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Why will Intelligent Digital Twins become an Industrial Manufacturing Must-Have?

The evolution of the manufacturing sector is being significantly influenced by the introduction and integration of digital twins. These virtual representations of physical entities are not just technological advancements but are reshaping the very fabric of industrial operations...

5 Must Haves in Your Digital Twin Development Partner for Smart Manufacturing

Recently, Mr. John Vickers of NASA and Dr. Michael Grieves, famously called the father of digital twin, engaged in a conversation about the future of the digital twin technology. This is a significant development that smart manufacturers can't afford to ignore...

How to Navigate the Complexities of Data-Driven Manufacturing?

Picture this - an equipment manufacturing facility where machines work in perfect harmony, each contributing to a complex and seamless production process. This isn't just any typical industrial setting, it's a showcase of the evolution of modern industrial practices...

Navigating the Tech Shift in Smart Manufacturing: Migrating from Xamarin.Forms to .NET MAUI 

In the fast-paced world of digital technology, change is the lifeblood of innovation. It is like the tide, constantly moving, shaping the landscape, and bringing in new possibilities. For manufacturers of test & measurement instruments, devices, machines, and equipment as well as their industrial SaaS...

Power Your Equipment Manufacturing With Predictive Analytics: A Pathway to Greater Customer Value

We have all heard about the poignant tale of a majestic vessel that met an untimely demise due to a lack of foresight - The RMS Titanic. Despite being a technological marvel of its time, the Titanic met a tragic end. It sailed too fast despite iceberg warnings and lacked enough lifeboats due to outdated regulations. This, coupled with a chaotic evacuation plan, led to a disaster that could have been avoided with better foresight...

IT/OT Convergence in Manufacturing: The Key To Unlock Digital at Scale

The latest advancements in the industrial sector, such as the integration of Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) devices on equipment, machine-to-machine communication, and advanced data analytics, are necessitating a convergence between IT and OT departments...

Custom-made Machine Condition Monitoring Software using Microsoft Azure

Every machine is doomed to fail! That's the thought that keeps maintenance engineers up at night. And rightly so. Machine failures cause insurmountable losses to the company in terms of time, money, and even reputation...

Why Custom Software for Field Service Management Works Better Than Off-the-Shelf Products

Managing field operations in real-time is crucial to any company's success. Businesses need efficient software to process, measure, and manage critical activities in field operations. But how do you determine if the software is the right fit for your company?...

Open Culture – Saviant way to Work Life Freedom

It's Monday, 12.36 pm to be precise, I am roaming around on my bike looking for fresh Spinach, because the missus wants to make Paalak Paneer for lunch and I suddenly come across a long lost friend, who is looking for a car mechanic to fix his broken down car for which he has taken a half day leave. We exchange pleasantries and...

Probation period for employees is an outdated practice. How to deal with it?

“My probation period ends next month, then I’ll be officially in!” You would hear this often when someone is serving his/her “probation period”, upon joining an organization. So, what does being “officially in” mean? What is the point of the hiring process if your job is still not guaranteed till probation ends?...

How Enterprises can unleash full data potential with Data Lake Analytics

This blog is a tell-all for organizations waiting to power their businesses with intel pulled out of the data. Read it to find out how you can benefit from data lake analytics and whether data lake fits your business goals. Also, discover how this fintech group adopted a data lake solution that saved them 40% time...

Should you choose Tableau to build Business Intelligence solutions?

Thriving in the age of digital progression, data happens to be the most important element today. There exists an array of tools that consolidate data from all endpoints; to study, analyze, and derive significant insights from the data. This enables faster decision-making...

Building Angular based Single-Page application on Cloud

Businesses are now more inclined towards building single-page applications (SPAs) than ever before. It is partially because of its better performance on browsers and the ability to run on smartphone applications...

Why use Angular for Progressive Web Application development?

With the onset of so-called mobile phones, the way businesses operate has changed. While the change started with the development of websites, today we thrive in the era of mobile apps. On-time notifications, quick deliverables, and the ease offered, mobile apps are...

Why businesses prefer Django framework for Python Web app development

There's a reason why most companies meticulously pick Django Framework for Python Web App development. This blog will give solid reasons behind this phenomenon...

Application Modernization with AWS: Key points every CIO must consider

The world of information technology has always been about innovation and agility. This makes the work of CIO ever more challenging, as they try to keep up with ever-changing markets with varying customer expectations...

AWS Content Analysis Solution: A better way to handle Media Analysis

With each passing day, we see new tools, technologies, and solutions that are making consumers and business processes easier to manage. And, Amazon is one of those large conglomerates that is at the forefront of the technological revolution. It has recently launched AWS Content Analysis Solution, which helps businesses to quickly & easily make better sense of their media content...

