May 09

Most common mistake in ERP implementation

ERP implementation requires lots of spadework. Consider a big organization with fully developed and established legacy systems. Organization has been running its businesses for so many years with fully developed and matured legacy systems. Now with scaling up of operations and a need to achieve better harmonization amongst various departments of organization, management has deemed it fit to go out for an ERP implementation. Continue reading

Jan 26

Is Programming as a Career losing Sheen?

Programming was a sunrise career not long ago. The guys were doing some hardcore coding to add value to their clients mainstream work. The results were there for all to see. Relational data base were used to back ends and PHP/.Net/Java etc were used to be the front end coding languages. This was not long ago. Programming is still a good profession albeit not a paying one any more. Too much competition and cheap labor has made IT lose its sheen and it is today like any other profession. Continue reading

Jan 10

Private Sector to Lead India’s Power Generation Saga.

Private Sector is going to be the key to India’s Power Generation Story in 12th plan. There will be more projects coming up in private sector than in central and state sectors combined together. The era of EPC ( Engineering, Procurement and Construction) it appears is over. There would primarily be two models through which the power plants would be coming up in 12th plan. One model would be tariff based bidding, a model which was employed for UMPPs and UMTPs bidding. Continue reading

Jan 05

Google Maps, One Application Many Utilities.

Google Maps, One Application Many Utilities.Google has offered many free goodies. One such application is Google Maps. This application is being put for many versatile usages in almost every part of world. Google Maps was primarily meant for Googlers to help them in finding out the distances and directions of locations. Even the most die hard fans might not have imagined that it can be put to so multifaceted applications which the developers might have been difficult to imagine. Google Maps has evolved over the years and today its database is so rich and extensive that it covers almost any destination on this planet. But the journey to this evolution has taken some time. Google Maps was first started as a software application by Lars and Jens Rasmussen for the company Where2 . In Oct 2004, the company was taken over by Google.Over the years it has evolved and grown with time. Continue reading

Aug 23

Solar PV cells efficiency improves albeit marginally

There have been researches going around the world amongst various solar cells manufacturers to improve the conversion efficiencies. But the progress on this front has been very very slow. There have been many technologies with mono, poly crystalline cells but the conversion efficiency the most important parameter for a solar module manufacturer, had been hovering at abysmal 15.5% for last 15 years.

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