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There has been a lot of talk about talent shortage in India, during the investor presentation of Wipro they covered a section on talent management here are some excerpts: Source: 1 Prashanth Rai......
BI, To Standardize or NOT Title: BI, To Standardize or NOT
Have been following Frank Buytendijk's (VP Corporate Strategy) blog for some time now, he writes some interesting stuff, dont miss the one with the start trek approach. In one of his posts Frank...
IBM the defacto IT Outsourcer for the Indian Telecom Industry Title: IBM the defacto IT Outsourcer for the Indian Telecom Industry
First it was Bharati Airtel, than recently there was the IDEA deal, well now looks like HUTCH is also going down the same path, Hutchison Essar is now looking at outsourcing its IT operations to...
Satyam wins a 200 Million $ deal from Applied Materials Title: Satyam wins a 200 Million $ deal from Applied Materials
Sometime back we had a post on Satyam's persual of some mega deals and the large sized ambitions of Indian IT Services companies, well here is the first of the announcements: Satyam Yesterday...
RFID ...Whats happening? Title: RFID ...Whats happening?
DHL: In June 2005, DHL Worldwide Express declared it was building the IT infrastructure to put RFID tags on every package it ships by 2015. The plans were to improve shipment controls, cut costs, and...
CIO's - Good Pay, Long hours Title: CIO's - Good Pay, Long hours
A survey of 172 CIOs conducted by recruitment firm Harvey Nash Co. and was sponsored by KPMG LLP, Made the following findings 80% of CIO's think their roles are becoming more strategic to their...
Oracle's suit on SAP's TomorrowNow - 1 Title: Oracle's suit on SAP's TomorrowNow - 1
There has been a lot of news around the suit filed by Oracle on SAP for Grad Theft by its TomorrowNow operations, i had a chance to rdo a quick read of the complaint and have found a variety of......
Surprise Surprise - Shai Moving out of SAP Title: Surprise Surprise - Shai Moving out of SAP
"While we regret Shai's decision to leave, we congratulate him on his record of achievement at SAP," said Hasso Plattner, Chairman of the SAP Supervisory Board and company founder on the...
Larry Ellison believes Oracle is poised to outgrow SAP in the ERP Market Title: Larry Ellison believes Oracle is poised to outgrow SAP in the ERP Market
During the Q3 earning's call of Oracle , Larry Ellison commented "We closed the gap and gained applications market share again this quarter. Oracle's application new license business grew...
The Forrester Wave: North American Outsourcing Applications - Q1 2007 Title: The Forrester Wave: North American Outsourcing Applications - Q1 2007
Forrester have released a report with their take on the Vendor comparison in the NorthAmerica, Application Outsourcing Market, IBM and Accenture still lead the market, of course closely followed by a...
IBM has new Content Analytics software - OmniFind Title: IBM has new Content Analytics software - OmniFind
IBM recently announced new analytics software designed to help organizations rapidly consolidate and analyze unstructured information such as e-mail, comments, voice and chat communications to deliver...
Salaries in India, Skyrocketing Title: Salaries in India, Skyrocketing
Forbes has an article highlighting the salary rise in India, wage inflation is being discussed as one of the key issues facing IT Services Firms in India, here are excerpts of the same: It pays to be...
Outsourcing advisory firms - Forrester Title: Outsourcing advisory firms - Forrester
Outsourcing is big business and Outsourcing advisory firms have a very important role to play, Forrester has a presentation with an overview of some of the firms, listed below:...
China the HR Challenges - IBM Study Title: China the HR Challenges - IBM Study
IBM recently announced the findings of a new study which concludes that in order for multinational companies to succeed in China they will need to develop strategies that focus more on China's...
PWC on IT Governance - CIO Title: PWC on IT Governance - CIO
PricewaterhouseCoopers has a report on IT Governance below are some of the insights/findings from the report based on interviews conducted: IT alignment is the highest rated driver and outcome of IT...
What are the Smaller Players doing in the IT Services Market Title: What are the Smaller Players doing in the IT Services Market
Couple of days back i wrote a post of how size does matter in IT Services players, so how are the smaller players reacting, both of them seem be planning a lot around Chennai (South Indian City, My...
IBM Bags another big one from INDIA!! - IDEA Telecom Title: IBM Bags another big one from INDIA!! - IDEA Telecom
In March'04 a mega outsourcing deal announcement was made out of India, Bharati the largest private sector telecommunication company in India, inked a deal with IBM for total IT transformational...
