If you are active on the internet (and who isn’t these days?), you would relate to my problem.
I have a Facebook id, a Twitter id, a Flickr profile, a YouTube channel, a Gmail address, a Hotmail address (yes, I still use one), a Goodreads account, a Dropbox account, a Blogspot id, two Wordpress blogs, one Oracle forum id, one Java developer platform id, three Online banking ids, two Share trading consoles..You got the picture, right? Read more…

While John Mauchly and John Presper Eckert launched ENIAC in 1946 under American Military project, their objective had been to device a machine for calculating artillery-firing tables, the settings used for different weapons under varied conditions for target accuracy. However, the business giants like IBM and others worked on making the technology affordable. Read more…

I have been analyzing/observing the trends/expectations of many and varied IT companies in India specifically for Business Analysts. I could see very clearly that organizations emphasize on domain knowledge or a prior experience of a particular domain, say Mortgage Industry or CPG or Insurance sector or Retail. Read more…

Human to machine interface is one of the primary links to the development of the IT industry. Proactive interaction and reactive interaction are the two parts of human interaction. In proactive interaction, a human conveys his/her intent to the machine. Some applications turn this to reactive interaction very soon, wherein you watch out for responses from the machine to successfully complete conveying your intent.  Read more…

Most organizations with a large legacy of IT applications in their IT department have been treading the path of Application Portfolio rationalization. IT companies need to analyze portfolios to manage transition and steady state operations. Read more…

XYZ product development started with Java 1.1 and used special libraries for collections and concurrency. With the evolution of Java, most of these were part of the basic java offering and were better than the initial offerings. The product code base was already huge that any library change would mean modifying 40-50 kilo lines of code. The product heavily uses library calls and so a layer of abstraction would be an overkill.  Read more…

Though most organizations today have very well defined means of collaboration, if we closely study the actual usage, more often than not, it turns out to be abysmally low (for the intended purpose). In this blog, we will share our views on the reason for low participation and what organizations should be doing to effectively unleash collaboration. Read more…

The IT services industry is a little more than ten years young. In the same 10 years we moved from the Y2K bug that we suspected was hidden inside COBOL programs, to an Internet Bubble and its bust, to the present day Cloud Services buzz. Nowhere in the history of the world has there been so much change that humans had to cope with.  Read more…