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Smart Business Networks

Smart Business Networks Smart Business network is a creative way of doing business establishing a strong link to achieve effective results better than the conventional business. The word smart has been coined to the terminology not only referring to the literal meaning of smartness but also indicates doing business with a technological approach to produce different and better outcomes. This business methodology adopts strategy to enhance the utilization of communication technology and network systems. Smart Business network can be considered as the linking nodes comprising of organizational. These nodes are linked to each other using a latest communication technology creating…
November 3, 2007 - - Comments:

ERP Operation and Control

ERP Operation and Control The selection of the most suitable management system is it a difficult decision to make, but once it is decided, the next step is the operation and maintenance of ERP. It is necessary to know well all the capacities and abilities in order to exploit the system to its fullest extent. The very first decision that should be made is whether the system will be operated by the employees or by third parties. The outsourcing means hiring an associate to administrate a technology environment, which is becoming most common nowadays. Many enterprises have been attracted by…
November 4, 2007 - - Comments:

ERP and Business Intelligence

ERP and Business Intelligence The management of the corporate development starts with a simple inquiry of their partners about the present status of the company. Unless there is a specific answer to show the real status of the same, it will also finish there. Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) appeared with the purpose to help to find a primary answer to that question. The Business intelligence solutions offer personalized control panels including graphics, drawings and diverse explanations that will be useful for managers to monitor the metrics that really are important. The KPIs are key performance indicators that will make real…
November 5, 2007 - - Comments:

ERP and the Future Mobile

ERP and the Future Mobile In the near future, we can expect to have a huge increase in the investment of information technologies by the enterprises, which will be motivated by the new requirements of the market and will focus their attention especially on the mobile devices, which will experience a notorious explosion. Since this is becoming more common every day, the premise “to be present at any time in any place” reflects a latent tendency. The mobility is expressed by the possibility of accessing a Tablet PC to check the stock of a certain product, and having the chance…
November 5, 2007 - - Comments:

Agility in Virtual Business Networks

Agility in Virtual Business Networks Agility means responding to rapid changes and continuous change management. With the rapid economic changes and unexpected market behavior, the virtual business networks have to adapt themselves to be able to respond in a timely and fast manner. Therefore agility provides the virtual business networks the ability to minimize losses and also as a risk deterrent. Agility can also be thought of as flexibility. The traditional businesses are more rigid in formulating a project flow and sticking to the plan till its completion. Agility in the view point of business networks means the flexibility in…
November 6, 2007 - - Comments:

ERP and DSS Implementation

ERP : Implementation of DSS With the birth of electronic commerce and supply chains, the call centers and other business initiatives supported by the information technologies had been worried about finding applications that join to decode, interpret and take the opportunity to make good use of the risks that allows an organization to make decisions, or at least, feel accompanied in the making of decisions. Information is a priceless tool for organizations. Therefore, their resources should be orientated to provide the managers with all the information required for the proper strategic decision making in business. Through this perspective, it is…
November 7, 2007 - - Comments:

Effective Listening Skills

Are you an effective listener? A lot of times, when someone at work makes a mistake, it is generally agreed that a communication error has occurred. But whose fault was it? Was it the fault of the person giving instructions? Or was it the fault of the individual who did not understand – or failed to properly listen to – the instructions? Let us take a look at an example. Bill is a manager at a technology company. For an individual with a high executive position, he has all the skills one might expect. Whenever anyone talks to Bill, he…
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Active Listening Skills

What is Active Listening? In a word, active listening is the key to success in life. It means the difference in listening, processing, and using information to one’s advantage, and merely “hearing” what a person is saying (i.e. letting it go “in one ear and out the other”) – effectively letting important opportunities pass us by. Indeed, active listening entails listening with the entire body – while also observing the other person’s entire body. It means being aware of the other person’s tone of voice, body language, eye signals, and verbal responses to non verbal stimuli. It also means using…
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Listening Skills – How to be a better listener

How to be a better listener Is listening a problem for you? There is a reason why human beings only have one mouth but two ears – that is because listening is twice as difficult as talking is. This is why it is often necessary for people to actually practice listening before they acquire the skill known as listening well. Communication is a two way street; if a speaker is merely sending out signals that are not being absorbed by the passive participant – the listener – in this case, you – then he is wasting his time. In order…
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Listening Skills – Improving Listening Skills on the Phone

Improving Listening Skills on the Phone How can I become a better listener on the phone? While listening well can be quite a challenge to most of us, even more of us tend to tune out when we are on the telephone. Indeed, in this day and age, when the Internet seems to be everywhere, we tend to forget the importance of the “old fashioned” telephone call when it comes to making business transactions. Listening well on the phone can be key for succeeding in business – and in life. The fact is, listening well is not a science –…
November 8, 2007 - - Comments:

Service Autonomy

Service Autonomy As Businesses continue to step up the process of constructing enterprise automation logic in the service format, there is also an increasing need to step up both the efficiency and reliability that the services are intended to take on at run time. This dire need is increased when it comes time to assemble a service inventory with a vast quantity of reusable services. Reusable Services and Concurrency Service Oriented Architecture entails reuse to the extent that many strategic goals that are associated with enterprise wide Service Oriented Architecture transitions are linked directly to the success of achieving repeated…
November 9, 2007 - - Comments:

Listening Skills – Become an Active Listener

Become an Active Listener Can you hear what people are really saying? If you feel that you are lacking in the communication skills department, this can be detrimental in the long run in terms of your career. It is simply not possible to influence, negotiate, and persuade people – all tools that you need to be a success in the work place – when your listening and communication skills are sub par. Every one relies on other people to accomplish tasks, and if the lines of communication among people are blocked, then that makes accomplishing these tasks all the more…
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Use Your Assets for Attitude Development

Use Your Assets What are Assets? The dictionary defines an asset as a valuable or useful thing or quality. The fact of the matter is, whether we are rich or poor, we all have assets. On the flipside of that coin, we all have liabilities as well. The trick is to learn how to use the former by discarding the latter. In order to make use of one’s assets, one needs to have one thing: that is, guts. If you have not already defined your direction in life, you need to do so – on paper – immediately. Once you…
November 11, 2007 - - Comments:

