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Dec 23, 2021

Top 4 Python development Companies in Chennai

1. Techno Kryon

Techno Kryon is a web development company in Chennai. They have Offshore Python developers with more than 5 years of experience in building web applications using Python technology. Their services are result and quality oriented.

Company Website: https://www.technokryon.com

Employee Reviews

Like Work Culture, Team Coordination
A place where we can learn and work as a family.A small company with a high working culture.

Employees Review

“Great place to explore, challenge and strengthen your skills. An actively growing company, you’d love to be a part of!”
“There are so many great things about working at 10Decoders. It provides great opportunities to develop my technical skills. An overall, work is good in its way, the client and co-workers are well supported. Excellent place to start your career with. Has multiple domains to gain knowledge on”
“Friendly Staff and Friendly co-workers, best work to improve ourselves and learn new technologies”

Technologies we Work On

Back End: Java, Python, Node.js Front End: React.js, Angular Framework: Django, Flask, FastAPI, Spring / Spring Boot, Express Database: MongoDB, DynamoDB, MySQL, MS SQL Infrastructure: Azure, AWS, Google Cloud, Digital Ocean

Django
Flask

Industries from Where Our Clients Belong

FinTech
Healthcare & MedTech
Agriculture

3. iStudio Technologies

iStudio Technologies is a web designing company in Chennai. Being one of the top Python development companies in Chennai, iStudio Technologies have experts for Python Django development who can provide end to end solution for web application development.

Company Website https://www.istudiotech.in

Employee Reviews

Good atmosphere filled with talented people. U get motivated and trained. Great place to take you ahead in your career.
Working for more than a year. Have learned and enhanced my skills. Good management to keep you motivated.

Technologies they work on

Back End: Java, Node.js, Php,Python Front End: React.js, Angular, Flutter Framework: Django, Express JS Database: MongoDB

Industries from where their Clients belong

Healthcare E-Commerce Retail

4. Dextra Technologies

Dextra Technologies is a web Application, Website Development and Digital Marketing Company in Chennai. They have a team of professional experts for website and web portal development.

Company Website https://dextratechnologies.com

Employee Reviews

Great Place to Work Leadership team handle very difficult circumstances all the time in the most graceful way possible

Technologies they work on

Back End: Python, Php Front End: HTML, CSS, jquery, Bootstrap Framework: ASP.NET MVC Framework Database: MS SQL Server, MySql, Oracle

Industries from where their Clients belong

Healthcare E-Commerce Education

Case Studies

Aug 24, 2021

Top 5 Java Development companies in Chennai

There is a constant requirement for new technologies in this digital era. Even though many new languages are in high demand, the demand for Java

There is a constant requirement for new technologies in this digital era. Java language always have a high demand in spite of many new languages coming up. We have shortlisted the top 5 Java development companies in Chennai. A brief overview of each of these top 5 Java companies is given below

1. Hakuna Matata Tech Solutions

Hakuna Matata Tech solution develops applications by using latest digital technologies to come-up with Client specific solutions which can transform enterprises from their traditional processes impacting their efficiency and productivity to have a rapid growth

Company Website https://www.hakunamatatatech.com/ Number Of Employees 200+

Employees Review

“Good place to start working”
“Excellent work culture and platform for learning”
“Good place to learn and grow”

Technologies They Work On Android, Java, iOS, Xamarin, ElectronJS, Node.JS, CSS, HTML, AngularJS, C#, Microsoft SQL Server, Swift, .NET Core, Laravel, MongoDB, Php, JQuery, MySQL, JavaScript Industries From Where Their Clients Belong

Media
Healthcare
Manufacturing
Retail
Construction

2. Siam Computing

Siam computing is one of the top software development companies in Chennai. They have professional services for developing and improving software solutions. The developers make sure that they effectively use the latest technology and the latest digital strategies and technology are integrated

Company Website https://siamcomputing.com/ Number Of Employees 60+

Employees Review

“One of the best companies I have worked for”
“Best Place to develop your skills”
“Web development – The best place to develop your skills”

Technologies They Work On PHP, Python, Node.JS, ReactJS, Angular, Laravel, Django, MySQL, Microsoft SQL, MongoDB, HTML5, CSS3

Industries From Where Their Clients Belong

Real Estate
Marketing and Advertising
Education
Information Technology
Financial & Payments

3. 10Decoders Consultancy Services Private Limited

10decoders is a cloud engineering company with solid experience architecting and building highly scalable and highly available systems on the cloud. 10decoders helps startups and businesses to scale their remote teams with the right people 10decoders has a vast client base and experience working on silicon valley startups, healthcare giants & Fin-tech companies in the USA & Canada. 10decoders specialize in AgriTech and RegulatoryTech product implementations also Started as a small company with 5 members in 2015, 10decoders has grown into a team of 80 members with capabilities across web, mobile, and cloud engineering

Company Website https://10decoders.com/ Number of Employees 80+

Employees Review

“Great place to explore, challenge and strengthen your skills. An actively growing company, you'd love to be a part of!”
“There are so many great things about working at 10Decoders. It provides great opportunities to develop my technical skills. An overall, work is good in its way, the client and co-workers are well supported. Excellent place to start your career with. Has multiple domains to gain knowledge on”
“Friendly Staff and Friendly co-workers, best work to improve ourselves and learn new technologies”

Technologies we Work On

Front End: React.js, Angular Back End: Java, Python, Node.js Framework: Django, Flask, FastAPI, Spring / Spring Boot, Express Database: MongoDB, DynamoDB, MySQL, MS SQL Infrastructure: Azure, AWS, Google Cloud, Digital Ocean

Industries From Where Our Clients Belong

FinTech
Healthcare & MedTech
Agriculture

4. Zencode Technologies

Zencode offers a wide range of business solutions to its customers. From mobile application development to artificial intelligence and data analytics, they cover everything. Their main aim is to provide top-notch services to the customers to fulfill their varying business needs. Over the years, they have offered out customized business solutions to a huge number of industries which include Finance, Engineering, E-commerce, Logistics, and Healthcare

Company Website https://zencode.guru/ Number Of Employees 51-200

Employees Review

“Working in Zencode will build your confidence as you are encouraged at every step in your work”
“Good work culture and environment. The company is striving towards innovation and latest technology, providing opportunities for employees to learn and grow professionally”

Technologies They Work On PHP, AngularJS, ReactJS, JavaScript, MySQL, AJAX, jQuery, CSS, and HTML

Industries From Where Their Clients Belong

Hospitality & Leisure
Business Services
Financial Services

5. Agriya

Agriya is a software development company with more than 150 employees spread across two development centers in India. Their head office is located in Chennai. Agirya is listed in top 10 software companies in Chennai due its top-quality work. The company was established in 2000

Company Website https://www.agriya.com/ Number Of Employees 50 – 249

Employees Review

“Peaceful environment to work”
“Perfect company to kick-start your career”
“Great concern to learn and work with new technologies”

Technologies They Work On HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Ajax, Bootstrap, Angular.JS, Backbone.JS, Vue.JS, React Native, PHP, Java, .Net, Python, Ruby Rails, Node.JS, Android, iOS, C++, C#, C, Swift

Industries From Where Their Clients Belong

Information Technology
Art, Entertainment & Music
Business Services
Advertising & Marketing
Retail

Agile Delivery Process

10decoders has a very strong focus on process. We help our clients to capture the requirements in clear process flows and screen design. Understand how our process driven culture helps customer to grow their business

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Technologies

Aug 13, 2021

Why and when choose custom Software development?

Custom software development is the process of designing, developing, deploying and maintaining software for a certain set of Users or a specific Organization. Any software will meet the generalized need of the end-users

Introduction

Custom software development is the process of designing, developing, deploying, and maintaining software for a certain set of Users or a specific Organization. Any software will meet the generalized need of the end-users. The existing software may not address all the needs of the Organization. In such a case they move in for customization of the existing software. Customized solutions are developed to meet the needs of the User

Overview of market share

Custom Software Development Services Market is huge and is growing at a moderate speed with substantial growth rates over the last few years and is estimated that the market will grow significantly in the next few years. The Custom Software Development Services Market is driven by the growing requirements for customized software among Organizations. Moreover, organizations are always looking for reducing long-term costs. Custom software development is becoming popular among organizations that are largely looking for scaling up of their business operations. A holistic evaluation report of the market is provided by the Global custom software development services market. The report offers a comprehensive analysis of key segments, trends, drivers, restraints, competitive landscape, and factors that are playing a substantial role in the market.

How custom software development process Works

The process followed in custom software development is same as SDLC. It starts with Planning and Analysis followed by Design, Development, Testing, and finally maintenance of the completed product. The main goal of planning and analysis is to collect as much data as possible. The design transforms the requirements into a detailed system design requirements document. It is like a blueprint for the solution which is used for developing the code. Developing code is the actual implementation phase, which is followed by rigorous testing. Testing is done until all issues are identified and resolved. Finally, the product is deployed into the live environment. And the product gets into the maintenance phase.

Reason to choose custom software development

Generally, developing an application from scratch is a complex and time-consuming process. If there is not much time and a solution needs to be implemented as quickly as possible, then custom software development would be a better choice. The next factor to be considered is software development cost. Ready-to-use applications can save the budget if they provide the desired functions and match the standard requirements and do not need any customization. In case the ready-to-use application can’t meet the demands of all kinds and the development team needs to handle complex processes and comply with high security and industry regulations then a custom software development process would be the best option.

What are the Benefits of the Custom Software development process

Some of the benefits of the custom software development process

Uniqueness

One of the important benefits of custom applications is uniqueness. Tailored solutions are built to fit the user’s specifications. A development team experienced in custom software development help to deliver a solution that will include the features requested.

Flexibility & Scalability

Regular software cannot be manipulated and it will remain constant. It will become unsuitable to keep using it. But custom software can be scaled according to the needs of the company and easily integrated with business. So the user need not change according to the application but the application can be changed according to the user.

Cost effectiveness

Readily available software might be less expensive but it might have some recurring costs which will make it less beneficial. They might also lack some critical functionality. In such cases developing a product from scratch might cost more. When existing software is customized, a huge sum of money need not be invested.

Security

While customizing or developing software, the important feature that needs to be handled is security When an organization needs to support expensive security protocols, it might be an add-on cost to them. But with customized software, they can decide about the security technology to be used and choose one which is ideal for their business.

Team Capabilities

Team experience and technical skills A software team with strong technical skills, in-depth knowledge of the latest technologies, and experience with multiple companies need to be considered for customizing software.

Cost Structure

When a third party is hired for customizing software, it should be ensured that they give a clear picture of all the costs involved and do not keep the costs hidden.

Communication Skills

The custom software development team should be strong in communication skills. Their strong communication skills will help them to understand the details of the unique requirements needed by the client. When they have a clear understanding, they can carefully design and develop software with accuracy.

Why choose 10Decoders for custom software development?

10Decoders team has worked on customizing multiple types of applications for many clients.
We have also tried and tested various methodologies for successful completion.
Also, we work with highly secured and safe systems. So your data will be protected in our hands.
Depending on the complexity of Customization our charges are reasonable. And we do not have any hidden costs.
We have Engineers who are highly skilled in multiple technologies, who can readily work on customizing your needs.

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Technologies

Aug 13, 2021

Voice Enabled Banking and Chatbots with Dialogflow

Banking chatbots generate better results and superior customer experiences for the banking industry and other financial institutions

Introduction

Banking chatbots generate better results and superior customer experiences for the banking industry and other financial institutions. They help the customers in multiple ways like getting account balances, to apply for loan or credit card, transfer funds, pay bills, or to update the profile details. Regular customer interactions can be automated partially or fully using a banking chatbot which is available 24/7. A voice enabled

What is Chatbot?

chatbot is a variation of a conversational AI solution. It leverages NLP combined with speech-to-text(self-developed or already existing platforms) and automates speech recognition to deliver resolution immediately. Voice Assistants can either be a complete voice-based model or as a multimodal chatbot supporting both text and voice

What is Dialogflow?

Dialogflow is a natural language understanding platform used to design and integrate a conversational user interface into mobile apps, web applications, devices, bots, interactive voice response systems, and related uses

Overview of Market Share

The global chatbot market size was estimated at USD 430.9 million in 2020. The growth is expected to be driven by the increasing adoption of customer service activities among enterprises to reduce operating costs. A chatbot is an interactive application developed using either a set of rules or artificial intelligence technology. A chatbot is basically developed using AI technology or a set of rules. It is designed in such a way that it can interact with humans through text. To assists users in various sectors, it is integrated with other messaging services. Various innovative ideas are implemented in Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies which will enhance the features of chatbots, which, in turn, will create greater demand for chatbots. Since businesses are looking for ways to automate their sales and other services Chatbots are becoming popular. This helps the organizations to stick to the schedule at reduced cost.

How do Chatbots work?

1A user sends a text/voice message to a device or an App
The App/Device transfers the message to Dialogflow( via detecting API )
The message is categorized and matched to a corresponding intent (Intents are defined manually by developers in Dialogflow)
We define the following actions for each intent in the fulfillment (Webhook)
When a certain intent is found by Dialogflow, the webhook will use external APIs to find a response in external databases
The external databases send back the required information to the webhook
Webhook sends a formatted response to the intent
Intent generates actionable data according to different channels
The actionable data go to output Apps/Devices
The user gets a text/image/voice response

How to build your first Chatbots?

Agent: An agent is merely another term used to refer to the chatbot. While using Dialogflow, you will find that many people start off by asking you to ‘name the agent.’ This just means giving your chatbot a name, so even in this context, it's one and the same Intent – ‘Intents’ are how a chatbot understands Expressions Responses: This is the chatbot’s output that is aimed at satisfying the user’s intent Entities: ‘Entities’ are Dialogflow’s mechanism. It helps to identify and extract useful data from the natural language inputs given by user. Actions & Parameters are also Dialogflow mechanisms Actions & Parameters These too, are Dialogflow mechanisms. They serve as a method to identify/annotate the keywords/values in the training phrases by connecting them with Entities We will see how to create a chatbot in Dialogflow using the following

Step1: Login with DialogFlow Account

Go to https://dialogflow.cloud.google.com
Click ‘Go to console’ in the top right corner
Login with a Gmail account

Step2: Create a new Agent

Start off by clicking ‘Create Agent’ in the column menu to your left
Give your Bot a name! We’re going to call ours a ‘Testing’
Be sure to select your time zone and language as required
Click ‘Create’

Step3: Create a new Intent

Click “Intent” on the left side
Add the Intent Name and Training Phrases
If you have already created Entity, Please mark the entity for the corresponding questions. Here I have created one entity as “Cheque” and marked that keyword to that training phrase
After that, we need to add the response in the Intent
Click “Save” in Intent

Step4: Check Question

We are able to check the questions on the right side of the top corner and it will give the intent name, Entity name and answer also

Best features

Some best features are given below

Self Service Customer Support Self Service via a voice bot is more scalable and customer-centric. Giving your customers a voice bot as the first mode of communication can help them resolve their queries faster and for major queries, the AI-enabled voice bot can transfer the call or the message to the right agent
Zero Wait Time Calling any customer support center can be a nightmare for most people, basically, because of the wait time and redirections. Enabling FAQs on automating general queries on IVR, Alexa or Google Assistant can save a lot of time and the agent can take over or the call can be transferred to the agent only for critical issues
24/7 Availability Humans require rest, but machines do not. Even if your agent is not available, the voice bots can resolve the queries for your customers and take their details in case of urgent queries. And your agent can contact them at their earliest convenience
Break from Monotonous Texts Provide a multimodal Intelligent Virtual assistant supporting both chat and voice, rather than just a text-based chatbot. Just a text-based chatbot requires a lot of patience, and time from the user’s end. And also sometimes it becomes difficult to understand voiceless messages as it lacks sentiments. AI-enabled voice bot is highly automated, intelligent, and customer-friendly; making it a need of the hour for brand-customer engagement platforms
No human contact Pandemic made it really clear the need for an automated customer support system, as most customer support offices were closed down. Many businesses and banking institutions were seen adopting IVR support for resolving customer queries like Kotak, ICICI, etc
Save Cost An automated AI-enabled voice bot increases your team’s productivity, by taking care of all repetitive queries. Your team can just focus on critical queries, thus saving a lot of time and money for your business
Increased Productivity Using voice bots, your customers can handle multiple tasks simultaneously, and in one call. Customers can schedule appointments, organize and modify meetings, check balance, do transactions, get account details, set reminders, etc

Tech Stack and Team Capabilities

A company can use Dialogflow to create messaging bots that respond to customer queries in platforms like Alexa Voice Services (AVS), Google Assistant, Facebook Messenger, Slack, Twitter, Skype, Twilio, Telegram, and several other messaging integrations. Dialogflow can be integrated into WhatsApp, too

Other chatbot platforms

Google Dialogflow
Amazon Lex
IBM Watson Assistant
Facebook’s Wit.ai
Microsoft Azure Bot Service

Programming Language support

Dialogflow supports the following programming languages c#, Go, Java, Node.js, PHP, Python, and Ruby Choosing NodeJS is clearly a straightforward choice because NodeJS is asynchronous

Platform case study with a link

You can browse the sample code about Dialogflow integration from Google at GitHub with the links below

Language	Links
C#	GoogleCloudPlatform/dotnet-docs-samples/
Go	GoogleCloudPlatform/golang-samples
Java	googleapis/java-dialogflow
Node.js	googleapis/nodejs-dialogflow
PHP	GoogleCloudPlatform/php-docs-samples
Python	googleapis/python-dialogflow
Ruby	googleapis/google-cloud-ruby

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Technologies

Aug 12, 2021

Mobile Application Development Frameworks in 2021

Mobile apps have already become a vital part of our daily lives. Whether you want to go for a ride or book a movie ticket or virtually connect with your favorite ones, etc

Introduction

Right from booking a movie ticket to go on a ride or to virtually connect with your loves ones, we use the respective app in smart phone. Due to the development in technology everything is in our finger tips. Now many frameworks are available for developing mobile applications. This framework is classified into three types – Web apps, Native apps and Hybrid apps. Brief overview of these categories are given below

Native Apps: A Native App is an application that is specifically designed for a particular platform or device
Web Apps: A Web App is designed to deliver web pages on different web platforms for any device
Hybrid Apps: A Hybrid App is a combination of both native & web applications. It can be developed for any platform from a single code base

Overview of market share

By 2025, the Mobile Application Development Platform market may reach $20.7 billion at a CAGR of 21.7% during the period 2021-2025. Nowadays many organizations are using mobile technology for better management of their business functions. This has increased the demand for mobile application development platforms. The rising use of mobile devices by organizations, growing adoption of bringing your own device (BYOD) trend, and adoption of cloud technology drive the mobile application development platform market. In addition, the need for automation in mobile application development and favorable government initiatives for digitalization in emerging countries are analyzed to drive the market in the forecast period 2020-2025

What are the best features to have

React Native

React Native is the best JavaScript library to build native applications for all devices and platforms. With React Native, React Native can be used to develop applications for both iOS and Android. It also allows creating platform-specific versions of various components allowing easy use of a single codebase across multiple platforms

Some of the React Native features are

Low-code
Compatible third-party plugins
Declarative API for predictive UI
Supports iOS and Android

Why Choose React Native?

