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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

Speaking about the EDGE

BY ESTABLISHING IT deployments for cloud-based services in edge data centres located in localised areas or communities, IT resources are effectively brought closer to end users and devices

REDEFINING DATA CENTRES

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

Need to define outcomes before making data centre software defined

THERE IS A NEED to clearly define the outcomes from adopting the software defined concept; a necessary mechanism to regularly review and revise the outcomes should also be built, says Manoj Gautam, VP - IT Infrastructure Service, Maruti Suzuki India

ICICI Bank: Unique distinction of a platinum rated green data centre

PROVIDING A MAJOR impetus to CII- Indian Green Building Council's (IGBC) efforts in greening of Indian data centres, ICICI Bank Data Centre in Hyderabad has gained the unique distinction of becoming India’s first Platinum rated project under IGBC Green Data Centre Rating System

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

Bajaj Housing Finance goes with 100% cloud architecture

BAJAJ HOUSING FINANCE has moved the entire enterprise IT ecosystem 100 per cent on public cloud, leading to flexible architecture for its business applications, data warehousing and analytics, which is high performing, rapidly scalable and secure

The top barriers financial institutions face in their race to digital transformation

WHY ARE DIGITAL business transformations failing to deliver value? Low double digit percentage of IT leaders have seen sustained performance improvement from transformation efforts, and are successful at sustaining change

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

Logistics control tower enhances supply chain efficiency for Hindustan Zinc

THE TAT FOR truck movements from the plant to the smelter has halved, reducing the truck movement and thus the fuel cost has also been curtailed

How companies are leveraging data in the insurance sector

BIG DATA, for the insurance sector, has now become a business imperative

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

eTransport MMP ensures transparency and boosts revenue for transport ministry

SETTING AN EFFECTIVE example of how IT can take citizen services to the next level, eTransport MMP executed by National Informatics Centre, has automated operations of Regional Transport Offices across the country, benefiting citizens, the police, vehicle dealers, and other stakeholders

STPI looks at transforming India into a software product nation

DR OMKAR RAI, DIRECTOR GENERAL, Software Technology Parks of India, in conversation with Sandhya Michu shares how an autonomous society like STPI, under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, Government of India, is building a sustainable startup ecosystem with a pool of industry collaborations and chief mentors to make India a software product country

ODISHA: AT THE CUSP OF AN E-GOV REVOLUTION

The Government of Odisha is taking ICT to the next level in its concerted efforts to enhance citizen services in the state. In an exclusive interaction with Vishwas Dass of Express Computer, Tusharkanti Behera, Electronics & IT Minister, Govt of Odisha, speaks about the new ICT Policy and how it will benefit crores of citizens

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

The evolution of Mastercard from a credit card company to a leader in digital payment technology

THE US-BASED GLOBAL payment and technology company, Mastercard's India Technology Hub is working to create several low-cost acceptance solutions, in partnership with different fintech startups, to accelerate the adoption of digital payments in the country. Sukanyya Misra, Senior Vice President, India Technology Hub at Mastercard shares the digital transformation journey and how using AI and ML is proving to a be a great way to make digital exchange safer and more seamless

How an app is changing the healthcare scenario in Gujarat

GUJARAT HAS INTRODUCED many initiatives in the Health and Family Welfare Department, which have helped citizens to a great extent. In order to find out how successful the TeCHO+ app is and how it has brought a paradigm shift in the coverage and quality of health services, Express Computer's Vishwas Dass interacted with Dr Jayanti S Ravi, Principal Secretary, Health and Family Welfare Department, Government of Gujarat. The key features of TeCHO+ for the field workers include alerts and reminders for due health services, digital checklist to ensure compliance with standard clinical guidelines and decision tree triage for screening among others

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

Rajasthan: Online Pension, ePDS Key Milestones In Digital Transformation

Rajasthan's digital transformation journey over the pastfew years has been very exciting and at the same time very challenging as well. India's biggest state by geographical area has excelled in almost every field in rolling out citizen services in a better way by using modern technologies.

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