This document discusses using hybrid intelligent systems to enable real-time business intelligence for personalized or "N=1" analytics. Specifically:
1) Traditional BI focuses on grouping customers rather than individualized analytics, but each customer's patterns may be unique. N=1 analytics aims to analyze individual customers in real-time.
2) A hybrid intelligent system framework is proposed to develop intelligent systems using techniques like expert systems, case-based reasoning and neural networks. These systems can be integrated into operational systems using web services.
3) Prototype personalized recommendation systems have been developed using this approach to monitor transactions and provide personalized recommendations in real-time.
Business intelligence can help telecom companies analyze customer transaction data to better understand customer behavior, identify at-risk customers, and uncover new opportunities for growth. This customer insight allows telecom providers to improve customer retention, target marketing efforts more effectively, and make data-driven decisions to lower costs and increase profits. HCL provides business intelligence and analytics services to help telecom companies gain strategic and competitive advantages through insights derived from customer data.
An exclusive presentation by Mr. Mayank Sahai, AVP - Corporate Marketing - Tata Teleservices Ltd. on ‘Enhancing Marketing Performance to drive Business Objectives.’ The presentation was made at SAS Forum India 2013.
Extracting Big Value From Big Data in Digital Media - An Executive Webcast wi...Krishnan Parasuraman
This document summarizes an executive webcast about extracting value from big data in digital media. It discusses how big data analytics can help digital marketers achieve their goals of a single customer view, increased targeting precision, improved relevance, and higher campaign profitability. The challenges of fragmented customer data from multiple online and offline sources are also outlined. It promotes IBM's Netezza big data platform and analytic solutions for consolidating, segmenting, matching, and optimizing large amounts of structured and unstructured customer data in real time to drive better marketing outcomes.
Spring Wireless provides mobile solutions that help consumer goods companies increase productivity, customer service, sales cycles and reduce costs. Their solutions empower employees with real-time information and tools to manage inventory, customer loyalty and sales from the warehouse to the sales floor. Successful consumer goods companies are using Spring Wireless' solutions to bring the power of mobile enterprise to their employees. Spring Wireless deploys and manages end-to-end mobile solutions comprising software, infrastructure and services to improve business processes throughout the sales cycle.
The document discusses how traditional branch-based banking models are no longer sustainable, and outlines three potential "next generation banking" models that banks should consider adopting: 1) an "Intelligent Multichannel" model powered by analytics, 2) a "Socially Engaging" model that leverages social media interactions, and 3) a "Financial/Non-Financial Digital Ecosystem" model where the bank acts as a hub providing both financial and non-financial services through mobile technology. It argues that aggressively implementing these new models could double annual revenue growth rates while reducing costs by over 20% compared to traditional models focused only on "doing the basics right
Christophe Lemaire, CIO at Eurostar - Welcome to Enterprise Business Intellig...Global Business Events
Eurostar is embarking on a business intelligence and information exploitation strategy to address current issues. They lack a single customer view, have poor visibility of bookings and revenue from multiple systems, and limited ability to produce insights from siloed data. Eurostar consulted experts and conducted studies across business areas to identify requirements. The proposed solution includes data transformation, an enterprise data repository, dashboards and reports. Key challenges are deciding project scope, gaining a common understanding of BI, and identifying sponsors. Success requires linking the project to an overall information systems strategy and not expecting BI to solve input data quality issues.
Business intelligence can help telecom companies analyze customer transaction data to better understand customer behavior, identify at-risk customers, and uncover new opportunities for growth. This customer insight allows telecom providers to improve customer retention, target marketing efforts more effectively, and make data-driven decisions to lower costs and increase profits. HCL provides business intelligence and analytics services to help telecom companies gain strategic and competitive advantages through insights derived from customer data.
An exclusive presentation by Mr. Mayank Sahai, AVP - Corporate Marketing - Tata Teleservices Ltd. on ‘Enhancing Marketing Performance to drive Business Objectives.’ The presentation was made at SAS Forum India 2013.
Extracting Big Value From Big Data in Digital Media - An Executive Webcast wi...Krishnan Parasuraman
This document summarizes an executive webcast about extracting value from big data in digital media. It discusses how big data analytics can help digital marketers achieve their goals of a single customer view, increased targeting precision, improved relevance, and higher campaign profitability. The challenges of fragmented customer data from multiple online and offline sources are also outlined. It promotes IBM's Netezza big data platform and analytic solutions for consolidating, segmenting, matching, and optimizing large amounts of structured and unstructured customer data in real time to drive better marketing outcomes.
Spring Wireless provides mobile solutions that help consumer goods companies increase productivity, customer service, sales cycles and reduce costs. Their solutions empower employees with real-time information and tools to manage inventory, customer loyalty and sales from the warehouse to the sales floor. Successful consumer goods companies are using Spring Wireless' solutions to bring the power of mobile enterprise to their employees. Spring Wireless deploys and manages end-to-end mobile solutions comprising software, infrastructure and services to improve business processes throughout the sales cycle.
The document discusses how traditional branch-based banking models are no longer sustainable, and outlines three potential "next generation banking" models that banks should consider adopting: 1) an "Intelligent Multichannel" model powered by analytics, 2) a "Socially Engaging" model that leverages social media interactions, and 3) a "Financial/Non-Financial Digital Ecosystem" model where the bank acts as a hub providing both financial and non-financial services through mobile technology. It argues that aggressively implementing these new models could double annual revenue growth rates while reducing costs by over 20% compared to traditional models focused only on "doing the basics right
Christophe Lemaire, CIO at Eurostar - Welcome to Enterprise Business Intellig...Global Business Events
Eurostar is embarking on a business intelligence and information exploitation strategy to address current issues. They lack a single customer view, have poor visibility of bookings and revenue from multiple systems, and limited ability to produce insights from siloed data. Eurostar consulted experts and conducted studies across business areas to identify requirements. The proposed solution includes data transformation, an enterprise data repository, dashboards and reports. Key challenges are deciding project scope, gaining a common understanding of BI, and identifying sponsors. Success requires linking the project to an overall information systems strategy and not expecting BI to solve input data quality issues.
This document discusses traditional and alternative approaches to customer segmentation. It begins by explaining that segmentation is used to differentiate customers and apply customized approaches. It then describes the main types of segmentation:
1. Value segmentation looks at a customer's economic value to the business. This includes both past revenue and predicted future profits.
2. Needs segmentation tries to understand a customer's underlying needs in order to better satisfy them. Needs are often proxied using demographics, behaviors, and other attributes.
3. Multi-dimensional segmentation combines value, needs, and other variables to create a more detailed segmentation scheme that accounts for customers' unique attributes. This provides a framework to develop customized strategies for each customer segment.
There are many potential sources of customer activity data that can be captured and analyzed to understand customer behavior better in real-time, including: operational systems, web/clickstream data, social media, conversations and sensors. This captured customer activity data is then analyzed using streaming analytics and fed into a master customer record to trigger real-time personalized decisions and actions across multiple customer touchpoints.
1) Organizations are placing renewed emphasis on customer retention and cost cutting due to economic challenges, leading them to examine contact management (CM) and customer relationship management (CRM) solutions.
2) CM solutions are designed for individual or team productivity and sales automation, while CRM solutions are multi-module systems of record for all customer interactions.
3) The choice between CM and CRM often depends on a company's sales interaction model and key business challenges - for example, a one-to-many model may prefer a CM, while many-to-one may choose a CRM.
ABN AMRO implemented an integrated multi-channel marketing project to better target its large customer base and prioritize communications. It built a data warehouse containing information on 5.2 million customers to have a single customer view across all channels. It selected the smartCAMPAIGNER solution from smartFOCUS to automate its growing number of marketing campaigns and address weaknesses in targeting, campaign management and prioritization. Initial results showed most repetitive campaigns were automated and operating effectively.
Our core message is “joined up governance”. We are joining up project/portfolio governance with service delivery governance, financial governance, outsourcing governance and corporate governance within a single cloud-based system and SLAs, KPIs, actions, risks, issues, projects, financials, commercials, people’s opinions - all in one place at last. Drives ownership and accountability. Brilliant reports and even better context, perspective, accountability and audit trails across the big things you are managing.
Our core message is “joined up governance”. We are joining up project/portfolio governance with service delivery governance, financial governance, outsourcing governance and corporate governance within a single cloud-based system and SLAs, KPIs, actions, risks, issues, projects, financials, commercials, people’s opinions - all in one place at last. Drives ownership and accountability. Brilliant reports and even better context, perspective, accountability and audit trails across the big things you are managing.
Gourangi is an operational business intelligence and integration platform that provides organizations with improved visibility across business operations. It reduces the time between discovering problems or opportunities and taking corrective action. Key features include real-time monitoring of key performance indicators, automated corrective actions through integration with process engines, and multi-channel alerting.
InfosysPublicServices - Member Switchover Solution | AnalysisInfosys
This white Paper outlines approach of Member Switchover Solution, Analysis, Features and Key Benefits. Some of the Features include Score Card Generation, Member Risk Modeling & Member Profitability Analysis.
1) Business analytics can unlock the power of data and analytics by transforming insight into income, but many organizations struggle to realize this value due to challenges in managing and analyzing vast amounts of data.
2) Organizational silos often prevent companies from making the best use of big data and analytics across end-to-end processes. To address this, companies need a single, enterprise-wide view of data.
