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With immense growth of mobile use, business enterprises are keen on adopting the latest mobile trends to acquire a competitive edge. From instant applications to smart things, they’re covering every possible field in the developing trends. Mobile app development is changing the day-to-day lives for the better. So in order to stay in the competition and win the application industry, there are some trends you need to look out for for the following year-

AI and Machine learning

With emerging technologies like Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, you can develop and deploy interactive mobile applications. Along with Machine learning efficiency, you can deploy a beyond imagination interactive mobile application. AI is offering valuable insights with advanced analytics to the business enterprises which can skyrocket the ROI if implemented right!

Real-Time Location Sensing Apps

You are going to see a lot of real-time location sensing apps in the following year. With the immense success of mobile apps like Uber, Ubereats and other location sensing apps, users are now concerned with getting the real-time location. Moreover, it keeps the entire procedure transparent to the users. Some of the most common location sensing are Magnetometer, GPS, Gyroscope, and Accelerometer.

Connected Smart Objects  

With the growth of IoT (Internet of Things) technology, its embedded software with software, sensors, and electronics in the presence of network connectivity. Nonetheless, you should consider smart connected objects as recent advancement is leading to the involvement of mobile-connected smart objects in our day-to-day lives. And with other advanced technologies like big data or AI, IoT now inherits more meaning. Samsung, Honeywell, Bosch, Xiaomi, and Philips are the major players in the field of mobile-connected objects market.

Innovative and Interactive UI experience

With all the advanced technologies and features, developers are losing the touch of basics. Instant applications, real-time locations, connected smart objects etc are cool but do not forget to make it innovative and interactive. First things that appeals user is an interactive and innovation UI experience. Instagram, Wunderlist, or Pinterest are the most popular apps with the most appealing designs. Also, one thing that’s common in all of the mobile applications is that they continuously build new patterns that reflect intuitive designs as well as interactive modules.

Wearables

No doubt, wearable market is extending their domain of services and leading to a huge demand for the wearable app. According to the studies, estimated ROI from wearable device sales is around $33.78 billion by 2019. In fact, the scope of wearable is definitely growing, so is the wearable-centric mobile apps. Moreover, offering greater availability and cost-efficiency to the end users is the main concern of Wearable sector. And the heart diseases or other chronic diseases increasing at an alarming rate makes it even for essential in our day-to-day lives. This technology is leaving great influence over users with the fitness factors like calories or heart rate tracker.

We hope this article is informative enough to make you aware of the leading trends of 2019. If you have a business idea and looking for developing a dedicated mobile application, drop us a message here! Softuvo is more than happy to help you out.

Be it a start-up or a larger-enterprise, several business enterprises are adopting DevOps solutions and services for acquiring a robust competitive advantage. Startups don’t have to carry the burden legacy systems which allows them with the flexibility of adopting the emerging technologies and gaining the competitive edge. But with several barriers such as less agility, demographic constraints, and financial barriers, it can be difficult for enterprises to adopt DevOps. But why do they even need to consider it in the first place? Here are some ways, DevOps can accelerate the digital transformation within your organization-

Feedback Loops

There’s a hype about DevOps that it can only be deployed for automation or faster deployments of code. But organizations need to understand that it is much more than that. DevOps is not a magic wand which will just do everything for you automatically. Organizations, which fails to have a proper view of the delivery process fails to gain advantage even after acquiring DevOps. It is mostly about providing constant feedback considering various aspects of design, production, development and product management. It offers a great learning experience through mistakes, progress, making improvement and growth.

Measuring Validated Success

Metrics is the most important aspect of DevOps program. It is important for the organizations to understand the improvement and focus of areas which require improvement as enterprize move towards DevOps program. For instance, faster deployment without any visible change in quality represents no success. Whereas key metrics continue to drive decisions related to automation. The success of enterprise DevOps completely depends on identifying the right metrics. To measure the improvement, organizations should consider aligning to velocity and throughput.

