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Society and Technology: Partners in Changing Our Lives Ancient and modern human civilizations have both benefited from and been impeded by the...

The Effects of Technology on Human Interaction, What are they? Technology is more than an abstract concept associated with advanced tools and...

Knowing the Signs to Answer the Question: Is Society too Dependent on Technology? Trying to imagine what life would be like without technology is...

Positive Effects Of Technology That Has Changed Our Lives Technology can be a scary thing, especially for businesses that have found success...

What is a Microprocessor and What You Need to Know Almost everyone uses a computer these days, whether it's at home or at work. In fact, it's...

The Relationship of Technology and Social Change If you look at the past century, you'll be hard-pressed to disagree when it comes to the massive...

We Take a Snapshot View of 10 Open Source or Free Business Dashboard Tools Your business intelligence dashboard is a very useful way to get an...

Best Cross-Platform Mobile Development Tools For Enterprises The ability to develop robust, secure, performance-heavy, cross-platform mobile...

This article has been updated to include new instructions for InfoPath 3013. Click here if you are looking for instructions for InfoPath 2010 or...

What is a Scope of Work Document? If you're hiring someone to do a project for your business (like creating an app or redesigning your website,...

How Long Should My Custom Software Take to Be Built? Developing fully functional and secure custom software for your business enterprise can be a...

The End Of Moore's Law And What Happens Next Computer Technology, Computational Electronics, and Information Technology (IT) have radically...

Specialist Vs Generalist: Evaluating The Value Each Can Bring To Your Team Recruiting the right employees is critical to your company’s success....

What is Disruptive Technology? Technology and Technological Systems not only affect end-users and consumers within different markets and...

What Is Loose Coupling? Loose coupling refers to the connection between components of a system or network, such as software applications or...

.Net Core is Improving Software Development and is Good for Business Current software development frameworks and stacks, which are used by...

How Much Does Software Development Cost? In this day and age, even smaller companies can benefit from investing in custom software solutions....

The Definitive Beginners Guide To Understanding Web Portals Remaining competitive and scaling in the current globalized ecosystem requires...

Custom Week/Month Look Back Range Based on User-Selected Date This tutorial shows you how to create a custom date range “look-back” slicer that is...

Legacy System or Out of Date System: What is the Difference? As Information Technology has evolved over time and has become a core foundation for...

9 Benefits Of Extranets: Why Your Business Needs One Succeeding in the global landscape of small, medium and large enterprises requires that...

Onshore vs. Offshore Development: Compare And Contrast Updating legacy systems or developing new software applications, whether for internal use...

So, you have stumbled upon the Google PageSpeed Insights tool and are mortified by the score your website has received. You are not alone, and...

Figuring Out if Your Company’s Software is HIPAA Compliant The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) is a U.S....

Developing Windows Forms collaboratively using machines with varying screen resolutions can lead to inadvertent (and automatic) changes to form...

Mobile Application Security - Best Practices You Must Know Developing an app for your business is an excellent way to improve your customer...

The relationship you forge with your custom software development firm is ultimately vital to ensure the success of your project. With so many...

The 5 Most Important Best Practices To Keep In Mind When You Create Your Own Client Portal Client portal systems can radically change “business as...

What is Automated Testing? Automated testing is a field within system testing that uses a suite of tools to automate test cases that can output...

What Is An Extranet: Your Client Portal Solution For Collaborations If businesses are to succeed in the current age of global enterprises, they...

Simultaneously Launch iOS and Android or Start With Just One? How to Decide When deciding to launch mobile or tablet applications for business or...

One of my favorite things about Python is its amazing sub process module. As great as it may be though, I still don't want to have to write the...

Problem: You have set up a tabular model or multidimensional cube on an Analysis Services instance. You attempt to connect to this Analysis Services...

How to Get Into Quantum Computing: Impacts on Your Business Like many new technologies often do, quantum computing sounds like science fiction....

Professional Networking For Business Leaders: Ways To Cultivate & Leverage There’s an adage that almost everyone is aware of no matter what...

