Top 4 Business Intelligence Trends For 2014

To help organisations strategize and implement a robust data analytics infrastructure, QlikTech has announced the top four key trends likely to disrupt and “humanize” the BI industry in in Asia Pacific in 2014. Top Four Business Intelligence Trends in Asia Pacific in 2014: 1. BI to become more mobile and social in 2014 The shift of the report-centric paradigm to user-driven BI... By IT NEXT

Technologies To Look Out For In 2014

Spotting the next innovation, that could benefit customers or challenge the success of existing products, is top-of-mind for every company. Keeping a finger on the pulse of every innovation that could bring such a disruption can be daunting. At Cisco, a self-nominated team of enthusiasts, unaffiliated with any particular function or business unit take up the challenge of identifying technology... By IT NEXT

Insurance Industry Betting Big on Predictive Analysis

Predictive Analytics (PA) in Insurance Industry has been high on the adoption rate. Senior IT Managers in Insurance sector understand the importance of it as it encompasses a variety of techniques from statistics, data mining and game theory to analyze current and historical facts to make predictions about the future. Sekhar Pidathala, AVP - IT Governance & Secrity, Axa Business Services... By IT NEXT

CIO Now Transforms to BIO

IT should not be looked at from only an IT perspective. There is an evolution to the effect that Raju Vegesna, Chairman, Sify Technologies would rather term it BT, or business technology. The reason is simple. His vision is that every initiative that IT drives is useful to the business and hence it is ideal to refer to it as business technology. Another evolution that he observes happening... By IT NEXT

Top Trends That Will Rule 2014

Spotting the next innovation, that could benefit customers or challenge the success of existing products, is top-of-mind for every company. Keeping a finger on the pulse of every innovation that could bring such a disruption can be daunting. At Cisco, a self-nominated team of enthusiasts, unaffiliated with any particular function or business unit take up the challenge of identifying technology... By IT NEXT

CYOD To Replace BYOD?

The commercial segment is expected to expand to a fifth of the tablet market by 2017 as companies are increasingly picking up tablets for various use cases, such as equipping their mobile sales force, retail employees, field operations staff and basic productivity purposes for employees to stay connected and augment their productivity.  In the second half of 2014, the overall tablet market... By IT NEXT

Right Approach, Right Solution to Big Data

 Every decade or every five years, the hype around one technological innovation or   trend creates a buzz in the IT community. It was big cloud till the recent past. Not that people have stopped talking about it. But Big Data is the new hero. The purpose of big data is still multi-layered, multi-defined. Gartner’s 3Vs--Volume, Variety and Velocity--focused more on the... By IT NEXT

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Enterprise App Store, VDI among Top Trends Forecast in 2014

Given the impact of globalisation and also focus on customer majority of workforce prefers a flexible working environment which is not restricted within office premises and devices, and the tech savvy millennial generation is actively driving the evolution of IT consumerization at workplaces in India. Sanjay Deshmukh, Area Vice President, India subcontinent, Citrix says, “In addition,... By IT NEXT

Action Steps to justify investment on VDI

IT heads are aware of the fact that the licensing cost on the deployment of desktop virtualisation is relatively high, given that it is still not ubiquitous. However, virtualisation vendors do formulate certain theories around how to perceive the licensing cost to make it more cost effective and justify the investment to drive RoI.  Ramesh Vantipalli (Head EUC India & South –... By IT NEXT

Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2014

The growth in mobile internet users has been accelerated with the increasing smartphone penetration and expected to reach 150 million in next two years, Advisory firm, Zinnov has come out with a report that predicts the top 10 technologies that will set the tone for the India Domestic IT Market in 2014. Enterprise mobility market is expected to increase almost 5 folds, touching USD 1 billion by... By IT NEXT

Key Business Problems of Big Data ITDMs Should Spot

IT Managers should focus on the business problems they are trying to solve to address big data associated challenges which will eventually lead to a discussion on the best technology response David Cox Industry Director, Microsoft in one his technology studies, ‘Big data and analytical enterprise’ stated that it is quite common to approach the challenge of big data from the... By IT NEXT