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User PictureWho Manages Cloud Services to the Home?
The enterprise is where the big bucks used to be, but home is where the hearts of consumers are. As the Web becomes more integrated in people’s lives, the home will become the battleground for a coming generation of startups and big companies. There’s a huge hole in the market where broadband hits the home, and normal people struggle.. read more


User Picture Inventing the Future of Computing
In a windowless room deep inside IBM’s Almaden Research Center in San Jose, scientists are teaching a computer chip to learn from what it sees, much like a human. The effort is paying off, if performance at Pong is any measure.
When the chip, part of a project called SyNAPSE, first learned to play the classic videogame in March, it .. read more

User Picture Learning or Test Taking
There was a lot of hue and cry over the remarks that Mr Narayan Murthy made about the slump in the quality of education in IITs. He talked about the need to overhaul the selection criteria for students seeking admission to these institutions. He said, “Thanks to the coaching classes today, the quality of students entering IITs has gone low.. read more

User Picture How to login into Facebook via linked accounts
Are you fed up of entering your Facebook password multiple times a day? Facebook provides a simple way to skip this step. Login to your Facebook account and click on the arrow next to 'Home' on the top bar.

Select account settings and it will open 'General' settings. Now, click on Linked accounts and select one of the account pro.. read more


Startups
User Picture Harvard Grad Starts Math Museum Helped by Google
As a devout numbers geek, Glen Whitney was bothered that the cultural landscape offered no museum celebrating the field of mathematics. So he left his job as an algorithms specialist and manager at Renaissance Technologies, a quantitative hedge fund started by Jim Simons, and created the nonprofit Museum of Mathematics.
This year, he foun.. read more


Session 2: Data Integration Platform vs. ETL
oday’s large enterprises constantly demand more of their Data Warehouse and Data Integration initiatives as businesses expect standardizatio..
Mon, November 14, 2011 @ 3 PM – 4:15 PM IST
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Speaker
Somnath Bhadury
Technical Solutions Head (South Asia) at Informatica


 
Session 3: Predictive Analytics using Regression
Basic Introduction of regression with examples to understand different terminology of modeling, Linear Regression technique –where and how to use, Logistic Regression technique –where and how to use, how to implement in SAS with interpretation of the results ..
Wed, November 16, 2011 @ 3 PM – 4:15 PM IST
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Abhaya Kant Srivastava
Solution Architect at EXL Services


 
Session 4: Trends in Business Intelligence and Retail BI
This topic will cover the trends in Business Intelligence from Type or Reporting, to Usage and penetration. Following this we will cover BI areas domain wise. Then we take Retail as an example and explore Supply Chain, Sales, Marketing, Pricing, and Operational BI/Analytics..
Thu, November 17, 2011 @ 3 PM – 5:00 PM IST
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Krishan Vinayak,
Global Head (Business Intelligence) at Marlabs


 
Session 5: Bigdata and the future of Data Warehouses
Bigdata though not really new concept but certainly has a great meaning in current context of increasing data volumes. Mergers & acquisitions, regulatory compliances and global presence of organizations are the main causes of increase data volumes exponentially. In a given scenario, how to overcome the challenges of storing, accessing & retrieving the gigantic data to generate meaning analytics in a shortest time span is a challenge and can be address effectively by bigdata or Hadoop framework. What will be the future of data warehouses with the advent of bigdata ..
Wed, November 23, 2011 @ 3 PM – 4:15 PM IST
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Speaker
Hemant Kulkarni
Sr. Solutions Architect at Capgemini


 
Session 6: Open source Data warehouse/BI-A Primer
Framework for Open Data warehouse (ODW)models;Value proposition in ODW model;ROI analysis of an ODW model;A paradigm shift of current Datawarehousing/BI project(s) implementation from Service to Product model;MDM success for enterprise open source DWBI..
Thu, November 24, 2011 @ 3 PM – 5:00 PM IST
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Speaker
Parthasarathi Doraisamy
Prinicpal Architect at Enterprise BIDI Solutions