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SMEs adopting SaaS apps on the Cloud powered by Big Data technologies

Rarely has a new generation of technologies started a sweep to replace the legacy technology as is happening in the software industry today. For nearly all types of enterprise software applications are now made available in the form of Software as a Service (SaaS) for a small ongoing fee and without any major upfront costs of infrastructure or licenses. Plus most of these applications are hosted on the cloud, and can be used from any location with just an Internet connection. Another major...

Big data bringing Asimov’s Psychohistory from fiction to reality

Isaac Asimov, a science fiction writer and thinker introduced a concept called Psychohistory in his famous “Foundation” novel series. Psychohistory is the science of predicting the behavior of large groups of people using a statistical model of the psychology of groups using historical data. And for events in the future are primarily the outcome of the what people do, by predicting the behavior of people one can effectively predict the future! There are some logical requirements or...

Big Data with Cloud Computing – 20x reduction in TCO

Expense Claims Workflow

Companies having a team that is distributed across multiple locations, with a centralized accounts department find it cumbersome to process expense claims by employees. This article suggests an expense claim workflow that is best suited for such distributed teams.

How to choose technology solutions

Information Technology is rife with jargon. Every IT enterprise creates new terminology and adds to the noise. How can a small/medium sized enterprise make the tough decisions about choosing the right technology? What are the options? What are the risks? What are the costs? This second article in the series attempts to answer some of these questions.

What can Information Technology do for a Small/Medium Sized Business Enterprise?

Small businesses owners are hard-pressed for managing with scarce resources. How can technology ease their stress levels? Information Technology (IT) is often touted as the magic potion that has solutions for almost any business ailment. But IT is a confusing world of jargon, with incomprehensible abbreviations like ERP, CRM, SFA, SCM, EAI, BPM … and so on. How does a small business owner make sense of all this jargon, and what is a practical approach to adopting IT? This is the first article that begins the series to analyze and answer this question.