Balakrishnan declines to comment; Pai out of the country The timing of the letter recommending a buyback of shares worth ₹11,200 crore sent to the Infosys board by two former Infosys CFOs V Balakrishnan and TV Mohandas Pai, reeks of…
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Tech Mahindra Q1 profit falls 8% to Rs631 crore
Revenue rose 24.8% to Rs.5,122 core in the June quarter, as compared with Rs.4,103 crore in the year-ago period. Tech Mahindra Ltd, India’s fifth-largest software services company, said fiscal first-quarter profit fell 8%, missing analysts estimates, on higher visa and hiring…
#GreyhoundInMedia: HCL Tech Q4 Net Jumps 53.7%; Sees Strong Growth Ahead #Press #Media #BusinessStandard
Buoyed by strong growth in application and infrastructure services, India's fourth largest IT solutions firm HCL Technologies Thursday reported a 53.7 per cent surge in its consolidated net profit to Rs 1,834 crore for the fourth quarter ended June 30,…
#GreyhoundInMedia: HCL Tech Q4 Net Jumps 53.7%; Sees Strong Growth Ahead #Press #Media #PTI
Buoyed by strong growth in application and infrastructure services, India's fourth largest IT solutions firm HCL Technologies Thursday reported a 53.7 per cent surge in its consolidated net profit to Rs 1,834 crore for the fourth quarter ended June 30,…
#GreyhoundInMedia: 20 Cost-Conscious Tips for Global Businesses Working with Multiple Vendors #Press #Media #CIO.com
You can’t become a great IT pro without breaking a few metaphoric networking eggs. It would be great if all these mistakes happened in a sandbox environment. Unfortunately, they often happen during business operations. “As organizations are increasingly delegating control…
#GreyhoundInMedia: HCL Technologies net profit rises 54%, beats estimates #Press #Media #Mint
The net profit climbs to Rs1,834 crore, while net sales for the reporting quarter rise 21% to Rs8,424 crore. HCL Technologies Ltd, India’s fourth largest software exporter, posted a better-than-expected 54% rise in June quarter profit. “The last quarter has been…
#GreyhoundInMedia: HCL Tech April-June net up 13% on quarter at Rs 1,834 cr, margins surprise #Press #Media #FirstBiz
HCL Technologies posted a better-than-expected 13 percent increase in net profit during April-June on robust growth in operating margins. The company’s net profit stood at Rs 1,834 crore, compared with a CNBC TV18 poll estimate of Rs 1,611.4 crore. Sanchit Gogia, Chief…
#GreyhoundInMedia:20 of the Most Painful Lessons IT Pros Had to Learn the Hard Way #Press #Media #CIO.com
You can’t become a great IT pro without breaking a few metaphoric networking eggs. It would be great if all these mistakes happened in a sandbox environment. Unfortunately, they often happen during business operations. While learnings from these mistakes are invaluable,…
#GreyhoundInMedia: Innovation is the Way to Success #Press #Media #CIO&Leader
Innovation has always been one of the keys to success for a CIO; and over the years, every enterprise technology decision maker has realised that the job is much more than just managing IT in the organisation. The management's expectations…
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#GreyhoundInMedia: Tech push by railways a billion dollar opportunity for IT firms #Press #Media #Mint
The National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government’s first railway budget, which envisages implementing Internet connectivity at stations and in trains, digitizing land records, integrating all its computer systems and achieving a paperless office in five years, has thrown up a billion…
#GreyhoundInMedia: TCS May Soon Be World’s Second Biggest Tech Employer #Press #Media #BusinessInsider
TCS has become the world’s third largest employer of people in the technology sector, with over 3 lakh employees. And given the pace at which it is growing, it could become the second largest employer this year, crossing Hewlett-Packard, and…
#GreyhoundInMedia: Back Office at the Forefront #Press #Media #BusinessToday
Capgemini took a little time in adopting India as its global hub for offshoring but is now going full throttle. Aruna Jayanthi, CEO of Capgemini India, still remembers the first two contracts the technology outsourcing services provider signed with overseas clients.…
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#GreyhoundInMedia: Yahoo! India clicks into Marissa’s turnaround plan #Press #Media #HBL
Gurmit Singh, who took over as the Managing Director of Yahoo! India earlier this year, has a tough job in hand. At a time when rivals such as Google and Facebook are catching the imagination of Internet users, Gurmit Singh…
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#GreyhoundInMedia: How To Pick The Right Mobile Sales Force Automation App #Press #Media
For Ywain Cheney, Fridays used to be dominated by manually uploading documents and photos to his company's intranet. He spent several hours updating the site to provide the sales department with the tools it needed. Cheney, head of the art department…
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#GreyhoundInMedia: The Cons Of Microsoft Office 365 #Press #Media
The Office 365 SaaS offering from the software giant Microsoft has some serious flaws according to industry experts and research firms. ‘’Since the Office 365 is a cloud based offering the purchasing and transferring of licences becomes a complex issue,’’…