How to Calculate the Opportunity Cost Associated with Keeping Your Existing Systems Opportunity costs are ubiquitous within Small and...

How To Tell If Offshore Development Is The Right Option For You If companies want to remain competitive globally, they must minimize overhead, use...

Mobile Development: Best Practices You Should Know It wasn't long ago that people primarily used desktops and laptops to surf the web; however,...

How to use a Business Intelligence Dashboard to Measure Your Team's Productivity Operating a successful business requires that your team...

Costs Of Converting an iOS App to the Android Platform Developing an application for one’s personal or business needs comes with many major...

Visual Business Intelligence Dashboards or Reports: Which is Best for Your Business? Reporting is the lifeblood of management in most businesses,...

Relational Database: Your Ultimate Guide to Representing Data Today, small, medium and large businesses face wide-ranging challenges in their...

Collaborate Better in Microsoft SharePoint With These Tips Over the last decade, a large number of novel enterprise software applications,...

Choosing The Right Mobile Development Framework Staying ahead of the curve these days means a business must use every tool at its disposal to...

What the Future of Technology Holds Every generation is shaped by the technology that was introduced during their time. For example, Baby Boomers...

Platform Vs Framework: How Do They Differ? Within the world of development - whether it be mobile development, application development, web...

When it comes to product development, there is no recipe or framework to ensure success asthe qualifications for success will vary from project to...

Deciding Between Freelancers or Software Development Companies: What are The Pros and Cons of Each? After coming up with a great product idea,...

Levels of Automated Testing You Should Expect from Your Custom Software Developer Like most businesses, it is likely your operations depend...

Say Goodbye to Post It Notes, Scrap Paper, and Even Your Word Doc Files, The Digital Age is Here Creating a to-do list has always been an...

What You Need to Know About Comparing PHP and ASP.NET Small, medium and large enterprises in today’s globalized, digital market have a myriad of...

What Exactly is ASP.NET and Why Should You Use it For Your Business Software? Creating dynamic websites and customized applications is an ability...

Has the Rise of the Agile SDLC Completely Replaced Waterfall Development? Has traditional IT code development seen its last day with the...

Making the decision to outsource your business IT systems to custom software development companies requires thought and planning. But first, why...

An End of An Era as Adobe Flash No Longer Supported by 2020 The World Wide Web/Internet has seen a variety of advanced modifications,...

Two things business managers want to improve in their employees are productivity and effectiveness.Unfortunately, these are two of the most...

The Future of Quantum Computing: How we are Gearing To It Computing technology has been advancing at a rapid pace ever since the very first...

Productivity Software in a World of SaaS Based Solutions At its very core, productivity is the effectiveness at which your employees do their job....

CCPA Compliance Checklist: Your Roadmap to Success The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) passed in 2018 following a petition by California...

Productive or Needlessly Busy? 9 Signs That May Indicate Your Technology Is Making You Less Productive. Advancements in technology are often made...

5 Disruptive Technologies That Will Change the Face of Business as We Know It The modern ecosystem of global enterprises is changing due to...

Keeping Your Client Portal Secure Is Life Or Death For Your Business Client Portals are digital bridges that allow clients to utilize a...

Companies across the globe depend on legacy software systems to support many of their core business functions. In fact, almost a full 70% of...

What is CCPA: How Businesses Can Be Held Accountable California has a range of new legislation that is going into effect in 2020 that can...

Interviews are challenging for everyone with candidates obligated to summarize a career’s worth of experience within a cohesive narrative while...

Using Data for Quantitative Forecasting Forecasting is the idea of making good estimates for future performance and potential results....

Cost estimation is a critical aspect of the planning process when embarking on a custom software development venture. However, due to the dynamic...

In today's fast-track world, efficiency is essential in any business. In order to get ahead of the competition, and stay there, you need to employ...

.NET Core is Microsoft’s next major version of .NET. There are many new things to be excited about.  It's modular, it has flexible deployment,...

