Googlee Dominance After 15 years is growing

Started in a Garage, Google today is celebrating its 15 years. The company was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were Ph.D. students at Stanford University. Google has developed to turn into the leading strength in the online world. It is remarkable, if not a little frightening, to see how many parts of our online understanding Google pedals.


You will find more statistics at Statista

Security : Protect Electronic Information

If you have ever sent a letter through courier or post, we always seal it before sending it. But how about electronic mails or data that we share across the world with so many people. Do you seal them? It needs to be protected. Otherwise there is a risk that it will fall in wrong hands and get misused. Following are some of the simple ways to effectively control sensitive electronic information

• Ensure accounts are configured with appropriate privileges
• Enable access level of folders storing sensitive information
• Encrypt sensitive information while in transit and while in storage
• Encrypt confidential emails
• Use confidential secure protocols like sFTP, ssh etc rather than insecure protocols like FTP, telnet etc

Migrate WordPress Blog to Blogger

It is an easy process to migrate blog from WordPress to blogger in 4 steps documented here. Check out the steps and let us know your experiences.

• In WordPress go to Tools Export and click on the Export button

 

 

• Choose All Content and click on Download Export file. This will give you an XML file to save to your computer in the native format (WordPress eXtended RSS or WXR format) with all posts, pages, comments, custom fields, categories, and tags.                                                                               This file can be used for loading to another WordPress Blog or conversion to any other blog platform.

• The file obtained in step 2 is in WXR format. It needs to be converted to a format blogger can read. Hence go to http://wordpress2blogger.appspot.com/ and Load up your WXR file. You will get another file back in blogger format. Save it on your machines. 

 

•  Now it is time to import this file to blogger. Go to blogger dashboard and click import, select the file you got from. To export your blog, simply click "Import Blog" from the Settings | Other tab in Blog tools 

• Once import file is clicked, read all the options carefully. Do remember that all draft posts from WordPress will also be pulled. Hence it is advisable that you don’t check the box to publish right away. You can take your time to review and publish after the import is completed by going to Posts - Imported.

Know the ball is in your court to decide which blog to delete and which one to keep. If you want to keep both wordpress and blogger blog active then you have to sync them up.

Write us why you have migrated from WordPress to Blogger or ViceVersa.

Apple IOS 7 - Interactive GUI makes it a must use for all users

First Screen of iPhone

Apple much Hyped iOS 7 is finally here. If you have are having Iphone/IPad then you can get the latest Software update.

Update your device

1. Ensure your device is connected to a power source. To avoid potential data costs connect your device to a Wi-Fi network.
2. Go to Settings > General > Software Update. iOS will automatically check for available updates. Available updates download automatically if your device is connected to Wi-Fi and a power source.
3. If an update is available^* you can tap Download to download the update.
4. After the download has completed tap Install to update your iOS.
5. If you leave the update to download in the background, once the download has finished you will receive a notification saying an update is available for your device. Tapping Details will take you to Settings > General > Software Update. Tap Install Now to install the iOS update. If you decide to leave the installation for later Settings will display notification badge until the update has been installed.

Once this new software is installed, you just get a feel that you have a brand new device in hand. Just like with any new software, you are likely to encounter a few features that drive you crazy, such as too many  unwanted apps, poor battery life and many more

Look with new iOS 7

So lets check what is new in this IOS 7. Some of the screenshots below will help you to get a visual look. to get the feel try it on your own Machine

Above look with old iOS i.e iOS 6

Some of the unique features apart from The Overall Look are

1. Lock Screen new interface
2. New look weather App
3. Calendar App
4. Small Bubbles when scrolling through messages are example of rich Animations
5. Control Center
6. New landscapes and backdrops to help you choose more wallpapers
7. better photo organization
8. Faster email access and functions such as delete
9. New look calendar app
10. Unlimited number of apps can be pushed to a single folder. No more home screen flutter
11. When app or folder is tapped or folder, it causes the content to appear by zooming out from the icon. New look, which might take time to get adjusted for users such as senior citizens who are not fond of technology
12. Many more

Some of the things i hope would have been in iOS7 are
1. Better Apple maps compared to Google Maps.
2. Improvement from apple on saving energy
3. A simpler way for helping users to get trained to new features
4. Easy way to restore back to original version


It is time to download and get a first hand experience of this great OS from Apple.

Security - Information Protection - Simple Rules to manage business sensitive information

Follow some of these simple techniques to protect accidental disclosure of business sensitive information

• Classify information as per its sensitivity and share information only that is necessary with authorized users
• Avoid business sensitive information discussion at places where people can overhear you
• lock your computers when leaving desk
• keep you desk clean and lock any sensitive information in your drawers/lockers
• Collect the print out immediately after printing any document
• check if recipient is available to receive a confidential fax message before sending it
• Validate recipient email ids while sending sensitive information over email and never post any information on social media sites (even on forums, unless explicitly authorized in writing)
• Ensure that no one else is watching your screen while working with sensitive information. Sometimes people just watch your screen  over your shoulder too.

 The way we expect banks to protect information that we share with them, business where we work expect the same from us.

