7 Things To Know Before Building An Android App

Creating The Perfect Android App For Beginners

 

Building an Android app comes down to two major skills/languages: Java and Android. Java is the language used in Android, but the Android part encompasses learning XML for the design of the app, learning the concepts of Android, and using the concepts logically with Java.

Once you learn Java and XML; XML is really easy to get used to, and you should learn the language as you program your app rather than learning it beforehand like you would with Java. You need to learn how to connect these two using Android principles.

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Now for a total beginner, we recommend YouTube tutorials to get the basic idea of how to install Eclipse (the Integrated Development Environment, or IDE, for Java) and the Java Development Kit (JDK). It also helps to get the basic idea of syntax behind Java concepts, such as for loops and if statements.

Here is an example: Click to watch video 

But from then on, after you have learned the very basics, we HIGHLY recommend ditching the YouTube tutorials in favor of a book or a lecture series. YouTube tutorials very often do NOT give intuition behind important concepts.

Keep these following things in mind as you venture on your journey of building a successful Android App.

7 things to know before building your first Android App:

 

1. You need to learn Java, there is no way around it. Knowledge will only help you through the process of building an app.

2. Android part encompasses learning XML for the app design, understanding concepts of Android and using said concepts programmatically with Java.

3. Beginners should probably use an IDE. It is really useful and lets you experiment.

4. Building your first app is time-consuming: it won’t happen overnight. This is not a project for those looking for a shortcut to success.

5. When stuck on a problem which will inevitably happen, turn to Stack Overflow. Utilize Google, and have no shame in asking assistance from the experts.

6. Before hitting the market and start developing an application you should conduct a proper market research. Analyzing the market thoroughly will give you insights about your competitors, their strategy, their strengths and weakness too. This information will prove to be useful as you can avoid repeating the mistakes your competitors made.

7. Defining your target audience is very important as the audience plays a huge impact on the development of your mobile application. All these questions such as who will be using this app, and how is it going to help them, should be answered well before hand.

 

Best Of Luck.

As A CTO You Must Know These IT Predictions for 2017-18

Predictions For 2017-18

Disruption has moved from an infrequent inconvenience to a consistent stream of change that is redefining markets and entire industries. In 2016, we saw the astonishing rise of Pokémon Go, which demonstrated accelerated digital change in areas such as augmented reality. Gartner’s top strategic predictions for 2017 and beyond describe not only the disruptive effects of digital business innovation but how secondary ripple effects will often prove to be more disruptive than the original disruption.

Three high-level trends emerge from the predictions:

  • Digital experience and engagement will draw people into non-stop virtual interactions
  • Business innovation will create extraordinary change from mundane concepts
  • Secondary effects will be more disruptive than the initial digital change

 

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Gartner’s Top 10 Predictions for 2017 and Beyond

  1. Immersive Shopping Experience – By 2020, 100 million consumers will shop in augmented reality.

Whether they allow you to try on makeup or place virtual furniture in your home, immersive technologies such as AR increase consumer engagement by enabling them to fully explore features and conveying additional information that can aid in a buying decision. Popular applications, such as Pokémon Go, will help propagate the technology and bring it into the mainstream. 1 in 5 global brands will use AR for shopping by the end of 2017.

2. Voice First Browsing – By 2020, 30% of web browsing sessions will be done without a screen.

Many teens already use voice search daily and new audio-centric technologies, such as Google Home and Amazon’s Echo, are turning “voice first” interactions into ubiquitous experiences. By eliminating the need to use your hands and eyes for browsing, vocal interactions extend the web experience to multiple activities, such as driving, cooking, walking, socializing, exercising, operating machinery, etc. By the end of 2017, watch for room-based screenless devices to be in more than 10 million homes.

3. Mobile Apps Decline – By 2019, 20% of brands will abandon their mobile apps.

Many brands are finding that their mobile apps are not paying off. They simply haven’t delivered the level of adoption and customer engagement that companies expected. App stores are crowded and the cost of application support in not only maintenance, upgrades and customer support but also marketing to drive downloads, exceeds original ROI calculations. Google’s effort to make the mobile web more “app like,” will gain traction, and companies will opt to reduce their losses by allowing their apps to expire. Watch for Apple’s reluctant embrace of the mobile web as a vehicle for customer engagement.

