The process of making sure that appropriate project related information is generated, collected, stored, retrieved and distributed. It is an important link between people, ideas and information necessary for project progress. Major processes include communication planning, information distribution, performance reporting and administrative closure.

We are witnessing the transformation into a big data economy. Any business that doesn't seriously consider the implications of Big Data runs the risk of being left behind. This video will help you understand the basics of Big Data and the five Vs: Volume, Velocity, Variety, Veracity and Value.

Project scope management includes processes required to ensure that project includes all the work and only the work required to complete the project successfully. Scope defines the work that has to be completed to deliver product / service with specified features and functions.

ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) broad set of activities supported by multi-module application software that helps a manufacturer or other business manage the important parts of its business, including product planning, parts purchasing, maintaining inventories, interacting with suppliers, providing customer service, and tracking orders. ERP can also include application modules for the finance and human resources aspects of a business. This module introduces viewer to overall architecture of ERP and its major modules.

Integration management includes the processes and activities needed to identify, define, combine, unify and coordinate various processes of project management and its process groups. Any change required to any other knowledge area has to be approved and integrated with other activities. It entails making choices about resource allocation, making trade-offs among competing objectives and alternatives and managing interdependencies among knowledge areas.

Includes the processes required to acquire goods and services, to attain project scope, from outside project organization. Major processes are Procurement planning – determine when and what to acquire.

The post 2000 period has witnessed a major shift in the way the I.T. industry works. Due to this shift and the rapid rate of progress of the IT industry and its profound effect on business practices, the role of Business Analyst has been carved out of the erstwhile systems. Analyst-cum-Designer. This module helps executives to understand the scope, boundary and future of Business Analysis domain.