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Dmitry Baraishuk

Dmitry Baraishuk

Chief Innovation Officer / Partner

I've been leading a department specializing in custom software development for 20 years.

Dmitry joined the company in 2004 as the first developer – within one month after its establishment and throughout his career at Belitsoft worked as developer, Team Leader, Project Manager, business analyst etc. Currently he is managing several key projects in the company and helps customers to succeed in their software development needs.

His specialties:

ELearning software development
Mobile and web applications development
Legacy systems reengineering
Software development consulting
Business analysis/Business development
QA services
Support & maintenance

He is an inspirational leader capable of organizing work process in the most effective way. Has vast experience in eLearning domain and web development. Dmitry is a proud father of two children. In his free time he mostly enjoys hunting and spending time on physical activities.

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Power BI Inventory Management to Prevent Over- and Understocking

Power BI Inventory Management to Prevent Over- and Understocking

Our client is one of the largest retail suppliers who is tracking millions of records across multiple retail stores in different cities and would like to know how to walk the fine line between over- and understocking.

Migration from .NET to .NET Core and AngularJS to Angular for HealthTech Company

Migration from .NET to .NET Core and AngularJS to Angular for HealthTech Company

Belitsoft migrated EHR software to .NET Core for the US-based Healthcare Technology Company with 150+ employees.

Custom Training Software based on Chatbot with Coaching/Mentoring Functionality

Custom Training Software to Develop Leadership Skills in Employees

Our Client, Jeff Otis, a US entrepreneur, turned to Belitsoft to build a unique personal leadership development program. Now, we have launched an MVP of this game-changing personalized interactive web platform with coaching/mentoring functionality.

API Integration for Digital Transformation of a Freight Management Company

API Integration for Digital Transformation of a Freight Management Company

Our Client, a US-based freight management company, needed a custom core business app to optimize their workflows.

Hotel Business Intelligence

Hotel Business Intelligence

Our client is a startup owner who came to us with the idea to develop a new Business Intelligence System for hotels. He needed more than just senior-level experts who are able to choose the right architecture of the new system - he needed a team that could deliver enterprise-level analytical products.

Resource Management Software for the Global Creative Technology Company

Resource Management Software for a Technology Company

By automating resource management workflows, Belitsoft minimized resource waste and optimized working processes and the number of managers in Technicolor, which resulted in budget savings.

Azure Cloud Migration for a Global Creative Technology Company

Azure Cloud Migration for a Creative Technology Company

Belitsoft migrated to Azure the IT infrastructure around one of the core business applications of the global creative technology company.

AI Software Development Trends in 2025

AI entrepreneurs and startup founders must balance four fronts at once with their product roadmaps - system architecture, revenue strategy, market timing, and competitive positioning. This article walks through the key AI infrastructure trends, model capabilities, and market dynamics expected through 2025.

Dmitry Baraishuk • 7 min read

LLM Summarization of Large Documents: How to Make It Work

Summarizing text is one of the main use cases for large language models. Clients often want to summarize articles, financial documents, chat history, tables, pages, books, and more. We all expect that LLM will distill only the important pieces of information, especially from long texts. However, this isn't always possible with the expected level of quality. Even a larger token limit isn’t a guaranteed solution. Fortunately, there are approaches that help summarize texts of different lengths - whether it’s a couple of sentences, paragraphs, pages, an entire book, or an unknown amount of text.

Dmitry Baraishuk • 6 min read

Top AI Developers 2025: How to Choose the Best AI App Development Company

Various artificial intelligence (AI) market research sources claim that the volume of the artificial intelligence market is expected to reach almost 827 billion dollars by 2030 with a CAGR of nearly 28 percent from 2025 to 2030.

Dmitry Baraishuk • 11 min read

Hugging Face: The Guide for AI Startup Founders

Hugging Face (HF) is a leading open-source platform and community in the machine learning ecosystem. As the “GitHub of Machine Learning”, HF is a central place to find, share, and collaborate on AI models and datasets. HF is a one-stop resource in the AI development pipeline, from model search and experimentation to initial deployment, helping startups go from an idea to a working AI faster and with lower upfront R&D costs.

Dmitry Baraishuk • 11 min read

System Prompt Engineering in Gen AI Applications

This article contains ideas on customizing prompts for gen AI applications and the golden rules of prompt engineering. The enterprise generative AI market is growing. Companies need “picks and shovels" to adapt LLMs to their proprietary data. To assist businesses, software experts examine their niche terminology and workflows and apply prompt engineering to tailor AI behavior to each customer’s requirements.

