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Need for HR analytics and in-depth timely reports is starting to drive enterprises to modernise existing or adopt new HR-related solutions. According to a Greyhound Research study covering 750 Chief Human Resource Outsourcers (CHROs) from across the globe, 80 per…
At the 2016 edition of Mint’s Enterprise Tech Summit titled ‘Big Data analytics in an IoT world’, experts discuss potential and barriers to widespread IOT-Big Data value delivery. The panellists included Sanchit Gogia, Chief Analyst and CEO of Greyhound Research.…
Alibaba is reportedly trying to cement its cloud business with plans to open a data center in India this year. According to Indian newspaper Business Line, China's e-commerce titan has plans to boost its cloud computing business in India likely through…
Read More Alibaba Eyeing Data Center in India to Take on Amazon, Microsoft
Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group is poised to announce its India entry with a data centre. The Hangzhou-headquartered company, which is planning to enter the fledgling e-commerce market in India this year, probably through an acquisition, wants to set up a local data…
Read More Alibaba to set up India data centre to take on Amazon
After the entry of Microsoft and IBM in the public cloud data center market, and with more to follow, the CIO will have to be a connoisseur in weighing cloud options. Public cloud data center services: Indian vs foreign providers…
Read More India becoming the new battlefield for data center providers
While earlier reports pointed out stating that the Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation’s (IRCTC) website was hacked, turns out, it was not. The IRCTC themselves have come out stating that their website was not hacked, but that some data…
Read More IRCTC website not hacked claims Indian Railways Public Relations officer
Microsoft and Tamil Nadu Small and Tiny Industries Association (TANSTIA) have come together to offer a range of modern business devices powered by Windows 10 Pro to empower Small and Medium Businesses (SMBs) in the state to fast-track their growth. Watch video…
Read More Microsoft Partners With TANSTIA To Accelerate SMB Growth With Windows 10
Apple head honcho Tim Cook has been on a visit to neighboring China to meet the company heads of Didi Chuxing, the ride-sharing app in which Apple has invested $1 bn. But reports have been doing the rounds that he now plans to…
Read More What to possibly expect from Tim Cook’s India visit
The vision plans laid out by Infosys and Wipro, which involves doubling their revenue in five years, face several challenges — from employees having to think differently, to achieving scale in new business areas. Sometime in early 2008, TCS laid out…
India’s biggest technology startups are finally getting a taste of devaluation. For the last couple of years, India was flooded with venture capital money, which helped several tech companies become unicorns—startups valued at over $1 billion. But now, some of…
Docoss X1 and Freedom 251 by Ringing Bells are two really cheap smartphones — at least on paper — that have managed to grab attention in India. Docoss X1 costs Rs 888 and offers 4-inch display with 1GB RAM with 4GB storage (32GB…
Read More Docoss X1 Android phone at Rs 888: Why the price is hard to believe
Keeping global Apple iPhone sales stats and it’s bad quarter aside, the year started on a good note for India’s Apple fans as reports about the Cupertino company opening its first exclusive retail store in the country started floating online.…
Read More Where should Apple open its first retail store in India?
As Indians start buying more things online, it is placing a lot of stress on disposal and management of packaging waste. For Kartik Subramanium, a techie, buying online was a cool thing to do. “From clothes to groceries, I shopped online,”…
In April, on-demand grocery delivery service PepperTap shut shop. Recently, online beauty services provider Amber Wellness, which was operating in Bangalore, New Delhi and Mumbai, closed down. But these are not isolated cases. In 2015, around 13 startups closed operations.…
Read More The Real Reasons Behind Indian Startups Shutting Down
On 7 April 2016, as part of the Greyhound Research Analyst team, we had the opportunity to attend the Oracle CloudWorld 2016 in Mumbai, India. At the event we met some of Oracle’s global executives who highlighted the growing demand…
Read More From Recruit to Retire – Oracle Approach To Human Capital Management (HCM)
VMware, a global leader in cloud infrastructure and business mobility, today said that it has sold over a million licenses of its VMware AirWatch Mobile Device Management solution to enterprises in India to help them manage the mobility needs of…
Read More VMware AirWatch sells over a million licenses in India
VMware today announced that it has sold over a million licenses of its VMware AirWatch Mobile Device Management solution to enterprises in India to help them manage the mobility needs of their workforce. The company also announced that India was…
Indian IT services companies with software platforms could be forced to rethink their operational set up after the massive fine imposed by a Wisconsin federal jury against TCS. While TCS has denied the allegations of stealing healthcare software from American…
Read More How the TCS-Epic case could impact the IT services sector
You have to hand it to a company when it says that it has the "guts" to launch 19 products in one go. Or laud it when it realises the problems with its business model and, in one go, aims…
The iPhone SE failed to get off the ground during its launch weekend, with less than 2,000 units distributed across New Delhi, Mumbai and Bengaluru. Steep pricing of the handset, which sees the 16GB model selling for ₹39,000 and the…
E-commerce major Flipkart, with 75 million registered users, has gone back to explaining the basics of online shopping to Indian shoppers with its TV ad campaign, Flipkartmatlab bilkul pakka. The two-film campaign seeks to reassure customers that they can never…
The business models of major online taxi aggregators may be headed for a test in India. On April 6, the southern Indian state of Karnataka announced a ban on surge pricing—the practice of raising fares when demand for taxis is…
Read More Is it stupid to end surge pricing by Ola and Uber in India?
Micromax Mobile, which is India's largest indigenous smartphone brand, is all set to unveil a new brand identity on April 13 at an event in Gurgaon. The company has sent out invites for an event with a hashtag #GutsToChange. "Another…
In this era of globalization, competition is increasing in every field. In India, jobs in IT sector are multiplying day by day and the craze among the employees to go abroad is on a high note. “When companies such as…
The National Association of Software and Services Companies (Nasscom) rejected NR Narayana Murthy's comment wherein he called Indian IT firms as behaving like "immigration agents." Sanchit Gogia, chief analyst and CEO, Greyhound Research, explained that the Indian services model is just not…
Read More Nasscom rejects Murthy’s ‘immigration agents’ comment on Indian IT firms
N R N Murthy, co-founder Infosys, may have stirred up a hornet's nest by saying Indian IT firms behave like immigration agents, but the model that he claims he created to be less dependent on visa's did not yield the…
Read More Nasscom rejects Murthy’s comment calling Indian IT firms immigration agents
Apple has launched the iPhone SE in India at a rather lofty price of Rs 39,000. As many will remember, when Apple originally announced the price of the iPhone SE, the press release sent to journalists said that it will…
Read More Don't buy Apple iPhone SE now, buy it after a month
The acquisition of Geometric by HCL Technologies gives the latter a fillip to its Internet of Things (IoT) segment. “The additional resources that HCL gets from this acquisition, coupled with Geometric’s ability to solve critical issues for engineering clients are…
Read More Acquisition of Geometric gives HCL Tech fillip in IoT segment
N R N Murthy, co-founder Infosys, may have stirred up a hornet's nest by saying Indian IT firms behave like immigration agents, but the model that he claims he created to be less dependent on visa's did not yield the…
Read More Nasscom rejects Murthy’s comment calling Indian IT firms ‘immigration agents’
Capgemini Group, a French information technology services firm with half of its global workforce in India, is planning to make the country its “backbone” by doing more research and development (R&D) work out of India. Capgemini acquired Bengaluru-based IT services…
Read More Capgemini says it plans to do more R&D work out of India
