SPARKSTER
Sparkster is a platform of empowerment. They empower you to bring your ideas to life by building software without learning how to code. Use intuitive drag and drop interfaces and the ability to define business logic in plain English to build anything imaginable. Focus on WHAT you want to build, and this platform will transform your ideas into working software in seconds. Inspired by MIT Scratch, Sparkster takes the position that if young children can build games with simple building blocks, then Sparkster can empower everybody to build enterprise grade applications in a similar manner.
Innovation in the 21st Century is almost exclusively dependent on software development. One need not look far for a plethora of examples: emerging companies such as Uber, Airbnb, and Instagram are exclusively software companies. The Sparkster platform aims to democratize access to innovation, and make innovation in the 21st century accessible to everybody.
The Sparkster platform is to software what Uber was to the taxi industry - a seismic disruption. Competitors such as Microsoft®, SAP®, Oracle® will have their business models fundamentally disrupted by the advent of user generated software, empowered by the Sparkster platform. They present the fastest, cheapest, easiest, most democratic and personalized way to build software, period.
Sparkster is building the world’s fastest Decentralized Cloud that enables people to execute this software across a network of their community’s cell phones. This combined packaged is not only the cheapest, most democratic and fastest way to build software, but to run software too. A high performance decentralized cloud, as proposed by Sparkster, is necessary to mainstream blockchain adoption.
ADVANTAGES
Clear concentrated idea: decentralized software and cloud computing
User-friendly, professional and well-organized website interface featuring all sections of the necessary information and communication interaction, making sure the full information provision for the project with high credibility.Publicly allowing the registration for system testing.
The development team consists of well-qualified members: Mentors include professors from the top technology universities; Leaders have years of experience in leadership and technology at leading technology corporations and branches in India. In particular, they have contacted and worked together long before the project started. Programmers are senior programming engineers. Marketing and business staff are leaders from reputable companies, magazines and banks. This team represents a strong governance structure. Every department which owns excellent members of each field, is well-managed.Roadmap consists of the milestones with many products almost done, creating high credibility.
High hype (community): Receiving many great reviews from the top ICO rating websites.
Token metrics get proper token distribution, acceptable hardcap, tight and detailed sale policies with the vesting for developers within 2 years and token bonus. All information has been explicitly proclaimed with the specific time (sale, releasing, giving token back after 2 weeks, etc.) and number.
DISADVANTAGES
Although the team has announced the experimental product and result itself, the estimated technological statistic is very high and unbelievable. Besides, there is no reasonable explanation for this technical number posted in the website along with whitepaper yet.
Despite the testing programming products and results, the estimated technical figure is incredibly big and there has been no satisfactory technical explanation on the website and whitepaper.
The information of the development team is fairly true but it seems that they have overused their reputation and images at previous companies and agencies little bit to advertise personal brand in this project
The announcing tests occur internally whereas open tests only focus on the cloud computing storage system.
ROADMAP
The project was carried out in 2014. In the period of 2014-2016, developing Sparkster’s platform and launching Beta were focused.
2017: signing partnership agreement with Libelium and ARM, beginning Private Beta program and completing performance optimization.
2018: Completing Decentralized Cloud Architecture planning. Releasing Decentralized Cloud Internal Beta v0.1 in March. Publicly launching fully functional enterprise-grade platform in April. Launching Sparkster Marketplace.
2018 Q2 : Publicly launching the platform support for Arduino and ESP devices supporting codeless embedded application development.
2018 Q3 : Publicly releasing the platform for ARM devices in accordance with the ARM partnership. Becoming one of the first certified ARM embed IOT platform. Launching the mobile app supporting sensory input (GPS, gyroscope, accelerometer, etc.)
2018 Q4 : Publicly releasing the alpha version of Sparkster Decentralized Cloud. Launching the full-scale support to build AI power’s app, beyond just computer version.
2019: Integrating other blockchain networks such as NEO, Cardano, Stellar to facilitate payment transactions. Launching codeless Data Warehousing and Analytics platform for enterprise customers.
TEAM
Advisor
Gary Leavens: Chair of Computer Science Department and Expert in computer programming languages at University of Central Florida. He is a lecturer at University of Iowa and a Ph.D. Philosophy Massachusetts Institute of Technology (the top university of technology).
Juan Albelo: Senior Vice President of SAP (Indian Technology Company). He used to be an executive role at Oracle.
Leader
Sajjad Daya, the founder and CEO of Sparkster.me, has 15-year experience in leading businesses. Specifically, he worked as a technical supporter at Cisco for 2 years, a business developer at Xprint for 3 years, the head of software development department at Syncoms for 1 year, an investment manager at Syncoms for 10 years, a CEO at Printerpix.com for more than two years and the Vice President of Business Technology at Syncoms for more than 3 years.
Amit Kumar, who takes responsibility for technology, has 20+ years of experience in various leadership roles in the areas of Application& Database management, 7 years being a development manager at Syncoms and nearly 5 years serving as a senior portfolio manager at Wipro.
Shabeer Kirmani, who is responsible for technology promotion, has 3 years working in Accenture (top 10 most influential technology corporations in the blockchain technology). He has served as a director of Data Science at United States Department of Defense from October, 2013 to now.
Dayanie Rajeev, an HR manager, has served for India Citibank for 3 years since 2003. In addition, he has worked for Accenture since 2006. He worked on HR at IBM from 2007 to 2010 and at Syncoms from 2010 to 2014.
Neeru Pallen is working for the marketing department. He worked on marketing management at Syncoms UK for 3 years from 2011, and on the commercial web service for a year and as an SEO consultant for The Times in 2013.
Munawar Bijani, a senior software engineer, has 7 years of experience in the back-end software development.
In a nutshell, the Sparkster team is said to be from well-known large corporations such as Cisco, HSBC, Wipro, Infosys, Capgemini, Citibank, IMB, Accenture, AT & T, Pfizer, NBC Universal, Snapdeal, OLA etc.
CONCLUSION
Sparkster’s innovation in decentralized cloud aims to disrupt the $230 billion cloud computing industry of centralized cloud providers like AWS, Microsoft, Google or IBM. The Sparkster prototype already showed us that the scaling issue could be solved without losing performance. But on the other hand, we’ve only seen a few use cases.
Sparkster’s Decentralized Cloud implements zk-SNARKs and zero-knowledge proofs to ensure that client data stays obfuscated to other network participants. Security is a top priority for such a project.
The Sparkster Platform can interact natively with Ethereum and IOTA, and that is a perfect starting position in the current market.
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