Listening Skills – Become a Better Listener in the Classroom

Become a Better Listener in the Classroom What are the most common obstacles to classroom listening? Let us face the facts here: In order to be a good student, you have to become a good listener. There is no way around it. You cannot take notes unless you are really listening to what is being said. The difference between merely hearing what your instructor is saying and actually listening to them is engagement. Once you become engaged with what the speaker is saying, you will be able to latch on to the important points and thus make good notes –…
November 12, 2007 - - Comments:

Attitude Development : Practice Makes Perfect

Practice Makes Perfect Can Practicing Help Improve My Attitude? You bet it does. But it is not as simple as merely “practicing” whatever it is that you want to get good at. You have to learn how to practice the right way. Indeed, practicing can be used in virtually every profession as a way of getting good at something. But instead of practicing to make perfect, we should first practice in a perfect way in order to realize perfection. Sound confusing? Let us take a look at the differences between merely practicing and perfectly practicing. This is the key towards…
November 13, 2007 - - Comments:

N-Tier Application Manageability

While it is a fact that N-Tier applications tend to provide almost limitless scalability, the desire to change or add new forms of functionality can present a challenge in more than one arena. Growth on a large scale can make capacity planning quite hard. When available resources have been exhausted by applications, then there must be some sort of provision made to borrow resources in order to support unexpected workloads. This is where manageability becomes key.  Manageability entails the sharing of resources, simplicity, and centralized management. Organizations are forced by complexity to maintain competitive levels of service via a flexible…
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Listening Skills – Classroom Listening as key to a Bright Future

Classroom Listening as key to a Bright Future A lot of people confuse listening with hearing. The truth is, the two are very distinct. Most of us can hear, but not all of us are effective when it comes to listening. Listening is a skill that has to be developed over time. Below, we will review some of the questions that every student should ask himself or herself at some point when attending a class. This helps them become better listeners – and more successful in life outside the classroom. What does the lecture consist of? If you are in…
November 15, 2007 - - Comments:

Listening Skills : Why listening is important

Why do you need to have good listening skills? You might recall that several years ago on TV there was a public service announcement that talked about the importance of listening skills. The PSA differentiated between hearing, which is merely a physical ability, and listening, which is actually a skill. By being able to listen, we are able to effectively make sense of what another person is saying. It greatly enhances our understanding and our overall abilities in life. It can also be vital in determining such vital perks as career promotion and generally opening doors that might otherwise not…
November 16, 2007 - - Comments:

N-Tier Application Partitioning

Application partitioning is a vital process, as it provides one with the opportunity to clearly define an even distribution of an application’s presentation, process, and key data components – without which, you may find yourself feeling quite lost. The components may be distributed over several different physical machines, or across a vast array of memory address spaces.  Application partitioning serves to maximize the inherent benefits of a multi tiered computer model, in that it distributes application processing across all spectrums of the system’s resources. For those who wish to achieve quality N-Tier distributed computing throughout their Business, application partitioning is…
November 17, 2007 - - Comments:

Listening Skills – The Key to Effective Listening

What are the main types of effective listening? There are essentially three types of careful listening that you will want to follow. They are paraphrasing, open questioning, and feeling reflection. The first of these, paraphrasing, is mainly just re-stating what someone has said in your own words. To use an example, someone might say something along the lines of, “I can’t believe he just quit his job. What a mistake he has made!” In response, you might say, “So you seem to think he quitting his job was a bad idea.” This is an example of paraphrasing. You have just…
November 19, 2007 - - Comments:

Application Development in .NET

Application development in .NET Client Side Application Development Client applications are applications that run on the client system-or the desktop of the user. They are closest to the traditional windows based applications and they display forms or windows on the desktop enabling the user perform predefined tasks. Word processors and spread sheets are examples of client applications that employ menus, GUI elements and access local resources such as printers and scanners.    A different kind of Client application is the ActiveX component (now deployed as Windows Forms control) that is displayed as an Internet web page. These applications are executed…
November 21, 2007 - - Comments:

N-Tier Architecture Presentation Logic Layer

The Presentation Layer in an N-Tier structure is commonly referred to as the “client” layer. It consists of parts that are used to present data to an end user. Examples of components on the Presentation Layer might include edit boxes, labels, text boxes, grids, buttons, Windows or Web forms, or more. The Presentation Layer can be either Windows based or Internet based. What an Internet Based Presentation Layer Looks Like Let us take a look of a correctly formatted Presentation Layer. This one consists of a Web server (IIS, in this instance), Web Pages, and Web Components.   All of…
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Listening Skills – Listening in Relationships

Can Communication Save My Relationship? The answer to this question is a resounding yes. But communication, it must be kept in mind, is a two way street. When most people hear the word “communication,” they automatically think of talking. But listening is of equal importance. Some experts even say it is of prime importance. Whatever the situation you find yourself in in your love life, you can improve it greatly by focusing on this core component of one’s interpersonal skills. All relationships need communication in order to survive. Chances are, if your relationship is failing because you are arguing all…
November 23, 2007 - - Comments:

How to Adjust Your Attitude

How to Adjust Your Attitude Do you pay attention to your attitude with an eye on improving it? If the answer to this question is no, then you have a lot of work to do. Let us be honest with ourselves for a minute – nobody is perfect. Each and every one of us has bad days. This is why it is vital to always keep “one eye peeled” on your attitude to make sure it does not have a negative impact on your environment and thus make everything a whole lot worse than it already is. Anger management is…
November 24, 2007 - - Comments:

N-Tier Architecture: The Business Rules Layer

The Business Rules Layer in an N-Tier architecture is that layer that contains the Business logic and / or Business rules of the application. Reserving a separate layer strictly for Business logic in an N-Tier architecture is a major advantage, in that any changes that need to be made to Business rules can be made here without having any effect on other applications. Assuming that the interface among the different layers stays the same, changes that are made to the functionality / processing logic in the Business Rules Layer can be readily made without having any affect on the others….
November 26, 2007 - - Comments:

