CA Prashant Jain

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Green Computing In Practice: Benefits And Implications

Green computing is the study and practice of using computing resources efficiently. The goals are similar to green chemistry; that is reduce the use of hazardous materials, maximize energy efficiency during the product's lifetime, and promote recyclability or biodegradability of defunct products and factory waste. Taking into consideration the popular use of information technology industry, it has to lead a revolution of sorts by turning green in a manner no industry has ever done before. It is worth emphasizing that this “green technology” should not be just about sound bytes to impress activists but concrete action and organizational policy. Opportunities lie in green technology like never before in history and organizations are seeing it as a way to create new profit centers while trying to help the environmental cause. The plan towards green IT should include new electronic products and services with optimum efficiency and all possible options towards energy savings. ... Read more

Knowledge Management Solutions - The IT Contribution

Managing an organization’s knowledge more effectively and exploiting it in the marketplace is the latest pursuit of those seeking competitive advantage. The interest in knowledge management has surged during the last few years, with a growing number of publications, conferences and investment in knowledge management initiatives. ... Read more

Exploring Parameters To Measure Efficacy Of Information Technology (It) Enabled Supply Chain

Supply Chain Management is a wide concept as it has been using as a tool to maximizing the organizational profits. Proper working of all the nodes within the supply chain, requires proper execution, sharing and exchange of information among all the nodes. Almost every supply chain practicing organization is using information technology as a means to communicate, share and exchange the information throughout the supply chain. This requires parameters to review test IT enabled Supply chain periodically to ensure its efficacy. This study aimed to identify the parameters to measure the efficacy of IT enable supply chain. The parameters were explored and conceptualized on the basis of literature reviews and empirically tested in manufacturing sector of India and final parameters are identified. ... Read more

Data Mining: An Effective Technique To Study Consumer Buying Behavior

In the industrial scenario the degree of success of the any Organization and the Manager’s job is measured by the ratio of Outputs to Inputs. Thus, this ratio becomes the indication of Organization’s Productivity. Hence, all managerial/administrative activities revolve around decision making. The manager is first and foremost a decision maker. As Managers have considered ‘Decision Making’ a pure art, a talent required for long period of the time through experience. A variety of individual styles could be used in analyzing a problem and finally solving successfully managerial problems. These managerial styles are often based on Creativity, Judgment, Intuition and experience rather than on systematic quantitative methods based on a scientific way. But in today’s situation business and its dynamics are rapidly changing and have become more complex than ever before. These changes in business world has wider impact on the managerial decision making process. Due to this situation, today decision making is more complicated than it was in the past. It is more difficult to make decisions for several reasons. Harbridge House (a Boston Firm) has conducted a survey, and ranked Clear-cut decisions needed as the most important of 10 management practices. As the trends are changing, it is very difficult to rely upon trial and error approach to management, in case of decision is unstructured and semi-structured decision making situations. Managers must learn sophisticated, new tools and techniques. Using these technological tools such as Data Mining, its mostly hot- cake in today’s managerial decision process. ... Read more

Comparatively Study Of Real Organization & Virtual Organization

The Invention of Internet & web technology has given Birth to so many new concepts in Business one of such example is emergence of virtual Banking. Virtual banking is one of the latest emerging trends on the Indian Banking Scenario. Usage of Virtual banking, though present in India was rest restricted to foreign banks. Today most of public sectors banks branches in metros and cities, have computerized front office operations (customer transaction) and their back office operation and information management system are also increasingly getting computerized and integrated. However, it may be noted that the traditional ‘brick and mortar’ banking with manual system does continue to prevail in most banks’ rural branches in urban areas too, most of the urban co-operative banks continue to use the manual system of banking. The article studies the comparatively Study of real banking & virtual banking in India and its role in fostering relationships with customers and giving them more value. The proposed study includes the evolution need and relevant, forces driving, merits and demerits of real banking and virtual banking. This work will include the comparative study of virtual banking and real (Traditional Banking) banking. Results have shown that virtual corporation (banking) can produce financial rewards for the organization. ... Read more

