Application Modernization leveraging Modern UI Frameworks
28th August 2020
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Application Modernization leveraging Modern UI Frameworks

Most software-driven enterprise that use and support legacy applications to run their business-critical process face an unmitigated risk of a legacy burden. These applications are typically incompatible with technologies like cloud, analytics, and mobility, limiting enterprises from achieving innovation and success in the disruptive, digital world.  

Application Modernization is one of the things enabling organizations to adopt current technologies and implement cloud services through a process of refactoring business applications to align better with current business needs. Many C-suite executives acknowledge the fact that legacy application modernization is a high priority for many business imperatives. The business demand for application modernization service is estimated to increase from $6.87 billion in 2017 to $16.67 billion by 2022. Yet, businesses are unsure of the right strategy and the correct way to move forward. 

While choosing an application, it’s essential to be aware of the different conventional approaches, their pitfalls as well as the quick fixes. 

Choosing the Best Framework for Web Development 

As web application is evolving, web development is turning out to be challenging. Javascript frameworks like React, Vue, and Angular offer tools and code that allow users to create potent web applications. Adopting the right framework speeds up the development time and simplifies the development process allowing users to build sophisticated and modern user interfaces on the web. 

React 

Created and managed by Facebook, React is an effective, declarative, and resilient open-source JavaScript library. It is used for creating simple, fast, and scalable frontends of web applications. Currently, over 220,000 live websites are using React along with the industry giants such as Apple, Netflix, and Paypal. 

When compared to other popular front-end frameworks like Angular and Vue, React is much easier to learn. It helps to build a rich user interface and allows developers to write their components, reuse codes, and create a modularized design. This makes apps easier to maintain and build upon, enabling complex infrastructure that is more easily developed and scaled.  

React’s Virtual DOM implementation and rendering optimizations make it fast, which significantly reduces page load time, making it SEO friendly. Developers using React have to make their own design choices. It updates often and sometimes can be challenging to stay with the latest documentation.  

Vue 

Vue is the newest JS framework, established with features to overcome the complications that developers face with Angular and React. It is a progressive framework for JavaScript used to build single-page applications just with the knowledge of HTML, both desktop and mobile app development with the Electron framework and more complex web interfaces. 

Vue is adopted by industry giants such as Adobe, Behance, Alibaba, Gitlab, and Xiaomi. It offers detailed documentation that helps create a low learning curve for developers. It uses virtual DOM for faster and better performance in comparison to the other frameworks. Though Vue applications integrate easily into an existing framework with no negative effect on the system, it offers fewer resources than React and Angular. 

Angular 

Angular is the popular framework of Javascript that uses DOM and is best suited for the one-page applications where content is occasionally updated. It has a good range of features, empowering developers from templates to testing utilities. 

Developers can use HTML as the template language and extend HTML syntax for expressing the application components.  AngularJS data binding and dependency removes much of the need for coding. It uses TypeScript which provides great support for type checking and another external tooling.  

Angular is supported by Google and is a reliable framework to learn. Its language service allows for autocomplete inside of component external HTML template files, speeding up the development. Because of the many features of this framework, it slows down the performance as compared to React and Vue. 

Building Desktop Applications with Electron Framework 

Electron framework, developed by GitHub, enables developers to write cross-platform desktop applications using technology languages such as JavaScript, HTML, and CSS. The framework combines front end and back end components for web applications to develop the desktop GUI applications. The electron framework does this by combining Chromium, for the front end, and Node.js for the backend requirement, into a single run-time environment. 

Open-source developers, startups, and established companies highly use Electron to build desktop applications. The reasons why it has become so popular are: 

  • The electron framework always comes with the latest version of Node.js and Chromium. Thus developers can use cutting edge platform features supported by both.  
  • It comes with several APIs that have access to operating system features.  
  • The framework delivers direct access to Node.js API, NPI module from web pages within the application. 
  • Electron doesn’t require any extra skillset besides HTML, Javascript, and CSS. Hence no need to invest in learning a new programming language. The existing development team can easily gel with electron technology and start with building apps. This saves a huge amount of time and cuts down costs. 

iLink’s Application Modernization Strategy and Service 

Modernization isn’t just limited to legacy applications or outdated software that are on the verge of expiration. It is a modern approach for next-Gen applications that strengthens both customer and business-centric processes. iLink helps organizations to achieve the flexibility and agility necessary for digital transformation and cloud rearchitecting. 