Listening Better in School

Listening Better in School Is Listening Important for My Studies? Listening is one of the key strategies for assimilating knowledge in to one’s brain for long term use. On average, college students spend around fourteen hours each week listening to lectures in classrooms across the nation. But are they really listening? You have to realize that there is a major difference between merely hearing and actively listening. Hearing can be thought of as “passive listening.” You might hear the sounds of someone’s voice and are thus aware that a person is speaking, but you are not actively processing what is…
November 27, 2007 - - Comments:

The Psychology of Attitude

The Psychology of Attitude What is attitude? Attitude is, in a word, how you express your likes and dislikes towards particular people, things, and occurrences. Attitudes can be positive, negative, or neutral. It is also common to have more than one of these feelings towards something – when that happens, for example, in the case of a person both likes and dislikes something at once, we say that that person’s attitude is “ambivalent”. Attitudes are typically derived from judgments, which everyone makes. In psychology, it is believed that attitudes are rooted in an ABC approach: that is, affect, behavioral change,…
November 29, 2007 - - Comments:

Improving Listening Skills of Children

Improving the Listening Skills of Children Do you find yourself repeating things? Getting a child to listen can be one of the greatest challenges that a parent has to face early on. Indeed, one method that parents tend to employ is to simply repeat the same instruction over and over again. You might find yourself saying, “How many times do I have to tell you…?” This rarely, if ever, helps the child to learn what they have done wrong, because the answer to the question is a number! It has nothing to do with what you wish to communicate to…
November 30, 2007 - - Comments:

Washing Your Brain

Washing Your Brain Is Brainwashing good? Common consensus has it that brainwashing is a bad thing. When people think of brainwashing, they think of the Cold War or the movie A Clockwork Orange. When you think about it on a deeper level, however, we find that it is healthy to wash everything else in our lives. So why not our brains, also? We wash our clothes, our cars, our bodies, and our dishes on a regular basis. But the most important thing in life, however, is our brain. So why should we keep everything around us impeccably clean while neglecting…
December 3, 2007 - - Comments:

N-Tier Architecture: Data Access Layer

In an N-Tier architecture, the data access layer consists of components that aid one in the process of accessing the database. When it is used correctly, the data access layer serves as an abstract level for the structures of the database. Simple changes that are made to the database and to tables and other components will not effect the rest of the application – the data access layer will not allow this to happen! The various layers of the application send their data requests to this layer, and this layer responds. Only the data access layer may access the database….
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Listening Skills – Become a Better Listener

Listening Skills: Become a Better Listener What does it mean to listen? The vast majority of us will spend our lives relying on our listening skills. No matter what our profession happens to be, listening plays a key role in any communicative environment. Like all other skills, listening requires a lot of practice – it is not necessarily something you are just born with. Everyone has the capability of listening – but can you listen well? Indeed, listening well is more important than just merely allowing the information to flow in one ear and out the other. When we listen…
December 4, 2007 - - Comments:

Developing Your Attitude Among Mentors

Developing Your Attitude Among Mentors How do I become like those I admire? In the book The Master Key to Riches, author Napoleon Hill interviewed over five hundred of the most successful men of his era – including Henry Ford, John D. Rockefeller, Alexander Graham Bell, and Thomas Edison – to get some insight in to how these geniuses and high achievers had attained their high degree of success in life. The results of this study were published in the form of The Law of Success, an encyclopedia of seventeen principles that were common in the thinking of all these…
December 5, 2007 - - Comments:

Exploring Business Networking

Exploring Business Networking Introduction to Business Networking With the dawn of globalization and international business opportunities, “Business Networking” is the latest buzz word among the business communities. The “Business Networking” relies on the principle of sharing expertise, knowledge, skills, services and profits by forming a group of interrelated and dependant commercial group. This strategy involves joining affiliate programs or forming collaborations with other related businesses, potential customers and reliable customers. Different members of this group will have different core business domains but they share their opportunities and expand their business opportunities as a joint business venture. This strategy does not…
December 8, 2007 - - Comments:

Listening Skills – Master Listener

Master Listener What is Active Listening? Every expert communicator already knows the importance of active listening. Active listening includes the ability to perform such skills as paraphrasing, mirroring, and clarifying. If you are already good at active listening, then you realize that it is good to vary these skills when you are in the process of conversing with someone. But chances are you feel insecure with your listening abilities – otherwise you would not be reading this article! Let us go over some of the things you need to know in order to make the transition from being a poor…
December 10, 2007 - - Comments:

Business Networks and International Business

Internationalizing a Business Network Traditionally, only big enterprises and companies had the financial strength to become multinational firms. In the present era of information technology, small businesses and medium scale businesses have joined together to form small business networks. The internet and the Word Wide Web have brought the extremes of the earth closer through its rapid communication features. The small business networks have taken full advantage of these technological innovations and are now able to compete with the multinational firms in the global market. Some of these business networks come fro economically backward countries, come from the developing economies…
December 12, 2007 - - Comments:

Listening Skills – Types of Bad Listeners

Who are the main types of bad listeners? You might find in your work environment that some individuals are simply not very good at listening. This can create a myriad of problems and make the performance of the most mundane day to day tasks nearly impossible to accomplish. But there are ways of helping these people improve their listening skills. But first, we need to take a look at what kind of “bad listeners” are out there. There are essentially three types of bad listeners. They are self absorbed individuals, unfocused individuals, and rules driven individuals. Self absorbed people will…
December 14, 2007 - - Comments:

Adjusting Your Attitude for Success

Adjusting Your Attitude for Success Does the people around you affect your attitude? Let’s face the facts here. Each individual has a choice in life. It is possible to allow outside factors to have an influence on our goals in life. They can have an impact in a negative way, by letting people with bad attitudes play a dominant role in our lives; or we can eliminate those people altogether and focus on surrounding ourselves with positive influences. Everyone is the master of his or her own atmosphere. Nobody else should be allowed to influence that. If you have a…
December 17, 2007 - - Comments:

How to begin an Online Virtual Business Network?

