...speed up analytic processing is increasingly popular and highly beneficial in the right setting, says Beyer. In fact, many businesses are already leveraging hybrid transaction/analytical processing (HTAP) — allowing transactions and analytic processing to reside in the same in-memory database. But there’s a lot of hype around HTAP, and businesses have been overusing it, Beyer says. For systems where the user needs to see the same data in the same way many times during the day — and there’s no significant change in the data — in-memory is a waste of money. Recommended for You WSO2 BigDataGame machine learning football super bowl Test your Super Bowl picks with this new machine-learning prediction tool diane greene Why Google hasn't taken off in the cloud yet Yahoo Corporate Yahoo releases a ton of anonymized user data to help machine learning... And while you can perform analytics faster with HTAP, all of the transactions must reside within the same database. The problem, says Beyer, is that most analytics efforts today are about putting transactions from many different systems together. “Just putting it all on one database goes back to this disproven belief that if you want to use HTAP for all of your analytics, it requires all of your transactions to be in one place,” he says. “You still have to integrate diverse data.” Moreover, bringing in an in-memory database means there’s another product to manage, secure, and figure out how to integrate...
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...Amazon’s offices to tackle a question buzzing inside the company: Should Amazon bust open the doors of its most prized data warehouse, containing its myriad databases, and let an eager world of entrepreneurs scavenge through its data jewels? For several years, scores of outsiders had been knocking on Amazon’s door to gain access to the underlying data that powers the $7 billion retailer: product descriptions, prices, sales rankings, customer reviews, inventory figures, and countless other layers of content. In all, it was a data vault that Amazon had spent more than 10 years and a billion dollars to build, organize, and safeguard. So why on earth would Bezos suddenly hand over the keys? Because in the hands of top Web innovators, some at the meeting argued, Amazon’s data could be the dynamo of new websites and businesses that would expand the company’s already gigantic online footprint and ultimately drive more sales. Others worried about the risks. A free-forall, one manager warned, would “change our business in ways we don’t understand.” Bezos ended the debate with characteristic gusto. He leaped from his seat, aping a flasher opening a trench coat. “We’re going to aggressively expose ourselves!” he declared. Today, there’s considerable reason to cheer Bezos’ exhibitionist move. Since the company opened up its data vaults in 2002 under the auspices of a project first called Amazon Web Services, more than 65,000 developers, businesses, and other entrepreneurs...
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...DELOYAL KERSHAW PHYSICAL NETWORKING CLOUD COMPUTING RESEARCH Starting with Amazon EC2 which is Elastic Compute Cloud, they say their a company that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud. When it comes to clouds they can be used not only to perform specific tasks but they can handle a wide range of technologies plugged together to support the operations of whatever company has access to it, and whatever that company is using, plus with Amazon EC2 you can you can commission one, hundreds or even thousands of server instances simultaneously. According to the amazon link provided Amazon EC2 provides developers the tools to build failure resilient applications and isolate themselves from common failure scenarios. Amazon supports a high number of languages. One major like I found on this site is you pay for only what you use, and they have a range of instance types from some as simple as storage, to cluster computing for higher performance, they also have network security tools so the user can control who can access their computers or who can’t access certain information. Amazon says their EC2 has 99.95% availability for each Amazon EC2 Region. The main upsides that catch my interest are price, security, and reliability, I believe this will be the main hook to catch customers interest when it comes to Amazons EC2 September 13, 2013 Amazons EC2 had a network issues that cause amazon to have a cloud outage and “The company also experienced increased error rates...
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...How Data Mining can help a business Data mining can help business strike gold when preparing products for a consumer. However, what is data mining? The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) defines data mining as “the process of finding correlations or patterns among dozens of fields in large relational databases” (N.D.). Oracle helps refine this definition, as this method “provides a way to get at the information buried in the data” (Oracle, N.D.). Oracle goes on to state how data mining helps find “patterns that sometimes elude traditional statistical approaches to analysis because of the large number of attributes, the complexity of patterns, or the difficulty in performing the analysis” (N.D.). There is petabytes of data for many companies and agencies to sort though. Many turn to cloud systems, or run programs that extract the data for them from their sources. UCLA goes on to define data as including operational data, nonoperational data, and Meta data. They use this information to help find associations, relationships, and/or patterns with in the data. They use this to develop knowledge about historical data. Companies like Volvo started to leverage cloud computing. They felt that each car could provide information that improved each car as it was built and driven. They also felt that the information provided by each car could improve the consumer experience while driving one of their cars. To support this, Volvo developed a sensor suite that contained...