Learn more about our services to accelerate your digital transformation. 

Cloud-Native - Empowering Modern Application Development
18th August 2020
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Cloud-Native – Empowering Modern Application Development

Today enterprises need software that helps them drive innovation, meet market demands, and keep business operations agile. Though they have adopted cloud strategies and migrated applications to the cloud, businesses are finding it challenging to get high computing power services for developers and generate suitable ROI. 

They are now looking to adopt a cloud-native approach with applications that are explicitly designed to operate on the cloud. Companies can use these applications to work remotely accessing the same content and features from multiple devices when user bases are in the millions and dispersed around the globe.  

The Cloud-Native application allows businesses to capitalize on the full power of the cloud, and increase scalability, improve flexibility, decrease time to market, deliver better customer satisfaction, and  reduce overall costs.  

Understanding Cloud-Native Applications 

Cloud-Native Applications are applications developed using cloud-based technology, hosted and managed in the cloud throughout the entire lifecycle.  They are designed to deliver business value including better security, top performance, and improved customer experience. They help accelerate new application processes, optimize the existing one, and connect them all to keep pace with business needs. 

Cloud-native applications are not limited to a particular public cloud infrastructure. They are specifically designed to supply a stable development and automatic management experience across private, public, and hybrid clouds. The development and delivery of Cloud Native applications are multidimensional, affecting culture, process, architecture, and technology. 

The essentials of Cloud-Native Applications – Development and Deployment 

Cloud-native application development is about designing and running applications that take full advantage of the cloud computing model. These models are based on the following-  

Service-Based Architecture 

Service-based architecture, such as microservices, is at the core of the cloud-native application architecture. Each microservice accomplishes a different function, like implementing, communicating, or running a particular process. They mainly operate without any assistance and hence are called loosely coupled. 

With the help of microservices, the developers can make changes without having to update or affect the whole application. This service-based design helps organizations increase application development speed without increasing complexity. Microservices are packed into containers that further assist a developer’s ability to change only a particular group of microservices.  

API-Based Communication 

All businesses engage in extensive internal and external communication. API-based communication help businesses create new capabilities and opportunities, reduce complexity and overhead deployment. 

The API-based design allows communication through service interface calls over the network, reducing the risk of direct linking, shared memory models, or direct reads of another team’s datastore. All the communication APIs can be integrated into a single existing solution cost-effectively. This design extends the reach of applications and services to different devices and forms, improving productivity, streamlined workflows, and enhanced collaboration. 

Container-Based Infrastructure  

Cloud-native applications rely on containers performing a well-defined task, for a standard operational model across technology environments. They include all the software settings, libraries, and other dependencies needed to run them.  

Containers help accelerate the development and deployment process across different environments and infrastructures, including public, private, and hybrid. It uses operating system virtualization capabilities for dividing the computing resources among multiple applications while ensuring that the applications stay secure and isolated from each other. 

Cloud-Native applications are highly scalable and can add on more capacity through automation within the container infrastructure. It allows them to be environment-agnostic as they can be hosted inside the same virtual machine or physical server. They eliminate application conflicts between developers and operations teams, enabling greater collaboration between developers and testers. 

DevOps Processes 

DevOps processes for Cloud-Native approaches follow agile methods with continuous delivery to increase the velocity of the business.  The goal of DevOps is to align everyone with the same tools and a standard set of priorities. It focuses on building and delivering applications collaboratively by development, quality assurance, security, IT operations, and other teams involved.  

