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Archive for June, 2010

Custom Programming

Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010

An offshore product development company helps you to pull out the best out of your investment into your business. By using the custom programmed software that is developed by a company using customized programming, you get the opportunity to join that league of industry leaders, which have done drastically well in their respective fields. One of the biggest advantages of using custom programming is that it helps a company reduce the cost of training incurred on its employees. Custom software programming is developed to meet only specific demands. Therefore, you focus more on training those people who will be using that software for the benefit of the firm.

Custom Software programming is in itself a very crucial segment of any software programming endeavor; when it is bound to be customized, developers are often endowed with more responsibilities. Today, scenario has changed a lot; software programming industry does not withdraw on the software programming of the custom sort. For all those outsourced product development companies as well as other personalized software needs, there are many options available in the expert hands of the software developers. Thus, it all depends on how well you make your approach. Custom software programming service is a concept that provides the solution to your problems that occurs from the traditional methods of working. When you are using readymade tools and it does not provide you the reports as required, it becomes useless and even more time wasting when you keep using it though it does not comply with your needs. Things even get more difficult when you are not using the software at all and keep working in traditional pen and paper method messing with registers, ledgers and pile of files. When it comes to custom software programming, it remains completely as its name suggests custom or tailor-made. Custom-made software is the one that is made after analyzing your problems such as, your work processes, your current system of working, how your staff would be working on it during the routine process in order to find out the right solution for your need and to give you the desired output in forms of reports, results, and revenues.

In custom programming, the applications available program is specifically accustomed to the operations of the company. Thus, there is no more room for subjectivity as the whole process is broken down to simplistic objective choices to cover all the possible outcomes. Lesser room for error and mistakes make for a more objective application of the custom programming. Also, the main benefit of the customized programs is security of the system. Not only can the processes of the business harder to replicate, there is also a bigger headache when it comes to pilferage the information. The custom program would not be able to run if parts of it were broken down or if its output stolen. Vital security features such as, passwords and encryption allows the customization to be the main security aspect of the program.

Business Intelligence Services

Tuesday, June 15th, 2010

Business intelligence is a broad category of applications and technologies for gathering, storing, analyzing, and providing access to data to help enterprise users make better business decisions in an offshore product development organisation. BI applications include the activities of decision support systems, query and reporting, online analytical processing (OLAP), statistical analysis, forecasting, and data mining.

Business Intelligence becomes effective when it provides insight and helps you predict outcomes. Business Intelligence helps you track your mistakes, control your present and forecast future results based on your business decisions. Business Intelligence gives the maximum benefit to customers in terms of cost savings, improved quality, access to highly talented professionals, flexibility of operations and reduced time to market. Business intelligence services are driven towards customer’s current and future needs in mind, providing feature-rich solutions that are built on standard technologies. BI services have helped customers and partners increase productivity and efficiency by transforming data into actionable information.

Business Intelligence solutions can:

• Reduce total cost of managing and delivering information

• Support self-service access to information for employees, partners and clients

• Promote collaboration/workflow

• Automate legacy processes

• Reduce cost of business operations

Some of Business Intelligence Services are:

• Reporting – Reporting gives you access to a complete list of report types. With the reporting capability, you can personalize the style and quality of Business Intelligence delivered to your key stakeholders; and you expand the community of business intelligence users.

• Analysis – The analysis solution in BI enables the guided exploration of information that pertains to all dimensions of your business, regardless of where the data is stored. Analyze and report against online analytical processing (OLAP) and dimensionally aware relational sources. With the analysis capability, you can personalize the style and quality of business intelligence delivered to the client. OLAP tools such as Hyperion are geared towards slicing and dicing of the data. As such, they require a strong metadata layer, as well as front-end flexibility.

• Dashboards – Business dashboards communicate complex information quickly. They translate information from your various corporate systems and data into visually rich presentations using gauges, maps, charts, and other graphical elements to show multiple results together in an outsourced product development company. Dashboards — operational, tactical, and strategic — help you monitor, measure, and manage corporate performance.

Mobile Technology

Thursday, June 10th, 2010

Mobile computing allows people to use IT without being tied to a single location. Any business with staff that works away from the office can benefit from using it.

Mobile IT devices can also change the way you do business – new technologies lead to new ways of working, and new products and services that can be offered to your customers. They can bring new business opportunities – for example the spin-off businesses surrounding the mobile phone industry.

Mobile application development technology is exactly what the name implies – technology that is portable. Examples of mobile IT devices include; laptop computers, palmtop computers or personal digital assistants, mobile phones and ’smart phones’ – high-end phones with more advanced capabilities, global positioning system (GPS) devices, wireless debit/credit card payment terminals

Mobile  devices can be enabled to use a variety of communications technologies such as:

  1. wireless fidelity (Wi-Fi) – a type of wireless local area network technology
  2. Bluetooth – connects mobile devices wirelessly
  3. ‘third generation’ (3G), global system for mobile communications (GSM) and general packet radio service (GPRS) data services – data networking services for mobile phones
  4. dial-up services – data networking services using modems and telephone lines
  5. virtual private networks – secure access to a private network

It is therefore possible to network the mobile device to a home office or the internet while travelling. Mobile computing can improve the service you offer your customers. For example, you could use your laptop computer to give a presentation. You could then transfer PDFs of your product literature to your client’s computer. Or you could connect remotely to your diary to arrange a follow-up appointment. Alternatively, you can enable customers to pay for services or goods without having to go to the till. For example, by using a wireless payment terminal diners can pay for their meal without leaving their table.

More powerful solutions can link you directly into the office network while working off site, for instance to access your company’s database or accounting systems. For example, you could set up a new customer’s account, check prices and stock availability, place an order online. This leads to great flexibility in working – for example, enabling home working, or working while traveling. Increasingly, networking ‘hot spots’ are being provided in public areas that allow connection back to the office network or the internet.

Mobile phones and their network vary very significantly from provider to provider and country to country. However the basic communication method of all of them is through the electromagnetic microwaves with a cell base station. The cellular companies have large antennas, which are usually mounted over towers, buildings and poles. The cell phones have low-power transceivers that transmit voice and data to the nearest sites usually within the 5 to 8 miles (8 to 13 kilometers away).

When a mobile device or phone is turned on, it registers with the mobile telephone exchange or switch. It is a unique identifier and is alerted by the mobile switch when there is an incoming phone call. The handset listens for the strong signals from the nearest base stations. When a user moves, the mobile device hand-off to various nearest sites during phone calls or while waiting between calls it reselect the nearest cell phone sites.

 
Customer Speaks
 
 
Our Team Lead from Q3 was in Chicago with AMB this week. We have been involved in many demonstrations and meetings with customers and partners including Microsoft. We have been asking a lot of the Q3 AMB Team and they have surpassed my expectations on deliverables and efforts to deliver new features and functions, such as the new Address Correction, Cross Database, the e-commerce website, new data sources, testing - this product is near impossible to break, and more. These have been important for all of our prospects, customers and business partnerships.

I truly thank the team for their professionalism, efforts beyond most others and retaining a great and excited attitude and work ethic. Though I must say they have worked with these ethics and strength from their first days on this project.

For these reasons AMB has very long plans for utilizing Q3 and this team for years to come. Thank you, Q3 AMB Team !!
Steven Meister
CEO, AMB Dataminers Inc.
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