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Security in the Docker

vinodkumar — Fri, 01 Mar 2019 07:43:00 +0000

The security of the Docker is very important. This is because it is used in production environments. If its security is not enhanced, then private data and information can be lost and get into wrong hands.

The first measure of ensuring security in the Docker is the use of the “docker” group. If you do not how to do this, consult the book “Docker. The first look” by Kevin Watts. Users who have been added to this group can freely access the computer and carry out any tasks including modifying the file systems. This explains why you need to be careful while adding users to the group. Only the trusted users should be added to the group.

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Also, the Docker has also introduced the flag “–security-opt” to the command line. With this flag, the users will be able to set AppArmor and SELinux profiles and labels. Suppose that you came up with a policy which allows the container to listen only to Apache ports. If this policy was defined in svirt_apache, then it can be applied to your container by use of the following command:

This will make the process of running docker-in-docker by the users very easy as they will not have to use the “docker run –privileged” on the above kernels.

Ethical Hacking & Cyber Security Tutorial

vinodkumar — Tue, 04 Dec 2018 09:38:31 +0000

Ethical Hacking & Cyber Security Tutorial

In this Ethical hacking & Cyber security tutorial you will be able to get a clear idea on what is Ethical hacking, System hacking types, Footprinting, Ethical hacking enumeration, Network scanning, Threats from malware, Sniffing attacks, Social engineering attacks, Session hijacking, Hacking web servers and applications, SQL injection, Wireless network hacking, Mobile platform hacking, avoiding firewall and honeypot and various Encryption techniques.

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Why Cyber Security?

There was a huge data breach of 50 million Facebook accounts recently happened in March 2018 by a firm known as Cambridge Analytic a which harvested data for US Election Predictions. The data breach came to limelight and Facebook was levied a fine since they didn’t protect user details and due to their lack of transparency in the system. Imagine such a big firm like Facebook is susceptible to such data breach, so Cyber security is an important measure for every organization. Cyber security is used to avoid the data breaches, protect the integrity of networks and systems from attacks.

History of Hacking & Cybersecurity

The first worm program was written in 1986 by a software programmer. The worm program was used to shut down the systems which are connected to the internet. Also in 1994, two groups were arrested for illegal access of 100 computers and bank accounts. The history of Cyber security initially started as a research project, when a guy Bob Thomas designed a “Creeper” to move between the terminals of ARPANET and a guy Ray Tomlinson replicated a similar program named “Reaper” (similar to antivirus software) to delete Creeper.

Intellipaat’s Ethical hacking tutorial is a complete learning package that lists its top features and help you know better about ethical hacking and cybersecurity to prevent hacking and improve organization’s security performance. This tutorial will help you to learn about various techniques and tools used for ethically penetrating the organization and protecting the infrastructure.

Recommended Audience:

Network security professionals
IT managers, analysts
Technical support engineers
System administrators
Aspirants to make career in cyber security

Blue Prism VS Selenium

vinodkumar — Thu, 08 Nov 2018 06:40:33 +0000

Introduction

Blue Prism is robotic process automation. then what is selenium here it is selenium itself an automation tool. Websites and Web-based software are the main work of selenium whereas robotic process automation (a blue prism is a tool of RPA) generally focuses on functional tests. It should be understood clearly that selenium is considered as a testing tool and they are only used for testing web-based system and GUI. Blue Prism is a part of robotic process automation which has the ability to control and develop.

Reduction in process costs, improvement in accuracy and also increment in speed are done by blue prism through the platform of robotic automation. Blue prism operates on applications in virtual workforce form.

That robotic process automation that is highly scalable, robust, flexible, powerful and designed with the concept of the first principle so that organizations are provided with a robotic workforce that is virtualized are part of blue prism software product. Unlike any other type of technology, the Blue prism can be owned and managed by IT, Center of excellence spanning operations or operational team that is accredited even after it is deployed. Blue Prism is free of code and in a non-invasive way it can automate any types of software. This makes it easily applicable to processes of any department throughout an organization.

Blue prism makes sure to provide security, data integrity, control, scalability, scheduling, and robustness and change management as well. The term enterprise-strength is used to define blue prism that allows organizations to work in a virtual workforce.

Blue Prism vs Selenium

Implementation method of Blue Prism Within a business house, both types of operational level and strategic level involvement are required to gain a success in robotic process automation implementation. A particular method is developed by the blue prism which allows it to address certain requirements and answers which are related to individual and it does not concern with their seniority level or experience in technical field. The tools that are used by the blue prism are used for these following purposes.

Development of a business case that is defensible
Identification of priorities that are involved with process automation
In order to make sure that all roles are that is present inside a blue prism is efficient enough to handle sustainable and high-quality processes. The implementation of the blue prism is done in a manner that benefit is incremental and immediate.

Blue Prism can be deployed inside enterprise architecture. To perform
strategically, complex and demanding business houses are provided with scalability, governance, and flexibility by the blue prism. Both types of methodology, best practice and enterprise strength based platform is presented by blue prism within enables any organization to increase the use of technology at a great length that too with speed.

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The technology platform of the blue prism is supported by Microsoft SQL server. This is built on the platform of Microsoft .net framework. All type of applications and platform are automated and supported respectively in the blue prism.

Implementation method of Blue Prism

The governance and security that is provided by the blue prism:-

It provided user roles that are segregated. The user role consists of release manager, developers, and controllers.

In order to provide robot access to the specific applications and network, blue prism allows automated credential management.

It also provided the capability of auditing history for the system access. It also audits the process execution and configuration changes.

It helps in making a comparison among process changes.With the help of blue prism, encryption of stored data and securing the communication path among various resources gains flexibility which is of high level. The configuration of the blue prism is code free. It is highly visual and also very logical.

Selenium

For the purpose of web applications, a software testing framework is used which is portable. This is known as selenium. In order to perform authoring tests that too without using any type of test scripting language, a playback tool is provided by selenium. Popular coding languages like Groovy, Java, Php, Ruby, Python, Scala, Perl and C# are used to tests and also you can write tests on domain-specific language that is known as Selenese. This open source software runs on Linux, Windows and MacOs platforms and it released with Apache 2.0 license. Web developers can use it by downloading it without any cost.

Components of selenium

For the web application test automation development, selenium provided various components which take up different roles.

Selenium IDE

For the purpose of selenium testing, a fully integrated development environment is provided by Selenium IDE. With the help of this works like editing, recording, and also debugging of tests are done. This is implemented as Firefox add-on. This was originally produced by Shinya Kasatani who donated it to selenium project. The initial name of this was Selenium recorder. With the help of this automatic record and manual editing of scripts are done as it has autocompletion support and allows moving of command quickly.

Selenium client API

Apart from writing tests in selenium, various other programming languages are used to write tests as well as an alternative method of writing the tests in Selenese. When the test MS is written in a different language, it will communicate with selenium by calling methods that are present in Selenium client API. Presently, selenium APIs are provided for python, JavaScript, Ruby, Java, and C#.

