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Benefit Of Testing On Your Application

Posted by Charlene Mark on March 25, 2018

It is extremely important to test mobile applications and e-commerce websites so that it will not compromise on several factors such as customer data security, user experience, secure transaction, mobile responsiveness and quick load time. In addition, the success of your e-commerce web application depends largely on smooth and proper functioning of these factors and should be free of bugs too. Thereby, you can give users an enjoyable and nice experience that would make them visit your app again for products and services.

Testing is inevitable to e-commerce success

We all know that users of e-commerce applications are spread worldwide as they deal with auctions, retail and wholesale, finance, manufacturing and marketing. Also, the fact that e-commerce industry is witnessing rapid growth for last few years cannot be ignored. Organizations and businesses should devote more time in testing their website app and make it an indispensable part of their future e-commerce apps development. Here we bring to you a few important things on how to test an e-commerce website application.

Testing functionality of an e-commerce application

An e-commerce mobile or web app has four vital elements in the

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All About Biometric Hardware

Posted by Charlene Mark on February 2, 2018

Fingerprint authentication is apparently a rather clear option for now as an alternate to passwords. Multifactor authentication is the procedure of using more than 1 identifier to log-in. Biometric authentication supplies an attractive means of authenticating users into high-risk infrastructure.

Facial recognition
This type of biometric authentication employs the exceptional facial qualities of someone. When it has to do with biometric authentication, the fingerprint sensor is the most trustworthy and convenient. For starters, biometric authentication is considered among the best kinds of authentication currently offered. The worldwide biometric authentication and identification market is predicted to undergo substantial growth over the following five years.

Biometrics provides convenience, simplicity of use, simple scalability and increased cyber security. In addition, they are increasingly sophisticated and proven, including facial recognition as a means of authentication. Biometrics needs to be secure. however, it can’t interrupt somebody’s day-to-day pursuits. For smaller companies, in addition, it supplies a cloud-based solution which delivers fingerprint biometrics and smart cards.

There are a few specific forms of biometrics utilized for some particular purposes. They will also have some impact on the workplace with regards to the need

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Why Data Matters

Posted by Charlene Mark on December 21, 2017

Data, a word when read, seems simple, but in an organization or business, it means a lot. Data has the power to change the whole perspective of your organization; it can make or break the game. It’s a realm of multiple possibilities. Whether the data is, on-premise, edge, or on cloud, it has the capacity to bring new opportunities forward and give detailed insights for your business.

Reinvent your business with these Microsoft Data tools:

SQL Server

The SQL Server gives you the power to innovate faster while you are on-premise. The new Microsoft SQL Server 2017 comes with updated security and intelligence. You get all the extra features without having to pay extra, with performance that is best-in-class, and flexible for your on-premise requirements.

Be it Linux, Windows, or Docker containers, you can run SQL Server 2017 on any of your favorite platform.

AzureSpeed-up your move to the cloud today. Now you have the advantage of cloud agility and the efficiency required to migrate to cloud without having to change the code. With azure you can make faster predictions and unlock new insights.

Start innovating

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Understanding VPS Management Software

Posted by Charlene Mark on April 11, 2018

VPS servers are basically “virtual machines” running on much larger servers (typically by multiples of the virtual ones).

Whilst they run very well, they’ve been somewhat under-utilized until the introduction of Amazon’s “EC2” service in the early 2010’s. This allowed people to deploy a VPS on an entire data warehouse of infrastructure… rather than just one server – bringing the underlying cost right down to a bare minimum.

Today, a swathe of “cloud” VPS providers (including the likes of DigitalOcean, Vultr and others) have followed Amazon’s lead in providing extremely low priced “VPS” servers running on “cloud” infrastructure. They have reeled buyers in with prices starting from $5/mo (or in Vultr’s case $2.50/mo).

The point is that with the new price drop, “cloud” VPS providers actually provide companies and end users with extensible software hosting with “shared” hosting prices. The key is that you are able to control (and own) the underlying infrastructure, whereas before, you could not.

Whilst this is great, there is a major problem – you are responsible for setting up the servers and keeping them up to date & running etc. Even if you go down the path of a “managed” server infrastructure, there is no underlying management software (such

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When Microsoft Words Saved Your Life

Posted by Charlene Mark on April 8, 2018

Quick Parts allows you to create reusable formatted text, even tables, which you can insert instantly without recreating every time you need it.

A good example is the closing paragraph and signature in a letter. If your letter closing and signature is always the same, don’t re-type it or copy-and-paste it each time. Create and use it as a Quick Part!

Here is how you create your custom entry. In this example I will do a closing paragraph and signature area. You only have to do this once, unless it changes.

1. Create the text in a Word document as you want it to appear in your documents. (Or you can open one that already exists). Use all the pretty formatting you want. In the following example of a letter closing I even used a picture logo in my actual documents.

