Lately, we have been working on applications interacting with a large series of external services.
We've integrated with Paypal, Salesforce, Microsoft Dynamics, Fotolia, Winmentor. The list could continue, but that is not in the scope of this article.
I have recently noticed that many developers and product owners are a bit scared by the idea of interacting with external services in their application. The risks are many:
Surfing the web is a becoming an increasingly bigger part of our lives. It is easy to forget that this is a new medium and assume that people will use it in the same way they use books or newspapers.
But as author Steve Krug reminds us in “Don’t Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability” (which I highly recommend), how we think people use Web sites and how they actually use them are two very different things.
It is a system that encapsulates all aspects of managing a company’s inventories, future stock price forecasting, physical stock, demand forecasting and much more.
Taking into account how the human mind functions is important to all businesses. Knowledge about the human mind allows businesses to make predictions about client preferences and behavior and tailor their products and services accordingly. This sort of knowledge that can inform usability is especially important in the competitive world of websites.
I'm going to start by saying that there are a lot of ways to build an app - depending on the complexity of it, you may choose one platform or another for building it. This blog post is about why choosing Appcelarator Titanium is the best solution in most cases and why we use it on all of our projects.
I will not go into very much general information, all the recent studies have shown that customer's behavior is directly related to your website's performance. You might run an E-commerce website, have a presentation website or a customer portal. In any of the previous situations, your customer is always going to trust your brand based on their online experience.
The user experience
A visitor experience has multiple components. It includes at least the follwing:
Over the past decade, I've learned the same lesson several times, that keeping your data safe is very important. I lost many bytes on different occasions and was happy when I had a backup plan. We have over 5 servers in the office and the amount of information to backup is quite large. We tried different solutions, like external storage, separate server, but why not keep your data in the cloud? There aren't too many backup solutions to cover our need of over 1 TB of data.
