Custom Software Development

How to Choose an AI Software Development Company (And What to Watch Out For)

Not all AI software development companies are equal. Learn what separates firms that truly build with AI from those that just use the word.

When to Replace Your SaaS Tools with Custom AI Software (And How to Know It's Time)

SaaS made sense a decade ago. For many businesses today, custom AI-powered software delivers better ROI, faster. Here’s how to know when to make the switch — without disrupting your operations.

100 OpenClaw Use Cases You Can Try Today

Most people still use AI as a chat window. Ask something, get something back, move on. That works for isolated tasks. It doesn’t do much for the work that keeps returning every day. OpenClaw works differently. It runs persistently, connects to the tools you already use, and handles ongoing workflows across inbox, calendar, files, code, research, CRM, and content. That changes the role of AI from assistant to operating layer. This article walks through 100 practical OpenClaw use cases across personal productivity, business operations, development, and creative work. Some save a few minutes a day. Some remove recurring admin entirely. Some create systems that keep compounding once they are in place. The right way to read it is simple: find the one use case that would improve your week immediately, get it working well, and build from there.

Sphere Partners with JFrog to Accelerate Software Delivery and Strengthen Security

AI and IoT in Construction: Unlocking the Value

The construction industry is experiencing a technological revolution driven by AI and IoT. These advancements are transforming traditional practices, enabling more efficient, safe, and cost-effective project outcomes. Companies like PCL Construction, Lendlease, and Turner Construction are leading the way, leveraging IoT sensors and AI algorithms to optimize operations, enhance safety, and improve project management.

Navigating the Next Decade of HealthTech: Digital Strategy, Innovation, and Patient Engagement

The future of healthcare technology focuses on patient-centered innovation, digital strategy, and enhancing patient engagement. Key topics include the importance of user-centered innovation, like telehealth services, the need to improve access to tech-based healthcare, and the strategic decision of building versus buying software to align with long-term digital goals.

How to Harness the Power of IoMT to Elevate Healthcare Tech and Improve Lives

Here are five ways that IoMT is positioned to make a significant impact on healthcare and life sciences in the coming years.

Healthcare Software Interoperability is Critical: How to Achieve It

In 2023, interoperability is still top of the agenda for leaders and decision-makers, referring to the timely and secure access, integration and use of electronic health data to optimize health outcomes for individuals and populations.

Electrify 23: Driving Decarbonization

Unveiling the Truth: A Tech CEO Perspective - Most Products Are in Fact Projects

As the founder and CEO of a global technology consulting and software engineering firm, here’s another reality of modern business I see far too often: Most products that companies say they’re developing are really just projects.

Experienced Engineers Critical for EMSP Business Growth

Experience matters when it comes to EMSP updates and integrations, and that's why skilled software engineers are crucial. With their expertise, they navigate the complex landscape of integrating new technologies, ensuring smooth EMSP updates and seamless system integrations.

Accelerating the Transition to Electric Vehicles and a Sustainable Futures

As electric vehicles (EVs) continue to gain prominence, the role of EMSPs becomes increasingly vital in driving the transition to electric mobility.

The Imperatives of Considering Different Approaches to Electric Vehicle Charging Platform Integration Management

It is imperative to consider different ways to integrate and update your EV EMSP systems. Our software engineers have the experience you need.

Smart Solutions for B2B: Best AI Chatbots for the Tech-Empowered Industries

While ChatGPT is considered one of the best AI chatbots, tech companies have plenty of other options that may better meet their needs.

How to Know When Your Monolithic Software is Holding You Back — and What To Do About It

There are six surefire signals that point to it being time to pivot from monolithic architecture to microservices or modular architecture.

The Role of Sustainable Software Development in Electric Vehicles: Driving Towards a Greener Future

Transforming EV Charging Technology and Addressing Network Disruptions

What Can We Learn From Norway’s Fast Adoption of Electric Vehicles

Addressing Electric Vehicle Charging Issues Caused by Simultaneous Demand on Power Grid

8 Essential Metrics and KPIs Manufacturers Should Be Tracking Now

10 Reasons Acumatica is an Ideal Cloud ERP Solution

How ChatGPT Can Improve the Software Development Life Cycle

Build-Measure-Learn Cycle for MVPs And Software Development

The Ideal Software Development Team Structure

The Basics of PCI: What Every Merchant Should Know

Learn with Sphere: How to improve the performance of client-side applications

MVP in 2023: Hedging Against Market Downturns with a Strong Prototype

Outsourcing Software Development: Pros and Cons

6 Key Takeaways from Acumatica Summit 2023

Seven Low-Cost Projects to Increase Efficiency & Profitability

Attending Acumatica Summit in January is the Best Technology Investment You Can Make in 2023

Iterative vs. Incremental Development: Explaining the Differences

Today's Systems Integration: What, Why and How?

