SharePoint: How it can help your business to flourish

SharePoint is considered to be one of the most productive frameworks created by Microsoft in the last decade. It was developed keeping in mind, a point of centralized replacement for the different web applications. Supporting a blend of enterprise web requirements, SharePoint is typically associated with web content management and document management systems.

Microsoft Competency – How it is important and How can you attain it!

Earning competencies from Microsoft is an effective way to make your business recognizable to the prospective customers. It helps you to demonstrate your expertise and work effectively. There are two types of competencies featured, one is silver and other is gold. Gold competency is the proof of “best-in-class” in the specific field for which you have to successfully complete the exams to prove your level of technological expertise, and later Microsoft will entitle these certified professionals as Microsoft competency professionals.

Earning a gold competency is a proof of the deepest and the most consistent commitment to a specific, in-demand, business solution area, along with the distinction of being among only 1% of Microsoft partners worldwide that have attained this outstanding degree of proficiency.

Apple iPad mini VS. Samsung Galaxy Tab 2

Let’s compare the Apple iPad mini and Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 and list down its detailed briefing which will help you to decide between two that which one you like to prefer and buy for you.

 

Apple Inc. finally announced their much hyped and awaited smaller version of iPad and named it iPad mini with 7.9in display. This device is now available in the market including UK from 2 November 2012. Currently, considering the size of the display has already created threats for the existing 7in tablets in the market.

Event Management: On Demand Solution

Event management is the process of assembling the business logic into describing events, communicating events and handling the events. In software systems, events are created, prioritized, and managed by the software developers who often have no idea of business priorities and concerns; business event management takes a different approach on traditional event management. It mainly requires an intellectual interaction and cooperation with the business stakeholders as well as software development and IT management professionals.

In a management industry effective communication is the critical factor for its success or failure. While organizing an event there are innumerous things need to remember for a successful event presentation. Some of the key issues faced by the organization while managing events are Budget control management:

Why BizTalk Server Technology For eCommerce Solutions?

eCommerce server is a web-software that accomplishes the main functions of an online shopping portal such as product display, online ordering, and inventory management etc. The software works in association with online payment systems to process all payments.

To begin with let’s understand BizTalk first. BizTalk is an industry initiative governed by Microsoft to promote Extensible Markup Language i.e. XML. It is the common data exchange language for e-commerce and application integration on the Internet.

BizTalk acknowledge that the growth of e-commerce requires businesses which are using different types of computer technologies to have modes to share the data. Approving XML as a platform-neutral way to represent data transmitted between computers, the BizTalk group has given some guidelines, referred to as the BizTalk Framework, for how to publish schema i.e. standard data structures in XML and how to use XML messages to integrate the software programs.

TV Is Still On Primary But Mobile TV Growth Is Booming

Is Mobile devices are replacing TV? Again, think over it. We are a country that loves to enjoy TV programs on big television. Lying back on a sofa set with your friends and family and enjoying your favorite TV programs. However, mobile devices do made an impact over the society in the viewing experience.

There were a lot of discussions about the future of TV and mobile TV experience. Undoubtedly world is moving mobile; people are spending more time on their mobile devices than ever before. Mobile TV is innovative idea in the progression of technology; with this technology you can’t miss your favorite programs even if you are travelling to somewhere.

According to global TV replacement study, conducted by NPD Display Search, use of tablets such as Apple iPad and Google Android-based devices by consumers for viewing TV/video content more than doubled year-over-year (YoY) in H1 2012 in 14 regional markets surveyed.

Microsoft Windows Azure: An art of progress and its not stagnant

Windows Azure is a Microsoft's tool for cloud computing. It was designed to ease the management for a scalable datacenter’s of web application over the internet. Microsoft Windows Azure can be used to create, distribute and upgrade the web applications without the need to maintain expensive, often misused resources onsite. Web application development companies are using window Azure for developing data center for their web applications.

PHP Web Development: Everything You Need to know !

PHP stands for Hypertext Preprocessor. It’s an open source, server side, HTML embedded in scripting language used in creative dynamic web pages. Today the industry for web development is the most flourishing industry and in this, PHP is the most demanding programming language.

These days most of the web projects are opting PHP because of its handy usage. It simply focuses on several web development services such as CMS, payment gateways, web calendars and shopping carts.

PHP is a language which was derived from C++. Therefore, most of its syntax is similar to the C++. It makes it easy to understand and write the codes for the developers. It helps you to compile these syntaxes on any of the operating system and makes it fully executable for any server without the need of any third-party inputs.

