Enterprise application development has undergone a sea change over the last decade. Earlier, expectations were centred around ways to reduce costs and increase efficiency, but enterprise apps today are expected to drive growth. For instance, enterprise apps boost workforce and overall productivity, empower field workers with smart devices to deal…
The coronavirus pandemic introduced a string of new words such as social distancing, quarantine, remote work, and even noun-verbs like Zoom into our everyday language. But if there was one word that captured the pandemic’s effects and our collective response to them, it has to be ‘new normal’. The phrase…
Horses for courses. That sums up the answer to how much does it cost to build an eCommerce website from scratch in 2021. Wondering why? The phrase is appropriate as the cost of building an eCommerce site today depends upon diverse factors. For starters, a thumb rule is to peg…
Panic. That pretty much describes the initial reaction of most people to the pandemic and its immediate fallouts. They made a beeline to stock up on essentials, struggled with getting a remote work setup ready, were forced to play it by the ear, and had to deal with uncertainty by…
The retail industry is not new to disruptions. It has withstood recessions, shifts in consumer preferences, and even greyish trade practices such as predatory or heavily discounted pricing by ecommerce companies. While the sector didn’t exactly trump these challenges, it managed to stay afloat on the back of strengths such…
A competitive price tag, high-quality product range, and good customer service alone should be enough to set the cash registers ringing forever, right? Only that Walmart, a pastmaster at those aspects, thinks otherwise. Which is why the retail behemoth invested in a new store design and introduced it to the…
When was the last time you used an application that had to be downloaded, installed, and stored entirely on your computer? If you took even a couple of seconds to reflect on the question, it’s a testament to how deeply SaaS (Software as a Service) has made inroads into our…
Like with most technology areas, data science too was affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. However, while a lot of businesses curtailed their AI-driven data science expenditure to rationalize costs during the pandemic, the public sector comprising governments and public interest initiatives led by private firms doubled down on data science…
During the 2008 recession, Toyota had to let go off many full-time employees. While this helped it survive the slowdown, it also caused much heartache all around. Since then, Toyota has augmented its variable workforce by 10-20%, a move designed to help it rationalize costs but without layoffs. What Toyota…
Have you ever thrown up your hands in frustration when after a hectic day of travel, you find your phone’s charger is incompatible with the one in your hotel room? If you have, we know the feeling as software developers too encounter such issues when developing software, whereby two objects…