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  • 7 Steps in Mobile App Development Lifecycle

    7 Steps in Mobile App Development Lifecycle

    An app is one of the easiest and most convenient ways to reach your target audience, especially if you are a small to medium sized business. If this idea is on your priority list, it is imperative for you to know what it takes to execute an app for your SMB.

    According to latest statistics, mobile app downloads are up by 23.3% since the Covid-19 pandemic has hit the world. This percentage is further expected to rise upto 45%.

    Therefore, it is the right time for you, as a business, to get your own mobile app and tap into the market. In this blog, we will have a brief look at the mobile app development process and how to make it fit in your marketing goals as well.

    Steps in Mobile App Development Lifecycle

    Step 1: Discovery. Market Research. Tech-Stack

    While ideas could be many, the first step to building your own app is to carry out extensive research. You need to get deeper into the minds of your target audience and also your competitors. A few questions that you must ask yourself include the purpose of your app, defining your target audience, fixing your app budget, choice of development language and framework and marketing decisions. Well, these are just some of the things that you will need to figure out.

    Step 2: App goals. Objectives

    This is a very crucial step in the process of mobile app development. As a part of this step, you will need to decide on the features of your app – what problems you would want your app to solve and how its core appeal is supposed to be. Not only will this clear out your development path ahead, but it will also give you a fair idea of your budget and the in-house capabilities that are needed.

    Step 3: Wireframe. Roadmap. Backend

    By this time, you would have had a clear definition of how you want your app to look like and what all features it should have. Your scope of work should be ready, which means you know what portions will be developed in-house and what you are going to outsource. This is when you start sketching out your app and coming up with a storyboard.

    You can use the various wireframe tools to know how your ideas and supposed features will look together in a functional app. You should also create a roadmap that will draw connections between each of the app screens and give you a picture of app navigation. Once you are done with the wireframe and roadmap, you will need to create the various backend structures like – data diagrams, data integrations, APIs, servers and push notifications etc. Having your backend features set means that you now know your app is scalable or not.

    Step 4: Finalize wireframe. Prototype testing

    As you are done with finalizing any changes in your wireframe during the backend planning process, you move on to the next step of building a prototype of your app. This step is essential to evaluate your design concepts, get necessary feedback and make more changes accordingly. It will also help in identifying the flaws and breaks in the app’s usability. It is recommended that you bring in more people to test and evaluate your app prototype. This will facilitate proper feedback and give you an idea on the app’s overall usability and functionality.

    Step 5: Test. Test. Test again.

    Now you are almost ready with the complete app concept. You have the graphics and text ready. Next comes the crucial part where you rigorously test your app in numerous real-world scenarios, this is highly essential to find out any incorrect functioning or technical flaws. It is important that you go through all of the details in each of the features to ensure seamless experience in your app. you ca use any of the popular UX testing tools to get real-time analytics and feedback. Once you are satisfied that your app is compatible in all scenarios and environments, and you are happy with the overall usability and look-and-feel of the app, you get ready for the next big step – launch!

    Step 6: App Launch

    Everything that you do when you prepare for your app launch will have the most effect on its final success. Therefore, it is wise to involve your marketing team in the process early! With the right marketing guidance, you will get to know the right keyword research – crucial for SEO and app store optimization. This will greatly enhance your app’s discoverability.

    With the right keyword research, you can choose the optimal app title and description that will improve your app’s ranking and discoverability. you can also go for high quality screenshots of your app screens and a promo video at this point of the app development process. Having a website or a landing page is a huge add-on to your chances of success. Once you are ready for launching, you must promote your app on various channels, including your social media accounts, blogs, and even in email campaigns. Now is also a good time to extend your app’s reach beyond Apple store and Play store and reach out to other stores for your app distribution.

    Step 7: Official Release. Feedback Response

    You should be ready to create some buzz around your app with write-ups and articles by influencers that will fuel up excitement for your app launch. However, what you must keep in mind is that launching your app is not the end! You need to keep engaging with your customers and be responsive towards their feedback and concerns. Be vigilant of your analytics and you should be tracking the KPIs that define success.

    These are the steps of mobile development process lifecycle. Almost every app goes through this lifecycle. If you have an app idea for your business and are looking for the right team to partner with, we are here for you! At EOV, we provide mobile app development services that are in line with your expectations and goals that will help you achieve your much awaited success! You can get in touch with our team today!

