Earlier on in my career I spent about a year working on a custom ETL and data mapping tool for a client which was utilized to transform data from nearly 30 vendors with a diverse set of sources such as MS Dynamics, Teradata, and was in various formats such as CSV and XML. Describing [...]
If you are in business and have any sort of logistics operations, chances are that transportation of goods might have occupied your thoughts at some point of time. Transportation Management Systems (TMS) have traditionally been used to manage transport over land. In an increasingly globalized world, they are becoming de rigueur for managing air and [...]
The developer community is all abuzz with the long-anticipated Beta release of Flutter, Google’s free and open source mobile UI framework for crafting high-quality native interfaces on iOS and Android. I've even been following updates on this framework as it matures. First off, this is Google we are talking about. Second, who doesn’t love Hamilton [...]
It’s that time of year again. The worst of winter is behind us; spring is just around the corner; there’s magic in the air. That’s right, it’s Magic Quadrant season! The Oscars of data analytics just dropped like a new album. I, for one, was salivating to read Gartner’s latest update to their “Magic [...]
That growth rides on innovation, and innovation on learning, is an established fact. However, organizations struggle to maintain the learning curve of their software architects and developers. It is not that they lack talent or drive. These smart, talented, and creative people are boxed into their roles and departments, each working on her own [...]
Mobile app development is probably one of the hottest industries now and will remain so for some time. To understand what lies ahead in 2018 and beyond, we must look back at what happened in 2017. In my opinion the following developments during the past year will have a significant impact on how we [...]
We’ve all heard the tired cliché, ‘work smarter, not harder’. It’s oft repeated because it speaks to the value of operational efficiencies to maximize deliverables with minimal effort and/or investment. It doesn’t only apply to our own efforts and the work of our teams; it also applies to how we use resources, including technology. [...]
We’ve all been there, tasked with transforming an utterly useless file into a data set that can be used and analyzed. My most infuriating example was a data set provided as two 1,500 page pdfs. Yes, you read that correctly, two 1500 page pdfs! What is anyone supposed to do with a pdf?!? It [...]
What does ‘Done’ mean to you? What does it mean to your team? And your organization? Are all the definitions the same? Similar, at the least? As your team embarks on a project using the Agile approach, don’t consider these questions irrelevant. The goal of working together as a team is to ship the [...]
I’ll admit it, I’m a diehard Excel user. I get excited by the capabilities of nested functions and I consider a well crafted pivot table a work of art. I’ve learned the data limits of a spreadsheet the hard way (1048576 rows by 16384 columns, in case you were wondering). I take pride in [...]
Test automation is an established strategy to get your code up and running successfully by complementing manual testing. Moreover, with Agile and DevOps practices gaining ground, automation has become a necessity. However, while drafting their test automation strategy, organizations often make the mistakes of either looking for the ‘best’ automation tool, or the ‘best’ [...]
In July, I had created a post about Power Bi vs Tableau for BI data visualization. The race between Power BI and Tableau is rather close, as is evident from the Gartner’s Magic Quadrant 2017. However, you must have noticed that there’s another player in the Leaders’ quadrant – QlikView. While its scores on [...]
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