http://www.articlearmies.com Articles posted by smita mathur. en-us Copyright (c) 2005 ArticleTime.com http://www.articlearmies.com/articles/Other/custom-application-developmentneed-of-the-hour.html Custom Application Development is meant for developing a software that has been designed and programmed as per the client’s specific needs. Custom Application Development can be used for producing practically any feature that you wish to include in your website. The two restrictive factors in Custom Application Development are time and money. The key to the successful and productive Custom Application Development are quality planning and design. A proper understanding of the process for which application will be deployed is essential for chalking out a well-thought strategy. The system for which software will be developed should also be ascertained beforehand. After thorough understanding of the process, creative insights are a must to make the application flexible enough to be used. In nutshell, Custom Application Development requires architectural consulting, capacity planning, network planning, development and testing. Whatever software are developed using an application development, it is necessary that they are technically customized. Only difference is that extended application will be designed with a general set of key elements to be accomplished by a broad range of users. Custom Application Development includes the features such as • Content management and solution development • Communication tracking/management • E-commerce • Portals/Intranets/Client extranets • Legacy systems integration • CRM / SFA / ERM / PRM • Wireless agents and applications Custom Application Development addresses those functional gaps that are not provided by commercially developed software and applications. This concept envisages a number of benefits including • Accelerated time to deployment • Increased operational efficiency while using off-the-shelf software • Renders great reliability to your projects • Facilitates access to the depth and breadth of our cross-industry knowledge • Provides real-time technical support services to ensure smooth functioning of your solutions. • Gives you a consistent edge over competition • Addresses aspects of the business process unique to your business • Addresses business processes for which solutions are unavailable in the market • Provides predefined methodologies and frameworks • Provides structured and managed requirements definitions • Provides proprietary tools to improve effectiveness of the development process • Provides process-oriented development methodology • Reduces infrastructure cost • Ensures less paperwork • Computer written code can be developed faster A custom developed application adds not just business benefit, but tangible financial value to your organization. This technology can really prove to be a boon for small- and mid-sized businesses. Hence, Custom Application Development software is always beneficial to own as it helps in meeting specific demands….that too without any hassles. http://www.articlearmies.com/articles/Education/ccna-certification--a-short-elaboration.html Be it via the wireless or wired communication channel, we and our businesses are communicating faster, better, and of course, more. Information dissemination via a controlled network of routers, switches, and several other wireless mediums form the basis of important business activities of thousands worldwide today. Cisco Systems, the US-based premier in networking and communication technologies has been implementing advanced training and certification programs in networking. Coming in a varied degree of specifications, the networking course curricula offered by Cisco contain an amalgamation of information on latest in networking with practical insight on the standard practices. One amongst the many popular networking courses that Cisco has been offering to wanna be networking experts comes by the name of CCNA.Let’s get to know more about the course that has equipping thousands worldwide with the requisite skill of handling and maintaining an elaborate network of routers and switches. Cisco Certified Network Associate or CCNA empowers one with the ability to install, configure, operate and troubleshoot a medium-sized cluster of routed and switched networks as well as in implementation and functional verification of connections to remote sites in Wide Area Network (WAN). As per the newest trend and demand in the technology, Cisco periodically revamps the course material and refurbishes it with newer concepts and techniques. Cisco designates definite exam numbers to the CCNA course curriculum. Presently, as per the latest standard set on 15 August 2007, the CCNA exam number is 640-802. With a change in the syllabus the corresponding exam number also changes. As the name holds, CCNA course comes under Cisco’s Associate training program and is a gateway to further expert level training. The newest CCNA curricula imparts knowledge on, 1. basic mitigation of security concerns 2. introduction to wireless networking concepts and terminology 3. the use of • IP • Enhanced Interior gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP) • Serial Line Interference Protocol Frame Relay • Routing Information Protocol Version 2 (RIPv2) • VLANs • Ethernet • Access Control Lists (ACLs) Cisco, in affiliation to several expert networking training institutes, offer elaborate training and study materials on the topics covered by CCNA. These training sessions makes one opportune to harness skill in this effective networking course accredited by the major corporate world-wide. http://www.articlearmies.com/articles/Web-Design/website-developmenta-roadblock-to-success.html Website development can be broadly classified into different categories listed below: To start with, website development refers to a complete range of activities related with the development of a website for the World Wide Web or an Intranet. There are a number of advantages to developing a powerful website for your business. A simple website can do only simple tasks but to have a stronger presence in online market you need to have a well-developed and advanced website. Being in one corner of the world, your company with a professionally designed website confirms its presence on the web and connects you to the millions of people out there. Speaking about website development, it has emerged as a base for any market to make their concrete online presence. This is gaining momentum day by day and has its own significance in internet marketing world. If you give a thought to website development, it means that you want to translate your dreams into reality. All your creative aspects go into developing a single website that would be there to serve your audiences worldwide. Effective website development ensures that your services, products or advertisements become more easy and accessible to the users. So it’s very important for companies today to get the best website development company to develop site for them. Website development includes ecommerce business development, web design, web content development, client-side/server-side coding, and web server configuration. One can now develop a simple website for less than a thousand dollars, depending on the complexity and amount of content. As far as website development tools and platforms are concerned, there are many systems available to the public free of charge to aid in development. A popular example is the LAMP.  