  • Innovation Zone Recognizes EOV’S CEO As Top 10 Entrepreneurs

    Innovation Zone Recognizes EOV’S CEO As Top 10 Entrepreneurs

    Innovation Zone Magazine Recognises Our CEO As An Ace Entrepreneur To Watch Out For In 2021

    InnovativeZone Magazine,  November 29, 2021 

    EmbarkingOnVoyage’s CEO & founder, Mr. Abhishek Nag has earned the title of the top 10 ace entrepreneurs to watch out for in the year 2021 on November 29th, 2021 by innovativeZone magazine in their digital magazine release.

    The InnovativeZone magazine is one of the best magazines in India that informs the audience about innovative business news, startup-related news, different success stories, the latest happenings in the technology world, and more. It takes the readers on a journey of high creativity and all the innovative happenings across the globe in multiple domains. The magazine covers the ideas and its implementation-related stories on real business grounds related to technology and education.

    We are highly elated to receive this recognition from the renowned InnovativeZone magazine. The spirit of our team is extremely high after our CEO is being recognized as one of the top entrepreneurs. There is extreme happiness and a sense of pride in the organization to be recognized on such a big platform within one year of the organization’s inception. The organization is doing quite well in terms of revenue, customer satisfaction, expansion, and providing the right solutions to its clientele. Just in one year, we have attracted good prospects and gradually been recognized in the International market.

    According to the CEO, Mr. Abhishek Nag states that he is thankful to the InnovativeZone magazine for recognizing his entrepreneurial journey and felicitating him with the top ace entrepreneurs title. This recognition will surely add feathers to his entrepreneur’s cap and will motivate him to be a great problem-solver.

    EmbarkingonVoyage Digital Solutions Pvt. Ltd. is an organization that highly believes in the fact that digital transformation is not an option anymore but it is becoming a necessity gradually. As a digital solutions service provider, the organization aims to deliver excellence in the work that they deliver to its clientele. As a digital and data engineering services provider, the organization works as a platform where innovation is amalgamated with excellence. The organization’s roots are its product and data engineering that pushes it to achieve excellence and the entire family of EmbarkingOn Voyage takes high pride in offering top-quality digital solutions.

  • MVP Development- What, how and Why?

    MVP Development- What, how and Why?

    In the world of digital product development, MVPs are most talked about! While developing a digital product is very demanding in terms of time and effort, MVPs help you focus on the app success. How? They have a crucial impact on the real users and make the target audience your only priority. In this blog, we are going to have a brief look at what an MVP is, how it will help you and assist in market validation and what are the steps involved in the MVP development process.

    What is an MVP?

    MVP stands for Minimum Viable Product. It facilitates the developer to assess whether or not the basic model of their product and its main functionalities are in line with users’ needs. Stating simply, an MVP validates the customers’ response to product value proposition. It is highly beneficial to collect information and gather user feedback. This comes especially handy in case of start ups where you get a fair idea of the app’s usability before investing a huge sum.

    Let us just make one thing clear here, that a basic version of the app doesn’t mean anything less in terms of functionality. An MVP has all the characteristics like the app’s usability, core value, visual appeal and workability.

    How does the MVP development process look like?

    MVP development is a step-by-step process that requires research, journey mapping, problem solving and feedback collection. Let us look at this process at a little more detail below.

    Step 1 – Thorough Research

    The first step, is obviously, research. When you think of any idea that crops up in your mind, you need to find out a lot about its usability, target audience, workability and more. Most of the times, a product fails because it is not able to connect to its users. So, you need to conduct proper research about your target user base, their needs and preferences.

    Step 2 – Identifying target group and journey mapping

    Th next step is to find out who your targeted users are. You need to know them he best you can – their behaviour, likes, patterns and preferences. This will lay down a concrete foundation for building user journeys, user interface and user flows.

    Step 3 – Finding out user issue

    Once you are done identifying your target audience, you need to define their problems. You will have to work on answering one question mainly – how will your app help in addressing their particular problem?” This is crucial as it will help to decide what features are imperative to your app.

    Step 4 – Offering the early version to potential users

    You need customer validation for your app success. So, you need to roll out the basic version of the app to your potential users. The app will have all the main features, with the maximum value. At the launch, all the app features should be linked to the final product’s main objective.

