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By Thakur Sahib on January 31, 2010
Goals for Users, Organizations: Reduce energy-related operating expenses, Reduce other IT operating expenses [maintenance], Do the right thing for the environment, Improve the company’s brand image with customer and public.
Posted in IT Strategy | Tagged Author, auto updates, Brand, Brand building, carbon, carbon emission, Carbon finance, Climate change, Climatology, Efficient energy use, energy, Energy conservation, energy efficiency, Energy policy, Environment, Green, ICT consultant, Industrial ecology, materials, Organizations, Policy, Power, ROI, stake holders, sustainable computing, Technology/Internet |
By Thakur Sahib on January 14, 2010
1. Is your data centre footprint approaching maximum capacity?
2. Have hurdle rates increased significantly for new capital investments?
3. Does your application portfolio consist primarily of “commoditized” applications?
4. Do you have frequent or sudden “spikes” in demand for applications?
Posted in IT Strategy | Tagged Author, Business models, Business/Finance, cloud characteristics, Cloud computing, computing, development platforms, Everything as a service, hurdle rates, Infrastructure as a service, Platform as a service, Software as a service, Software distribution, Technology Consultant, Technology/Internet |
By Thakur Sahib on November 8, 2009
Do we really need to answer this. Gartner, Forrester, IBM, Microsoft and almost every consultant firm has their own definition of EA. Let’s not put too much of interest needle into it but try to sew the picture instead.
Posted in Enterprise Architecture, IT Strategy | Tagged Architecture, CEO, CFO, consultant, CTO /CIO, IBM, IT as Strategy, IT standards and policies, IT Vision, Knowledge management, Legacy systems, Microsoft, operating system, operating systems, roadmaps, similar products |
By Thakur Sahib on September 25, 2009
Companies across most industries now have in-house IT teams. Unfortunately, a majority of these still can’t determine whether IT investments are really bringing them ROI or helping in growth. If your answer to any of the following points is in the affirmative, then it is time to challenge your IT Strategy!
Posted in Analysis, IT Strategy | Tagged architect, Architecture, IT as Strategy, IT Projects
By admin on September 21, 2009
Model and analyze business processes with the aid of Business Process diagrams…
In order for a business to improve its performance it must understand how it does business. It must convert the “how” into defined processes, which must be able to have their performance measured, and the results used to make subsequent improvements
Posted in Analysis, Enterprise Architecture, IT Strategy | Tagged BPEL, BPMN, Business and IT allignment, Business Process Diagrams
By admin on September 17, 2009
As businesses worldwide seek to cut costs in the wake of current economic downturn, open source has assumed an increasingly significant role in providing quality alternatives. We offer from a range of open source solutions for ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning), CRM (Customer Relationship Management), HRM (Human Resource Management), and CMS (Content Management System) requirements
Posted in Open source | Tagged Content Management System, CRM, forward us your queries, India Open Source, Open Source CRM, Open source ERP, open source solution, Open Source solutions, technology platforms
By Thakur Sahib on September 8, 2009
After 3D Internet getting a start, I think time has come for 3D education and learning environment to move out from research labs on to the desktops. Recently, a living example was set up which was the first of its kind in United States. The VLE or Virtual Learning Environment is now located at Chesapeake [...]
Posted in Analysis, Internet Strategy, Open source, Technology | Tagged 3D, 3d education and learning, 3D Internet, Baltimore County, Chesapeake High School, education, EON Reality I-Catcher, Essex, internet, JHU’s Centre for Technology, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, KCTCS Interactive Digital Centre, Laurel, learning, Maryland, open source 3D content developer tool, simulation, the Johns Hopkins University, United States, Virtual learning environment |
By Thakur Sahib on September 8, 2009
IT if manifested correctly can act as a growth principle for strategy. Some important questions to ask and answer are: How can IT enable growth in Sales, Operations or other core areas? Here the emphasis is on growing, or the growth we envisage after 10 years. Once that is answered, next step would be to create capabilities in those areas.
Posted in Enterprise Architecture, IT Strategy | Tagged IT as Strategy, IT Projects, IT Vision, myth head, niche products, Silo Solutions |
By Thakur Sahib on August 3, 2009
One of the biggest misconceptions about IT Strategy is that it only governs how and how much money should be spent on IT. Senior management dictates to the IT team exactly what they want, and the IT team responds back by relating how much it may cost and how long it may take
Posted in Enterprise Architecture, IT Strategy, Technology | Tagged Architecture, individual applications, IT as Strategy, IT Projects |
By Thakur Sahib on August 1, 2009
How do we define Business strategy? Can IT be my Business Strategy? What should be the ideal time frame for a sound strategy? Will my Strategy be consistent enough 10 – 20 years down the line? Should I challenge my own strategy ? If yes, how will the organization support this? Do I have a [...]
Posted in Enterprise Architecture, IT Strategy | Tagged information systems, IT as Strategy, IT Projects, IT Vision, Project management, proper infrastructure |
By Thakur Sahib on June 8, 2009
After an initial estimation on the scope, PMBOK advices on estimating the duration of the scope in plan. Once the WBS and WBS dictionary is in place, it is then inputted into the time management process. The Estimation sprint involves Scope, Time, Cost and resources estimation. There are six key sub-processes for time management:
Activity definition
After [...]
Posted in Project management, Software | Tagged Agile, PMBOK, Project management, project owner, RUP, XP |
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By Thakur Sahib on June 5, 2009
Managing Cost is not an easy task. Though some well defined processes do exist to manage costs, some of the old processes like RUP have loads of artifacts associated with them. PMBOK outlines five process for managing the Scope, six for Time and three for Cost. The good part about PMBOK is that you can [...]
Posted in Project management, Software | Tagged Agile, Architecture, head, Objectives Project Scope Description Project Requirements Project Boundaries Project Deliverables Project Acceptance Criteria Project Constraints Project Assumptions Initial Project Organization, PMBOK, Prime Minister, process groups, product owner, Software, Software project management, SPRINT |
By Thakur Sahib on May 20, 2009
No new Project work can be initiated without a proper contract. A contract says, how the work will be delivered? How Billing will happen? What are the penalties of late deliverable? What are the bonuses associated with project? and so forth. It is generally accompanied with a statement of work.
Contracts are also important in selecting the [...]
Posted in Project management, Software, Technology | Tagged Agile, Contracts, IT Projects, PMBOK, Software project management, System Integration fall |
By Thakur Sahib on May 15, 2009
How do we initiate a project? What are the basic documents needed to start the project? I have seen many small companies, who have started the project before knowing all the stakeholders or before finalizing the contract. They are companies who start the development and then start writing down the assumptions and constrains. PMBOK give [...]
Posted in Project management, Software | Tagged Agile, PMBOK, Project Initiation, Project management |
By Thakur Sahib on April 21, 2009
With Oracle strategic investment in Sun, MySQL has no place to go. JAVA is very important for Oracle Fusion Middleware, Oracle’s fastest growing business. Java now becomes one of the most important software language Oracle ever acquired. SUN Solaris is the leading OS for the Oracle database, so acquisition of it also make a strategic [...]
Posted in Analysis, IT Strategy, Open source | Tagged database, IBM, important software language, java, mysql, open source product, open sourced products, opensouce product, oracle, Sun, SUN Solaris |
By Thakur Sahib on April 16, 2009
Remember OpenAds, which came few years back, An Open source ad serving platform. Then they extended the services to Hosted solutions, with 100 million impression free. Now they have announced an Exchange service.
Where any Publisher can extend their inventory to the Advertisers logged in OpenX. A clear win win situation for long tail publishers. Which [...]
Posted in Ad Networks, Open source, Software | Tagged Ad Exchange, Add new tag, Advertisers, OpenX |
By Thakur Sahib on April 5, 2009
With elections not even 15 day ahead. We can see all kind of political campaigns gearing up on Internet. Can internet deliver within one to two months of time frame? I was skeptical of LK Advani campaign, which started in January, with more than four months of lead time. Now we have other Online political [...]
Posted in IT Strategy, Internet Strategy, Politics | Tagged bjp congress political campaign, campaign manager, Can internet, congress bjp campaign, Facebook, India, indian politics, internet marketing team, internet users, lk advani, online political campaign india, online presence |
By Thakur Sahib on March 27, 2009
Can 3D be a part of internet? Can we be able to move away from flash based non-interactive games to much more interactive 3d games in internet? can we be able to look at 3d content on internet?
With the announcement of Khronos group with Mozilla, we are inching closer to reality, off course Virtual reality. [...]
Posted in Internet Strategy, Software, Technology | Tagged 3D, 3D graphics, 3D Internet Can 3D, 3d technology, 3D web, API, internet space, java, JOGL, OpenGL, OpenGL library, Silicon Graphics, Virtual reality |
By Thakur Sahib on March 26, 2009
Why Intent Targeting is better then Behaviour Targeting?
Past two years there has been lot of noise on BT. and of late Google had also entered into the foray. But did we hear any success?
There have been all noises but no results. Can any BT company justify the spikes in sales due to BT? There are [...]
Posted in Ad Networks, Analysis, Behaviour targeting, IT Strategy, Internet Strategy, Technology | Tagged Ad Exchange, Akamai, algorithm, Baseball, Blue Lithium, CRM, Double Click, Facebook, google, machine learning algorithms, online user trading, query search, Real Media, Retargeting, semantic web, social media, social media sites, Tacoda, Targeting, targeting algorithm, Yahoo! |
By Thakur Sahib on March 24, 2009
“Dad I need to buy a Sport Gear”. A small kid SMS to his dad (who is working some hundred miles away from his home). Dad started a search for that. After few minutes of search went back to his work. Later in the evening when he was going through the mails, he found an [...]
Posted in Ad Networks, Behaviour targeting, IT Strategy | Tagged active internet user, active internet user trading, Ad Exchange, Ad Networks, Advertisers, Boston, broadband, CPA, CPL, internet profile looks, internet user profile, internet user trading, online user trading, Retargeting, search engine, Smith, SMS, Targeting, USD |
By Thakur Sahib on March 23, 2009
Many people have asked me about, “How much should we spend on online marketing”? In this current economic situation, this is the most dreaded question going around on the Marketing directors table. With a slow economy, where people are focusing more on sales rather then branding, there has to be a clear way to measure [...]
Posted in Analysis, IT Strategy, Internet Strategy | Tagged CPC, CPL, Leads, Marketing, online marketing, USD |
By Thakur Sahib on March 19, 2009
Is data retrieval from database, killing your performance? Is your database crashing every few weeks, due to load? Does most of your time go into tweaking and tuning the database for performance? Are you spending too much on Db administrator? Do you find Mysql replication an impossible job?
If the answer is yes for any one [...]
Posted in Analysis, Open source, Reviews, Software | Tagged algorithm, caching system, Db administrator, Memcache, scaling, tools, video ad network |
By Thakur on March 2, 2009
In the review Post, i am going to write for different tools, technologies, algorithms which are available in opensource community. There will be lot of things common in between the review post. Most common would be their ease of use in Internet industry.
Today’s topic is SVM.
SVM stands for support vector machines. This is a method [...]
Posted in Analysis, Open source, Reviews, Software | Tagged CRM, Delhi, Internet industry, scaling, SVM, tools, video ad network |
By Thakur on February 26, 2009
Sales and Marketing started with the Door to Door Sales. Salesmen usually learned their way from the experiences. They were apt to answer any query; they had a thorough knowledge of the product.
Then mail order, Print and TV advertisement came, also known as conventional marketing. The sales were done through advertisement. And advertising is known [...]
Posted in Analysis, Behaviour targeting, IT Strategy, Internet Strategy | Tagged Advertisers, king, Publishers, Retargeting, time new media |
By Thakur Sahib on February 25, 2009
Oh Yes!!!
Imagine, i missed on a special program or a Barcelona final match. and i want to view it on my TV. I even forgot to record the match. Now what? Should i be looking for the match on internet? Yes today i will do that.
But not tomorrow. because tomorrow, i will have P2P networking [...]
Posted in Analysis, IT Strategy | Tagged Barcelona, IPTV, P2P, P2P Networking |
By Thakur Sahib on February 25, 2009
Amazing isn’t it !
Just don’t know whether some one is working on it or not.
Imagine watching a soccer match or T20 cricket, suddenly you realize you need to send a E/mail to a client/friend. or you are in no mood to type.
click on some buttons on a remote phone. and whoo.. you just sent a [...]
Posted in IT Strategy | Tagged E, email service software, IPTV, startups, T20, video ad network, video ad network india, Video emailers, web cam |
By Thakur Sahib on February 25, 2009
It started with lot of hype and media PR. But it couldn’t make it up.
What is Video e/mail?
It is sending a Video message to recipient or group of recipients on an internet.
Why would some one do this, or who would like to use it?
It can be used as a small marketing presentation, where the company [...]
Posted in Analysis, IT Strategy | Tagged advertisement media, Advertisers, family, free mail services, Microsoft, social media sites, video ad network, video conferencing, Video emailers, web cam, Yahoo! |
By Thakur Sahib on February 24, 2009
I have published some of the slides, which gives us a rough description of, how to create a CAD/CAM application on Internet. which can be run on any browser.
The Application uses JOGL for rendering on browser.
download the pdf kernel-architecture
Posted in Software | Tagged Architecture, CAD/CAM, development, JOGL, Scenegraph, Software |
By Thakur Sahib on February 21, 2009
A steal, Bharti Airtel has come with an IPTV. People already having a 999 / month broadband can use it for free. And what more, IPTV also brings along regional and customised ads. They were experimenting with the IPTV from past six months, putting it on trial on some of the societies in Gurgaon/NCR. The [...]
Posted in Analysis, Behaviour targeting, IT Strategy | Tagged Bangalore, broadband, car ads, Delhi, digital media, drooling, India, IPTV, IPTV and behaviour targeting, media plans, Mumbai, NCR, Targeting |
By Thakur Sahib on November 20, 2008
I am not a Actor, I am not a star. But i can be a Actor, where i play a character role.
the character is not a hero, nor he is a rag to rich guy. but he is an Aam Admi.
Aam Admi who knows how to run a computer system, operate a software and can [...]
Posted in Software | Tagged Aam Admi, Actor, development, Software, Software, the use cases and the system, Water Fall |
