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  • How Metaverse will change the face of the travel industry

    How Metaverse will change the face of the travel industry

    When Metaverse came into being a few months back, it created quite a stir in all verticals around the world. Everyone was enthusiastic and excited about what all it could do the existing world and the way it functions. Today, more and more industries are adopting the technological benefits of this amazing concept and revolutionizing the way they have been performing so far.

    The travel industry is an emerging segment today. With the world almost done with the coronavirus pandemic (or at least, exhausted from it) is all set to bring around a boom in this industry. The future remains quite unpredictable and fertile. The introduction of Metaverse, of 3D augmented reality environment has added a lot of hopes and adventures to this industry. How?

    In this blog, we will look at how the travel industry could change by embracing metaverse.

    Metaverse in the travel industry

    Below we will see a few points as to how the travel industry could benefit from embracing metaverse.

    Bringing equality in the travel sector

    We travel to broaden our experiences and include more of other cultures, tastes and adventures, that are not our own. It is quite ironic that up until now, there have not been many travel provisions for those who are physically or financially challenged to travel. Not everyone can physically or financially afford to make do with the various offerings of the travel sector. Now, what does metaverse do here? It creates a very lucrative opportunity to bring more equality into the sector by letting everyone experience various locales in an engaging way. Without leaving your comfortable place or spending a fortune, you can travel virtually, regardless of any restrictions. When we say restrictions, it could mean any country-specific restrictions, or pandemic restrictions or your own budgetary restrictions.

    Magnifying the luxury travel industry

    Since it is an immersive, engaging sensory experience, Metaverse amplifies the luxury travel industry in many ways. These days everyone wants to travel to luxury places, thanks to the social media hypes. While it could be quite an expensive affair to travel to these places, Metaverse has the perfect solutions for those interested. It allows people to engage with luxury services like experiencing a hotel room, enjoying a restaurant or take up a virtual baking class from the finest chef in New York. For those who are already in the luxury-travel class, Metaverse promises to heighten their experiences by eliminating the need to try out any process such as seat or hotel booking. So, basically you can choose which flight seat you would want, or which hotel room you want to stay in, before booking them.

    Immersive marketing by tourism departments

    The authorities in charge of tourism development in any state, any where can use Metaverse as an effective marketing tool to provide virtual experiences to people and attract them to their place. It can be used for deputation for people looking to relocate, for education for those looking to move for higher studies. With the right marketing strategy, you can also boost your travel revenue. With Metaverse, you can offer attractions and events to customers sitting anywhere in the world. We have already seen during the pandemic, how it has been used to host concerts, award shows and more. By holding such events virtually, will also help authorities to understand and grasp the audience behavior and preferences.

    Rebranding opportunities

    All those places which had been earlier labelled as boring or ‘not worthy’ get a second chance with Metaverse. So, if a place is not very attractive as per its previous feedbacks, can get the opportunity to reinvent and rebrand themselves. The tourism department can use augmented reality to create unique experiences and attractions virtually, say for example NFT galleries. This will help to drive more of virtual tourism. As a result, any city’s personality gets a makeover! Besides this, with Metaverse, the lesser known places can also market themselves as impressive attractions. This will generate more interest within the masses.

    Conclusion

    Metaverse in the travel and tourism industry looks promising. In making the expensive places affordable, unpopular locations become popular and unattractive destinations become attractive. Not only does it help in marketing and rebranding, but it can also bridge the inequality gaps. This further diversifies the sector.

    If you are someone who is looking to leverage augmented reality to boost your business in any sector, be it travel or hospitality or art, please feel free to get in touch with us today! We are pioneers in providing AR guided products that will give your business the much needed impetus to grow!

  • How to select the right partner for outsourcing product development?

    How to select the right partner for outsourcing product development?

    Most firms aiming at developing the right products fail to do so because of a number of issues like budget constraints, stricter deadlines and lack of knowledge. Be it a startup, an established enterprise or product companies, everyone is now focused on bringing their product ideas into life by outsourcing the product development to right partners.

    This allows them to scale their business without exerting their existing teams. However, before you select any product development company for outsourcing your needs, you must consider a few factors to maximise profit and enhance your ROI.

    In this blog, we will cover the best factors that you must consider before finalizing the right partner for your product development outsourcing needs.

    Factors to consider when outsourcing

    Outsourcing product development needs helps to pump growth, profits, scalability and reduces costs. The best company to outsource your product development should be endowed with the following factors.

