Unlike old days, big enterprises need to be disruptive in their products. Technology is one of the biggest pillars supporting this disruption. We call it as 'Digital Transformation'. But truly digital transformation is nothing but bringing your products at the earliest to the customers using latest and greatest tools and technologies. Startups excel in adapting … Continue reading Why do you need startup culture within enterprise?
Author: Shankar Kumarasamy
Digital leader and technology enthusiast with experience in varied functional areas specializing in mobility and cloud backend.
Areas of specialization include:
1) Solutions architecture - Enterprise-scale solution consulting to determine major IT investments,
2) Technical architecture - End-to-end system and integration architecture including hardware and software,
3) Applications architecture - Multi-cloud native server-less application architecture,
4) Data architecture - Canonical data architecture and design including support to multi-tenancy data models,
5) Identity architecture - Different LoB identity management solutions involving SSO for customer 360 experience,
6) Security architecture - Eliminate digital risk by designing the flow of data between people, systems, and things with granular and only the needed access
Major announcements from CES and MWC, 2019 – Developer insights
Both CES and MWC are the 2 major anticipated events where several tech and consumer companies showcase their innovation in technology with new product line ups and their plans for the year. Let's see some of the major announcements - Apple - AirPlay 2 support in Samsung latest generation smart TV's. I see this as … Continue reading Major announcements from CES and MWC, 2019 – Developer insights
The rise of mobile payments and mobile wallets
Cashless payments for any goods and services are broadly considered as digital payments. Debit or credit cards are examples of digital payments. The increase in use of mobile phones gave way to new form of cashless transactions - Mobile wallets. The improvements in technology help the slowly adopted mobile payment methods gain the steam. Slow … Continue reading The rise of mobile payments and mobile wallets
Opportunities with EV charging stations
Electric vehicles are growing exponentially and are expected to surpass the number of cars with Internal Combustion Engine (ICE) by 2050. One of the biggest factors and hesitance in moving towards the EV's is the lack of charging stations like gas filling stations. There are 3 defined levels of chargers - Level 1 charging stations … Continue reading Opportunities with EV charging stations
Cloud Kitchen – Technology powering restaurant chains
The growth in the infrastructure sector and the improvements in transportation have enabled a quicker commute compared to the earlier days. Quicker commutes are even getting quicker day by day because of the strong support from machine learning algorithms, AI, high cloud/edge computing speeds, etc. As a result, themes like carpooling, ride sharing got very … Continue reading Cloud Kitchen – Technology powering restaurant chains
Mobile apps that I liked the most in 2018
Mobile applications are part of everyone's life. Both Android and iOS platforms have richer collections of apps. I have picked some of the mobile apps that I very commonly used in 2018. All of these apps are meant to make your life easier and get the best out of your smartphones. PS - The intent … Continue reading Mobile apps that I liked the most in 2018
What would drive the mobile app development in 2019?
Innovation is at the heart of every successful venture. Every innovation paves the strong foundation for the future. 2018 have paved a very strong foundation in technology which will help us shape the future. These foundations will dominate most of 2019 and beyond. We will see more momentum in getting adapted to these new technologies … Continue reading What would drive the mobile app development in 2019?
Intuitive customer journey using off-the-shelf AI solutions – Contact center AI and TensorFlow
AI-First based approach is the theme driving many organizations. Even though we are at a very beginning stage of AI, there is almost every product which has AI touch in it. This initial stage in AI is ANI(Artificial Narrow Intelligence). These type of AI's specialize in one thing they do and they are not specialized … Continue reading Intuitive customer journey using off-the-shelf AI solutions – Contact center AI and TensorFlow
Quick look at the Amazon 4-star store
Amazon has recently started their foray into brick and mortar retail stores. We know about the story of Whole foods, Amazon go stores, Amazon pop-up stores, and Amazon books store. A recent addition to this is Amazon 4-star store. The second amazon 4-star store in the country is opened in Denver and I had a … Continue reading Quick look at the Amazon 4-star store
Future of android application distribution using ‘Android app bundles’
Android has finished its 10 years anniversary recently. No one could have predicted this massive success. Android have changed the way the smartphones are developed and used, just like what iPhone did to the smartphone industry. When it comes to android development, many things have changed over the years, new OS version over other, etc. … Continue reading Future of android application distribution using ‘Android app bundles’
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