Dmitry Baraishuk • 7 min read

Augment Your LLM With RAG Using LlamaIndex

According to Gartner, in the upcoming years, enterprises will need more Gen AI models that are closely related to their industries. That means they will look for solutions to train their large language models (LLMs) and make them focus on proprietary knowledge. Data orchestration frameworks like LlamaIndex help build retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems and expand the possibilities of LLMs on top of specific organization’s data. LlamaIndex collects data from files (PDFs, PowerPoints), apps (Slack, Notion), and databases (MongoDB, Postgres) and structures it to make it easily digestible to LLMs

Dmitry Baraishuk • 7 min read

Truewind AI ($17M): AI Use Case in Finance and Accounting

Generative AI, machine learning capabilities, and predictive analytics are gradually becoming part of modern applications. The finance and accounting industry is no exception: startups are emerging. They not only attract investment but also have real clients. One of them is Truewind — founded just around 2 years ago (at the time of writing). A core component of its offer for companies working in accounting is document classification, assigning categories, displaying a confidence score for classification accuracy, and explaining why a particular classification was applied. Integrating such a solution into a B2B SaaS product enables building a sustainable business model, gradually scaling and deepening automation in accounting processes. Truewind relies less on custom large language models, and its senior full-stack engineers build the application using the OpenAI API and vector databases.

Dmitry Baraishuk • 10 min read

Generative AI App Development Company

This article is a full roadmap for companies looking to build serious generative AI products, showing the process, potential obstacles, and how Belitsoft helps clients go from proof-of-concept to production — with the right team, clear planning, and business-focused execution.

Dmitry Baraishuk • 7 min read

Custom AI Chatbot Development Services

Companies know that off-the-shelf solutions can force them to adapt their processes to the tool, while custom solutions let them preserve those unique processes. When businesses look for a custom AI chatbot, they expect the bot to rely on their proprietary information. Beyond data, firms seek special features that fit their domain. Enterprises view custom chatbots as deeply integrated, highly secure systems that align with their complex workflows. They also look for customization in how the bot behaves, and how it represents their brand.

Dmitry Baraishuk • 6 min read

Custom LLM Case Study: Innovaccer (Healthcare)

SaaS enterprises adopt custom Gen AI. Innovaccer is an example of an enterprise SaaS company that chose a product diversification strategy by introducing its own proprietary LLM models instead of using ChatGPT. They have been training the model on data prepared by Innovaccer’s team and hosting it on servers controlled by Innovaccer. By 2027, most GenAI models used by enterprises will be industry- or function-specific, predicts Gartner. This means an increasing number of custom LLMs will be trained on proprietary data and hosted on servers controlled by enterprises.

Dmitry Baraishuk • 5 min read

Healthcare Business Intelligence

The healthcare business intelligence software market is experiencing explosive growth (some analysts even predict up to a 25% CAGR over the next 5 years) and a second wind due to technological advancements related to the implementation of generative AI capabilities. The level of self-service in BI tools is becoming so high that users need very little technical knowledge to obtain complex, high-quality data for decision-making.

Dmitry Baraishuk • 15 min read

React Native Advantages and Disadvantages

Through implementing React Native framework's native-like UI components, programmers can create IOS and Android mobile applications that have the same appearance and experience as those developed using native Android UI components and native iOS UI components. Employing React Native can reduce the cost of building and maintenance if the application has to be accessible to both iOS and Android (you don't require Kotlin and Swift developers). If you possess a React-based web app and require it for mobile apps on both the IOS and Android platforms, our software development firm holds the view that React Native is the best option.

Dmitry Baraishuk • 33 min read

While a generic LLM like OpenAI ChatGPT may have some familiarity with your domain, key information specific to your corporation, like internal documentation or emails, is not available to them by default. Therefore, such LLMs lack the necessary context for providing the best responses. It is possible to train general-purpose LLMs on your business-specific use cases. LLM developers overcome the limitations of generic models by steering them toward the most relevant outputs for your custom needs. They train large language models exclusively on your enterprise's data sets to generate tailored responses.

Dmitry Baraishuk • 6 min read

AWS Document Management System

Electronic document management systems are created for dealing with digital documents and scanned versions of paper documents. Leading companies implement cloud document management software. In partnering with Noventiq, Belitsoft presents a ready-to-use, customizable cloud-based electronic document management system deployed on AWS. The software is available online, so you don't need to install anything. Users can perform all functions using the mobile application. We will accommodate your transition to a new document management system and can customize it by adding AI features. Ask us a question!

