The world-renowned technology research firm, Gartner, defines Digital Transformation as ‘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’. While many businesses are taking up the task of planning for and executing Digital Transformation (Dx), many businesses will find these initiatives fall short of expectations.
Your business may be planning a mobile application for business users or perhaps you plan to launch a mobile app in the consumer market. Whatever your plan, you will have to decide whether to design and develop your mobile application using a native approach or a hybrid mobile application approach for cross-platform mobile app compliance. If you are facing this decision, you should first consider how broadly your application may be used by your target audience and decide which approach will work best for your business needs and for future upgrades and expansion into the market or to accommodate shifts in user expectations and market changes.
Your users (and maybe your customers) enjoy software and application solutions that you have designed, licensed and implemented. These familiar apps and software products provide a productive environment and support business processes and workflow and, in the case of your customers, these apps and software products generate revenue for your business.
If you are considering engaging an offshore IT consulting partner, you will want to carefully assess the experience of the service provider and ensure that the business model, methodologies and skills of the business and the team are what you need to achieve a successful outcome.
The Client is based in the United States and is a world-wide leader in shared office space and workspace solutions. It manages office space in the United States and many other countries around the world, and has a large inventory of office space. The Client manages its portfolio through a large network of brokers around the U.S. and in 27+ other countries around the world.
Planning and executing a datawarehousing project can seem daunting. How does one take all that data and all those software solutions and data repositories and pull them together into a functional, easy-to-use data warehouse, data mart, data hub or data lake? Exactly which type of implementation does the business need? How can the business satisfy the needs of the IT staff, the business user and business analysts or data scientists and, even more critically, how can the business use this type of approach to encourage a transition for improved data literacy and digital transformation?
If your business needs help with technology, it may be because your IT team is too busy to take on a one-time project or it may be that your team does not have the specific skills required to complete the project you have conceived. Perhaps your business is just getting started and does not yet have the IT team it needs to do the work. Maybe yours is a software business that needs a partner to help develop a software product for market or to add functionality and services for existing clients. In short, there are many reasons, a business might reach out for help.
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.
The Corona Virus (COVID-19) has taught us many hard lessons, not the least of which is the importance of being prepared, the importance of anticipating what may be just around the corner, and the importance of being able to theorize, hypothesize and predict. All of these skills are amply supplied by data scientists and analysts. But, in today’s world, it is crucial to prepare and educate the average business team member to improve data literacy and engage in digital transformation (Dx). As the idea of data popularity becomes more mainstream, and team members and industries embrace data sharing and fact-based decision making, our understanding of looming issues, collaborative possibilities and possible solutions to address these issues will improve and so will our response time and efficacy.
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.
