Ripples into a Community
“I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.” ― Mother Teresa Two years ago our Chennai office cast a stone, one that sought to address a basic need in the community, a need for blood donation. The first blood donation camp was kicked off […]
Blood Donation
Every year India requires about 40 million units of blood, out of which only a meager four million are available. To bridge this gap, EC Group, along with Cross Blood Foundation, conducts a Blood Donation camp for the Government Children’s Hospital during summer when the shortage of blood is acute. Volunteers both from EC group […]
MVC Workshop
Due to many of our clients requesting MVC expertise of our developers we organized a training session for those developers making the jump into MVC development. Many of our new hires were brought on with MVC experience and were looking to add to their skills while some other developers were looking to get started with […]
Introduction to Identity and Access Control in .NET 4.5
As several of our clients are utilizing ADFS for authorizing users into their application, learning this course enabled us to understand how ADFS perform in Authentication. And this course provided us in depth knowledge of Identity and Access Control in .NET 4.5. This was an online session from the www. pluralsite.com.
Can You Learn Business at a Food Pantry?
Our team has been volunteering at a local food pantry and have found it both rewarding to be able to give back and it’s also a good mental break from the work day. As with any change of pace/environment it is a way to refocus and clear your head and a good learning opportunity. A […]
How We Build Employee Retention
In the outsourcing business employee turnover is the dirty little secret that catches unsuspecting customers by surprise, sometimes as soon as days after the contract is signed. It can be intentional with some vendors pulling a “bait and switch” substituting in less experienced developers shortly after the project begins, or it can be that the […]
Will Robots Replace Developers?
Robots are increasingly becoming a part of our everyday lives. From vacuuming our homes, to moving boxes in warehouses and now even driving our cars, Technology continues to be more integrated into everything we do. IBM’s Watson’s overwhelming victory on Jeopardy last year was yet another example of the rapid development of robotic technology. In […]
iPhones and Outsourcing
What does buying an iPhone have to do with choosing an outsourcing partner? Besides the fact that both relate to technology that could be core to the operation of your business, there are other important similarities. Let me explain with a story… Recently California was charging more in tax than the price of the iPhone […]
Are Your Employees Outsourcing?
A hilarious but greatly insightful article popped up as I was surfing LinkedIn the other day, not sure if you saw it… U.S. Employee Outsourced His Job to China, Watched Cat Videos Instead (link) What is so fascinating about this story is not so much that this “Bob” guy was just watching YouTube all day and […]
Gun Control, Software & Risks
I hate being out of control. Maybe I am a control freak, but I want to know the risks I am taking, and measure the risks against the benefits. Most risks are measurable; activities that we have involved ourselves in that we inherently know involve some degree of risk. For instance, I love to ride my […]
