The term 'embedded' signifies a minor hardware component of a larger hardware that is designed to meet a specific purpose within the larger hardware device. With the evolution of a varied variety of hardware devices fashioned to meet a variety of purposes from playing music (MP3 Player) to locating the device on the word (GPS), the importance of the embedding systems have grown influentially over the years as the hardware can be designed flexibly to meet a wide variety of purposes.
There are a broad category of such embedding systems which take part in several aspects of day-to-day activities. In the life of any individual, the embedded systems find their application in almost every electronic device inclusive of MP3 Players, gaming consoles, TVs, mobile phones and any other common device which has to be programmed to execute its functionality. Besides being a vital component in the electronic devices, these systems also perform significant roles in the array of automotive, medical instrumentation and monitoring equipments as well.
In the context of automobiles, Electronic Stability Control (ESC), the Traction Control System (TCS) and the well known Anti-lock Braking System (ABS) are controlled by electronic controllers which are primarily embedding systems. Besides major systems, these electronic controllers are also used to run a variety of motors such as the DC motors and the Induction motors. All programmed medical equipments molded to meet tasks, such as scanning or imaging, include such systems as a part of their hardware. Not to forget the monitoring systems, the GPS (Global Positioning System), the Security systems installed in homes which also have embedded systems integrated with them.
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Monday, January 3, 2011
Outsourcing: A Mantra For Superior Quality At Low Cost
The increasing practice of offshore outsourcing by companies is not a new phenomenon. The basic assumption that we all have is that such a decision is taken as a measure of cost reduction. Let’s understand the reason behind companies resorting to this option.
What is offshore outsourcing? It is the practice of hiring an external organization to perform some business functions in a country other than the one where the products or services are actually developed or manufactured.
This can be of four types – Information Technology Outsourcing (ITO), Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Knowledge Process Outsourcing (KPO) and Offshore Software Development. Companies usually adopt this when there is a huge wage difference between the home and offshore country, the job can be telework and requires high degree of information can be transmitted over the internet and is repetitive.
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What is offshore outsourcing? It is the practice of hiring an external organization to perform some business functions in a country other than the one where the products or services are actually developed or manufactured.
This can be of four types – Information Technology Outsourcing (ITO), Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Knowledge Process Outsourcing (KPO) and Offshore Software Development. Companies usually adopt this when there is a huge wage difference between the home and offshore country, the job can be telework and requires high degree of information can be transmitted over the internet and is repetitive.
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Basics of Enterprise Software
Enterprise software is also recognized as Enterprise Application Software (EAS), the software used for the organizational operations by businesses or government. It is quite different from the individual software used by us as retail software. Many MNCs like IBM, HP, SAP, Microsoft & other organizations provide collaborated Enterprise Software. Because of the large no of players, there is stiff competition in the market.
Services provided by Enterprise software are usually business-oriented tools.
Offered services;
Online shopping and online payment processing,
interactive product catalogue,
automated billing systems,
security & content management,
IT service management,
customer relationship management,
resource planning & business intelligence,
HR management,
Manufacturing, application integration, and forms automation.
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Services provided by Enterprise software are usually business-oriented tools.
Offered services;
Online shopping and online payment processing,
interactive product catalogue,
automated billing systems,
security & content management,
IT service management,
customer relationship management,
resource planning & business intelligence,
HR management,
Manufacturing, application integration, and forms automation.
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SaaS: The Future is Here!
With the development of technology accelerating towards perfection, lives of people have been made easier. One of the many children of technology, the software industry, has also grown by leaps and bounds so as to have integrated itself with each move of our day-to-day life. The prodigious development of the software field has reduced the bulk of hardware used in those days of black and white movies and has brought our world to live in the 5th generation world of Laptops, Android mobiles along with the Facebook and the Google. The necessity of using bulky hardware to run vital software has been reduced and with the formulation of the Cloud and SaaS, things are going to get much simpler than they are now.
Now the question arises. What is the ‘Cloud’ mean? Well, for starters, cloud computing is internet based computing where joint servers administer the resources comprising of the data, software and other services. Saas , the abbreviated form of Software as a Service, uses the Cloud, to deploy its software thereby reducing the usage resources on your hardware.
