How To Create A Poll Question On Facebook

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Facebook has introduced official tool for asking poll questions on your profile. Its very easy to create and share poll questions on facebook.



How To Activate Facebook Questions?

After sining in to facebook, Go to facebook.com/questions
Then click on enable facebook questions.
Then you could see 'Questions' tab on your facebook profile.
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For creating a new question with poll, Click on Questions tab. And write your question.
For adding poll to the question, You should click on 'Add poll option'
And fill the poll values...
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Click on 'Ask Question' after adding all the values.
Thats all, You have successfully created a facebook question with poll.
Sample Question...
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The Top 5 B usiness I ntelligence (BI) Tool Vendors According to I DC..!!

The most of the future corporate decision & forecasting would be based on the IT-Business Intelligence(BI) tools. So, it would be mandatory to know some basic knowledge according to need & interest of the application. As of my interest in BI specific term, motivated me to share this article with you all as well .Our most of the time would be invest in front of PC or iPad to control our daily activity.
So these five BI tools & vendors name are the best & top in list of solution & product provider.

1- Business Objects

Business Objects continues its reign as the leading BI tools vendor. In 2006, the company’s software revenue in this market reached $894 million. In 2006, Business Objects experienced a slight slowdown in its BI tools license revenue growth. After gaining half a percentage point in share in 2005, the company gave it up in 2006.
However, the latest information on the uptake of its Business Objects XI platform suggests a pickup in growth in the latter part of 2006 and early 2007. Business Objects is also making an aggressive push into the midmarket, where it targets organizations with less than $1 billion in revenue. The company’s partner network is one of its strongest assets, and this effort, which depends in large part on indirect sales, is expected to contribute to the growth of Business Objects’ BI tools.

2 - SAS

SAS was again the second-largest BI tools vendor, with $679 million in software revenue and a continued steady increase in market share to 11%. SAS had the highest growth rate among the top 3 BI tools vendors and the third-highest growth rate among the top 10 vendors.
SAS still derives more revenue from its advanced analytics tools, but its effort to revamp and more aggressively market its QRA tools since 2004 has paid off, with QRA’s share of SAS’ total BI tools revenue increasing from 37% in 2004 to 44% in 2006. As the leader in the advanced analytics market, SAS holds 31% of that market segment.

3 - Cognos

Cognos maintained the third position in the BI tools market, with $622 million in software revenue and a 10% growth rate in 2006. It is also one of only three vendors with at least a 10% share in the BI tools market.
Cognos has pursued a two-pronged strategy of developing and marketing BI tools and financial performance management applications, with recent expansion into other related performance management markets such as workforce analytics. Nevertheless, BI tools remain Cognos’ largest product line. In 2006, Cognos released several enhancements to its core BI platform.

4 - Microsoft

Microsoft had another strong year in the BI tools market, with the highest growth rate (28%) among the top 10 vendors. IDC’s revenue allocation for Microsoft in this market differs somewhat from other vendors in that its BI tools revenue is not only made up of standalone software that the company acquired with its 2006 purchase of ProClarity Software but also includes what IDC calls embedded BI tools that are bundled with Microsoft SQL Server.
These database-embedded tools include SQL Server Analysis Services and Reporting Services. As part of its broader business analytics offerings, Microsoft also includes SQL Server Integration Services within SQL Server. Its other related tools that the company positions within the business analytics stack include Microsoft Excel, with specific Excel 2007 features for BI, and Performance Point Server, a set of performance management applications to be released in the second half of 2007.

Microsoft’s growth in the BI tools market can be attributed to focused sales and marketing efforts in recent years, accompanied by both internal R&D and acquisitions. While, in the past, Microsoft considered BI to be functionality that helps to sell databases and enhance its partners’ more extensive BI capabilities, the company has since identified BI as a market worth pursuing directly.

5 - Hyperion
Hyperion maintained its fifth position in the market, with a 5.2% market share and a 12.3% growth rate. Since releasing its latest BI platform, which incorporates the best of the Hyperion and former Brio components (in addition to certain new performance enhancements), the company has improved its standing in the BI tools market. Hyperion’s other major product line includes financial performance and strategy management applications, where company has been the market leader for years. In March 2007, Oracle announced its plans to acquire Hyperion. IDC sees the event as a positive development for both Oracle and former Hyperion clients

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How to price IT products in 7 steps?

