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As internet is piercing deeper into our lives, we are getting more engaged and accustomed to the benefits bestowed by it. Gaining quite a momentum, the internet is slowly navigating its course to conquer different segments by enhancing the service standards imparted by it. Starting from education, entertainment, communication to online transactions and many more, the internet is also intervening in the telecom sector. Over the past few decades telecom industry has transformed noticeably and still undergoing many revolutionizing technical advancements to emerge out as a more progressive sector. Moving over the...Read More

A business' level of success is determined by the relationship that they cultivate with their customer base. Known for improving customer retention in business, CRMs has showed us how important it is for a business operation. Salesforce emerged as a significant tool, capable of steering information in order to utilize it efficiently in a number of ways that could help in empowering the digital business. The CRM market potential is estimated to achieve USD 82B by 2025, and has captured an annual growth of 12 percent. The shift to cloud and mobile has elevated customer expectations from service providers....Read More

Choosing the right framework for your application is one of the most difficult aspects especially in the starting phase of any project development.  Although the general criteria for a development team to choose the framework are the cost of development, their experience with it, the popularity of the framework etc. There are several other factors like third party integrations, deployment, testing and many more that need deliberate consideration. PHP is one of the oldest, finest and popular project development language implemented by engineers to use in their project and in that Laravel is the most...Read More

Market reports say that Bengaluru is amongst the top 15 cities in the world that has registered maximum search interest for UX in the last 12 months. Broadly, India is among the three largest economies in terms of the number of digital consumers in the world. The country's internet subscribers had more than doubled to 560 million in 2018 from 239 million in 2013. More so, India is the home to the second largest instant messaging service users as well as the largest social media users in the world. With all the mature and emerging digital economies in the world, India ranked second in 2018 in terms of...Read More

With the modern technology that we have today, everything is made convenient for industries as well as customers in the easily accessi­ble form. Jewellery industry cannot be exempted from this argument despite the fact that it is one of the most ancient and largest industries in India. The online jewellery market is showing a significant growth since the arrival of ecommerce and online stores. India has the biggest market for jewellery in the world right after China. The growth has come with the growing trends in designs and offerings for both retail and consumer levels. The online shopping experience has...Read More

For an enterprise, it is essential to have the best network design that enables various software, hardware, and protocols work together to transmit data. In enterprise networking, in order to meet the organizational needs, enterprises rely on software driven solutions to detect and stimulate intelligent network architecture, automation, and design. In a digital transformation era, enterprises mostly are interconnected using routers, switches, wireless access points, and agile data centre network architectures to orchestrate the steps required to overcome the growing network traffic and bandwidth bottleneck...Read More

According to the new market research report on the ‘Digital Signage Market by Offering (Hardware (Displays, Media Players, Projectors), Software, Services), Product, Application, Vertical (Retail, Transportation & Public Places, Sports & Entertainment, Education), and Geography - Global Forecast to 2024’, The digital signage market is expected to grow from USD 20.8 billion in 2019 to USD 29.6 billion by 2024, at a CAGR of 7.3%. Growing technological advancements in display products, increasing adoption of digital signage products in commercial vertical, rising demand for 4K & 8K...Read More

IT support is an incredibly broad term that refers to any assistance given with technology related products and services. However, in a business setting, the role of an IT technical support engineer is primarily to help monitor and maintain computer systems and networks across an organization. From the installation and configuration of computer systems, to the diagnostics of hardware and software, and trying to solve any challenges that may arise, an IT Support professional is responsible for everything. Therefore, the importance of IT support should not be underestimated. Any company using computers, which...Read More

Internet users have exorbitantly migrated from desktop to mobile devices due to the smooth and robust operational interface it deliver. Likewise, corporations also started perching their tumultuous tasks to mobile devices to work on the go for office jobs that are not tied to the desk. A Mobile CRM, or Mobile Customer Relationship Management, helps an organization to converge its CRM operations through a mobile device which not only benefits the company, but also for the customer to get the best service in a seamless manner. Access to vital information and real-time updates help the organization in supplying...Read More