We look forward to working with you. If you have any questions, please feel free to call or send an email to the address below.Sincerely,

Your Name

Your company and/or logo

( ) PhoneNumber

EmailAddress

2. Select the full passage you want to be included. In my example above, I will select from “We look forward… down to (and including) my website address.

3. Insert > Quick Parts

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Using Google Maps Offline

Posted by Charlene Mark on April 7, 2018

Google Maps is one of the most popular and Best navigation apps services, but it’s not without its faults. One of the main complaints is that it works best with a reliable data connection, something we don’t always have outside the city. Thankfully, Google Maps can be used offline, but this great feature is rendered useless without some proactive procedures. The moment your phone reads “No service,” Google Maps suddenly drops out. That is unless you’ve saved your maps for offline access. However after reading today’s article “How to use Google map offline,” you can store large map areas for guidance, even when you’re stuck without the reception.

The process is identical on both iOS and Android. Before we dive into the process, take a moment to visit the App Store on your iOS device, or the Play store on your Android device and check for any available updates for Google Maps. The methods mentioned in this article works on the updated versions of Google Map.

After verifying you have the latest version, launch Google Maps on your respective device and search for the area you’d like to save for offline access.

Google Maps will then show the area you find, with the

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How To Choose Your Smartwatches

Posted by Charlene Mark on April 2, 2018

You have to make sure of choosing the best online store for branded smartwatches. This would definitely help to find the ultimate quality one.

Do you wish to get a trendy smartwatch for you? Well, it is possible to enjoy lots of features when you try to get the perfect wearables for you. You never have to go out in the scorching heat of the sun to get the right quality smartwatch for you as you can get it online. Here you need to look forward to the genuine source where you would be able to stay yourself much confident of getting the perfect quality one that would add to your satisfaction. Therefore you should be quite serious in searching for the right and reliable store that would never let you compromise on their quality at all. When you search for the best Samsung smartwatches online it is quite important to find yourself knowledgeable about its features. This would definitely help in proving to be much useful to you. Some important aspects should also be considered if you wish to find the right and perfect quality products online

Look for its key features: You should definitely try to make sure of taking

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Choose Your Web Scrapping Tool

Posted by Charlene Mark on March 21, 2018

1. Outwit Hub:

Being a famous Firefox extension, Outwit Hub can be downloaded and integrated with your Firefox browser. It is a powerful Firefox add-on that has come with plenty of web scraping capabilities. Out of the box, it has some data point recognition features that will get your job done quickly and easily. Extracting the information from different sites with Outwit Hub doesn’t require any programming skills, and that’s what makes this tool the prior choice of non-programmers and non-technical individuals. It is free of cost and makes good use of its options to scrape your data, without compromising on quality.

2. Web Scraper (a Chrome Extension):

It is an outstanding web scraping software to acquire data without any coding. In other words, we can say that Web Scraper is an alternative to the Outwit Hub program. It is exclusively available for Google Chrome users and allows us to set up the sitemaps of how our sites should be navigated. Moreover, it will scrape different web pages, and the outputs are obtained in the form of CSV files.

3. Spinn3r:

Spinn3r is an outstanding choice for programmers and non-programmers. It can scrape the entire blog, news website, social media profile and RSS feeds for

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All About New Java 9

Posted by Charlene Mark on March 10, 2018

In September, Oracle released Java SE 9 with over 150 new features. The latest version of the widely used programming language comes with several new features and APIs to accelerate development of applications for both large and small devices. At the same time, the features provided by Java 9 help programmers to improve application’s performance, security, and maintainability. Hence, it becomes essential for programmers to understand some of the key features provided by Java 9.

What Programmers Need to Know about Java 9?

Module System

The developers can now use Better Support for HTML5 and JavaScript to divide JDK into multiple modules. Each modular JAR file contains a module descriptor. The developers can define interdependency of various modules through requires statements. The modularity makes it easier for programmers to run JVM modules smoothly on small devices that lack additional memory. At the same time, they can also run only the APIs and JVM modules required by the application.

Ahead-of-Time Compilation

Java 9 improves code compilation process significantly through ahead-of-time (AOT) compilation. The programmers can leverage AOT compilation compile Java classes into native code even before the virtual machine launches them. AOT compilation improves the performance of both large and small applications by overcoming major shortcomings

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Things About Online Payment Solution

Posted by Charlene Mark on March 3, 2018

How to choose an Online Payment Solution and our choice

The payment provider is chosen based on many different criteria. Some of these are the service availability in the country where your bank account is, costs of a transaction, monthly fees, the costs of integration, and whether it resolves sales tax issues or allows for integration with some other well-known payment solutions. Many of these questions must be answered by You the client. Stripe is our preferred choice as it had excellent API capabilities. This article will use Stripe as its payment processor of choice.

