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Innovation at scale
Today, any global enterprise needs to innovate at speed. This requires the organization to harness its scale to find opportunities,...
Business Process Analysis – an ION perspective
A business process is a set of activities performed by actors using systems to achieve a goal within a timeframe....
How do you manage non-functional requirements?
If you are in the software industry, you’re already familiar with the concept of non-functional requirements (NFR). Still, organizations fail...
Scalable data caching requires scalable querying – here’s how to achieve it
Modern fintech applications have to process enormous volumes of data. That’s putting new constraints on their performance and scalability. One...
Should a software house still invest in technology?
I was reading an article on how LinkedIn uses Kafka to do its magic (at scale). Not a big surprise...
For those obsessed with quality
Have you said “wow, this is exactly what I wanted” recently? What made you say it? More on that later ....
Correlations hurt your decision-making (not just your portfolio)
Decision-making in contexts that aren’t always easy to predict —such as investment—is challenging, especially during uncertain times. But one often...
Doing a UX re-design for your product
“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent. It is the one that is...
The road to SaaS and other myths
Some estimates say that in a few years SaaS will be the preferred business model for most applications. I believe...
A state of FLUX: How findings led UX helps us create the solutions our users really need
If you had 1 hour to solve a problem, what would you do? You might take Albert Einstein’s advice and...
There’s no cloud, it’s just somebody else’s PC
Cloud-based applications are great. They free users from hardware, obsolescence, maintenance, and so on. But what challenges do providers face?...
The future of web development
The web ecosystem is evolving at an insane speed. Driven by FOSS projects (Free and Open-Source Software) and following the...
Here’s why you need to automate your business analytics
Information is different than knowledge. And the more information you have, the bigger the difference becomes. Nowadays, you can summon...
Let’s talk latency
Trading is a highly competitive business where speed is of the essence. There are several different ways to measure speed,...