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Role of Productivity, Quality and Jobs in making 'Make In India' a success

Industry 4.0 is taking automation to a new level with 3D Printing, Internet of Things (IoT), augmented/virtual reality, human-robots collaboration (cobot), adaptive and additive manufacturing and new age robotics with artificial intelligence driving productivity and quality.

Cloud will be an enabler of innovation and growth: Here's how to leverage it

The ability to leverage data about every customer action can help enterprises craft delightful customer offerings – and this is where cloud is a key differentiator.

Software-Defined Wide Area Network: An intelligent approach to global networking

With the pace of technology innovation and the data explosion showing no signs of slowing down, it’s time to ask: is your network propelling your growth in the platform economy, or holding it back?

The Fashion Shopper has gone mobile: New report by BCG & Facebook

As per BCG, by as early as 2020, online fashion shopper’s base in India will double to 135 million and 70% of online consumers will buy online.

The rise of IoT devices has made the importance of active cybersecurity more significant

Digital transformation is impacting the way we do business. As companies embrace the digitised environment, security needs to be considered as an integral part of the plan and not as an afterthought.

McDonald's says app, website don't store financial data after blogger claims company leaks data

Fastfood major McDonald's said on Saturday that its website and mobile app do not store financial data of customers, after an independent blog claimed that the company was leaking personal data of over 2.2 million users in India.

Tableau named leader in 2017 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence and Analytics

For the fifth year in a row, Gartner has named Tableau as a leader in its Magic Quadrant report for Business Intelligence and Analytics.

Nasscom bets on digital to push Indian technology industry forward to next phase

Riding on the hard work of over 3.86 million employees and growth of 5% over the financial year 2016, digital capabilities will drive the Indian technology industry's next phase of development, industry's representative body Nasscom said on Wednesday.

The future of India’s economic growth lies in the hands of women entrepreneurs

The percentage of working-age Indian women in the labour force has dropped by 10 per cent since 2005.

Mobile is the future of Indian commerce: Is your business ready?

Indian consumers are increasingly open to the idea of commerce on mobile devices, and this trend will only grow given the country's mobile-first nature.

Is Digital vs IT a generational leadership divide?

If you are a tail-end baby boomer - don't be the CIO who held on to his preferred old way of doing things for too long and ended up strategically limiting of even damaging his firm, as the last act of his career.

Private Cloud: Top 10 facts tech management leaders should know

Despite reported high private cloud adoption, Forrester Research said it continues to see enterprises struggle with their private cloud build-out.

Why no security analytics market?

There is no "security analytics market" or dedicated and purchasable "security analytics tools,"...

CIOs face choiceless choice for complicated CRM projects

What is the business owner, and the CIO, to do in order to get a project moving forward?

Is Sundar Pichai the Google CEO in waiting?

Post Google's I/O address, the focus is squarely on one man in the team: Android and Chrome's head and Senior VP at Google Sundar Pichai.

CIOs never fail at mobile CRM initiatives (because they don't do customer strategy)

Great companies are getting the mobile metrics in place, understanding the 'state of the mobile customer,' and establishing the baseline measures of success.

UPES Empowers Students With Augmented Reality Apps

Ashish Bharadwaj, CIO at University of Petroleum & Energy Studies talks about using technology in educational organisations for augmented reality and lessons that other industries can learn from this.

Rising CMO tech budgets: CIO opportunities vs. threats

Manish Bahl on the emerging marketing technology landscape as a result of rising CMO tech budgets that both provide opportunities for and pose threats to CIOs.

Videocon's SAP Implementation: The Complete Scoop

Rakesh Sharma, DGM - Supply Chain, Videocon Industries Ltd. talks about SAP IS-Retail ECC6.0 deployment at Videocon and their plans for business intelligence and analytics.

What SAP CTO Vishal Sikka's resignation means for SAP customers

As SAP's CTO, Vishal served as the outward and inward face of innovation within SAP. He was tasked with renewing not only the legacy software company's platforms, but also the internal culture of innovation.

In spite of similar business priorities, CIO-CMO collaboration is a long way off in India

While CMOs pursue business objectives using an outside-in perspective, CIOs use an inside-out approach - and this often leads to friction.

62% of Indian CMOs will increase their tech budget in 2014

Focussing on customers is not new for CMOs; what has changed is the pace at which customer expectations are rising.

Hybrid IT Vision: A Confluence Of Many Strategies

Milind Govekar, Managing VP, Gartner says that the Hybrid IT Vision is a confluence of an enterprise’s internal datacentre strategy, sourcing strategy and cloud strategy.

Futuristic Outlook To Top Tech Trends

Purshottam Purswami, CTO - India SI, Atos talks about the progression of the rising top trends like Big Data, mobility, sustainability, DaaS, etc. and equipping the enterprise for these.

Email is anti-social: Communication is not collaboration

In many organisations the highly prolific, if not addictive, use of e-mail is considered an impediment to the adoption of social collaboration or other collaboration methods.

All you need to know about the $2.5 bn IBM-Bharti deal

Touted to be a new agreement, the deal builds on the 10 year relationship between the two organisations - a deal that was signed for US$ 750 million in 2004 and eventually touched US$ 2.5 billion.

Bharti Airtel finally says 'yes' to IBM but with caveats

IBM announced that Bharti Airtel has extended the agreement to manage latter's infrastructure and application services over the next five years.

Email is anti-social (Part 4): Personal vs. community productivity

Each of us has our own email with our own version of content, with our own folders for organisation and our own rules. By design, each of us can only view the contents of our own email. There is no transparency.

E-mail is anti-social (Part 2): Distributed versus collective

E-mail is a poor collaboration tool because the distributed characteristic leads to information fragmentation even at small scale.