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There are recent reports that establish the fact that Business Intelligence platforms have a bright future in the business world. With the recent acquisition of two major data science companies, Looker and Tableau, it is evident that every business is stepping up its game by going for advanced technologies. These analytical tools closely match with the relevant audience persona.

Business intelligence (BI) is an essential tool of the current era. BI and analytics tools are most sought out by organizations to streamline and optimize their performance in the current competitive market. The BI market’s global forecast is reported to reach up to $26.88 billion by 2021.

Many notable acquisitions have taken place in the Business Intelligence space. Stitch, Periscope, Tableau, and many more have been acquired in the analytics tech stack. Thus there is a constant race in the future of BI for enterprises. With all this happening in the tech world of BI, many startups have shifted their focus towards incorporating Business Intelligence Solutions.

Here’s how BI technology and data analytics is changing the business landscape.

Valuable Insights

Business Intelligence has made way for easy to access analytic data. It has provided many options to consolidate and envision data that help in making the right business choices. These analytics comprise a resultant formed by a set of parameters like customer behavior, demographics, consumption pattern, sentiment analysis, emotional analysis, ecological factors, market segmentation, and many more. These elements aim to give an unmistakable clarity to streamline the way of approach in the current market scenario.

Sets Business Ablaze

BI integration helps to put an end to guesswork and instead make decisions based on concrete facts. This reliable data can get rid of your theoretical moves. They combine data from all departments and enhances the efficiency level of work and the output derived.

Clear-cut information

Since BI tools gather data from all sources available on the web, it provides precise processed information. In addition to that, it drills down to explore the trends that can be favorable for the business operations.

Competitive-Edge

Market trend is an ever-changing phenomenon filled with constant challenges. The access to the right information at the apt time can work wonders for your business. Having an integrated BI can give you that extra mileage so that your brand gets established and ensures it stays that way.

For any data-driven company who is convinced that data is the future, then Business Intelligence solutions are the key to success. Not any Business Intelligence tool will do, but the metrics matter. Key Performance Indicators (KPI) are necessary to come to a conclusion, and these factors differ from business to business. You need to identify which metric is suitable and essential for your business.

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You must have probably heard that many eCommerce businesses are still thriving while all the other brick and motor stores face closure due to major global lockdown. There has been a spike in the online users count recently. It includes new sign-ups from customers who are using the site for the first time. It is a chance for the online eCommerce retail service providers to experience a significant boost if they survive this current rocky economic situation.

Many online retailers are looking at this crisis as an opportunity. As more and more customers flock to eCommerce shopping sites for their essentials, it seems inevitable for a future boom. The customer mindset is changing, or we can say it is forced to change. Those who felt that they wouldn’t buy a tomato without touching it are the ones who are purchasing it online with no other option. People are whiling away with their internet now.

It’s not something new. JD.com and Alibaba had survived and seen significant growth during the 2002-2003 SARS crisis. So, it is better to have an online presence if you only own a brick and motor store. So, before you end up with choosing an eCommerce application development, here are some of the pointers that you should check out.

Economical

The eCommerce portal web and mobile application development should fall within your budget. Even though it is the most suitable investment at this hour, make sure all the necessary features are included and do not exceed your budget. Discuss your requirements with experts to arrive at the best feasible solution.

Customizable

Your eCommerce portal should be flexible to be customized later on as per the advancements of your business needs. If you are a newly established start-up, then you probably don’t want to risk non-customization.

Scalability

You will have to handle more website traffic, large volumes of orders, and manage a vast supply chain in the long run. You will want to monitor a lot more than you were handling earlier when you started. Incorporating more analytics would mean more lines of code and changes in the user interface. Your site should be scalable so that it does not affect the loading time or the user experience in any way.

These are some of the essential points to look out for, including apt technical development and support, API integrations, and many more. At Tops Infosolutions, we have the best team of skilled developers and consulting experts with experience in varied segments of business. We can help with setting up an online storefront that is entirely customizable according to your business requirements. Also, our eCommerce retail solution services enables you to handle your inventory management, dropshipping, orders management, vendors management, warehouse management, all from one single platform.

With the coronavirus pandemic spreading like hay fire, it is a serious loss for brick and motor stores. If you are looking for building an eCommerce retail solution services, we are there to help you. We, Tops Infosolutions, are the best web development company in the USA. We are well-equipped and always stick with our commitment to cater our clients, no matter what. To know more, do give us a call and our experts will be there to guide you 24×7. Dial: +1 408-400-3737

Google Actions is the functionality offered by Google Assistant, wherein you use a conversational interface to perform specific actions. The commands can range from a quick instruction like switching off the lights to a conversation like playing a game of trivia.