3) The best way to achieve a consistent view of data is through a centralized analytics function that provides analytics as a managed service across the business. This function could be an internal shared service center or outsourced through business process outsourcing.
Business Value Networks And Information Technology V5eamonnmccormick
The document discusses business value networks and leveraging TOGAF for enterprise architecture. It provides an overview of TOGAF and its use for developing enterprise architectures. It emphasizes focusing architecture efforts on delivering shareholder value through well-managed value networks. The document outlines understanding the business value network vision, developing the business value network architecture, and the key roles and execution process for a business value network model.
Introduccion a SQL Server Master Data ServicesEduardo Castro
En esta presentación hacemos una introducción a SQL Server 2008 R2 Master Data Services.
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Ing. Eduardo Castro Martínez, PhD – Microsoft SQL Server MVP
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http://comunidadwindows.org
Costa Rica
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This document discusses business analytics and performance management solutions. It describes tools for predictive analysis, driver-based planning, financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, sales forecasting, financial consolidation, scenario building, strategic planning, decision making, dashboards, reporting, analysis, data integration, data modeling, querying, OLAP analysis, and KPIs. Case studies are provided for companies that have implemented these solutions.
Happiest Minds Technologies is an IT services company that offers solutions leveraging disruptive technologies like cloud, mobility, social computing, analytics, and unified communications. They help clients address challenges like scaling business, driving value from technology, securely engaging ecosystems, and gaining insights. Happiest Minds provides end-to-end services from advisory to security and focuses on industries like retail, travel, and banking. Their philosophy centers employee happiness to create happy customers.
IBM Partnering For A Smarter Planet Exploring The Role Of Ecosystems In Evo...IBM
Cloud computing is shifting the IT landscape and reshaping traditional market models by focusing on customer-centric services. This increased focus on customers is empowering them with more access to information and choice. As a result, customers now dictate new terms in their relationships with providers and have more control over how and when they access services. Some customers are forming "club clouds," hybrid cloud models where groups of customers bound by region or industry jointly procure cloud services to improve operations and reduce costs.
This document describes an enterprise framework for ensuring stakeholder investments are protected and investor interests are maximized. It discusses features like focusing on strategic decisions rather than operations, functional integration across departments, and knowledge management. The framework utilizes a management accounting and control system (MACS) and can be implemented using different business models like product licensing, software as a service, or consulting services. It contains over 500 features focused on different industries and business functions. The goals are flexibility, disruptive technology, and a focus on key areas like people performance, communications, asset management, and processes.
IT service management (ITSM) involves the processes and tools used to deliver IT services to internal and external users. Some key components of ITSM include service strategy, service design, service transition, service operation, and continual service improvement. ITSM frameworks like ITIL provide best practices for aligning IT services with business needs through the entire lifecycle from strategy to operations.
To keep pace with the ever increasing demand for real-time customer service, shifting to mobility has become inevitable for the insurance industry. In
today's scenario, where real-time servicing of customer requests 'on the fly' has become a norm, mobile technology seems ideally positioned to
enable insurers gain a competitive advantage. Mobile solutions enable faster and improved communications between customers, field agents,
and the central processing office of the insurer.
Adopting mobile technology can help insurers
enhance customers' experiences, increase
productivity, while keeping a check on costs, and
mitigating operational risks.
The document discusses a banking solutions product called 1KEY that provides planning, analysis, and reporting capabilities for banks. It allows banks to analyze customer profitability, manage risk, and monitor organizational performance at the branch level. The 1KEY framework integrates data from various bank systems and uses business intelligence tools to generate reports and dashboards. This helps banks make better planning decisions, identify opportunities to increase revenues and cut costs, and ensure regulatory compliance.
Learn the key success factors that banks must address to differentiate mobile offerings and provide industry-leading capabilities that drive customer satisfaction.
Learn how to:
Navigate the diverse digital payments “ecosystem”
Support customer loyalty and retention
Gain valuable customer insights from mobile data
Achieve symmetry with other mobile trends
Leverage core legacy technology investments
Demonstrate return on investment
Iken Solutions is an AI software company that was spun off from IIT Bombay. It has won several awards including being selected by Microsoft for its startup accelerator program. The company provides intelligent business systems using techniques like expert systems, case-based reasoning, neural networks and genetic algorithms.
Mobile internet has grown rapidly in recent years, reaching 2.7 billion users aged 8 years old. The largest mobile content categories are music and social networking. In contrast, fixed internet is older at 13 years and has fewer users. Mobile advertising is a growing market projected to be $6.5 billion within 5 years. Personalization is key to engaging mobile users and increasing revenues through relevant content recommendations.
The AI functions that Mooga performs will not only determine if a specific content item is relevant to the consumer it will move it to their personal storefront. Mooga does not discriminate against content type, content category, customer storefront or the current popularity of the content.
This document discusses traditional and alternative approaches to customer segmentation. It begins by explaining that segmentation is used to differentiate customers and apply customized approaches. It then describes the main types of segmentation:
1. Value segmentation looks at a customer's economic value to the business. This includes both past revenue and predicted future profits.
2. Needs segmentation tries to understand a customer's underlying needs in order to better satisfy them. Needs are often proxied using demographics, behaviors, and other attributes.
3. Multi-dimensional segmentation combines value, needs, and other variables to create a more detailed segmentation scheme that accounts for customers' unique attributes. This provides a framework to develop customized strategies for each customer segment.
There are many potential sources of customer activity data that can be captured and analyzed to understand customer behavior better in real-time, including: operational systems, web/clickstream data, social media, conversations and sensors. This captured customer activity data is then analyzed using streaming analytics and fed into a master customer record to trigger real-time personalized decisions and actions across multiple customer touchpoints.
1) Organizations are placing renewed emphasis on customer retention and cost cutting due to economic challenges, leading them to examine contact management (CM) and customer relationship management (CRM) solutions.
2) CM solutions are designed for individual or team productivity and sales automation, while CRM solutions are multi-module systems of record for all customer interactions.
3) The choice between CM and CRM often depends on a company's sales interaction model and key business challenges - for example, a one-to-many model may prefer a CM, while many-to-one may choose a CRM.
ABN AMRO implemented an integrated multi-channel marketing project to better target its large customer base and prioritize communications. It built a data warehouse containing information on 5.2 million customers to have a single customer view across all channels. It selected the smartCAMPAIGNER solution from smartFOCUS to automate its growing number of marketing campaigns and address weaknesses in targeting, campaign management and prioritization. Initial results showed most repetitive campaigns were automated and operating effectively.
Our core message is “joined up governance”. We are joining up project/portfolio governance with service delivery governance, financial governance, outsourcing governance and corporate governance within a single cloud-based system and SLAs, KPIs, actions, risks, issues, projects, financials, commercials, people’s opinions - all in one place at last. Drives ownership and accountability. Brilliant reports and even better context, perspective, accountability and audit trails across the big things you are managing.
Our core message is “joined up governance”. We are joining up project/portfolio governance with service delivery governance, financial governance, outsourcing governance and corporate governance within a single cloud-based system and SLAs, KPIs, actions, risks, issues, projects, financials, commercials, people’s opinions - all in one place at last. Drives ownership and accountability. Brilliant reports and even better context, perspective, accountability and audit trails across the big things you are managing.
Gourangi is an operational business intelligence and integration platform that provides organizations with improved visibility across business operations. It reduces the time between discovering problems or opportunities and taking corrective action. Key features include real-time monitoring of key performance indicators, automated corrective actions through integration with process engines, and multi-channel alerting.
InfosysPublicServices - Member Switchover Solution | AnalysisInfosys
This white Paper outlines approach of Member Switchover Solution, Analysis, Features and Key Benefits. Some of the Features include Score Card Generation, Member Risk Modeling & Member Profitability Analysis.
1) Business analytics can unlock the power of data and analytics by transforming insight into income, but many organizations struggle to realize this value due to challenges in managing and analyzing vast amounts of data.
2) Organizational silos often prevent companies from making the best use of big data and analytics across end-to-end processes. To address this, companies need a single, enterprise-wide view of data.
3) The best way to achieve a consistent view of data is through a centralized analytics function that provides analytics as a managed service across the business. This function could be an internal shared service center or outsourced through business process outsourcing.
Business Value Networks And Information Technology V5eamonnmccormick
The document discusses business value networks and leveraging TOGAF for enterprise architecture. It provides an overview of TOGAF and its use for developing enterprise architectures. It emphasizes focusing architecture efforts on delivering shareholder value through well-managed value networks. The document outlines understanding the business value network vision, developing the business value network architecture, and the key roles and execution process for a business value network model.
Introduccion a SQL Server Master Data ServicesEduardo Castro
En esta presentación hacemos una introducción a SQL Server 2008 R2 Master Data Services.
Saludos,
Ing. Eduardo Castro Martínez, PhD – Microsoft SQL Server MVP
http://mswindowscr.org
http://comunidadwindows.org
Costa Rica
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http://sqlserverpedia.blogspot.com/
This document discusses business analytics and performance management solutions. It describes tools for predictive analysis, driver-based planning, financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, sales forecasting, financial consolidation, scenario building, strategic planning, decision making, dashboards, reporting, analysis, data integration, data modeling, querying, OLAP analysis, and KPIs. Case studies are provided for companies that have implemented these solutions.