By now you would have guessed the two commonly used Saas products, and one of which would have already got you addicted to it. Yes, they are the Facebook and the Google. You don’t have anything that is stored on your PC to access either of them and all you need is the browser which connects you with the internet. Any Saas product works on the browser but it might require you to pay like the SalesForce and Simplify360 or it may be either free like the Google search engine and Facebook. There are many other popular Saas applications that are targeted at different sectors and grades of the population and of different variety including the GrooveShark (similar to iTunes), Survey Monkey (for business surveys), Aviary (a free product that’s ver similar to the Photoshop) and the CoTweet (one of many Saas which works on Twitter).
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Now the question arises. What is the ‘Cloud’ mean? Well, for starters, cloud computing is internet based computing where joint servers administer the resources comprising of the data, software and other services. Saas , the abbreviated form of Software as a Service, uses the Cloud, to deploy its software thereby reducing the usage resources on your hardware.
By now you would have guessed the two commonly used Saas products, and one of which would have already got you addicted to it. Yes, they are the Facebook and the Google. You don’t have anything that is stored on your PC to access either of them and all you need is the browser which connects you with the internet. Any Saas product works on the browser but it might require you to pay like the SalesForce and Simplify360 or it may be either free like the Google search engine and Facebook. There are many other popular Saas applications that are targeted at different sectors and grades of the population and of different variety including the GrooveShark (similar to iTunes), Survey Monkey (for business surveys), Aviary (a free product that’s ver similar to the Photoshop) and the CoTweet (one of many Saas which works on Twitter).
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PLCM: Cradle to Grave Assessment of a Product
Once upon a time, there were some products which were very popular and the most sought after by the consumers all over India. Few of such products were iconic success stories that started a wave of marketing and created history in the minds of the consumer those days. But such products have vanished suddenly without leaving a trace in the market and the minds of the consumers. To name some, Ambassador, Vanaspathi Dalda, Pagers, Scooters, VCRs/VCPs, Gramophones etc.
By looking at the above mentioned examples we assume products to have life cycles just like human-beings. Human beings move through various phases like birth, growth, maturity, decline and death. Similarly products have their own life cycle, commonly known as Product Life Cycle. And, Product Life Cycle Management is the succession of strategies used business management as a product goes through the following stages of its life cycle:
• Product development: Here the company finds and develops a new product idea. It involves idea generation to analysis, production and commercialization
• Introduction: This is a stage where a new product is launched commercially and made available for the purchase. Here the promotional expenditures are high and sales growth tends to be low. The profits are also usually negative or very low.
• Growth: Here the firm observes a rapid growth in sales. Prices remain the same and profits increase rapidly as promotional costs are spread over the diversified market. Here we also see that the firms reduce their manufacturing costs due to experience curve effects and in turn resulting in higher profits.
• Maturity: This is a stage of saturation where the product’s rate of growth slows down and the firm attains stable sales in the market irrespective of the promotional activities. Maturity stage is the most common stage for almost all established companies. Here the competition is more intense by the companies trying to maintain their market share.
• Decline: This is the last phase of any product, wherein the brand name and corresponding sales decrease eventually. Here a lot of investment is made on re-launching the product by adding additional features to enhance the customer expectations or even liquidate the product from the market.
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By looking at the above mentioned examples we assume products to have life cycles just like human-beings. Human beings move through various phases like birth, growth, maturity, decline and death. Similarly products have their own life cycle, commonly known as Product Life Cycle. And, Product Life Cycle Management is the succession of strategies used business management as a product goes through the following stages of its life cycle:
• Product development: Here the company finds and develops a new product idea. It involves idea generation to analysis, production and commercialization
• Introduction: This is a stage where a new product is launched commercially and made available for the purchase. Here the promotional expenditures are high and sales growth tends to be low. The profits are also usually negative or very low.
• Growth: Here the firm observes a rapid growth in sales. Prices remain the same and profits increase rapidly as promotional costs are spread over the diversified market. Here we also see that the firms reduce their manufacturing costs due to experience curve effects and in turn resulting in higher profits.
• Maturity: This is a stage of saturation where the product’s rate of growth slows down and the firm attains stable sales in the market irrespective of the promotional activities. Maturity stage is the most common stage for almost all established companies. Here the competition is more intense by the companies trying to maintain their market share.