Google Assistant came into existence in May 2016 as one among the features of the Allo app – a messaging app. It is an Artificial Intelligence embedded virtual assistance that can engage in effective two-way communication and perform actions that align with its function. They have been in usage for a couple of years now. It is still improving and expanding the way of bidirectional communication to appear more natural. Expansion into various platforms has made it accessible to more developers, in addition to its features, to be available in the native tongue of its users.

Language support

The most important and exciting update was that it is now available in seven new languages – Dutch, Danish, Hindi, Indonesian, Norwegian, Swedish, and Thai. These join the existing languages English, French, Italian, German, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Spanish, and Portuguese. They offer full support for developers.

Custom Actions

One of the latest and exciting features is the capability to build a deep link from Google Assistant Actions to the android app. Sometimes the user can benefit from very interactive or convoluted situations with the help of custom Google Actions.

The main difference between Alexa skills and Google Actions is that amazon uses a barebones web form to create skills for Alexa. In contrast, Google had bought API.AI specifically for building Google Actions, just before it released Home.

How to create an action

To create an action for Google, any developer has to use this platform, API.AI. To start with, you need to create a sign-in account to proceed. It’s quite simple, and deploying is all the more simplified. Here are the following steps simplified to start creating your actions with google.

• Create an account in API.AI – The google API.AI account must be the same as your device login credentials so that you can test on the actual device.
• Create agent and choose a name – Click ‘create agent’ tab and name your bot, without any spaces, as this is the conversational name on behalf of you (your company) to the client or customer. The agent type can be left ‘public’ and add a description that is optional and ‘save.’
• Specify a welcome intent – the intent is like figuring out what you have said. It lets you say what you want, and then the system fetches the answer from most matching keyword.
• Create a new intent – Click on the intents. You can see ‘default fallback intent ‘and ‘default welcome intent.’ Click the upper right corner to ‘create intent.’
• Input’ user says’ content – Input what the users would need to say to trigger the intent ‘user says’ area and ‘save.’
• Define your action – Now, to gather all the words, the action has to be created. The action occurs when a related intent is triggered.
• Creating the response – Here, you can input the words that would be the response.
• Testing – you can now test your action.

Integrate with google actions

To perform the actions via google, click on the integration at the top right corner. You can make use of Google’s Dialog Flow tool to build conversational interfaces in various languages. To ease the process of translating actions, Google lets developers export directory listing as a file.

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Google action is a technological sensation that is present ubiquitously from your home services to reach your customers in business. It is a voice-activated speaker powered by Google Assistant that has many capabilities for the best customer experience by exclusive customizations.

Take a look at some of the full applications in various business fronts that might apply to your business, or at least provoke your imagination.

Listed questions and answers (FAQs)– The most apparent situation is where the knowledge sharing and answering questions about your services or products is done by an FAQ bot like Pringles, Visa Guru.

Online Orders— Placing an order at the cafe place, pizza hub, booking a cab, or even flowers is now something you can do quickly! Some of the popular ones are Uber, Starbucks, Domino’s Pizza, 1–800-Flowers.

Making Reservations— Dining, activities, entertainment, beauty, and fitness — the Reserve with Google service enables your consumers to schedule appointments. There are also many services currently that provide appointment scheduling facilities. You can use whichever is suitable to allow your client’s land to your business without you having to write the actions. Some Examples are TripAdvisor, MINDBODY, Appointy, Tiqets, Booksy.

To Buy— By using only your voice or screen interface, you can buy groceries, tickets, and what not! These Businesses might ring a bell, Asda, Fred Meyer, Ticketmaster, Fandango, eBay.

Providing Information— Booking flights or checking status, the weather or movie recommendations, directions, latest news, and updates can be done on the go using voice interface. Examples are Singapore Airlines, World Air Quality Index, AccuWeather, Itcher.

Prompt Customer service— A virtual assistant can help your call center, staff, or even banking system in some of their duties, like Bank of America, AGL, Mr. Spring, U. S. Bank.

To-Do Lists and notes— to make shopping lists, calendars, work trackers, notes, and reminders, Google Assistant can be the fastest and most effortless way to complete your note-keeping. Widely used examples: Todoist, Evernote, Trello, Timesheets Companion.

