Idea in brief Managing an integration practice is significantly different than managing integration projects. With it comes all the on-going challenges such as hiring, delivery, training, and transitioning between projects. I have identified four major challenges that an integration practice lead has to address. These are low leverage, fragmented project pipeline, high bench cost and systematic […]
Microsoft announced the release of SharePoint 2016 Preview back in August 2015. I sat down with one of our Sr. SharePoint consultants, Bilal Amjad, to understand what it means for the enterprise customers of SharePoint and the broader developer community. Below is the quick Q&A session I had with Bilal. Q. How will the SharePoint […]
This blog post contains part III of Big Data training conducted by Khurram M. Pirzada, Hadoop Lead at Allied Consultants. Part I & part II of the training can be watched by visiting the following links. Big Data Training Part I Big Data Training Part II Ergonomics of Big Data Vol 5 Video transcript Welcome […]
Big Data training: Theory behind Big Data Part II “Data scientist is the sexiest job of 21st century”, as quoted in an article in Harvard Business Review written by D.J. Patil (former data scientist at LinkedIn) and Davenport, senior adviser at Deloitte Analytics. This is just half the story, and probably the shining half. The other half […]
The video recording is Vol 1 of the Hadoop Stack training delivered by Allied Consultants. Training was conducted by Khurram M Pirzada, Hadoop Lead at Allied Consultants. The training was moderated by Sharjeel Sohaib, lead content developer at Allied Consultants. Vol 1 of the training video gives an overview of: What is Big Data? Why, where […]
We sat down with Khurram M. Pirzada, Big Data practice lead at Allied Consultants to ask him about the main challenges that developers come across an Apache Cassandra database (and NoSQL databases in general). Here are the major issues, along with their solutions that Pirzada highlighted. 1. Read-time Degradation “Relational databases cannot handle very large […]
CASE STUDY [THE BUSINESS PORTAL] “It was difficult for an organization of our size to collaborate across various projects, geographic areas and time zones. Thanks to My Work Book; it has provided me the Ariel view I needed to manage on-going tasks and the people on which we rely for project delivery. I can now conveniently […]