Sikka’s ‘New and ReNew’ strategy sparks a slow turnaround at Infosys

India's second largest IT services exporter Infosys Ltd reported better than expected net profit numbers and revenue, which were in line with market expectations for the third quarter of the current financial year. However, Sanchit Vir Gogia, Chief Analyst and…

Telecom Manufacturing: Can India make it?

After spending last three years in navigating the policy landscape for telecom manufacturing, India is now ready for take-off. At the helm, is a supportive government ready to do all that it takes to facilitate the industry. However… Industry experts…

Sikka’s plan for Infosys defies the norm

During his keynote address at the inaugural session at CeBit India, the local edition of the world's largest IT expo, in November last year, Infosys CEO Vishal Sikka first expressed his "disappointment" with the Indian IT services industry. He had…

Infosys Will Remain A Services Firm, Says Sikka; Promises To Deliver More Value

Assuaging concerns over some sections of the industry that Infosys is becoming a product company, CEO Vishal Sikka has asserted that it will continue to be a services company going forward. “The trick for Sikka would be to do a…

Global And Indian Cloud Companies Scale Up Capacity To Meet Demand

With a fledgling cloud computing market in the country, both international and Indian cloud players are ramping up capacity to meet the increasing demand and are expected to spend over Rs 10,000 crore in the next three years. As per…

Q2 Call: HCL Technologies Expects A 210 bps Hit On Its Revenue

India's fourth ­largest information technology outsourcing company HCL Technologies said on Tuesday that it expects a strong dollar to adversely impact its revenue in the second quarter ending December 2014. "Looking at the performance and numbers of HCL and TCS in this…

Top Trends Influencing Healthcare IT In 2015

The healthcare landscape is undergoing substantial changes as systems are being driven by rapid advances in mobile platforms, health information technology, and social media. Sanchit Vir Gogia, Chief Analyst and Group CEO, Greyhound Research states that with the emergence of…

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Patience Will Be Key For Survival Of IT Retail: Greyhound Research

Sanchit Vir Gogia, CEO, Greyhound Research, gives us five reasons why the e-tailers’ predatory pricing can’t last forever While there is no doubt that certain well-funded e-commerce power-houses have eaten into the domestic IT channel market, we have reasons to…

More niche acquisitions likely in e-commerce sector, say analysts

In a bid to strengthen their presence in the e-commerce sector, large players such as Amazon, Snapdeal and Flipkart are likely to look at acquiring companies with niche, differential capabilities, say industry analysts. "Snapdeal will be able to leverage Unicommerce's…

Alarm bells: TCS red flags Q3 growth

Blames slowing revenue from financial services, impact of holidays. Slowing revenue from financial services clients and seasonal factors such as holidays and furloughs in key western markets may cause Tata Consultancy Services to report muted earnings growth for the quarter ending…

Emerging Enterprise Technologies Driving Shift from Endpoint to Network Security

The rapid adoption of SoCloMo is shifting the focus of security organisations from endpoint security to network security; the market pegged at $266 million in 2014, claims almost 28 percent of the total enterprise security market in India. According to…

All will be well: taxi service investors

Confident that strong regulatory and monitoring mechanism will eliminate problems. Despite the Delhi government and some States banning the operations of taxi aggregators after a Uber cab driver allegedly raped a passenger, investors continue to place faith in them, in the…

Greyhound Research ranked number two in Asia Pacific and top 10 globally in ‘Analyst Firm Of The Year Awards’

The firm has the credit of the only young firm (18 months in operation) amongst the list of long existing global majors Commenting on this announcement, Sanchit Vir Gogia, Chief Analyst and Group CEO, Greyhound Research said, “I want to…

Avekshaa gets funding from Karnataka IT Venture

Avekshaa Technologies, an IT start-up company backed by former Infosys CFO V Balakrishnan, has chalked out aggressive growth plans. “A disruption is needed in the way Indian outsourcers bag deals and more of the old style pitching will not work,”…

Analyst Firm Of The Year Awards: Greyhound Research ranked No.2 in APAC

Greyhound Research, the 18-months old IT and telecom research firm, has been ranked second best analyst firm in Asia Pacific by Influencer Relations. It also becomes the only analyst firm headquartered in Asia Pacific to rank amongst top 10 firms…

Greyhound Research in the running for Influencer Relations’ Analyst Firm of the Year awards

Influencer Relations blog has announced the 2014 “Analyst Firm of the Year” awards. Contenders have been narrowed down to a shortlist of 18 firms which are in the top ten rankings for ten different categories. The awards aim to recognise…

Steel beneath softness

Amiable, convivial and genial are some of the adjectives used to describe Krishnakumar Natarajan, or KK, the easygoing CEO of Mindtree. In January 2011, though, nothing was going easy for the Bangalore-based IT and outsourcing company, which was co-founded by…

Deal stream: Six deals worth Rs 27,153 crore closed in just seven days

With markets hitting new highs almost everyday and business sentiment improving, India Inc got on to the mergers and acquisitions (M&A) bandwagon closing as many as six deals worth Rs 27,153 crore in just seven days. On the TechM deal,…

EMC Redefines Hybrid Cloud for the Enterprise

EMC Enterprise Hybrid Cloud Federation Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC) Edition with VMware available immediately. Microsoft Cloud Platform and OpenStack® Editions to be available in 2015. Solution offers public cloud interoperability with VMware vCloud® AirTM, Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and…

EMC Furthers Its Hybrid Cloud Ambition For Enterprises

Last month IT major EMC announced globally that it is venturing into the hybrid cloud space. At a recent webinar the IT major explains how the company is furthering its hybrid cloud ambition by launching a new solution for enterprises…

EMC Announces Professional Services For Hybrid Cloud

The company has announced four new services under its professional services portfolio to for end-to-end turnkey operational management; to analyze application requirements and workload suitability; for IT transformation and education services According to Sanchit Vir Gogia, Chief Analyst and Group…

Steel beneath softness

Amiable, convivial and genial are some of the adjectives used to describe Krishnakumar Natarajan, or KK, the easygoing CEO of Mindtree. In January 2011, though, nothing was going easy for the Bangalore-based IT and outsourcing company, which was co-founded by…

Window to the World

How eBay India is helping small businesses sell their products worldwide.For many years Taushif Ansari worked for a merchant making leather jackets in Dharavi, Mumbai. In 2012, he started his own business and registered with e-commerce marketplace eBay. For the…

Riding The Next Wave Of Digital Growth

Indian IT services companies are realizing that ‘digital’ is the way to go. They are investing in new technologies such as cloud computing, mobile technologies, data analytics among other and bagging high-margin outsourcing contracts to respond to the growing competition. In an…

Conversation with Sanchit Vir Gogia on Cloud Adoption

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Big Data Impacts One And All

To serve a growing customer base and better manage the client experience across all customer touchpoints, organisations are moving away from siloed transaction-oriented systems – such as enterprise resource planning (ERP), customer relationship management (CRM) and dealer management systems –…

Catch Greyhound Research as a knowledge partner in association with Information Week Big Data Analytics Summit

What is the event all about? Big Data has been the buzzword in the technology space for quite some time now, with analysts and service providers discussing numerous benefits that can be derived by crunching the huge data sets available.…

Catch Greyhound Research as a knowledge partner in association with Informationweek Big Data Analytics Summit

What is the event all about? Big Data has been the buzzword in the technology space for quite some time now, with analysts and service providers discussing numerous benefits that can be derived by crunching the huge data sets available.…