IT Asset Managers and CIOs Should Work Together to Foster Digital Innovation

However, shadow IT is often created by CIOs who lack the necessary IT budget or resources to participate in new business technology initiatives, according to Gartner, Inc. This presents a unique opportunity for IT asset managers to assist CIOs with digital business. “Without a new approach, CIOs and their management teams can struggle to pay off life cycle technology debts left by failed... By

How to Reduce IT Complexity and Drive Improved RoI

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Only Sustainable Competitive Advantage is Engagement with Customers

How have the B2B commercial solutions evolved recently vis a vis business requirements?Without doubt we can say we are in the new consumer age. Empowered consumers armed with multiple devices are disrupting retail and controlling brands. Buying behavior has dramatically changed and today the store is no more the final stage in their buying journey. Consumers search online, ask for opinions in... By Mastufa Ahmed

2015 will See the Emergence of Digital Risk and the Digital Risk Officer

Gartner said that by 2017, one-third of large enterprises engaging in digital business models and activities will also have a digital risk officer (DRO) role or equivalent. By 2020, 60 percent of digital businesses will suffer major service failures due to the inability of the IT security team to manage digital risk in new technology and use cases. IT, operational technology (OT), the Internet... By

Can the Proposed 'Tech Overhaul' Refurbish Indian Rail Experience?

There are snags here and there that people face as they try to avail rail services both online and offline and then there are pieces of technologies to fix them. Rail budget seems to be banking hard on those technologies to renovate the overall experience of Indian rail. The wish list encompasses a slew of areas that rail ministry plan to deploy technologies on in coming days—from next... By Mastufa Ahmed

Is E-Commerce's Mobile App-etite Growing?

From the ecommerce industry standpoint, reaching out to the target audience and making the data accessible to the business owners and stakeholders is very important. The relevance largely matters on how disruptive it is from a technology perspective.Mobility provides customers and other stakeholders an anytime anywhere environment for accessing and analysing data. That’s the reason now,... By Subhankar Kundu

Indian IT Industry Reacts Positively to Budget 2014

Let's take a look on what they have to say on General Budget, 2014: "The increase in investment limits in FDI announced in the 2014 budget will favorably impact the economy. Significant encouragement has been provided to domestic manufacturing that will likely enhance both local production and employment, especially in the sectors of retail and e-commerce. Measures on tax reforms like advance... By Subhankar Kundu

Union Budget Lends Support to IT Initiatives

 Whether or not the Union Budget fulfills the promises made by the NDA government before coming to power is yet to be seen but Finance Minister Arun Jaitley seems to have delivered on the promises made in the area of technology. In his budget speech delivered today, Jaitley reiterated the government's focus on Smart Cities, e-governance, digital education and inclusion by announcing... By CIO&Leader

Open Source in Big Data is Gaining Traction

ShopClues has from day one been a metrics driven organisation. They have been maintaining business intelligence (cousin of big data) reports from day one. Every line of business and core management reviews these reports on daily, weekly and monthly basis – to get insight into the operations, business opportunities and challenges. Shopclues is gaining traction. So is another new E-Commerce... By Subhankar Kundu

Sun Electric Exploits M2M to Reduce Downtime by 75%, Improves Profitability

Power and utilities companies are reinventing their business environment with M2M technology in the face of constant pressure to improve profitability and reduce downtime. Sun Electric, a part of Sun Group of Companies, involved in electricity distribution business, has recently implemented a machine to machine technology to easily identify faults in the electric lines – and improve uptime for... By Mastufa Ahmed

Teradata Appoints Sunil Jose as Managing Director, India Operations

Sunil will be responsible for the overall management and strategic direction of Teradata’s India business, as well as overseeing and guiding the sales & customer management, professional services, support, alliances and marketing initiatives. Sunil Jose brings to Teradata over two decades of international IT industry experience around managing business and countrywide operations,... By

Samsung’s 3D V-Nand Technology Heats Up the SSD market

As the world is getting impatient, the hunger for fast computing is growing across the globe, coupled with the dynamics of emerging trends of mobility, internet of things and big data, data is exploding. The need to store and store it better and faster is the need of the hour. To address this, Samsung has launched its new solid state drives (SSD)s 850 PRO and 845DC Pro (for data centers) at the... By Subhankar Kundu