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Analytics And Automation Go A Long Way To Help Narrow Down Tax Non-Compliance Investigations
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Analytics And Automation Go A Long Way To Help Narrow Down Tax Non-Compliance Investigations

In an interaction with Dataquest, Sudipta Ghosh, Analytics Leader at PwC India talks about how the Andhra Pradesh Commercial Taxes Department is benefiting from PwC’s advance analytics solutions to mitigate tax non-compliance and how automation plays a major role in it. Excerpts:

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October 2017
Telecom Service Providers Want To Tap The Whole Digital Ecosystem
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Telecom Service Providers Want To Tap The Whole Digital Ecosystem

Yael Shatzky is the Head of Marketing for Amdocs Optima, which was set up about 18 months ago for midsized communication businesses, MVNOs and digital enterprises. In an interaction with Dataquest, Shatzky talks about Amdocs Optima and the changing.

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October 2017
Government of Telangana Aims to Extend its Government Services Platform on Mobile
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Government of Telangana Aims to Extend its Government Services Platform on Mobile

After successfully delivering citizen services over MeeSeva platform for 5 years, Telangana govt. is busy setting up T-Folio to extend the same over smartphones

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April 2018
Time Is Now For A Digital Capability Maturity Model
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Time Is Now For A Digital Capability Maturity Model

Digital disruption is testing the glory days of the IT Organization and how truly the CIO is also doubling as a business leader. So, are CIOs ready to embrace Digital and take their enterprises to next orbit of growth?

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April 2018
Dell EMC — Would It Be Able To Deliver Big?
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Dell EMC — Would It Be Able To Deliver Big?

Dell EMC has lined up a portfolio comprising the building blocks of modern IT. There are early signs of success, but there are many threats as well. Will Dell EMC be able to outpace them?

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July 2017
Autonomous Cars Need To Overcome Major Hurdles Before They Become Mainstream
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Autonomous Cars Need To Overcome Major Hurdles Before They Become Mainstream

In an exclusive interaction with Dataquest, Ram Ramaseshan, Senior VP and Head, Automotive and Industrials BUs, Sasken Technologies, talks about the challenges faced by autonomous cars in India and how can India speed up towards Autonomous driving. Excerpts:

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July 2017
Here's What Makes AWS A Growing Force In Enterprise IT
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Here's What Makes AWS A Growing Force In Enterprise IT

Beyond the prospect of moving all IT assets to the cloud, AWS is beckoning enterprises with possibilities in serverless computing, AI, and machine language

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July 2017
Intel India Eyes Al Opportunities, Plans To Develop Ecosystem
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Intel India Eyes Al Opportunities, Plans To Develop Ecosystem

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the cutting edge in technology. It is fast getting mainstream and coming out of the confines of science fiction. The onset of AI-based technology in India is evident in the sectors of e-commerce and research, where entities that are already using data analytics, are now looking to explore AI

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July 2017
How AI Is Shaping Organizations?
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How AI Is Shaping Organizations?

Indian companies and start-ups are focusing on developing conversational bots, speech recognition tools, intelligent digital assistants and conversational services to be built over social media channels

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July 2017
Virtual Reality Is The New Reality
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Virtual Reality Is The New Reality

VR has finally broken the jinx and is changing all norms in the tech space. It is likely to grow exponentially as it promises a whole new dimension to customer experience.

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March 2017
Cloud Is A Key Growth Market For Seagate In India
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Cloud Is A Key Growth Market For Seagate In India

While the PC market might have declined, there are lots of new opportunities cropping up, both for hard drives and solid state drives in India. We had a face to face interview with Seagate’s Global Sales Head, BS Teh to understand the company’s plans for the Indian market, key target industries and future plans around SSDs and HDDs. Here’s the full interview.

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April 2017
DQ Digital Economy Conclave Drawns More Than 200 CIOs
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DQ Digital Economy Conclave Drawns More Than 200 CIOs

The overall focus of the DQ Conclave remained centered on ICT business, Digital Enterprise 2.0, smart cities and cashless economy

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April 2017
How to Recharge Manufacturing with IoT
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How to Recharge Manufacturing with IoT

IoT holds immense potential and promise throughout the value chain across multiple segments of the manufacturing and logistics industries. But there are numerous challenges that must be addressed before exploiting the full potential of IoT

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September 2016
Preparing IT for GST Era
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Preparing IT for GST Era

GST deployment is being seen as a transformation opportunity for the taxation and supply chain teams but the critical role of the CIO is being missed

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September 2016
IT Industry Becomes Obsolete Every Three Years
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IT Industry Becomes Obsolete Every Three Years

Vineet Nayar was recently chosen for the Dataquest Lifetime Achievement Award for his outstanding contributions to the Indian IT industry specifically in organizing and building the Indian software industry. Nayar has now shifted his focus from the IT industry and paying full attention to the education of rural kids through his NGO - Sampark Foundation. 

