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Design Your Learning Management System For Better Distance Learning

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When around 1.2 billion children worldwide began schooling from home in 2020, educational institutions were forced to consider better solutions for remote learning. While the Online Learning Management System (LMS) was in existence well before the pandemic, it became an absolute necessity since then. Schools and universities bought or tied up with Edtech platforms such as Udemy, Coursera, etc., for specific courses or for distance learning solutions. However, adaptability remained a challenge.   What exactly went wrong with LMS solutions back in 2020? The biggest limitation was the lack of customization with LMS features . As  a result, individual needs were not met and learning remained sporadic for the most part. Adapting from the existing system to the new one posed as one of the most unavoidable challenges for educators and learners.  Top challenges with LMS software in 2020  LMS system was expensive for most people  Features couldn’t be customized Customer support wasn’t timely 

Impact of Digital Transformation on Business Cost Reduction

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  Digital transformation today is key to creating processes that automate tasks and convert cumbersome work into productive tasks. According to Statista , by 2023, the value of companies that would spend directly on digital transformation would reach a total of US $6.8 trillion.  An effective digital transformation strategy involves attaining digital maturity that leads to a considerable reduction of business costs. A mature digital transformation involves process transformation, adoption of digital tools to automate tasks, accounting software, team and collaboration tools, cloud-data storage, data analytics, software to manage sales, CRM, operations, finances, management etc.  For example, Salesforce - a cloud-based digital transformation software helps in automating marketing tasks, CRM, team collaboration etc. Similarly, ServiceNow - a cloud-based IT service management (ITSM) platform - helps in inventory management, employee IT support, HR service delivery and even application dev

Benefits of Outsourcing Software Development for Various Industries

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  Today, every sector and every business needs software. Outsourced software has contributed immensely in automating unproductive tasks, accelerating sales through CRM and analytics and led to business growth. While every industry needs software outsourcing, there are six industries in particular, for whom softw are development outsourcing has yielded phenomenal results.  # 1 Retail  Amid bankruptcies in 2019 and 2020 in the retail sectors, US-based retail stores - Wayfair and Chewy -  experienced record results. Wayfair reported two consecutive quarters of profits due to a surge in its online customers. Chewy, on the other hand, posted "record" net sales while its net customer count went up to 17.8 million. This was the result of using software outsourcing for customer acquisition.  How has software development outsourcing transformed retail? Contactless digital wallets/apps like Apple Pay, Google Pay etc.  AI-powered customer analytics  Voice shopping with Alexa or Siri.