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May 07, 2015
One of the first things that comes to mind when thinking about outsourcing a software project is related to data security, and this is exactly what we're going to cover today. Outsourcing started to rise in the mid '80s due to companies' needs to get rid of non-essential processes (in order to be able to focus more on core activities), to cut costs and improve production quality....
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Mar 19, 2014
The Asian region was regarded, for many years, as the only suitable destination for software outsourcing (customers were attracted by affordable hourly rates and smaller development time frames). However in the last decade a new destination has emerged: Eastern Europe. Countries such as: Latvia, Hungary, Czech Republic, Romania, Poland, Ukraine etc. made a name for themselves on the outsourcing market by providing a complete set of services - consulting, development, support, maintenance. So let's get to know better the top outsourcing destinations from Eastern Europe and see what are their strong and weak points:...
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Feb 25, 2014
Today's outsourcing market provides a wide range of outsourcing destinations and a high number of software development companies, so choosing an outsourcing company for your business can be a challenging and complicated process. If you search for a software outsourcing company in Europe, according to most Outsourcing Destinations Rankings, you should look at the following European countries: Latvia, Hungary, Czech Republic, Romania, Poland, Bulgaria and Ukraine....
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Jan 08, 2014
If at first, the economic climate forced more companies to outsource their IT departments towards outsourcing software companies, now outsourcing has become a viable solution for having access to a multitude of skills and expertise. So apart from being cost efficient, software outsourcing companies provide greater flexibility of the allocated effort, continuous support, as well as an entire set of services...
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Sep 09, 2013
We all want to have our requirements met immediately, but as a company it's even more important to receive personalized services, that are adapted to your day-to-day activities. A solution that responds to these needs is software development outsourcing / custom programming....
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Aug 15, 2013
What is software consulting? Software consulting is a service that helps other companies or self-employed individuals to meet their needs in terms of software infrastructure, development & support - by providing software solutions, creating custom software development solutions and providing training materials....
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Mar 25, 2013
ISO 27001 is a security management system certification, defined by the International Organization for Standardization, that helps companies to keep under strict control security procedures within the company, as well as information security that surpasses the confines of the company....
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Mar 12, 2013
ISO 9001 is a quality management system certification, defined by the International Organization for Standardization, that helps companies meet the requirements of their customers, win new business and achieve a higher performance level....
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Aug 27, 2012
In today's world, outsourcing is seen as a way to reduce costs and to increase the efficiency of a certain activity / department within a company. Also, today more companies are relying on outsourcing to custom-develop an application or improve a software product, to provide their customers with support ...
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May 23, 2012
HTML5 and Flash are two popular technologies that are used for creating valuable and attractive content on the World Wide Web. This article tries to shed some light on the HTML 5 and Adobe Flash differences and advantages, and to provide an objective analysis of the two technologies. ...
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Sep 15, 2011
Each approach (manual/automated) has its own advantages and disadvantages, but in the end the choice of using one of the methods or the other depends entirely on the type of software you are developing. ...
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Feb 10, 2011
Regarded as a niche office suite, or as a free alternative to Microsoft Office, IBM Lotus Symphony 3.0 proves to be more than that. Released for the first time in May 2008, as a freeware, the Symphony suite was constantly improved by IBM....
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Dec 21, 2010
If until now programmers were focused on the competition between Silverlight and Adobe Flash, now the point of interest has shifted to the battle between desktop vs. web applications, and in our article, between WPF vs. Silverlight. ...
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Oct 18, 2010
When it comes to building a database the most important thing is to look for the appropriate platform which covers all your necessities. In most cases what are you looking for is: performance, scalability, reliability and productivity....
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Jul 28, 2010
For decades, the debate between choosing outsourcing over insourcing and vice versa has been standing without a clear answer. "Which of the two methods is the most suitable for an organization?" is still an unanswered question....
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Feb 24, 2010
When choosing a programming framework to use, the most important things are the benefits it brings, the support it offers and its reliability. The ASP.NET framework incorporates all these characteristics, aiming every time for performance...
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Jan 05, 2010
The Microsoft Certified Partner accreditation (MCP) represents the acknowledgement that Microsoft has towards professional IT business companies that have a proven record of developing software applications, for both desktop and the web....
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Aug 31, 2009
The term “Micro-soft” was first used by Bill Gates in a letter to Paul Allen in 1975, and a year later the trademark “Microsoft” was registered. Microsoft's destiny was determined when they landed the world's most famous business deal with IBM - to provide them with an operational system. This ties up, however, with the world's worst business deal...
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Jun 17, 2009
When discussing the migration of a project from PHP to ASP.NET one has to take into consideration basic facts about the two development tools, like the underlying architecture and functionality, while maintaining a broad perspective over the features from both technologies, which will lead to a complete understanding of the reasons why such a migration should be done in the first place....
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Feb 25, 2009
If the past debate between PHP and ASP.NET was thought of as a biased comparison, due to the fact that the first was a scripting language, and the latter a fully developed web application framework, now the issue is a bit easier to discuss, since PHP has finally added a few OOP capabilities (still not a fully grown platform, but anyway an improved one)....
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