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May 2017
Digitization Creates Jobs And Efficiency In The System
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Digitization Creates Jobs And Efficiency In The System

Digital transformation requires changes, to both processes and IT systems that are more challenging to implement in the public sector than in the private sector. In a conversation with Dataquest, Smt. Kiran Soni Gupta, Department of Youth Affairs and Sports, talks on how digitization of Government Departments play a significant role in propelling the digital drive in the country. —KIRAN SONI GUPTA Additional Secretary and Financial Advisor, Minister of Youth Affairs & Sports & Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, Government of India

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May 2017
6 Crore Rural Citizens To Become Digitally Literate In 3 Years
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6 Crore Rural Citizens To Become Digitally Literate In 3 Years

As the Indian Government took the path towards a more tech savvy India, it became one of the biggest adopters of IT. To step a notch ahead of others, many actions were taken in a bid to develop the rural areas as well. To comprehend the government’s IT initiatives in villages, Dataquest delved into a conversation with Dr. Dinesh Kumar Tyagi, CEO, CSC e-Governance Services India Limited to get a better understanding on the various IT services implemented under the Common Services Centres scheme

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May 2017
A Cloud Database Solution Cuts A Pharma Company's CapEx by $25,000
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A Cloud Database Solution Cuts A Pharma Company's CapEx by $25,000

By migrating to a high-performing, secure, reliable and scalable PaaS solution, Mankind Pharma has reduced capital expenditure by $25,000 and storage costs by $6,000. now, the company claims to create reports 11x faster and deliver training to global users 5x faster by launching training environment in just two days

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May 2017
A Start-Up Aiming To Improve Efficiency And Productivity
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A Start-Up Aiming To Improve Efficiency And Productivity

Currently, Flock claims to be used by enterprises, tech companies, and start-ups to improve their efficiency and productivity 

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May 2017
Indian Version Of OpenWorld To Focus On Digital India And Smart Cities
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Indian Version Of OpenWorld To Focus On Digital India And Smart Cities

Oracle has for the first time brought its most popular event to India in the hope to boost its prospects in the economy which has seen a number of quick changes in the past few years

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May 2017
Scary! 95% Engineers In India Are Not Employable
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Scary! 95% Engineers In India Are Not Employable

Aspiring Minds’ new study “Automata National Programming Report’, conducted across 500+ colleges and exclusively shared with Dataquest, claims that over 2/3rd couldn’t even write code and hence 95% engineers are not employable

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April 2017
The Datacenter Is The Computer
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The Datacenter Is The Computer

IT organizations are breaking away from conventional technology consumption paradigms and embracing data centers in a big way

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November 2017
Empowering Data Centers
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Empowering Data Centers

It’s all about power reliability and availability when it comes to data centers in India. Over the last decade, the global industry has strived for significant improvements in overall data center efficiency through implementing a ‘Green Data Center’

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November 2017
Decoding Data Center Dynamics
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Decoding Data Center Dynamics

Enterprises today are rethinking their datacenter strategies to suit the technical disruptions in the market. For any business, it is necessary to make informed infrastructure decisions to evaluate potential business risks and cost overrunsc

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November 2017
ERP On Cloud Is Fast Moving To The Mainstream
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ERP On Cloud Is Fast Moving To The Mainstream

Organizational mindsets towards cloud based ERP have changed dramatically of late, and in the last 18-24 months we have seen widespread adoption of ERP on the cloud.

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November 2017
The Cloud Punch
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The Cloud Punch

The Cloud Punch

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November 2017
A New It Infrastructure Strategy To Face A New Tomorrow
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A New It Infrastructure Strategy To Face A New Tomorrow

Five recommendations for business leaders to get started on making changes needed for creating new IT infrastructures that would survive a new tomorrow

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November 2017
Paul Otellini: The Gentle Giant
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Paul Otellini: The Gentle Giant

Intel Corporation’s former CEO Paul Otellini passed away in his sleep at the age of 66 on October 2, 2017

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November 2017
Change Can Open A World Of Opportunities
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Change Can Open A World Of Opportunities

In an exclusive interaction with Dataquest, Amandeep Singh Dang, Country Manager, Dell Networking, Dell EMC India talks about networking innovation in the industry.

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DATAQUEST March 2017
HP Inc Steps up Post the Split
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HP Inc Steps up Post the Split

While the split allowed competitors to marginally bump into its market, in no time HP Inc swung into action, and surprised its peers by reinventing and reclaiming what belonged to it. Even in India, the company is fast cruising forward with an array of new products and big deals. Read on...

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October 2016