Case Study: Software Business Launches M2M Remote Device and Asset Monitoring Service

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Elegant MicroWeb designed and developed a M2M based Remote asset monitoring solution for a U.S. Software Product and Service business to simplify the process of configuring and monitoring devices like analog and digital modems and sensors from client locations and networks. Users can pay online and register for services, and then set up, configure and manage sensors and modems with self-serving M2M portal.

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Case Study: UK-Based Co. Gets Integrated, Personalized Fulfillment Services for Merchants

A UK-based well known logistics fulfillment and redemption business asked Elegant MicroWeb to assist in the development of a high-performance platform for off-the-shelf services to accommodate merchants and create a personalized fulfillment and redemption portal. Elegant MicroWeb created an easy-to-use interface so that merchants could easily and quickly create personalized stores, enable integration of order APIs, payment gateways, ecommerce sites, and provided alert, notification and reporting capabilities for finance, stock, redemption, shipment tracking and more.

The Elegant MicroWeb team designed architecture and developed a logistics fulfillment portal. The portal has four interfaces (administration, supplier, merchant, and agent) and allows for order dispatch, order and shipment tracking. eCommerce plug-ins allow merchants to send order details from ecommerce sites to the system. The solution also includes file import, reporting, email notification or voucher redemption, delivery and tracking and integration of popular payment gateways and shipping systems. With this solution, Elegant MicroWeb ensured swift delivery of quality products and services to merchants and end users.

Case Study: UK-Based Co. Gets Integrated, Personalized Fulfillment Services for Merchants

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A UK-based well known logistics fulfillment and redemption business asked Elegant MicroWeb to assist in the development of a high-performance platform for off-the-shelf services to accommodate merchants and create a personalized fulfillment and redemption portal. With this solution, Elegant MicroWeb ensured swift delivery of quality products and services to merchants and end users.

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Case Study: Japanese Software Business Gets Off-the-Shelf, Industry Vertical Products

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A software marketing and support business in Japan engaged Elegant MicroWeb to create an off-the-shelf software solution for small and medium businesses. . The primary objective was to develop Payroll Management, Sales Management, and Financial Accounting Management applications targeted to the Japanese market for various industry verticals.

 

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5 Ingredients for a Successful Tech Start-up

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Startups are popping up like mushrooms everyday, pretty much every startup has the same message.
“We are a startup, we are in search of funding…“How wonderful will it be to get funding… the startups that get funded are celebrities.

They do get exemplary treatments in the media circuits, suddenly they are news worthy materials.

Of course they could be having something very serious and sincere, disruptive to market kind of service, by way of addressing immediate business or social problem.

Whenever this happens, you will notice that several similar startups popup at every zone.

They even book similar names.

If FlipKart became famous, then there are so many others with names ending with the same old KART.

Not many among them succeed and the ones that do succeed have some very common points that can be traced as a pattern.

Here is a look at exactly five common aspects of successful start-up companies.

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Psychology of Software Product Development

You know what would be boring…?

A lesson on psychology! So as to make the article interesting, let us progress with a story arc format consisting of the good, the bad and the funny side!

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The Good Side of the Story!

We have known people and have worked for people who understand nothing about technology, but have a defined domain knowledge or expertise or clarity of purpose to pursue use of technology to expand their skills to a global arena through automation made feasible by technology.

By automation, we are specifically talking about delivering value through use of software, rather than manual tasking.

Say for instance, an auditor who does auditing of major hospitals, food & beverage industries have found that the process could be optimized by use of an iPad type device that will carry the standardized forms for compliance regulation and works, just works! On both offline and online mode.

This simplification is a welcomed simplification; business needs efficiency, less paper work, more quality coverage and accuracy.

This forms the clarity of purpose behind the development of software product.

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IdeaLab An Exceptional Product, Resulting From a Distinguished, Elegant MicroWeb Partnership

Elegant MicroWeb, of Ahmedabad, India, proudly celebrates the success of the IdeaLab product, an Idea Management application designed and developed for partner, Organized Feedback (Formerly CommunityPeople Ltd) of Edinburgh, Scotland. Organized Feedback specializes in best practices for idea management and IdeaLab helps organizations conceive, connect, incubate, evaluate and implement ideas through employee engagement.Elegant MicroWeb CEO, Kartik Patel says, “We have been working with Organized Feedback for sixteen years, as a dedicated offshore development partner. We provide a strong, stable foundation for the Organized Feedback organization, with a portfolio of services that includes the complete product development life cycle to conceive and create applications that effectively support the Organized Feedback team and its customers.”

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Awesome Responsive Web Design (RWD) Part Two: Don’t Forget Device Size, Queries, Images and Testing!

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In the first of our two-part article series, entitled ‘Awesome Responsive Web Design (RWD) Part One: The Devil is in the Details!’ we discussed some of the challenges and considerations of building a high performance, heavy data centric, multi device mobile business solution. In the first article, we reminded our readers that Software Product Development and, in particular, Product Development, Management and Support (PDMS) must include a serious consideration of RWD and software usability improvements.The concept of Responsive Web Design encompasses differing techniques such as Adaptive Web Design, RESS (Responsive Design with Server-Side components), and responsive delivery. These techniques incorporate client-side code, multiple device templates, and cloud-based code transformations that stretch far beyond the scope of RWD. “Responsive” has simply come to describe techniques and technologies in which a unified set of website code produces Web pages optimized for multiple devices based on screen size and device capability. How a site achieves this unified state is becoming less and less important.

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Awesome Responsive Web Design (RWD) Part One: The Devil is in the Details!

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Buzzwords like bring your own device, responsive web design (RWD), adaptive web design (AWD), mobile first and content first are flying through the offices of every technology team and IT consulting firm on the planet! In concept, these considerations apply to every business and consumer application in the design, migration or upgrade phase in today’s business world. However, building a high performance, heavy data centric, multi device mobile business solution is challenging! Software Product Development and, in particular, Product Development, Management and Support (PDMS) must include a serious consideration of RWD and software usability improvements.

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Let’s Get This Straight: Software Product Development Isn’t The Same As Application Development

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The difference between Application Development, Maintenance and Support (ADMS) and Product Development, Maintenance and Support (PDMS) is not always obvious to businesses. But if an enterprise is considering a software product launch, it is imperative that the management team understands that difference! Employing ADMS skills and resources to complete a PDMS project is very likely to result in project failure.The investment and time required to conceive, design and develop a software product is significant, and it can be overwhelming. The software product development and design process includes competitive analysis, technical feasibility, product roadmap management and implementation and timely upgrades of the product to satisfy the ever-changing user and technology needs. If your business wants to successfully create and launch a software product, the project must be managed with optimum standards of software engineering and it must comply with the business plan and financial projections for the product. Software Products Development must include state-of-the-art software engineering practices, appropriate technical architecture, versioning control, detailed technical and user documentation and high development and quality standards.

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