Software Engineering Insights

For 2018, the mHealth market is forecast to be valued at around 33.59 billion U.S. dollars and it’s expected to reach 58.8 billion USD by 2020. Moreover, the number of telehealth users are expected to reach 7 billion by 2018. These figures unveil the fact that people confide in mobile applications and devices to manage their health and fitness routines.

The current smartphone market is dominated by Google’s Android and Apple’s iOS. In the first quarter of 2017, 379.97 million smartphones were shipped worldwide; 327.16 (Android), 51.99 (iOS), 0.82 (others).

With this, mobile apps are and would be the smartphone essential, for sure. Statistics for the year 2017 (Q1) unveil that Google Play Store is home to 2.8 million apps while the iOS Store to 2.2 million apps.

Devops is a paradigm shift in the software development sphere as it focuses on intense collaboration between development and operations team, with customer empathy and infrastructure automation at its core. It is being practiced by a numerous software development companies across the globe to increase productivity, reduce costs, and build products with more customer focused approach.

However, For many of the organizations, jumping head first into DevOps have been observed to be daunting.

By 2020, 85% of the consumer interactions will be supported without human interaction, predicts Gartner.

Today, chatbots are smartly handling the biggest problem of every industry, i.e. providing 100% customer assistance. Healthcare, finance, insurance, e-Commerce, logistics, sports, entertainment, leisure, travel, and almost every other industry is leveraging the pros of chatbot. While a lot of companies are already reaping the benefits of automated convo system, many are still contemplating over its adoption.

Despite the fact that our brain has got immense storage and processing power, we prefer storing our data on digital space. In consequence, the digital data is enlarging in size and is estimated to reach 44 trillion GB by 2020. Surely, such big data is impossible for humans to handle and thus Artificial Intelligence (AI) would be needed to track, manage, and probably, process it as well.

Google Play Store hosts over 3 million apps in March 2017. Certainly, this surprising number is contributed by the popularity of Android and the capabilities that it brings in with every version. However, that’s not the only secret for its success.

Big brands, startups, and individuals are opting Android app development over other platforms and there are some invigorating reasons behind it. Here, we have a glance over some of them.  

If you are a technology fan, then you must have noticed some new smartphones, tablets, and many other interesting gadgets coming out every month. More the tech-tools with different sizes and software platforms, more are the software applications built for them.

8 out of 10 Americans are online shoppers, reveals a study. And if we analyze the frequency of shoppers to buy online, it’s quite easy to predict that web stores and mobile apps are the most preferred mode to shop for favorites and essentials.

DevOps is a culture, a philosophy that is being practiced by many companies across the globe to increase productivity, reduce costs, and boost the overall revenue. It challenges the long withstanding beliefs, processes and assumptions and asks for a more collaborative and accountable way for software development.

With evolving technology and awareness about healthcare, mHealth apps have become a necessity than an option. If a research done by statista is to be believed, the number of downloads in health care, medical, and fitness apps have seen a steep rise from 1.7 billion to 3.2 billion. This clearly forecasts the fact that mHealth apps are being accepted, used, and trusted by users worldwide.