Software Engineering Insights

Despite Windows XP being the most stable Operating System, 49.9% of all PCs running Windows have Win 10 today. And the fact is, current computers are more capable and user-friendly, as compared to those running on decade old legacy OS by Microsoft.

The smart speaker market continues to grow, with global shipments tripling from 3.9 million units. These speakers, integrated with virtual assistants like Alexa, Siri, Cortana is enabling users to perform tasks like checking the weather, asking to turn off the lights or play favorite music, set reminders, and a lot more with voice instructions.

You take your car to a mechanic to get the air conditioning fixed and when you get it back, the air conditioning is fixed but the gas tank sensor no longer works.

Something similar can happen to a software in the making. A new feature or update in the code can make the software return to a former or unwanted state, making it affect the rest of the functionalities. This bug in software is a regression.

Infrastructure services consume a large part of IT budgets. It is therefore imperative for organizations to focus on cost and productivity of infra services to best utilize them.

Businesses worldwide are embracing the idea of IT Outsourcing. Cost optimization, skill crunch management, improved efficiency in product delivery are some of the initial-level benefits tagged with outsourcing.

According to Statista, software application development and maintenance are two of the most outsourced IT functions, globally. Businesses want to ramp up their development cycle, launch application faster-to-market, reduce overhead cost, manage technical skill-crunch and more by outsourcing software development.

The worldwide spending on Blockchain solutions is expected to grow from 1.5 billion in 2018 to an estimated 11.7 billion by 2022.- According to Statista

Blockchain, which originated as the underlying technology of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies is becoming multifarious. It’s disrupting a number of industries, other than finance and businesses are turning it potential to their advantage.

In this digital age, voice assistant technologies are constantly evolving at an exponential rate across the world. According to research by IDC, the worldwide market of voice-enabled devices is expected to grow at a 12% CAGR from 2018-2022.

By 2021, the market demand for app development will grow at least 5 times faster than IT capacity to delivery it, predicts Gartner.

Amid cut-throat competition and skill-set crunch, it is difficult for traditional development approaches to keep up with the fast pace of business requirements. This is where low code development approach has become the pole star of the night sky.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure are the top 2 cloud service providers with a combined market share of more than 50% of the total cloud market. If there aren’t financial constraints, these two are the obvious choices when opting for cloud services. However, choosing one of them can be tricky.

Technological developments are constantly evolving and trendsetting many ecommerce business processes, to enhance the overall customer experience. The impact of the latest technologies on ecommerce has been faster than ever, considering it the largest industry in the global economy with “e-retail revenues projected to grow to 4.88 trillion US dollars in 2021”.