Fleet Maintenance Software: Technology Behind Preventive and Predictive Vehicle Servicing

 Prevention is better than cure.
If you think vehicle breakdowns are inevitable, we've got news for you. Veteran truck drivers believe, “ If handled and driven correctly and the maintenance and inspections are performed religiously, you may never suffer a breakdown. ” Fleet owners in trucking, car 

Federated Learning: The Shift from Centralized to Distributed On-Device Model Training

 There has been a lot of buzz around data science, machine learning (ML), and artificial intelligence (AI) lately. As you may already know, training a machine learning model requires data. Lots of data, to be more precise. Lots of quality data, to be even more precise. To save time, watch our 

Website Localization in Travel: Key Aspects and Best Practices

 McDonald’s is globally recognized for its signature burgers and Big Macs, but do you know that its menus are different around the world? For example, it serves spicy vegetarian Dosa Masala Burgers in India and shrimpy Ebi Burgers in Southeast Asia. And not only does it adapt the menus, but also 

Building a Zero Trust Architecture in the Amazon Cloud

 This is a guest article by Gilad David Maayan from AgileSEO Zero trust is a new paradigm taking the security community by storm. It has been adopted by the world’s biggest and most technologically advanced organizations, from Google, Amazon, and Microsoft to the US Government and has been 

CI/CD Tools Comparison: Jenkins, TeamCity, Bamboo, Travis CI, and More

 As you build a product, your codebase keeps growing and, unless properly managed, can become a virtual Rubik’s cube for future developers to solve. Back in the day, when waterfall methodology ruled, it could take months or even years to deliver a product's first shippable version.
Switching to 

VR Development: Intro to Creating Virtual Reality Content

 “Mrs. G was super-religious and spent most of her time in the OASIS, sitting in the congregation of one of those big online mega-churches, singing hymns, listening to sermons, and taking virtual tours of the Holy Land.”
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
This sentence, describing the seemingly 

Traffic Prediction: How Machine Learning Helps Forecast Congestions and Plan Optimal Routes

 In 2021, NYC drivers lost an average of 102 hours in congestion – and before the pandemic that score was even worse. How often do you yourself get stuck in the jam wishing you’d known about it in advance and took a different route? And how often do you have to apologize to your customers for your 

Analytics Engineer: Job Description, Skills, and Responsibilities

 In recent years, it’s gotten more common to see organizations looking for the elusive, mysterious analytics engineer. As you may guess from the name, this role sits somewhere in the middle of a data analyst and data engineer, but it’s really neither one nor the other. Quoting a comment from the 

Radiology Information System: How to Approach RIS Adoption

 The work of radiology departments is associated with medical imaging and diagnostics. But behind the scenes, their day-to-day routine covers myriads of other operations, from scheduling appointments to billing to reporting. If handled manually, these mundane processes take much time and generate 

Functional Prototype: How to Iterate with Your Software Product

 This is a prototype of a medical decision support tool developed by AltexSoft. Our engineers and designers have created a demo, showcasing the fantastic capabilities of AI – by x-ray images alone, it can predict the probability of lung diseases, giving physicians and patients a second opinion 

Sustainable Travel: Opportunities Digital Technology Provides for a Greener Business

 The devastating impact of travel on the environment and local communities is enormous. Greenhouse gases (tourism is responsible for around 8 percent of global carbon emissions, three-quarters of which is due to aviation), local resource overuse (e.g., a tropical golf course uses as much water as 

Robotic Process Automation (RPA) in Supply Chain Management: Use Cases and Implementation Tips

 This is a guest article by IT service provider Asim Rahal Supply chains involve complex webs of interconnected processes. Pull one thread, and the cascading effect of that change can unravel the entire chain. Given the relatively low margins supply chain stakeholders have to deal with, efficiency 

Alternative Accommodations Distribution: Back Office of a Vacation Rental Agency

 The pandemic has forever changed our traveling habits. During their 2021 summer vacations, 28 percent of travelers chose to stay at a private rental. And eight out of ten of those travelers expect to stay in rentals for at least half their future trips. Influenced by the need to control their 