Indian IT Services - Size Does Matter Title: Indian IT Services - Size Does Matter
Yesterday i had written a post on the growing / large ambitions of Indian IT services firms, well today i came acorss this post at the Infoworld site on how the small players are getting...
IT Vendor of the Year - Infosys , By Wachovia Title: IT Vendor of the Year - Infosys , By Wachovia
Infosys was awarded Wachovia's IT Vendor of the Year for 2006. The honor was presented during Wachovia's inaugural Information Technology Vendor Awards ceremony in December, where the company...
Morrisons a IT makeover Title: Morrisons a IT makeover
Morrisons is to invest £110m over the next three years to improve its IT infrastructure - but don't expect any radical changes from the supermarket chain. Mark Bolland, chief executive officer...
Indian IT Services Firms and BIG AMBITIONS Title: Indian IT Services Firms and BIG AMBITIONS
Our Cricket world cup ambitions might have been dampened after the losing to Bangladesh, but there is no dampening the ambitions of the Indian IT Services firms. Today as i headed to the Economic...
CTS - Cognizant, Some observations Title: CTS - Cognizant, Some observations
Cognizant is one of the IT Services companies that is really growing fast, it is Indian to the extent that close to the 85% of their staff is located in India. Infact I have heard and read very good...
Ballmer on CRM Live (Microsoft) Title: Ballmer on CRM Live (Microsoft)
"I'm really pumped up," said an energized Ballmer, predicting a "real snowball of an effect coming on" in relationship to Microsoft's entire Dynamics business which is...
Offshore cost advantages to continue till 2027 - AT Kearney Report Title: Offshore cost advantages to continue till 2027 - AT Kearney Report
As per the results announced yesterday by the AT Kearney, based on thier annual survey. The wage cost advantage of offshore locations for office services is set to last for another 20 years, says the...
SAP demonstrates new HOSTED Mid Market Solution Title: SAP demonstrates new HOSTED Mid Market Solution
SAP is demonstrating a beta version of its new hosted midmarket application to select groups at the Cebit trade show in Hanover, Germany. The application, known internally as A1S, is currently being...
AXA Australia gets a new CRM Title: AXA Australia gets a new CRM
"It took 17 seconds to open a page in the old system and the information on it was sketchy, so the salespeople just weren't using it," AXA Australia's national sales promotion...
IT in 2010 - John Newton Title: IT in 2010 - John Newton
I religiously follow the : * Storage and the network bandwidth to store and access information is growing much faster than computing causing an explosion in content creation. This will make content...
Enterprise Information Ecosystem - RSS Title: Enterprise Information Ecosystem - RSS
Newsgators made a recent press release on RSS enabling Enterprise Content, don't see too much talk about it in the blogsphere,but I think its a very important one, excerpt of the release:...
The consolidation continues - EDS to Acquire RelQ Software Title: The consolidation continues - EDS to Acquire RelQ Software
EDS today announced it has reached a definitive agreement to acquire RelQ Software Private Ltd., a privately owned Bangalore, India-based software testing company. Over time, RelQ will be fully...
India-based (Service Providers) ADM Performance has arrived - PerformanceMonitor Title: India-based (Service Providers) ADM Performance has arrived - PerformanceMonitor
PerformanceMonitor conducted a research based on input from 864 clients of 11 leading ADM providers, 7 of which are multi-nationals and 4 of which are India-based. The 7 Multi-National providers were,...
Transition from Staff Augmentation to Managed Services Model - NeoIT Title: Transition from Staff Augmentation to Managed Services Model - NeoIT
neoIT a consulting firm that is focused on helping firms improve operations and grow their business by capitalizing on services globalization has released a new report with the same title as this...
IBM, i2 & SaaS Title: IBM, i2 & SaaS
i2 Technologies, Inc. recently announced the expansion of its strategic partnership with IBM. As part of the agreement, i2 and IBM are increasing sales and marketing, implementation services, hosting...
SAP Targets 15000 Customers in India by 2010 Title: SAP Targets 15000 Customers in India by 2010
Economictimes covers SAP's plans for India: After seeing a record year in 2006, SAP India is now targeting to touch the 15,000 customer mark in the country by 2010. Alan Sedghi, president &...
Oracle Acquires Hyperion Title: Oracle Acquires Hyperion
March'07 has started with a bang!!!, Excerpts from the press release: "Requirements for Performance Management and Business Intelligence solutions are increasingly converging," said...