Category: Industry Updates
What is Business Analytics?
WHAT IS BUSINESS ANALYTICS? “Analytics alone has made wonders in all fields and is an asset to the organizations who have managed to access it completely” Scene 1 You are driving to a movie hall and want to make it on time .You access google maps on your smart phone and it tracks the traffic, […]
By 2030 at least 50% youth will not be employable in Asia: Unicef
By 2030, half of South Asian youth will not be able to find a decent job for the lack of skills. This is as per a warning by UNICEF head Henrietta H Fore. “Every day, nearly 100,000 young South Asians – a large sports stadium of young people – enter the labour market, almost half […]
2200 IT Professionals Lose Jobs in Infosys: Analytics is Safe!
After Cognizant, now Infosys, India’s second-biggest outsourcer, is laying off employees in the mid and senior level to reduce employee cost and flatten the organisation structure. The Bengaluru-based company is reportedly cutting workforce by 10% or around 2,200 people, in the JL6 band (job level 6), an internal job code for senior managers. The company […]
Career Roles in Analytics
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]We meet and speak to dozens of professionals every day wanting to know about analytics, career growth, opportunities in the industry, salary trends. The answers we are giving today have evolved from the answers we used to give 6 or 7 years ago. I myself have seen students come with a lot more knowledge about […]
Big Data Market to hit $92.2 billion by 2026
It’s January 2017, and you’ve turned over the digital calendar page on a new year. Was your resolution to walk an extra 1,000 steps a week this year, to be tracked by your Apple Watch, shared on Facebook for extra accountability, and added to your Lifetick goal-tracking web app? Congratulations—you’ve both added to and exemplified […]
Big Data and Indian Politics
As the world is preoccupied with the dramatic early days of Donald Trump’s presidency there is an article circulating on social media which is shocking readers. Originally published in Zurich-based Das Magazin, the article by Hannes Grassegger and Mikael Krogerus explains how Big Data (our digital footprint) is being used for innovative political marketing – […]