Cross-Platform Functionality
Cost-Effective Development
Third-Party Plugins
Handy Libraries
Allows Code Reusability
Most Popular Framework
Used Advanced JavaScript
Assures High-Performing App

Developer’s tools

Emulator, SDK, Android Studio
JS Editor
Xcode and also needs a $100/year developer’s account for the development and publishing of apps

Flutter

Flutter is a UI toolkit by Google to help in building native applications for the web, mobile, and desktop. This UI toolkit is featured with fully customized widgets, which supports creating native applications in a short period. Besides, Flutter’s layered architecture ensures a faster rendering of components. Some of the striking Flutter features are

Built-in material design
Built-in Cupertino (iOS-flavor) widgets
Rich motion APIs
Supports both iOS & Android
Strong widget support
High-performance application

Why Choose Flutter?

Single Codebase for Multiplatforms
Powerful UI Experiences
Less Development Time
Customizable Experience
Platform-Specific Logic Implementation
Native-Alike Performance
Perfect for MVP

Developer’s tools

Emacs
Android Studio
VS Code

Swiftic

Swiftic is one of the best mobile app development frameworks available on the iOS platform. It is featured with an easily navigable interface

Some of the significant features are

Interesting push notification
Become a loyal shopper with a loyalty card
Build your mobile store
In-app coupons
Use scratch cards to win prizes
Easy Communication
Menu & Ordering
Customer Engagement
App Promotion
Social & Media Feeds
App Publication Assistance
Advanced Analytics
Third-party integration

Native Android Development

It is featured with an easily navigable interface Android development gives you the maximum flexibility in terms of creating a custom complicated design with sophisticated animations and transitions, using the hardware features of the device like microphone, camera and sensors. Native apps are usually created with Java, Kotlin, or C++ languages. You can however use some other languages like Scala and even Swift, but it will require additional third-party tooling

Java / Kotlin

Java is often used by developers for developing native android development. Kotlin is a new programming language which is being used for android app development in the recent years. Because of its interoperability with Java and its simpler syntax, it is used for native Android app development. Kotlin’s lesser code helps in faster development. Kotlin’s code is run the same way as Java as it uses Java virtual Machine Kotlin is used for native Android app development because of its simpler syntax and its interoperability with Java. In Kotlin’s case, simpler syntax means less code and faster development In fact, Kotlin uses the Java Virtual Machine, and its code will run the same way as Java. The compiler will generate a bytecode - a set of instructions that will be executed by JVM. This is why we could see seasoned Java fans switching to Kotlin as soon as it was released

Frequently Asked Questions

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Case Studies

Aug 12, 2021

Remote Monitoring by Doctors

Communication between Doctor and patient is very important for recovery of a patient. With the help of remote monitoring devices, patients need not travel back and forth between their house and hospital

Introduction

Communication between Doctor and patient is very important for the recovery of a patient. Remote monitoring devices avoids the back and forth travel of patients between hospital and their house. Their health condition can be regularly monitored by using remote devices and hospitalization of the patient can be prevented. Remote patient monitoring is shortly abbreviated as RPM and is a method of capturing patient’s health data. It captures all vital information of a patient such as BP, Sugar level, heart rate, etc. Remote monitoring has proved to be advantageous by reducing patient readmission and allow treatment sooner

Overview of market share

The global remote patient monitoring market is projected to reach USD 117.1 billion by 2025 from USD 23.2 billion in 2020, at a CAGR of 38.2% between 2020 and 2025. The factors that boost the demand for remote patient monitoring are a reduction in the number of health care staff and an increase in awareness of telemedicine. There is a growth in the market due to the efforts taken for the discovery of Innovative devices Patient remote monitoring is becoming a sturdy market

How remote monitoring Works

Even while at home patients can carry out their normal activities and monitor their health. The remote monitoring devices helps them to monitor their health and collect data These monitoring devices are integrated with patient monitoring apps. The apps transmits the data electronically to their Doctor Doctors then examine this patient data from a distance. In case of a patient who needs immediate treatment or attention, alerts are sent to the patient’s mobile and they receive it in the form of notifications. This remote monitoring technology helps to detect any issue at an earlier stage

What are the best features to have in remote patient monitoring apps

Some of the best to have features of remote patient monitoring apps

Notifications

Timely notification is an important feature of remote patient monitoring. Timely notification may prevent them from a serious illness. Also, notifications should be in sync for both patient and doctor

Integration with devices

Integrating with monitoring devices is an important feature. When integrated, the app will be able to collect data from these devices from time to time which might help to monitor progress over a period of time

HIPAA Compliance

Patient data is highly sensitive and it needs to be protected. It should be ensured that it meets HIPAA compliance Remote monitoring apps should have physical, network, and process security measures to ensure HIPAA compliance

Support for BLE

Remote monitoring apps need to support Bluetooth connectivity which is very essential for the transfer of data between monitoring devices and apps

Integration with doctor’s system

Integration with a Doctor’s system through secure API built on FHIR industry standard to ensure proper exchange of data between multiple systems is an important feature that needs to be handled

Tech Stack

Blockchain

The patient and Doctor are connected through voice and video calls. Encryption of patient data prior to transmission is very important. Blockchain technology is used for encrypting the sensitive patient data

Cloud Storage

Cloud services are used for storage of data as it improves privacy and security control of the app. Also, data retrieval is very quick from the cloud servers. So storage and transfer become efficient

Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence-based Chatbots are used for patients to get their queries answered as doctors are not available round the clock

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Success Stories

Aug 12, 2021

How to work with offshore teams and manage remote offshore teams successfully?

Working with offshore teams is a common practice in the IT industry. Web and mobile app development are among the most common tasks that are outsourced to offshore development teams

Introduction

Working with offshore teams is a common practice in the IT industry. Web and mobile app development are among the most common tasks that are outsourced to offshore development teams. Outsourcing to an offshore team allows you to hire expert professionals for a fraction of the price that you would have to pay if you would hire full-time in-house employees. Along with salary of the employee, other expenses like health insurance, insurance contribution, and bonuses can also be saved. You are not required to spend money on office space, IT infrastructure, and utilities such as electricity. Moreover, a business can easily decrease or increase the size of the team according to its requirements. Thus, businesses enjoy both flexibility and scalability by outsourcing their projects to offshore teams

Overview of Offshore Teams

An offshore team usually implies a certain number of specialists who work for you remotely. They can be located at any place and the communication is done through phone calls, messengers like slack or video calls through zoom, meet. Hiring remote developers can be of great help financially. It helps to save cost. Such practice was usually associated with small companies that had a lack of financing. However, today the situation is different and even huge companies turn offshore as it has a number of undeniable benefits

Here are 5 reasons why businesses hire offshore teams:

Controlled Costs
Drastically Improved Efficiency
Focus on Overlooked Areas
Access to a Global Talent
Flexibility

Handling the Common Challenges in Offshore Team Management

Here are the most common challenges that clients come across while handing their offshore teams

Communication Challenges

There are two things that can make or break the whole project: time-zone difference and language skills of an offshore vendor. The time zone difference creates difficulty in communicating with an outsourced team. So the calls are postponed which in turn lowers productivity and causes delay in project delivery How to overcome the challenge - There might be few hours overlap in time zone. This overlap can be used effectively for various activities like feedback, checking project progress and for communicating with the remote team When all the expectations are set up front, it becomes much easier to achieve them, as well as monitor the development process. The outsourced team has to clearly understand what is expected from them and what the requirements for the future product are

Lack of Control

For some managers, it is very crucial to be in charge of each step on the development timeline– So working with an independent vendor is not a comfortable experience. Not being able to ensure the project progresses according to plan is one of the challenges that come with outsourcing How to overcome the challenge - To know how to manage a remote development team, a business manager can send a trusted employee to work at the dedicated office and oversee project development. Asking for a personal account manager who keeps tabs on the product’s progress is another way to get more control over the development

Ineffective Project Management

what’s happening at each stage of development, are the red signs that something is wrong. If you came across these offshore team challenges, it can either mean that the vendor is incompetent or aren't following the methods that you use in your work How to overcome the challenges – The outsourced team should understand clearly and follow the development methodology a project needs. Make sure that the outsourcing company does have access to the technologies or tools needed for the completion of the project

How to Get Maximum Productivity from an Offshore Team

Daily Meetups

Communication is the key to development success. That goes for any kind of group effort, and doubly so when the people are geographically disparate. When your team is far away from you, it should be ensured that you are updated about the progress of work. For updates about the progress of work, project management models like Scrum, Kanban or Agile can be used. To make the most out of it, use one of the project management models (Scrum, Kanban, Agile, etc.) while working with the outsourcing agency. By ensuring that your people all talk to each other daily, you’re keeping information flowing. Everyone knows what’s being worked on, and what their part is

Sprint Planning

Despite the daily stand-up, everyone is going to be largely working on their own tasks, and there’s a real danger of people’s work getting in each other’s way. The planning meeting is when those tasks are explained and handed out. If you’re following Agile (which you should), then you’ll have a scrum master and a product owner both participating to ensure that everyone comes out of the meeting knowing exactly what to do and why. As for the length of the sprint, that’s up to you

Discuss Your Project Goals

Just assigning a project to an offshore team without letting them know the goal behind it can land you in trouble. The developed product may not be as you expected it to be. Offshore developers require full product vision before starting working on the project. They should be given complete details like why the product is required, what functions will be carried out by the product, what all specifications is required in the product, and when it is expected to be

Make Use of Agile Methodology

As software development is a process that requires a high level of interaction and iteration, the adoption of agile methodology for offshore teams helps in the development and delivery of a high-quality software product on time In some cases a sprint may be just one weeks’ time or it may be one or two months. Based on priority, features can be allocated to different sprints. At the beginning of each sprint, you and your offshore team can have a discussion regarding the features to be developed and create a detailed plan. Whenever required face to face communication can be initiated with your remote team.

Communicate Frequently and Use Simple Language

When working with your remote team, you can communicate very easily and frequently by initiating face-to-face talk whenever you require. With offshore teams, you should communicate even more frequently so that all the things are clear and there is no confusion despite the large distance between your in-house and offshore teams

Communicating with Offshore Teams

Here are some highly recommendable communication tools that help you when you are working with remote teams

JIRA

This includes everything from planning till analytics. It allows to set clear and actionable goals. Their progress can be easily tracked. Jira is customizable and it is capable of working equally good for all of the Agile methodologies

Confluence

Another product from the makers of Jira, Confluence is one of the best collaborative document systems and it is more like Google Docs. On the surface, it’s similar to Google Docs. Multiple people can share a document, view and edit it simultaneously. Changes can be both suggested as well as accepted. The software supports templates for different documents. Above all, Confluence can interface perfectly with Jira. The software supports user-definable templates for different documents, labeling, and cross-document notes. On top of all that, Confluence interfaces perfectly with Jira. Taken together, the tools make a very powerful collaboration system

Bitbucket

Bitbucket Cloud is a Git-based code hosting and collaboration tool, built for teams. Bitbucket's best-in-class Jira and Trello integrations are designed to bring the entire software team together to execute a project. It helps you to track, preview, and confidently promote your deployments

GitHub

GitHub hosts your source code projects in a variety of different programming languages and keeps track of the various changes made to every iteration. It lets you and others work together on projects from anywhere

TeamViewer

TeamViewer, is an all-in-one solution for remote support, remote access, and online meetings which allows you to assist customers remotely, work with colleagues from a distance and also stay connected with your own devices or assist friends and family members. It even supports mobile devices, a must for mobile app development

Slack or Skype

Both slack and Skype have a chat room and supports the private messaging feature, with VoIP and video calls. They feature robust chat room and private messaging functionality, along with VoIP and even video calls. Use these tools correctly, and you’ll eliminate all of the communication problems endemic to offshoring

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Aug 12, 2021

How to effectively use JIRA to drive the agile transformation of your organization?

Agile transformation is the sustained organization-wide process of helping individuals and organizations undergo the necessary mindset shift to reap the full benefits of agility

Introduction

Agile transformation is the sustained organization-wide process of helping individuals and organizations undergo the necessary mindset shift to reap the full benefits of agility. What makes Agile transformation necessary for the traditional business is the constant state of change as well as the democratization of value definition and delivery. By transforming the entire organization to be more Agile, big companies can retain a competitive advantage. Agile transformation is necessary for organizations to thrive in today’s markets and into the future As a leading collaboration platform for agile teams, JIRA Software boasts powerful features for marketers. JIRA is a proprietary issue tracking product, developed by Atlassian. It provides bug tracking, issue tracking, and project management functions. Also, JIRA has integrated solutions for cross-functional projects. You can easily bring all teams together to collaborate on a shared goal

Overview of Market Share

Looking at Atlassian JIRA customers by industry, Computer Software (26%) and Information Technology and Services (14%) are the largest segments. Atlassian TEAM delivered better-than-expected fourth-quarter fiscal 2021 results. The company’s non-IFRS (International Financing Reporting Standards) earnings per share of 24 cents beat the Zacks Consensus Estimate of 18 cents Atlassian forecast adjusted earnings between 38 cents and 39 cents per share on revenue between $575 million and $590 million for the first quarter. The company witnessed solid demand for its cloud-based products, primarily led by smaller customers, while the cloud migration momentum continued for larger clients Atlassian reported an operating loss of $7.5 million for the quarter, up from a loss of $3.3 million a year ago. Despite the year-over-year dollar increase, the operating margin loss remained 1%. Its shares jumped 24% to $331.96 per share Friday at the last check

How JIRA helps in the Agile Transformation of the Organization?

Creating a Scrum Project

Once you create and log in to an account in Jira Software, you can select a template from the library. Select Scrum and then, you’ll be prompted to choose a project type. If your team works independently and wants to control your own working processes and practices in a self-contained space, consider giving the team-managed Scrum template a try

Creating User Stories or Tasks in the Backlog

In Jira Software, you can create work items like user stories, tasks, and bugs "issues". Create a few user stories with the quick create option on the backlog. If you don't have user stories in mind, just create sample stories to get started and see how the process works. Once you've created a few user stories, you can start prioritizing them in the backlog. In Jira Software, you rank or prioritize your stories by dragging and dropping them in the order that they should be worked on

Creating a Sprint

Create your first sprint in the backlog so you can start planning the sprint Sprint: In Scrum, teams forecast to complete a set of user stories or other work items during a fixed time duration, known as a sprint. Generally speaking, sprints are one, two, or four weeks long. It's up to the team to determine the length of a sprint. Once a sprint cadence is determined, the team perpetually operates on that cadence. Fixed length sprints reinforce estimation skills and predict the future velocity for the team as they work through the backlog

Hold the Sprint Planning Meeting

At the beginning of a sprint, you should hold the sprint planning meeting with your team. The sprint planning meeting is a ceremony that sets up the entire team for success throughout the sprint. In this meeting, the entire team discusses the sprint goal and the stories in the prioritized product backlog. The development team creates detailed tasks and estimates for the high-priority stories. The development team then commits to completing a certain number of stories in the sprint. These stories and the plan for completing them become what is known as the sprint backlog

Start the Sprint in JIRA

Name the sprint. Some teams name the sprint based on their sprint goal. If there is a commonality between the issues in the sprint, name the sprint around that theme. Add a duration of the sprint and start and end dates. The start and end dates should align with your team's schedule Following are the steps to be followed after starting a newsprint

Hold the daily standup meetings
View the Burndown Chart
View the sprint report
Hold the sprint review meeting
Hold the sprint retrospective meeting
Complete the spring it JIRA

If the sprint has incomplete issues, you can move the issue/issues to the backlog, move the issue/issues to a future sprint, or move the issue/issues to newsprint, which Jira will create for you

What are the Best Features of Using JIRA to Drive the Agile Transformation?

