We at SMART AIMS have been looking to innovate and that is sometimes the reason for the lull on our blog.. but not for too long.. we promise our readers to come up with new and exciting avenues.. that will tickle your brains and help understand what goes on to be SMART AIMS and what you could be expecting next with us.
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What next at SMART AIMS?
May 22nd, 2010 by credit repairWith support from friends and clients.. SMART AIMS completes One complete year of full fledged business operations.. Its been a rocky ride.. but friends and clients have helped us come out of it more than once.. alongwith continuous support from the design and development team..
As an entrepreneur, this journey has been yet another great learning and I am sure it will help me in the future as well.. like always.. We started with 1 full time working person (that was myself, Pradip Nagpal) and cam up to 9 at one point of time in the year and now are closing the year at 8.. no mean achievement keeping the fact in mind.. that we started when there was a downturn.. and are now seeing things picking up again…
SMART AIMS does not believe in being just another company amongst the host of others.. and certainly I would not like that to be.. and therefore we have decided to make some changes/arrangements that help us grow.. we will be revisiting each and every part/department of our small organisation.. and looking for ways to make it more effective.. as well as help it grow..
We may not be in the news for some time in the future (not that we were making headlines anyways), but we assure you by the end of these changes.. we will evolve stronger and with a better focus and management that takes us far ahead…
We once again thank all friends and partners (clients and employee) who have been with us in the journey and help us live a dream year..
Would love to finish this article off on a real positive note.. SMART AIMS is now Technology Partners for a major start-up in US.. design, development and concept partners.. and thats just the beginning..
Keep following us for more information.. and we assure you wouldn’t be disappointed.
Business Intelligence – The Key to success today.
April 16th, 2010 by credit repairWe would like to dedicate this section of our blog to an IBM researcher Mr. Hans Peter Luhn , who in the year 1958 in an article had mentioned the term “ Business Intelligence”. It definitely gave an idea as to how one can convert the germination of a Business idea into Business application.
Basically “Business Intelligence” is the ability to apprehend the interrelationships of presented facts in such a way as to guide action towards a desired goal.”.
Business Intelligence (BI) also refers to computer-based techniques used in spotting, digging-out, and analyzing business data, such as sales revenue by products or departments or associated costs and incomes. [1]
Going through the current trends and predictions the future of Business Intelligence seems to be very bright.
A 2009 Gartner paper predicted these developments in the business intelligence market .[7]
- Because of lack of information, processes, and tools, through 2012, more than 35 percent of the top 5,000 global companies will regularly fail to make insightful decisions about significant changes in their business and markets.
- By 2012, business units will control at least 40 percent of the total budget for business intelligence.
- By 2010, 20 per cent of organizations will have an industry-specific analytic application delivered via software as a service as a standard component of their business intelligence portfolio.
- In 2009, collaborative decision making will emerge as a new product category that combines social software with business intelligence platform capabilities.
- By 2012, one-third of analytic applications applied to business processes will be delivered through coarse-grained application mashups.
Keep looking for our Blog to read more about BI and the techniques that businesses today follow.
Joomla Template Customisation
March 25th, 2010 by Pradip NagpalProject Requirement: The client selects a Joomla template.. and wants to get it customised..
SMART AIMS deliverables:
Designer’s perspective:
We start with a mockup.. try and get it to the point whereby the client is satisfied with it.. we go through multiple iterations.. and finally ..”The client selects and approves it”.
Developer’s Perspective:
The selected template is now to be integrated to Joomla.. a theme (layout) which is close to the one selected by the client is chosen and integrated.
The designer helps the developer it changing the backgrounds, css and implements the template as he had designed.
The developer now starts adding the modules/plugins that the template is supposed to have.. and changes the css for them appropriately to reflect the selected design.
Template Integration complete..
Added Requirements by the client:
Installed Joomla already. Use the current content and plugins into the Joomla template that we had built!
SMART AIMS Delivers yet again!
The brief this time just increased the work we had to do.. not within the scope of the project defined earlier.. but again.. being a customer oriented organisation we had to deliver.
The template was uploaded using the Joomla Administrative Section:
Log in to Administrative Section
- Click on Extensions > Install/Unistall
- Select the Zip file for the Template designed and click on Upload File and Install
- Go to Extensions > Template Manager and select the newly installed template.
Phew! and we thought it was over.. but the game had just begun.. the plugins which the client had incorporated in the earlier Joomla template.. added to our woes.. we had to work on the css and getting them into specific positions in the template! It took time and effort.. but we did get through and updated the same for our client.
Final Result:
A happy client who paid us for doing that bit extra!.. well it was not about money.. but the way we went about the work that the client was impressed with..
Get in touch with us if you have requirements and for a great customer experience!
