Does Remote Working at your Enterprise Merit Consideration?
A few months back, Yahoo! stopped its remote working program. Best Buy followed suit by announcing that it was also discontinuing remote working. Apart from the top management philosophy behind these decision, remote working has it’s own set of pros and cons. It enables employees to have a good work-life balance as it allows them […]
Read MoreHow about Collaborating with the Competition & Growing Together?
To most entrepreneurs and small business owners, the word ‘competition’ is a dreaded one. For them, it’s a word that brings out visions of a stolen market share, price wars, and copied ideas. What most of these entrepreneurs don’t acknowledge is that competition is inevitable. One may be a leader in their market, but somehow […]
Read MoreTowards More Productive Meetings
Meetings are an essential tool for getting things done by collaboration. Last week I attended a meeting that I felt was very productive. Even though it was not very long, we could finish discussing most of the things that we had set out to. Unfortunately, most of the corporate meetings don’t go that way. Here’s […]
Read More13 Reasons Why Your Business Should Use Email Marketing
Introduction to Email Marketing Many small businesses have come to realize the potential of online media as a marketing channel, mainly because it’s one of the most measurable and affordable marketing channels. Consequently, social media became a buzzword among businesses who were following the herd, without caring much about whether a match existed between their […]
Read MoreHow Big Data is Being Used Across Industry Verticals
Big Data in business refers to our ability to collect and make sense out of huge amounts of data that is ever-expanding and decoding it into meaningful information, and more importantly, actionable strategies. Today in almost every industry, data-driven strategies are being used to compete, innovate, optimize costs or enhance the customer experience. For instance, […]
Read MoreOur Bit for Uttarakhand Flood Relief. Are you joining?
Nothing alleviates the pain and trauma caused to the victims of the ghastly flood that hit divine lands in Uttarakhand, India. All we can hope for is that such a deadly night of 16th June never repeat itself, and that peace be with families of the victims. To do our bit, PromptCloud has extended a […]
Read MoreAPI Alternatives: Dropbox, AWS S3, and Google Drive Delivery Options
Although our API is extremely simple to use and automate data downloads from, we have now expanded our data delivery modes. You can pick the delivery route that integrates well with your internal process and suits you best. PromptCloud can now provide data delivery using the following 3 ways too: 1. AWS S3– If you […]
Read MoreBig Data Solutions for Classified Engines
The pre-digital state of classified ads was extremely monolithic; requiring a pair of reading glasses even for the normal eyes. Then came the internet with the explosion of websites. Digitization of classifieds too was happening and Craiglist was the pioneer. What followed is evident to all. There were more players rushing to this zone, and given the […]
Read MoreAmazon EC2 On-demand vs. Reserved Instance Price Calculator
If you use Amazon EC2 extensively, then you’ve fallen prey to the dilemma of “to reserve or not to reserve”. It is however a simple question in the sense that for a reserved instance, you pay a lesser per hour fee but end up paying an additional one-time fee upfront. So what is the optimal […]
Read MoreFunding geographic data for Geo-specific Market Research
Geographic data is, by far, the single most indispensable entity on which a business stands these days even before standing on brick and mortar. We have already discussed various use cases that validate the above statement in our older posts on What enterprises do with Big Data series. But here’s a specific use case that deserves […]
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