Agile Project Management

The platform primarily focuses on agile project management, offering the Scrum approach. It also has the capability to capture regulatory evidence at different stages of the development process. Moreover, Jira Software supports all sorts of estimation techniques, be it by hours, story points, or more. This way, you can make sure that you are working with accurate data at all times

Customizable Workflows

With Jira, you can even create custom workflows and issue schemes in more specific cases. This will take much of your developers’ burden off their shoulders, and empower your project management units to maximize the potential of their idea. If you’re using Jira’s cloud-based solution, the configuration will take even less time And custom dashboards are a one-stop-shop for all of the information you need to organize projects, and achievements in a single view

Product Roadmaps

It is a plan of action for how a product or solution will evolve over time. When used in agile development, a roadmap provides crucial context for the team's everyday work and should be responsive to shifts in the competitive landscape. To build a roadmap, product owners take into account market trajectories, value propositions, and engineering constraints. Once these factors are reasonably well-understood, they are expressed in a roadmap as initiatives and timelines. Once a roadmap is built, it needs to be shared with the entire product team so everyone understands the vision and direction

Bugs and Defect Management

JIRA helps you to quickly capture, assign and prioritize bugs and track all aspects of the software development cycle. JIRA's powerful workflow engine provides a clear view of a bug's status, and automation keeps you in the know with notifications as issues transition from backlog to done. JIRA gives you full visibility and control of your products' end-to-end development Once you have identified a bug, create an issue and add all relevant details, including descriptions, severity level, screenshots, version, and more. Issues can represent anything from a software bug, a project task to a leave request form, and each unique issue type can have its own custom workflow

Powerful Search and Filtering

JIRA Software comes with advanced search capabilities powered by Jira Query Language(JQL) that offers teams detailed views into their work. Query results can be saved and used as filters and views across Jira (including boards). The three flavors of search in Jira - Quick, Basic, and Advanced - can help you find important information about your projects

Advanced Reporting

JIRA offers reporting in a number of different formats. Project reports that are available from the home screen of the selected project, Gadgets that can be added and arranged in Dashboards and for each filter, the issue navigator offers various output formats that can be used in third-party reporting software

Technological Stack

Business Tools

JIRA

Jira Software is built for every member of your software team to plan, track, and release great software

Acunote

Designed as a simple yet powerful Agile PM and Scrum tool for companies large and small, Acunote allows project teams to plan sprints, identify backlog items and monitor burndown in real-time

Application and Data

Java

A concurrent, class-based, object-oriented, language specifically designed to have as few implementation dependencies as possible

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Aug 12, 2021

How To Build An Asthma Medication And Control app

Asthma Control App, the best medication reminder app, ensures you can take the stress out of medication schedules. A secure, data-driven service supports effective health management for you and those you care for

Introduction

Asthma Control App, the best medication reminder app, ensures you can take the stress out of medication schedules. For supporting effective health management, a data driven and secure service is required. Getting digital reminders and missed dose notification is a simpler and smarter way to manage your medication.

Overview of Market share

Today around 300 million people are suffering from asthma. In a period of 8 years it may rise to 400450 million, which is an increase by about 50%. The asthma apps are currently used by less than 1% of the target group. Analysis is being done to know the reason for this low user adoption rate. What are the reasons behind this low user adoption rate and why with the current asthma app solutions, mHealth publishers have managed to just barely scratch the surface on this market? To answer these questions, let’s look at the Top 10 asthma apps in 2017. The list is exclusive to asthma mobile apps with a core business to serve and empower asthma sufferers. The asthma apps are mainly to help and serve the people suffering from asthma. There are nearly 1,500 mobile apps for asthma patients in Google play store and Apple app store. The preferred mobile platform is iOS accounting for 100% of all top 10 core asthma apps releases from mHealth publishers. 50% of these apps are also published on Android

How does the Asthma control app works?

For many, the concept of an Asthma control app supports you to feel confident with appropriate handling and administering of medication. The asthma control app does this by utilizing digital reminders to notify you when you need to take your medication And it's not only about providing reminders, but also keeping those in your network updated. Missed medication alerts can inform family, carers, and doctors when a dosage has been forgotten to ensure the patient isn't at risk of complications related to mismanaged medication delivery. The Asthma control app, helps to take the right dosage at right time and thereby it helps to have a control over their medication schedule. Something most of us would appreciate with so many other things to remember The app isn't just useful for patients, but carers too. It is very essential to make sure that our family member or friend takes their medication at correct schedule. Everyone's medication requirements differ, which can be tricky to manage, especially if you're assisting with distributing the medication to multiple family members, perhaps elderly parents or children with health conditions. In such cases the flexibility to create customized reminders for your medication schedule helps and makes life easy. Many of us may take common medications which are taken at the same time daily such as contraceptive pills, other medicines may have complicated schedules with several medicines needing Some of us may only be taking common medications that must be taken at the same time each day such as contraception, others may be operating to more complicated schedules with various medicines needing to be taken at regular intervals throughout the day, that's where a medication reminder app can support you

What are the best features to have

Take full control of your asthma with Asthma Control App

A visual dashboard presents your patient's key results. We can get a glimpse of the patient’s actual condition at any time by seeing the progress and trends for various factors like lung tests or inhaler technique rating, in real time. And because the Asthma Control app connects your Inhalers & lung monitors with your smartphone seamlessly, you know you're getting not only medical-grade results but peace of mind. Isn't that all the smarter?

Never miss a dose

Schedule medicine intake on the app and get reminded every single time

The one time you want to keep your family connected

Asthma control app will help you to your family connected with you

Friends connect

By connecting with your friends they will also get notified of the medication you have taken or missed or skipped by receiving a push notification

Notifications and Reminders

It is important for patients to have certain reminders and notifications to get their medication on time. However, the time and frequency of notifications should be adjustable

Inhaler technique

The asthma control app is designed to reach inside your lungs and if your medication is actually only hitting the back of your throat or, worse still, staying on your tongue, you're not giving it enough of a chance of doing its thing

Peak flow meters and spirometers support

By enabling Bluetooth, patients can record and share their health data measurements at anytime and anywhere. This will help the patients to regularly record Facilitating the ability for patients to regularly record and upload data sets about their lung function can keep doctors more informed about a patient's condition than periodical in-person assessments With the portability of the Asthma control app, peak flow meters, and spirometers, patients can share key lung function data with their doctors from anywhere

Tech stack

Mobile Platforms

iOS

Android

API Server

NodeJS

Push Notification

Firebase

Integration

BLE Integration

Database

MongoDB

Programing Language

Java
Swift

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Aug 12, 2021

Remote Monitoring by Doctors

Communication between Doctor and patient is very important for recovery of a patient. With the help of remote monitoring devices, patients need not travel back and forth between their house and hospital

Introduction

Communication between Doctor and patient is very important for the recovery of a patient. Remote monitoring devices avoids the back and forth travel of patients between hospital and their house. Their health condition can be regularly monitored by using remote devices and hospitalization of the patient can be prevented. Remote patient monitoring is shortly abbreviated as RPM and is a method of capturing patient’s health data. It captures all vital information of a patient such as BP, Sugar level, heart rate, etc. Remote monitoring has proved to be advantageous by reducing patient readmission and allow treatment sooner

Overview of market share

The global remote patient monitoring market is projected to reach USD 117.1 billion by 2025 from USD 23.2 billion in 2020, at a CAGR of 38.2% between 2020 and 2025. The factors that boost the demand for remote patient monitoring are a reduction in the number of health care staff and an increase in awareness of telemedicine. There is a growth in the market due to the efforts taken for the discovery of Innovative devices Patient remote monitoring is becoming a sturdy market

How remote monitoring Works

Even while at home patients can carry out their normal activities and monitor their health. The remote monitoring devices helps them to monitor their health and collect data These monitoring devices are integrated with patient monitoring apps. The apps transmits the data electronically to their Doctor Doctors then examine this patient data from a distance. In case of a patient who needs immediate treatment or attention, alerts are sent to the patient’s mobile and they receive it in the form of notifications. This remote monitoring technology helps to detect any issue at an earlier stage

What are the best features to have in remote patient monitoring apps

Some of the best to have features of remote patient monitoring apps

Notifications

Timely notification is an important feature of remote patient monitoring. Timely notification may prevent them from a serious illness. Also, notifications should be in sync for both patient and doctor

Integration with devices

Integrating with monitoring devices is an important feature. When integrated, the app will be able to collect data from these devices from time to time which might help to monitor progress over a period of time

HIPAA Compliance

Patient data is highly sensitive and it needs to be protected. It should be ensured that it meets HIPAA compliance Remote monitoring apps should have physical, network, and process security measures to ensure HIPAA compliance

Support for BLE

Remote monitoring apps need to support Bluetooth connectivity which is very essential for the transfer of data between monitoring devices and apps

Integration with doctor’s system

Integration with a Doctor’s system through secure API built on FHIR industry standard to ensure proper exchange of data between multiple systems is an important feature that needs to be handled

Tech Stack

Blockchain

The patient and Doctor are connected through voice and video calls. Encryption of patient data prior to transmission is very important. Blockchain technology is used for encrypting the sensitive patient data

Cloud Storage

Cloud services are used for storage of data as it improves privacy and security control of the app. Also, data retrieval is very quick from the cloud servers. So storage and transfer become efficient

Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence-based Chatbots are used for patients to get their queries answered as doctors are not available round the clock

Frequently Asked Questions

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Aug 12, 2021

How to work with offshore teams and manage remote offshore teams successfully?

Working with offshore teams is a common practice in the IT industry. Web and mobile app development are among the most common tasks that are outsourced to offshore development teams

Introduction

Working with offshore teams is a common practice in the IT industry. Web and mobile app development are among the most common tasks that are outsourced to offshore development teams. Outsourcing to an offshore team allows you to hire expert professionals for a fraction of the price that you would have to pay if you would hire full-time in-house employees. Along with salary of the employee, other expenses like health insurance, insurance contribution, and bonuses can also be saved. You are not required to spend money on office space, IT infrastructure, and utilities such as electricity. Moreover, a business can easily decrease or increase the size of the team according to its requirements. Thus, businesses enjoy both flexibility and scalability by outsourcing their projects to offshore teams

Overview of Offshore Teams

An offshore team usually implies a certain number of specialists who work for you remotely. They can be located at any place and the communication is done through phone calls, messengers like slack or video calls through zoom, meet. Hiring remote developers can be of great help financially. It helps to save cost. Such practice was usually associated with small companies that had a lack of financing. However, today the situation is different and even huge companies turn offshore as it has a number of undeniable benefits

Here are 5 reasons why businesses hire offshore teams:

Controlled Costs
Drastically Improved Efficiency
Focus on Overlooked Areas
Access to a Global Talent
Flexibility

Handling the Common Challenges in Offshore Team Management

Here are the most common challenges that clients come across while handing their offshore teams

Communication Challenges

There are two things that can make or break the whole project: time-zone difference and language skills of an offshore vendor. The time zone difference creates difficulty in communicating with an outsourced team. So the calls are postponed which in turn lowers productivity and causes delay in project delivery How to overcome the challenge - There might be few hours overlap in time zone. This overlap can be used effectively for various activities like feedback, checking project progress and for communicating with the remote team When all the expectations are set up front, it becomes much easier to achieve them, as well as monitor the development process. The outsourced team has to clearly understand what is expected from them and what the requirements for the future product are

Lack of Control

For some managers, it is very crucial to be in charge of each step on the development timeline– So working with an independent vendor is not a comfortable experience. Not being able to ensure the project progresses according to plan is one of the challenges that come with outsourcing How to overcome the challenge - To know how to manage a remote development team, a business manager can send a trusted employee to work at the dedicated office and oversee project development. Asking for a personal account manager who keeps tabs on the product’s progress is another way to get more control over the development

Ineffective Project Management

what’s happening at each stage of development, are the red signs that something is wrong. If you came across these offshore team challenges, it can either mean that the vendor is incompetent or aren't following the methods that you use in your work How to overcome the challenges – The outsourced team should understand clearly and follow the development methodology a project needs. Make sure that the outsourcing company does have access to the technologies or tools needed for the completion of the project

How to Get Maximum Productivity from an Offshore Team

Daily Meetups

Communication is the key to development success. That goes for any kind of group effort, and doubly so when the people are geographically disparate. When your team is far away from you, it should be ensured that you are updated about the progress of work. For updates about the progress of work, project management models like Scrum, Kanban or Agile can be used. To make the most out of it, use one of the project management models (Scrum, Kanban, Agile, etc.) while working with the outsourcing agency. By ensuring that your people all talk to each other daily, you’re keeping information flowing. Everyone knows what’s being worked on, and what their part is

Sprint Planning

Despite the daily stand-up, everyone is going to be largely working on their own tasks, and there’s a real danger of people’s work getting in each other’s way. The planning meeting is when those tasks are explained and handed out. If you’re following Agile (which you should), then you’ll have a scrum master and a product owner both participating to ensure that everyone comes out of the meeting knowing exactly what to do and why. As for the length of the sprint, that’s up to you

Discuss Your Project Goals

Just assigning a project to an offshore team without letting them know the goal behind it can land you in trouble. The developed product may not be as you expected it to be. Offshore developers require full product vision before starting working on the project. They should be given complete details like why the product is required, what functions will be carried out by the product, what all specifications is required in the product, and when it is expected to be

Make Use of Agile Methodology

As software development is a process that requires a high level of interaction and iteration, the adoption of agile methodology for offshore teams helps in the development and delivery of a high-quality software product on time In some cases a sprint may be just one weeks’ time or it may be one or two months. Based on priority, features can be allocated to different sprints. At the beginning of each sprint, you and your offshore team can have a discussion regarding the features to be developed and create a detailed plan. Whenever required face to face communication can be initiated with your remote team.

Communicate Frequently and Use Simple Language

When working with your remote team, you can communicate very easily and frequently by initiating face-to-face talk whenever you require. With offshore teams, you should communicate even more frequently so that all the things are clear and there is no confusion despite the large distance between your in-house and offshore teams

Communicating with Offshore Teams

Here are some highly recommendable communication tools that help you when you are working with remote teams

JIRA

This includes everything from planning till analytics. It allows to set clear and actionable goals. Their progress can be easily tracked. Jira is customizable and it is capable of working equally good for all of the Agile methodologies

Confluence

Another product from the makers of Jira, Confluence is one of the best collaborative document systems and it is more like Google Docs. On the surface, it’s similar to Google Docs. Multiple people can share a document, view and edit it simultaneously. Changes can be both suggested as well as accepted. The software supports templates for different documents. Above all, Confluence can interface perfectly with Jira. The software supports user-definable templates for different documents, labeling, and cross-document notes. On top of all that, Confluence interfaces perfectly with Jira. Taken together, the tools make a very powerful collaboration system

Bitbucket

Bitbucket Cloud is a Git-based code hosting and collaboration tool, built for teams. Bitbucket's best-in-class Jira and Trello integrations are designed to bring the entire software team together to execute a project. It helps you to track, preview, and confidently promote your deployments

GitHub

GitHub hosts your source code projects in a variety of different programming languages and keeps track of the various changes made to every iteration. It lets you and others work together on projects from anywhere

TeamViewer

TeamViewer, is an all-in-one solution for remote support, remote access, and online meetings which allows you to assist customers remotely, work with colleagues from a distance and also stay connected with your own devices or assist friends and family members. It even supports mobile devices, a must for mobile app development

Slack or Skype

Both slack and Skype have a chat room and supports the private messaging feature, with VoIP and video calls. They feature robust chat room and private messaging functionality, along with VoIP and even video calls. Use these tools correctly, and you’ll eliminate all of the communication problems endemic to offshoring

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Success Stories

Jul 30, 2021

What Are The Best Practices For Microservice Orchestration and Multicluster management

Container bundles up the OS and microservice runtime environment such as source code, dependencies, system libraries, etc.

Introduction

Container bundles up the OS and microservice runtime environment such as source code, dependencies, system libraries, etc. There are many tools available in the market for configuring the containers. Some of them are Kubernetes (including AKS, EKS and GKE) and ECS. Multicluster management is for managing many k8s clusters in an environment. For this, we have tools like rancher and kubesphere. In this article, Kubernetes deployment through Istio and Rancher multicluster management is covered. Istio is a service mesh which provides a language independent and transparent way for easy automation of application network functions. Istio’s features help to monitor, connect and secure services. Rancher is a complex stack for teams that adopt containers. It combines everything the organization needs to adopt and run in production. As it was built on Kubernetes it allows DevOps teams to test, deploy and manage the application in a lightweight framework

Overview of Kubernetes Deployment through Istio

Kubernetes also known as K8s is system which helps to automate the process of deployment and containerized applications management Istio extends Kubernetes with Envoy service proxy for establishing a programmable and application aware network. With Kubernetes and olden workloads, Istio makes universal traffic management, security and telemetry to deployment

How system Works

Sample workflow for Istio

Architecture Diagram for Rancher

What are the best features of Istio and Rancher

Service Mesh
It has ways Ways to control data sharing between different parts of an application
Secure communication between service to service
Load Balancing is automatic for http
Control in traffic behaviour
TLS encryption, authorization and authentication tools are available to protect data and services
Observability - Monitoring, Logging, Tracing

Features of Rancher

The users can deploy an entire multi-container clustered application from the application catalog with a single click of a button
Managing of deployed applications by automatically upgrading to newer versions
It contains the distribution of container orchestration like Docker swarm, Mesos and Kubernetes
Infrastructure services include networking, storage, load balancer, and security services
Users interact with ranchers using a command-line tool called rancher-compose. Users interact with ranchers using a command-line tool called rancher-compose. User can deploy multiple services and containers on Rancher infrastructure depending on Docker compose templates. The rancher-compose tool also supports the docker-compose.yml file format
Interactive UI for managing tasks and maintaining clusters

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How To Effectively Use Istio For Enterprise Governance and Monitoring

The client offers deep and contextual application-layer visibility to remove the blind spots within distributed and cloud-native application environments, in a completely frictionless

Introduction

The client offers deep and contextual application-layer visibility to remove the blind spots within distributed and cloud-native application environments, in a completely frictionless manner while being agnostic to the platform, cloud, environment, and workload type. The solution allows many people like cloud application practitioners, security leaders, and application owners to have a visibility which would help them to address compliance, and security controls for microservices and other distributed applications

Overview of Challenges faced by Client

The client has run their pre-production application in cloud infrastructure and it costs high
The client engineering team spent most of their time deploying their changes on cloud infrastructure for evaluation
The client team faced more challenges in deploying their application in cloud environments and that cost 45% of their monthly budget allocation.
Client teams spend more time on deployment and testing in cloud infrastructure will extend the delivery time of the application

How Current system Works

Enterprises today deploy perimeter-centric solutions, such as network firewalls, web application firewalls, and/or API Gateways. Others like container firewalls, network-layer micro-segmentation, or manual application testing are also tried. Some other solutions concentrate on one type of workload (e.g. containers) or are focused on data-in-use or data-at-rest and do little to secure against run-time attacks embedded deep within the application-layer components

How we proposed system architecture

The client ideally needs an Infrastructure with different topologies of system types templated as a solution.Generic engine for generation and regeneration of infrastructures need to be utilized. Following are some of the key considerations

The solution proposed is to create an environment like cloud infrastructure in local machines
Writing tests framework to make the client engineering team use for their Unit Testing
We are using MetalLB for implementing network Load Balancer in K8 local infrastructure
Implementation of microservices to simplify the deployment and improve the performance of the application. By using testing frameworks to deliver the flawless application in a production environment
Containerize the microservice components to achieve the CI/CD process with the K8 cluster to reduce the time spent for on deployment
Provide scripts to automate the process of testing and deliver the application with zero bugs

What are the Benefits of the proposed system?