Instructions— You can give instructions on almost everything to your users. The most commonly searched would probably be cooking guides and workouts sequences. But assistant can quickly assist you with swift, hands-free guides for even hair coloring/makeup or newborn care. Here are some Businesses in this segment: Tasty, Fitness Buddy, Clairol Color Expert, Johnson’s.

Multimedia— You can select your music, play, and control your audio and video streaming services. Moreover, you can choose from audiobooks, children’s stories, background music, or even meditation! Best Examples: Spotify, Netflix, YouTube, Google Play, Disney, StoryCastle, Headspace.

Communication & Social media— Emails can be quickly sent and received, adding posts on your social app, or even find a date is now much more comfortable with the voice-activated assistant. Best Examples are WhatsApp, Twitter, Viber, Sonus Mail, Only One.

Location— Finding the restaurants nearest to you, branch offices, wedding banquets, hospitals, events happening, or dog shelter, all you have to do is write the specified action that directs clients towards your business. Some of whom you can draw inspiration are Petfinder, OCBC Bank, MetLife Hipster Cat, Sunfish Events.

Smart home— Voice becomes the most natural interface to control your smart home appliances like lighting, entertainment systems, heating, cleaning robots, and more. But it doesn’t cease here with home smart devices. Many automobile brands, like Mercedes, or Volvo, give integrations that enable users to verify fuel levels or control heating remotely.

What you have read is just a glimpse of what you can do with Google Assistant voice communication. If you can think of any scenario within your service where users can interact with your business, it is a burning issue waiting to be addressed!

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After so many leaks, predictions and speculations, Apple has launched the next generation of iPhones. Like the last year’s event, this year too three iPhones were announced at the recently concluded Apple event: iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max, and, cheaper, iPhone XR. Last year’s iPhone X has received tons of updates. Its successor comes in two sizes: iPhone XS (pronounced “ten S”) and iPhone XS Max.

iPhone XS Max is a larger avatar and features a bigger battery and screen than iPhone XR, which among many upgrades sport the next gen Apple SoC, A12 Bionic. A12 Bionic SoC, in fact, is standard across all the iPhone announced in 2018, including the entry-level iPhone XR.

Apple A12 Bionic

Apple A12 Bionic processor features 6 cores in big.LITTLE configuration wherein 2 high performance cores are up to 15% faster while remaining 4 efficiency cores consume up to 50% less power than A11 Bionic of iPhone X.

The current generation of Apple SoC boasts a GPU with four cores and lossless memory compression. The GPU delivers up to 50% performance gain over A11 Bionic in terms of graphics power.

Say ‘Goodbye’ to bezels and ‘Hi’ to notch

With iPhone XR, Apple has ditched bezels and embraced ‘notch’ altogether. While last year’s iPhone X did have bezel less and ‘notch’ design, the entry-level iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus, had profound bezels and notch absent. Not to mention, those two were the last iPhones to have a home button. Apple has ditched the Home button and Touch ID in favor of Face ID and the TrueDepth camera respectively in all iPhones.

The new ‘entry-level’ iPhone: iPhone XR

iPhone XR, in addition to using the same processor as the iPhone XS and iPhone XS Max, supports Face ID and has TrueDepth camera. The major difference between ‘XS’ and, cheaper, ‘XR’ is the display technology. The cheaper variant features a LCD display, which Apple calls “Liquid LCD”. iPhone XS and XS Max, on the other hand, have a more vivid “Super Retina” OLED display. Unfortunately, iPhone XR only uses a single rear camera like the iPhone 8. Seems like Apple likes to reserve more premium features like dual-camera system, wireless charging and OLED display for its more premium phone offerings namely, iPhone XS and XS Max.

SmartHDR, Portrait Mode, and OIS

All the three iPhones support Smart HDR, optical image stabilization and portrait mode despite iPhone XR missing a dual-camera system. SmartHDR is courtesy of A12 Bionic and automatically makes improvements to photos using machine learning.

Apple, expectedly, has insisted on 12MP rear camera setup this year too. XS and XS Max have two of those 12MP cameras in f1.8 and f2.4 setup respectively while XR has only one in f1.8 setup.

Apple has made last year’s TrueDepth camera standard across all its iPhone models. That is, the same 7MP camera is present on all the three announced iPhones.

