Why and How this Indian Realty Portal Exploits Data Science

While banks and ecommerce companies have tried their hands at data science and are benefitting from their initiatives around it, real estate appears to be the next big vertical that intends to leverage data science.

Housing.com, the Mumbai-based startup, is one among the top Indian online businesses that bet on data science and machine learning algorithms as a core priority. The realty portal, which raised $190 mn from Japan’s SoftBank, has come up with many tools such as Traffic Flux, Heat Maps, Listing Decay, and more in their efforts to present information to users in a visually appealing way that is more interactive than traditional plain listings.

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Realising positive returns through eDiscovery

Investing in eDiscovery may seem like an unwanted expense, but could you really afford to do nothing? There are few organisations who can afford to do nothing, as the consequences of not being prepared can cost a company considerably more.

Bringing an eDiscovery solution in house and preparing for potential litigation, drastically reduces storage costs, legal fees paid to outside vendors and lowers IT operations costs.

This paper discusses the possible cost savings in the several stages of the process and illustrates how you can lower costs by being proactive towards organisation and management of relevant information.

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10 companies that are deriving ROI from cloud

Considering the numerous benefits of the cloud model like cost flexibility, business scalability, and ecosystem connectivity, a number of Indian enterprises are evaluating the technology and are preparing to jump on the cloud bandwagon. In fact, according to a recent survey by VMware, 79 percent respondents in India said they currently have a cloud-related initiative in place within the organization or are planning to implement cloud or 'as-a-service' approach, in the next 12 months.

Let’s take a look at 10 Indian companiesacross various sectors that are frontrunners in cloud adoption and are already deriving business value from cloud.

1. Hexaware: Unleashing the true potential of cloud with significant cost savings

2. Zovi: Saves USD 200,000 of annual operating expenses due to cloud

3. Narayana Hrudayalaya: Fuelling growth, resilience with the cloud

4. Maharashtra Government: Shows power of cloud with savings of Rs 50 crore

5. Infosys: Using cloud for infrastructure optimization

6. Essar Group: Demonstrating the real power of cloud with superb ROI

7. Maruti Suzuki: Empowering dealers using cloud

8. Thermax: Cloud brings flexibility, security and outreach to remote locations

9. MPS: Saves USD 150,000 per year by moving to the cloud

10. Future Group: Private cloud brings down maintenance costs by 20-40 percent

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An Introduction to Capturing and Measuring IT Value

How do you know that your investment in a new business application has returned value-and how much value? The answer lies in following the five important steps of capturing value for a successful enterprise. <>P An Introduction to Capturing and Measuring IT Value guide will answer these questions:

What is the importance of measuring IT value?
What are the steps to capture value?
How important is setting performance goals?
What are the benefits?
How do I ensure success?
What else should one keep in mind?
What about the cost factor?
What are the ROI?

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The Tech State of E-Commerce

New technologies are evolving the Internet, and are also assisting in the growth of the e-commerce industry. Since everything from product images to promotions can impact a retailer’s success, merchants should focus on the five key areas in order to gain the best return on investment (ROI) in the current state of e-commerce.

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An In-Depth Look at ROI

In this economy, as IT budgets remain flat or get reduced, doing more with the infrastructure you have has never been more important. But is investing more money in the same old networking infrastructure wise? In this whitepaper, Riverbed discusses its compelling and powerful return on investment in hard dollars, and a way to leap past the obstacles preventing you from reaching your IT objectives.