What is Virtual Business Network? Business and commerce, right from the ancient days, depended a lot on the physical representation of the business and the physical identity of the customers and other collaborators. Most of the business dealings were done person to person, face to face. After the invention of telephony, the dependence on physical identity fro business transactions came down to some extent. However, the technological revolution in the field of Internet in this era has lead to the coining of a new term Virtual Business Network. Virtual Business Network can be defined as a business that does not…
December 18, 2007 - - Comments:

Attitude Development : Comparing Yourself to Others

Comparing Yourself to Others Where is Your Career Going? This is a question that most professionals will ask themselves at one point or another in their lives. Once you have determined what your goals in life are, the next thing you will want to do is take action. You can begin by doing something that might sound highly unusual. You should do everything that most people would never dare do. Let us look at the facts. Many individuals do not plan for the long term. Most people do not have goals that they set themselves in life. Most people do…
December 20, 2007 - - Comments:

OOPS Tutorials

Object-oriented programming (OOP) is a computer science term used to characterize a programming language that began development in the 1960’s. The term ‘object-oriented programming’ was originally coined by Xerox PARC to designate a computer application that describes the methodology of using objects as the foundation for computation. By the 1980’s, OOP rose to prominence as the programming language of choice, exemplified by the success of C++. Currently, OOPs such as Java, J2EE, C++, C#, Visual Basic.NET, Python and JavaScript are popular OOP programming languages that any career-oriented Software Engineer or developer should be familiar with. Object Oriented Programming Concepts Object…
December 24, 2007 - - Comments:

Electronic Data Interchange

Electronic Data Interchange Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) is a system which allows document information to be communicated between businesses, government’s structures and other entities. It is a set of standards which creates a cohesive system within which all parties are able to electronically exchange data information within a set of protocols. Although it can be considered that EDI consists of only the actual conveyance of the document, it is also seen as the implementation of the operating systems whereby EDI can be put into practice. EDI is the data format of most electronic commerce transitions in the world. There are…
December 25, 2007 - - Comments:

Oracle PL/SQL Tutorial

This introductory tutorial to PL/SQL will help you to understand the basic concepts of PL/SQL.  Review the following tutorials and practice the sample SQL Statements on your local Oracle Database. Please note that you must learn these basic things before we actually start getting in to Advanced Oracle Concepts in the OCP Certification track. SQL, PLSQL, and SQL SQL *Plus – Introduction We are excited to let you know that we are launching shortly The New Technology Learning Series. We will be starting with Oracle 9i: SQL, PLSQL, and SQL *Plus. Below is the course schedule by week. Please let…
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EDI Standards

Evolution of EDI EDI has been established within various industries as a reliable and efficient form of data transmission. It is a technical representation of a business conversation between two entities, either external or internal. From its inception, EDI was applied differently within these industries, and therefore different standards were set up. In the late 1960s, EDI was established within the transport industry, and they created their own standards. Soon other industries followed suit and various standards were created. Thus each of these standards is not necessarily compatible, which causes confusion and an inability to communicate. EDI was designed to…
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EDI Document Types

EDI Document Types EDI documents come in various forms, each of which can appear differently, depending on the company’s internal computer system. Also, while each standard has code specificity, each order may look very different – a clothes company will send details of color and sizes, while a food company will send details of expiry date. Within the document itself, the appearance is somewhat dependent on the standard which is being used. These standards differ worldwide. An example of these standard codes appears as a set of special characters and words. Each carries a different significance, and denotes a different…
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Be Your Own Fairy Godmother

Be Your Own Fairy Godmother Do you believe in magic? In fairy godmothers? In Santa Claus? In Miracles? Probably not. Most adults do not. But there is an entity that contains more magic than all of these things, an entity that actually exists. That entity, believe it or not, is you! That is correct. You have the power and capabilities to make things happen that are far better than anything Santa Claus or a Fairy Godmother could bring you. After all, these characters have traditionally been called upon to bring people stupendous gifts of material worth. But why invest so…
January 3, 2008 - - Comments:

EDI History

EDI History At its simplest, Electronic Data Exchange is the transmission of documents by electronic means. In other words, the paper-based documents are replaced by electronic data which is transmitted by a number of means. It is largely used in order to automate standard processes such as re-ordering, but its application is far broader than that, and it affects a range of industries and corporations. EDI relies on electronic transmission, but is not necessarily email or using the Internet. In the least, EDI requires some level of sophisticated information technology infrastructure, which includes data processing, data management and networking capabilities….
January 10, 2008 - - Comments:

Bug Reporting – Art and Advocacy

Bug Reporting – Art and Advocacy This article highlights the essence and traits of finding bugs. It leaps to redefine the art, a tester should inculcate while finding a bug. It enumerates various artifacts in reporting a bug. Whereas, also voices the advocacy on the bugs that has been reported. The basic amenity of a tester being to fight for the bug until it is fixed. Introduction: As testers, we all agree to the fact that the basic aim of the Tester is to decipher bugs. Whenever a build appears for testing, the primary objective is to find out as…
January 11, 2008 - - Comments:

EDI and Software Applications

EDI and Software Applications EDI and JAVA Java is a programming language originally developed by Sun Microsystems and launched in 1995. While generally compiled to byte code, direct hardware execution of byte code by a Java processor is also possible. Currently, almost all of Java’s software is available under the GNU General Public License. Hence it has become free software. The Java programs most identifiable characteristic is that is platform independent, meaning that it should be able to be written and compiled once, and then be able to be run anywhere. JAVA script is run on systems worldwide, and while…
January 15, 2008 - - Comments:

EDI Mapping and Translation

EDI Mapping and Translation Mapping is a movement of information – basically of putting the format of one data document onto another. For instance, it takes the format of an otherwise incompatible data format and makes it into an EDI compatible data document, or conversely, takes an EDI document and makes it readable. There are various tools on the market for doing such tasks, which are readily available through the Internet or at an EDI support centre. These mapping tasks require software, as it is bringing in line a foreign piece of documentation with EDI standards. The following diagram intends…
January 15, 2008 - - Comments:

E-Commerce and EDI

E-Commerce and EDI What is E-Commerce? E-Commerce can be viewed as being a virtual market place, whereby all transaction that is carried out in the physical world is also available via the Internet. It involves mainly distribution, buying, selling, marketing and servicing of products or services through the use of electronic means such as the Internet, and other computer networks. E-Commerce involves not just businesses, but individual consumers and corporations. It generally utilizes the World Wide Web at some point in the transaction’s progress, but then also simpler computer tools such as databases and email. Currently, it is foreseen that…
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EDI in Industries

EDI in Industries Health Care EDI There are various industries that EDI has a firm hold within, and the health care industry is one of those. Within the delivery of health services there is a great amount of paperwork which must be filed, delivered, ordered, compiled and documented. To alleviate the pressure of this paper pile, EDI has been incorporated into the system so as to provide a technological replacement for some of this domination. The standard for the health care industry is HL7, which is also the umbrella organization which oversees the development of standards and their evolution. It…
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How EDI work with XML

How EDI work with XML EDI and XML systems have been seen as the opportunity to create a holistic approach to data information exchange that can deliver and process simple, durable and effective business transactions by electronic means. To achieve this, methods must be employed that are not only of value within the market today, but have an extension into the future. To guarantee the technology will be widely accepted and used, it must be made freely available as an open standard. In this way, the systems can work in conjunction to create a truly effective solution to business data…
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EDI Benefits

EDI Benefits Within various industries, EDI has been used to great advantages, and many benefits have been expounded in its regard. EDI´s benefits relate to environmental impact, improved time efficiency, improved accuracy and increased flexibility, enhanced partnership, labor costs, shipping. EDI creates a system whereby documents and data can easily be transported from one source to another, and is able to overcome incompatibility issues. EDI is a set of standards which govern data formats and thereby allows disparate computer systems to be able to “read” the data which is sent. EDI documents are also able to be stored at a…
January 25, 2008 - - Comments:

Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) Switching

Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) Switching The Asynchronous Transfer mode or more popularly known as ATM is actually a part of the International Telecom Standards. Using the ATM protocols information can be sent and received in small secure cells. However for ATM connections to work there should be a constant connection. The ATM technology has found a large usage in cell switching and technologies that use multi-plexing. Also the benefits of using ATM technologies are that you can have a fixed bandwidth from 1 MBPS to Gigabytes. ATM Devices Functionality There are two components in an ATM device, one is the…
February 13, 2008 - - Comments:

Bus Topology

Bus Topology From the name of the network itself many inferences of the network can be derived. A bus topology in more technical terms means that it is a method of transmission on networks that uses a common vehicle for transmissions and thus it is categorized as shared communication. Imagine a bus picking up various people from one stop and dropping of people as it travels and then picking a few more. That is what happens in a bus network exactly. However in a Bus topology only one device is allowed to transmit at a given point of time. The…
February 21, 2008 - - Comments:

Network Designs

Network Designs While designing a network many factors have to be taken into consideration like the area to be covered, capacity of data that has to be handled and even security issues. However when it comes to networks there are LANS or the Local Area Networks and WAN the Wide Area Networks. These are the two major types of networks which are further subdivided into topologies. Any of the topology has to be based on one of the two kinds of network. Topologies A topology means the layout of the network and in what way the nodes or the computers…
February 24, 2008 - - Comments:

Network Management

  Network Management Network management is the method of managing the tools that belong to a network and maintaining, administering all the systems that are connected in the network. For one to be able to efficiently manage a network that person should be a qualified network administrator and should have in depth knowledge of the functionalities of the network and different topologies of network. There are two aspects in any network, one is the logical aspect and the other is the physical level. The network administrator should be good at both the logical and the physical aspects to be able…
February 24, 2008 - - Comments:

Network Topology

Network Topology There are two levels in a network topology and there are five kinds of network topologies. The networks can be connected at two levels, the physical and the other is logical. A topology basically defines how the network has to be designed and provides a structure to the network. The five different kinds of topologies are • Bus • Ring • Star • Tree • Mesh Bus Topology The bus topology is a series of nodes which are all connected to a backbone. Bus networks typically work well for smaller networks and use Ethernet cables for networking. It…
February 25, 2008 - - Comments:

Home Networking

Home Networking Home networks are creating the modern day offices at home for individuals who prefer to stay at home while working. For domestic usage the home networks found no uses as most people could afford only one computer. However there are families that find one computer is not enough for them to do everything. People read emails; many women set up home based business, their children might want the computer for school work. With the increase in usage of computer by all the members of a family, the need for more than one computer is evident. When there is…
February 25, 2008 - - Comments:

Web Server

Web Server A web server can be a program or the computer itself which receives the requests from various other browsers and responds to those requests. These requests are all HTTP requests that are being sent for some HTTP documents. There are two kinds of web servers available. The web server program and the web server computer are two different devices. A web server computer accepts larger amount of requests and is usually used to receive many requests at a time. It is a public computer present on the internet. The web server program is software program that runs on…
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Print Servers

Print Servers Print server is a server or advice that is used to connect many printers of a network to it. Using the print server any computer on the network can give a print command to the server and the print server will get the job done accordingly. Usually a print server is configured on a computer that is running windows operating system. The main use of print server is in large offices where many people are giving print commands from their computers simultaneously. A printer by itself that is connected to the network without the print server cannot process…
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Virtual Private Network (VPN)

Virtual Private Network (VPN) A VPN or a Virtual Private Network is a dedicated communications channel which is streamlined using another network. A VPN is useful for companies which need their own space on the internet. For example a business community that needs to secure its own network on the internet and wants to carry out various business activities within this environment can use a VPN. The VPN operates on a different and more complicated topology than a point to point network. Also VPN dos not stress on security features and rather the network on which it is based may…
February 28, 2008 - - Comments:

Star Topology

Star Topology Star Topology is the most common type of network topology that is used in homes and offices. In the Star Topology there is a central connection point called the hub which is a computer hub or sometimes just a switch. In a Star Network the best advantage is when there is a failure in cable then only one computer might get affected and not the entire network. The Star Network Topology typically needs more cable to be networked than the usual Bus topology. A common cable that is used in Star Network is the UTP or the unshielded…
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Mesh Topology