One day, I was reading an article on IT products pricing. Then I thought if I will share it with others IT or non-IT readers, it would really benefits them directly or indirectly (http://www.mylinksmyads.com).
 The technical team or the product development team has come up with a ground breaking product. The technology can have a deep impact on the customer. The technical team knows it, and so does the customer. The contract for a long term engagement is about to hit off, and then the customer asks how much will this technology cost his pockets? In this competitive world, the technology developers do want the best price for the technology, but at the same time, they really do not know what the best price is to which your customer will give the green signal for a long term engagement. So how does one price an IT product?

Since IT products are  intangible, it has been recognized that the best price for intangible products should never be determined by production costs. Cost can be the “floor” of pricing alternatives and the customer’s quantified benefit in monetary terms should be the “ceiling.” The best price lies somewhere in between and that should be based upon the value of the technology to the customer.
This pricing can be done in the following steps:

1. Decide the various unique benefits from your product, such that there is no overlap.
2. Quantify the objective of deliverables for each benefit, by discussing the same with your client.
3. Map each benefit to its monetary value from the client’s data (or industry average).
4. Ask the client how much percentage deviation is acceptable from the quantified objective of deliverables mentioned earlier.
5. Discount the monetary value of each objective with the deviation percentage.
6. Sum up the discounted benefits.
7. Discount that sum by the operating profit margin of your client, and quote the calculated price.

The major point of debate for any firm, when it decides to go for an investment, is what would be the return on its investment, as the ROI figures are what often drive investment decisions. This methodology helps the client deduct the exact ROI from his investment.

Life if full of critical decisions: "Think before a big risk decision"

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Every person on this earth must have to take decision on every step of life. Many a time we don't have much time to thing, so taking right decision is the only way of success. In this video I found a decision taken by a confident & intelligent person. But, his parents were not in favor of that decision. So what could be the best criteria to take big risk decisions. I mean different personality has different way of thinking.

" India is thinking for 3G, World is thinking for 4G." Story of GSM in Telecom

As we are thinking about implementing the 3G technology in India soon, the world already looks forword to 4G and 5G. Korea and some parts of Europe have already implemented 4G systems, although their commercial use is yet to take full effect. We are currently trying to implement 3G while  slowly taking it through  the number if complictions that arise from dealing  with a market driven economy where there are too many players and less regulations.

             While this is all good, it’s worth knowing what exactly 3G is, what 1G were, and what to expect 4G . But before we do that, it’s helpful to expact from 4G . But before we do that , its helpful to first learn to bit of the technologies that makes up these:

CDMA – is Code Division Multiple Access

TDMA – is Time Division Multiple  Access

You see, there’s not much differece. But there is some techical differemce between them. Now,  What is GSM? GSM stands for “Global Systems for mobile Communication.” Have you heared of TCP/IP Internet Protocals?  Protocals are a set of rules and regulations or standards that govern how something is set up. It’s like the rules written in front pages of our unversity exams. You have to follow them to have your paper checked.

Well it’s stricter in the real world, especially where telecommunications are concerened.  There are many sets of such rules, or protocals and one needs to verystrictly abide by them(better start learning now ) if they want to be able to make a system capable of performing telecommunication.

One such set of protocols and standards is the GSM  standard. GSM is based on TDMA style of communication in it’s 2G form.  And 2.5G is what we have now.  TDMA is the simplest form of telephonice communication we have. It needs a direct link between the sender and reciver. And this need s to create a profile for each on the server that nobody else will be able to use. This makes TDMA really inconvenient for stuff like using internet, downloading, video calling etc.

That’s where CDMA comes in.  In TDMA, each bandwidth, which actually is a set of friquencies that are in use, is cut  up into pieces and each pieces of friquency is set up into time slots. Each time slot will belong to a user. This means that every second, there are some times when data is sent from your phone to the tower and the server knows exactly which times those are according to the information it sent  your SIM card.

Next time, I will try to cover CDMA story. Which has also there own interesting technical as well practical implementation.