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With more data streams coming online and their integration into existing BI, CRM, ERP and other mission-critical business systems, the single view of the customer may finally come into focus. While most customer service and field sales representatives have yet to feel the impact, big companies such as IBM and MicroStrategy are working to see that they do soon.

As we enter 2013, businesses have more choices than ever for technology to improve business and IT. The proper use of technology enables businesses to be more efficient. Five key technologies that are identified to give organizations significant competitive advantages are big data, business analytics, business and social collaboration, cloud computing and mobile technology.
 

We all know that in 2012, more companies embraced the cloud to store information, reduce operational costs and deliver enterprise apps. Connected machines created a smarter world while intelligent networks provided the invisible network which more and more connects our professional and personal lives.

While a lot of people talk about new cloud computing trends which will be big in 2013 (you can read a good article about this at CIO.com ), today we are going to focus on something different. It's a fact that, no matter bigger popularity and growth of cloud computing, there are still some not so clear things about it.

That is why, we are presenting you just five of the great unsolved mysteries about cloud computing:

When they are used together, data mining and predictive analytics can really make marketing more efficient.
There are many techniques and methods for this, and one of them is business intelligence data collection.

Now we get to a point, what is business intelligence data?

In order to make success in analytics, both strong analytical leaders and executives who are willing to make a long-term commitment are needed. Nowadays, the analytical leaders spend as much time discussing how to manage people, projects, and processes as they do technology and architectures.

At the end of they year, we can usually read a lot of articles with predictions for the next year. It was the same at the end of the 2012, and you can also check out our previous articles:
 

Mobile Video on The Way.

Today we are going to mention few powerful techniques related to online marketing.
You can find lots of content online, related to this topic, but these tips are given by "biggest players" in the area.

Here they are:

For sure, 2012 has shown that the mobile industry is a pretty tough business to be in. One thing's for sure, the industry should keep us all on our toes in 2013.

Next year sees a vicious battle for the so-called coveted No. 3 spot for mobile operating systems behind Google's Android and Apple's iOS. The contenders are Microsoft's Windows Phone 8 and Research in Motion's BlackBerry 10. Both have expressed confidence that they have what it takes to be the third player in this increasingly crowded business.

For years mobile video has been held back by a single factor: bandwidth. But now, 4G LTE is changing that. That is why mobile video is already more popular on the faster wireless networks.

Mobile video is quickly becoming a mass consumer phenomenon.
Just like it was with digital photos earlier in the smartphone adoption cycle.

Gartner, Inc. recently highlighted the top 10 technologies and trends that will be strategic for most organizations in 2013. Gartner defines a strategic technology as one with the potential for significant impact on the enterprise in the next three years.

They have identified the top 10 technologies that will be strategic for most organizations, and that IT leaders should factor into their strategic planning processes over the next two years. These trends focus on - social, mobile, cloud and information technologies. 

Voice-controlled smartphone searches are slowly becoming all the rage, thanks to tools like Apple's Siri and Google's "enhanced" voice search. While Google's technology has been available to Android users for some time, the company recently updated its native search application for iOS with its latest developments in contextual voice queries. For iOS users, this means there's now actual competition for what you use when you want to make quick lookups without your thumbs. So which one is better: Google or Siri?

At the beginning, you have to be aware that it's pretty hard to predict anything about an industry which is changing so fast, like web design does.
We can never know what is really going to become popular and appear as trend. But, considering new trends in last 2 years, there is a possibility that we can predict, even pretty correct, new trends in web design in general.

In previous articles we wrote about KPI reports and why you need them(link), and about defining high quality KPIs. Today we are going to talk about tools for analyzing and monitoring KPIs.

As you already know, in business world today, decisions are made on big amounts of data. That is why it's crucial that you can have fast access to right data and make good decisions. This basically means that having the real-time information can make the difference between success and failure. 

In our last article, we talked about basics of KPI, what are they, and why do you need them.
Now, we are going to go through defining the KPIs in the right way, how to track and analyse them.

This article covers basics on KPIs, what are they and why we need them.

Let's first define what is KPI?

Shortly, KPI's or Key Performance Indicators are a set of performance statistics specific to your business.
They offer an overview about how you are performing against goals of your company.

Small business companies which are looking for low budget ways to market their products or business, usually find email marketing as great solution.

A lot of successful people from Internet marketing rely on this way of marketing for most of their sales. But really important question is, can email marketing really work for your business?

For sure you have heard about HTML5 until now. Maybe you are not aware still, but HTML5 is already everywhere around us. 

For beginning, take a look at experimental version of Youtube.