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July 28, 2024
Custom AI vs Off‑the‑Shelf AI Solutions: How to Decide What Your Product Needs
Technology leaders face a critical choice: build a custom AI solution development from scratch or leverage an off-the-shelf AI offering. AI capabilities are increasingly embedded in software products ...
July 23, 2024
The Hidden Costs Of Hiring Software Developers In-House
In an ideal world, hiring software developers in-house is a good way to gain the competencies you need to accelerate digital transformations and build competitive software products. However, in the re...
June 5, 2024
8allocate Receives 2024 Spring Clutch Global Award
We proudly announce that 8allocate has been honored with the 2024 Spring Clutch Global Award. This prestigious recognition highlights our dedication to driving digital transformation and unlocking gro...
May 29, 2024
Dealing with Legacy Systems: Incremental Modernization vs. Full Replacement
Although IT budgets are growing, they’re not always advancing tech innovation. Almost a third of CIOs admit that budget increases are mainly due to infrastructure modernization and migration pro...
May 14, 2024
From Vendor Management to Strategic Partnerships: The Shift in IT Outsourcing
We will have to build our own digital capability on top of the technology that we have adopted. Because every company is a software company
CEO of Microsoft, Satya Nadella Modern businesses use front-...
May 7, 2024
How to Align Your Technology Roadmap with Business Objectives
Supply chain bottlenecks, customer behavior shifts, and competitive pressures force businesses to reinvent operations. Digital technologies, in particular, have become significant enablers for busines...
April 23, 2024
Innovation with Constraints: A Guide for Tech Leaders
In a perfect world, tech leaders have unnerving board support, unlimited budgets, and a bountiful talent pool. But in reality, it’s the opposite. Although 93% of IT leaders expect budget increas...
April 5, 2024
TOP AI Consulting Companies for Business Innovation in 2025
Introduction The artificial intelligence (AI) consulting landscape is experiencing significant growth, reflecting the broader expansion of the global AI market for AI consulting services. The AI consu...
April 2, 2024
6 Reasons Why Leading Development Teams Adopt Platform Engineering
Companies are pressed to release new software faster to navigate the markets’ ebbs and flows. However, time pressure can adversely affect software quality and create major operational risks. So ...
March 19, 2024
Guide to Measuring Software Development Productivity
In 1776, Scottish economist and philosopher Adam Smith defined two types of labor: productive and unproductive. There is one sort of labor which adds to the value of the subject upon which it is besto...
March 12, 2024
Understanding Data Management in EdTech
According to Yahoo Finance, the EdTech market is anticipated to reach a value of around USD 549.6 Billion by 2033, reflecting significant growth from USD 146.0 Billion in 2023, with a pr...
March 11, 2024
Creating a Data-Driven Culture: Key Advice to Harness Unstructured Data
Data-Driven Ambitions Meet Unstructured Reality Today every enterprise aspires to be “data-driven,” yet 80–90% of new enterprise data is unstructured – think documents, emails,...
March 5, 2024
6 Defining EdTech Trends for 2024 and Onward
The EdTech sector accelerated during the pandemic as educational institutions and L&D organizations rushed to digitize education. However, then came the period of disillusionment among investors. ...
February 27, 2024
Data Management in FinTech: Challenges and Ways to Overcome Them
FinTech is an industry where data is the main asset that drives informed strategic decisions and fuels growth. From the moment data is collected, it starts its transformative journey from raw numbers ...
February 20, 2024
The Future of FinTech: 6 Trends Shaping the Financial Services Market
FinTech companies just emerged from an interesting year. Funding volume and deal count have declined since Q3 2022. In the first nine months of 2023, FinTech companies raised $29 billion in 1,655 fund...
February 6, 2024
6 Common AI Systems Security Risks and Solutions
Artificial intelligence (AI) is entering the era of mainstream. But like any emerging technology, AI carries both benefits and risks. Over 80% of users are worried about the security risks posed...
January 25, 2024
8allocate 2023 Retrospective: Transforming Disruption into Growth Opportunities
Resilient and determined — that’s how 8allocate teams powered through another challenging year ridden by ongoing geopolitical tensions and economic turbulence. Heightened cybersecurity ris...
January 11, 2024
The Future of Software Engineering: Predictions for 2024
Since the start of this decade, digital technologies have proven to be a major market force. Cloud computing, data analytics, and artificial intelligence (AI) have already had a substantial impact on ...
December 23, 2023
Top AIoT Applications Transforming Industries in 2024
The convergence of artificial intelligence (AI) with the Internet of Things (IoT), AIoT, is revolutionizing multiple sectors by facilitating more intelligent automation and informed decision-making pr...
December 20, 2023
Looking Ahead: Main Tech Trends for 2024
Generative AI. Metaverse. Advanced robotics. Blockchain — every year, all of us get bombarded with futuristic tech trends and predictions of yet another “big thing” making a disrupti...