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The basic principle of Scrum is to focus the team iteratively on a set of features to achieve, in fixed- length iterations of one to four weeks, called Sprints. Each Sprint* has a goal, set by the ProductOwner*, who prepares the ProductBacklog* from where features are selected to be implemented in this sprint i.e. a SprintBacklog*. A sprint always leads to the delivery of a functional partial product.

Business data has existed for ages. It can be scrutinized in the form of handwritten ledgers, account books, customer information forms, customer reference forms, etc. A large amount of this data collected goes unnoticed. Small / Medium sized entrepreneurs believe that Big Data is for big companies, they have nothing to do with it. They feel that implementing Big Data technologies will result in huge financial burdens for the company.

Business Intelligence & Business Analytics solutions are key to every business today. The implementation and end benefits / inferences could change for all respectively, but its relevance prevails across domains and businesses. These terms are mostly interchangeably used and get mistaken for each other

With the emergence & evolution of new technologies, current canvas of data collection and analysis is revolutionizing rapidly. The enormous data collected, data sources, storage and analysis of data all are major concern areas for any organisation. Big Data is changing the way business decisions are made as it exceeds the capacity and capability of conventional storage, reporting and analytics systems.

Business Process Management (BPM) is a disciplined approach taken by organizationsin order to automate their business processes with an intent of bringing visibility into processes, identifying the process performance, monitor them to seek areas of improvement in processes and also to be able to deploy the changes in quick span of time. By adopting the business process management approach organizations achieve operational excellence in terms of their processes.

Software Development Methodology: The very purpose is to “pursue the development of an information system in a very deliberated, structured and methodical way requiring each stage of SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle) to be carried out rigidly and sequentially within the context being applied.”

Creating an innovative networking platform is like replicating a range of highly interactive sessions amongst focused groups, which would lead to insightful inferences / business decisions with valuable inputs.

he Retail sector may rise and fall, but there is no dearth of opportunity. Universally it is known as a practice of making goods and services available to consumers through different distribution channels. It’s dynamic and needs transformation for a consistently smashing and seamless user experience.

For nearly two decades, Drupal has been the preferred CMS tool for Enterprise Level Systems and Intranet Applications. Scalability, Flexibility, Ease of use, no licensing cost, enhanced features, global acceptability, etc. all these encapsulate the reasons for the popularity of Drupal amongst the Content Management Systems (CMS) available online. Drupal, WordPress, and Joomla are all built on PHP +MySQL and are Open-source platforms.

It is created and brought in play to empower and accelerate the decision-making process and ultimately transform businesses. So, the key is steering towards the right approach for an effective implementation process.

The government of India’s move and policy announcement to make Open-source software mandatory for building Apps and services has indisputably brought Open-source software services in the spotlight. It claims to ‘ensure efficiency, transparency, and authenticity of service cost effectively’. The study states that about 90% of Indian businesses will be using Open-source software by 2017.

Data Warehousing (DWH) & Big Data today substantially influence business decisions. It helps segmenting and classifying data and enables enterprises to make informed choices. It’s like a whole canvas of crucial information segmented in the desired data formats to decipher the required inferences.