TCS to provide cloud-based financial soln to Scandinavian Airlines

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has entered into a multi-year agreement with Scandinavian Airlines (SAS), wherein SAS will adopt TCS Finance and Accounting (F&A) platform for its operations across 30+ countries. The selected TCS platform addresses the key objectives SAS defined from the project's inception - to simplify, standardize and automate processes with one solution instead of... By sanjay.gupta gupta

Anti-virus update causes some PCs to crash

A bug in the anti-virus update software from Symantec Corp is said to have caused PCs at about 300 corporate customers and about 60 consumers late last week. As per a report on Reuters.com, "Symantec disclosed the problem on its website, saying that an update to its widely used Symantec Endpoint Protection 12.1 and Norton anti-virus software for businesses caused some PCs running Microsoft... By sanjay.gupta gupta

Top 6 skills for IT asset management leaders

The evolving and growing role of IT asset management (ITAM) is driving both increased demand for existing skills and a new requirement for augmented financial, commercial and legal skills, according to Gartner, Inc. Gartner has identified six skills that are considered priority skills for ITAM leaders. Because the ITAM discipline is embedded across all aspects of IT and is part of everyday IT... By sanjay.gupta gupta

Sid Deshpande: Big Data is No Longer Jargon

Sid Deshpande, Senior Analyst, Gartner says that big data analytics holds significant potential for organisations to leverage new and existing data types for competitive advantage. However, due to some key evolutionary issues, enterprises are still evaluating it. Can you elaborate on the impact of big data on IT heads? Big data impacts IT heads if they start realising that the starting point of... By sanjay.gupta gupta

Best Practices in Big Data

For the past 40 years, the IT industry has been focussed on automating business processes by using relational databases to process transaction data. The issue now is finding a way for IT managers to derive best value from big data growth, given the humongous challenges of tracking big data. According to John Haddard, Director of Enterprise Data Integration, Informatica, data has become... By sanjay.gupta gupta

Cloud, analytics to drive data center growth

Data center transformation is one of the three key trends driving IT growth in 2012, according to analyst firm Canalys (the others being consumerization of IT and enterprise mobility). Its latest forecasts reveal that the market for data center IT infrastructure globally, including servers, storage, networking, security and virtualization, will reach $128 billion this year, up 6% from $120... By sanjay.gupta gupta

Software for Indirect Cost Data

SAP has announced the availability of the SAP Net Margin Analysis analytic application to bring enterprises the most complete financial view of their business-to-business (B2B) operations. The application uses advanced analytics to capture cost-to-serve metrics the indirect costs hidden in supply chains that service and support customers. Data captured by SAP Net Margin Analysis is readily... By sanjay.gupta gupta

New center of excellence for workforce solutions

Kronos Inc. has extended its reach in the Indian market through a strategic alliance with Qimpro, a leader in quality consulting in India. The alliance will leverage the synergies of Qimpros leadership in quality consulting and Kronos workforce management solutions to drive workforce transformation for Indian businesses through workforce cost optimization, process effectiveness, and performance... By sanjay.gupta gupta

HP launches comprehensive cloud services

HP has announced a full-fledged services play into the burgeoning cloud computing market in India. Making the announcement, Laxminarayan Rao, National Manager Cloud Consulting Services, HP India, said that because of the multiple ways in which enterprises are embracing cloud, a homogenous control layer is needed to manage the heterogeneity of cloud environments. Today, companies are considering... By sanjay.gupta gupta

Wipro helps Brigade with business transformation

Brigade Group is one of the leading real estate developers in South India, with a diversified portfolio including residential, commercial and retail projects. It also has extensive presence in the hospitality sector with high-end hotels, service apartments and clubs. The company has grown steadily in the past 25 years and established a leading market position in Bengaluru and is now expanding... By sanjay.gupta gupta

Global IT spending to cross $3.6 trillion in 2012

Worldwide IT spending is on pace to reach $3.6 trillion in 2012, a 3 percent increase from 2011 spending of $3.5 trillion, according to the latest outlook by Gartner, Inc. Gartner's 2012 IT spending outlook has been revised up slightly from the 2.5 percent projection last quarter. "While the challenges facing global economic growth persist the Euro zone crisis, weaker U.S. recovery, a slowdown... By sanjay.gupta gupta

Birla Sun Life deploys Cognos to streamline operations

IBM has announced that Birla Sun Life Insurance (BSLI) has deployed IBMs Cognos solution to transform the entire planning cycle, from forecasting and analysis processes to budgeting and profitability modeling. BSLI required a solution that would help it streamline its spreadsheet-based planning and budgeting process for data on more than 600 branches and multiple products. The company was... By sanjay.gupta gupta