Want to use AWS IoT Core in App Development? Things you must know

Moving to the cloud, connecting devices, and establishing communication in real-time, is what you are looking for? AWS IoT core is all set to help you achieve them, taking your business to the next level. If you are the one who is looking for a scalable IoT platform to connect millions of assets and handle billions of...

6 Reasons Why you should build Python applications on Azure

Are you a business owner planning to launch new web application quickly? or maybe you have an app already built using Python language and want to find whether Azure cloud platform is the best fit for your requirements...

5 IoT Application development tips that OEMs should know

Automation has taken its toll and businesses are actively embracing the change to stay in the race, let alone lead. Of all the technologies, IoT happens to have made a dramatic impact in the digital world. Every industry today aims at embedding IoT devices within their line of business operations...

Is Python an ideal choice for Enterprise Application Development?

Enterprises, today, require scalable & high-performance business solutions, which are running on Web, Mobile or Desktop. Such solutions help them gain competitive edge; by improving operational efficiency, maximize asset utilization, and generate modern business revenue. Applications that can easily be integrated with the business environment is what all they need. And, every enterprise app needs to be...

Choosing between Xamarin and React Native with Pugh Matrix

Having read the advantages that both platforms offers, in the previous blog, let us see if there are any commonalities between Xamarin and React Native frameworks. Below are some aspects that both platforms offer...

Using Inheritance to update Locale at run-time in Xamarin Forms

Being a leading Engineering service provider in Kuwait, our client helps people with the sales, installation and maintenance of various products ranging from air conditioner to elevators etc. The company envisioned to build & launch B2C mobile app using Xamarin. This mobile app helps users to request & manage their service requests and to remove human errors. Corporate and Residential...

Want to become a Data-driven organization using Tableau? - Here's how

Have you ever wondered what makes businesses successful in the long run?

Well, it's their ability to make better sense of data and leverage it to make critical business decisions.

Data is at the core of every business out there. However, not all businesses take advantage of the data that they capture. Any organization that is not making a data-driven approach is less likely to...

Choosing the Right Data Analytics Consulting Company - Here's How

Today, there is a considerable amount of data everywhere you turn your head. It plays a significant role for growing businesses.

Sometimes, managing data on your own can be quite a challenge. As a result, there is now an emergence of companies specifically providing...

8 Reasons Why most Data Analytics projects fail

Experiments and studies conducted by Gartner revealed that nearly 85% of the data analytics projects fail. While some consider this to be the sheer outcome of the size and complexities related to the seam, but the real picture is totally different. It is not the technology but the implementation of the technology that leads to failures...

Why choose React Native for MVP development of Mobile Apps?

Product development time is the crucial factor which many companies, like you, focus on, while launching a new application. At times, you may place this ahead of your project budget as well. Of course, you can experience a competitive advantage as your app taps the market well before your competitors do...

Xamarin Vs. React Native - Which one to pick for Mobile App Development?

Choosing one of the best Mobile App development frameworks is a perplexing job for any organization. And, technology is a major thinking point, if you are planning to develop a robust and fulfilling Mobile product stack. Xamarin and React Native are two prominent development frameworks to consider in the first place. Both are effective & powerful platforms to develop high-performing & interactive mobile applications...

Is React Native the Right Solution for Enterprise Mobile Apps?

In a typical setting, you’ll most likely come across tons of options of development platform, when developing a mobile app for your business. However, a lot of Mobile App development companies claim that out of all those platforms, React Native is no doubt the right choice. But is it really?...

Flutter vs. React Native: A Mobile App Development Duel

Flutter: Popularly known to be the framework facilitating the development of cross-platform apps. With a rich repository of UI toolkit, it enables the creation of a feature-rich mobile application...

4 Essential UI rules for effectiveness of Native App Development using Flutter

Designing an exceptional user interface is as important as embedding features within your Flutter app. It is noted that a majority of customer-facing apps fail because of an incompetent user interface. It could be messy or complicated and the user may find it hard to navigate across the application. Either be the case, having a user-friendly interface is of paramount importance. Most companies include it as one of the top essential factors in their mobile app development checklist...

Why Choose React Native for Cross-platform Mobile App Development?

According to a survey done by Statista, one-third of the developers use Cross-platform app development framework to build a Mobile application and nearly 42% of these prefer React Native...

How Saviant empowers Azure Development teams to unlock Productivity & Innovation

Developers have been pioneering innovation and are the key drivers of digital transformation across numerous industries. Organizations which empower their developers to innovate and build software based on their ideas yield better & faster results. Microsoft refers to this as Developer Velocity...

Offline-first approach to Xamarin development, with a real-world use case

Has it ever occurred to you that an app can be made to work in an offline mode? Yea, without an internet connection!

You might have an acquaintance with the concept of PWAs or specifically the progressive web apps. They follow a similar ideology to make their apps work in an offline mode...