Dmitry Baraishuk • 7 min read

React Components Explained

As a successful application gets bigger and more complicated, React's approach of building everything out of small components (component-based architecture) becomes really helpful. Instead of trying to deal with the entire user interface, React lets developers break it down into smaller pieces. Nicely organized components are self-contained and easier to update or refactor when needed. This component-based approach allows engineers to reuse pieces of client apps' user interfaces in multiple places and makes the code maintainable at a lower cost.

Dmitry Baraishuk • 8 min read

Data Warehouse vs Database

You need a Data Warehouse if you plan to implement a Business Intelligence (BI) solution to support your decision-making and improve your business processes. But DWH development is linked with additional expenses. Is it possible to save your money by implementing BI solution without DWH?

Dmitry Baraishuk • 2 min read

React Performance Optimization

React is designed for performance, but React developers should understand and deliberately use its optimization techniques for building complex, highly performant web applications. Knowing when to use React’s built-in mechanisms for improving performance is a key.

Dmitry Baraishuk • 7 min read

Fraud Analytics in Insurance

Investigating insurance claims for fraud is resource-intensive. Most companies have a limited number of investigators. Not all claims can be thoroughly checked. An insurance company losing too much money due to fraudulent claims. Implementing predictive analytics solutions can be highly effective.

Dmitry Baraishuk • 5 min read

Predictive Data Analytics

Predictive data analytics is an important industry application of machine learning. Implementing predictive data analytics solutions involves more than just selecting the appropriate machine learning algorithm.

Dmitry Baraishuk • 8 min read

What is Artificial Intelligence? AI vs Traditional Software

According to the results of the recent Gartner’s benchmarked survey “AI Strategy: Where Your Competitors Are Investing”, there is a growing number of companies that are planning to build out and deploy AI. A deep understanding of the main difference between the possibilities of AI software and “traditional” software can help to separate AI hype from reality.

Dmitry Baraishuk • 14 min read

Reduce Costs with Incremental App Modernization

Cutting legacy costs may be achieved by removing duplicate software, eliminating payments for infrastructure licenses, offshoring some tasks without sacrificing productivity, and redeploying workforce. However, the key question is there a strategic approach to digital transformation that allows CIOs to reduce costs in the process of app modernization?

Dmitry Baraishuk • 4 min read

AI-Powered Skills Management Software

Success in the corporate world requires optimizing workforce management skills. While there are many off-the-shelf skill management software solutions available, the real challenge, as highlighted by industry expert, Josh Bersin, the founder of the leading advisory company for corporate learning, lies in finding a software that acts as a single, centralized hub "capable of storing every skill for every job in the company". Our elearning software development company with an expertise in AI chatbot development has created a skills management software framework that emphasizes deep customization and streamlined implementation. Whether you're a software vendor planning a groundbreaking launch or an established enterprise seeking a custom solution due to the limitations of existing products, we can make your vision a reality.

Dmitry Baraishuk • 7 min read

Artificial intelligence in education

$30 billion of value by 2032 and rising demand - all of this makes the development and deployment of AI in education the priority for enterprises, training companies, EdTech startups, and educational institutions. Check out this ultimate knowledge hub to see real-life examples, types of AI-powered software and top AI tools for education, including custom-developed AI chatbots, as well as the benefits they bring to business and learners, and other insights.

Dmitry Baraishuk • 16 min read

Business Intelligence Implementation

How to implement business intelligence like healthcare business intelligence? Business intelligence implementation is a set of activities that make a BI solution available for use in your organization. We have been providing BI implementation services since 2010. In this article, we talk about BI implementation steps you need to take to realize the full benefits of this technology.

Dmitry Baraishuk • 5 min read

AI in EdTech: Top 15 EdTech AI Startups that Won the Market

Discover the top AI EdTech startups that attract millions of users and secure significant funding. You'll understand the key trends of AI in EdTech, the steps required to apply AI in your project, and the innovative ideas that top performers have already employed.

Dmitry Baraishuk • 11 min read

Cloud vs Self-Hosted LMS

Choosing the deployment mode (cloud or self-hosted/on-premise) can affect the security of your data, the costs of the implementation, and even the availability of the system. This concerns both new companies that are just starting to build their training program and established enterprises that are moving away from classroom-based learning processes.

