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Azure Makeovers
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Continuous Delivery using Kanban
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Business Driven Architecture for SaaS
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With the advent of new technologies / frameworks to provide more user-friendly websites, there is a growing competition among the…
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Most of the traditional databases are RDBMS solutions.They have a rigid schema design and data is entered into tables based…
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Every top level business leaders agrees that the cost of doing business operations includes IT operations and supports. Although the…
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Productization of Enterprise Business Applications (EBAs)
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Recurring Revenue and Subscription Model – Benefits and Key Analytics
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Captive Centre – Hidden Factors You Might Overlook
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User Experience Engineering is more than Usability Engineering
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Transform data to insight by implementing a Process Data Mart in your Business Intelligence Solution
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A New Trend in Testing Metrics
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Usability Re-engineering – Best Practices
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The approach to SLA based testing
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Captive Centre – Hidden Factors You Might Know
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Real-time Dashboards – Why & What to consider?
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Behaviour Driven Testing – Key Takeaways
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Need for Modular Approach in Product Engineering
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Top 5 considerations for Product engineering
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Continuous Integration using Jenkins – A 100% win-win situation
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Top 3 CIO goals for 2014
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Partnership-model based Outsourcing
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Test Automation Tool comparison – Selenium vs QTP
“This whitepaper has been created as a guide to help QA Heads understand, compare and implement industry’s best test automation…
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End-User Support Automation – How to effectively manage CAPEX and reduce OPEX? – Part 1
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New Whitepaper: Top 5 Frameworks and Toolkits for better User Experience
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Testimonial: BY-ESN Founder Folkert Rosenkamp (Video)
BY-ESN (www.byveo.com) Founder Folkert Rosenkamp takes a moment out of his busy day to talk about how Aspire’s Producteering approach…
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5 Mandatory Roles required for Successful Product Development
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How to measure Lifetime Total Cost of Ownership of an Application?
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Fixed bid engagement model – Milestones to Monitor
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Creating a BYOD policy : 9 best practices to follow
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When to opt for a Fixed-bid Contract /Fixed Priced Contract?
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How to integrate analytics into software products seamlessly & economically?
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Top Discussed Trends in HR Software Market 2013
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Test Automation – Are you ready to bite the bullet?
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Application Transactions Monitoring – Why Nagios is a good competitor?
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IT Service Desk Consolidation – Not an option anymore
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Continuous Integration and its influence in TDD, BDT and Exploratory Testing
Introduction: Faster, better, and cheaper is the expected result of any given hour in any given business case. Now that…
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Performance Engineering – How to proceed?
Are you aware that by optimizing performance on your products/application have proven to increase user adoption by 25%? Moreover, industry…
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Importance of Usability Prototype
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Automation Software Test Metrics
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Designing Automation Framework
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Test Automation in Agile
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Behaviour Driven Testing using Cucumber
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What to be automated and what to be not
Automation of whole application, product, or process is not possible or one can say it is near to impossible to…
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Future of Test Automation and infrastructure
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Agile Automation
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Usability increases your Return on Investment (ROI)
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Why Oracle ERP over SAP?
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Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) – The Basics
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ETL Testing – Basics
ETL basically stands for Extract Transform Load – which simply implies the process where you extract data from Source Tables,…
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How Usability increases your ROI?
Considering usability engineering in the initial stages of a product development plays a vital role in increasing the product’s ROI.Most…
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SaaS Model – Advantages for ISV’s
Today Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) is considered by many IT buyers as a feasible choice to attain cost efficiency and better service….
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Tenant Hierarchy
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How to Define Your Cloud Strategy?
Cloud has redefined the way solutions are built across all facets of IT. Other than improving the business process efficiency…
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Transitioning from Waterfall to Agile Testing – ‘Challenges & Approach’
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Increasing Adoption of SaaS Model
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Why Do Products Fail?
