Wednesday, February 27, 2008

Why India is pioneer in software development

A brief history of software development in India

Sometimes he gives the ability to develop professional services in India to more disparate reasons. Among the most original include genetic engineering, evoked links between mathematics and Hinduism, mental states induced by intensive curry…

The history of software development in India begins in the 80s, when some leading American companies as Texas Instruments and Motorola establish branches property in Bangalore. Many young Indians, graduates at American University, formerly worked at the premises of these American companies and have facilitated the creation of the first settlements in India.

In the'90s others have followed, such as HP, American Express, Dun & Bradstreet, but the real turning point came only towards the end of the decade, with the millennium bug!

To remedy, with the fear him, at the end of the millennium bug large software houses Westerners remained short of developers and began to draw heavily basin of the Indian graduates.

Here comes the image we know today, some mythological, the Indian programmer "genius". To use the words of their manager, suddenly has asked Indians to the best graduates in IT to deal with a huge amount of work but was very simple: the replacement of the "data" in billions of lines of code.

In fact, the concentration of "genes" is not particularly different from the rest of the world. The two elements that play for them are greater selection of entry to university (around 1 in 100) and greater motivation to gain a better lifestyle

With the development of local branches western become less competitive, and the unbundling of some of them that the current Asian IT giants: Wipro, TCS, Cognizant, Infosys. Not as great as the Western equivalent, but still become national heroes by growth rates important.

In parallel, in the wake of western pioneers such as GE, American Express and British Airways, the companies have begun to look not only IT but other areas of work "by white-collar western. There were so developed societies BPO (Business Process Outsourcing), can handle different stages of processing of information: from treatment coupon insurance, to the call center inbound and outbound, the processing of medical records. Many business relatively simple yet to be repeated in large volumes took the road in India. Least as regards the United States and, to a lesser extent, England. The rest of Europe, also for linguistic reasons, it has remained more distant.

However, the prospects are not exempt from the shadows. The growing size of the Indian companies are to relive some problems typical of Western societies: the loss of competitiveness for the growth of income for operators, non-professional satisfaction of employees in highly repetitive activities, the governance of companies grow too quickly dimensions of tens of thousands of employees.

Finally, one of the reasons why India has developed rapidly in the service sector compared with the industrial capacity is the lowest allocation instrumental they require. The infrastructure problems are different in different parts of the country but everywhere present and tangible.

Thursday, February 21, 2008

Qualities of a good website

Accessibility
One of the goals that is preferred in the planning of a new project is to be as accessible as possible to disabled people through full support for screen readers and a structure that provides for the main content first and then the other elements of a page. Upon request, in the development of a new website, you can enter multiple styles graphs with different color schemes to improve reading, for example, users color blind or visually impaired.

Usability
A site clear, immediate learning of use and user friendly is defined Usabile. What characterizes your work is a careful planning with the customer to collect goals and priorities that you want to achieve and how. Following is a first draft drawn layout chart is presented to the customer who will decide whether to make it a second or suggest a partial change.

Compatibility
One of the most common problems of a website is that it can be displayed in different ways depending on the browser used. Approximately 60% of Internet users use Internet Explorer as the browser, Firefox 30%, 10% Safari, Opera 7% and 3% Netscape. Each implementation is tested on Windows platform, Linux and Macintosh with browsers above to ensure maximum compatibility on any configuration

SEO Friendly
Developing following web standards allows your site to be more visible to search engines, resulting in a better position SERP with increased traffic and visitors from entering searches made, for example, on Google or Yahoo. More quality content, the less code and a logical structure of the page is the first step to a position of success on the web.

Friday, February 15, 2008

Make Money With Ecommerce

Ecommerce website is implemented for a particular interaction with users and made for retail sales of any sort. Hard goods can easily be sold outand information can be sold out in the form of eBooks. Ecommerce websites generally have shopping carts and payment gateways that use credit cards or pay services like Paypal. These site differ from regular websites. Selling something on internet is ecommerce. If you know how to use internet technology and marketing, a failing business can be possibly turned into a goldmine. People make money through ecommerce.

Be smart in your decisions. Do not buy software like shopping cart if you have many free options available. Try to take free software and customize it to your needs. This is the way to save plenty of money that automatically increases your profits.

Do not ask for payments if your website is not secure. Always make sure that your website and payment gateway is completely secure otherwise visitors definitely hesitate to share financial information.

ensure that speed of delivery should be as fast as you are able to manage delivery of the product. Speed of delivery is of utmost importance for ecommerce websites.

Ensure that your website should have professionally designed look. If your website looks thrown together by amateurs or has a bad design then your prospects are less likely to trust you.

Provide timely information to all your customers about new products and services using newsletters and articles through autoresponders.