We see our customers as invited guests to a party, and we are the hosts. It's our job every day to make every important aspect of the customer experience a little bit better”, quotes Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon. The significance of customer relationship in a business decides its growth, brand image, and sustainability. The concept of Customer Relationship Management (CRM) started in early 1970s, when organizations used to evaluate customer satisfaction using surveys and record keeping methods. During that time, corporations had to depend on mainframe standalone systems for sales automation, and later...Read More

In the traditional way, customers do payment at the cash counter for the list of items they have brought. The person sitting at the counter calculates the price one by one and gives a total sum that needs to be paid by the customer. Imagine the condition of a retail shop where this process becomes tedious when each customer has to do payment for a whole lot of items. This process used to consume a significant amount of time of the customer. At some point in the history, technological advancement hit this area, and blessed with a better management of purchase system, leaving both shopkeeper and the customer...Read More

John Biggins might not have imagined that the invention of ‘credit-card’ would have an enduring impact in the payment sector, where the customer and retailer can carry smooth interactions without any record of discomfort. It was the key to unlock a big issue that could otherwise revolve around unaccounted credits, mismanaged transaction, or poor cash flow. Today, we have a number of payment gateways that allocate path for smooth payment transactions regardless of which bank the credit-card belongs to. From the condition of utter vexation to the seamless function of cashless transaction, there paved...Read More

From the past few years, Cloud Hosting has gone through an obscure service for Multi-billion dollar corporations as it becomes their integral part of the web ecosystem. Cloud Hosting has been one of the most promising technologies for the millennial generation. It has been continually evolving for the past two decades and is speculated to be one of the most sought for technologies in the future. According to Forbes, 83 percent of IT enterprise workload will be exerted over cloud computing by 2020. Additionally, in a data-driven world, more and more enterprises are relying on the cloud to enable their...Read More

One could surely relate to a day when they committed to a diminutive mistake in the expense spreadsheet or did not adhere to the company’s policies. Moreover, the hectic part comes after making a mistake when one cannot locate it, eventually leading to the company’s trouncing in terms of finances and productivity. Problems related to manual expense management extends to an elongated level when employees are traveling for business purposes and have to preserve all the necessary receipts and expense documents as evidence to incur their travel cost, but unfortunately, mislay them or the print becomes...Read More

AI is enabling companies in 2019, to be able to access and implement this life-altering technology. Tech giants like Microsoft, Facebook & Google are working to create programs that can work over present AI development libraries for cross-platform libraries and unsupervised learning support. According to a report by the Deloitte 2019 Global Human Capital trends, 87 percent of companies currently are adopting at least one transformative technology like the internet of things (IoT), artificial intelligence (AI), 5G, blockchain and the cloud; while only 26 percent believes appropriate business, models are in...Read More

From office operations to data manipulation, everything is done by the help of technology. The advent of technology in every sphere of the government and private sectors is playing a key role to make each nook of the sectors successful. In the recent few years, we have seen many technological developments taking place in India – one of which is Drone Technology. Poised to reach US$ 886 million by 2021 according to IBEF, drone technology or specifically Unmanned Aerial System – UAS is helping the sectors like healthcare, construction, agriculture, security surveying and others to increase...Read More

The benefits of wearable technologies have expanded over the years and reached a point where it helps to monitor the health conditions. Wearable technologies are widely used by the healthcare industry in measuring body temperature and heartbeats, detecting asthma symptoms, creating fitness routines, giving relief to knee pains and other numerous health issues. Not limited to the healthcare industry, uses of wearable technologies have evolved in the sectors like entertainment and fashion. The interventions of virtual reality headsets and augmented reality glasses have changed the entertainment sector as it...Read More

Gone are the days when handling business calls for a company meant spending time and efforts on hiring employees to route calls to different departments or answer simple questions. Businesses today are looking at utilizing Interactive Voice Response (IVR) Systems. Since India is a growing hub for large MNCs, BPOs and corporate networks the need for technological advances and cloud-based services have given birth to the adoption of IVR systems. In 2017 the IVR market that was valued at $3.73 billion and gradually witnessed growth spurts, anticipating reaching $5.54 Billion by 2023. As the IVR market is gaining...Read More

IT industry has witnessed some interesting developments throughout the last year. Undoubtedly, cloud technology has been the most advertent trends from the past few years, but centralized data centers have taken the center stage with the vast majority of compute and storage functionalities. In India, the data economy provides endless opportunities for citizens, businesses, markets, politics, culture, sports and entertainment. India has robust domestic data consumption and a variety of other enormously positive indicators that will help it advance toward a data driven economy. In its recent budget, the...Read More

With a heavy dose of innovation and disruption, agriculture technology, or agtech, has transformed the operational processes and expectations of the agriculture industry. Like any other industry that’s transformed by tech, the agriculture space must keep up with changing work styles, updates in equipment and mobile devices, and customers who demand speedy results. 2018 was full of tremendous strides in agriculture, from technology to legislation, and 2019 is looking to be another year of progress and innovation. With new developments in digital tools and online resources, farmers and manufacturers have...Read More

In today’s era of fast-paced dynamic environment with extreme competition and changing technologies, every organization wants to provide the best service to their customers without overstepping their budget and in the least possible time. It has become very important for the organizations to be flexible and adaptable to the market changes, to focus on business value and customer needs in a productive and cost-effective way and ‘Agile’ is all about that. Agile is a methodology which empowers organizations to respond simultaneously with market change, deliver higher quality software, and thus...Read More

The evolution of Blockchain technology in past few years is simply breathtaking. Blockchain has gained a strong foothold to become a history-altering technology that will lead up to a highly secured decentralized business environment with real-world use cases. In PwC’s 2018 survey of 600 executives from 15 territories, 84 percent says that organizations have at least some involvement with blockchain technology. In 2019, it is envisioned that blockchain technology will be adopted by more mainstream industries including retail, banking, healthcare, finance, logistics, and others. According to Gartner,...Read More

The Information Technology (IT) companies in India have always illustrated their excellence in presenting both onshore and offshore services to clients poised across the world. In fact, India has evolved as one of the chief hubs for IT companies today wherein the highest ever revenue was generated by Indian IT firms at $181 billion in 2018-19. Driving these companies towards sheer success is the wave of cutting-edge technologies such as AI, IoT, AR/VR, ML, Big Data Analytics, 3D Printing and many more. Not just these IT service-based companies, but the society, industry and the Government at large are...Read More

As world progresses into the digital era, semiconductor manufacturing competition is intensifying, with industry players looking to make productivity improvements while undertaking a record level of M&A activity. Last year was one for the records for the global semiconductor market, which saw sales increase by 13.7 percent as 1 trillion units for a total of USD 468.8 billion in sales were shipped to customers, according to the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA). That sales figure represents the industry’s highest-ever annual total. SIA reports that, with global sales for December hitting USD...Read More

When it comes to networking solution, we all think of only one name above all- Cisco. There is a reason to it. Cisco understands that knowing the right people and working with experts you can trust are crucial to achieving a network solution that can help your business thrive. For over 25 years, Cisco has built the most robust, partner- led programs in the industry. Last year at Cisco Partner Summit, Cisco focused on the core programs with simplicity and mutual value exchange. When you work with a Cisco reseller, you're working with someone who truly understands not just the technology, but also the unique...Read More

Direct manufacturing indubitably gives 3D printing technology an edge above others as a design gets directly transformed into a physical product through the means of a computer and printer. Indeed, 3D printing is a boon to the imaginative minds to shape their design ideas into beautiful reality in no time. With industries such as automotive, aerospace & defence, healthcare and education strongly adapting 3D printing technology, anything in someone’s imagination could be forged into a 3D model very soon. In fact, 3D printing will certainly hone its present potential across rapid prototyping to make...Read More

Before the advent of computers, techniques such as claymation and slow-motion were used to create 3D image matrix. Figures shaped out of clay and moved a little bit for every shot was a gruelling task. However in 1960s, William Fetter created the first 3D human figure by deploying computer graphics technology. From early ages of phenakistiscope to flipbooks and present-day graphic animations, the ubiquitous technology has facilitated animation to evolve into three dimensional (3D) graphics from merely two-dimensional images and figures. 3D animation continues to grow and produces phenomenal end results in...Read More