    Step 5 – Collecting user feedback and making changes

    Collecting feedback for your MVP is crucial. In fact, that is the whole point of developing an MVP in the first place! Collect feedback and re-evaluate your MVP. Make necessary changes and fix all the issues that were reported to you by the users.

    Now, we have a basic idea of what an MVP is and how its development process works. We will. Now look at why building an MVP might be beneficial for you.

    Why MVP Development – Its benefits

    There are many advantages of building an MVP before launching the final version of the product.

    Better understanding of the market needs

    With an MVP, you can better gaze if your product fulfils the needs of your target audience or not. With a team of experts, you can build an app that gives you a fair idea of what changes or features your final app must have.

    Higher return on investment

    It gives you an opportunity to test your idea at minimum expenses and a short period of time. You will get to know whether or not your audience is willing to pay for your app. Also, with much lower risk of failure, you get great returns on your investment in total.

    Saves you development time

    Since you would be making the real users a part of your development process, you end up saving quite a lot of resources that you can utilize in other segments like marketing, advanced development, or other projects. Also, you will no longer have to work again and again on your final product as all the changes would have been made in the MVP stage.

    Do you have a product idea in your mind, but do not know how to go about it? Are you worried if your product idea is viable enough to be accepted by the target audience?

    Connect with us at EOV and find out! We provide comprehensive MVP development services that will benefit you and help you set out on your journey to success!

  • Top Five Technology Trends To Watch Out For In 2022

    Top Five Technology Trends To Watch Out For In 2022

    Technology in today’s times is evolving quickly, thus, enabling rapid change and high progress. This is the result that is leading to an accelerated rate of change in the technology world. According to a report, latest technology trends show the digital market size is likely to grow from $521.5bn in 2021 to $1247.5bn by 2026 at a CAGR of 19.1%.

    It is not just the technology that is changing, even the world after the outbreak of the COVID pandemic has seen an immense change in the world. The IT professionals have realized the dynamics of changing technology, needs, and their roles in the pandemic hitten world. They are constantly learning, unlearning, and evolving based on the requirements to keep up with the changing times. Technology has significantly helped us to get through the pandemic and continues to redesign the way we work, live, and interact. It is crucial to keep a close watch on the emerging technology trends in 2022 to stay ahead of the competition.

    Top Technology Trends 2022

    Let’s check out some of the top technology trends that can rule the coming year 2022 and impact the growth of technology in the world.

    1. Robotic Process Automation (RPA): Just like AI and ML, RPA is another technology that will assist in automating jobs, business processes like interpreting applications, transactions processing, and data handling.RPA technology will reduce the burden of doing the repetitive jobs done by people by automating them. It also offers great career opportunities that would include developers, project managers, business analysts, solution architects, and consultant roles. According to a report, the global RPA market is likely to reach $7.64bn by 2028 at a CAGR of 25% from 2021 to 2028.

    2. Edge Computing: With major players like AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud platforms dominating the market, cloud computing is becoming the mainstream. Cloud computing’s adoption continues to grow with the businesses migrating to the cloud solution. Edge computing is becoming a growing technology nowadays. With the increase in the data quantity, organizations are now shifting to edge computing to overcome the latency-related issues and get the data for processing to the data center. This new technology is expected to grow, creating numerous job opportunities for software engineers. Based on research, the edge computing market is likely to grow from $36.5bn in 2021 to $87.3bn by 2026, at a CAGR of 19.0%.

    3. Quantum Computing: Next technology that can see remarkable growth in the coming year is quantum computing. It is a type of computing that takes the advantage of quantum phenomena such as superposition and quantum entanglement. Quantum computing technology is capable of querying easily, monitoring, analyzing, and acting on the data, irrespective of the source. The use cases of this technology can be seen in banking and finance that manages credit risk, for any high-frequency trading and fraud detection. According to a report, the quantum computing market is most likely to reach $1.76bn by 2026 at a CAGR of 30.2% during the period 2021-2026.

    4. Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality: The next exceptional technology that can make a great impact in 2022 is virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR). VR is known to involve the user in an environment completely whereas AR usually works in enhancing that environment. This technology is mostly used by the gaming industry as of now, it has also been used by other sectors gradually. In 2022, VR and AR technology can be seen integrated more and more into our lives. It has great potential in the training, entertainment, education, and marketing sectors. According to research, the augmented and virtual reality market size is most likely to reach $454.7bn by 2030, at a CAGR of 40.7%.

