Let’s go to the official website, www.themeforest.net/.
And for example, let’s search “blog WordPress theme”. From the search result, open the themes that you are interested in new tabs.
First Things to Check
I decided to check the first theme from my search result, which is MyVoyage the first things that I look at before going to dig further are the number of sales, the release date, and the last update.
This is a new theme that has been published only a few days before the time that this post has been published. So 23 sales in the first week aren’t that bad. And if the theme is old and hasn’t been updated in more than six months, better to stay away from it. Because, the main reason is that likely it won’t be compatible with the newest WordPress versions, and it’s probably dead and won’t get any more updates.
The Number of Sales
Even if the theme gets regular updates, but the number of sales is very low. This is some kind of red flag, and you probably should stay away from it too.
The low number of sales might be an indicator for many reasons behind. It might be that people or bloggers find it slow, it crashes or other problems, and it has a bad reputation. It’s not popular at all and people aren’t finding it at all. Or people don’t like its design and many other reasons.
All this will lead to a sooner data where it will not be supported, and it will die.
Check Out For The Comments
Well, the first thing to check is what people think about it. Are they satisfied or not with the product?
Also, you might want to check some questions if they are. For which you can distinguish, how fast and good the customer support team is. And if there are no answers at all for some days or weeks, this is another red flag, that you won’t get any kind of support, and you probably should stay away from that theme also.
Summary
Obviously, these are not all the things you should look at before you decide to go and purchase. You should check some more things if the theme is optimized or compatible with the builder you are using and some more other technical stuff. But these are more specific, and tips that I wanted to share with you are more general and can be used no matter what kind of product you are searching for.
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The term ‘iOS’ is associated with Apple’s mobile operating system (OS) that works for iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch hardware. Apple provides tools and resources for building iOS apps and assistants for its hardware accessories. iOS app development is done in native languages like Swift and Objective-C to create cross-platform native applications along with the usage of React Native (JavaScript) or Xamarin (C# & F#).
Everything must be present as a detailed sketch for mobile app developers that own reservations about iOS development. i.e., every developer requires a Mac computer because Macs are usually more costly than their Windows-based analogs. Before the app store is categorized, it is essential to take a rigorous quality survey once you are done with your app.
Suppose your targeted audience is among the one in hundreds of million Apple iPhone and iPad users around the globe. In that case, you may have a simple object to involve in an iOS app development process. So, it probably a big barrier to approaching and developing an iOS app that could be easy as (in some cases lighter than) developing for Android. Besides precise planning with the proper support, you can connect to the rank of iOS app developers.
Need of developing an iOS application
Today for developing an iOS app, you require a detailed sketch for a Mac computer that operates on the most advanced version of XCode. XCode is Apple’s IDE (Integrated Development Environment) to both Mac as well as iOS apps. XCode is the robust interface that you can use while writing iOS apps. XCode has tools like iOS SDK, frameworks, and compilers that you demand, especially developing, designing, debugging, and writing codes for iOS.
iOS programming languages
1)Objective C
It was stated at the beginning of 1980, Objective-C was the first programming language for every Apple product for almost a year. Originated from the C language, Objective-C is an object-oriented programming language focused on passing information to various processes (as struggled to process bidding in traditional C programming).
2)Swift
Swift is the latest “official” language of iOS as it has several similarities to Objective-C. Swift is created to practice a more straightforward syntax and is extra focused on security instead of a predecessor.
iOS App Development Tools
The base of Apple’s was meant to be practiced above the devices or gadgets developed in mobile applications and working on programming languages C++ and C#. The assurance of the application is primary care for which the platform-particular audience is unimpaired. On the positive side, the popularity of iOS is because of its functions, and it the most viable reason. All the companies work on iOS app development services, which are broadly praised for their excellent performance and bright experience.
Also, the value of the iOS platform is very appreciated for its Plan representation and optimal position. At first, Apple added XCode in its original iOS development toolkit, as there are many more options available for the same set of tools. Let take a look at the best iOS app development tools.
XCode
The most flexible and versatile iOS app development tool is XCode. Even this tool serves a combined development environment (IDE), particularly for macOS devices, simultaneously with some programming languages for building iOS applications that carry iOS, iPad, tvOS, and watchOS harmony. The work of XCode accompanies code checkers to highlights the bugs and latent ideas while the developers are touch-typing. It is filled with real-time installations and auto-complete utilities that enable developers to obtain the code in a shorter time.
AppCode
JetBrains was first introduced AppCode along with the idea of promoting iOS and Mac OS application development. It accompanies a mix of development environments, including several programming languages like Objective C, HTML, XPath, JavaScript, CSS, C++, and XPath. Moreover, it can even support some application testing units that are more supportive in Google testing systems. The AppCode tool should be a smart code assistants’ system that errors in application code as well as supports developers with code blender highlights.