    Technological Prowess

    Making sure that your product is integrated with the latest technology is something that you must never miss out on. As a product company, your products or apps should be in line with the latest technological advancements, be it AI/ML, data science, automation etc. This will increase your product’s engagement with your digital-conscious audience. Therefore, the best offshore product development company must have the technological proficiency that your product demands. For example, EOV has a team of professionals who have the knowledge of the latest technology and frameworks to build you the best app in terms of features and advanced security. There wouldn’t be any need of hiring any other technology expert for consultation. We have it covered for you.

    Good project portfolio

    Before you outsource any of your product development needs to another partner, it is essential that you have a look at their project portfolio. You will get a fair idea of their competency when it comes to a complex product. Whether or not they can visualize, conceptualize and produce your product as per your idea, is a big thing to consider.

    Ability to scale

    It would be highly convenient for you as a firm to find all the tech expertise under one roof. You shouldn’t need to find a new company each time you are looking for a product update or feature addition. At EOV, we have a team that has all the tech-heads, developers and consultants that will be needed on the way as we progress into building apps or products. This includes well-learned designers, developers, QA engineers and more.

    The right engagement model

    This step is also crucial in your decision of the right development partner. While some companies let you hire dedicated developers, some others let you build an entire product team. On the other hand, some companies provide you end-to-end solutions in product development. You will need to choose the right partner based on your budget, timeline and need.

    Choice of development methodology

    Today, product development comes with umpteen choices in methodologies. A few of them include waterfall, kanban, agile etc. In order to collaborate with a third party product development company, you will need to check their methodology and whether or not it is in sync with yours. Most of the companies prefer the agile methodology for offshore product development. If that works for you, EOV is your best choice as our developers follow agile to break the entire development life cycle into different sprints. It will also allow you to check and review each of the sprint.

    Total cost of the product development

    Budget is a crucial factor in any business decision, be it for a small company or for bigger enterprises. While outsourcing your product development contract, you need to make sure that all of the costs are included in it. And, there should be no hidden costs. Check for the fees of the developers, the server management costs, knowledge transfer costs, SSL certificate costs and so on.

    Conclusion

    By outsourcing your product development tasks, you get to have a competitive edge within your budget. However, as discussed above, you need to tick off a few factors from your checklist before choosing any particular company.

    EOV digital solutions Pvt Ltd. has been highly hailed by all its clients for excellent product development at effective prices. Not only this, but within promised timelines. Our team has all the necessary resources that you need to build the right product. It will give your business the much needed boost. Please feel free to get in touch with us today for understanding more of what we can do to help you!

  • Why Cloud Native Data Warehouses Are the Way Forward

    Why Cloud Native Data Warehouses Are the Way Forward

    There are enough statistics and research to show that global cloud adoption is on the rise. Whether it is this report from Statista or even this one from techjury, they all talk about the increased role of cloud in businesses around the world. With the ever-upwards trends in cloud adoption, one also sees an increasing adoption of Cloud Native Warehouses. But, what are Cloud Native Data Warehouses?

    Simply put, it is a Cloud Native Data Warehouse that is built entirely off the cloud and cloud services, without using any on-premise aspect. An on-premise warehouse (like Netezza, for instance) has several components deployed on physical servers you manage. There is a case for deploying those to the cloud, but here is the catch- if they are not built up from the cloud (i.e. not cloud native), you will still end up short of utilizing the full power of Cloud Native. The below are some points why that would happen and why Cloud Native is the way forward for Data Warehousing.

    Why cloud native is the way forward?

    Let us look at a few points on why cloud native is going to be crucial for data warehousing.

    Flexibility

    Cloud Native DWs bring the same flexibility to the table that cloud is known for. It is the flexibility to do ETLs, deploy, analyze, find and fix Data Quality issues using a cocktail of existing services that YOU choose. Without that flexibility, it becomes cumbersome to decide which tools to go for as tools don’t usually give you just one service. You would need to choose a tool and tweak it to suit your purpose.

    Agility

    With flexibility, cloud native warehouses also help you hit the market quicker. Some modern warehouses like Snowflake can set you up in a mater of minutes where as traditional warehouses have much longer cycles (both sales and setup) to get up and running.

