tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65282934331502556002024-03-05T11:54:57.805-08:00Emerging Trends and Events Shaping Web Development CommunityTechnology blog by Subramanian MurukesanSubramanian Murukesanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17339975222948866869noreply@blogger.comBlogger24125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6528293433150255600.post-36131369014274984272017-01-03T01:57:00.000-08:002017-01-03T01:59:23.902-08:00Blockchain- Unexpected twists in technological innovation
Of late , if there is one technological innovation, which shakes the financial world to its core, it is most likely the arrival of digital currency (bitcoin in particular). Rather than relying on a government, bank, or intermediaries, bitcoin system is made of individual users and its objective is to have a decentralized financial system and to break the systems dependency on a few elite global Subramanian Murukesanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17339975222948866869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6528293433150255600.post-50230765064672147702016-10-25T15:54:00.001-07:002016-10-25T16:10:17.783-07:00IoT, is it a game-changer for Banks?
Days are not too far when we will be surrounded by intuitive connected devices such as sensors collecting and transmitting data about us, our living and working environments and offering intuitive services as we conduct business transactions.
While some industry such as oil and gas, large manufacturing, health care and smart home industry are ahead in exploiting this phenomena, Banking and Subramanian Murukesanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17339975222948866869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6528293433150255600.post-44707374426564124192016-01-05T09:38:00.001-08:002016-01-05T09:38:28.886-08:00Mobile Payment to Redefine Customer Experience
In order to remain as dominant force in the market and to retain/improve the customer base during competitive era, organizations shouldn’t be looking for marginal improvements to existing business models instead they should create entirely new paradigm that completely modify the way organizations interact with customers and their suppliers.
With the smart phone adoption becoming Subramanian Murukesanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17339975222948866869noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6528293433150255600.post-14221955151644847712015-12-01T23:03:00.000-08:002015-12-01T23:21:52.044-08:00Did Banking sector embrace Cloud or Digital Transformation?
Technical analysts always show great
interest in predicting the technologies that will dominate in the upcoming
years. Some of the major predictions that were made for past few years were about
industry wide adoption of Cloud and Digital transformation. Let’s look at the status
of those predictions, especially from the perspective of banking sector.
Despite the predictions stating that for
theSubramanian Murukesanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17339975222948866869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6528293433150255600.post-56341480384902457702014-05-18T08:07:00.000-07:002014-07-28T09:12:33.388-07:00Key Arsenal: Enterprise Architecture Repository
Every Organization understands that they are dependent on IT for day-to-day operations and spend millions on IT (IT personnel, software, hardware & facilities) every year. However Business is not always clear what they get in return for these investment in quantitative terms or how IT helps the business to save money, reduce risk and increase business agility.
In other words, some of the Subramanian Murukesanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17339975222948866869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6528293433150255600.post-8892281102740641932012-06-23T09:10:00.000-07:002012-07-25T10:48:57.317-07:00Testing Tools in SOA and Cloud Era
Traditionally when an organization or project team talks about quality, the focus is about functional testing, regression testing & load/stress testing and the market place had been dominated by few players like IBM, Micro Focus and HP/Mercury supplying the necessary tools to meet customers demand. But recent technological advancement in the area of SOA/ESB, cloud and Business Process Subramanian Murukesanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17339975222948866869noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6528293433150255600.post-88251030384626055002012-06-04T17:35:00.000-07:002012-07-25T10:47:45.268-07:00Hadoop in Big Data Era
A generic processing framework designed to execute queries and batch read operations against massive datasets, across clusters of computers, which facilitate the organizations to scans through tons of data (which are first loaded into the Hadoop Distributed File System - HDFS), and produce results that are meaning to the them. Simply put, Hadoop is the key open source technology that provides aSubramanian Murukesanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17339975222948866869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6528293433150255600.post-86016665149384818752012-05-25T23:58:00.001-07:002012-07-25T10:43:49.365-07:00NoSQL Database in Big Data Era
