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It’s a good time to get in on the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) market. The global SaaS market is forecast to reach $157 billion in 2020 — more than double the size in 2014. The average spend for SaaS applications per company has steadily risen each year over the last decade. A number of trends, such as AI-empowered SaaS and vertical SaaS, are expected to expand opportunities even more. Front-end Decision-making for SaaS Projects So, let’s say you’ve decided to

For many companies whose operations involve multiple websites and/or applications, AWS cloud services have proven invaluable. They’re cost effective, highly scalable, and reliable. Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), in particular, provides exceptional value by making web-scale cloud computing easier for developers. One of the typical mistakes, however, is low reliability and lack of redundancy when running multiple apps on a single EC2 instance. Competing for resources on a solitary EC2 instance, as well as traffic bursts, can

In a few short weeks, the coronavirus pandemic has disrupted businesses in every industry. Leaders and employees are having to adapt quickly to the realities of remote work. Many are facing new operational challenges in addition to tremendous financial pressure. The transition has been easier for some than others. Although virtual conferencing platforms alleviate many issues, they can’t solve every problem for businesses that depend on in-person interactions. Fortunately, ClearScale is insulated from many of the impacts of the

The data explosion of the last decade has added numerous new terms to the IT lexicon for managing that data. Among them is the data lake, a scalable, low-cost, centralized data repository for storing raw data from a variety of sources. It enables users to store data as-is without structuring it first and then run different types of analytics to gain insights and guide better decision-making. Market trends show the growing popularity of data lakes. According to Mordor Intelligence in

As competition for prime careers becomes a global, borderless race to the peak of excellence, local school districts are struggling to keep pace. Educational professionals scramble to deploy 21st-century solutions across STEM-facing disciplines hampered by 20th-century funding. This mounting demand for a graduating workforce literate in tech skills — cloud development, data analysis — is often outside the realm of traditional teacher competency. In addition, online classes without teachers are also fast becoming the norm in many places. As budgets crumble and

When it comes to modernizing and migrating Windows workloads, the question isn’t as much “should I do it” as “how should I do it??” One of the best ways — for many reasons — is to use AWS. AWS has offered cloud services longer than any other cloud services provider. By helping thousands of Windows users move to the cloud, AWS has developed a deep knowledge of the ins and outs of Windows workload modernization and migration. Experience, Flexibility and More

From sales forecasting to virtual personal assistants, machine learning (ML) has become integral to many common business processes and applications. Its power lies in enabling organizations to identify trends and patterns — many of which are imperceptible or difficult to detect by people — from large, diverse data sets. In addition, ML helps automate data analysis, significantly reducing times and costs. It’s also less error-prone, and enables organizations to deliver more personalized services and differentiated products. However, using the technology has

The cloud has drastically changed the business world. To keep pace with and support those changes — and in some cases drive them, the field of application development has had to make its own changes. Among those dominating our attention in 2020 is the change to cloud application development. Cloud-native: Beyond the Fads Cloud-native app development refers to designing apps that don’t just reside in the cloud. They’re purpose-built, deployed, and managed to leverage the cloud’s elastic scalability

Medical coding plays a key role in the healthcare industry. It enables both providers and payors to describe diagnoses and treatments, and to determine the associated costs and reimbursements. It’s also complicated, time-consuming, and prone to errors. A recent collaboration between ClearScale, AWS, and Creative Practice Solutions, a medical consulting firm, has yielded an application prototype to help overcome those issues. Powered by AWS artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) services, the app translates recorded medical appointment notes

When it comes to application development, native is the way to go to ensure high performance. It also yields a better user experience (UX). The problem is that a native app is built exclusively for a single mobile operating system (OS), meaning it’s “native” only for a particular platform or device. The same code can’t be deployed on different platforms. To make the app work across multiple OSs requires creating it natively for each one. That requires significant