Making the most of your data can be difficult, especially with so many data repositories, data warehouses and other data storage locations. Whether you have a data warehouse or you are considering implementing a DWH, you need to think carefully about how to structure, organize and integrate data if you are to achieve your data management goals.
OK, I’ll admit it. Last week, I nearly got kicked out of a nice restaurant in the city. Why? Because my friend, Lucy was telling me about her company’s business decision to build a software product, and she said this, “Our team can handle it. We do application development all the time.” That statement was all it took to drive me over the edge. Call me crazy, but I have lived through enough so-called software product development projects to know that, without the right team and skill set, the project is doomed to fail. No, I am NOT being overly dramatic!
The client is located in India and has been in business for nearly thirty (30) years. Its core business is the rental of IT hardware and equipment and support services for that equipment. The client has seven locations across India and employs more than 200 team members supporting customers across India. The client wished to develop a new application to support a multi-tenant architecture and sell the application as a solution to other companies in the rental business. The existing application was not scalable, and it was missing core components and architecture to support multi-tenant use.
Whether your market is local or global, the business world is competitive and you can’t afford a misstep in the market. Technology is the underpinning of productivity and workflow, so if you are using software, you will need skilled software development and a service provider that can assist with integration, infrastructure support, and other technology initiatives. While your IT team may be very skilled, if your organization is like most, IT is sorely strained for resources and they are trying to do everything from producing custom reports to maintaining networks and hardware and creating custom apps that serve users.
I attended a conference where my colleagues were arguing over the benefits of hybrid, cross-platform mobile applications vs. true native mobile applications. For my part, I stayed silent and just listened. In my mind, there is no one right answer. The choice really depends on what you want to do and PLAN to do in the future, and on your performance requirements. Like many technology topics, there are way too many factors to consider for a short blog post like this one but a few things do come to mind.
If your organization has invested in a software application and that application is showing its age, you need to seriously consider software reengineering. While many companies think that application modernization services will take too long and cost too much money, you must consider the alternative. Business users and the IT team demand applications that are easy to maintain, easy-to-use and suitable for mobile devices. Every team member expects to use a software application that will make life easier (not an application that will frustrate them and handcuff them or prevent them from doing the best job possible, in a timely fashion).
In-house IT staffing provides dependable hardware, network, software and project support. But, when it comes to big data and cloud development services, it is often difficult to look to the internal IT team for support. Perhaps the skills required for big data implementation or cloud solutions and services are beyond your team or perhaps your organization simply lacks the resources and time to offer enough support to get the business up to standard and provide an appropriate level of competitive advantage in these new and rapidly changing markets.
I was thinking about this the other day. The concept of putting together a software, mobile application and technology environment in a business is rather like putting together a jigsaw puzzle. There are so many vendors, solutions, options and considerations!
The success of the iPhone is not a surprise! Apple has made it in indispensable part of nearly every life. The iPhone is definitely mainstream and with that popularity came the inevitable entry of small and large businesses to create an app for iPhone.
The client is a large, multi-service real estate business in New York in the United States. For over a quarter of a century, the client has provided services for real estate brokers in New York City. The client wished to employ the services of Elegant MicroWeb to provide software re-engineering, including design, development and User Experience (Ux) design, as well as performance improvement for its existing listings exchange system, and to convert this system to a multi-tenant solution to enable the client to quickly create brokerage company accounts and listings. The system transmits real-time inventory from one firm to another and supports nearly 500 firms, with approximately 10,000 daily listings exchanges.
