Whichever approach to software development you choose, each shares a basic, fundamental tenet – that software development consists of two important and distinct processes: design and implementation. Clients often want to see concrete results fast, meaning that the design phase can be rushed or cut short. But the importance of good software design cannot be […]
What is optimization? M&W defines it as: Field of applied mathematics whose principles and methods are used to solve quantitative problems in disciplines including physics, biology, engineering, and economics. Questions of maximizing or minimizing functions arising in the various disciplines can be solved using the same mathematical tools. In a typical optimization problem, the goal is […]
Are you immediately thinking ‘ I am!’? Perhaps you should consider the following points before jumping to that conclusion! 1. Can you tell who is doing what and when they are doing it? Regardless of the size of your organisation, when you have mobile technicians, there will always be times when you can’t see who […]
The joys of social media. On one hand social media brings organisations closer to their customer base, helps with market research, and allows you to keep tabs on the competition. On the other hand it can be a dangerous minefield, where one wrong step can undermine or even ruin an organisation’s reputation. This is just […]
As part of running Realise Data Systems, my job needs me to travel quite a lot. Having taken my seat aboard whatever Boeing or Airbus I was traveling on recently, I attempted to explain what I do for a living to my neighboring passenger but it soon dawned on me that there is a knowledge […]
Merging structured and semi-structured data models gives you the flexibility to decipher and display data in a number of ways that best represents what is being analysed. It gives you the best of both worlds, high-performance and navigation, flexibility and scalability. Before we explain how this combination works though, it is important to understand the […]
For big organizations to just function these days there are many business processes and software applications at work, all day and every day. With ERP software, workforce management software, other operational software and more running behind the scenes keeping your business on its toes, there’s a wealth of information being constantly passed around, accessed, and edited. […]
While mobility becomes more and more popular thanks to the constant technological race between mobile giants and their newest operating systems such as Android and iOS, coincidentally, field service organizations’ mobile workforces are also growing. As organizations grow, they not only add more field technicians to their headcount, but they often also give their […]