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What Digital India can Mean for Cloud Telephony

The vision of Digital India is to give the power of technology to people with nothing more than a basic mobile phone to communicate.

Thriving in a Cloud-Everywhere World

If C-level executives really want to beat competitors at digital transformation, a fundamental re-think of the network and application performance infrastructure is required.

We Introduced India's First And Asia's Largest Tier-IV DataCenter

With the advent of the 3rd platform - IT Organizations the world over are looking at agile development methods- and in that context secured off-premise hosting of mission critical apps is the key pillar of their sourcing strategies. In that context, Datacenters play a pivotal role in bringing application integrity and security. CtrlS is aneminent player in the extremely competitive DC space, shares Sridhar Pinnapureddy, Founder and CEO, CtrlS Datacenters in a conversation with Dataquest.

Oyo Goes Digital With Crm To Enhance User Experience

OYO Rooms has in a very short time emerged as India’s leading branded network of hotels offering standardized stay experiences at a competitive price. Millions of web and mobile visitors every month turn to OYO to book a room from more than 7000 hotels in 200+ cities. OYO has raised over $180mn from Softbank, Sequoia, and Lightspeed. The company has grown rapidly beating several challenges. Vishal Jain – Vice President of Growth and Marketing at OYO tells Dataquest how the company plans to go ahead and what types of strategies it has adopted to increase reach.

Welcome To The GST Regime

GST is here but so are doubts, confusion and ambiguity. Only time will tell how it eliminates the pain points and fuels the GDP growth

GST Is Not Really A Tax Problem But A Technology Issue

GST compliance is the hot issue with most organizations in India. And SAP has a major role to help organizations become GST-ready as most of them use SAP ERP or other applications. To understand how SAP is helping customers adopt GST-ready applications, Dataquest had a tetea-tete with Deb Deep Sengupta, President and Managing Director, SAP India

Manufacturing 4.0 Resonates At Sify TEQzest, Delhi

Sify TEQzest conference, recently organized in Delhi in association with Dataquest, is a multicity platform where the top industry minds (CxOs, CIOs, govt officials and associations) brainstorm on how businesses

SCOPE Convention Digitalization: Opportunities And Challenges Ends On A High Note

Increasing digitalization has necessitated the need to strengthen cyber security. Organizations across all sectors seek a clear picture to leverage the Digital India initiative’s benefits. To help PSEs, various government departments and private corporate sectors, SCOPE organized a two-day National Convention on Digitalization

Object Storage Helps Create Data-Driven Business Models: Joan Wrabetz, HGST

HGST, Inc. (formerly Hitachi Global Storage Technologies), a wholly owned subsidiary of Western Digital, deals with all-flash arrays, object storage, and hybrid cloud storage solutions. HGST helps enterprises with storage systems that supports data architecture strategy for hybrid cloud and workloads such as content delivery and genome sequencing.

The T-School Survey: Creating Future- Ready Workforce

The existence of traditional job-roles in the IT industry is at risk, given the fact that bots and automation are fast eating into them. This is making T-Schools conscious as well as anxious. As a result, T-Schools are now showing the signs of change and are aligning to the industry requirements. They are partnering with IT firms to offer students handson experience on latest technologies – cloud, IoT, AI, robotics and cyber security, etc.

IoT Cybersecurity... The World Of Unknown For Organizations And Nations!

McKinsey global institute research estimated the probable impact of the IoT on the global economy might reach $6.2tn by 2025. Along with it, the Indian market is poised to reach $15bn by 2020 as cited by a NASSCOM study “IoT in India - The Next Big Wave”

3i Infotech Services Mantra: Integrated End To End Solutions To Partner With Clients In Their Digital Journey

In an exclusive interaction with DATAQUEST, Mohua Sengupta, EVP & Global Head of Services at 3i Infotech Ltd., talks about how the company’s strongplay in the market is empowering digital business transformations

PNB MetLife And J&K Bank Co-Create Tech Platform To Boost CX

The combined nature of the savings account coupled with the insurance product simplicity and ease of on-boarding is expected to further help JKB fulfill its charter for ‘Financial Inclusion and Financial Deepening.’ 

DXC Technology Charts Ambitious Roadmap In India

The company is expected to escalate its play in the Digital Transformation space leveraging organic assets (CSC) and synergies out of HPE’s services business

CIOs Have To Re-Imagine How They Work And Create Workplaces

Top 5 best practices for CIOs to unbundle the digital complexities and create a roadmap and lead the digital transformation journey

Importance Of Culture In DevOps

The benefits of a DevOps approach far outweigh any traditional delivery approaches to overcome business challenges. However, successful DevOps requires careful management of organisational and cultural change.

Stunted By Disruption

Globally the server market is going through a depression, but due to aggressive digital initiatives in India, FY 18 is expected to be a better year than FY 17

On The Growth Path

The India It security market is on the threshold of a boom. thanks to the ever-changing threat landscape that calls for radical new ways of managing the It security infrastructure 

Kodak Alaris Registers 13% Growth In India

Vivek Naidu, VP, information management Kodak Alaris India

Aadhaar Can Match Any World Standard In Terms Of Data Security

As UIDAI completes nearly an year since its inception, Mr. Rajesh Kumar Singh, Deputy Director General, UIDAI R.O.- DELHI, joins Dataquest in an exclusive conversation discussing its success story and how it serves as an aiding hand for other digital schemes even when the Supreme Court quashes the necessity to make Aadhaar compulsory.

E- Suvidha Has Started A Revolution

The Government of Uttar Pradesh in an endeavor to bridge the gap amidst public, business and government services introduced the e-Suvidha project. In an interaction with Dataquest, Mr. G.S. Naveen Kumar, I.A.S, Special Secretary, Department of IT and Electronics represented the Government of Uttar Pradesh for the Dataquest Vertical Warrior Award at the Dataquest Economy Conclave 2017. In an interaction, Mr. Kumar talked about the initiative, challenges and the industry.

Data Is The New Fuel For The Global Economy

Robert Bosch Engineering and Business Solutions (RBEI) is putting a lot of focus on leveraging the power of data and data analytics tools. Sri Krishnan, Vice President, RBEI tells that its data analytics offering has an entire range of solutions from data gathering, modeling, validating and deployment in the real world environment. With the advent of Internet-of-Things, data analytics has become an integral part of any connected eco-system. Its team is actively creating such end-to-end IoT solutions for business domains like mobility, industry 4.0, smart homes, healthcare, agriculture and energy, etc. Excerpts:

India's Smartphone Business Has Growth Potential: Gartner

Smartphones in India will represent 62% of all Mobile Phone Sales in 2018

Looking Back... Looking Ahead

It’s about celebrating and remembering the stalwarts who built the IT industry, it’s about the key inflection points in IT, it’s about key policy decisions and it’s about 35 years of nation building

Challenging The Global Brands

Reinvent and disrupt yourself. Because if you won’t, someone else will. Nobody remembers people or brands who have been just following the mundane

The H-1B Visa Conundrum

The tightening of H-1B visa norms will restrict movement of low cost skilled labour and negatively impact margins of Indian IT players.

How TCS & Infosys Performed In Q1 Fy 2019?

The first quarter results of FY 19 of IT majors TCS and Infosys were out and let’s take a look at how they have performed.

Move Over Re-skilling & Upskilling! Techies Now Need To 'Multi-Skill'!

Edureka Skill Report reveals that one skill in isolation not enough anymore: IT professionals need to invest in learning new skills 15-20 times in their career to achieve career growth.

HR Leaders Should Keep Things Simple; Retain The Human Touch First- Pooja Lal,BI Worldwide

In an exclusive conversation with Dataquest, Pooja Lal, Head – Strategic Initiatives, BI WORLDWIDE India, talks about how HR is witnessing the digital transformation, importance of Employee Value Proposition  (EVP) and what engagement and recognition strategies help build a happier workplace. Excerpts:

Digital Adoption Dynamics In Manufacturing

An Accenture research finds that balancing digital investments is key to driving sustainable growth in India’s manufacturing sector