Business Intelligence: Accelerate Your Business Performance by Ramki M
Business intelligence is the process of gathering information from the business. The gathered business information is transformed into knowledge using business intelligence. Business intelligence will ease the decision making process, helps in understanding the customer taste and market trends. ... Business Intelligence Definition The basic definition of business intelligence "the process of gathering information about a business or industry matter; a broad range of applications and technologies for gathering, storing, analyzing, and providing access to data that helps to make business...

Business Intelligence guide by Mansi Aggarwal
Business intelligence can be defined as a set of business processes designed to garner and analyze business information. It is a vast category of application of programs that includes providing access to data to help an entrepreneur in his business decisions, task of query and reporting, online... While framing and implementing a business intelligence program there are several crucial points to be borne in mind. ... This is precisely the reason that business intelligence is also referred to as ‘decision-support system’ or DSS.

Gaming Captures the Hearts of Gamers, Alleviates Loneliness, and Creates a New Market for Businesses by Paul W Wilson
Gaming is popular with teenagers, women, children, as well as men. Older people say they play games as it alleviates loneliness and puts them in contact with others. Statistics reveal that 41% of gamers are women and more than 43 % gamers are aged 25-49. ... Analysts predict that by 2007 online gaming will be at least 285 petabits a month, the revenue generated by online subscriptions for gaming is expected to reach US$ 650 million annually. ... Online gaming architecture has six business aspects: the subscriber; the advertiser; the gaming platform provider; the broadband service provider;...

Spy on Your Competitors; 10 Tips To Monitoring The Competition by Sharon Housley
The old adage, "keep your friends close, and your enemies closer", is applicable not only to personal relationships but business relationships as well. While I'm not suggesting that you befriend your competitors, it is important that you are cognizant of your competitors' business ventures and... Competitive Intelligence is researching the business environment or techniques that another business uses. ... Competitive Intelligence is often used to influence a strategy for business development. ... http://www.google.com/alerts http://www.googlealert.com/ (3rd party tracking service) -...

PCI Compliance - Avoid Data Theft Incidents by Jill Ratkevic
In response to the growing number of data theft incidents, the PCI Data Security Standard, developed by MasterCard and VISA and also being enforced by American Express, has been put in place to protect cardholder information. Merchants and service providers must implement PCI compliance or face... Whether you are selling books online or groceries at a local store, computer-based transactions result in a log data file that is a fingerprint of user and computer systems activity. ... An online merchant can generate upwards of 500,000 log messages every day.

Accelerating Accumulated Data by Lance Winslow
In the quest to crunch more data to find anomalies in the data and seek out more data to sort through to catch International Terrorists we must be careful that the process is working. And as we continually make sure the data is correct we must also find ways to collect the most up to date data... Unfortunately their systems do not have artificial intelligence to find erroneous information or figure into things probabilities. ... For instance often, online subscriptions to various publications ask for your age, date of birth or other personal information.

Professional Video Game Development Courses on the Rise by Madison Lockwood
The University of Southern California has announced the introduction of a bachelor's program in video game development. With the advent of sophisticated games such as MMOs and the merging of commercial interests with virtual reality, it is possible that USC did this as an academic exercise... Basic job descriptions within the business have included: Programmer A programmer can work on the game engine, the artificial intelligence features, the tools, hardware and network. ... The sophisticated graphics used in videogames are increasingly appearing in online commercials with high-gloss...

About InfraGard by Rob Pirozzi
The purpose of this article is to familiarize individuals with InfraGard, which is an organization whose purpose is to help protect "critical United States infrastructures". This article will describe the organization, its mission and goals, and how individuals and organizations can become... InfraGard now also deals with the exchange of information concerning various terrorism, intelligence, criminal, and security matters. ... InfraGard is an association dedicated to sharing both information and intelligence with the goal of preventing hostile acts against the United States.

Benefits of Portal Content Management by Balaji B
Organizations need to provide timely, relevant information to customers, partners, and employees anywhere in the world, to meet today's business requirements. Some of the hurdles that the organizations face in achieving this are IT bottlenecks, information getting lost, irrelevant and outdated... Portal content management software provide a simple, web-based user interface for creating and publishing content to portals, to empower non-technical, line-of-business users to create, manage, and publish their own content.

So You Want to be a Games Developer? by David Bolton
In the good old days, back when the Internet had about 10 users and the web was a far off vision, PCs were called Home Computers and anyone could learn to write computer games. Three of us set up in business to write and sell our own games for the ZX Spectrum (Aka Timex/Sinclair) and Commodore 64. ... It is quite a tough business – when a game is under development, you’ll live breathe and eat it for 18 months-two years. ... These have been around for 30 years and were the precursor to the MMORPG (Massive Multiplayer Online Role-playing Games) that now exist.