If you have a complex project requirement or have come up with a great product idea, the first thing we suggest you is to prove that your project or product is technically feasible. It’s imperative initially to validate yourself that the idea actually works and functions as envisioned. And this can be achieved with developing one or more Proof of Concepts before you actually start working on the architecture and design of the final deliverable. Development of POC provides many benefits in early stages, some of which are listed as follows:

• Clearly understanding the requirements & validating the feasibility of the idea.
• Helps in assessing the capabilities and limitations of the chosen technology for development. It helps in reducing the risks involved with using a new technology due to the fact that after building the POC successfully the new technology is not new anymore for development team.
• Visualizing the look-and-feel of the application before actual design begins.
• Helps in identifying the flaws in the design and correcting them without much cost & efforts.
• Helps you in assessing the capabilities of the chosen development team and ensuring they possess all required skills to deliver the final solution as expected.
• POC works as show-and-tell device which you can share with your investors and end-users to start building confidence and generating interest.
• POC act as an aid in obtaining intellectual property such as a patent.
• Minimizing the overall risk of project failure.

However there are certain key aspects of developing a POC that you should keep in mind before you begin:

• Carefully define the features to be incorporated into the POC system.
• For POC, choose the key features of the project – especially, those parts of the system that are susceptible to technical feasibility or represent increased risk.
• It is important to keep in mind that a POC is just a prototype and does not represent an early version of the final deliverable. The purpose of POC is just to check the technical and overall feasibility of the idea and hence is developed quickly without lots of testing.
• Once POC is approved, do not start the development of actual deliverable based on POC. It is recommended to discard POC and start afresh with defined architecture.

I hope this article helps you in understanding the importance of POC and minimizing the risks associated with development of a large and complex project or an idea that is still abstract. If you have any kind of requirements for POC development please do not hesitate to contact us at info@rightwaysolution.com

In an attempt to motivate the developers and promote knowledge sharing among employees, we have started weekly key learning sessions where any team member can pick up a topic of her/his choice and schedule a session to share related knowledge with team. During last month we have had sessions FaceBook & Twitter APIs, CodeIgnitor Core PHP Framework, How to make maximal use of web conferencing for easier project discussions, Wireframing & mock-ups etc. All sessions have observed huge support from team and active involvement.

Last week a session has been conducted on “Effective Coding Techniques” that highlighted the importance of following standard coding practices and some important tips to write simple and clean code that is easier to share & maintain.

The video of complete session is open for share.

Effective Coding Techniques from Nidhi Agrawal on Vimeo.

In order to keep the software development costs low, more and more companies now prefer to outsource their entire project developments to India. As a result, the competition has risen among Indian outsourcing firms and each one is trying to lure customers with huge commitments and attractive portfolio. This has certainly made clients to be very careful in choosing the right development partner. As a result more and more foreign delegates now prefer to visit India during initial stages for project discussions to meet prospective partners in person to discuss various aspects of their project requirements and business partnership. These have certainly helped them in evaluating the prospects on real grounds and select the most suitable outsourcing partner from shortlisted prospects.

Australian delegation

Netherlands delegation

Last month we have received two foreign client delegations, one from Netherlands and one from Australia for discussion on project requirements and possible outsourcing partnership. Clients were happy to meet our business analyst and technical team. They were impressed with the level of knowledge possessed by our team members as well as their effective participation in all the discussions. We hope to close the deal with both the parties in near future and hope to encourage out onsite clients to visit us often to bridge the gap and strengthen our outsourcing relationships.

Business of any kind is primarily about sales and one has to keep the sales lead managed properly so as to take full benefit of the efforts that one puts in creating awareness in their target audience. If the leads are not managed properly then one stands to loose out on a lot of business and this is why Sales lead tracking software is fast becoming the preferred choice for many business organizations across the globe for keeping their sales efforts in the right direction.

In the traditional way of tracking the sales there are many problems that the sales teams come across which can lead to a lot of loss in the business. These problems are nothing much little bit of human error here and there which can be easily avoided through lead tracking software.

The most common problem that one faces is the missing leads. This can be a result of a minor mistake like deleting the lead, or the mail going into the spam folder or failure delivery etc. Further, if the leads are not managed properly then you can find yourself loaded with unhandled leads coming from various sources like Phone, mails, Newsletters, cold calling, campaigns etc. Now lead mismanagement is not restricted to their loss of failure to receive them only, but lead distribution can also be a problem. Department managers are normally responsible for the distribution work and if at any given day the head is on leave, or busy with something more important then the distribution can suffer eventually delaying the work.