4. Algorithms at Work – By 2020, algorithms will positively alter the behavior of over 1 billion global workers.

Employees, already familiar with behavior influencing through contextual algorithms on consumer sites such as Amazon, will be influenced by an emerging set of “persuasive technologies” that leverage big data from myriad sources, mobile, IoT devices and deep analysis.

JPMorgan Chase uses an algorithm to forecast and positively influence the behavior of thousands of investment bank and asset management employees to minimize mistaken or ethically wrong decisions. Richard Branson’s Virgin Atlantic uses influence algorithms to guide pilots to use less fuel. By year end 2017, watch for at least one commercial organization to report a significant increase in profit margins because it used algorithms to positively alter its employees’ behaviors.

5. Blockchain Grows Up – By 2022, a blockchain-based business will be worth $10 billion.

Blockchain technology is established as the next revolution in transaction or event recording. A blockchain ledger provides an immutable, shared view of all transactions between engaging parties in a distributed, decentralized network. While the Bitcoin blockchain ledger is itself well-understood, blockchain remains an immature technology. By 2020, new businesses and business models will emerge based on smart contracts and blockchain efficiencies. These smart contracts automate at a reliability, customization level and speed not achievable with traditional business systems.

6. Digital Giants Everywhere – By 2021, 20% of all activities an individual engages in will involve at least one of the top-seven digital giants.

Many of us interact with at least one of the digital giants (by market capitalization: Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent) in our digital worlds of web search, mobile, social networking, messaging and music streaming. As the physical, financial and healthcare worlds become more digital, many of our activities will be connected and within reach of the digital giants. Note that collectively, the digital giants will have direct and indirect knowledge of what we do as individuals and the fundamental issue will be what they do with the data.

7. Innovation Requires Greater Investment – Through 2019, every $1 enterprise invest in innovation will require an additional $7 in core execution.

Many organizations have adopted a bimodal style of work to jumpstart innovation. While exercises are designed to experiment and “fail fast,” those that do receive approval for implementation involve a level of complexity, scale, and business change ramifications that may not have been considered in the initial planning stage.

8. IoT Saves Trillions – By 2022, IoT will save consumers and businesses $1 trillion a year in maintenance, services, and consumables.

Digital twins capture real-time data, allowing smarter maintenance and service schedules for physical objects such as large pumps, airframes, and turbines. When the sensor-enabled real world twin sends data to the digital twin, it can simulate the physical state, allowing the digital twin to be inspected instead of the physical object. This would be helpful for a submerged sewage pump or any other asset in which on-site inspection is inconvenient, costly or hazardous.

Consumers, too, will benefit when they can extend the life of the oil in their cars from a prescriptive replacement “every 5,000 miles” to replacement triggered by a measurement of the engine’s performance.

Emerging and established companies need to keep in mind these predictions, especially the tech leaders during hiring and procurement. Investments need to be smarter, better and more calculative in nature.

 

Source: Gartner

Offshore Development For Dummies

Understanding Offshore Development

You’re comfortably relaxing on your couch and enjoying a football match. The television suddenly switches off and the switch box explodes with sparks flying around. You have no clue what has happened and you look up on the internet searching for an electrician. The local electrician is charging $100, whereas a veteran electrician from the neighboring community is ready to visit your place and rectify your electrical setup for just $30.

Whom will you call?

 

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Keep these options in your mind as we dwell into the concept of offshore development.

From the past decade or so, an unexpected trend has arisen in the technology sector. Multi-national companies, start-ups, and even local businesses have started adopting the business models of offshore development services. Offshore development was something that only large global companies engaged in many years ago due to the geographical and language challenges that existed. Today, these are not a factor as communication and transparency challenges have been both negated due to the technology that has come into everyday life.

First, let us discuss what exactly is offshore development as well as why it has become such as a popular option for companies worldwide.

Offshore development means the process of outsourcing your development needs such as web, mobile or even custom software to countries such as India, Philippines, China and so on. The reason why people look at offshore web or software development is mainly because of the cost-savings and the time that can be saved. Also, it minimizes internal overhead costs. The offshore model has been around for a long while but with the world becoming more global and technology making it easier than ever before to communicate to anyone no matter where they are located, the demands for offshore development have increased substantially.

