Developing and delivering tools that empower employees is an important part of business leadership today. There are some critical details that must be taken into account, however. For instance, these professionals won't be using the applications in a vacuum. They will be cooperating with one another,...
Ensuring that an entire application development team is capable of pulling together and staying on the same page is a challenge. Or, rather, it was before Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) deployments emerged as a leading technology framework for these efforts. Logging into these easy-to-use solutions...
Working with application development Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) deployments, even those with a full suite of features, can be remarkably easy. It is a mistake to assume that one of these interfaces needs to be complex or inaccessible to non-IT employees to be powerful. Today, building an...
There may be a sense of pressure in IT to ensure that every step in the creation of apps is planned out in exact detail, with each project moving down an assembly line from creation to testing and on to deployment. However, loosening these constraints and working with new departmental structures and...
When developers see that their applications are running in a sub-optimal environment, it's time to make a change. Fear of this process may hold some companies back, but those that take the plunge can end up with a better option. For instance, Salesforce.com and Force.com users may realize that they...