When an organization commits to developing a software application that serves a particular industry, the C-level executives, product managers and software engineers direct their attention to filling a need for that vertical. Learning that they have reporting problems with their business intelligence tool isn’t supposed to be one of their problems. Read More
A tool that comes “free” with an application that is a vital part of your organization’s infrastructure can prove to be costly. Read More
All the decisions we make in business are done to improve that bottom line. After all, it doesn’t make sense to invest in something for your business that is going to have little or no return? Read More
The modern idea of Business Intelligence (BI) has been used by big companies since the early days of data warehousing. BI didn’t start out as a complicated set of data analytics. Going back as far as there were people doing business, proprietors used BI to improve their odds of making a sale. The age of big data changed the rules somewhat, but that doesn’t mean that the game can’t be played by both big and small businesses. If you run a small business and think that BI and analytics are only for big corporations and only they can afford it, you couldn’t be more wrong. Read More
An independent software vendor should be happy with a 60 percent growth in sales of its application in a three-month period. Jenzabar reported that accomplishment for its software that serves higher education. The Jenzabar EX application integrates Izenda’s embedded, self-service business intelligence and analytics platform for its customers’ data insight needs. Read More
So you are a hotshot with C# or .Net. You can code your way out of any problem and were building websites at the age of 10. Now that you are ready for the workforce, is that all you are going to need to get by in today’s IT world? Read More
Hopefully, you also are enjoying the day off, with at least a four-day weekend to enjoy time with family, friends, turkey, cranberry sauce, stuffing (dressing here in Georgia) and, of course, NFL and college football.
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The Agile project management style has taken the coding world by storm for every reason, it seems, except for the wishes of the people actually doing the coding. This method of project management places accountability on talented software developers to a burdensome degree, harnessing them to the fickle whims of clients and management teams that do not know or care about how software is actually built. Read More
Being a programmer never gets easier. Many of your tasks end up being bigger time sinks than you expected, and in the meantime a backlog piles up. Sometimes, you can even feel like every time you complete a task, two more magically appear just to aggravate you, like some sort of confounding Tribble. Read More
