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Case Study: Elegant MicroWeb Forges a Partnership with UK Digital Agency for Offshore Development and Support

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December 1, 2020

The Client Partner is a digital agency based in the United Kingdom. This long-standing business provides branding and digital solutions. Their core strength provides market differentiation with branding and print solutions. The Client team includes creative designers with graphic and web design skills. The business offers services including website, software, and web application development.

What began as a single project scope has expanded and deepened into a meaningful, seamless partnership between the Client and the Elegant MicroWeb team that has lasted more than five years and continues to grow with rich collaboration and a tandem team approach to planning, design, development and deployment. This partnership ensures seamless, comprehensive support for end-users of Client services and products and produces innovative, world-class solutions.

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Advanced Analytics for Business Users = Augmented Analytics!

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December 1, 2020

Augmented Analytics is Designed for Business Users So Analytics is Easy for All!

When a business decides to undertake a data democratization and data literacy initiative, it is important to recognize that not all advanced analytics solutions are created equal. Business users who are expected to take on the task of analytics, will need an augmented analytics solution that can support their needs. They aren’t data scientists. They aren’t business analysts. They are business professionals who will want to use an analytics solution that can give them sophisticated output and information. It has to be easy enough to use without the need for assistance by IT or data scientists and it has to be a solution that can be personalized to produce reports and analytics that are easy for each user to leverage to make decisions, solve problems and identify opportunities.

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Why the User Experience (Ux) is SO Important!

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November 30, 2020

The Sad Story of Jill’s User Experience Conundrum!

My friend Jill was complaining about her software application development project. She hired a team of developers and, as the project progressed, she realized that the app was not what she had hoped. The problem? The software user experience or, as we like to call it in the technology business: the Ux. The user experience is driven by the user interface design and should ideally, be intuitive and easy to follow so that users can browse, find what they need and, if appropriate to the business model, buy products or services.

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Software Testing and Quality Processes Are Important!

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November 26, 2020

Testing and a Quality Approach to Software Development is Key to Success!

Many businesses find it challenging to deliver Enterprise Software Services, software product or application development projects on time. They struggle to deliver high quality products and services to the market, partners and customers and usually exceed project timelines and budgets.

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What Are Citizen Data Scientists and Can They Improve the Quality of Business Intelligence?

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November 25, 2020

What Are Citizen Data Scientists?

Citizen Data Scientists represent a new breed of business analysts – a group of individuals with diverse business responsibilities and training, who wield sophisticated analytical tools, and employ complex methods of analysis to improve business results – all without the training or assistance of data scientists or IT team members. Citizen Data Scientists are business users who leverage the knowledge and skill they have developed through professional training and business roles to navigate business intelligence and advanced analytical tools to answer business questions, identify trends and patterns and develop new competitive strategies to support business decisions.

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Case Study: Property Assessment and Water Management Software Solution for a Smart City in India

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November 24, 2020

The Client is one of several smart cities identified within the urban municipalities in India. Smart Cities focus on prioritizing pressing needs and identify the greatest opportunities to improve living conditions. As a smart city, the Client organization uses a range of approaches to achieve its goals including digital and information technologies, urban planning best practices, public-private partnerships, and policy changes.

The Elegant MicroWeb team collaborated with the Client team to develop a comprehensive understanding of requirements, workflow and processes and to define a database design and architecture to meet these requirements. Using the Agile Development Methodology, the Elegant MicroWeb team developed modules as part of an ERP system and implemented these modules, working with users to deploy, train and support in a way that was most meaningful to the user base in a particular role or location. The resulting application provides a centralized view of all core activities and processes and allows for advanced reporting for units and teams, optimizing resources and ensuring productivity while alleviating the manual management and reporting processes previously in place.

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Self-Serve Data Preparation: It Really IS for You!

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November 23, 2020

Please Don’t Make Me Think About It: Self-Serve Data Prep Really IS for Everyone!

If you are an average business professional, your eyes probably roll back in your head when you hear terms like data preparation, data extraction, transformation and loading, otherwise known as ETL, or any other term that makes you think of a pile of rubble you have to sift through to find what you need. How and why would you ever want to dive into that pile?

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Get the Right BI Tools and Make Business Users Happy!

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November 19, 2020

Want to Improve Data Literacy and Data Democratization? Use the Right BI Tools!

When you want to democratize data and help your business users function at a higher level; when you want to improve the quality of decisions; when you want to optimize the analytical and data scientist resources you have and make them more productive, you have to look at the business intelligence solutions that are designed to support every team member. Most of your team members are professionals with specific knowledge and that knowledge should be giving you a market advantage and should be dedicated to doing the job and filling the role you need the team member to fill.

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Work with the Experts to Create Your Software Product!

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November 12, 2020

Software Product Development Isn’t Like Any Other Software Development!

If you have a great idea for a software product and you want to take that idea to market to generate revenue and increase your business visibility, the first thing you need to understand is this: Software Product Development is not the same as software or application development. Oh, sure, there are many of the same steps involved, but there are many differences as well.

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Be Sure You Support Your Citizen Data Scientists!

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November 9, 2020

Getting Started on the Citizen Data Scientist Path!

If you follow technology publications and predictions, you know that Citizen Data Scientists are the big news for business. By transforming business users into Citizen Data Scientists, the business can leverage the professional skills and knowledge of an individual team member and combine that knowledge with data analytics to get the best answers, forecast and predict, solve problems and identify business opportunities.

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