CodeRunner
It is an iOS app development tool filled with unique code choosing features. This feature-rich element of this tool allows any Mobile application development company to make the iOS app code quickly. The tool is stable and easy to use, which makes it an excellent choice for iOS app development.
Fabric
Fabric is another best iOS app development tool that empowers developers to build complex applications to adhere to their goals in real-time. Multiple modular app development tools are applied to create high-performing applications and are easily combined into the app development ecosystem. It allows iOS developers to add more highlights to their applications without any difficulty. Fabric is a polished iOS app development tool that swiftly automates the app arrangement process.
As enterprises rely more on advanced technology as well as electronic data for prominent day-to-day operations, the significant amount of data that can be lost with disasters appears to be abundantly increasing. Ventures are approximated to lose high revenue and may incur increased expenses due to disasters every year. It further leads to unpreparedness, degraded business performance, and loss of productivity. Thus, it becomes highly essential to prevent disaster occurrence to the possible extent and additionally be prepared with foremost recovery plans. Take measures for dealing with the after-effects of disaster through considering IT disaster recovery planning.
The best way to deal with disaster is by creating and implementing DRP or disaster recovery plan. The DRP must be capable enough to tackle every type of disaster regardless of the extent of the damage. Therefore, it is highly essential to keep disaster recovery plans easy to follow, highly understandable and flexible to cope with varying needs. Let’s go through the general elements that must be present in DRP for effective recovery:
Create a Disaster Recovery Team:
The responsibility of the recovery team is to develop, implement and maintain the DRP. A disaster recovery plan must identify the team members and depict the distinct responsibilities of each member. Additionally, it should contain the details of the person to be contacted in the event of a disaster. All the teammates must be informed about the disaster and responsibilities as soon as possible for dealing with the situation in minimal time.
Identify & Assess Disaster Risks:
The dedicated disaster recovery team must be able to identify and assess the associated risks of the organization. This phase comprises natural disasters, certain man-made emergencies, and related incidents. The disaster recovery plan will assist the members of the team in the identification of the recovery strategies in addition to resources. The DRP should be predetermined and must be able to offer a reliable solution in an acceptable timeframe.
Determine the Required Applications, Documents & Resources:
Initially, the enterprise has to carry forward an evaluation process to figure out the critical business operations. The DR plan should highly focus on short-term survivability, including cash flows as well as revenues. Short-term plans are more effective than long-term plans as they help restore the venture’s full functioning power. However, the enterprise must recognize the procedures that should never be delayed, such as payroll processing.
Backup and Off-site Storage Process:
This process helps in identifying the data that must be backed up and the time frame of backup. The personnel responsible for performing backups, location, weekly/monthly backups, everything must be present in the DRP. You have to make sure that the crucial applications, IT equipment, and critical documents are periodically backed up. Never skip backing financial statements, income tax returns, employee lists, contact info, inventory records, and vendor listings.
Test and Maintain the DRP:
Having a disaster recovery plan is not enough; you have to make sure it works appropriately. Always perform an initial check to know how efficiently it works, and it is highly important to maintain DRP. Also, if required, upgrade the plan as per changing infrastructure and resources.
In summary, an enterprise must develop a DR team for creating, maintaining, implementing a disaster recovery plan. Recovery plans help to resume organizational work in minimal time after a failure. The concerned person must update, test and maintain DRP as per changing basics.
CPG organizations have accelerated their digital transformation in the last 12 months
To begin with, new consumer segments have emerged, there is a growing demand for new products, the buying behaviors have changed and the fulfillment channels have shifted from physical to digital. There has been significant growth in e-commerce for CPG over the last 12 months as online grocery services ballooned from 13% to 30% in the US. Forecasts indicate that by 2022 e-commerce in the grocery category alone will be 3X higher than pre-COVID-19 levels[i]. Most significantly, CPG companies have accelerated their digital transformation and are moving to the direct-to-consumer (D2C) model. Consumers are using in-app ordering, home delivery, order-online-and-pickup-in-store (or pickup curbside) and have begun to depend on chatbots and voice assistants. Consumers want CPG companies to provide these tools.
Pandemic shaped the consumer behavior and CPG organizations are focusing on D2C
The pandemic has had a financial impact on consumers resulting in a change in buying behavior. These consumers want cheaper products and some are wisely switching to individual-use products; others, driven by health-related concerns and anxieties around shortages want to stock up; still, others have opted for local products, and there is a noticeable uptick in organic products.
For the CPG industry, these changes in consumer behavior are difficult to spot. This is because the primary owner of the consumer relationship has always been the retail partner, blocking a direct view of the customer. CPG businesses are therefore unable to change products, processes, and supply chains in response, as quickly as they should. D2C commerce holds the potential to change the status quo. It will enable CPG organizations to leverage data and analytics to build consumer intimacy, strengthen loyalty, shape new products, manage inventory, optimize supply chains, reduce operational costs and meet the demands of consumers who want supply chain visibility.