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The Offshore Development model is used for multiple things: offshore software and offshore web development or services such as customer service, data-entry, cold-calling along with BPO or KPO processes. The main reason is that a person in India or any other developing country will cost significantly less when compared to the US, UK or Australia. The bottom line is that if you are able to find a good offshore development partner, you can really save yourself time, money, HR hassles and other operational expenses. The key is to find a good offshore partner who has the experience, expertise and technical skills to accomplish what you need. Ranging from a simple website or even a fully operating customer service center, your offshore partner must be well equipped to handle your requirements.

Professional offshore development can be beneficial in the following ways:

Reasonable services :

Not all the countries boast of a talented pool of web developers and designers in abundance which makes it difficult to get work done at a nominal amount. The reason being that they charge substantially as they develop products knowing that they are in monopoly. It turns out to be quite expensive build a website or mobile app. Offshore development can disrupt the monopoly and be more cost effective.

Quality:

One of the best things about the offshore software companies is that they have a vast pool of talent and can render top notch development services. This ensures that the quality of the projects is superior and also matches the international standards.They also ensure that they utilize the best tools and technologies to create highly competitive products.

Communication:

Technology has ensured that there is no delay in any communication between the client and the developers. Offshore developers tend to be more approachable and communication friendly. This ensures that the process does not go haywire during any stage.

No deadline delays:

Following deadlines is a big aspect when it comes to product development. The entire marketing and operations of a company depends on the product being delivered according to the stipulated time. Offshore development can cut down these hassles as they have the flexibility of employing more resources at a lower cost.

24×7 availability:

Round the clock availability sometimes becomes a norm for a global company and offshore centers offer workflow accordingly which might not be possible in the parent country due to cost and labor-force constraints.

Conducive Environment:

Outsourced processes, usually are very strenuous in nature. The workforce needs to be seated in an environment that can boost productivity and reduce stress levels. It is one of the main factors why Offshore Development is a good option since infrastructure is available cheaply as compared to the parent country.

Security:

Security of confidential data and client properties is a buzzing concern when dealing with offshore companies. Most of the offshore development companies offer high end security protocols and systems to ensure the client’s data is never compromised.

And now, back to the electrician conundrum. If a veteran electrician with years of experience is ready to travel to your house at a cheaper rate, any sensible man would choose him over the $100 electrician. The same logic may also be applied to the concept of offshore development.

So, sit back and relax as your offshore partner takes charge of your processes and product development and frees you of the basic organizational hassles.

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Offshore development may seem a far fetch off for most of the most organisations, but if the current global trend is to be observed, it is one of the most trusted and cost effective options for an organisation that is looking to cut down on costs and build quality products.

How to be a strong willed UX designer?

Challenges for a UX Designer

 

According to LinkedIN, there are 900,000 UX designers in the world. How strong willed are you to be one of the best in the long run?

“ Determination is the wake up call to the human will”

A designer is a commercial artist confined by factors such as economical efficiency, technological constraints and most importantly a client’s requirements.  A UX designer is more skilled in the techniques and the process on a whole new level which we will not dwell into. And as seen with artists and designers, even UX designers can lose their way in between or simply succumb to mental fatigue unless the work flow is organised and their creative persona is kept alive.

So, what exactly are the obstacles a UX designer faces?

To answer the above question, let us just assume you are 6 years old and in elementary school. The task at hand in the art class is to draw the conventional scenery with a sunrise and a small house.

 

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You have an hour to complete the task and your creative and young mind sketches out generously on the canvas. Agreed, it will not be the best work of art but for a 6 year old child, it is commendable.

Now, let us add factors one by one to transform the 6 year child into a UX designer.

  1. The client, the teacher in this case, wants an enhanced amalgamation of colors that are soothing to the eye.

  2. Instead of crayons, you will use the latest tech available to make it more interactive: the fish in the rivers should pop out when touched, the canvas should have interchangeable themes according to the time of the day and everything should look lifelike.

  3. Instead of an hour, you have a week, in which you have to start from the scratch. Create a storyboard, research how different users react to the design, predict how users are going to interact with the picture on different levels to name a few.

  4. And now, most importantly, you are not supposed to cross a fixed budget, redraft the design until the client likes it and stick to a deadline.

  5. You’re in your 20’s now, you have had experiences as a human being and your creative side sometimes has a slightly different point of view.