1. DevOps process will reduce the deployment and testing time
2. The product has been cleverly architected to ensure zero latency to the application, while still providing all the security features and benefits
3. Provides a vulnerability assessment of the application components and provides recommendations on how to make them more secure
4. Reduced the cloud Infrastructure cost up to 45%

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Jul 01, 2021

What Are The Phases of Software Development Lifecycle

Software Development Lifecycle, in short, termed as SDLC is a process that defines various stages involved in software development for the delivery of a product.

Software Development Lifecycle, in short, termed as SDLC is a process that defines various stages involved in software development for the delivery of a product. SDLC is very important as it gives a framework for a set of activities and ensures the quality of the product delivered. There are seven phases involved in Software Development Lifecycle. They are Planning, Requirement Analysis, Design, Implementation, Testing, Deployment, and Maintenance. Here we shall see each of these phase-in detail

Phases of SDLC

1. Planning

As the quote says “By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail”, Planning is very important for any task. Similarly, Planning is the initial phase of the Software Development Life cycle. Planning starts with listing the problems of an Existing system. Problems in the existing system are listed to come up with the objectives of the new system to be developed. Along with the scope of the new system, financial planning and Resources planning are also done in this phase. Then last comes the planning for the project schedule which is very essential to complete the project on time. Only when the planning phase is completed, it can be moved on to the other phases

2. Requirement Gathering and Analysis

Defining Requirements and gathering all required information like the purpose of the new system, end-users for the new system, their needs are all carried out during this phase. Risks involved in the development of the new system are also identified. The analysis is done to ensure that the end-users needs can be met by the new system. All clarifications regarding the requirements are received from the concerned team before starting on the Design part. The output of this phase will be in the form of a document more often called a Software Requirement Specification or SRS document. This document along with new system requirements also contains Software, Hardware, and Network requirements needed for the development of the new system. This will be used as the input for the design phase

3. Design

Design is a kind of modeling everything visually. Developers will outline the details for the new system using the Software Requirement Specification document in the form of a Design Document. The Design document will include details like User Interface which will define how the user is going to interact with the new system, Database which is going to be used for storing data, platforms on which the new system will run, Security measures to be taken to protect the system, etc. So both front-end and back-end are defined here. If required, prototypes are also defined. Prototypes give a basic idea of the actual look and feel of the new system. When the design is completed it is time to move on to the next phase, which is the development phase

4. Development

This phase is the coding phase. This is the most important phase of SDLC as it is where the actual software is developed. It is the longest phase of SDLC. Here the design document is converted into the software. The developers need to make sure the software meets the Software requirement specifications. Developers will have to follow coding standards and use tools like compilers and debuggers to eliminate coding defects. Identifying coding bugs and fixing them is critical here. Programming languages are chosen based on the requirements and specifications of the project. A detailed design will help in hassle-free code development

5. Testing

Testing of an application is critical before it is actually made available to the Users. This is part of a Quality Assurance process. It is started as soon as coding is completed and all coding errors are fixed. It is done by Quality Assurance Engineers. Manual or Automated Testing are performed depending on the Project. In the case of Automated Testing, many tools are available in the market. Again depending on the nature of the project automated testing tools are selected. The developed software is tested thoroughly to make sure that the requirements are met. The defects are identified and logged in Defect Tracking tools. Then they are tracked to closure. Different types of defect tracking tools are used by different companies. The initial testing done is called Unit testing. Then the individual units are integrated and integration testing is performed. The software is repeatedly tested to ensure that there are no more defects

6. Deployment

When the defects are all closed and no more defects are identified, the software is ready for installation. The installation phase is often called the Deployment phase. In some cases, it could be the deployment of code on a web server, and in some cases, it could be integrating with other systems. The users can start using the software after deployment. In some cases, since the software is deployed to the production environment, again another round of testing is carried out here to ensure that there are no issues in the new environment. The users could also be trained just before this phase to make sure that they are aware of the usage and features of the new system

7. Maintenance

Maintenance is an important phase as there might be issues identified when the end-users start using the product. In some cases, the end-users keep changing and there might be different types of issues identified. These issues need to be fixed from time to time. The maintenance time might vary depending on the size of the project. Sometimes even new features are added as per user feedback and released

SDLC Models

There are various SDLC models and the most common ones are Waterfall and Agile. We shall see about these in detail

Waterfall Model

This was the most commonly used and most accepted model. The output of one phase of the Software Development Lifecycle is used as the input for the next phase. So the successive phases can be started only after the completion of the previous phase. At the end of each phase review and sign-off is done before moving on to the next phase. The waterfall model is very useful when the requirements are fixed and do not keep changing. The main advantage of the waterfall model is it is easy to follow and the milestones are clearly defined

Agile Model

Agile is a simple and highly effective process. In the Agile model, the task is divided into small iterations of smaller durations. For each iteration, all phases of SDLC like planning, analysis, design, coding, implementation, testing, and deployment are carried out. Here there will be continuous delivery. Even when there are frequent changes in the requirement that can be handled here easily. During each sprint the new requirements come from Backlog and roll through all phases of SDLC. Since changes are inevitable the agile model helps the project to adapt to it instead of ignoring it SDLC is a systematic process and it ensures the quality of the product delivered. All phases of SDLC are very important. So adhering to phases of SDLC is very important for the success of the project

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Jun 28, 2021

How to build a Ridesharing App?

The main idea of taxi booking apps is to book a taxi in under 30 seconds easily. And the most convenient way is to connect drivers and riders via a mobile app like Uber, Ola, etc.

You can call your trip in the following criteria

The passenger has pre-planned a trip and his travel
The passenger has made no prior arrangement and this is unplanned
The passenger is out on the road and looking for a taxi service

Sometimes passengers may look for companions to share costs but have a rest during long trips The main idea of taxi booking apps is to easily book a taxi in under 30 seconds. Like Uber and Ola it would be easy and convenient for a rider to connect with a driver through a mobile app.

Here’s how Taxi Booking Apps work

Request - Passengers specify where they’re going, where they'd like to pick up and drop off passengers, and when
Booking - Passengers look through the type of trips, cars, and book a ride
Payment - Passengers pay in the app or cash when they get in the car
Rating - Riders rate the trip and leave their reviews

If riders choose to pay via the app, the money goes to the drivers bank account from the time of payment within two days

Must-Have Features

Registration & Profile

For registration the user need to enter his phone number, email and then generate a password. Some apps also offer signing up through social media like facebook, Google or twitter and helps to save the time of user.

Book a Ride

Initially passengers enter their destination along with pickup point and then select a driver to take up the ride. Before starting a ride the rider will look for the cost. Drivers can view the booking requests and accept or reject them. Otherwise they can accept all requests that come to them automatically. When there is no ride available for a rider, he will get an alert saying that he will be notified as soon as a ride is available.

My Rides (Passenger/Driver)

Passengers see the number of rides they’ve completed and their details—date, destination, car, payment details—in the ‘archived’ tab

GPS Location

In ride-sharing app development, GPS is used to detect someone's location. That's how drivers can set exact pickup and drop off points, while riders can see their whole route

Fare Calculation

The app calculates the cost for each passenger based on their number and travel distance. This helps passengers to select the preferred mode of payment.

Online - The app transfers money to PayPal or a bank account
In cash - Riders pay in the car before or after the ride

Admin Panel

Admin panel helps the administrators to manage users. They can search for an user, block them or check up an ID card, do payments, perform reviews, generate reports or view statistics

How to Monetize a Taxi Booking App?

Before you start creating a ridesharing app the first step would be to choose a monetization model. The most common are

Paid advertising (users see third-party ads in the app)
Reservation/cancellation fees for riders (passengers pay a small booking fee to confirm their intentions)
Transaction fees for drivers
Collecting a small service fee for every ride from passengers

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Jun 10, 2021

How to create a Fitness App?

Health and fitness is becoming everyone’s top priorities. In this digital era there are many apps to keep track of our fitness. Most of them are freely available to the Users

Introduction

Health and fitness are becoming everyone’s top priorities. In this modern World, many apps are readily available to track fitness and are free of cost. People are looking for different approaches in fitness app. This makes it essential to keep creating multiple fitness app. And so, many companies have started developing fitness app. Fitness app is used for multiple purpose. It may be to notify about health or to improve diet. Here we will see the various types of Fitness App and how to build them

Overview of Market Share

In January 2019 one of the Market Research published a study and presented a forecast. The forecast mentioned that the fitness app market will grow to $14.7 billion by 2026. It is expected to grow up to 23% CAGR during the above mentioned period. The statistics mentions that revenue in Fitness segment has reached $17,963 million in 2020. It also continues to grow rapidly. So the revenue might grow to a rate of 5% CAGR during the period 2019-2023. So fitness application market will continue to grow and is expected to expand with different developments in health and fitness features

How do various Fitness Apps work?

The fitness apps help to keep track of our health. It gives health advice also. There are many type of Fitness apps. The three widely used apps are given below

Diet and Nutrition Apps

Diet and nutrition apps can do the following

The target calories for intake can be set depending upon a person’s age, weight, and sex.
Weight loss goals can be set
Users can log the food they eat and the app helps to track the calories included in the food they have logged in.
Users can adjust their intake accordingly with the help of the calories calculated.
It can also track the amount of water intake

Work-out Apps

This is a personal trainer who trains you from your mobile
Users can set a time limit and perform workouts/yoga using a timer
Users get the option to choose the type of workout they would like to perform. For example, whole-body workout, upper body workout, etc
The app offers a set of exercises that the user can access and perform by playing the exercise simultaneously in the app
The user has the option to skip certain exercises in the list of exercises

Activity Tracking apps

The app tracks the distance traveled, number of steps climbed, and calories burnt during exercise
The information collected can be depicted in a progress chart to motivate the users
Even the app can monitor the heartbeat

What are the best features to have?

Each fitness app has a different function and offers unique features for its users. Some of the important features required for a fitness app to be user-friendly are given below Sign Up and Log In – Signup sign in features helps for users privacy as he can login through his own credentials or through his social media account User Activity Tracking – This feature is much beneficial as the user can keep track of his activity for a specified period. This tracking can then be depicted in chart for motivating the user to perform better Geolocation – The user can use the map to know the distance he walked or jogged. This will be easy to track and gives a sort of motivation to the user Notifications and Reminders – Notification and Reminder is an important feature for a fitness app. For example, when his calorie intake is close to the limit for the day, then he will get appropriate notification on his mobile. The user can adjust his intake accordingly which will be of great help to achieve his fitness goal Scanning Barcode – The scanning barcode of an edible item helps the user to scan and get its nutritional information in the case of the diet and nutrition app

How to Develop a Fitness App?

When the type of fitness app and the type of features needed is decided, the custom software development process starts The Monetization model is the first step in developing a fitness app. They decide whether the app will be free or paid or app with in-app purchases Technology Stack – The technology that is to be used for developing the app need to be identified. Team Hiring – Depending on the technologies identified, hire a development team to match the technology The Inception Phase – Here we will define the scope of work to be performed, finalize the budget, and plan for the required resources Technical Documentation and Design. Based on the requirements the design document is prepared with technical details. The design document also has the UI/UX details of the app Prototype – Prototype is the model of the fitness app to be developed. The developer can use this prototype and easily develop the application Application Development. Fitness apps compatible with multiple OS are developed by the developers in this phase Quality Assurance – Testing of the product is done and bugs are identified. Testing is done many times to make sure that the developed application meets the requirements and does not have any bug

Conclusion

While developing a fitness app, extra care must be taken in making it user-friendly, flexible, and in selecting the features to be developed in the app. User-friendliness, flexibility, and features of the app will attract more users to use the app and make it profitable. If you are planning for fitness app development and would like to outsource it, please feel free to contact us

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Jun 04, 2021

Cloud Migration : Lift & Shift Strategy

Lift-and-shift is the process of migrating a workload from on premise to Cloud with little or no modification

Introduction

Lift-and-shift is the process of migrating a workload from on-premise to Cloud with little or no modification. A lift-and-shift is a common route for enterprises to move to the cloud and can be a transitionary state to a more cloud-native approach

There are also some workloads that simply can’t be refactored because they’re third-party software or it’s not a business priority to do a total rewrite. Simply shifting to the cloud is the end of the line for these workloads

Applications are expertly “lifted” from the present environment and “shifted” just as it is to new hosting premises, which means in the cloud. There are often no severe alterations to make in the data flow, application architecture, or authentication mechanisms

It allows your business to modernize its IT infrastructure for improved performance and resiliency at a fraction of the cost of other methods

Overview of Market Share

In recent days there is great growth in Cloud computing market. Companies are trying out various cloud models with right balance of flexibility and functionality The cloud migrations hosts the application and data in an effective environment based on various factors. This is the key role of cloud migration Many companies migrate their on-site data and application from their data center to cloud infrastructure with the benefits of redundancy, elasticity, self-service provisioning and flexible pay per use model. These factors are further expected to drive tremendous growth in the global cloud migration services market during the forecast period 2020-2027 According to the report, the global cloud migration services market generated $88.46 billion in 2019 and is estimated to reach $515.83 billion by 2027, witnessing a CAGR of 24.8% from 2020 to 2027 The growth of the market is attributed to an increase in cloud computation among small and medium enterprises around the globe

What are the best features to have?

Workloads that demand specialized hardware, say, for example, graphical cards or HPC, can be directly moved to specialized VMs in the cloud, which will provide similar capabilities
A lift and shift allows you to migrate your on-premises identity services components such as Active Directory to the cloud along with the application
Security and compliance management in a lift and shift cloud migration is relatively simple as you can translate the requirements to controls that should be implemented against compute, storage, and network resources
The lift and shift approach uses the same architecture constructs even after the migration to the cloud takes place. That means there are no significant changes required in terms of the business processes associated with the application as well as monitoring and management interfaces
It is the fastest way to shift work systems and applications on the public cloud because there isn’t a need for code tweaks or optimization right away
Considered the most cost-effective model, the lift and shift help save migration costs as there isn’t any need for configuration or code tweaks. In the long run, these savings could give way to extra spending if workload costs are not optimized
With minimal planning required, the lift and shift model needs the least amount of resources and strategy
Posing the least risk, the lift and shift model is a safe option as compared to refactoring applications especially in the scenario where you don’t have code updating resources

When is the Lift-and-Shift Cloud-Migration Model the best fit? The lift and shift approach allows on-site applications to be moved to the cloud without any significant redesigns or overhauls. You should consider using the lift and shift approach if the following apply to your business You’re on a deadline If you’re in a time crunch, the lift and shift approach may help expedite the transition to the cloud quicker than other methods You want lower costs A lift and shift migration can provide cost savings compared to more expensive methods such as re-platforming and refactoring. This approach is of minimal risk and is beneficial for workplace operations You want to reduce risk Lift and shift approach is less risky and simpler process when compared to other methods like refactoring or re-platforming When you are choosing options to migrate, you need to look at the larger picture Although the lift and shift technique can work well in many instances, you should consider all options and choose the migration type that will keep you functioning at peak performance By choosing the right IT support firm to assist with the transition, you can mitigate cloud migration challenges to ensure optimal performance and a seamless transition With the lift-and-shift method, on-premise applications can move to the cloud without remodeling. Since they cannot take full advantage of native-cloud features every time, this may not be the most cost-effective migration path Bounce back can be avoided by developing a strategy for cost-allocation and defining roles to monitor how much is spent for cloud

Cloud Migration Steps: Ensuring a Smooth Transition

First, choose which platform that you wish to migrate to
Examine all the connections in and out of the application and its data
If you are lifting and shifting more than one application, then you may need to consider automating multiple migrations
You should consider containerization to replicate the existing software configurations. This will also allow you to test configurations in the cloud before moving to production
Back up the databases from the existing system as well as supporting files. When the new database is ready, restore the backups
Once migrated, test the application
Check that all the current data compliance and regulatory requirements are running in the new cloud deployment. Run your normal validation tests against the newly migrated application
Don’t be tempted to introduce new features during the migration. This can lead to many hours of additional testing to make sure you have not created new bugs
Retire your old systems once testing is complete

Technical Stack

Google Cloud and Azure are new but still they take advantage of the experience and framework of tech giants namely Microsoft and Google

Azure

Digital Ocean
AWS
Google Cloud

Azure
AWS

Digital Ocean
Google Cloud

AWS is a public cloud, flexible and ready to meet the needs of both big and small applications. Azure’s strong values are perfect integrations with Microsoft 365 ecosystem and focus on enterprise market To help you make an informed choice, we’ve prepared a table that compares the most significant features of AWS, Azure, and GCP

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Jun 04, 2021

How to build a video streaming app like netflix?

