This mad rush to connect anything and everything to a mobile app is primarily driven by grossly inflated numbers and speculation. This rush could potentially take your company into unknown terrain, with no assurance of a profitable or safe return. While there are customers for IoT connectivity, the number of
Read MoreAs of the first quarter of 2018, Android users can choose between 3.8 million apps, and Apple's App Store remains the second-largest app store with 2 million available apps. In the current app market, unless your app has secured a rank in the top ten through tens of thousands
Read MoreBoth responsive and adaptive sites adjust differently to the browser environment they are being viewed on. Responsive design strives to be device agnostic in the sense that it seeks to create an optimized experience for any screen. It pushes us to develop sites that shift context depending on how the
Read MoreWhen you reach mid-stage, you still only have a few resources and a relatively small team, but you’re now expected to deliver far more sophisticated products. This stage can potentially be the most challenging phase. It’s critical that the progress you make now isn’t at the expense
Read MoreNo matter where you’re put up, the market is saturated with web design and development agencies. The options get harder and harder to wade through, let alone weigh. Below are a few pointers to help simplify your process. To begin with, remind yourself that not all that glitters is
Read MoreWhat questions should I ask to the references of the consulting firm I'm planning on hiring? Rarely does a reference have anything enlightening to tell you. Nevertheless, it’s on you to look beyond the flattering recommendations of the reference and figure out whether the vendor is able enough to
Read MoreIt starts with hiring This was never an individual journey. The success of your company is a reflection of the total value of your team. Often, the hiring process is not adequately prioritized and moreover, outsourced to external recruiters and yours might not be the priority cause they likely already
Read MoreMany researchers predict that our daily lives will be peppered with connected devices not too far in the future. But for this to actually become a reality, engineers and product designers will have to restructure the way they work together to build successful connected personal devices. This evolution will be
Read MoreIt can seem counterintuitive to scout for an outside team of consultants after putting in all that effort to hire a skilled team of software engineers. However, in today’s market, it isn’t enough to be the first-to-market, you also have to be the best-to-market. To help you get
Read MoreIt's fast becoming evident that the blockchain technology is about a lot more than just Bitcoin. Across many sectors like healthcare, finance, government, media and more, innovative applications are cropping up every day. The blockchain technology is going up against technology that’s ripe for replacement and decades-old, by being
Read MoreBig data isn’t just about large data sets. Big data was never meant to be only about the size of the data. In addition to data volume, the variety and velocity of data are necessary to understand why and how information can be analyzed, captured and learned from. Big
Read MoreSmarter technology has paved the way for the instrumentation of just about everything from cash machines, superhighways, oceangoing vessels to refrigerators. Mobile technology has become pervasive, irretrievably ingrained in the way we live and work. The results have been life-changing, smarter cities, more productive workforces, healthcare advances, education reform, and
Read MoreEvery business will soon be an intelligent business in the same way every enterprise is a digital enterprise. If they don’t become intelligent, they will simply cease to exist. Artificial intelligence, a revolutionary cluster of technologies, is a game changer and has the potential to make fundamental changes in
Read MoreWe’re spoilt for choice and drowning in tools. Merely sorting through all of it feels like a job in itself. It’s overwhelming. We get it. We all understand how each platform comes with its unique capabilities, features, and behavior. However, everybody is dabbling in multi-platform apps today, so
Read MoreWe address just about any engineer or designer who writes code as a software developer. It encompasses a junior-level developer working on low-level code to experienced developers who have experience in engineering an entire solution for their clients. So you see how the prices attached to a junior software developer
Read MoreToday, jQuery is the most popular JavaScript library both within and outside the Rails community. It's small, fast, cross-platform and rich in feature JavaScript library, designed to uncomplicate the client-side scripting of HTML. Making things like the document traversal and manipulation, animation, AJAX and event handling in HTML straightforward with
Read MoreWhile the average phone in America is quite powerful, in emerging markets devices are still, in many ways, limited. Even so, the same software runs across it all. Now IoT devices, which are about five to seven years behind smartphones, have a similar trajectory, but their diversity in CPUs and
Read MoreDevelopers are more than aware that the path from an idea scribbled on a napkin to a functional, scalable product let alone a prototype isn’t exactly a question of well-mapped steps. They’re journeys. Complex ones. Prototypes and deployments can tank even while employing straightforward technologies and support from
Read MoreElasticsearch is a powerful and flexible open source, distributed, real-time search, and analytics engine. It’s the gold standard in search technologies. It’s built on top of the Apache Lucene library and provides a robust, RESTful HTTP interface for querying and indexing massive amounts of structured data. Right out
Read MoreDon’t expect people to buy your product unless it is truly revolutionary. Not at first, anyway. When you start your SaaS business, you’ll soon discover that you’re just another product in the universe of fast-paced tech and innovative ideas. Starting out, not many might recognize your company’
Read MoreWe understand the effort and time that goes into building a product, but do you understand the effort and time it takes to get people to care enough about your product to buy it? It is a long trek many aspiring entrepreneurs don’t fully consider or understand. In fact,
Read MoreIn theory, the Product Manager’s job is a one person job. But in practice, overseeing the development of a larger, complex product is a shared effort. The role of each product manager varies according to many dynamics. The type of company, the size of the company, the type of
Read MoreThe success of your company is a reflection of the total value of your team. This was never an individual journey. However, hiring the right people is easier said than done and hasty hires who don’t fit the role impacts your ability to scale. Small businesses especially understand how
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