Google makes it easier to switch from iOS to Android with Google Drive backup tool.

In the Play Store, Apple has a switch tool which helps the Android users to switch to iOS. Unlike Google, this would be approved by the Apple bots in the App Store. With this, one can take the backup of your iPhone data to Drive, then restore it all on Android.

One can check out the new backup option in the iOS Drive app which is found under menu > settings > backup. On uploading all the backup on the Drive, it can grab your contacts, calendar events, and photos/videos. If you have lot of media files with more GB’s it will obviously take a lot more time to upload. For that Wi-Fi is needed for the backup to take place and the Drive app has to stay open. Unfortunately, there’s no option for backup.

The data from iOS will automatically be accessible in the corresponding apps, when one logs into their Google Account on a new Android phone. Unlike Pixel exclusive cable transfer tool, this process works with any Android phone.

Google launches “Google Trip”: Personalized travel planner

Recently, Google launched a new mobile application developed with a sole goal to develop a better plan for your holidays and other trips so – called Google Trips. Built-in iOS and Android, the app pulls off the combination of data from the Google Maps and other travelers to offer the personalized travel guide which would help in tracking the day trips, reservations, interests, restaurants and more.

It was much-rumored news that Google was working on travel application, within Google’s Local Guides community. Local Guides aids in improving the Google Maps and business data by writing a review, correcting listings and taking photos. In return, they gain exclusive access to try our new Google products and features such as Google Trips. The app looks today much like it did then.

The home screen is integrated with the search box flashing with the message “Where do you want to go?” for planning new trips and other cards which enable to track your current and upcoming vacations and plans.

The most helpful thing about this application is that each city you plan to visit during one of your trips can each have its own tab within a larger trip section and toggle buttons to download the information about the destination with offline access.

Meanwhile, on each city’s screen, different color cards enables you to jump into various interfaces like “Saved places”, “Day plans”, “Food and Drink” and more.

App also makes the suggestions for the information collected. Google also revealed that Trips can show you the most popular day plans and itineraries for the 200 cities worldwide. This information is actually based on historic visit data from other travelers which Google has used and infuses the important sights and attractions.

The interesting thing to note is that how this crowded information is mapped with the information pulled from Google Maps which aid you in finding things of your planned sightseeing destinations. 

You can add the destinations to your plans and you can also tell the app if you have only morning or noon available to go out. The app is able to show you the different spots in your convenient time. The app can also show some attractions of the original place so that you do not need to travel far.

Additionally, there is some automation involved in the app, you can pin the spots you want to visit, and Google will automatically fill the rest of the day in the itinerary. Magic Wand button is available, which you can automatically tap for nearby insights and will automate customize the itinerary for you. 

Though the new app is useful for the travelers it will also serve as the other means of collecting data for Google itself which will be able to bear the business listing of data in the Google maps with the information collected by the app and its user.

Google Trip is live on Android and iOS!

Talend Rolls new cloud data manager platform

Recently, data management specialist Talend rolled out the new tool named “self-service – data preparation tool” for moving the workloads of big data to the cloud. Talend announced this new data stage as a way of achieving the high support via cloud integration tools. For this, it leverages corporate data lakes and other cloud resources for self-service data preparation.

Through this data preparation tool, data can be accessible throughout the enterprises. These days scientist seems to be collaborating the more value from the Big Data as this tool is much enhanced to get access to the more and more information beyond the in-house data.

This tool is developed, by keeping the security features in mind. New features are much emphasized, resulting leads the employee to the information broker within the enterprise, and of course by taking the keen care of data attacks.

Talend has put many efforts in improving the platform of the commercial version. Through “role based access to shared data stores”, it helps in controlling the use of information. Data Preparation tools deliver the data at scale, by taking the guidance of hundreds of information sources. “Smart Sampling is one of the features of data preparation tool which upgrades master data sets from time to time.