How To Develop An MVP Using Agile Methodology

Learn with Sphere: Business Analytics and the Product Lifecycle

Top 10 Acumatica Integrations

ERP Document Management: Determine what you need

Acumatica is the Best ERP Replacement for Sage 500

Technology events in US to watch out for in the latter half of 2022

5 Steps to Building a Minimum Viable Product (MVP)

Outsourcing software development for start-ups: what to consider

Why you should consider an open-source ERP

Open-source ERP’s offer several distinct advantages over more traditional models. This article explores the pros and cons of such software.

Cybersecurity: passwordless is the new frontier

How To Build A Cybersecurity Strategy

Flutter vs React Native: Which one is better in 2022?

Learn with Sphere: Importance of Retrospective in Scrum Implementation

How AR/VR is opening mobile app development to new possibilities

How Custom-Built Software Is Better Than Out-Of-The-Box

The Risk of Selecting the Wrong Technology

What Is DevSecOps?

Developers can now use Python within Snowflake

What is IoB (Internet of Behaviors)?

IoB or internet of behaviors is a somewhat recent phrase that refers to the combination of physical and digital worlds through devices such as sensors and smartphones, and connected to the cloud allowing them to send and receive data to provide value either in a closed or open ecosystem.

The Best Static Site Generators For Your Website in 2022

A static site generator is a tool that generates a full static HTML website based on raw data and a set of templates. Basically -  a static site generator automates the task of coding individual HTML pages and gets those pages ready to serve to users ahead of time.

Learn with Sphere: QA Automation with Percy

React vs. Vue vs Angular: Which is Better?

This guide should help you decide between React, Vue and Angular frameworks for your next web project.

The Best monday.com Integrations

Monday.com is a popular project management tool with many popular integrations, here are some of the best ones to choose from.

Low Code Development Platform Trends to Watch

Learn with Sphere: Light Intro to R Programming Language

My name is Denis Shvedchenko, Data Engineer and Back End Developer at Sphere Partners. This is a light introduction to R programming language.

Learn with Sphere: How to create an NPM package from scratch

What’s your JAM? JAMstack vs Monolithic Web Architectures

Learn with Sphere: How to build and optimize docker images

Is Python Fast Enough for Machine Learning?

How to Hire the Top 1% of IT Talent Python Developers

Learn with Sphere: How to Build SSO solution on top of Amazon Cognito

Websites vs Progressive Web Apps vs Native – What’s the Difference?

Learn with Sphere: Micro Frontends: Module Federation Approach

In this article, our Full-Stack Software Developer, Evgenii Gordeev, takes us through a short journey through the history of micro frontends, followed by a use case of building a modern composite frontend based on the Webpack Module Federation.

TensorFlow.js vs. Keras - a Quick Comparison

What's the difference between TensorFlow and Keras and when do I use which one? In this post we explore these popular machine learning frameworks and explore the differences.

Learn with Sphere: Modern Backend: The Universal Pipeline

Learn with Sphere: Google Cloud Machine Learning Pipeline: An approach to building an automated scalable ML pipeline using GCP

Learn with Sphere: Machine Learning Walkthrough using LabelBinarize and Keras

Our own Anton Kazakov walks us through a machine learning tutorial project using LabelBinarize and Keras. The goal of the project was to get familiar with model training, data preparation and predict phase.

Comparing Video Platform API and Features

Our Experts Reveal the Best Python Frameworks for ETL

This post will cover examples of ETL frameworks, which are the easiest and most comprehensive way to approach ETL in Python.

Top AR/VR Trends in 2021: Augmentation and Virtual Reality

Could Rust Replace Python for High-Performance Computing?