Conclusion

Although subtle, Apple brings some noteworthy features with the new line of iPhones. All three new models have got rid of the home button to make room for more screen. The bezel-less screen, indeed, looks overwhelming from every angle. Not to mention, Apple has the most sophisticated facial-recognition technology to unlock its device thanks to the industry-best TrueDepth camera, which is now, fortunately, standard across all the 2018 iPhones. I would like give a clear thumbs-up to Apple for that.

Apple iPhones may be getting more expensive every year. But with the amount of additions and efforts it is putting on them, iPhone are still worth every penny and I don’t think that is changing anytime soon.

Can’t wait to get your hands on the new iPhone? We have a good news for you.

iOS App Development with TOPS

There is even a better news if you’re an app developer, publisher, or someone looking to develop an app for the new iPhones. At TOPS, a leading mobile app development company, we have an enormous experience in developing leading edge applications for iPhones, iPads, and Apple Watch. An expert team of iOS developers, persistently works around delivering one quality iOS app after another and they are ready for the new iPhones too.

TOPS Infosolutions is a prestigious web and mobile app development company with a clear vision of ‘you think it, we build it’. The company believes in catering consummate business solutions for all those businesses who seek services akin to IoT, mobile app development for Android and iOS, enterprise solutions, ERP and CRM integration.

TOPS Infosolutions works for consolidated businesses where the company shares its sheer time to understand the objective of its client and tailor solutions accordingly. The team of TOPS walks down through all the minute details in their brainstorming session, analyzing the project requirements and then execute their formed strategies with modern software engineering practices.

Since the Internet of Things emerged on the web, the company has intervened its presence in architecting unique IoT solutions. TOPS endeavour its keen focus on providing best IoT solutions for various small and mid-size enterprises by using diverse technologies like WI-FI and BLE i.e. Bluetooth Low Energy. As per the even-handed research executed by GoodFirms, the flawless efforts of TOPS Infosolutions in delivering world-class IoT experiences brought its name on the global list of Top Internet of Things(IoT) Development Companies at GoodFirms.

GoodFirms helps the service seekers find the development partner with its legitimate research on the IT Companies that result from the evaluation of three aspects – Quality, Reliability and, Ability. The research includes the exploration of Customer Satisfaction, Market Penetration, the richness of Experience earned along with the Quality of services offered.

Besides IoT, TOPS heads with prominent Web Development customized services where it gratifies SME clients. At GoodFirms, clients have shared some impressive experiences where they outspeak about TOPS performance.

CEO & Founder at POWERAD rates TOPS Infosolutions as A++ by elaborating:

“They review and professionally analyze my project description. Since our initial meeting, they have been reliable, professional, and a pleasure to work with. Absolutely excellent service from start to finish.”

Office Manager at BRE Services Company Pty Ltd added:

“Dealing with TOPS Infosolutions has been a pleasure. They are quick to respond and action all our requests and have always met any deadlines we have had. Would absolutely recommend their services to anyone.

Looking at their proactive approach towards services like Web Development and by analyzing their feat for delivering the easy to use web applications, the company has grilled a place for itself in the list of Top Web Development Companies in California at GoodFirms.

TOPS InfoSolutions’ client list encompasses few legendary names like OliveNation, MiFTy, SpotLyte, and Ginger. GoodFirms states that the company’s key focus is on industries like IT (20% asset allocation), real estate (10%), retail (10%), eCommerce (20%), business services (30%), travel and lifestyle (10%).

Apart from the successful innings of its presence in IoT and web development services, the company also serves its clients with various software development offerings wherein it performs various iterative and incremental methodologies. The company has left no room for any unresolved problems, it runs extra miles for sheltering the clients’ needs and their service satisfaction. For such an outstanding approach, the company will definitely find a pose for itself on the shelf of Top Custom Software Development Companies at GoodFirms.

About GoodFirms

GoodFirms is a maverick B2B research and review firm that aligns its efforts with finding the top mobile app & web development companies delivering unparalleled services to its clients. GoodFirms’ extensive research process ranks the companies, boosts their online reputation and helps service seekers pick the right technology partner that meets their business needs.

As per the HubSpot research report, 56% of people would rather chat than call customer service and 53% of people are more likely to shop with businesses they can chat with.

Chat is the new email and as I’m sure, most people have noticed over the last few years messaging and chat applications have come to the fore. Most millennials or people who are slightly older tend to use chat rather than email.