    5. Internet of Things (IoT): Several things are now being developed with Wifi connectivity or that can be connected to the internet as well as to each other. The Internet of Things is the new future, it has already empowered devices, home appliances, cars, and other things to remain connected and exchange data with the help of the internet. Its use cases can be seen from locking the doors remotely to tracking our fitness on the Fitbits, it is being utilized in various sectors already. It seems like we are at the initial stages of this new technology trend. The growing demand for IoT can lead the global IoT market to grow from $381.3bn in 2021 to $1854.7bn in 2028, at a CAGR of 25.4% based on a report.

    As technologies are constantly evolving and emerging all around the world, it is very important to keep a close watch on the top evolving technologies. To give your business promising growth and reshape the careers of IT professionals, you should not neglect the technologies that have the potential to positively rule the world. So, there is a lot to focus on in the coming year and adopt the technologies based on your requirements. As technologies are constantly evolving and emerging all around the world, it is very important to keep a close watch on the top evolving technology trends. To give your business promising growth and reshape the careers of IT professionals, you should not neglect the technologies that have the potential to positively rule the world. So, there is a lot to focus on in the coming year and adopt the technologies based on your requirements.

  • Why Modernize The .NET Applications With AWS?

    Why Modernize The .NET Applications With AWS?

    In one of our previous blogs, we talked about how you can select .Net Core with React in Digital Product Engineering to build a robust and scalable product. Nowadays, many organizations want to modernize their legacy .Net framework applications to achieve better agility, scalability, and save the cost of their cloud-native applications.

    To make things a little easier, we again on one of our previous blogs have given a step-by-step guide to migrate applications from the .Net framework to .Net Core. Before we go ahead and talk about modernizing applications in offshore software product development with .Net Core using AWS, let us first try and understand the concept of modernization.

    What Is Modernization?

    Modernization refers to the re-platforming of applications that are majorly legacy enterprise ones by bringing together the latest infrastructure, architecture, and various organizational patterns. It will help you to increase your application’s resilience, engineering efficiency, agility in terms of business, and operational excellence.
    If we look at the.NEt platform, it has evolved greatly from the .NET framework to .NET Core and then to .NET 5. If you wish to modernize your .NET legacy applications, you can do that anytime and then take full benefits of the application’s performance and robustness.

    Why AWS?

    To modernize your legacy .NET Core apps on AWS you should first understand the importance of AWS to carry out this process. AWS is a platform that will rightly empower your .NET developers to go beyond the limits and build .NET applications for the future. These apps can be developed on the innovative AWS Cloud. You can easily develop high-performing .NET apps by leveraging AWS’s services and solutions especially in Machine Learning, serverless, databases, containers, etc. AWS offers certain tools to the .NET developers to make it more productive with .NET on the AWS platform. To take more advantage of your AWS’s performance you can ask your .NET 5 and. NET developers leverage Linux, this will help you save more cost.

    Before, we analyze the why part of modernizing the .NET applications with AWS, let’s look into some of the major challenges that IT organizations face when it comes to modernizing the applications.

    Major Modernization Challenges Faced By IT Organizations

    • Pressure to raise the innovation velocity
    • High cost of maintaining the legacy applications
    • Scaling related challenges to fulfill the business needs
    • Monolithic architectures facing high technical debt
    • Security and operational resilience-related maintenance
    • Challenges related to dynamic scaling

    Why Modernize Legacy .NET Applications With AWS?

    AWS is the only major cloud provider that allows .NET 5 to run on the ARM64 architecture system. When this collaborates with AWS Graviton2, the clients will be able to get a better price and high performance over the current generation of x86-based instances.

    The other benefit of moving your .NET Framework applications to a .NET on Linux in comparison to other platforms is because of more overlap in the existing APIs and packages. To avoid the efforts required to re-write the applications, AWS came up with a Porting Assistant for the .NET tool. The purpose of this tool is to assist you in quickly porting the .NET applications to Linux.

    So, before you choose AWS as your cloud platform, it is quite important to know the reasons before you make the decision.

    Why Choose AWS As Your Cloud Platform during application engineering and modernization?