Dmitry Baraishuk • 10 min read

React Native vs Xamarin

Let’s see the real-life use cases when you should better select React Native and when to opt for Xamarin.

Dmitry Baraishuk • 11 min read

Best Learning Experience Platforms (LXPs) in 2023

We've taken top Learning Experience Platforms based on customer reviews, determined and compared their core features, and listed them all, starting from the most expensive one.

Dmitry Baraishuk • 31 min read

Gamification in eLearning

This article will explain what Gamification actually is, describe its advantages and potential risks based on scientific studies, tell you about its underlying psychological principles, and show several examples of its successful use in client- and employee-facing environments. In addition, the article includes a few pieces of advice on how to approach your own gamification strategy.

Dmitry Baraishuk • 9 min read

AI in Talent Management and in Learning and Development

In this post, you will find solutions to the critical business issues that most CEOs and business owners face now: losing key employees, filling skill gaps, finding the right talent, ensuring future-proof skills, upskilling and reskilling. See how Artificial Intelligence resolves it all if implemented timely in your eLearning process.

Dmitry Baraishuk • 3 min read

Advantages of Database Management Systems

Database management system (DBMS) is software to manage databases. Sometimes DBMSs are called for simplicity just “databases” or even “database server software”. The different advantages of DBMS over spreadsheets or text files include advanced security due to centralized access control and backup automation. Let’s take a look at these aspects in greater details with our database development company.

Dmitry Baraishuk • 3 min read

Learning Experience Platform vs LMS

LXP (Learning Experience Platform) is often AI-driven SaaS-based web or mobile learning management system with a monthly subscription if you purchase a ready-to-use elearning solution. The primary goal of an LXP platform is continuous learning for creating internal mobility, addressing talent gaps, and growing highly performing professionals. If your company uses LMS for corporate education, shall you switch to LXP or just add advanced features to your LMS? Or if it’s your first time to choose an eLearning platform, what to choose to make the best investment decision?

Dmitry Baraishuk • 7 min read

AI Chatbots for Education: Corporate Training, Higher Education and K-12

According to the research, education is one of the top 5 industries profiting from using chatbots. Using AI chatbots for education will increasingly become a key to enhancing students’ learning experience and educators’ productivity. A good example is the story of Emilien Nizon, a business school professor, who used the bot for 1,200+ students, 91% of which reported on improvements in their educational experience thanks to interacting with the chatbot. Considering such benefits of chatbots in education as low dependencies on infrastructure, time saving, and enhanced productivity, educators are likely to widely apply them in the near future as a part of a broader strategy to use of AI in eLearning. Belitsoft is a chatbot development company with an extensive portfolio in e-learing, including creating сustom training chatboats with coaching/mentoring functionality.

Dmitry Baraishuk • 7 min read

Difference Between React and React Native: Which One to Choose

React is a JavaScript library used for building user interfaces primarily in front-end web development. On the other hand, React Native is a JavaScript framework designed for native mobile application development.

Dmitry Baraishuk • 10 min read

AI-Powered Adaptive Learning

It's expected that AI in the educational market will grow at a CAGR of over 40% by 2027. This opens space for worthwhile investments and disruptive business ideas. Keep on reading to learn what challenges businesses solve with AI adaptive learning and how they can apply it to teach better and to earn more.

Dmitry Baraishuk • 10 min read

How to Create a Language Learning App [The Ultimate Guide!]

Our dedicated development team with eLearning expertise gives you the ultimate guide on how to make an app like Duolingo or even better AI-based language learning app. You’ll learn how to effectively monetize it. What feature set to choose. How much it costs. And how long the language learning app development takes.

Dmitry Baraishuk • 20 min read

AI in Language Learning

Investing early in AI for language learning is a way to earn millions of users and revenue as Duolingo does. Or gain investors and cooperate with world-known companies (Amazon, Google, Uber) as Busuu does. But how do top market players use AI to solve online language learning challenges? What AI tools and algorithms have they applied? In this article, we’ll explain it all in detail.

Dmitry Baraishuk • 11 min read

LMS Tips for Startups

The startup culture drives people to release their product ASAP: no matter what you are working on, there’s probably 2-3 other teams doing something similar. Having a well-structured training program and a complementary LMS is an advantage in this regard. This article explains how to gain this advantage and use it best.

