Outsourcing Java Software Development

Posted By: Amandeep Mann


http://www.articlesbase.com/information-technology-articles/outsourcing-java-software-development-3752493.html

This article talks about Java, which is known to be world’s strongest programming language. It simplifies software development and operation of application software in less time and money. Java produces softwares to simplify business operations.

Java is been producing softwares which are known for their portability and scalability. This helps them to meet the business requirements. The article talks about the advantages of outsourcing Java softwares as it says that it would be more economical. It is necessary to ensure that before Java is being outsourced a complete research would be a must, in terms of company with maximum IT experience. It also says that outsourcing can help reduce costs and improve efficiency of operations if used in correct manner. Java being outsourced to countries like India, could help transform their traditional businesses operations into supercharged value-creating  engines generating better solutions for customers and better returns for shareholders.

Article also talks about Mindfire Solutions which is one the leading software development and IT services provider in India. They have years of professional experience. Mindfire has solutions that can simultaneously provide variety of services that are best suitable for web development.

Interesting Facts

1.      Outsourcing Java will help us avail the services and technology of an expert.

2.      Java is outsourcing J2EE application development to Mindfire Solutions, India.

3.      Outsourcing Java applications to Mindfire will help devise an experienced management and efficient business policies that easily meet global requirements.

Apple Incorporated

http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/business/companies/apple_computer_inc/index.html

Posted By: Amandeep Mann 

This article talks about, Apple the company that made a very big name in the IT world for the revolution they bought in personal computing. They are well known today for personal computers, mobile communication and media devices, and portable digital music players.

Article also talks about their rival company Microsoft, and how Apple became the most valuable technology company in May 2010. Apple recently launched iPhone 4 after a huge success of iPhone 3G, and proved to be Apple’s most successful phone introduction yet. Article talks about how consumers run the businesses by demanding a better and a good looking technology rather than fulfilling the needs.

Apple is expected to bring on the iPhone to Verizon in early 2011 to compete with the Google’s latest Android software, hopping to accelerate the sales. Apple introduced iPad which was intended to fill a gap between laptops and smartphones, which was a huge success. Apple from the fourth quarter of 2010 show  a record revenue and profit from the sale of iPad, iPhones and even Mac computers.

Apple being successful in 4^th quarter of 2010 also showed a decline in gross profit margin. Apple’s new product was not as profitable as its computers and iPod music players. Investors doubt the company’s strategies, and it has been seen that the company stock soared nearly 50% in 2010, and in October it closed at an all-time high of $318.Future seems to be pretty bad for Apple as it is forecasted that by 2011 Google’s  Android will have erased the iPhone market from the smartphone segment.

Interesting Facts

1. Apple sold 14.1 million iPhones, 4.2 million iPads and 3.9 million Mac computers in fourth quarter of 2010.
2.  Apple created a huge job market in the year 2010.
3. Americans are buying more Android phones than iPhones which could be dangerous for Apple in 2011.

GOOGLE! 

http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/business/companies/google_inc/index.html

Posted By: Amandeep Mann

Interesting Facts:

• ·         Websites like Facebook and Twitter are the biggest thread to Google’s business.
• ·         Microsoft launched a search engine called Bing to compete with Google.
• ·         Google owns 62.6% of the Web search market.
• ·         Disputes between China and Google made leading Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton to urge China to conduct a "transparent" inquiry into the attack.

Summary: 

      The article talks about the world’s most powerful and widely used search engine, Google. As the IT industry is growing rapidly year-after-year, there is increased competition for Google. Many companies like Microsoft and Yahoo are now coming up with their new and advanced search engines which are shrinking business for Google every year. Google is now investing in mobile industry by collaborating with Android Mobile Operating system, which seems to be less successful for their future. Google being most powerful search engines is now creating fears amongst its users because it holds a large amount of private information about them.  

     The article also talks about the disputes between China and Google. It has been recently discovered that china is involved in various kinds of cyber attacks on its databases. These cyber attacks revealed enormous amount of secret information for Google users, this lead to the cancellation of Google’s agreement with Chine which badly affected their business. According to an insider, the losses included one of Google's crown jewels, a password system that controls access by millions of users worldwide to almost all of the company's Web services, including e-mail and business applications. Google later announced that Beijing Government renewed their license to operate in mainland China.

Cutting The Cable

http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2010/11/14/more_consumers_opting_to_cut_out_the_cable/?page=2

Posted By: Gurpreet Janjua

Interesting Facts: 

In Today’s Economy, when everything is so expensive, consumers are trying to save every bit they can. In this case, by using alternatives of cable- people are saving more than $60 a month. Internet is provided same facilities as cable in less price, Then why not tale an advantage of it.

