This post defines the persona that can be used by Information Technology firms who are planning inbound marketing initiatives. It is part of a series of articles on marketing personas used by IT firms. The persona deals with the focus on marketing being on a technology consulting firm that is looking to partner with us to diversify […]
Having worked in the integration space for quite a while, I ended up working on projects for the retail and wholesale industries. Invariably, one of the key systems involves in warehouse management systems or WMS. While each customer was usually a segment or a subset of a broader reference integration roadmap, I thought it might […]
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I have been involved in consulting for about 20 years now, and I think one of the biggest challenges (in the long term) for consulting firms is building a sense of ownership and fairness within the company. One of the biggest problems with people, in general, is that they overvalue what they do and undervalue […]
Resource Management in Information Technology There is a whole host of technology available nowadays to ensure that your IT hardware resources manages efficiently. You may have a data center in-house, and a few cloud nodes/services/apps which together may constitute your investment in hardware. That would translate to resource capacity: memory, disk, and processor. In the […]
Synchronous vs Async pipelines Synchronous big data pipelines are a series of data processing components that get triggered when a user invokes an action on a screen. e.g. clicking a button. The user typically waits till a response receives to intimate the user of the results. In contrast in asynchronous implementation, the user initiates the […]
There’s a lot of interest nowadays in microservices-based integration patterns. This appears to be nothing more than an evolution of SOA – “SOA done right” as some call it. The services are lighter (usually REST/JSON based), smaller/more atomic (hence the “micro”), and built on managed, scalable architecture. Here are a few things to think about […]
Purchasing process Awareness Stage Planing and Consideration Build Operate Discussion of personas PM Developer Sharepoint BizTalk Consulting firm / Subcontracting target Standard pitch to personas Q&A: what would you pitch to persona xxx Offshore vs Onshore How the pie is split Offshore is generally a delivery engine Overall sales process Products vs Services Onshore vs. […]
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A Professional Services tool enabling users to – Create and Plan tasks – Log hours against these tasks – Track what deliverables got produced from these tasks – What skills were used/are required against tasks – Developing a user skill profile – Develop an accurate company skill profile and track its change over time – […]