and when it comes to software development, mobile application development and software product development ideas, these resource and skills limitations are very common.
Technology moves quickly and change can leave your business behind if you are not ready to embrace the brave new world of opportunity. Concepts like Big Data and the Cloud are widely discussed in business periodicals and at conferences and, while your company may be willing to jump in with both feet, your team may not have a clue how to start. That’s where the experts come in.
