Reasons You Should Consider a Mobile App for Your Business

Do you own an iPhone? (or a Droid?) How about your customers, prospects, and employees? Many people now own the next generation of cell phones that do so much more than just make calls! Smart-phones have become a must-have technology for everyone from school children for CEOs.

While each different smartphone has its advantages and disadvantages, the abundance of available apps that can benefit a business is great. With the growing use of smartphones, the ease of use and the diverse functionality–it may be time for you to consider a mobile application for your business. Here are a few questions you should ask yourself: 

Why is it beneficial to have your own mobile application?

Mobile applications can give employees the ability to access information easily from anywhere there is an internet connection. Increase employee productivity by given them access nearly everywhere and anytime.

What applications do you wish were available to  help build your business?

Mobile applications can be used in your business, or to help your business. Besides increasing access to software and information for your staff, mobile applications can be used to promote your business, make it easier for your customers to reach you, order product, or give their feedback. If there isn’t an ideal application already available, you could have a custom application built just for you!

Could you use mobile applications to increase your revenue?

You could sell access to your app and create a revenue-generator. Do you have a great idea? Would your clients pay a nominal fee to have an additional functional application? Use your application to build a following and make money for your business.

Are you interested in learning more about mobile applications? Give Digital Sabre a call at  877-630-7371.

Mobile Applications Categories

Many mobile applications, such as SMS/MMS  clients (Short Messaging Service/Multimedia Messenging Service), browsers and music players, come pre-installed on mobile phones. Other apps are downloaded free or purchased later by users who can download the applications over the wireless network and then install them themselves. (In some cases, users can have apps loaded and installed by the mobile operator).

Yet, regardless of how mobile applications are delivered to users, the app market is large and growing–and more and more developers, publishers and providers are getting into the game.

Mobile applications are catagorized by their runtime environment. Each of these have advantages and if a customized mobile application is something in which you are interested, we can work with you to determine the pros and cons of the following for your app:

• Native platforms and operating systems, (including Symbian, Windows Mobile and Linux).

• Mobile Web/browser runtimes, (including Webkit, Mozilla, Opera Mini and RIM).

• Other managed platforms and virtual machines, (including Java/J2ME, BREW, Flash Lite and Silverlight)

Digital Sabre designs and builds custom mobile applications for businesses looking for a competitive edge. Be it for efficiency or brand-building, prospecting, or sales, mobile applications can open up a whole new market to businesses positioned to take advantage of this technology.

Contact us at through our contact form or call us at 877-630-7371.

Digital Sabre: Mobile Applications Overview

Mobile applications are a rapidly developing segment of the global cell phone and portable market, and Digital Sabre is at the forefront of custom business development. Mobile apps essentially consist of software that runs on a mobile device, such as a cell phone or iPad) and performs certain tasks for the user of the mobile phone/device. These can be scanners, bar readers, GPS applications, email or chat, or a host of other useful business tools.

Also known as downloadables, because they are downloaded from the Internet, mobile applications are common on most phones in the US, Canada, Asia and Europe, now including some of the more inexpensive, entry-level models. Their wide use is due to the many functions they perform, including providing user interfaces for basic telephony and messaging services, as well as for advanced services such as games and videos. Almost every mobile phone user can see the benefit of mobile applications and the availability of functional and fun apps is growing!

Digital Sabre designs and builds custom mobile application for businesses looking for a competitive edge. Be it for efficiency or brand-building, prospecting, or sales, mobile applications can open up a whole new market to businesses positioned to take advantage of this technology.

Contact us at through our contact form or call 877-630-7371 if you are interested in learning more about how your company could benefit from custom mobile applications.

Quality Assurance – How & Why

Once a software product undergoes different stages of development, a big task is to employ quality assurance strategies to ensure that the software properly works in the client’s environment. The quality assurance (QA) of a software product is an ongoing and organic process, which should start in the very beginning of the development process.  QA should be ongoing thru the life of the product.  If software is not properly put through a QA process, it can be disastrous!  Not from bugs or kinks, but because the product does not work within the client’s needed parameters. If the end software product is not developed according to the needs and requirements of company, the client might have to face big time losses.

This makes QA incredibly important. The QA team have several important tasks to meet during any project:

    * They must ensure flexibility of the product, is it capable of getting adapted in atmospheres of different companies installing it.

    * They must ensure the customization characteristics of product, again, is it capable of being customized according to needs of different companies.

    * They must ensure that the end product is going to meet all the standards, processes and procedures already prevailing in different types of companies.

Once QA has been completely done, your software should be ready to conquer any task you toss at it.   The QA process may seem exhaustive and long, but really – after all the money and time you are spending on custom software – you shouldn’t have it any other way.  This is the best way to ensure your new software will work smoothly, and prove to be the valuable asset you wanted it to be. 

OUTSOURCING: A best practice for many businesses

Outsourcing, you might think it is a nasty word.  It’s not, it’s a fact of business life and it works for many companies.  One popular form of outsourcing that many companies are doing is sending their IT development offshore.  Is it un-American?  No.  Is it cost-effective and smart? Yes. 

Application development outsourcing has become the choice of a number of IT-based companies. This outsourcing has evolved from elementary application development to an entire range of robust development options to meet the highly-competitive requirements of clients. Offshore development houses have attracted the attention of American IT companies because there is an incredible surplus of highly skilled, brilliant software programmers working within well-developed IT infrastructures. Plus, this intelligent and talented workforce can provide professional work at incredible turn-around time. Many nations where outsourcing is sent to are in a different time zone.  When they work with a US-based company, your project will be worked on a continuous, round-the-clock basis. This means your project will be completed in a shorter amount of time then it would take with a completely home-based team.

Outsourcing also allows the home company to focus on its core competencies, concentrating on the abilities the business can best deliver.  Most companies ship out the stuff they don’t want to do, and trust others can do for them. The key components, such as project management and customer interaction are kept here, and the home-company concentrates on them, allowing you to get the most, and the best in service and development.

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