Happiest Minds Technologies is an IT services company that offers solutions leveraging disruptive technologies like cloud, mobility, social computing, analytics, and unified communications. They help clients address challenges like scaling business, driving value from technology, securely engaging ecosystems, and gaining insights. Happiest Minds provides end-to-end services from advisory to security and focuses on industries like retail, travel, and banking. Their philosophy centers employee happiness to create happy customers.
IBM Partnering For A Smarter Planet Exploring The Role Of Ecosystems In Evo...IBM
Cloud computing is shifting the IT landscape and reshaping traditional market models by focusing on customer-centric services. This increased focus on customers is empowering them with more access to information and choice. As a result, customers now dictate new terms in their relationships with providers and have more control over how and when they access services. Some customers are forming "club clouds," hybrid cloud models where groups of customers bound by region or industry jointly procure cloud services to improve operations and reduce costs.
This document describes an enterprise framework for ensuring stakeholder investments are protected and investor interests are maximized. It discusses features like focusing on strategic decisions rather than operations, functional integration across departments, and knowledge management. The framework utilizes a management accounting and control system (MACS) and can be implemented using different business models like product licensing, software as a service, or consulting services. It contains over 500 features focused on different industries and business functions. The goals are flexibility, disruptive technology, and a focus on key areas like people performance, communications, asset management, and processes.
IT service management (ITSM) involves the processes and tools used to deliver IT services to internal and external users. Some key components of ITSM include service strategy, service design, service transition, service operation, and continual service improvement. ITSM frameworks like ITIL provide best practices for aligning IT services with business needs through the entire lifecycle from strategy to operations.
To keep pace with the ever increasing demand for real-time customer service, shifting to mobility has become inevitable for the insurance industry. In
today's scenario, where real-time servicing of customer requests 'on the fly' has become a norm, mobile technology seems ideally positioned to
enable insurers gain a competitive advantage. Mobile solutions enable faster and improved communications between customers, field agents,
and the central processing office of the insurer.
Adopting mobile technology can help insurers
enhance customers' experiences, increase
productivity, while keeping a check on costs, and
mitigating operational risks.
The document discusses a banking solutions product called 1KEY that provides planning, analysis, and reporting capabilities for banks. It allows banks to analyze customer profitability, manage risk, and monitor organizational performance at the branch level. The 1KEY framework integrates data from various bank systems and uses business intelligence tools to generate reports and dashboards. This helps banks make better planning decisions, identify opportunities to increase revenues and cut costs, and ensure regulatory compliance.
Learn the key success factors that banks must address to differentiate mobile offerings and provide industry-leading capabilities that drive customer satisfaction.
Learn how to:
Navigate the diverse digital payments “ecosystem”
Support customer loyalty and retention
Gain valuable customer insights from mobile data
Achieve symmetry with other mobile trends
Leverage core legacy technology investments
Demonstrate return on investment
Iken Solutions is an AI software company that was spun off from IIT Bombay. It has won several awards including being selected by Microsoft for its startup accelerator program. The company provides intelligent business systems using techniques like expert systems, case-based reasoning, neural networks and genetic algorithms.
Mobile internet has grown rapidly in recent years, reaching 2.7 billion users aged 8 years old. The largest mobile content categories are music and social networking. In contrast, fixed internet is older at 13 years and has fewer users. Mobile advertising is a growing market projected to be $6.5 billion within 5 years. Personalization is key to engaging mobile users and increasing revenues through relevant content recommendations.
The AI functions that Mooga performs will not only determine if a specific content item is relevant to the consumer it will move it to their personal storefront. Mooga does not discriminate against content type, content category, customer storefront or the current popularity of the content.
Sony BMG was looking to enter the market with a differentiated
service that was unlike any other competitor offering.
•The approach taken by Mooga was seen as ground breaking and
market leading
•Mooga is currently connected in Argentina and being connected
in other four South American countries
•This is the first mobile music portal with intelligence in the
market
The right content to the right user at the right time….. Give them access to everything; and most importantly, don’t just help them find it but put it in front of them each and every time they log on. Welcome to Mooga!
Integrating human knowledge and data driven intelligence is very effective, it is like combination of knowledge + experience. Therefore, it makes sense to incorporate human knowledge in BI rather than treating it separately through knowledge management systems
El documento presenta conceptos básicos sobre informática. Define información, datos y computadoras, e introduce los componentes clave de un sistema de cómputo como la CPU, memoria, dispositivos de entrada/salida y usuarios. También distingue entre software de sistema, aplicaciones y programación, e introduce conceptos como software propietario y libre. Finalmente, clasifica diferentes tipos de computadoras incluyendo supercomputadoras, mainframes, minicomputadoras y microcomputadoras.
Mohana Ashanivas received a course certificate dated May 24, 2016 for successfully completing the online non-credit course "Inspiring and Motivating Individuals" through Coursera. The certificate was authorized by the University of Michigan and signed by Scott DeRue, Dean and Professor of Management at the University's Ross School of Business, and Maxim Sytch, Associate Professor at the Ross School of Business, verifying Mohana Ashanivas' identity and participation in the course.
El documento describe diferentes formatos de video como AVI, MPEG, WMV, MP4 y otros como SD/HD y HDV. Explica conceptos como códec para compresión de video, soportes como DVD y Blue Ray, y definiciones de video como estándar y alta definición. También cubre temas como ripear, que es copiar audio y video de un dispositivo a un disco duro, y reproductores multimedia como los que reproducen MP3 y MP4.
This short document promotes creating presentations using Haiku Deck on SlideShare. It encourages the reader to get started making their own Haiku Deck presentation by providing a button to click to begin the process. The document is advertising the creation of presentations on Haiku Deck and SlideShare.
Este documento presenta 8 herramientas de la web 2.0 como Google, YouTube, Gmail, Spotify, LinkedIn, Blogger, Google Calendar y Google Sites. Brevemente describe la función de cada herramienta y cómo podrían usarse para promover una empresa de eventos.
Pishing é uma forma de fraude eletrônica na qual os golpistas tentam obter dados pessoais através de mensagens falsas, simulando sites confiáveis para roubar senhas e números de cartão. Quem difamar ou julgar alguém de forma insultuosa à honra ou consideração pode ser punido com prisão até 6 meses ou multa até 240 dias.
La energía eólica se obtiene a partir de la energía cinética del viento, que se produce por las diferencias de presión atmosférica entre áreas. Aunque es una fuente renovable, la energía eólica no es confiable como única fuente de energía eléctrica debido a la falta de seguridad en la existencia constante de viento, por lo que se necesita el respaldo de energías convencionales como centrales de carbón.
El documento resume las diferentes partes de una placa madre, incluyendo la ranura PCI para tarjetas de expansión, el zócalo CPU para conectar el procesador, los puertos como USB, paralelo y joystick, y las ranuras como AGP para tarjetas de video. Explica brevemente cada componente y su función en el sistema.
La guerra civil española (1936-1939) dividió a España en dos zonas controladas por bandos opuestos. La zona sublevada controlaba el sur y el oeste ricos en recursos agrícolas, mientras que la zona republicana controlaba el norte industrializado. La guerra consistió en varias campañas militares entre los dos bandos y terminó con la caída de Cataluña y la rendición de Madrid en 1939, estableciendo el régimen franquista en España.
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Este documento resume las experiencias de gestión de calidad en la Unidad de Soporte Nutricional de la Red Asistencial Almenara. La unidad proporciona soporte nutricional especializado a pacientes hospitalizados que lo requieren. El equipo multidisciplinario de la unidad se enfoca en detectar y tratar la desnutrición de manera temprana, mejorando los resultados clínicos y reduciendo los costos. La unidad promueve el uso apropiado del soporte nutricional enteral y parenteral siguiendo estrictos protocolos de calidad.
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Retail industry currently faces a different landscape because of several volatile market dynamics, including demanding consumers, fierce competitors, new entrants and a complex global economy. Traditional growth models are no longer relevant and no longer have returns on investment like they once did.
Customers are now more discerning and demanding but becoming less loyal than before. One company’s customer today is a potential customer for the other tomorrow. For these reasons companies are trying to enhance their product offerings, service levels and pricing models by understanding customer requirements and developing products that are relevant. There is an urgent need for companies to revisit the core aspect of their business and understand that customers make business.
This document discusses cloud based marketing systems for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in India. It begins with an introduction and overview of SME classifications in India. The rest of the document is divided into various sections that discuss: the benefits of cloud computing for SMEs; literature review on cloud adoption among SMEs; the research methodology used; data analysis and interpretations from surveys of SME personnel; findings on awareness and perceptions of cloud and marketing cloud tools; and recommendations. Factor analysis was used to identify key drivers and concerns regarding cloud adoption. Most SMEs were found to be aware of cloud computing but less aware of marketing clouds specifically.
The document provides an overview of the GoodData analytics platform. It discusses how the platform aims to democratize analytics and empower more business users, beyond just analysts. The platform is designed to distribute analytics to business networks to drive revenue, efficiency and other benefits. It achieves this through its distribution, analytics and insights services which allow customers to define, distribute and improve analytic products for their networks.
The document discusses business analytics and big data. It provides an overview of key concepts like business process analytics, enterprise analytics capability, case studies on implementing analytics, and frameworks for business strategy, IT strategy, business process management, and enterprise architecture. The summaries emphasize linking analytics to business processes and strategy to drive business value from big data.
