There are many reasons to engage an IT consultant and employ IT staff augmentation and there are many benefits when it is done right. Businesses can quickly scale up and down to accommodate a project or meet a need. They can engage talent with specific skills and training to meet the requirements of their current and future business landscape. The business can mitigate the cost of training to keep IT skills current, and ensure staffing flexibility to fill in the gaps in a project team or for ongoing support, and it can accommodate its budget with the right experience, training and skills at an affordable cost. In this article, we discuss four areas of caution and attention your business must consider before engaging a partner for IT staff augmentation.
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Sometimes it is hard to ignore the distractions that threaten to take you off course and scuttle your business success. One such distraction happens when we give in to temptation and reach for more customers or new customers without regard for the fact that these customers are not a good fit for our products, our services, our team or our phase of growth.
Whether your internal IT team is going to tackle your software application development project, or you intend to engage an IT consultant to complete your project, your project plan should include all necessary components and considerations if it is to succeed. In this article, we discuss three areas that are often underfunded, under-resourced or receive less than appropriate attention in the project lifecycle.
CMS Development: Not Flashy, But a Necessary Component for Success!
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.
Is Predictive Analytics Real or Does it Promise More Than it Delivers?
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.
Software Product Development Can Be Daunting! Engage Experts to Ensure Success!
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.
Business Users Don’t Have to Be Data Scientists (But Basic Knowledge is Great)
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.
