Complex Big data market

It has become very difficult to choose a better suitable Big Data vendor from the list, as it is not a technology for one single application but it impacts business model. Though data security and analytics functionalities being very critical functionalities while choosing the right vendor. Now cloud and Big data technologies going hand in hand and it has been found that Azure is the best cloud vendor for Hadoop. So it’s difficult to choose a Big data vendor because of the cost associated with it and also the kind of benefits this will have for the business is more important. Most of the small vendors are getting lost in the competition from the big players in such a competitive Big data market.

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Marriage of DevOps and PaaS

PaaS market is growing rapidly and we can see it growing up to $14B by 2017 , it was predicted that PaaS will replace DevOps but this has never happened in fact both are working interdependently. The ops team focuses on providing a stable and reliable environment that in turn allows developers to focus on creating code. Maturing PaaS systems recognize and enhance this marriage by enabling an environment of rapid iteration towards a better product. The attraction of managed private PaaS for small, medium, and even large companies is that they can start faster, and with reduced costs —their partners operate the infrastructure, set up security, install patches, perform backups, and manage many other operations, leaving the company to focus on agile, high-velocity development, test and deployment. DevOps’ continuous innovation principles—fast fail, rapid cycling, high-velocity agile development–become much more possible when building on the cloud. Agility and speed to innovation will drive the technology for businesses in future.  

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Demand for Enterprise Video Collaboration

Most of the enterprises use audio, video or mailing/chatting applications for communication among the colleagues and for that most of the companies use Lync which is a Microsoft application and recently it’s called as Skype for business. Until now most of the enterprises were using the audio mode for interaction but it has been observed that video collaboration is getting more popularity. There are some constraints for the use of video collaboration tools such as bandwidth, dedicated infrastructure resources etc. There are analytical applications which are used to analyze the use of the video collaboration tool with the help of dashboard.     

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Enterprise mobility and security

Use of Mobile applications for business purpose is increasing day by day and many employees use number of devices for their work related activities so the data getting generated on these devices is large in terms of size, even now Internet of Things and BYOD has given birth to lot of devices and lot of data. There are three major aspects which are very important while studying the security of the business applications as well as data associated with it which are People, Processes and Technology. Most of the employees are not aware about the kind of security norms followed within the organization also the kind of processes which needs to be followed are not structured and the technology which is being used for enterprise mobility applications might not be full proof for data security purpose. So these three most important aspects every organization needs to be addressed by every organization for their enterprise security.

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Big data adding to Keyboard functionality

We have seen use of Big data extensively in social networking due to the large size of data handling and processing but now people have explored various ways to make use of Big data in big way to help their systems and one of them is Keyboard. All of us use keyboard on daily basis and we get the suggestions on the keyboard based on the words we type and these words are pulled out from the dictionary which are there running in the background of the application. So these type of word suggestions we get based on a particular language and if try to put in some word in different language then we may get some weird result , so big data plays an important role in adding to existing keyboard functionality by creating a pool of words from where all these relevant words are fetched.

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Cloud being a cheaper way of storing data

There are various factors involved in selecting a type of data storage technology such as tiering, flash caching, thin provisioning, deduplication  etc. whether we should use cloud or we should keep this data in-house in our own racks or we should outsource this data storage facility to third party.

Data security and data retrieval time are the two major aspects to be looked for while choosing the right technology for data storage and it has been proved that cloud data storage is the cheapest way as they charge on pay per use basis with limited or unlimited GB storage plans.

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Collaborate with Virtual Reality

Many companies started their own research on VR enabled devices which can be used for 3D interaction with the objects and users. After Facebook bought Oculus Rift the actual importance of VR technology in non-gaming industry understood to most of the industry experts and then we can see many new VR products getting built for new purposes & with innovative functionalities. Microsoft came up with HoloLens is a head-mounted, holographic computer that provides a mixed-reality experience for a range of commercial and consumer applications and they are currently working with many companies one of them being Trimble which is working with Hololens on the Windows 10 platform, where it is intended to improve the quality, collaboration and efficiency in the design, construction and operation of buildings and structures of their products.

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Extension of Enterprise Mobility Beyond MDM.

 Enterprise mobility includes MDM (Mobile Device Management), MCM (Mobile Content Management), and MAM (Mobile Application Management) and according to the research by Gartner Enterprise mobility market is expected to grow from $3.2 million in 2014 to over $15.2 million by 2019 and most of the enterprises will go with the BYOD concept and will ask the employees to use their own devices for personal as well as work purpose. MDM talks about the features and functionalities related to the device but because of the evolution of the mobile applications on different platforms such as android, apple, Microsoft etc. , MCM and MAM fields started growing and they are more concentrated on the application specific functionalities and features. Upcoming different devices with different OS and various applications build on top of it will evolve this ecosystem in more structured way.   

