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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.

SAP Finance Chief Says Could Look At Big Acquisitions Again: Report

German business software maker SAP could start looking at large acquisition targets again, particularly among cloud computing firms, its finance chief was quoted as saying by weekly Euro am Sonntag.

Israeli Defence Computer Hacked Via Tainted Email: Cyber Firm

Hackers broke into an Israeli defence ministry computer via an email attachment tainted with malicious software that looked like it had been sent by the country's Shin Bet secret security service.

Google To Buy AI Company DeepMind

Google, which is working on projects including self-driving cars and robots, has become increasingly focused on artificial intelligence in recent years.

Propalms Launches Windows XP Migration Campaign

This will assist organisations to decide on smarter and low cost migration path.

Hitachi, SAP Expand Relationship With New Innovations, Deeper Strategic Alignment

Customers to benefit from integration of Hitachi's products and services with SAP HANA; sign global OEM agreement.

VMware To Acquire Mobile Solutions Provider AirWatch

Acquisition will provide customers with a solution to manage users, devices and applications across desktop and mobile environments.

Verizon To Add SAP HANA To Cloud Infrastructure

SAP intends to join Verizon Enterprise Cloud Ecosystem to provide SAP HANA Platform across Verizon cloud offerings.

Tata Communications Brings 100G Connectivity From US To Asia With Ciena's GeoMesh

100 gigabits per second upgrade across Tata Communications' TGN-Pacific and Intra-Asia submarine fibre networks to meet increased bandwidth demands.

Nexus Venture Partners Invests In Uniken, A Secure Digital Platform Provider

Uniken, is a security and innovation partner to leading banks and financial institutions, and currently has over a million users on its flagship REL-ID platform.