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71% of shoppers believe they will get a better deal online than in stores; a statistic to motivate an entrepreneur in the mind of enthusiastic readers. The first question that arises is how to create an ecommerce site? The technology stack required and other particulars confuse the person. Here Drupal comes to your rescue.

Self-service business intelligence is a data analytics approach to enables business users to access and analyse the corporate information without IT department’s involvement. The focus is on business utility of the BI technology capabilities. This encourages the users to generate reports and take decisions based on data rather intuition.
To plan and implement self-service BI solution we need work on some prerequisite information.

Internet of Things (IoT) is leading to rising connectivity between things and ultimately people, which is changing the dimensions of universal computing. With the proliferation of devices and cross platform compatibility issues, ensuring quality is a major concern. In this context I believe everything comes down to the qualification phase, which determines the entire QA process.

It has become more adaptable and compatible according to the nature of our work. Earlier IT support was considered a mere infrastructure component for an organization; but now it’s a strategic element of any company. Moreover, the Digital workplace concept entails strategic decisions for effective employee engagement offering a comfortable computing zone.

Recent Gartner reports suggest that India is the fastest growing ecommerce market in Asia-Pacific region. The Indian ecommerce market is estimated to reach $6 billion in 2015, a 70 percent increase over 2014 revenue of $3.5 billion. These figures help us understand the dynamics and opportunities in the industry. The ecommerce industry is at its peak in the Indian consumer scenario today. Ecommerce vendors are today on an expansion spree to widen their base and are investing in the platforms, logistics and marketing activities.

Our virtual existence today determines our social existence. The way we update our status, whereabouts & interactions on social forums. We create our personal and social experiences to shape our online social identities. All that we share and post online represents our personality, thoughts, interest areas and worldly perceptions. Our virtual identity has a purpose behind it, whether it is to inform, entertain, acknowledge or broadcast. Does this define Social Media? Yes, I believe to some extent

We all are familiar with Intellectual property rights, the legal rights assigned to any person or group for their intellect creation. The World Intellectual Property Organization reports an estimate of about 36% growth (YOY basis) in the number of IPR applications. The digital economy has shifted the focus from physical assets to intangible technology.

Online grocery store? I never gave it a thought till I could find it as an option for me; rather the television commercial and my hyper-active routine told me so. Wow! It dawned upon me, how connected is the online shopping world to our lives and totally accepted the fact that the online shopping industry is flourishing and expanding at a pace beyond compare.

Database is a valuable asset for each and every company in today’s technology world. It is crucial and acts as the backbone of any software application. Without an appropriate database, we cannot imagine the application systems to function as per user requirements.

Self Service BI is a form of business intelligence wherein the end users can design reports as per analysis, play with chunk of data without knowing actual programming and SQL Queries, save and deploy the reports without any assistance of IT staff. Consequently, the power of BI lies in the hands of the business users.

Whether your customers are business enterprises or end users; focus should be to cater to your customer. A Gartner research reports that by 2020, the customers will manage 85% of their relationships with an enterprise without interacting with a human. So we have to re-think and innovate our service models. The innovative service models will be based on latest technology developments including IoT.

Companies design and develop software in order to solve the routine human issues with a potent blend of technology and human intelligence. It is very much essential that the software is tested in order to bring assurance that it works as expected. Moreover, it is that testing is efficient, quick and economical as well.