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Data Analytics:Future and Scope in India

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  Business Analytics have become vital for the growth and development of the companies 1  of today. Large investments are being made in big data analytics to make better business decisions from past data. This past data is being generated by different sources such as business people, marketing, education, engineering, medicine, social media, on-line transactions, call centers, sensors, web logs and telecommunications. Need for the right analysis: In this day and age, when the economy is challenging and the business landscapes are changing faster than ever, it is critical for organizations to focus on their critical business issues. It is also useful to understand the nature of these challenges. With increasing competition and plenty of options, consumers are always on the look-out for the next-best-thing. Business Analytics plays a very important role here as it uses statistics and tools to decode consumer insights. This is done based on accrued data, and Business ...

The Google Driverless Car

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Driverless cars are here already... sort of Much of the autonomous technology used in Google's self-driving cars is already found on the road.You may have seen commercials advertising the Volkswagen Polo's automatic braking or the Ford Focus' automatic parallel parking, which both build on the increasingly common use of proximity sensors to aid parking. Combine these sensors with the automated-steering technology used for parking, throw in the seemingly old-hat technology that is cruise control and you have the loose framework for a self-driving car. How many sensors does the car have, and what do they do? Google’s driverless car has eight sensors. The most noticeable is the rotating roof-top Lidar – a camera that uses an array of 32 or 64 lasers to measure the distance to objects to build up a 3D map at a range of 200m, letting the car "see" hazards. The car also sports another set of “eyes”, a standard camera that points through the w...

Startups v/s MNC : Truth!

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Hey there "Technovores!", nothing about technology today, it's something else, but it has become really a very common word to hear now-a-days- "Startup!". It is something, I really felt like sharing today. Every wondered what it is like to work in a startup, and how different the experience would be compared to working in a regular multinational corporation? Aside from the rules and regulations that MNCs eat, breathe and sleep with, there are plenty of   differences that separates the bold from the established . From the choice of shoes, office chairs, and facial hair choices to how meetings look like, here are some of the stark differences you would expect at startups and MNCs.

Business Intelligence

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BI - Business Intelligence: The term business intelligence (BI) represents the tools and systems that play a key role in the strategic planning process of the corporation. These systems allow a company to gather, store, access and analyze corporate data to aid in decision-making. Generally these systems will illustrate business intelligence in the areas of customer profiling, customer support, market research, market segmentation, product profitability, statistical analysis, and inventory and distribution analysis to name a few. Most companies collect a large amount of data from their business operations. To keep track of that information, a business and would need to use a wide range of software programs, such as Excel, Access and different database applications for various departments throughout their organization. Using multiple software programs makes it difficult to retrieve information in a timely manner and to perform analysis of the data. Business Intelligen...