What’s stopping 3D printing from growing faster? We often hear about how 3D printing provides us with design freedom, part consolidation, zero tooling, and just-in-time inventory. The list of technical advantages it provides is endless. Even though 3D printing yields us with a number of benefits, companies are still struggling to find ways to incorporate the technology into their product development and manufacturing operations.

Wohler’s Report 2014 says that 3D printing or additive manufacturing makes up to less than 2% of the entire manufacturing market. It is because this technology, also termed by the…

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4 things you need to know about application consolidation Application consolidation lets you run multiple, independent applications on optimized hardware. It enables you to streamline your resources and remove redundant functionalities. Also, it reduces complexity and allows better utilization of computing resources. This is why several companies having bloated application portfolios turn to application consolidation

Even though application consolidation offers several benefits, consolidation projects have a high risk of failure. This is because many consolidation projects are poorly planned, costly, and time-consuming. This results in…

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How is UX for internet of things different? The best ways to design new IoT devices and experiences are still being figured out, or stumbled upon. There are a wide variety of contexts in which the interactions can happen, especially for Internet of Things devices. However, even academic researchers have not published enough papers on cross-platform design.

There are many challenges and constraints in designing an internet of things interface which will be new to designers who are accustomed to pure digital services. We discuss here challenges…

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Devising a long-term cloud strategy with independent scaling Organizations and enterprises today are showing great interest in cloud. Companies are moving their social and line-of-business applications to SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS environments. This means that there will be greater demand from enterprises over time to migrate database and analytic workloads to the cloud. This is the reason that enterprises and organizations now are seeking new cloud-based approaches to accommodate their growing requirements.

One such approach is called Independent scaling. Independent scaling is also called as separation of storage and computing resources. It has enabled data and analytics leaders to solve scalability and…

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The software behind 3D printing 3D printing, also known as additive manufacturing, is a process of making three-dimensional solid objects from a digital file. 3D objects are created using additive processes. In this process, an object is created by laying down successive layers of material until the object gets created. You can see these layers as thinly sliced horizontal cross-sections of the produced object.

The additive process is quite simple. It starts with making a virtual design of the object. This virtual design can be a CAD (Computer Aided Design) file. This CAD file…

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Algorithmic pricing models in BFSI It’s the holiday half of the year. Halloween, Christmas and New Year will follow one another. As festivities are round the corner, almost all of us will soon indulge in shopping and vacationing. So cab rides to the malls, booking of hotel rooms, purchasing air tickets, and ordering gifts online, is what the next few months would look like.

However, considering the smart millennials that we are, we’re going to do all of that at the best available price. That is to say, avoid surging fares on cab rides,…

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Application Rationalization: 5 steps to success Today, majority of enterprises have thousands of applications deployed on their network. But, many of them tend to use fewer applications then what they have currently. Also, they lack the discipline to remove older and obsolete applications. This leads to application bloating which has become a significant problem to companies causing a loss of millions of dollars a year.

Thus, many organizations are resorting to application consolidation. In our previous blog, we spoke about different ways to consolidate your applications. Out of those steps, application rationalizations provide huge scope…

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