Which strong Business Intelligence platform would you choose? Power BI or Tableau

Business Intelligence systems transforms raw data into actionable insights, by making use of various processes, platforms, methodologies, applications as well as technologies. Is your business still running on traditional BI systems and facing challenges like efforts intensive manual reporting, no historical data...

Unlocking Intelligence in BI

It is well established that data is fundamentally changing the way companies operate. A higher maturity drives companies to make decisions faster, automate processes and thus create value significantly greater than competitors. Our experience however shows that most global enterprises are still capturing...

Sidelining threats with Azure Active Directory

Having a fool-proof security system isn't enough to protect your organization from cyber threats. Even though there are plenty of tools available that detect threats and notify the security teams to take significant measures, the platform is yet to be used to its total potential. Further, Azure Active...

Why IoMT in Healthcare is important now than ever?

Healthcare industry is one such sector where technology's interruption is always welcomed and questioned equally. However, pandemics like COVID-19 remind us of the importance of implementing the right technologies and automation for this sector. Internet of Medical Things, Mobility, Advanced...

Azure Synapse Analytics: Taking Cloud Data Warehousing to the next level

In the last year, we witnessed the initial stage of analytics revolution, where companies have started using their growing data for business intelligence. Data is spread across data pipelines, big data lakes, data warehousing and it becomes difficult to transform that data into actionable insights...

Is 'Azure Databricks' part of your next Analytics implementation? A closer look at Microsoft Azure Data Bricks

In this current crisis of COVID-19 worldwide, organizations are depending on reliable and accurate data resources – they need it to make informed data-driven decisions. And, Big data and Machine Learning lies at the heart of efforts; for comprehending and forecasting the impact of Coronavirus on their business...

Reengineering your web solution with Cloud-Native technologies

Thinking about reengineering and moving your existing solution to cloud-native technologies can be very confusing with concepts like Microservices, Containers, Serverless, PaaS, etc. Which one is the right match, which will give the best benefits, and which one will be toughest or easiest to adopt and implement?...

6 Questions CXOs Should ask before a Machine Learning Implementation

Is your company ready for a Machine Learning implementation? Here's a checklist to help you decide.

Machine Learning, being the technology of the decade, has surely emerged as the game-changer. From automated bots to the robotic figures, Machine Learning is on the roll. Nearly every sector plans to deploy ML models...

3 Great Examples of Data Analytics for Logistics done right!

When we say the term, Data Analytics, we mean to say analysis of huge data. Data, as the term replicates huge chunks of data gathered from across all sectors and analytics is the adoption of significant tools that help gain relevant insights from the collected data. Major implementation of Data Analytics...

Why Product based companies are turning to Azure Machine Learning for building AI applications?

The growth of AI start-ups, in terms of investment and application, has been profound. According to a survey conducted by Statista, the overall growth of AI in the global market for the year 2019 is 154%. And, out of it, a majority have been in the segment of machine learning applications...

Strategy First: How to do Microservices on Azure Right?

Microservices as the industry considers it to be sure smaller chunks of code written to execute a specific task. Every small piece of code attribute to a particular service and is a whole in itself. For instance, if you plan to create a business store online, you would require several pages, payment portal, sign up forms, etc. Instead of...

Why are OEMs adopting IoT Warehouse Solutions?

The industrial revolution and digital dominance have caused a catastrophic kind of effect across all business verticals. From Healthcare to Manufacturing, Construction and IT, all are part of this spiral. The proliferation of the internet when mingled with technology creates loads of opportunity both in terms of growth & success and...

6 Reasons that make Xamarin a Top choice for Field Service Mobile App development

Talking about businesses that rely on field service technicians, organizing the task is a tough nut to crack. The entire spectrum appears to be scattered and disorganized. To improve and optimize the functioning of field service operations, let alone the workers, it is desirable that a custom-fit app is developed and installed on the...

Why use Azure Cognitive Services for intelligent application development

Many Enterprises around the world look forward to delivering more personalized and engaging intelligent experiences. And, building & integrating such implementations require robust cloud platform, right technology expertise and development tools. Microsoft offers Azure Cognitive Services that provides the most comprehensive set of pre-built...

Why do you need a Power BI Consultant?

Business Intelligence systems make use of different processes, methodologies, platforms, architectures, applications, and technologies that make use of raw data and presents intelligent information that can assist in operational, strategical and tactical decision making. Many businesses use traditional BI systems to process their data and...

Is 'Azure Sentinel' part of your next Cloud Implementation? Everything you need to know about it

Most of us are unaware of the latest Azure Service that Microsoft has come up with i.e. AZURE SENTINEL. Azure sentinel is what most of the people consider as a Security information and event management (SIEM) tool but it's not just that. It is an intelligent security analytics for Enterprises. Azure sentinel is based on AI to analyze any security threats which might be hovering over your...

