A Blog on Building Software

Hackathons evolved into a cross-functional mainstream business practice for building culture and stimulating innovation. At Fortech, we co-developed with one of our clients an internal hackathon to boost creativity, solve challenges ranging from cost savings through automation, and re-energize the dedicated software development team.

Automotive software developers now need to consider MaaS when developing software platforms for fleet management. Technological advances, telematics, and new legislation have reshaped the transport industry in the last decade and now ride-hailing and car-sharing fleets that enter the market are doing the same.

Financial organizations need to automate their processes by developing personalized lending and credit scoring systems to increase efficiency, decrease costs, and enhance user experience.

To effectively improve patient care, current health systems must be capable to collect new data and integrate medical information from traditional EHRs. Explore the state of interoperability in the US and EU and the benefits health data exchange will bring for patients.

In 2019, Fortech's company blog was a real guide on building exceptional software for thousands of readers. Our contributors talked about the advantages of .NET Core 3.0 and the Blazor Framework, they've written technical tutorials on building AI Chatbots and how to get the most out of PostgreSQL by using custom hibernate types.

How to build an AI chatbot capable of answering any question about our company with the BERT model and the cdQA library. This was our task as active members of an internal AI community that strives to keep up with recent progress in artificial intelligence. We have used development tools such as Miniconda and Pycharm.

Since 2003, we’ve had the chance to experience a lot of management styles and client requirements. Each project has its particularities, but there is a common fundamental variable that can predict the success of any project: the mindset. Discover here our insights on embracing agility in a software development project.

With business agility as a mindset, companies can shape the path towards sustainable innovation and thrive in dynamic business environments. Discover our insights on the Management 3.0 approach to shapeshift mindsets and promote business agility in a software outsourcing company.

We resume our discussion about the most influential technology trends for the software industry in 2019 and beyond. Building smart strategies around these trends will give software companies the chance to thrive in the most dynamic business environment mankind has witnessed so far.

The release of .NET Core 3.0 is just around the corner. As gRPC will be made a first-class citizen, .NET developers using the microservices architecture will be able to create a system of composed verticals with clear boundaries. Take the next step and learn in this article how to get started.

Technology breakthroughs disrupt our world. Some of them make an impact on the way we work or live today, while others get unnoticed or fade away quickly. Discover our insights into the most promising technology trends that we expect to have a strong and lasting impact on the software industry.

PostgreSQL is a very advanced relational database system. It supports a variety of column types, among which the SQL standard ones are most known. Discover in this article how to map additional types, such as json, hstore, array, inet, range, and enum by using custom Hibernate Types.