1.   The face detection is the first step as it detects faces through images and videos.

2.   The face capture is the second step as it transforms the face into readable data based on the person's facial features.

3. The face match process verifies if the two faces match.   

While it was initially just the police officials using it as a powerful tracking tool, there are now bigger organizations, smart phones, public places, banks, schools, control access to sensitive areas and much more!

Feels like it is everywhere these days, does it not? However, how accurate is this software? 

Though the accuracy of this system entirely depends on the intensity at which it is built and what it is used for, there has been a little concern in using this technology in places that have an equal proportion of dark-skinned population since the best of algorithms still struggle to recognize black faces equally.

While it all started in China, now Japan, Singapore and United Arab Emirates are big players in incorporating this system for their day-to-day security, surveillance and access needs. While Sans Francisco has banned the use of this software in the city, India's home ministry recently called for a tender for facial recognition systems to help the police force with identification, safety and securing law and order in the country. 

While the rest of the world is super excited to give this software a try, Britain has a different opinion. In the country, the police get to decide and permit where and when it is appropriate to use facial recognition. In fact, a campaign called 'Liberty' has called for a ban on live facial recognition systems in public places.

While facial recognition is still not exposed completely and many countries are still very reluctant using this interesting software, the future looks at the next level of this very application - Facial recognition smart glasses.

There are also police body cameras that will be built on the facial recognition software which additionally allows you to identify people with masks.

Medical expenses are often scary, expensive and unplanned. While hospitals have exclusive websites built for marketing initiatives, ranking and competing with fellow players - it is quite important to build a website keeping your customers in mind since the industry is becoming consumer-driven.

Now that online reviews, ratings and recommendations are considered before visiting even a hospital, the content you put out there on your site is important. Your website needs to be helpful in terms of services, pricing, discounts, facilities, locations, specialties, doctors - if patients cannot find what they are looking for on your website, they simply will not give you any business.

So other than original content, clear sharp images, crisp information and engaging factors that are must-haves for your site, the below are extra add-ons that everybody looks for:

Prospective patients and their families are always looking for reviews online either on the hospital website or other third party platforms like Yelp, Practo etc. Be it a patient's medical or dining or even simple hospitality experience at your hospital, everything needs to be recorded and (the good ones) can be showcased on the website.

There is a big push for transparency in the healthcare industry – and that includes being upfront with patients about quality rankings, whether they are impressive or not. The best thing about 

If you have returning patients - good news! What you can do in order to make their lives easier is to have a patient portal on your website that can allow them to login and check results, fix appointments, save records, scans and tests. Your patients will really appreciate this since you're saving them a lot of time, energy and paper!

While jewelry stores and electronic stores have brought about this excellent feature of online live digital purchasing from home, it is time this is introduced in the healthcare industry. A live video consultation is helpful for 

Most patients and their families treat hospital visits and admissions like any other major expense. They would like to know what they are looking at to either arrange for the cash or even make other plans around it. It is only fair to be transparent about the costing and an overall day/night stay expense along with ICU, beds, room charges to save the trouble for both parties.

For extremely price-conscious healthcare consumers, your hospital's marketing team may want to try out “limited time specials” for certain services, exclusive to users of their websites. Many other businesses, from car repair shops to restaurants, make similar offers available to customers - and they work.

While some of these features are used by most of your competitors already, you too might want to join the club. A hospital ERP, staff attendance, vendor management and many other exclusive health-care solutions are part of an increasingly competitive healthcare landscape - so common that they may become standard in the not-too-distant future.

Very often, as a simple medium, small business owners use spreadsheets to record and calculate inventory data. But the bottom line is that these spreadsheets are not specialized in dealing with the inventory tracking process. Also, they are highly time-taking and mostly manual.

On the other hand, an inventory management system is solely dedicated to keeping the record and forecast trends which are necessary to make informed business decisions.

1. Do you have to sign in or sign out for the different sales channels to list the process orders and products?

2. Do you need to manually adjust the level of the stocks on each platform each time you make a sale?

3. Do you want to get automatically generated inventory reports to know how many stocks you should purchase with respect to the needs and demands?

If you have just answered 'yes', then you must go for an inventory tracking software to be more productive, efficient and accurate.

For any business enterprise regardless of its size, the challenge of tracking, managing and keeping a record past of inventories must be dealt with. And, when business starts expanding, there is an increase in sales. In order to satisfy the customers, the need for an inventory tracking software becomes a necessity here. 

1. Being able to manage your inventories in a simplified way.

2. The opportunity to make mistakes is minimal or zero.

3. Helps to maintain a balance in the stock level.

4. Enables you to cut costs, maximize sales and profits.

Customer satisfaction

Make sure to include these essential 6 features.

This is the most important tool in an inventory management system. Due to increase volume of data, inventory management gets more complex.

It isn't important for the system to have just multiple fields and modules but the actual interface must be user-friendly with intuitive functionalities required to track inventories efficiently.

What if, due to a bug, all your inventory data gets deleted? It can be a catastrophe, isn't it? Make sure your inventory system can restore data even if you uninstall the software mistakenly.

Your innumerable number of fields, forms and modules will do a great job at maintaining inventory only when the data passing through all the tools is consistent with each other.

