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In today's world, "information" is the key. With IT enabled world, we collect large amount of data from various sources but how effectively we can use such large amount of data is always a challenge. Different domains such as Financial, Sales, Security, Retail, Energy, etc. initiate and collect large amount of data from various source for their day-to-day IT operations and management. For e.g. in our day-to-day operation of using e-services, we perform various activities and transactions and one such example is e-banking. Do we ever realize when we do an online transaction how much data is collected to ensure safety of the transaction? Now, when each and every  online activity is monitored, extracting meaning out of billions of activities is a big challenge in IT enabled domains. When billions of transactions are happening per day, how do we find out which one of those is a suspicious activity. With the world becoming more and more IT enabled, IT security becomes extreme...

Wanted to share one error that I got while installing Microsoft Office Professional 2013 for which I had to spend almost 3 days to find the root cause. I also googled and found that many people have also faced the same issue but did not get if anyone had the solution. Sharing the solution that worked for me. Thanks to Dhaval Metrani, my colleague, who also helped me with this. If you get the following error in the log file (in the %temp% folder) while installing Office 2013 Failed to install product OSMMUI.msi ErrorCode: 1603  and the detail log shows ERROR: The network address is invalid then the same is because of Task Scheduler service is not enabled on the machine. 1603 is a generic error and some people have mentioned that the same could be related to deleting/renaming  %programdata% /Microsoft Help but the solution seemed to be related to Task Scheduler when the exact error was related to 'Network address invalid'. By default in Windows 7 and Windows Vista ...