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Web App with Native Capabilities
Web

The capabilities of the web browser are quietly increasing. What was possible only with a native application now becomes possible with a browser.

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Maintaining Legacy Apps: Problems and Solution
Maintaining

Let’s start with a couple of true short stories about maintaining and enhancing legacy applications from my first hand experience

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Capturing Requirements Right
Capturing

Recently, some prospects provided us Figma prototypes when asked for requirements. I guess this is becoming a trend. While those prototypes looked beautiful, ...

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Benefit from Downturn: Start Your Software Development Project Today
Benefit

Market downturn is the best time to start a software project. Here is how you can benefit from the present downturn...

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Software Outsourcing Guide for Startups
Software

Many startups need to get software developed. Here are some key strategies to guide how they can go about it....

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Honey, I Spawned a Kid!
Honey,

This article shows how to spawn an application from another one, with common functionality using...

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Programming Internships 2022
Programming

Acism conducted programming internships remotely in 2022. They were based on Xsemble component...

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Software Project Estimation Made Easy
Software

Project estimation is one of the most important and early activities in a software project. It is tricky especially in project outsourcing scenario...

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Will Attrition Impact YOUR COMPANY in 2022?
Will

Many startups need to get software developed. Here are some key strategies to guide how they can...

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Crossing The Software Product Development Chasm
Crossing

Software product development often takes a big hit as the original developer leaves and someone else is expected...

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Software Modernization Internships – June 2021
Software

Acism has offered student internships in the important area of software modernization. They are designed to...

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Women’s Day Special: Enabling Careers
Women’s

The international women’s day is a great occasion to share a thought that can empower some women. As we all...

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Software Development Buffet Menu
Software

At Acism, we serve a buffet of software development options and allow the customers to choose from them to suit...

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Visual Model of a CMS
Visual

The Xsemble flow diagram of a CMS shows a single page node that serves all site pages, which accurately...

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Visual Model of a CRM
Visual

The requirements of CRM are often unique and ever-changing. Therefore, instead of a ready-made CRM...

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Remote Internships of MIT-WPU Students, July 2020
Remote

Introduction The short internships of MIT World Peace University (MIT-WPU) students are coming to a close...

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Visual Modeling of ERP Processes
Visual

This article features two documents that cover in detail the visual modeling of of two ERP processes...

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8 Ways In Which #Kommbox Supports #RemoteWork
8

One of the most far reaching impacts of the #Covid19 pandemic is that #WorkFromHome, or in...

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New Year Resolutions #SoftwareOutsourcing – Part 2
New

As a new year 2020 is about to begin, it is time to make resolutions. In this part 2 of a 2 part series, we cover ...

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New Year Resolutions for 2020 #SoftwareOutsourcing – Part 1
New

As a new year 2020 is about to begin, it is time to make resolutions. In this part 1 of a 2 part series, we cover...

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Employee Burnout / Inefficiency is a System Problem
Employee

A recent article in Harvard Business Review (HBR for short) has again brought up the issue of...

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Is Your Business Model Built Around Throwing Cash? Be Careful
Is

Over the last weekend, I happened to read not just one or two, but three different pieces concerning the...

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Hiring Ninja Developers – or Not!
Hiring

Great programmers are flooded with offers, and recruitment becomes a big challenge in the face of last minute...

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Agile Isn’t an Excuse for Poor Quality
Agile

In a group of friends (all of us in the 20+ years experience range), one of us casually commented that one...

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Why Drupal 8 is the Right CMS for Your New Website
Why

WordPress, Drupal and Joomla are the top 3 leading CMSes. Having played with all 3, our recommendation is to...

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Wrath of the Javascriptians
Wrath

The latest attack on tech-earth is from planet Javascript. Like many of their predecessors such as Java, C...

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Thanks to the Makers of FREE Software
Thanks

This week is the thanksgiving week, and this blog post is to express our gratitude to the free software makers...