    • Location: AWS is available in 44 multiple zones and 16 geographical locations. The servers are easily accessible from any country.
    • Recovery System: It has a strong and well-defined disaster recovery system comprising a plan for organizations of any size.
    • Enhanced Security: Offers better security to protect the virtual things hosted on it. The data centers, as well as the servers, are made up of various layers of operational security.
    • Scalability: With its auto-scaling and elastic load balancing tools the scaling is made easier while your application delivers high performance. It has a huge infrastructure that offers computing resources based on the user’s requirements.
    • Flexibility: With the flexibility, it has to offer, any user can select the operating system, programming language, web application platform, database, and other services based on the requirements.
    • Cost-Effective: It offers pay-as-you-go pricing models and the user is not asked to pay large subscription fees for the resources that they don’t intend to utilize.

    With .NET Core cross-platform functionality, enhanced performance, unification of development models, new health checks API, integrated dependency injection, and more features that it has to offer. You can modernize your application on the cloud platform with AWS easily. In our next blog, we will talk about how you can implement or carry out the process of modernizing the .NET applications by leveraging AWS. We will explain the entire process in our upcoming blog. Till then, stay connected.

  • Choosing An Experienced Design Company For Your Software Product Development

    Choosing An Experienced Design Company For Your Software Product Development

    In today’s digitally transforming world building an extraordinary product highly depends on the design feature. We are at that stage where product design dominates the other features. This is what differentiates the organization from others by setting it apart and giving it a competitive edge in the market.

    At some point in your software product development idea, you would require the right team to turn that idea into reality. Bringing an idea into reality can be challenging, scary, and exciting at the same time. There are times when many organizations lack the development skills like user experience web designing and other designing-related skills. In such a situation, you inevitably require a software development team who would think from the aspect of your user experience design thinking. Taking your carefully nurtured idea and then giving it into the hands of others is like taking a big step. But, on the other hand, it is essentially important also to do so if you want your product’s design to be cut above. In this blog, we will focus on the aspects to consider while onboarding an experienced design company for your software product development.

    Things to consider while choosing the design partner

    • About the company: You must do proper research before related to the company’s profile like its history and track record. Look for the company’s strength if in case a team member is absent, there is someone to fill his/her position so that the project doesn’t go on hold
    • Company’s repeat business: When a customer gets the desirable results, they always come back. Ask your design partner the percentage of their customers who selected them again and then cross-check it
    • Company’s potential to cater to larger clients: This shows that the design company or the design partner can attract, engage, and deliver to a company big in size, highly experienced, and a little tough to attract
    • Company’s available references: Check the client’s references listed by the company on their website and their feedbacks also
    • Company’s product development and delivery history: This is an important aspect to check for the design company’s total number of successful market-ready products delivered in the past. Before onboarding, the design partner, be assured that they have the right expertise and experience to cater to your requirements

    The next thing to do is to check whether the design company has the right set of skill sets based on your requirements to deliver your tech product end-to-end. To have clarity on the skill sets, critically look for the following areas:

    • User Experience: A modern term comprising of user interface design that includes the actual drawing and graphic designing. Always look for the previous projects delivered by the design company to check the user flow and whether the design looks clean and modern. Involve the people who know the designs in your company while selecting an experienced design partner
    • Graphic Designing: If the design company has options to cater graphic designing services apart from the products and UX, do not miss out on the chance of exploring the other materials as well. Suppose you require an eCommerce website UI design, check whether they develop the graphics themselves or have external designers
    • Development: Look for the company’s ability to leverage technologies that would be beneficial for your project. Not only this, check for their programmer’s skills by depending on their experience level and projects they have undertaken in the past
    • Testing: Ask them their testing methods and about the team who does the testing. If the team is a specialist one, ISEB or equivalently team of qualified testers. Check for their testing approach, whether they go for automated testing or a manual one. During testing, what do they consider as passing and the failing bugs?
    • Early live support: Do not forget to check for the warranty and its validity period. Cross-check with their past clients to have a clearer understanding of support hours

    Thus, before selecting an experienced design partner to develop your product and take it to a next level it is advisable to check for the points mentioned above. There are times when once the product is completely built, deployed, and in use, the relationship with your design partner tends to fade away. To avoid this, give a thought to how you will continue with them and try to specify those terms in the contract. To avoid any confusion in the future, have a good relation with your design partner and keep all the terms and conditions properly listed once the product development is finished.