Data management and decision-making are challenging tasks requiring respective attention and responsibility. That’s why modern businesses are fast to drop outdated solutions for resource planning, sales management, marketing, personnel, and finance.
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Data management and decision-making are challenging tasks requiring respective attention and responsibility. That’s why modern businesses are fast to drop outdated solutions for resource planning, sales management, marketing, personnel, and finance.
Microsoft Power Apps
Did you hear about Microsoft Power Apps? Here at D.G. Techlink we offer a range of services that can help you achieve your business goals with ease. With our team of expert developers and consultants, we can help you design, develop, and deploy custom Power Apps that are tailored to your specific needs. Our approach to Power Apps development is focused on creating intuitive and user-friendly solutions that can be easily integrated with your existing systems. Additionally, we provide comprehensive training and support services to ensure that you can maximize the benefits of your Power Apps investment. With our commitment to quality and customer satisfaction, you can trust us to deliver the best Power Apps solutions for your business.
Microsoft Power Apps is a low-code development platform that allows users to create custom business applications quickly and easily, without requiring extensive coding or programming knowledge. Some of the benefits of Microsoft Power Apps include:
- Improved efficiency: With Power Apps, you can automate manual and repetitive tasks, reducing the time and effort required to complete them.
- Increased productivity: Power Apps can help you streamline workflows, automate processes, and improve collaboration, all of which can increase overall productivity.
- Cost-effective: Power Apps is a cost-effective solution for creating custom applications, as it eliminates the need for expensive developers or IT resources.
- Easy to use: Power Apps offers a simple drag-and-drop interface that makes it easy for non-technical users to create applications.
- Customizable: Power Apps allows you to customize your applications to meet your specific business needs, with a wide range of pre-built templates and integrations.
- Integrates with other Microsoft tools: Power Apps integrates seamlessly with other Microsoft tools, such as SharePoint, Excel, and Teams, making it easy to incorporate data from different sources into your applications.
- Cloud-based: Power Apps is cloud-based, meaning you can access your applications from anywhere with an internet connection.
Our experts at D.G. Techlink will be more than happy to provide more information and consulting about Microsoft Power Apps.
We are a Great Place to Work®
“Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.” – Michael Jordan, and we did it!
The survey result is our proof that we, as company, have achieved one of our major goals and this result comes from our people. The creation of a positive and human-centered climate with mutual respect, appreciation, and trust results in the development of the company as well as the creation of a safe working environment.
Collaboration, innovation, quality, integrity, responsibility, and accountability are our guided core values which drive us to our successful work path. With clear vision and passion, we all work together to create the ultimate result that will be delivered to our clients. Our company, Techlink, has been built by highly talented, enthusiastic software developers, project managers, web designers, digital marketers, analysts, and QA engineers from which most of them are predominantly located in Cyprus, while a third of our people are located around the world for a diverse team.
When our people are ‘thirsty’ for more knowledge we seek to find and provide them with workshops and training courses, seminars to help them grow not only as professionals but also as individuals. What we have learned is that our people are our best investment. We are always seeking for people who have the need to create, innovate and discover.
This award goes to our people for their trust in the company’s management and we responsibly promise that we will continue to invest in human resources with practices that will give even greater success.
D.G. Techlink at the Cyprus Career Fair
We will be taking part at the Cyprus Tech Career Fair from 24/11 until 26/11 at the Cyprus International Fair. We are ready to share our knowledge with the IT society and learn more about new technologies.
Furthermore, we are actively seeking for talented minds to join our collaborative culture, with a long-term passion for innovation and drive for continuous learning and personal development opportunities on offer.
Our aim is to become bigger and stronger with technology oriented young people who have the thirst to create and discover.
Cant wait to see you at Booth 8.
For more information visit: https://www.techcareerfair.com.cy/
Ablebook: Accessibility in one app.
This functional mobile application has been created to enable people with disabilities to navigate spaces. It includes smart path creation and planning tools, informing individuals of places with easy access and use.
To achieve this, TECHLINK in partnership with the Ablebook team have created an application that provides useful information and services related to accessibility and facilities. This allows both locals and visitors to plan their experiences in Cyprus. The businesses and establishments can be reached from the app with a simple click for map directions or to directly call without searching for any contact details online. The aim is to make the user experience more pleasant and seamless. The app focuses on people, displaying places and activities throughout the country and suggests ways to better experience them.
The app is intended to become an invaluable tool for both users and service providers. Apart from being able to search for different types of businesses and facilities, users have the opportunity to become holders of the Ablecard. This card provides a variety of discounts for various stores across Cyprus. Business owners can also benefit from using the Ablebook application as they can better reach wider communities in an easy and innovative way. Ablebook provides the means to gain visibility and maintain the value of being socially responsible.
Taking into consideration limitations and user experience, the application has been carefully designed. The colours used, image sizes and Call-To-Action buttons take into consideration the ease of navigation.
Technical specifications:
The App was built using the Xamarin Forms Cross Platform Framework. This technology allowed us to build and deploy IOS, Android and Windows applications from a single shared codebase. In other words, by using a single language, we can create different solutions automatically.
