Does Talent or Price Drive Your Software Development Vendor Choices?

This age-old question has always sat squarely in the middle of the fundamental question that all companies address with their vendor choices…does price or quality drive my decision? The biggest obstacle is limited information regarding the vendor on whether they can deliver a price performance-based engagement based on an agreed-upon deliverable. Offshoring for custom software development […]

Tableau vs Power BI: Key Differentiators and Similarities

Tableau vs Power BI: These are the two popular business intelligence (BI) tools for collecting, integrating, analyzing, and presenting business data. They both assist in performing data analysis, data manipulation, and data visualization to understand and derive conclusions from various data sets. Power BI has a larger market penetration due to its Microsoft family lineage […]

12 Customizable Features of Microsoft Power BI

Power BI is a comprehensive analytic platform that allows you to extract analytics and generate insights from your data. With Power BI, you can create highly interactive, engaging, and powerful reports, dashboards, or graphics from data in formats such as Excel files, SQL databases, BI warehouses, Cloud data, APIs, web pages, and more. Let’s understand […]

Pharma Analytics: Optimizing the Pharmaceutical Value Chain with Big Data Analytics

The Pharmaceutical industry, traditionally, has been slow to adopt cutting-edge technologies. A complicated supply chain, a plethora of government compliances and regulations, tight profit margins, and burgeoning competition have been significant reasons hindering the switch to Pharma Analytics. But now, the pandemic has increased these obstacles and has more or less forced pharma companies to transform […]

Snowflake Storage Layer: A Data Architecture Built For Cloud

What is Snowflake? Snowflake is a SaaS cloud computing platform that offers storage and analytics commonly termed “data warehouse- as-a-service”.  Snowflake provides features generally associated with data warehouses such as data lakes, data engineering, data application development, and real-time/shared data. Consumption is built on the three leading cloud service infrastructures (Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, […]

Matomo Platform: A Quick Glance on the Google Analytics Alternative

Matomo is a comprehensive open-source web analytics platform developed to empower enterprises with behavioral data on their website visitors. Reports are provided via a customizable dashboard in forms ranging from pie charts to bar charts. The data from these reports can be analyzed to make informed decisions on operations and strategy. Advanced web analytics provide companies […]

Intelligent Automation for Insurance Business Models

Many industries are seeing incredible growth due to new automation technology and shifting customer expectations. Unfortunately, the insurance industry has been slower to benefit from these breakthroughs. Today we have “born-in-tech” insurance companies that intelligently and efficiently integrate automation and intelligent technologies into their operational and administrative processes. In this blog, we will be discussing […]

Appvance IQ: Test Automation using Artificial Intelligence

Appvance IQ is one of the test automation tools, and it has some setting up techniques to prepare or create test cases or test scripts or test content or use cases in numerous ways. We can produce the scripts for functional testing, compatibility testing, performance, and load testing, synthetic API Automation, etc. 1.1 Appvance Overview […]

Blockchain in Healthcare: Opportunities, Use Cases and Life Science Solutions

The blockchain is a decentralized network of nodes storing the same data. When someone wishes to update the data on one node, it must be approved by the other nodes in the network. As a result, it is challenging to fabricate information in a blockchain-based system, making it an ideal solution for securing sensitive data. […]

Robotic Process Automation and its Business Benefits

Robotic process automation (RPA) is a software technology that makes it easy to build software robots to deploy, manage and emulate human actions interacting with digital systems and software. Just like people, software robots can do things like understanding what’s on a screen, completing the right keystrokes, navigating systems, identifying and extracting data, and performing […]

String Compression Algorithms With .NET and C#

It is pretty apparent that our future looks more and more digital in all aspects of our lives. To accomplish this digital wave, not only will large amounts of power be needed, but things like network bandwidth and copious amounts of space for disk storage will also be needed. This is where string compression algorithms […]

Intelligent Automation and Artificial Intelligence

Artificial intelligence is associated with autonomous workers capable of mimicking human cognitive functions, whereas Intelligent Automation is focused on the development of better workers, both human and digital. In today’s world, organizations are enamored with the promise of emerging technologies like cognitive computing, artificial intelligence (AI), robots, and various forms of robotic automation. Still, many are […]

Cloud Computing Services for Business is the need of the hour: Here’s why!

Small and Medium Enterprises(SMEs) are using various cloud computing services for cost-cutting in the current pandemic scenario. The larger companies have also succeeded in introducing the cloud on various levels. As a result, managing expenditures on demand is more cost-effective. Cloud computing enables the storage, management, and processing of data over the internet. The data here can […]

Q-Commerce: One of the Fastest Growing eCommerce Models

The pandemic has brought about several changes in how businesses operate. First, it has caused tremendous disruption in the supply chain, causing the birth of a new sub-vertical of eCommerce named “Q-Commerce,” or quick commerce is the unique selling point (USP) of lightning-fast deliveries, providing convenience and instant gratification to customers. This is the beginning […]

Touchless Technology: Importance & Applications in Today’s World

With huge competition in the mobile app development industry, applications that do not satisfy the market requirements have to face the threat of being thrown out of the game. The demand for touchless technology has skyrocketed due to the outbreak of the COVID-19 Pandemic, and we are forced to consider safety. Customers are constantly looking […]

Cache Warming: Know it’s Importance to Improve Website Performance

What is Cache Warming? Warming up cache is when websites artificially fill the cache to ensure that real visitors always have access to it when needed. Essentially, it warms up the cache for visits rather than serving the first visitor a cache miss (thus the word ‘warming’, as in warming up a car engine). We’re […]

