User feedback and insight give you the data you need to make decisions about your product. If no one’s really interested in what you’re offering, there’s little point spending the work-hours and dollars to build a production version. If what you think of as a peripheral feature is the only part anyone wants to talk about, maybe you’re not in the business you thought you were.
When you’re struggling to find the bandwidth to handle your development project, it’s tempting to turn to one of three obvious solutions: trim the project, get more staff, or look for ways to make your current staff more productive.
The Industrial Internet of Things, or IIoT, marks a phase shift in management of physical productivity. It’s sometimes referred to as the fourth industrial revolution, or Industry 4.0 (in nomenclature that clearly owes much to web terminology).
Software launching requires strategy, but strategy alone is not enough. There must also be a system to match up strategy with day-to-day activity, managing development and launch as a project. This must be sufficiently adaptable as to function as a constantly-revised, living document, not a series of instructions that cease to be relevant as products evolve and plans change.
Some businesses are moving data from legacy systems to the cloud. Some are moving from on-site servers to other on-site servers, or between cloud implementations. It’s sometimes necessary to migrate data between applications, as business processes change and stacks change with them. One thing is certain: most businesses will do a data migration. When they do, it will be fraught with risks — both as it’s done, and afterward when you try to run your company on the results.
Cloud computing is rapidly becoming ubiquitous. The change is driven by a spread of unarguable advantages, ranging from speed through security to access and user experience. Underlying these benefits are the facts of cloud computing: remote hosting and as-a-service implementations of everything from software to infrastructure means you hire out tasks to experts, instead of trying to build an in-house team that can compete with Salesforce and Microsoft and Amazon Web Services.