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Enterprise Mobility to get enriched with the wearable technology

We have seen many new startups working towards building their innovative wearable devices taking example of Nest (Google) making smart homes, Fitbit making activity tracker devices for health& fitness etc. We will see these smart devices making the enterprise smarter with the use of sensors and digital transformation. Wearable Medical Devices segment of IOT to reach $4B+ by 2020 and currently it is around $1.5B, so we see huge scope and growth for these devices in the future and the applications which support these devices are capable of monitoring glucose levels in blood, managing chronic diseases such as heart diseases, asthma and diabetes. Wearable technology will create major revenue source for the enterprise mobility segment in the IT companies.

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Big Data usability in Gaming industry

Fastest growing Gaming industry is going to be the major attraction for the Big Data companies because of the evolution of new gaming technologies such as Virtual reality causing the birth of new data about the user playing patterns and their psychology and wherever we find the data coming out in such a large amount Big Data always has an opportunity to make that data actionable. We have seen many new virtual reality based devices coming out in the market such as Samsung Gear VR, XBOX etc. and most of these gaming devices create the player profiles wherein the complete details about the player is stored and based on this information the game strategy is designed online while the user is playing and here we see the magic of big data which can change the look and feel of these game and make them more strategic.

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Enterprise Mobility to get enriched with the wearable technology

We have seen many new startups working towards building their innovative wearable devices taking example of Nest (Google) making smart homes, Fitbit making activity tracker devices for health& fitness etc. We will see these smart devices making the enterprise smarter with the use of sensors and digital transformation. Wearable Medical Devices segment of IOT to reach $4B+ by 2020 and currently it is around $1.5B, so we see huge scope and growth for these devices in the future and the applications which support these devices are capable of monitoring glucose levels in blood, managing chronic diseases such as heart diseases, asthma and diabetes. Wearable technology will create major revenue source for the enterprise mobility segment in the IT companies.

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Share Point 2013 with more upgraded features

Microsoft continuously coming up with the social integration features in their Share Point tool and also in Yammer, but in the latest launch of Share point 2013 Microsoft has come up with three important features which were lacking in the 2011 version are as follows:

1 1)      We have seen About Me feature in version 2011 containing the employee profile information in addition to the existing features such as Ask Me About, Past Projects and Skills can now also get synced with the active directory

2 2)      Now all the tasks are aggregated and can be viewed from one central location and will be segregated as important and Upcoming, Active and Completed. Tasks will also be synced with the Outlook.

3 3)      In this version there is ability to follow documents, sites and people inside of SharePoint which was not possible in the previous version.

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Connecting the Clouds to Create Huge Value

There are so many cloud vendors existing in the market which are providing their cloud infrastructure, platform and different services in a polished way to their customers, but the real problem is that all these cloud vendors are independently store their data on their data centers and which is the cause of increasing storage of duplicate data on multiple clouds. Taking an example to explain this concept, consider one Video is recorded for some Television program and it has been hosted on one particular cloud, now the same video gets uploaded on multiple clouds by the users or views of that video and this may take GB’s of space for a single video which is of size in MB’s. It has been proposed that creating a platform which will create different clouds will be a fantastic thing and will surely solve many problems faced by individual cloud vendors and data centers.

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Collaboration trends in 2015

Working collaboratively in an organization is very common phenomenon and companies irrespective of size needs to have some platform on which their employees will communicate with each other. There are few trends that have been observed in the collaboration which will drive the businesses in 2015 which are as follows:

•               Many of the employees work in distributed teams or even independently so this is one of the aspect to be considered in collaboration platforms.
•        It has also been observed that many individuals are associated with more than one project, so distributed teamwork is also required.
•             Many people from the organization spend substantial amount of time in meetings and meetings are based on the metrics.
•       Technology used to get the feedback of all the meetings with the team members is not used sufficiently and it needs to be used collaboratively.
•        Collaboration tool will increase the quality of outcomes coming out of the meetings and every team member will be updated on the minutes of meetings.
•       Almost 2/3^rd of the companies using collaboration software are not happy with their support for distributed feature.
•       Many of the employees do not use most of the features of collaboration software.
•        Limiting context switching for different collaborative functions will help in increasing the productivity.

