Category: Business Analytics

Work from home is not a new concept to the companies, but Covid-19 has definitely rushed the process. Now, the pandemic has many employees planning to work in the same way in the long run that they hadn’t previously considered. But with changing working patterns, comes the changing way to handle the situation. Managers are shifting away from directing work to employees towards training them to success. They are helping them build social and emotional connections to ensure that they feel connected with their co-workers and work seamlessly. The communications are becoming more open, giving corrective feedback, and revamping the team’s objectives and expectations.

Let’s list down a few positive impacts quantified with these transformations:

• A study by Stanford found that the productivity in employees while work from home can be increased 13% more than in traditional settings previously. A study from OWLLabs in 2019 also stated that people are 24% more likely to report feeling happier while working from home being more productive at their jobs.
• There is a 50% increase in employee retention rates while working from home. And they are less likely to take sick leaves for not being exposed to germs in the workplace and travel space.
• Most evidently, there is a reduction in overhead costs for both employees and employers. Also, reduced traveling is protecting the environment with fewer vehicles on the streets.
• While some industry sectors like IT have been following the remote working policies for a long, but according to a report by Business Insider, the phenomenon is increasing in other industries also like legal, marketing, project management, real estate, insurance, and nonprofits.
• We all know that remote working is here to stay now. The recent survey of remote workers found that 99% of them overwhelmingly said they wanted to work from home, at least some of the time in their careers.

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With this changing approach, the expectations from IT companies to make the process of remote working seamless is more than ever today.

Let us know how Apple & Team Computers are working together on seamless deployment & integrations of devices within your organization with doorstep delivery across India to enable productive & efficient remote working for your employees.

• Apple in business gets the right performance & power to employees to work at best from wherever they work. With the latest processors, the RAM and storage you need, and all-day battery life, Apple ends up being the best technology to adapt from wherever you work. This enables employees to stay focused on what is more essential for your business to do, quickly, comfortably, and in their own way.
  Learn how Apple is helping employees to be more productive >
• Apple allows you to connect with your teams and collaborate with your customers from anywhere anytime with iCloud. With all live updates on all your devices, you and your collaborators will be able to be on the same page always. Also, work with the team on documents, presentations, and spreadsheets together.
• Apple enables easy management and zero-touch deployment. We help you to set up and deploy Apple devices throughout your organization at any scale. Apple Business Manager and MDM solution automate the enrollment process of devices, simplify their configuration & management, and enable wireless sharing.
  Learn more about zero-touch deployment
• Team Computers’ adoption managers & customer experience officers do on-site as well as virtual training and workshops to help employees take maximum advantage of the unique features of Apple devices which are meant to enhance your business & their productivity.
• With Apple devices, you also save time & resources on encryptions and configurations as they are absolutely secured by design & help you keep your business away from cyber threats.
  Learn more about Apple’s platform security
• And last but not the least, Apple devices can be less expensive than other devices in your system not only because of its total costs of ownership but also with the great customizable financial solutions offered by Team Computers.
  Learn more about Apple affordability

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So introduce Apple devices to your new work from anywhere system without any worry with Team Computers’ Apple experts.
For more information, visit: https://teamcomputers.com/apple
or feel free to contact us at sales.india@teamcomputers.com

Workplace by Facebook makes the impossible possible by bringing everybody on the same page, quite literally! It is the newest addition to our portfolio and our organization never seemed so connected, be it our business goals, values or our every day updates and achievements. More so, a connected and shared culture is nurtured and built across the whole organization. Workplace combines the technology behind the most popular social media platform today and easy-to-use- features to transform communication, culture, and workflows inside businesses of all shapes, sizes, and industries.