    Cost savings and lower total cost of ownership

    This one will always be debatable and we understand that at EoV. There are many supporters of the traditional big data technology mix who would say that cloud can rack up costs far too quickly compared to doing a custom, on-prem/cloud deployment. However, a sound partner’s expertise can help you choose said right cocktail of services to save you money in the long run by always optimizing the total cost of ownership.

    Business to the front

    You can pretty much manage a modern warehouse like Databricks or Snowflake almost entirely writing SQL scripts. The entire business of writing complex functions, setting up elaborate orchestration, planning for different kinds of ingestion for streams, batches etc. is all gone with Cloud Native DWs. The whole idea is to get the data available and ready for business consumption, as seamlessly as possible. All the layers that the business does not care about really, go back into the background.

    Improved data quality

    Cloud Native Data Warehouses make it easier for you to track and manage data quality. Whether it is setting up error handling policies, enforcing integrity constraints, processing for duplicate records- you can do it easily once your data is non-siloed and accessible in a single place. That is something that Cloud Native Data Warehouses effectively fulfil.

    Maintainability

    Traditional, on-premise data warehouses can be extremely difficult to manage. Even to this day, we consider some of the skillsets required to operate the warehouses as rare talents to find. The skills to manage a modern Cloud Native DW is akin to finding a regular DBA with decent SQL skills. The platform owns the entire aspect of infrastructure management.

    Support for advanced analytical initiatives (AI/ML)- One of the biggest barriers to effective AI/ML strategies is the presence of high-quality, quickly accessible data. Cloud Native DWs bring that the game thereby powering all our advanced analytical initiatives. There are also many further developments in this arena, the most recent being SnowSpark which add to the capabilities of existing warehouses to support the execution of complex statistical functions. These abilities make Snowflake even more equipped for advanced analytics.

    Conclusion

    Cloud Native is the most logical way to harness the full power of cloud. When it comes to warehouses, Cloud Native DWs are the most effective in achieving that, allowing you to manage and leverage your data with ease. If you are looking for a partner for your cloud native application development, please get in touch with us now!

  • Flutter and React Native: Pros and Cons

    Flutter and React Native: Pros and Cons

    Flutter and React are two popular mobile app frameworks. Both of them enhance the productivity by making way for lesser Time to Market in delivering the interactive business apps. Different business needs will ask for selecting a different framework. In this blog, we will have a detailed look at what Flutter and React are, their use cases and advantages and disadvantages.

    Flutter – An Overview

    Flutter is a framework that runs on open source platform and functions with a language created by Google, called Dart. Most developers refer to it as an advanced UI toolkit and use it to create cross-platform apps using a single codebase. With Flutter, developers can build flexible UI with native performance.

    Some use cases of Flutter

    Flutter is actively used in MVP mobile apps, reactivate apps with vast data integration, apps with material design, advanced OS plugins, flexible UI with high-level widgets, high performance apps and more.

    Some of the popular apps that use Flutter include

    BMW– They used flutter_bloc for management of high performance user interfaces

    Google Ads – They provided portable user experience in both Android and iOS y using Firebase AdMob plugins, leveraged dart packages etc.

    Alibaba – Using high FPS and single codebase, Alibaba created a single-tap navigation experience for all apps

    Reflectly – Created quality data events with StreamBuilder widget and enhanced data synchronization.

    React Native: An Overview

    React Native is also an open source framework. It runs on JavaScript. It mainly does native rendering of apps that are compatible with Android and iOS. This framework is written with a combination of JavaScript and XML-Esque markup. Together, this combination is known as JSX. React Native is backed by Facebook.

    Some use cases of React Native

    React Native finds use in apps with simplified UI, reusable components and apps that operate with synchronous APIs. Apart from this, React Native is used in simple cross-platform apps and quick prototype applications.

    Some of the popular apps that use React Native include

    Facebook – Used React Native to develop a supercharged and supportive mobile user interface with easy navigation

    Instagram – Used the framework to implement push notification as WebView without any navigation infrastructure.

    Wix – By the use of React Native, Wix implemented high speed and agile development of configurable navigations.

    Walmart – React Native brought about improvements in user experience by creating in-app animations that are similar to native functionality.

    Now, we will have a look at the advantages and disadvantages of each of these frameworks below.

    Advantages of Flutter

    There are numerous advantages of Flutter, that make it the ideal framework for many leading apps as we discussed above.

    Seamless integration: You wont have to rewrite the code as Flutter easily integrates with Swift or Objective C for iOS and Java for Android.

