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July 27th, 2018

La maturité agile passe par l’excellence technologique (9ème principe du manifeste Agile)

Face aux méthodologies classiques de développement du style cascade ou (semi-)itératif, les organisations sont de plus nombreuses à se tourner vers les méthodologies agiles, estimant que celles-ci leur permettraient de réduire les délais de mise en production d’applications (le fameux time-to-market).

Thierry Scalco - Solution Architect

June 6th, 2018

What to choose: Adaptive Case Management or Business Process Management?

The rise of Adaptive Case Management (ACM) solutions – which started somewhere around 2010 – led to a lot of questions about the value of BPM (Business Process Management). But what’s the real debate? Are the two approaches opposed to each other or complementary?

Geoffroy Simon

April 20th, 2018

Adopting mobile technologies enables competitiveness

Thanks to networks and modern means of communication, frontiers and distances no longer exist. In this world, every business needs to provide its employees and commercial partners with secure access to information systems, at any moment and at any place. Today, businesses produce added value wherever their employees are. And those employees can literally be anywhere, as they happen to be more and more mobile. The development of mobile technologies forces them to integrate new tools into their way of working, to make sure they keep their competitive edge.

Thomas Ashdown

To be truly mobile, a business needs to integrate new tools. At the same time, it needs to adapt its operational processes and rethink an important part of its internal functions, based on applications that are capable of managing data. But what does that imply? Does a business have to turn its entire IT environment upside down? Does it have to start digging into its organizational structures?

February 13th, 2018

Do More with Less: It’s Good for Business.

Companies today operate in a highly dynamic environment: new technologies emerge, regulations change, new forms of competition arise… The pressure is on to boost everything from operational efficiency and customer engagement to quality of service.

Bruno van Marsenille

This places a heavy burden on IT teams and their sourcing vendors who can play a big part in carrying out these transformations. That's why at Aprico, we follow three cardinal Rules -- Smart, Lean and Agile - that we apply simultaneously to help our customers improve business outcomes, mitigate risk and avoid costs.

January 12th, 2018

Follow the Formula for Agile Development

If Agile Development is a hot topic these days, it’s for good reasons. Fast-changing customer requirements, cost overruns and delays call for profound changes in software development. New project management frameworks are needed to adapt to changing conditions and release software more frequently.

Bruno van Marsenille

But Scrum can come to your assistance. It ensures that customers can get exactly what they need when they need it. This framework helps reduce the life cycle of the entire software delivery process. It does, however, require a fair amount of self-discipline.

November 28th, 2017

BPM Done Right

What is BPM Done Right? Today, organizations have countless legacy systems and applications that need to be modernized. Their processes are critical for day-to-day business, from customer onboarding and order processing product or service delivery to exception handling and regulatory compliance.

By Geoffroy Simon

For years, Business Process Management (BPM) technology has been used to address optimization and rationalization issues in work organizations. There’s often a misconception, though, that BPM is mostly about automating workflow in individual processes.

October 17th, 2017

Aprico Consultants DevOps Services

In recent years, DevOps has garnered tremendous interest from organizations as a way of improving business agility by streamlining software development.

The objective is to reduce application backlogs and accelerate software delivery by implementing smaller and shorter development/release cycles.

by Peter Theunissen

Based on carefully orchestrated development, testing, integration, and deployment activities, DevOps requires a disciplined and self-learning and approach that combines People, Processes and Technology.

September 27th, 2017

Use Xamarin To Speed Mobile App Deployments

Aprico Consultants can help you develop compelling mobile apps and services by leveraging the Xamarin Mobile Application Development technology This cross-platform offering lets your development teams write code in C# and quickly converts it into native iOS, Android, and Windows Phone apps.

by Peter Theunissen

More and more companies rely on mobile apps to boost sales, raise productivity and improve customer service. The ever-expanding range of device types, screen sizes and OS versions, however, present unique challenges for mobile app developers. They also must contend with intermittent network connections, as well as user expectations of a simpler experience.

May 11th, 2017

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October 18th, 2016

Who are you? Tell me about yourself

"You had me at hello."

Jerry Maguire

The question is easy: “Who are you” or “tell me about yourself”. It can arise at a networking event, when you meet a client/customer and of course during interviews. Although the question is easy enough I find that a lot of people struggle to give a satisfying answer.