New Innovations to help in benefiting from Big Data
IBM announced new technologies designed to help companies and governments tackle Big Data by making it simpler, faster and more economical to analyze massive amounts of data. New data acceleration innovation results in as much as 25 times faster reporting and analytics. As organisations grapple with a flood of structured and unstructured data generated by computers, mobile devices, sensors and... By varun guptaSteer Clear of Vendor Management Pitfalls
Lets face it. No CIO or IT manager would like to spend his entire day doing only IT vendor management. There is other perhaps more important matters that he must attend to in a typical day. However, lack of adequate attention to vendor evaluation, contracting and performance monitoring at appropriate times can make the daily grind all the more unbearable for the IT leader and therefore it is... By varun gupta
Innovation through PoS
A growing population, rising incomes, urbanisation, the advent of modern retail, and a consumption-driven society present tremendous opportunity for growth for the payment technologies industry. Payment solutions: then and now The payments industry is continuously seeing rapid growth and technological advancements as the market demands are increasing. The payment industry is utilising new... By varun guptaCRMs, theyre changin
CRMs of yore which offered little choice to customers wont survive the game says Nishant Singh, CEO of the indigenous CRM firm, CRMnext. Singh believes that customers now a day are more interested in offerings which provide a platform experience as opposed to a simple CRM software package with all the usual bells and whistles. Excerpts of an interview: How have things been in the last 6-8... By varun guptaBig Mandate for Big Data
* Gather business requirements before gathering data and define a clear objective * Evaluate data requirements. This process usually requires inputs from all business stakeholders; analyse and ascertain what data is crucial and what is not, for any given use-case * Big data is never an IT driven project; identify a business sponsor for the project * Big data is required to solve business... By varun guptaTen Things to Consider Before Planning Your IT Vision
IT organisations are affected by the same mercurial social, political and economic forces that shape the business world.Planning for a flat, connected and tech-enabled future, without considering what businesses will require from IT as a result of shifting social, economic and political forces, is at best nave and at worst dangerously myopic. How can your IT leadership team start planning the... By varun guptaEnterprises to Accelerate Social Business Adoption
IBM, is extending its social business platform with the industrys first fully integrated social email solution. The move aims to simplify and accelerate social business adoption in the marketplace, providing employees with a single access point to all of their collaboration toolssocial media email, group activities, blogs and more. Available through a wide choice of deployment options including... By varun guptaPilots are transforming into Projects
Customers process data at each scale and distribute insights to each decision-maker on the field.says Akbar Ladak Senior Consultant & Innovation Evangelist, CTO Office | Wipro Limited Q. Is big data justifying its value? Big Data is absolutely delivering on value. Our customers who have chosen Hadoop, NoSQL and associated tools have managed not just to save substantially vis--vis... By varun gupta