Power BI Dashboards: Eight Practices Every Enterprise Should Know

Businesses require various reports to track their activity and analyze specific parts of their operations. Creating meaningful and actionable reports, on the other hand, is a challenging task. Power BI dashboards design considers UX and the data demands of users needing access while combining these needs with broader corporate goals. It’s not only about presenting […]

What is SASE? Secure Access Service Edge | Cloud Computing Security

Secure Access Service Edge is a cloud-based service for streamlining network access, improving security, boosting network performance, and reducing the number of vendors into a single service provider. SASE was coined by the global research and advisory firm Gartner. SASE networks are flexible and scalable, able to connect globally distributed employees and offices across any […]

Lean Quality Assurance for Improved Software Development: Best Practices & Application

The History of Lean Methodology In the 1950s, the renowned carmaker Toyota faced severe problems in its production line. The manufacturing chains were too complex and lengthy, and customers were not getting their orders on time. Toyota had to reinvent its approach or lose out to its competition. As a result, Lean quality assurance or […]

Big Data & 5G Technology – Hope or Hype?

5G is the 5th generation mobile network and its implementation has been wildly anticipated as a game-changer for all things mobile-related. It is a new global wireless standard, 100 times faster than current 4G network capabilities. 5G technology is designed to increase the network speed and responsiveness of wireless networks. With 5G trending worldwide, let’s […]

CSS in JS: Introduction, Thorough Analysis & Advantages

What is CSS in JS? CSS in JS relates to the practice of including CSS in .js files. Writing CSS in global CSS files will not be efficient as the CSS files may be loaded in any order and may override the styles in any order. CSS in JS libraries helps bundle the Javascript components […]

Magento 1 vs. Magento 2 | 10 Key Differences You Should Know About

Magento is a popular PHP-based open-source eCommerce software. Magento launched initially on March 31, 2008, 13 years ago. In the middle of the year, 2015 Magento 2.0 initial version was released. Magento 1 reached its End of Life on June 30, 2020. On a high level, the latest version of Magento Outperforms Magento 1 with […]

Responsive Design Testing: All You Need to Know | Benefits, Challenges and Checklist

Smartphone usage has increased dramatically in recent years. Only 2/3rds of mobile users had a smartphone in 2014, and of those only 22% of those used it to browse the internet. The introduction of 4G internet was a game-changer. By the end of 2016, mobile web usage had overtaken desktop for the first time. Mobile […]

Healthcare Digitization: The Importance of Health Stack Digitization

Healthcare digitization is an important agenda item for numerous countries globally. The COVID-19 pandemic has helped stoke the need to accelerate digital transformation initiatives in healthcare and the patient experience. And even though there have been many advances in healthcare and medical technology…there is still a lot that needs to be accomplished in digital transformations […]

Robotic Process Automation: Performing Repetitive Tasks to Emulate Human Actions

RPA or Robotic Process Automation is changing the world we live in every day. RPA uses software bots that emulate human operations on top of applications to automate transactions. Software users create software bots/robots to carry out repetitive tasks. For example, let’s take a coffee vending machine…a person will not be standing there preparing the beverages. The […]

RabbitMQ, Kafka, and Redis: Which Message Broker to choose for a MicroService?

Message brokers validate, store, route, and deliver messages to the appropriate destinations. The blog compares RabbitMQ, Kafka, and Redis on basis of choosing a message broker for microservice. Before we deep dive into details,  it is important to know about Asynchronous communication. It is typically managed through a message broker. There are other ways also, […]

Introduction to the Azure IoT Products and an Overview of Azure IoT Hub

The Azure IoT is a collection of Microsoft Azure managed cloud services that monitor and control IoT devices. In other words, an IoT Solution is a process of establishing a communication channel between IoT devices and back-end services hosted in the cloud. Azure IoT products and tools can help you create next-generation IoT solutions, whether you’re […]

Automation for Ecommerce: Top 5 Factors that Influence your strategy

Should you have an automation strategy? What are some best practices for implementing an automation strategy? Before we discuss the factors influencing automation for Ecommerce business strategy, let’s first understand the purpose. Automation is used to reduce the time and cost involved in manual functional testing and repetitive tasks. As it relates to manual testing, […]

GraphQL Client for Angular | Working with Apollo

Apollo Client is a JavaScript state management framework that allows you to manage both local and remote data using GraphQL. It may be used to fetch, cache, and alter application data while also automatically updating your UI. Apollo Client assists you in structuring code in a cost-effective, predictable, and declarative manner that is consistent with […]

Intelligent Production: Quality Assurance practices that save Money & Effort

The common vision that most organizations have Quality Assurance is that their investment in terms of money and effort will be repaid through the improvement in the quality of the end product. They hope that in the long run, the maintenance cost will be lowered, which in turn would lead to greater profitability. That’s a […]

Continuous Testing for Catalyzing the software development lifecycle

Gone are the days when production-ready code is handed to QA teams in a silo, only to await feedback with bated breath. Why does this methodology cause anxiety? It’s because the chances are that an efficient QA team, capable of digesting the requirements in full and one that tests the obvious and every nook and corner of the product from various perspectives, might, in most cases, report issues that would require a whole lot of effort and cost to fix.