Invest in improving collaboration between CPG and Retail for D2C success – Kevin Gokey, VP & Global Chief Information Officer at Church & Dwight
To understand how CPG companies are positioned for the future and the transformation projects they will focus on, we conducted a joint webinar with Kevin Gokey, VP & Global Chief Information Officer at Church & Dwight, and Praveen Gururaja, Director, Retail and CPG, Microsoft, as guest speakers.
Both Gokey and Gururaja agreed that the pandemic provided a new growth opportunity in the form of D2C. However, Gokey cautioned that “The operational excellence that got us to where we are today won’t take us into the future.”
One part of the solution, said Gokey, is to make significant investments in improving collaboration between CPG and Retail. He believes that omnichannel growth will make it necessary for CPG to develop joint business plans with retail marketplace platforms like Amazon and retail chains like Walmart.
Automate, digitize and connect current processes using the cloud to accelerate digital transformation – Praveen Gururaja, Director, Retail & CPG, Microsoft
The second part of the solution is to use technology to build D2C, understand consumer behavior, spot trends, manage inventory, change products, and lower operational costs. Praveen Gururaja pointed out the need to automate, digitize and connect current processes. This can be achieved – quickly and effectively – using cloud services to optimize brand performance through consumer connectedness and omni-channel commerce. Cloud creates an intelligent and collaborative enterprise by connecting suppliers, headquarters, warehouses, and field sellers, to improve sales execution and customer satisfaction; it delivers sustainability and operational excellence by creating the connected factory of the future that runs on digitized supply chains and logistics, and it accelerates innovation aimed at transforming traditional products while moving towards a service model for new and sustained revenue streams.
Microsoft’s Azure stack fits in perfectly to fulfill these needs. It provides the scalable infrastructure that CPG organizations need and it allows them to leverage the underpinning tools to exploit their data. These tools include:
A data lake to ingest and leverage consumer, supplier, and partner data
Analytical engines to improve functions such as trade promotions and deliver advanced capabilities such as in-store dynamic pricing across electronic shelf labels
Automation for routine processes such as those used to scrape the web to identify counterfeit products and to achieve goals such as a reduction in low-end manual labor
Artificial Intelligence (AI) to identify revenue growth and upsell opportunities
Security to ensure data privacy and compliance with GDPR, California Consumer Privacy Act, etc.
Video analytics to understand in-store consumer demographics, path-to-purchase, manage assortments and replenishments, and several other difficult-to-monitor factors
While the technology exists – and has become affordable – the real challenge, said Gokey, lies in persuading the organization to use the new technology. Getting employees to be data literate and skilling analysts in data sciences is difficult. This is an area that requires immediate attention if CPG organizations want to extract the promised ROI from digital, cloud, data, and analytics.
ITC Infotech has a strong pedigree in the CPG industry and has been serving several Global Fortune 500 companies with digital solutions. During the pandemic, CPG companies have told us that they see acute changes in customer expectations along three vectors: (a) customers want their needs to be met where they are, whether or not on digital or physical mediums; (b) they want brands to meet their evolving needs, so solutions need to adapt quickly; and (c) they want to be protected from the uncertainty of their surroundings which translates into prioritizing consistency, predictability, and reliability.
To meet these expectations, enterprises need real-time connectedness like never before. To make this real, enterprises must move away from what has largely been a siloed, project-oriented approach towards a platform-oriented approach that unlocks agility. They must understand how consumer needs are changing daily, discover new consumer segments and adopt new strategies.
We build platforms of intelligence for deploying intelligence at scale across the CPG value chain powered by Microsoft technologies and services.
Our decades of experience and expertise in CPG, along with our domain accelerators, have been leveraged by several global enterprises to build their capabilities and services and realize business value at speed and scale. Our platform of intelligence framework helps CPG companies realize tangible benefits.
Finally, it is the partnerships that CPG organizations create that will spell success.
We live in a complex world, dependent on intricate ecosystems. The only way to make this work is to bind everyone in the partnership to the desired business outcomes. Partners must commit to owning the outcomes. ii
ITC Infotech is partnering with Microsoft to implement Platforms of Intelligence for CPG companies. We work with Microsoft experts to define the current state, future roadmap, and use cases. Our bespoke Azure AI/ML-powered intelligent platform empowers CPG leaders to build stronger consumer connect, mutually rewarding retailer relationships, and a streamlined supply chain built on the foundations of Azure Machine Learning, Azure Synapse, Azure Data Lake, Azure Cognitive Services, and more. The fact that we have our genesis in a CPG company differentiates us from other service providers and allows us to deliver better supply chain visibility, increased ROI, optimized costs, and improved sales for your CPG organization.