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Identity and Access management-Trends around cloud and SaaS

It is going to be very critical that identity management be addressed as a major factor when one decides to put applications on the cloud. As majority of  services and applications move and get deployed on the cloud, enterprises are increasingly relying on software as a service (SaaS) applications. The challenge of this trend stems [...]


Building Internet Applications for Seniors is no easy Job

Resarch shows that seniors (aged above 65) use as much internet as any one else. Infact this is the age group who wants to maximise the advancements of integrated applications over the web. Advent of social media frameworks, mobile commerce along with e-commerce have made a real case for applications built specifically for seniors. Refer [...]


Social Gaming – Facebook+Playstation, Xbox et all

If you are a gaming freak and more so with play station, If you are also a social networking and facebook guy, here is it, facebook is coming onto playstation. In continuation to the trends i have been observing on social gaming , there is this exciting new update that facebook is coming onto play [...]


Cloud Computing Needs Interop Standards

Well, for a long time i was thinking to write something on Cloud computing. But my thoughts were always on the clouds till i hit upon this stumbling block of being able to seamleslly have interoperability in place amongst different clouds that seem to be taking shape these days. Cloud computing is heralded as the [...]


Usability Testing- A Market Accelerator by itself

Its always been a challenge to ensure products are easily usable by the Users as to how they want and wish rather than how they have been created and designed. Qlabs has realized that one such success factor is product usability testing if done right goes a long way in realizing the intended goals. A [...]


GoToMarket Testing- Why should you outsource?

In the last blog i tried to point out the need and challenges associated in ensuring software products do what they are meant for.Here in let us see what does it mean to have your products launched with Quality. A key accelerator to launch products succesfully to market could be outsourcing your product testing to [...]


Ensuring Software products eventually do what they are meant for- A GotoMarket Testing Approach

Software product ideas take off with huge aspirations and extraordinary technology ideas. Research however shows that its the simplest of the usage scenarios that the product fails to live up to when taken to the field and market trials. Beta customers fail to turn up to become first payers because it was not meeting their [...]