Live streaming, also known as live broadcasting of the video over the internet is the important cause for the change in way of communication.

Introduction

The way people communicate all over the world has changed now!!! Live streaming is the live broadcasting of video content over internet. This has caused a major change in the way we communicate. Live streaming is becoming inevitable in the digital world where all sorts of organizations like education, business, entertainment, even family & friends meeting are flourishing because of this

Overview of Market Share

There is a great demand for live streaming. This has caused the live streaming market to grow. Covid - 19 is also one of the important growth factor. According to Global market insights the video chat market will grow by over 15% CAGR

How live streaming works?

A streaming server has to be already created and running. A broadcaster can initiate a stream by registering with a stream name. The users who want to be an audience can access the stream with the same stream name. When a stream is initiated, the below process happens to make the video available at the receiving end

Live streaming undergoes the below steps

Compression
Encoding
Segmentation
Content Delivery Network (CDN) distribution
CDN caching
Decoding
Video playback

Features to have

User Sign up & Sign in

It can be a simple registration with an email or phone number and password. It’s a good way to offer sign-ups or ins via Facebook, Twitter, or Google as it saves the users’ time. A password reset feature via email or text message is needed

User Profile

It is better to decide on what kind of personal information will be in the user profiles like profile picture, full name, subscriptions, etc., This can be viewed by friends & subscribers

Live Streaming

Allows the user to record and broadcast a live stream to members who have subscribed to his/her channel or the public

Chat

Chat is an essential part of any communication application. Chat combined with live streaming will be very useful for the audience to give their feedback. Third-party tools like Firebase or Twilio helps to integrate chat into video chatting. Can include Emojis to make the chat interesting

Record

Feature to record the videos and can have a user gallery to store and organize the recorded videos on user profile

How to develop a live streaming app using WebRTC?

Backend development

Create a live streaming application by means of WebRTC technology For a live stream to happen, the live video has to be sent to a server so that it can distribute the live stream to the audience or subscribers. So, a media server should be running somewhere that you can access There are many open source WebRTC media servers available. One such is Ant Media Server that can live stream & supports ultra-low latency (0.5 seconds) adaptive streaming and records live videos in several formats like HLS, MP Set up a media server You can download ant media server & use its trial version license Broadcast live stream Provide a stream name for the video stream and start recording. This will be passed to the ant media server View live stream The subscriber can use the same steam name to join the stream and view the live video

UI/UX design

Next comes the good & attractive user interface & user experience. It is better to have simple navigation as it will be convenient to understand. The user has to grasp the need for features & their performance

Tech stack

Content Delivery Network

Cloudflare
Amazon CloudFront

Streaming protocols

WebRTC
RTMP

Programming languages

Swift
Kotlin
Java

Swift
Kotlin

Java

API server

Node.js
Ant media

Database

MySQL
Oracle

Backend Hosting

Ant-media
Amazon EC2

Push notifications

Firebase Notifications
Amazon SNS

Media processing platform

DaCast
Wowza

Messaging queues

AWS Simple Queue System

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Dec 23, 2021

Top 4 Python development Companies in Chennai

1. Techno Kryon

Techno Kryon is a web development company in Chennai. They have Offshore Python developers with more than 5 years of experience in building web applications using Python technology. Their services are result and quality oriented.

Company Website: https://www.technokryon.com

Employee Reviews

Like Work Culture, Team Coordination
A place where we can learn and work as a family.A small company with a high working culture.

Technologies they work on

Back End: Java, Python, Node.js, Php Front End: React.js, Angular Framework: Django, Flask, FastAPI, Spring / Spring Boot, Express Database: MySQL Infrastructure: Google Cloud

Industries from where their Clients belong

Media and Entertainment Health and Healthcare Retail

2. 10Decoders Consultancy Services Private Limited

10Decoders is the best Python development company in Chennai, India building highly scalable applications for clients across the globe. 10Decoders has immense experience in developing scalable and robust web applications for various business domains like Healthcare, FinTech, Argitech etc .

Company Website: https://10decoders.com/ Number of Employees: 100+

Employees Review

“Great place to explore, challenge and strengthen your skills. An actively growing company, you’d love to be a part of!”
“There are so many great things about working at 10Decoders. It provides great opportunities to develop my technical skills. An overall, work is good in its way, the client and co-workers are well supported. Excellent place to start your career with. Has multiple domains to gain knowledge on”
“Friendly Staff and Friendly co-workers, best work to improve ourselves and learn new technologies”

Technologies we Work On

Back End: Java, Python, Node.js Front End: React.js, Angular Framework: Django, Flask, FastAPI, Spring / Spring Boot, Express Database: MongoDB, DynamoDB, MySQL, MS SQL Infrastructure: Azure, AWS, Google Cloud, Digital Ocean

Django
Flask

Industries from Where Our Clients Belong

FinTech
Healthcare & MedTech
Agriculture

3. iStudio Technologies

iStudio Technologies is a web designing company in Chennai. Being one of the top Python development companies in Chennai, iStudio Technologies have experts for Python Django development who can provide end to end solution for web application development.

Company Website https://www.istudiotech.in

Employee Reviews

Good atmosphere filled with talented people. U get motivated and trained. Great place to take you ahead in your career.
Working for more than a year. Have learned and enhanced my skills. Good management to keep you motivated.

Technologies they work on

Back End: Java, Node.js, Php,Python Front End: React.js, Angular, Flutter Framework: Django, Express JS Database: MongoDB

Industries from where their Clients belong

Healthcare E-Commerce Retail

4. Dextra Technologies

Dextra Technologies is a web Application, Website Development and Digital Marketing Company in Chennai. They have a team of professional experts for website and web portal development.

Company Website https://dextratechnologies.com

Employee Reviews

Great Place to Work Leadership team handle very difficult circumstances all the time in the most graceful way possible

Technologies they work on

Back End: Python, Php Front End: HTML, CSS, jquery, Bootstrap Framework: ASP.NET MVC Framework Database: MS SQL Server, MySql, Oracle

Industries from where their Clients belong

Healthcare E-Commerce Education

Case Studies

Aug 24, 2021

Top 5 Java Development companies in Chennai

There is a constant requirement for new technologies in this digital era. Even though many new languages are in high demand, the demand for Java

There is a constant requirement for new technologies in this digital era. Java language always have a high demand in spite of many new languages coming up. We have shortlisted the top 5 Java development companies in Chennai. A brief overview of each of these top 5 Java companies is given below

1. Hakuna Matata Tech Solutions

Hakuna Matata Tech solution develops applications by using latest digital technologies to come-up with Client specific solutions which can transform enterprises from their traditional processes impacting their efficiency and productivity to have a rapid growth

Company Website https://www.hakunamatatatech.com/ Number Of Employees 200+

Employees Review

“Good place to start working”
“Excellent work culture and platform for learning”
“Good place to learn and grow”

Technologies They Work On Android, Java, iOS, Xamarin, ElectronJS, Node.JS, CSS, HTML, AngularJS, C#, Microsoft SQL Server, Swift, .NET Core, Laravel, MongoDB, Php, JQuery, MySQL, JavaScript Industries From Where Their Clients Belong

Media
Healthcare
Manufacturing
Retail
Construction

2. Siam Computing

Siam computing is one of the top software development companies in Chennai. They have professional services for developing and improving software solutions. The developers make sure that they effectively use the latest technology and the latest digital strategies and technology are integrated

Company Website https://siamcomputing.com/ Number Of Employees 60+

Employees Review

“One of the best companies I have worked for”
“Best Place to develop your skills”
“Web development – The best place to develop your skills”

Technologies They Work On PHP, Python, Node.JS, ReactJS, Angular, Laravel, Django, MySQL, Microsoft SQL, MongoDB, HTML5, CSS3

Industries From Where Their Clients Belong

Real Estate
Marketing and Advertising
Education
Information Technology
Financial & Payments

3. 10Decoders Consultancy Services Private Limited

10decoders is a cloud engineering company with solid experience architecting and building highly scalable and highly available systems on the cloud. 10decoders helps startups and businesses to scale their remote teams with the right people 10decoders has a vast client base and experience working on silicon valley startups, healthcare giants & Fin-tech companies in the USA & Canada. 10decoders specialize in AgriTech and RegulatoryTech product implementations also Started as a small company with 5 members in 2015, 10decoders has grown into a team of 80 members with capabilities across web, mobile, and cloud engineering

Company Website https://10decoders.com/ Number of Employees 80+

Employees Review

“Great place to explore, challenge and strengthen your skills. An actively growing company, you'd love to be a part of!”
“There are so many great things about working at 10Decoders. It provides great opportunities to develop my technical skills. An overall, work is good in its way, the client and co-workers are well supported. Excellent place to start your career with. Has multiple domains to gain knowledge on”
“Friendly Staff and Friendly co-workers, best work to improve ourselves and learn new technologies”

Technologies we Work On

Front End: React.js, Angular Back End: Java, Python, Node.js Framework: Django, Flask, FastAPI, Spring / Spring Boot, Express Database: MongoDB, DynamoDB, MySQL, MS SQL Infrastructure: Azure, AWS, Google Cloud, Digital Ocean

Industries From Where Our Clients Belong

FinTech
Healthcare & MedTech
Agriculture

4. Zencode Technologies

Zencode offers a wide range of business solutions to its customers. From mobile application development to artificial intelligence and data analytics, they cover everything. Their main aim is to provide top-notch services to the customers to fulfill their varying business needs. Over the years, they have offered out customized business solutions to a huge number of industries which include Finance, Engineering, E-commerce, Logistics, and Healthcare

Company Website https://zencode.guru/ Number Of Employees 51-200

Employees Review

“Working in Zencode will build your confidence as you are encouraged at every step in your work”
“Good work culture and environment. The company is striving towards innovation and latest technology, providing opportunities for employees to learn and grow professionally”

Technologies They Work On PHP, AngularJS, ReactJS, JavaScript, MySQL, AJAX, jQuery, CSS, and HTML

Industries From Where Their Clients Belong

Hospitality & Leisure
Business Services
Financial Services

5. Agriya

Agriya is a software development company with more than 150 employees spread across two development centers in India. Their head office is located in Chennai. Agirya is listed in top 10 software companies in Chennai due its top-quality work. The company was established in 2000

Company Website https://www.agriya.com/ Number Of Employees 50 – 249

Employees Review

“Peaceful environment to work”
“Perfect company to kick-start your career”
“Great concern to learn and work with new technologies”

Technologies They Work On HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Ajax, Bootstrap, Angular.JS, Backbone.JS, Vue.JS, React Native, PHP, Java, .Net, Python, Ruby Rails, Node.JS, Android, iOS, C++, C#, C, Swift

Industries From Where Their Clients Belong

Information Technology
Art, Entertainment & Music
Business Services
Advertising & Marketing
Retail

Case Studies

Aug 12, 2021

Remote Monitoring by Doctors

Communication between Doctor and patient is very important for recovery of a patient. With the help of remote monitoring devices, patients need not travel back and forth between their house and hospital

Introduction

Communication between Doctor and patient is very important for the recovery of a patient. Remote monitoring devices avoids the back and forth travel of patients between hospital and their house. Their health condition can be regularly monitored by using remote devices and hospitalization of the patient can be prevented. Remote patient monitoring is shortly abbreviated as RPM and is a method of capturing patient’s health data. It captures all vital information of a patient such as BP, Sugar level, heart rate, etc. Remote monitoring has proved to be advantageous by reducing patient readmission and allow treatment sooner

Overview of market share

The global remote patient monitoring market is projected to reach USD 117.1 billion by 2025 from USD 23.2 billion in 2020, at a CAGR of 38.2% between 2020 and 2025. The factors that boost the demand for remote patient monitoring are a reduction in the number of health care staff and an increase in awareness of telemedicine. There is a growth in the market due to the efforts taken for the discovery of Innovative devices Patient remote monitoring is becoming a sturdy market

How remote monitoring Works

Even while at home patients can carry out their normal activities and monitor their health. The remote monitoring devices helps them to monitor their health and collect data These monitoring devices are integrated with patient monitoring apps. The apps transmits the data electronically to their Doctor Doctors then examine this patient data from a distance. In case of a patient who needs immediate treatment or attention, alerts are sent to the patient’s mobile and they receive it in the form of notifications. This remote monitoring technology helps to detect any issue at an earlier stage

What are the best features to have in remote patient monitoring apps

Some of the best to have features of remote patient monitoring apps

Notifications

Timely notification is an important feature of remote patient monitoring. Timely notification may prevent them from a serious illness. Also, notifications should be in sync for both patient and doctor

Integration with devices

Integrating with monitoring devices is an important feature. When integrated, the app will be able to collect data from these devices from time to time which might help to monitor progress over a period of time

HIPAA Compliance

Patient data is highly sensitive and it needs to be protected. It should be ensured that it meets HIPAA compliance Remote monitoring apps should have physical, network, and process security measures to ensure HIPAA compliance

Support for BLE

Remote monitoring apps need to support Bluetooth connectivity which is very essential for the transfer of data between monitoring devices and apps

Integration with doctor’s system

Integration with a Doctor’s system through secure API built on FHIR industry standard to ensure proper exchange of data between multiple systems is an important feature that needs to be handled

Tech Stack

Blockchain

The patient and Doctor are connected through voice and video calls. Encryption of patient data prior to transmission is very important. Blockchain technology is used for encrypting the sensitive patient data

Cloud Storage

Cloud services are used for storage of data as it improves privacy and security control of the app. Also, data retrieval is very quick from the cloud servers. So storage and transfer become efficient

Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence-based Chatbots are used for patients to get their queries answered as doctors are not available round the clock

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Aug 12, 2021

How to effectively use JIRA to drive the agile transformation of your organization?

Agile transformation is the sustained organization-wide process of helping individuals and organizations undergo the necessary mindset shift to reap the full benefits of agility

Introduction

Agile transformation is the sustained organization-wide process of helping individuals and organizations undergo the necessary mindset shift to reap the full benefits of agility. What makes Agile transformation necessary for the traditional business is the constant state of change as well as the democratization of value definition and delivery. By transforming the entire organization to be more Agile, big companies can retain a competitive advantage. Agile transformation is necessary for organizations to thrive in today’s markets and into the future As a leading collaboration platform for agile teams, JIRA Software boasts powerful features for marketers. JIRA is a proprietary issue tracking product, developed by Atlassian. It provides bug tracking, issue tracking, and project management functions. Also, JIRA has integrated solutions for cross-functional projects. You can easily bring all teams together to collaborate on a shared goal

Overview of Market Share

Looking at Atlassian JIRA customers by industry, Computer Software (26%) and Information Technology and Services (14%) are the largest segments. Atlassian TEAM delivered better-than-expected fourth-quarter fiscal 2021 results. The company’s non-IFRS (International Financing Reporting Standards) earnings per share of 24 cents beat the Zacks Consensus Estimate of 18 cents Atlassian forecast adjusted earnings between 38 cents and 39 cents per share on revenue between $575 million and $590 million for the first quarter. The company witnessed solid demand for its cloud-based products, primarily led by smaller customers, while the cloud migration momentum continued for larger clients Atlassian reported an operating loss of $7.5 million for the quarter, up from a loss of $3.3 million a year ago. Despite the year-over-year dollar increase, the operating margin loss remained 1%. Its shares jumped 24% to $331.96 per share Friday at the last check

How JIRA helps in the Agile Transformation of the Organization?

Creating a Scrum Project

Once you create and log in to an account in Jira Software, you can select a template from the library. Select Scrum and then, you’ll be prompted to choose a project type. If your team works independently and wants to control your own working processes and practices in a self-contained space, consider giving the team-managed Scrum template a try

Creating User Stories or Tasks in the Backlog

In Jira Software, you can create work items like user stories, tasks, and bugs "issues". Create a few user stories with the quick create option on the backlog. If you don't have user stories in mind, just create sample stories to get started and see how the process works. Once you've created a few user stories, you can start prioritizing them in the backlog. In Jira Software, you rank or prioritize your stories by dragging and dropping them in the order that they should be worked on

Creating a Sprint

Create your first sprint in the backlog so you can start planning the sprint Sprint: In Scrum, teams forecast to complete a set of user stories or other work items during a fixed time duration, known as a sprint. Generally speaking, sprints are one, two, or four weeks long. It's up to the team to determine the length of a sprint. Once a sprint cadence is determined, the team perpetually operates on that cadence. Fixed length sprints reinforce estimation skills and predict the future velocity for the team as they work through the backlog

Hold the Sprint Planning Meeting

At the beginning of a sprint, you should hold the sprint planning meeting with your team. The sprint planning meeting is a ceremony that sets up the entire team for success throughout the sprint. In this meeting, the entire team discusses the sprint goal and the stories in the prioritized product backlog. The development team creates detailed tasks and estimates for the high-priority stories. The development team then commits to completing a certain number of stories in the sprint. These stories and the plan for completing them become what is known as the sprint backlog

Start the Sprint in JIRA

Name the sprint. Some teams name the sprint based on their sprint goal. If there is a commonality between the issues in the sprint, name the sprint around that theme. Add a duration of the sprint and start and end dates. The start and end dates should align with your team's schedule Following are the steps to be followed after starting a newsprint

Hold the daily standup meetings
View the Burndown Chart
View the sprint report
Hold the sprint review meeting
Hold the sprint retrospective meeting
Complete the spring it JIRA

If the sprint has incomplete issues, you can move the issue/issues to the backlog, move the issue/issues to a future sprint, or move the issue/issues to newsprint, which Jira will create for you

What are the Best Features of Using JIRA to Drive the Agile Transformation?

