Wednesday 16 November 2016

10 Ways to Save Cost in your Information Technology Department Today



If there wasn't enough on our plate with Oil Prices and Brexit, Nov 8 Trumped in turning Singapore stocks negative. It is going to be hopeful they said, it will get better they assured, well it's not!.  Be it a Big Enterprise or a Local SMB, it is time to be more positive and look for ways to cut down prices.

While I am no expert in financial solutions, I have churned out some specific suggestions that you can implement in your IT department to save up costs across 3 categories. IT management; Enterprise software; and Enterprise Infrastructure, Hardware and IT Operations.


a) IT Management Methods:


1. Ellen Kitzis said 37% of an average budget is spent on people costs, including money paid to contractors. According to Gartner, companies were planning to spend $US13,454 per employee, and that is already down $200, or 1.7% per person. Keep those that transmit the best of business knowledge. Try automating services like chat bots, self-service portals etc.

2. Creating Virtual Teams
Its good time to flatten the structure and let the manager oversee and manage the teams of 15 to 20 people.

3. Controlling managed and Unmanaged Costs
Be it Datacentre power consumption or printing, try cutting down the un-managed costs. When it comes to managed costs, the solution is as simple as revisiting the SLA terms with vendor and saving up some costs.


b) Enterprise Software


4. Be cautious of big vendors. They are bound to use boilerplate policies across all the customers and wait for complaints in reviewing the contracts on case by case basis. Keep an eye on invoices and question when necessary.

5. Eliminating the Shelf ware sloth.  Its quiet common to buy off the shelf product and your employees are no more using it. The reasons could be lack of customization required to finish the task, lack of extensibility and numerous features promised by software is of no use to your company.

6. Start with clean slate
Hire a local SMB technology company with good record and build only what is needed for your business team to function smoothly. Your one time investment in custom built software would be cheaper than on going costs with Off the Shelf products.

7. Pay only for the need
Often you end up paying the shelf software for licenses and other maintenance costs every month. And while going for Technology solution providers, beware of the ones who quote less but has loads of  hidden costs as you go along. Ask for clear break up in the quoted prices and choose wisely.


c) Enterprise infrastructure, hardware and IT operations.


8.  There might be tools already in place, yet processes not matured enough to use them, find these areas. A well followed process can lower the costs of IT operations.

9. Perhaps using the old pcs, and servers would seem like the good idea, but identify maintenance repair and other IT costs in recovering data and operations on cases failure caused by non competent servers and systems.

10. Go more virtual & Cloud
Sometimes the answer is as simple as consolidating all the servers and going virtual as necessary. Cloud can be a good solution to implement solutions at lower cost.

If you’re facing a choice whether to build or buy, PsiberTech Solutions can help you understand the pros and cons of custom enterprise applications vs. off-the-shelf in terms of your niche organization’s requirements. Do contact us if you need further assistance.  Thanks for stopping by and Have a fantastic day!
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Thursday 10 November 2016

Never say NO to NODE.JS





The server side framework continuously gaining much popularity since its inception. This framework - developers are afraid to say a NO to - has become the biggest boon to the developer community across the world.

As per analytics, it is evident that more than 70 percent of the world's tech population is accessing the websites on hand held devices such as phones and tabs.  Also a recent survey states that around 35% of the websites are developed using HTML 5. With the rise of the mobile phone usage and HTML 5 popularity, the real time web and mobile applications are progressing.

Apart from these generalized advantages, there are lot many benefits for developer when entered into node.js. 

This framework is an event driven, on-blocking I/O model. It is built on JavaScript to unify both front-end and server-side architectures. 

Hence this framework is ideal for High Performance - Highly scalable - distributed real time web applications. 

 Code can be reused at every level: browser, server side and database.


Some interesting facts:
  •         2 - It is the second most watched repository on GitHub. It is more watched than Ruby on Rails
  •         15 to 4 - LinkedIn went from running 15 servers with 15 instances to just 4 instances that handle traffic 2 times
  •         3800 - There are around 3800 active package authors for node.js
  •         12000 - Node package manager has 12000 modules already

So to put it in nutshell - The growing number of dynamic technologies in web, mobile, social and gaming, point to a bright future for Node.Js


Thanks for your zest to know latest updates and extraordinary support. It is an energizer to write more posts. You might be interested to know about upgrading to Angular 2


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Monday 7 November 2016

The Internet of Things - World at your fingertips


The Internet of Things (IoT) is a phenomenon that is currently experiencing huge year on year growth. One of the fastest growing areas within the industry is in the market of home IoT devices. These are devices designed to make life easier. 

Microsoft’s Office suite is a connected service on IoT, Apple’s ecosystem is IoT to the core, and even your late model vehicle is likely connected to IoT in some way. In the consumer world, IoT is simply the reality of all your devices being connected; from your game console, to your cellular phone, the computer in your office and on your coffee table, and even your automated home lighting, air conditioning, and garage door.
 
The health care giant, Pfizer has recently contracted with IBM to create IoT solutions for their clinical trial environment for Pfizer's Parkinson's disease medication. In a recent Goldman Sachs report, analysts predict that the healthcare arena is slated to experience extremely high levels of change based on the IoT. This scenario provides more creative opportunities for connected IoT developers in the healthcare space. 

Latest McKinsey report have identified nine areas of growth to reach $4 trillion to $11 trillion of value inherit in the IoT's potential. The focus of IoT - "Everything is a service" disrupts the traditional back and forth of the business transactions is spot on. For developers and IT professionals, IoT means that their discipline's value will experience a sea change in the eyes of their leaders. With all of the changes in the cities, Homes Vehicles and among all of the categories of the emerging value in IoT. IT will not only an enable; never again a not so benign cost center; but a true game changer whose capabilities will guarantee a company's future or its demise.

Thank you for dropping by. You may like to have a look into the advantages of custom software developmentarticle from our blog . Have a great day!

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