Selenium web driver

After selenium RC, selenium web driver was founded which made it the successor. Accepting commands and then sending them to the browser is done by selenium web driver. A browser driver that is browser specific is used to implement selenium web driver and with the help of this command is sent to browser and retrieval of results are done. In order to simulate a browser, there is the presence of a browser forever known as, HTML Unit. Browser applications like Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Microsoft Edge and Safari is launched and accessed by certain browser drivers.

Selenium remote control

Selenium RC or selenium remote control accepts commands through HTTP for the browser. This is a server that is written in Java and with the help of this, it is possible to write automated tests on any language for web applications. Thus makes a good integration of selenium. With the help of this, it is now postie to make robust, scalable and fast automation. Complex test cases are automated by using this. It has also got access to complete libraries of high-level languages.

Selenium grid

The server which permits tests to make use of web browser instances that runs on a machine which is remote is known as selenium grid. Here the server acts as a hub. This tool is used along with selenium RC so that parallel tests can be run across various browsers and machines simultaneously. Since partake execution is associated with running several tests at the same time so it saves time. The hub and nodes concept is used by selenium grid where the hub acts as the selenium commands' central source and it gives the command to each and every node that is connected.

Components of selenium

Benefits of using selenium Some of the benefits of selenium as a tool are:

This is an open source tool and it is portable.
Various kinds of programming languages like Java, JavaScript, Perl, Python, C#,
Ruby, Groovy are supported by selenium.
Multiple operating systems like Windows, Linux, Unix, Mac etc are supported by
selenium.
Selenium also supports multiple browsers like Chrome, Firefox, and safari,
opera, Internet Explorer.
It can be tested across devices
Selenium supports constant updates and it is easy to implement.
It has got add-ons and readability.

10 Places to study Blockchain Technology Courses Online

vinodkumar — Thu, 27 Sep 2018 12:17:07 +0000

Blockchain technology became popularised through the invention of Bitcoin in 2008 by the allegedly Japanese Satoshi Nakamoto, unknown inventor of Bitcoin, the first blockchain and the first decentralized digital currency.

Blockchain technology has since then become the foremost software or platform upon which other digital assets are built. With the explosion of other cryptocurrency and uses of blockchain technology, many are looking to build their knowledge in this area to enable them to make the best of this opportunity.

Blockchain technology is being used by revolutionary minds not just in the financial sector or investment industry but also in areas such as fashion, healthcare, gaming, and more. It is possible to apply this technology to literally every area of life with the assurance of security and integrity. If you are looking for online courses on the blockchain, you should check out some of these:

(1)IBM:

IBM offers some of the most extensively taught courses on blockchain on its website and on its Cognitive Class platform. Although they do not offer certifications, they are amongst the most well taught, expert courses on blockchain technology. IBM’s Blockchain 101: Quick-Start Guidewhich is based on the Hyperledger Fabric from the Linux foundation is a collaboration of both elements to deliver expert knowledge of blockchain technologies for developers. It is taught by developers and will offer knowledge on public and private blockchains as well as distributed ledger technologies. It is however made for experts and developers who already have prior knowledge of Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies.

2)Mindmajix

Mindmajix offers a self-paced learning environment for individuals alongside corporate training solutions to provide for different needs in its training on blockchain technology. It has high quality content for its blockchain certification training course which was designed by experts in the industry and meets the different needs of its participants. Overall, Mindmajix seeks to teach everything participants need to know about blockchain technology to equip them for dealing with and engaging in the industry.

3)Udemy

The Udemy online platform offers comprehensive courses on Blcokchain technology and the blockchain ecosystem, catering to an array of users from the beginner to the experts. Some of its courses can take anyone with zero knowledge to a full understanding of Blockchain, how it works, how it can be applied and what surrounds it. The courses on Udemy are offered by experts in the field who can deliver on important areas such as security as well as on others such as the essentials. It offers all the resources on blockchain technology, development, cryptography, tips and tools.

4)Blockgeeks

Blockgeeks is an on-demand training and learning platform for those interested in learning about blockchain technology. It offers introductory courses, weekly mentoring, technical and non-technical courses, master courses, information on smart contracts, block chain application and development and much more. Its wide range of courses feature videos from expert teachers and a continuously growing library, updated with the latest in blockchain technology. It also offers an opportunity to practice with quizzes and interactive code challenges.

5]B9Lab Academy

The B9 Lab Academy provides extensive courses on blockchain technology for developers, analysts, technical executives and other technical experts. It caters to specific and expert interest as its courses aim to provide experienced technical participants with extensive information needed to understand the technology behind blockchain, smart contracts, how they can be applied and the technical as well as social frameworks behind them. Its range of courses includes the Hyperledger Fabric but also includes Blockchain theories. The combination of free and paid courses are best suited to the decision makers who should have this information in order to make the right decisions for the organisation or products

6)Khan Academy

Khan Academy is a non-profit, training facility that seeks to provide free education to anyone, anywhere leveraging the power of the internet. It is taking this initiative into the blockchain technology sector by offering free courses on Blockchain. It offers a number of courses on Bitcoin and blockchain in general which are beneficial to both beginners and experts as it breaks down blockchain technology effectively and for free. It is a good place to start and build up the required foundation for engaging blockchain technology.

7)Class Central

Class Central helps you find free online Blockchain courses and Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) from various top universities and colleges from around the world. These classes cover blockchain in general as well as in specific sectors or topics such as the energy sector. There are a number of self-paced courses as well as some with set timelines. It shows a range of courses from different sites and providers which provide you with the necessary information on blockchain technology and its application.

8)Coursera

Coursera offers over 17 blockchain courses from top universities, colleges and institutions around the world. Its wide array of courses include the popular Princeton blockchain course but also others from Rutgers University, IBM, Princeton, New York State University, NYU’s Tandon School of Engineering, the Indian School of Business, and much more. They cover foundational bitcoin and blockchain theories as well as issue topics such as security and software design.

9)Blockstrap

Blockstrap offers a beginners guide to blockchain technology in a series of slides covering topics such as transactions, blockchains, mining, and more. It is a free course with no certification but can be taken anywhere at a self-paced manner. It does not require any registration and is one of the easiest ways to learn about blockchain technology.

10)Edx

Edx is a well-known organiser of MOOCs which hosts university courses online in various fields. It offers a unique blockchain course tailored to business application of this technology. Its Blockchain for Business course introduces Hyperledger and teaches how to utilise this innovative technology for businesses.

With blockchain technology making such a huge splash in various industries, the education sector is not left out. One of the challenges however is the constantly changing ecosystem which necessitates constant learning and keeping up to date with developments in the industry. However, these courses offer a great foundation for anyone looking to learn about blockchain technology.

Getting Started With Selenium

vinodkumar — Mon, 24 Sep 2018 06:30:59 +0000

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When we discuss Software Quality assurance or testing of any product it means we have to deliver our application bug-free it implies no defect in the application. To ensure quality, we perform testing our application it means we show several test cases either functional or nonfunctional. Before proceeding with Selenium, let’s have a look at what is automatic testing.

