Mobile apps growing again in 2020.

Mobile app business is on a growth trend for 2020, according to the International Data Corporation (IDC). The market is projected to be valued at US$15.5 billion by 2020. There’s a huge amount of mobile apps that can be used for entertainment, communication, banking, and business purposes.

There are millions of apps and websites available, so you can count on not having enough time to hunt through them all.

Why Mobile Apps Are the Next Big Thing:

You won’t be able to tell us that you’re not using a mobile app. No worries, because most of the apps that you find are all over the Internet, such as Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. People are always spending more time on the Internet, and that’s because mobile is the preferred option for doing any task or gathering information that can be sent over the Internet.

Not only that, but many of the apps you find are optimized for mobile, such as instant news, music apps, and banking apps. In order to create a website, even with desktop technology, you need to make a webpage.

While there has been a recent wave of apps targeting mobile devices, most of them are targeted at enterprise customers. But many have a more consumer-like appeal, such as Woot, which offers a social feature for the “smart home.” It’s not enough for app makers to simply develop for the enterprise market, says Ram Iyer, CEO of app development company Sunvera Software. He says an app should give users multiple ways to interact with it, and not simply be a “single button in your hand.”

For example, Woot, a social app, has various ways to communicate with customers; people can post updates on Facebook with Woot’s “Like” button, or chat with company members using the app. Other companies, such as Amazon, Snapchat and Twitter, offer additional messaging features.

The question for developers and consumers alike: How do you make an app to meet the growing expectations for consumers and the growing need for enterprise software?

Is your company paying for unnecessary costs? The CEO of Sunvera Software shares five critiques for software companies with staggering costs.  It’s time to go back to school!

• You’ve got to plan your product release carefully. Picking a release date is not enough, you’ve got to create a release calendar. Consider your revenue generation and modify your calendar to synchronize with these important events. You will find that this increased organization with create an estimated savings of 20-30% back to your company.

  

• For an estimated savings of 10-15% reconsider your development platform and ask yourself essential questions like “does that really fit my marketing segment needs?” or “is this platform well suited for my load conditions?” if you find yourself answering —no— then you should switch to a most cost-effective platform.

• It’s important to use your employee’s time wisely. So stop forcing your programmers to spend endless hours validating user interface and work-flow details when they should be programming. Their jobs are essential to the product you’re developing and thus their salaries are not cheap. Don’t waste their time and your money on forcing them to learn third-party tools, instead save your company 15-30% by concentrating your staff.

• Establish a test plan and testing procedures to eliminate bugs before they reach the users. This will lead to greater user satisfaction. The estimated savings will be 5-20% with just simple testing maneuvers.

• Save yourself the hassle of working with people who only treat your job like a single project. Find a partner who understands how to lower costs for programming teams and who is a boss at productization.  You want a diverse team that sees a product through from its inception to its realization.   If this saves you anything it will save you a lot of grief and the benefit of that will create an unimaginable ripple effect from your company, through your products, to your customers, and eventually changing the world of technology.

Why waste more of your company resources, money, and time waiting for gradual industry change.  Be the change you want to see in your office.

At Sunvera Software we take pride in working with leaders in small businesses and large businesses to take a realistic and forward-thinking view of the future of software.  As an Orange County software development company with a versatile team of software engineers, we know the tech challenges which face your business and we are here to help you transition into the future of technology.

Sales enablement apps are the future of selling. The primary function of any business is to “sell” something. Anything that helps make a sale is extremely crucial to not only profitability but also survivability. Sales enablement apps precisely help achieve that. They are core to any company that wants to improve their sales process and to help achieve defined sales metrics.

All sales enablement apps must have few core functionality along with set of personalized abilities to suit business needs. Sales Dashboards, Sales Metrics view, Collateral & documents repository, Product availability & Marketing  ability and AI powered Chatbot are some essential and optional components that define a good sales enablement app.

Sales enablement apps allow mobile sales and marketing teams to keep  all their collaterals in a single repository that is easily accessible. As a result, sales people save significant time chasing collaterals essential for reaching sales targets.

Enable marketing and content creation teams to access precious data and to update collaterals based on marketing metrics. As a result, sales department can align themselves with marketing efforts to present an effective and credible front to prospects.