#Container #Cloud #Docker # ContainerShip

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Importance of Big data in healthcare

Almost a decade ago there was no digital system or digital technology which will show the patient data using the tracking device and which will be helpful to diagnose the disease and will link between causes and symptoms. Now we see there are so many devices such as wearable devices e.g. digital wrist band to collect the data of an individual and technology which will be used to store and process this data to provide actionable insights to the doctors or patients so that they can take further decisions based on the data. This has helped so many doctors in diagnosing the complicated diseases as well as reducing the number of deaths caused by the medical error which was never been possible before. Most of the hospitals are now using big data/Hadoop systems in-house to leverage the technology benefits for the patients and also to reduce the burden on the nurses and doctors in physically monitoring every patient.

#BigData #Healthcare

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Mobile apps open to pre-launch on Google Play store

Google took a one step further in order to compete with the apple app store by launching their new service of pre-launching the apps on Google Play store. Now App developers will be able to pre-launch the application even when their app is not ready to roll out, similar to the concept of movie trailer. Though this feature will lead to easy entry for malware in the app store but Google always been lenient about the verification of the Apps as compared to that of the Apple. This feature will surely help many developers and companies to promote their brand in advance to actual launch and would be a better choice for marketing on Google play store.

#Mobile #Application #Google #pre-launch

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CountainerShip making infrastructure portable with Cloud

 ContainerShip being a disruptive startup helping many companies to deploy their containerized application on Cloud with ease. It’s been a very difficult job for developers to more their complete infrastructure from one cloud to another but  ContainerShip made it easy as they take this work on their shoulders and make developers feel comfortable about deployment of their application on cloud. This is an alternative service to what Docker provides but the only difference is that Docker is an open source platform and more focused on developing the distributed application development community.

#Container #Cloud #Docker # ContainerShip

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2015 a year for wearable technology

India observes the world and then takes steps in technology adaptation and never takes risks in exploring new technologies. Similarly for wearable device market was developed in US and Europe and now being explored in India . Technology companies are now doing well with the help of wearable technology, so now its time for India to explore this new technology market.
Health and Fitness, entertainment and luxury are the areas these wearable technology companies focusing on to gain the attention of new customers. Tracking the vital signs of the human body being the most critical  task performed by these devices now a days and which has caused basic digital healthcare services available to many people. Measuring BP , sleep, heart rate and health statistics was never thought of can be measured so easily without doing anything.
There are many small #startups in  in India who have developed the digital wrist band to track health details of individual and which is connected with the mobile application using Bluetooth technology for its functioning. #Fitbit being the leader in wearable technology or in activity tracker market to be specific in the world . Recently #Xiomi MI also launched their wrist band in India at very low price. Now its time for the Indian player to enter the market #Micromax owned #YU launched two activity tracker devices in India with two price ranges and will surely be a big opportunity for them to penetrate the emerging market. Will be good to see in future some more Indian players like to come up with such products with more innovation involved.

Chain reaction of money flow in startups

#Alibaba is planning to invest $1.2 B in #Micromax which is one of the leading mobile manufacturing company in India and this deal will make Alibaba to be more stronger player in the market. Whereas on the other side we have seen that micromax is keen on investing around $400 m in around 20 startups , so this chain reaction of money flow has become a common phenomena in today's startup era and more such reactions to be seen in future . Good days for startups in india .

#startup #chainreaction #micromax #alibaba #investment #VC #PE

Smart watch VS wearable devices( activity tracker devices)

Though smart watches being a major threat to the activity tracker devices or wearable devices such as  fitness wristband, smart garment etc. But the market of wearable device is predicted to be rising in future because many people are being fitness freak and also these devices can also be used to track many other parameters such as diet , sleep, health related parameters such as BP ,heart beats etc.
Fitbit being a leader in activity tracker devices with gaining 68% market share as compared to competitors such as pebble, Jawbone, Misfit etc. and the they have large range of wearable products ranging from $50 to $250. Talking about the threat smart watches creating to these activity tracker devices I think price will be the deciding factor, as smart watches are launched by most of the big technology players like apple, LG, Samsung and many watch companies and they are pouring lot of mony into the r&d and innovation of these products so they will charge a premium price for these innovative products and compared to these wristbands are available from price as low as $20 in the market, and also talking about the functioning of both of these devices is majorly controlled by  the smartphone by communication it with an application, so the more the features built in more will be price of the device. I am still hopeful to see a new wearable device application development platform other than android or iOS in future which will take this complete segment of wearable devices independent from the smartphone segment.

