By Syed Tawseef Ali, Senior Relationship Executive, Southtech Group 1 August 2018 Southtech Ltd. had the opportunity on the 28th of July 2018 to visit the Jahangirnagar University campus, to speak with Business students, specializing in Human Resources. The class which focused solely on Human Resource Management Systems (HRMS,) was instructed by Mr. Jahangir Alam,
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By Syed Mamnun Quader, Managing Director & CEO, Southtech Group 25 April 2018 The Candlestick Problem
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By Syed Mamnun Quader, Managing Director & CEO, Southtech Group 8 February 2018 This paper addresses the difficulties of estimating and budgeting software development projects for government entities in Bangladesh. Thereafter, it outlines a framework that practitioners in the IT Industry can use to arrive at their own estimation and costing depending on their internal
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By Ahmed Kabir Chaion Product Specialist, Strategy and Relationships Past From the beginning of human civilization the concept of currency has evolved so much. Trade and commerce depended hugely on what both parties had to offer (material goods, services, etc.) for the transactions to happen; “Exchange”- a more appropriate term. Rice was exchanged for cloth
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By MD Fahim Alam Account Manager, Strategy and Relationships The increased number of automation in business environment is growing at a rapid pace with the evolving of new technologies which includes cloud computing, social networking, mobile applications, and interconnection with various networks for conducting various online business. The traditions role of IT professional and corporate
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By Syeda Wedad Quader Consultant, Strategy and Relationships Artificial Intelligence (AI) is known to be a branch of Computer Science that aims to create machines that are as smart as humans. As technology is developing and becoming ubiquitous day by day, many things once considered good examples of AI are now not treated with the
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By Ahmed Kabir Chaion Product Specialist, Strategy and Relationships The word “Blockchain” simply refers to blocks that are chained together. However, technically blockchains are ledgers of all transactions across a network (peer to peer) yet decentralized. What is cool about this concept is that the participants themselves can verify all these transactions. Conventionally a central
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by Sourav Saha Ratul Being an integral part of our lives, Smart phone brings a common problem “battery life crisis”. When you move out of your house for an average of 10-12 hours, you will certainly need to carry your battery charger along with you. But, the problem does not end here. For outdoorsy people,
read moreQuestion is, will Microsoft gain or lose from its acquisition of LinkedIn?
by Md. Fahim Alam For Microsoft, big acquisitions have not proved to be very fruitful in the past. It has a long history of unsuccessful purchases that led to massive write-downs, sometimes more than what they actually paid to acquire. Before the recent purchase of LinkedIn, which has many people doubting Microsoft CEO, Satya Nadella’s
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