Sprint weathered the challenges and reaped the rewards of killing off PBX
systems and moving to a unified communications suite with Microsoft Lync. Here’s
how this transition made life easier for Sprint workers and saved millions in
reduced technology and real estate costs.
Here is the syntax to quickly backup a database in SQL Server 2005.
Backup database [database name] to disk=’path where you want the file.bak’
Eg:-
backup database CRM_MSCRM to disk=’c:\crmbackup_rakesh.bak’
You can make the backup command to a completely different level but this is a quick tip on just getting a backup to perform some quick maintenance.
1. New Business Intelligence Functionality
The new real-time dashboards in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 deliver advanced business intelligence functionality that is simple to use.Users can quickly configure multiple dashboards to monitor business performance, for example. The dashboards can be set up for individual or shared use, and can include inline charts with drill-down intelligence to visually navigate data, identify trends and uncover new insights. Read More…
Google has announced it will acquire the highly-regarded travel and food rating service Zagat.
According to a post on theofficial Google blog, the company will provide access to Google Maps and search to Zagat services as well as use Zagat’s reviews and other content to beef up their local offerings.”With Zagat, we gain a world-class team that has more experience in consumer based-surveys, recommendations and reviews than anyone else in the industry,” says Marissa Mayer, Google’s vice president of Local, Maps and Location Services, in the post. Read More…
Google’s chief economist Hal Varian commented in January that the next sexy job in the next 10 years would be statisticians
What is it all about?
The web is full of “data-driven apps.” Almost any e-commerce application is a data-driven application. There’s a database behind a web front end, and middle ware that talks to a number of other databases and data services (credit card processing companies, banks, and so on). But merely using data isn’t really what we mean by “data science.” A data application acquires its value from the data itself, and creates more data as a result. It’s not just an application with data; it’s a data product. Data science enables the creation of data products.
The 3 key skills required are the following
1) Statistics – traditional analysis you’re used to thinking about
2)Data Munging – parsing, scraping, and formatting data
3)Visualization – graphs, tools, etc.