The path to Cloud-Native Application Journey 

  • Regardless of the industry or size, the cloud-native approach requires the development and IT operations team to evolve in many different ways to build and deploy applications faster and more efficiently. 
  • Many organizations find it hard to replace their legacy applications as they are crucial to the business operations and drive revenue generation. While integrating such legacy systems with cloud-native applications, it’s better to move the existing monolithic architecture to a more modular, service-based architecture and API-based communication. 
  • In order to speed up software development, reusable components such as caching service, workflow engine, integration connectors, data virtualization service, serverless framework, etc. must be optimized and integrated into the underlying cloud-native infrastructure. 
  • Cloud-native development requires determining the right tool for the right task, i.e., the right blend of frameworks, languages, and architecture to support the specific development requirement and update in line with technological changes. 
  • Providing self-service allows developers to access the infrastructure they need, and whenever they need it. But it requires control and visibility by the IT operation team to turn out as a useful model. 
  • IT or infrastructure automation can be integrated to eliminate manual tasks and accelerate the delivery of cloud-native applications. It can be easily integrated into and component right from network and infrastructure provisioning to application deployment and configuration management. 

Why build Cloud Native applications with iLink Digital? 

No matter what industry, businesses are more and more reliant on technology at the center of their business strategy. This requires the development of new applications to deliver higher quality customer service. iLink understands this need for improvements across architecture, infrastructure, and processes. We help organizations explore the cloud-native journey and drive innovation and speed within the enterprise. 

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30th July 2020
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iLink’s CEO, Sree Balaji is Featured in the Coffee Table Book Edition of The Economic Times

Bothell,WA, July, 30th, 2020 – iLink Digital, a global software solution provider, achieves another milestone as the CEO, Sree Balaji gets featured in the Coffee Table Book Edition of The Economic Times. He is featured as one of the Most Promising Business Leaders of Asia 2019. First and foremost, he is grateful to iLink’s employees, clients, and business partners of the company for making this possible.

Sree Balaji co-founded iLink Systems in 2002 as his first full-time business venture. During his time in school, he would come up with plans but his ideas culminated in an actual business when he was completing his studies from BITS-Pilani. Along with his co-founder, Sridhar Mahadevan, iLink began as a start-up operation and today it is one of the top technology solution providers.

He says, “Tremendous positivity kept me going. Not a single thought of taking a U-turn ever touched my mind. I kept believing that iLink would sail through every crisis. I have always believed that iLink will continue to grow.” Sree’s strong technology management and consulting background helped iLink translate its business objectives into effective software products and solutions.

Under Sree’s leadership, iLink has won a place in the Inc5000 list of fastest-growing companies 4 times in a row. iLink was also recognized as one of the top 50 technology solutions providers in the Seattle area. iLink maintains a strong relationship with Microsoft, receiving multiple Partner of the Year Awards. He is responsible for the company’s growth strategy, vision, and performance. He leads daily business operations and directs development and execution. iLink is now even expanding into Canada and soon, Latin America.

Sree’s passion and beliefs have also resulted in building a company centered around a triple bottom line. iLink determines success holistically, based not only on our financial impact but viewing our social & environmental responsibilities as integral parts of our overall organizational wellbeing.

When he’s not working, Sree enjoys reading Sanskrit and studying history. He is deeply invested in giving back to his community as a Chairman for the Agastya Foundation Board.

28th July 2020
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Diena Lee Mann, Interim CEO of RedSky & Fiind (iLink Subsidiaries), Recognized by Puget Sound Business Journal’s “40 Under 40” Award

Diena Lee Mann, Interim CEO of RedSky & Fiind (iLink Subsidiaries), has been named an honoree of Puget Sound Business Journal’s “40 Under 40” award, which acknowledges dynamic industry leaders in the Seattle area.

Diena is an entrepreneurial technology leader with a track record of success in working with enterprises to develop digital solutions that accelerate growth, yield operational efficiencies, and mitigate risks. Her focus is on delivering exceptional customer experience and engineering successful business outcomes.  Within iLink, Diena has illustrated her leadership as a mentor and advocate for employee engagement. 

In addition to her professional work, Diena is an active participant in the advancement of STEM.  At YearUp, Diena works with young adults from underserved communities to improve their employment outcomes through technical education. She is also a member of ARCS, an organization that promotes US competitiveness by providing financial awards to academically outstanding PhD students in STEM at leading research universities.  

Diena holds MA in Applied Statistics and BS in Statistics, both from the University of Michigan.  She is a passionate advocate for classical music, and as a board director of Seattle Symphony, one of her goals is to enhance reach and engagement through digital experiences.