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Fighting the Email Monster
Fighting

This is the third and concluding part of a 3 part series about the Email Monster. In part 1 and part 2 we saw how it eats into a company’s bottom line and top line respectively. In this last part...

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How the Email Monster Eats Into Your Top Line As Well
How

In our last article, we saw how the email monster eats into your organization’s bottom line. In this article, we shall see what it does to the top line. Remember Charlie Chaplin’s...

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How Much of Your Bottom Line is Swallowed by the Email Monster?
How

An aspect that’s common across various types of businesses is that they deal with a lot of email. The email statistics is appalling. Under our very nose, the email...

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IT Leadership
IT

Last decade saw more and more application of Information Technology (IT) in businesses. While the number of ...

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Technology Roundup – Programming Languages
Technology

At Acism, we often found new joinees lacking a good perspective on the software technology. Technology was shaped not only through genius minds at work but also through business interests...

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Feb 2015 Limited Time Offer: Prices Slashed to All Time Low
Feb

April 2015 Update: The limited time offer has expired. A new pricing structure is now in place. We, the Kommbox Team, keep pursuing ways to make the Kommbox offering better. This is a continuous...

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Distributed Software Development – The Cummins Experiment
Distributed

The “Cummins Experiment” on distributed software development yielded results that would be of interest to...

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Scalable Software Development – High Quality, Low Cost
Scalable

Writing a 10 lines program is child’s play. Writing a 100 lines program is harder. It’s harder than writing 10 programs of ...

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Towards Achieving Zero Business Disruption
Towards

Our QA lead who handles Kommbox is off for a 1 1/2 week vacation starting today. Another QA team member, will be handling it in the meanwhile. Will s/he be able to do a good...

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Why Java is (Still) Very Relevant
Why

Every now and then new articles come up about how some other shiny language does the job better than Java. It is...

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Kommbox Release 1.7 – a Big Release is out!
Kommbox

This festive season, we are very glad to release Kommbox 1.7.1. There are significant enhancements in the User Interface, User experience, Security and Invitation workflow areas...

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Why Outsource to India – 4 Key Learnings from #MissionMars
Why

Today is a day of pride for all Indians, as India’s Mangalyaan successfully entered the Mars orbit (media coverage)...

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Computer Game for Disaster Management
Computer

Time and again, disasters strike. When that happens, citizens rise to send help. Kudos to those who do that. In a...

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After Atos and Ferrari, Now Polaris Declares War Against Email
After

It is not a secret anymore… email takes away a lot of productive time from your workforce and its model of information ...

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How to Benefit from Improving Business Communication
How

Communication is omnipresent in every business. While a lot is said and done about Communication Skills, the area of improving Communication Process or the Communication Systems within...

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Why ESNs Fail: 6 Anti-Patterns You Should Avoid
Why

The success of enterprise-wide collaboration which is enabled by Enterprise Social Networks...

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Kommbox Release 1.6 is Out
Kommbox

Over this weekend, Kommbox moved to a new, faster, server. Along with this, a new release is in place. As the most visible change in the UI, the left side list's kommboxes on the Dashboard page...

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Business Communication Process Learnings for 2014
Business

Throughout 2013, we were immersed into interactions and our own experimentation within the business communication...

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On the Slicing and Dicing of Business Communication
On

There are many special tools specific to business communication. The use of multiple tools –each for a category– mean slicing and dicing our communication. Is that a good strategy?...

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How Organizations Are Killing Employee Productivity
How

There are many productivity dampeners, and email overload is the most significant and most common of them. Many people routinely receive 100+ emails every day. Not only these emails...

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How to Separate out the Diwali Messages from the Work Messages
How

Many of us in India would be returning to work today after the Diwali vacations. They will see a lot of “Happy Diwali” messages that poured in last week. While it may feel...

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Cheap is Expensive, Expensive is Expensive as well!
Cheap

If you are planning to outsource a software project, you have a lot of choices of software vendors...

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For Startups Looking for Technical Co-Founders
For

On discussion board concerned with technology, one often sees posts from startups teams looking for tech partners. Is it because they want...

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