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5 Things I learned about Integration project while building my home

​ From my childhood I had a dream to have my own house. It should have nice surroundings, good greenery, and nice neighbors. Also, the room size will be good enough. It should have my own study room. Now I am very near to my dream and it becomes a reality. The house is being built by the builder. However, my wife and I decided to have our customized kitchen. So, the modular kitchen and on top of it granite fitting, we have decided to go by ourselves. This had teach me very important lesson about the integration project. I have listed top five lessons I have learned about the integration project. Although the pre-requisite is to hire the consultant who has prior experience of similar kind of job. 1.        Interface specification :  The first thing I faced while implementing the granite top and modular kitchen is that getting the measurement from both the team, - the carpenter team and the team who will cut, fix and set the granite. It...

Big data and commerce/eCommerce merchandising

As Craig Mundie, Senior Advisor to the CEO at Microsoft mentioned that "data are becoming new raw material about the business", the Omni-channel merchandising are making their decision based on the data and analytics helps them to predict the future demand flow. The Big data analytics are helping the merchandising decisions retailers are making every day. A few examples where data driven decision are being taken in the etail/retail space regularly. Although, business decisions are very complex and based on a lot more factors, below are the few examples where key matrices are created and helps management to take decisions. Assortment :  Keep product A, drop product B, add product C – these kind of decisions were taken based on the data and sensitivity analysis using big data frame work. Online Marketing and campaign management : Big data can analyze the sentiments of the customers based on the reviews and analyzing the social media and helps marketing team to take info...