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...According to recent news, Google is one of the latest tech companies to find themselves facing a lawsuit from their own delivery drivers. The suit, alleging illegal treatment of drivers, was filed in Massachusetts and is a class-action complaint. The class action Google lawsuit states that drivers for Google Express, the company’s next-day/same-day delivery service, are misclassified as independent contractors. Additional claims include, but are not limited to: unlawful deductions from worker pay, failure to pay overtime, etc. Google is only the latest in a string of Bay Area-based tech companies that have been sued regarding their treatment of on-demand transportation and delivery drivers. Other well known defendants include: Uber, Postmates,...
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...Business Analysis of Apple, Inc. Padma L. Dongre MGT521 Nov 28, 2011 Dr. Stephen McCann Background. Apple Inc. designs, manufactures, and markets personal computers, portable digital music players, and mobile communication devices. It sells a variety of related software, services, peripherals, and networking solutions. The Company sells its products worldwide through its online stores, retail stores, direct sales force, and third-party wholesalers, and resellers. In addition, the Company sells a variety of third-party Macintosh ("Mac"), iPod, iPhone, iPad compatible products, including application software, printers, storage devices, speakers, headphones, and various other accessories and peripherals through its online and retail stores. The Company sells to education, consumer, creative professional, business, and government customers. The Company's fiscal year is the 52 or 53-week period that ends on the last Saturday of September. The Company's strategy also includes expanding its distribution network to effectively reach more of its targeted customers and provide them with a high-quality sales and post-sales support experience. Financial Analysis: Detailed financial statements are available in Appendix A. This information provides immense detail in the financial status of Apple, Inc. over time. Combined with data regarding product sales, much can be derived to analyze Apple’s strength. Revenue rose 40% in 2011...
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...Assignment #4: Capstone Project BUS 599, Fall Quarter Abstract and brief summary In a competitive market, a company needs to formulate policies and strategies to maintain above average profitability. Corporate management must create strategies and capitalize on evolving competitive markets (Lindgrin, 2012). Both the companies Yahoo and Amazon are constantly implementing such strategies to maintain a reputation that stays ahead of the market trends, information system and globalization. This study will evaluate the success of both companies’ corporate-level strategies in terms of horizontal integration, vertical integration, strategic outsourcing and diversification, and will determine the type of strategy that contributed most effectively to the creation of a successful and profitable multibusiness model. Additionally, this paper will recommend an appropriate new strategy for each company that may maximize profitability and improved competitiveness in the industry. Yahoo!, Inc. Competitive analysis To better understand Yahoo’s internal and external opportunities and threats, in order to better estimate Yahoo’s ability to capture value, our starting point would be a quick analysis of operating and financial performance of Yahoo comparing to its peers in the industry during the last four years. We already...
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...related searches and the positive impacts of Google’s competencies towards its business model. Moreover, this report provides recommendations that Google are effectively able to utilise. Introduction Google, a provider of multiple products and services, with the mission to “organise the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful”, is the number one web search engine. Additionally, Google has an old online shopping service site whose rivals include Amazon and eBay (Newth, F 2012). However, recently, in 2012, Google announced its adaption of a new paid model, where retailers were now starting to get charged. Moreover, the bases discussed throughout the report will be grounded in Google’s competency test, and its impact towards Google business model (Newth, F 2012). Google’s development of new strategicresources, dynamic capabilities and core competency Google’s recent change of passing on costs, a fee, to online retailers who display their products on the Google online shopping site (Hartwig, J. I 2012), will require Google to develop new strategic resources, dynamic capabilities and a core competency. Firstly, developing new strategic resources to work aside Google’s new paid model (Hartwig, J. I 2012), will mean that Google will need to improvise on teaching Google employees currently working in the Google online shopping sector, to adapt to the new changes appropriately, through being educationally mentored on new policies, procedures and most importantly...
