# Continuing the trend of tie-ups and contracts from 2013, Wipro replaces Accenture for a 10 year contract with UK based Carillion, as its sole preferred strategic partner for integrated IT and BPO services. The deal was clinched at more than $100 million.
# A three-year old US based Retail solutions start-up Theatro, is opening its
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Data Analytics helps to gain actionable insights for smart decisions and strategic business outcomes.
While there are hundreds of terms in analytics, this blog aims to decode just a few of them that many students or wannabe analytics professionals find puzzling.
#1 Data vs. Information
Data is unprocessed material or facts, in the form of statistics, figures, images or documents
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If you are wondering what language to learn that is going to give you value for money and time invested, that’s definitely “R”.
While there are so many benefits and reasons why learning ‘R’ is so important today, the most significant among them is that ‘R’ language is here to stay for a long time with
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Using data to drive HR (Human Resource) strategy
Where does the best talent come from? Which businesses or managers are the best talent scouts and coaches?
How can I compare the attrition rates over the last 3 financial years?
Does the staff turnover rate in the sales department have a relation with recent revisions in sales performance policies?
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As organisations and SMEs become increasingly data-driven, there arises the need to make sense of all that data and convert it into meaningful insights. In a competitive environment, analytics becomes the driving force that facilitates decision making – to leverage the insight for innovative strategies as well as for an effective ROI on investment. Industries
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# While February began with a buzz about Adobe and WPP among companies seeking to acquire Bangalore based social media analytics start-up Simplify360 , it brought home the fact that converting millions of Tweets and social media posts into real insights is the Holy Grail for marketers.
# Exciting news on the governance front - The
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Which customers are our biggest influencers? What parameters do we use to decide ‘level of customer influence’?
Is there a high-performing store that needs customised product flow optimisation?
How do we decide on the product-mix for each store?
Does the online shopping pattern of our customers reveal trends that can be converted into personalized offers?
The retail sector in
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While Analytics Opportunities in Kolkata currently focus on both KPO and Risk analytics, there are various Job Roles that have a specific requirement for SAS skills. These are not confined to traditional Data or Risk Analytics alone and have a wide range of work areas.
So if you are trained on the SAS platform, this works
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What do we predict for the Indian Analytics Industry this year? Here is what we put together at IVY:
#1 Analytics, a mainstream career option
With several B-schools launching Analytics courses and professional training institutes expanding their reach, Data Analytics will become a career of choice, especially among the pervasive private engineering colleges.
#2 Data as revenue
Traditional
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U.S. based global retail giant Walmart has just registered a new company ‘Wal-Mart India Private Ltd' on the 15th January. News avidly followed by those in the retailing industry. Why?
India is a huge and lucrative multi-brand retail market, with just a few retail giants in the fray. When a whopper like Walmart, known for its
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If you are looking for analytics opportunities in Kolkata, you couldn’t be getting luckier. The Kolkata analytics landscape has begun looking up, with plenty of opportunities waiting for the one wanting to make it big and fast in the analytics industry.
Why Kolkata is fast emerging as a hotspot for wannabe analytics professionals?
#1. A shift from
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Where are my customers located in terms of market segments? Geography? Market size?
What is the revenue loss on account of customer attrition in the last financial quarter?
How to increase campaign response rates using predictive modeling?
Is the proposed marketing tactics likely to convert into increased sales revenue?
The ways companies interact with customers have changed over the
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Is there an unauthorized payment transaction to a vendor?
Does a suspicious amendment to banking details show up in payroll or supplier data records?
Can weakness within the client system be identified to prevent fraud recurrence?
How to detect SIM card cloning?
With increase in the use of net, mobile, IVRS (Interactive Voice Response System), ATM, commercial and retail
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Does the current compensation program need adjustment?
How is the incentive management enabling the company to deliver on financial goals?
Where to place merit bonus money to discover employees that are underpaid?
Is sales incentive compensation driving sales performance capability?
As organisations expand and employee strength increases, there arises the need for a comprehensive review of compensation packages for
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With the latest buzz doing the rounds of Facebook’s first acquisition in India, the heat is on the Analytics industry. The deal with Little Eye Labs, a niche analytics start-up with proprietary Android based analytics technology, has just been clinched. What does this mean? A great future and limitless possibilities for innovation, enterprise and global
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A degree and analytics certification is not always enough to get you through the interview. What you need is soft skills to crack the interview for an analytics job.
The analytics industry calls for some core soft skills that often decide the success quotient of analytics jobs. This article explicitly covers on the whys and whereofs
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