    Codesharing: With Flutter, one can write and share codes across different platforms easily and quickly. This comes in handy, particularly, in MVP development.

    Hot-reloading: This feature in Flutter helps to reflect changes quickly without any loss in the app state.

    Quick shipping: Flutter gives faster iteration cycles and reduces build time. This is because you would need testing to check only one codebase.

    Rich Widgets: Flutters helps build richer widgets as per the guidelines of Material Design and Cupertino in Android and iOS respectively.

    Disadvantages of Flutter

    Issues in user interface: While using vector graphics, you may face issues in working of plugins on time. The same issue may crop up while using animation.

    Updates take time: You cant instantly push updates into apps. You will need to go through the standard release process each time.

    Operating platform not always compatible: You will likely face compatibility issues when developing apps for Android Auto, WatchOS or tvOS.

    Advantages of React Native

    Performance: Doesn’t affect performance while translating the markup of an app having orginal user interface elements.

    Intelligent debugging options: This framework gives access to great debugging tools, and reports errors effectively.

    Native rendering: There is no need for HTML or CSS markup to render APIs.

    Rich ecosystem: React Native facilitates automatic rendering of app appearance with stage change, thanks to its rich ecosystem and UI libraries.

    Disadvantages of React Native

    Outdated tools and plugins: While there are many third party libraries that help in better implementation, most of them could be outdated.

    Inconvenient debugging: You might find it cumbersome to edit and inspect codes with the Chrome debugger.

    Slow performance at times: React Native may not perform upto your expectations when it comes to multi=processing and parallel threading.

    UI not upto the mark: By native rendering of the APIs, the framework might not support some UI elements.

    So, basically both the frameworks have their merits and demerits. Which framework to choose? The answer depends on what your app requirement is. We will carry out a detailed comparison of the two in our next blog! Keep watching this space!

    In the meantime, if you are looking for offshore product development services, EOV is your right partner! With our expertise in app development in different frameworks, we can help you build exactly what you need for success! Get in touch today!

  • What to consider before you choose Micro frontends?

    What to consider before you choose Micro frontends?

    Micro frontends are totally the talk of the town now. More and more organizations are opting for micro frontends as a solution for many use cases. However, which idea is right for your needs depends on a few factors, which if ignored can make the whole process tiring and complicated for you.

    In this blog, we will cover what micro frontends are and what things you must take into consideration before you choose them.

    What are Micro Frontends?

    Micro frontends refers to the distinct vertical slices of any web application. They contain the frontend, backend service as well as the database. It is with the help of Micro Frontends that you can break down monolithic web applications into various microservices.

    When it comes to the frontend part, one can use Angular elements, polymer, or nutmeg in order to create a custom element, i.e. the HTML element that loads your particular component. While on the backend, the component communicated with its own HTTP API service and the database that has been created only for it.

    Developers have been actively using this frontend concept to piece different technology stacks as a single unit. Say for example, on one component you could use Angular and on another you can use React at the same route.

    While it might sound very convenient and useful, you must take into consideration a few factors which could make the process cumbersome for you.

    What are those factors? We will see below.

    Factors to consider before choosing micro frontends

    Size of the team

    With the help of Micro frontends teams can develop and deploy features from user interface to database on larger web applications at a much faster speed. When a team is working solely on their own, they won’t have to worry about any release process or deadlines or sharing technology with other teams. However, when they are working with other teams and using their components, they will have to know the custom HTML element and its attributes. Things get more complex when there are multiple teams that use different frontend frameworks. The best thing to do here is to create a unified component library. The teams should use a namespace convention to avoid getting in each others’ way when it comes to using shared code like CSS or local storage etc.

    It is important to note that quite a few benefits of the micro frontends are lost when you have a small team working on any web app. The overhead that the micro frontends create make it difficult for the team to manage components. This is because the developer will have to switch to a different coding and deployment technique for each component. This will make the overall process slower.

    Communication of components with various frameworks

    In Micro frontends, all the frontend code w.r.t a component needs to be contained within the custom element. In such a case, passing of information depends on the DOM as compared to the publish or subscribe system in a shared library. Whenever a parent component wants to communicate with its child component, one should use element attributes to pass the data. Such kind of declarative approach is always used by React. But, this approach can create issues while dealing with more complex data such as objects and arrays.

