Designing, developing & delivering enterprise software while simultaneously forging a process that emboldens change management within your organization.
More On UsPlenty of software shops can build a product. But, are they building you the right product? Before jumping into Develop & Deliver, we’re focused on Define & Design.
The evolution of Xamarin.Forms to .NET Multi-platform App UI (.NET MAUI) encouraged us to ask ourselves a question: Is the hybrid approach serving our users and business properly? Should we invest time in a migration from Xamarin.Forms to Microsoft's new hybrid approach, or should we move to native? To answer these questions, let's review some points from around the internet, notably the Airbnb React Native blog series. * A high-quality experience requires a careful balance of both worlds.
“Absorb what is useful, reject what is useless, add what is essentially your own.” - Bruce Lee You wouldn’t expect a martial arts expert’s musings to apply to business strategy so perfectly, and yet here we are. When Umbrage was formed, our team was a group of experienced industry professionals who had already absorbed what was useful to us and rejected what was useless – office politics, quantity over quality and gatekeeping from clients. All that was left was to add what was essentially “us”
In the oil and gas services industry, technological change moves slowly. Operations are huge, sprawling and inherently interconnected. For all of these reasons, any sort of changes – no matter if the changes will ultimately improve processes or output – rarely happen before it’s absolutely necessary. This mostly comes down to practicality and costs. In the field of completions, most companies completely lacked visibility into most of their day-to-day operations because the fracking revolution