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What is Automation Testing?

Test cases automation is required as it saves time as well as human effort compared to Manual test cases. We have various tools available in the market that provides the liberty to the application.

The demand for automation over a couple of years has increased at an unprecedented scale and speed as it indispensably minimizes the testing time and eliminates repetitive human tasks to make life easier. With the advent of open source automation testing tools like Selenium, the demand for manual testing is reducing.

Today the world of technology is entirely dominated by machines, and their behavior is controlled by their empowering software’s. The success rate of the software application is managing the business growth and is similar in the case of web applications as most businesses today are entirely reliant on the internet.

The natural tendency of all development groups globally tests their build before deploying testers to identify the bugs before the release. Since testing manually was proven to be the least efficient, and due to its testing limitations. To provide a solution to this and to increase the efficiency of testing, specific tests were automated.

During software development, several tests have to be conducted to access user experience, functionality, and other software aspects. Manual tests can be expensive and time-consuming regarding expenses and working-hours; this is where automated testing can help. In addition to the inherent advantages of automated testing, Selenium has specific benefits that provide it an edge over the competition.

When to perform Automation testing?

Automation Testing is applicable in our everyday testing activities, precisely at times when we have to execute some test case on a regular basis, used in smoke testing, regression testing, and sanity testing.

For instance, let us consider that we have to execute 50 scenarios, and you will be doing the same situation for next couple of releases as well then automation testing is adopted to overcome the tedious manual testing cases.

What is Selenium?

It is an Open Source Web Automation tool designed by ThoughtWorks in 2004, started by Selenium IDE and then Selenium RC (also known as Selenium

1) Then Webdriver (also known as Selenium)
2) The innovations in Open Source have taken the industry by a storm- experts,
professionals, analysts, and all others are discussing its impact. Analysts
have already developed an opinion on it although Selenium analysts have not
explicitly spoken as an automation and web hosting tool yet.

Selenium

Selenium is very popular these days due to several reasons:

Selenium being an open source tool is free to use. We do have the problems of purchasing licenses.

Selenium test environment is easy to install and configure.

It supports several languages such as Java, C#, JavaScript, Python, Ruby, etc.
It is capable of browsing testing. Selenium Webdriver supports almost all browsers with latest versions like Chrome, Firefox, Safari, IE, Opera, etc.
It supports platforms like UNIX, Windows, Apple, etc.

Selenium recently introduced mobile testing. With this, we can easily automate iPhone testing using Appium, Android testing using Selendroid and many others.
It is compatible with several tools. To name a few include Auto IT, Sikuli, Jenkins, Testing, Junit, etc.

Why Selenium?

Selenium is the most robust open-source testing automation framework for web applications of the web. Originated in the early 2000s and evolved over a decade, it has been an automation framework for testers of web automation specifically for those who posses scripting skills and advanced programming. Selenium now has become a core framework for other open-source tools such as Kalaton Studio, Protractor, and Robot Framework in testing automation.

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Selenium is one among the few best automation testing tools available in the market for web testing applications. The demand is continuously increasing and is fueled by its work compatibility with multiple operating systems and browsers when compared to other market tools. Selenium is more flexible than other tools regarding test scripts writing.

There is no rule that if an application developed in one programming language needs to maintain or write the scripts in the same language. It is purely independent of the language. For example, if a testing application is developed using Python, it is not mandatory to maintain the scripts rewritten in the same; the test scripts can be in either.Net or Java.

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Who is using Selenium?

After Google and Uber, Oxbotica- Oxford’s the self- driving car company announced that are using Selenium OS, where the firm for autonomous cars applied the software tool Dub4 operating in Greenwich and within its prototype.

DevOps and Agile development are substantially contributing to the continuous code evolution. Selenium is an exceptional and robust tool of open source automation for constant growth and results-delivery. The testers and developers are applying selenium automation for testing web applications for its various superficial strengths.

Applications of Selenium

To automate the browsers, Selenium facilitates with a suite of reliable tools. Being a potent tool, Selenium can efficiently leverage by testers and developers. With Selenium, most of the tests are executed to ensure that the quality of the application is intact.

Reasons for Automate Functional Tests Using Selenium

Platform Portability
Language Support
Flexibility
Language Support
Open Source Advantage
Remote Control/Selenium Grid
The leading open source framework tool Selenium supports multiple system environments such as Windows, Linux, Mac and browsers including Firefox, Chrome, IE and headless browsers. The scripts of Selenium can be indistinct programming languages like Groovy, Java, Python, PHP, C#, Perl and Ruby.

Frequency Asked Selenium Interview Questions

According to the Transparency Market Research (TMR), in North America, it is expected to grow up toUS$29.78 billion by 2024, which is $5.7 billion in 2015. Selenium among the automation tools of testing will be one of the in-demand skills in 2018 and coming years. While commercial testing automation tools are increasing and are trending, job trends reveal that 60% of employment in Test Automation has a specific demand for Selenium training.

Applications of Selenium

Some strong reasons why Selenium has taken the hot seat in the open source test automation market are as follows:

Rising adoption
Enterprises are increasingly supporting the trend
The Speed of migration with essential quality assurance
Early identification of critical migration risks and challenges
Most of the global enterprises are shifting towards Selenium adoption due to its compelling benefits like compatibility, cost-effectiveness, and many more. According to a survey, more than 73% of enterprises were choosing Selenium as their primary choice. As the companies choosing Selenium is continuously increase, creating a robust test automation strategy from commercial test tools to Selenium gets crucial.

Enterprises that are Selenium migration involve time, costs and efforts, and problems. It is analytical to leverage the appropriate tools, resources, and best practices to ensure a seamless movement. Therefore, it becomes crucial to migrating test assets from productive test tools to Selenium from starting. It is possible with best practices in the industry and accelerating the migration process.

The migration of Tool-led migration is growing and are providing at budget-friendly costs. The estimation is that it is 15 times faster and reduces efforts that make it cost effective when compared to the manual effort. Though several other options exist in these frameworks, Selenium is the most popular and proven one in the market and has been replacing the commercial and traditional licensed tools across organizations.

Bottom Line

Selenium, being open source software allows users to share, modify, and extend the code available. It can save time and efforts at a great deal and ultimately increases ROI. It also allows for better test code readability and manageability using custom functions.

What Happens If Blockchain technology is applied to the voting system?

vinodkumar — Mon, 10 Sep 2018 15:07:48 +0000

Over the years of the period, we have seen the technological advancements in every sector. Technology made our activities easier and secured. One among them is Blockchain technology. When we hear about blockchain technology, we mostly consider it for financial or banking system, but that’s not true. It is not only confined to limited areas. We have been observing the miracles of the blockchain in different sectors, that how blockchain is transforming industries. If it applied to the voting system, it could reap better results than the present system.

Whenever elections occur in any country, we talk about the different gossips, such as rigging, fraud, and fake news. And we all know which it is an unsolved problem. To come out of this arena, we need a more significant change in our voting system. Here the place where blockchain comes into light.

Blockchain will bring transparency and accuracy in the electronic voting system:

We can experience greater benefits by upgrading from a traditional voting system to blockchain which gives greater transparency, and accuracy.

As we all well aware of blockchain how secured it is. Blockchain never allows anyone to vote twice, and no one can delete the votes due to its immutability. Once the election has been recorded in blockchain it gets stored securely, and it makes the process easier for counting purpose also. It will give ultimate results to the authorities to check the voting percentage or results at any point in time during voting.

The blockchain is an encrypted technology, so it is not possible for anybody to change the votes which have encrypted into blockchain. Meanwhile, it maintains transparency for the privacy of results.

Quicker results through blockchain:

Blockchain not only encrypts the results it is more efficient in delivering the results also. In a traditional voting system, counting of votes is associated with different aspects, and it takes very long hours or sometimes even can takes days together to complete the counting process. And there are higher chances to commit errors by human and machines.

Imagine how do we feel, if we get the results after completion of elections instantly? It will give you the results after the end of votes without any delay. It would be awesome right! Blockchain will do this. It provides instant and efficient results without any delay after completion of election process. Blockchain eliminates the space for all kind of fraudulent activities where one can perform in between the election and counting period in the traditional system. The blockchain is more transparent and trustworthy.

The blockchain enables users to take information which is correct:

The election process starts many days before the actual voting date, and we need to consider this period also for conducting elections in a right manner. Before the election date, we most likely see different news articles, discussions and social media posts sometimes provide false information or confuse the reader. It leaves a reader in a dilemma mode. To solve this problem blockchain will help us.

Blockchain possesses the capability to provide the right information by verifying and analyzing. It gives reliable information. It can act as a gateway to the report. If we store the sort of data on the blockchain, it will filter the data and finds the roots and analyses whether the author of a news article or social media post is genuine or not if not it will eliminate the information automatically. It serves as a stable source of data and against which news sources can be verified.

The blockchain can also be used for improving the voting system in private organizations:

It is clear that how blockchain transforms the election process, and how we are reaping benefits from it. It must not be confined to only general elections it should also be extended to private companies and organizations.

Generally, private companies and organizations undergo the elections process for electing the board of directors and members of the organization. They could use blockchain technology to simplify, systemize, and to enhance the election process.

Many companies around the world are trying to implement it. Companies like Ethereum also started experimenting this blockchain in their organizations.

The technology is already here to make changes if governing bodies allow:

It is not possible to get the results of the blockchain unless it is decided to implement by those in power. There are already so many countries and states around the world which are experimenting with the blockchain, hosting elections using blockchain, hosting elections and using blockchain to store and track the data.

Conclusion:

The blockchain is a revolution in the technology world, it has changed the face of different industries, and we can also see its extension into some more.

Blockchain will bring more transparency, accuracy, and efficiency if we implement it in an election process. It will decrease the costs which are associated with the traditional system of an election and gives solutions to some of the major vulnerable problems like corruption, and inequality.

10 Reasons to Upgrade to IBM Cognos

vinodkumar — Wed, 18 Apr 2018 12:43:58 +0000

Business Intelligence is becoming the need of every hour even for the well-established businesses. The fact is demand and needs of the clients are changing rapidly and in order to fulfill the same, businesses have to struggle a lot. Congos is basically a BI software which is also beneficial in performance management and has been designed by IBM. Corporate data can easily be extracted by the users even if they don’t have the core technical knowledge. In addition to this, there are certain things that make Congos one of the best available platforms for BI. A lot of small as well as large-scale organizations are adopting this approach simply to make a superior work environment in their arena. This is not the only reason to learn it this year. Here are the other top 10 reasons why you should learn Congo.

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Extract corporate data easily
Data analyzing abilities which are amazing
Rising demand and new jobs
Congos is a self-service BI platform
Opportunities to work with top IT firms
Simple Implementation
Indexed based modeling make sure learners become expert in other domains also
Earn more by working few hours
Say no to job offers
Empowerment

Let us now explore them in a bit detailed manner to enable you to understand the same

Extract corporate data easily One of the major challenges for organizations is to extract the data when it is bulky. Congo is capable to cut down the complexity from this task and make it easier

There are actually certain special features that have been equipped in this platform that makes it simply the best
Congo doesn’t suffer from any compatibility issues when it comes to dealing with data
Both structured, as well as unstructured data can simply be managed
Many special tasks are there which can be performed without changing the data format or anything else related to it.

Data analyzing abilities which are amazing When it comes to analyzing data, most of the software available fails to provide error-free results. However, this is not an issue with the Congos.

Congos has been provided with some special features which you can consider for analyzing the data even when it has a lot of information which is different from one another
Analysis of data with more mathematical problems and core concepts can also be done through this software
Organizations can always make sure of accuracy and there is no need to worry about the data security issues

Application Design

Rising demand and new jobs Congos was introduced by IBM in the year 2015. In a very short span of time, it has gained a lot of popularity. Many organizations have adopted it and are using it for performing so many tasks related to data

The rising demand for Congos and skill shortage in this domain has given leading reasons to the experts to assure fat paychecks from their employers
In a conference conducted by IBM last year, it was stated that IBM is working with several IT companies to enhance the visibility of this software. Of course, this will create new jobs in the time to come
Congos is basically trusted software when it comes to dealing with data. Almost every organization dealing with same have enhanced he overall number of jobs available for the experts in this domain

Congos is a self-service BI platform Congos is not just a powerful tool that is capable to handle business reporting and dashboards problems but it has also been equipped with self-servicing abilities to simply enable users to keep up the pace with every aspect.

Learners can simply make sure of wide interoperability without making a lot of efforts with this platform
It makes sure that users follow all the IT standards while performing the important tasks which are related to the databases and different Operating Systems
Various security schemes can also be paid attention to while deployment of this software
Learners can simply improve the decision ability as there is various sort of help available with this tool to help them keep up the pace in this matter

Opportunities to work with top IT firms Learning Congos bring a full bouquet of benefits for those who have some basic knowledge about the IT.

The engagement of IT organizations in Congos simply make sure that those who know how to operate it will have a lot of job opportunities
IBM has already given a statement to generate 1 million new jobs for the Congos experts in next 4 years.
Learners can simply make sure to boost their skills in data reporting, analytics as well as management of same
Being a powerful tool, it helping many organizations to generate outcomes which are free from any sort of bugs. This is the reason why more and more organizations are adopting it

Simple Implementation It’s not just organizations using it that are taking the benefit of its simple implementation approach. Even those who are engaged in learning it can also take a ton of benefits of this approach

Learning Congos is not at all time consuming but it introduces learners with some core IT skills that are beneficial for them in the long run.
This is the best tool available to quickly understand the Business Intelligence
This is exactly what that make sure that learners can always have required talent and skills in them
Congos can easily be deployed in the cloud approach too. This makes trainees keep up the pace with some important aspects of the cloud while learning and implementing the Congos

Simple Implementation

Indexed based modeling make sure learners become expert in other domains also The fact couldn’t be denied that Congos comes with many smart features and it based on indexed based modeling which makes sure that trainees can boost their skills in other domains too while learning Congos.

All the reports can easily be generated through smart BI features and there are several database moving techniques that users can learn. These are really very useful in the time to come for IT professionals.
Dashboards and report forms are simply manageable and can be introduced to the learners while they engaged themselves in boosting knowledge about the Congos.
Congos are similar to several other popular software when it comes to learning and using it. Thus, no special skills are required to keep up the pace.
The application simplicity approach always makes sure that those who learn it can have the ability to work in the challenging environment also.

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Earn more by working few hours This is a life-changing reason why one should learn Congos in 2018. The facts says that those who pay some attention to the concepts and learning ethics can make sure of simplicity while operating this tool

Many Congos experts are there across the globe who are earning lot of money just by deriving a few hours only
Those who have high-profile testimonials with them can almost double their income within 2 to 3 years.
It is true that there are many smart features (as already mentioned) in this software that make leaner are capable to save time and can have more income

Say no to job offers

Many experts believe that those with excellent skills in Congo can say goodbye to other job offers in 2018.

Part-time jobs, assignments, as well as other projects would be the matter of gone days for those who know how to effectively operate Congos
Recruiters can easily bargain on the salary due to the skills shortage in this domain as already mentioned With some organizations, it is even possible for the users to work a part-time Congos manager/expert
Congos jobs are secure and are best in every aspect. Learners can simply make sure of excellent opportunities after boosting their abilities.

1.Empowerment

Everyone has his/her own reasons to learn the Congos. However, the fact is it makes sure that learners can always have empowerment with them.

Dedicating the time to learn Congos in 2018 simply make sure that you can transform yourself into a skilled person with high demand
Congos is best among the digital skills listed under shortage across the globe
Congo's learning is more than just learning extra money but it makes sure that one has self-reliance and several other capabilities too.

Salesforce Tutorial

vinodkumar — Mon, 16 Apr 2018 11:54:25 +0000

Salesforce is a leading CRM (Customer Relationship Management) software which is served form cloud. It has more than 800 applications to support various features like generating new leads, acquiring new leads, increasing sales and closing the deals. It is designed to manage the organization's data focused on customer and sales details. It also offers features to customize its inbuilt data structures and GUI to suit the specific needs of a business. More recently, it has started offering the IOT (internet of things) connectivity to the CRM platform.

Audience
Anyone who manages sales and customer relationship will find this software highly useful as an end user. This tutorial will also benefit the software developers and cloud computing enthusiasts who wish to learn customizing software for specific business needs.

Prerequisites
Knowledge of cloud computing is essential to understand the environment and its architecture. Knowledge of databases is essential to understand how the data is stored, retrieved and manipulated.

Salesforce started as a cloud based solution for CRM. CRM stands for Customer Relationship Management. It involves managing all aspects of relationship between an organization and its customers. For example, the contact details of the customer, the deals that are in progress or already completed, the support requests from a customer or a new lead from a new customer. Beyond the customer related information, it also involves storing and managing the details of the people and the concerned department from the seller organization that is managing the customer’s account and needs. This makes it easy to manage and enhance the relationship with the customer and hence better growth for the organization.

*Following are the different features of the Salesforce platform *

Contact Management
To view customer contact details, activity history, customer communications, and internal account discussions, etc. In short, it manages all the data pertaining to the contact with a customer.

Opportunity Management
It provides the details of the stage a deal is in, the products involved in the deal, the quotation for the deal etc. In short it manages all the data that helps in identifying, progressing and closing a deal.

Salesforce Engage
This feature is focused on making personalized contact with a customer for various campaigns designed by the marketing team. It also provides real-time sales alerts based on the level of engagement with a customer.

Sales Collaboration
This feature helps in quickly finding experts who can help in closing a deal based on customer queries and feedback. In short, it helps in bringing in a collaborative effort to engage an entire team in the deal and make the deal happen.

Sales Performance Management
It provides a metric-based goal setting, and also continuous feedback and rewards and recognition for the sales team. This helps in enhancing the performance of the sales team.

Lead Management
This feature initiates and tracks the leads that are in progress. It also helps in continually optimizing campaigns across every channel.

Partner Management
This feature helps in building a community with partners. It also helps in connecting directly with channel partners to share goals, objectives, and activities.

Salesforce Mobile App
This is the mobile platform to carry out all the above activities on a mobile platform.

Salesforce Training

Workflow and Approvals
It is a visual design to automate the business processes. The interface provides simple drag and drop options to make this design. It helps in creating a flexible approval process with deal discounts and expense management etc.

Email Integration
Salesforce can integrate to an existing email platform. This helps in providing flexibility to the existing team with no additional learning curve.

Files Sync and Share
This feature provides the sales team the power to easily share various files, discuss them and update them as needed. Also receive alerts when something in the file changes.

Reports and Dashboards
Dashboards offer a real-time picture of the business at a glance. With this, anyone can create detailed reports which can be accessed from anywhere.

Sales Forecasting
This feature helps in getting a real time view of the forecast of a sales team. It provides multi-currency support and an in-line editing mode to manage the sales forecast well.

Territory Management
This feature is used to create multiple territory models, preview them before rollout, and continually optimize and balance territories throughout the year.

Salesforce delivers a highly customized experience to the customers, employees, and partners of an organization. Such a platform is used to customize standard functionality and create custom pages, components, apps, etc. Also it is done faster, mainly because of the superb architecture on which it is built. Below is a brief introduction to the Salesforce Architecture.
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SF Architecture
Architecture Salesforce
The architecture of Salesforce can be put into layers for better understanding. The purpose and function of each layer is described below −

Trusted Multitenant Clou
Here multiple instances of one or multiple applications operate independently in a shared environment. The instances are referred as tenants and they logically separate from each other while physically remaining in the same hardware. It is called trusted because of both its robust nature and high security.

Scalable Metadata Platform
The metadata driven platform makes it easy for customization and scaling up as the amount of data or concurrent user instances increase.

Enterprise Ecosystem
The Enterprise Ecosystem of Sales is very large as a large number of partners contribute by creating and maintaining applications in this platform.

CRM and Related Functionality
Salesforce includes all aspects of CRM in its list of features and also extends it by providing features for creation of apps and integrating analytics, etc.

Salesforce Certification

APIs
Salesforce provides powerful suite of APIs. This helps to develop and customize the Salesforce1 Mobile App.

As Salesforce is a cloud based system it does not need any software installation on your part. All you have to do is signup for a free trial and get started. The free trial account provides nearly all features which you need to learn to understand the basics of Salesforce platform. Let us now discuss the steps to get started with the Salesforce environment.

Step 1
Go to the link Salesforce and click on Free Trial.

It takes you to a window where you have to fill in some details about you and sign up.

Step 2
You will receive an activation mail for your account which also contains the details of your account and the duration of the trial period. Click on the link in the email to verify your email ID and activate the account.

Step 3
Again visit the link Salesforce and click on login. Give the login credentials which you just created. You will be directed to the following screen.

Environment Setup
You are ready to learn as your environment is set up now. You may click on Take Tour of Salesforce to familiarize yourself with the user interface.

8 best practices for robotic process automation

vinodkumar — Thu, 29 Mar 2018 11:58:39 +0000

Automation has become an integral component of digital transformation strategies for enterprises around the world. Specifically, today robotic process automation (RPA) is the technology of choice to streamline business operations and reduce costs. But how do you judge whether your RPA initiative is successful? It’s not just whether the first “go live” instance does well. It’s about building momentum with strategically selected RPA projects so you continuously automate more and more complex business processes, and achieve a sustainable—and ever-increasing—ROI.

To realize this kind of success, you should follow the below mentioned 8 critical best practices that leading companies have learned from their RPA deployments.

Find an executive sponsor

RPA does not require to rip and replace any existing systems. The tools from leading vendors are intuitive enough so that business users—with appropriate training—can use them without calling on IT. Yet it needs to be involved to make sure automated processes integrate well with the current IT environment. You also need a strategic and holistic vision of how RPA will transform the entire organization rather than just a specific task or function (see No. 3). To overcome these challenges, you need an executive sponsor—one high enough in the organization to help fight for budgets and resources as well as help manage “softer” issues. This executive sponsor should understand the full potential of RPA, and be completely committed to your vision on how you are going to transform the enterprise.

Appoint a chief RPA officer

If your RPA initiative is particularly strategic for your businesses, you may want to move beyond an executive sponsor. Some of the companies on the leading edge of RPA have created a new, senior position to take responsibility for the enterprise-wide rollout of the technology. This person acts as the head of RPA for the enterprise and generally reports to the CEO or CIO.

Create a centralized business plan

All too frequently, organizations wanting to get started with RPA will start with one business process, “just to see how it works.” Then, if that succeeds, they’ll move onto the next one. And the next one. But the problem with beginning the RPA journey this way is that at some point in time, you bump up against the problem of scale: how do you take all these mini-successes and translate them into something that transforms the organization as a whole? You need to have a centralized vision and business plan—typically coming from an RPA center of excellence (COE)—that has dedicated resources to help the various business departments roll out RPA based on a master strategic plan.

Train the trainer, train your employees, train everybody

Once RPA gets a foothold in an organization, it takes off like wildfire. Opportunities to use it to drive even greater efficiencies, productivity, and cost savings open up throughout the enterprise. But for this to happen in a way that aligns with the overall RPA strategy of the organization—people have to be trained. It begins by “training the trainers.blue prism training They have to be fully versed in what RPA can do; what tasks are good candidates for RPA; and how to continually enhance RPA deployments to automate processes of increasing complexity. Then they have to pass this knowledge onto others—employees, managers, anyone who has a stake in your RPA strategy.

Keep development, test, and production environments separate

One of best practices in any project with an SDLC (systems development lifecycle) is to create separate environments to develop and test applications, then put them into production. So, to make sure that only those bots that are ready for production go into production, keep your development, test, and production environments at arm’s length from each other. It should work like this: your bots will be created in the development environment, after which they will be moved over to the test environment, where they undergo functional testing. Only after the testing team has been given the green light should the bot go into production. This is critical.

Achieve consensus and transparency when prioritizing RPA objectives

Critical to the success of any transformation initiative is that everyone throughout your organization is fully aligned with the goals. This means you must have some sort of objective framework for prioritizing which business processes get automated, and in what order.
Business units or departments desiring to deploy RPA should be required to present their cases on the business impact of the proposed automation which will help RPA leaders to prioritize automation and schedule automation initiatives in a disciplined way.

Periodically evaluate and reevaluate automation decisions and share lessons learned

You also need to continuously talk to your business users to make sure processes have been automated in the right way. You have two possible ways to err with RPA: you can automate a good business process poorly (resulting in numerous errors), or you can competently automate a bad business process. Neither is good. First, you want to make sure the underlying business process is efficient and not holding the enterprise back because of residual inefficiencies from past legacy ways of doing things. The latter requires accurate error logging and making sure that when there’s a problem the right people are notified and a fix is immediately put into place.

Evangelize and celebrate RPA successes

Precisely because RPA can be a sensitive subject, you have to continually make the case for it, and evangelize it whenever you can. One of your key objectives is to educate employees throughout the organization and explain to them what RPA can and cannot do. Workers will always worry that RPA will take their jobs away. So, you need to be very clear and demonstrate to employees where and how RPA will be deployed, and highlight the advantages it offers to your human workers.

In Conclusion

As RPA moves into mainstream adoption, more companies are going to be looking for guidance on how to best apply this exciting technology. By following these eight best practices, you should have a head start on your RPA initiative.

NETSUITE IMPLEMENTATION: THREE MISTAKES TO AVOID

vinodkumar — Wed, 14 Mar 2018 06:08:50 +0000

Mistake #1:
Not choosing the right partner
Selecting the right NetSuite implementation partner is just as important as selecting the right software for your business. For midsize companies, ERP is one of the most important investments businesses take, so it’s crucial for partners to implement the tools successfully.

According to analyst firm Gartner, more than 75% of all ERP implementation projects fail, due to a lack of industry knowledge, clarity of cost, time-scale, functionality, netsuite training and resource issues. Knowing this, it would only make sense to appoint a strong team of NetSuite experts.

When you are looking for a NetSuite partner ask questions and request references to find out first-hand how their transition went. Select a partner who has experience with companies of your size, scope and industry to ensure that their capabilities are sufficient enough to fulfill your specific business needs. Check to see if the company has case studies of successful implementations. Do they have the necessary resources to handle an implementation of your size? If you’re a global company, have they handled global ERP implementations before? All of this is important to know.

A Successful NetSuite partner doesn’t stop after the software is installed, so look for a partner that fosters long-term client relationships. Long-term support will not only ensure that your organization fully realizes the benefits of NetSuite’s ERP system, but also that you are aware of emerging trends to make the best decisions for immediate and long-term growth.

Questions to ask NetSuite Partners:
Do you offer post go-live support?
What are your NetSuite billing rates?
Do you have experience in my industry?
Can I contact any of your clients for a reference?
What are your certifications?
How long have you worked in the software industry?
What NetSuite services do you offer?
What issues have you helped clients overcome?
Will you provide training for my staff?
Is NetSuite your specialty?

Click Here For More Basic NetSuite Interview Questiones For Freshers

Mistake #2:
Not having an on-hand partner when working in-house or with SuiteSuccess
NetSuite’s product is incredibly advanced, offering infinite features and functionality, but implementing it is not always simple. Most companies have complex business needs that don’t align with the built-in, off-the-shelf configurations. Implementation is just the starting point of optimizing an ERP solution. Customizations, additional integrations, and basic training are an out-of-scope cost. There are many different variables that go into implementation projects and it is important that your company has an on-hand team of experts as a safety net to help further customization and provide NetSuite services on an as-needed basis.

When NetSuite customers run into an issue or need help, they are often driven to forums, online user groups, user guides, or forced to submit a waitlist support ticket for assistance. By bringing a NetSuite partner to the project team, your company will have direct access to experienced NetSuite experts with the ability to augment your team when implementing in-house or with NetSuite direct.

Whether it’s an integration that isn’t quite working, a lack of training, or answers to your questions, on-hand partners are a one-stop shop. They are certified to assist in the evaluation, implementation, configuration, customization, and services of NetSuite solutions to minimize the impact of downtime on your business.

Mistake #3:
Not preparing for the implementation by cleaning up bad data
Companies encounter huge issues when attempting to migrate data to their NetSuite system if the information is disorganized. A recent survey of executives reports that data management and integrity are some of the top issues businesses face.

When a company grows large enough to need ERP, a common issue is data spread across multiple applications and locations. Data can be mapped and mass imported into NetSuite during implementation easily, but prepping for import with a cleanup is critical. Bad data affects departments across the enterprise, billing, account management, marketing, and customer service.

Bad data can cause more issues than just internal confusion. If there are duplicate, inaccurate or incomplete records, problems can arise. Emails may be sent twice—a marketing nightmare. Or accounting may not have the correct address to send an invoice. NetSuite CRM has safeguards against many of these common data problems, but starting with your information in order can avoid this issue in the first place.

Cultivating good data management practices before implementation, with the built-in data safeguards of NetSuite, can ensure quality across the organization after your NetSuite go-live.

Mulesoft Onlne Training With Live Project And Placement Assistance

vinodkumar — Thu, 08 Feb 2018 08:43:38 +0000

Gone are the days, when you had to go to pricey & exhaustive coaching classes to prepare for MuleSoft certification today, with everything going digital, everything you need is right at the comfort of your home.

What if you are into graduation or currently working? It will be difficult to find right resources for preparation. Right!! Worry Not. We have got you something you are looking for with the best of market price to provide you best of training by experienced professionals.

Tekslate is the globally professional in IT courses training which emphasize on hands-on experience with examples from real-time scenarios by experts.It is the largest provider of high quality online training courses. It is conceptualized and initiated by several multidisciplinary and ingenious software technocrats having a combined experience of more than 10 yrs in the industry.

About Course :

Mule is an event based architecture, Actions within a Mule network are triggered by either events occurring in Mule or external systems. Mulesoft events always contain some sort of data, the payload. The payload is used or manipulated by components and a set of properties that are associated to the processing of the event. These properties are arbitrary can be set at any time from when the event was created. The data in the event can be accessed in its original state or in its transformed state. The event will use the transformed associated with the Endpoint that received the event to transform its payload into a format that the receiving component understands.

MuleSoft’s mission is to connect the world’s applications, data and devices. MuleSoft makes connecting anything easy with Anypoint Platform™, the only complete integration platform for SaaS, SOA and APIs. Thousands of organizations in 54 countries, from emerging brands to Global 500 enterprises, use MuleSoft to innovate faster and gain competitive advantage

About the training :

Classes are conducted by Certified MuleSoft Working Professionals with 100 % Quality Assurance. With an experienced Certified practitioner who will teach you the essentials you need to know to kick-start your career on MuleSoft. Our training make you more productive with your MuleSoft Online Training. Our training style is entirely hands-on. We will provide access to our desktop screen and will be actively conducting hands-on labs with real-time projects.

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*Here we provide you some of the important concepts to be covered by our trainers, that will reflect in your Interview. Advanced MuleSoft Interview Questions with answers by our experts will give you a glance of what the course is all about.

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Top 10 Trending Technologies To Master In 2018

vinodkumar — Thu, 11 Jan 2018 04:49:51 +0000

Not everything in the universe is constant except the change. We adopt the changes, and that is how the world is developing. The same thing applies to the technology as well. Latest trends in every technology help in making the world a better place to survive. Here I just want to mention some of those top trending technologies to learn in 2018 to make the best of your career.

So, lets make a new year resolution to master any one of the below technologies:

1.Artificial Intelligence

Blockchain
Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality
Cloud Computing
Angular and React
DevOps
Internet of Things (IoT)
Intelligent Apps (I – Apps)
Big Data
RPA (Robotic Process Automation)

So, the countdown begins from here.

1.Artificial Intelligence

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Artificial intelligence (AI) has received increased attention in recent years. Innovation, made possible through the Internet, has brought AI closer to our everyday lives. These advances, alongside interest in the technology’s potential socio-economic and ethical impacts, brings AI to the forefront of many contemporary debates. Industry investments in AI are rapidly increasing, and governments are trying to understand what the technology could mean for their citizens.

The collection of “Big Data” and the expansion of the Internet of Things (IoT), has made a perfect environment for new AI applications and services to grow. Applications based on AI are already visible in healthcare diagnostics, targeted treatment, transportation, public safety, service robots, education and entertainment, but will be applied in more fields in the coming years. Together with the Internet, AI changes the way we experience the world and has the potential to be a new engine for economic growth.

Current Uses of AI:

Although artificial intelligence evokes thoughts of science fiction, artificial intelligence already has many uses today, for example:

Email filtering: Email services use artificial intelligence to filter incoming emails. Users can train their spam filters by marking emails as “spam”.
Personalization: Online services use artificial intelligence to personalize your experience. Services, like Amazon or Netflix, “learn” from your previous purchases and the purchases of other users in order to recommend relevant content for you.
Fraud detection: Banks use artificial intelligence to determine if there is strange activity on your account. Unexpected activity, such as foreign transactions, could be flagged by the algorithm.
Speech recognition: Applications use artificial intelligence to optimize speech recognition functions. Examples include intelligent personal assistants, e.g. Amazon’s “Alexa” or Apple’s “Siri”.
The Internet Society recognizes that understanding the opportunities and challenges associated with AI is critical to developing an Internet that people trust. This is particularly important as the Internet is key for the technology behind AI and is the main platform for its deployment; including significant new means of interacting with the network. This policy paper offers a look at the key things to think about when it comes to AI, including a set of guiding principles and recommendations to help make sound policy decisions. Of particular focus is machine learning, a specific approach to AI and the driving force behind recent developments.

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Blockchain

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Blockchain is not just the technology behind the Bitcoin cryptocurrency; it also has the potential to revolutionize many areas of our everyday lives. But there is still a long way to go.

Blockchain is the leading digital assets platform which records and controls the monetary information. It is basically an endless data chain. Like a booking system, it captures and stores any and all activity in the system, whether money transfers, land registry entries or concluded contracts.

This is a short report that looks at the potential in research and education of blockchain, the technology that underpins the Bitcoin virtual currency.

Blockchain is currently at the peak of the hype cycle
Blockchain is currently at the peak of the hype cycle, so I spend a little time looking at how we can identify what’s realistic and avoid inflated expectations.