Ensure your inventory management system has the ability to accomodate costant free-flowing of data and seamless integration with each other. 

This is the most vital feature and is a must-have in your inventory management system. Auto-generated reports will help create and maintain a seamless workflow for errorless product supply and demand.

Two common examples of inventory reports are product purchase and product sales. So, always choose an inventory management solution that has these two reports generation tools.

As and when you grow your business, your inventory system should have the capability to expand as well. You should be able to customize it, add/delete features and still be as secure and accurate. 

1. Be able to manage your inventories in a simplified way.

2. Reduce the opportunity to mistakes to almost zero.

3. Help to maintain a balance in the stock level.

4. Enable you to cut costs, maximize sales and profits.

Increase 100% customer satisfaction.

Vidya Mandir, Estancia is one such school and this is what they desired for. The school with about 1000 students, wanted to be able to automatically come up with complete student-wise, staff-wise and other mandatory school data to maintain and showcase whenever required. In short, they were willing to say no to manual mode of data entry and safe-keeping and say yes to automation and digitization. 

We knew this was going to be a lot of hard work, automation and information feeding that has to be done for every single student in the school. We build a single platform where, when given a student's ID number is fed, is be able to come up with - his/her date of joining, attendance, term-wise grades, club activities, allergies, library habits, emergency contacts, certificates he/she has submitted/yet to submit and many more important details. The application also helped the admin department of the school to renew AMCs, school transport management, expenditures etc. The Principal and the Vice Principals can have a quick dashboard-level info of every student to check his academic performance, attendance and other specific details including important CBSE updates, holidays etc.

While the developers worked on the fields and forms, they also made it a point to sit with the teachers of the school, explain the application and take them through every little process in the solution.

"When I gave a go-ahead and was thoroughly convinced that this was going to help us, the teachers were still a little apprehensive since they were quite unsure on how a solution online was going to help them with a process followed offline and manually for hundreds of years now. But if you ask them now, they'd be able to tell you how much this has helped them and the school to maintain records and compile data over just a few hours!", says Maheshwari Natrajan, Prinicipal of Vidya Mandir, Estancia.

The platform is completely customizable with fields that can be modified and forms that can be removed. You can add colors, edit content and showcase all the important data at a glance in the dashboard.

The platform is completely customizable with fields that can be modified and forms that can be removed. You can add colors, edit content and showcase all the important data at a glance in the dashboard.

"The dashboard is the most important part of this solution. I can pick, choose and compare any data of any student from any year to his previous year's performance and analyze. We can do this with staff-data, student-data, school management data, school repository data, school admin data etc. Also, one extra exclusive feature is that, we have all of CBSE's important updates showcased on our dashboard - this makes it so easy for us to grab info, rather than going to the CBSE website time and again!", she continues.

"The dashboard is the most important part of this solution. I can pick, choose and compare any data of any student from any year to his previous year's performance and analyze. We can do this with staff-data, student-data, school management data, school repository data, school admin data etc. Also, one extra exclusive feature is that, we have all of CBSE's important updates showcased on our dashboard - this makes it so easy for us to grab info, rather than going to the CBSE website time and again!", she continues.

While our team made Vidya Mandir, Estancia's processes easier, we can surely make yours too!

The solution was created on Zoho Creator, a platform that can be customized and built to suit any business from any part of the world.

Let's assume you are an NGO who recruits volunteers to teach across the world.

Now, since you're looking at a large set of volunteers, it'll be easier for you to have one single platform to carry out:

^●  Volunteer-seeking campaigns

^●  Gathering leads

^●  Sorting them

^●  Reaching out to the leads

^●  Evaluating them

^●  Filtering them

^●  Picking the best of volunteers

^●  Involving them in various activities which are project-level and geo-level and together, making a change

Whew! We know how hard it is to initiate the process, maintain a database and put everything to use.

The only thing you need here is a Recruitment & Volunteer Management App - one platform to help you with registration, volunteering and periodical volunteer activity management/tracking.

Zappyworks, Zoho's truster partner, has expertise building such apps on the Zoho Creator platform from scratch, customizing it and making it work wonders for every client.

What happens in this app?

The Recruitment & Volunteer Management App will have an end-to-end registration process, that will allow you to segregate your leads coming from various marketing efforts. Zoho Campaigns is one other tool you may use to execute, analyze and learn from every online/offline campaign you carry out to get people to register.

Once you sort these leads, you'd like to meet them face to face, allow them to meet you and understand your NGO and to see if together, both of you can bring about changes. This app also allows you to send out event reminders for recruitment workshops along with date, time, venue & RSVP. Once you have finalized on the volunteers, each of them is given access to this app, a personal profile and a dashboard. The app is a two-way solution - the management is given access to analyze and carefully study the journey of every volunteer while the volunteer himself/herself is also allowed to update their profile based on the different activities they attend, various services they've provided and how their presence has helped the organization. The best part of the app is that it is available both on desktop as well as mobile for easy real-time data fetching.

Through these points, reviews by reporting managers and various other customizable validations, the volunteers continue to experience, learn and grow with the NGO.

The Recruitment & Volunteer Management App is for organizations that invest a lot of money and time on marketing efforts to bring in leads, filter them, pick the best ones and on-board them.

All of this on one single Zoho platform but multiple options to customize.

Interesting, isn't it?