Client side coding • CSS • XHTML • Javascript • Flash  Server side coding • PHP and MySQL • CGI and Perl • Cold fusion • Lotus domino • Java • Python There are some interdisciplinary skills such as graphic design, search engine optimization, project management, QA etc. Coming to the task of looking for a good website development company, let me declare that it is a very easy task for everyone now. So if you are hunting around for an efficient website development company, I would advise you too keep the following points in mind:  Check out for the professional and technical competency of the website development company.  The company should provide you with instant web solutions.  The company should possess a vast treasure of technical knowledge.  The company should be able to comprehend your business motives well.  The company should aim at 100% customer satisfaction. Now that you are well acquainted with the concept of website development, you can get started with it and see to yourself what difference does it make to your company. http://www.articlearmies.com/articles/Computers/develop-your-business-offshore.html Confused about carrying out software development effectively? Sandwiched between numerous clients for completing their projects within budgetary constraints? Entangled in time crunch for meeting the deadlines of the projects? Poor you!!! But lament no more. We have a solution for all your problems. It is none other than offshore software development. But here the question that must have popped up in your mind by now must be --- what is offshore software development? Offshore software development refers to the development of the software by a supplier firm positioned in a country that is geographically remote from the client enterprise. This concept facilitates proper and efficient utilization of resources in appropriate time frame. Basically, the companies with long-term perspective are benefited by this concept. But during the course of time, providing software development services to the offshore client has proved to be quite an exigent and challenging task. Outsourcer companies avail fruitful services from the offshore software development companies, striving hard to carve a niche for themselves in the software field. Software development firms go to a great extent for beating the challenge of providing quality-backed services with the technical assets they possess. This task is made easier with the bunch of technically proficient, skilled and trained professionals including project managers, system analysts, software engineers, technical leaders, software testers, technical writers, HTML programmers, quality assurance engineers, graphics designers, systems engineers etc. Speaking of the factors that contribute in success of the offshore software development project, the most vital part is the requirement of a failsafe communication system. Enumerated below is a list of tools that ensure sound and effective communication between the software development services provider firm and the client: „« Conference calls / Video Conferencing „« Continuous integration and bug tracking „« Wiki / Whiteboard / RSS „« Source control repository „« Emails and instant messengers Now let us have a glance at the benefits offered by these services: „« Cost savings: The main advantage offered by this service is the huge reduction in costs. In this jet age, every company wants quick results and gains. Hiring a new employee and thereafter providing him with adequate training is quite a costly affair. So companies find it more economical to seek offshore software development services. „« Talented team members: The offshore software development companies own a crew of immensely talented and highly skilled software professionals who make fair use of their sound technical knowledge and render best-quality software services to the offshore client. „« Timely delivery: Availing of offshore software development services ensures timely deliver of software solutions to the offshore client. Offshore software development service companies possess a well managed team of employees to supervise the progress of the work. These personnel are experts in handling their responsibilities well to complete the task within a time frame. „« Adaptation of progressive technologies: The offshore software development company strives to attain a blend of highly progressive and new technologies with the existing resources to serve its clients in a better way every time it is entrusted with a new project. Offshore software development envisages a long list of services that are listed as below: „« Ecommerce solutions „« Custom applications „« Application integration „« Customer relationship management „« Supply chain management „« Online marketing By now you must have made your mind to opt for offshore software development. I am too sure that you must be enticed by its number of benefits. So what are you waiting for? Take action and try this time-tested formula of success. http://www.articlearmies.com/articles/Business/traffic-cones--showing-us-the-way.html Almost all of us, the regular 9 to 6 office goers, have confronted with the experience of getting jammed in a traffic snarl. Courtesy: 1. An unfortunate accidents that woke the world around a certain amount of time ago, or 2. A roadside work on progress under the able instructions of the authority in civil construction of a municipality. Let the cause be anything. A traffic jam is always a disgusting, abominable, damn… jam! Nothing equals in wasting precious time of ours. In most of the times, some impatient souls amongst us take to it with ‘sleeves up’ and proceed over with (voluntary or involuntary) sneering jeers at the whistling traffic inspectors (poor they!). For all of us it’s a cauldron where each day we make our way in and out - knowingly or unknowingly. The only respite remains to be the sight of those conical bits of traffic cones. Lined in certain innovative pattern to guide the snarl from farther augmentation, like guiding angels, they help us to reach to the safe end of the asphyxia congestion. Why not expense some words on these Traffic cones. Helping us to avoid a dose of crash and dent everyday by positively influencing numerous cases of disciplined driving sessions; they are no less than wonders of the modern science. At least for those who identify science on the terms