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LPG Subsidy, Directly Into Your Bank Account

Since the consumers were facing a lot of problems with regards to linking their LPG connection with Aadhar, LPG companies roped in Cyfuture to set up five customer care centers to help consumers.

Future Without Passwords

In future you may be able to login to an application by using your heartbeats, brainwaves, or just a selfie.

Risks And Benefits Of Using Prepaid Wallet

It is time for us to ponder upon the perks and risks involved in payment methods before opting for them! As far as promotions are concerned, we will be wiser if we remember the old adage: Theres no such thing as a free lunch!

Brand Advertising:Chicken Soup For Business

Tier 2 system integrators are now embarking on elaborate advertising initiatives.

Top 5 IT Trends To Expect In 2016

2015 saw an upsurge of new and innovative technologies. Though as much as it’s important to look back and re-evaluate the trends which marked the year, it is also essential to get ready for what the future might hold. In view of this, here are the top five IT trends to expect in 2016.

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

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.

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

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.

The Evolution Of Creating Customer Advocates For Better Business

While technology is driving the transformation of the contact center, the amendment of the contact center manager’s role is being driven by an even more powerful force – meeting customer’s needs.

Virtual Reality— A Boon For The Education Sector

Virtual reality, as a technology has numerous applications in various industries. The education industry is one which can benefit hugely by deploying virtual reality in teaching and learning processes. Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality and Gamificat.

10 Questions To Ask Your ADC Provider Before You Sign Off

ADCs are heavily relied upon for their network monitoring capabilities and the ability to check a server’s state and efficiency. It is essential to analyze the long-term withstanding capacity of ADCs for seamless performance and productivity.

Unmaking Of Cyrus; Fingers Crossed For Tata Sons' Next Chairman

Under Tata Sons’ ambit fall India’s leading IT and telecom firms which strengthen the case for inducting the next chairman with the IT or tech background. Will he be N Chandrasekaran, CEO and MD, TCS? Time will only tell.

How Assam Government Establishes Digital Database

Bohniman Systems helped to form legacy database for the government under the national Population Register. There were 2 crore names in the database which were handwritten in the old papers 

Our Mission Is To Enable Enterprise Grade Security For SMBs And Distributed Enterprises

WatchGuard Technologies is a global provider of network security and network intelligence products and services. In an exclusive interaction with Dataquest,  WatchGuard’s CEO Prakash Panjwani speaks on the current security scenario in India and the company’s solutions to mount a counteroffensive against the threats

Why Digital Transformation Is Essential For The World's Fastest-Moving Industry

When we talk about technology in Formula One, people naturally think about the engineering technologies that are in place to ensure the car’s performance. However, the investment in technology goes beyond the nuts and bolts of R.S. 17 chassis, and the R.E. 17 power unit.

We Call Upon The Government To Incentivize Manufacturing Linked To Value Addition

Nitin Kunkolienker, President, MAIT in an exclusive interview to Dataquest walks through Electronics and IT Manufacturing scene in the country and takes a realistic due diligence of the scheme of things and how MAIT is empowering the IT manufacturing industry. Excerpts: