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Announced on March 20, 2018, a new Operating System;  Windows Server 2019  by Microsoft as part of the Windows NT family is under development. It will be within reach of general availability as of around  the end quarter of the year 2018.  The first Windows Insider (an open software testing program) preview version released on the same day. WS2019 starts with build 17623. One can say it’s the next version of Windows Server 2016. Improvements Introduced with Microsoft 2019 Server – Hybrid Cloud Deployments Application platform Security Hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI)  – one of the latest trends in the server industry. Read In Details:  https://www.hitechnectar.com/blogs/windows-server-2019-features-release-specifications/

Companies grow, and so does their customer base.   Hundreds turn to thousands, thousands to millions and so on. Keeping track of all the customer’s activities becomes difficult and tricky. But knowing the patterns in the customers’ behaviors provides the decision makers with guidelines for planning their business strategy.  Surfing through such a massive database is humanly impossible.  This is where customer analytics comes into the picture. But what is customer analytics? Let’s find out. What is customer analytics ? As the name suggests, customer analytics deals with analyzing the customer database. It is a process by which the data gathered from customer behavior is used as guidelines to make key business decisions through market segmentation, predictive analysis, data visualization, information management, etc. The information thus gathered from the study is used to strategize direct marketing, site selection and in CRM (Customer Relationship Management). We can thus summari

Facebook’s new Oculus Go is visibly a big win, and anyone who is coming across it wants one. Preface to VR, AR: A realistic 3D image or simulated/artificial environment; created by blending interactive hardware & software is a computer-generated scenario, for a ‘seemingly’ real or physical experience. It focuses on gaining complete immersion and the perception of being physically present in a non-physical world. Whereas, augmented reality systems layers virtual information over a live camera feed into a headset or through digital devices giving the user the ability to view 3D images. Its easy example being Pokemon Go, you could see Clefairy in your environment through it when she is  not real ly there. Product:   Oculus Go Release Date:   1 May 2018 Oculus Venues , which allow users to connect with others and watch from any angle live social events like concerts, sports, or comedy nights is set to launch on Oculus Go and Gear VR on 30th May. Read More:  https://www.h

Shifting trends from B2C to B2B Business to Business Electronic Commerce; implicating one business selling to another business via Web is genuinely global. Yes, to you maybe B2C has triumphed more with e-commerce, it has an appearance in everywhere, and nearly half of them are millennial. You will be shocked if we tell you that the B2B e-commerce industry is said to be four times higher than the B2C market. In not more than just a couple of years it will mature into a market that will be worth $1 Trillion, as per the US Department of Commerce, with more than more than 15% of all B2B sales within the United States. Your B2B e-commerce startup choices must be one that can accommodate order requirements, website interface, client experience, payment integrations and also contribute to sound management when the business is growing. Read More:  https://www.hitechnectar.com/blogs/best-practices-b2b-e-commerce-platform-business/

Explaining  Blockchain-as-a-service  (BaaS) &  AWS  (Amazon Web Services) Blockchain A Blockchain here in the purest form by definition is a database or a ledger of all the transactions continuously growing list of data. Born from bitcoin in 2008, blockchain’s promise of a distributed ledger has far more significant implications than cryptocurrency. However, by Bitcoin, many are reminded of the WannaCry ransomware attack that happened back in May 2017. So, Is there any interdependence between those two, or are they two separate entities. The blockchain is a public electronic ledger. Primarily a database, which stores an unalterable record of transactions between users, each one time-stamped and linked to the former one so it cannot be altered or replicated. Each digital document or transaction in it is called a block, and the string of blocks is a chain, hence the name. Read More:  https://www.hitechnectar.com/blogs/baas-blockchain-service-work/

What is IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service)? Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) is the thing that you have to be reasoning about once you start thinking of creating cloud architecture for your organization. There are a lot of different components of the cloud that generally people don’t know about and have no clue to what’s going on and start doing migrations. IaaS is one of the tiers in the Cloud Computing model out of the three fundamental service models. Other two being PaaS and SaaS. With IaaS, however, the user is given an opening to virtualized components to build their own IT platforms. That includes offerings as virtual server space, network connections, bandwidth, IP addresses and load balancers. So are they like Dropbox or Google drive? Read More:  https://www.hitechnectar.com/blogs/top-5-infrastructure-as-a-service-iaas-providers-in-2018/

One of the biggest question that businesses are facing these days is connected with the question, how to improve recruitment and selection process? The process of recruitment has changed drastically after the arrival of many software solutions and supporting technology. On the lines of drawing a comparison, we can say that the way accounting software changed the world of accounting at the turn of the century, the same history is going to repeat itself in the process of the  recruitment . 1. Most of the companies are looking for suggestions to improve recruitment process. The first thing that a company can do here is connected with the procurement of the draft of the recruitment needs of the company. They should  post these needs in the best possible fashion on various online sources  where an individual can check his or her suitability with the requirements of the company. 2. The process of recruitment is a complex one, hence  having a recruitment process checklist handy is a must

Markets are shifting base, they are hovering on digital platforms. Various operations and processes connected with sales department are now finding a way in the  digital world . A solution like DocuSign can act as a genie for your business. The current compilation is an answer to the question how does DocuSign work? Five Ways DocuSign Helps You Increase Sales & Revenue 1. Increase in Sales Capacity and Reach:  With the introduction of DocuSign a company can bring down the timing of its sales cycles. For this, one has to know the answer to the question that asks  how to use DocuSign? DocuSign helps automate your sales process to the highest extent, enabling you to create and disburse contracts, documents, procure customer signatures digitally, etc. This supports the decision-making system in the direction of the sales conversion. 2. Improvement in Closure Rate:  The destination of the closure of a deal demands constant push and pulls, you are required to pull old quotes and p

Some even call it a  “milestone of the digital age”  GDPR is General Data Protection Regulation and it will be enforced amongst the 28 European Union (EU) members including UK (Brexit).  It’s 88 pages and 50,000 words long, it’s one big new data protection regulation as of May 2018 for not only just EU but also for anyone regardless of where you or your company is based- US, Germany, Japan, China wherever- GDPR applies to anyone who offers products or services to or  of  consumers in Europe and takes effect on May 2018. It creates rules for all European Residents’ data and how it must be handled. Effective Date & Deadline for GDPR GDPR was adopted on  27 April 2016  but will come into force effective from  25 May 2018 , after a two-year transition period. It was kind of already there by 2016, which also gave plenty of time for all the organizations to prepare their companies to comply with its laws and Regulations. EU accounts for about 25% of Global GDP, so it’s not some