The document discusses how information technology can increase sales and foot traffic in retail outlets located in modern malls in India. It explains that information systems can support business operations, decision making, and competitive advantage. Specifically, it suggests that customer data from loyalty programs can be used for targeted marketing campaigns. Segmenting customers based on past purchases allows retailers to anticipate future purchases and advertise related products to attract more sales and visits to the malls. Suggestions are also made to ensure marketing strategies are tailored to local customers' needs and preferences.
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Business intelligence comprises of tools and applications that are leverages software and services to translate data into intelligent actions for strategic, tactical and operational decisions. The intelligent business solution facilitates and develops the service provided to the market researchers, saves time and effort needed to identify the customers predict demand and manage production more efficiently, ability to explore possibilities to increase revenue. The purpose of this paper is using business intelligence solutions for forecasting in Marketing Researches. The intelligence solutions are helping the market researchers to achieve efficiency, effectiveness, and differentiation.
A Comparative Study of Techniques to Predict Customer Churn in Telecommunicat...IRJET Journal
This document presents a literature review and comparative study of techniques to predict customer churn in the telecommunications industry. It begins with an abstract that outlines the goals of comparing churn prediction methods and proposing a new technique using correlation-based feature selection and ensemble learning. It then provides background on customer churn and data mining techniques for churn prediction. The document reviews several past studies on churn prediction in telecommunications using techniques like decision trees, clustering, and rule-based models. It identifies limitations in prior work that rely on principal component analysis for feature selection. Finally, it proposes a new approach using correlation-based feature selection and ensemble learning to improve churn prediction in this domain.
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Business intelligence for n=1 analytics using hybrid intelligent system approach
1. International Journal of Business, Economics, Finance and Management Sciences 1:2 2009
Business Intelligence for N=1 Analytics using
Hybrid Intelligent System Approach
Rajendra M Sonar
Even a firm is dealing with millions of consumers, the firm
Abstract The future of business intelligence (BI) is to integrate must focus on one consumer experience at a time called N=1
intelligence into operational systems that works in real-time [6]. We use the term N =1 analytics to represent analytics that
analyzing small chunks of data based on requirements on continuous is focused on analyzing one consumer at a time and providing
basis. This is moving away from traditional approach of doing each consumer personalized experiences. N=1 analytics
analysis on ad-hoc basis or sporadically in passive and off-line mode
analyzing huge amount data. Various AI techniques such as expert should work in real-time, analysis is done on continuous basis
systems, case-based reasoning, neural-networks play important role and is integrated into operational systems. The term consumer
in building business intelligent systems. Since BI involves various is used to denote a customer, user etc. [7]
tasks and models various types of problems, hybrid intelligent
techniques can be better choice. Intelligent systems accessible
Personalised
through web services make it easier to integrate them into existing Consumer
operational systems to add intelligence in every business processes. Experiences
These can be built to be invoked in modular and distributed way to
Consumer
work in real time. Functionality of such systems can be extended to Information
Interactions
get external inputs compatible with formats like RSS. In this paper, & about
we describe a framework that use effective combinations of these Transactions N=1 Products &
Services
techniques, accessible through web services and work in real-time. Analytics
We have successfully developed various prototype systems and done Consumer
few commercial deployments in the area of personalization and Profile & Compliance,
recommendation on mobile and websites. Preferences Policy and
Market Business
Information Rules
Keywords Business Intelligence, Customer Relationship
Management, Hybrid Intelligent Systems, Personalization and
Recommendation (P&R), Recommender Systems.
Fig. 1 Possible inputs for N=1 analytics
I. INTRODUCTION Products and services or even various offers by the firms
M ANY organizations increasingly using BI tools such as
data mining to build analytics especially domains like
customer relationship management (CRM) to identify, attract,
are built and configured for a particular kind of target group of
consumers. Telecom firms offer various telephone plans
keeping in mind various classes of consumers e.g. business
understand, serve and retain the customers [1]-[5]. The new class, students etc. or may be based on types of usage patterns
competitive landscape requires continuous analysis of data for e.g. a plan more suitable for more incoming calls rather than
insight, only episodic and ad-hoc or periodic will not suffice. outgoing calls. They are not tailor made or dynamically
Traditional analytics approaches are often asynchronous with
business changes. Delays in recognizing, interpreting and preferences. In order to provide such unique personalized
acting on trends are critical emerging impediments to experiences to the consumer, the inputs must come from
competitiveness [6]. Traditional analytics approach based on various sources. Figure 1 shows kind of possible inputs
data mining used in applications like CRM classifies large required to offer personalized experiences to consumers. Most
number of retail customers into few predefined groups like of the information like user profiles, user transactions, product
good v/s poor or clusters them into groups by mining huge and services is already available in the organization in
amount of data [2]. This approach is more of top down and databases generated through operational systems like CRM,
focuses on grouping customers rather than treating them as ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning), supply-chain
individuals. However, in worst-case scenario each customer management (SCM) etc. Market information is required to
can exhibit a unique pattern based on demographic profile of understand how consumers in general accept products and
individual and interactions that individual does with the firm. services, review and rate them, and what kind of products they
This means it may not be sufficient to apply the broader group are or would be interested in. While offering personalized
rules to the customer or try to fit the customer into group. experiences to individuals, the firm has to follow compliance
and policy rules set by the firm, industry and regulatory bodies
Rajendra M Sonar is with Indian Institute of Technology Bombay in Shailesh under which the firm operates e.g. in India, telecom firms are
J Mehta School of Management, Powai, Mumbai-400076, India (Phone:+91- regulated by TRAI (Telecom Regulatory Authority of India)
22-25767741;fax:+91-22-25722872;e-mail: rm_sonar@iitb.ac.in).
[8] while banking and financial institutions by RBI (Reserve
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Bank of India) [9]. clustering and prediction to identify, attract, retain and
On the basis of interactions and transactions, if the buying develop customers [2]. Hybrid intelligent systems [12]-[14]
pattern of individuals or risk profiles of individuals can be that combine and integrate various intelligent techniques at
determined in real-time, it can help firm a) to target the grass root level are well suited to build BI systems requiring
customer with unique, differential and customized product or such modeling techniques.
services offerings, b) to determine which campaign, when and Intelligent Systems
Domain modeling,
analysis,
how customer would respond, c) to estimate risk of customer (Modelled,Configured &
Automated)
customizations,
configurations
continuous basis and adjust various parameters such as credit Run-time Environment
limit accordingly, etc. Focusing on analyzing one customer at Web services/
HTTP Calls/APIs
a time, needs analysis of transactions and information specific Hybrid Intelligent System
Enterprise systems Integrated Development
to that customer only. This reduces computation overhead and (like CRM) Environment
these tasks can be distributed and triggered based on some Team of domain experts,
managers, knowledge
event or as and when required. engineers and developers
Modelling
and
Analysis Enterprise Mata-Data, Data Data from
Database required for modeling, external sources
configurations etc. like RSS feeds
Outcome/
Results/
Models BI/DSS
Tools Fig. 3 Integrated approach to business intelligence
Team of domain Web services architecture makes it easier to exchange
experts, managers,
Enterprise systems analytics experts and information in plain text XML (Extensible Markup Language)
(like CRM) developers
[15] across diverse plat-forms, technologies and systems in
Data warehouse/
Data Mart/
open and standard way. The existence of both synchronous
Enterprise
Database and asynchronous versions of web services enables both real-
Database time and non-real time versions of application integration.
Figure 3 shows approach to business intelligence using hybrid
Fig. 2 Traditional approach to business intelligence intelligent system approach where intelligent systems are
loosely (using web services/HTTP: Hypertext Transport
Figure 2 shows traditional approach to business Protocol calls) or tightly (using APIs: Application
intelligence. In this approach, operational systems and Progra mming Interface ) integrated into operational systems.
business intelligence are treated as separate entities. Analytics Once intelligent systems are modeled and configured for
team focuses on only analyzing data using various data specific problem, they are automated to learn on their own
modeling techniques (like association, classification, continuously based on some event or at specific time intervals
clustering etc.) and applicable data mining techniques (such as based on set criteria. E.g. a) intelligent system modeled to
neural networks, genetic algorithms, etc.) supported BI tools compute associated items to a given item using collaborative
by retrieving data from data marts or data warehouse built for filtering technique can be configured to learn new associations
the purpose. Once the results are obtained in the form of rules, whenever user clicks on the item, b) intelligent system
equations, decision trees etc. these are either implemented into modeled to compute personalized items to be shown to the
operational systems or processed separately (like sending logged in active user can be configured to automatically re-
emails to target customers who are likely to respond to compute best personalized items every fifteen minutes
selected offer). In this kind of approach, the analysis is done fulfilling some criteria like at least one download etc. Such
more of off-line and ad-hoc or on periodic basis. This systems can take required information from other websites
approach does not take care of dynamically changing patterns using RSS: really simple syndication feeds [16] to reflect
on continuous basis. changes happening in market. Intelligent systems such as
There are number of business applications where intelligent knowledge-based recommendation (advisory), can be invoked
systems have been used successfully. Intelligent techniques into operational system to have live interactions with user.
like expert system (ES), case-based reasoning (CBR), genetic One of the advantages of such approach, if intelligent systems
algorithm (GA) and artificial neural network (ANN) can are loosely coupled using web services, they can be managed
model wide variety of problem types like classification, well. They can be distributed running on different machines
clustering, optimization and diagnostics [10]. For example, on network. This can help in better manageability and
CBR technology can well address technical help-desk, scalability. In this paper we describe such a framework for
diagnostics, intelligent matching and knowledge-based business intelligence using integrated approach as shown in
recommendations applications [11] while expert systems can figure 3 based on hybrid intelligent systems.