Chat is the Natural Form of Conversation

One of the reasons why chat or messaging has become so prevalent is this that it’s a natural form of communication. If you’re using it from a mobile application, it works seamlessly from a mobile platform. The other thing is that you know messaging and chat has come a long way. We are a generation grownup in the heels of SMS messages, AOL Messenger and now WhatsApp. We are accustomed to the conversational UI that the previous generations.

Surprisingly, Baby Boomers (age 55+) are more likely to expect benefits from chatbots than Millennials (age 18–34). 83% of online shoppers need support during shopping. 71% of people use chatbots to solve their problem fast, a HubSpot research report indicates.

A Chatbot is more Intuitive than an App

Messaging is probably one of the most popular forms of communication for our generation and before it. Chatbot are virtual assistants for communicating via messaging or chat. On the surface, they are yet another program, which communicates to a user through messaging or a chat interface. However, they don’t really issue commands. They give you a response you talk to it as you would a normal person. Chatbots target a particular use-case, provide a particular service, or focus on answering particular types of questions.

Conversational Commerce in Action

Isabella wants to use a chatbot to order some new business cards to reflect a new role in her organization. The type of conversation she might have is fairly free-form. She’s not issuing commands. She’s typing in what she wants to do so her interaction is in the blue and because she’s interacting with a chat bot which has context, it knows who she is and what she wants to do to an extent it can provide smart suggestions.

The suggestions make the whole interaction a lot simpler, slicker than it would be if you’re going to an application which you’ve never used before.

Chatbot can ask things like you know I notice that your role has changed in the HCM system would you like to use your new role in your new business cards. It gives the opportunity to reply yes or no. Moreover, it also previews a card with Isabella’s new role.

Then it would nicely ask, “do you want me to place the order now I’ve modified the business card for you” and “do you want me to place the order and send them to you. If she answers affirmatively, it gives her the opportunity to say where she wants the business cards to be sent.

Did you notice? The chatbot made the whole process quick, simple and easy. To order business cards, she did not have to log in to any specific applications, learn how to use any particular applications and could converse with it in natural language.

Significance of Conversational Commerce in the World of Mobile Commerce

What you’re trying to get away with chatbot is the traditional user interface. You’d see with applications you issue commands, which are very mechanical. Chatbots make the experience of electronic commerce a more natural experience and with that, they bring some other concerns.

There’s no such thing as a free lunch. You make it easier to use but then you introduce other things when you’re dealing with an application, which are screens, gestures, menu, etc.

On the other hand, when you introduce a chat bot you actually feel like you’re talking to someone. You feel like they have a personality there. Other things come into play, for instance, you know you have to think about the customer sentiment. Certain tasks may not be suitable for a chatbot. if you have a chat bot to support customer support desk of your ecommerce business, it will have to handle complaints, which will make you think how the customer are going to react and how should the bot should respond appropriately.

An Opinionated Chatbot is Better Suited for Conversational Commerce

There are all sorts of different things you need to start thinking about and you might want to give your chatbot a personality. Many ecommerce brands give their chatbots names. In a sense, they’re trying to make them appear like an actual person. The usual practice with chatbots is to be very upfront with users: you’re talking to a machine, not a person.

However, inevitably people start to think the actual even though they know it’s an actual machine they’re talking to. They tend to assume that they are talking to a person but you can do clever things.

If you’ve got some context about the person you’re communicating with, you can fashion the style of conversation accordingly and build a personality around the chatbot. If they are younger, maybe they will be more formal. If they’re older maybe the type of conversation you’re having requires a different type of personality.

AI, Machine Learning, Natural Languages Processing, and Chatbots

Among the things that has led to the rise of chatbots and increased interest in them is the increased interest in artificial intelligence as well as providing a simple user  interface to have a conversation to achieve typical ecommerce tasks like payment and adding shipping address.

The improvements or the greater availability of toolkits and services around artificial intelligence have helped develop very simple messaging application to make them much more sophisticated and two areas of artificial intelligence which played a big role in this are natural language processing and machine learning .

The two areas of artificial intelligence: Machine Learning and Natural Languages Processing allow to break apart the conversation or the questions that a person is asking to find out which pieces of that text are important and to determine what their intent is. Chatbots allow you to have that conversation with them because you can deduce—what they’re saying, what they actually want you to, what you want to do, what information they seek from you.

Of course, chatbots are great and can actually be fun talking to rather than just typing in and clicking on menus, etc.

