Magenic Company Blog

Last month, Magenic’s Chicago office was recognized as one of the best places to work in Illinois for 2013. This month, the Minneapolis-based headquarters is being similarly recognized for the state of Minnesota.

Have you ever been on a project that has required multiple refactoring of code bases, fixed deadlines, long hours, high stress/frustrations, over burn on burn rates, high resource turnover, and high production bug rates… i.e. poor planning /execution? There are several companies that do not understand the cost of quality and the benefits that striving to get it right the first time can bring.

In last week’s post, the EntMo speakers stressed the importance of having a defined mobile strategy. This week, they’re setting their sights on the future and what direction enterprise mobility is taking.

In part 1, we were introduced to some of the Enterprise Mobile Summit (EntMo) speakers as they discussed the importance of mobile technology and the enterprise. In this video, they describe how creating a defined mobile strategy can be the difference maker in successfully utilizing mobile technology in the enterprise.

For many companies, the jump to creating a modern application is too risky or intimidating. The high costs or inability to visualize the outcome are enough to drive them away. To make this jump smaller, Magenic has come up with an affordable opportunity to get a glimpse of a Modern App without betting the farm.

In March, Magenic hosted the “Enterprise Mobile Summit.” Dubbed EntMo for short, the event served as a forum for some of the region’s most experienced mobile experts to discuss enterprise mobile strategies and solutions. The event took place in Atlanta with well-known companies like Coca-Cola, UPS, Thomson Reuters, and Microsoft leading the event.

The performance of Windows Store Apps is important to consider, especially when handling large collections of data. When displaying the collection, performance can be degraded. In part three , first steps were taken to alleviate the performance problems that can arise under heavy data usage. Part four will describe further performance improvements using UI virtualization.

By embracing the power and flexibility of JavaScript, a developer can create data templates that adapt to changing data structures and criteria by using data template functions. This was described in part two of this series. Taking the concept of data template functions a step further, part three will discuss asynchronous data template functions.

Recently, at the PASS Business Analytics Conference, Microsoft announced their new strategy for Business Intelligence. They summed it up with a single word – Simplicity. This was an exciting announcement as Business Intelligence has long been the wild west of development and often utterly chaotic.

We can’t test everything. It’s impossible. There are too many test cases, too many actions we could potentially perform, too many edge cases and things that our users will come up with that we can’t even imagine. At any given point of time, there are an infinite number of tasks we could perform. We need to choose our tasks to fit into the time we have available for testing, planning our tasks in advance to meet our deadlines.