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blockchain

How to Craft a Better UX Design for Blockchain

You can hardly find a person today who hasn’t heard of blockchain with its promise of security, immutability and transparency. Decentralised, distributed and tokenised networks are now top of mind for nearly every business leader. We can see businesses, and even entire governments, investing in blockchain initiatives. As more and more decentralised apps are entering […]

Artificial Intelligence

How to Create a Chatbot to Fit Your Needs and Budget

Chatbots are the hot topic. There are lots of articles that explain how to create a chatbot without coding. At the same time in our article, we just recently explored the complexity of Natural Language Understanding (NLU) and how to deal with it. So, where is the truth? And how do you create the best […]

Artificial Intelligence

How to Build an NLP Engine that Won’t Screw up

The fundamental elements of Artificial Intelligence, NLP and NLU are capturing industry hype these days. Since AI-powered bots can handle customer inquiries faster than any human representative, NLP shows great promise to the customer services industry. Over the last few years, businesses keep making attempts to jump on the bandwagon of AI innovation. Unfortunately, many of them […]

Tools

Choosing the Tools to Build Your Next VR Application

Virtual reality rapidly evolves from a niche to mainstream technology, conquering domains beyond entertainment and gaming. VR applications have the potential to penetrate many industries, providing extra capabilities for training, testing, simulation or customer service. There is plenty of evidence that this technology is not just another short-lived fad. Nearly a quarter of automotive, media, […]

Virtual Reality

Why Businesses Should Focus on Virtual Reality: Practical Use Cases

Virtual Reality is expanding its business relevance across the variety of industries. Stemming from it, the amount of virtual reality use-cases grows and creates new opportunities for business owners. In December 1993, id Software released Doom. First-person shooters had been released before, but none compared to Doom’s impact – effectively overnight, the industry changed. Everybody […]

Enterprise

How to Put Your Geospatial Data to Work with ELEKS’ GIS Platform

Around 12 years ago, one more tech solution rushed into our lives and changed the way we navigate the world. As you probably guessed, it was Google Maps. With the digital map in our pocket, we no longer worry about getting lost in an unknown area, finding a hotel for vacations or a cosy place […]

data science

Fashion and Technology: How Deep Learning Can Create an Added Value in Retail

Today, more and more retail companies understand that to stay ahead of the curve, they need to reshape their businesses, implementing tech-forward approaches and solutions. Data mining and analysis are key to making a shift. According to McKinsey, data-savvy retailers have the potential to increase operating margin by more than 60%. Companies can combine data […]

QA

Mobile Test Automation with Appium: a Brief Framework Overview Addressing Common QA Pain Points

Automated mobile UI testing is a relatively new field in quality assurance automation. A few years ago, QA specialists were facing a myriad of challenges because of buggy tools, low environment performance and issues associated with mobile platforms, early Android versions can be an example. The situation has fundamentally changed with the appearance of Appium […]

data science

How We Created a Business Intelligence Dashboard for Measuring Project Success

The success of a project-based business largely depends on the visibility the company has over its projects, the current level of their performance and, of course, the factors influencing their health and success. That is why the ability to have an extensive picture of the way these factors interact with one another is totally essential. […]

bot

Experimenting with Intelligent Apps: Our Voice-Controlled Shopping Assistant for Smart Fridge

Intelligent personal assistants have the real potential to transform our daily lives in the nearest future. At least this is what Gartner says in its report on the Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2017. For businesses, this means an excellent opportunity to refine their offers and improve customer experience, providing smarter and more effective […]