Following are the top 10 features that sealed the deal for Team Computers:

• Connecting employees across locations- including resident engineers
  The workplace gives everyone a voice and the tools to get it heard. It promotes connections so that everyone remains in touch- irrespective of their locations. Whether they’re down the hall, working from home or simply across the globe!  We’re actually just a click away! Such connections can be enhanced through the mentioned features of the workplace:
  • Share important information and organization announcements via News Feed
  • Encourage two-way communication with likes, comments, and reaction
  • Talk to anyone in any language with Auto-translate
  • Keep in touch on the go with mobile apps
• Auto addition and removal of people at the time of joining and leaving the organization
  Employees are given access to a set of information upon their recruitment. It is extremely imperative that the confidential information remains subject to the organization and doesn’t travel further, upon their exit. The workplace makes it extremely easy to add people to groups according to their departments, designations, etc. Not just that, they can be swiftly removed from the respective groups while leaving, without any threat to the organizational information.
• Easy polls and surveys to gauge the pulse of the organization
  Polls can help make decisions faster as a team. They can be used to gather feedback, create meeting agendas, and set meeting times. An official set of company resources like the latest HR policy, help desk FAQs and more can be curated through the same. Additionally,  a central space can be created to find out what employees think by running a quick poll and gather views and comments for an idea. In this way, a two way top to bottom communication is established and boosted.
• Ease at Employee Onboarding
  Workforce planning is the cornerstone of a great hiring process. If you’ve been around an HR recruiting space, you’d know how noisy it gets. The workplace makes it quiet & easy. It is an effective tool to immediately make employees feel at home, without any rigorous training regarding the usage of the communication platform. The new-joiners can easily be added to the group with the required training material. Due to the far and wide reach of Facebook, using the workplace becomes a cakewalk. Through the org chart, the new joiners instantly know the right person to reach out to and through what channel.
• Live feature for a real-time and regular connect
  Team Computers’ CEO, Ranjan Chopra, uses the live feature on the workplace to be connected with everyone on a regular basis. This way nobody is left out from the organizational news and talks remain a part of the flow of information coming from the top. A notification is floated across to each profile to update as and when he goes live to address the organization- whether it is to wish everyone on a festival, or to generally keeping everybody in the loop.
• Groups dedicated to a particular cause
  We, at Team, have a group BIG WINS dedicated exclusively to broadcast good news and wins across the organization. It can be used both as an information platform, as well as a platform to motivate employees to make ‘winning a habit’! Also, multi-company groups can also be created for projects with stakeholders outside the organization and discuss projects, manage information and share documents. The groups are also supported by workplace chat for real-time communication with the group participants. It is also extremely convenient to search on the group page and find posts, files, or comments one needs to refer to. Groups can be created with different privacy considerations depending on what kind of group you’re an admin of. The workplace has three different group privacy settings:Open: anyone can see the group, its members and its posts.
  Closed: anyone can see the group and who’s in it. Only members can see posts.
  Secret: only members can find the group, see who’s in it and see posts.
• Recognition as an efficient mode of motivation
  For many employees, a compliment – not compensation – makes all the difference when it comes to feeling valued at work. That’s why Workplace can help HR teams build a culture of recognition and care. The effort to find and recruit top talent is wasted if we can’t keep hold of your best employees. In order to improve employee engagement, recognition can be one of the biggest drivers of company culture. It influences relationships, happiness, and values – all the good stuff that you want your organization to be known for. With badges curated to thank peers, you can publicly thank an employee and notify his/her manager too.
• Makes working much more easier
  Workplace connects with tools you’re already using, such as G Suite, Office 365 and Dropbox. So, one would not face the complexities of migrating and losing data. Anyone can start using it straight away. It doesn’t just end there, here is what’s more:
  • Workplace connects with over 50 popular enterprise tools
  • Familiar features make Workplace easy to adopt
  • Automate everyday tasks with bots
  • Build your own bots and integrations
  • Share files and photos in groups
  • Machine learning makes Workplace smarter and more relevant over time
• Hosting meetings- no more a hassle 
  Hosting meetings can get tricky when the staff scattered across the country or around the world. Workplace makes it easy by having voice and video calling available with every chat. Host a meeting with your team using video calling, or broadcast it by going live to your organization’s group. If anyone can’t make the meeting, going live in your team group will automatically post the recording so they can watch it later.
• To top it all, it’s absolutely secure!
  Workplace leverages the same best-in-class frameworks and infrastructure that help to secure consumer. The security layers include being able to grant permissions to particular users in your organization, controlling programmatic access to your content with API security, and enforcing single-sign-on for everyone. The workplace uses proactive security measures from Facebook to protect user accounts authenticated by username and password.

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Thus, Workplace by Facebook emerges as a go-to tool for organizations looking for employee connectivity like never before. It’s extremely user-friendly, with an interface suited for easy adoption and usage. Switch to the workplace to transform the way your “workplace” connects and operates.