How to Protect Yourself From CryptoLocker Extortion In an age of increasing cybersecurity threats, it is of the utmost importance for SMEs - as...

What CCPA California Will Mean For Businesses Data privacy has become a hot topic in recent years, especially with major controversies...

Growing businesses increase the need to store more data but the problem that often arises, for many different reasons, is that businesses will...

Businesses have heard a lot of promises from the technology world over the years, ultimately underwhelming users. Unlike magic tools offered by...

11 Ideas About to Happen that Will Change how we see the  the Technology of the Future For a long time, science fiction is what gave us a view of...

Custom Website or a No Code Self-Built Website: What Are The Main Differences? Modern software applications that enable non-technical end-users...

What Exactly is SSO and Why Does Your Business Need It? Today’s world of complex daily workflows and Information Technology (IT) infrastructure...

Embarking on a custom software development project can be a risky process. On average, 66% of software projects with budgets over $15 million...

The Scope of a Project If you're planning a new project, such as a new app or a new website, it's a good idea to define the scope of your...

Just How Safe is The Cloud for Your Company to Use? The modern digital landscape of IT infrastructures utilized by small, medium and large...

A manager called IT and said the program they created was not doing what it was supposed to. The programmer told him to tell his employees they...

In today's business environments there are a great deal of tasks that often require little thought, and are completed by employees manually, many...

Top Software Solutions for Your Business In today's technology-driven world, different software solutions can help to drive your business...

What is the Life Cycle of a Product’s Development? When a company wants to successfully release a new product or service, there are a myriad of...

In today's world of increasing globalization, innovative technologies, and growing transparency, businesses now must master a new ability in order...

Ensure CCPA Compliance With These 3 Factors In 2018, California passed Ab-375, also known as the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). The...

Change the Way You Do Business with Microsoft Azure Data Factory In order for SMEs - and larger enterprises - to both compete and succeed in the...

Is Your Website Prepared For The California Consumer Protection Law? It's rare these days to find a company of any size that doesn't have a...

Top Mobile Development Trends For 2020 Mobile development is one of the most critical aspects of software and hardware development in today’s...

Client Portals: Everything You Need To Know Before You Start A Client Portal Project The development and implementation of a Client Portal will...

Microsoft Power BI Can Benefit and Improve Your Organization In this digital age, data is one of the most important and critical assets a...

Software Development Projects Come With High Visibility The decision to make an investment in any software development project within an...

What Business Metrics Should Be On Your Dashboard Right Now? From a business management perspective, a dashboard system or view is essentially a...

Custom software solutions offer your company the opportunity to increase efficiency by accommodating the unique requirements of your business....

Is MVP For Software Development Only Limited To New Startups? Releasing an MVP (Minimal Viable Product) is something that many businesses are...

What is Machine Learning? Despite common rumor that there is some robot that looks like a human and it is reading books at lightning speed to...

Taming the Custom Software Project Beast Taking on a custom development project is a huge task and one that oftentimes represents a career...

A Straightforward CCPA Vs GDPR Comparison Guide Today it's not uncommon for a company to rely on personal data to create better user experiences...

The Symbiosis of Technology and Privacy The recent century has seen an explosion in the magnitude and quality of advanced technologies that have...

A List of 15 Simple Tasks Easily Automated Right Now Automation can be incredibly beneficial for tasks that are time-consuming and that don't...

Choosing Project Management Tools: 5 Must Have Capabilities Keeping a project organized can be a challenging task, especially when there are...

In a recent interview by CTCI, DJ Wardynski, President of Brainspire Solutions, discusses 3 technology investment areas that have high ROI.

What is the Internet of Things and How Does it Relate To Small to Medium Sized Business? The Internet of Things (IoT) is a modern, conceptual...

Brainspire Solutions, a custom software development consulting firm, is pleased to announce the opening of their Denver, Colorado office.

What Sets Angular, React, Node, and Vue.JS Apart and Which One is Right for You? The software and web development landscape has been radically...

5 Reasons to Take a Look at Your IT Budget and The Future Information Technology (IT) has become a critical infrastructure that is utilized in...

