In July 2014, Gartner published the proprietary Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies. The cycle shows Internet of things at the cusp of massive growth within next 5-10 years. It implies that technology consultants have a fair chance to ride this wave, given they address the core challenges that typical consulting firms/consultants face when building a […]
Building practice in a new technology area can be a daunting task for IT consultants. We’ve asked our in-house experts regarding the best practices that IT consultants can use when they start building their Internet of Things practice. We’ve also cross-checked these with the industry experts in the IoT domain. Here are the 9 best practices. […]
Use-Cases for the solution directory: Internal Sales team uses the directory to make themselves conversant about a particular business area before the talk to customers. The call-our team for example might be reaching out to someone specializing in “sales and marketing” (a function) or someone focused on Retail (an Industry). While on the call they […]
We have curated 10 questions that consultants and project managers can use to discover if an IoT project/application can help a business. Use these questions to start conversation with your existing clients or prospects to discover if IoT can add value to their business. The questions can also help you to determine the existing IoT […]
Building practice around new technologies or skill sets can be a daunting task for the IT consulting companies. Consulting firms face many challenges in marketing their expertise despite having subject matter experts on their bench. We use an integrated methodology to market the technical skills of consultants & consulting firms. The following framework can be used […]
Here are the links to some of the integration and application development projects that Allied Consultants accomplished recently. Allied Consultants is a solution design and implementation firm specializing in the integration of systems, devices, and processes. The article is a brief summary of what we did in each case. We’d be glad to share details if […]
We have developed this training as an answer to a question that plagues a lot of ASP.NET developers. Is it appropriate for me to learn SharePoint? Our answer is a big yes and a small no. A big yes because “SharePoint is just another ASP.NET application“. A small no because the learning curve for SharePoint (SP hereafter) […]
Customer Background Customer Profile: German multinational automotive manufacturer Country of Deployment: Germany Industry: High-tech. Automobile Manufacturing Challenge The automotive company planned to execute the soft-prototyping of all the automobile models that it produced throughout its globally located factories. A major challenge was designing the simulation process of the whole manufacturing process of the automobile based […]
The internet of things claims to connect “things” to the internet. When envisioning projects, an understanding of the sensors available and the price range for sensors serve as starting points. We wanted to break things down and figure out what broad category of sensors are available. We’ve broken things down to the sensor level. You will also […]
In September 2014, Forrester Research conducted an online survey of 593 organizations in 16 countries. Respondents were IT decision-makers responsible for IoT initiatives in their respective companies. Following are the main challenges that respondents identified from a technical implementation perspective. In this post, we explore, what these challenges mean for a retailer. 1. INFRASTRUCTURE & […]