of comfort, traffic cones are sure winners in banishing any chance of further ruin of time. “Conically graduating up just like a sorcerer’s hat, With flat bottom on the base of that they come in bright and prominent fluorescent stripes - visible on days and nights, …all to make our life safe on each road strides …” Prominently present all around the globe, they are global personification of road safety and orderly traffic flow. If road safety departments world over hail them because of the portability, for motorists and pedestrians, they are simple, uncomplicated structures that remain from blocking too much of important road space. Thanks to rigorous R &Ds by companies dedicated towards enhancing road safety. These simple, portable, yet effective and stable, traffic cones now come in a flexible, folding design with twin retro reflective collar, innovative LED on the top fitted with a static and flashing function, and all enhanced base strength. So the good news is that the traffic cones are going to be more effective, visible and stable. God’s goodness! Till there are no signs of improvement in traffic condition, these added specialties in traffic cones can offer us some more reprieve from lurking dangers of road clashes. Till all the measures in decongesting road chaos are met, there is not a slight glint of doubt that traffic cones would continue to rule. And we, with another tinge of jeering session of course, would happily follow these conical hats with bright orange stripes on. With compulsion in most of the times ...of course! http://www.articlearmies.com/articles/Web-Hosting/web-hosting--recognize-needs-to-profit-more.html Alright! After numerous encounters with the truth that vociferously demanded your business to have a web presence too (just like that of your competitor, if not better), good sense finally prevailed. You have decided to align yourself with the group constituted by zillions who have already reached, tested, tried and ….still trying hard to make a mark in the webscape. Welcome you to internet. The web of hopes, mistakes, chances, spams, connectivity, crawlers, communities, bots…..etc.etc.etc and many more. Welcome to the world of Web – the web of internet. What do you want your website to do now? Most understandably, you want your website to make your business more popular and bring profit on the account of a rich showcase of your specialty and capabilities. And I am just very sure that you have already hard-lined your future steps to completely assure success for every concept and formula that you have conceived. How about a final check on the options that you might have ignored? Why? Because, based on these options you would be making a very important selection in the near future. The decision would be of selecting right web hosting service provider for your company. Ok. From further complicating the matter and getting more into mysteries, let’s get into a bit of quizzing session. Following are some questions that need to be asked and proceeded in the exact synchrony that I have followed here. However, you have the entire right to ask them in the manner you want. You can use your cubicle, conference room, living room, drawing room, (or for that of a matter wash room also), to settle into the groove of asking and finding the right solution. First: What you want your website to do? And then follow the series below: 1. Do you want to integrate features like blogs, forum or other community specific services with your website? 2. Do you want your website to feature Content Management System (CMS) 3. Do you want your site to be e-commerce enabled? 4. Do you want your site to be equipped with Customer Relation Management (CRM) application? Now, if for all of the questions the answer is a grand ‘No’, you can safely choose from any of the low-cost (or even free!) web hosting facility on ready provision from several Internet Service Providers. Also, you have option from the service of various advertisement sponsored sites that offer free space for personal/small-scale webpage hosting. Other than few design related qualms, you would have very little problem in enjoying your own web identity for free. But what if for one of the above questions the answer is ‘Yes’? Get into a rigorous search to find yourself a web hosting company that has experience in offering services partaking to your necessities. Go through the details of its web hosting plans and read through what clients of the service provider has to say. Most often you would have options from Linux and Windows-based web hosting to choose from. Understand the plan and the behind the text meaning of the plans and offers. Web is simply full with options. Just recognize your needs. You would have one hosting service matching to your plans…for sure! http://www.articlearmies.com/articles/Web-Design/nittygritty-of-an-affordable-website-design.html Affordability is a factor which every business concern takes into consideration. It carries the same significance in case of website design also. Effective budgeting is one of the basic principles of management. Maximizing return out of same investment or with less investment is the plus point in business operations. Everyone strives to find an affordable website design and web hosting that is perfect for his needs without compromising cost so far. For affordable website design and development you need to have knowledge of so many things. First, you will have to decide on your exact website requirement. And then consider the budget. If you find it affordable considering your needs you may proceed with. Some of the factors to be considered are - „« The purpose of your website; „« Nature of contents you want on your site; „« How many pages you would like to start with; „« Requirement of any graphics; „« Any other requirements; After you have confirmed of these above points you can proceed with your research work. Use of personal contacts and references are advantageous. If you don¡¦t have any, browse the web. Thousands of companies are there on the internet that are self acclaimed market leaders. Website designing is an art. Finding a proper website design company in affordable range is not an easy task. You can not compromise quality with affordability. Moreover, in website design and development arena, the professionals must be highly knowledgeable in different Internet technologies, including HTML, DHTML, ASP, PHP, MS SQL, MySQL, CGI, Cold fusion, Java, Scripting, ActiveX, Flash, Director, Visual Studio, Graphic Design and all types of other development tools & technologies. Broadway Infotech is one of the renowned names in website design and development. We take pride in informing you that our clients have given us the epithet. We work for a large number of international clients. Don¡¦t you look for a company where you can get a bunch of services covering design, development and hosting? If it is so you can step in to avail our affordable services.