A chatbot isn’t a person after all, no matter how hard it tries

There are times when no matter how good the artificial intelligence, which sits behind a chatbot is, chatbots are going run out of answers. The questions become more ad hoc, complicated or the chat bot starts to ask things, which the chatbot was never designed to deal with and at that point you need to really hand off to a real person.

All that matters

That process of actually interacting with someone via chat and then handing over to a real person, to a real service representative, to deal with customer’s questions needs to be as seamless as possible.

You need to pass the context on so that the person doesn’t have to go and ask the customer what they wanted, again. They have to go through the whole rigmarole of explaining their problem.

Serverless frameworks helps you develop and deploy your functions to the cloud. In this blog, I will focus on deploying functions to AWS lambda but serverless also supports:

What is serverless framework?

A serverless framework lets you run code without provisioning or managing servers. It’s an event driven computing platform and that means it runs your code when it is triggered.

Your piece of code is called a function and it should only be responsible for a single task. For example, it can resize images when you upload them to Amazon S3. You might think that that is not very interesting. After all, you could spin up a virtual machine let it do the same task.

Serverless frameworks shine on two fronts: scalability and pricing.

• Pricing

Let’s talk about Amazon AWS Lambda. Amazon charges you only when your code is being executed and bills you per one-hundred milliseconds of use that means you don’t need to pay if your code doesn’t run.

That is a massive saving compared to regular virtual machines where you have to pay per hour that you use it regardless of how much stuff you run on it.

Amazon is also offering a free tear for lamb that every month you’ll get one-million requests and three million seconds of computer time free.

• Scalability

Second advantage is scalability. Coming back to AWS Lambda, with Lambda, you literally upload your code and let Amazon handle all of the scaling for you.

Amazon spins up a container every time your code is being tricked if that container get swamped by requests it simply creates a second container and balances the load across them.

When you don’t receive requests anymore the containers are simply destroyed.

Now Amazon can achieve the scalability because Lambda functions are stateless. You can’t store data in your Lambda functions for long periods of time. For that, you have to use another service like DynamoDB.

Rising Popularity of Serverless Frameworks

Those benefits make lambda highly attractive for people building applications. Ever since Amazon allows you to connect API gateway to Lambda functions, companies have been building complete back as for the apps and websites with this.

Of course,….servers are still involved

Some people call this a serverless computing platform but servers are still involved. It just refers to the fact that you don’t have to handle provisioning securing and managing of servers.

• The Concept

You can use lamb that to build a web API to do that we’re going to use the server list framework.

The five main concepts of serverless frameworks that you should understand when you want to build a scalable and price efficient API with AWS lambda:

• Functions

In this case, it refers to an AWS lambda function. It’s an independent unit of deployment just like a micro service. It’s just a single package of code that is deployed to the cloud and is often responsible for performing a single task for example, saving a user to a database.

On AWS, you can run your functions in the following languages:

1. Nodejs
2. Python
3. Java
4. C#

The serverless framework supports all of these languages but in this blog, I will use Node.js. You can program more functionality into a function but that is not recommended. The best practice is to keep your function small and, therefore, reliable. Serverless frameworks makes it easy to manage and deploy a lot of functions so you don’t have to worry about deploying hundreds of them.

• Events

Events are anything that can trigger your function in AWS. Many services can trigger an event. For example, you could trigger an event after a new file was uploaded to an S3 bucket or you might trigger an event when someone calls your API. when you define an event in the service framework it will automatically create the necessary infrastructure.

Say you want your functions to be triggered by an HTTP call that serverless willdeploy an API gateway endpoint and will configure your function to listen to these events.

• Resources

There is also the notion of resources in the surveillance configuration file you can define all the AWS resources that are used by your function.

That might be things like an s3bucket for storage or some DynamoDB tables. When you deploy your application the serverless framework will not only deploy your functions but it will also provision their sources that you have defined.

This is very interesting because it’s an automated process and because it is repeatable you can redeploy your entire application that might contain hundreds of functions and many resources to another AWS account with a single command.

• Services

The framework as a unit of organization uses a service. It’s kind of like a project file defining all functions events and resources that go along with it. All of this is saved in the serverless.yamo file and can be deployed at once.

You can build an application with one service or you can have multiple services for a single application.

• Plugins

These can overwrite or extend the functionality of the framework you can install many plugins in your service such as Browserify to optimize your JavaScript code or a plug-in that allows you to use Typescript instead of JavaScript

 How we got here?

