Tech Talk : Business Intelligence & Business Activity Monitoring (BAM)

Business Intelligence tools such as (BI) allows you (or a Business Analyst) to create various business reports or charts (3D Bar graph, Pie chart, funnel chart etc ). the set of reports on a page is commonly known as Business Dashboards, these are real time reports , that means unlike reports on excel sheets or a web page which are static in nature , these graphs change as the input changes without you refreshing the web browsers. the reports are smart enough and come up with event handling capabilities where you can define various conditions such as if the stock of a particular item falls below some level raise a purchase order , or send a mail or send an automated sms or invoke some other service.

These reports are capable of reading from multiple input sources such as database, webservices, applications etc. and the reports can be presented on various devices such as web browser, mobile browser, ipads, iphone etc and the business analyst can not only view the reports but also can drill down to the details of these reports. different software vendors come up with different reporting tools each having a set of different features and functions.

What it means to you: more job opportunities in this area as companies are depending more on Business Intelligence reports to manage their business rather doing things manually. simple example is if you go to Big Bazaar for shopping as soon as an items stock reduces , new orders are automatically placed, and order levels are also intelligently placed on the number of units sold per month / week ... its a huge demanding area and you can have a great career if you plan to look into details of this ...

Never ever let success go to your head

There's an alarming trend taking place: People who have had some degree of good fortune and success tend to lose their humility and become at least slightly arrogant. This is very unfortunate for many reasons. First, and most obviously, no one really wants to be around someone who is arrogant. It's boring, and it's annoying! Arrogance implies a lack of gratitude. The assumption is, "I did this all by myself; it's all about me." Factors such as Lord's blessings, good fortune, and so on are forgotten or disregarded.

In addition, when you allow success to go to your head, your stress levels skyrocket and your quality of life gradually disappears. People will stop liking you, and eventually, you'll stop liking yourself.

Friendships slip away; obsessive business and a lack of time take over. Someone who was happy and relatively easy to please is now almost not possible to satisfy.

I've read articles about celebrities, athletes, and business people who have done really well – their talent, timing, hard work, luck, and all the rest of it kicked in at just the right time. Yet, rather than being grateful and keeping a sense of perspective, they think that they are somehow better or more important than others simply because they're good at something and have enjoyed some success.

Cricketers score a century or even a double ton in there life's first test match, but what happens later, ever after 50 innings, these people may find hard to score a full fledged 50 runs in an innings. In Business, if you start to get good orders in first or second day, you think you are the best, but later even after months together you may not even smell about the order. Even film stars, the first movie is super-duper hit, but later nothing comes there way and they will be having only one movie as a big hit in there kitty, later with all flop movies.

Therefore Never ever let success go to your head!

I have a very good story and some people may think this is ridiculous. But it's true. A man wants his daughter to get married and starts looking for a boy from a good family. One day a boy comes to see the girl and the girl's father and family members are very much happy with the boy and his family. But later he comes to know that the boy's family doesn't own a house and they stay in a rented house. This makes girl's father upset and he tells something and cancels the engagement. The girl's father is a wealthy man and he wants to get his daughter to get married to a wealthy family only. For him the boy's good doings and other things are secondary. Also he forgets that the boy holds a master degree and he works for a good company and with another year or two the boy himself will be in a position to buy a house. But for the father's ego, this is not required and he starts thinking of his own success and wealth. Thus he himself makes the way to let his success go to his head.

Always thing if you are successful in some criteria that something very seriously bad thing is coming behind you to take your happiness and smile away.

So to keep yourself happy and smiling with your well wishers, Never ever let success go to your head.