Crucial Factors to consider before migrating to Cloud

Cloud computing is the on-demand utilization of servers, data storage, development tools such as databases, networks, etc., over the internet. Cloud computing enables enterprise organizations to get their applications up and run faster. With lesser maintenance and improved manageability, it allows teams to adjust rapidly to meet fluctuating resource needs.

Diving into Neo4j and Its Query Language - Cypher

Neo4j is probably the most common graph database that you’re going to run into. Neo4j supports a query language called Cypher. Lets understand this a little better.

What and Why of Graph Databases

The first thought that comes to your head when you hear graphs is the dreadful graph theory from mathematics which further translates to boring, complex, and so on…
Luckily for us, we don’t need a lot of Graph theory to learn about Twitter’s database to connect 330 million monthly active users! But let’s have a look at an easy explanation for graphs.

Insights into the .NET Multi-Platform App UI - MAUI

Microsoft’s latest cross-platform offering .NET MAUI is the next generation of Xamarin.Forms and is the evolution of Xamarin.Forms toolkit. .NET MAUI (.NET Multi-platform App UI) will bring commendable consistency to the developer experience and enable innovative and new experiences for developers.

Apache Nifi - Data Ingestion Tool

Apache Nifi - is a data flow management system that comes along with a UI tool that will be easy to handle. It’s a data logistics platform that automates the transfer of data between different systems. Since it provides real-time control it is easy to manage the movement of data between any source and destination.

Write clean and quality code with SOLID Principles

SOLID is an acronym that stands for five design principles. This helps to design a more understandable, flexible, reliable, and easily maintainable software. These principles are the basics of a good software design.

Implementing AI in Web and Mobile Development

From driverless vehicles to virtual specialists, AI is changing the way we live, work, travel, and work together in the 21st century. Luckily, numerous organizations understand the significance of getting up to speed with AI innovation and carrying out it.

Making something big out of Big Data

Very nearly twenty years after the expression “Big Data” was authored, manufacturers have understood that the way to taking advantage of big data isn’t quantity however quality is most important.

Automated Analysis of Test Script failures using Machine Learning

The aim of this blog is to propose a theoretical model/workflow for a test automation report analysis tool that can perform an intelligent and automated analysis of failed scripts and provide a detailed, insightful report to significantly reduce the manual effort involved in this activity.

Emerging Trends in DotNet

It’s conceivable to visualize back six an extended time approximately to see the roots of those days within the open sourcing of .NET and also the creation of the .NET Foundation. The platform was the previous .NET Framework, which required an independent body to manage it through migration to modular.

The What & Why of Time Series Database?

Before getting into why and what of Time-Series Database, let us first understand what Time-Series data is all about and its significance. Read here to know more.

Chatbot Testing: Features to Check and Quality Tips to Remember

Chatbots are AI-based computer programs that simulate human conversations by understanding context and deriving meaning from spoken or written language. Bots interpret the objective of the conversation and provide relevant answers or directions. Chatbots communicate through text as well as voice and are classified according to the industry in which they are used such as banking chatbots, medical chatbots, personal finance chatbots, etc. Chatbots have become the favored medium to strengthen customer support.

Why should Digital Marketing be an integral part of any business strategy?

Digital marketing utilizes the internet and online-based digital technologies such as computers, mobile devices, and other digital media and platforms to promote products and services. It is the inevitable future of the marketing world. Digital marketing found its first strong footing during the 1990s and 2000s and changed the way brands and businesses used technology for marketing.

Why Digital Transformation is essential for Business growth

Digital Transformation refers to the adoption of digital operations and tools to reach strategic business goals. It encompasses everything that is involved in the business of an IT company right from internal processes to customer interactions. Whether it is a small business or a large enterprise, digital transformation is an absolute necessity in the modern technological era.

Role of AI and ML in Insurance Fraud Detection

Insurance frauds have been in existence ever since the inception of the concept of insurance. False claims and incorrect statements in subscriptions cause the insurance companies to lose several millions of dollars every year. An FBI report states that the total value of insurance fraud is approximated to be more than $40 billion per year. The loss on fraudulent insurance claims last year reached $34 billion in the U.S alone.

In-Sprint Automation: Is it just a wish or can it be achieved?

In- Sprint Automation: that’s a dream for every project manager and client working in Agile. But very rarely do we see project teams considering this option because the source code development and the UI Automation code development together have very high chances of expanding beyond the allocated sprint duration. So we decide to settle for n-1 sprint automation as it’s the next best thing.

Alert handling in IoT Applications

An IoT alerting system provides a cost-efficient way to convey instantaneous messages to designated people for appropriate measures to be taken. Their implementations are many and across domains. The most important component of the IoT alert handling system is the sensors which can be wired or wireless sensors. Sensors are used to detect and measure various physical phenomena such as heat and pressure as well as the five human senses - sight, hearing, touch, taste, and smell.

Google Cloud Anthos - Configuring Google Cloud Anthos for Multi-Cluster Operation - Part 3

This is part-3 of the Google Cloud Anthos Series. In this blog, we will learn about Kubectl, Kubectx, Registering clusters with Anthos, how to create a service account, role, and role binding.

Google Cloud Anthos -Creating Clusters using Kubernetes Engine - Part 2

This is part-2 of the Google Cloud Anthos Series. Please click here for part 1: Google Cloud Anthos covering the basics of Anthos and Kubernetes.
In this blog, we will learn to
1. Create Kubernetes clusters in GCP and Azure cloud, 2. Role binding in GCP and 3. Enabling services in both GCP and Azure

Google Cloud Anthos - Multi-Cloud Orchestration: Part 1

This is part-1 of the Google Cloud Anthos Series. This is a series of blogs divided into three parts. We will be creating a hybrid environment for Kubernetes using Anthos (a modern application management platform that provides a consistent development and operations experience for cloud and on-premises environments).