Python is currently the hottest programming language but could Rust replace Python for high performance projects? In this post we examine pros and cons of both programming languages.

What is Innovation Engineering?

Innovation Engineering is a framework for engineering solutions with innovation and emerging new technologies. In this post we uncover what Innovation Engineering means and how to start thinking in this way.

Hottest Machine Learning Python Libraries for 2021

In this post you’ll learn about some of the hottest machine learning libraries for 2021 using Python.

Snowflake vs Redshift: What Data Warehouse is better for your business?

In this post we look at two leading data warehouse providers: AWS Redshift and Snowflake, and compare benefits and cons to both.

Enterprise Ecommerce Platforms: Shopify Plus & Magento

Shopify Plus & Magento are two of the most common Ecommerce Platforms. We compared them side by side in terms of multi-store management, hosting flexibility and ability to deploy specialty controversial online businesses.

NetSuite Integration For Recruiting Platform

Sphere saved this US-based recruiting platform over 50% of the typical cost of critical NetSuite integrations.

Sphere Creates Robust NetSuite Consulting & Integrations for Ecommerce Firm

Part 2: Comparison of Tableau vs Power BI vs Qlik API's

The power of Business Analytics software packages like Tableau Vs Power BI Vs Qlik is unlocked when you integrate your disparate data sources into an end-to-end view of crucial metrics.

Evaluating The Most Popular Business Analytics Tools: Tableau vs Power BI vs Qlik (Part 1)

While your company undoubtedly would benefit from business intelligence software, the best fit from the top three vendors Tableau vs Power Bi vs Qlik.

Ecommerce Webinar on Future Proofing of Ecommerce Marketplace

Custom Lead Generation System built for CreditNinja

With our Custom Lead Generation System CreditNinja is able to reduce their underwriting costs substantially, which dropped by 75%. The company also achieved a 50% savings for marketing costs.

Roof Asset Management for better Roof/Construction Ideas

Software Division Carve-Out by Private Equity IT Software Consulting Services

Read how a private equity firm carveout required unique Private Equity IT Software Consulting Services from Sphere Partners.

Free software development solutions to companies responding to COVID-19

Chicago-based company pledging thousands of development hours for COVID-19 focused solutions and free license to home-delivery platform for businesses struggling to stay afloat.

MKG Recruits Sphere to revamp pharmaceutical web platform

Case Study: Professional Services Firm Streamlines Operations, Saves Time with NetSuite

Pros & Cons of NetSuite ERP for Law Firms

NetSuite implementation for law firms as a cloud based ERP is a growth hacker by Oracle which always keep Law Firm Operations Optimized, legally Compliant at a much lower operation costs.

Profitable Tech Business model for software product development

Case Study: NetSuite Implementation Streamlines Operations for FinTech Company

Mobile App Test Automation Journey of OneMain Financial

Delta Dental Digital Transformation With Custom Atlassian Solution

Tech Talent Management In Agile Software Development Company

Is Elixir the Best of Both Worlds? Why to use it?

Agile technology development to embrace risk management strategies

Perform Quality Assurance Without Requirements - Implementation hack

Cybersecurity Advancements Being Driven by Behavioral Analytics

Agile Security and Compliance Prioritizes People Over Process

Agile, Security, & Compliance—Exploring the Tensions

Agile Development Success Lies in Communication and Curiosity

The Healthy Dissonance of Agile Development Methodology

Making Agile Development More Comfortable

Agile planning - building an agile organization

AI and HR - Disruption is Coming

AI and HR. HR is widely regarded as one of those ‘human’ jobs that will be hard to replace with AI. It’s similar to psychology and other domains that require a high level of EQ, communication skills, and profound personal touch.

27 Effective Ways For Remote Development Teams

How do you outsource better? How do you manage your remote development and contract technical workforce? How do you keep them engaged?

Case Study: Blockchain Consulting - Loan Marketplace

How the Internet of Things Is Delivering Value to Consumers Today

How the IoT Is Transforming Familiar Spaces

Improving Process, People, and Culture to Boost Remote Productivity

Improving the Speed of Manual Testing

GasMob is a new on-demand gas delivery service designed

Case Study: Enova CashNetUSA App

The CashNetUSA app allows users to apply for a new loan or line of credit, make payments, and track the status of their loans.