Proactive Security

Most organizations take security as an afterthought, which can be their biggest mistake in the long run. Never make security an afterthought, rather integrate the security-related issues early on in the development cycle from the word go. Security should be the foundation of DevOps program as it is the core requirement to avoid inconsistencies and irregularities with proactive monitoring in any layer by telling you about any of the potential crash.

Collaborative Culture

With DevOps, you can establish performance-oriented and shared culture forms of the cornerstone of successful DevOps program, regardless of the size of the enterprise. With DevOps it’s all about forming a performance-driven culture which thrives to make the constant improvement, continuous deployment, and experimentation.

With the increasing popularity of mobile applications, you can find a lot of application development companies around you. People are obsessed with mobile applications, especially for business purposes. Your mobile application will be a reflection of the type of services to offer and your overall business. So you might want to consider some factors before you just randomly choose any application development company for you. There is a variety of mobile development specialists available on different levels, with dramatic variation in the costs.

Choosing type of Mobile App Development

There are various types of mobile application strategies utilized by mobile application development companies, like end-to-end mobile app creation, design and development, design only, development only etc. You might want to ask your potential developers about the strategy they use. Do your advance research and always go for the type of mobile app development suiting your requirements.

Platform for launching

Ask whether the organization is capable of offering the application as per your decision. Whether they are ready to launch on Android, IOS, or Windows or any other? Whether they will provide option from native application or hybrid application that you want in your application.

Prioritize quality over cost

Do not ever settle for a low quality cheaper services. They will cost you more than you ever imagined in the future. As they say “quality is not expensive, it is priceless”. Go for the quality, even if it means spending some extra bucks. You might save some money once with the cheaper app but you will be spending every day on it to be a part of the competition.

On-Going Support

Negotiate the terms with the company about their maintenance policy for an application. Ask if they will be taking extra charges for maintenance? The mobile application is a subjective matter it gets changes at random intervals so you might need to have the idea in advance. So decide in advance for maintenance of the application.

Certification and Transparency

Always work with the certified company. Check their official certificate along with their other accomplishments. Check their developers and designers original authorized certificates of their framework knowledge. Also, check for their transparency policy of the company. Whether they are showing their process of working or not. If a company is keeping things confidential then you can ask for a review at any time.

Looking for a suitable company to develop your application? Leave a message!

Instagram is extremely popular that it seems crazy. Currently, there are 500 million daily active Instagram users and 800 million monthly Instagram users. It is popular amongst all age groups, genders and culture which makes it best suitable platform for marketing. Brands are successfully targeting their audience over Instagram, almost for free of cost. You can have significant impact over your marketing campaign with some simple tricks and engage better with your audience.

1. Blend Art

Initially, Instagram was all about using fascinating filters and share it with friends, but now you will find various amazing features. You can share videos, stories, concrete CTA with stories, infusion with other social apps etc. Consider blending these features in artistic way to fascinate your audience.

2. Use desktop instead of Mobile

Social media management is a lot more exciting and easier at the same time, thanks to the greater availability of tools. Although Instagram still doesn’t allow publishing through the website but there are various tools available to accomplish such tasks. Desktop makes it easier to use graphics editing tools and hassle-free posting, resulting in massive time saver.

3. Use Bio-link

Usually companies edit their Bio and add the link of their official website and just forget about it. If you use this feature right, it can have great impact on funnelling traffic to your website. Try changing the bio link frequently to your latest product or service you’ve added and see remarkable improvement in seeking targeted audience.

4.Hashtag branding

Hashtags are the most traditional way to seek more audience but most of us are not quite sure about how we use them. You can use the trending hashtags (available on the explore feature). Or try creating your own hashtag relevant to your brand or your products. You can use Canva, a free graphic design app to support your hashtag branding.

5. Remember basics

We try to make our content exciting and unique and end-up being more complicated and forget about the essential basics. Consistent posting, maintenance of a consistent brand image are some fundamentals which we tend to forget in between creating exciting and complex content. Try keeping posts clean, simple and consistent.