How to upload large files in the BackBlaze B2 bucket

Nowadays, cloud is ruling the IT industry, a lot of companies are entering into cloud storage like Amazon S3, Azure blob, etc. Backblaze B2 is also a cloud bucket that is a simple, reliable, affordable object storage.

State Management in Flutter using BLoC

State management plays an important role in the flutter application. It helps us to synchronize the state of all the components throughout the application. The developer needs to know the state of the application at any point in time. We can achieve this by using many approaches like Provider, Redux, BLoC, and so on. In this article, we discuss more on BLoC.

Introduction to Functional Web Automation with Robot Framework

Robot framework is an open-source test automation tool that handles acceptance testing.
This tool uses the inbuilt selenium library to call keywords along with the test data, and hence it can be used to cover the functional automation workflows for web applications. The robot framework is application agnostic. The core framework accepts the Python scripting language.

Cloud Deployment Models and Real-Time Use Cases

Cloud has been around a while now but the deployment models and their use cases are still misty (pun intended). Business models find it hard to analyze the pros, cons, and the need for the three deployment models: Public, Private and Hybrid. This article will analyze the differences, use cases, and real-time examples for each cloud deployment model.

Does your Test Automation code smell? Here’s how you can launder it!

The psychological purpose of automated testing, apart from all the statistical purposes of effort and cost reduction, is that they give a sense of comfort and joy to members of the project and to the stakeholders. The comfort of continuous testing keeps everyone relaxed because, with each line of code modification or new feature built-in, the automated tests confirm whether or not there are impacts.

Efficient and Effective Mobile App Testing

A mobile application is a program that is built to be used on mobile devices (smartphones, tablets, and wearables). With the global boom of mobile device usage in the last decade, the scope of mobile applications has also increased enormously. The mobile apps in the market currently perform most of the tasks that were previously restricted to a PC.

Traditional REST API vs GraphQL: What you need to know

Traditional REST API provides an easier way for interaction between the client and the server via HTTP protocols with predefined data formats (json, xml, text, html). This is client-server architecture emerged in 2000 the user interface will be away from the data warehouse to make the user interface support across various platforms.

Converting Java to ObjC: J2ObjC

J2ObjC is an open-source tool developed by Google, which allows sharing the of code between iOS and Android. The Java extension file is reused in iOS where J2ObjC converts java classes to objective-c classes. For example, when you return an array in a method the j2objc will translate the Java code to return a subclass of iOSArray where the objective-c gets compiled by the Xcode.

What’s new with Android 12

Google has officially announced the Android 12 features and update in Google I/O 2021 event. This company revealed the user-facing features, including a Material You design, tweaked UI, and more, which weren’t there in the developer previews that have been released so far. Additionally, the next major version of Android is said to be more secure, personal, and work with other devices. It also comes with dozens of improvements and new privacy and security features.

Optimize your Angular App using Web Workers

Users always like fast and responsive web applications. They may become impatient if a web application takes more than ~3s to load and run in the browser. So, it is vital to think about optimizing the applications whenever we start developing a new web app or adding new features to the existing application.

Edge Computing - Network On the Edge

Edge Computing, a fuzzy term is a networking technology that mainly focuses on bringing core computing as close to the source of data in order to reduce the latency and bandwidth. In similar terms, edge means running fewer processes in the local places, such as on a user’s computer, an IoT device, or an edge server.

Insight into AMP - Accelerated Mobile Pages

How long will a user wait for a mobile/web page to load? 40% of the users will leave the page if it loads more than 3 secs.
But the fact is most of the sites take around 6.9 seconds to load which is more than double the amount of time 40% of the users wait before quitting the page.

Sustainment of Data Security Resilience in IoT

Around the world today, every device is transforming into digital and all these devices are being connected with other devices for aiding mankind. This automatically denotes the Internet of Things which is the center of the storm in today’s technology. IoT is the power of daily objectives to connect to the internet for the exchange of data with one another.

An Introduction to Automating iOS Mobile Apps with XCUITest Framework

XCUITest is Apple’s native UI testing framework that is built on top of the XCTest framework.

It supports Swift and Objective-C programming languages. It tests the UI layer and interacts with the mobile app the way a real user would. It also compliments the Unit testing that’s done using XCTest. This framework covers the broader aspects of any iOS mobile app functionality and is effective for integration testing.

Simulating Network Conditions for Comprehensive Mobile App Testing

Mobile Apps behave strangely when there is low network service or when network service is out of range. Every one of us would have experienced this in places such as elevators, subways, remote places, etc. The best way to prevent mobile apps from being impacted by such network abnormalities is to perform comprehensive network testing and build apps that are ready to encounter real-world network fluctuations.

Static Site generator (SSG) - Improve Performance by Prebuilding Pages

Static site generator(SSG) is a tool to pre-build the entire frontend into highly optimized static pages and assets during the build process. It is an alternative to database-driven content management systems(CMS) like WordPress and Drupal. In the traditional CMS, the content is stored in the database. When a request is made by the server, the data is retrieved in the backend and merged with the template files, and sent as an HTML page as a response.

