The two day long National Seminar on Advanced Data Computing: Emerging Trends and Issues organized by International School of Informatics & Management was sponsored by AICTE, New Delhi on May16, 2008.

Shri C.K.Mathew, Principal Secretary, IT and relief and Disaster Management, Government of Rajasathan, was the chief guest for the inaugural ceremony, and Shri S.V. Ramanan, Head HR and Corporate communications, CMC Ltd., New Delhi was the guest of honor.  

Dr. Ashok Gupta, Director, ISIM, welcomed the guests and appraised them with the institute’s progress. Sir acquainted the participants with the domains of security and briefed the magnitude, significance and best practices of Data computing. 

Shri Manojit Majumdar, Country Leader, IBM who was the key note speaker for the inaugural ceremony enlightened the participants with the relevance of dependency of Indian Information Technology industry on foreign, patented software and stressed on development of indigenous open source software to achieve self dependency in terms of software. Sir said that data collection plays a vital role in formulating business strategies.  

Technical Session 1 

Shri Naval Khosla, Head- Linux, stressed that by updating older technologies, such as Internet-enabling EDI-based systems, companies can make their IT systems available to internal or external customers; but the resulting systems have not proven to be flexible enough to meet business demands. A flexible, standardized architecture is required to better support the connection of various applications and the sharing of data. 

Mr. Khosla enlightened the audience with the real issue with any IT "architecture" is how one defines the information management model and operations around it that deal with information privacy, reflect the business's products and services, enable services to be delivered to the customers, allow for self care, preferences and entitlements and at the same time embrace identity management and agility.

In the end of the session, Mr. Khosla contented the inquisitiveness of the audience by answering the queries raised by them. 

Technical Session 2

Shri S.V. Ramanan, Head HR and Corporate communications, elucidates that BI systems provide historical, current, and predictive views of business operations, most often using data that has been gathered into a data warehouse or a data mart and occasionally working from operational data.  

The speaker concluded his lecture with a very informative and attractive presentation on business intelligence. 

 The seminar was a grand success with participation from almost 16 technical and management colleges all over the country.

Shri S.V. Ramanan, Head Hr and corporate communications, CMC Ltd. New Delhi, elucidated that BI systems provide historical, current, and predictive views of business operations, most often using data that has been gathered into a datawarehouse or a datamart and occasionally working from operational data. He opined that Software elements support the use of information by assisting in the extraction, analysis, and reporting of information. Applications tackle sales, production, financial, and many other sources of business data for purposes that include, notably, business performance management.

Day 2

Technical Session1 

A renowned personality in the field of Computer Science Prof. Soumya Banerjee, Head Computer science Department, Birla Institute of Technology, Jaipur spoke on the field of research that works with computational techniques inspired in part by nature and natural systems.

Prof. Banerjee expressed that natural computing often leads to the synthesis of natural patterns, behaviors and organisms, and may result in the design of novel computing systems that use natural media with which to compute.

The session, concluded with Prof. Soumya Banerjee, effectively handling the queries raised by the participants.

Technical Session 2 

This session had highly informative inputs from Shri. Raghu Ramakrishnan, Senior Consultant, Tata Consultancy Services, New Delhi on ‘Data Security’. He discussed the issues, concerns and solutions in data security and took the participants on an interesting tour from information security triangle to cryptography.

Mr. Ramakrishnan also emphasized that security landscape is constantly evolving, as the threats, consumer perceptions and legislative and regulatory strategies keep changing. These are the challenges that will need to be met with effective responses.

The session was interactive and ended with his best wishes for the participants.

Shri. Rajit Sikka, Relationship Manager, Tata Consultancy Services, New Delhi, highlighted the importance of such programmes and addressed the participants on the industry expectations from the academia and the students. Enthusiastic queries were put up by the participants during the interactive session. 

The two day long learning programme concluded with effective feedback from the participants and distribution of certificates. The colloquium was well appreciated both in terms of Intellectual and quality content. The programme accomplished its objectives well and was a grand success.