Why manufacturing leaders choose custom Machine Learning solutions

Marvin is the CTO at Autocomp Inc- an auto component manufacturer. Their production capacity was challenged and was unable to suffice the demand. Upon diving deep, it was seen that their machinery had the potential to produce more output. If they were to know their machines better, they could predict machine failure, reduce the duration...

Building BLE based Mobile applications with Xamarin

Our client is a Canada-based technology company, which is dedicated to making the world a safer place. The team is made up of highly-innovative individuals with the vision to promote safety, awareness, healing, and prevention through the power of a community. With the strong vision to help the citizens of...

Enabling Cloud intelligence for Intelligent Edge using Microsoft Azure IoT Edge

Our client is the UK’s leading supplier of instrumentation and controls. It builds innovative solutions that combine software, hardware and related services to support technically-challenging industrial applications. It has turbine farms across all Europe. Monitoring conditions of the internal moving...

Do you have a Data Analytics strategy that fuels successful Digital Transformation?

Over the last decade, digital transformation has become the most popular buzz word across all industries in the world. Technology has transformed the way the companies do their business, marketing, client relationship, and customer engagement. According to Forbes, 89% of enterprises have...

Clearing the Air: 5 IIoT Myths vs. Facts in Manufacturing

Over the past few years, Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) has been increasingly advancing across all industries. Business investments in IIoT solutions are now on the increase and will reach over 830 billion dollars by 2020, according to a forecast report by Forbes Magazine. The report also...

DevOps with Azure: Top 5 implementation challenges & best practices to overcome them

DevOps is widely accepted among the Tech Experts, and IT businesses are adopting progressively. According to the Techbeacon study, the market for DevOps is growing by nearly 33% annually and expected to reach $7.72 billion by 2021. DevOps not only increases the operational...

10 DOs and DON’Ts for a Successful IoT Implementation

Driven by growth in cloud applications, edge computing and scalability, the global industrial IoT market is estimated to reach over 930 billion dollars by 2025. The technology enables a network of connected assets to help companies create insights that drive quick and ...

Driving your Edge Intelligence with Azure IoT Edge Platform

The intense pressure on CIOs & CTOs to innovate and lead in this digital transformational world is increasingly growing by the day. This article discusses how Azure IoT Edge can help Enterprises in deploying cost-effective IoT solutions that drive their new focus...

Which Azure Compute Service should you use for Enterprise Application Development?

Microsoft Azure is the second largest cloud infrastructure offering company with 13% of cloud market share in 2018 as per the Market Watch report. It is continuously getting momentum and acquiring market share from the Amazon and other competitors. The primary reasons are increased market growth and easy adoption of new services. Nowadays, more businesses are...

Smart implementation of Machine learning to solve Real-world problems: 5 Uses, Applications & Benefits of ML in Industries

Experts say that, AI and Machine Learning will power the 4th industry revolution, where 50 billion devices will be connected by 2020 that will produce 600 Zetta bytes of structured and unstructured data every year. Here, Machine Learning implementation will help extract insights from this Big Data, to evaluate and build the modelling system. This would help in...

Secure Payment Gateway integration using Xamarin wrapper for iOS & Android apps

Being a Market leader, our client delivers tailor-made promotional, insurance & rewards solutions to brands and agencies for helping achieve their business goals. The company has developed a Xamarin Mobile App for one of its cutting-edge promotional initiatives. It had to integrate a payment gateway utility functionality, called Braintree, with its Xamarin App...

How CIOs are Successfully Implementing Enterprise Machine Learning

In today’s world, CIOs are at the forefront of adopting Machine Learning to drive digital transformation and reimagine their enterprise processes. According to a survey, ‘The Global CIO Point of View’ conducted by ServiceNow & Oxford Economics, across 25 sectors in 11 countries and completed by 500 CIOs, over 50% of Enterprise CIOs...

An Enterprise guide to create a successful AI strategy

In the era of fast-advancing technologies like connected devices and complex algorithms, AI is inspiring every industry. From furtive start-ups to techy companies to asset-intensive industries, teams are agitatedly working on their AI strategy. However, it comes down to one high-stakes, crucial question – How do we use Machine learning and Artificial...

Top 3 Industrial IoT Implementations in Manufacturing

What if you could use advanced analytics to envisage events before they happened, use real-time actionable insights to increase production and help your operatives know the right decision to take at any given time? Industrial IoT is driving such capabilities enabling unparalleled operational efficiency, productivity, and performance...

Why CIOs should consider Big Data Analytics Implementation to drive Digital Transformation

In this cutthroat competitive world, digital transformation has become crucial. Many organizations have started their transformational journey by ideating new business models, process and technologies. And, many others are already witnessing the power of digital transformation through their initiatives around powerful innovation...

