To complete a project successfully, a project leader must have the details and nitty-gritty’s of the project i.e. the constraints, requirements and demands clear in his or her mind. Documentation is very important for any project and so is the ability to utilize most of the team members for successful completion of the project within the stipulated time. To know more about the basics of project management, kindly refer to the below mentioned link:
SyncHR, an innovator for cloud-based human resource, payroll and benefit management software, announced an upgraded version of their software- release 5.2. The latest release have an improved reporting and analytics platform. The company also launched a new corporate website to showcase their unique single database and single application technology.
To read more, visit the following link: http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/human-capital-management-firm-synchr-announces-new-software-release-and-launch-of-new-website-256601391.html
There is a huge demand for production ready MongoLab plans on Microsoft Azure. The MongoLab and Microsoft are excited about their latest high-memory MongoDB database plans with virtual machine options that can immediately supply up to 56GB of RAM per node. These will be available in all eight Microsoft Azure data centres worldwide, which will be able to fulfil the massive need.The cloud-served MongoDB instances come from MongoLab, a fully managed database service provider that works with major cloud platforms such as those provided by Amazon and Google. Along with the new memory capacity, the service also provides management tools for backups, performance monitoring of key metrics, analysis to speed up queries and index recommendations. Support is also provided via e-mail or an around-the-clock emergency hotline, depending on the plan.
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With the introduction of Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 4.0, Red Hat has moved one step forward in OpenStack cloud system. This platform can be used in both public and private cloud. Some new features are also added in this version. To know more on the key features of this platform, go through the article written by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, writer about technology and the business of technology.
http://www.zdnet.com/red-hat-enterprise-linux-openstack-platform-4-0-is-here-7000024518/
According to the research firm Gartner, health care providers in the Middle East and Africa will spend $2.8 billion on IT products and services in 2014, an increase of 2.8 percent over 2013.It is expected that Saudi Arabia & UAE will continue to focus on building and expanding their healthcare infrastructure. Information Technology enabled services got a huge role to play in this market and health care IT professionals are expected to deliver more in terms of quality while containing costs. Users of technology in the health care industry expect their IT systems to work, delivering what they need and when they need it. Lives can depend on this.An effective way of meeting these objectives is the deployment of robust IT analytics, which will provide hospitals with clear visibility into the health and performance of their IT infrastructure. Inefficiencies, disruptions and failures can be identified automatically as they occur, and often before end-users are even aware of them.
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An article by Chris Syme, owner of CKSyme Media Group, talks about how monitoring social media can help in preventing crisis. She also mentioned that the first step in crisis communication planning is learning to listen. She spoke about some key conversations that one should monitor while listening and also discussed about how to monitor those conversations.
To know about effective listening strategies in details follow http://socialmediatoday.com/chrissyme/2362621/how-monitor-social-media-prevent-crisis
A website is a container of various contents like product or services the organization offers, its mission, vision, values, contact centre etc. Nowadays no business can grow without a properly maintained website. That is where quality of website content comes into play. It is essential to regularly analyze performance of your website content to see what’s working and what hasn't hit the spot. Google analytics site content reports can help you to a great extent for this purpose. Information like which pages getting most of the views, time specific traffic generation, visitor location, entry and exit pages etc will help you to put your effort in a more systematic manner and eventually it will address your thirst for rising above the rest. Anna Lewis, Analyst, Google Analytics, speaks about the benefits of Google Analytics content reports and how it can help you with information on page views, unique page views, Avg. time on page, entrances, bounce rate, exit percentage, page value, content groupings, navigation summary, content drill down etc.
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Google released the Dashboard Analytics Solutions Gallery more than a year ago, but marketers are yet to take full advantage of this free resource. Most advanced Google Analytics users have created custom dashboards but few have imported templates from the Solutions Gallery.This reluctance is caused by unavailability of proper support stuff, limited usage process information &preference of custom made solutions etc. However, Google Analytics Solutions Gallerydashboards can be used to find insights and drive more profit.To use it as your advantage, the following steps can be followed:
· 1st: Decide about what insights you are actually looking for.
· 2nd: Create new Dashboard & import from Gallery.
· 3rd:Filter Gallery results by Popularity, Reviews, Category or Type.
· 4th: View Data, look for insights, & Automate Reporting.
· 5th: Edit, Customize or Segment Data as required.
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AWS has been authorized to operate under FedRAMP(U.S. government-wide general security standard) since May of 2013. Under FedRAMP, AWS has already made contracts with U.S. Military, Air-force & Navy. With the recent authorization from United States Defence Department’s cloud security standards, AWS can work with all agencies within the U.S Defence Department from now on. It’s like a new feather added to the AWS hat! Teresa Carlson, AWS’s vice president for the public sector, said the new certification could mean more than just new Defence Department business. This would let AWS work with more defence agencies to host several sensitive projects.