#wearabledevices  #smartwatch #apple #samsung #fitbit #wristwatch  #activitytracker

Reference: http://www.cnet.com/news/fitbit-files-for-100m-initial-public-offering/ Fitbit files for $100M initial public offering

Wearable devices ecosystem built in progress

#Wearable device technology is the current trend in technology devices and I think as the various #mobile operating systems evolved after the success of mobile devices in the market, wearable devices will also have their separate ecosystem build over a time. Though these devices are currently getting operated or synchronized with the mobile phones, but its not something impossible in future to get the wearable device independent of mobile connectivity. Apple watch a breakthrough innovation in the wearable devices segment will surely get its ecosystem built by the strong #technology systems such as #Fiksus.

#Applewatch #apple #wearabledevices #fiksus #technology

Reference- http://techcrunch.com/2015/05/05/fiksus-new-service-lets-developers-track-apple-watch-apps/

Cloud Foundry: An Open source platform for Cloud

IBM started the revolution in software industry by starting selling the hardware & software in a bundled package and that was the starting point for many software service companies came into business and also many software platforms got created during those days one of which was the Cloud open source platform, which was one of the first open source PaaS platform. Making Cloud an open source platform let many technology enthusiasts to share their knowledge in driving the growth of the Cloud technology and which is the key driver of the success of cloud. Many startups, ISV’s and even large organizations are now-a-days talking about their cloud work and their offerings. Eventually many such platforms came into existence which are led by the users and getting success in the technology space, one of the notable example of this is twitter.    

#Cloud #CloudFoundry #OpenSource #platform  

Reference: http://www.cmswire.com/cms/information-management/will-cloud-foundry-be-key-to-computings-history-026800.php?pageNum=2

Dirty data creating problems in Marketing

Dirty data is the data which is not trusted one or not authentic in nature, so it’s not a good approach to rely completely on such data for business operations. Taking example of sales operation wherein primary stage is the suspect database building and this needs to be perfect in order to approach them for sales. It’s very difficult job to the email ids and contact numbers of suspects who can be your probable customers in future from the internet as there is so much data available on the internet and it’s very difficult to trust on one particular source as very few are trusted ones. There can be multiple profiles of same person available on the internet and all of them looks to be alike, so it’s a difficult job to choose the trusted or verified data from this data pool. There are ways to get the trusted data but these ways are very expensive for a small company.

#DirtyData #Marketing #MarketResearch   

Reference: http://www.cmswire.com/cms/digital-marketing/dirty-data-means-muddied-marketing-029068.php#disqus_thread

Enterprise Collaboration through social integration

 Intranet portals should depict the culture of the organization, initially intranet portals were serving the only purpose of static content management for the employees but now the integration of Social tools to intranet created the myth that intranet will die after social integration but this don’t look to be the case till now. Social intranet portals becoming more and more dynamic in nature and serving the essential purpose of collaboration for the organization. Employees look for four attributes from the intranet portals:

1.      Communication-centric
2.     Self-service-centric
3.     Collaboration-centric
4.    Information workplace

I think every employee want to enjoy their social life along with the regular work and I think social tools are the best medium to share the information which is relevant to particular organization. The ultimate aim of intranet portal is to improve the day-to-day working experience of employees.

#EnterpriseCollaboration #intranet

Reference: http://www.cmswire.com/cms/social-business/2013-in-review-intranet-deja-vu-all-over-again-023328.php

Enterprise Mobility becoming curtail for companies

 There are two major reasons why companies hesitate to go mobile for their enterprise solutions: Some of the companies don’t know from where to start and how to start and second is that some companies believe that the transition to mobile would be difficult. There are three trends that every company should consider before adopting the mobile strategy 1) Cyber Security because BYOD causing major security problems as it is very difficult to distinguish the private and public work, 2) Industrial Applications: Need for industrial application is growing because mobile applications are bringing the partners, customers and employees closer. 3) Contextual and Actionable Data: Providing actionable data to employees on mobile will increase their productivity. 

#EnterpriseMobility

Reference: http://www.cmswire.com/cms/mobile-enterprise/what-you-should-know-about-enterprise-mobility-028784.php

Mobile payments will shape up the retail and e-commerce industries in future

Reference: http://static.tumblr.com/m907hhk/AGvnnbntj/buyingintomobile_infographic_web.jpg

Future of Digital payment

  

   Payment of small transactions through mobile money is growing rapidly and usually the volume of these small transactions is very big in size and can be used for person-to-person transfers, bill payments and small retail transactions. Mobile money account now has become an alternative to bank account and might replace it completely in near future. The e-wallet or mobile wallet is not linked with any bank account and totally works on virtual money concept, increasing mobile and internet penetration in different parts of the world causing more and more people using this new but powerful technology. Google wallet, square, Paytm wallet, Apple pay and now even Facebook with their unique feature to transfer money via messenger going to make the payment process simpler and much easier. Mobile payment with wallet technology is well accepted and awarded technology compared to bitcoins which faced a lot of oppose initially.

