Software Engineering Insights

Over the last few years we have been hearing stories of Android's tremendous growth as a mobile operating system. Recent surveys showed that Android devices account for close to three-fourth of all smartphones in the world. Now if you thought it's all about Android everywhere, here is some food for thought - Apple iOS accounts for almost as much user base on Facebook as compared to Android.  It is quite an achievement for one of the world's most popular mobile operating systems which has always been known for its classiness but has not had the numbers on its side for the last few years.

Responsive design is the buzzword these days. Making your website responsive implies designing a website with high readability for the user and smooth navigation without scrolling or window resizing. The definition is not just limited to these factors, but extends to making a single site responding to all the devices in the same way. In today’s dynamic business environment, there are several reasons that make it an imperative for you to have a responsive design for your website or portal.

Developers in smaller and larger e-commerce agencies/shops are often faced with different development environments. Customers who want to evaluate e-commerce platforms like Magento, OXID or Shopware have to handle everything from downloading the packages, their LAMP stack and installing it on-the-go. Of course, you might have your own virtual machine, but for a quick shot you have to create another virtual host etc.

It is a season of good news for all the online merchants and shoppers. According to the recent report by the eMarketer, the eCommerce industry proudly surpassed the trillion dollars mark in the year 2012. The B2C sales have increased by 21.1 percent and the experts predict that it will increase by another 12.3 percent in the current year. This only gives much more hope and promise to the online merchants to plunge into the deeply rewarding and thriving sea of eCommerce and concentrate their eCommerce websites in a better way to capture the flourishing business potential.

We come across many clients asking for a revamp of their e-stores. While they are certainly correct for their store's revamping needs, but many of them are unaware about choosing technology for their new store and others, although, come with a pre-defined CMS choice, but fail to give us very convincing reasons for choosing that particular CMS. We evaluate a perfect fit for our client by a technique called "Prudential Migration".

Whosoever thinks that the smart phones are only a passing trend and will soon be long gone, is definitely only kidding themselves. In this age where texting, video calling is replacing traditional calling and people carrying out important activities straight away from their smart phones, one can safely predict a prolific increase in the requirement of highly efficient and technically sound apps.

Have you finally decided to take a plunge in the gratifying world of eCommerce development? In case you have finally decided to carry out your business online, significantly cut the costs and enjoy the benefits of vigorous and upbeat market, here are the 5 things that you must consider before getting your eCommerce website developed.

Uplift in the technology is noticeable in almost every industry.Technology's recent impact on retail industry can be gauged through frequent openings of new e-stores. Since the inception of online selling; industry and the users, both, have undergone many changes and improvements. With lot of stores online now, every one is toiling hard to provide best possible features and facilities on their stores and on the other hand, user's expectations from e-stores have also increased. Default e-store features are no more sufficient to bind buyers and henceforth an e-store demands more facilities and features from their software development vendors.

Today, the eCommerce industry seems to have smitten the entire world. It has actually turned the colossal globe into a small urban village, efficiently bridging the gaps between any two geographically different locations. However, as they say that Rome was not built in a day, it took eCommerce industry years of hard work, to get to a position where it is today. Surviving through user distrust, to online frauds, to aggressive marketing and awareness programs, the eCommerce industry today has reached a stage where today, more 80% of the users who are active online, have at least shopped online at least once and more that 50% of them have shopped online more than once.