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According to research by ICRA, India is one of the fastest growing poultry markets globally, with 7% y-o-y growth last year. India is now the worlds fourth largest poultry producer in volume terms. The country has emerged as one of the few emerging economies with a self-reliant, technology-driven poultry industry. Karunanithi S, CIO, Suguna Foods in an interview to Dataquest talks about IT adoption dynamics in the poultry industry. Excerpts:

Digital Disruption In Indian Agriculture

Agri-tech is clearly the next big thing in digital. As per NASSCOM, the global agri-tech investment in 2016 was US$ 3.2 bn and in the same period India got about US$ 320 mn funding for 50+ start-ups.

Innovating For The ERA Of Industry 4.0

The dawn of industry 4.0 has brought about dramatic changes in the way we live and how large enterprises function today. Manufacturing companies can now connect data from different systems for better analytics and Honeywell is well-positioned to support and drive this trend further with its ability to combine advanced software with physical products to provide value to customers across a wide variety of verticals. Honeywell Technology Solutions (HTS) Bangalore centre is uniquely positioned to drive the change with the deep domain knowledge expertise combined with fresh talent availability, says Akshay Bellare, Vice President and General Manager, Honeywell Technology Solutions India.HTS is an integrated technology incubation, development and engineering arm of Honeywell which supports Honeywell’s four businesses-Aerospace, Home and Building Technology, Safety and Productivity Solutions and Performance Materials and Technologies, globally and in India. With a network of state-of-theart labs and Centres of Excellences, it helps to drive innovation at every stage of the product lifecycle right from product conception to technology development and insertion, design, engineering and all the way to delivery. Excerpt:

Powering Data-Driven Digital Transformation

Businesses today have more data at their disposal. Advanced algorithms are around for extracting meaningful insights from that data and turn that data into action. Data play a crucial role in digital transformation, and it’s not just the sheer volume of the data, it’s the data quality that makes all the difference. Amit Walia, President, Products and Strategic Ecosystems and Ansa Sekharan, EVP and Chief Customer Success Officer at Informatica walk us through some of the company offerings that are helping businesses to transform themselves and sustain in the increasingly digital and data-driven world. Excerpt:

Lowering Adoption Barriers To AI

Although AI as a concept has been there for a very long time, it is only now that the businesses are exploring the technology to see how it helps in their transformation objectives. Artificial Intelligence(AI) and Machine Learning(ML) technologies are now being used extensively to recognize patterns across data, user interactions to draw insights and do away with the mundane tasks, so on and so forth. Premalakshmi R, Head - Cloud Platform, Oracle India talks about how the traditional businesses and applications are able to improve their user experience and productivity by infusing AI/ML into the business processes and customer interactions. Excerpts:

The Impact Of Tech Disruption

While opening up an abundance of new opportunities, these technology disruptions are presenting a formidable challenge to the USD 167-billion (2017-18 revenue) strong Indian IT industry which is employing about four million professionals.

Do Engineers In India Stand Exposed To The current technology Evolution?

The problems most often cited in literature regarding the pitfalls of education and assessment systems in India range from an emphasis on acquisition of learning, outdated curricula and lack of infrastructure to promote computer-aided modeling and visualization solutions.

The T-School Survey: Gearing Up To The New Market Realities

In India, the skills debate is raging for a while. It has become more pronounced when a rapidly changing dynamic industry like ICT going through severe headwinds in the form of a structural recession- changing job roles, skills sets getting obsolete, contraction of market and business volume leading to cyclical unemployment waves. And since then the ICT industry is grappling with change and more recently the ‘Digital Disruption’. Are our ‘Tech Schools’ geared for this disruption?

Combined Skills in Cloud Computing And Devops Can Make One A Master Of Development And Operations

Vineet Chaturvedi, Co-Founder, Edureka in an interview to Dataquest talks about the hottest job realted skills for 2018. Excerpts:

Finally, A Silver Lining

After a lull, the India PC market is showing signs of rebound and indicates a positive outlook as we move forward.

