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Offshoring
by prashanth on January 31, 2007
Steve Hamm's (The author of Bangalore Tiger) Blog has a very important and relevant post to the IT Services industry in India. In this post Steve highlights the issues faced by the CEO of "St...
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Outsourcing
by prashanth on January 30, 2007
TCS, India's top software services exporter, sees strong orders and revenues in the year ahead, driven by robust demand in Asia and Europe, and plans to boost its headcount aggressively.
TCS rema...
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Enterprise Software
by prashanth on January 30, 2007
Another survey confirming the growth of SaaS, a new survey by Cutters Consortium confirms that the SaaS movement is in full throttle. Customer interest and adoption of this new on-demand model is real...
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Outsourcing
by prashanth on January 29, 2007
The Indian software and services (IT-BPO) exports will clock a growth of 32.6% to exceed $31 billion in the current fiscal, key findings of a Nasscom review.Clocking a 10 fold rise in revenue in 10 ye...
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Enterprise Software
by prashanth on January 25, 2007
At the annual conference to report full-year fiscal results, SAP's CEO Henning Kagermann outlined plans to introduce a new midmarket solution offering breakthrough innovations in faster, lower-ris...
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Management
by prashanth on January 24, 2007
For sometime now we havent had this discussion and than recently i saw this report from Frost & Sullivan, titled "Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) of Windows 2003 versus Linux in Indian Enterpri...
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Sponsored Posts
by Creative Weblogging on January 23, 2007
How often do you find yourself needing to capture something from you computer screen to show to someone else? Yes, there are lots of ways to do it, but how about a super easy way? That's what Tech...
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Enterprise Software
by prashanth on January 23, 2007
In Tom Friedman's book the World is Flat, he lists 10 flatteners, During another keynote by Shai Aggasi , he added SAP as another flatnner, Aberdeen Group genralised it and have come up with a rep...
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Outsourcing
by prashanth on January 22, 2007
BPO and ITO outsourcing demand is generally growing, but the first half of 2007 will see a slower rate of growth than in previous years, according to EquaTerra's 4Q06 Outsourcing Pulse Surveys. Eq...
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Enterprise Software
by prashanth on January 22, 2007
At Shai Aggasi's keynote at the SAP Teched the message was clear, upgrade to MySAP 2005 ERP, a similar message rang at Oracle OpenWorld user conference. But the decision of weather to upgrade or n...
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Enterprise Software
by prashanth on January 18, 2007
SAP introduced the next version of its SAP All-in-One solutions, with significant enhancements to provide midsize companies with greater agility in managing their businesses. Leveraging the power of m...
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Sponsored Posts
by Creative Weblogging on January 17, 2007
The debate is on! Or, at least the debate will be on early next month at CMO 2007, a forum hosted by Red Herring which plans to attract 200 CMOs and other experts from the technology and communication...
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Outsourcing
by prashanth on January 17, 2007
Recently we had a post on kimberly Clark signing an 5 years outsourcing deal with Genpact , now there are two new announcements:
TCS has signed a multi-year agreement to provide information technolog...
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by prashanth on January 17, 2007
Today i was in the TPI call to share their observations on the global and Asia Pacific outsourcing markets in 2006 and the service providers who are competing for, and winning contracts. From their pr...
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Offshoring
by prashanth on January 15, 2007
Was just reading this Event Flash by IDC, titled "Why HCL Technologies Is Disruptive and Bears Watching" , Some excerpts from the same:
IDC has commented before on how HCL is taking a unique...
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Enterprise Software
by prashanth on January 14, 2007
Saw this post on Infoworld, here is an excerpt from the same:
Software sales slowed in the Americas and Asia-Pacific regions, SAP reported. In the U.S. and Japan, sales dropped to a 4 percent growth ...
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by prashanth on January 12, 2007
If you work for any size IT Services company in India, you are bound to be suffering from the talent crunch not enough is said or written about it , but the market is really crazy out there.
There was...
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Offshoring
by prashanth on January 11, 2007
Its result time for the Indian it services world, i was just looking at the results of Infosys and iGate, as i was wondering through the announcement files, there are a couple of interesting charts bu...
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Outsourcing
by prashanth on January 10, 2007
ADP one of the largest providers of computerized transaction processing and information-based business solutions has announced plans to set up its second facility in India in Pune. The new facility, w...