#MobilePayment  #Digital  #e-wallet

Reference :  http://techcrunch.com/2015/04/19/the-year-of-mobile-payments/?

Google going Mobile friendly

  Google one more time updated their search algorithm and from this 20^th April if your website is not mobile friendly and if can’t be accessed via smartphones or small screen devices then you are going to face drop in your website ranking on google search and its impact is huge for those who rely on online marketing for their business. This change will be affecting 40% of the Fortune 500 companies, so you can gauge the impact of this on other small businesses. Website has to pass certain tests to become Mobile friendly such as its text has to be readable without tapping and zooming, its tap targets need to be spaced out appropriately, and the page avoids unplayable content or horizontal scrolling. Increasing popularity and penetration of mobiles and increase in competition from Facebook causing google to update their search algorithm.

#Google #Mobile #SEO

Reference :  http://techcrunch.com/2015/04/21/googles-mobile-friendly-update-could-impact-over-40-of-fortune-500/

Adobe launching cloud based document management service

 Many top technology players are now jumping into different cloud based services and one of the hottest service is document management on cloud. Adobe coming up with their document management service on cloud which can be accessible via Mobile & which will also help to push Adobe PDF. Adobe Document Cloud subscription starts at $14.99/month with Adobe Creative subscribers given access to the Document Cloud through Adobe Acrobat DC at no additional charge. It would be interesting to see the future of document management services in such a competitive business with the help of new technologies. 

#Intranet  #DocumentManagement #CMS #Collaboration

Reference : http://www.cmswire.com/cms/social-business/my-recipe-for-a-perfect-intranet-023816.php

Recipe for building intranet portal

 Content and Documents always been an integral part of intranet portal and that is the reason for which companies create the intranet portal so that employees will interact and can share information easily and work collaboratively. The third and the important component recently added to the intranet is the Social integration. Content intranets are very similar to content managed websites with multiple pages showing different contents, but the evolution in content intranet haven’t seen that progress which content managed websites have seen in the past. The intranet has always been tied to documents and most of the intranet portals built by the companies are majorly used for document management. Intranet is imitating the web.

#Intranet  #DocumentManagement #CMS #Collaboration

Reference : http://www.cmswire.com/cms/social-business/my-recipe-for-a-perfect-intranet-023816.php

Marketers becoming predictive marketers with Big Data

  As marketers, we can put data science to work to better predict which prospects and customers are most likely to buy, and when, to target the best prospects with powerful, personalized messages. It’s critical to look at a combination of various types of data, and view their signals as different pieces of the prospecting and customer experience puzzle. Three types of data comprise the trifecta of lead prioritization: Behavioral, Demographics and intent data. One who is master in intent data analysis will win the race as it deals with data collection on prospects long before they engaged with the brand. Google is the master in intent data. Intent data allows marketing teams to identify buyers before they find you, revive 'Zombie' accounts, improve your nurturing programs and accurately steer retargeting campaigns.  

#BigData  #PredictiveAnalysis  #Collaboration

Reference :  http://www.cmswire.com/cms/digital-marketing/harness-the-power-of-intent-data-for-predictive-marketing-028753.php

Measuring the Value of Internal Communications

   

  Companies use intranet applications or websites for employees internal commutation but number of page views or time spent on a page by users can’t be the measure of success or use of this application rather there are some different attributes we should look for to measure the effectiveness of such intranet applications and some of those measures are checking the unique logins per day , peak time when most of the users are online so as to make important announcement and allowing users to create their own profile and keeping track of which information is accessed more frequently by which user to get the users interest. Providing the useful information to the employees with ease is the main motive of intranet portals, but most of the employees actively avoid using an intranet because it's too complicated, cumbersome and time-consuming, it's time to re-evaluate the purpose of your intranet altogether.

#Intranet  #CMS  #Collaboration

Reference :  http://www.cmswire.com/cms/enterprise-20/how-to-measure-the-value-of-internal-communications-infographic-023233.php

All about net neutrality

   

Net Neutrality refers to the principle that Internet service providers and governments should treat all data on the Internet as equal. This means they shouldn't discriminate or change differentially by user, content, site, platform, application, type of attached equipment or mode of communication. Just to explain the concept I will take one analogy like what if electricity board charges you separately for using electricity for all appliances except inverter and charges separately to charge inverter. Similarly telecom service providers are coming out with the different business plan due to which they are controlling the use of internet. The similar kind of oppose to net neutrality telecom regulators facing now was faced in USA decade ago. I think from my point of view TRAI should not allow differential pricing of services on the Internet & let the consumers choose how they want to use Internet.

