The Software Report is pleased to announce the Top 50 Tech Services CEOs of 2019. An extensive process was run to gather and evaluate nomination submissions from hundreds of executives and professionals in the software and tech services industry. We gathered data on each nominee in the areas of integrity, intelligence, drive, corporate culture, and
Problem Statement When we start developing APIs for our applications which are for both internal and external use, the information about these have to be shared within the developer and the user community. Along with the information about the API, the need to control, monitor access to the exposed APIs is required. As the number
Problem Statement Many batch processing systems available today are commercial systems that use proprietary technology (hardware / software) for performing the tasks. Those with Mainframe systems were quite prevalent. Such systems do have complex monitoring and control software. But these are relatively inflexible, tightly coupled with other, associated software and/or hardware, thus limiting scalability to
Let us start by defining the term “Disruptive Innovation.” The Wikipedia definition is “an innovation that creates a new market and value network and eventually disrupts an existing market and value network, displacing established market-leading firms, products, and alliances.” Almost every business today is worried about disruption in their industry. Where will the next competitor
Cost arbitrage is the tide that lifted many boats, large and small. In turn, that brought advantages of scale, given the vast talent pool that was readily available. Add well-defined process to the mix, and you had a well-oiled engine that could execute with predictability time and again, giving rise to the factory model of
When sci-fi movies hit the screen, film enthusiasts undoubtedly flock to theaters. The reason being very simple that we are fascinated by robotics, and that’s why movies like Star Wars, Transformers etc. received thumping reception. What if robotics enter office space and take over some of the critical jobs? Not sure if you have thought
The era of localized banking with manual paper transactions would remind the earlier generation about the time and physical pain of record keeping meted out from the banking system. The long queues, the token systems, necessity of physical presence etc. even for transactions such as depositing or withdrawing a few currency notes must have taken
Do you know that the mobile handset manufacturer Nokia once sold rubber boots? Wonder what’s the reason behind christening such off-beat name for oil major Shell? If your intuitions picked up the images of sea shells when you heard of it, you are bang on! There are many such stories behind today’s big names as
When blockchain technology first hit the market through BitCoin, it came bundled with many apprehensions and myths. The blockchain is a path-breaking technology that’s intended to derail the hidden agendas, secret transactions, and monopoly with the help of a public ledger. While the transaction details and party names would be available, the complete information would,