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While it’s easy to recommend that you ditch the RFP process altogether, I’m aware that’s not always possible. So, if you have to go through an RFP process, I want to give you some things to consider for improving this process as well as help you find “the one” – for a long-term, successful vendor partnership.

Software Engineering

Project Management

RFPs, long-term partnerships, and you

“API” used to only be about header files and function definitions — you know, stuff only programmers cared about — but not so much anymore. Now your software’s API is becoming the make-or-break center piece of your technology strategy.

Software Engineering

Database Development

Not building an API? You’re doing it wrong

We tackle the hard software problems. Every day Eureka works on products that have to scale to support millions of users and need to mask complex interaction behind elegant user interfaces. So how do we tackle something equally complex, like SEO, that we don’t do every day? The same way we approach our software projects! We stay lean, we test, we iterate, and we perfect.

Software Engineering

Applying lean development (and SEO)

The United States government offers multiple ways to protect intellectual property rights. Intellectual property refers to creations such as inventions, literary works, designs, symbols, names and images (logos), or similar objects. There are three main types: a copyright, a patent, and a trademark (including service marks).

Copyright & CMI Expert

Forensics & Data Recovery

Source Code Expert

Trade Secret Expert

The difference between copyrighting software and patenting software

Bringing your designers into projects at the very beginning of the agile software development process is advantageous. A solid visual concept for the project can eliminate additional work in sprint iterations and create a shared vision embodied by the customer and the development team. But agile software development – specifically Scrum – is not in line with how designers traditionally work.

Agile Consulting

Branding & Creative

Project Management

How to incorporate visual design into an agile development process

I did some research and came across these free productivity tools that helped me digitally organize my workspace. Here are my favorites...

Branding & Creative

Project Management

6 free productivity tools to digitally organize your workspace

The importance of mobile apps in the enterprise is unquestionable, especially as we move towards a fully tech-dependent society where customers are purchasing and paying virtually. However, a recent survey by Gartner revealed that enterprise spending on mobile app development remains slow.

Software Engineering

Branding & Creative

5 ways to make the most of your mobile app development budget

Building a successful software product is no trivial task. Even with a solid vision, a talented team, and an ample budget, a project can still fall apart. In fact, more than two-thirds of technology projects fail outright.So how exactly do projects fail? One day at a time. It’s rarely some single catastrophic event that brings a project down. It’s usually a slow, methodical deterioration over months or years—sometimes called a “death march”—which teams are aware of but can’t seem to prevent. How many of these questions resonate with you?

Agile Consulting

Software Engineering

Project Management

6 reasons why agile results in better software

When selecting the software for your business, there are two main options: custom software or off-the-shelf software. Both solutions offer unique advantages and disadvantages that should be considered when deciding.

Software Engineering

Project Management

5 advantages of custom software vs. off-the-shelf software

Here at Eureka, we don’t make innovation decisions without strong metrics and consuming even stronger caffeine related products. After spending a great deal of time determining the state of product development in the marketplace, we noticed a trend emerging. Design agencies were creating interesting nomenclature to articulate their process.

Software Engineering

Project Management

Pro design-gineer developmentation and the science of soulware