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...computing there are many services that one can choose from to use for their business. The three that I am comparing are amazon, Google, and Rackspace. Rackspace has many features to choose from and can really help depending on what you will need to use. They have ecommerce sites, mobile apps, rich media sites, test/dev environments, sharepoint developments, saas applications, corporate websites, and enterprise applications. You can access linux and windows servers, my SQL cloud databases with 229% faster performance than RDS, high performance ssd block storage and cloud files storage with cdn, and software defined networks. You have the option of building your own language; it is open to any API depending on what language you prefer whether it is Java, Python etc. They also have Rackspace private cloud and hybrid cloud that you can try. Amazon has many of the same features you can choose from. They have a lot of high memory space like extra large instance is 17.1GB, double extra memory is 34.2GB, and quadruple extra large is 68.4 GB. It can be used on many different operating systems such as red hat, suse linux, fedora, windows server, amazon linux, Gentoo linux, oracle, Ubuntu, and debian. The cost depends on exactly how much you use and they charge by the hour with no long term commitments. It is reliable, secure, inexpensive, and easy to start. With the google cloud they have a lot of security features to make sure your work is safe. Your work is always backed up, you can control...
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...Assignment A: Design Adwords Campaign with top keywords shortlisted by using Google Keyword Tool and Google Trends. Define the KPIs for the shortlisted keywords. (Max 50 keywords – across categories) Objective of Adword Campaign: Whenever we design an adword campaign we have to get the goal as what are objectives we want to attain. With the use of adwords our major task would be to increase: * Sales * Brand Awareness * Increase site visit Adword Campaign: The Campaign is ran for a month for selected cites where helmet wearing is compulsory while driving 2- Wheeler. These would be Tier 1 cities. As of the 2011 census, there are 8 tier 1 cities in India – Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Chennai, Delhi, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Mumbai and Pune and 8% of Indian population reside in tier 1 cities. We will try to makes these people aware of the brand and encourage online sales. There will be a campaign that one focus just on the helmets and the Accessories. Build awareness amongst people who may not have heard of your brand before or whose perception we want to influence. Targeting to influe the decision of people who are researching Helmets but haven’t yet made a purchasing decision. We will use the Bid Strategy which defaults to manual CPC with enhanced CPC enabled but offers the option to switch to auto-bidding, CPM, Conversion Optimizer or Flexible bid strategy settings and Dynamic Ad Settings for dynamic availability of ads . The Different ad groups...
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...How does IBM compete against rivals? What challenges does it face and why? In your opinion, does it have a sustainable competitive advantage? IBM has experienced a large decline in its traditional hardware and software business over the past few years, with a share price decline of 20% from $200 to $150. The cause for this decline is majorly due to a shift in almost all industries to outsource IT and eventually run enterprise IT on the cloud, which brings significant cost advantages to organization. Traditionally every company would establish its own IT department, hire people to fill position and spend money on hardware, software and real estate to store the servers and mainframes. Handling such aspects of the business in house can be cost intensive and slow in adaptation to new industry standards. The introduction of cloud computing has created a new environment for software and hardware companies to compete in. Revenue models are switching from single payment contracts with maintenance agreements to a subscription based pay what ever a company uses. This means that all the costs associated with developing H&S in house, the people the space are only to be paid as needed and never owned. This can lead to significant cost savings. To address these changes in the IT industry IBM has taken on to master the cloud for enterprise IT in order to deliver a faster, cheaper computing solution for companies. Their strategy is based on data, analytics and security. On top of...
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...Dec. 21 (Bloomberg) -- Research In Motion Ltd. surged as much as 12.6 percent in German trading after reports said Microsoft Corp. and Nokia Oyj mulled a joint bid, while Amazon.com Inc. considered buying the maker of the BlackBerry smartphone. RIM “turned down takeover overtures” from Amazon because it wanted to fix its shortcomings independently, Reuters reported yesterday. That was followed by a Wall Street Journal article that said Microsoft and Nokia “flirted with the idea of making a joint bid” in recent months. Both cited unidentified people familiar with the matter. Microsoft looked at the option of making a joint bid with Nokia for RIM, according to a person with knowledge of the matter who asked not to be identified because the talks were private. The proposal, which included Nokia taking on RIM's hardware business, was discussed in an informal manner and wasn't taken to the board level, the person said. Before the reports, RIM stock had tumbled to its lowest level in almost eight years. Last week, the company disclosed a delay in a new generation of BlackBerrys designed to fuel a rebound, adding to challenges that include lost market share and a tablet device that bombed with shoppers. The 78 percent plunge in RIM's shares this year before today leaves it vulnerable to an approach from suitors, said Sameet Kanade, an analyst at Northern Securities Inc. Shares Surge “At this valuation, it is a strong acquisition target,” said Kanade, who is based in Toronto...
