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Not thought leadership. Answers to the questions that come up while you are choosing what to build and who to build it with.

Cloud · 6 min read

Offline-first apps: building for the network your staff actually have

An app demonstrated on office wifi tells you nothing. The real test is a three-year-old phone at the edge of a signal, and that has to be designed for, not patched in.

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Choosing · 6 min read

How to scope a software project when you are not technical

You do not need to know how it will be built. You need to describe the work accurately, and that is a skill you already have.

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Security · 7 min read

What a school owes the families whose data it holds

Student records are among the most sensitive data an institution holds, and India now has a law about it. Most of what is required is unglamorous and inexpensive.

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Cloud · 6 min read

Cloud or on-premise when your internet is unreliable

The usual advice assumes a connection you may not have. The right answer depends less on the technology than on what happens to your operation during an outage.

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AI · 6 min read

OCR and document digitisation for offices still running on paper

Scanning a room of files produces a room of unsearchable images. The value is in what happens after the scan, and that is the part most projects skip.

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ERP · 6 min read

Hospital management software: the modules that matter in year one

A twenty-module proposal is easy to sign and hard to deploy. Four of them carry almost all the value, and the rest can wait until the first four are actually being used.

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Contracts · 6 min read

What an AMC should cover, and the clauses to refuse

An annual maintenance contract is where most of the long-term cost of software sits, and where the least attention is usually paid.

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AI · 7 min read

Where AI genuinely saves work in an Indian hospital — and where it does not

The useful cases are narrower and more boring than the marketing suggests. They are also real, and they are mostly about paperwork rather than diagnosis.

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Contracts · 6 min read

What "you own the source code" should mean in your contract

Almost every vendor says it. Very few contracts define it, and the gap between the sentence and the clause is where organisations get stuck.

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