address applications involving monitoring, automation of The rest of paper is divided into four sections, section II
expertise and managing complex business rules. reviews the base hybrid development framework, in section III
Functional areas like analytical CRM require combination we describe P&R framework to develop P&R systems on top
of various modeling techniques: association, classification, of hybrid framework, section IV describe some case studies
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and section V concludes the work. web services, APIs, HTTP calls or embedding interactive
sessions inside web applications. The components and
II. REVIEW OF HYBRID DEVELOPMENT FRAMEWORK interfaces of access layer are connected to other four layers
Figure 4 shows the components and architecture of hybrid although it is not explicitly shown in figure 4.
framework [17]. This is an integrated development
environment to develop and deploy intelligent systems backed Report Form XML-HTML Session
Web
by hybrid of ESs, CBRs and ANNs. It is being Services Designer Designer Transformation Engine Management
Enterprise Presentation T ransformation L ayer
commercialized as product called iKen Studio [18] Applications APIs Common
Session Data
subsequently referred as the hybrid fra mework . The hybrid Web HTTP (XML)
Calls Rule & UDF CBR Configuration ANN
framework has all the components required to build intelligent Applications
Manager Interface Interface
Domain
Vocabulary
Embed in
systems backed by rule-based ES, neural network and CBR Other Web Rule-based
ES Engine
CBR
Engine
ANN
Engine
Vocabulary
Applications Apps Interfaces
technology. It supports both structural as well as Access Intelligent Systems L ayer
Session
conversational CBRs [19][20]. Depending upon the broad L ayer L ayer
functionalities, the framework is divided into five layers as Variable Database SQL Builder Dynamic Query Access Rights
Mapping Interface & Rule Filter Management
shown in figure 4, each layer having components and
Interface
interfaces specific to functionality of that layer. The
SQL-XML
Mapping and Transformation Engine
components implement core functionality while interfaces Data Access layer
provide interactive environment to develop, manage and
configure the models. For example, inference engine is Data Source Data Source Data Source
implemented as a component: Rule-based E S Engine , while
Fig. 4 Hybrid intelligent system framework
the interface: Rule and U D F Manager provides interactive
interface to retrieve, build, modify and store rule-based expert
systems and UDFs ( User Defined Functions). The framework The hybrid framework works in two modes: development
allows knowledge engineers to add their own functions, called and run-time environment. The intelligent systems can be
UDFs and invoke them in rule-base. A function implements developed and tested in development mode and can be
well defined functionality that do not need complex set of deployed and executed through run-time environment. Figure
rules but procedural logic. The code of UDF can be easily 5 shows a screen shot of development environment. Based on
modified without change in inference engine like expert functionality, the development interfaces are grouped. Once
system rule-base. The details of this framework and its intelligent systems are developed and tested, they can be
working can be found in [17]. Our purpose in this paper is to accessed and executed by using various web services, through
discuss how such frameworks can be used to build N=1 HTTP calls or by using APIs. The web services supported by
analytics that work in real-time and can be integrated into the hybrid framework are divided into groups based on
operational systems. Access layer has been added to access functionality of web services.
various services of the hybrid framework and integrate with
other external systems. The services can be accessed through
Customer ID would be determined from
Rule Manager Interface unique Transaction.ID at run time using
is loaded as child form dynamic query
on right side
Left side is master-form
having to various
interfaces logically
grouped. Respective
interface is loaded on CBR having ID Transaction.Case is invoked
right side on click using function RUN_CBR
Transaction.Criteria is sub-goal to
be derived from many other rules
Fig. 5 Rule manager interface of hybrid framework
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Figure 6 shows the partial list of web services supported by
the hybrid framework. Functionalities of all the components of
the hybrid framework can be accessed using web services.
Some of the common web services like starting with DB_ help
to access data from databases while web services starting with
Session_ help to manage common pool of session data which
is shared by multiple intelligent systems.
CBR_Run ExpertSystem_Run
CBR_RunWithData ExpertSystem_RunWithData
CBR_GetMatchingCases
CBR_GetSimilarValues File_ReadFromFile
CBR_LoadSimilarities File_SaveToFile
CBR_SetSimilarities
CBR_SetSimilaritiesFromDB Report_ConvertQueryResultInClientForm
Report_GetReport
DB_BeginTransaction Report_GetSQLReport
DB_Commit
DB_Rollback Session_GetData
DB_ExecuteScript Session_LoadData
DB_GetQueryResult Session_SetVariableValue
DB_InsertData Session_GetVariableValue
DB_TransferData Session_ShowReport
DB_UpdateData
UDF_Execute
Data_TextTransform UDF_ExecuteUsingList
Data_XMLTransform
Fig. 6 Partial list of web services supported by the hybrid framework Fig. 7 Execution of intelligent system in interactive mode
We have developed various prototype systems to
demonstrate capabilities of the hybrid framework. Some of
them are in knowledge-based recommendation systems. Most
of them use combination of expert system and case-based
reasoning technology. One of the prototype applications is
transaction monitoring which is discussed briefly, the purpose
is how such applications are built and invoked. This
application monitors individual transactions. It has been
modeled defining generic transaction characteristics like
transaction Id, a mount (cost/value), date, time, merchant
na me, merchant location (city/area/place), merchant type,
mode of payment and items purchased. We derive other
attributes from base attributes. E.g. day type: week-day, week-
end, holiday derived from date and time . Fig. 8 Execution of intelligent system using web service
The application scans and matches the current transaction
The Figure 5 shows one of the rules loaded of this application in
user can specify what kind of generic transactions he or she Rule Manager. Figure 7 shows screen-shots of interactive
would like to do. Each generic type of transaction becomes a mode and results of the application. Figure 8 shows explicit
execution of the application using web service:
buy grocery items of amount m, around location l, preferably ExpertSystem_RunWithData with goal: Transaction.Scan. The
on evenings on week-ends . This user preference is stored as a outcome of the application is shown in figure 7 has three
generic transaction. The user can specify multiple generic distinct components: a) how much current transaction is
transactions as criteria. The application uses combination of matching with past ones using CBR, b) how much current
rules, basic statistics and CBRs. Rules are used to do transaction is matching with user set criteria using CBR, and
qualitative analysis as well as quantitative using various c) quantitative and qualitative assessment using basic statistics
functions. These rules also control and call CBRs. Variety of and set of rules. Intelligent systems that monitor transactions
functions are been added to the hybrid framework rule engine as discussed above can be integrated into operational systems
like STAT to do basic analysis of transaction of data. It returns such as bank automation systems through web services. This
statistics of past transactions like average, standard deviation, can help banking firms to continuously monitor transactions
and maximum amount transacted. Qualitative analysis is done especially like credit card transactions on continuous basis to
using set of rules. For example, one of the rules is: reduce possible frauds. These intelligent systems can be
IF Transaction.Merchant Type IS Grocery Store triggered and executed based on certain criteria (e.g. it exceeds
AND Transaction.Merchant Location City IS Mumbai certain amount) before transaction gets authorized.
AND Transaction.Time >= 2300
AND Transaction.Time <=0700
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Databases Intelligent Systems 1 to 1 CRM Services
Advisory Help and guide to find out right and best product
Customer (Recommenders) or services matching
Profile & Preferences
(when, where, how)
Campaign Targeted advertisements and promotions
Management (when:day & time, where:place, how:channel)
Products &
Services Information
On-the-fly Customized items (like telecom plans), bundled
Personalization & offers, discounts etc. (up-selling, cross-selling)
Customer Interactions Recommendation
& Transactions (when, where, how)
Help on product or services use, to address
Automated Help-
problems and issues related to products and
Desks
Market & services
demographic
Information Transaction (when, where, how)
Transaction authorization, sending alert
Monitoring messages
Compliance, policy Customer Risk Customer credit scores, product and services
and business Rules Management parameter adjustment (like credit limit)
Customer
Attraction Retention Development
Fig. 9 Intelligent systems for 1 to 1 CRM services
Customer Attraction
whenever user clicks on tab conversion.
Automated expert advisory systems (knowledge-based recommendation) help
the customer to find out what product fits to his/her profile and requirements in
easy way rather than the customer spending time going through lot of products,
understanding them, finding out which products suits them etc.
Customer Retention
Personalized campaigns can effectively target the customer for right promotions
at the right time and at the right place by approaching the customer using right
interests, suggest or offer right products with discounts which customer is likely
to buy. This can be done on-the- g interests. Help-
Interactive sessions with user using
desks help customers to resolve various issues related to products. expert system. It is started this frame
when user clicks on link Conversation.
Customer Development Fig. 11 Interactions through expert system invoked in web
Personalized campaigns and personalization and recommendation systems can application
effectively up-sell and cross-sell based on customer profile, interactions and
transaction history. Intelligent systems can assess risk of the customer on on-
going and adjust various parameters to offer best possible services (e.g. BI tools such as data mining tools play major role in
automatically increasing credit limit) or making provision to reduce possible loss building recommender systems. Recommender systems [21]
(e.g. automatically decreasing credit limit) without affecting customer service
have become wide-spread and many websites have these
Fig. 10 CRM using intelligent systems systems now for better user and consumer personalized
experiences and to discover items (products, contents or
Figure 9 shows list of prototype applications being services) by mining huge transactional data gathered through
developed backed by intelligent techniques to have 1-to-1 customer interactions. Firms like Amazon, Netflix provide
unique experiences to their users using recommender systems.
applications can play important role in customer attraction,
retention and development. Figure 10 shows in brief how such browsing and buying patterns, the websites serve the
1-1 services can be backed by intelligent systems. Once such personalized web pages. This helps such firms to attract and
systems are developed and tested, these systems can retain (customer intimacy: deeper understanding of individual
distributed, integrated and accessed/invoked in real-time into customer preferences) the customers, understand buying
operational systems. patterns and manage resources well.
