We have talked about the need to mark some articles with a star or some label to classify some posts at WordPress backend. Oddly, this function which is widely used in an email inbox is absent in WordPress admin post list. If you have some sponsored posts or posts with affiliate links, you can not easily find them among thousands of published articles. Admin tables are created using the … [Read more...]
What’s the Difference Between Hadoop and Spark?
Both Apache Hadoop and Apache Spark are big-data frameworks, but they do not serve the same purposes. Actually there are multiple big data frameworks on the market, Apache and Hadoop and Apache Spark are most known among them. They are commonly used to train the starters. But in real life, choosing the right big data framework is a challenge. Businesses consider each of the framework for their … [Read more...]
What is Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)?
Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) is an organization and process schema for large-scale deployment of Agile and Lean methods. SAFe tries to answer the problem of large organizations (companies or administrations) who wish to work together several Agile teams. SAFe also aims to deploy Agile and Lean culture and practices across all layers of the organization, from management to developers. Inspired … [Read more...]
What is Predictive Analysis?
Predictive analysis is a group of analysis which uses machine learning, data mining, statistical algorithms to analyze data to make predictions. The goal of predictive analysis is to cross the capability of descriptive statistics and reporting and provide the best assessment on what will happen in the future. The end result helps in streamline decision making and produce new insights. Predictive … [Read more...]
Influence of the Internet of Things (IoT) on Retail : Part IV
This is the forth part on the series on Internet of Things (IoT). The use of IoT technologies in retail enables a multitude of new opportunities and offers great benefits. At the same time, however, it also brings dangers with it. The main benefits are the economic advantages for the dealer and the added value for the customer. However, the security of the Internet of Things, as well as the … [Read more...]
Influence of the Internet of Things (IoT) on Retail : Part III
This is the third article of this series. In the second part of the article on Influence of the Internet of Things on Retail, we have discussed some of use-cases. In this part, we will discuss the rest of the use-cases i.e. Logistics and Online trading. In addition to the actual sale, the processes in the supply chain offer a high potential for optimization. In particular, in the areas of … [Read more...]
What is NFC? How You Can Use NFC?
In our one series of article on IoT, we talked about NFC. Some obvious question arises such as what is NFC, how we can use NFC. Near Field Communication (NFC) is a short-range, high-frequency wireless communication technology which enables an exchange of information. The distance is about 10 cm in the general case. This technology is an extension of ISO/IEC 14443 standardizing proximity cards … [Read more...]
Influence of the Internet of Things (IoT) on Retail : Part II
This is the second article of this series. In the first part of Influence of the Internet of Things on Retail, we have disccused fundamentals of IoT including the key technologies. When implementing IoT projects in retail, there are a variety of factors to consider. The technological challenges to realize these in everyday business processes are very demanding. For a widespread dissemination, it … [Read more...]
Influence of the Internet of Things (IoT) on Retail : Part I
The Internet of Things (IoT) is evolutionary rather than revolutionary development that will continue to evolve rapidly over the next few years. Apart from the present series, we have Internet of Things in the Smart Home and Wearables and Internet of Things for the readers. The beginning of this evolution by Internet of Things (IoT) dates back to the sixties. At the beginning of the nineties, … [Read more...]
What is ETL (Extract, Transform and Load)?
Extract, Transform and Load (ETL) is the process which allows the organizations to move data from multiple sources, reformat, clean them, load them into another database, data mart, or data warehouse to analyze, or in use in another operational system to support a business process. ETL processes can also be used for integration with legacy systems. They became a popular concept in the … [Read more...]