Sequential Pattern Extraction From Server Access Logs Using Plpc-Tree Algorithm

This contribution concerns mining frequent sequential patterns on click stream data applications contend with many challenges such as limited memory for unlimited data. Existing work on mining frequent patterns on data streams are mostly for non-sequential patterns and mines the frequent sequences from the WAP-tree by recursively re-constructing intermediate trees, starting with suffix sequences and ending with prefix sequences. This paper proposes an algorithm that uses data structure PLPC-tree to handle the complexities of mining frequent sequential patterns in data streams by totally elimination of numerous re-construction of intermediate WAP-trees during mining. The proposed algorithm constructs the tree while finding frequent individual events and then builds the frequent header node links of the original WAP-tree in an ordered fashion and uses the position code of each node to identify the ancestor/descendant relationships between nodes of the tree. It then, finds each frequent sequential pattern, through progressive prefix sequence search, starting with its first prefix subsequence event. Experiments show good performance gain over the WAP-tree technique. ... Read more

Evolution Of Flexible Software Model: From On-Premise To Saas

There are numerous ways of selling software these days. Business owners and technology leaders have many questions like should they buy software as a service or traditional on-premise? Which is best, user, usage- based pricing? In this research paper, we examine the challenges and future opportunities with Software as a Service. The paper also includes key questions for companies considering SaaS Vs Traditional on premise softwares. This research tries to explore areas for management to think and choose wisely between SaaS and traditional license softwares. The aim of this paper is to compare analyze the relevance and applicability of SaaS in the business organizations. Overall the purpose of this research is to help educate the market, and to explore the real impact that SaaS will have on the market in ... Read more

Issues & Critical Success Factors Of E-Supply Chain Management In Health Care Sectors

Modern competition has already become the competition among enterprises and their supply chains rather than the competition among enterprises only, with the development of information technology and economic globalization. In this era, the organizations are forced to rethink their operations, alliances, partnerships and strategies to cope with these and similar changes. Supply chain competitiveness has been emerged as one of the strongest tool for gaining competitive advantages. Although healthcare industries have responded serious competitive challenges through their network alliance, the theoretical element for sustainable competitive advantage of healthcare supply chain has not been well examined. A company is competitive when it is able to create and deliver value for its customers. A supply chain is competitive if it is able to create and deliver value for its customers and its components. In the growing economy of India, supply chain competitiveness (SCC) is a real solution to the problems faced by organizations in this global environment, which now ultimately leads to a World of e-SCM (Electronic Supply Chain Management). This paper identifies some of the e-supply chain competitiveness issues and presents roles of suppliers, manufacturers and distributors, some future perspectives of e-SCM with an aim to identify the critical issues related to supply chain competitiveness and presents roles of the major components of supply chain, altogether. Our target is also to discuss the emerging challenges of healthcare supply chains and their need for understanding the upstream and downstream collaborative healthcare network for global markets. ... Read more

Need And Significance Of E-Learning In Education

Technology is an agent of change and major technological innovations can result in entire paradigm shifts. The technological revolution poses tremendous challenges to the educators to rethink their basic tenets, to apply technology in creative way to redesign education. After affecting extensive changes in the way people communicate and do business, the Internet is poised to bring about a paradigm shift in the way people learn. Now-a day’s anywhere, anytime education is possible. The practice of providing education with the help of modern technologies is termed as e-Learning. It is dynamic, operates in real time, empowering, individual and comprehensive, effective and quick. E-learning is a combination of content and instructional methods delivered by media elements such as words and graphics on a computer intended to build job-transferable knowledge and skills linked to individual learning goals or organizational performance. The major benefits of e-Learning are that it is eco-friendly because it takes place in a virtual environment and thus avoid travelling and reduces the usage of paper. This paper will focus on the: Overview of e-learning, e-learning strategies and significance of e-learning in the field of education. ... Read more