And thus begins the constant battle between your creativity and someone’s exact requirements. Being a 6 year old was fun, being a UX designer is much more fun stacked up on a heap of obstacles and opportunities. So, how to go through the ardent process while enjoying it and keeping your creative ego on a standby?

Remember:

You are special. You are sketching the future of technology. It is a part of you that people will see when they access the digital world. You have already predicted what they will feel, how they will react and that is nothing but pure magic! Not an illusion, not a cheap trick, but a result of your skills and ingenuity. So, as far as you keep this in mind and adjust to a few requests, you are already strong willed to be one of the best in UX designing.

Still, here are a few tips to keep yourself clutter free and determined:

  1. Ask yourself why is the client/business spending money on UX design? If it is so important can I afford to lag behind and deliver an under-performing product?

  2. It is good to have infinite concepts for a project but stick to a concept, believe in it and keep refining it. The more choices you have, the more fatigue you will experience even before starting especially when you have a deadline.

  3. When we are unsure of what to do, we usually look towards a social behavior to guide us. Avoid that. It is your design, a proof of your brilliance.

  4. People not only perceive object shapes better, they respond better to action oriented stimuli. Allow this thought process in your creativity.

  5. Be clear of what exactly you want from your design, see your design on an emotional level for the future user.

  6. Every process has its hardships, but visualize the end result that will boost your confidence.

  7. Anything beautiful and alleviating takes time and effort to be created. It is your mind, your space and your canvas. Realize it proves your worth as a person and as a professional.

  8. Divert your mind from social and family matters and engage in healthy conversations with your co-workers.

 

Being a UX designer, perhaps no one will ever know who designed the masterpiece android/iOS mobile app that they have gotten addicted to. You are designing for everyone and no one at the same time. Either your passion for designing and challenges provide the spark for you or it is the growth opportunities. There will be times when you will be agitated, every creative soul goes through that. In fact it is imperative. All that pressure, all those suggestions and yet every time if you come up with a design that startles everyone, you will be the silent guardian that ensures the success of products.

A creative knight in the shining armor of technology.

 

 

An Easy Guide On“How To Market Your Mobile Apps”

In a world where cut-throat market competition seems to be the natural trend, successful marketing endeavors are your road to success. When it comes to assessing the innate skills of entrepreneurs, you will come across numerous qualities. While some of them are efficient product developers, there are others with exceptional marketing skills.

When it comes to projects like mobile app development, both successful product creation, and effective marketing will emerge as the prime requisites. While developing your mobile application, you will have to identify innovative ways to advertise it. Here are some tips to walk you through the process.

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A comprehensive guide to mobile app marketing

Mobile applications should offer optimum functionality and easy operations, as that happens to be the most important aspect. Make sure it offers unsurpassed functionality, or else, your marketing efforts will go in vain.

Once you have a dynamic and interactive app, here’s what you need to do!

1.      Offering free versions

If running a ‘freemium’ version isn’t what you wish to do, try to bring ‘Free Versions’ on the market. Make sure your customers know about the functionality of the application along with its exclusive features. That will drive them towards purchasing the complete versions.

2.      Captivating and attractive descriptions

While deploying your app in app stores, you should have the market competition in mind. Creating captivating, interesting, and engaging app descriptions will take your app to unmatched heights of popularity. The description should attract potential customers thus helping you reach the optimum sales point.

3.      Social media marketing

With the emergence of popular social media channels such as Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter, you will have the best opportunity to market your apps. Social media is one of the most effective channels for app promotion. By promoting your apps in these channels, you can generate high revenues.

4.      User reviews

Offering free versions to potential users is half the battle won. Make it a point to get their reviews. User reviews are the best ways to market your applications. The potential app purchasers will get to know the features and performances of your app.

5.      Creating app videos

Video creation is another significant way of promoting your app amongst a potential audience. Creating highly engaging and exciting app videos will attract numerous users to your application, To create high-quality app videos, using a video editor tool is essential. This tool enables customization with transitions, effects, filters, and text boxes, enhancing engagement and appeal, thus driving users towards taking action., thus driving them towards taking actions.

With these marketing tips, you will surely achieve successful app promotion, marketing, and advertising.

Promotion is important

Irrespective of your app designs and functions, targeted promotion, seems to be a highly crucial necessity. No matter what kind of application you create, successful marketing will always be the priority. While developing interactive and intuitive apps, developers should also ensure effective marketing.