6.Share Love

It is not necessary to share only promotional content. rather, try sharing relevant and positive content with message. People tend to connect with such content. Moreover, in the rise of algorithm dominated marketing, these posts have better chance of popping in the news feed of users. Plus remember the golden rule of responding to criticism with positive attitude and assurance of improvement.

7.Generate valuable content

Generate and post valuable content with your followers to preserve their sentiment. For instance, if you’re an IT company, you know your followers are tech-savvy and are curious about new inventions and advancements. So you can share technical stuff and engage your followers with services/products you offer.

8. Repost Content

Facebook has the option of “share” and Twitter has the option of “retweet”, but unfortunately there is nothing like that on Instagram. But there are some applications like Repost or Buffer which can help to share the existing content. All you have to copy the URL of the post you want to repost. But remember to ask for permission before sharing someone else’s content.

9. Keep it organized

With the availability of crazy amount of tools, it is impossible to not go crazy over it. Pick the habit of using editorial calendar to share your content in the most organized method possible. It will keep you sane and your posts organized.

10. Mix it Up

They say, a picture is worth thousand words. Imagine how much words worth a video. Post a blend of pictures and videos to engage even effectively with your followers. Share stories, pictures, videos, boomerangs etc to make the most out of it.

11. Use other apps

Good news is you can use various other applications in collaboration with Instagram. They also offer some applications like Layout, Boomerang and Hyperlapse. You can give attractive effect to your post by using some apps. Boomerang with take burst of picture and will make it look like an animation. On the other hand, layout can be used to make a collage of the pictures, that too in the traditional square frame. Try Hyperlapse to shoot videos and post it with the time-lapse effect. They are worth trying experimenting.

12. Consistent editing and filters

Using the same filter or editing style can work as your signature post. You can either spend a lot of time to create and edit the post to make it look unique or use the same filter and editing style to give your page a consistent look. It will not only make you look organized but will also help you save significant amount of time.

Are you a start up and struggling to expand in the marketplace? Have you migrated to cloud yet? If no, then you’re already far behind. Cloud computing is nothing fancy or something to be hype about rather is a must-have service. You don’t have to acquire cloud services because everybody else has! I am recommending you cloud because you need it. Following are some benefit of cloud to your start-up business which can help you spread your roots-

1. Higher Productivity

Major challenge ever faced in a start-up is productivity of your resources. It is the phase where you’ve made your investment and trying everything you could to retrieve your investment. It makes it even important to attain maximum productivity out of your resources. Cloud computing comes in picture here. You can make the programs remote which can be used simultaneously by different users. It takes care of the back-up, encourage remote collaboration, make automatic updates, hence allowing your workforce to concentrate on their core duties rather than get affected by technical faults. It clears up the confusion of sending back and forth iteration of files with even a minor change. Rather you can just store it on the “shared access” in the cloud.

2. Enhanced Collaboration

“Living Document” is another benefit which grants access to various users and makes the engagement between employees efficient, thus improving collaboration. It reflects the minor as, well as major changes made in the task by all users instantaneously, allowing employees with fundamental change in collaboration.

3. Enhanced Security

Losing data can be the most affecting set back ever as data is the most important asset of any organization. Cloud computing is capable of making automatic backup and offer most efficient recovery. You need not to bother about the back up and recovery of your files and data. Moreover, cloud encrypts the files and data to prevent  security breach and attack.

4. Remarkable Mobility

Another benefit of cloud is that you can access files anytime, anywhere regardless of the time, place or device. Files are no longer stuck over a single computer and you don’t have to rely over traditional methods to transfer files from one end to another.

5. Flexibility and Scalability

Migration to cloud can improve flexibility drastically. You no longer rely on traditional method of storing and accessing files. Collaboration is even more effective and better. If you’re starting as a start-up, you obviously attain just a handful of resources and clients as well but you aim to expand. With cloud, expansion can be less hassling and you can actually just work with the virtual instances of the resources rather than purchasing the physical resources.

