Cloud computing jargon decoded
With cloud becoming a norm in businesses, it's become important for non-IT professionals to understand it very well. If your enterprise is considering a move to the cloud, it is important to understand all the technical terms employed in cloud computing. See this as your first step towards cloud.
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Will Cosmos be Microsoft’s next Big Data service?
With Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella's renewed focus on data, the company seems to be giving Big Data services the numero uno status. Microsoft's first commercial Big Data Service was HDInsight; the company's Hadoop on Azure service. There is a good chance that Cosmos might be next in line. Currently, it is an internal Microsoft service used for parallel storage and computation and handles data from Azure, Bing, AdCenter, MSN, Skype and Windows Live. In fact, it is the backbone for Bing analysis and relevance. While it is being used internally to generate custom datasets, it could generate externally available datasets as well.
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Enterprise mobile apps for productivity gains
Mobile apps have disrupted the workplace for good. Apart from boosting productivity, mobile apps also help in collaboration across teams. A Gartner prediction states that in two years, mobile apps will be downloaded more than 268 billion times and generate $77 billion in revenue. Enterprise applications are used by businesses to solve enterprise problems. They are integrated with other enterprise apps used within the organization, and deployed across a variety of networks securely. Popular mobile-first enterprise apps include Dropbox, Docusign's E-signature and Evernote, among others.
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Enterprise collaboration needs to extend beyond internal processes
Collaboration is the backbone of productivity for an enterprise. Traditional collaboration though, typically focuses on e-mail, instant messaging, and ability to connect in asynchronous modes. However, the future of collaboration is social. Enterprises necessarily need to focus on social collaboration methods. This will be important for working with internal employees, and externally with stakeholders. The speed of decision making too is entirely dependent upon the kind of collaboration used.
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