Best Practices for payment providers

Retry if transaction did not succeeded
The transaction might fail not only due to technical reasons but sometimes insufficient funds might be the reason. You should retry processing the transaction between an hour to couple of days later.

Know when your CC will expire
Some of the card details will expire or their data will no longer be valid for various reasons. When you do not have valid CC data charging the customer will not be possible. The major card schemes offer a service that lets you check if there are any updates pending for the customer

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The Advantages of Data Center For Your Business

Posted by Charlene Mark on February 26, 2018

Given the ever-increasing business demands for IT services, physical space is at a premium in many data center facilities. On the other hand, a number of organizations are looking to consolidate their data centers in order to save money, streamline operations and improve energy efficiency.

There are a number of drivers for consolidation projects. In some cases, the organization grew through mergers and acquisitions, inheriting multiple data centers that replicate services. In addition, many organizations have effectively reduced their IT footprint through virtualization and the adoption of hyper-converged infrastructure solutions. These technologies make it possible to eliminate underutilized equipment and replace what remains with smaller form factors.

The rationalization of these services can also facilitate consolidation. This has been a priority within the federal government through the Federal Data Center Consolidation Initiative. Federal agencies have been working to reduce the cost of their data operations by eliminating waste and implementing a shared services model.

Similar efforts are underway at the state level. According to the National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO), 42 percent of states had completed data consolidation projects in 2016, up from just 14 percent in 2007. In addition, 47 percent of states are currently working on consolidation projects,

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Tips To Choosing The Perfect Desktop For You

Posted by Charlene Mark on February 11, 2018

There is little argument that desktop computer shopping scares many people. No one should be afraid, though, because tips and good advice make things easier. Read these tips so you can learn more about shopping for computers. Be sure to have anti-virus software. Your computer can easily become infected with malicious software if you’re not running a good program. This software can take fragile personal information. Many programs on the market will run a scan and repair on a schedule if you set it to do as such.

Be on the lookout for computers that the owners are giving away. Many people decide to purchase a laptop and will sell their desktop at a very reasonable price. It’s still prudent to verify the functionality before you make an offer, though such a computer is going to be in fine shape. Look at all add-ons you are purchasing with the computer. There are many accessories that you can purchase for your new computer. Really, only purchase the ones you most need. Also, make sure the add-ons aren’t available elsewhere for much less. Those from the manufacturer are sold at higher prices.

When creating a desktop computer at home pay attention to the types

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Understanding The New USB

Posted by Charlene Mark on February 6, 2018

Universal Serial Bus (USB) jacks and ports are tools that allow you to connect computer peripherals to your computers, keyboards, external hard drives, or storage keys.

The numbers following the USB symbol simply correspond to the version of the USB standard concerned, the 3.0 and 3.1 series being the most recent at the time these lines are written.

In addition to the color of their connectors (version 3.0 is usually blue), it is the speed of data transfer that is the main difference between these two standards.

Thus, the USB 2.0 standard, introduced in 2000, made it possible to guarantee a transfer speed much higher than that of the previous standard: from 1.5 MB per second to theoretical 60 MB! USB 3.0, appeared in 2008, has multiplied this transfer rate by 10, reaching the theoretical rate of 625 MB per second!

Be careful, if backward compatibility is supported in the case of USB 3.0 jacks (that is, your device with a USB 3.0 port will work on your computer with USB 2.0 sockets), the speed of transfer will remain blocked to 2.0 standards…
USB standards. As early as 1995, the USB standard was developed for connecting a wide variety of devices.

The USB 1.0

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Ways To Keep Your Data Secure

Posted by Charlene Mark on January 21, 2018

Data loss is crippling for any business, especially in the age of big data where companies rely on digital information to refine their marketing, contact prospects, and process transactions. Reducing the chances for data loss is a vital part of a data management strategy.

The first goal should be to prevent data loss from occurring in the first place. There are many reasons which could lead to data loss. A few of them are listed below:

1) Hard drive failures

2) Accidental deletions (user error)

3) Computer viruses and malware infections

4) Laptop theft

5) Power failures

6) Damage due to spilled coffee or water; Etc.

However, if a loss does occur, then there are several best practices you can implement to boost your odds of recovery.

Secondly, don’t put all your storage eggs in the cloud basket. The cloud is vital for cost-effective storage, but it does have some pitfalls that shouldn’t be ignored. Many examples of data loss have occurred from an employee simply dropping their computer or hard drive, so talk to staff members about best practices. SD cards are much more fragile and should never be used as a form of longer-term storage.

Here’s a look at top ways you can protect your data from loss

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The Importance of Cloud Storage

Posted by Charlene Mark on January 19, 2018

What is cloud computing?