A business name is not just about renaming company, rather a much bigger deal. It’s permanent and so far is the hardest task for startups when it comes to branding. It is natural for the entrepreneurs to fret over packaging and a host of other details as they get started. Naming a business or company is always high stakes. It represents emotions and intentions as well. When it comes to brainstorm the name for a business, you must start with quantity over quality. Once you’ve got handful of contenders, you can decide on the quality. Some of the tips for you to choose an innovative yet appropriate business are as given-

1. Gather up right material and people

If you’ve decided upon having a brainstorming session, make sure the involved people are suitable for the task. They must have all the involved material for the ask. Innovative people have innovative style of thinking. Some come-up with while listening to music, some while solving the rubic’s cube. You can also ask for the professional help. Invite copywriters or people working for you, you think are creative and good with language. Keep the basic supplements like blank papers, pens, sketches and other stationary for everyone involves.

2. Start Generating

Put a blank paper in front of everyone and ask them to come up with at least 10 names within next 10 minutes. The time is really short to come up with 10 names. It is intentional as it eliminates the people to bogged up to come up with the perfect name. They won’t have time to overthink or to be self conscious. Next, pass the sheet to the person sitting on your left and ask each person to come up with 5 more names. Each person will concrete stimuli for inspiration and allows them to expand creatively on the thinking of their neighbour.

3. Share and build

Papers will be passed amongst you and all others involved. Some of would be terrible and others will be pure gems. Ask every one to round their favorites. Next, have a voting session to choose the best amongst them. Now, have the week to yourself to sort out through three favorites. Remember there is no such thing as perfect name but try ending up with a name which sounds solid when you read it aloud. The name itself should be capable of conveying the message you want to give to your end-consumers.

Good luck to you to pick a great business name!

When we think about virtual realities, we limit our imagination to gaming experiences or immersive entertainment. But it is way beyond IT only. It is spreading its roots in fields of advertising, marketing, accounts, healthcare, academics, laws, etc. With its extended reality (xR) technology, it is poised to have a profound impact across an array of industries.

Alongside VR, artificial intelligence (AI) is also revolutionizing the healthcare landscape — enhancing diagnosis accuracy, patient management, and treatment personalization. You can explore more insights in this GoodFirms report on AI in healthcare and patient care management to understand how these innovations complement each other in transforming patient outcomes.

Mental Healthcare

 With the continued rise in the number of mental illness patients, the need for stable and risk-free treatment is also increasing. Health professionals use VR to treat their patients experiencing phobias and health disorders like PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder). VR can characterize the severity and recognize the trigger to such events. Appropriately regulated exposure triggers a manageable response without challenging the patient enough to cause adverse effects. The patient can then learn to become more accustomed to the sensations and practice cognitive-behavioral techniques that will help them manage deleterious responses. They understand the triggers and respond accordingly.

Comfort of Patients

The most appreciated thing about VR is that it offers comfort to the patient during the healthcare process. Currently, millions of patients suffer from chronic and acute pain daily, which makes it challenging for patients to manage painful episodes. Health professionals run tests on VR technology to test its capability in the management of pain. Health professionals also use VR to treat patients, along with the infamous phenomenon of phantom limb pain, in which a patient’s brain experiences pain or discomfort in a limb that has been amputated. VR is so promising for this complication because interactive virtual experiences that incorporate the latest in haptics technology only help to solidify the illusion and help to reduce patient discomfort. Moreover, xR technologies are becoming more promising in offering a prevalent tool to improve the comfort of patients by reducing anxiety levels.

These improvements demonstrate that technology can make a significant impact on the world. Who knows, they can actually make a difference. We can hope for it only.

The competition and constantly changing market forces the business owners to spend fair amount of time on making selection of the perfect custom software development company. The perfect custom software which will be capable of product development with minimum hassle in reasonable time and expense. Basically, it is all about having a great impact over the future of the product. However, this is not the only aspect which determine your success rather there are various aspects associated with attaining success. It’s much more than just writing a running code.It’s more about the people and interactions, not the tools and processes. It’s all about the people and interactions, not the tools and processes. Lets have a look on most costly mistakes made by business owner which sabotage their own products!