What does MVP Development mean for Existing Companies? In a market that's crowded with companies regularly releasing new products on a yearly...

"If You Can’t Understand It, You’re Reading it Wrong" A few years back, a manufacturing CFO and I were discussing how his company shared data...

What is Blockchain Technology and How Does it Relate to My Business? Blockchain technology is a modern, currently-evolving, revolutionary...

What is Business Intelligence (BI)? According to Wikipedia, Business Intelligence “…comprises the strategies and technologies used by enterprises...

The Business Issue - What Are Soft Skills? The modern corporate ecosystem is typically comprised of executives, senior managers and mid & entry...

Through interviews with dozens of technology executives, Brainspire conducted a research study to find cultural and technical processes and...

Through interviews with dozens of technology executives, Brainspire conducted a research study to find cultural and technical processes and...

How Can You Apply Lean Product Development Approaches To Your Business? Lean product development is a strategy that follows a group of...

How Will Big Data Affect Your Small or Medium Sized Business? Every day businesses, large and small, are already contributing to and benefiting...

The 3rd annual SIMTank event at the new Galvanize was a huge success last evening. SIMTank drew its largest audience yet, and SIM Colorado raised...

Great Clients Get Great Service! DJ Wardynski, President - Brainspire Solutions In Collaboration with Chief Technology Consultants, Inc. (CTCi)  

Taking the Steps for Your Business to Harness and Use Big Data With the arrival of more powerful computing systems (such as cloud computing...

What Is DevOps and Why Is It Suddenly So Popular? DevOps implies the combination of software development methodologies and cultural practices to...

Brainspire Solutions, a Denver based custom software development consulting firm, develops and donates mobile application to raise money for ...

So How Does Machine Learning Work? Machine learning still gives 'the uninitiated' the impression of computers taking over the world, which was...

Simply having a product or service isn't enough to get people interested. No matter how good it is, people won't buy what they don't know exists....

On April 29, 2016 the Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce hosted their 2016 Business Awards Luncheon and highlighted 3 finalists in 6 categories -...

Our goal to become Denver’s most trusted custom software development consulting firm. Because Colorado is an important part of our identity, we...

Technology Ethics and Business Most businesses are well aware of business ethics. Unfortunately, some companies have a habit of foregoing...

What is Artificial Intelligence? Artificial intelligence (AI) has been portrayed in movies for years as runaway computers in big buildings with...

When you first opened your business, your mission was clear to everyone and certainly top of mind. With few employees, everyone had the same goal,...

Many companies avoid hiring someone to create custom software because they think it will cost more than they can possibly afford. Some feel custom...

On Tuesday, February 23, 2016, the Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce selected Brainspire Solutions as one of three finalists for “Start-Up Business...

Through interviews with dozens of technology executives, Brainspire conducted a research study to find cultural and technical processes and...

Predictions and Trends on the Future of Cloud Computing There have been many advances in computer technology over the past decade or so, but one...

For many young businesses, custom software can seem like overkill. With a high initial barrier for development to overcome, custom-built software...

Your business is growing and you have full-time staff available to keep things running smoothly. As you consider ways to further the growth of...

Key #6 - Developers Should Interact with Customers Through interviews with dozens of technology executives, Brainspire conducted a research study...

Key #5 - Testing is Critical

Through interviews with dozens of technology executives, Brainspire conducted a research study to find cultural and technical processes and...

Through interviews with dozens of technology executives, Brainspire conducted a research study to find cultural and technical processes and...

Software Applications for your Business Needs Modern organizations and businesses alike have come to largely rely on different software systems...

Your business is unique. Even among others who sell the same types of products or services, your business has its own needs and works in its own...

Today's businesses are becoming more and more competitive. With advances in technology, IT services are becoming less of an outside field and more...

Software technologies to meet business needs abound. If you’re looking for one that can effectively accomplish what your business needs it to, or...

After determining that your company needs a custom software solution to be developed, the next step is to find the partner that will fit in with...