Agile Project Management

The platform primarily focuses on agile project management, offering the Scrum approach. It also has the capability to capture regulatory evidence at different stages of the development process. Moreover, Jira Software supports all sorts of estimation techniques, be it by hours, story points, or more. This way, you can make sure that you are working with accurate data at all times

Customizable Workflows

With Jira, you can even create custom workflows and issue schemes in more specific cases. This will take much of your developers’ burden off their shoulders, and empower your project management units to maximize the potential of their idea. If you’re using Jira’s cloud-based solution, the configuration will take even less time And custom dashboards are a one-stop-shop for all of the information you need to organize projects, and achievements in a single view

Product Roadmaps

It is a plan of action for how a product or solution will evolve over time. When used in agile development, a roadmap provides crucial context for the team's everyday work and should be responsive to shifts in the competitive landscape. To build a roadmap, product owners take into account market trajectories, value propositions, and engineering constraints. Once these factors are reasonably well-understood, they are expressed in a roadmap as initiatives and timelines. Once a roadmap is built, it needs to be shared with the entire product team so everyone understands the vision and direction

Bugs and Defect Management

JIRA helps you to quickly capture, assign and prioritize bugs and track all aspects of the software development cycle. JIRA's powerful workflow engine provides a clear view of a bug's status, and automation keeps you in the know with notifications as issues transition from backlog to done. JIRA gives you full visibility and control of your products' end-to-end development Once you have identified a bug, create an issue and add all relevant details, including descriptions, severity level, screenshots, version, and more. Issues can represent anything from a software bug, a project task to a leave request form, and each unique issue type can have its own custom workflow

Powerful Search and Filtering

JIRA Software comes with advanced search capabilities powered by Jira Query Language(JQL) that offers teams detailed views into their work. Query results can be saved and used as filters and views across Jira (including boards). The three flavors of search in Jira - Quick, Basic, and Advanced - can help you find important information about your projects

Advanced Reporting

JIRA offers reporting in a number of different formats. Project reports that are available from the home screen of the selected project, Gadgets that can be added and arranged in Dashboards and for each filter, the issue navigator offers various output formats that can be used in third-party reporting software

Technological Stack

Business Tools

JIRA

Jira Software is built for every member of your software team to plan, track, and release great software

Acunote

Designed as a simple yet powerful Agile PM and Scrum tool for companies large and small, Acunote allows project teams to plan sprints, identify backlog items and monitor burndown in real-time

Application and Data

Java

A concurrent, class-based, object-oriented, language specifically designed to have as few implementation dependencies as possible

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Aug 12, 2021

How To Build An E-Commerce for wholesale dealers

Electronic commerce is buying and selling of products through online services. In E-commerce for wholesale the products are sold in bulk from the e-commerce site instead of selling individually to each person

Introduction

Electronic commerce is buying and selling of products through online services. In E-commerce for wholesale the products are sold in bulk from the e-commerce site instead of selling individually to each person. Wholesale reduces the cost of doing business and is intermediate between manufacturer and retailer. Since items are sold in bulk there might be larger orders. So the products can be sold quickly without much need for marketing. Ecommerce for wholesale is completely new but it is growing fast these days. There is a trigger in growth because of the increase in internet connection and smartphone use

Overview of market share

The global ecommerce market size was valued at USD 6.64 trillion in 2020 and is expected to grow by a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 18.7% from the period 2021 to 2028. The COVID-19 pandemic brought about a shift in wholesale dealer's preference for online shopping, creating avenues for growth. The factors that affected ecommerce business outlook are the changes in consumer behaviour, increase in order quantity, physical stores closure and disruption in supply chain While retail sales dipped in 2020, e-commerce sales witnessed a surge. Several businesses are now focused on moving their customer online Established organizations and large enterprises are moving towards online business due to lesser expenditure in communication and infrastructure. E-commerce offers the organization an easier reach for the dealers/customers, and hence necessary exposure to business is also achieved. Nowadays, the marketing options are in abundance due to the popularity of social media applications, which helps in driving the market for e-commerce towards a growth path

How e-commerce for wholesale dealers Works

In wholesale e-commerce, the products are sold in bulk and the wholesaler is the middle man in the supply chain which starts from Producers. The wholesale dealers buy the product in bulk from a manufacturer or dealer through their online site. Here the dealer places his order for products on the website. The concerned organization will process the order and supply the goods to the wholesale dealer. It is then sold to another wholesale dealer or directly to the consumers

What are the best features to have in e-commerce for wholesale

Some of the best to have features of wholesale eCommerce are

Payment Flexibility

The payment gateway and the payment options offered will all make a difference in the success of a business. Users of e-commerce websites should have payment flexibility. They should be able to pay in any way that will work for them. A payment gateway with advanced functionalities should be integrated to support the business and its growth

Easy to Use checkout feature

Adding items to the cart and then checking them out to proceed with payment must be an easy process. In case the checkout feature is too complicated the buyer may feel irritated and abort the process of buying products. So this should be easy to use a feature

Ease of Navigation

The key to the success of any e-commerce website is east to Navigation. The navigation should be easy, clear, and user-friendly. Extreme care should be taken while designing and developing the User Interface (UI). Clear navigation will improve the User Experience (UX) which will attract more users

User Reviews

Most people who shop on the website read the reviews before purchasing the product. People think that negative reviews will diminish sales. But it is actually not true. It is often positive to have negative reviews. When there are only positive reviews people think that they are fake. When there are true reviews, it will attract more people to the website

Security

The e-commerce platform should be secure for the users. Using features like an SSL certificate for a secure connection between user and e-commerce site, firewall to provide a gateway between networks and allow only authorized traffic, two-factor authentication for a user to log in would be ideal for any e-commerce site

Tech Stack

Front end for E-commerce

The front end for an e-commerce website can be developed using JavaScript libraries like Angular or React, CSS, HTML

Back end for E-commerce

The programming languages used for server-side coding are C#, PHP, and Python. Depending on the requirement of the project and the goals of the business-appropriate language is selected

Third-party Services

The e-commerce website needs to be integrated with third-party services like payment gateways, shipping modules, CRM, and analytics tools for the effective functioning of the e-commerce site

Frequently Asked Questions

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Case Studies

Aug 10, 2021

How To Build A Productivity Tracking App

Productivity Tracking App is a free time tracking software that notes and analyzes productivity at work. It is a tool that has been chosen by startups and large enterprises that employ hundreds of people.

Introduction

Time tracking software helps both employees and managers to track the project time along with expenses and other operations of the enterprise effectively. There will be good growth in the time tracking software industry because of prevailing remote work, use of cloud based time tracking software, and mobile phones being used for official work

Overview of Market Share

Time tracking software enables managers and employees to manage and track project time and expense, payroll, and other enterprise operations effectively. Furthermore, due to the emergence of cloud-based time tracking software, the prevalence of remote work, and the use of mobile phones for official purposes, it is expected that the time tracking software industry will grow during the forecast period. The Global time tracking software market is expected to register at a CAGR of 20.69% By the end of 2027, the Time tracking software market size is estimated to be USD 2043.83 billion. The major factors that are driving the market are the improvement in inventory management, asset tracking, and the usage of consumer goods, especially in the North-America

How does Productivity Tracking App work?

Time Tracking

It tracks the time worked by each and everyone on your team and gives you a breakdown by client, project, and task. It helps you to track the time spent working and time wasted and also to identify the inefficiencies

Screenshots

Productivity Tracking app captures Screenshots of employee monitors every 5 minutes (or turned off). It helps you to monitor exactly what your team is doing and how. By this, you can identify time-wasting, distractions, and inefficiencies. Screenshots are only taken when team members indicate that they’re working to eliminate privacy concerns

Time Use Alerts

Employees get a pop-up or notification alerts if they sit idle for too long, or if they are back from sleep mode Sitting idle for too long will be notified as “You are in idle mode for long. Please start the timer to continue”

Best Features to have

Here are the basic key features required for a productivity tracking app to make it more user-friendly and accommodating

Signup and Login

It allows users to have the option of creating their account or if you are running a LARGE ENTERPRISE, it lets you create multiple organizations with multiple users

Users and Projects

Users and projects can be created for each Organization. For each user project can be assigned. This will help to track the user’s activities for that particular project. Track in which project they are working on and how much time they spent on each project

Clients Feature

Give your clients access to the Productivity Tracking app at no extra cost. The client can see the screenshots and can also get reports regarding the tasks that were worked. Your clients will be restricted to seeing only data about work that you’ve done for them, rather than all work done in your company

All Devices

It can be used on desktops, tablets, and mobile phones – wherever the work is, we track it

Activity Monitoring

It helps you to track your employees’ activities during their work time at 0 Cost. So you can easily monitor where they are in the project and how they are working

View Screenshots

You can also find how your employees are spending every five minutes of your workday by capturing the screenshots

Technological Stack

React JS

ReactJs is a toolkit for creating user interfaces introduced by Facebook in the year 2011. To merely put across, React is a solution that helps developers to resolve issues faced when building user interfaces. It enables developers to create intricate user interfaces that have components that will change regularly over time without writing tricky JavaScript codes every time

Angular

Angular is a TypeScript-based free and open-source web application framework led by the Angular Team at Google and our team create a web application using angular with responsiveness and deliver good products

Electron

We create desktop applications using Electron for cross platforms support with UI frameworks like angular and deliver effective user-friendly application

Frequently Asked Questions

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Jul 28, 2021

Video on Demand platform

Video on Demand platform delivers direct fast and high-quality transactional video to its customers to watch on TV or PC.

Introduction

Video on Demand platform delivers direct fast and high-quality transactional video to its customers to watch on TV or PC. It helps users to access online content from video libraries. Users can watch the videos according to their own convenience from any device. VOD is a dynamic feature and is offered by Internet Protocol. It is transmitted through Real-Time Streaming Protocol. It is the future of online content delivery

Overview of market share

The global video-on-demand market size is projected to reach 159.62 billion USD by the end of 2027. The worth of the VOD market was USD 53.96 billion in 2019 and will exhibit a CAGR of 14.8% during the forecast period, 2020-2027. This information was published by Fortune Business Insights. Smartphone penetration is increasing across the world which will create several opportunities for market growth. The availability of low-cost cloud platforms will also be a favor for market growth. VOD is gaining popularity over the last few years

How VOD Works

In VOD the video content is stored on a server in digital form. When a User makes a demand request, it is compressed and transmitted through the internet. Then at the user’s end, the video is again decompressed, decoded, and stored on a video server in the user’s device. Here, the user has full control of the video. Video can be watched instantly, fast-forwarded, rewinded, or paused. These capabilities are available only in VOD and not in other traditional methods. These videos can also be downloaded and watched later A library contains all videos in uncompressed format. Transcoders are used to compress videos before transmitting them through the internet

What are the best features to have in VOD

Access for Multiple Users

Multiple users should be granted access to view the video contents. Enough security measures need to be handled to make sure that the video content is available only to the intended Audience and not to external people

Multiple viewing options

Users should have multiple viewing options to view them on a wide range of devices. When users have many options they will show more interest in viewing the videos

Recording Live Events

The Live events can be captured, edited, and recorded. This can be stored in the video content library for the ease of access to the User

Video Analytics

This will help to analyze which videos are most watched, which videos are popular, and what type of devices are used for watching. This will help to make business decisions

User interactive

The videos should be made user-interactive. For example, for education-related videos quizzes can be inserted. Surveys can be included to get feedback about a product from users

What are the Benefits of VOD

There are multiple benefits of VOD. Few of them are listed here

The videos will be available in the library for a long period of time. Users can access the video at any time even after years. The content can thus reach a large audience
The user has the option to preview, edit, add or remove the content in the video. Even effects or animation can be added to the video
These videos can also be viewed offline. This will help people to watch it at their own convenient time.
Cost-wise VOD will be cheaper compared to other traditional ones. In the case of VOD, there might be offer packages or discounts which will attract more users
Also, VOD gives us total control of our content. The user has the flexibility to create his own content without compromising his creativity

Case Studies

Jul 01, 2021

What Are The Phases of Software Development Lifecycle

Software Development Lifecycle, in short, termed as SDLC is a process that defines various stages involved in software development for the delivery of a product.

Software Development Lifecycle, in short, termed as SDLC is a process that defines various stages involved in software development for the delivery of a product. SDLC is very important as it gives a framework for a set of activities and ensures the quality of the product delivered. There are seven phases involved in Software Development Lifecycle. They are Planning, Requirement Analysis, Design, Implementation, Testing, Deployment, and Maintenance. Here we shall see each of these phase-in detail

Phases of SDLC

1. Planning

As the quote says “By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail”, Planning is very important for any task. Similarly, Planning is the initial phase of the Software Development Life cycle. Planning starts with listing the problems of an Existing system. Problems in the existing system are listed to come up with the objectives of the new system to be developed. Along with the scope of the new system, financial planning and Resources planning are also done in this phase. Then last comes the planning for the project schedule which is very essential to complete the project on time. Only when the planning phase is completed, it can be moved on to the other phases

2. Requirement Gathering and Analysis

Defining Requirements and gathering all required information like the purpose of the new system, end-users for the new system, their needs are all carried out during this phase. Risks involved in the development of the new system are also identified. The analysis is done to ensure that the end-users needs can be met by the new system. All clarifications regarding the requirements are received from the concerned team before starting on the Design part. The output of this phase will be in the form of a document more often called a Software Requirement Specification or SRS document. This document along with new system requirements also contains Software, Hardware, and Network requirements needed for the development of the new system. This will be used as the input for the design phase

3. Design

Design is a kind of modeling everything visually. Developers will outline the details for the new system using the Software Requirement Specification document in the form of a Design Document. The Design document will include details like User Interface which will define how the user is going to interact with the new system, Database which is going to be used for storing data, platforms on which the new system will run, Security measures to be taken to protect the system, etc. So both front-end and back-end are defined here. If required, prototypes are also defined. Prototypes give a basic idea of the actual look and feel of the new system. When the design is completed it is time to move on to the next phase, which is the development phase

4. Development

This phase is the coding phase. This is the most important phase of SDLC as it is where the actual software is developed. It is the longest phase of SDLC. Here the design document is converted into the software. The developers need to make sure the software meets the Software requirement specifications. Developers will have to follow coding standards and use tools like compilers and debuggers to eliminate coding defects. Identifying coding bugs and fixing them is critical here. Programming languages are chosen based on the requirements and specifications of the project. A detailed design will help in hassle-free code development

5. Testing

Testing of an application is critical before it is actually made available to the Users. This is part of a Quality Assurance process. It is started as soon as coding is completed and all coding errors are fixed. It is done by Quality Assurance Engineers. Manual or Automated Testing are performed depending on the Project. In the case of Automated Testing, many tools are available in the market. Again depending on the nature of the project automated testing tools are selected. The developed software is tested thoroughly to make sure that the requirements are met. The defects are identified and logged in Defect Tracking tools. Then they are tracked to closure. Different types of defect tracking tools are used by different companies. The initial testing done is called Unit testing. Then the individual units are integrated and integration testing is performed. The software is repeatedly tested to ensure that there are no more defects

6. Deployment

When the defects are all closed and no more defects are identified, the software is ready for installation. The installation phase is often called the Deployment phase. In some cases, it could be the deployment of code on a web server, and in some cases, it could be integrating with other systems. The users can start using the software after deployment. In some cases, since the software is deployed to the production environment, again another round of testing is carried out here to ensure that there are no issues in the new environment. The users could also be trained just before this phase to make sure that they are aware of the usage and features of the new system

7. Maintenance

Maintenance is an important phase as there might be issues identified when the end-users start using the product. In some cases, the end-users keep changing and there might be different types of issues identified. These issues need to be fixed from time to time. The maintenance time might vary depending on the size of the project. Sometimes even new features are added as per user feedback and released

SDLC Models

There are various SDLC models and the most common ones are Waterfall and Agile. We shall see about these in detail

Waterfall Model

This was the most commonly used and most accepted model. The output of one phase of the Software Development Lifecycle is used as the input for the next phase. So the successive phases can be started only after the completion of the previous phase. At the end of each phase review and sign-off is done before moving on to the next phase. The waterfall model is very useful when the requirements are fixed and do not keep changing. The main advantage of the waterfall model is it is easy to follow and the milestones are clearly defined

Agile Model

Agile is a simple and highly effective process. In the Agile model, the task is divided into small iterations of smaller durations. For each iteration, all phases of SDLC like planning, analysis, design, coding, implementation, testing, and deployment are carried out. Here there will be continuous delivery. Even when there are frequent changes in the requirement that can be handled here easily. During each sprint the new requirements come from Backlog and roll through all phases of SDLC. Since changes are inevitable the agile model helps the project to adapt to it instead of ignoring it SDLC is a systematic process and it ensures the quality of the product delivered. All phases of SDLC are very important. So adhering to phases of SDLC is very important for the success of the project

Case Studies

Jun 04, 2021

Cloud Migration : Lift & Shift Strategy

Lift-and-shift is the process of migrating a workload from on premise to Cloud with little or no modification

Introduction

Lift-and-shift is the process of migrating a workload from on-premise to Cloud with little or no modification. A lift-and-shift is a common route for enterprises to move to the cloud and can be a transitionary state to a more cloud-native approach

There are also some workloads that simply can’t be refactored because they’re third-party software or it’s not a business priority to do a total rewrite. Simply shifting to the cloud is the end of the line for these workloads

Applications are expertly “lifted” from the present environment and “shifted” just as it is to new hosting premises, which means in the cloud. There are often no severe alterations to make in the data flow, application architecture, or authentication mechanisms

It allows your business to modernize its IT infrastructure for improved performance and resiliency at a fraction of the cost of other methods

Overview of Market Share

In recent days there is great growth in Cloud computing market. Companies are trying out various cloud models with right balance of flexibility and functionality The cloud migrations hosts the application and data in an effective environment based on various factors. This is the key role of cloud migration Many companies migrate their on-site data and application from their data center to cloud infrastructure with the benefits of redundancy, elasticity, self-service provisioning and flexible pay per use model. These factors are further expected to drive tremendous growth in the global cloud migration services market during the forecast period 2020-2027 According to the report, the global cloud migration services market generated $88.46 billion in 2019 and is estimated to reach $515.83 billion by 2027, witnessing a CAGR of 24.8% from 2020 to 2027 The growth of the market is attributed to an increase in cloud computation among small and medium enterprises around the globe

What are the best features to have?