Case Study: Fuse Universal

Case Study: One Transport Powered By Gett

Understanding Flutter mobile SDK: Pros & Cons

This article provides an in-depth look at the Flutter Mobile SDK, various advantages and disadvantages, usage of Dart as the main language, and other development characteristics.

Introducing Jira Software 8.0 to the Software Industry

Loan approval workflow Integration and Implementation case study

Case Study: Develop End-User Portal using Microservices

Benifits & Features of Kotlin Technical Debt

Ready for Upgrading QuickBooks to NetSuite

CTO vs COO? What’s the Difference in a Technology Company?

CTO vs COO? What's the difference in between the COO vs CTO roles in most tech companies, and how do these views impact software architectural decisions?

Case Study - Implementing an Isolated SaaS with AWS

Case Study: Artificial Intelligence Bias in Medicine

Case Study - Custom Prototype Implementation

Sphere helped Roomations establish proof of concept with a functional prototype of their platform using a simple Ruby front end and 3D virtualization technologies. This made it possible for consumers to view sample interior designs and select specific products featured in the design.

Case Study - Custom Analytics Prototype

Proclivity Media wanted to build a prototype of its advertising technology analytics platform. With an algorithm in mind, they needed a team with the analytics experience necessary to build a scalable front and back-end system that would allow them to establish proof of concept with a custom analytics prototype.

Rebel Case Study – Chat Bot Development

Sphere implemented a full-cycle chatbot development approach for Rebel through language parsing, syntax parsing, and machine learning technologies. The original XML interface of the chatbot was enhanced by using React.js and Angular.js for the web-facing application, and Spring Boot and JavaScript for the back-end. The new interface successfully removed the “rough edges” of the chat bot, and allowed it to assist both internal representatives and Rebel’s customers.

Case Study - Application Development

Case Study – Self-service on-demand

Case Study – Connecting Ecommerce and Mobile via APIs

Case Study - Human Interest Web Application Development

Screencasts - Helpful Golang Practices Tutorials

3 Options for Creating a Python AWS Lambda Function

AWS Lambda is a service introduced in 2014 by Amazon. In this post we will take a closer look at the ways to use Python code as an AWS Lambda function.

Case Study – Ecommerce and Content Management Software

Case Study - Ecommerce and Social Media

Tips of IT Project Management with our Employee of the month - Artem Korenev

Testing Generated Binary Files w/RSpec

Testing generated binary files with RSpec: RSpec is a 'Domain Specific Language' (DSL) testing tool written in Ruby to test Ruby code.

How to Plan for Your Next Machine Learning Projects

Follow these tips and you’ll be well on your way to plan for machine learning projects effectively and designing algorithms with an eye to the future.

Winning the IT Battle with Offshore Team Staffing

Node.js vs PHP: Which Environment to Choose for Your Next Project?

The Importance and Best Practice of Using Software Design Documents

How To Modernize Legacy Software and Need For It?

Improving Teams (and Results) with Software Development Metrics

Automation: Why You Need to Do It, and Where to Start

How to Save Money with Automation Testing Infrastructure?

Optimize QA Automation To Increase Customer Success

Agile Budgets: Top 12 Agile Budgeting Tips

3 Ways To Save On IT Costs Without Losing Out On Quality

Automated Agile Testing - The Key Component of Agile DevOps

Adopting Agile Development – Exploring the Scrum and Kanban Approach

Strategic Prioritization – How to Rank Transformative Digital Projects

Changes Coming for Ethereum Smart Contracts with ERC-1400

Security vs. Utility Tokens: Key Differences and Similarities

The BIG Debate: Automated vs. Manual Testing

The Sharing Economy: Everything you need to know

The Sharing Economy is by no means a new concept. We have been living with this concept for some time, but what does the sharing economy mean?

5 Powerful Tips To Planning Your First ICO Launch

Anyone thinking about an ICO launch needs to ask themselves, is this what I really need, or am I just getting on the bandwagon?

How Golang Helps Team Leads Become More Effective?

Improving Healthcare Solutions with implementing Blockchain

Why You Should Consider Upgrading Your Ruby on Rails Version

Go and Network API: The Silver Bullet

Harnessing the Power of Augmented Reality

When Augmented Reality was first developed in 1968, it required an expensive, specialized headset to just display simple wireframe drawings. Now, Augmented Reality - compatible devices are much more accessible, allowing millions of people to have the power of AR in the palm of their hands.

