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Basab Pradhan

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Basab Pradhan writes about enterprise technology and services and other things on his mind at his blog 6 AM Pacific.

Dark Data is a Big Opportunity for Services Companies

Dark Data is a Big Opportunity for Services Companies

By Basab Pradhan on November 14, 2014

Why is Big Data big? Obviously not because someone invented a new statistical method of data analysis that can explain everything. It’s because there is a lot more data spewing out of business processes where there were none before. The questions haven’t changed – as a business manager I still want to know how to […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Amazon Web Services, Apache Hadoop, Artificial intelligence, Attunity, Big Data, Cloud Computing, Infosys, Offshore Services, technology

Government Mass Surveillance Will Create a Surge in Technology Spend

Government Mass Surveillance Will Create a Surge in Technology Spend

By Basab Pradhan on November 11, 2013

How the NSA hacked Google in one simple graphic. Photograph: Washington Post The Guardian has a presentation called The NSA Files that is the most brilliant rich media presentation of a complex subject I have ever come across outside of a museum. So go read it, even if it is just to see the presentation. […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged google, government, National Security Agency, nsa, Surveillance, technology | 1 Response

Writing Simply

Writing Simply

By Basab Pradhan on September 3, 2013

Greg Mankiw writes about a carbon tax in the New York Times. Whether or not you agree with the economic arguments for the tax, it is easy to agree that Mankiw writes very well. Mankiw is a Professor at Harvard and was the Chief Economic Adviser to President George Bush. You would expect him to […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged economics, Random Stuff | 1 Response

Why I Joined CliQr

Why I Joined CliQr

By Basab Pradhan on August 15, 2013

I joined CliQr as President and CEO last week. I am very excited about the opportunity to lead a company that is at the cusp of something really big and important in enterprise technology. Until last month, I was the Head of Global Sales and Marketing at Infosys, an IT services company. This was my second stint […]

Posted in Business | Tagged Cliqr, Cloud Computing, CloudCenter, Infosys

Cloud to Enterprise: Resistance is Futile

Cloud to Enterprise: Resistance is Futile

By Basab Pradhan on April 2, 2013

At the end of its Journey to the Cloud, will an enterprise still be running its own data center? Perhaps, but if it does, it will be much, much smaller. It will be the Private Cloud part of a Hybrid Cloud that will run only a small portion of enterprise workloads. On the other hand, […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Cloud Computing, data center, Facebook, public cloud, technology | 3 Responses

I Want My Customer Data

I Want My Customer Data

By Basab Pradhan on March 6, 2013

For the last few years, I have been using Mint (mint.com) to keep track of our household expenses. My needs are very simple. I want to be able to answer simple questions like “How much are we spending on regular monthly expenses?” and “How much is going towards discretionary expenses like eating out?”. But I […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Credit card, Customer data, Debit card, Merchant services, mint, technology | 1 Response

Wanted: A Rules Engine for Excel

Wanted: A Rules Engine for Excel

By Basab Pradhan on February 12, 2013

James Kwak writes about the role of Excel in the JPMorgan 2012 trading loss After the London Whale trade blew up, the Model Review Group discovered that the model had not been automated and found several other errors. Most spectacularly, “After subtracting the old rate from the new rate, the spreadsheet divided by their sum […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged excel, JPMorgan Chase, Microsoft Excel, Spreadsheet, technology

The Journey to the Cloud

The Journey to the Cloud

By Basab Pradhan on January 29, 2013

Oil Cooled Servers – grcooling.com The beginning of the year is a good time to prognosticate. So here is my prediction – not just for the year, but for the whole decade. This decade in Enterprise IT is going to be mostly about the Journey to the Cloud. Enterprise IT faces a raft of technology […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged Cloud Computing, technology | 4 Responses

Why is That Ad Following Me Around on the Internet?

Why is That Ad Following Me Around on the Internet?

By Basab Pradhan on August 6, 2012

Forbes has a piece on Why Wall Street Likes LinkedIn More Than Facebook. The difference in how well the two companies monetize user interest is quite significant. And when it comes to making money, LinkedIn packs a much harder punch than Facebook. LinkedIn manages to rake in $1.30 per user hour spent on the site, […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged advertizing, AdWords, Facebook, google, linkedin, Monetization, technology, Twitter | 1 Response

The Trouble With Powerpoint

The Trouble With Powerpoint

By Basab Pradhan on June 8, 2012

A couple of weeks ago, I was walking someone through a Powerpoint deck on the phone. The discussion was going well. But every now and then she would skip ahead. I’d be on slide 12 expounding some gory detail of our actions in Q1 and she would say “I have a comment to make about […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Offshore Services | 4 Responses

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