New Age Tech Driving Business

Since 2001, Absolutdata has connected data to business results for global brands. During this time it has amassed a powerful suite of AI-based products and advanced analytics services that give clients a competitive edge. AI, deep learning and new data architectures are re-writing what’s possible in the world of marketing, sales and analytics. This constant evolution lights the Absolutdata passion and drives it to new innovations. Here, Sudeshna Datta, Executive VP & Co-Founder, tells us more

Smooth Sailing: AI For Financial Forecasting

Forecasts involve reviewing past and current market conditions to predict financial outcomes, enabling proactive planning to increase projected growth and address possible issues

How Can AI Help Start-Ups?

Advantages of using AI in enterprises.

Riding The Cloud Bandwagon

Freeing from CAPEX driven on-premise models, IT organizations in India are finding the much needed Digital nirvana by taking the Cloud plunge

Chatbots And Agents: The New Co-workers

Humans are, and will remain unequivocally crucial to the customer service and support paradigm, albeit, in a different role

Country Digitization-Inside The Playbook

For tech companies, country digitization projects mean millions or even billions of dollars in business, but they are high-risk and complex endeavors

Protecting Privacy - Ensuring Your Organisation Is Ready For Regulation

With personal data likely being used by many parts of your organisation, a first step towards compliance is conducting a study of where that personal data is held, who holds it and who is responsible for it

Microsoft's Aggressive Iot Play

The company has recently announced that it will invest $5 billion in IoT over the next 4 years globally creating a well meshed IoT ecosytem powered by the Azure platform

The Digital Rush

While vendors of all hues harped on to ‘Digital’ with evangelical zeal, what is happening at ground zero? That’s what CIO Handbook 2018 unravels

Digital Means Simplification, Automation, And Transformation Of Everything In The Organization

Anjani Kumar Global CDO (Chief Digital Officer), Collabera

Any Transformation Initiative Has To Be Driven From Topdown And Digital Transformation Is Not An Exception

Debashis Singh CIO, Mphasis

Blurring Boundaries

Anyone with a computer and an internet connection can join World Community Grid and sign up to support the Microbiome Immunity Project

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:

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.

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

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?

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?

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:

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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. 

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

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

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