Workloads that demand specialized hardware, say, for example, graphical cards or HPC, can be directly moved to specialized VMs in the cloud, which will provide similar capabilities
A lift and shift allows you to migrate your on-premises identity services components such as Active Directory to the cloud along with the application
Security and compliance management in a lift and shift cloud migration is relatively simple as you can translate the requirements to controls that should be implemented against compute, storage, and network resources
The lift and shift approach uses the same architecture constructs even after the migration to the cloud takes place. That means there are no significant changes required in terms of the business processes associated with the application as well as monitoring and management interfaces
It is the fastest way to shift work systems and applications on the public cloud because there isn’t a need for code tweaks or optimization right away
Considered the most cost-effective model, the lift and shift help save migration costs as there isn’t any need for configuration or code tweaks. In the long run, these savings could give way to extra spending if workload costs are not optimized
With minimal planning required, the lift and shift model needs the least amount of resources and strategy
Posing the least risk, the lift and shift model is a safe option as compared to refactoring applications especially in the scenario where you don’t have code updating resources

When is the Lift-and-Shift Cloud-Migration Model the best fit? The lift and shift approach allows on-site applications to be moved to the cloud without any significant redesigns or overhauls. You should consider using the lift and shift approach if the following apply to your business You’re on a deadline If you’re in a time crunch, the lift and shift approach may help expedite the transition to the cloud quicker than other methods You want lower costs A lift and shift migration can provide cost savings compared to more expensive methods such as re-platforming and refactoring. This approach is of minimal risk and is beneficial for workplace operations You want to reduce risk Lift and shift approach is less risky and simpler process when compared to other methods like refactoring or re-platforming When you are choosing options to migrate, you need to look at the larger picture Although the lift and shift technique can work well in many instances, you should consider all options and choose the migration type that will keep you functioning at peak performance By choosing the right IT support firm to assist with the transition, you can mitigate cloud migration challenges to ensure optimal performance and a seamless transition With the lift-and-shift method, on-premise applications can move to the cloud without remodeling. Since they cannot take full advantage of native-cloud features every time, this may not be the most cost-effective migration path Bounce back can be avoided by developing a strategy for cost-allocation and defining roles to monitor how much is spent for cloud

Cloud Migration Steps: Ensuring a Smooth Transition

First, choose which platform that you wish to migrate to
Examine all the connections in and out of the application and its data
If you are lifting and shifting more than one application, then you may need to consider automating multiple migrations
You should consider containerization to replicate the existing software configurations. This will also allow you to test configurations in the cloud before moving to production
Back up the databases from the existing system as well as supporting files. When the new database is ready, restore the backups
Once migrated, test the application
Check that all the current data compliance and regulatory requirements are running in the new cloud deployment. Run your normal validation tests against the newly migrated application
Don’t be tempted to introduce new features during the migration. This can lead to many hours of additional testing to make sure you have not created new bugs
Retire your old systems once testing is complete

Technical Stack

Google Cloud and Azure are new but still they take advantage of the experience and framework of tech giants namely Microsoft and Google

Azure

Digital Ocean
AWS
Google Cloud

Azure
AWS

Digital Ocean
Google Cloud

AWS is a public cloud, flexible and ready to meet the needs of both big and small applications. Azure’s strong values are perfect integrations with Microsoft 365 ecosystem and focus on enterprise market To help you make an informed choice, we’ve prepared a table that compares the most significant features of AWS, Azure, and GCP

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Technologies

Aug 13, 2021

Why and when choose custom Software development?

Custom software development is the process of designing, developing, deploying and maintaining software for a certain set of Users or a specific Organization. Any software will meet the generalized need of the end-users

Introduction

Custom software development is the process of designing, developing, deploying, and maintaining software for a certain set of Users or a specific Organization. Any software will meet the generalized need of the end-users. The existing software may not address all the needs of the Organization. In such a case they move in for customization of the existing software. Customized solutions are developed to meet the needs of the User

Overview of market share

Custom Software Development Services Market is huge and is growing at a moderate speed with substantial growth rates over the last few years and is estimated that the market will grow significantly in the next few years. The Custom Software Development Services Market is driven by the growing requirements for customized software among Organizations. Moreover, organizations are always looking for reducing long-term costs. Custom software development is becoming popular among organizations that are largely looking for scaling up of their business operations. A holistic evaluation report of the market is provided by the Global custom software development services market. The report offers a comprehensive analysis of key segments, trends, drivers, restraints, competitive landscape, and factors that are playing a substantial role in the market.

How custom software development process Works

The process followed in custom software development is same as SDLC. It starts with Planning and Analysis followed by Design, Development, Testing, and finally maintenance of the completed product. The main goal of planning and analysis is to collect as much data as possible. The design transforms the requirements into a detailed system design requirements document. It is like a blueprint for the solution which is used for developing the code. Developing code is the actual implementation phase, which is followed by rigorous testing. Testing is done until all issues are identified and resolved. Finally, the product is deployed into the live environment. And the product gets into the maintenance phase.

Reason to choose custom software development

Generally, developing an application from scratch is a complex and time-consuming process. If there is not much time and a solution needs to be implemented as quickly as possible, then custom software development would be a better choice. The next factor to be considered is software development cost. Ready-to-use applications can save the budget if they provide the desired functions and match the standard requirements and do not need any customization. In case the ready-to-use application can’t meet the demands of all kinds and the development team needs to handle complex processes and comply with high security and industry regulations then a custom software development process would be the best option.

What are the Benefits of the Custom Software development process

Some of the benefits of the custom software development process

Uniqueness

One of the important benefits of custom applications is uniqueness. Tailored solutions are built to fit the user’s specifications. A development team experienced in custom software development help to deliver a solution that will include the features requested.

Flexibility & Scalability

Regular software cannot be manipulated and it will remain constant. It will become unsuitable to keep using it. But custom software can be scaled according to the needs of the company and easily integrated with business. So the user need not change according to the application but the application can be changed according to the user.

Cost effectiveness

Readily available software might be less expensive but it might have some recurring costs which will make it less beneficial. They might also lack some critical functionality. In such cases developing a product from scratch might cost more. When existing software is customized, a huge sum of money need not be invested.

Security

While customizing or developing software, the important feature that needs to be handled is security When an organization needs to support expensive security protocols, it might be an add-on cost to them. But with customized software, they can decide about the security technology to be used and choose one which is ideal for their business.

Team Capabilities

Team experience and technical skills A software team with strong technical skills, in-depth knowledge of the latest technologies, and experience with multiple companies need to be considered for customizing software.

Cost Structure

When a third party is hired for customizing software, it should be ensured that they give a clear picture of all the costs involved and do not keep the costs hidden.

Communication Skills

The custom software development team should be strong in communication skills. Their strong communication skills will help them to understand the details of the unique requirements needed by the client. When they have a clear understanding, they can carefully design and develop software with accuracy.

Why choose 10Decoders for custom software development?

10Decoders team has worked on customizing multiple types of applications for many clients.
We have also tried and tested various methodologies for successful completion.
Also, we work with highly secured and safe systems. So your data will be protected in our hands.
Depending on the complexity of Customization our charges are reasonable. And we do not have any hidden costs.
We have Engineers who are highly skilled in multiple technologies, who can readily work on customizing your needs.

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Technologies

Aug 13, 2021

Voice Enabled Banking and Chatbots with Dialogflow

Banking chatbots generate better results and superior customer experiences for the banking industry and other financial institutions

Introduction

Banking chatbots generate better results and superior customer experiences for the banking industry and other financial institutions. They help the customers in multiple ways like getting account balances, to apply for loan or credit card, transfer funds, pay bills, or to update the profile details. Regular customer interactions can be automated partially or fully using a banking chatbot which is available 24/7. A voice enabled

What is Chatbot?

chatbot is a variation of a conversational AI solution. It leverages NLP combined with speech-to-text(self-developed or already existing platforms) and automates speech recognition to deliver resolution immediately. Voice Assistants can either be a complete voice-based model or as a multimodal chatbot supporting both text and voice

What is Dialogflow?

Dialogflow is a natural language understanding platform used to design and integrate a conversational user interface into mobile apps, web applications, devices, bots, interactive voice response systems, and related uses

Overview of Market Share

The global chatbot market size was estimated at USD 430.9 million in 2020. The growth is expected to be driven by the increasing adoption of customer service activities among enterprises to reduce operating costs. A chatbot is an interactive application developed using either a set of rules or artificial intelligence technology. A chatbot is basically developed using AI technology or a set of rules. It is designed in such a way that it can interact with humans through text. To assists users in various sectors, it is integrated with other messaging services. Various innovative ideas are implemented in Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies which will enhance the features of chatbots, which, in turn, will create greater demand for chatbots. Since businesses are looking for ways to automate their sales and other services Chatbots are becoming popular. This helps the organizations to stick to the schedule at reduced cost.

How do Chatbots work?

1A user sends a text/voice message to a device or an App
The App/Device transfers the message to Dialogflow( via detecting API )
The message is categorized and matched to a corresponding intent (Intents are defined manually by developers in Dialogflow)
We define the following actions for each intent in the fulfillment (Webhook)
When a certain intent is found by Dialogflow, the webhook will use external APIs to find a response in external databases
The external databases send back the required information to the webhook
Webhook sends a formatted response to the intent
Intent generates actionable data according to different channels
The actionable data go to output Apps/Devices
The user gets a text/image/voice response

How to build your first Chatbots?

Agent: An agent is merely another term used to refer to the chatbot. While using Dialogflow, you will find that many people start off by asking you to ‘name the agent.’ This just means giving your chatbot a name, so even in this context, it's one and the same Intent – ‘Intents’ are how a chatbot understands Expressions Responses: This is the chatbot’s output that is aimed at satisfying the user’s intent Entities: ‘Entities’ are Dialogflow’s mechanism. It helps to identify and extract useful data from the natural language inputs given by user. Actions & Parameters are also Dialogflow mechanisms Actions & Parameters These too, are Dialogflow mechanisms. They serve as a method to identify/annotate the keywords/values in the training phrases by connecting them with Entities We will see how to create a chatbot in Dialogflow using the following

Step1: Login with DialogFlow Account

Go to https://dialogflow.cloud.google.com
Click ‘Go to console’ in the top right corner
Login with a Gmail account

Step2: Create a new Agent

Start off by clicking ‘Create Agent’ in the column menu to your left
Give your Bot a name! We’re going to call ours a ‘Testing’
Be sure to select your time zone and language as required
Click ‘Create’

Step3: Create a new Intent

Click “Intent” on the left side
Add the Intent Name and Training Phrases
If you have already created Entity, Please mark the entity for the corresponding questions. Here I have created one entity as “Cheque” and marked that keyword to that training phrase
After that, we need to add the response in the Intent
Click “Save” in Intent

Step4: Check Question

We are able to check the questions on the right side of the top corner and it will give the intent name, Entity name and answer also

Best features

Some best features are given below

Self Service Customer Support Self Service via a voice bot is more scalable and customer-centric. Giving your customers a voice bot as the first mode of communication can help them resolve their queries faster and for major queries, the AI-enabled voice bot can transfer the call or the message to the right agent
Zero Wait Time Calling any customer support center can be a nightmare for most people, basically, because of the wait time and redirections. Enabling FAQs on automating general queries on IVR, Alexa or Google Assistant can save a lot of time and the agent can take over or the call can be transferred to the agent only for critical issues
24/7 Availability Humans require rest, but machines do not. Even if your agent is not available, the voice bots can resolve the queries for your customers and take their details in case of urgent queries. And your agent can contact them at their earliest convenience
Break from Monotonous Texts Provide a multimodal Intelligent Virtual assistant supporting both chat and voice, rather than just a text-based chatbot. Just a text-based chatbot requires a lot of patience, and time from the user’s end. And also sometimes it becomes difficult to understand voiceless messages as it lacks sentiments. AI-enabled voice bot is highly automated, intelligent, and customer-friendly; making it a need of the hour for brand-customer engagement platforms
No human contact Pandemic made it really clear the need for an automated customer support system, as most customer support offices were closed down. Many businesses and banking institutions were seen adopting IVR support for resolving customer queries like Kotak, ICICI, etc
Save Cost An automated AI-enabled voice bot increases your team’s productivity, by taking care of all repetitive queries. Your team can just focus on critical queries, thus saving a lot of time and money for your business
Increased Productivity Using voice bots, your customers can handle multiple tasks simultaneously, and in one call. Customers can schedule appointments, organize and modify meetings, check balance, do transactions, get account details, set reminders, etc

Tech Stack and Team Capabilities

A company can use Dialogflow to create messaging bots that respond to customer queries in platforms like Alexa Voice Services (AVS), Google Assistant, Facebook Messenger, Slack, Twitter, Skype, Twilio, Telegram, and several other messaging integrations. Dialogflow can be integrated into WhatsApp, too

Other chatbot platforms

Google Dialogflow
Amazon Lex
IBM Watson Assistant
Facebook’s Wit.ai
Microsoft Azure Bot Service

Programming Language support

Dialogflow supports the following programming languages c#, Go, Java, Node.js, PHP, Python, and Ruby Choosing NodeJS is clearly a straightforward choice because NodeJS is asynchronous

Platform case study with a link

You can browse the sample code about Dialogflow integration from Google at GitHub with the links below

Language	Links
C#	GoogleCloudPlatform/dotnet-docs-samples/
Go	GoogleCloudPlatform/golang-samples
Java	googleapis/java-dialogflow
Node.js	googleapis/nodejs-dialogflow
PHP	GoogleCloudPlatform/php-docs-samples
Python	googleapis/python-dialogflow
Ruby	googleapis/google-cloud-ruby

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Technologies

Aug 12, 2021

Mobile Application Development Frameworks in 2021

Mobile apps have already become a vital part of our daily lives. Whether you want to go for a ride or book a movie ticket or virtually connect with your favorite ones, etc

Introduction

Right from booking a movie ticket to go on a ride or to virtually connect with your loves ones, we use the respective app in smart phone. Due to the development in technology everything is in our finger tips. Now many frameworks are available for developing mobile applications. This framework is classified into three types – Web apps, Native apps and Hybrid apps. Brief overview of these categories are given below

Native Apps: A Native App is an application that is specifically designed for a particular platform or device
Web Apps: A Web App is designed to deliver web pages on different web platforms for any device
Hybrid Apps: A Hybrid App is a combination of both native & web applications. It can be developed for any platform from a single code base

Overview of market share

By 2025, the Mobile Application Development Platform market may reach $20.7 billion at a CAGR of 21.7% during the period 2021-2025. Nowadays many organizations are using mobile technology for better management of their business functions. This has increased the demand for mobile application development platforms. The rising use of mobile devices by organizations, growing adoption of bringing your own device (BYOD) trend, and adoption of cloud technology drive the mobile application development platform market. In addition, the need for automation in mobile application development and favorable government initiatives for digitalization in emerging countries are analyzed to drive the market in the forecast period 2020-2025

What are the best features to have

React Native

React Native is the best JavaScript library to build native applications for all devices and platforms. With React Native, React Native can be used to develop applications for both iOS and Android. It also allows creating platform-specific versions of various components allowing easy use of a single codebase across multiple platforms

Some of the React Native features are

Low-code
Compatible third-party plugins
Declarative API for predictive UI
Supports iOS and Android

Why Choose React Native?

Cross-Platform Functionality
Cost-Effective Development
Third-Party Plugins
Handy Libraries
Allows Code Reusability
Most Popular Framework
Used Advanced JavaScript
Assures High-Performing App

Developer’s tools

Emulator, SDK, Android Studio
JS Editor
Xcode and also needs a $100/year developer’s account for the development and publishing of apps

Flutter

Flutter is a UI toolkit by Google to help in building native applications for the web, mobile, and desktop. This UI toolkit is featured with fully customized widgets, which supports creating native applications in a short period. Besides, Flutter’s layered architecture ensures a faster rendering of components. Some of the striking Flutter features are

Built-in material design
Built-in Cupertino (iOS-flavor) widgets
Rich motion APIs
Supports both iOS & Android
Strong widget support
High-performance application

Why Choose Flutter?