The outcome of using this framework resulted to achieve crucial characteristics that define a modern application:
- High Performance
- Extremely easy to perform maintenance and upgrades
- Common UI/UX for both Android and IOS
- Time efficient
- Cost Efficient
- Versioning and Deployment Automation
- UI/UX
Based on the target audience and requirements of Ablebook, we had to make sure that we comply with specific UI/UX rules so accessibility would not be an issue.
- Localization: The ability to change the language of the application.
- Font adaptation: Font size within the app will change according to the phone’s global text settings.
- Color Blind standards
- Simplistic Navigation Flow
- Accurate and minimalistic font icons.
Find out more at ablebook.com.cy
Download on the App Store / Get it on Google Play
Mobile applications: Do we need them?
Over the recent years, the smartphone-driven industry has been a leader in innovation and technology. The phone has become a personal assistant and minicomputer. It assists us daily with task lists. Simultaneously, it enables us to capture experiences and even work faster and easier.
Many of the smartphone functions could not be achieved without the use of mobile applications.
Just think about it. In a day, how many times do you use your smartphone? It is no coincidence that mobile application usage is becoming a major key point in the digital world of smartphones. Every smartphone user has the option to choose which application to download and use according to their everyday needs. When developing an application, the main purpose is to provide an easy navigation and search experience for the user. Whether a business sells services or products, a user-friendly mobile application can create customer loyalty and elevate a business to another level.
Recently and after global circumstances, we have experienced a great shift from the physical to the online shopping experience. E-commerce sales have escalated and created a world of online business and cyber communities. This series of events have challenged businesses to expedite entering the world of technology and digitalisation. Businesses have been pushed towards upgrading or even evolving. Companies were facing the dilemma between ‘going online’ or ‘going home’, which drove businesses that stood up to the challenge to succeed.
1. 24/7 shopping, dedicated customer service care centre, and loyalty scheme
The creation of a mobile application for a store, can provide service 7 days a week. No matter what a store is selling, being online means consumers can reach it for a product or service anytime, and from anyplace they want. In the same sense, consumers that need to reach out to a business can contact customer service via app with their user account linked immediately and to be able to resolve their queries faster. Moreover, apps give an extra room when it comes to loyalty scheme. A business can send notifications and direct consumers for sales straight to the app, tempting them with in-app exclusive offers, or offers tailored just for them, based on their purchase history.
2. Direct Marketing
The days where a business had to hire someone or rely on OOH advertising ads to spread the word about the products or services of a brand is past gone. All these things can be achieved through a successful mobile application.
Whether a business wants to provide the basic information or offer accessibility to bookings, user account, newsfeed, etc., a mobile application will be the easiest tool to use.
Moreover, using push notifications can establish a direct marketing channel and alert the users about new product launches, offers, discounts, best deals, or any information the business wishes to convey to the customer.
3. Customer Engagement
In the modern smartphone world, it’s more important than ever to have a strong presence in app stores. A mobile application is among the best practices when it comes to promoting a brand and reaching wide audiences. By creating a mobile application, with friendly UX/UI, packed with the correct information, a business can raise awareness for its brand. Being present in the top app stores can only help a business to grow.
4. New market for revenue
Consumers crave convenience. Hence, online searching for services or products. More than 50% of customers prefer to do online purchases as the act requires less effort, it allows them to explore a wide range of products or services and get the desired product or service in a matter of a few seconds. In return, consumers expect the best support from a company. So, if a business wants to increase and retain sales levels, it should provide satisfaction to its consumers. One of the best ways to leverage this is through a rich, fully featured mobile application.
5. Android and iOS stores
Most smartphone users are active on the Android or iOS platforms. To maximise the opportunity to attract audiences, businesses can either have two applications available for these application stores, or create a hybrid mobile app. The latter option can deliver the same advantages for users, while saving the business some time and money.
A business can build a stronger relationship with global audiences by introducing functional and attractive mobile apps. This can be achieved by focusing on building an effective application but also a marketing strategy for the application.
6. Be proactive
By launching a mobile application, a business could be ahead of the competition. There are still a wide number of opportunities for an app such as grabbing the attention of users and using it as a marketing tool.
Additionally, a mobile application gives the ability to cover a large market share ahead from competitors. The target audience can review all the products and services offered by a business via an app on the spot. And until competitors launch their mobile app in the market, a strong customer engagement and customer loyalty has already been built on the existing application
7. Analysing is the key.
By tracking the way people interact with a mobile application, necessary improvements can be made to provide better user experience (UX). Understanding targeted consumers is the key to success in any business.
Data about the audience’s geographic location, demographic data, information on interests, and many other interesting statistics can be retrieved and can analysed for business positioning and strategy. Target sales in certain geographical locations by promoting specific products through a mobile application can also be easily achieved.
Considering advances in cutting-edge technologies including the Internet of Things (iOT), Augmented Reality (AR), Virtual Reality (VR), Artificial Intelligence (AI) and more, the future of mobile applications will surpass innovation.