How Blockchain & Machine Learning are disrupting 3 major Industries

Today, Blockchain and Machine Learning (ML) technologies are gaining strong momentum and thrust around the world. Blockchain, a disruptive technology, made its big splash with cryptocurrencies invention and trading. On the other hand, with predictive and descriptive algorithms, ML is making huge waves in harnessing existing...

How are Utilities winning with Chatbots and AI?

Today, the utility sector is establishing to be one of the innovative sector to use emerging, cutting-edge technologies like automation, AI and advanced analytics. Digital technologies and Big data are opening up new possibilities and driving efficiencies, playing a crucial role in creating the impact on economics...

Azure vs AWS: Which Cloud platform to choose for Big Data & Analytics solutions?

In an increasingly data-driven business atmosphere, Enterprises are strategizing more towards deriving meaningful insights from their vast amounts of data. As per Gartner, till 2017, 75% Enterprises have already invested in technology that facilitates Data Analysis. Amongst the many cloud vendors available, Microsoft Azure...

Why Azure Stack to build Hybrid Cloud solutions?

Today, most Enterprises want a hybrid cloud model due to data regulatory or sovereignty requirements and unified application development needs. They look to run the same code in their data center as it is used in the public cloud. Few others want it for locations where network latency or unreliable connectivity makes cloud...

5 Reasons why Azure ML for Machine Learning solutions

From virtual assistants to chatbots and automation to smart homes, Artificial Intelligent (AI) and Machine Learning have become prominent in our daily life. According to International Data Corporation (IDC) forecasts, spending on AI and ML will grow to $57.6B by 2021 from $12B in 2017. According to the report by...

Building Connected Enterprises with AWS IoT

Industry leaders are accelerating their move to digital transformation with end-to-end IoT solutions – for maximizing process efficiencies, optimizing operations, and creating new revenue streams. However, building an IoT solution has its own set of challenges like secure device connectivity, authentication to all connected...

6 AWS Migration challenges and ways to overcome them

Businesses are becoming increasingly interested in winning the advantages of cloud technology in terms of efficiency, scaling, easy to manage, low cost, and much more. Statista predicts that the market for Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) will reach to $17.5 billion in 2018 and Amazon Web Services (AWS) will hold the...

7 Major benefits of Amazon QuickSight you should know

With an ever-increasing gush of data available today, there is a bigger potential for growing your business. If only a minute part of such data is mined and modelled accurately, your business gains an unparalleled edge over its competitors. Business Intelligence (BI) tools can help Enterprises analyze and visualize...

6 Key Lessons from Enterprises Working on AWS

There’s no doubt that Amazon Web Services (AWS) transforms business operations resulting in improved productivity and ultimately increased revenue. It is, therefore, no wonder that more and more organizations are increasingly making a decision to leave behind the cumbersomeness of old-fashioned data centers...

Creating a Multi-Cloud environment with Azure, AWS & On-premise

A multi-cloud strategy offers the ability to select different cloud services or features from various cloud platforms. This is helpful since some cloud environments are more suitable than others for a particular task. For instance, one cloud platform might handle a large number of requests per...

Building Machine Learning solutions using Spark ML on Azure

A Manufacturing company running Spark Machine Learning solutions on their local servers wanted to move their data & ML solutions to Microsoft Azure cloud for better scalability and ease of maintenance. The company engaged Saviant to build a solution that would help them overcome their challenges. Our team leveraged Azure HDInsight Spark, an Azure...

Building an Industrial IoT platform using AWS IoT

An American Manufacturing Leader wanted a cloud-enabled IIoT platform to connect, track and monitor its Enterprise Gateways (EG), that connects up to 30 end-devices that are installed across the manufacturing facilities. The company needed smart device management and secure data management system that can manage connected end-devices...

Using Azure Stack to deploy .NET application & Oracle Database 12c

A Leading Utility service provider wanted to deploy a .NET application and Oracle 12c on private data center, to overcome challenges involving security, latency & performance. As Oracle Database 12c is a cloud version and can only be deployed as a cloud database; Azure Stack was the best option...

Demystified: 5 Biggest Myths of AI for CIOs

Growth-hungry Enterprises across all industries gear-up to utilize the power of cloud and AI, to accelerate performance and transform their business. Gartner revealed that, by 2020 machines will perform 85% of consumer interaction. Undoubtedly, CIOs will play the important role in defining the AI strategy and its implementation...

Transforming Food supply chain operations with Power BI

In today’s fast-paced digital marketplace, Retailers and Food Service companies are rapidly adopting technology as a key to optimize their supply chain operations. And JJ Food Service, UK’s leading Food Service specialist, has always been at the forefront of leveraging cutting-edge technologies in everything it does. Recently, the company utilized Microsoft Power BI to create a Business Intelligence...