For quite some time, the on-premises relational database has been the undisputed model for database management in most organizations. But, now options such as, cloud based and NoSQL databases are gaining popularity as an alternative model. Some of the reasons for enterprise to look at NoSQLs are: First the volumes of data that are being stored now-a-days have increased massively and managing Subramanian Murukesanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17339975222948866869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6528293433150255600.post-50918253290909228782012-04-30T23:35:00.000-07:002012-07-25T10:46:25.212-07:00The new frontier in Business Analytics: Big Data
Most of the organizations have access to tons and tons of information, but they don’t know how to get value out of it because most of the information is either in unstructured or semi structured format. But most of these organizations who witness the data explosion around them have also started to realize that analyzing this large data sets (or Big Data) will become a key basis of Subramanian Murukesanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17339975222948866869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6528293433150255600.post-34406887205955820992011-10-27T10:56:00.000-07:002011-10-29T11:25:29.804-07:00Smart Phone Market Trend
When compared to Apple and Google, no one has any sort of hesitation to label Microsoft as a player who is still struggling to gain respectable share in the smart phone ecosystem. But Microsoft is not giving up the hope and is looking to various partners like Nokia who has a worldwide reach to help it come up from behind. Recent event like Nokia introducing two smart phones the LumiaSubramanian Murukesanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17339975222948866869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6528293433150255600.post-38548738470126737462011-08-15T08:18:00.000-07:002011-08-15T08:18:56.267-07:00Mainframe Enablement for SOA: Part IV
Over the last two decades, CEOs of large corporations are finding themselves locked in a vicious cycle. Maintenance of legacy system are taking a bigger share in their IT budgets each year, as a result of which only very less is available for developmental upgrades. But without developmental upgrades, maintenance on outdated systems is only going to create more problems in the long run. Subramanian Murukesanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17339975222948866869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6528293433150255600.post-27432932640913816792011-08-04T09:22:00.000-07:002011-08-04T09:22:07.480-07:00Mainframe Enablement for SOA: Part III
In Mainframe Enablement for SOA Part I and II, we have discussed the approaches to enable CICS applications and IMS; now let us explore an approach to expose DB2 data or application as service.
JDBC Solution
The DB2 application or data can be exposed as Web services, implemented in J2EE Application Server via Java Database Connectivity (JDBC). These Web services can be accessed directly Subramanian Murukesanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17339975222948866869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6528293433150255600.post-42373368705840960812011-07-17T04:02:00.000-07:002011-08-04T09:14:41.561-07:00Mainframe Enablement for SOA: Part IIMy previous blog, discussed the approach one could adopt if the organization’s portfolio comprises of CICS applications; now let us discuss the one of the simplest approach to expose IMS application as service.
IMS SOAP Gateway
IMS Enterprise Suite SOAP Gateway is a web services solution that enables IMS applications to interoperate outside of the IMS environment through the SOAP Subramanian Murukesanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17339975222948866869noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6528293433150255600.post-69829218959842661612011-07-14T09:28:00.000-07:002011-08-04T09:10:28.198-07:00Mainframe Enablement for SOA: Part IEven today, mainframe computers play a pivotal role in the daily operations of many of the world’s largest industries, including banking, finance, health care and insurance companies. While many other forms of computing are also being used, mainframe occupies special place in e-business dominated world.
All began in 1960s, when IBM introduced S/360 followed by S/370 and S/390 with Multiple Subramanian Murukesanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17339975222948866869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6528293433150255600.post-63750486653885180562011-01-04T02:57:00.000-08:002011-01-04T21:38:09.804-08:00Career Guide: TesterOne of the most frequently asked questions about web application testing goes something along the lines of,
"I am interested in becoming a tester, but I don't know where to begin. There seems to be so many types of software testing techniques, methodologies and tools, that I feel lost. How do all these testing methods relate to each other, which ones do I need to learn in order to be Subramanian Murukesanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17339975222948866869noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6528293433150255600.post-13074728439779625602010-11-25T20:27:00.001-08:002012-07-25T10:45:27.275-07:00Programming in Cloud using Goolge App Engine
It is pretty much agreed in the industry that there are three major varieties of cloud computing: software-as-a-service (SaaS), platform-as-a-service (PaaS) and infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS). So when I decided to get my hands dirty (with the PaaS) by developing and deploying an application on the cloud, my preferred options were Amazon, Google and SalesForce.