Dmitry Baraishuk • 5 min read

Azure Cloud Migration Process and Strategies

Microsoft Azure cloud platform offers over 200 products and services such as analytics, virtual computing, storage, and networking. It is a powerful tool that businesses can use to improve their enterprise IT environments while ensuring full compliance and data protection. They can choose to augment their applications or fully replace their on-premise setting with Azure cloud to boost productivity, increase flexibility, and reduce costs.

Dmitry Baraishuk • 7 min read

Personalized Learning Using AI

An AI-based training platform optimizes knowledge acquisition, cuts training costs (boosts your ROI), and makes it a point of competitive differentiation for your business. Let's see where to start to apply AI personalized learning in your business.

Dmitry Baraishuk • 8 min read

What platform to choose for your eLearning course

In this article, we will explain what a learning platform is, which popular options are out there, and which alternatives exist for placing your eLearning course.

Dmitry Baraishuk • 7 min read

Integrate Your CRM with LMS to Increase Sales [Start now!]

In this article, you’ll discover how LMS CRM integration can increase your revenue, minimize customer churn, and lower support ticket load. You’ll understand how to use CRM analytics to enhance your customers’ experience. And how to use LMS content to educate your customers, show them the value of your product, teach them how to use it with maximum efficiency, and make your messages helpful and relevant.

Dmitry Baraishuk • 6 min read

Social Learning Platforms: Studying Online Together

While the pandemic forces people to limit live communication and study at home, this doesn’t mean that

Dmitry Baraishuk • 8 min read

e-Learning for Companies and elearning Companies

Upskilling and reskilling is critical to business success. Modern custom-built corporate eLearning platform could integrate everything your employees need to acquire in-demand skills — learning resources, feedback, skills-matching, guidance, and even projects, gigs, and jobs. From the technical perspective, such platform can be named as a talent marketplace solution, an LXP add-on, which use recommended and adaptive learning, recommended assignments and recommended projects for every employee. Sometimes, it's also called skills management software.

Dmitry Baraishuk • 12 min read

AI LMS: 5 tools you can deploy now

Should you already invest in AI-powered LMS or not yet because it is still hard to recognize tangible benefits behind it? If yes, does it make sense to integrate AI into your existing LMS or you need to build such LMS from scratch. Keep on reading to find all the answers and discover how exactly AI tools in your LMS can streamline the processes of onboarding, upskilling & reskilling, boost internal mobility, reduce training costs, and ensure the acquisition of future-proof skills by the employees.

Dmitry Baraishuk • 6 min read

LMS for Training Companies

The best LMS for training companies is the one that is easy to use by your clients and your employees. Right? Of course, it also should be integrated with the bank so that transactions are smooth. And secure so that nobody could hack into it. But there are a myriad of solutions! How to choose the top LMS for training providers among them? We help our clients, including great training companies, to select and deploy the right LMS for them. For example, check out this case, when we helped a training company to earn $1 million in monthly revenue thanks to implementing a custom LMS.

Dmitry Baraishuk • 16 min read

LMS Implementation Services

An LMS can be an invaluable tool when used effectively. To help you maximize its potential, we've prepared this article outlining how to set clear goals, choose an implementation strategy, assemble a team, plan effectively, migrate data, develop courses, and test the new LMS to ensure everything operates as expected.

Dmitry Baraishuk • 8 min read

Elearning App Design Mistakes

When figuring out how to make a learning app, it's crucial to avoid common UX/UI design mistakes that can hinder the app's success. What mistakes make it near-impossible for users to love a certain app? How difficult is it to build a UX mistake-free app? What are the most popular mistakes designers commit? We at Belitsoft work on projects in many domains, including e-commerce, accounting, healthcare, entertainment, and more. But eLearning has always been of special importance to us. We’ve interviewed one of our UX designers who specializes on eLearning apps and courses to list the most common graphic design mistakes that can ruin the first impression.

Dmitry Baraishuk • 6 min read

Converting ILT to eLearning: Prepare, Plan, Implement

The recent trends show that the most effective companies are using eLearning to stay on top

Dmitry Baraishuk • 5 min read

Video Conferencing Platform VS LMS for Elearning

Virtual instructor-led training (VILT) can be done through a learning management system with much better effectiveness than just via simple video conferencing software. Read on for details.