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70% Organizations Use Mobility in Emerging Markets
Greyhound Research has announced a new study on Enterprise Mobility. The study deals with how business leaders are increasingly demanding access to enterprise applications on mobile. More than 70 per cent of the organizations Greyhound interviewed stated to have plans…
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#GreyhoundInMedia: Oracle’s victory over Google on API copyright may impact software development #Press #Media
Excluding APIs from copyright protection key to development of the Internet. Technology major Oracle’s victory over Google in a recent lawsuit over copyrighting Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) may cause additional problems to software developers and impact how various IT systems interact…
#GreyhoundInMedia: Jaypee plans Rs.18,000 crore initial investment in microchip facility #Press #Media
Jaypee Group will proceed with its ambitious microchip fabrication facility in partnership with International Business Machines Corp., betting that a new government at the centre will boost infrastructure development, the lack of which has discouraged semiconductor makers from setting up plants in…
HDS makes strong moves into IT infra, Internet of Things with Continuous Cloud Infrastructure
Hitachi Data Systems Corporation (HDS), a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi has announced new solutions that take it well into the software defined data centre (SDCC) as well as deepening its fraternal ties with Hitachi Research and other Hitachi companies…
HCL Technologies banks on Govt deals
The country’s fourth largest information technology services provider, HCL Technologies, has turned its focus to the Indian market. The company expects to increase its revenue from the domestic market, largely from Government business. Competitors like TCS and Infosys have been getting…
HCL Technologies banks on Govt deals
The country’s fourth largest information technology services provider, HCL Technologies, has turned its focus to the Indian market. The company expects to increase its revenue from the domestic market, largely from Government business. Competitors like TCS and Infosys have been getting…
The Gossamer Fabric of CEM
Customer interactions have become like a complex code that needs proper decoding in order to serve them better. As consumers use multiple touch-points to access information, exchange reviews and buy products and services, organizations are clearly finding it difficult to…
Tweet-Up on ‘What’s real in real-time customer experience?’ – Join The Conversation!
We live in a world of instant where email may very well be considered the new snail mail. I’d be the first to admit too that I fit quite firmly in that group of customers who demand answers and demand…
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Greyhound Research as a Knowledge Partner at CIO Leadership Retreat 2014
What is the event all about? Today's most advanced and complicated IT technology landscape poses unprecedented challenges and needless to say that an isolated approach never can address these challenges. This is only possible with a strong, mutually understood IT…
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More India-born executives could head tech firms in future
With speculation rife that Microsoft Corp was considering another Indian-origin executive for its top position, experts feel it signals the maturity of both, Indian techies as well as the overall industry and that an increasing number of Indians could head technology multinationals…
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GoDaddy expands domain of web naming business
GoDaddy, Scottsdale, Arizona-based registrar of Internet names, has a made a name for itself in the Indian market with rates as low as Rs 59 per month, notching up over a million customers and stealing well-known newage internet clients away from competitors.…
Greyhound Research as a Knowledge Partner at CXO Leadership Retreat 2013
What is the event all about? The Indian Economy is experiencing its worst slowdown in nearly a decade on the back of global contractionary headwinds, domestic macro-economic imbalances and policy reversals on the fiscal front. With growth pegged at below…
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5 lessons IT leaders can learn from Obamacare rollout mistakes
There’s still plenty of disagreement about the ideology, efficacy and even legality of the Affordable Care Act (i.e. Obamacare), but there’s broad consensus that the launch of HealthCare.gov website was a dismal failure. And like so many tech rollout disasters, this one…
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Ola Gets Second Round Of Funding From Matrix Partners
Olacabs, India’s largest aggregator of car rentals and cab services, has received second round of financing from private equity firm Matrix Partners India and existing investor Tiger Global Management. While the company did not divulge the amount of funding, industry sources…
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How to sail through complex Due Diligence process
Setting up systems, adhering to all financial and legal requirements and transparency will help a venture sail through an increasingly complex due diligence process. Tight-fisted investors are taking longer to close deals at startups as they become more alive to the…