Traditional App Development May Change as Chatbots Become More Relevant

Chatbots are expected to become the face of app development as companies look for new ways for bots to support their current applications. Gartner estimates that by 2021, more than 50% of enterprises will spend more on chatbot app development than traditional mobile and web applications.

How to Use Go to Optimize the Cost of Software Development

Blockchain Technology and its Real-World Uses

A panel of crypto experts across various industries discussed what they think the future of blockchain technology is at Tech in Motion’s latest event in Chicago.

Forecasting & Planning with Atlassian Service & Support

Practical Tips for Using Yodlee IAV

Building Desktop Apps with Electron for Xiaomi

Electron is a new way to Building desktop apps with all the power of Node.js, HTML, and CSS. You can easily complete a functional app in a short time frame, which could solve 80% of your day-to-day needs.

Improving Your App’s Accessibility for People Who are Disabled

Hanami: A Full-featured, Lightweight Alternative to Ruby On Rails

A Full-featured guide on Implementing Autotests

Are Chatbots the Next Generation of Customer Service?

5 Steps for Creating a Minimum Viable Product

Minimum Viable Product (MVP) is the minimum feature set the market will pay for. Your product should have enough unique features to set it apart from the competition, but not so many as to waste unnecessary (and expensive) research and development time.

Why ROR Applications Should Consider Adding GoLang to Their Stack?

In Go versus ROR Applications debates, it’s often noted that Go’s syntax is less flexible and very strict, which affects the developer’s productivity.

Achieve Quality Code and ROI through Test Automation

Key Takeaways from the 2018 Chatbot Summit in Tel Aviv

What is a Coroutines? Benefits of using it in your coding

Our Journey to Define Our Core Values

Infrastructure as Code: An Alternative to Standard Configuration Management

Infrastructure as Code (IAC) is a new approach to infrastructure automation that is more extensive and thorough than the more common, server-based method.

DevOps 101 with the Atlassian Stack

Our new DevOps 101 white paper, curated from Atlassian, shares how to create the culture changes necessary for a successful DevOps process.

Achieving Business Goals with the Nuclear Energy of React.js

Tips to Consider When Looking for a Best Software Developer

Zen of Python Programming Language

Zen of Python principles were adopted by core language designers in addition to ordinary Python programrs and this was the key to building a rapidly expanding community in diverse areas of computing that welcomed newcomers.

Testing Process optimization with more Documentation

Quick tour on how Ruby on rails talks to the world

Automating your VPC with Terraform and Jenkins

Terraform and Jenkins allow us to implement push-button creation of our infrastructure as needed, on demand, with thoroughly tested code that is predictable, efficient, and reliable.

Machine Learning Made More Effective Through Python

An Introduction to Golang by Google

How Custom Software Solutions Can Automate Your DevOps?

The Complete Guide to Jenkins Installation for Ruby on Rails Using Ubuntu

To show how to use Jenkins for automation testing for rails I've created test rails app and put it on github and created a server on Ubuntu, which I will refer to by the URL https://jenkins.example.com.

Our Golang Frameworks vs Ruby Frameworks Expert Guide for Software Developers

How to collect aggregated statistics in a Ruby on Rails application?

C-for-Golang: Using C & C++ in Golang

A Senior GoLang Engineer at Sphere Software, first formulated an assistant tool called C-for-GoLang used to create C-Go bindings of C libraries to use in his applications.

Ampersand.js: An Alternative to Backbone.js

In this article, I provide an overview of Ampersand.js, a more or less modern framework, that could be a solution to many such problems.

A step-by-step guide for development of Node.js APIs

This article describes test-driven, step-by-step development of a simple RESTful API into an Elasticsearch in Node.js.

Emulating Life Cycles during Testing Automated

How to do JavaScript Functional Programming In Node.js

Want to learn how to do functional programming In Nodejs? Coding in a more functional style improves code reliability, and simplifies the debugging and testing process.

How to Implement a Left Side Menu Navigation Using Third Party Libraries?

Beginners Tips for Kickstart Software Testing

Introducing Objstore Cluster, a Multi-Master Distributed Caching Layer for Amazon S3