Humans have a curious habit of talking to inanimate objects. As children, we talk to stuffed animals and other toys. (Sometimes, we answer for them.) This carries into adulthood; we talk to plants, cars, televisions, kitchen appliances, computers, rocks... Sometimes we chastise them when they misbehave.
In the 1975 movie Monty Python and the Holy Grail, King Arthur and his knights concoct a brilliant plan for penetrating a heavily fortified castle: Drawing on the Trojan Horse story, they build a wooden rabbit (why not?) and position it outside the castle gates as a gift.
If someone asked you to list the top 10 technologically cutting-edge, forward-thinking industries aggressively adopting digital transformation, chances are “insurance” would not be among them.
We take software prototyping seriously. Prototyping—in particular, rapid prototyping—is the best way to make sure we, as AndPlus developers, understand what our customers expect the software to do and how it will perform in supporting their business processes.
Data has become the lifeblood of any modern enterprise. Making decisions on the basis of hunches and intuition can be valuable (assuming your hunches are correct most of the time). But to operate a medium- or large-size business, you need solid data and a way to extract actionable meaning from that data. Effective use of data is central to many companies’ digital transformation initiatives.
In the beginning, enterprise data lived on database storage servers and file servers in a company’s onsite data center. Although this arrangement gave company leadership peace of mind that their data resided safely within their metaphorical “four walls,” it was also a source of IT challenges:
