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Grab's R&d In India Aligns Efforts With Strategic Focus Areas

Southeast Asia’s ridehailing major and Online to Offline (O2O) mobile platform, Grab has an ambitious mission of enabling 100 million micro-entrepreneurs in South-East Asia within the next two years. Grab’s Bangalore R&D center, which played a crucial role in building the payment and financial services solutions for the platform is now expanding its scopes to newer areas such as mapping, transport, security and data engineering etc. and building strong teams to work on those areas as well. Vikas Agrawal, CTO, and Head of Engineering at Grab Financial Group shares more details on the work being done by the India R&D teams, and the tech talents they are looking to tap for further expansion.

Multimodal Biometrics: The Way Ahead

The Japanese tech major, NEC has proven its mettle in the field of biometric identification and has made a significant contribution to India’s national identification system too by developing a largescale biometrics system which is the centerpiece of Aadhaar. Katsumi Emura, Chief Technology Officer, NEC Corporation talks about the new tech offerings from the company and discusses some of the opportunities lying ahead for the company in India. Excerpt:

CIOs: The Captain to Direct and Steer the “ai Ship” for the future

A basic understanding of the organizations’ current or proposed AI ecosystem, and the support it can provide to the overall organizational goals can be obtained by engaging with all lines of business by kick-starting and ensuring constant conversations and pre-empting discussions with all leaders on their AI needs and wants

How To Create A Digital Ecosystem

A practical approach to Digital Transformation and best practices by leading CIOs

The Digital Divide

Global study reveals gap between CEO expectations for Digital Transformation and IT organization readiness. A poll of 1,200 it executives and it personnel shows significant gap between business expectations and digital transformation readiness.

The Iot Disruption

The information technology landscape is not new to disruptions. One such disruption that is billed as the true ‘new normal technology’ is Internet of Things (IoT).

Hyperscale: Redefining The Economics Of Datacenters

Over the years, businesses have relied on datacenters to manage their applications and data cost effectively. However with changing business needs, these traditional datacenters often end-up becoming siloed in the way they manage workloads.

Securing Your It Organization For The New Normal

As enterprises transition to the new normal digital economy calls for a radical and fresh new approach to managing the security challenges IT organizations face today.

We Help Developers Work Faster By Automating Repetitive Tasks

JetBrains is an international company with headquarters in Prague, Czech Republic., which has been creating award-winning tools for software developers over the last 18 years. The company strives to create the best software tools and solutions in the market; to enable developers to focus on creating and writing cutting-edge code. In an exclusive conversation with Dataquest, Javed Mohamed, Country Head, JetBrains India, talks about the major trends in the Indian IT industry, the role of developers in digital transformation and how JetBrains’ solutions help boost this further. Excerpts:

Candidate-Centric Survey on ‘what india wants'

The first candidate-centric appraisal survey focused on the appraisal sentiment across multiple cities and sectors. Highest appraisal sentiment reported by BFSI and BPO/KPO/ITES sector. Lowest appraisal expectations reported by Bangalore with one-fifth of employees eyeing only 0-10% hike

Video Killed The Radio Star!

Let me clearly outline the problem and its components: Two sides to the coin – one side is internal focused organisation and its challenges and the other is consumer-facing opportunities

Training In Cyber Skills

With nearly 200,000 certifications awarded globally, this training programme expands offerings and rolls out additional certifications, education and training initiatives

A Five-step Digital Transformation Plan For ICT And Media Companies

Though companies in communications, media, and technology sectors share the common goal of accelerating their product and service delivery, most are invariably hazy about the specific digital transformation that truly fits them

Every Industry Is Feeling The Effects Of The Information Revolution

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It Landscape Clearly Calls For Re-engineering Of Platforms

Best practices and emerging tech deployment strategies

Gearing Up For New Normal

With disruptive tech forces changing the enterprise computing dynamics, CIOs are reinventing the IT organizations to tame the nexus of tech forces and to stay relevant in the market place

The Multi-cloud Advantage

Approaches to multi-cloud range from choosing different platforms for different workloads to dynamically moving workloads to take advantage of vendor specific pricing and performance. Cloud performance monitoring gives you the insight you need to make informed management decisions

Two Decades Ago, Security Was Rather Simple. But If You Look At The Current Threat Landscape, It's Mired With Complexities

Gil Shwed is the founder and CEO of Check Point Software Technologies is considered as the inventor of the modern firewall and authored several patents, such as the company’s Stateful Inspection technology.Gil Shwed has received numerous accolades for his individual achievements and industry contributions, including the Israel Prize for his contributions to the Israeli tech industry and philanthropy, an honorary Doctor of Science from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, an honorary Doctor of Science from Tel Aviv University, the World Economic Forum’s Global Leader for Tomorrow for his commitment to public affairs and leadership in areas beyond immediate professional interests, and the Academy of Achievement’s Golden Plate Award for his innovative contribution to business and technology. He is also the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Youth University of Tel Aviv University, a Tel Aviv University Governor and founder of the University’s Check Point Institute for Information Security.In an exclusive interaction with Dataquest on the sidelines of the company’s premier cyber security event CPX 360 in Bangkok recently, Gil Shwed shares the state of the threat landscape and his company’s play in the security space. Excerpts:

Crayon Helps Us Implement Solutions At Our Customers

Multiverse is a global software services company offering solutions to enterprise customers to help them outsource their global IT infrastructure operations. In an interaction with Dataquest, Anubhav Jain, CEO, Mutiverse sheds light on his company’s vision, strategy, and growth under the ambit of Crayon Software.

Digital Isn't A ‘One-Size-Fits-All'

The waves of Digital have created exciting opportunities for businesses and spurred rapid transformations in business and organizational activities, culture, processes, and IT. But marrying new technology with old is not an easy task as well as changing the mindset. Lingraju Sawkar, General Manager, Global Technology Services, IBM India/South Asia speaks on the digital maturity of businesses, and why it isn’t a OneSize-Fits-All solution. Excerpts.

Our Next Leap Of Growth Would Come From Tier 2 Cities

Our channel strategy is to build an extremely transparent, ethical, robust and technologically enabled partner eco system.

Conversational Commerce

This is a new language for the CIOs. Conversation commerce, if done right, has the potential to help cut costs while simultaneously boosting customer satisfaction

Nutanix Mine With Veeam Simplifies Secondary Storage

Nutanix and Veeam announced Nutanix Mine with Veeam.

Industry Must Stop Making Assumptions About Women's Abilities

Daisy Chittilapilly, MD, Digital Transformation Office, Cisco

Partnership For Benefit

Leading examples of how the channel programmes in various IT categories are evolving

Go Global

How to flourish as an IT industry channel partner and reseller in the global market

What Artificial Intelligence Means To Businesses In Terms Of Cost Optimization, Efficiency And HR

Artificial Intelligence magnifies the role of Hr professionals into a much broader and strategic role, which is backed with data analytics and AI-driven insights

Listening – Key To Understanding Your Customer

Get closer than ever to your customers. So close, in fact, that you tell them what they need well before they realize it themselves. - Steve jobs

Outlook & Priorities 2019

As we sign out of this year and step into 2019, what is in store for supply and demand side of IT? Here we present insights from prominent leaders from the tech industry who share their strategy and roadmap for 2019

The Digital Tipping Point

Digital has been a talking point for some time, where are we in terms of this transformation? Is enterprise IT organizations embracing digital in a big way?