Blockchain’s Bitcoin origins
The early history of Bitcoin is worth reflecting on:

2007: “Satoshi Nakamoto” allegedly begins development of the Bitcoin virtual currency
2009: Version 0.1 of Bitcoin is released on SourceForge, and the first transaction takes place
2010: Programmer buys pizza for 10,000BTC (now worth $39,454,600!)
2011: Silk Road “dark web” marketplace opens
2011: 25% of the 21 million possible Bitcoins now generated through mining operations
Let’s unpack this a little. Bitcoins are generated from thin air by computers solving complex mathematical puzzles - a process known as “mining” - and there are a finite number of them. Not only this, but the puzzles get more complicated as more Bitcoins are mined.

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Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality

What is Virtual Reality?

What is Augmented Reality?

Augmented reality (AR) is a technology that layers computer-generated enhancements atop an existing reality in order to make it more meaningful through the ability to interact with it. AR is developed into apps and used on mobile devices to blend digital components into the real world in such a way that they enhance one another, but can also be told apart easily.

AR technology is quickly coming into the mainstream. It is used to display score overlays on telecasted sports games and pop out 3D emails, photos or text messages on mobile devices. Leaders of the tech industry are also using AR to do amazing and revolutionary things with holograms and motion activated commands.

Virtual reality (VR) is an artificial, computer-generated simulation or recreation of a real life environment or situation. It immerses the user by making them feel like they are experiencing the simulated reality firsthand, primarily by stimulating their vision and hearing.

Augmented Reality vs. Virtual Reality

Augmented reality and virtual reality are inverse reflections of one in another with what each technology seeks to accomplish and deliver for the user. Virtual reality offers a digital recreation of a real life setting, while augmented reality delivers virtual elements as an overlay to the real world.

Cloud Computing

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Simply put, cloud computing is the delivery of computing services—servers, storage, databases, networking, software, analytics and more—over the Internet (“the cloud”). Companies offering these computing services are called cloud providers and typically charge for cloud computing services based on usage, similar to how you are billed for water or electricity at home.

Still foggy on how cloud computing Services works and what it is for? This beginner’s guide is designed to demystify basic cloud computing jargon and concepts and quickly bring you up to speed.

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5 Angular and React

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AngularJS is an open-source web application framework protect by Google and by a community of corporations and individual developers to address many of the challenges encountered in developing single-page applications. It desires to facilitate both the testing and the development of such applications. AngularJs also powers some active Google ranking, applications from the Double Click Digital Marketing Platform to the YouTube app on the PlayStation 3. AngularJS combine an elegant framework for organizing your client-side JavaScript in a way to maximize reusability and testability. AngularJS allows you to create scopes in the DOM that behave similarly to scopes in JavaScript and other programming languages.

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6 Devops

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DevOps is a word that is used to describe a set of modern IT practices which seek to more closely bring together software developers and operations staff to work on the same project in a more collaborative manner. The desire is that by breaking down barriers which have traditionally existed between these two sides of the IT department, organizations can reduce the time and friction involved in deploying new versions of software. This effort will ideally lead to shorter development cycles which ideally may save time and money, and give the organization a competitive edge against others with longer, more traditional development cycles.

Why pursue a DevOps strategy?
Rapid innovation is no longer optional. No matter what industry your organization operates in, it is almost certainly an industry that is seeing upheaval of traditional business practices due to the move towards a software-defined economy. From transportation to manufacturing, mining to farming, finance to healthcare: big data, cloud computing, mobile applications, and a slew of other technology are making software the key differentiator between those businesses and organizations that get ahead and those that fall behind.

Even if your organization wasn't competing in the software market a decade ago, today it is, and the way to get ahead is to bring better solutions forward fasters.

How do I get started?
The first steps into DevOps are about examining your culture and practices, identifying the barriers to cross-team communication and coordination, and taking the steps necessary to bridge communication between your development and operations teams. Achieving this is a challenge, but you don't have to get there overnight. Begin by taking a look at your current methodologies and ask yourself what's not working, and where the opportunities for better cross-pollination may exist.

While DevOps is in many ways about organizational culture, identifying the right software tools is an important step as well. Is your organization using for source control and revisioning tools like Git to help you manage code? Are you adopting continuous integration and build tools to make the movement from source to testing as seamless as possible? What about tools for automating the testing and packaging of their software, or for deployment and security testing? Are you looking at ways to manage your infrastructure like code with configuration management tools, to easily scale and replicate environments? And what about monitoring tools to keep an eye on the whole process from development to production?

DevOps benefits from finding the right tools to keep your development and operations teams working together and moving faster.

Where can I learn more?
Opensource.com has published a number of articles on DevOps; check out our tag set or some of our more popular articles below.

What's the point of DevOps?: A brief history of DevOps demonstrates the need to think differently about collaborative IT work.

3 steps to secure, open source DevOps:

The key to secure app development is to "shift left"—move security testing away from late-stage production and back towards design and development.
Top 5 programming languages for DevOps: We round up five of the top programming languages for DevOps and a few handy learning resources for each.
A developer's journey through DevOps: The days of siloed development and operations teams is over.
Secured DevOps for microservices: Containers and microservices have revolutionized application development and infrastructure management.
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Internet of Things (IoT)

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This includes everything from network-based cameras, digital video recorders, to digital personal assistants. These devices can be categorized for commercial use like biometric door looks to home use like Bluetooth door lock keypads and thermostats. While these types of devices have existed for years, they have only recently been grouped and labeled IoT based on their mass adoption and, more importantly, their mass identification of security risks and privileged attack vectors. Therefore, as IoT devices become more commonplace, there is a need to ensure that they do not represent an unnecessary security risk to standard business operations. Unfortunately, it has already been proven that many of these devices are insecure by design, have unresolvable flaws, and can be leveraged to compromise an entire organization with something as simple as a default credential.

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Intelligent Apps (I – Apps)

I-Apps are pieces of software written for mobile devices based on artificial intelligence and machine learning technology, aimed at making everyday tasks easier.
This involves tasks like organizing and prioritizing emails, scheduling meetings, logging interactions, content, etc. Some familiar examples of I-Apps are Chatbots and virtual assistants.
As these applications become more popular, they will come with promise of jobs and fat paychecks.

9.Big data:

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Big data is a term that describes the large volume of data – both structured and unstructured – that inundates a business on a day-to-day basis. But it’s not the amount of data that’s important. It’s what organizations do with the data that matters. Big data can be analyzed for insights that lead to better decisions and strategic business moves.

Big data refers to problems that are associated with processing and storing different types of data. Most of the companies today, rely on big data analytics to gain huge insight about their:

customer,
product research,
marketing initiatives and many more.
For your surprise, big data led Germany to win the world cup.

Hadoop and Spark are the two most famous frameworks for solving Big Data problems.

If you already have some knowledge of Big Data, splendid! If not, now is the time to start.

10) RPA (Robotic Process Automation):

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Generally, any desk job in any industry involves tasks that are repetitive in nature and can be automated.
RPA or Robotic Process Automation allows you to automate such routine and repetitive tasks.
You don’t need to write any code to automate repetitive tasks.
In 2018, the trend of bots and machine learning is only going to skyrocket, which means RPA will become an invaluable skill to have.

Choose one or choose all, either ways have a happy career this 2018!