“‘You need to make yourself redundant in your current job, to take up a higher job’, ‘ Learn to delegate!’ everyone says the same thing. I know you are going to give me the same gyan.” My colleague was totally frustrated when I went to ask her to come for a cup of coffee with me. “Delegation has created...
I was contacted by many, after seeing my recent post about acquisition of CoreView Systems by SumaSoft. Immediately after the first common message “Congratulations…”; the curiosity kicked in. “What was the most challenging part of the deal, Makarand?” I believe many were expecting to hear the valuation, or the selection process itself as an answer. Personally I found that the...
It’s my pleasure to announce that CoreView Systems Private Limited has been acquired by Suma Soft Pvt Ltd, and is now part of a 500+ people team. For the past ten years and more, CoreView has built strengths and solid background in Enterprise Product Development. Over these years CoreView picked up and solved many technology challenges and has built new solutions for our customers around latest...
India-Pakistan standing against each other once again for the Asia cup. Luckily the match was on weekends so we got to sit at home and watch. But many times the match is going on and we are working - in such case people prefer opening a site showing live updates of the match. Real time updates is a very common use case...
This year, it was the eighth reunion of my class friends from high school. A few years ago, we discovered each other through various social media channels, and then we have been meeting regularly in person. As it happens in any other group, most of the friends enjoy talking to each other, rejuvenating from the memories of the past. However...
Insurance is one of the largest industries globally, in terms of investments, returns as well as its social role in covering risks. As the insurance sector works on investment and returns and also is about risk management, needless to say it has tons of data available, and traditionally uses statistical models for risk assessment and deciding premiums and so on. This...
Majority of the machine learning courses assume the availability of labeled training data as it’s crucial for supervised machine learning models. But, labeled data rarely exists in the real world. We need to collect labels and labeling data is hard and costly, without labels there is no model. So what’s the solution? Active Learning: We need to build a model to label...
It was the first day at high school. The class was full of students from different parts of the city. A few had moved to the city from nearby towns. Except for a few, who were with me in the primary school, most others were new faces. Naturally the day started with the round of introductions. The intro contained lots...
The key criterion for any business to be successful is knowing your customers well. Knowing them well even before they become your customers. The organizations work hard to identify their target audience. Customer segmentation is very useful in Taking the decision about where to place your advertisements, what content to use, to use the marketing budget effectively Defining the customer...
This is a story from the time when I was very young. We were back from a day long school picnic, and everyone was busy sharing the memories of the event with friends. No one was really in the mood of attending the classes. Our teacher, maybe, was feeling the same, or at least realized it. “Let us start a...
