Wednesday 19 May 2021

Why 'Business Intelligence"

 


Business Intelligence is an umbrella term that covers the processes and methods of collecting, storing, and analyzing data from business operations or activities to optimize performance. All of these things come together to create a comprehensive view of a business to help people make better, actionable decisions.

Over the past few years, business intelligence has evolved to include more processes and activities to help improve performance. These processes include:

  • Data mining: Using databases, statistics and machine learning to uncover trends in large datasets.
  • Reporting: Sharing data analysis to stakeholders so they can draw conclusions and make decisions.
  • Performance metrics and benchmarking: Comparing current performance data to historical data to track performance against goals, typically using customized dashboards.
  • Descriptive analytics: Using preliminary data analysis to find out what happened.
  • Querying: Asking the data specific questions, BI pulling the answers from the datasets.
  • Statistical analysis: Taking the results from descriptive analytics and further exploring the data using statistics such as how this trend happened and why.
  • Data visualization: Turning data analysis into visual representations such as charts, graphs, and histograms to more easily consume data.
  • Visual analysis: Exploring data through visual storytelling to communicate insights on the fly and stay in the flow of analysis.
  • Data preparation: Compiling multiple data sources, identifying the dimensions and measurements, preparing it for data analysis.


  • A few ways that business intelligence can help companies make smarter, data-driven decisions:

    • Identify ways to increase profit
    • Analyze customer behavior
    • Compare data with competitors
    • Track performance
    • Optimize operations
    • Predict success
    • Spot market trends
    • Discover issues or problems

Monday 20 July 2015

Transform your fear to freedom


We all are programmed to believe in heaven and hell, ' Swarg and Nark'. We simply behave as the society want us to. The society wants a God fearing social animal in all of us who follows all the established faiths and traditions, no matter how illogical. Our teachers, parents and elders teach us about the right and wrong, swarg and nark. Swarg generally means some place beyond our reach which is full of all the luxuries of life and even with tempting apsaras. Nark is again not reachable but have opposite characteristics of grave fear and pain. Krishna says that there is no existence of any other world , no heaven and no hell. Swarg simply means the ability to transmute oneself in the swar / 'sound' of AUM or any other relaxing sound. "Swar mein vicharan karne ki kshamta hi Swarg hai." Krishna himself says that it is attainable through YOG or meditation. All the mahayogis live in Swarg . The absence of this stage is Nark. A normal person is not able to stop his thoughts, avoiding this union of being with the eternal sound. By practice anyone can attain this stage. We all have the capacity to stop our thoughts through YOG/ Meditation. The moment this unending process stops, we immediately enter inside of us, we can listen the very sound of our existence. That stage is not comparable to anything else. Once in, we become united with the GOD , with the universe. There remains no difference in present or future. Time stops. That period is the first stage or gateway to SWARG. Yogis call it ANAND, JOY, etc. Our ATMAN is Far more beautiful than any imaginable apsara. To devoid oneself of this JOY is NARK. 
Be free from the fears of swarg or nark , we are here as divine fraction of the SUPERSOUL. Nobody has ever seen the SWARG or the NARK. Only the Yogis can describe both with their journey of YOG.

Friday 17 July 2015

Do we bow to 33 Crore Devtas


Let me be very clear "DEVTA in NOT the GOD." Devta means the 'giver' - who gives you something. That can be Surya Dev, Shani Dev, Brahm Dev etc. Refer to GEETA and Krishna says GOD is ONE and is present in the hearts of  everyone. (Devta naam ki koi cheez is sansaar mein nahi hai). The is no existence of anything as devta in this universe. It is the faith combined with fear and greed that we surrender to the unknown Devta to avoid some misfortune or to demand something. Krishna clearly says that it is only GOD who listens to your prayers and fulfills your demands from behind your self created Devta for fear or greed. We all know that one who originates fear or fulfills our wish by hurting other person can never be GOD. GOD is love and  mercy, and we are all equal in HIS eyes: a student or a professor, a king or a beggar, a dacoit of a social servant. Krishna further says that the toughest thing to the path of God is to leave behind all the baggage of or mind put by our parents, relatives and even teachers regarding religion, traditions, rituals etc. Only then we can search our ATMAN which is a part of the divine Himself. We have seen generations worshiping a particular DEVTA. The kids of  coming generations accept it without questioning. The Devta becomes the GOD for them and the ritual continues without an end. I appeal the new generation to know yourself more and reach the real GOD inside you. Don't make God far from you by looking at the sky , at religious hubs, or even in the temples. He is right there inside all of us, ready to liberate us from all the fears and greed.
We just need to accept ourselves as a part of Him and all our efforts should be in line with what our heart approves. Our heart never guide us to any of the wrongdoing, whatsoever.
It is still very sad to see the students of my PG classes visiting Shani DEV or Hanuman Mandir just out of fear. Please don't fell prey to the so called religious Pujaris just to make their living. Let them also search the true meaning of GOD and not a Devta who scares.

Thursday 16 July 2015

R U GOD FEARING


God fearing is a widely used term by the new generation which I refuse to accept by any sensible person. How GOD can ever be fearful. HE is love, pure love . HE is never far form us, we are never without HIM. HE is present in the hearts of all human beings. HE does not define any sin , it is our so called "DHARAM GURUS" who preach the right or the wrong in the path to salvation. Nobody needs salvation, we are already liberated  if we feel gratitude and blessed every moment. It is up to the new generation to accept this as accepted since time immemorial OR to stand high for the entire generation. You can be the spark of change which will burn all types of fears sown in the minds of humankind right from their birth through their families, teachers, etc.