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According to Forrester principal analyst Mike Gualtieri, "Hadoop is not big data. It's a big-data technology. You can break down the siloes but Hadoop is also a framework for processing the data". So, proper handling of big data is very essential for any company. Hadoop can help in explaining corporate data by managing it across clusters of commodity hardware. Research shows that many of the big companies using Hadoop. To know more on the advantages of Hadoop, follow the article by Toby Wolpe, senior reporter at ZDNet in London:
http://www.zdnet.com/hadoops-rise-why-you-dont-need-petabytes-for-a-big-data-opening-7000028282/
Teradata launched a technology called QueryGrid. It aims to extract analytical data from multiple systems storing, both big and little data. QueryGrid can bridge the division between data warehouses and big data. To know the model of QueryGrid, follow the article by Larry Dignan, Editor in Chief of ZDNet and SmartPlanet. - See more at:
http://www.zdnet.com/teradata-launches-querygrid-one-workflow-for-big-little-data-7000028044/
How good is methodology when it comes to innovation? One key reason for going Agile is that it enables people to be creative and come up with ideas. With Agile, people are given freedom - but they need to understand what to do with it, as well as what they are expected to produce with it. There are certain challenges that makes Agile difficult to implement in the beginning but it will bring productivity in the long run. To know more about the challenges met, follow the article by Rebecca Leitch, writer in ESI International.
Want to know more about future car! The car of the future is going to drive itself, brake itself, park itself and it will be a part of a worldwide communication system which will be based on 4G. It will gather and communicate data. It will be more like a Facebook-style personalized experience to drivers. Gil Golan, director of GM's Advanced Technical Center (ATC) in Israel, has also come up with a prototype of the future car. GM is aggressively pursuing the smart car market. To know more details on General Motor's future vision, go through the article by David Shamah, writer about Israeli technology.
"This is the dirty secret of the analytics world - that there are so many errors" - Velamakanni, CEO, Fractal Analytics. Company politics, bad data and inefficient analysis are affecting many organizations, leading to some wrong conclusions. To know more about this aspect, follow the article by Toby Wolpe, senior reporter at ZDNet in London:
Horton Networks is giving an effort to fit Hive to work with the component that frees Hadoop from the tyranny of batch processing in order to bring Hadoop more into enterprise mainstream. With the release of Horton Networks Data platform 2.1, the company has completed that Hive interactive query capability, known as Stinger Phase 3 - and is simultaneously releasing it for both the Windows and Linux platforms. To know more about this big release, follow the article by Andrew J. Brust, a developer, consultant and entrepreneur in the software industry:
http://www.zdnet.com/hortonworks-announces-data-platform-2-1-7000027949/
The two open-source software companies, Red Hat and Horton Networks are aiming at speeding up enterprise big data Apache Hadoop projects. The two firms unveiled the beta of Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) combined with Red Hat Storage, which is designed to give companies a unified storage pool for all Hadoop workloads. They also announced the integration of HDP with Red Hat JBoss Data Visualization, enabling Hadoop to work with existing data sources including warehouses, SQL and NoSQL databases, on premise and cloud apps and flat and XML files. To know more on this aspect, go through the article by Toby Wolpe, senior reporter at ZDNet:
http://www.zdnet.com/red-hat-and-hortonworks-unveil-hadoop-big-data-collaboration-7000026154/
Hyper growth - this term is on its way to become attached with the 'Public Cloud' market.
As per the report of Forrester Research, the global public cloud market is expected to rise to $191 billion by 2020 as compared to 2013 which stood at $58 billion. The reason behind this growth is the shift from on premise technology to cloud which has proved to be cost effective. Nowadays cloud technology is considered as a replacement of the existing systems. Forrester’s report also predicts that by 2020, the global public cloud platform service will soar to $44 billion, the cloud business service will hit $14 billion and the cloud applications which will be Software – as – a – Service or SaaS, will hit $131 billion. The cause of this whopping valuation is attributable to the fact that more and more CIOs and their technology management organizations are taking initiative for this change.
So, what’s the future of public cloud market? Read at http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9247883/Public_cloud_market_ready_for_hypergrowth_period_ for more details.
An article by Tom Treanor, founder of Right Mix Marketing, conveys that it is important to maintain a balance between all social media accounts to know the strengths of each social networking site which can give your business organization an interesting mix and help you to reach your target audience. Everybody knows about the popular social networks such as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn but there are plenty of others which are slightly less famous but can form an essential ingredient in social media strategy. Thus, from your Facebook page people should be able to go to your Instagram account or your Pinterest page and so on. He also mentioned that one of the biggest strengths of Google plus is that it gives you opportunities to link up with all your other social profiles. It also becomes important for your website to have all your social media profile buttons displayed prominently. Your social media profile has to be driven by the right kind of images and videos. Thus, leveraging the right kind of social media tools can indeed become a huge productivity enhancer for your business organization.
To know more follow http://www.business2community.com/social-media/businesses-can-optimize-social-media-profiles-0844522#!EjbHw
Customer contact centers fulfil different functions according to the organization they serve and the industry that they function in. Regardless of their objectives, the focus should be on the customer - meeting expectations, enhancing service levels and improving satisfaction. Contact centers are finding it necessary to add more communication channels to their platforms in order to get in touch as easily as possible. Customer satisfaction and performance levels remain among the most important tenets of any call center and the market is changing to address customer communication needs. Technologies like unified communications will be playing a greater role in going forward.
To know more about this aspect, read the article by Mike England, content director of Imago Techmedia, follow http://www.callcentrehelper.com/customers-driving-unified-communications-55759.htm
Software as a Service and cloud computing service providers are targeting school administrators. The objective is to demonstrate to the students the virtues of the vendors' hardware products and software solutions to gain their allegiance later in the business world. So, smart SaaS companies can capitalize on the data they collect to provide benchmarks and KPIs that offer greater value to their customers.
To know more about this aspect, read the article by Jeff Kaplan, managing director of THINKstrategies and founder of the Cloud Computing Showplace, visit http://www.technewsworld.com/story/79979.html