Targeted marketing will help your app get discovered in the app stores. As the developer, you will have the opportunity to earn high revenues and take your apps to numerous customers. Build associations with leading app marketers capable of devising the best app marketing strategies for your mobile applications.

How A Highly Functional Mobile App Helps Your Business Grow

Whether it’s for shopping or posting an image on Twitter, you spend almost half of your day on mobile apps. Turn to reliable market statistics, and you will discover that mobile apps account for approximately 52% of the cumulative time spent on the virtual platform.

But that’s not the end of the story. Another statistic reveals that users spend a whopping 89% of their mobile browsing time on apps. With such immense popularity enjoyed by mobile applications, business owners are finding it highly imperative to invest in mobile app development.

Mobile App Helps Your Business

Developing a highly functional mobile application is fine. But, before taking up the project, there’s a need for understanding its benefits. Unless you know how an interactive mobile application will ensure unsurpassed growth for your business, it won’t be wise to invest.

Check out the following article, as it helps you get an idea about the significance of mobile app development in your business growth.

1.      Creating awareness

If you are keen on spreading the word about your dream venture, attractive and functional mobile apps will prove to be the most efficient way to doing so. Developing a user-friendly app will create awareness about your business as well as buzz around your services. More and more customers will get to know about your services, which will inevitably result in unparalleled business growth.

2.      Effective customer interaction

For businesses and companies, there’s nothing more important than their target customers. Highly scalable and interactive apps ensure a great way of striking effective communications with your potential consumer groups. You can integrate push-notification features in your apps, thus keeping your consumers informed about new products, offers, and services.

3.      Predictive analysis

With big data and social media analytics gaining huge importance in the business arena, apps have become the greatest tools for knowing customer preferences and interests. Highly scalable business applications with intuitive and interactive features will act as functional data collection tools.

As the business owner or product developer, you will have the opportunity to tap into these crucial information sets, thus making significant improvements in your products and services.

4.      Targeting consumers

Other than offering insights into consumer preferences, mobile applications also provide you with crucial metrics on customer views. You will develop a clear idea about what interests your potential consumers, thus creating unique and exclusive contents for target groups.

5.      Managing business reputation

Business applications serve numerous purposes. One of its prime benefits is the availability of direct customer feedbacks. An interactive application will work as an active communication forum helping entrepreneurs, customers, and product creators come together to talk.

As the result, severe issues immediately get resolved through effective communications, thus boosting the existing reputation of your dream venture.

6.      Captivating the youth

A highly prospective business will unfailingly try its best to reach out to the youth. With fast-paced tech innovations already making news amongst youngsters, a stunning and intuitive business app will further strengthen your venture’s growth prospects.

Concluding thoughts

By now, you know the significance of highly functional business applications. Get one for your business and drive innovation, growth, and development for it.

 

How Mobile Apps Benefit Skill Development

By the end of 2016, average income for mobile app developers in the US will experience a massive hike. We can no longer deny the fact that robust and scalable mobile applications have taken the entire world by a storm. Look around and you will find almost every business and enterprise embracing mobile app technology as a core technology strategy.

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Highly scalable mobile applications built on intuitive and interactive interfaces can take your dream venture to unparalleled heights of success. However, it’s here that we come across a crucial question.

What is the real objective of mobile application development? Is the app revolution only meant for the business world? Or it has other uses or applications as well.

Let’s find out.

Identifying prospects

Apart from the business world, you must have heard about the significance of mobile apps in various areas. Today, mobile application development has become the prime requisite for every single sector. Be it education, retail, manufacturing, and engineering, or media, mobile app development happens to be a crucial necessity for every single sector.

It is here that we discover a completely new prospect for mobile apps. With diverse range of functionalities, mobile applications also offer ample opportunities for skill development.

From basic cognitive skills in children to advanced analytical skills in grown-ups, mobile apps ensure comprehensive skill development for numerous individuals.

And how do mobile applications do that?

Let’s have a look.

What is skill development?

Before we move on to talking about the significance of mobile applications in skill development, it is highly imperative to develop an idea of the term ‘skill development’. The concept of skill development refers to the idea of developing skills that help you make a value addition to your organization. Some of the critical parameters in this regard include:

1.      Skills from action learning

According to market conventions and expert predictions, the major share of your skill development endeavor must encompass on-job activities such as project development, communications with teams, workforce management, and several other functions. You should develop 70% of skills from these sources.

