World's cheapest business intelligence as a service, anyone?

Increasingly, businesses are relying on BPOs to make significant contribution to their bottom line. The pressure on BPOs to boost revenue, maximize productivity and reduce overhead costs is growing by the day. Business Intelligence or BI is the panacea to their woes but then enterprise BI solutions are prohibitively expensive to implement. The implementation cost is in crores, making them way... By sanjay.gupta gupta

5 Tech Forces for Business Innovation

Deloitte has released its third annual Tech Trends 2012 report titled Elevate IT for digital businesses which examines the broad impact of five technology forces that have influenced businesses over the past several years.The report identifies and predicts the top ten trends into two categories - Enablers and Disruptors. Enablers are five technologies in which many CIOs have already invested... By sanjay.gupta gupta

7 Best Practices for Cloud Computing

1. Measuring RoI at regular intervals is critical for enterprises 2. Organisations need to categorise and institute performance measurement practices, totrack the performance before and after cloud implementation 3. The top management commitment is necessary to drive this important enterprise-wide initiative through extensive involvement of senior executives and a clear communication on the... By sanjay.gupta gupta

How VMware View 5 Enhances User Experience

When VMware launched View 5 in the fall last year, the goal was to improve the user experience. VMware View 5 improves the user experience through a number of enhancements that touched on everything from performance to management. It improves the end-user experience when employing PC over Internet Protocol (PCoIP) display compression technology by adding throttling that cuts back network usage.... By sanjay.gupta gupta

CollabNet launches development platform as a service

CollabNet, a global provider of Enterprise Cloud Development and Agile ALM products and services, has unveiled its new corporate strategy to support the enterprise adoption of hybrid cloud development and deployment. In addition to launching its new strategy, corporate website and a host of thought leadership content around Enterprise Cloud Development, CollabNet today launched CloudForge, the... By sanjay.gupta gupta

Sundar Ram: Big Data Needs Big Decisions

Sundar Ram, Vice President, Technology Sales Consulting, Oracle Corporation, Asia Pacific, tells N Geetha how big data is impelling IT managers to think of better storage management techniques At this point of time, how relevant is big data to IT heads? How is it perceived?For decades, companies have been making business decisions based on transactional data stored in relational databases.... By sanjay.gupta gupta

Collaboration Made Simple & Affordable

Collaboration tools used to be a big-IT, PC-based affair. The object was to link the work product but they may be needed most desperately in the small or midsize organisation.The challenge has been how to package these capabilities. Some shops are comfortable using cloud based services, while others wish to keep everything inside the server room. Of course, cost is always an issue, and... By sanjay.gupta gupta

Cloud security software market growing at 41% annually

Trend Micro Inc. has emergerd as the leading player in the fast-growing global cloud security software market, according to TechNavios Global Cloud Security Software Market report.The current overall TechNavio estimate for the global cloud security software market was valued at US$241 million in 2010 and is expected to reach US$963.4 million in 2014, growing at a CAGR of 41.4 percent.Of the four... By sanjay.gupta gupta

New cloud integration software from Informatica

Informatica Corporation has announced the latest release of its cloud integration solution, Cloud Spring 2012, which is touted to deliver the industrys most comprehensive cloud integration platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offering, including a Cloud Connector Toolkit, Cloud Integration Templates and new enterprise features.Informatica Cloud Spring 2012 introduces the new Informatica Cloud Developer... By sanjay.gupta gupta

Will Big Data Change the Way IT Works?

Let us try and get some informed opinions about big data from a few senior IT professionals: B Muthukumaran, IT Professional & Consultant:Big data is emerging as the most influential aspect in the enterprise, enabling business growth and leading to an era of data-driven decisions. CIOs, CTOs and IT managers are extending the strategic advantage of big data to business. This new kid on... By sanjay.gupta gupta

Teamcenter9 for Better Products

Siemens PLM Software, a business unit of the Siemens Industry Automation Division and a leading global provider of product lifecycle management (PLM) software and services, has announced a new version of Teamcenter software, a widely used PLM system. Teamcenter 9 delivers new solutions and enhancements across the portfolio in support of Siemens PLM Softwares HD-PLM vision, which was established... By sanjay.gupta gupta

Indian govt body is Microsoft's biggest cloud customer

Microsoft Corp. and All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) have announced that AICTE is deploying Microsoft Live@edu over the next three months to more than 10,000 technical colleges and institutes throughout India. The cloud deployment will expand students access to high-quality technical education and collaboration.Live@edu is a hosted communication and collaboration service that... By sanjay.gupta gupta