A lot of burden has been lifted from our shoulders by outsourcing the management and maintenance of the infrastructure, the platform, or even higher levels of the staff. There are still some burdens like servers, the logic and everything from creating server-side code that perform a lot of functionalities that are not related to the business like routing, security, authentication and authorization and of course maintaining and debugging the server side of the application are still done by developers.

Serverless framework unburdens us from building and managing the server side of our application. Serverless is building software by focusing more on business logic without thinking about how you are going to serve your software like there is no server, just business logic.

At workplaces, employees spend much of their time scheduling meetings, managing calendars, making a to-do list, researching for information, and much more. This is tedious and cumbersome and results in a waste of time and a lack of productivity. But, what if someone else does this task for you?

It will save much of the employee’s time and will be able to focus more on other tasks. Virtual digital assistant Amazon Alexa can help you do these tasks by acting as a digital assistant at the workplace.

It enables us to use our voice and communicate with technology so that employees can stay organized and focus on the things that matter the most. Alexa provides tools to manage Amazon Echo devices and enables configuring skills.

You can customize voice skills using Alexa Skill Kit (ASK) and conference APIs to make them a private skill for your organization. Whether you have a small or medium-sized business, getting Alexa skills developed can streamline your business operations and boosts workplace productivity.

Here are Some oF The Top Alexa Skills and Advantages For Your Business:

1. To-do List and Appointment Scheduling

Making a to-do list and scheduling meetings and events on the calendar consume much of the time and due to that employees are not able to focus on other important tasks. So, to enhance the efficiency of the employees, you can develop Alexa skills that make a to-do list, schedule meetings, etc without any physical activity.

For instance, when you say “add” to an item to-do list, Alexa would recognize your speech and convert it to a to-do or a scheduled event and notifies you about the added event to your list. This will help you to increase your productivity by staying organized anywhere you go.

With this skill, the employee can quickly access and edit to-do items on the go and can have access to a to-do-list within Amazon Alexa app on iOS, Android, or on alexa.amazon.com

2. Manage Conferences

Conference management plays a crucial role in managing business operations. By developing this skill, users can link directly to their Google calendar to know the conference call scheduled and it can dial the call for you automatically. It refrains you to use remote controls, looking up conference call information, and manually dialing numbers for the meetings.

You just need to say, “Alexa start my meeting” and Alexa will get you to start with the meeting. Alexa will dig in all the necessary information needed for the conference, dial the bridge number, meeting number, and participant code and then call your number to connect with you to the conference.

With this Alexa skill, you can even join a third-party conferencing service provider and schedule meetings based on the user’s calendar and resources available on the office premises.

3. E-mail Assistant

For sales and Marketing personnel, who are always on the go, developing e-mail assistant Alexa skills, is an easy way to help them manage their inbox. You can develop customized email assistant skills that can manage all the providers including Gmail, Yahoo, and Hotmail, etc by informing you how many unread and new e-mails are available in your inbox.

On behalf of you, Alexa will read, reply and manage emails just by voice command. You can even ask Alexa to read out priority emails, only starred emails, or only newsletters and Alexa will do it for you.  For quick replies, you can even set canned responses – and assistant skill will send them to the concerned person.

4. Smart Devises Management

Today, everyone wants to control their types of equipment with voice commands. Instead of toggling between multiple apps to manage your smart gadgets, why not ask Alexa to do the same for you?

Developing an Alexa skill developed for managing home and office devices enables you to monitor and track them with voice commands. You can manage your desktop, thermostats, door locks, AC, etc. just with your voice commands. You can pair Alexa with the smart office skill and ask to turn on/off lights, control music, and other audio, adjust the temperature of the AC, etc.

5. Expense Management

Control your finances efficiently with Alexa Skills. Businesses can utilize expense management skills to process, pay and keep track of finances. An Amazon Alexa skill can be developed that can be used to check the bills, schedule payments, keep track of expenses and income, analyze and control your spending, and much more.

6. Work Time Tracker

Do you wish to keep track of your time spent on the task and need a timer that can help you to do the same? You can customize the work time tracker skill where Alexa will record the time that you spent on a particular task. Just tell Alexa to track time and tell her to stop when you are done with your task.

This, being simple skill can help you to get things done faster, boosting productivity. Moreover, you can keep track of where you are wasting your hours so that you can tweak your work and can focus more on other tasks.