Why Microsoft IoT Central is the key to your IoT success

Internet of Things (IoT) has emerged as one of the most disruptive forces driving the digital transformation. All industry leaders are at the heart of elevating this innovative force. By 2020, global spending on IoT will have 15.6% of compound annual growth rate and the estimated market size will be $1.29 trillion, as predicted by the International Data Corporation (IDC). And, Gartner predicts...

5 Best Practices for Cloud application development on Azure

With cloud computing as the key to embrace digital transformation, many enterprises are leveraging Azure as a platform to realize its benefits. Using deeply-integrated Azure cloud services, such enterprises are rapidly managing simple to complex applications with ease. Today, 90% of Fortune 500 companies are using Microsoft Azure to power their business globally. As per the MarketWatch...

IoT and Data Analytics Predictions for 2018

Most Enterprises across all industries are looking forward to deploying IoT and Data Analytics solutions, to embrace digital transformation and create new growth opportunities. Gartner predicts that many businesses will realize the power of IoT that can help them in becoming digital enterprises, while few companies will give up. However, lack of data professionals will restrain...

3 Azure Migration tools to kick-start your Hybrid Cloud Journey

Since the last decade, Cloud computing has swiftly become one of the most significant and widely adopted IT technology. Every Enterprise is migrating its business from a traditional environment to the modern cloud one. Cloud technology has significantly changed the way of doing business, by offering potential cost benefits, increasing efficiency, and offering flexibility to...

IoT Implementation in Mind? 5 Critical Factors You Must Consider

As the IoT wave is taking over the globe, Enterprises are keen to realize its power to stay competitive in this fast-paced digital marketplace. Gartner predicted that by 2020, there will be over 20 billion connected things. This is evident with the rapid transformation of our day-to-day life with smart homes, connected cars, smart cities, manufacturing and farms facilities, and...

6 Critical Questions about Azure Containers on every CIO's Mind

Shipping containers have transformed the export & import industry by standardizing and making the shipping payload opaque; likewise, Azure Containers are transforming the way applications are developed, deployed, and managed in multiple environments. They offer a consistent way to ship any application and enable portability...

Xamarin or Ionic - Which one should you opt for?

Choosing the best Mobile App development framework among the competing ones is an expedient and perplexing job for any organization. Now-a-days, most enterprises prefer cross-platform frameworks instead of developing mobile apps differently for different platforms. However, depending on the desired end-product, audience....

7 Benefits of Azure Web Apps in developing Enterprise Apps rapidly

Cloud computing simply means the delivery of computing services like servers, databases, software, networking, storage, analytics over the cloud. Cloud providers like Microsoft offer these computing services and typically charge based on the consumption like your water or telephone bill. From small startups to.....

Enterprise Chatbot: The Intelligent Friend for Modern Customers

Chatbots are here to transform the future. As per a Forrester report, 57% of companies are already using Enterprise Chatbots or have plans to begin with one this year. Estimation is that chatbots will explode the global market with over US$1.9 Bn by 2020 and expected to clock a CAGR of over 30% by next decade....

What is your Azure Migration Strategy?

Most Enterprises are moving to the Cloud as a cost-effective means to develop, deploy and manage their infrastructure. A Cloud platform provides competitive advantages such as higher efficiency, greater flexibility, lower costs and better performance of applications to name a few; and Microsoft Azure...

Everything you need to know about Cloud-Native Applications

Cloud-Native applications are apps that make full use of the benefits of the Cloud Computing revolution. These are the applications which are born and raised in Cloud as against their on-premise counterparts. The idea is to replace the capital investment & man-power required to run Enterprise data-center with limitless computing....

Why Xamarin is the best pick for Industrial Field Service Apps

Building a connected workforce and improving operational efficiency has been a critical challenge for Asset-intensive and Field-force driven enterprises. Enterprises have various field operations to run; for e.g., the food delivery workforce must ensure accurate delivery of quality food items to the customers. Similarly....

What Do Modern Utility Consumers Need In This Digital Era

Technology has reshaped the definition of services. What earlier used to be a simple transaction has changed towards a more proactive experience. Consumers are longing for more, and service providers are looking to engage their customers better. Even utility enterprises such as electricity...

10 reasons why to choose Azure for your Enterprise

Enterprises across the globe are realizing great success with business solutions powered by Cloud. They are redefining the way they do business with scalable &secure cloud-enabled enterprise applications. Globally, 90% of Fortune 500 companies are using Microsoft Azure to drive their...

6 key IoT Implementation Challenges for Enterprises to consider

IoT (Internet of Things) is a fairly new concept for industries and it is presenting a huge opportunity for them to thrive in this digital transformation world. There are various takes on what IoT stands for enterprises, but the basic idea remains the same; collect data, analyze the...

