Category: Process

Agile in BI
Agile methodology is gaining importance in all the aspects of Information technology and Business Intelligence cannot be secluded from this trend. While most of the Business Intelligence projects are executed in waterfall, executing a project in Agile was never acclaimed even though...

My daughter’s banter and DevOps – connecting the dots
My role involves consulting and helping companies undergo their IT transformation journey by leveraging DevOps and its benefits. I have a daughter who recently turned 3, and has discovered the joy of expression through words, translating into uninterrupted chatter. You may wonder...

The changing face of Business Intelligence
Enterprises have been generating eons of data, which is used extensively for decision making. In this context, business intelligence (BI) systems are the primary IT solutions to analyze data, generate reports and derive insights to support business decisions. But BI has seen...

Harnessing the Power of Digital Affinity
As insurance companies continue their march towards the ‘Digital’ goal post, they will need to carefully plan their digital evolution through a well-defined maturity progression. There is an ever growing list of innovations in the way digital business is getting conducted, and...

The Lean IT Dossier
Why the buzz around Lean IT? IT industry has tried and tested all the standards/ frameworks but somehow has found it difficult to live up to the expectations of the business. The need of the hour is to be dynamic while IT...

Riding Agile – Appreciating Agile in the most unlikely places
What I call my Leh bike trip in India was an adventure of a lifetime. The challenge can be summed up in one line: You must ride the bike daily for eight to ten hours, during which you will come across the...

User Xperience Vs Customer Xperience – Is there a choice?
Day 1: On a pleasant Sunday afternoon, I was out for lunch with my dear friend. Since we wanted to spend quality time, we chose a fine-dine restaurant to enjoy the ambiance as well as great food. As expected, the restaurant lived...

$460Mn loss in 45 min! Can DevOps be a possible saviour?
This loss is definitely an attention grabber. Yes, you read it right. $172,222 lost per second, for 45 straight minutes. Such incidents and glitches happen suddenly and no amount of preparation can prevent it. While this company faced such a huge loss,...

Terminate IT snags with DevOps
Some years ago, IT professionals around the world noticed that there was a complete disconnect between the developers and the operations team. There were a number of problems arising due to lack of communication and the inability of these teams to work...

Top 10 tips and tricks to select a project for DevOps implementation
With the increase in the DevOps adoption and benefits declared in the industry, organizations that haven’t yet kicked off the journey are now in a rush to implement DevOps and reap its benefits. For traditional organizations the shift that DevOps brings can...