Dmitry Baraishuk • 7 min read

Choosing an LMS: How to Make the Right Decision

When a company decides to start a learning program or digitize an existing one a question of choosing the right LMS inevitably arises. There are thousands of commercially available systems as well as companies that can make custom ones from scratch. So we will make the selection process a bit easier by giving you some pointers about the evaluation criteria, LMS categories and the most popular options available.

Dmitry Baraishuk • 13 min read

How to Build an Online Learning Platform

Step-by-step guide on how to build a learning platform that favors faster knowledge acquisition, engages learners, scales in line with your growing needs, and allows saving on training.

Dmitry Baraishuk • 15 min read

Build a Customer Training LMS to Skyrocket Profit by over 25%

Your company has an excellent product on the market. But you see some areas where your customers are struggling. The progressive way to reduce the number of support queries is customer training packed in a user-friendly LMS. Keep on reading to get practical advice for creating a perfect customer training LMS for your business that educates, onboards and supports your clients. And learn how this eLearning program can increase your customer retention and satisfaction, reduce customer churn and support costs.

Dmitry Baraishuk • 11 min read

eLearning Developers and Instructional Designers

In a small company, the duties of an instructional designer and an eLearning developer could be combined in one person. However, larger corporations prefer separating the two. Instructional designers handle the learning experience (curriculum, teaching methods, practical exercises) and the theoretical foundation. eLearning developer implements the design and ensures it works exactly as intended.

Dmitry Baraishuk • 13 min read

e-Learning Platforms for Selling Courses Online

If you want to make money from selling an online course, start with choosing a platform. It determines the structure of your learning material, the instruments available to you, and the competition you will face. In this article, we will explain how to use premade and custom platforms for selling courses, as well as give advice on the business aspects, e.g. marketing and sales.

Dmitry Baraishuk • 17 min read

Gamification in Corporate Training

Gamification is one of the main trends in corporate eLearning. In this article, our elearning software development company will clarify what it actually is, show its advantages over traditional learning methods, present examples of successfully gamifying corporate training and give evidence-based advice on launching your own gamification program.

Dmitry Baraishuk • 8 min read

LMS for Healthcare

As healthcare intricacy increases, the need for robust training and development becomes undeniable. Customized Learning Management Systems (LMSs) have emerged as essential tools for medical professionals to stay abreast of the latest advancements and regulatory nuances. While there are many ready-made options, a tailored LMS often resonates more closely with an organization's unique requirements. At Belitsoft, we craft modern, adaptable LMS frameworks for healthcare organizations focused on enhancing patient care through strategic training. For those in the training industry, our solutions offer an avenue to develop a standout product tailored to the healthcare sector. This article delves into the significance, benefits, challenges, and transformative potential of a custom healthcare LMS.

Dmitry Baraishuk • 8 min read

Authoring Tools

In this article, we will describe what authoring tools are, give pointers on how to select the best one for your organization and give a rundown on a few most popular ones.

Dmitry Baraishuk • 7 min read

Custom Enterprise Learning Solutions

Learn 3 core business scenarios helping L&D leaders get the most out of investments in training programs. Most effective custom solutions for enterprise learning and competency challenges.

Dmitry Baraishuk • 5 min read

How to Build your Own LMS from Scratch

We’ve been creating custom LMSes from scratch for 15+ years. As well as implement and customize ready-to-use eLearning solutions. In this article, we’ll share with you how we build learning management systems.

Dmitry Baraishuk • 22 min read

What is IaaS (Infrastructure-as-a-Service)?

Infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) is a cloud computing service from a cloud service provider where you receive access to compute, storage, and networking resources on-demand and are charged for what you use. Additional services include billing management, logging, monitoring, storage resiliency, and security. In this model, the IaaS provider maintains the physical infrastructure, so you can concentrate on the development of your core business software. Businesses use the IaaS to migrate some or all of their use of on-premises or collocated data center infrastructure to the public, private, or hybrid clouds to become more agile, and innovate faster.

Dmitry Baraishuk • 8 min read

SharePoint Learning Management System for Business

Learn how Sharepoint LMS by Belitsoft optimizes eLearning processes in organizations. Key features, use cases, pros and cons of using Sharepoint as an LMS.

Dmitry Baraishuk • 12 min read

Elearning Trends 2023 To Start Implementing Today in Corporate Training

Cost-effectiveness, availability, increased flexibility, and better training consistency are a few of the key benefits that eLearning offers L&D through a focus on people, personalization and automation of processes, technology, and big data. Read a complete guide to major eLearning trends 2023 that will define the eLearning industry in the next 5 years.