7 Powerful ways to develop Mobile Apps quickly with Xamarin

The world of Mobile applications is changing our lives in a major way. Enterprises as well as their customers are opting for mobile apps to automate their work life in order to make their lives easier. However, in this fast-growing technology environment, developing mobile ....

Machine Learning defies odds to aid Asset Management across Industries

Industry 4.0 is here; this also substantiates the start to a new era of industrialization where machines are moving toward being autonomous. For Asset-intensive Enterprises, it is imperative to keep watch on various processes such as material production, overall equipment....
 

4 Simple Steps to Select the Right Test Automation tool for your Project

Common software testing methods such as manual testing, repetitive tasks are being replaced with systematic testing programs using automation tools. Today, Test Automation has gained prominence and is being considered as the most effective way to enhance coverage, efficiency...
 

Powering up Assets & reinventing Utility Operations with Analytics

Asset-intensive and field-force driven utilities are taking a major shift with the advent of smart meters, sensors, intelligent devices and IoT-based systems. However, these enterprises are facing challenges in managing enormous volumes of data generated by assets...
 

Top 4 Benefits of Predictive Asset Analytics for Utilities

How do we optimize asset maintenance to prevent failure of assets? This is a question that looms large on Asset-intensive and Field-force driven Enterprises. Utilities being no exception, as they face tremendous pressure due to aging assets & workforce, intelligent...
 

Top 5 benefits of building real-time business intelligence that Utilities must realize

Real-time business intelligent solutions are expected to be game changers for asset-intensive and field-force driven enterprises, such as Utilities. These solutions have become pervasive for enterprises to find value that had been "unseen" in the data....
 

8 Major benefits of Microsoft Power BI you must know

Business intelligence is the key component in the drive to be agile, competitive and effective. As businesses grow, it becomes very difficult to manage data being generated regularly. This in turn creates a road-block for data-driven enterprises who wish to harness....
 

How modern Analytics empowers Utilities for better decision making

Global energy demands are set to surge till 2040 by as much as 37%, according to the International Energy Agency. As Utilities are striving to meet the inflating demands to deliver more affordable, safer, sustainable and reliable services, they will need to optimize....
 

Reinvent supply chain operations the IoT way

Gartner predicted that by 2020, the internet of things will add an estimated $1.9 trillion to the global economy. As such, it would only be fair to say that the world is witnessing its 4th industrial revolution, driven by the phenomenal adoption of IoT by various....
 

Creating a connected enterprise: It's not rocket science

The Internet of Things is more than things — devices and sensors — and their connectivity – internet — with IT Infrastructure. The real definition of IoT starts when these IoT-enabled things reveal critical data complemented with analytics to derive business insights. Thus, a successful connected enterprise can only be....
 

Build your Internet of Things Solution with Azure IoT Suite

As more and more Enterprises are joining the IoT bandwagon with new devices, services and ways to devise IoT solutions, Microsoft promises to be a game changer with its Azure IoT Suite. The Azure IoT suite makes it simpler for enterprises to get started with IoT implementations through pre-configured solutions in order to derive business....
 

5 Significant ways Microsoft Azure PaaS creates opportunities for Enterprises.

With rapid growth in technology innovation, enterprises are frequently impeded by the complexity of delivering highly scalable applications. IaaS cloud model offers compelling benefits such as time, scale, and hardware utilization savings, however, building an application from design to deploy for many enterprises involves many lead times....
 

Modernize your businesses with Enterprise Mobility & Cloud

The combination of Enterprise Mobility and Cloud is adding new magnitudes in the way businesses operate. Enterprises today need to adapt to the rapid evolution in technology trends to achieve their business goals and objectives. Also, connecting and engaging with the customers, employees and partners in real-time is crucial.....
 

Azure IoT - The preferred choice over AWS IoT

IoT is topping the technology hype cycle aiming to help business entities achieve connected enterprises. IoT combined with Analytical solutions are helping enterprises solve critical business challenges such as Real-time analytics, sensors integration, maximum asset utilization, real-time supply chain visibility and many more.....
 

10 Azure Migration Challenges and Ways to Overcome them

by Pankaj Bhalerao
Moving business computing needs to a high-performance Cloud solution is an exciting prospect that promises to revolutionize every process in the organization. Reliable backup storage, disaster recovery & redundancy, secure data access, scalability & high availability are few challenges with the existing on-premises.....
 

Smart | Secure | Mobile – Enterprise Apps for every Business

by Sagar Kulkarni
Every enterprise is planning to mobilize their existing systems, people or business processes to amplify their operational efficiency, generate more revenue, and to improve the business growth. This needs expanding legacy or existing applications over Enterprise Mobility Platform or building new mobile applications that.....
 