Integrate Google Signup and retrieve profile information from Google using OAuth2.0 for Web Applications

Signing up into an application using Google has now become a preferable option for users as it avoids remembering passwords. It also ensures that users creating an account in the application use a valid email and the authentication part is taken care of by Google. Let’s look into the steps which are required to integrate Google Signup.

Building a Proxy Server with Nodejs

A proxy is an intermediate application in the middle of two services, which has the ability to modify and give back requests and responses both ways. This blog will prove as a good basis to start building a proxy server. A proxy server acts on behalf of the user. It evaluates all the requests and responses and thus it provides a layer of security.

Estimating Unpaid claims using Expected claims Technique in Insurance

The expected claim method is usually used by Insurers when entering new lines of business or new territories. This method is more commonly used in lines of business with longer emergency patterns ad settlements like Medical Negligence, Workmen compensations, Product liability, etc.

Virtual Reality Assisted Learning in Healthcare

Advancements in medical devices, diagnostic methods, treatment procedures, and medications contribute to better patient outcomes and healthier lives. But the training system has not advanced neck to neck when compared to the innovations in the medical field. Teaching surgeons poorly or not teaching them enough about these complex procedures and technologies will prove to be damaging for those who go under their knife. Complications would arise from those very innovations that were intended to bring benefits.

Diving into Dynamic Financial Analysis

DFA is a manner of viewing the world; it is not a specific model or procedure rather it is a perspective. Stochastic simulation, scenario testing, financial modeling, risk covariance, sensitivity estimation- all the terms that are associated with dynamic financial analysis - are handmaidens to the central perspective.

Flutter 2.0 — Next generation framework for Web & Desktop

Google has finally launched the Flutter 2.0 version at a Flutter Engage event. It’s an open-source UI development kit that helps to develop cross-platform applications using a similar codebase. Using Flutter 2, We can deliver native applications with a similar codebase to the top 5 Operating Systems: Android, iOS, Linux, Windows, and macOS.

Standups for Scaled Agile (SAFe) Teams

SAFe-Scaled Agile Framework is a free source available online. Its understanding base allows you to apply the lean-agile practice at the enterprise level. It provides a unique and lightweight experience for the software development process. It is divided into three chapters. Those are Team, Program, and Portfolio.

Significance of Insurance Product Design using Competent Technologies

When it comes to designing an insurance product, the insurer has to keep in mind the customer need, preferences, appropriate delivery mechanism, regulatory requirements, and knowledge of local and global conditions even though there is no “one size fits all“ solution.

Detect anomalies in Chest X-Ray scans using Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Neural networks have revolutionized image processing in a variety of domains. The field of medical imaging is one of them. In this blog, we’ll look at how to create an application that works with Chest X-Ray (CXR) images. Finally, you’ll be given a working code to experiment with.

Designing REST API’s the right way

There are few ways an API can be designed, REST [Representational State Transfer] is an Architectural style through which APIs can be well designed. Whether you are a pragmatic or idealistic programmer, it is always required to have the basic Architectural design with all the edge cases carefully considered for any API server.

Importance of Cloud Computing in Healthcare

The use of the cloud, provides an opportunity to the health care environment to improve services for patients, to easily share information, improve operational efficiency, and streamline costs. It makes medical record-sharing easier and safer, automates backend operations, and even facilitates the creation, and maintenance of telehealth apps.

File upload with Express Multer Middleware

File upload is a common functionality that is required even for the most basic applications. Even a simple website that requires user sign-up offers an option to upload profile pictures. The main feature offered by any social media website is file upload

The Role of Conversational AI in Healthcare

Conversational AI is a solution that incorporates AI techniques such as Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Machine Learning (ML) to automate conversations with end users. They go above and beyond rule-based answering engines to understand the context, analyze the text and speech, the intent behind the questions and also consider the user’s preferences.

Framework or CMS — What’s the better option?

Before deciding which option to choose, it is important to understand Framework and CMS and their role in website development. Read here to understand the differences better and choose the best option.

Internet of Behavior (IoB) — Quick Insights

IoB seeks to understand the data collected from online user interactions through behavioral psychology. It seeks to answer the question of how to understand information, and how to use that knowledge to create and market new products, all from a personal point of view.

C# 9 — Learn Five New features in 10 mins

C# is well on the way to his third decade of life. Originally released in 2000, the language has grown and changed across 9 major versions. Once a knock-off of Java into all, but the name leaped forward on many aspects.

Python for Data Science: Understanding the Trend

In this digital era of high technologies, data becomes an essential part of business and enterprise. It is crucial to process and analyze the data as fast as possible with high accuracy.
Since the data volume is huge, managing them becomes a herculean task. Data science engineering helps to overcome data difficulties efficiently.

How Important is it to Upskill?

Upskilling yourself can cost money, but they are going to pay off with a strong ROI. Contributing just a few hours a day to learning will bring in a major boost for your career, be it hunting for a new job or excelling in your current one.

The Curious Case of Rails Association

Thanks for choosing to read this. And I assure you that reading this blog will be fun. This blog is about my experience with an issue that I faced with Rails Association and how I got to the root cause of the issue and found a solution to it. Check out the blog!

The Great, Big-O-Notation and Javascript: A Never-ending tale of Time and Space Complexity — Part 1*

Big O notation is a mathematical notation that describes the limiting behavior of a function when the argument tends towards a particular value or infinity. It is a member of a family of notations invented by Paul Bachmann, Edmund Landau, and others, collectively called Bachmann–Landau notation or asymptotic notation.