Mesh Topology Mesh Network is a network where all the nodes are connected to each other and is a complete network. In a Mesh Network every node is connected to other nodes on the network through hops. Some are connected through single hops and some may be connected with more than one hope. While the data is traveling on the Mesh Network it is automatically configured to reach the destination by taking the shortest route which means the least number of hops. Data travels by hopping from one node to another and then reaches the destination node in a Mesh…
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Tree Topology

Tree Topology Among all the Network Topologies we can derive that the Tree Topology is a combination of the bus and the Star Topology. The tree like structure allows you to have many servers on the network and you can branch out the network in many ways. This is particularly helpful for colleges, universities and schools so that each of the branches can identify the relevant systems in their own network and yet connect to the big network in some way. A Tree Structure suits best when the network is widely spread and vastly divided into many branches. Like any…
March 4, 2008 - - Comments:

Internet Protocols (IP)

Internet Protocols (IP) For the internet to work every computer and every system connecting to the internet must has an Internet Protocol. The internet protocol is a library of communication protocols which talk to networks and enable data transfers. The Internet Protocol is an open source protocol and is well suited for LAN and WAN networks. The internet communication protocols are of two kinds and the computers need both of them to communicate over the internet. They are called the TCP or the Transmission Control Protocol and the IP or the Internet Protocol. The common applications like E-mail, file transfers…
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Point to Point Protocol (PPP)

Point to Point Protocol (PPP) The Point to Point Protocol is a platform that is used to connect any individual computer or a network to the internet service provider. The connection is established between two points only and that is why it is called Point to Point Protocol. The PPP is considered be the only best solution for connecting computers on the internet. The basic architecture of the PP is layered and the bottommost layer is the LCP or the Link Control Protocol. The Link Control Protocol is responsible for establishing the connection. The Internet Packet control protocol or the…
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Fiber Distributed Data Interface (FDDI)

Fiber Distributed Data Interface (FDDI) The Fiber Distributed data interface or the FDDI is a 100 mbps line using the LAN network and is connected through a fiber optic cable. The FDDI technology is used where the networks need a high speed bandwidth and need to cover huge distances than the copper wires usually cover. There are two kind of networks in this category, one is the fiber optic wire based and the other is the copper wire based called the Copper distributed data interface. The inside architecture of the FDDI is based on the dual rings where the data…
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Software Quality Assurance Training

Software Quality Assurance Training In this training session you will learn about SQA – Software Quality Assurance, SQA Principles, .SQA Planning, SQA Project Metrics, SQA Software and Tools, SQA Analysis, SQA Approaches and Methodologies, SQA Planning and Requirements, SQA Lifecycle Standards, SQA Implementation, SQA Costs and Benefits, Why SQA is required and more…   What is Software Quality Assurance? Business software is never built overnight. It takes a lot of planning, consultation and testing to be able to come up with an initial version of the application. If a business hurries up the development of a certain application, they would…
March 11, 2008 - - Comments:

What is Software Quality Assurance?

What is Software Quality Assurance? Business software is never built overnight. It takes a lot of planning, consultation and testing to be able to come up with an initial version of the application. If a business hurries up the development of a certain application, they would end up spending more in addressing the problem the application brought than they have earned. This could even be more frustrating when the software being developed is set to be sold to customers or for public use. But a bug free program is not the only goal of a company. If they follow that…
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SQA Principles

SQA Principles Developing a software is not just writing codes, they are essentially answers to pressing problems may it be in the office or just to cure boredom – just like in games. Underlying these answers to problems and needs are principles that guide the developers in their software development.   The SQA team also has to follow certain principles. As a provider of quality assurance for procedures and application, they need to have a strong foundation on what to believe in and what to stand for. These principles will ensure that the application will live up to the expectations…
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Synchronous Data Link Control (SDLC)

Synchronous Data Link Control (SDLC) The SDLC or the Synchronous Data Link Control was first developed by IBM. It is basically a linked layer protocol which can be used with systems network architecture or the SNA environment. In this system all the functions in a network can be defined and slotted into layers. There are different types of layers and each of these layers has its own functionality which is some what similar to the OSI layers. For example the data is transferred without errors form the Data Link Control layer to the Network Addressable Units or the NAU’s using…
March 13, 2008 - - Comments:

Switched Multi Megabit Data Service (SMDS)

Switched Multi Megabit Data Service (SMDS) SMDS or Switched Multi Megabit Data Service is used to communicate on the Public Data Networks using the WAN networking technology. The SMDS technology uses fiber or copper wires for networking. There are many components in the SMDS networking environment that make data transfer possible like the DQDB or the distributed queue dual bus. The functionality of SMDS is delivered through telecommunication services and it is capable of providing high speed connections, high level performances and data transport through packet switching. SMDS cannot be considered as a whole new technology or a protocol. In…
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SQA Planning

SQA Planning Planning is one of the most important aspects of Software Quality Assurance. The entire operation of the SQA team depends on how well their planning is done. In smaller businesses, planning might not really dictate the flow of SQA but in larger businesses, SQA Planning takes on center stage. Without it, each component or department that works on the application will be affected and will never function. In gist, SQA Planning tackles almost every aspect of SQA’s operation. Through planning, each member and even non-member of the SQA team is clearly defined. The reason for this is very…
March 14, 2008 - - Comments:

SQA Project Metrics

SQA Project Metrics The application is only as good as its numbers. It is a harsh reality but everything has to come down to the numbers. Although we can enumerate tens or hundreds of features in a single application, it will all be for nothing if the metrics do not live up according to expectation. The SQA team should ensure that the expected metrics will be posted. At the same time, the SQA team should also select the right tool to gauge the application. There are hundreds of applications that can measure the application but it is quite rare to…
March 14, 2008 - - Comments:

Subnetting

Subnetting A Subnet is a directory listing of IP numbers that re used to address on the internet. The number is logical divided so that each part of the number represents a certain function. Usually these subnets contain arrange of IP numbers that are assigned to organizations. So numbers falling into a specific range of subnets can immediately be related to certain organizations. All the numbers allotted to a certain organization will start with the same binary sequence. In the current day internet scenario the network are increasing and as the networks increase there is more need for network address…
March 17, 2008 - - Comments:

Frame Relay

Frame Relay Frame Relay is a concept where the information is sent using data frames in a digital format. Using this relay service the data can be sent in a fast and efficient manner through the internet. Frame Relay is also a cheaper way to send data from one point to another. The internet service providers use the Frame Relay Networks when transferring voice and data so that it is fast and also is commonly used in Local Area Networks and Wide Area Networks. Using the Frame Relay the end user gets a Frame Relay node which is unique for…
March 17, 2008 - - Comments:

SQA Software and Tools

SQA Software and Tools In quality assurance, it is always important to get all the help we could get. In other industries, developers could easily check the products manually and discard those that do not meet the standard. The length and the width of the product are checked to maintain standardization of the product. Others use special machines to check the product. With tools and machines, they can easily set a standard with their products. That also goes the same with software and applications. Although it does not use physical machines, applications go through rigorous testing before they are released…
March 19, 2008 - - Comments:

SQA Analysis

SQA Analysis Software Quality Assurance is all about analysis. One of the major purposes of this discipline is to know the inner workings of an application. To do this, careful analysis has to be exercised at all times. Although there are programs and applications that aid in knowing the inner workings and the actual performance of an application, these are only numbers and they would be nothing if they are not used for analysis. Every person proficient in SQA needs to have that analytic personality for them to be successful in this field. Although analysis is just part of the…
March 19, 2008 - - Comments:

High-Speed Serial Interface (HSSI)

High-Speed Serial Interface (HSSI) HSSI is High Speed Serial Interface was first developed by Cisco systems and the main purpose was to solve high speed requirement issues. The main application of HSSI is on the Wide Area Networks and it helps to enhance the data flow speed on these networks. It can work on both physical and electrical devices using the DTE and the DCE interfaces. There are many features that contribute to the characteristics of the HSSI working model. HSSI Features On HSSI you can receive signals up to 52 Mbps, which means that the HSSI model can easily…
March 20, 2008 - - Comments:

IPv6

IPv6 The Internet protocol Version 6 or the IPv6 is the next generation Internet protocol that will be replacing the current Internet protocol. The current version that is being used is the Internet Protocol; Version 4 which has almost lasted for almost 2 decades. Also the main reason for the upgradation to the Internet protocol Version 6 is because of the IP address problems. According to the InterNIC they have already exhausted IP addresses in Class A and Class B and now are down to Class C. Now they have no other option but to upgrade the internet Protocol to…
March 20, 2008 - - Comments:

SQA Approaches and Methodologies

SQA Approaches and Methodologies A scientific approach should have methods. As a scientific process, a stage or a step should be established or used to ensure the final product is according to the user’s specifications. The method is usually determined through the wishes of the clients, the available manpower and circumstances. It is not that the clients specify the actual method for a scientific approach but the client’s provider takes into consideration the need of the clients. Using the facts and data provided by the client, the method for developing a product will be established. Using the experience and available…
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SQA Planning and Requirements

SQA Planning and Requirements The scope of Software Quality Assurance or SQA starts from the planning of the application until it is being distributed for the actual operations. To successfully monitor the application build up process, the SQA team also has their written plan. In a regular SQA plan, the team will have enumerated all the possible functions, tools and metrics that will be expected from the application. SQA planning will be the basis of everything once the actual SQA starts. Without SQA planning, the team will never know what the scope of their function is. Through planning, the client’s…
March 25, 2008 - - Comments:

Business Intelligence Training

Business Intelligence Training In this training session you will learn about Business Intelligence – Business Intelligence Overview, Business Intelligence History, Business Intelligence Data Analysis, Business Intelligence Applications and more. Business Intelligence Business Intelligence Overview What is Business Intelligence? Business Intelligence at first glance is a broad array of applications or technologies designed for storing, gathering, analyzing, and … Business Intelligence History When did Business Intelligence first come into play? Before the Information Age of the late 20th century companies had to collect their information from non-automated sources. Those were the days that businesses lacked any type of sophisticated computing resources…
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Business Intelligence Overview

Business Intelligence Overview What is Business Intelligence? Business Intelligence at first glance is a broad array of applications or technologies designed for storing, gathering, analyzing, and processing information. These applications also provide access to data for professionals and help them make better business decisions. It is the ability of in depth analysis and data mining of detailed business data to provide real and significant information to users. The software allows users to access and review large amounts of complex data. Yet this is only Business technology on the technical side of the spectrum, in fact we also need to acknowledge…
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High Level Data Link Control (HDLC)

High Level Data Link Control (HDLC) The High Level Data Link Control protocol was developed by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO).  It is used for switched and non-switched networks and is a bit oriented architecture. The High Level Data Link Control has been accepted and used widely because it supports almost all kinds of functionalities like half duplex, full duplex, point to point and multi-point networks. The bit patterns are standard in HDLC and therefore the information exchanged follows the same pattern. This minimizes the chances of any errors. HDLC Features The main features of HDLC are divided into…
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Business Intelligence History

Business Intelligence History When did Business Intelligence first come into play? Before the Information Age of the late 20th century companies had to collect their information from non-automated sources. Those were the days that businesses lacked any type of sophisticated computing resources to enable them to properly analyze data. Due to the lack of today’s flourishing technologies organizations in that age made vital business decisions based purely on instinct, this could very often prove to be a fatal means of making a decision that concerned the well-being or livelihood of an organization. The 1970s kicked off the beginning of the…
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SQA Lifecycle Standards

SQA Lifecycle Standards Software Quality Assurance procedures have finally been standardized and have been virtually perfected after years of planning on how to perfect the application standardization. Through experience, the company was able to place in writing how to develop a plan for software development. Because it has been standardized, the application that was developed using SQA could be recognized worldwide because it has been made according to the standards. Along with the standards, the metrics are also standardized. More than anything else written in the report, the clients who are looking for an efficient application looks for the numbers…
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SQA Implementation