Migration and Re-Engineering: To Grow Perfectly Change is Essential!

Re-engineering and data migration are two important processes in IT organizations. In this, the processes are applied on the business firm that has chosen to automate their previous manual systems. In today’s fast paced world where everything is changing according to the business demands and technological challenges, it is important to opt for migration and re-engineering process for the existing business.

In both the cases, the data will be migrated from the legacy systems based on older technology or the previous product versions to the current upgraded systems. When you start facing difficulties while optimizing the business processes and if you have the legacy systems. And the legacy systems maintenance costs are also increasing in day to day life. This is the time, when you should opt for the strategic way to a build a long term plan that includes how to upgrade and grow in the IT infrastructure without changing its fundamental and go for re-engineering and data migration.

In the re-engineering process, it often helps us to correct data during and after the migration from the legacy systems to ensure that there is a smooth data flow and proper integration in the upgraded version. In the re-engineering, they don’t replace the whole legacy system but alter the few details which help us to achieve the functional and technological enhancement in the system.

The challenges faced by the organizations when they actually think to apply these services are:

It’s Time To Give Adieu To iGoogle!

iGoogle will be retired in 16 months, on November 1, 2013. Early July 2012, Google has made this announcement. The mobile version is already retired on July 31, 2012.

How did they come to this decision?

They said, “iGoogle was launched in 2005 before anyone could fully imagine the way that today’s web and mobile apps would put personalized, real-time information at your fingertips.” But with modern apps that run on platforms like Chrome and Android, the need for something like iGoogle has eroded over time, so they will be winding down iGoogle on November 1, 2013 giving you a full 16 months to adjust and easily export the iGoogle data. 

Besides iGoogle, the “Spring Clean” campaign has decided to remove Symbian search app, Google video, Google Talk  Chatback and Google Mini.

Start to End Journey of a Mobile Applications Developer

From a proven theory it explains that human mind understand and reciprocate to pictorial representations better than those big long theory. Below we are giving you the glance at journey of mobile applications developer from beginning to end. This infographic explains the systematic tracked journey of the mobile apps development from choosing the right platform to the selling of the application.

Below you can find the graphic: 

Apple wins $1 billion patent case against Samsung: Finally war comes to its end!

Finally the case filed by Apple Inc. against Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. is won by Apple Inc. on Friday (25th Aug - 2012) as the jury found that the Korean firm had copied critical features of the iPhones and iPads. Now Samsung have to pay over 1 billion dollars to Apple for the damages.

Apple has filed its patent infringement lawsuit in April 2011 and has demanded for $2.5 billion from its top competitor in return Samsung Electronics fired back with its own lawsuit seeking $399 million. Jury has rejected all Samsung's claims against Apple. But they have declined the demand of $2.5 billion filed by Apple.

According to reports from the courthouse, as of 4 p.m. Pacific the jury found that Samsung violated on Apple’s so-called “pinch and zoom” patent, or the ability to make text on a touchscreen bigger by moving one’s fingers outward; and even its bounce-back patent, or the way the image onscreen bounces back when it is dragged with a finger to the edge of the device.

This legal win on Friday came one year after CEO Tim Cook assumed the direct the firm. This week apple climbed the biggest market value in history i.e. climbed almost 2% to a record high of $675 in after-hours trade. Apple lawyers have planned to formally demand Samsung to pull its most popular cellphones and computer tablets from the US market.

Apple upended the mobile phone business when it introduced the iPhone in 2007, and shook the industry again in 2010 when it rolled out the iPad.

eCommerce: Understanding, Adoption and Application

E-commerce is applying business online or we can say selling goods and services electronically with the help of advance technologies that are implemented on these ecommerce websites. In such trading you have to provide a complete product description, online ordering and inventory management within the system. It includes business activities that are B2B (Business-to-Business), B2C (Business-to-Consumers), d-commerce and m-commerce etc.

E-commerce is like any other business except it’s developed over the internet. You need to understand the thin line where it explains the compatibility of products which can be sold over the internet and those which cannot.

While designing an enterprise web application, it’s very important that it have a potential to attract customers. Typical stores attract customers by their typical storefront displays. So what you have to do while designing a website for an e-commerce? The answer will be the same; design a website which can attract your customers. A well customized website which is 100% user-friendly and SEO friendly, site which is trust worthy and protected with SSL certificates, better shopping carts and friendly payment modes etc. are the key features which can help you to build a better e-commerce website.