About the Program 

The Puget Sound Business Journal started ‘40 under 40’ program 22 years ago to acknowledge dynamic business leaders under the age of 40. The magazine shares stories of such individuals from the business community and celebrates their success with an award program. The aim to start such an initiative was to bring these individuals together from all sectors into a powerful network of young business leaders and make even greater contributions to the region’s economy and civic dialog. 

Each year the Puget Sound Business Journal publishes a special 40 Under 40 section in print and online and recognizes all 40 honorees at the 40 Under 40 Awards Luncheon, which will be held in September 2020. 

See the full list and read more here : https://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/news/2020/07/28/40-under-puget-sound-business-journal-2020.html?iana=hpmvp_sea_news_headline 

7 Top Digital Transformation Trends Shaping The Telecom Industry In 2020
7th July 2020
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7 Top Digital Transformation Trends Shaping The Telecom Industry In 2020

Over the past few years, the telecom industry has witnessed a heavy decline of revenue streams in core areas like voice and text messaging along with severe competition from Over-the-Top service providers.

Today the telecom industry is poised to undergo a digital transformation due to the swift emergence of IoT and 5G. Their services need to be customer-centric, improve efficiency, and add high-value margin by gradually moving from traditional services.

Just as cloud computing has changed the world of data, it is now changing the way the telecom industry operates. Many organizations have adopted cloud-hosted solutions to streamline data delivery and utilize a single supplier for voice & data services. The new wave of digitalization has offered new prospects of growth, increased innovation, and opportunities for communication services.

How the Telecom Industry is Leveraging Digital Transformation

Telecom industries are undergoing massive structural change turning their customer channels, content and communication services digital, creating a new ecosystem of value. Providers are trying to adopt high performing networks to meet customer’s needs and wants in this digital era. Here are several trends that are causing a dramatic change in the telecom industry.

5G Network – The Network of Today and Tomorrow

There are 3 billion internet users around the globe. Billions of these users prefer smartphones as their primary internet access point. With smartphones now helping users manage important tasks in their lives, consumers are looking for high capacity networks that promise faster access to applications and richer services. This can be enabled by 5G and wireless broadband, allowing 100 times faster data transfer than 4G, along with high speed, and low latency.

Telecom giants are already using 5G applications and IoT devices to target industry verticals. The Healthcare sector is using telemedicine as a cost-effective and timely means of delivering diagnoses and treatments. Connected cars are improving means of transportation and traffic infrastructure. The education sector is using e-learning as the world is adjusting to the new normal amidst COVID.

Telecoms are expanding into all sorts of sectors by automating processes for online customers and offering a whole set of technologies to make telecommunications better.

Artificial Intelligence

As the telecom industry is heavily based on technological advances, many are already using AI technology such as virtual assistants, chatbots, and tools to improve customer experience and satisfaction.

These solutions offer unmatched ability to process and analyze an enormous amount of big data that provides valuable insights to improve the quality of service and increase revenue. It is also hard at work predicting future actions needed to reach specific business goals.

Artificial intelligence provides new ways to optimize network maintenance, predictive maintenance, and customer service costs allowing operators to prepare personalized offers for their B2C and B2B customers. AI also detects problems in the network, allows self-healing, and protects networks from any fraudulent activities. 

Internet of Things and Telematics

The Internet of Things has transformed the roles of telecom service providers to enable better communication between people and devices. The adoption of IoT helps the telecom industry monitor base stations and data centers remotely. This ensures minimal downtime for the network, enhances business procedures, and generates more revenue.

Telecom industries are developing innovative methods and applications to monetize IoT solutions to benefit from these emerging technologies and improve their business processes. Businesses can also implement business models like SaaS, PaaS, and BaaS to utilize IoT effectively and decide which application is beneficial for their organization.

The strategy here is to simplify IoT processes and data and accelerate its adoption in major vertical sectors like health care, energy, and connected smart cities.

Big Data

IoT is enabling telecom companies to acquire enormous amounts of data with help of sensors in mobile devices and apps. Companies need to ensure that their network can move this data  efficiently and continue to support new technologies.

Telecom industries can use the collected data to generate crucial business insights and understand customer usage patterns. Ultimately the data can be utilized to improve customer service, evaluate new products as well as monitor and optimize the network. Big data helps companies build stronger businesses and use it to their competitive advantage.