Serious thought led me toSubramanian Murukesanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17339975222948866869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6528293433150255600.post-86532877541467998012010-11-01T00:44:00.000-07:002010-11-01T23:17:19.535-07:00Career Guide: .NET DeveloperOne of the most frequently asked questions about web application development using Microsoft .NET platform goes something like this,
"I am interested in becoming a .Net developer, but I don't know where to begin. There seems to be so many technologies in the field of web development that I feel lost. How do all these technologies relate to each other, which ones do I need to learn in order to beSubramanian Murukesanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17339975222948866869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6528293433150255600.post-68655324995432342902010-10-09T15:31:00.000-07:002010-10-15T13:21:56.097-07:00Career Guide For Java DeveloperOne of the most frequently asked questions about web application development using Java goes something along the lines of,
Beginners Guide
"I am interested in becoming a Java developer, but I don't know where to begin. There seems to be so many technologies in the field of web development that I feel lost. How do all these technologies relate to each other, which ones do I need to learn in Subramanian Murukesanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17339975222948866869noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6528293433150255600.post-55175946637354663922010-10-04T12:05:00.000-07:002010-10-04T12:05:31.464-07:00Unstoppable forces: Cloud and Mobile computingThe increased use of Web for day to day tasks is making accessing web-based services an essential part of everyone’s life. The demand for accessing the services through mobile devices is also rapidly increasing. This is due to factors like ubiquitous Internet access, advancement in wireless technology and widespread availability of low cost mobile devices.
This is show cased when Apple's iPhone Subramanian Murukesanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17339975222948866869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6528293433150255600.post-15201418997019313332010-09-19T14:25:00.000-07:002010-10-04T12:08:11.692-07:00Cloud Computing: Road to Business with Agility and FlexibilityThere is lot of debate about cloud computing in recent times and its impact on IT landscape. By the way “cloud computing “what it is? Is it one more service like many others being offered? No; it is lot more than that. It advocates an approach that can help organizations to improve their standing in competitive business, quickly and effectively utilizing least capital Subramanian Murukesanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17339975222948866869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6528293433150255600.post-40035430317865126012010-09-13T06:13:00.000-07:002010-10-04T12:12:49.892-07:00Organize your Social Networking WorldIn recent times, whether you read a newspaper or technical magazine or surf the web you would have often run into the buzz word Social Networking. In spite of all these hipes, a simplified procedure to be part of online social networking community for a newcomer is rare thing to find. No worries, we will help you to enter the new world of ”social networking" all by yourself with ease. Subramanian Murukesanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17339975222948866869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6528293433150255600.post-3714750997338950672010-09-04T13:01:00.000-07:002010-10-05T10:44:47.377-07:00Time Management for IT Professionals
IT companies are hard-pressed to complete the current projects in the shortest possible time with lowest budget at the same time ensuring quality product for the customer. Day by day the competition is becoming harder and harder. This naturally leads to a situation where the professional has to concentrate on the current project activities with all his resources and abilities to keep up Subramanian Murukesanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17339975222948866869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6528293433150255600.post-2466155333380762602010-08-19T12:19:00.000-07:002010-08-27T04:10:13.884-07:00Cloud Computing DemystifiedSubramanian Murukesanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17339975222948866869noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6528293433150255600.post-64401634560662868782010-08-16T13:59:00.000-07:002010-09-21T12:05:19.116-07:00Social Networking and Security ComplianceSocial-networking application like Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, Flickr, Wikipedia and LinkedIn has turned the very old sociological phrase into the hot buzzword of the recent times. Long crossed are the silly questions like, what is social networking? How popular are social-networking application? Does social networking site bring value to an organization and individuals? There are plenty of Subramanian Murukesanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17339975222948866869noreply@blogger.com0