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Management
by prashanth on March 31, 2007
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:
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Enterprise Software
by prashanth on March 29, 2007
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 p...
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Outsourcing
by prashanth on March 29, 2007
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 techn...
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Offshoring
by prashanth on March 29, 2007
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 anno...
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Networking
by prashanth on March 29, 2007
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 ...
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CIO
by prashanth on March 29, 2007
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 co...
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Enterprise Software
by prashanth on March 29, 2007
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 intere...
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Enterprise Software
by prashanth on March 29, 2007
"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...
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Enterprise Software
by prashanth on March 28, 2007
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...
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Outsourcing
by prashanth on March 27, 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 ...
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Enterprise Software
by prashanth on March 25, 2007
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...
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Offshoring
by prashanth on March 24, 2007
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 ...
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Outsourcing
by prashanth on March 23, 2007
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:
DeloitteEquaTerraneoIT...
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Management
by prashanth on March 23, 2007
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 mas...
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CIO
by prashanth on March 23, 2007
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 G...
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Offshoring
by prashanth on March 23, 2007
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 ho...
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Outsourcing
by prashanth on March 22, 2007
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 o...
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Offshoring
by prashanth on March 20, 2007
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 "squeeze...
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by prashanth on March 19, 2007
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 ...
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Management
by prashanth on March 19, 2007
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 for...
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Offshoring
by prashanth on March 19, 2007
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 time...
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Offshoring
by prashanth on March 18, 2007
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...
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Enterprise Software
by prashanth on March 17, 2007
"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 grad...
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Offshoring
by prashanth on March 16, 2007
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 ...
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Enterprise Software
by prashanth on March 16, 2007
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 t...
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Enterprise Software
by prashanth on March 16, 2007
"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 manage...
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Enterprise Software
by prashanth on March 15, 2007
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 ma...
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Enterprise Software
by prashanth on March 12, 2007
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:
NewsGat...
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Management
by prashanth on March 12, 2007
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 integr...
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Outsourcing
by prashanth on March 7, 2007
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...
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Outsourcing
by prashanth on March 7, 2007
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 entr...
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Enterprise Software
by prashanth on March 5, 2007
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 ...
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Enterprise Software
by prashanth on March 4, 2007
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 & CE...
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Market Perturbations
by prashanth on March 1, 2007
March'07 has started with a bang!!!, Excerpts from the press release:
"Requirements for Performance Management and Business Intelligence solutions are increasingly converging," said Hyp...
