Working over the years in the Information Technology industry I have learned that face to face interactions lead to success in delivery and innovation which are the important areas in this industry. But this is the result of imperfect interactions from a distance. For this let us analyze what is a successful interaction: Successful interactions for…… Continue reading Continuous interaction and collaboration rather than fixed time and schedule meetings
Author: Neil Harwani
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Visualization
Visualization in the digital world is an important area often ignored by techies. Visualization in traditional sense of user interface / user experience / mobility for systems and applications has now long been considered an important area. But another interesting area to look at in visualization would be internet and understanding universe both – yes…… Continue reading Visualization
Formula for Successful Innovation Driven Companies in IT industry
There are many formulas to build a successful company: 1. Passion 2. Great investors and board with good mentors 3. Great product 4. Niche skills and services 5. Great legacy 6. Recruit the best, train them, mentor them, give them good career growth, etc. And so on But one that I have observed and learnt…… Continue reading Formula for Successful Innovation Driven Companies in IT industry
Architecture design
One mistake many make while building architecture for any application / system is to build the architecture using best/latest technology in isolation. Architecture design has to be mapped to the use case and requirements. Areas listed below and more should be considered while making design for the architecture: 1. NFR (Non functional requirements) 2. Security…… Continue reading Architecture design
Mobile & Sensors in IoT world
In this world of IOT, iBeacons, Eddystone, Mobiles with 3+ GB RAM, light/gesture control sensors, GPS, accelerometer, compass and quad/octa core processors with cameras an upgrade for all of this would be to have sensors like: 1. Temperature, 2. Movement/motion, 3. Smell, 4. Pollution, etc. onto the mobiles and then fuse them with IoT/sensor networks.…… Continue reading Mobile & Sensors in IoT world
Social Media Solutions
Social media is an evolving beast. From few sites and systems few years back to plethora of different sites and systems across the internet accessed from laptop/desktop/mobile – this domain is exploding currently. LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, Yahoo, Google+, Yelp and so on. List is endless. Everybody is talking of social media sentiment analysis and analytics…… Continue reading Social Media Solutions
Open source security platform for security of physical installations
I hope to publish my thoughts on innovation around software on this blog. Starting off with my first post. We live in a world where security has now evolved from physical to cyber to multiple levels and context. Open source software has been a revolution which now is reaching us at all levels: Mobile (Android),…… Continue reading Open source security platform for security of physical installations