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Rapid SaaS Development: Leveraging “off-the-shelf” applications As SaaS is becoming the preferred way of software delivery for end-users, every established Independent Software Vendor (ISV) and software start-up is now seeking to join the SaaS movement. However, the idea of building a SaaS solution from “scratch” sounds time-consuming and creates a fear of staying behind in the SaaS race. This webinar looks at some of the options ISV’s have to tackle those fears. View Webinar  |
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Transforming Education through Disruptive Technologies IT budget cuts post-recession have forced organizations and institutions to streamline their training and learning activities using emerging cost-effective technologies like collaboration platforms, web based applications and the now buzzed Cloud Computing. However, this technology invasion is still nascent and various revolutionary concepts, like augmented reality and gesture based computing, are on the verge of becoming mainstream. View Webinar |
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Panel Discussion - Distributed R&D: Beyond just Cost Benefits Over the last several years, many packaged software vendors/ software providers have outsourced their development needs with cost-cutting in mind. However, that’s no longer the case. While having global R&D delivery capabilities are important, there’s more to it that just cost advantages. View Webinar |
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Going On-Demand: IaaS, PaaS or Solution Accelerators? SaaS has gained enormous momentum in the recent years. Almost all ISVs are considering SaaS in their Software roadmap – either a transition strategy or a hybrid strategy by adding a new product line to their existing suite of software products. Market trends also promise SaaS to be the “Future of Software”! View Webinar |
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Building Software Solutions using Web 2.0 Technologies Successful software vendors have always built products with a user-centric mindset. Traditionally, meeting the functional requirements of end-users would generally be adequate for a product's success. However, in today's Web 2.0 paradigm, it has become imperative for software vendors to design solutions that empower users in addition to addressing the basic functional needs. Hence, software vendors now build solutions that are more intuitive and allow users to access what they want instantly and at minimal number of clicks.
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Panel discussion: Bootstrapping a Technology Start-up Entrepreneurs who bootstrap typically go through trying times. Yet, bootstrapping your software business – being frugal and resource-constrained - has its own advantages. It can help you focus and prioritize, and get your product validated by customers before you consider other funding options.
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Transition to SaaS: The Challenges and Solutions Today, almost all traditional Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) are hard pressed to have a SaaS strategy in their Product roadmap. This is essentially to de-risk stealing market share by pure-play SaaS players. However, Software “Product” vendors are confused and unsure of the right steps that can guarantee success in the Software-as-a-“Service” model. View Webinar |
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Web 2.0 for the Enterprise While the revolution of Web 2.0 adoption entered enterprises few years ago, the utilization of Web 2.0 technologies for business (otherwise called Enterprise 2.0) still remains unclear in many organizations. Certain companies refrain from embracing Web 2.0 due to ambiguities in areas like ROI justifications, security related issues, etc. View Webinar |
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Move beyond bugs – Testing solutions for optimizing product quality Changing business environments need mature testing processes & practices that can guarantee success rather than just cut costs. While Testing has traditionally been regarded as a curative solution, the reality is that it is a preventive medicine that can enhance product capabilities and help meet business objectives. View Webinar |
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Managing Security Threat in SaaS: Essential "How To's" Despite SaaS helping enterprises survive the economic downturn, uncertainties around security issues still seem to hamper SaaS adoption. View Webinar |
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Profitability: SaaS Versus On-Premise Solutions SaaS is being increasingly adopted and is even considered a savior model in this economy due to the zero upfront CAPEX for buyers. Still the question remains if SaaS is a profitable model for solution providers? Regardless of the longer sales cycles, is the on-premise solution providing faster break-even? View Webinar |
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Enterprise Product Frameworks: A sure-fire way to reduce development time, cost & bugs! “How can I get my product to market quickly and still ensure that quality is intact?” This may seem like a common concern, but it is one that many ISVs (Independent software vendors) of all sizes still grapple with everyday. Product frameworks can be a significant part of the answer to this question. View Webinar |
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Is (or Why is) SaaS the Survival Strategy in this Down Economy? Despite the current gloomy economic climate, with IT budgets tightening and layoffs increasing, spending on software-as-a-service continues to grow in enterprise markets. Research from firms such as Gartner, IDC, and Softletter confirm this growth and predict that SaaS market expansion will continue despite the recesson. Why is SaaS continuing to grow while many traditional licensed and on-premise software companies suffer from declining profits and static market share? View Webinar |
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Software usability: Necessary evil or True differentiator? The importance of usability engineering in software product development has grown in recent years. This is because many software vendors, software and internet-enabled businesses have begun to realize that the pay-off is huge if software is highly usable and is able to attract and retain its target audience. The converse is also true – a difficult-to-use product finds few takers. Usability has indeed become a differentiator for most successful products. View Webinar |
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Managing Agile development : Best practices Although agile methodologies have become a popular alternative to traditional methods, agile is still relatively new to many software organizations. Even among those who have adopted agile practices, many have not been successful in deriving real value from them. Having a clear understanding of agile engineering and management practices and being able to choose the ones that will deliver value for your specific needs are key to making agile development work for you. View Webinar |
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Is Test Automation right for you? Do your Math! Since many organizations consider test automation as the next logical step towards establishing a mature QA program, it becomes imperative for them to understand the initial costs involved in test automation. They can then weigh those costs against the benefits they will avail, post automation. View Webinar |
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Successful New Product Development – what does it take? Truly successful software products are hard to come by. Products that are adopted and embraced by their target audience are more the exception than the rule. So, what does it take to build great software? Is having a brilliant product idea enough? Do you need to have a stellar team and dedicated UX experts?