Story Points and Planning Poker: How to Make Estimates in Scrum and Agile

 Do you know the story of Sagrada Familia – the famous cathedral in Barcelona? It’s the most renowned unfinished project in the world, whose construction started in 1882 and whose completion date has been postponed many times due to wars, vandalism, pandemic, and so on. Today, it’s in the final 

Bleisure Travel and Workations: How to Capitalize on the Modern Business Traveler

 Today, the line between work and play is blurred. Freelancers and remote team members are no longer the only ones free to find a comfortable place to work, rest, and communicate. Even office employees can stay at home, rent a desk at a coworking space, or deposit themselves at a coffee shop booth 

The Good and the Bad of .NET Framework Programming

 .NET is a software development framework and ecosystem designed and supported by Microsoft to allow for easy desktop and web application engineering. It’s a popular free platform currently used for a lot of different types of applications as it provides the programming environment for most 

Using Business Model Canvas to Launch a Technology Startup or Improve Established Operating Model

 Not that long ago, organizations had to rely on a number of established tools to build their business models, strategize, and innovate. The business plan use as we know it today started to decline in the 1980s and 1990s due to its complexity and time-consuming research process. This decline has – 

11 Useful Java Testing Frameworks for Every Phase of Development

 This is a guest article by Hardik Shah, Tech Consultant at Simform. Software testing is among the most critical phases of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC). It helps ensure high quality and robust software performance. With so many test cases to run in each cycle, manual tests don’t do 

Data Labeling in Machine Learning: Process, Types, and Best Practices

 When people hear about artificial intelligence, deep learning, and machine learning, many think of movie-like robots that resemble or even outperform human intelligence. Others believe that such machines simply consume information and learn from it by themselves. Well... It's kind of far from the 

Smart Hotel Trends for the Next Decade: From Robots to Digital Detox

 Holidays are times of magic and fantasy realized. However, our world today demonstrates that our wildest dreams become real much more often than just on Christmas. What was sci-fi only a few years ago is now part of our daily lives. We’re getting used to smart technologies. Smart devices, smart 

Enterprise Master Patient Index: How to Implement Patient Identity Management

 It’s impossible to count how many patients get mixed up in the healthcare system, but it happens a lot. Just recently, in Ohio, a wrong person was given a kidney transplant. Luckily, an organ happened to be compatible, but an error delayed the surgery of the patient that the kidney was intended 

AutoML: How to Automate Machine Learning With Google Vertex AI, Amazon SageMaker, H20.ai, and Other Providers

 Machine learning evangelizes the idea of automation. On the surface, ML algorithms take the data, develop their own understanding of it, and generate valuable business insights and predictions — all without human intervention. In truth, ML involves an enormous amount of repetitive manual 

AltexSoft and Kharkiv IT Cluster to Equip 65 Schools with Digital Labs in the Region

AltexSoft Lands The Financial Times List of the Americas’ 300 Fastest Growing Companies 2025

Amex GBT’s Adaptation Story: Change or Die

While American Express didn’t invent the concept of prepaid notes, they revolutionized the industry by leveraging their sheer scale. They issued so many cheques that they became widely accepted – at banks, hotels, and stores across the globe. This innovation, along with the peace of mind it offered travelers, laid the foundation for modern travel payment methods like digital wallets and corporate cards.

Unlocking Local Payment Methods for Travel

Local payment methods are transforming the travel industry! From real-time transfers to mobile money services, these solutions offer lower fees, faster settlements, and a better customer experience. Discover how businesses can tap into this growing trend and attract more global travelers.

Investment Opportunities in the Middle East's Travel Tech Sector

The Middle East's travel sector is booming. It’s mainly due to its strategic location, world-class infrastructure, and a growing appetite for cultural and adventure tourism. But besides planning the next vacation – or workation? – what opportunities are there for us as travel tech investors?

This time Alex Medovoi, Founder and CEO of AltexSoft discusses the investment potential of the Middle East’s travel tech sector.

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Fleet Maintenance Software: Technology Behind Preventive and Predictive Vehicle Servicing

Story Points and Planning Poker: How to Make Estimates in Scrum and Agile