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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:

How Will Robots Transform The Smart Warehouse

Robotics and automation will make an incremental contribution towards the rapid industrial revolution and bring the current Indian manufacturing practices at par with global standards.

Cyber Crime As An Industry Is A Well-Established Money Making Machine

Cyber Crime As An Industry Is A Well-Established Money Making Machine

Security Goes Mainstream In The Digital World

Security is now an integral part of organizations’ digital business transformation.

Will AWS Disrupt Indian Public Sector?

Teresa Carlson leads the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Worldwide Public Sector business, which includes state, local, central and regional overnments; educational institutions and Ed Techs, and non-profits and non-governmental organizations (NGO), and acts as an advisor to Amazon Public Policy on global policy issues. Since starting AWS’s public sector business in 2010, Carlson has driven the business’ growth, which today accounts for 2,000 government, 4,500 education, and 17,500 nonprofit customers, and a vast partner ecosystem across all geographies. Prior to joining AWS, Carlson served as Vice President of Microsoft Federal Government, where she was responsible for defining the strategy for the company’s US Federal Government business. Before moving into technology, Carlson worked in health care, as a practitioner and consultant initially, then as a business manager and area vice president, responsible for national accounts, marketing, and business development. In an interaction with DATAQUEST, Teresa speaks on AWS and its traction in the Public Sector and the compelling need for the Government vertical to adopt cloud to improve efficiencies. Excerpts.

On The Horizon

the ingredients of innovation have never been more accessible, and trying, as users and technology providers work to understand an evergrowing set of building blocks and how the pieces fit to drive digital transformation. Against this backdrop, CompTIA explores the forces shaping the information technology industry, its workforce and its business models in the year ahead

Smart Energy Alliance

the partnership will work towards energy-saving IoT solutions, geolocation applications in the fields of oil and gas industries, smart cities, supply chain and connected vehicles

Our India Office Has Been Integral To Cvent's Journey

Our continued investment in developing world- class event meeting and hospitality technology solutions have enabled us to build an impressive client base across all industries around the world,” says Pradeep Mannakkara Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer at Cvent in an interview with Data Quest.

The Biggest Drivers For HCI Is To Be Seen From A Standpoint Of It Agility

Raja Mukhopadhyay, VP, Product Management, Nutanix Inc. and Gaurish Lawande, Director - Systems Engineering, Nutanix India talks about the Hyper-Converged Infrastructure and Nutanix’s play. Excerpts.

We Have A Long-Standing Relationship With Crayon

Established in 2009, Jaipur based ZNet Technologies is a leading ISV and cloud solutions provider to customers across the globe. In an interaction with Dataquest, Munesh Jadoun, CEO and Founder ZNet Technologies throws spotlight on his working experience with Crayon Software.

The Future Is Here

Augment and Virtual Reality In Operations has helped firms create a highly effective and result oriented learning and instructional environment

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.