Cloud computing (or cloud storage), is the process of storing data online and it is gaining in popularity for several reasons. It is a secure way to store information, data is password protected, it can be easily shared with others, it can’t get lost, damaged or stolen and it takes up no physical space on your computer.

Until now, data was stored physically on discs, hard drives or flash drives. The downside to this is that it takes up space to store the info, there is always the risk of materials getting lost, damaged or stolen and if you want to share it you have to make copies and somehow safely get it to another person at a different location.

There are many benefits that cloud computing companies offer, including:

Cloud storage offers you as much or as little space as you need-and you only pay the host for what you use. This saves you money and is great for businesses that may require more space, say, at busy times of the year and less space in off-season times.

Any required maintenance is taken care of by the host, so you don’t need a large IT department.

Access your files any

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When Your Storage Data Going Failure

Posted by Charlene Mark on January 1, 2018

Context:
Unfortunately, most home users, and many business users, do not back up their systems. Moreover, many small businesses have older back-up procedures that are often ineffective for recovering files.

Of course, you can run down to your neighborhood electronics store and purchase a replacement drive for your computer, but what about your data on the failed hard drive? How important was it? Did you save it or back it up?

What to do:
If you need to recover data on the hard drive, the first thing to do is avoid trying to reboot or doing anything that involves the drive. Doing so can actually do more damage to your data.

The only irreversible data loss is caused by overwriting bits, physical damage to the drive platters or destruction of the magnetization of the platters, which seldom happens in the real world. In the majority of cases, the malfunction is caused by a damaged circuit board, failure of a mechanical component and crash of internal software system track or firmware.

In the case of actual hard drive failure, only a data recovery professional can get your data back. And the fact that you cannot access your data through your operating system does not necessarily

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Disadvantage of Chatbot

Posted by Charlene Mark on December 29, 2017

The use of live chat for customer services has grown popular over the past several years, often replacing voice support services. Many companies now recognize the benefits it brings, such as

the ability to address customer needs with more clarity
increased time and cost efficiency
better customer satisfaction

However, with the growth of chat customer support came the creation of AI software that could take over the responsibilities of a human support agent-the chatbot.

For large companies that often handle hundreds if not thousands or even millions of customers in a day, a chatbot can save them a lot of time and allocation of resources. They don’t have to hire big teams of human customer support agents to handle every single customer that comes to them with an inquiry. Another big plus for businesses is that chatbots don’t get tired. They don’t need to work in shifts-they can work 24 hours a day, 7 days a week for as long as the company uses them.

But as much help as chatbots can be to a big brand, they can also be a huge detriment.

Artificial intelligence is still flawed, as is with anything man-made. Sometimes the AI becomes too good to the point that it appears they

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Benefit Of Oracle Chain

Posted by Charlene Mark on December 10, 2017

To respond to uncertain and variable demand you need to ensure that all demand signals are captured at the right level of detail, leverage that demand and its underlying correlations and factors that influence the demand patterns, make sure that all key stakeholders are involved and accountable on a continuous basis, and make that forecast actionable and drive all downstream planning processes. Oracle Demantra Demand Management enables you to arrive at a single, precise consensus forecast.

A consensus plan built from a more accurate forecast aligns all your organizations and users, enabling you to be more demand-driven. Built-in analytics and adaptable business process automation capabilities enable a wide range of day-to-day decision making with real-time demand intelligence.

Oracle Demantra Demand Management enables you to sense demand from multiple data sources including point of sales and syndicated data, and analyze demand data at various levels to understand the detailed behavior of demand. Such detailed understanding of origin and relative contribution of various demands both improves your ability to predict the detailed behavior of you demand and enables demand shaping activities – programs and events designed to stimulate sales and grow market share for individual products or groups of products.

Improve forecast accuracy via advanced

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Between SaaS and Customized Website

Posted by Charlene Mark on December 2, 2017

If you are a modestly funded new business startup or a smaller business with not much marketing experience in-house, you are most vulnerable to falling into the trap of thinking that a shiny new website will get your business branded, noticed, and buzzing. It’s tempting to believe that you can just sit back and let the website do its magic, and then presto, the phone rings! But then it doesn’t.

Consider this: A shiny new website with no other marketing efforts is not much different than a shiny new business card that you never give to anyone. That’s right… you keep that box of 500 cards on the shelf just in case you need them. And when you do need one-you cannot find them! This is where most businesses fail to achieve a successful website or e-commerce strategy. They fail to grasp that a shiny new website is only the first step of many that lead to online success.

Let’s dive below the surface and look at the differences that are not so obvious but most likely will have a significant impact on the success of your website, and yes, your businesses go-to-market strategy.

First of all, I totally get the lure of

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