Syncfusion Dashboard Platform

Syncfusion Inc., an enterprise development company, has made a platform for business dashboards that creates data visualizations that can be shared through the web or in applications. These dashboards basically take information from the business from any source such as excel and other relational databases and turns them into data visualizations for an executive to see and the employees to be able to make decisions for the company. These visualizations include charts, maps, and grids, that can be joined together or filtered depending on certain data. All of this can be accessed by whomever the company chooses by putting it on the web or sharing git within the business application.

https://adtmag.com/articles/2015/11/18/syncfusion-dashboards.aspx

This is what every business needs. Although many big companies will hire someone that can make sense of all the data that comes into the business’ hands, this kind of dashboard makes everything a lot more understandable. Theres nothing more convenient than having your information in front of you when you need to make a decision that will affect the future of the company. Not only does it update to changing information, but everyone can understand it and access it so it isn’t just one person making the decision but the executive and associates can all understand to make the company better and more efficient.

Bookmark Awards 2016 Entrants

The Bookmark Awards have been extended until November 30 to give Publishers the chance to enter their best work. The Bookmark Awards honor our country’s most creative and impactful digital executions for advertising and published work. There are many different categories that one can win but the Platform category is an important one. This category along with other is based on intranets and internet. The Platform category winner is the one that best communicates a digital message to its current and future clients. Intranets are also very important in these categories because they look for private sites that that are designed for internal business use and they choose the best one. Each winner will have achieved the goal of creative and impactful work through internet, blogs, websites, domains, or intranets.

http://www.bizcommunity.com/Article/196/16/137881.html

I personally have never heard of the Bookmark Awards until now and I think that is really interesting. The internet and what we can access and learn through it is limitless. It only makes sense that we honor the people behind each website and information that it made available to us. Technology and trends are constantly changing so the publishers of this digital work must keep up with that to be able to communicate messages to their customers whether it be available to the public or information for an internal business.

Salesforce Adds New Predictive Analytics to their Marketing Cloud

One of the main goals and drivers for business analytics is to put useful information in the hands of the business owners who can use the information rather than the analytic pros who make models then present them to the business owners. If the business owners are able to better have this information ready and be able to understand it, it can reach the customer more quickly and make better decisions. Salesforce’s CRM announced a Salesforce Marketing Cloud that help’s businesses score and segment their customers in real-time. Marketers can now provide each individual customer with the right program for them almost instantly.

http://www.informationweek.com/big-data/big-data-analytics/salesforce-adds-new-predictive-analytics-to-marketing-cloud/d/d-id/1323201

Salesforce of course has become a huge tool for businesses and has helped businesses grow tremendously. With their new announcement for marketers, it helps growth within Salesforce and their clients. With how fast technology is growing currently, a business has to continue to change to keep up and be successful. This article gave an example that really opened my eyes. When we want to go somewhere now a days, we just put it in our gps on our phone and go. It updates us on traffic and finds multiple routes as you drive. But if you think back, I remember printing out directions from mapquest and once those were printed you couldn’t change it. Same with this new marketing in the cloud, it allows businesses to get information in real-time and adjust to changes.

Having a Digitized Core to Advance in Globalization

Although this article talks a lot about the digital core of a company, it makes some good points for a company to take part in if they were to globalize their business. Many companies are transforming their companies digitally and outsourcing different departments of the business to different companies. Companies are able to reinvent their business through digital globalization. With this, companies can focus on the individual customer and making them feel special. This was the first pressure point that this article focused on, the empowered customer. Each customer wants to feel special. The second pressure point are the competitive and regulatory pressures. This allows companies to stay ahead of the competition. Customers are just one click away from your competitor so you must be able to reach every customer. The third point is globalization. This is important for a company to be relevant and expand into new markets. The last point is technological process. When a business globalizes, they need to be agile enough to compete and innovate.

http://www.zdnet.com/article/the-digitized-core-at-the-heart-of-reimagined-business/

This article is very important to me and what I want to do with my career because in the fashion industry, you have to constantly keep up with trends and make you cusomer feel special. People buy your clothes to feel better about themselves and confident. That is reaching to your customer on a personal level. As a clothing brand, you must make it easy for your customers to browse your website and buy your clothes. I plan to globalize my company one day and see my brand to people around the world. I also plan to manufacture in a different country and ll the pressure points that this article capitalizes on are important to expand.

E-commerce: Amazon, Flipkart, Snapdeal in app war

More than two-thirds of e-commerce transactions are taking place on smartphones and tablets currently. Although Amazon is rated slightly higher than FlipKart at four stars out of 5, Flipkart is leading in all aspects from total downloads and daily visits by users. Amazon, Flipkart, and Snapdeal have all made it possible to download and buy products from their apps. Many fashion etailer’s use apps for the customers to offer special app-related sicounts and to also appeal to the growing population of online customers. Companies like Amazon and Flipkart that are apart of the etail segment have contributed to the jump in the e-commerce market to make and estimated $100 billion dollars by 2020.

http://www.financialexpress.com/article/industry/companies/ecommerce-its-an-app-war-all-the-way-for-amazon-flipkart-snapdeal/159770/

I have never used Flipkart or Snapdeal btu there are similar to Amazon and I have used Amazon for a multitude of things. I can understand why these entail segments have taken over the market because they offer everything. People are only moving more and more towards online transactions everyday so why not make that possible within your company if your compeitors already have it? My career potentially being in the fashion industry, this is very important. Customers want the option of shopping online and making the process easier. Also your customers can take advantage of online deals. The e-commerce market is growing tremendously.