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How Big Basket Is Leveraging Emerging Tech For Streamlining Delivery

A perfect combination of focused strategy, market knowhow, customer centricity, and most importantly, the right technology, has led to Big Basket's dominance in online grocery space

Technology raising the bar in higher education

From app-based learning to virtual classrooms and from AI to analytics, the higher education industry in India is driven by increasing technology adoption

REDEFINING DATA CENTRES

A look at how some of India's leading organisations are heralding transformational changes in their data centre operations

Data centre rationalises computing resources at Titan Company

TITAN HOSTS A complex IT architecture. The data centre team has been trained by the OEMs to run the software-defined infrastructure, says Krishnan Venkateswaran, Chief Digital and Information Officer, Titan Company

Mercedes-Benz banks on digital initiatives for competitive advantage

MERCEDES BELIEVES THAT CONNECTED, Autonomous, Shared and Services, Electric (CASE)are the four concepts that will shape the future of driving. While design has been a fancy for Mercedes, tech and IT is as significant. And if touch controls seem too tedious to operate then the company now brings out gesture control

Digital has been the language of transformation at Kent RO Systems

DIGITAL HAS BEEN in the core of Kent RO Systems Limited (Kent), which has a base of over four million active water purifier installations, and handles around 10,000 service cases every day. Saurabh Gupta, Chief Information Officer, Kent RO Systems shares how it is a completely technology driven company

Developing an ecosystem for emerging tech in Telangana

THE EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES Wing of ITE&C Department of Government of Telangana is proactively driving the adoption of technologies like AI/ML, blockchain, drones, cloud, IoT and cybersecurity.

Cloud for digital governance

EXPRESS COMPUTER, in association with Microsoft India, had recently organised Cloud for Digital Governance: The Tour, at Gandhinagar, focusing on how ICT can play a pivotal role in helping citizens get better services

A PLEDGE TO BRIDGE THE DIGITAL DIVIDE

In an exclusive interaction, Manoj Kumar Mishra, Secretary, Department of Electronics and Information Technology, Government of Odisha, affirms that digital democracy is the key to empower people in the new world.

Why data and analytics is so significant for Wells Fargo

FOR THE PAST three years, the banking giant has embarked on a journey termed as Data Management and Insights, to compile the data into a central enterprise data environment by organising it in multiple domains

IBM LOOKS TO CAPITALISE ON UNTAPPED CLOUD OPPORTUNITY

Big Blue is seeking to bring the cloud operating model to approximately 80 per cent untapped mission-critical apps which have not moved to the cloud due to compliance, costs or latency issues

HDFC Securities has grown overall revenue by 40% using analytics

THE BENEFITS FROM analytics initiatives have been immense for HDFC Securities. Two years ago, the percentage of transactions on the digital mode were 60 per cent of the overall transactions using other channels. Currently, it has risen to 83 per cent. Additionally, the overall revenue has seen a spurt of 40 per cent, says Nandkishore Purohit, Head – Digital Strategy and Analytics to EC’s Abhishek Raval

The Rise Of AI

From resolving customer queries faster to improving learning outcomes in institutions to designing watches, AI solutions are increasingly being used across a large number of sectors in India. Express Computer presents the views and perspectives of leading CXOs as they share how their organizations are leveraging the full potential of AI

L&T Setting Innovation Benchmarks In Engineering And Construction

Indian engineering and construction mammoth L&T is setting global examples of tech-enabled operations at the site level

How Technology Can Help India Cope With Natural Disasters

From using AI to predict floods to crowdsourcing, India is heavily using technology in its bid to cope with natural disasters such as floods and cyclones

Why Digital Transformation Journeys Fail; How To Make It Work

DIGITAL TRANFORMATION CAN potentially result in significant business benefits and customer experience, when organisations take the right approach. Unfortunately, in fast-paced market conditions, organisations often ignore some fundamentals, which eventually results in failure of their digital tranformation journey

Edelweiss Group Setting Up Infrastructure For Cloud, API And Data

EDELWEISS IS ADOPTING cloud native platforms; designing an API infrastructure; developing a data infrastructure. This is fundamental to building a digital organisation, says Nitin Agarwal, President and Group CIO, CTO and Chief Digital Officer, Edelweiss Financial Services

How IRCTC Is Making Its Hospitality Services More Tech Enabled

Indian Railway Catering And Tourism Corporation (IRCTC), the hospitality wing of the Indian Railways, has been working towards providing all-time connectivity by making its services more digitised

With Digitisation, Piaggio's Workforce Now Has More Value-added Responsibilities

Digital has been a part of Piaggio's strategy in recent times. As part of the digital journey, the company is taking the enterprise applications closest to the customers so that the relation between Piaggio and end customers is further fortified

The Next Giant Leap In eGovernance

How cutting-edge next gen technologies are enabling more effective and efficient delivery of citizen services across India

Shivalik Co-operative Bank Takes Its Core Banking From On-premise To Cloud

SHIVALIK CO-OPERATIVE BANK has migrated as many as its 300,000 customers located in Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh to the cloud, in an effeort to modernise its banking services

Planning For Cities Of The Future

A DISCUSSION ON why it is so important to protect the identity of cities before making them smart-fortified

Taking E-Governance A Notch Higher

This year's edition renewed its focus on the emerging role of new-age technologies in government and public sector

How HDFC Bank Is Banking Upon AI Across The Organisation

Use of AI in customer services has become mainstream, especially in the banking sector. HDFC Bank has been exploring an array of domains where AI can be deployed

Himachal Pradesh Focuses On Bharatnet, Citizen Services And Computerisation Of Departments

HIMACHAL PRADESH IS moving with decent speed in rolling out the BharatNet project, despite of its hilly terrain. Express Computer speaks to Rohan Chand Thakur, Director - IT, Himachal Pradesh

How Rajasthan Transformed Itself Into A Digital State

THE BIGGEST CHALLENGE for Rajasthan’s ICT department was to shed the stigma of ‘Bimaru State’ that has been attached to Rajasthan. Turning the odds of poor connectivity and providing digital services to the last mile, project RajNet – a multi-mode connectivity network, connecting Jaipur with all 9,894 Gram Panchayats and 183 municipal areas in Rajasthan – has changed the outlook of the state. Today, the state is poised to transform from Rajasthan to ‘DigiSthan’. Akhil Arora Principal Secretary, IT, Government of Rajasthan, shares interesting insights

Ajeenkya Dy Patil University Bets Big On Competency Based Transcript System

IN THE WAKE of increasing implementation of IT solutions in the education sector, Ajeenkya DY Patil University has set a benchmark in India’s education space with its unique Competency-based Transcript System. The university is also studying the blockchain technology for future implementation

How Technology Is Driving NSDC's Kill Development Mission

NATIONAL SKILL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION (NSDC) aims to promote skill development by catalysing the creation of rge scale, quality and for-profit vocational institutions. Dr Manish Kumar, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, DC highlights the diverse technology interventions enabling them to reach the objective of skilling up the people in India

States Working On Comprehensive And Integrated Digital Payment Framework

THE DIGITAL PAYMENT platform will be an aggregator-like, one stop shop for all the payment options available for use, for G2G and G2C services.

GSTN Has Over-invested In State-Of-The-Art Technologies And Processes

THE GOVERNMENT HAS recently completed one year of the roll-out of GST. It can be argued that India has come a long way from a complicated taxation system, with over a dozen different taxes and many more cesses. GSTN operates the IT backbone for the collection of GST data of over 1.11 crore registered business entities. In an interaction with ECs Sandhya Michu, Nitin Mishra, EVP (Technology), GSTN, talks about this mammoth network and how the technology piece played its role.