Big Data is big topic of the times. The amount of data in our world is exploding. Every day we create 2.5 QUINTILLION bytes of data. Quintillion is one followed by 18 zeroes. 1,000,000,000,000,000,000. It is said that ninety percent of all the data in the world was created in the last two years.
In the complex business and IT environment, Business Intelligence professionals are facingquite a lot of challenges. The challenges are mani-fold; all of them not necessarily from the business and technological perspectives. While the computing capabilities are ever growing, the people characteristics also needed to be up to the mantle to face these challenges.
The worldwide web has exploded to huge proportions influencing our personal/professional lives. It is a system of interlinking hypertext documents; usually accessed with a web browser from our computer or laptop through a fixed internet line. The benefits of ‘www’ are manifold. However, of late, the access need not be from a computer or laptop, but from a mobile device! either with a browser or a mobile application (app). This is called Mobile Web.
Getting things done is becoming the greatest challenge. As pointed out by many leaders, execution is the key. To get things done in business, innovative methodologies are employed. Gamification is one such method. Just by going its term, one should not go for wrong thoughts. It has very less or nothing to do with the gaming industry. Gamification is an innovative business process. Gamification is about human behaviour related to web sites and applications.
Microsoft Office is one of the flagship software products. It is mainly a collection of software applications that are required by ‘an office environment’ in small and medium businesses or in large enterprises. Probably the only software that is most widely known, used and familiar with.