Cypress — A Cool Tool for End-to-End Testing

Cypress is a Javascript end-to-end testing tool to test anything that runs on a browser. End-to-end testing is a technique to make sure that the application behaves properly from start to end. Cypress makes sure your web application is tested thoroughly before sending it to quality assurance for testing and to deliver your code confidently.

Diving into the growing trends of Reactive Programming for Mobile UI Development

All the users are expecting a very fast and responsive UI in the mobile apps. Reactive programming plays a major role which helps a lot with a near-second update of UI. It runs asynchronous for heavy work in different threads and updating the UI in the main thread. This helps in a seamless experience for the user.

Building an Acquaintance with Redis

Redis allows replication of data across multiple replica servers. Even if the primary server experiences an outage, it can be recovered at a fast pace. Redis also offers a vast scope of other benefits, making it a popular choice for a wide range of applications across multiple industries and use cases.

How Gamification drives Customer Engagement

The heart of any design philosophy is user engagement. With a user-centered approach, designers are constantly on the lookout for new techniques to enhance user engagement with products. The main objective of gamification in UX is to have strong emotional appeal, even in UI for serious aims. Gamification in UX design has assumed high importance in recent years.

Indoor Positioning system — How to setup Indoor Atlas Positioning

Positioning systems played a major role in people’s lives since the GPS satellite technology, Cellular technology(AGPS). Satellite-based positioning fails indoors because flooring & accuracy may fail, but other technology standards have made indoor positioning possible.

Insights into Risk Management in the Insurance Industry

A preexistence of a proper risk management culture underpins a risk management framework. Risk management-related communications and taking strict actions for violations, including disciplinary actions send the right signals across the organization. On the positive side, good risk management communication acts as an educative tool to assist the functional heads to build a solid risk management framework.

Behavior Driven Development with Mocha

Behaviour Driven Development primarily focuses on the behavior of the end-user. The test cases focus on how a particular module should behave for particular action or input of the user. Read to know more.

Extract meaningful information from Big Data using NLP and Machine Learning

Most often, AI systems are exposed to a vast variety of information such as the voice of a person, images with text content, raw documents like NEWS articles, etc. In order to act on this unstructured form of information (data), the AI has to perform one of the crucial processes called Information Extraction(IE).

Insights on Database Caching Approaches

Before deciding the caching pattern, it is important to analyze the frequency of the underlying data update. It is also important to evaluate the risk of outdated data returned to the application. Read for more information.

Expedite Performance of Node.js for CPU intensive applications like IoT

In the fast-moving world, everyone likes it right! Of course, the tiny devices make our life simpler with the fastest internet connectivity and communications. Take a look at our blog.

Pair Programming — An Agile Approach

Pair Programming is a powerful programming approach in which team members mutually work in pairs can actually benefit from it and not all can easily adapt. It involves and requires soft skills along with the required technical stack skills

Insights: Converting Angular Applications into a PWA

PWA stands for Progressive Web App and is web applications that have the advantage of both web and native controls. It’s built using common web technologies HTML, CSS, and JavaScript following a standard pattern. Let’s dive into the blog.

Archiving Azure Application Insights Data for Deep Analytics

Did you have an incident on your Insights data that you want to analyze offline? Does your current plan doesn’t allow you to store Insights data for more than a specified period, usually 3 months? Read here on how this can be solved.

Indoors and Outdoors — How and where IoT devices can be used for energy saving

In this fast-moving world we humans expect ease in executing each of our days to day activities. In our busy schedule, we forget to turn off the television, air conditioner, heaters, lights, close garage doors, etc., On the other hand office premises, shopping malls, theme parks, schools, colleges are all paying third-party vendors in order to monitor the temperature, air index, light controls, fire extinguishers, and emergency power backups.

How Serverless Computing Scales Business

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DevOps as a Catalyst for High-Performance Teams

This article intends to dive into how the need for DevOps culture has evolved in the software industry over the recent years and how various tools, processes, and technologies have helped bring value to a lot of teams across the world that build amazing software at a very high pace.

Insights into App Clips

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The Significance of APIs in the Healthcare Industry

APIs play a vital role in healthcare IT communication since it permits data interchange among patients and healthcare providers. Before API came into the picture, it was difficult for healthcare contributors to engage patients and retrieve information. Read more here.

Modern Gateway to Mobile App Development

Mobile application development has evolved over the years tremendously, and it is still growing as the world demands. Android and iOS are the two platforms that occupy most of the mobile world.

Microservice Usage in Application Architecture

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Personal Financial Management: Financial Planning II

With great financial planning, one can achieve their goals. All it takes is research, time, and dedication. Here’s some pointers on getting there.

An Overview of Redux

Redux is a non-persistence session-level state management technique. The data is available across the application until you refresh or close the browser. Read for more information.

Personal Financial Management: Golden Rules of Investing

With a bit of smart planning and investing you can easily cushion any crisis such as covid 19 or any future events. Get to know how, here.

Scale Up your Business with the Planet’s most active Personal Messaging Platform — Whatsapp Business API

Whatsapp could be used effectively for our Business Development, Quality & Personalised Customer Service, Product endorsement at a lower cost. Read more.

Async Operations with Kotlin Coroutines

Handling multitasking on Android is always a challenging and tedious job. However, with the Kotlin coroutine adoption, it is much easier for developers to write asynchronous code without blocking user interface and create a way to ease the developer jobs.