Navigation Based Relevance Feedback in Content Based Image Retrieval

Accuracy enhancement of Content Based Image Retrieval System as well as reduction in semantic gap can be efficiently achieved with the help of Relevance Feedback. Many schemes and techniques of relevance feedback exist with many assumptions and operating criteria. This paper focuses on a novel method, Navigation-Pattern-based Relevance Feedback (NPRF), which can be used to achieve high efficiency and effectiveness of CBIR while coping with the large-scale image data. By using NPRF method, high quality of image retrieval on RF can be achieved in a small number of feedbacks. It mainly applies data mining techniques to mine the navigation patterns from the user log information and incorporates the same while further searching for the relevant images. ... Read more

E-Business: The Emerging Significance

Web has changed every aspect of life. However, no area is going through a significant and rapid change like today’s business world. Businesses start to achieve real business value as they integrate Internet Technology into their core processes. Today, major corporations are rethinking their businesses in terms of the internet and its new culture and capabilities. Companies are using the Web to buy parts and supplies from other companies, to communicate with their partners, to collaborate on sales promotions and to transact commerce. This is e-business, where the strength and the reliability of traditional information technology meet the Web. E-business isn't about re-inventing "the wheel" of your business. It's about streamlining current business processes which improves operating efficiencies, which in turn will strengthen the value you provide to your customers. It is the powerful business environment that is created when you connect critical business systems directly to customers, employees, vendors and business partners using Intranets, Extranets, e-commerce technologies, collaborative applications and the Web. This paper examines the role of e-business on business processes and will also emphasize on the emerging importance of e-business. ... Read more

Information Extraction From Web Pages Based On Pattern Discovery

Information extraction from Web documents is a critical issue for Software agents on the Internet. Extracting data from the Web requires a wrapper that “wraps" around a Web site and extracts data from Web pages. Wrapper induction is one of such techniques that learn extraction rules by generalizing from training examples. In this project, we utilize a data structure called a PAT tree in which repeated patterns in a given input string can be efficiently identified. A PAT tree is an efficient data structure successfully used in the area of information retrieval for indexing a continuous data stream using this data structure to index an input string, all possible character strings, including their frequency counts and their positions in the original input string can be easily retrieved. ... Read more

Use Of ICT In Primary School

Education is playing the most important role in all-round development of student. Teachers shape the students by providing them with various teaching- learning experience. Today’s era is a known as era of Information and Communication Technology (ICT). ICT has reached into the every aspect of life. Thus, to make individuals technology literate, ICT education should start from primary school. ICT enable users to create, access, store, transmit, and manipulate different information in audio and visual form with the help of different hardwares and softwares. ICT is useful for effective teaching-learning process, quality education and overall development of students, teachers and administrative staff. The main objective of this study was to examine computer related experience in primary school related to classroom teaching and administrative use, specifically in rural area of India. ... Read more

Civil Development Project Cost Assessment By Neural Network With Genetic Algorithm

Cost assessment is most important part when new civil development is start. If cost assessment is not correct then project may not complete within a budget. So many times budget is over and development is stopped. To solve this problem we are using the concept of neural network and genetic algorithm, and designing a model by which we can assess the cost of any civil project very efficiently. In this paper we are using Back propagation Method of Neural Network and Genetic Algorithm. Back propagation method will give some solution of problem and our genetic algorithm will give the optimize solution. During the process of development cost assessment, back propagation neural network has a very powerful application. Genetic algorithm optimizing back propagation has been proposed to aim at handling locality minimum and low convergence speed. The method based on analyzing the basic fundamental states that how to use genetic algorithm to improve the ability of back propagation. After optimizing, the Genetic Algorithm Back Propagation model has been built up. So many project cases and some testing samples are put into the model to observe generalize ability. The result of Genetic Algorithm Back Propagation model can get lower forecast error and iterations. For these reason, Genetic Algorithm Back Propagation model is appropriate for construction cost assessment. ... Read more