Figure 11 shows an application developed in banking There are four basic types of recommendation approaches
domain to advise users on mortgage loans based on banking or cited in literature [21]-[23] a. collaborative filtering: items are
financial institution selected. It is invoked into financial recommended based on liking of similar users, b. content-
website by embedding the expert sessions with the user based filtering
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likes and dislikes, c. demographic filtering: recommendations to P&R: combination of deep domain knowledge using ES +
based on a demographic profile of the user and, d. knowledge- machine learning using CBR, b) it is a comprehensive
based recommendations (like advisor systems): items are integrated development framework to build, test, deploy,
recommended based on deep knowledge about the item- customize and configure recommender systems using hybrid
domain exactly fitting to customer needs, objectives and approach quickly, c) it is configured to work in real-time and
interests. All these approaches have limitations and strengths can be integrated into operational systems using web services
which bring in scope for hybrid approach that combine or HTTP calls, d) it includes most of the functionalities
content-based, collaborative, demographic filtering and required for true P&R (collaborative, content-based,
knowledge-based recommendations [24]. There are many demographic as well as knowledge-based).
hybrid systems that combine content and collaborative Some of applications developed using the hybrid framework
filtering [25], while some systems implement only knowledge- includes knowledge-based recommender system like for
based recommender [26]-[28]. mobile selection [29], car selection [18] and software selection
[30]. Most of these applications use combination of ES and
Items You Your Top People also
CBR technologies. ES technology has been used in host mode
May Like Picks Picks liked Items and CBR technology in assistant mode. Various parameters of
Related Related People also Help CBR can be controlled and set at run-time. In product
Keywords Items liked keywords Me recommendation applications, ES assists and guides the user
Outputs/functionality of recommender System in selecting and specifying right and only relevant inputs
s and objectives, while
CBR searches and recommends the most matching products
Collaborative Content-based
[29].
Demographic Knowledge-based The hybrid framework supports large number of matching
functions and various types of features to model problems.
Hybrid recommender system
Rules/s can be written to cluster the products based on features
to recommend the products when a product is selected by the
User Information about Consumer user.
Interactions & products & Profile & CBR engine of hybrid framework has in-built component to
Transactions services Preferences
build associations (similarities) between feature values based
User Compliance, Market on transaction history (e.g. past downloads, browse, ratings
Interactions & Policy & Information
Transactions Business Rules (RSS Feeds) etc.). This reduces the job of explicitly defining similarities
Inputs to recommendation system
between feature values e.g. if one of the feature in book
selection is author, similarity between author say x and other
Fig. 12 P&R system Input and Output authors can be done in two ways a. by considering click-
streams (people who clicked on x also clicked on author y),
III. P&R FRAMEWORK the strength of association depends upon number instances of
In this section we describe a P&R framework called clicks and number of users and recentness of clicks b. using
Mooga.NET. Throughout the paper we will be referring it as some context like category of the book e.g. if the books
P &R F ra mework . This framework is developed with specific written by author x are already classified under category say
extensions required for a typical recommender system on top Management/Marketing, then similarities between author x
of the hybrid framework. Figure 12 shows set of possible and other authors who write books in Management/Marketing
inputs recommender system takes and functionalities it category would be set. First approach is like using
providing using hybrid of various recommendation collaborative filtering on authors while second one is
approaches. Outputs will be displayed in respective widgets on clustering authors based on context of selected author.
web pages. Some of the widgets will be personalized items. Similarities between features values are calculated from
Since P&R framework works on top of hybrid framework it result data-set returned in response to database query defined
has all advantages of such kind of frameworks [17]. P&R for that purpose. The query can be configured to have the
framework uses hybrid of ES and CBR techniques to develop fields (attributes) that represent context while clustering values
recommender systems that can have all four recommendation using context or that restrict to build associations amongst
approaches implemented. It is domain independent and can values (e.g. associating authors within language of books). In
work for many types structured items including financial ones. above example, along with category Management/Marketing,
We describe the working of P&R framework at higher other attributes like language of book , publisher of book, type
architecture level rather than going into finer details. The of book etc. can be considered if they are present in database.
purpose of describing this framework is more from utility, A weight for each type of context (category, language,
usability and ease of model development point of view rather selected feature, etc.) is set to calculate similarity based on
than comparing it with other frameworks, tools and algorithms weighted sum method. The weights of features themselves can
in recommendation space. We see contributions of the P&R be store in a database table to do computation at database
framework from the perspective: a) it uses hybrid AI approach server. This is illustrated as follow using mathematical form.
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User/ Client Front-end
Client System
customer
Application or Web pages
Some of the services client
front-end application may
directly access various
available services/ Client Application Client CMS/ Data transfer is
functionalities from Hybrid Web/WAP Server Database synchronized
and P&R framework
periodically using
scheduler
Web services/APIs/HTTP
Web services/APIs
Calls/Embed sessions
Hybrid Framework: iKen Studio Event P&R APIs/Web RSS Websites
(with P&R extensions) Scheduler Services Feeds
W eb Server External
Web
Services Databases
Decision makers/
domain experts/
Knowledge External Systems
engineers
Generic & Item Generic and Generic and specific Scheduled Meta Contents: User
Item domain Forms item specific Knowledge base, Tasks taxonomy, profiles,
vocabulary and dynamic business rules and keywords, tags, transactions,
Reports queries CBR configurations Tag item brief, ratings etc.
Mapping features etc.
P&R models and configurations P&R Database
P&R Framework
Fig. 13 Components and architecture of P&R framework
If fv is value of feature F then changing interests of users. d. It should work as a BI layer or
where Wi is weight given to
i n
context C i, C i fv value of ith context added as a feature which can be easily plugged with fewer
Sim ilar ( fv ) Wi Sim( C i fv, C i dv)
i 0
for fv and C idv is ith context for modifications in existing systems. Keeping above
database value dv,
requirements, hybrid framework is extended to build P&R
Sim(Cfv,Cdv)=1 if Cfv = Cdv else 0.
framework. This P&R framework supports all four
We have tested such associations in Indian movie database recommendation approaches as described in table I and
(we developed a prototype for one of the movie rental website functionality as shown in table II. Functionalities are
in India). To associate actors, actresses and directors, context implemented in modular way using web services that are
like movie na me , genre, sub-genre (like fa mily/kids), tags specific to P&R framework.
TABLE I
given by experts (like rom antic, happy, relationship) and RECOMMENDATION APPROACHES
language (like Hindi, English, Gujarati , etc.) were used. We A pproach How it is implemented
found interesting clusters (associations) of actors who have Collaborative This has been addressed using association algorithm in-
acted in many movies of specific genre, sub-genre and Filtering built into CBR engine as discussed earlier. This
algorithm directly takes dataset (through predefined
language together. queries) from database to build associations.
We understood various requirements (including inputs from Content- Using set of user defined functions and CBR approach.
RSS feeds [17]) of a typical recommender solutions and added based Functions implement logic to create dynamic user
extensions (functionalities) to develop recommender systems Filtering
captured feature-wise) based on click-streams and
quickly and integrate them into existing websites/portals.
ratings. CBR is used to show most matching items whose
Following four broad requirements are considered to develop features match with individual profiles. It can take into
the P&R framework. a. It should support almost all kinds of
structured items. It should support and extract contents stored values e.g. if one of the feature is item language then
user can set preference for language .
in RSS formats b. P&R solution should include all
Demographic Profiles of most similar users are searched that match
functionalities like user-profiling (bas demographic profile of selected user using CBR. These
profiles are used to show the most matching items.
recommendation using hybrid of collaborative, content-based, Knowledge- a. Combination of expert system and CBR approach.
demographic and knowledge-based approach. based Expert system guides the user in selecting relevant
requirement and CBR
Recommendation should not only work for items but also for searches most relevant items matching
keywords, tags and selected features c. P&R solutions should requirements.
be developed quickly, they should be customizable, b. CBR is used to search most similar items to given
configurable, and models should be easier to understand. The item based on feature similarities (e.g. Show
S i milar/Related kind of functionality)
entire framework should be self-learning dynamic reflecting
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A. Major Components and Architecture e.g. for mobile device item attributes can be screen size,
As shown in figure 13, there are three distinct entities in multimedia support, internet connectivity options, operating
overall recommendation solution a. Client system, b. P&R system, etc. Similarly user and transaction specific information
fra mework, and c. External systems. Client system represents can be added.
website, web application or portal that needs P&R solution. Generic schema is common to most of the type of items
P&R framework consists of all components and interfaces (like RSS formats support multiple types of contents: movies,
required to build, test, integrate, customize and configure music, news etc.). In generic schema, we define various
recommendation solutions (as a part of base hybrid generic database tables and customizable views to retrieve
framework). External systems are required when specific datasets required for modeling at development and run-time.
information about the items is to be retrieved from external TABLE III
websites such as details of features, user ratings and reviews. INFORMATION ABOUT GENERIC DATABASE SCHEMA
TABLE II Information What information is stored
MAJOR FUNCTIONALITIES OF P&R FRAMEWORK item
F unctionality M ajor Input Description Meta- Basic attributes (features) of item like title, type,
Items you User ID List of items that user may like. This content language, format, creation date , publication date etc.
may like is based on discovery (using each item has unique ID that we maintain same as that
combinations of collaborative and of client system follows.
content filtering) Taxonomy, Keywords, Predefined Tags by experts
Your picks User ID List of items based on user likes and Relationships between items, taxonomy, keywords
dislikes using content-based filtering (with roles and weights) and tags
technique.