Some of the other problems that organizations normally face with are Missing leads, missing contact details, and monitoring the performances. These might sound like unimportant or ordinary issues, but in the long run they make a huge difference. Monitoring the performance of the sales team is an important aspect of the business development and when done manually, one stands the chance of missing out minute details.

But with the advent of CRM lead tracking software, these problems have become almost extinct. With Lead management software one can automate the entire process of receiving to distributing the leads reducing the chances of facing the above mentioned problems. This has become possible because of many brilliant features these lead tracking software normally have.

Some of the features of Lead Tracking Software:

• Integration of website with the lead tracking software, which automatically registers the lead coming on to the websites directly into the software, without fail.

• Integration of Outlook is another important feature. It provides Outlook plugins that can capture communication from it directly to the software.

• It provides Automatic lead distribution. You can make your own set of rules as per your needs to distribute the incoming leads to various sales teams of sales executives.

• It provides you with the option of creating forms that you can put online for various purposes.

• It provides messaging, note, documents management for better collaboration and communication.

• Define lead life cycle – the software provides lead life cycle management through which the current stage of a lead can be easily identified.

• It provides provision and features to create and view various statistics, graphs and reports to better handle the leads and their respective effect.

These features are just the starting point of the list of amazing features and functionalities that such lead tracking software can provide you. There are provisions where you can customize the features according to your requirements making the software even more suitable for your needs. One such prime example of such software is Salesplus, well developed software which is available on Saas as well as on Standalone basis. The features can be customized according to you business needs and it works perfectly well irrespective of the size of your business.

So if you want the best results out of the efforts that your sales team makes for you business development then having CRM lead tracking software is a must. It can not only increase the proficiency level but can give a huge boost to your sales efforts.

Due to increasing client demand for applications involving streaming of data and audio & video, we set to explore various available streaming servers mainly FMS, Red5 and Wowza media server. As a result of our analysis, Red5 came out as the most preferable choice as it is open source, based on Java platform and already a proven framework.

Our R&D team installed & configured Red5 platform and developed various sample applications involving text chat, real time data streaming, audio/video streaming etc.

Now the team is confident enough to cater any kind of streaming requirements over Red5 server.

Please contact us for your application requirements that involve real time streaming and we assure you to provide you the most suitable solution.

“Cloud Computing”, the latest buzzword in IT services that has made key decision makers to think about adopting cloud computing services for their organizational needs. Are you one of them? If yes, then we can help you in finding whether your decision for moving to cloud is worthy of the efforts and cost involved or not.

While deciding to adopt cloud computing, two main factors to consider are: Selecting the right application to be put on cloud and selecting the right vendor.

First of all, not all applications are suitable for cloud computing environment. Generally it’s not a good idea to put applications of below nature over cloud:

• Mission critical applications like ERP & MIS that are used by more than 80% workforce in organization
• Real-time application with huge uptime requirements
• Business critical & highly secure data centric applications like applications for banking & financial sector

While some of the situations where adopting cloud computing services become a boon for your business can be put together as:

• Smaller or rapidly growing or cash-strapped businesses that require dynamic compute capabilities
• For making IT infrastructure available on-demand without any management headaches
• Lack of people internally to upgrade and maintain the software
• You like to avoid infrastructure, hardware and maintenance cost for hosting application that isn’t high performance; data access in/out is minimal; and, loss of access to isn’t critical like e-mailing application or CRM
• When you need on-demand infrastructure availability on a 24/7 basis

Now, the major factors driving the selection of right vendor includes:

• Pricing & total cost over the retention period of the data
• Information security & data protection levels provided by vendor
• Performance and latency criteria like application response time, transactions per second, and monthly downtime
• Data auditing & backup policies offered by the service provider
• Scalability of resources provided by vendor
• The vendor contract should involve a clause for service credits if the SLA isn’t met
• Financial stability and reliability for the service provider
• Existing customer base
• The level of O&M and help desk provided by the cloud vendor

If you are still confused about whether cloud computing is the right choice for you, we at Rightway are here to serve you and help you in finding the right solution for you. We will listen to your requirements and analyze all aspects of opting for a cloud computing environment for your application before arriving at the right solution for you. So come and take advantage of our cloud computing consultancy & service.