Sharing of these data sets have increased to the larger extent and hence it can be clarified that data preparation will highly collaborate with the enterprise which results in shifting their big data roles from consumers to providers. Additionally, it has become easy for integrating data management schemes, master data into the workflow. And due to increase in the technology and innovations, data tool developers are thinking far beyond spreadsheet software’s, to automate the centralized control over the data.

Amazon Web Service is the platform for the data tools, which is used by the Talend and other additional fabrications include SSL communication between data integration workloads and cloud integration. These cloud platforms are designed with the special analytics business intelligence tools and algorithms to speed up the analytics data that runs on Amazon red shift. Security plays a vital role when accessing the sensitive data, hence redshift takes care of it.

Cloud Platform – AWS encrypts the client side data and likewise it allows the admins to inherit the credentials from the identity. It also ensures that only authorized user have access to the services.

Additionally, there are some other tools like Amazon DynamoDB connector which also have the power for quicker processing of data and workload. Talend said that new tool is available currently and licensed version would receive two seats for its data preparation tool at free of cost.

Microsoft Research can (almost) read your mind!

In this highly demanding technological era, mobile devices have created a new way of interaction. Being a smart touch phone, interaction has become easier than before by using the capacitive touchscreen. However, Google and Apple have been trying since last few years to treat the fingers differently respective to the context. A new research by Microsoft has fixed its “one tap, one touch” paradigm.

Microsoft has implemented Google’s precognition of Force Touch’s pressure sensitivity where the mobile device can itself predict where the user’s finger is about to touch the screen. The fundamentals implemented on the new touchscreen is based on sensing an electrical disruption caused by two ways when finger approach near to the mobile screen and secondly the pressure detected while holding the edge of the mobile.

Self-capacitance sensor is what’s used in Microsoft prototype which is extremely sensitive towards the finger gestures. The finger touch can be detected before an inch or two away from the screen. This predictive touch feature can now pull up the controls by sensing the touch of how it has been held or be hovering on it. For instance, it can reveal the hyperlinks or pull up the video controls. It can also reduce the multiple actions by combining hover and touch to use the context menus.

The smart predictive touch by Microsoft can easily identify the rapid and precise tap. This means a precise tap will map to the exact button where the user wants to touch. Microsoft has created a demo right now and presented the research at the conference of Human-Computer Interaction (CHI) 2016 that may be used for real mobile devices in the future.

Microsoft’s Latest SQL Server 2016 to Hit Market in June

For all the technical geeks, here is a news from Microsoft. Next month on June 1, 2016, Microsoft will release the latest version SQL Server 2016.

The latest version of Microsoft SQL Server 2016 is packed with significant features which are not available in its earlier versions. Microsoft is to release the business analytics and end-to-end data management solution meeting critical intelligence that will gain insights of data on any device applicable for the demanding applications.

SQL Server 2016 edition will be available in Enterprise, Standard Express, and Developer database management suite. The Developer edition is available for free to download. It is packed with features similar to Enterprise, however, it is designed for development and testing and therefore cannot experience production workloads. Microsoft is offering this edition with a free lifetime license and also have a Microsoft Software Assurance contract and offer free support to the Oracle users who switch to it before the end of the next month.

Comprehensive Features of SQL Server 2016

SQL Server 2016 is ideal for:

• Enterprise Scale Data Warehousing encapsulating in-memory columnstore which improves the query performance by 100x than disk based solutions. This offers accessibility to optimized MPP scale out software which can be combined with the scale out appliance architecture with Analytics Platform System (APS).
• Mission Critical Intelligent Applications delivered operational intelligence in real time by combining in-memory technology and built-in advanced analytics without affecting data and user performance.
• Intensive Business Intelligence Solutions are built up for mobile phones to deliver end-to-end mobile BI solution which can deliver insight on any mobile device. Additionally, users can user the modern web portal to manage the traditional reports, KPIs, and mobile reports.
• Always Encrypted Technology availability to ensure maximum security, which renders data protection to rest or active data without hampering the performance of the database.
• New big data solutions allow to query both the structured and unstructured data easily with T-SQL by combining relational and non-relational data using PolyBase technology built-in.
• A new Stretch Database Technology is introduced as Hybrid cloud solutions which lower the storage cost, streamline IT operations and increase high availability. This gives easy accessibility to the user of their historical data by security stretching the OLTP data to Microsoft Azure.

