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When was the last time you dealt with a complex and unfamiliar situation? During your last project? Last week? This morning? The key function of business analysis is to introduce and manage change in an organization. As Business Analysts, our job is to guide our stakeholders through complex and...

I have been a business analyst for a long time, but I haven’t often been tasked with gathering business intelligence (BI) reporting requirements. My most recent assignment is heavily focused on this, and now I realize there are some distinct differences between gathering reporting requirements...

Often when people hear Azure, they think “cloud”. But they should be thinking “clouds”. Azure has datacenters across the world that can be thought of as independent clouds. This gives organizations multiple options when determining the best utilization of a cloud-based architecture. Some common...

As a developer, you can find yourself digging into all sorts of code, even the occasional WinForms application.  WinForms come with a lot of handy features that can make fluid design quite simple, allowing your forms to be resized by the user but still hold the basic shape you desire without a...

Most people realize they need to understand SEO. But what most don't realize is that they need to understand, to some degree, how a webpage is built to be able to maintain their website. If you're working with a CMS (Content Management System), like Kentico, Sitecore or even WordPress, the CMS...

By now, you have probably heard the hype about DevOps. You or someone in your department either went to a conference, read an article, or had a beer with someone who is doing it. If everyone else is “doing DevOps”, shouldn’t you be doing it, too?  Before you jump on the bandwagon, let’s try to...

Azure has a unique service offering aptly named “Azure Search”. This is a search-as-a-service cloud solution that lets you add a rich search service to your apps. The search service abstracts the complexities of document retrieval through both a REST API and a .NET SDK. Imagine, if you will, the...

Many of our clients come to us because they have frustrations managing their website. Here are some of the most common pain points we hear:Our CMS (content management system) is too complicatedI do not know HTMLI’m not sure how to manage SEO dataI don’t want to wait for our IT to have time to...