Sustained Momentum

According to Dataquest estimates the overall market for external storage in India stood at ₹2,500 crore, signifying a growth of 10% 

Powering The Datacenters

With India becoming the preferred destination for datacenters, there is an urgent need for the right policies and reforms in the IT infrastructure industry that will spearhead India amongst the top players in the global IT infrastructure market.

Augmented Analytics - The Way Forward

Big data analytics has become a true gamechanger for the business today. Transforming data into actionable intelligence helps organizations to become nimbler and create new business opportunities.

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.

Artificial Intelligence Will Deliver Value To Every Industry

Robotics process automation, Artificial Intelligence, Analytics, Chatbots/Voice Assistants, Machine learning and Next generation Customer experience (CX) are some of the emerging technologies that have been deployed at WNS.

The It Organizations Worldwide Would Undergo A Digital Transformation

Best practices and emerging tech deployment strategies

Emerging Tech Will Empower The It Organizations

In current scenarios where business models are transformed into IT-enabled process for both internal and external to enhance customer experience, increase productivity by leveraging the emerging technology whereby we have deployed :

Lower Latency With Data Management

Data has been identified as a key strategic resource by businesses, and hence, they are increasingly embracing datacentric business models. A high level of data availability is crucial for drawing actionable business insights on time. Deepak Visweswaraiah, Senior VP & MD, NetApp India talks about how the company is helping organisations to compete in the current data-driven world with the right data management strategy and its ongoing investment in the data-driven technologies

Right Data, Right Decisions

Western Digital offers an expansive portfolio of technologies, storage devices, systems and solutions for business and consumers alike. The data-centric solutions are comprised of the Western Digital, G-Technology, SanDisk, Upthere and WD brands. Western Digital creates environments for data to thrive, helping customer capture, preserve, access and transform an ever-increasing diversity of data. Here, Guruswamy Ganesh, Senior VP, Western Digital and Supria Dhanda, VP & Country Manager, India, WD, share their thoughts on how data is evolving

Technology And The Future Of Education

With the internet becoming more accessible to a majority of population in India and around the world, Internet of Things has emerged as a technology that is revolutionising multiple sectors

Bridging The Skill Divide

Dataquest T-School Conference & Awards 2019 got academicians, policy makers and industry leaders from across the country to discuss the gaps in skill training and solutions

Social Entrepreneurship Is The New Value Addition To Business: Microsoft

jean-Philippe Courtois, EVP and President, Global Sales, Marketing & Operations, Microsoft Corporation is convinced that technology is opening new opportunities to help the company solve some of society’s biggest challenges. He has begun to notice that many of his customers are using artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud for creating a positive societal impact

T-Schools Should Contribute To The Growth Of The Technology Required For The 21st Century Industries

T-Schools should add value in offering human resource to the industry

Building Digital Infrastructure For Economic Growth

The ‘Digital India’ program launched in July 2015 was focused on three key vision areas – infrastructure as a utility to every citizen, governance and services on demand and digital empowerment of citizens.

Metadata And Methodology

The 14th Edition of Dataquest Top T-School Survey had participation from across the tiers of T-schools in the country.

How Technology Could Impact Social Development Challenges

The CSR Leadership Conference 2019 in New Delhi in partnership in with ICICI Foundation was hosted by NASSCOM. The event brought over 300 delegates including CxOs, CSR Heads of the top most companies from across the industry, NGO leads from all over India, Government officials, Tech4Good champions, social innovators under one roof to encourage the use of new-age technologies to solve the social development issues at the grassroots

Electronic Waste Sector Can Create Half A Million Jobs In India By 2025

A changing environment means even the best risk management may not remain adequate for long

New IT For New Normal

Dataquest Technology Innovation Summit & Awards held recently in Mumbai deliberated on the impact of disruptive technology forces and best practices

Rising Financial Cybercrime And Identity Theft

Financial frauds’ share of victims has doubled to 37 percent of respondents year-over-year. Half of all consumers ages 27-37 experienced fraud during last year. 96 percent of consumers who were victimized during last year had switched to mobile apps

Reviewing Our E-Commerce Policy

Consistent with its objectives, TECI has worked with its members to discuss, collate and crystallize the viewpoints of the members with regards to the Draft National E-commerce Policy