• Decline: This is the last phase of any product, wherein the brand name and corresponding sales decrease eventually. Here a lot of investment is made on re-launching the product by adding additional features to enhance the customer expectations or even liquidate the product from the market.
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Service Oriented Architecture
Service-oriented architecture (SOA) is set of designed principle that is basically used in developing phases of systems & integrating components while computing. SOS offers the complete pack of functionalities based interoperable services which are used specially with multiple systems under different business departments. SOA is not only used in business segment, but also for consumer services like enabling web-based applications. SOA has wide range of applications in the field computing especially in Security & Centralized data sharing management. XML is commonly used for interfacing with SOA services, though this is not required actually. SOA has lots of extensions in Web 2.0, Mashups, Digital Nervous System, and Software Development programs.
SOA works as integrating platform between the web based applications & multi-integrated systems. Instead of defining APIs & other parameters, it is designed on the interface of connecting different protocols & functionality. SOA functionally works as
Layering Notations
Enterprise Service Layer
Domain Service Layer
Application Service Layer
SOA system is fully dependent on the mesh of software’s. All these services comprise of unassociated, loosely coupled units of functions. Under the action of first implementation, each service offers as filling out an online application for an account, or viewing an online bank account or booking air ticket etc. Within this system, aligned embedded calls pass through the source code, which are usually defined for description of metadata. Further applications are built by considering all these major sources. Underlying and enabling all of this requires metadata in sufficient detail to describe not only the characteristics of these services, but also the data that drives them. Analogously, the Web Services Description Language (WSDL) typically describes the services themselves, while the SOAP protocol describes the communications protocols.
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SOA works as integrating platform between the web based applications & multi-integrated systems. Instead of defining APIs & other parameters, it is designed on the interface of connecting different protocols & functionality. SOA functionally works as
Layering Notations
Enterprise Service Layer
Domain Service Layer
Application Service Layer
SOA system is fully dependent on the mesh of software’s. All these services comprise of unassociated, loosely coupled units of functions. Under the action of first implementation, each service offers as filling out an online application for an account, or viewing an online bank account or booking air ticket etc. Within this system, aligned embedded calls pass through the source code, which are usually defined for description of metadata. Further applications are built by considering all these major sources. Underlying and enabling all of this requires metadata in sufficient detail to describe not only the characteristics of these services, but also the data that drives them. Analogously, the Web Services Description Language (WSDL) typically describes the services themselves, while the SOAP protocol describes the communications protocols.
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A Systematic Approach for Problem solving and Cost Effectiveness
We have been depending on computer software directly or indirectly for a long time and I believe life to be very hard for anyone to even imagine without any computers and software products around. The main reason for people to use the software products is that to make their task a lot easier and in reality, they actually do by taking off the user’s burden. Recently the demands for proper software are high and this is the reason for the developers to be one of the highest paying professionals today.
It is really hard to imagine a super market without cashing software or a computer without an operating system and a browser being used to read this article; these are also software. I would really appreciate the efforts of developers of every software who help in minimizing the tough tasks of a customer. So what is that which makes the software to be so effectively executable with minimum or no flaws? During the development of every software product, it is imposed by a developmental process structure called Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC). Earlier writing software had no procedures to be followed, some try to carry out projects without any project management. The result being software products delivered late to the customer and seemingly crossed the budget. With a huge number of software products not meeting their expectations with respect to its functionality, delivery time and the cost, we observe the fact that effective project management is somewhere missing.
Today software development is not only based on addressing to the customer needs, but also ensures that effective software is developed.
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It is really hard to imagine a super market without cashing software or a computer without an operating system and a browser being used to read this article; these are also software. I would really appreciate the efforts of developers of every software who help in minimizing the tough tasks of a customer. So what is that which makes the software to be so effectively executable with minimum or no flaws? During the development of every software product, it is imposed by a developmental process structure called Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC). Earlier writing software had no procedures to be followed, some try to carry out projects without any project management. The result being software products delivered late to the customer and seemingly crossed the budget. With a huge number of software products not meeting their expectations with respect to its functionality, delivery time and the cost, we observe the fact that effective project management is somewhere missing.
Today software development is not only based on addressing to the customer needs, but also ensures that effective software is developed.
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