    

Click on the below link to tell TRAI that you want Net Neutrality:
http://www.savetheinternet.in/ 

#NetNeutrality #Mobile #TRAI 

Reference :  http://gadgets.ndtv.com/internet/features/net-neutrality-in-india-10-latest-developments-680820

Power of Cloud and SaaS for Enterprise business

  In today's Cloud enabled world migrations from old storage system to cloud is a good opportunity to impact business transformation, clean up content, update / improve information architecture of the organizations. SaaS based Office 365 technology is going to be the threat for System Integrators and Managed Services Providers as after migrating data or system to the cloud these SI experts are no longer needed for upgrades — those will happen regularly in the background but there will be some need of SI for integrating on-premises systems with the cloud systems and for customized cloud based application. This disruption brought on by cloud and SaaS isn't just impacting the enterprise, but it is forcing the entire ecosystem to change.

#Cloud #CMS #Enterprise #SaaS

Reference : http://www.cmswire.com/cms/information-management/will-office-365-destroy-consulting-028525.php

New trends in Enterprise Content Management(ECM)

There are many corporate and government organization are still using the old paper-based or paper-inherited process in today’s digital world but still most of such organizations have understood the importance of data in the digital format and started using Enterprise Content Management(ECM) software which constitutes of  document management , case management and digital asset management. Three major trends which will drive the ECM in future are Cloud, Big data and IOT. The average document management or record management application deployed over the past 10 years is mainly storing frozen content but now due to big data analytics we would be able to play with the data available and can make use of this data to drive business.  

#BigData #ECM #Digitization  

Reference : http://www.cmswire.com/cms/information-management/dramatic-shifts-ahead-in-the-ecm-market-028709.php

Collaboration - third leg of intranet

  There are three legs of intranet planning and corporate communications, publishing and content and last but not the least is collaboration on which the complete story of intranet is built up .”Ease of use “is the major issue faced by the employees while using these intranet portals and companies are spending huge amount of money to build these portals.  Collaboration is driven by the evolution of Social media in the technology space. Collaboration in intranet should find a value by posting Information which should be timely and relevant, going mobile, building a collaborative culture using gamification or some other innovative means and using collaboration within the projects for team interaction.

#Enterprise # Collaboration #Intranet #Social

Reference : http://www.cmswire.com/cms/social-business/collaboration-in-the-new-age-of-intranets-028636.php

Cyanogen leading open differentiation quadrant

Following quadrant shows how these different platforms are positioned according to their services and functionalities.

Reference: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/cyanogen-disruption-around-corner-neil-shah

Impact of Cloud on businesses

New generation of social/mobile SaaS applications are erasing the traditional distinctions between front-office and back-office activities. Few years back most of the CEO’s were feeling unsecure and risky to move the departmental data on cloud and were feeling on premise data storage more secure. But now CEO’s have understood the real benefit of cloud for the business and have started migrating their critical and non-critical business processes on cloud. Cloud can drive new revenue, enhance customer loyalty, find and optimize world-class talent, transform organizations to meet new requirements, and turn operational data from back-office clutter into customer-driven insights. Companies are moving their Marketing, HR, Finance, ERP and even EPM processes on cloud. 

#Cloud #Business

Reference : https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-cloud-computing-revolutionizing-business-mark-v-hurd?trk=hp-feed-article-title

Website development quotation

Following info-graphics shows the factors you need to consider while developing a website and approximate costing for developing each additional component .

Big Data causing evolution of new businesses

 Uber a taxi aggregator knows everything about their customers right from where I live, where I work, where I eat, where I travel, where I stay/visit and when I do all these things. Uber is one of the few entities who knows customer’s current location other than one’s wife, Apple and NSA. A lot of data Uber is generating on a daily basis about every customer which can even cause Uber starting up a new business out of its original business of selling this important information about their customers  to different other businesses such as hotels , airlines, restaurants, nightclubs, bars etc. to increase their customer base. Uber has recently tied up with Starwood hotels under “Starwood preferred guest” program under which uber customer’s data is getting shared with Starwood to drive their business and this has also helped individuals as they are getting all the offers from these businesses on the go so no need to look for them and can get the good deals from them as they can’t afford losing any customer.

#BigData #Uber #NewBusiness

Reference : http://www.forbes.com/sites/ronhirson/2015/03/23/uber-the-big-data-company/

Enterprise social network (ESN) platform driving business goals.