Immersive environments for you to experiment in.

It’s been a busy year for G Suite. Gmail celebrated its 15th birthday and launched a slew of updates at Google Cloud Next ‘19. News about G Suite—intelligent apps that make working together easier, for faster decisions and better business results.

The new features focus on helping you write emails faster (with the help of machine learning), and also made it possible to schedule when your emails go through to colleagues. Gmail also got more dynamic so that you can take action straight from within your inbox, like resolving Google Docs comments. Lastly, Gmail’s mobile interface a good sprucing up—hello gorgeous!

With the belief that all work tools should integrate together easily, no matter if they’re Google apps or apps outside of G Suite. A new way introduced to comment on Microsoft files and beefed up integrations with Dropbox.

The best way to know these updates is by doing!
We’re excited to announce new G Suite Hands-on Labs! Built for you to test, create and learn the G Suite way.

Who should participate:
If you are part of Strategy, HR, Marketing or IT and want to learn how your organization efficiency could be increased using G Suite, you must be part of this lab.

What will you get:
– A deep dive on industry use cases and do it yourself.
– Learn how to manage the change in your organization.
– Resources and material that can be used in your organization to bring this change.

The first Lab begins in September’19. Stay tuned for updates!

The world is at the cusp of the greatest of all, the fourth Industrial revolution!

Initiating with water and steam to mechanize production in the first, and now coming up with the master fusion of industrialization and IoT ( Internet of things ) in the fourth one.

BUT  WILL THE WORLD STILL DWELL ON ITS LEGACY OR IS IT PREPARED TO WITNESS A VASTLY DIFFERENT FUTURE?

The advent of IoT in industrialization is going to make the globe communicate, literally!

Internet of things is defined to be the ‘intelligent connectivity of smart devices’ by which objects can sense and communicate with one another. This enables us to evaluate and change the decisions about the physical world. The emerging industrial IoT is taking every step towards the reconfiguration of industry. The intent of this joint initiative is to encompass a framework for a particular strategy so as to achieve a milestone with substantial funding from both the public and private sources.

WATCH YOUR SMART FACTORIES COMMUNICATE FASTER THAN THE SPEED OF LIGHT

• FASTER DECISIONS ARE COMING YOUR WAY –

The payoff for the industrialists will be better and faster decisions. The word ‘smart’ defines digital connectivity! When two or more devices are connected to one another, the data that they generate can be very conveniently transmitted further to any software application. The application acts as a helping hand to provide information to the individuals for use. Every step taken in the process is to be evaluated in reference to the decisions it will lead to economically and physically. Hence, leading to the establishment of Smart factories

• TOOLS ARE NOT JUST TOOLS, THEY ARE SYSTEMS

In the world of industrial IoT, every tool has a system installed called the CYBER PHYSICAL SYSTEM (CPS). The CPS  integrates sensing, controls, computation, and networking into our physical tools by the medium of the internet. This allows us to measure the comprehensive performance of our device very precisely. The next advantage is Energy Management in the factory. The power consumed by all the devices can be measured and controlled conveniently bringing in effectiveness, efficiency, and optimization in the business.

• THE TWO PILLARS OF IoT – CLOUD COMPUTING AND BIG DATA

Migrating to the cloud is always a great idea since its capacity to store and process data is unlimited. Also, it is generally more economical and flexible than any on-site alternative available. Other than this the industrial environment has massive data streams flowing to and from connected systems. Big data gathers and grants access to these data streams generated by the factory.

• SMART FACTORIES LEADING US TO SMART CITIES

Have the water running, roads unblocked, and the people happy; there you are in a Smart City! IoT is here to change the entire concept of urban living. The industrial IoT is constantly working towards the reduction of costs, improvised communications, and enhanced services.

IoT holds the potential of providing real-time access to information, consumption, and demand & supply. Henceforth, boosting the macro productivity of the country.

BEFORE YOU GET SET AND GO, MARK THAT YOUR INDUSTRIAL IoT JOURNEY HAS CHALLENGES TOO!

• Security & Privacy – Is my data for my eyes only?

Security has always been one prime concern of the people. Now that as many industrial users can access all the internet connected devices, the cyber threats are real, growing and global. Your data is not just yours anymore.