Virtual Reality vs Augmented Reality vs Mixed Reality

A blog to guide you and help you understand the major differences between Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality and Mixed Reality. Read here for more information!

Azure Storage: Why we should make the move

Azure Storage is Microsoft’s managed service providing cloud storage solution created recently to solve these for modern data storage scenarios. Azure Storage is highly available, durable, scalable, secure, and redundant.

App Thinning for Mobile Applications

App thinning is a concept for modern-day applications that has a lot of resources on it. This helps developers make lightweight apps, that download fast and occupy minimum disk space.

Takaful Insurance — a simplified approach

Takaful Insurance is quite a vague phenomenon not known to many. Keeping this in mind, this blog is an effort to give a broad idea of the concepts, operations, and processes involved in Takaful Insurance.

Understanding The Fundamentals of CMS Web Security

In the emerging world, millions of websites running on content management systems. Here are a few tips and tactics that can help protect your website from uninvited guests to your business.

gRPC — A recent communication protocol

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Importance of Analytics and IT intervention in Insurance Sectors

IT is playing a critical role in insurance companies’ growth, with the help of specific trending technologies. There is bound to be more pressure on the industry over the coming years from greater competition, even-more fickle consumers, and increased regulation.

Nourishing the Practice of Quality Assurance

If you have the intention for your product baby to be nourished carefully and grow up to be a strong and viable person, then you have got to pay the nanny tester well, give them freedom and space and treat them like family.

Web Frameworks: React Continues to Reign

React had an enormous impact on web development, bringing with it ease and innovation useful for developers across the board. It has shown to be the most dominant JavaScript Web Framework in the past year, and the stats suggest that this will continue in years to come

Storytelling: The Magic in UX

Storytelling in UX is including the process of ideation and experience into the design process, in the expectation that it meets the consumer demand. In this blog, we will dive deep into its importance, advantages, and more.

Harnessing the True Transformational Power of Real-World Data in Healthcare

RWD is worth its weight in gold, as it provides critical insights into the health situation and treatment effectiveness in a more representative and diverse group of patients. Know more.

Insight: Dark Mode in iOS 13

Apple’s inbuilt apps support dark mode and also third-party apps have options to add dark mode. Find out what’s interesting.

Typescript or Standard Selenium Test Framework: which works best for your Project?

Which open-source framework should I choose when it comes to automating web applications — Selenium or Protractor? This is a key question that every automation engineer should ask himself. We have the answers.

Evolution of the PHP Framework

PHP is the most popular scripting language in the world, used for many different purposes — flexibility, easy to use, when compared to other frameworks — but often, coding in PHP, or any other language for that matter, can get rather monotonous and repetitive.

Agile Risk-based Software Testing

Risk Analysis has made the professional experience of testers simpler and more remunerative. Once you get to know the risk areas, it becomes easier to formulate plans and curb them successfully. Take a look.

Accelerate Android Development using Jetpack Components

Developing Android applications is a complex process and many developers have a lack of knowledge about architecting their apps that can result in a good robust app — to deliver an extendable, maintainable, and testable codebase.

Azure Bot Service — Microsoft Bot Framework, Channels, and Cognitive Services

Azure Bot Service helps us to build, connect, test, deploy, and manage bots. Read more.

Top reasons for Mobile App Failures and how to avoid them through Proactive Testing

What do techie and business people fail to do or do wrong that makes their mobile apps fail? Here’s some insights.

Introduction to the concepts of Cryptocurrency

In this blog, we will cover topics such as Cryptocurrency, bitcoins, and crypto-jacking.

Advancement in Auto Layout using Size Classes

Size classes are an excellent solution that helps create adaptable layouts which look great in all orientation and size. Take a look.

Shift Left — An approach towards Continuous Quality Improvement

Testing continues to plague modern development methods irrespective of how agile the teams are. The solution is simple.

Top 10 PHP Frameworks in 2020

A PHP framework will help new developers easily get started with working on the project. It is easy to read and understand, test, maintain, and develop further. Read more.

Designing API’s with gRPC

gRPC Remote Procedure call is a high performance, open-source, feature-rich RPC framework. The ideal usage of gRPC is for inter-service communication in microservices and for communication between mobile applications and servers.

NLP’s potential to be Sherlock Holmes in enhancing our Watson minds

Healthcare has an unfathomable amount of data — medical histories, chart notes, prescriptions, medical claims data, lab results and imageries, data from clinical trials, the list is never-ending. So what can be done?

App Development for Foldable Smartphones

While on the surface level it appears that it is only about having flexible UX in mobile apps, the impact is a lot more massive.

Cyber Security: When Prevention is better than the Cure

Patient data is incredibly lucrative as it provides one of the highest payoffs to hackers on the dark web and hence Healthcare systems would always remain favored targets

A Doctor On Call is a Doctor Indeed

The usage and adoption of telehealth is already on track for exponential growth with the era of COVID-19 causing panic and paranoia in the minds of healthcare consumers around the world.

Insight into Diverse Risk Assessment Techniques

A business strategy to identify, assess, and prepare for any hazard that may interfere with the organization’s operation and objective

How can ReactJS enrich your application User Interface?

Let’s take a look at how ReactJS can enrich your application User Interface.

A glance into Machine Learning in Mobile Apps

Machine learning and Artificial Intelligence continue to transform each field by helping one to think broader and come up with innovative solutions for the business. Know how.