How apps help: This is an area where mobile apps prove to be highly beneficial. Highly interactive and scalable mobile apps offer a robust communication platform for both entrepreneurs and their employees. You will develop and fine-tune your managerial skills, thus making it big in your respective professional arena.

2.      Striking communications and interactions

Developing communication skills will be an integral part of your skill development endeavor. According to expert suggestions, 20% of your skills must include communication capabilities, leadership capacities, and mentorship qualities.

How apps help: Today every business relies on the most efficient thought leaders and policy planners. If you wish to enter into that league, there’s no other way than to develop these skills. Highly interactive enterprise applications will help develop these communication and leadership skills.

The bottom line

Skill development is not just a simple business need. Rather, it’s the cornerstone towards embarking on a successful career. And interactive and scalable mobile applications will make the process highly entertaining, comfortable, and convenient for you.

How Mobile Apps Benefit Telecom Industry

Whether your business venture belongs to the retail arena, entertainment sector, educational fields or telecommunications, robust and scalable applications will be the gateway to unparalleled growth and development. With a majority of the consumers performing every crucial action using his/ her mobile, business owners and entrepreneurs are finding it increasingly mission-critical to invest in mobile app development.

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Let’s turn to stats, shall we, for a complete lowdown on the significance of mobile apps for businesses.

By 2019, the mobile service revenue will reach $1.1 trillion. At least, that’s what reliable statistics has to say. Quite like several other industrial sectors, the telecom industry is not new to mobile apps. However, some of the companies operating in this sector are completely unaware of what mobile apps can do for their businesses.

Let’s take a look at how mobile applications can ensure better service delivery and customer engagement for telecom businesses.

1.      Unmatched customer service

If you are one of those key players in the telecommunication arena, investing in mobile app development will be the best thing to do. Telecom companies with service-information applications achieve huge success in taking their services and solutions quite closer to potential clients.

By building feature-rich and highly scalable apps, telecom business owners can provide customers with a comprehensive overview of their services. Potential clients will find it easier to look for your services and gain information about new launches. Some of the exceptional features worth integrating into your app include:

  • Service gallery
  • Product support options
  • Images and videos
  • Company information
  • Feedback forms

2.       Effective reporting solutions

Whether you are sending reports to your valuable clients or your managers, reporting will always be an integral segment of telecommunications operations. A robust reporting application will help you create engaging reports, thus increasing the willingness of your supervisors and clients to read them.

Mobile apps will come with unique features and functionalities that make data entry, extraction, and reporting, easier than ever.

3.      Streamlined sales support

Apart from ensuring benefits at the consumer level, highly functional mobile apps will also promote collaboration amongst your employees. You could invest in a high-performance sales support app and help your sales staff pitch in the right offers, in an interesting and visually pleasing manner.

A sales support application also comes handy, when your sales representatives require quick information on your company’s sales policies. The following features in your sales support app will make it more interesting and engaging.

  • Video and image gallery
  • Sales forms
  • Lead generation forms
  • Comparisons between competitors

4.      Meeting challenges and solving crisis

Accidents don’t occur with prior notifications. Irrespective of the nature of the emergency, your workforce must be prepared to carry out the highly crucial functions. It is here that crisis management applications prove to be highly beneficial for businesses. With a unique directory feature, these apps offer swift and instant access to all the important contacts. You can immediately get in touch with them, thus preventing any further debacles.

Conclusion

Interactive and intuitive business applications will ensure some of the greatest advantages for telecom businesses. You can guarantee better delivery of services, by making your company app-ready.

How Mobile Apps Benefit Retail Industry

Even a few years back, mobile app development used to be a part of the marketing strategies of big brands. Big names of the business world created unique applications for reaching out to their potential customers. Back then, the functionalities offered by mobile applications were also quite different than they are now.

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If you take a look at the present scenario, you will come across a new story. Changing customer preferences and rapid digitization have created a huge demand for highly scalable business applications. Present-day customers are increasingly concerned about convenience. As the consequence, businesses of all sizes and types are investing in mobile application development.

With such widespread proliferation of business apps, how is the retail sector getting affected? Breeze through this article and find out how.

What’s happening in the retail sector?

