Friday, November 16, 2007

IT Consulting in Micro Small Businesses

The micro small business is gaining popularity in the global market today. There are various types of small business that are rising. All of them have different needs & advantages .The need for IT consulting is also not the same. This article can throw some light on what is micro small business & need for consulting in micro small business

One can easily define micro small business as-The term micro business tends to better describe the smallest niche/place within the small business world. A micro business is, in general has less than ten employees & includes some unique needs to that space. It has very less number of PC hardly 5-10. It requires relatively small amounts of capital or credit financing(less than $25.000) In addition, micro small business include pert-time or self employment activities to supplement family income. It doesn’t even have a dedicated server. This clearly differentiates micro business with big IT consulting companies.

The main reason that IT consultants are required in this business is that they have one to one system. Making a career in IT consulting is not a very easy job. You can easily start your business but to get success in this business requires large contracts from big business companies. At the earliest stage people are not able to make high contacts which can win them contracts so they start their work with micro small business. There is some hardware requirement for entering into the IT consulting. You must have some knowledge about PC, support; PDAs like Window CD based PDAs, printers, modems, backups etc.

In addition to hardware requirements there are some software requirements as well that should be taken care of for micro business IT consulting. It requires basic knowledge of Windows & other operating systems. Basically they use Windows & look for heavy desktop Microsoft office support, basic notebook & PC support.

Thursday, November 15, 2007

Custom Software Development

The business world is getting more technology based every second. There is no one day when we see in the newspapers about the new technologies that are coming up in the markets. These technologies are very expensive. So, the need to get the best software at the low cost prices leads to the concept of custom software development.

Today there is high competition in the market & to strive there companies have to give their best shot. Companies have to deliver the best software in the market at reasonable cost & best quality. We all know that in IT world technology changes very fast. This change, high demand of saving money & time invited the need for custom software development. Apart from these reasons the other reason for why is custom software is needed is that custom software or application software provides capabilities that are not available in simple software. Though custom software provides high end services but at the same time it need highly skilled developers who are experts in their respective fields.

Developing software before knowing the type of business is of no use. Development of quality product requires a planned & strategic approach.

There are certain requirements that should be clearly understood before you start with the software development cycle. The requirements may include:

1. Computer & Process Control Systems should be of latest technology

2. Functional requirements

3. Change control

4. Specifications

5. Timing & Delivery of validation documentation

6. Coordination of validation tests between the modules.

7. Quality of software

However, before outsourcing custom software development does some market research for the vendor & ensures that vendors understand the responsibilities of the overall process & their roles. The vendor should have an appropriate approach to complete their responsibilities & have committed the necessary resources to complete assigned activity in a timely manner. And most importantly they harbor best software development processes. Custom software can earn a company many benefits like:

Saves valuable resources like time & money

Easy to maintain

Adaptable to future changes.

User Friendly

There is no doubt the companies earn high profits because of outsourcing but to have the best companies should often obtain periodic updates on the development progress &make adjustments to plans & schedules as appropriate.

We cannot neglect the importance & demand that outsourcing software development has gained as it saves money & time. So if you haven’t outsourced any of your projects till now, then do it now & experience the difference.

Wednesday, November 14, 2007

TIPS TO SUCCEED ONLINE BUSINESS

Today, the presence of internet is felt in every field. It doesn’t matter what business you are involved in. Whether you are selling a product or service, your competition is hard online & you have to be the best to sell your products. Just submitting the website on the internet doesn’t mean that you will find success online. You have to do a lot of hard work to attract the customers to see what you have to offer & how they can be benefited from them.

There are certain tips by which you can hit the bull's eye-customers

1. Understand customers needs: When you begin to develop your internet presence, include some features that you know your target audience will want: some 'quick wins' to get the site up & running. For this, organizations do market research at the early stage to get indications that are likely to visit their websites. Customer is the main key for success in online business so companies should be able to give them what they expect to increase the p[popularity of their sites.

2. Offer a free Newsletter: Yes, a newsletter will take a time to put together but by offering helpful tips & resources to your readers, they will see how you are more then willing to help & you will earn their respect. A newsletter is also a great way to approach your target market. Your subscribers want to receive your newsletter so take advantage of that captive audience. A newsletter is worth a thousand words".

3. Exchange links with other websites/businesses: Find other websites that offer products, services to a similar target market as yours .Make sue the links are relevant to your business.

4. Keep your website up to date & maintained :Don’t think that submitting the website once on internet will do miracles for you in your business. Be sure to include information your customers can use & that search engines will see as new content. When search engine spider the internet to update their indexes, they will look to see how valuable your website information is & if you are willing to offer more. So, new content will attract them & your website will stay on high listings.

5.Submit your website to search engines & directories. Last but not the least submit your website in the category that matches your site. Make sure that it contains the relevant keywords to attract a large section of audience.

Online business is easy to start but to achieve success in this requires 24*7 hard work & proper market strategy. All one can conclude that online business can earn you good profits if you follow the business strategies & good customers.

Monday, November 12, 2007

Web development

Today, the World Wide Web has brought a revolution in every field, Website is a collection of pages with starting page as home page & there are various links that take you to the different pages. Companies follow different technologies for developing websites. All profit earning companies & non profit companies own their own websites. Today, a great sea change has taken place in web development. Standard compliance is the name of the game. Today websites are not only for sharing the idea at academic levels but companies are using websites for selling & buying of products.

Creating a website is not an easy task. It’s not like that once you design the page it will be approved. It requires continuous feedback from the clients & after repetitive revisions a design gets approved. While creating website one has to consider various factors-like what customer wants from the site, targeted audience etc.. Web developers should focus on customers throughout during the development process. Discover their needs & evaluate your design to ensure that those needs are met. One must test the site iteratively with representative customers to fix the bugs. What graphics should be used & the most important is the budget. Once you have created the website, your role does not end there. You have do marketing for your site so that more people visit it & you get profitable results.

At the end of the day, we can say that web developments is the task that can be performed best only by the expert web developers. Seeing the trend & demand for the web development companies have now started to outsource web development to the countries like INDIA. The reason is India has a lot of experienced web developers who develop websites at lower costs as compared to the developers in developed countries. Web development is done by using different languages like-HTML, XML, CSS, Flash etc. Today many user friendly web sites are being developed. These are developed by using JavaScript & .Net. Another web development technique that is on the peek today is AJAX.


From above, we can conclude that companies today are very keen in web development & looking India as the ultimate destination due to its high quality talent, good communication skill, technical people, lower costs & best qualities. There is no doubt that India is the largest outsourcing destination for all companies.