Microsoft SQL Server for Linux will be made available by 2017. The new edition of SQL Server 2016 is loaded with several extensive features by Microsoft. Upgrading or migration to new platform possesses complexity and demands effort. The post-migration environment will be fully optimized with the intuitive features. TatvaSoft, being a CMMi ML 3 and Microsoft Gold Certified Software Development Company possess the architectural knowledge and proven expertise for data migrations for mid to large size enterprise.

Popular Java EE Servers of 2016

Here is a data collected from JVMs Plumbr Agents showing the statistic of the most widely used Java EE servers.

Java has set the global standard for developing website application, desktop application, mobile application, games and enterprise software. Java ensures developer to develop and deploy exciting applications. Java EE containers have been widely used, therefore, it is important to know which Java EE containers have hit the market in 2015.

Java EE Containers Statistics of 2015

This data is collected from 1,240 deployments where the container vendors were identified in around 70% of the environment or on 862 occasions.

The statistics of Java EE Containers vendors are as follows:

1. Tomcat – Tomcat hits its peers with a 58.22% market share, succeeded its base with 50% threshold.
2. JBoss / WildFly – Securing the second position, JBoss/WildFly hits 20.22% of the market share.
3. Jetty – Jetty securing a little less of 10.67% market share, gains the third position.
4. Glassfish – Its installations contribute 5.56% of market share.
5. Oracle Weblogic – Incur installations of 2.44% with deployment.
6. Other – This category staged the name with the installation of less than 2.5%. The list named SAP NetWeaver, Resis, Orion, IBM WebSphere deployment and OC4J, all experienced less than five deployments.

The JVMs have not reported Java EE container were mostly like: 

• Containerless server software like TIBCO, Elasticsearch etc.
• Desktop applications using AWT or Swing
• Dynamic language runtimes like Scala or Groovy
• Hidden into development environment launchers like Maven, Eclipse sbt, IDEA, etc
• Making use of Netty like Play Framework

It is challenging to interpret the market changes over the period of time. To transform the challenges into deployments, TatvaSoft, a CMMI ML3 software development company offers exceptional Java development services to meet the business expectation using its Java experience J2SE, J2EE, J2ME and JavaFX to develop web and mobile applications with the industry specific solution impeccably. TatvaSoft’s expert pool of java professionals with excellent delivery record ensures meeting client's compliance requirements.

Enhance Business Success from Software Outsourcing Services

Every company who successfully outsource their software development projects experience profits with their outsourcing business partners. Today, a huge demand and wider availability of the Software Outsourcing services have gained worldwide business attention where the companies are now outsourcing their projects. Several companies are also considering their business benefits after involving the outsourcing services which have increased their productivity and improved work quality.

Every software development company provide their specific services that meet an individual company requirements. It is not necessary that every outsourcing company can meet their client’s business objectives. Therefore, before hiring any outsourcing services, it is important to first define the business requirement. Also, remember, that a software outsourcing companies cannot deliver a finished project based on the requirement. Hence, make sure to keep your requirement transparent with the service provider.

A wonderful way is to first perform a feasibility testing to check if there is any possibility to practically fulfill the business requirement as desired. If the answer comes in “Yes”, then the software outsourcing company will continue with the development process where they will decide which technology is to be used to develop the project and what will be the expected result in terms of look, functionality, and feel. If the client is confident with the expected result, then the project will be divided into small chunks called milestones which are assigned to each developer to start working on the project.

Conclusion:

Software Outsourcing has gained high popularity worldwide to fulfill the demand of the software development. Nowadays, almost every business prefers to outsource their projects to concentrate on their business core objectives and make a better decision. The cost of the outsourcing service will totally depend on the project requirements.