Devices That Tell on You

Information is the key to any organization in the world today; it is what makes an organization successful, accurate and proficient in an increasingly competitive market. Without information a company is powerless, it does not know its customer or understand them,

Business intelligence covers some pretty important topics to Varco Pruden Buildings. It mainly deals with entry level knowledge and skills that many have gathered and picked up along the course of their lives. Although these may seem pretty easy going, it is of great importance to the company and many of your fellow coworkers. Three of the

Information is data which is accurate and timely specific and organized for a purpose presented within a context that gives it meaning and relevance. Information can lead to an increase in understanding and decrease in uncertainty.

Tracking customers with regards to theft is nothing new, but how many people know that stores are invading their privacy by tracking their phone’s Wi-Fi signal just to place specialty advertisements on them? I did not know it until after I read this article, and I’m sure if I went out and asked various people in stores, very few others would be aware of it also. We may think it is an invasion of privacy that it is possible for stores to be allowed to do this with none or little notice given to its customers, but retailers claim that “they need to monitor customers so they can

2. Business intelligence: Delivers synchronized, business-critical data in a variety of diagnostic tools to view market trends and build relationships that help facilitate timely decision making (Microsoft Dynamics NAV, 2011).

As technology continues to improve and expand phones and other devices are now an important tool that people use daily. People gravitate towards these devices because they create an easier lifestyle. Technology is just as much of a tool for businesses and the government as it for the people. People will compromise their privacy for the sake of availability. However, all potential benefits outweigh any risks because our way of living has improved and the advancements in technology has also created ways to secure your privacy.

The interest in privacy has been continually growing since the late nineteenth century and will only keep growing as technology continues to improve. Privacy and technology go hand in hand with today’s society being so dependent on electronic devices. The new movement towards law enforcement wearing body cameras has raised a few concerns over the protection of privacy.

Companies are adopting business intelligence system within their organizations because by using the system reports they can gain the advantages of understanding their internal strength and weaknesses to face external competitors and challenges to increase profits and reduce cost on their everyday operations and processes.

Ever since the late 1980s, the market of technology has never stopped growing. Starting from mobile phones to multi-tasking robots, technology has dug its way from a rare, valuable product to an essential part of our everyday lives. Taking advantage of this well known fact, federal agencies, companies and individuals develop ways to tear down the wall of defense guarding our private property we trusted in our gadgets. While it is understandable that tracking is needed to ensure safety, public should not be the new privacy.

We are being digitally tracked and monitored today more than ever before. In Minneapolis, a father walked into Target and demanded to see the manager. He had discovered that her daughter had been receiving coupons for baby clothes and cribs, and accused the manager at Target of encouraging his daughter to get pregnant. A few days later the manager called to apologize, but it was the father who apologized, as he had found out that his daughter was actually pregnant. Target, with the use of prediction models, formulas and collected data from the girl’s past purchases, knew that the girl was pregnant before her own father did. Technology today is so advanced that everything we do is collected by computers and processed.

What is this world coming to? When most of us think of tracking devices they think of primarily negative issues. But that has all changed now. A tracking device the size of a tic tack that can be surgically implanted to provide a tamper proof means of identification, enhanced e-business security, locating lost or missing individuals, monitoring heart rate, vital signs, tracking of the elderly, the location of valuable property, and monitoring the medical conditions of at risk patients, all at the convenience of a button or a phone call (www.allnet). It is called the GPM or as we know it the Global Positioning Microchip. Today I will discuss the ideals of the implanted microchip and

Everyday information about developments in changing marketing environment that helps managers prepares marketing plans. The marketing intelligence system determines the intelligence needed, collects it by searching the environment and delivers it to marketing managers who need it. Marketing intelligence comes from many sources. Much intelligence is from the company's personnel - executives, engineers and scientists, purchasing agents and the sales force. But company people are often busy and fail to pass on important information. The company must 'sell' its people on their importance as intelligence gatherers, train them to spot new developments and urge them to report intelligence back to the company. The company must also persuade suppliers, resellers and customers to pass along important intelligence. Some information on

Information is not knowledge, merely one of the raw materials needed to obtain it. Just as a pile of bricks is not a house -even though bricks are the raw materials necessary to build it- a pile of data is not a doctoral thesis, not even a newspaper article, although information is also the raw material you need to write them.

The apps used today often collect data more than needed for its functionality (Li et al. 2016, p.1340). Often these apps track the user location, access the photos, address books, access calendar and track IMEI/UDID without users’ notice (Li et al. 2016, 1340). A report by appthority shows that 24 percent of the top iOS paid apps track users’ location. Whereas, 82 percent of the top Android free apps and 49 percent of the top Android paid apps track users’ location (Li et al. 2016, 1340). Enck et al. (2011, p.28) studied 1,100 Android apps, and found that half of these apps exposed location data to third-party advertisement servers without requiring implicit or explicit user consent.

These are original texts and were written and revised on 10 February 2012 by Gartner Inc. The original document is part of Gartner 's Magic Quadrant research methodology to provide a graphical and analytical competitive positioning of Business Intelligence technology providers.