Dmitry Baraishuk • 15 min read

.Net Core vs .NET Framework

Microsoft considers that .NET Core is for companies which really think about their future.

Dmitry Baraishuk • 3 min read

HR Portal Development for the Enterprise

When your company has been growing, the number of projects multiplies and more new staff is required to complete them in time. At a certain moment, you may realize that your current HR software doesn’t cope with your requirements, slows down your performance, and even influences some critical KPIs. For example, some repetitive and time-consuming workflows may still be performed manually, the system may lag and it is almost impossible or even not value for money to add new features. Managing the software that was initially designed to facilitate business processes becomes more and more non-rational and translates into tangible money loss for the company.

Dmitry Baraishuk • 7 min read

How to Create an eLearning App?

How to develop a learning app and monetize it? How much does it cost to develop an e-learning app? And what features must your app have to thrive in the market crowded with solutions? In this post, you will find answers to all these questions and see some successful real-life examples, let's start.

Dmitry Baraishuk • 19 min read

AI in Higher Education

The eLearning products driven by AI shift higher education from ineffective “one-size-fits-all” pattern to highly personalized and adaptive learning, improving students' experience and attractiveness of the university or college. This post will give you an insight on how to reduce a summer melt, increase enrollment and graduation rates, and make your campus smart and safe. Keep on reading to find out how AI resolves challenges in higher education.

Dmitry Baraishuk • 8 min read

Artificial intelligence in K-12 education

Implementing AI in K-12 resolves multiple challenges that students, their parents, school leaders, and school districts face. High attrition rates among teachers, low engagement of students, proper learning and knowledge checking during remote classes and, especially, school security. Read the post to discover how all these challenges can be successfully resolved with AI-driven tools.

Dmitry Baraishuk • 7 min read

Compliance Training Management Software

Not fulfilling the legal requirements can bring consequences ranging from fines and lost money to personal injury and even death. This is why businesses in all kinds of industries from Healthcare to Financial should take compliance training seriously. eLearning is the most advanced form of delivering such training, so in this article, we will take a look at the software that fits it the best.

Dmitry Baraishuk • 4 min read

Flash to Html5 Elearning Conversion

Adobe, the company responsible for Flash, stopped supporting it. So if you want your Flash content to be usable in the years to come, you would do better to convert it to HTML5. This article will explain how exactly you can do it.

Dmitry Baraishuk • 7 min read

eLearning Development Software

Although the goal is to teach people something, there are millions of applications that have their own approach to the matter. This is why we have prepared an article that will give you a better understanding of the kinds of eLearning software on the market. Speaking about the eLearning domain, we can distinguish 4 major categories of software: сontent-making, teaching, administrative and analytical. Let’s go over each category in turn.

Dmitry Baraishuk • 5 min read

Starting an Online Course Business

If you have valuable knowledge that people are willing to pay for, the time has never been better for launching an online course. With the advancements in technology, people are becoming more accepting of online training. For many of them sharing their knowledge online is a serious business. However, starting one can be tough - that’s why in this article we will describe the market conditions, explain what to do on the business side of things, and show some success stories.

Dmitry Baraishuk • 18 min read

How to Start an Online School Business: 5 Steps!

You know things that other people will pay for. You decide to teach via the Internet. Read this article for a step-by-step guide to launching your own online teaching business. And should you have any other questions, feel free to drop us a line - we’ll be glad to help.

Dmitry Baraishuk • 5 min read

Gamification vs. Game-Based Learning

Gamification and Game-based learning have been trending for the last decade or so. However, these terms are still used interchangeably from time to time or get otherwise confused. We have prepared an article addressing this issue and showing examples of both approaches.

Dmitry Baraishuk • 4 min read

E-Learning Solution for Singapore Math

Singapore is a country that is small in size but very successful in education. It has been consistently ranking as one of the best-achieving nations for over a decade. In mathematics, this is largely due to the well-thought-out approach the city-state takes to teach the kids in the most efficient manner. This article will describe some of the most popular mobile apps using this approach and explain what is needed for you to create your own. GET A FREE QUOTE

Dmitry Baraishuk • 4 min read

Benefits of a Data Warehouse

You need a Business Intelligence Data Warehouse if you plan to implement a Business Intelligence (BI) solution to support your decision-making and improve your business processes. But DWH development is linked with additional expenses. Is it possible to save your money by implementing BI solution without DWH? What are the advantages of a data warehouse? Is there any visible business value of a data warehouse?