Solo Programming and Pair Programming in Software Metrics

In the software development environment Software metrics is an attribute (consisting of a quality, or characteristic of an object) derived from the measuring attributes of software objects. Software Metrics is termed as the measurement based techniques for software development process and its products to supply meaningful and timely management information, and the use of those techniques to improve that process and its products [GOOD 93].Metrics basically are used to improve software quality and productivity .Software metrics deal with software items. While dealing with software metrics various management activities are there which are discussed in the later part of this paper. Solo Programming is where one programmer develops software alone. Pair Programming is where programmers develop software side by side at one computer. Pair Programming is basically referred as Collaborative Programming [2].While dealing with software metrics sometimes problem of pair programming (also termed as team programming) and solo programming occurs. In this paper we compared solo programming and pair programming; and listed the benefits and defects of both programming(i.e. pair programming and solo programming) that occur while working with teams or without in software metrics. ... Read more

A Study Of Awareness Of Green Computing Amongst The It-Users

Now a day’s living standard of people is changing at a faster pace and to cope up with the environment, everyone has to meet that pace. Similar is the case with the Green computing. “Greening" your computing equipment is a low-risk way for your business to not only help the environment but also reduce costs. Green computing can lead to serious cost savings over time. Reductions in energy costs from servers, cooling, and lighting are generating serious savings for many corporations. As energy demands in the world go up, energy supply is declining or flattening. An energy efficient system helps ensure healthy power. Hence, this study is throwing light in the area of green computing. The study is done considering IT-users. ... Read more

Software Maintenance & Its Challenges

Thirty years ago, software maintenance was characterized as an "iceberg”. We hope that what was immediately visible is all there is to it, but we know that an enormous mass of potential problems and cost lies under the surface [6]. Research industry presently spends in excess of $15 bn per annum on data maintenance, including software, services, consulting and so forth. Nor is it recognized as an independent restraint within data management. Indeed, the tasks required in data maintenance are typically treated as being just a part of what you need to do when maintaining, implementing or upgrading application software. There are several issues involved in software maintenance in a software industry and this research paper is related to conducting an analytical study of the challenges involved in it. ... Read more

Electronic Business: An Emerging Trend

This research paper focus on a unified framework that captures the antecedents of e-business adoption, provide a clear picture of the benefits and challenges that e-business companies face and identify the fundamental design principles for building a successful e-business blueprint .The merge of the information technology and the web standards have formed the electronic business “E-business”. E-business has dynamic, rapidly growing and highly competitive characteristic. E-business is transforming the rules of competition for established businesses in many ways. This paper attempts to see the theoretical perspectives of e-business. This research investigates the characteristics of e-business. Then we discuss theories that highlight the sources of value in general. Succession in e-business will need organizations to revise their strategies and goals to meet market rules of demand and supply. Conversion of ordinary business into e-business has forced organizations to be redesigned and reshaped. E-business is a combination of economic, technology and market forces that reinvented strategies of traditional business. E-business and Internet have enforced organizations to use new and combined models. This enforcement drove organizations to seek and create solutions to the issues of change management. While e-business is often mixed with electronic commerce (e-commerce), they are completely different concepts. E-business encompasses e-commerce as well as many other applications. There are more benefits to be derived from e-business than from e-commerce. E-business can lead to competitive advantage as well as profitability. The authors' findings provide the foundation for a more rigorous study of e-business. ... Read more

Threat Analysis And Network Security

The internet as a primary source of entertainment, communication, and education, has undoubtedly changed the life of an individual of all ages. As the use of internet is increasing rapidly more privacy threats are percolating day by day. Not only financial institutions and military Organizations need to worry about securing their computer systems but also from an ultimate learned individual to companies from all different sectors and sizes need to be serious about the matter. This document is an attempt to secure the organizations and allow the personage to look after their daily operations rather than worry about the teenage criminal trying to infiltrate into the network. ... Read more