Develop custom Alexa Skills with our Alexa Skills Development experts. Virtual digital assistants and artificial intelligence are playing a key role in the enterprise to enhance agility in the business.

We possess the expertise to develop the AI behind Alexa in line with your business requirements and thus boost the productivity of your business. Talk to our experts on how TOPS Infosolutions can help turn your business into a ‘smart business’.

“There is no substitute for innovation. Original and Revolutionary idea will always rise on top”- Richard Branson

Looking at the current scenario, real estate business is cluttered with too much of services under one roof with no transaction transparency and uniqueness. When searching for a property, potential buyers have to meet the realtors, view property and at last, discuss about pricing. Moreover, the chances of fraud are always at its peak.

How can we overcome these challenges?

With the increased mobile penetration in the daily lives of people, businesses can operate from anywhere. Mobile apps  as well as web apps enables real estate business to view and showcase the property on the smart device and also provides easy access to check space details, appointments, reports, tracking of leads etc.

Adapting the emerging technologies is becoming imperative and helps the real estate industry to hit the mark. Let’s run down through the emerging technologies that can help realtors.

Chatbots

As the digital world is growing, customers expect impromptu interaction with the right information at a regular interval of time. Realtors may struggle to meet this need! But thanks to the Chatbot, they can provide right information anytime. Customers generally turn to internet for buying and selling houses but feel reluctant to fill the registration form.

However, they may be ready to talk with the person who is sitting at the backend (chat bots). Chat bots interacts with the customer by making use of internal and external databases to offer personalized interactions and provide specific data to each prospect; resulting into higher lead conversions.

By automating the initial conversations between agents and prospects, Chabot can surely be an effective and efficient tool in engaging visitors and higher lead conversions. If used in a right way, they can be a key part of realtor’s marketing approach lead conversion.

Blockchain Technology

Blockchain has the ability to transform real estate industry through recording and combining transactions into decentralized secure ledger system. It creates block of transactions that are linked and secured using cryptography that no party has control of. In present situation, the transactions in real estate sector are non-transparent and take place through brokers, lawyers, and inspectors and so on. This involves high risk.

To avoid this, Blockchain technology can be used where anyone can record information, without being censored or without needing any permission. Moreover, Blockchain technology cuts off third party cost; to prove authenticity, the seller can legitimately transfer the ownership to the buyer without having to pay for third-party verification.

This technology can also be helpful in creating smart contracts, where seller can get away from slow loan process by creating a digital id. And by doing so, transfer of ownership would become seamless and much quicker. These smart contracts are permanently stored on Blockchain and become irreversible and unalterable.

Artificial Intelligence

Artificial intelligence can be used in predictive analysis where, real estate investors can set the growth goals and have them monitored with AI tools which can predict risk based on investor parameters and make adjustments to reach financial goals. AI plays a main role in property management where it can predict when maintenance system expires or are ready for replacement.

AI can help buyers in decision making; when machine tells you that, “property you are browsing is a good deal”, it’s because AI algorithms have calculated that answer based on the data that was made available. When a human real estate agent tells you it’s a good deal, it may be because of their instinct or because they may be interested in getting more profit or selling property faster.

Virtual Reality

Before deciding which property to buy, client has to visit multiple properties to find the best one and this consumes more time and money. Moreover, if client is staying miles far, it is not always a feasible option to visit each property. But, Virtual Reality can solve this problem enabling millions of people to visit the property without leaving their homes. Real Estate agent can use VR headset to get three-dimensional walkthrough property and immersive experience of the property.

If client has to check multiple properties, in matter of minutes they can virtually check out a good number of locations and decide which is worth buying. Another reason of using VR technology is, it helps the realtors to market staged properties with little investments.

For instance, Company named Roomy offer VR staging services to the real estate agents. It enables to create 3D real estate tours and get property staged so that their clients can check that out easily.

Conclusion

Today, emerging technology has become more reliable, integrated and robust and using this technology is not an option today. In order to stand out from the crowd, using technology in real estate can increase leads and surely takes your business to the next level. With the advancement in these emerging technologies, real estate companies need to stay abreast with the current trends in technology world.

Whether, you are an owner, property manager or real estate company, TOPS Infosolutions provides exceptional software solutions for streamlining real estate services. Our responsive mobile app portals and web app development have helped real estate client across the globe to generate more leads and increase ROI.