ChatBot

Chatbot, what is it? It is the new buzz word in IT world now. It is been there since 1966 (ELIZA) but got momentum recently. Why do we have software applications? It is to fulfil our needs. Software applications are written for performing specific task to take care of a specific business needs. So, software applications are coming in many different domains, platforms and business. Ultimately, these software applications take instructions/commands and reacts to those in a predefined manner to fulfil the expected tasks. How different Chatbots are from the software application. In a way, chatbots are also software application. But chatbots are focused on serving the user by interacting with them via a chat medium. The users are widely into messenger boards and messaging platforms rather than on using applications. This is one of the reason, chatbots are gaining good traction and momentum now a days. The users are widely into messenger boards and messaging platforms rather than on using applications. This is one of the reason, chatbots are gaining good traction and momentum now a days. So what exactly is a chatbot? Chatbot is a medium by which companies are helping users to interact with their business via chat mode. For example, traditionally the user goes to the web site of a company and shops their products and purchases using the carts and making payments through payment gateways. Your browser does not support the video tag. Now users can do all of these without going to the web site by using chatbots. With chatbot, users can ask for whatever products they want and ask the chatbot to...

Data Science

Data science is interdisciplinary field that uses scientific methods, processes, algorithms and systems to extract knowledge and insights from data in various forms, both structured and unstructured,[1][2] similar to data mining. Data science is an interdisciplinary field that uses scientific methods, processes, algorithms and systems to extract knowledge and insights from data in various forms, both structured and unstructured,[1][2] similar to data mining. Data science is a “concept to unify statistics, data analysis, machine learning and their related methods” in order to “understand and analyze actual phenomena” with data.[3] It employs techniques and theories drawn from many fields within the context of mathematics, statistics, information science, and computer science. Turing award winner Jim Gray imagined data science as a “fourth paradigm” of science (empirical, theoretical, computational and now data-driven) and asserted that “everything about science is changing because of the impact of information technology” and the data deluge.[4][5] In 2012, when Harvard Business Review called it “The Sexiest Job of the 21st Century”,[6] the term “data science” became a buzzword. It is now often used interchangeably with earlier concepts like business analytics,[7] business intelligence, predictive modeling, and Statistics. Even the suggestion that data science is sexy was a paraphrased reference to Dr. Hans Rosling’s 2011 BBC documentary quote, “Statistics, is now the sexiest subject around” [1]. Nate Silver referred to data science as a sexed up term for statistics. In many cases, earlier approaches and solutions are now simply rebranded as “data science” to be more attractive, which can cause the term to become “dilute[d] beyond usefulness.”[9] While many university programs now offer a data science degree, there exists...

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft Azure is an ever-expanding set of cloud services to help your organisation meet your business challenges. It is the freedom to build, manage and deploy applications on a massive, global network using your favorite tools and frameworks. Microsoft Azure, formerly known as Windows Azure, is Microsoft’s public cloud computing platform. It provides a range of cloud services, including those for compute, analytics, storage and networking. Users can pick and choose from these services to develop and scale new applications, or run existing applications, in the public cloud. Allscripts is a leading healthcare software manufacturer, serving physician practices, hospitals, health plans, and Big Pharma. To transform its applications frequently and host them securely and reliably, Allscripts has started to use Microsoft Azure. In just three weeks, the company lifted and shifted dozens of acquired applications running on 1,000 virtual machines to Azure. Allscripts also develops software in Azure and realizes dramatic time-to-market gains and savings by using the Azure platform as a service offering. By moving our acquired applications to Azure, we were able to get them up, running, and adding value to the business in three weeks versus the three months needed to requisition servers and storage. — Peter Tomlinson: Director of IS, Technology Operations Harmonize development and hosting Thousands of hospitals, health systems, community practices, and pharmaceutical companies rely on Allscripts software to deliver smarter, more effective patient care. The Chicago, Illinois–based company makes a wide range of software applications used by a spectrum of healthcare players to build open, connected communities of health. Pharmaceutical companies use Allscripts software to run clinical trials more efficiently. Hospitals and...
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