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

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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