Robotic Process Automation (RPA)

The telecommunication industry has one of the highest adoption rates for RPA technology. It offers high levels of scalability and agility as it takes over the repetitive and rule-based tasks or processes such as responding to customer queries, report generation, price tracking, etc.

It enables companies with the right tools to easily manage back-office work such as maintaining data integrity and security, employee salaries, marketing, and advertising, and hardware & software costs.

This gives time to employees to work on more crucial tasks, develop deeper customer relationships, increase operational efficiencies, and troubleshoot delays in the service delivery to the customer.

Cloud Computing

Most telecom providers rely on a large computing infrastructure to deliver a diverse set of applications, manage data, and bill services. Migrating to the cloud reduces internal computing resource needs as well as internal costs while increasing revenue streams.

The pay per use service model helps telecoms to introduce new services, reduce the cost of the service, and work more effectively as per the market demands. By adopting cloud technology, telecom industries can switch important business functions to the cloud and benefit from its efficiency.

Cyber Security

The telecommunication sector is one of the most vulnerable sectors when it comes to cybersecurity. With telecom companies having large customer bases, there are abundant opportunities for malicious attacks to gain unauthorized access to their data.

When a major telecom service provider’s infrastructure is under attack, the consequences could potentially affect a whole country and it’s businesses, consumers, and the government agencies. It also has major ramifications over the telecom brand’s reputation and trustworthiness.

By adopting a holistic approach, telecom providers are more able to detect threats, take up prevention measures, and support resilience when attacked.

How iLink Helps Telecoms Deliver the Right Benefits

Nearly everyone turns to telecommunication companies to keep them connected with diverse, global networks and provide the fastest, most affordable, cutting edge services. Yet many telecommunication providers are burdened with rapid growth, managing large amounts of data, controlling costs, and trying to increase business agility.

iLink can identify these pain points that pose significant challenges in delivering services to customers and create solutions accordingly. We help telecommunication providers to transform operational processes, achieve a high level of organizational growth, and enhance the quality of their offerings.

Learn more about our services.

Improve Productivity With Birdie
2nd July 2020
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Birdie – A Virtual Assistant To Enhance Productivity Within Organizations

Organizations around the Globe have moved towards remote office setups driven by the current situation; many of them permanently!

According to a report from Global Workplace Analytics, starting 2021 over 10 million employees will be working remotely during the majority of the work week.

The need to interact and work with remote teams has therefore increased dramatically in a short time. While the positive impact of remote teams continues to surge, there are several day-to-day management issues that large teams and bigger organizations face. If you are a project manager or team lead or department head, chances are you are spending most of your time doing one of the following

  • Scheduling follow up calls to track work progress
  • Creating spreadsheets to assign or manage tasks
  • Opening multiple channels of communication (e-mail, virtual meetings, phone calls) simultaneously

Upwork recently reported that 73% of all Organizations will have remote workers by 2028. With this rise in need, collaboration tools such as Slack or Microsoft Teams become crucial. iLink & Purpleslate have used the potential of these apps to build a new interactive assistant that enhances productivity within organizations.

As pioneers in the field of Conversational AI, we are ready to launch Birdie – our virtual assistant that can help businesses of all sizes to reduce the time spent on team status huddles and work management. We do not see Birdie as a replacement to the to-do list or project management tools. Birdie is rather focused on decluttering the laundry list of tasks and organizing them in a resolvable, structured dashboard. In short, Birdie gives the ‘bird’s eye view’ of everything the team is up to by substituting hours of phone calls and juggling multiple reports. Here is a video of how Birdie can fly into your work life and change it forever.

So, what is it like to have Birdie?

  • Keep the communication lines open within the organization
  • Monitor team, without micromanaging
  • Reduce the update clutter in heavily crowded stand-ups and long-running calls
  • Improve team productivity
  • Reduce status-update overhead
  • Document for future reading and follow-ups

If you are an active user of Slack, Teams, or Google Chat, Birdie comes to the rescue. You can invite Birdie to any of your project teams, Channels, Groups, or Rooms and let her do the job for you.

To know more about our virtual assistant or set-up one for your business, please visit https://www.ilink-digital.com/services/conversational-ai-services/ or get in touch with an expert.

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