5 ways How IoT and Analytics help Enterprises drive Business Growth

Technology is playing a major role in shaping business growth, disrupting industry verticals and providing the catalyst for business modernization – through optimizing the business operations, engaging their customers, empowering their employees or upgrading the products. IoT and Analytics platforms are transforming businesses....
 

MVVM Light Toolkit to wrap MVVM Pattern for Xamarin iOS

by Dhavan Rathore
Developing Native mobile applications across different platforms at once is both time and efforts intensive. A common development platform is essential to minimize the efforts instead of a distinctive programming language; Objective C for iOS, C# for Windows and Java for Android. Xamarin is the prominent application development....
 

MBaaS driven Enterprise Mobility with Azure Mobile Apps Service

by Sujit Karpe
Mobile Backend as a Service (MBaaS) provides a way to connect the mobile apps with the cloud storage and data processing system. It enables plethora of backend capabilities to support highly-functional mobile apps. The primarily used backend services include user management, file sharing and....
 

Continuous Integration Vs Continuous Delivery Vs Continuous Deployment

by Ajay Tiwari
Continuity is the cornerstone of every DevOps strategy. DevOps calls for process continuity in the form of Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery and Continuous Deployment. Let’s look at each of these in greater detail along with the benefits of implementing them in the software development lifecycle....
 

Top 7 Expected Benefits from Microsoft’s Acquisition of Xamarin

by Dhavan Rathore
In a highly strategic move, Microsoft has acquired the leading mobile app development platform, Xamarin. Developers can now leverage this platform together with Microsoft Visual Studio for building cross platform mobile apps with C# while retaining native user experience...
 

Get Started with Cross-platform Native Mobile Apps using Xamarin Forms

by Dhavan Rathore
Xamarin is a unique cross-platform mobile application development platform that provides up to 75% shared code across iOS, Android and Windows. It offers Xamarin.Forms, Xamarin.Android and Xamarin.iOS to quickly build native mobile apps across these...
 

7 Reasons to adopt Continuous Integration in Building Real-World Cloud Apps

by Ajay Tiwari
For successful cloud application development and deployment, Continuous Integration (CI) environment has become a necessity now-a-days. CI is a development culture where developers and coders check in code several times...
 

Overview of MVVM Light Toolkit for Xamarin Android

by Sujit
Xamarin helps in the deployment of cross-platform native mobile applications, which provide best user experience and performance. It offers up to 75% code sharable across...
 

3 Reasons Why Developing Cloud-Native Applications is Worth the Time and Money

by Anubhav Dwivedi
Globally, more than 65% of enterprises have started building their Applications Strategy and Roadmap on Cloud platforms. This percentage is expected to double by 2020....
 

Everything you Need to Know about Mobile App Development Using Xamarin

by Anubhav Dwivedi
Developing similar individual native mobile app to run on Android, iOS, and Windows need considerable time and efforts. On the contrary, developing a cross-platform native mobile app using a single framework reduces these efforts significantly...
 

Key Lessons from Enterprises Working on Microsoft Azure PaaS

by Melbin Areekuzhi
Many enterprises are adopting Microsoft Azure PaaS for infrastructural and application deployment needs. It provides a platform for building applications, with the essential tools including DBMS, enterprise service buses (ESBs), application servers and many others...
 

7 Reasons Why Azure Is Better Than AWS

by Anubhav Dwivedi
Both Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure feature in the Leader’s quadrant on Gartner’s 2015 Cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) Magic Quadrant...
 

How Azure helps?

by Melbin Areekuzhi
Windows Azure is a Development and Hosting Platform with on-demand computing & infinite scalability and Azure is already helping Entrepreneurs & Enterprises across the globe to...
 

Who Benefits from Azure

by Melbin Areekuzhi
If you are an Entrepreneur or an Enterprise building a web based application with below nature, you'd stand to gain the maximum from Azure Cloud Adoption...
 

Cloud Computing in 2014

by Madhur Kulkarni
I have been closely watching Cloud Computing domain for last 12-18 months, and it has been nothing but an evolution in progress. The business world has seen a paradigm shift.....
 

Enhancing Water Utility Industry Operations using Cloud Technology

by Anjana Khaire
Rapid changes are taking place in Water, Gas and Electric Utilities throughout the world. Their key focus now is to make better use of spatial data......
 

What is the Heart of Agile Development?

by Mona Taghavi
Needless to say, agile projects don't follow the traditional way of documentation, but it is more of an up- front style documentation.....
 

Customer Success - Simplified!!

by Madhur Kulkarni
Wow, this is exactly what I wanted, said one of my client during a project initiation presentation. I got a smile on my face. Then I wondered, is this really customer success? What if the same customer came....
 

Limitation of Windows Azure and Ways to beat'em

by Anubhav Dwivedi
Saviant CEO, Anubhav Dwivedi had an amazing session on "Limitation of Windows Azure and Ways to beat'em".....