Great companies work on enormous connections. It is the collaboration between employees which keeps the work going, ideas get shared instantaneously, decisions are taken faster, the entire team is updated, and stays on the same page at all times. These connections eventually drive employees to strive harder and perform to the best of their ability. In this article, we discuss the various enterprise social media for communication and collaboration: Facebook Workplace, Slack and Microsoft’s Teams and how they stand against each other in times of tough competition.Facebook WorkplaceBusiness ideas are needed to turn into action. Goals and expectations are required ... Read More

‘Reinforcement Learning’ is a field in artificial intelligence(s) machine learning. Inspired by behaviorist psychology, this field renders software agents and machines to ascertain behavior, take actions accordingly, ultimately maximizing their performance. Put simply, computers can reckon/learn themselves by experimenting along with responses from the environment on how things must be done and keep adapting while getting better each time leading to maximization. For eg., controlling computers are trained to play games, schedule jobs such as elevator scheduling (elevator secontrol limbs.Reinforcement Learning (RL)RL was documented more than 100 years ago by psychologist Edward Thorndike. This technology, rather than letting the programmer telling ... Read More

Start-ups are promising, innovative and conducive to the ever expanding business environment. According to NASSCOM, India is gaining the third spot globally with the fastest growing base of start-ups. The growth rate has been almost 40% with more than 4000 being added every year since the beginnings in late 2014. Worldwide, US leads the way in the start-up ecosystem followed by Indonesia, UK, Germany, Brazil, Spain, Canada, and France.While all start-ups require financial support to flourish, they also need a technology stack to build their applications for the user/customer. The technology stack is simply the software tools/programming languages used for ... Read More

For those of you who have your own brick-and-mortar store (or are planning to open one), I have a quick and easy exercise. Let’s start with few questions:How much of your capital investment went towards rent?How about your internet service provider, Electricity and other utilities?For Staff and contractors?How much stock do you have on hand, and are you able to move them?Where do your customers reside?Keep your answers in mind. We’ll get to those shortly.Finally, do you want to make more money using less up-front capital, while spending less of your capital investment on expenses?To be sure, your answer is ... Read More

The world is moving fast, consequently the technologies which we are using also keeps improving day by day. So to maintain the pace of transforming technologies, we need to keep upgrading ourselves. Gone are the days, when Project Managers across the world use the traditional processes to estimate the Scope, Schedule, Cost and other project constraints to manage the project.But these days, we have privileges to use many established tools and techniques which are evolved after years of research and practices. There are some proven techniques which can help the Project Managers to manage the projects in a more organized ... Read More

Quickly releasing a new product or new features to the market is a challenging task for the organizations worldwide. The toughest job is to bring together all the distinct groups such as Development, Quality Assurance and IT Operations to get the work done in a quickest way to release the product as soon as possible.It has been seen that processes and practices are kept on evolving to overcoming those challenges. Just a decade ago there is no such term called DevOps exists in our corporate world, but later in 2009, a methodology defined a set of processes to collaborate and ... Read More

Facebook has introduced Graph search, several months back, if you already have it, then you might be wondering what’s great about it. The short answer could be, a lot of things. Given below are the clever ways as to how to use the graph search and in case, if you do not have it then find few reasons to sign up to get it if you do not have it already.For BusinessesBusiness Owners can BenefitIt helps identify who your customers areWhat are their favorite interests and hobbiesHelps Identify the interests of the competitor companiesHelp Identify the employees who like your ... Read More

Technology is pervading into all aspects of real estate, making its functioning easier and quicker. And with the rising need to manage client demands, converting leads into sales, along with the requirement for broad property research, it is becoming all the more imperative to make use of multifaceted technologies that aid in causing consequential changes in the real estate business.Over the last few years, along with the emergence of new technologies, the existing ones have also witnessed a turnaround with added features to support the increasing requirements. These include a larger usage of precast construction, building information modeling process offering ... Read More

To get what we want, we need to accurately define it. Business requirements are the critical activities of an enterprise that must be performed to meet the organizational objectives while remaining solution independent.Here are some common questions which might ring a bell in you. Has a client ever told you that the product delivered is not performing as requested? Was there a change in the deliverable after beginning to build the product? Has there been a difference of opinion about end results from multiple stakeholders? Has there been new requirements requested after the product has been built?Preparing a good business ... Read More

On various occasions when we perform some religious activities, we strictly follow all the rituals without any fail. Whether we follow those rituals fearing GOD or due to our faith and devotions towards the GOD, that’s a separate topic to debate. But our common belief says that the rituals must be followed with full sincerity to get the desired blessings from supreme power.Similarly, while following any frameworks, we must follow all of its methods and processes to get the required benefits from it; Scrum is no exception from them. Scrum has certain principles and processes, when followed completely we will ... Read More