Product Ownership

In most of the outsourced projects, major complication is faced due to the underestimation of the product ownership. Most frequently reported issue is development outsourcing is associated with just having few developers writing code in the other location. And the roles like Product designer, Quality Owner, Project co-ordinator etc are often neglected due to strict budget policies or simply just are not valued until it’s too late. And in the end when we find out about the issue, what do we do? Smart product owners would go for business acceptable solution. They will go for solution rather than taking another short-cut to make the situation even worse! It mostly takes experience and time to come up with such situation. You must battle with it with full honesty and transparency. Go extra mile if you need to and learn the lesson for your future projects also.

Being Attentive

You are giving enough attention to your team and not listening to their queries. Successful business owners never have time for proper product ownership. They get dragged into various discussions and activities. Cost of delay can quickly exceed savings that came from not having a Proxy-Product Owner. So it’s better to have a proxy product owner to keep track of the various tasks and to co-ordinate between the tasks but the person must be trustworthy enough.

Product Development

Take the instance of product development, where you think that everything is going just fine but it’s not! There are things you need to take care of but you are not getting right time or chance to review it. But the fact is you’re refusing to acknowledge the fact and trying avoiding the confrontation to facts. To handle such situation you should always presume that 40% of work is not discovered yet, so leave some spare time for it.

Developing MVP

Last but not the least, product owners usually end up developing the MVP wrong way. Inn the era of Agile ad Lean software development, going for the rigid development can be the biggest mistake ever! It’s natural that everyone is trying to make something which is unique but there is no point in creating something very unique that it’s not useful to anyone. Everyone is familiar to term MVP (Minimum Viable Product) but not sure whether they consider it or not! From purely technical perspective, there is a great difference between building a minimal viable product to validate an idea v/s full-fledged, bullet proof solution. Simply put, you can either spent a lot of time configuring scalable infrastructure, failover mechanisms, perfect CI & CD pipeline, Domain-Driven designed microservices or write a bit hacky app that does the job and looks good.

 

If you’re a writer then freelancing is the best way to become financially independent. Because being freelance writer can give you exposure to the businesses and companies both offline and online. But sometimes, being a freelancer can be boring or tiring since you’re a one-man business involved in a lot of things. But you can make it fascinating and less tiring with some useful resources. Trust me these tools are going to save your day.

Purdue Writing lab:

What if I tell you that there is an awesome lab which offers you a series of informational articles and books with correct grammar and sentence forming. You know as a freelance writer, you can never have enough material for writing. But Purdue writing lab is all about that which offers you everything related to writing. It will enhance your writing style and will also update your know-how regarding writing effortlessly.

Grammar and writing guide:

Wrong grammar or some silly mistakes can have big impact over your overall content creation. If you’re not using the correct writing style or grammar, it will overshadow your all efforts. You can overcome this issue is to refer to grammar guide as it can help you use the correct grammar. You will see drastic improvement in your writing with the use of grammar guide. Or you can go for online version of J.K Strunk’s The Elements of style which can help you write effectively and convincingly. Improve you writing style and see enhancements in no small measures. There is another tool available online named as grammar girl, which is a go-to website. It contains resources and materials on the correct use of grammar. Most amazing feature of this website is that they use humour and everyday examples to make it even easy to catch.

Business books:

Freelancing is the ultimate way to escape 9-5 but it doesn’t always work out. Some books like The 4-Hour Workweek by Timothy Ferris or The E-myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don’t Work which gives deep insight about reasons behind failed business. The authors also shared some tips and secrets on making it work ad trust me they’re worth reading. There are various identified issues and solutions to them as well. You can increase your productivity which will help you earn more and work less.

Latest industry news and trends:

Content marketing revolve around social media and inbound marketing, which means you must be familiar to latest industry news and trends. There are various go-to websites like “content institute”, “B2B marketing” or “marketing profs” etc which offer blogs and articles related to anything required for effective content creation.

Those are some effective and useful resources which will enhance your content creation and will ensure that you don’t lose track of your aims as a freelance writer.