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...Executive Summary Google AdWords, Google Chrome, Google Books, Google+, Google Earth, 88 successful acquisitions (including Youtube and Motorola), Android and now Google self-driving cars. This list is far not exhaustive and seems to be endless. Although Google AdWords accounts for 97% of the company’s revenues, whose market capitalization now tops $192 billion, the company is investing heavily in new innovative projects to diversify itself and enter new markets. One of the more recent ones is Google’s development of self-driving cars and even though CEO Larry Page tried to play down the company’s new project in Google’s Q2 earnings call in July, the team enjoys a staffing of 50 people. By way of comparison, the Android team had about 100 people working on it when the first Android phone was shipped in 2008. To determine an appropriate discount rate for the project, we will first define the project’s characteristics and will, based on those definitions, derive reasonable input factors for the CAPM. To show the sensitivity of the discount rate to those factors, we additionally provide sensitivity analyses. Product characteristics Google is a highly innovative company which has already gained a lot of experience to market new products. To make sure that the introduction of the self-driving car is consistent with Google’s overall business strategy, we decided that its characteristics should be similar to a related product: Android, the operating system for mobile devices. To...
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...SWOT ANALYSIS OF GOOGLE [pic] GOOGLE’S BUSINESS STRATEGY: AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF THE STRENGTHS; WEAKNESSES; OPPORTUNITIES; AND THREATS (SWOT) OF GOOGLE BY: KWAKU F. DARKWAH (MBA; B.ED; CTLLS; ASSOCIATE-CIPD; MInstLM) CEO/FOUNDER: ADESUA GLOBAL, GHANA LECTURER-MANAGEMENT DEPARTMENT, LONDON SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT EDUCATION (LSME) FEBRUARY, 2010 IF YOU NEED A FREE UPDATED COPY OF THIS ARTICLE IN PDF FORMAT, JUST SEND YOUR REQUEST TO: [pic]adesuaglobal@gmail.com [pic]This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it [pic] THIS ARTICLE IS DEDICATED TO ALL ASPIRING BUSINESS ENTREPRENEURS 1:1 INTRODUCTION Arguably, in the last 10 years since the expansion of information technology as a result of the internet; one astounding firm that has impacted on our lives is Google. All age groups; different ethnic backgrounds; different religious backgrounds; different political backgrounds and affiliations all have been influenced by the impact of this organisation. Debatably, Google is one of the most powerful search engines in the world. Arguably, it can be said that Google is the most visited website in the world. It is now worth in excess of $94billion, although its value has more than halved since December 2007 (Time, 2008). Google attracts about 61.9 per cent of all internet searches online. According to Clark (2007) Google accounts for 56% of all searches on the internet according to the online research firm Comscore...
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...| Futures & Options Report | | | | | | a) Our portfolio consists of five stocks, one put option and one futures contract. The five stocks we have are Exxon Mobil (XOM), Johnson & Johnson (JNJ), Google (GOOG), Ford (F), and Amazon (AMZN). These stocks are all traded on the NASDAQ stock market. We have purchased ten shares of each of the five stocks below. Below is a graph with shows when we purchased the stocks and how much it cost at that time. | Stock P | Date | Time | AMZN | $179.97 | 3/5/2012 | 1:28pm | XOM | $86.67 | 3/5/2012 | 1:29pm | GOOG | $614.70 | 3/5/2012 | 1:28pm | F | $12.48 | 3/5/2012 | 1:29pm | JNJ | $64.67 | 3/5/2012 | 1:28pm | The table below now shows the results of how the stock performed from 3/5/12 to 3/16/12: We will discuss some stock analysis and the gain/loss later in this report. | Current | Date | Time | AMZN | 185.05 | 3/16/2012 | 1:28pm | XOM | 86.44 | 3/16/2012 | 1:29pm | GOOG | 625.4 | 3/16/2012 | 1:28pm | F | $12.51 | 3/16/2012 | 1:29pm | JNJ | $65.12 | 3/16/2012 | 1:28pm | Other than having five stocks, we have a put option for Procter & Gamble and a futures contract of Gold. b) Analyzing the futures contract of gold we bought at the beginning, March 2, 2012, it closed at $1,698 which meant our initial value was at $10,125 with a margin call at $7500. If it drops below that price then we would have to borrow money to bring it back up to the initial margin. On March 3...
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