Internet is giving challenges to many other companies as well for example phone companies. People are calling through internet these days. Instead of making a phone call video calling is the best way to communicate with people specially long distance. It save money plus u can see the person while talking. So that’s a threat to phone companies. Same as cable companies have from internet.

When people come to save money they save every bit.!

Summary

Number of TV fans who have cut the cable, and are using alternative methods to find their TV favorites. TV subscribers are ditching their cable companies at an ever faster rate in the past few months, and many of them are signing up with a satellite or phone competitor instead.

These days lots of show’s can be seen without cable box. Both Google Inc. and Apple Inc. start sell boxes that bring Internet content to the TV, along with movies from rental services like Netflix, which charges as little as $9 a month. Internet TV services such as Netflix and Hulu are finally starting to entice people to cancel cable. Netflix streaming has become an asset in millions of homes. Canadian maker of broadband networking gear estimated that Netflix movie viewing accounts for 20 percent of all Internets downloads. Internet video on living room TV sets started to gain ground in 2008, with the release of Roku, a $100 box that pumped Netflix movies directly into TV sets, and a deal that allowed Netflix subscribers to watch their movies through Microsoft Corp.’s Xbox 360 game console.

The appeal of cord-cutting is likely to grow as consumer electronics firms unveil more devices that bring online video into the living room. Even cable providers admit that Internet viewing could eventually pose a challenge for them.

Accounting Information Systems

Full Article
http://www.accountinginformationsystems.info/articles/4133/Accounting-Information-Systems-Development

Posted by: Karanveer Johal


Interesting Facts: 

·       Data Analysis of the accounting information of the company is explored and interpreted.

·   The primary decisions that managers are responsible for are identified on an individual basis.

·    In Design - detailed design of all inputs, processing and storing information, and outputs of the proposed accounting system. Inputs may be defined using screen layout tools and application generators for the information system.

·    Entity relationship diagram (ERD) modeling is used to document largescale database relationships.

·    Accounting systems make use of a variety of scheduled and on-demand reports. The reports can be tabular, showing data in a table or tables; graphic, using images to convey information in a picture format; or matrices, to show complex relationships in multiple dimensions

·    The implementation phase consists of primarily of construction and delivery.

·    Testing is performed at four levels: Stub testing, Program testing, System testing and Acceptance testing

Summary:

Accounting information systems are software systems that are used to collect and maintain financial records of a company’s business transactions. There are a few basic steps that companies follow in order to develop their AIS. The first step is to strategically plan the project. For example, what would be the cost of adding information technology systems? How far can they stretch their budgets to compete in a global market and be equipped with newer technology systems? And how much money they can put in to have security to detect and stop frauds. After planning out carefully what is needed for AIS, analyses of a possible software system are made.  In this step, the data of the accounting information of the company is disseminated and interpreted for the decision makers that can offer advice on the financial situation of the company or what other measures can be taken to help the company compete in the market. The final step is that of implementing the system. Implementation is testing of the information systems to see the quality and validity of its performance in which the end result would be a person getting the full picture of the company’s financial data. 

Technology opening new doors for disabled.

Full Article

http://www.latimes.com/health/ct-met-disabled-tech-20101101,0,5650934.story

Posted by: Gurpreet Janjua

Summary:

Technology is creating new opportunities for countless people with disabilities. It’s about the rare neurological disorder that makes people difficult to get around and communicate. But fastened to the front of the teen's wheelchair is a computer that has changed their life.

 The technology has created something very unique to help those who are Unable to walk or communicate to complete their basic needs. This device automatically detect a person's needs and become more user-friendly, and a transformed Internet that welcomes the blind and developmentally disabled .Also included music players that can tell you the color of your shirt, devices that translate Web pages into computers that are controlled by eye movement.

This article also talk about how I phone is reliable for people who have vision problems, its easily adjustable text size make it much simpler to use. However technology is the solution to everything but it plays a significant role in human life.

Technology promised to be advances but the cost of it will keep helpful devices away from many people's reach. A related concern that governments, schools and institutions might think that high-tech has relieved them of their responsibility to serve the disabled.


Key Facts: 

The facts that caught my attention were that technology is giving new hope and a chance to people who are unsuccessful to fulfill their basic need by themselves. Now day’s technology is providing with needs of disabled kids that nature couldn’t help. As mention in the summary of the article, technology is not everything- it cannot replace caring and loving, social skills that a person can give But, it is a great approach to help disable ones. Technology can be extremely expensive but somehow it should be available to the needed person.