We are back with a wrap-up of what’s been happening in June in the Indian Analytics industry.
Reports and Market Projections
# The projection of the Indian analytics market gets better and brighter, with the latest verdict delivered at the NASSCOM Big Data and Analytics Summit 2014 held in Hyderabad on June 27th.
"Analytics market in India, which
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This month, our focus has been on ‘retail analytics’, one of the fastest growing analytics deployment areas in recent years. In tandem with this theme, we bring to you Kolkata based start-up SIBIA Analytics and Consulting Services PL, a young and highly promising firm, whose forte is retail analytics. Noted as one of 10 Emerging
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A sneak peek into the new budget of the Modi Government reveals plans to open up India's $500 billion retail sector to global online retailers such as Wal-Mart Stores and Amazon. With this the competition in Indian online retail industry heats up as online retailers jostle the e-commerce space to engage customer activity.
Online retailing in
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How many people entered the store (A) during the peak summer month of May?
How did they behave?
What was the footfall to sales ratio for those 31 days?
What was the footfall per square feet during the period?
What does the effective sales per square feet tell about the store visitors?
Retailers who want to get ahead of
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A rundown on companies focusing on Analytics placement in Delhi and Noida
Delhi sure beats other metros when it comes to analytics hiring!
Taking a tangent from the historical analytics hiring by big companies in the ITES / BPO /BFSI industry, the analytics hiring spectrum in the cities of Delhi and Noida has shifted to small to
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Which are the customers most likely to do repeat purchases?
Which are the customers least likely to do repeat purchases?
Which customers lead to the most profits over a given period?
How likely is a customer or customer segment to buy a product similar to one already purchased?
“Customer is king”, is a well known mantra that has defined
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To unleash the power of Retail Analytics, a retailer needs to face the challenge of too many analytic options – store footfall analytics, supply chain analytics, customer analytics, demand shaping analytics, pricing analytics, and much more.
This calls for the need to be selective while investing in analytics and technologies. Which means a business needs to
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Where Analytics is no longer about a competitive edge, but survival.
The Indian retail industry is a vibrant landscape. Considered the fastest growing industry in the world, it has witnessed myriad business models over the last 20 years. With rising income levels, urbanisation, plastic money and increased rural consumption, India has emerged as the favourite destination
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Exclusively for Ivy’s students.
Role: Statistical / Modeling Analyst Or Business Analyst (Analytics)
Education Required: B.Tech (From reputed college), M.Sc. Eco / Maths / Stats, or MBA in Finance (preferred) from a reputed college with decent academic credentials and preferably knowledge of Finance.
Professional Experience: Freshers or professionals with 1-3 years experience
Skills Required: Hands-on Knowledge of Excel, Statistical Modeling (Hypothesis Testing, Regression,
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Cloud BI (Business Intelligence) with analytics is slated to be the fastest growing category of cloud computing and business management solutions today. A recent Markets and Markets study estimated the overall market revenue of analytics solutions and cloud BI tools to be $5.25 billion in 2013, and expected to grow at a high CAGR of
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This month, the IVY Blog featured a series of articles related to analytics in the cloud, with additional topics of interest to our students and Analytics Professionals-in-the-making.
IVY Featured Start-up of the month – Ideal Analytics
Ideal Analytics made it to our “Featured Start-up of the month”, for its innovative analytics applications in the cloud. Analytics-on-demand and
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Why did it happen?
Will it happen again?
What insight does it offer?
What happens if changes are made?
These are questions typically asked during the process of Business Analytics. Business Analytics uses a pre-established method to find patterns and relationships, to gain insights, to forecast future outcomes and conduct experiments to test decisions.
What happened?
When did it happen?
Who or
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With ‘the cloud’ being widely adopted for both visualising and analysing data in a single dashboard, it is time to identify a promising and fast-growing start-up that inspires with its innovative analytics solutions in the cloud.
This month, we feature a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) start-up that brings in a new dimension to analytics with its cloud based
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The recent 2014 IDG Enterprise Big Data Research study puts business spending on big data-related initiatives in 2014, at about $8 million. While analytics software and human analysts form part of this spending, 49% of the enterprises surveyed is slated to invest in hardware like storage and server, 44% plan in cloud infrastructure.
The challenges of analytics in
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As all eyes turn to India and the outcome of the largest “Unreal Elections”, 2014 goes down in history as the year when social media and analytics shaped the elections and voting trajectory in an unprecedented manner.
From the satta model to analytics
This is a country where the satta (odds) market has always played a uniquely
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Data is everywhere whether in unstructured or structured form. Yet stand alone data makes no sense unless measured, managed or optimised. To gain valuable insights into a given set of data, the data has to lend itself to analysis using a clearly defined methodology, strategy and business goals.
What this means.
Data is to be questioned, transformed
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