In this blog post, we'd like to share a recent article nicely put together by HfS research that highlights a striking fact: 83% of outsourcing customers would not go back, despite three-in-four failing to achieve value beyond cost.
There is good news – and challenging news – for outsourcing buyers, service providers ... Read More
Methodologies that are observed to be commonly used in industry by successful organizations may be referred to as "best practices". In our previous post, we have shared a short list of common signs of software development problems. Now, let's have a brief look at some common best practices in software ... Read More
If software is developed for you by another party, it is very likely that you are not a developer and you do not have the possibility to test or judge yourself if your software is of high-quality as you want it to be. Having a QA professional in the team ... Read More
Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) is one of the fundamental cloud computing service models, other two being Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS). As the name suggests, IaaS provides its clients the computing infrastructure, physical or (quite often) virtual machines and other resources like virtual-machine disk image library, block and file-based storage, firewalls, load ... Read More
Sometimes a figure is worth more than many paragraphs of text. We as SWExperts continue our partnerships with our clients in tourism industry, and during our discussions with them, we always emphasize the importance of digital presence - around $150 billion digital travel sales in the ... Read More
Deciding if your organization shall undergo an ERP implementation initiative is always a hard decision. Since ERP systems are big investments, such a decision shall be made based on concrete reasons and after precise analysis on costs and benefits. This, unfortunately, is easier said than done, since ERP systems have;
Tangible ... Read More
To start with, as we underlined in one of our recent blog posts here, the answer is definitely not “just based on the price offer” for a particular case.
Among the fundamental principles of project management is the fact that if something goes wrong with ... Read More
As if it was not hard enough to earn money, technology and service providers make more and more easier to spend it every day by inventing new payment methods. Cash was out of the picture long time ago and people still find it convenient to make payments by credit cards, ... Read More
A nice article by Paul Rubens published on CIO.com a few days back.
Most of the time, software developers do the right thing. On those rare occasions when they don't, bad things can happen. Avoiding these common coding practices will make your work easier - and your software more secure and ... Read More
What comes to your mind first, when you hear a heading or title such as "mobile devices and health"? Since the emerge of mobile phones, this phrase used to resemble one of the longest-ever debate on the question if mobile devices have any negative effect on our health. Not being ... Read More