Introduction Pedometers, smart blood sugar meters, wireless EKGs, symptom trackers for patients with asthma, connected inhalers for COPD, ingestible sensors—the Internet of Things (IoT) has changed the game in the healthcare industry. According to a market research report, IoT Healthcare market is projected to grow to USD 158.07 Billion by 2022, at a CAGR of […]
Multiple Authentication System Using Guards in Laravel
Guards: A guard is a way of supplying the logic that is used to identify authenticated users. Laravel provides different guards like sessions and tokens. The session guard maintains the state of the user in each request by cookies, and on the other hand, the token guard authenticates the user by checking a valid token in every request. […]
Two Compelling Reasons for Application Modernization
Modernizing existing applications is about embracing change and it is not human to want to re-engineer something that is already working! However, the world today is about digitization, cloud transformation, robotics and analytics. In this brave new world, being stuck with legacy applications can be suicidal for businesses. In spite of the reasons for change […]
Benefits of EDI Usage in Transportation Management Systems
The need for real-time visibility has reached an all-time high for transportation companies. As Bart De Muynck, Research Vice President, Gartner, says, “Organizations have increasing demands for real-time, or at least near-real-time visibility into their orders, multi-modal shipments, and inventory across a network of business partners, both stationary and in transit.” Providing T&L companies access […]
SQS Messaging Service in AWS
AWS SQS (Simple Queue Service), as the name indicates is a fully managed messaging FIFO (First In First Out) queue service that receives and sends messages from any software system. But it is generally used for distributed computing. AWS SQS is secure, durable, scalable and a reliable service. AWS provides SDK’s in various languages to access […]
Should Security Be a Concern for Real Estate Cloud Software
Real estate companies are now being defined by technology ushers. Some of these changes are beneficial but some are real posers. However, in the short term, it will be the challenges that will define the path for the winners, setting them up for success. According to analyst reports, for real estate companies, their main challenge […]
Can Small Businesses Benefit from Big Data?
All organizations irrespective of their size generate volumes of data. However, for SMBs, the question is, does the cost and effort justify the value to be derived from data? Data analytics provides deep insights that complement human judgement. Forrester describes the power of big data for small business as “A major disruption in the business […]
Cloud-based Transportation Management System: A Game Changer in Logistics Industry
Technological advances have brought rapid changes to the transportation and logistics sector. For businesses with complex supply chains, a cloud based TMS can unlock new levels of efficiency, improve opportunities for automation and data consistency. According to a new market report published by Credence Research, Inc., “Transportation Management Systems Market” the global transportation management systems market is […]
How Cloud Computing is Impacting Healthcare Services
The healthcare segment is witnessing a healthy growth fueled by an aging population and increased focus on wellness by consumers. The current estimation is 11-17% increase in demand for healthcare resources between 2014 and 2025. Healthcare organizations are meeting this demand by focusing on IT-enabled patient care. Cloud based healthcare services seems to in a […]
An Introduction to Apache Kafka
What is Kafka? Kafka is an open-source distributed streaming platform by Apache software foundation and it is used as a platform for real-time data pipeline. It is a publish-subscribe messaging system. Kafka has the ability to auto-balance consumers and replicates the data enhancing reliability. Kafka offers better throughput for producing and consuming data, even in cases […]