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How do you optimize Software Test Automation Costs? When it comes to automated testing, everyone throws around hot buzzwords like “data-driven”, “data flows”, and “error handling”. Do these buzzwords allow you to produce automation that is efficient, maintainable and usable? Above all, what does it take to optimize the costs involved in achieving efficient, maintainable and usable automation?
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Product Globalization – Is it about Products or Business?
The importance of building globalized products has grown in the recent years. Businesses are forced to rapidly expand beyond their borders towards sustaining extreme growths. This makes it imperative for businesses to get world-ready products that can seamlessly fit across nations. View Webinar |
Producteering – A great way to build Successful Products! Ensuring the success of software products is ongoing research for the last decade or so. Yet Product Engineering is not even considered basic knowledge in Academic Curricula. Given this situation, we understand and realize the importance that product engineering deserves, as opposed to generic application engineering, and have institutionalized what it takes to build better products quickly and consistently. This is what we call Producteering. View Webinar |
Are you planning to upgrade your ODBC driver from 2.x to 3.x? The ODBC specifications has evolved through different versions from 1.x to 3.x. The functional differences between these versions are not significant to the application developer and the end-user though there are so many advantages when you upgrade. Most of the Windows ODBC drivers in the market are developed for the most common ODBC 2.x standard. Why should you then as a driver vendor upgrade to ODBC 3.x? View Webinar |
SaaS – Don’t Over-engineer your product! Saas is gaining ground with Independent Software Vendors as a must-have delivery model. Although much is said about the low costs of entry for users and subscription revenues for providers, the viability of SaaS really stems from the fact that users simply prefer SaaS applications. View Webinar |
Product Testing is more than bugs - A consultative approach Product Testing is quite different from plain-vanilla Application Testing. For instance, software products need to work on a variety of environments and are expected to work on supported configurations of all supported platforms. It also need to be intuitive to use, and work in a similar manner to other products in its domain. Software products tend to have regular upgrades; additionally the scope of the product also changes with respect to changing market requirements, and this complicates testing further. This requires specialized skill sets to ensure quality products and reduce re-working costs on a product. View Webinar |
Should ISVs offer a SaaS version of their software? Offering software on-demand is gaining momentum and this is evident from the fact that more vendors are opting for On-demand solutions instead of On-premise solutions. This shift in trend is the new dimension in offering software solutions and it has just entered the mainstream. View Webinar |
Zero defect product development - is it a fad or a distinct possibility? Software development methodologies try to improve quality by promoting the tactic of testing “early and often”. When a defect is detected, a report is filed, the developer tries to reproduce and repair the problem, and then testing must verify that the modification corrected the problem and did not create any new problems. Because, it doesn’t prevent the same types of errors from recurring, this approach is time consuming, costly and inefficient. View Webinar |
Economics of Captive Offshore Centers The webinar emphasizes on the cost aspects of running a captive center, which is presently being overlooked by ISVs when they set up an offshore facility at a remote place. There is a misconception in the minds of many ISVs that outsourcing services is less cost-effective than having a self-owned offshore development center. View Webinar |
Knowledge Continuity and Attrition Rates How does one handle attrition rates and prevent individuals from leaving the organization when they are assigned to an ongoing project. It is very essential that an individual's aspirations and career objectives meet with the requirements of a particular project, before assigning resources to that particular project. This ensures effective contribution from individuals and retention of resources. Over and above this, there might be exceptional circumstances due to which a key resource from the team cannot stay on in the project. View Webinar |
Mitigating risks in Outsourcing Product Development Risk is inherent in business. When a software product company decides to outsource product development, particularly, to a partner from a different geographical and cultural boundary, risk perception soars. It is very important that you analyze the various risks before you embark on the outsourcing journey. Assessment of these risks reduces your vulnerability by empowering you and your organization with knowledge and insights. View Webinar |
Choosing the Right Offshore Partner Offshore outsourcing has become mainstream today and has proved to be a growth strategy more than just a cost saving tact for many software companies. For such a strategy to be successful, the choice of a right partner who is committed to your company's success is of extreme importance. View Webinar |
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