Difference between CRM and BI

During a recent conference, at one of the organizations Customer Relationship Management (CRM) systems and Business Intelligence (BI) systems were discussed. Though BI and CRM are two different terms, it is a common fact that this systems are often confused because they share a number of the similar functionalities when it comes to processing and analyzing important data characteristics that most organizations can utilize to their advantage. However, there are important differences that distinguish the two systems, which can determine the appropriate software for a particular organization.

CRM

CRM is an entire system that manages all aspects of an organization’s experience that includes marketing, sales, support, and many more. Additional modules for use in human resource, contract management, infrastructure management and many more departments can be built. The data or information from various sources is updated into a single repository that is accessible to approved users of multiple departments within an organization.

Business Intelligence

Business Intelligence encompasses methodologies and tools to spot and analyze data trends. Organizations rely on BI data to understand markets, customer needs, meet regulatory reporting, plan spends and many other customized tendencies. BI tools serve major purpose of reporting, projecting future trends, and statistical investigation. The centralizing of different forms of information in a common place, which is an integral part of a CRM system, does not occur in BI systems.

Most organizations rely on BI analysis to provide them with information that helps leaders make better decisions to help business. The major difference between BI and CRM is that CRM integrates information with business decisions. CRM combines data analysis with the deployment of specific business modules. In contrast, most BI environments use data to prove theories and other needed metrics for analysis.

Both CRM and BI system share so much functionality and modules within organizations such as analytics, data repositories, and data mining, as well as the benchmarking of information. BI can only recognize important trends and display various types of important metrics. However, a CRM system can act on this information while directly incorporating it into other departments of an organization.

For instance, both CRM and BI tools can analyze information to identify what element of the data makes up a key market to explore. The CRM can then forward this information to the sales department and come up with ways for exploiting this new information. The success of this information flow will in turn be evaluated and refined for meeting organization goals. This capability is another key distinction between a CRM system and Business Intelligence. A CRM merges information analysis with the implementation of actions based on that information. BI will grant access to that same information but will leave the flow of this information, and analysis of its benefits, to the user’s judgment.

To conclude, BI and CRM systems are moving beyond analyzing what happened in the past to trying to influence organization decisions for future growth by providing information that is instant, more practical, more handy, and more user-friendly.

Participate in Tizen App Challenge and win Over $4M in prizes.

It's time!

Tizen is a brand new ecosystem, with a brand new store. Now is the time to get your apps into the store, and get a head start on the next big application ecosystem.
The Tizen App Challenge is open through November 1, 2013 - it's time to get started!

So what do You do next?

Entering the Tizen App Challenge is easy, just follow these simple steps.

Step 1: Sign up so you don't miss a thing.

Sign up here! We'll make sure you know the important contest dates, and keep you up to speed with the latest development resources, hack-a-thons and port-a-thons, and other useful information.

Step 2: Submit your app to the Tizen Store Seller Office and pass certification.

Register for an account at the Tizen Store Seller Office and submit your app. You will receive an Content ID. When receive a notification email from the Tizen Store that your app has passed certification, you're ready to move to the next step.

Step 3: Register your app in the Tizen App Challenge.

To enter your app, fill out the Tizen App Challenge Registration Form. You can enter as many certified apps in the contest as you'd like, but remember, each app can only be entered one time.

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What is Business Intelligence

In today’s world, information is power. It is important that information flow accurately and effectively for the functioning of any organization. However in the past organizations concealed information with only some critical folks, who used it for important decision making about competitors, future directions, response to regulation and many other factors vital for business functioning.

However, with so much information available, it is critical to be able to filter out the right information in short amount of time. In addition, the market environment changes so frequently that incorrect information may lead to lost business opportunity. Sorting through multiple emails, documents, reports, and enterprise databases to find data for right decisions is challenging. The evolution of Business Intelligence (BI) has enabled organizations, by providing concise results using data from various sources. In addition, the user- friendly representation of data clearly indentifies growth, opportunity and many more areas that require attention. 

BI refers to methodologies used in identifying, researching, and interpreting data. Organizations rely on BI to view, analyze, understand, and project information relevant to the performance of a business. The purpose of BI is to help organizations make better decisions to help business with any challenges and grown. BI software’s and various solutions accomplish this by making it simpler to accumulate, view, and split the data. Thus, leaders can identify issues, find new opportunities and challenges, and improve organization performance to meet business goals.

BI solutions can be very broad, or they can focus on specific functions, such as trade volume analysis, revenue spends analysis, prospective customer analysis, financial compensation analysis and many more. Some organizations rely on spreadsheets and other multiple tools to process information. Nevertheless, as organizations grow, the amount of information leaders need to understand increases due to new services, upcoming opportunities, hidden markets, increasing investments and many more. Business leaders need to be able to understand and direct investments in operations, sales, marketing, and other departments to streamline business growth. BI solutions offer multiple dashboards and reporting tools that make it easier and less time consuming to understand and analyze the data during short time at any point of time.

Business intelligence solutions give organizations a way to reorganize and combine the data group, investigation, and reporting process. BI solutions are built on a common platform, so everyone involved in the organization hierarchy can be setup to get an actual view of the data. To conclude BI aims to support better decision-making of organization and improve business.