#1. India Government rolls out a SMAC (social, mobile, analytics, cloud) policy
Continuing with the exciting news from February - NATGRID integrating real-time analytics in its data centre and disaster recovery system – the analytics focus of the Indian Govt. continues with the SMAC technologies. The new e-Governance Programme (EGP) 2.0 also known as E-Kranti, plans to
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The analytics hiring landscape in India features various industries that have requirements for analytics professionals. The major hirers like banking, financial, IT and insurance sectors are familiar to most of you. However, management consulting firms in India, which currently have more than 3 % of total analytics professionals, are a mystery to many who may
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This forms the basic mantra of social media analytics. Data is mined from blogs and social media platforms like Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube or Foursquare; measured for various metrics; analysed and applied to make business decisions.
Social media is a powerful instrument of market research and business solutions when used strategically. It is all about conversations
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# Continuing the trend of tie-ups and contracts from 2013, Wipro replaces Accenture for a 10 year contract with UK based Carillion, as its sole preferred strategic partner for integrated IT and BPO services. The deal was clinched at more than $100 million.
# A three-year old US based Retail solutions start-up Theatro, is opening its
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Data Analytics helps to gain actionable insights for smart decisions and strategic business outcomes.
While there are hundreds of terms in analytics, this blog aims to decode just a few of them that many students or wannabe analytics professionals find puzzling.
#1 Data vs. Information
Data is unprocessed material or facts, in the form of statistics, figures, images or documents
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If you are wondering what language to learn that is going to give you value for money and time invested, that’s definitely “R”.
While there are so many benefits and reasons why learning ‘R’ is so important today, the most significant among them is that ‘R’ language is here to stay for a long time with
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Using data to drive HR (Human Resource) strategy
Where does the best talent come from? Which businesses or managers are the best talent scouts and coaches?
How can I compare the attrition rates over the last 3 financial years?
Does the staff turnover rate in the sales department have a relation with recent revisions in sales performance policies?
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As organisations and SMEs become increasingly data-driven, there arises the need to make sense of all that data and convert it into meaningful insights. In a competitive environment, analytics becomes the driving force that facilitates decision making – to leverage the insight for innovative strategies as well as for an effective ROI on investment. Industries
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# While February began with a buzz about Adobe and WPP among companies seeking to acquire Bangalore based social media analytics start-up Simplify360 , it brought home the fact that converting millions of Tweets and social media posts into real insights is the Holy Grail for marketers.
# Exciting news on the governance front - The
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Which customers are our biggest influencers? What parameters do we use to decide ‘level of customer influence’?
Is there a high-performing store that needs customised product flow optimisation?
How do we decide on the product-mix for each store?
Does the online shopping pattern of our customers reveal trends that can be converted into personalized offers?
The retail sector in
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While Analytics Opportunities in Kolkata currently focus on both KPO and Risk analytics, there are various Job Roles that have a specific requirement for SAS skills. These are not confined to traditional Data or Risk Analytics alone and have a wide range of work areas.
So if you are trained on the SAS platform, this works
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What do we predict for the Indian Analytics Industry this year? Here is what we put together at IVY:
#1 Analytics, a mainstream career option
With several B-schools launching Analytics courses and professional training institutes expanding their reach, Data Analytics will become a career of choice, especially among the pervasive private engineering colleges.
#2 Data as revenue
Traditional
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U.S. based global retail giant Walmart has just registered a new company ‘Wal-Mart India Private Ltd' on the 15th January. News avidly followed by those in the retailing industry. Why?
India is a huge and lucrative multi-brand retail market, with just a few retail giants in the fray. When a whopper like Walmart, known for its
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If you are looking for analytics opportunities in Kolkata, you couldn’t be getting luckier. The Kolkata analytics landscape has begun looking up, with plenty of opportunities waiting for the one wanting to make it big and fast in the analytics industry.
Why Kolkata is fast emerging as a hotspot for wannabe analytics professionals?
#1. A shift from
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Where are my customers located in terms of market segments? Geography? Market size?
What is the revenue loss on account of customer attrition in the last financial quarter?
How to increase campaign response rates using predictive modeling?
Is the proposed marketing tactics likely to convert into increased sales revenue?
The ways companies interact with customers have changed over the
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Is there an unauthorized payment transaction to a vendor?
Does a suspicious amendment to banking details show up in payroll or supplier data records?
Can weakness within the client system be identified to prevent fraud recurrence?
How to detect SIM card cloning?
With increase in the use of net, mobile, IVRS (Interactive Voice Response System), ATM, commercial and retail
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