Top picks Items selected based on popularity or User Static profile : demographic information captured
business logic specified by the client initially through questionnaire or account opening form:
organization it can be personal (like age, gender, area code,
People also Item ID List of items generated based on
liked (items) collaborative filtering on given item. Dyna mic profile
People also Keyword List of keywords generated based on Dynamic profile is of two types. Global profile and
liked collaborative filtering on given Category-wise profile. Global profile captures and
(keywords) keyword. stores what user likes in general. While category-wise
Related Items Item ID List of items which are logically and profile captures what user likes in a particular category.
contextually similar to given item Each subcategory-wise profile contains what items,
using CBR based matching keywords, tags, language user chooses or likes along
Related Keyword List of items which are logically and with time abstraction and location specific profile.
Keywords contextually similar to given keyword
Help Me User ID Knowledge-based recommendation Transaction User interactions with client system (like click-streams,
system to help in selecting the item downloads etc.), interactions can be codified based on
evens like click, browse, search, download, rent,
Client system is either loosely coupled to P&R framework reminder, add to favourites, add to wish-list, add rating,
add tag etc.
through web services, HTTP calls or by embedding interactive
sessions or tightly connected by API calls. Client CMS
(Content Management System) database or web application Some of the item features we put under broad feature called
database (henceforth called client database ) is accessed in keywords with role and weight assigned to it e.g. authors in
P&R framework in non-intrusive mode. Access to client book item will be treated as keywords with role: author
database is required to synchronize data transfer from client similarly publisher will be given role: publisher. Weight
system to P&R framework on periodic basis or based on indicates relevance of that keyword in that item, helps in
events. content filtering e.g. if a book is written by two authors,
Since web services are widely used to interconnect different weight (relevance to that book item) of each author name can
types of systems loosely, we restrict our discussion to only be equal. Especially in movie databases, the actor names are
coupling using web services. P&R framework can be coupled stored in sequence, with first actor playing major role vis-à-vis
to any client system that supports web services. the last actor, in such a scenario, first actor has more relevance
hence more weight etc.
1) Database Schema
2) Models and Configurations
We have modeled P&R framework on three basic types of
information entities: meta-content, user and transaction. Similar to database schema, models are also divided into
Database schema and models are divided into two sets a. two types, generic ones and specific to domain. The hybrid
generic and b. specific to domain. Domain schema (table III) framework has various interfaces to manage models and
depends upon type of products supported. The generic schema configurations. Following sub-sections describe some of the
is designed in such a way that it can support multiple important models and configurations required for
applications in the same database instance. Domain specific recommendation solution. Knowledge-based recommendation
schema contains information required for domain modeling systems are not covered in this paper, it is discussed at length
in [29].
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a) Domain Vocabulary
Set of all objects (variables, domain values etc.) that are to be fetched from database every time CBR search is made.
required to model P&R using ESs and CBRs. The domain We call them lookup tables, they are indexed by some index
vocabulary has variables for meta-contents, users and key like C_ID_Index in figure 18. Whenever query is
transactions. The variable names are prefixed appropriately to executed, based on values of index keys in rows, query results
discriminate logically as shown in figure 14 (most of the are appended with corresponding static information.
figures are screen shots of application EPG: Electronic
Progra mme Guide for TV application, screen-shots are either
cropped, extended to proper and readable views).
Fig. 15 Dynamic query types
.
Fig. 14 Sample generic domain vocabulary
b) Dyna mic queries .
Dynamic queries are predefined database queries that are Fig. 16 Sample dynamic query
used by the framework to retrieve the datasets at run time in
various components. This reduces efforts of writing database
queries explicitly in rule-base or in functions. These queries
are not hard-coded and can be added, modified and removed
easily based on modeling requirements. The queries are
formulated based on requirements in different components.
Figure 15 shows different purposes of dynamic queries and
figure 16 shows dynamic query that is used to calculate
recommended keywords using collaborative filtering
algorithm. Normally queries access data from database views, Fig. 17 Database view linked to dynamic query and output
these views can be easily customized at database side. Figure
17 shows a generic database view called AG_Keyword and its
output. This view takes last 90 days transactions and restricts
associations of keywords within their roles only. That means
relationship between two keywords would be built only if their
roles are same. This gives greater degree flexibility in
customization and helps in better modeling of filtering at
website, e.g. if user clicks on keyword (say author of book),
then recommended keywords would show only authors not
other keywords like publishers etc. Similarly dynamic queries
for collaborative filtering (or content filtering based on C_ID_Index is index key for lookup table
context) for items, tags or any other feature can be modeled. that store item information like movie
name, keywords, language etc. These are
Dynamic queries can contain variables whose values are populated from lookup table.
populated at run-time. User ID would be populated at run time.
This clause does not search the items
Other type of dynamic queries includes predefined queries which are already seen by the user.
(accessed by IDs) for defining CBR search space, getting user
Fig. 18 Predefined query for CBR search
profiles, item details from database and do on. Figure 18
shows dynamic query used for CBR search whenever items .
matching with user profile are searched. If a new feature is c) Modeling using U D Fs, Expert Systems and CBR
added in CBR search, corresponding field can be added in this Various generic ESs, UDFs and CBR schemas are created
dynamic query. The P&R framework stores static information to take care of various functionalities in recommendation
about items (which is not used for indexing purpose) like solution. UDFs are useful when only single rule is required,
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however if there are set of rules required to build complex implemented in various ways. For example, if content-based
logic, rule-base is written. Figure 19 shows some of the UDFs filtering is to combined with collaborative filtering in
coded in P&R framework. Figure 20 shows UDF weighted hybrid mode [24] then feature (e.g.
CreateCluster ForContent coded to create and return cluster of EPG.Content_C F_CID in figure 21) whose similarity values
items around given item. Similar to rule-base, UDFs can also are calculated using collaborative filtering algorithm is
be modified depending upon the functionality required. This included in CBR (which is configured and used for content-
helps to implement dynamic business rules and logic using based filtering) by setting appropriate weight. Feature can be
functions. Modifications can be done even client system is live removed or its weight is set to 0 if it is not to be combined.
e.g. weights of feature EPG.Content_Language can be
changed from 25% to 30%, the P&R framework reflects such
changes immediately.
Fig. 21 List of generic features
.
Fig. 19 Partial list of UDFs
P&R framework has predefined generic CBRs modeled and
.
configured using generic features as listed in figure 21 to
address various functionalities given in table II. Word C F in
feature name represents that feature similarity values are
generated using collaborative filtering algorithm. Features
named EPG.Content_L1, EPG.Content_L2
taxonomy at first level, second level respectively.
Various rules can be set inside to control
CBR parameters (like cutoff, weight,
Dynamic query EPG.Description is linked to
similarity function etc.) and search space. feature EPG.Content_C F_CID . This query will
be used to fetch dataset to compute items based
on collaborative filtering
This combo box shows items (along
with similarity) which are similar to
Content ID : 10000000985870000
using collaborative filtering algorithm
Fig. 22 Parameters of selected feature
.
Fig. 20 Implementation of UDF: CreateClustersForContent Based on business logic, feature parameters such weight,
. similarity function, range of values are changed. For example,
Based on modeling requirements various features and their if language of item is one of the important features, and
parameters are set, figure 22 shows some of the parameters business policy is to show the user items in the language that
used. Models using hybrid recommendation approaches can be user likes, then weight of language feature can be set to high
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compared to other features. There are lot of database and CBR framework on periodic basis. It carries these activities using
functions provided to implement complex business logic using web services. List of such activities can be entered into
UDFs and rule-based ESs. For example UDF scheduled task setup configuration file.
GenerateNextPushForUser , looks into each of the
subcategory-wise user profile and based on relative interests 3) Web Services
of user in that subcategory it searches the items in that Once development, analysis, customizations and testing of
category using combination of filtering techniques. Hybrid recommendation solution are done, it can be loosely integrated
framework provides testing and debugging environment along into operational systems through web services. There are two
with various development interfaces. Debugging and testing types of web services P&R framework uses while integrating
can be done interactively, UDFs can be included in rule-base with client systems. P&R framework web services and hybrid
and inputs can be asked at run time. framework web services (shown in figure 6). Figure 24 shows
partial list of P&R framework web services. The names of
d) Tag Mapping web services are prefixed with broad functionality they
Meta-contents are created from client database or even from provide. Services starting with MetaContent_ are used to
RSS feeds. Since hybrid framework converts all database calls manage meta-contents e.g. MetaContent_I mportF romRSS is
into XML, field names are converted as XML tags. Mapping used to import data from RSS feeds. While PnR_ services are
is defined between source field names (which are be used to used for P&R. Services starting with Trans_ are used
import data) and meta-contents. Figure 23 shows sample tag notifying transactions (user interactions) to P&R system. In
mapping from RSS schema to P&R generic schema. Once this PnR services word related indicates clustering based on CBR
mapping is defined, data can be extracted or imported from matching algorithm while recommended indicates
client database or RSS feeds by calling appropriate web collaborative filtering. Some of the web services wrap
services. functionality using ESs and UDFs so that business logic can
be changed easily. For example web service
iTune RSS tag title is PnR_GetRelatedContents internally calls UDF
mapped to P&R
framework C_Description
CreateCluster ForContent which returns cluster of items
tag while importing and around given item. If the logic for creating cluster is changed
extracting data
(e.g. giving more weight to feature language), it will be
automatically reflected when PnR_GetRelatedContent called
next time. This gives greater degree of flexibility in managing
First keyword is given
weight 1 while weights of
subsequent keywords
would be reduced by 5%.
