Does Your Event Management Software Make You A Rockstar?

If you’re an event planner or a conference organizer then you need to be good at juggling multiple tasks in less time. To create a wonderful and successful event, you have to ensure everything is in place, which is not a simple process when doing it manually yourself. Especially for a corporate, association, or an academic conference, there are some extra things you need to consider while planning events, such as attendees’ satisfaction and event’s ROI. Understanding these issues the software companies develop an EMS (event management software) that can be an event planner’s best friend. There are numerous business event management app solutions that can save your time and keep things organized even without you being present there. Simply remember that it’s not one size fits all, and each tool has its own purpose. Before truly committing, it is advised that you explore and compare...

Employee Attrition and Retention – Part 1

Introduction This is the 1st blog in the series in which we are going to discuss the attrition in an organization. An organization is built with teams and the team’s growth is dependent on each employee, but when an employee quits the job, it can disturb a team’s dynamics. Other team members may find themselves scrambled to cover the extra work for weeks, or even for months until a new candidate gets hired. Hence, it becomes important for any organization to work towards retaining the key employees. Reasons Employees Want to Leave Their Jobs Here are some very common reasons that make an employee leave the job based on certain statistics we have collated the best information from various survey & studies to give you a clear picture of where an organization can go wrong and what causes employees to resign. ~ The job wasn't what they'd expected ~ Lack of coaching or feedback ~ They...

Design Powerful & Impactful “Coming Soon” Pages

“Coming soon pages are an amazing way for websites/products to engage and connect with users, even before the actual websites/products is published..” When your product/websites are not quite there yet. You will need a few more days or weeks to finalize the details of what a bang-hit it will be. In the interval, you let your initial users know that something is coming soon, and they should wait for it completely. Just saying that through email, tweeting or texting about it are nice expressions, you can do it to catch the initial interest. So, using the "Coming Soon" page is a better idea. A well designed “coming soon” page is a great teaser to catch the attention of potential users and make them look forward to the website’s launch. Here are reasons why a "Coming Soon" page is important ~...

Lumen – A Magnificently Fast Micro-service PHP Framework – Part I

Lumen was created by Taylor Otwell in 2015 who was also the founder of Laravel framework. It is a PHP based micro-service framework. It is an open-source php framework. Lumen is designed for building very fast micro-services and APIs. Lumen is a "micro-framework", meaning it's a minor, speedy, leaner version of a full web application framework. It is basically built for more speed, it is faster than similar PHP micro-service frameworks such as Slim & Silex. Based on the benchmark tests by Taylor Otwell - the creator of Laravel framework, Lumen is the fastest micro framework followed by Slim then Silex. Lumen - 1,700 requests per second Slim - 1,250 requests per second Silex - 950 requests per second Please Note: The results mentioned above are of slim version 3. The Slim micro framework version 3 has not been released officially. But the results of the slim framework version 2 are quite...

Step-by-Step Guide to Swagger Inspector, Hub & UI

Swagger is a RESTful API documentation tool based on OpenApi Specification. It is a specification for machine-readable interface files for describing, producing, consuming, and visualizing RESTful web services (API). These documentation is so easy to understand that it can easily be interpreted by the clients without any server side code knowledge. Swagger consists of three tools in its system, these tools are used to document parameters, methods and models. They are as follow in their sequential order for execution:- ~ Swagger Inspector ~ Swagger Hub ~ Swagger UI Swagger Inspector When any web service (API) is developed, the very first step is to implement that API into Swagger Inspector for implementing that web service (API) into the Swagger Inspector, one need to have an account. After login successfully : 1. User needs to select desired method. 2. User needs to enter URL of the web service (API) in the text field which says “Any...

An introduction to Docker – Part I

Introduction This is just the first Blog in the Series of Blogs we will Write on this topic. If you are a developer or involved in any kind of enterprise Docker consultation and looking for a simple yet effectively functional technology then you are going in the right direction of thinking to deploy the application with the Docker. Docker is nothing but a container which communicates directly with the Linux kernel, hence it is very useful and easy to command in Linux systems. Oh! even Windows and MAC are not left behind to use containers. You may have heard about the vast numbers of developers talking about docker & containers, isolated virtual machine, hypervisors and other DevOps related systems. Today we will talk about the Introduction of Docker. What is a Docker? Docker is a very simple software for containerized applications. The concept of a container is to be a minimum,...