Single Codebase for Multiplatforms
Powerful UI Experiences
Less Development Time
Customizable Experience
Platform-Specific Logic Implementation
Native-Alike Performance
Perfect for MVP

Developer’s tools

Emacs
Android Studio
VS Code

Swiftic

Swiftic is one of the best mobile app development frameworks available on the iOS platform. It is featured with an easily navigable interface

Some of the significant features are

Interesting push notification
Become a loyal shopper with a loyalty card
Build your mobile store
In-app coupons
Use scratch cards to win prizes
Easy Communication
Menu & Ordering
Customer Engagement
App Promotion
Social & Media Feeds
App Publication Assistance
Advanced Analytics
Third-party integration

Native Android Development

It is featured with an easily navigable interface Android development gives you the maximum flexibility in terms of creating a custom complicated design with sophisticated animations and transitions, using the hardware features of the device like microphone, camera and sensors. Native apps are usually created with Java, Kotlin, or C++ languages. You can however use some other languages like Scala and even Swift, but it will require additional third-party tooling

Java / Kotlin

Java is often used by developers for developing native android development. Kotlin is a new programming language which is being used for android app development in the recent years. Because of its interoperability with Java and its simpler syntax, it is used for native Android app development. Kotlin’s lesser code helps in faster development. Kotlin’s code is run the same way as Java as it uses Java virtual Machine Kotlin is used for native Android app development because of its simpler syntax and its interoperability with Java. In Kotlin’s case, simpler syntax means less code and faster development In fact, Kotlin uses the Java Virtual Machine, and its code will run the same way as Java. The compiler will generate a bytecode - a set of instructions that will be executed by JVM. This is why we could see seasoned Java fans switching to Kotlin as soon as it was released

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Aug 12, 2021

How To Build An Asthma Medication And Control app

Asthma Control App, the best medication reminder app, ensures you can take the stress out of medication schedules. A secure, data-driven service supports effective health management for you and those you care for

Introduction

Asthma Control App, the best medication reminder app, ensures you can take the stress out of medication schedules. For supporting effective health management, a data driven and secure service is required. Getting digital reminders and missed dose notification is a simpler and smarter way to manage your medication.

Overview of Market share

Today around 300 million people are suffering from asthma. In a period of 8 years it may rise to 400450 million, which is an increase by about 50%. The asthma apps are currently used by less than 1% of the target group. Analysis is being done to know the reason for this low user adoption rate. What are the reasons behind this low user adoption rate and why with the current asthma app solutions, mHealth publishers have managed to just barely scratch the surface on this market? To answer these questions, let’s look at the Top 10 asthma apps in 2017. The list is exclusive to asthma mobile apps with a core business to serve and empower asthma sufferers. The asthma apps are mainly to help and serve the people suffering from asthma. There are nearly 1,500 mobile apps for asthma patients in Google play store and Apple app store. The preferred mobile platform is iOS accounting for 100% of all top 10 core asthma apps releases from mHealth publishers. 50% of these apps are also published on Android

How does the Asthma control app works?

For many, the concept of an Asthma control app supports you to feel confident with appropriate handling and administering of medication. The asthma control app does this by utilizing digital reminders to notify you when you need to take your medication And it's not only about providing reminders, but also keeping those in your network updated. Missed medication alerts can inform family, carers, and doctors when a dosage has been forgotten to ensure the patient isn't at risk of complications related to mismanaged medication delivery. The Asthma control app, helps to take the right dosage at right time and thereby it helps to have a control over their medication schedule. Something most of us would appreciate with so many other things to remember The app isn't just useful for patients, but carers too. It is very essential to make sure that our family member or friend takes their medication at correct schedule. Everyone's medication requirements differ, which can be tricky to manage, especially if you're assisting with distributing the medication to multiple family members, perhaps elderly parents or children with health conditions. In such cases the flexibility to create customized reminders for your medication schedule helps and makes life easy. Many of us may take common medications which are taken at the same time daily such as contraceptive pills, other medicines may have complicated schedules with several medicines needing Some of us may only be taking common medications that must be taken at the same time each day such as contraception, others may be operating to more complicated schedules with various medicines needing to be taken at regular intervals throughout the day, that's where a medication reminder app can support you

What are the best features to have

Take full control of your asthma with Asthma Control App

A visual dashboard presents your patient's key results. We can get a glimpse of the patient’s actual condition at any time by seeing the progress and trends for various factors like lung tests or inhaler technique rating, in real time. And because the Asthma Control app connects your Inhalers & lung monitors with your smartphone seamlessly, you know you're getting not only medical-grade results but peace of mind. Isn't that all the smarter?

Never miss a dose

Schedule medicine intake on the app and get reminded every single time

The one time you want to keep your family connected

Asthma control app will help you to your family connected with you

Friends connect

By connecting with your friends they will also get notified of the medication you have taken or missed or skipped by receiving a push notification

Notifications and Reminders

It is important for patients to have certain reminders and notifications to get their medication on time. However, the time and frequency of notifications should be adjustable

Inhaler technique

The asthma control app is designed to reach inside your lungs and if your medication is actually only hitting the back of your throat or, worse still, staying on your tongue, you're not giving it enough of a chance of doing its thing

Peak flow meters and spirometers support

By enabling Bluetooth, patients can record and share their health data measurements at anytime and anywhere. This will help the patients to regularly record Facilitating the ability for patients to regularly record and upload data sets about their lung function can keep doctors more informed about a patient's condition than periodical in-person assessments With the portability of the Asthma control app, peak flow meters, and spirometers, patients can share key lung function data with their doctors from anywhere

Tech stack

Mobile Platforms

iOS

Android

API Server

NodeJS

Push Notification

Firebase

Integration

BLE Integration

Database

MongoDB

Programing Language

Java
Swift

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Case Studies

Aug 12, 2021

How To Build An E-Commerce for wholesale dealers

Electronic commerce is buying and selling of products through online services. In E-commerce for wholesale the products are sold in bulk from the e-commerce site instead of selling individually to each person

Introduction

Electronic commerce is buying and selling of products through online services. In E-commerce for wholesale the products are sold in bulk from the e-commerce site instead of selling individually to each person. Wholesale reduces the cost of doing business and is intermediate between manufacturer and retailer. Since items are sold in bulk there might be larger orders. So the products can be sold quickly without much need for marketing. Ecommerce for wholesale is completely new but it is growing fast these days. There is a trigger in growth because of the increase in internet connection and smartphone use

Overview of market share

The global ecommerce market size was valued at USD 6.64 trillion in 2020 and is expected to grow by a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 18.7% from the period 2021 to 2028. The COVID-19 pandemic brought about a shift in wholesale dealer's preference for online shopping, creating avenues for growth. The factors that affected ecommerce business outlook are the changes in consumer behaviour, increase in order quantity, physical stores closure and disruption in supply chain While retail sales dipped in 2020, e-commerce sales witnessed a surge. Several businesses are now focused on moving their customer online Established organizations and large enterprises are moving towards online business due to lesser expenditure in communication and infrastructure. E-commerce offers the organization an easier reach for the dealers/customers, and hence necessary exposure to business is also achieved. Nowadays, the marketing options are in abundance due to the popularity of social media applications, which helps in driving the market for e-commerce towards a growth path

How e-commerce for wholesale dealers Works

In wholesale e-commerce, the products are sold in bulk and the wholesaler is the middle man in the supply chain which starts from Producers. The wholesale dealers buy the product in bulk from a manufacturer or dealer through their online site. Here the dealer places his order for products on the website. The concerned organization will process the order and supply the goods to the wholesale dealer. It is then sold to another wholesale dealer or directly to the consumers

What are the best features to have in e-commerce for wholesale

Some of the best to have features of wholesale eCommerce are

Payment Flexibility

The payment gateway and the payment options offered will all make a difference in the success of a business. Users of e-commerce websites should have payment flexibility. They should be able to pay in any way that will work for them. A payment gateway with advanced functionalities should be integrated to support the business and its growth

Easy to Use checkout feature

Adding items to the cart and then checking them out to proceed with payment must be an easy process. In case the checkout feature is too complicated the buyer may feel irritated and abort the process of buying products. So this should be easy to use a feature

Ease of Navigation

The key to the success of any e-commerce website is east to Navigation. The navigation should be easy, clear, and user-friendly. Extreme care should be taken while designing and developing the User Interface (UI). Clear navigation will improve the User Experience (UX) which will attract more users

User Reviews

Most people who shop on the website read the reviews before purchasing the product. People think that negative reviews will diminish sales. But it is actually not true. It is often positive to have negative reviews. When there are only positive reviews people think that they are fake. When there are true reviews, it will attract more people to the website

Security

The e-commerce platform should be secure for the users. Using features like an SSL certificate for a secure connection between user and e-commerce site, firewall to provide a gateway between networks and allow only authorized traffic, two-factor authentication for a user to log in would be ideal for any e-commerce site

Tech Stack

Front end for E-commerce

The front end for an e-commerce website can be developed using JavaScript libraries like Angular or React, CSS, HTML

Back end for E-commerce

The programming languages used for server-side coding are C#, PHP, and Python. Depending on the requirement of the project and the goals of the business-appropriate language is selected

Third-party Services

The e-commerce website needs to be integrated with third-party services like payment gateways, shipping modules, CRM, and analytics tools for the effective functioning of the e-commerce site

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Case Studies

Aug 10, 2021

How To Build A Productivity Tracking App

Productivity Tracking App is a free time tracking software that notes and analyzes productivity at work. It is a tool that has been chosen by startups and large enterprises that employ hundreds of people.

Introduction

Time tracking software helps both employees and managers to track the project time along with expenses and other operations of the enterprise effectively. There will be good growth in the time tracking software industry because of prevailing remote work, use of cloud based time tracking software, and mobile phones being used for official work

Overview of Market Share

Time tracking software enables managers and employees to manage and track project time and expense, payroll, and other enterprise operations effectively. Furthermore, due to the emergence of cloud-based time tracking software, the prevalence of remote work, and the use of mobile phones for official purposes, it is expected that the time tracking software industry will grow during the forecast period. The Global time tracking software market is expected to register at a CAGR of 20.69% By the end of 2027, the Time tracking software market size is estimated to be USD 2043.83 billion. The major factors that are driving the market are the improvement in inventory management, asset tracking, and the usage of consumer goods, especially in the North-America

How does Productivity Tracking App work?

Time Tracking

It tracks the time worked by each and everyone on your team and gives you a breakdown by client, project, and task. It helps you to track the time spent working and time wasted and also to identify the inefficiencies

Screenshots

Productivity Tracking app captures Screenshots of employee monitors every 5 minutes (or turned off). It helps you to monitor exactly what your team is doing and how. By this, you can identify time-wasting, distractions, and inefficiencies. Screenshots are only taken when team members indicate that they’re working to eliminate privacy concerns

Time Use Alerts

Employees get a pop-up or notification alerts if they sit idle for too long, or if they are back from sleep mode Sitting idle for too long will be notified as “You are in idle mode for long. Please start the timer to continue”

Best Features to have

Here are the basic key features required for a productivity tracking app to make it more user-friendly and accommodating

Signup and Login

It allows users to have the option of creating their account or if you are running a LARGE ENTERPRISE, it lets you create multiple organizations with multiple users

Users and Projects

Users and projects can be created for each Organization. For each user project can be assigned. This will help to track the user’s activities for that particular project. Track in which project they are working on and how much time they spent on each project

Clients Feature

Give your clients access to the Productivity Tracking app at no extra cost. The client can see the screenshots and can also get reports regarding the tasks that were worked. Your clients will be restricted to seeing only data about work that you’ve done for them, rather than all work done in your company

All Devices

It can be used on desktops, tablets, and mobile phones – wherever the work is, we track it

Activity Monitoring

It helps you to track your employees’ activities during their work time at 0 Cost. So you can easily monitor where they are in the project and how they are working

View Screenshots

You can also find how your employees are spending every five minutes of your workday by capturing the screenshots

Technological Stack

React JS

ReactJs is a toolkit for creating user interfaces introduced by Facebook in the year 2011. To merely put across, React is a solution that helps developers to resolve issues faced when building user interfaces. It enables developers to create intricate user interfaces that have components that will change regularly over time without writing tricky JavaScript codes every time

Angular

Angular is a TypeScript-based free and open-source web application framework led by the Angular Team at Google and our team create a web application using angular with responsiveness and deliver good products

Electron

We create desktop applications using Electron for cross platforms support with UI frameworks like angular and deliver effective user-friendly application

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Technologies

Jul 28, 2021

How To Enable Green Field Systems on Azure

A MAJOR ENERGY player, multinational integrated oil and gas company, is one of the seven big oil companies in the world

A MAJOR ENERGY player, multinational integrated oil and gas company, is one of the seven big oil companies in the world. The main objective of client was to come up with an integrated solution for Azure Service Orchestration for various mobile, web, analytics and machine learning projects

Overview of Challenges faced by Client

The client has an existing architecture and system setup to support specific topology of applications in pre-production. The cost involved in building the infrastructure and the technical dependencies to maintain and enhance is too high
Industry-standard well-architected framework principles were not followed. The client is stuck with a solution that is not scalable. Ex: takes weeks to add support for a different topology of apps
Time taken to set up and tear down infrastructures is causing a huge delay in business deliveries and directly impacting the business deliveries and operational cost
Testing the service configuration and having a first-time-right infrastructure for each system type is a major challenge in any cloud provider

How Current system Works

In the existing system, the Engineer has to know about azure resources and every service to provide the resources through the Azure portal. Creating or updating the resource with right configuration is a time consuming process. Also, there is a huge chance for human error in configuring any specific environment for a specific project

How we proposed system architecture & metrics

A simple Do-It-Yourself UI has been delivered to all the engineers. The engineers can just click on the UI and decide what type of system they want to build and drag and drop components
A role-based system is set up behind the screens to control the generation of infrastructure as per the definition in AD(Active Directory) or any other provider
The opportunity was also utilized to identify resources in Azure that were causing a lot of overhead costs and maintenance costs. These were replaced with free open-source alternatives with recommended architecture standards
Applications / Systems built are 100% configurable with adoption to best practices from industry standards including usage of vaults / KMS for secrets

Engineer Generated Architecture Pattern and Infrastructure

What are the Benefits of the proposed system

Dependency on experienced and mature engineers to be always around to build systems is impossible and costly. We eliminated this need by 100%. Anyone without prior experience can now request/generate and manage infrastructure
Cloud agnostic approach of engaging terraform ensured 100% portability for the client to repeat the same across other cloud providers like AWS
Tested code for infrastructure ensures that the developers or DevOps engineers do not end up debugging the same issues. Over a period of 3 months, the reliability of systems improved by 60% and will continue to grow
Modernization of existing systems as part of this opportunity also reduced unwanted licensing costs
Time to market for the infrastructure was reduced from 3 weeks to 1 day. This is a major win for the client to onboard new customers and delivered direct business results
Time taken for Change management and propagation of infrastructure changes has significantly reduced from a couple of hours to a couple of mins due to automation in place

Technologies

Jun 28, 2021

How to Hire Remote Developers in 2021 making no Mistakes?

There is a great demand for hiring remote developers. Remote developers are hired to fill up the talent gap, speed up the development process, lower costs, and for flexibility. Finding the right developer is not an easy task.

There is a great demand for hiring remote developers. Remote developers are hired to fill up the talent gap, speed up the development process, lower costs, and for flexibility. Finding the right developer is not an easy task In this article, you’ll find how to hire remote developers, including the Hiring and Interview processes

Hiring Process

1. Define your Requirements

The first thing to start with, for hiring a remote developer is to identify the following:

Project Requirements
Technology Stacks for the Project and
Details of Must-have skills and Nice to have skills

Using the above details, the appropriate job description should be created along with experience and skill level. The description should be clear and concise. It should be a true representation of the role. Then it will be easy to look for Developers

2. Various Hiring Options

There are various Hiring Options out of which three are the main hiring Options. Independent Contractors/Freelancers, In-house developers, and Sub-contractors Independent Contractors/Freelancers Freelancers can be chosen if it is a small project. Hiring freelancers will cost less for the company and they will deliver results fast. But there are few disadvantages in hiring freelancers with respect to their loyalty In-house developers In-house developers can be hired to work full time remotely as a part of your Company. The in-house developers can work on multiple projects too though this is a costly option Sub-Contractors Hiring sub-contractors is another option in which they can be hired from an Outsourcing company to work as part of your team. This method has a high level of security and is highly reliable. Either one developer can be hired or an entire team can be hired and payment need not be made at the initial stages

3. Choosing the Hiring Destination

You can search for hiring destinations across the globe to find the developers of your choice. Research needs to be done before investing in foreign app developers. Then there should be good communication with the developer to know about their previous works. Since this is going to be a long-term relationship like developing the app, getting feedback from the client and making improvements, adding new features, and so on the right amount of time should be invested in searching for the developers in the hiring destination. There are some popular outsourcing destinations that can be considered. With all these criteria in mind, candidates can be shortlisted

Interview Process

A quick background check of the short-listed candidate will be the first step of the Interview Process
Initial Screening can be done over the telephone to identify if the candidate can bring any value to the Company and also to find out if they can work independently and be a good team player
Then the technical interview needs to be conducted with technical questions from the technology stack presented in the Description. Technical questions can include questions about past projects, programming languages and frameworks, and software developer tools
Then the next step is making the offer. Pay details and all benefits they are worth should be mentioned
The last step would be the acceptance part by the Candidate. When the candidate accepts the offer the offer letter can be handed over to the candidate which completes the interview process

There are some common mistakes which many Organizations make while hiring a developer. Some common mistakes are,

Compromise on quality because of the low-cost package offered by a less skilled developer
Bypassing the technical discussion part for the candidate
Hiring a developer who does not have much knowledge about your business or services
Restricting Hiring options without widening the search for enthusiastic developers

These mistakes should be re-read while hiring developers and avoided in the future. Learning from mistakes will be a step towards success

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