Legal compliance is a big factor for many regulated industries like healthcare, pharma, finance, real-estate and food & agriculture. For such companies, it is essential to have all such documents in a single repository.

Big part of sales enablement is meetings, executive briefings, training and onboarding. The Sales enablement app should fully allow these functions with easy. Furthermore, ability to schedule and reschedule meetings on the fly would help sales staff to achieve their sales metrics.

At Sunvera Software, we help you with creating your very own “Sales enablement” app to zoom thru your sales goals.

Google Vision API: Technology That Can Sense Our World

If you have been spending a lot of your summer watching SYFY Blockbusters, you’ll know that the most powerful computers are like humans, in that they can, see, taste, touch, hear, and smell the world around them.  One of the latest and greatest Application Program

Interfaces (API), Google Cloud Vision, enables developers to understand the content of an image by encapsulating powerful machine learning models in an easy to use API.  Finally, your computers and smartphones can see and sense their world.  How does it work?

• Google vision can detect individual objects within larger pictures to categorize and build metadata on your image.
• Vision API has the ability to grow and change over time as more objects are introduced to improve accuracy.
• Vision API can help moderate, prevent and block violent or adult content on crowd-sourced images.
• Vision API can detect text and language from images using optical character recognition and Automatic Language Identification.

The myth that only big business can utilize google vision is a false one.  Small and mid-size companies can improve their efficiency, and streamline their categorization and inventory processes all with a simple click of the button.

Sunvera Software is here to help your small and mid-size business achieve the success and proficiency your company has been hoping for.  Check out our website or give us a quick call to begin planning your tech future today.

  GDPR: The big final exam you procrastinated on

In an optimistic effort to slow the exponential growth of data and the inevitable breech of user privacy, the European Union lawmakers hoped to enhance data protection and return big data back into the autonomous hands of the users.  Like thousands of students are asking themselves how they procrastinated on their big final, so too are the big tech companies of the world asking themselves how they procrastinated on the GDPR Compliance and avoid legal hassles.

 Personal data and why it needs protecting 

If you are like me, personal data is a pesky and distracting message you skim through before accessing your apps, but the second you press accept to allow Yelp or Tinder to access your friends and location you are putting your personal information and your friend’s personal information at risk — and it cannot be undone.  So what is Personal Information anyway?

Personal information is your phone number, email, age, race, gender, sexual orientation, image, social security number, address, family, friends, education, and current locations.  And all this information is at risk, thus the dire need for cyber security.  Essentially, “Big Brother”  is watching.  With this much information unregulated, willfully supplied, and free for hackers to access, the issues grows much larger than a simple individual, personal case of fraud, it can grow to national proportions of distrust in our democracy and global economy.

So what’s GDPR again?

The GDPR or General Data Protection Regulation was first approved by the EU Parliament on April 14th, 2016 with enforcement set to take action on May 25th, 2018.  After nearly 3 years of negotiation, the regulation was set to apply to the 28-member state bloc which will be filtered down the different legislative processes for each EU country.  Even the UK, with its attempt to Brexit the room, is still held hostage by the dire need to implement regulation between the flow of data between the EU and UK—yes, the GDPR is that threatening.

But what does the EU regulation have to do with American Industry?

The answer is: EU regulation has A LOT to do with American industry.  In an independent survey of large company CIOs, conducted by Vanson Bourne they found that 52% of American businesses process European data.  So half of the country is panicking about the meaning of these compliance standards and what this could mean for the proper concealment of their customer’s data.

Can I still pass the class if I fail the final?

Unfortunately, not with these stakes.  The penalty for not complying with these regulations will be a 4% fine of your company’s global turnover or €20 million ($25 million) not to mention the massive PR disaster when your company is splashed on every headline for not protecting your user’s social security numbers, IP addresses, or website cookie data.  We all have been watching as Facebook executive, Mark Zuckerberg raised his hands to the flame of congress and much hotter the torches of his own users; this could be your company as well if you do not work hard to comply with the GDPR standards.

Find a tutor who can help your company?

The GDPR is an ongoing challenge which will continue to face the future of your business in the grand scheme of things.  Whether you’re a small startup or a mid-size company it is easier than ever to make your product virile and your company global.  Allow Sunvera Software to help your business protect your big data and users to comply with the General Data Protection Regulation or any future laws which will undoubtedly arise.