Escorts Hires Cognizant to Digitally Transform its Businesses

Escorts has signed a multi-year, multi-million dollar engagement with Cognizant to modernize its technology landscape and digitally transform its businesses to deliver innovative products, provide superior customer experience, and drive growth. This contract spans all of Escort's businesses, including agri-machinery, material handling and construction equipment, railway equipment... By IT NEXT

Oracle Extends Its Enterprise Cloud Portfolio

Oracle Executive Chairman of the Board and CTO Larry Ellison announced new additions to the Oracle Cloud Platform, an integrated suite of services that make it easier for developers, IT professionals, business users and analysts to build, extend and integrate cloud applications.  With more than 24 new cloud services, the Oracle Cloud Platform extends its portfolio of SaaS, PaaS and... By IT NEXT

Hunt for Future CIOs has Begun

ITNEXT helps upcoming and aspiring CIOs gain essential managerial and leadership skills and our Annual Event NEXT100 sets up the platform to exploit this opportunity for top IT Managers . NEXT100 is the only award that honors and recognizes senior IT managers and identifies their potential for leadership positions.The forum facilitates managers analyze themselves by going... By Shriya Khanna

Is the Wireless Network the Weakest Security Link?

Information Technology decision makers believe wireless networks to be the most vulnerable element of the IT infrastructure (database is the most vulnerable element of the IT infrastructure for Indian respondents), according to a new survey from Fortinet. Nearly half (49% worldwide and 40% in India) of respondents ranked wireless networks as most exposed from a security standpoint, in contrast... By IT NEXT

Ways to Maximise Video Conferencing Investments

Although video conferencing is becoming pervasive within enterprises worldwide, many CIOs find that the technology does not always reach its full potential. Older infrastructure, complicated client software, limited integration with business applications, and ineffectual end-user training are among the issues that can prevent a company deriving maximum value from its investments in video... By

AWS still Bigger than Its Four Main Competitors

While Google is quietly gaining share,  it remains just half the size of Microsoft in this market, while Salesforce, once the unquestioned leader in PaaS. However,  Microsoft has had the highest revenue growth rate, and IBM remains the king of the private & hybrid services segment. Synergy estimates that quarterly cloud infrastructure service revenues (including IaaS, PaaS and... By IT NEXT

How Can Customer Analytics Help Boost Sales?

Customer analytics denotes the processes and technologies that unlock insights hidden in customer data. Insights help businesses engage better with customers and get them to buy more. Sandeep Mittal, managing director of Cartesian Consulting, a marketing analytics firm, outlines Domino's methodical approach to customer analytics, which has yielded coupon redemption rates as high as 30 percent... By MYB

6 Tips For Writing Emails That Fetch You Responses

A real time mode of communication, email beats snail mail hollow in delivering messages speedily. Emails are less expensive to send too, which is a major advantage. However, the ease of sending emails tends to lead to overflowing inboxes, which in turn usually limits responses to “expected” or “outstanding” communication. Here are some tips to help write emails that stand... By MYB

Turn Your TV into a Fully Functional PC

Microsoft India, in partnership with iBall, announced the launch of iBall Splendo, the first compact and affordable PC-on-a-stick device that can convert a TV into a fully functional PC and a Smart TV. Priced at INR 8,999 only which includes a wireless deskset (mouse and keyboard), all the user has to do is plug the device into the HDMI input on the TV for a complete Windows PC experience. “The... By IT NEXT

Indian Big Data Momentum Intensifies, Says Pulak Ghosh, UN Big Data Expert

Have Indian businesses been able to move beyond the hype to seize the big wealth of big data? While the potential benefits of big data are real and significant, and some initial successes have already been achieved, there are many technical challenges that must be addressed to fully realize this potential. Big data is supposed to be a $25 billion industry and India has the great opportunity... By Mastufa Ahmed

Deployment of All-In-One SIEM Appliances Poised to Surge

The global market for security information and event management (SIEM) and log management (LM) is expected to maintain its steady growth as traditional use cases for SIEM/LM in compliance, storage, and forensic investigations remain crucial, and in some industries, indispensable. New analysis from Frost & Sullivan estimates that the market earned revenues of $1.50 billion in 2014, and... By IT NEXT

SMS Crashes Thousands of iPhones

A new form of SMS messaging threat is capable of immediately crashing an iPhone, iPad, or iPod upon opening the message. The message threat comes as a specific string of Arabic characters that can be sent via iMessage or text message. When the message is received it instantly crashes the device and causes it to reboot. Analysis of the mechanism revelas that the attack leverages a glitch in the... By IT NEXT