• Interoperability – The Devil of the Throne 4.0

In an interconnected system, all the components work jointly and have to communicate with one another; even if they are working in different backgrounds and in different languages. Thus, the lack of common software and data formats will complicate the entire Industrial process and the co-working environment of the industry will be hampered.

*Industrial IoT is here to connect a billion of smart devices and tools to one another digitally in the coming decade,  making industrialization a play like never before. It is here to bring in opportunities fused with innovation. This revolution is the beginning of a newer and smarter world!

“Big Data is just Data”

Wish to learn new skills? Want to connect with smart people? Get blaze trails? Are you living and breathing the data? Or are you starting out the big data process? Qonnections is the place to be, has insight has the knowledge and the inspiration that you won’t find anywhere else!

Qlik is the leading data analytics platform and the pioneer of user-driven business intelligence. Its portfolio of cloud-based and on-premise solutions meets customers’ growing needs from reporting and self-service visual analysis to guided, embedded and custom analytics, regardless of where data is located.

With this listing out to you the five initiations at Qlik Qonnections 2019!

1. Qlik Associative Big Data Index

The QABDI (in short) is a product for handling Big Data and follows the approach of ‘taking Qlik to the Data rather than bringing Data to Qlik’. Deployable on Qlik Cloud Services/ Private or Public Cloud or On-Prem in Script, ODAG, and Live (in the roadmap) Mode in a Dockerized Environment, it helps create an in-memory index on Big Data for fast analytics on Qlik Sense visualization layer. Available as yet only for Parquet files as source dataset.

Use cases :
Discovery in the data lake.

Issue billions of transaction details, want to allow users to do the basic selection on larger volumes with near real-time support.
Solution: A basic selection based analytical applications to deliver value from a cloud-based data lake.

Enhancement to existing qlik sense environment.

Can’t satisfy all use cases as development time doesn’t match SLA’s and the volume is growing.
Solution: Allows users to drill into details with Hadoop lake.

2. Gain Greater Insights Into Your Production With Machinery Sensor Data.

The session showcased how Qlik has been deployed as a Smart Manufacturing solution to alert the Preventive Maintenance and malfunctioning of machinery in a Paper Printing Factory with data from IoT devices collected every second into a database and refreshed in the Qlik Dashboard every minute.

Another use case was Retail Footfall Analysis to classify customers as ‘Dwellers’ and ‘Passerbys’ by capturing the cameras data and integrating with POS and CRM data.

3. Secrets of Qlik Architect

The Qlik Sense architecture consists of one or more nodes. Each node runs some or all of the software services that perform specific roles in a Qlik Sense site. You can distribute services across nodes for better performance and scalability. The architecture is flexible enough to suit the needs of most organizations and can vary from small, single-server sites to large, multi-server installations.

A multi-node, distributed architecture offers the most flexibility, consisting of multiple nodes that together form a scalable and high-performance site. You define a central node as the main point of control.

4. Getting Started with Qlik Core

Qlik Core caters to the customers’ embedding needs from simple to complex using the platform’s core to allow embedding in devices, thereby pushing analytics at the edge in IoT environments.

Qlik offers QDT Components, OSS Github, Ionic, and PreSales Github to speed up the development. A sample development using Qlik Core, with the integration of OpenWeather data, ingested into Qlik Engine using Enigma.js and visualization using HighCharts.

5. Qlik with Attunity

In a world increasingly reliant on predictive analytics and artificial intelligence, seamlessly moving data in real-time across multiple cloud environments and data lakes has become a business-critical issue. With Attunity, Qlik will provide customers with an expanded enterprise data management solution to transform their raw data into a governed, analytics-aware information resource.
“Attunity strength in real-time data delivery across complex cloud environments will uniquely position Qlik to help customers lead with data and align their enterprise analytics strategy,”
Attunity provides cross-platform data streaming capabilities to support a shift to cloud and real-time analytics. This acquisition further differentiates Qlik by providing an expanded breadth of enterprise data management capabilities and adds an experienced team of data professionals. Consistent with Qlik’s vision for 3rd generation business intelligence, a strong data management strategy creates the foundation for an enterprise analytics strategy that drives insights and transforms organizations.