    When a child components wants to communicate with its parent component or sibling component, one should dispatch custom browser events. But, such DOM events ask for more work when using React as it uses its own even system and doesn’t listen for native DOM events from a custom element. To fix this, one can reference the element using the ref attribute and attach event listeners to it.

    Multiple ways to divide web components

    Micro frontends isolate the codes of each component. This makes way for the different teams to convert or update components by an increment without any substantial upfront investment. Also, in a different way, not everything has to be a web component. One can remove the thin parent component and give the entire responsibility of the app to a particular team.

    Thus, we see that the micro frontends approach works great in dividing the workload for multiple teams. It helps to isolate codes for separate Custom Elements. Above we have discussed a few factors that you will have to consider before opting for these so that you don’t end up getting into the complexity unnecessarily.

    If you are looking for help in building any product or app, you can reach out to EOV today! We provide comprehensive MVP development services and app design and development services that will give you the best of results without getting into any technical complexities!

  • Angular 14 Future ahead

    Angular 14 Future ahead

    Angular is one of the most popular and sought after frameworks in the developer community. It receives a lot of developer requests in the Google and open source communities as well. It efficiently brings together representation from developer relations, engineers and product managers in order to prioritize the “asks”. Angular facilitates the strategizing of a roadmap and setting of practical timelines.

    When Angular 13 was released, it became a huge hit and with it came hopes of many new and exciting enhancements in the version 14 of the framework. In this blog, we will have a look at how the future beholds for Angular 14.

    Better Scope for developers w.r.t @angular/forms

    One of the goals that Angular 14 aims to accomplish is finding how to implement stricter type checking for reactive forms. Not only this, but it has to have minimum backward-incompatible issues. It will greatly help the developers in enabling better text editor and catching more flaws during the time of development.

    Simplified Angular Mental Model

    What we mean by this is making the NgModules optional. The main advantage of optional NgModules is that it will allow the developers to develop independent components. Besides this, it will also help them use an alternative API to declare the component’s compilation scope.

    Integration of MDC Web

    There are a lot of hopes from the integration of the MDC Web to enhance Angular Material components. The MDC Web is formed by the Material Design team at Google and it is basically a library that provides reusable primitives to build various material design components. By using MDC Web, developers can effectively improve the component quality in Angular framework vis-a-vis expanding its accessibility. Besides this, Angular 14 is also expected to come with advanced compiler diagnostics, that will carry out better accuracy checks in order to enhance the flawlessness.

    Improvement in the integration of Angular DevTools

    The Angular team has been actively testing the moving over of the codebase to the angular or angular/angular mono repository. Along with this, they are planning on transitioning Angular DevTools to Bazel and also integrating the processes with CI pipeline.

    Now, we will look at some more pointers on how the future of Angular 14 looks like and what all we can expect in the framework.

    Improvement in the performance dashboards

    By refining the existing infrastructure of Angular, the new version makes sure that the framework’s runtime doesn’t slow down after a change in the coding.

    Make Zone.js optional without compromising on Framework capabilities

    By simplifying the framework after eliminating Zone.js, there will be faster performance. Why? It will reduce application bundle size, and an improve debugging feature. Also, the async/await syntax is not currently supported by the Zone.js option. This will also be enabled after making it optional.

    Enhanced build performance and supporting adding directives

    With Angular 14, the Angular compiler can be distributed as a TypeScript plug-on that will bring down maintenance costs considerably. It will also improve the build performance of the developers. Apart from this, the framework will be able to add directives to host elements. What would this mean? It would facilitate developers to augment the components without the use of inheritance.

    Component level code-splitting APIs

    Most of the web applications have slow initial load time. A good solution to this is to opt for more ergonomic code-splitting at a basic component level that will improve the load time and make. The app faster. This is one of the things Angular 14 will help to achieve.

    Angular 14 plans to publish detailed guides

    Angular is currently planning to come up with detailed guides on change detection. It will also include profiling the performance of various Angular applications. Some of the important things that it will cover include interaction of Zone.js with change detection, profiling its duration. Also, best standard practices to optimize performance will be in the guide.

    EOV provides effective and efficient solutions when it comes to building your apps with Angular. It allows you to work more on your app’s core functionality. Our developers are well versed with the framework of Angular and can deliver great app experiences for you in no time. We have worked successfully in helping our clients with Angular Data Presentation and Angular reporting solutions as well.

    If you are looking for building any app with Angular or other similar frameworks, please feel free to get in touch with us today!