Source Control & Shortcuts in GIT: understanding the significance

Source control is the practice of tracking and managing code changes in software projects. This is also known as Version control. Let’s take a look.

Leveraging the Omnipresence of Social Media in Healthcare

Social Media and Healthcare is not just a mighty combination but also an essential one. Reports say that almost 90% of older adults who are on social media use it to receive or share health information.

Hedge Funds vs. Mutual Funds: everything worth knowing

Hedge Funds and Mutual Funds are some of the many pooled investment products with the aim of achieving higher returns overtime on the investments. Here’s the difference.

Risk Assessment & Determine Policy Premiums using Telematics

The insurance industry should always be data-centric. The introduction of Telematics and usage of this technological advancement in this industry will predict the accuracy and stop the fraudulent claims in an efficient manner.

What’s interesting about the Bubble Notification in the Android 11

Bubbles help you minimize your application into a small icon, which can be moved around and placed anywhere on the screen and floats to the top of all other applications.

Asset Management Terminologies that you need to know

We’ve put together a list of Asset Management Terminologies to guide you. It doesn’t matter if you’re a beginner or expert, this will act as a cheat sheet to have all the information you require. Take a look.

Marine Insurance takes advantage of the benefits of Big data

Insurance companies can leverage Big data technology to redefine the legacy insurance process to an automated data-driven optimized process. Learn how here.

Cutting Edge Technologies that are Catapulting Precision Medicine into Becoming a Reality

Precision Medicine and personalized treatment plans will allow doctors and researchers to predict more accurately which treatment plans, prevention strategies, and drugs for a particular disease will work in which groups of people.

State of the Art Technology to tackle the Epidemic of Opioid Crisis

Big Data Analytics and AI have proven their mettle in the early detection of drug-seeking behavior and providing crucial data to healthcare providers who can then identify at-risk patients who have a history of drug dependency before they prescribe to them.

A Quick Lesson on the Functions of Insurance and Risk Management

Insurance has some primary functions and various secondary functions and limitations as well. Let’s take a look

Declarative Programming – a new way of App design for Apple platforms

Declarative programming is the way of describing logic with self-explanation which makes anyone understand the code easily. This helps with code readability and the knowledge transfer becomes easier.

Bugsnag- An Automated Crash Discernment Platform for Web and Mobile Applications

Even with the most carefully written code, errors can sometimes still slip through. When such errors occur, it’s important to know about them quickly. That’s where error reporting tools like Bugsnag helps us. Get notified about errors quickly!

Insurance Fraud Detection — all that you need to know

As per the law of Indemnity- one of the basic principles of Insurance states about the claims and by nature of the insurance, it is a vital part of the contract obliged by any insurance provider to compensate the Insured for a covered loss or policy event.

The Relevance of INCO Terminology in Marine Cargo Insurance

The global economy has resulted in a manifold increase in the volume of international trade. This has further resulted in a manifold increase in…

Edge Computing and IoT: Diving into their relationship

Edge Computing has pushed intelligence to an end in the domain of IoT. Data-handling operations are…

Emotional Design in Mobile Applications

Emotions are instrumental. They place a central role in the human ability to perceive, understand and to learn about the world at large.

Textile Industry: Knit IoT for Improved Results

The textile industry faces increasingly tough times as labor costs deepen and customer expectations evolve. Today’s digitally empowered customers…

Five questions to ask when choosing an IoT Provider for your Textile Manufacturing Company

Given the rapid adoption of IoT in manufacturing, becoming IoT-ready is no longer a nice-to-have but need-to-have for textile manufacturing…

The Keys to building a Compliant & Secure Healthcare Application

When the quality of software directly impacts someone’s life, the role of QA becomes that much more crucial.

Materialize is Good, but is it better than Bootstrap or Semantic-UI?

If you are a developer who is confused about the right front-end framework to choose, this article will guide you in picking the framework based…

Big Data Analytics & Healthcare – a challenging yet ideal combination

Big data has fundamentally changed the way healthcare organizations manage, analyze, and leverage data.

Cyber Security: When Prevention is better than the Cure

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Communication and Information Technology in the Reinsurance Business

Reinsurance provides financial stability to insurance companies by increasing their solvency.

Here’s why Web Security is the Need of the Hour

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Kubernetes Breaks Cloud Barriers

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Industrial IoT: A money spinner for textile manufacturers

As manufacturing enterprises actively seek innovation to compete effectively and differentiate themselves amidst digital disruption, IoT…

Let’s now Automate App Store Connect with APIs!

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Healthcare PHI Interoperability & Management

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Insight on when to use Docker

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Artificial Intelligence as a Service

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Becoming a Nimble and Dexterous Developer using WebSockets in NodeJS

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The Subtle Intricacies of Testing & Finding Issues That Matter

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‘Risking’ it With the Next Wave of RPA

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Powering Up Empty States!

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What’s driving Blockchain forward?

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What does it take to be an Agile Tester?

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6 ways to reduce Cloud Application Deployment Costs

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Effective and Efficient Cross-Browser/Device Testing

When we develop and deliver a web application or a mobile app, do we know on which browser,..

Insight into the Next Generation IpadOS

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How can Machine Learning Transform E-Commerce?

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Deep Linking in Mobile Platforms

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Shift Left — An approach towards Continuous Quality Improvement

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5 Ways Artificial Intelligence shapes the Future of Test Automation

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MQTT in IoT Communication

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An Insight into Payoda’s Experience in IoT Quality Assurance

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