Dmitry Baraishuk • 7 min read

10 eLearning Games Ideas

An idea is only as good as its implementation. So in this article, we will list several eLearning games that not only had great ideas behind them but were done well and turned out to be profitable.

Dmitry Baraishuk • 6 min read

How to Launch a Game-Based Learning Startup

The most profitable country for serious games is China, followed by the USA and India. However, by 2022, the United States is expected to regain its number one rank on the top learning games market charts.

Dmitry Baraishuk • 8 min read

How to Сreate Game-Based Learning

What do you need more as a learning manager? Creating functional content and delivering it on a basic learning platform? Or engaging your learners with their training and increasing their learning performance? If you would like to create game-based learning, let me show you the whole picture. I'm going to tell you not just game-based learning strategy, and share with you examples of companies who have already implemented serious games in their blended learning training courses. I will also try to argue that computer video games really help to boost your training to a new level and give results which you are struggling to reach using traditional approaches.

Dmitry Baraishuk • 6 min read

eLearning Automation: Core Features and Examples

Running an eLearning program can require significant time and effort. And even if the payoff is worth it, there is nothing wrong with automating the boring stuff. In this article we will explain how to make software do routine things for you so you can focus on more creative tasks.

Dmitry Baraishuk • 5 min read

How to Create a Great eLearning Template in 5 Steps

Creating an eLearning course is a serious undertaking that takes time and money. So to save both it is wise to use templates that you can modify to fit your needs. In this article we will explain what eLearning templates are, give advice on how to use them efficiently, and describe how to create one.

Dmitry Baraishuk • 5 min read

How to Succeed at eLearning Implementation

Implementing a new eLearning program is a serious undertaking that can either improve your company’s fortunes or result in wasted money and disappointed people. This article will give you guidelines on successfully planning and implementing eLearning, as well as notify you about some of the possible challenges.

Dmitry Baraishuk • 7 min read

How to launch an edtech startup

In this article, we will take a look at some good reasons to launch an EdTech startup, suggest several uncommon, but useful best practices for that, and provide a number of examples of successful learning startups.

Dmitry Baraishuk • 9 min read

How to Develop a MOOC Platform

You are able to enter the stiff competitive world of MOOC platforms and potentially compete with Coursera, Udacity and other major platforms. We will describe the basic and advanced features of modern MOOC platforms, figure out the best current representatives on the market and compare them as well. We will also try to figure out what would it take to build such a platform as a custom software solution that can be outsourced to a elearning software company, like Belitsoft International LLC

Dmitry Baraishuk • 6 min read

6 Case Studies of Successful xAPI Implementation

xAPI, Experience API, Tin Can API - whatever you might call it - is the latest and one of the most wide-spread data transport standard. We’ve decided to find some real case studies to show the exact impact the company can get from adopting this standard and the results of our research exceeded all expectations. Millions of euros of saved revenue, tons of production hours at huge corporations, hundreds of saved lives due to adjustments in medicine and military personnel training process – these are just a few benefits various companies managed to achieve by adopting xAPI.

Dmitry Baraishuk • 9 min read

Top Online Education SaaS Companies from New York

Looking for good startup business ideas and inspiration? Take a look at the list of NY online learning companies we have compiled for you.

Dmitry Baraishuk • 9 min read

Project Management Approach in Belitsoft

The project management approach of Belitsoft Company aims at solving customers’ tasks in the fastest and most transparent manner while simultaneously improving the project by being adaptable due to the use of flexible techniques, as well as a pro-active position.

Dmitry Baraishuk • 3 min read

Microsoft Granted $23, 000 to our Developer who Created a Chatbot

Our custom software developers devote some of their free time to participate in weekend hackathons*. They are already known among professional developers’ community as winners of the What the Hack 2014 (for the alarm box equipped with LEDs that reacts to signals coming from the Internet) and the winner of the special award for innovation in banking & finance at FinTech Hackathon 2015.

Dmitry Baraishuk • 2 min read

What Is Scrum Methodology?

In 2015 I would like to continue my analysis on project management. Previously, I touched upon the question of comparison of software development methodologies. Today, we briefly examine Scrum methodology, and have a look at typical mistakes that can lead to problems. This post does not claim to be exhaustive, it is a survey and is addressed to those, who are partially acquainted with it (for example, work in the modified Scrum) or not familiar with the methodology.

Dmitry Baraishuk • 4 min read

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