Enterprise social network (#ESN) now becoming a crucial part of any business which is causing organizations to change their culture by becoming more social and connected . Previously most of the departments of the big organizations were isolated and it was time and cost consuming task to interact with different departments and different people in the organization to discuss business related work, but now because of ESN employees have come closer to each other. ESN also helped enterprises becoming more transparent and helped C-suite people getting more visibility into the Business. Senior management can talk about driving business goals though collaboration with the other employees as well as employees can reach out to management with their ideas or complaints.

#Enterprise # Collaboration #ESN #Social

Reference : http://www.forbes.com/sites/joannabelbey/2014/10/30/drive-business-goals-and-social-media-though-enterprise-collaboration/

Overview of annual appraisal in IT sector in 2015

Indian IT sector employees almost 3.1 million people which also includes BPO and talking about the amount of revenue Indian IT sector is generating , it has already crossed $100 billion mark and now its close to $130 billion. This year also #SMAC which is #Social , #Mobile , #Analytics and #Cloud and #BigData are the hot technologies to work on and the specialists who are working in these domains are expected to get paid up-to 25% in y-o-y annual appraisal whereas others are expected to get an average of 8-10% increment. Indian IT companies still lacks the talent of experts in Analytics and few relatively new  programming languages.

Reference :  Overview of annual appraisal in IT sector in 2015 

$1B opportunity in enterprise mobility

 Most of the enterprises now are going mobile and on cloud because of low cost , better accessibility and ease of use . Construction and manufacturing being the top two businesses globally spends only 1% and 2% respectively of their revenue on IT. There are almost 3 billion people in the world working in some or the other businesses and out of which only 20% of the people have access to the technology. 

#Mobile  #Enterprise 

Reference :  http://techcrunch.com/2015/03/30/the-next-billion-dollar-market-opportunity-is-mobile-enterprise/

Amazon Cloud Drive for everyone

 Unlimited data storage on cloud service is provided by many companies such as Google , Dropbox , Microsoft etc. but all these companies provide this facility only to business users . Amazon making this unlimited cloud storage available for everyone who wants it and recently came up with two plans one for $11.99 containing unlimited photo storage and another for $59.99 in which users can store an infinite number of new and existing photos, videos, files, documents, movies, and music in Cloud Drive. Users can try this service for free for the first three months. A bold move by Amazon understanding the need of individual customer to store data on cloud and staying ahead of competition.

#Cloud  #Amazon  #DataStorage 

Reference : http://techcrunch.com/2015/03/26/amazon-goes-after-dropbox-google-microsoft-with-unlimited-cloud-drive-storage/

Future of Live streaming over mobile

  There are many live-streaming mobile apps available such as #Qik , #Meerkat , #Periscope , #YouNow etc. which can effectively turn a smartphone into a broadcaster. Though the number of users using these apps are limited because of few technology limitations, these applications have bright future as these apps can be used in multiple ways to connect with the audience. We can share some of the beautiful moments of our life with our loved ones through live streaming and even this can be an alternative to the live news coverage system as anyone can shoot the incidence and share it with their contacts. There are few technical and design challenges currently faced by these live stream application developers along with different license issues and data storage permissions.

#Mobile  #LiveStreaming  #Apps

Reference :  http://techcrunch.com/2015/03/27/the-livestream-goes-mainstream/

Evolution of the web

Its very interesting to know how the web/ internet evolved over the time and which different technologies made it possible with the help of info-graphics by clicking the below link :

http://www.evolutionoftheweb.com/

#Internet #Web #Technology

Cloud adoptation infographics 2014

Cloud USP's are easy provisioning, flexible scaling and cost savings. Following are the detailed Small to medium business info-graphics on cloud. #Cloud #SMB #SME #IT

 

Intelligent business cloud being the new wave of hybrid cloud

 Most of the companies are using multiple cloud but then the hybrid cloud concept came into picture wherein companies can simultaneously use public and private cloud and over to hybrid cloud it has become more intelligent because of its digital focus and it acts like a connective tissue to different business processes and will drive the business outcomes . The move towards intelligent hybrids will be driven by the ongoing move by vendors to provide software as a service rather than as applications to be downloaded. Accenture came up with this concept of Intelligent business cloud and currently its development is underway , so will be worth watching their approach in driving businesses. 

#HybridCloud #Accenture #DigitalBusiness 

Reference : http://www.cmswire.com/cms/information-management/are-you-ready-to-tap-the-power-of-intelligent-business-clouds-028598.php

Intranet or Enterprise Social Network (ESN)

  Earlier intranet was mainly used to store and share the documents with the employees of the organization but now the organizations are evolving in real sense and going towards more social . Enterprise Social Network is the new thing which is replacing intranet by giving employees more access to information and increasing collaboration in a way increasing the employee engagement. Increasing content on such portals making it difficult for employees to search the right information with ease and simplicity, so it would be difficult to say ESN will completely replace Intranet but yes ESN will surely evolve and will provide more functionalities along with document storage .

