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Are you searching for proper accommodation, which you can refer as your sweet home? Do you still go by the traditional methods such as consulting a house or property broker for buying a home? Well, these are the old school ways that existed a decade ago. Today we are traveling in the age of digital transformation where everything has gone mobile. People may also navigate through a website but with the emergence of real estate mobile apps, finding a sweet home is no more a headache for the real estate investors and buyers. If we have a glance at the statistics it would 20% of the users are using mobile apps to conduct the real estate searches be confirmed that nearly. Well, this number is surely going to ascend as the numbers of mobile devices are soaring up. However, you would be delighted to note the fact that 90% of the people have already rooted for internet for searching their homes. Talking about the market share of the leading online real estate providers in USA , Zil...

Give Thanks for Scrum 2018 had a full house at Microsoft's training facility in Burlington, MA on 20 November. I delivered a keynote titled "The Holy Grail of Project Management: Linear Scalability." In my talk, I  laid out the roadmap for deploying Scrum@Scale than enables a "scale-free" architecture that works in any size project.  These are essential steps to attaining high organizational performance. This roadmap sets an organization on a journey which is essentially the Toyota Kata , a repeatable pattern of working that enables continuously improving organizational effectiveness without the waste of extra roles, hardening Sprints, or non-Scrum teams which cripple performance. "Go See" - Scrum Coaches develop a list of organizational problems Senior Management Briefing Lay-out current problems Identify the desired goal Show how Scrum@Scale can achieve that goal by delivering twice the value in half the time Identify initial agile initiativ...

When you are developing or constructing anything you need a robust foundation. This is precisely applicable if planning to create a mobile application as well. With the times changing, the business enterprises are focusing more on building the apps to reach out the target audience. This is making the competition fiercer with several players entering into the arena. Therefore, it becomes imperative to get the right groundwork for which choosing the apt app architecture becomes important. In fact, many mobile apps simply fail to impress the users because of the poor architecture. Defining the Mobile App Architecture Mobile app architecture can be defined as the set of different methodologies, techniques and procedures carried out to successfully build a comprehensively structured mobile app according to the specific needs of the business enterprise. While creating the app architecture, you also have to take into account the programming of the wireless devices such as the Smartphone o...

When as an adept mobile app development team you are gearing up to face new challenges upfront for the next year, don’t just focus research on new technologies and features but pay attention to app designing as well. Just keep one thing in mind; you won’t get a second opportunity to create an impression on the end users. As the years continue to roll one after the other, the trends also keep updating with the implementation of new design techniques and looking to improve the user interface and user experience. When you create a mobile application, there is no surety that you would also taste the same fruit of success as Amazon, Uber, and Airbnb etc. The statistics indicate that 60% of the mobile apps are never downloaded, and out of the downloaded ones. 21% has only been used once in 2018. There may be various reasons why people don’t download your app. The lack of intuitive User Interface is one major cause. It’s important to leverage the UI designing trends that keep changing at...

Most of the web developers, would agree upon the fact that both Angular and React are the open-source front-end JavaScript framework and library. Since Angular arrived much earlier in comparison to React, it became one of the widely used programming languages to built best web applications. One of the other factors that worked in its favour was the support and trustworthiness of Google, helping the developers to solve many issues related to development of single-page applications. In fact, there were various other advantages such cross-platform app, synchronizing the data automatically between model and view components. However, once React made up to the center stage, there was a drift in the paradigm. The developers slowly and gradually started moving from Angular to React as it was much better than Angular in terms of speed, efficiency, view library, simple API, and lightweight components. Moreover, Angular had a few drawbacks causing problems and irritation for the developers an...

We as a nation are obsessed with mobile apps. Do you realize how much you are dependent on them? In 2017 alone, over 197 billion apps were downloaded. In 2016, 90 billion Android apps and over 25 billion iOS apps were downloaded by the masses. Therefore, getting into app development is an excellent way to earn profits and deliver what customers want. However, the job isn’t easy. There are various decisions you have to take. For instance, do you want to develop an app for Android or iOS users? Or, maybe you want something for both? Do you want an excellent UI as well as UX, developed according to the platform? Or maybe, you want to take the easy way out and make an app that is supported on different types of platforms? If you aren’t willing to develop an app separately for iOS and Android from scratch, React Native is your best option. This framework uses only Javascript. This allows the developed app to be supported by both iOS and Android platforms. This is bound to reduce develo...

With mobile devices and apps hogging the light, the payments methods have gone digital. Initially, people moved out of traditional norms such as paying in cash to a more advanced and faster technique such as internet banking and paying through debit or credit cards. But as they say that technology is on a constant evolution and transiting to new phases, we have seen an emergence of a new player; the eWallet mobile app, setting up one record after the other. The mighty successful stories of Paytm, Mobilwik, PhonePe, and others have been truly inspirational. Paytm for example, has more than 300 million registered users according to the latest statistics of July 2018. The same can be said about other mobile payment apps too. However, we talk about the global scenario then WeChat Pay is leading the way forward with 600 million worldwide users, followed by AliPay having 400 million users on the board. Furthermore, Market Research Future has presented a Global Forecast Report estimat...

So yet another year is on the verge of completion, and we are on the threshold of welcoming 2019. You might say that there is no significant change in your life but we cannot mention the same statement for the mobile app industry and technology. The mobile applications and devices have gone through a constant evolution where one saw the advent of new trends and improvement of the existing ones. According to a noteable research , the total number of smartphone users are expected to reach about 2.5 billion in 2019 from 2.1 billion in 2016. The number of mobile apps is multiplying fast with 2.1 million Android apps and 2 million iOS based apps in the third quarter of 2018. However, the mobile app developers and gadget enthusiasts are keen to know what’s the update from the technical front. What are the innovative technologies that will set a mark in the upcoming year? Yes, it’s true that we all have heard about the Internet of Things (IoT), the iBeacon technology, Machine Learning, A...

Fintech is the acronym for Financial Technology. This means that when the financial services juxtaposed with the technology, it led to the emergence of a new innovative solution known as the Fintech. We can say it with firm assurance that the evolution of fintech has brought a revolution in the financial industry influencing every domain including the banking services, the mobile wallet, stock trading and equity funds, the insurance sector, and the Blockchain technology etc. Now, talking about the total value of global Fintech investments , the estimated figure is forecasted to reach at $46 billion in 2020 from $10 billion in 2014. In fact, Statista further reports that the banks and financial institutions would prefer to spend major part of their funds on developing mobile payment technologies. Let’s take this further up. According to the Global Fintech Report 2017 , about 82% of the incumbents expect that the fintech partnerships are going to escalate within a span of three to f...