Dojo vs. jQuery Mobile: Which one to choose?
Both jQuery and DOJO are JavaScript Development Frameworks/Packages that provide functions to make the writing of JavaScript code easier, faster and more efficient. jQuery normalize things across...
View ArticleIf medicos can, why can’t IT professionals?
Recently I was watching a talk by Francis Collins, the former director of the human genome project. Based on his research, he mentioned that medicine in future would become highly personalized and...
View ArticleAgile - What is your game plan? [10 things you must know]
The principles of agile development are simple: cross-functional teams break work into small pieces of functionality, they work in priority order and they deliver working software in short, frequent...
View ArticleAttaining High Maturity… are we there yet?
For a long time now, CMMI has been a proven model for bringing about a radical process improvement in many organizations. The aura of the model is so profound that more and more customers have started...
View ArticleUnderstanding Remote Deposit Capture
It is often said, that with every setback, mankind emerges stronger and every disaster leads to a new invention or discovery. The events of 9/11 not only shook the United States but the entire world....
View ArticleMobile and Mobility – The New Dawn
In November 2011, Jetstar became the first airline to offer passengers iPADs for use as in-flight entertainment devices. The units, which are pre-loaded with movies, games and magazines, are available...
View Article3 Step Process for Mobile platform selection
Unlike in the desktop era, the mobility space is completely fragmented and is a nightmare for organisations that are building applications to support major mobile platforms. There are different...
View ArticleThe end of Java as we know it?
The furore about Java’s future continues to fuel one controversy after another! The digital space is abuzz with discussions on what will happen to Java. While some blogs have already sounded its death...
View ArticleGoogle Analytics Integration with Pentaho
Google Analytics (GA) provides detailed statistics about a website's traffic and traffic sources, measuring the conversions and sales. It gives you a fresh perspective on aspects like how visitors use...
View ArticleJasmine - An Overview
Which Jasmine, did you say? Well, not the beautiful princess of Aladdin invading your dreams! Not even the fresh, white fragrant flower! The Jasmine I am referring to is a robust JavaScript unit...
View ArticleSAP HANA
In any organization, massive amount of data is created every year. How fast the business reacts to important information determines whether you succeed or fail! Nowadays people want instant access to...
View ArticlePerformance Enhancements in Sencha Touch 2
Sencha Touch is an HTML5 based mobility framework for creating cross platform mobile web sites/applications. It is a mature platform which provides an array of UI controls for developers allowing them...
View ArticleCohort Analysis - Part 1 of 2
Cohort: A cohort is a group of people who share a common characteristic over a certain period of time. Common characteristics can be: birth year, geographic location, profession, gender etc.Read more...
View ArticleCohort Analysis – Part 2 of 2
Talking in terms of customers rather than visits is preferable, because customers are the real entities that businesses are built around, whereas “visits” are artificial constructions based on a...
View ArticleCisco EnergyWise – getting future ready!
Today, your network equipment consumes a flat rate of electricity, 24 x 7 x 365, irrespective of whether anyone is using the network or not. When most employees leave the office at the end of a...
View ArticleData Mining in Hadoop…simplified in Mahout!
We live in an age where data grows at a rate faster than its preceding second in time. Big data depicts this exponential explosion of data that can’t be handled by traditional architectural and...
View ArticleJava Script Performance Optimization Techniques - Blog 2 of 2
In my earlier blog, I talked about the main three areas that a developer needs to invest his/her time on to improve the performance of a Java script application – namely, “Render”, “Compute” and...
View ArticleInsight into Pervasive
Pervasive Data Integrator (PDI), a product from Pervasive Software – now acquired by Actian Corporation, delivers software for management, integration and analysis of data throughout the entire data...
View ArticleA peek into Mobile Banking
Since 2010, the world has witnessed exponential growth in the Mobility sector, with Mobile Apps significantly fueling this growth. Also, the availability of affordable smartphones has opened the...
View ArticleEmerging trends in Mainframes - Interaction with MQ
Someone asked me once “how do banks and financial institutions maintain the data from so many years?” Do we know the answer? You bet we do! One of the oldest systems, mainframes offer an edge over...
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