People Powered Technology

If you have read some of my previous posts, you already know that I am not one to follow conventional wisdom. Like many of my Concurrency colleagues, the idea of following generally accepted theories or beliefs it is not what excites us, and it is certainly not what drives us.

How we create value for our customers is not by following a solution-first approach. But it is more about following a people-first approach.

Let us explore together what I mean by that.

by Jaime Velez Sep 1, 2021

Using Power Automate to Streamline Your Processes

It is vital as an organization to ensure your processes are efficient and bringing the most value to your employees’ time and efforts throughout the workday. Anthony Escobedo, Nicole Williams, and Randy Steinberg discuss how Power Automate makes process automation happen using low-code, no-code solutions. Find real business process issues and map out those solutions, while looking at potential gaps in manual work to reduce errors and costs, and explore apps and services that can be implemented with Power Automate to further empower your day-to-day systems.

by Stephanie Siewert Jul 24, 2020

Design patterns are a lifesaver for Extensible Applications.

All of the major programming languages have evolved tremendously over the past decade especially to make the developers job easy. C# by Microsoft has been at the top of the game of adding plethora of easy to use and extremely powerful constructs ranging from async programming to functional programming. The well-developed programming languages have made it extremely easy for beginners to pick up coding and start developing applications quickly.

However, when developing extensible applications for the future, just using the language to write down logic for applications does not do the job well. We have to think about the overall design of the application for it to be able to scale and extend well. This means utilizing appropriate design patterns wherever applicable.

by Siddharth Bhola Jul 11, 2019

If you’re not leveraging AI yet, you are already behind

If you are not leveraging Artificial Intelligence (AI), then you must read this. Eventually most, if not all, organizations will adopt some form of advanced analytics powered by big data and statistical models. The question is whether you will wait until it’s almost too late and potentially not survive changes in market sentiment, or whether you will adopt it early and command market sentiment. Analysts predict that consumers will soon prioritize solutions which offer hyper-personalization. This means, not only do you need to know more about your customers, but you need to deliver solutions through a set of experiences which predict what they need. Granted, this relates to consumer facing solutions, but consumers will also prefer solutions which use AI as a form of sustaining innovation to reduce cost or increase capabilities. 

by Eric Franz Oct 4, 2018

Cloud Computing and Cloud Development are entering the second decade

Cloud computing today is much different than it was nine years ago. Not only is the cloud different, but the developers who author code for this environment are different. Nine years ago, if someone came to you and said: “make me a website”, there were only a few ideal ways to do it. Today, they are many ways to do it. In fact, in the cloud alone there are five ways to do the same thing. With Azure the limit of scale of your system will not be Azure, the limit of scale will be you. It will be the choices you made in the design process that affect the scalability of your system. 

by Eric Franz Sep 21, 2018

Why Consumer Experience is Critical to Innovation

The first mistake organizations make is assuming that Digital Transformation, innovation, and disruption are the same thing. More importantly, organizations forget to include consumer experience when planning innovation. Because of this confusion, organizations are finding that their progress with Digital Transformation or DX initiatives has been too slow. A recent IDC report has predicted that by the end of this year, nearly half of organizations will have scaled their DX team. The reason for this scale is that innovation progress has been too slow relative to competitive response. 

by Eric Franz Sep 13, 2018

Is your New Product Development process broken?

When was the last time you spoke to a customer? The answer to that question typically depends on which business unit you operate in. This means there are barriers within the business on understanding what the customer needs. Even though you already have solutions for your customers; more than likely, new innovation exists to meet additional unmet needs. These unmet needs, if addressed, could allow you to enter new markets or increase the margins of existing products. What happens then if technology is required to meet those needs and the most technically capable people in the organization do not work close with customers? 

by Eric Franz Aug 30, 2018

Evaluating Suitability and Viability for Blockchain Solutions

Is blockchain a suitable solution for a particular business need? If it’s suitable in a business sense, is it technically viable? Should you build a blockchain solution, or be ready to integrate with a blockchain network built elsewhere in your ecosystem of partners and providers? 
 

by Mark Rentmeester Aug 13, 2018

SharePoint 13/2016 UI & UX, Apps & Web Services - The Continuity of User Experience in Design Language

Notice the Visual Impact of the simple change to a custom App Icon.  Where we would typically experience the UX of SharePoint out-of-the box, there is an occurrence of Micro Brand Establishment and now we have Aesthetic Value.

by Damon Sanchez May 11, 2016

HoloLens Unboxing

Concurrency is excited to receive the HoloLens. Check out the first hands-on unboxing images, and see this historic device.

by Carl Schweitzer Apr 2, 2016