Know a high school math whiz? Registration is open for Moody’s Mega Math Challenge
Nagarro shares a love of mathematics with customer SIAM (the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics). This year, Nagarro’s custom applications will be automating the judging process for the Moody’s Mega Math Challenge, an Internet-based math contest co-hosted with SIAM. Participating teams of students are given 14 hours to solve an open-ended, realistic, applied math-modeling problem focused on real-world issues.
The content spotlights applied mathematics as a powerful problem-solving tool, a viable and exciting profession, and a vital contributor to advances in an increasingly technical society. Scholarship prizes total $100,000.
If you know a high school math whiz from Maine through Washington, DC who might be interested in participating, please feel free to share information on the contest. Registration closes on February 26, 2010.
Who knows, the winners could be your future employees (or our future customers)…
We recently undertook an exercise to analyze the database performance, and subsequently optimize the overall performance for large, data-intensive business application. This post outlines the approach we adopted to analyze the problem, and how we went about arriving at solutions. Continued »
We recently caught up with Chris Roe, CTO of Qtrax, in New York to find out more about his experience as a Nagarro customer. Qtrax and Nagarro have been working around the clock for months preparing for the launch of Qtrax 1.0, the industry’s first free and legal peer-to-peer music download service. Qtrax had a tall order – linking a massive music file system with ad-serving features while enabling millions of site visitors to rapidly download an unlimited number of high-quality music files.
Oh, and did we mention that they needed it done in just four months? Click on the video to hear how Nagarro rose to the challenge.
I recently got the opportunity to represent Nagarro at a Microsoft Event, where Scott Guthrie was speaking. Scott runs Microsoft’s Developer Division and is a great visionary and speaker. After the keynote there was a informal session of developers with “The Gu” on what’s coming in .NET. It was amazing to see how Scott went down to lowest level details in explaining everything and anything related to .NET technologies be it on Silverlight 3.0, .NET RIA Services, ASP.NET MVC, IIS 7.0, SEO and so on. Continued »
As we interact with CIOs of midsize companies at the MES show, there are several common themes that come out in the conversations. While cost-cutting has been the overwhelming focus of IT organizations in the last year, there seems to be a change in objectives going forward. More CIOs seem to be focused on ways to increase business revenues, rather than containing costs. The projects that are being funded are the ones that involve customer facing solutions, challenging IT to provide innovation that is targeted at end customers, rather than internal business users.
A number of companies have had positive experiences with server virtualization over the last couple of years, and are looking to take the next step – virtualizing their desktop systems. Cloud computing, especially storage is finding increased traction in the midsize organizations, as they look to improve business continuity and disaster recovery plans. Another trend seems to be the increased focus on building relationships with external service companies in this market segment, as IT executives seek to do more with less.
I recently took part in a panel discussion on cloud computing and how it relates to software architecture. The event used an online event organizer for signing up and the website wouldn’t let me register for the event. I later found out that I could not sign-up because the event was sold out. This says something about the hype surrounding cloud computing which has become the in-thing to be ’seen with’. The panel discussion was interesting and animated and one takeaway for me was that everybody had their own idea of what cloud computing is and to some it was barely more than a buzzword. Continued »
Get a look behind the scenes at Pacific Southwest Container, a midsize manufacturer of sustainable custom packaging. Nagarro’s custom applications enable PSC to optimize use of printing materials and equipment, reducing PSC’s costs and waste. End result? Cost savings are passed along to customers, while PSC improves its environmental footprint. Please view this short video and let us know what you think!
For months we’ve been saying that despite the recession, innovation is alive and well. Last week we spent two days at TiECon 2009, where our opinion was validated by entrepreneurs of promising startups as well as recognized business leaders. The buzz this year is that there are still plenty of interesting, innovative startups poised for success – as others have noted.
Last week I attended the Midsize Enterprise Summit (MES) in Miami. This event has become one of Nagarro’s favorite venues for discussing the unique business and technology challenges faced by midsize enterprises – that vast range of companies across industries that falls somewhere between startups and global players.
Last week Manufacturing Business Technology published Nagarro’s top “Dos and Don’ts” for custom application development. Our customers in manufacturing as well as other markets continue to prove that downturn is a perfect opportunity to revamp IT strategy for competitive advantage. As companies look to evolve to a ‘smarter’ IT strategy, smaller, inexpensive, made-to-fit custom applications offer a great way to build lasting competitive advantage.
As we all know, the economy has been in a tailspin for several months. When the economic crisis first began to rumble, many of our customers and prospects slammed the brakes on technology spending. But then before too long, we started noticing a change: smart companies began to realize that this was actually the perfect time to step on the gas and leave their competitors in the dust. The opportunity for competitive advantage is far greater when potential rivals are frozen at a standstill. Continued »
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