Three pieces of advice for software development company startups

When any entrepreneur launches, a software development company, one major goal is to design a software that initiates changes and creates a compelling user experience. For any start-up firm, challenges are always endless, from raising funds to developing the team. Everybody faces this struggle and to avoid this, check out some important pieces of advice which can give major impact, for any startups in the software development industry.

Focus on Quality

Quality is always the king and it supersedes the quantity. Many startups make the mistake of pushing too much product or too many services out too early, without worrying about the quality. Make out sometime in the beginning until it’s better than everything. For software development companies, deadlines make this tricky. Some clients will ask for some major turnaround time but would make sure the importance of quality first, even if it does take extra time. Provide a client with a high- quality product and you’ll have customers for life. Provide them with something, so if at all you ask for something quick-you can say goodbye to your business.

Seek only the top talent and spread their passion

One should always seek for the top talent and also you should deliver the top-quality products, even if it cost more. When you can serve the client with only the best, paying higher salary during the initial stages is worth. This helps the business sustainability and creating a steady revenue flow.

Resumes say a lot about experience and prior success, but make sure to conduct your own research on every prospective employee. There are many gems out there with minimal experience who have energy and passion for achieving much more.

Network Constantly

Networking is an important factor for success, especially for a startup. You can meet and befriend people who are successful within the industry. The best way to connect with other entrepreneurs is LinkedIn and Facebook.

Microsoft released new Windows 10 Preview for PC’s with more enhanced features

Microsoft has announced a few cosmetic updates for the new Windows 10 preview. This preview is built for the people participating in the Windows Insider Program. The major update includes changing the way how Microsoft Edge Internet Browser extension work, including few bug and interface fixes.

Gabe Aul, corporate vice president of Microsoft’s Engineering Systems Team wrote in a blog that “This change means that your currently installed extensions will be removed, and you’ll have to reinstall the ones you want from the Store. Then in future updates, your extensions will be automatically re-downloaded and installed.” This facilitates user with automatic download of all available extensions directly from the Windows Store instead of extracting and loading extensions from a local folder.

Microsoft extensions that are included in this build are, Pinterest’s Pin It button, Adblock, Adblock Plus, Mouse Gestures, Microsoft’s OneNote Web Clipper, Microsoft Translator and Reddit Enhancement Suite. The user can also go back to the previous page in Edge.

Another feature includes the new real-time web notifications. This will allow all participating websites to send notifications via.Action Centre to the user after receiving their permission. Aul further wrote “For example, when your friend sends you a message on Skype for Web while you’re busy in the Xbox app, you won’t miss a thing. A notification from the website will appear in Windows, just like an app might send. Click on the notification and you’ll be right back in Microsoft Edge at the site that sent it!”

Skype now features new dark themes that allow user to switch between different accounts in the app. This also allows user to give permission to the Windows to make changes on their PC. Another major noticeable change includes “GitHub Desktop app for Windows will now have a dark theme option. Additionally, users will get a new App settings option where they can allow the websites to open a desktop app.

Talking about Windows 10 WiFi Sense features, users are now not allowed to share their WiFi networks with their contact or automatically connect with the shared WiFi networks from their contact. Aul wrote “The cost of updating the code to keep this feature working combined with low usage and low demand made this not worth further investment. Wi-Fi Sense, if enabled, will continue to get you connected to open Wi-Fi hotspots that it knows about through crowdsourcing.”

The users who are already part of the Windows Insider Program can get this latest update through the Windows Update feature. For others, upgrading is free of cost until July 19, after which cost for updating will be $119.

What's new in Microsoft SharePoint Server 2016?

Microsoft has released its latest version of SharePoint Server which is a foundational improvement of on-premises SharePoint solutions. It is available for download at Microsoft Volume License Service Center. In addition to the SharePoint Server 2016, a new version of SharePoint is also released and innovations can be seen in Sharepoint Online and OneDrive available for Business.

Sharepoint Server 2016 targeted following three areas:

Cloud-inspired infrastructure
The user can experience a new generation of SharePoint with SharePoint Server 2016 that is brought to a whole new experience to those who is running Office 365. Using SharePoint online improves performance, offers more manageability, scalability and reliability. The SharePoint Server 2016 code is derived from SharePoint Online which has been validated by millions of users worldwide. The code also provides updates and support across on-premises SharePoint server and Office 365.

Compliance and reporting
The SharePoint Server 2016 facilitates confidentiality and data protection by enabling data encryption by investing in DLP and compliance tools that are active on-premises servers. SharePoint Server 2016 offers extensive features and capabilities to ensure the security of sensitive data.

Enhanced user experiences
SharePoint users will get an enhanced user experienced by using Office 365 with improved document libraries and navigation constructs. The hybrid customers will now receive seamless experience from datacenter to the cloud. Also, the user will have an improved mobile access and touch-based experience.

SharePoint Server 2016 is a good investment which benefits with scalability, quality, and reliable Sharepoint experience. SharePoint rich solutions have always been an important asset for the organizations. To meet the opportunities offered by SharePoint Server 2016, TatvaSoft, a CMMi ML 3 and Microsoft Gold Certified company have SharePoint Architects, Software Developers and Technical Consultants that understand every minute detail of the client’s project to deliver robust, secure and streamline SharePoint solutions.

Software Outsourcing History of India

The concept of software outsourcing is not new. People have soon released the concept after its competitive advantage has been documented by Adam Smith in his book named “The Wealth of Nations”. This book describes how a company can benefit with reduced cost of labor with outsourcing companies than by working with the developed countries and pay more. India has become a top destination in serving with software outsourcing services to global clients.

India has been considered by the companies due to multiple reasons, like high-quality IT skills, large number of English speaking population, and all these benefits available at an economical labor cost compared to other countries. Sooner, since the inception of outsourcing services came up, India took up the concept and made efforts to attract countries in investing and work with Indian software outsourcing companies. After the private companies have given the access of telecom services, now talking with international companies incur the low costs that is a major contributing factor to communicate with the clients.

Limitless opportunities in India have gained the attention of foreign countries to consider India for its outsourcing services. Earlier, the outsourced projects were solely related to medical transcription which later includes only customer service, billing, software development, data entry, SEO, creative, and many others. Even parent companies have started establishing their sister companies or setting up the dedicated development center in India.

As several companies have already setup in India, therefore these international companies find outsourcing services more cost beneficial. This helps the companies in preventing investing money in labor cost, instead, they can now spend more on their company infrastructure, marketing, brand building, implementing systems, and many more. To have a continuous monitor of actions in sister companies, these parent companies assign their member to control the operations and visit there at regular intervals to gain their insight.

Summary:
Cost and better outcomes are the most common reason why the companies prefer to outsource their projects to India. Outsourcing has gone through major changes and the Indian companies have now focused more on latest technologies, well-trained professionals and world class services.

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.