For Software Development Outsourcing, Should You Go Onshore, Offshore, or Nearshore? It’s time to face the truth: your business has outgrown the systems that used to support its functions. When your business took its first steps, an Excel workbook was all you needed to keep track of contracts, orders, suppliers, and employees. Now the business has grown — and it’s still…

Build Versus Buy: The Pros and Cons of Buying Off-the-Shelf Software or Building Your Own Custom Systems In today’s business world, a software component is critical for any business looking to gain efficiencies. Software systems that automate back office processes — from customer relationship management to billing to reporting — empower businesses to leverage technology and free up their finite labor resources for other, high-order work.

When businesses talk about moving software to the cloud, often what they mean is simply migrating existing software by replacing a traditional hosting provider with a cloud-based provider, or even developing new applications in a classic way and then deploying them in the cloud. While simply hosting software in the…

We hear this question sometimes, and it’s a fair assumption. After all, when we invest significant money in new products, from appliances to new to cars, we’re accustomed to receiving a warranty along with the purchase. …

No matter how costly the project, how critical the system, or how cutting-edge the design, every software product has a finite lifecycle. Sooner or later, every system underpinning your business will become obsolete, either because new innovations render the technology outdated or because the business’s needs have changed as it’s…

Got a big idea for a software product? One that fills a huge gap in the market? One that’s guaranteed to make a splash? Congratulations! That’s great. But, unfortunately, that one-in-a-million idea isn’t as foolproof as you might think. And, conversely, some of those more obvious, been-there-done-that ideas you disregarded…

When we’re working with clients to create the plans and roadmaps that will guide us in converting their software visions into custom-built realities, one of the first decisions we make is which technologies will best fit the clients’ particular needs. In early years of web applications development, a technology stack…