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Nov 27
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How Embedded Is Your Embedded Analytics Solution?

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Exploratory data analysis and visualization is becoming increasingly important to non-technical managers with embedded analytics boasting the most appeal. Robust and comprehensive solutions are now being engineered to provide charts, reports, dashboards, and more within the software application itself.

With embedded analytics, users have full control over the functionality, look, and feel of the application to ensure that they can navigate it easily and access the information they need. Read More

Oct 14
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Struggling healthcare.gov Website Highlights What NOT to Do

By | For Developers, IT and Engineering

A lesson for developers

It is pertinent and important, in the midst of the excitement of the new healthcare exchanges and their myriad failures, to understand how those failing online coverage exchanges are also a lesson for developers. Since the exchanges went live with the implementation of the Affordable Care Act on October 1, we’ve been hearing constant reports and complaints about glitches, load failures, and generally poorly-performing functionality from people trying to sign up for health insurance, as well as those trying to help them do it.

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The O’Reilly Programming Blog recognized it as an example of what not to do, especially if you are developing a website for a larger organization that will undoubtedly see high traffic once it’s live — not to mention the press constantly reporting on the whole meltdown. James Turner on the O’Reilly Blog focused on four main points, and he hits the nail on the head, and we add our own commentary and perspective.

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Sep 25
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Microsoft’s Next Moves: Make or Break Time

By | IT and Engineering, Microsoft, The Cloud

Office365A series of takeaways from a recent Microsoft financial analysts’ meeting — the first in two years — reveals what’s ahead for the company. If they’re smart, it’ll be a focus on the enterprise and cloud services.

Last week, Microsoft executives had their first financial analysis meeting in two years, and used it to explain more of the plan for the future of the company. They also hit on many of the topics the media and tech insiders have been speculating about lately. InformationWeek published 11 Takeaways from this meeting on Microsoft’s next moves, and in that spirit, we culled it down to the two biggest takeaways we see from the larger list: the enterprise market and the cloud.

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May 13
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The Hunger Games Interactive Website: Cutting-edge Web Technology

By | For Developers, IT and Engineering, Microsoft

Internet Explorer hits the mark for web engagement with The Hunger Games Explorer. The film adaptation of Catching Fire, the second in the Hunger Games trilogy, doesn’t come out until November. But Internet Explorer partnered with the Games web team and RED Interactive Agency to give fans an edgy, interactive online portal that gives them everything they need to whet their appetite while they wait.

Hunger games website screen shotThe team built this site on some of the very latest web technologies, and it’s especially designed for the touch-screen, tablet experience. There’s all the regular stuff, like trailers and exclusive photos, but there is also content to keep users coming back. Fans can sign up and get their own District ID, and go behind the scenes on the making of the film via this futuristic online content portal.

The team took special pains to ensure the technology lives up to the demand for excellent user experience. This comes across in the responsive grid layout designed to be just as engaging no matter whether the user is on a mobile phone or tablet. “Taking a mobile-first approach [to back-end design] allowed us to ensure we used a single code base across multiple platforms and devices,” the behind-the-scenes website reveals. The grid was built using JavaScript.

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