How to build continuous improvement into software development

Many seasoned IT professionals will be very familiar with the pressures brought about by their organization’s digital transformation efforts. The demand for more innovation and features that need to be delivered faster and cheaper can make it difficult to achieve exactly what is required without compromising the quality of their work. To balance these competing demands, continuous improvement offers a …

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Bridging the gap: Bringing software development methods to BizApps (Part 2)

Presented with a tough problem to solve, any good engineer will ask, “Who has already solved this? Can I copy it?” That’s increasingly happening on business applications teams. They’re looking to the world of software development to DevOps principles like versioning, continuous integration, and automated testing, and seeing an uncanny resemblance and a whole lot of time-saving practices they can …

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Bridging the gap: Bringing software development methods to BizApps (Part 1)

This is the first blog post in a trilogy about how enterprises can solve the challenges of managing and configuring today’s increasingly complex business applications. Current practices are slow and inefficient. Smart organizations are discovering the secret of using tested, proven practices and tools from the world of software development.  Software development is hard.  In 1987, computer scientist and Turing …

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Scaling SaaS: How to emulate Europe’s titans and supercharge your software company’s growth

“Software is eating the world.”  When Marc Andreesen coined that phrase in 2011, he was talking explicitly about the next generation of Silicon Valley companies that were set to drive a new wave of disruption across industries.   10 years later, it’s safe to say that Andreesen was right about software – but wrong to assume that the US would …

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Is software strategy (or lack of) holding back your digital transformation?

Legacy technology doesn’t age very well, especially if it wasn’t designed for the long haul. Take all the companies that first attempted to implement technology solutions 10 or 15 years ago but didn’t plan for the future. Now, they’re likely stuck with aging infrastructure that prevents agility and allows the competition to run laps around them. This isn’t an unusual …

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Software licensing in 2021 – why and how businesses need to jump on board

The outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic last year – and the remote working environment it rapidly created – are continuing to drive strong demand for software to be more accessible for both consumers and businesses. From the way we use technology to how we carry out our work, the limits on travel and social distancing guidelines have led to a …

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Did Covid change software development for the better?

The idea for the Minimum Viable Product (MVP) methodology for software development first appeared 20 years ago, becoming mainstream with the 2011 publication of The Lean Startup by Eric Ries. Getting an application to MVP level has become the way enterprises create products that have just enough features to attract early adopters, providing the feedback needed to validate or abandon …

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Most business intelligence software isn’t getting used

Businesses are investing large sums of money into Business Intelligence (BI) software, only to have it collect virtual dust on their systems. This is according to a new report from financial performance management and business intelligence consultancy firm MHR Analytics, which states that just four percent of all BI software is being actively used. For a fifth of businesses, more …

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How security & license compliance cultures can coexist for open-source software management

Much about contemporary culture plays up clashes between opposites. Examples ranging from the innocuous (coffee vs tea) to the contentions political and social debates, each has a role in how we perceive others. Going to extremes becomes all too easy. Meeting in the middle has its advantages. In the world of software, one such clash is around the cultures surrounding …

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Covid-19 is accelerating the adoption of collaborative and immersive software development platforms

The Covid-19 pandemic has dramatically changed the work environment for office workers, with the majority shifting to remote work on short notice in the Spring of 2020. In general, this has worked better than expected– a Bain and Company survey from Summer 2020 found that 25 percent of workers that had shifted to working remotely were more productive. There is …

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