SQA Implementation Developers and the SQA team create a development plan before they build an application. The developers write following the SDLC plan while the SQA team writes the Software Quality Assurance Plan to ensure that the SDLC plan was executed. If these documents by the developers and the SQA is well written and organized, the application that is about to be developed is already half-way done. Even though the documents are well written, these are all nothing when those written are not followed. That is why equally important to the SQA Planning is SQA Implementation. If you are familiar…
April 1, 2008 - - Comments:

Business Intelligence Data Analysis

Data Analysis Data Analysis is a complete and thorough review of all of the information being collected and warehoused by an organization. This is most commonly done by organizing and examining the data collected with the help of charts, graphs, and tables. The data is processed in order to draw conclusions about the way an organization is operating and aid that organization in coming to a sound decision regarding their business. By dissecting and organizing data an organization is able to pin-point problem areas and move forward with the required adjustments accordingly. Many businesses have turned to the sophisticated Business…
April 2, 2008 - - Comments:

SQA Costs and Benefits

SQA Costs and Benefits Software Quality Assurance has been developed for years and it has been proven to be useful for some situations. We have to emphasize the word “some” since there are companies who have disputed the idea of SQA with so many reasons. Taking a look at the reasons, it all goes down to the idea of getting your money’s worth. Companies have to work with SQA may have found the benefits against its costs. On the other hand, there are companies that have completely ignored the idea of SQA exactly because of its costs. The effort and…
April 4, 2008 - - Comments:

Business Intelligence Applications

Business Intelligence Applications In this article we are going to take some time to discuss the various applications that are normally provided with Business Intelligence Systems. Tools Used to Analyze Performance, Projects and Internal Operations First we will look over the tools most commonly used to analyze areas such as performance or internal operations. These tools are helpful when a manager or executive wishes to view information pertaining to the general function of an area, this can range from the productivity to sales performance. The first tool we will investigate is the Score carding tool. The Score carding tool was…
April 14, 2008 - - Comments:

Why SQA

Why SQA There are so many reasons why a company should consider SQA. It is all about business survival and SQA is just one of the many tools the company should effectively use. And just like a tool, it has to be effectively used to its maximum. If the tool is not used to its full extent, the tool will just be a financial burden to the company. SQA should also be utilized at the same way – to its full extent. One of the reasons why businesses and companies opt out in using SQA is their inability to realize…
April 20, 2008 - - Comments:

Business Performance Management

Business Performance Management What is Business Performance Management? Business Performance Management is most commonly described as a set of processes that help companies or organizations optimize their business performance. It is specifically designed to organize, automate, and analyze business methods, metrics, processes and systems that drive an organizations performance. It also involves the merging of data from a range of sources, querying, and analysis of the data and putting the results into practice to find the most desirable outcome.  Business Performance Management improves those processes. Real-time reviews help organizations to identify and fix problems before they grow into extreme issues….
April 22, 2008 - - Comments:

Identifying SQA Issues

Identifying SQA Issues Software Quality Assurance is a good practice that every large scale business should employ. IT related businesses have never hesitated to use SQA to ensure that the application they will release for their users or sell to their customers will live up to their expectations. Identifying SQA Issues Software Quality Assurance is a good practice that every large scale business should employ. IT related businesses have never hesitated to use SQA to ensure that the application they will release for their users or sell to their customers will live up to their expectations. On the other hand,…
April 23, 2008 - - Comments:

Business Intelligence Tips

Business Intelligence Tips Understand Your Organization first Truly understanding your company and how it works is perhaps one of the most important Business Intelligence tips anyone can offer. This includes understanding the business itself, the processes involved, the data, and how that data is used by the people with in the organization. You will need to understand what your organization specializes in or with. If business deals with sales, what does the organization sale? How can you make that product better? You need to familiarize yourself with the products and how they are made. Understanding your business’s product is the…
April 25, 2008 - - Comments:

Managing SQA Projects

Managing SQA Projects No matter how big a project is, there will always be a person who will be overseeing the whole project. They are usually the project managers and in this case, called the SQA managers. SQA managers are always at the forefront of everything, answering to the business manager regarding the status of the application and informing the subordinates regarding updates or the new policies about the application. That is generally the work of every manager, supervisor or anyone who has people working under their guidance. But to be specific each manager in every field of work has…
April 27, 2008 - - Comments:

Business Intelligence Integration

Business Intelligence Integration How to Integrate Business Intelligence within Your Organization Before you Integrate Business Intelligence into your Organization Business Intelligence has developed into strategic process over the years of its extraordinary growth, even so it still needs to be incorporated into each business process with great care in order to properly lead business operations onto the path of attaining their individual strategic objectives. Before an organization attempts to integrate a Business Intelligence system into their operational or analytical systems they should be certain to be sure that they effectively clean up the system before combining it with an operational…
April 30, 2008 - - Comments:

Business Intelligence in Information Technology

Business Intelligence in Information Technology IT stands for Information Technology. Information Technology is a system designed to gather, process, or distribute information.  IT can be inspected in terms of the following three groupings; the data gathering, the data processing, and the data distribution. Information Technology deals with all types of data in which information can be extracted from. It may seem simple but the entire process is extremely complex. Without the sophisticated applications in the Business Intelligence software this information would remain unseen. Without Information Technology, Business Intelligence software would also be useless. How is Information Technology related to Business…
May 9, 2008 - - Comments:

How to Best Use Business Intelligence to Your Advantage

How to Best Use Business Intelligence to Your Advantage It is no big secret that today’s businesses rely heavily on data and the information it delivers about their companies. Whether it is for the purpose of customer acquisition, improving operational performance, or understanding competitors, all of the information is presented in the form of complex and large amounts of data. Currently the data that streams into our modernized organizations has reproduced several hundred times when looked at in comparison with the types of data that were readily available for analysis in the previous decade. Also the various kinds of sources…
May 12, 2008 - - Comments:

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