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Patient Portal – A tool for better relationship and cure
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Indian Wedding conducted in a Project Management Perspective –‘A different approach’
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Avoid Final Minute Performance Screwups
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Enterprise Unified Application Platform (EUAP) – Series 4: Why to Consider Aspire’s EUAP
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Enterprise Unified Application Platform (EUAP) – Series 3: Adopting EUAP
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Enterprise Unified Application Platform (EUAP) – Series 2: All about EUAP
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Why should CIO/CTOs assess IT architecture?
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IT that won’t work in Hospitals
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Enterprise Unified Application Platform (EUAP) – Series 1: Maintaining Legacy Applications
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Ingredients of a Successful Product
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Multi-Tenancy Architecture Models
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Going to Cloud – How much do you want to own?
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User Experience (UX) – Why is it important?
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Consumerization of IT
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Driving Innovation & ROI on Azure Cloud Platform
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Panel Discussion – SaaS: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow
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Six Considerations in moving your application to Cloud
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Architecting a Multi Tenant SaaS solution – why is it different?
Software as a Service is a software delivery model in which software and its associated data are hosted centrally (typically…
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Service oriented “IT Help Desk 1.0” – Put the legacy behind you
Innovations in process and technology enable organization to understand the importance of help desk operations and take it to the…
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Aspire wins 3rd Prize in Watts Humphrey 2012
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Big Data in Cloud – Problem and Solution
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Platform Approach for BPOs
“As per PwC-CII survey, about 34% of IT users are planning to avail platform BPO services for benefits like operational…
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Importance of Optimizing Services and Business Processes for Better Results
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Oracle Application Integration Architecture – Book by Aspirian
Mr. Hariharan V Ganesarethinam, Senior Architect, Aspire systems has written a book on Oracle Application Integration Architecture – AIA Foundation pack…
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PaaS – Points to Ponder
Cloud is a magic wand that everybody wants to consider to cut down their cost. Cloud itself is a bigger…
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Cloud Computing Models
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Rewrite vs. Refactor – Which way to go?
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Single Tenant Vs. Multi Tenant – From a Business Perspective
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Benefits of Platform BPO – ADP – Part 4
In my last blog I discussed about what a Platform BPO is about and the various requirements it brings up….
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ADP – Part 3 – Platform Based BPO Services
Platform BPO refers to a suite of technology that can help BPOs in designing, developing and deploying their applications, which…
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Database Scalability – Horizontal vs. Vertical Scaling
Scalability at the database layer has always been a challenging task for architects. Sadly, this also happens to be one…
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ADP – Part 2 – Why do Software Projects Fail?
The estimated cost of software failures is estimated to be around 50 to 80 billion dollars per year. Reports also…
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Application Development Platform (ADP) – Part 1
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Test Driven Development Some practical tips
In an earlier post, I had touched upon TDD very briefly and promised some practical tips on implementing TDD in…
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Amazon EC2 Cloud Instance Types
Many would know that Amazon is one of the leading IaaS providers and they offer different configurations of server Instances…
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Why Multi-Tenancy makes sense for BPO Applications?
Many would know that multi-tenancy is an architectural pattern where a single installation of the software can serve multiple tenants….
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Cloud – “Think Out Of The Box”
This phrase is very true in the case of cloud. So long when architects design an application they always think…
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Do you know about Safe Harbor policy?
SaaS business model offers a fantastic platform to service the world market, irrespective of the location of the customer. Unlike…
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7 Questions that can help you objectively decide on implementing Multi-Tenancy
In my previous blog I discussed about the business/technical aspects in single tenant and multi-tenant models. However, due to huge…
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Understanding the SaaS Maturity Models
There are totally 4 maturity models/levels in which you can deliver a SaaS application/product. Single Tenant In a single tenant…
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Understanding the Cloud – Part 2 – Intro to PaaS
In the first part I discussed about IaaS – highlights and challenges. In this part I will try to do…
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Understanding the Cloud – Part 1
As you may know, “Cloud” has become one of the most confusing terminology in the recent times. If you ask…
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Scalability : Architecting for the Cloud – A Different Ball Game
Architecting an application has always been a challenge for the very fact that any mistakes done at this level can…
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