Market Share and Acquisition of Cisco.

One of the significant aggressive tactics of the company CISCO is acquisitions. The first company Cisco acquired was in the year 1993 and from then it had made over 150 total acquisition and which consists of over 100 acquisition in the past decade.


Few Financial Facts of CISCO:
In 2000, Cisco had a market capital of $569 billion and was the most valuable company in the world. Where as the its current market capital is $96 billion.
Cisco Share price was $73 in April 2000 and has dropped to $16 in June 2011(current market share price of cisco in June 2011).
The revenue has grown from around $19 billion to $42billion although.

Market Share of Cisco:
IP Television: 61%
Wirelass LAN: 58%
WEb-Conferencing: 49%
Routing: 49%
Storage area Networks: 29%
Home Networking: 26%.

Cisco recent acquisition in the past six months (end of 2010-and beginning of 2011)


Company and its Implications:
New Scale: Which is an provider of software for quick cloud based services and solutions.
Inlet Tech: To Strengthening Cisco's Videoscape television platform.
Pari Networks: It offers smart network configuration and change management solutions.
Linesider: Provider of software for network management services for cloud.
Arch Rock Corp: IP-based wireless network technology for smart grid applications.

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iCloud - Apple's New Product.

What is iCloud?
Apple's iCloud is a set of free cloud-based services that will allow users to sync their apple devices with each other and manager personal data easily.
What does iCloud do?
Everything can be stored online and accessed via either 3G or Wi-Fi.  To sign up, you need an Apple ID and an iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch running iOS 5 or a Mac running Mac OS X Lion.


When will iCloud be available?
While the beta is available to developers now, end users should expect to get access by Q3 this year.
What is iCloud for us?
iCloud will be particulary useful for those who own multiple iOS devices.  All data will remain backed up, accessable if your device gets stolen or needs to be rest.

iCloud Free Download.
iCloud will be available as a free download when Apple releases the new version of iOS this fall.  This feature will include 5 Gigabytes of free storage for users files, plus unlimited room for purchased apps and books, and recent phots.
The New version of iOS will come with a notification system to alert users when they get text messages and updates from applications such as Facebook.  It also will make it easier to see Web articles and save them for future reading.  
As part of iCloud, Apple introduced a $24.99 music feature called iTunes Match that will scan every song in users libraries and match it with a copy in the cloud.  That means customers do not have to upload all their music song by song. 


Attack on Rivals: Apple is competing with Amazon.com, the biggest online retailer, and Google's Android software, which runs rival smartphones(for Samsung, HTC, and Motorola) and tablet computers.   A new Twitter, Inc. partnership will help users access the social networking service and post photos. And a feature called Newsstand lets customers purchase and organize newspaper and magazine subscription for the iPad and iPhone

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8 Major Technological Trends En-cashed by Businesses.

Technology is the key of innovation. With the help of emerging technologies, many companies are gaining benefits.


DISTRIBUTING CO-CREATION 
In order to use the talent of innovators outside the boundaries, they have to use the technology and internet as a means of reaching them and getting the talent required and yet it can get the required work done with less cost. Companies delegate control to outsiders –cocreation for the development of new products and innovations and work in the form of networks. 
Example: Information goods created by group of specialists such as software are an example of this kind of decentralized innovation.


USING CONSUMERS AS INNOVATORS
 Internet promoted by web 2.0 has been a wide platform for interaction among users like consumers with organizations, organizations with partners, etc. and they actively participate in those interactions. This can be used by the companies for their economic benefits. Using customers in the internal function as designing, testing, etc will help the companies to get better insights and the company should ensure to fulfill their needs and their expectations.


TAPPING INTO A WORLD OF TALENT
Acquiring the best talent for each and every activity is difficult. So the work can be given to those talented people or experts who are specialized in those areas, by reaching them in new ways. Internet and other tools have made this easier with low costs for the companies. Any activity that has to be done by experts can be outsourced with specific requirements by the customers and it is done.
Example: TopCoder Company
 

EXTRACTING MORE VALUE FROM INTERACTIONS

To increase the productivity and to make tacit work more effective the differences should be reduced between transformational and transactional employees.  Technology tools such as video conferencing, virtual teams, etc. promote this. It helps in creating value and interactions in smarter way and is difficult to imitate.

MANAGING CAPITAL AND ASSETS

Almost many daily based activities and other critical activities are automated in the organizations. There is no human intervention needed for these tasks. Organizations, governments, companies all are automating the processes. Websites, databases etc. and retailers like Wal-mart, metro use digital technologies like RFID (radio frequency identification). These technologies help to operate the activities at lower costs and also managing them is also easy.   Companies like amazon.com allow other retailers to use its logistics and distribution services.

LEVERAGING INFORMATION IN NEW WAYS

The first trend in this area is putting more science into management. With the help of technology, the large amount of data is being accessed by managers with the help of new management techniques. This information is used for smart decision making, for competitive advantage and for new business models. 

Google, Intel, CEMEX are examples of this.

MAKING BUSINESSES FROM INFORMATION 

 Information collected from various sources is raw data for new business opportunities. The internet has bought transparency to many markets.

These trends can be used as emerging patterns in various business activities as per the opportunities to shape the business better. 

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Online Payment Processing System.

Online payment processing system can be classified into two types. They are


a) Token Based Payment System.
b) Credit-Card Based Payment System.

a) Token Based Payment System.

• E-cash: Its a form of digital cash which provides a high level of security.  It also reduces the overhead of paper cash.
• E-Check: E-check/E-Cheque is another form of electronic payment system(EPS).  These check are preferred when a customer is willing to make a payment without using paper currency. 
• Example of E-check are Net Cheque and Net Bill.
• Smart Cards: Smart cards are similar to Debit/Credit card but with enhanced features such as micro processor that have the ability to store massive amount of information which is 80 times thatn conventional, magnetic strip cards.
• Examples of smart cards are Mondex Electronic Currency card.

b) Credit-Card Based Payment System.

The different types of credit card based payment systems are.

• Plain Credit Card Payment System: The credit card transaction is provided without using any encryption techniques.  It is one of the simplest form of payment system.
• Encrypted Credit Card Payment System: As the name says, the credit card is encrypted before performing any transaction using various encryption schemes like 
• Privacy Enhanced Mail(PEM).
• Pretty Good Proivacy(PGP).
• On-line Third Party Credit Card Payment System: Security  and verification can be provided using third party, which is a company that gathers and verifies the payment of funds that flow from one party to a another. eg., Paypal.

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Indias first Robotic Cancer Surgery at AIIMS

The very First time in the India the Department of Urology at All
India Institute of Medical Sciences(AIIMS), Delhi, carried an surgery with the robot assistance.

This operation was done to an 50 years old women suffering from cancer of urethra and urinary bladder which was headed by Dr. PN Dogra, Head and Professor, Department of Urology at AIIMS.

This surgery requires an high-tech surgical skills and this can be used to drive, maximise the use of Robots so that benefit can be reaped by the maximum number of patients.

The surgery is named as "Anterior Pelvic Exenteration" which inlvolves in removal of 7 parts of body, that are urinary bladder, Fallopian tubes, Uterus, Ovaries, Urethra Anterior vaginal wall, and Pelviclymph nodes.

This robotic surgical technology can be used on the patients suffering from various urological diseases. Even training programme in robotic surgery are conducted in Department of urology.

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