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Market Perturbations
by prashanth on January 10, 2007
Microsoft Corp. today announced that it is previewing the next major release of Microsoft Dynamics CRM - code-named "Titan" - with a broad range of partners through the company's Technol...
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Outsourcing
by prashanth on January 10, 2007
One of the points from the Services Globalization Trends 2007 report of NeoIT is that, In the year 2007 Russia will emerge as a strong contender in the IT Outsourcing market.
Russia is currently the ...
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Market Perturbations
by prashanth on January 9, 2007
Steve Hamm, The Author of "The Bangalore Tiger" has a post providing an overview of his recent discussioins with Infosys & Accenture, In the post Steve specifically covers some tools dev...
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Management
by prashanth on January 9, 2007
No I really haven't lost it, this is what occurred to me after reading Irving Wladawsky-Berger's blog post yesterday, this is just an initial brain dump of thoughts will flesh it out in posts ...
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Outsourcing
by prashanth on January 9, 2007
Genpact, has signed a five-year contract to provide certain finance and accounting activities for kimberly-Clark Corporation. Outsourcing of these services to Genpact is part of Kimberly-Clark's g...
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CIO
by prashanth on January 8, 2007
The IDC blog (podcast also available) has an interview with the CIO of P&G, some excerpts from the same:
How does your boss know you're doing a good job? What are P&G's KPIs for measu...
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Outsourcing
by prashanth on January 8, 2007
Capgemini and Tetra Pak a world leader in food processing and packaging, recently announced that they have signed a 7-year global outsourcing agreementcovering a range of finance and accounting servic...
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CIO
by prashanth on January 8, 2007
Strassman has written whitepaper titled "7 Places to clean the clutter in i.T." , Below are some excerpts from the same:
Hewlett-Packard is on track to do that under a five-year business tra...
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Enterprise Software
by prashanth on January 7, 2007
Aberdeen group recently published report titled Basic Cost Elements of the Total Cost of ERP Ownership, As a part of this report there was a chart highlighting the Software & Services spend by Siz...
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CIO
by prashanth on January 7, 2007
EDS has a whitepaper titled "The Future, Multidimensional CIO" , which is an attempt to cover how the role of the CIO has changed since its inception in the 1970's. "role continues ...
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Enterprise Software
by prashanth on January 5, 2007
SAP was a business application company, but now it is a Platform company...so how does it effect the CIO's/Users etc. A report titled "Business Software Platform Vendor Profile: SAP" by ...
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Outsourcing
by prashanth on January 5, 2007
Last night at the IDC Tele briefing titled "The Services Marketplace in 2007: Predictions for Business Model Change", the analysts presented their Top 10 Services Predictions for 2007. Here ...
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Management
by prashanth on January 4, 2007
Implementing technology to help their companies become more streamlined and easier to do business with is the No. 1 business priority for 1400 CIO's worldwide surveyed by Gartner. To help accompli...
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Management
by prashanth on January 4, 2007
Continuing on the posts on IT Spending, Came across another report by Alinean ( Hat tip Sadagopan) which has a report covering the topic, below are excerpts from the same:
Analysis based on study of o...
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Management
by prashanth on January 3, 2007
Below are excerpts on the IT Scenario in 2007 based on a newsletter from Forrester:
1. Growth in European IT spending is starting to match or exceed US IT spending - European IT spending will grow by ...
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Management
by prashanth on January 3, 2007
Phil Waineright is doing a series on the trends he is expecting in the SAAS space in this year (2007), first two parts of the series are on reaching out to offline users & Composition instead of i...
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CIO
by prashanth on January 3, 2007
Information Week is carrying a piece with the results of a survey/study conducted by Forrester of 115 CIO's in North America. Summary of the results:
CIOs in the 4th qtr of 2006 were more confiden...
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General
by prashanth on January 1, 2007
India's domestic IT Market including hardware, software and services is expected to grow at 21.5% during 2007 to touch Rs.75,891 crores. This will make India the fastest growing market in theh Asi...
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Offshoring
by prashanth on January 1, 2007
Top five Indian IT services companies, including Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Infosys and Wipro, have a war chest of $3.7 billion in liquid assets at their disposal.
Industry experts are unanimous...