#Intranet  #ESN  #SocialNetwork  #Collabration #Enterprise  #MicrosoftSharePoint

Reference : http://www.cmswire.com/cms/social-business/intranets-or-esn-why-not-both-028434.php

Robotics with smartphones

 Recently Japanese company EXIII came up with a unique product called bionic arm which can get connected with the smartphone and can perform different functionalities. This robotic arm is made from 3D printing and can be customized to some extent. We have seen the growth in Robotics and smartphones space in the last decade and this kind of integration will surely drive the technology to the new heights. Google being the leading technology company investing on robotics and smartphones, so we will definitely see some good innovations coming up in this field of technology.

#Robotics  #Mobile  #Technology #3Dprinting 

Reference : http://techcrunch.com/2015/03/23/this-amazingly-limber-bionic-arm-connects-to-your-smartphone/

Five points to consider to save Big data projects from failure

It has been observed that almost 50% of the Bid Data projects fail due to various reasons and the company has to incur big losses from this failure . There are few reasons of failure of these projects some of them are lack of business objective as to why the business needs Big data , most of the companies go for these projects because their competitors are doing it  “me too!” attitude , mismanagement is one of the biggest mistakes companies does , poor communication and poor representation of findings and last but not the least is finding right resource for this project because data analytics is misunderstood by many people and the resource having real knowledge of this technology is very costly .

#BigData   #DataAnalytics

Reference : http://www.forbes.com/sites/bernardmarr/2015/03/17/where-big-data-projects-fail/?ss=data-companies

Digital transformation of Healthcare in Europe

According to latest four reports from eHealth Stakeholder Group of European Union the digitization of patient health records is what the government and healthcare companies are trying to focus on . Four key points observed in this digitization process are HER (Electronic Health records) , Telemedicine , increasing interoperability among eHealth solutions and healthcare systems and last but not the least increasing accessibility of healthcare in EU.  With the help of IOT and better technology availability this digital healthcare segment is expected to grow very fast for EU.  

#Healthcare #EHR #Europe #DigitalTransformation  

Reference : http://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/en/blog/future-healthcare-digital

New Cloud Data storage service from Google named Nearline

Earlier it was only offline storage where in companies used to store all their business related records natively and then technology evolved online and cold storage came into picture , in online storage all the data is stored online at unknown location and cold storage is the data storage facility of old data such as past customer records , old e-mail  records etc.  Google recently came up with a new cloud storage service Nearline which will be used to store data which is not frequently needed and that data can be accessed anytime with the response time of 3 second and this service is costing much cheaper than the competitors such as Amazon’s Glacier at $0.01 per GB. This service will be useful for ISV’s and Enterprises to migrate their offline storage to cloud at much cheaper cost and scalability.

#ColdStorage #Cloud #Nearline #Google

Reference : http://techcrunch.com/2015/03/11/google-launches-cloud-storage-nearline-a-low-cost-storage-service-for-cold-data/

Smart use of Animation in developing Mobile Applications

Everyone knows how different objects work in real life and they want the software applications to work in a similar fashion because it would be easy for individuals to understand the application in a better way. Confidentiality integrity and availability (CIA) approach should always be there in designing any application along with that simplicity, responsiveness and attractiveness are the important factors. Out of the millions applications available on App store only few applications became successful , so use good design and aesthetics but not to try bringing out something out of the world animation which would be difficult to use for new users .

#UI/UX #Animation #MobileApps

Reference- http://techcrunch.com/2015/03/04/designing-animation-for-mobile/

Wearable devices becoming more smarter !

Most of the reputed watch manufacturers have understood the trends in the technology and started modifying their strategy by going digital . Companies such as Fossil , Mondaine , Apple , Sony , Tag Heuer, Swatch etc. have already started making the digital watches . Wearable devises are the best example of the combination of Design and Technology wherein the technology plays a curtail role in full filling the users requirements and design takes care of look and feel of the product . Watches are becoming smarter by the advanced technology used such as  inbuilt sensors , interactive digital interface , interaction with mobile and other devices and the inbuilt operating system . It would be challenging for these companies to make watches replace mobiles in near future , but will be worth watching the technology war .

#IOT   #WearableDevices   #Digital 

Reference- http://readwrite.com/2015/02/27/mondaine-first-smartwatch