Highly functional business apps can prove to be beneficial in countless ways. By offering a standard and shared platform for effective business interactions, mobile apps ensure umpteen benefits for the retail sector. Companies can offer customized and personalized buying experiences to consumers, thus creating ample opportunities for business growth.

In a nutshell, mobile apps revolutionize the retail sector to a great extent. Let’s find out how.

1.      Immersive and dynamic shopping experience

While planning their purchases, your potential customers will surely wish to gain complete information about the services or products they are opting for. With the help of highly interactive business apps, retail business owners can deliver the desired information to their target customers.

From featuring your products along with their images or videos to integrating customer reviews, business apps will let you create dynamic shopping experiences for users.

2.      Effective business marketing

With the rapid emergence and increased usage of Smartphones, apps are no longer a thing of the future. Rather, they claim to be an integral part of business marketing, thus popularizing your products and services in the most efficient manner.

Retail business apps will help your customers gain complete information about your products, and publicize them on social media platforms. You will reach out to a wider clientele-base without spending too much of efforts or resources on business marketing.

3.      Personalized services

Customer loyalty can be a tough thing to achieve. However, that’s the only thing capable of helping you create a unique niche for yourself. Since retail businesses offer several deals, coupons, and offers to clients, scalable business apps will prove to be quite beneficial for them.

They can directly pitch sales offers and deals to targeted customer groups, thus strengthening consumers’ loyalty towards the business.

4.      Customer Relationship Management or CRM

With the help of mobile apps, retail businesses will have the opportunity to ensure perfect customer relationship management. Your business apps will fetch you reviews and feedbacks from your target customers along with helping you address their critical queries. You can also configure your apps to notify customers about new product launches and several other updates.

To sign off, we really believe that scalable, functional, and interactive business apps can really amplify the brand value of your retail business. What is your take? Let us know with your comments.

 

Mobile App Development: A Dud Or The Worthiest Investment?

With mobile innovations gaining unparalleled popularity and importance, mobile app development has become highly essential for present-day businesses. If you own a business and still don’t have an app, then you are clearly missing out on unique opportunities of revenue generation.

Look around and you will find most of the customers choosing to perform every task on the go. From booking cabs to booking movie tickets, there’s nothing they don’t wish to perform on the move.

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Now that inevitably creates the demand for highly functional mobile applications. By offering a robust and scalable business app to your customers, you will take the first step towards gaining a competitive edge in the market.

So, here we arrive at the main question. Is it right to invest in mobile app development? Here are some reasons that will prove it is.     

  • Marketing on the go   

Having your business app on their mobile devices will help your customers build proximity to your brand. Your app will give them liberty to access your products or services anywhere and everywhere.

That will increase their reliance on your services and products, thus reinforcing your brand even more. It will truly emerge as the best marketing strategy for your dream venture.

  •       User-friendly

A business app encompasses numerous crucial elements. While taking up mobile app development project, make sure your app grants access to your company’s customer service and support team.

As the result, your target customers will find solutions to even the most critical problems, when they need it the most. Your brand will emerge as a customer-friendly company, thus adding to its popularity

  • Real-time data capture

With the help of mobile apps, you will have the golden opportunity of performing advanced data analytics. Highly scalable business applications will help you offer opt-ins to your customers. That will help you improve customer experiences, by creating better services and products.

  • Boosts interest and enthusiasm

With an application in their Smartphones, customers will always be on the lookout for latest products and services. Irrespective of their location, they will have the chance to make quality purchases. And that will play a pivotal role in increasing their interest and enthusiasm about your brand. They will also check out your mobile app regularly if you provide them with lucrative offers.

  • Diverse and extensive clientele

There is no denying the unmatched significance of customers in ensuring unparalleled business popularity. Therefore, you will always strive hard towards reaching out to diverse and extensive clientele.

By investing in mobile app development, you will make sure your app caters to the needs of a diverse clientele.

  •   Tapping into social media

Look around and you will find almost half of the population spending hours on social media. Getting your brand on social networks and platforms will prove to be the most effective way of popularizing it. By investing in mobile app development, you will build proximity to your target consumers as they will have the opportunity to share, review, and discuss your products.

Get prepared

With these interesting benefits, mobile app development is certainly not a dud. Rather, it will prove to be one of the best investments of your life.

 

 

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