If all keywords are
relevant then
ChangeInWeight factor
can be set to 0.
Fig. 23 Partial sample tag mappings
.
e) Reports and forms
Functionality of Form Designer and Report Designer of the
hybrid framework has been extended to generate forms and
reports automatically for interactive knowledge-based Fig. 24 Partial list of P&R web services
recommendation sessions based on features selected in CBR .
Most of the PnR_ and Search_ services cache results in
configuration and domain vocabulary. This saves explicit
database (along with date and time) instead of calculating
efforts of creating forms and reports. During recommendation
again and again. These include parameter called p_Minutes, to
session, appropriate forms are invoked to ask and get relevant
indicate how long results should be cached in database before
inputs from the user while formatted reports are used to show
they are recalculated again. Based on frequency of updates of
recommended products, explanations and related information.
items, number of users active at a time, available hardware
f) Scheduled tasks:
resources, these parameters can be set for different web
services. For example, item clustering need not be done again
P&R framework has scheduler to carry out various
and again unless new items are added or existing removed etc.
activities especially data transfer from client database to P&R
while web services for collaborative filtering e.g.
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PnR_GetRecommendedContents and personalization e.g. service call. Most of the web services return only item IDs (we
PnR_GetPersonalizedContents can be run every fifteen call as Content_ID and in database field C_ID , while
minutes or half-an-hour to reflect changing users interests. importing item data from client database, IDs are maintained
as they are in client database). This makes it easier to
implement and manage at front-end and items can be
displayed in various widgets based on website design policy.
Figures 27 and 28 show how items are displayed in various
After every 15 minutes cluster
of items (runs UDF:
widgets in EPG website (to respect confidentiality we have
CreateCluster ForContent) for removed other details).
item id=10000000939410000
would be created We will not discuss web services but one of the important
Number of related items to services is PnR_GetPersonalizedContents. It takes three major
be returned.
inputs user id, top level category and criteria. It returns items
in selected top category or genre (like film, sports, fashion,
Fig. 25 Explicit invocation of web service etc.) that user would like
. dynamic profile. Criteria indicate when user profile and
personalized contents should be recomputed for the active user
e.g. only after at least one download in last 15 minutes (see
figure 29 for major steps involved in web service
PnR_GetPersonalizedContents).
Clustered items returned in sequence
with item ID:Category ID=%Matching. Calls UDF: CreaterUserProfile which generates
Means item ID:10000000915990000 dynamic profile (global as well as category-wise)
matches 81.8% in category ID:19 based on transactions and stores it in database
10000000939410000
Calls UDF: GenerateNextPushFor User
P&R which loads Dynamic profile and
Fig. 26 Source view of web service output of Database Static profile into memory
PnR_GetRelatedContents
Takes subcategory-wise profiles user has visited within top
. category in order of relevance (most and recently accessed, etc.).
Criteria for selecting number of top subcategory profiles to be
considered for personalization for user can be set in dynamic query
used for this purpose. It initializes next available subcategory
profile to the first selected one.
Widget for Related Items functionality: items are displayed
(after formatting) by that are retuned calling
PnR_GetRelatedContents which user clicks on Blown Away Applies set of rules to formulate problem query and configure CBR
with item ID of Blown Away with appropriate features, their weights, cutoffs, to search how
many items, how many relevant items to be retrieved based on a.
Widget for People also Liked Items functionality: static and next available subcategory profile (items, keywords,
items are displayed (after formatting) that are
returned by calling PnR_GetRecommendedContents
tags, language, format, time, location, etc.), and b. required blend
when user clicks on Blown Away with item ID of of collaborative and content-based filtering. Configuration
Blown Away information itself can be stored in subcategory profile in database
and loaded into memory.
Fig 27 Screen shot of website invoking web services
Most relevant items are
No No
. P&R searched that match the Is last
subcategory
Database problem query using profile?
configured CBR
Items are displayed (after formatting) by Yes
calling PnR_GetContentsForBrowse on
click of keyword Tommy Lee Jones. This All relevant items searched for each selected subcategory profile
click is notified to the P&R framework are combined, duplicates removed, sorted on relevance. Updated
through web service or inserted to/into database against top category and the user and
Trans_NotifyTransaction to understand items are returned by the web service.
Tommy Lee Jones
Fig. 29 Major steps in PnR_GetPersonalizedContents
algorithm
.
IV. CASE STUDIES
Various prototype systems have successfully developed to
demonstrate and test P&R framework functionality and
Fig 28 Screen shot of website invoking P&R web services
results. Right now P&R solution is being implemented for one
of the big content providers in India for their e-Commerce
.
Figure 25 shows invoking of web service B2C web site selling video and audio albums/tracks online.
PnR_GetRelatedContents Figure 26 shows output of web The first case study is on P&R for mobile VAS (value-added
services) application for SonyBMG and other case study
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includes recommendation on website for EPG for TV list, request to send reminder on mobile for a particular
programs (TVPs). program, add tag to program, etc. In P&R framework, these
Because of confidentiality issues we would not discuss case called as events including clicks and store them as user
studies in details. The screen-shots are included in figures 27 transactions along with other information like date, ti me,
and 28 for EPG application. One of the peculiarities of P&R location etc. Two character codes are given to all these events
in TVPs websites, recommendations have to be in real time which are used for personalization like code TG for adding
and forward looking (forthcoming TVPs unless repeats), there tag, MD for adding mood, KY for click on keyword etc. Each
is no point in recommending the TVPs which are already of these events is given weight to denote relevance in building
telecasted and not going to be repeated again on any TV models.
channel. The client web application calls appropriate web service
that returns list of item IDs or keywords. E.g. in related
B rief Requirement A nalysis: Studying the client database schema, understanding
where required information like meta-contents, user and transactions is available in program widget, it displays items (programs) in response to
client database. What kind of functionality needs to be implemented, events to be web service PnR_GetRelatedContents.
included, study of existing website/portal, widgets available etc.
The P&R system was initially modeled using generic
C reating G eneric P & R Database and Models: this is done by creating shallow
configuration. However, expert personnel from client
copies of database schema and generic models from master- setups. Defining tag organization asked to change the business logic e.g. the
mappings to extract data from client database, etc.
programs displayed in related progra ms widget were
restricted in language and genre of selected program.
C reating M aster Database: Create
Generic P&R meta-contents, users, initial transactions
Similarly different weights of features were adjusted based on
Models and
configurations
Database by importing data from client database requirements.
using various web services.
SonyBMG was looking to enter the market with a
differentiated service, were looking for extreme
Modifying database, extract Yes Are customizations personalization solution on mobile for items like ringtones,
additional data and customize
models and configurations
required? music and wallpapers [31]. Mooga.NET (with some
No administration interfaces, figure 31 shows a screen-shot) is
Testing various functionalities, UDFs, expert
currently administrating SonyBMG´s portal in Argentina,
system results, etc. manually or through web Chile and being launched in other Latin America countries.
services.
Item and context information (like genre, song title, artist
name etc.) were extracted from their database into the P&R
Integrating P&R solution into client system through web services, web services
can be wrapped by writing APIs at client system to take care of additional
framework.
security, calls with fewer parameters etc, testing the results after integration. One of the challenges in personalization is to show right
information on limited screen size to the right user at right
On-going improvement, fine tuning the models
to get better user experience and desired results
time. The personalization algorithm (figure 29), in P&R
framework is configured to show only most relevant items
Fig. 30 Major steps in developing recommender solutions using based on users interest and device screen size.
P&R Framework System went live in March 2008, figure 32 shows analysis
. of data transactional data collected from August 2008 to May
Figure 30 shows steps followed while developing P&R 6, 2009 to validate effectiveness of P&R framework in mobile
solutions using P&R framework. TVPs in eight top level space [31].
categories: F ilm, Sports, Children, Documentary, TV Show,
News, Business and F inance and Music have been modeled
and implemented. The data in client database was already
structured with TVP attributes like genre, subgenre, episode
title, episode no, brief synopsis, casts, sub-casts, directors,
guest-casts, keywords, tags and so on. Other information
included schedules, which TVP is scheduled on what
television channel, external TVRs (television ratings by third
parties) etc. When data is extracted, all casts, sub-casts,
directors, channels, etc. were converted into keywords with
respective roles. Conversion is automatically done at the time
of data extraction using tag mapping configuration, mapping
source field names into P&R framework field names (e.g. as
shown in figure 23).
The website was revamped to enable P&R. It includes
various widgets to display items and keywords based on P&R
functionalities. Website offers various options for users to Fig 31 Sample screen-shots of SonyBMG WAP front-end
interact with website. The user can add program in favourite
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