Software Design

Is It Time to Drop Box?

So can the public cloud providers do it profitably at a price companies are willing to pay? Based on recent Box financials and an analysis by Tomasz Tunguz of Redpoint Ventures, the answer would appear to be a resounding “no”. In addition to losing an astonishing $168 million on $124 million in revenue, Box does not seem to be performing well when compared to 40 publicly traded SaaS peers nine years after they were founded:

  • Box’s profitability in year 9 of its life is -136%. No other comparable company comes close with Rally in second place at -53%.
  • Box’s burn rate is twice as large as the next comparable firm and nearly 10x the average.
  • Box spends about 137% of their revenue on sales and marketing which is 3x the average across all other publicly traded SaaS companies.

Transporter Offers What IT Needs and Users Want.

You can download the full white paper of the Top 12 Key Advantages of Transporter over Box, but here are a few highlights:

  • Transporter is built on a financially sustainable architecture.
  • Transporter delivers the Dropbox experience users want.
  • Transporter offers complete data privacy.
  • Transporter has no recurring monthly fees.

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Software Design

11 Usability Rules for IT

There are some usability principles all developers need to know in order to understand what makes an app great! To deliver Great Enterprise Applications, IT needs to deliver great User Experience (UX).

The goal of “UX for IT” is to:

  • Help you understand what UX is, and why it’s so important;
  • Give you the tools to create applications with great UX;
  • Show you how to determine when your app has reached great UX.

In short, OutSystems wants to spread the word about UX, so you and your IT department can build great enterprise apps today!

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Software Design

What Makes a Great Business App?

What if building, using, and changing custom apps was easy? What if apps were powerful enough to run even the largest organization? What if they could unify everything—process, data, systems, apps, and even people? This is Appian, the one applica…

Software Design

11 Usability Rules for IT

There are some usability principles all developers need to know in order to understand what makes an app great! To deliver Great Enterprise Applications, IT needs to deliver great User Experience (UX).

The goal of “UX for IT” is to:

  • Help you understand what UX is, and why it’s so important;
  • Give you the tools to create applications with great UX;
  • Show you how to determine when your app has reached great UX.

In short, OutSystems wants to spread the word about UX, so you and your IT department can build great enterprise apps today!

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Software Design

PaaS Powering a New Era of Business IT

What are the opportunities and considerations of using PaaS from an application development and deployment perspective? How can PaaS help enhance developer productivity at your organization? Why has PaaS suddenly become so irresistible to many organiza…

Software Design

The IT Skills Shortage in the UK

There is a shortage of developers in the software and application development space, particularly in the UK where the digital economy is growing exponentially. Here, demand for developers is accelerating with rising salaries and increases in the number…

Software Design

jQuery Hotshot — Free 32 Page Excerpt

It has become the standard tool for web developers and designers to add dynamic, interactive elements to their sites, smoothing out browser inconsistencies and reducing costly development time.

jQuery Hotshot walks you step by step through 10 projects designed to familiarise you with the jQuery library and related technologies. Each project focuses on a particular subject or section of the API, but also looks at something related, like jQuery’s official templates, or an HTML5 feature like localStorage. Build your knowledge of jQuery and related technologies.

Learn a large swathe of the API, up to and including jQuery 1.9, by completing the ten individual projects covered in the book.

Some of the projects that we’ll work through over the course of this book include a drag-and-drop puzzle game, a browser extension, a multi-file drag-and-drop uploader, an infinite scroller, a sortable table, and a heat map.

Learn which jQuery methods and techniques to use in which situations with jQuery Hotshots.

Packt Enterprise books can be summed up through the tagline “Professional Expertise Distilled”. They take in-the-trenches knowledge from experienced software professionals, and distil it into a single, easy to follow manuscript.

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Learning JavaScriptMVC — Free 14 Page Excerpt

As it does not depend on server components, it can be combined with any web service interface and server-side language.

“Learning JavaScriptMVC” will guide you through all the framework aspects and show you how to build small- to mid-size well-structured and documented client-side applications you will love to work on.

This book starts from JavaScriptMVC installation and all its components are explained with practical examples. It finishes with an example of building a web application. You will learn what the JavaScriptMVC framework is, how to install it, and how to use it efficiently.

This book will guide you on how to build a sample application from scratch, test its codebase using unit testing, as well as test the whole application using functional testing, document it, and deploy the same. After reading Learning JavaScriptMVC you will learn how to install the framework and create a well-structured, documented and maintainable client-side application.

Packt Enterprise books can be summed up through the tagline “Professional Expertise Distilled”. They take in-the-trenches knowledge from experienced software professionals, and distil it into a single, easy to follow manuscript.

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