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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

How Is Digital Gaming Chartering A New Shape For Marketing Strategies?

At present, India ranks among the top five digital gaming markets globally. This is the best time for the marketers to develop newer strategies to place their brands in a participative manner in order to target their audience

Cyber Security Predictions For 2016

With a large number of people being online or having access to computers/tablets/connected devices, cybercrime has evolved and is more complex than ever.

7 Cyber Security Threats for 2016

From ransomware to sextortion to the security of IoT devices, cyber security will continue to be a mainstream topic in 2016. Life-saving devices like pacemakers or insulin pumps can also get hacked.

Galvanizing IT To Build Smart Cities In India

As the defining lifestyle trend of this decade, athleisure has changed the way we dress, appear, move and feel.

Apple's India Strategy And The Mobile Wars

Apple customers are a segmented group and in India these could be the upmarket guys or say folks who come under the topmost tax bracket.

Without Security, Digital India Will Be A Fortress Without Walls

It is crystal clear that cybersecurity is no longer chiefly the domain of CIO, CSOs, or even the IT department. The push towards Digital India will require a critical push towards security becoming a companywide and even national concern demanding oversight and direction from the broader community.

Technology Ushering In A New Era In Education

The education sector is aggressively going digital and looking at mobility and cloud to meet its future demands and improve the country's education system at the grassroots level.

Boosting Healthcare With Technology

The growing IT cognizance in healthcare is aiding the sector to address its traditional challenges and improve the overall efficiency and patient experience.

Indian Government Investing $29 Billion in ICT

The Indian government is investing heavily in ICT to kick-start the growth engine, thereby creating a big business opportunity for all the stakeholders

Digital India Offers 'Smart Cities'

With some of the recent revelations around state-sponsored cyberattacks, IT administrators know any serious breach could cost them dearly in terms of money, data, credibility, and reputation loss. Facilitators of this plan must breathe new life into their cybersecurity plans, making security a key element of the smart cities of the future.

On Cloud Nine

As ‘On Prem’ IT is on the ebb - a nexus of forces driven by cloud is increasing the demand for state-of-the-art data centers and Indian market is opening up to this reality.

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

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

Artificial Intelligence In CPG: What To Expect?

The AI techniques have seen the potential to transform the different aspects of the industry in the future, provided CPG brands have resources and governance in place

Digital Transformation 2.0:From Hype to Reality

The time has come when the large and traditional enterprises brace for a challenging future. They must take a queue from the digitally-born companies that do transformation for a living and allocate 100% of their resources to this cause.

Vmware Customers Have Been Using Aws for Years

Digital transformation initiatives are those that leverage modern digital technologies to fundamentally transform the way an organization runs its business and operates through different business processes. There is a lot of talk about consulting engagements for an organization to jump start its digital transformation initiatives and harvest the benefits from improvised customer-centric business processes, over cutting-edge digital technologies. However, what is uniquely interesting is to see as to which program will eventually deliver the throughput as organizations invest in these transformation initiatives. In conversation with Dataquest, Arun Nathani, CEO and MD of Cybage, shares how Cybage presents a distinguished platform driven approach to embrace digital transformation tangibly.

Why Your Cloud Strategy Matters?

Cloud computing will become a dominant design style for new applications and for refactoring a large number of existing applications over the next 10-plus years.

2018 To Be The Golden Era Of Cloud In India

With cloud services becoming more mainstream for organizations even tier -2 and tier -3 cities, Brightstar is delving deep to deliver state-of-the-art solutions at affordable prices

Exciting, Enduring & Exhaustive: Pm Modi's Use Of Technology

PM Narendra Modi is spearheading the use of technology to improve lives, productivity, the potential which will ultimately change India’s destiny. Not only has PM Modi’s social media outreach expanded consistently, but has also broken new ground on the use of social media platforms

Cashless In-Store Payments And The Transformation Of The Indian Retail Industry

Ever since Demonetization in November 2016, Indian citizens are more willing to adopt digital payments and take the cashless route

Cloud Computing Powering India's Priority Of 'Digital-First Country'

Digital transformation has been recognized as being vital to the growth of our nation. This transformation has enjoyed the unanimous approval and contribution from all stake holders including enterprises, MSMEs, government bodies and citizens. But this level of adoption in a country with a population of over a billion people would need a robust technology base that is capable to collecting and distributing vital data seamlessly

IOT Cloud Solutions Provide Enterprises Affordable Access To High-speed Data Networks: Sap Labs

Organizations are no longer new to the concept of Internet of Things, it is now about how they can best apply it to drive real business value.