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By acquiring LinkedIn, Microsoft is looking at further strengthening its business from corporates in India and social networking play, an area in which it lags behind Facebook. Analysts feel that Microsoft’s Productivity and Business Processes as one of the three segments…
US-based social networking company LinkedIn is looking at buying Indian start-ups, has tweaked its India portal and with its new 800 seater office in Bengaluru, as it seeks to build on its India presence. India is currently the second biggest market…
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…
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)
When Nirmal Jain, an IBM employee, was about to be sent to Jordan on his first onsite posting, his family had serious concerns about security. However, for Jain, now 24, it was a blessing in disguise. IBM paid him a…
Hike Messenger’s new office at the Aerocity in Delhi was designed by Kavin Mittal, its 27-year-old CEO. That is in keeping with Mittal’s career choices; he chooses to build his own things. He could have joined any of the several…
Read More Father didn’t tell him to, but Kavin Mittal took a Hike
The startup boom in the country is propelling a parallel IT services industry. While established technology companies such as Infosys and Tata Consultancy Services largely cater to overseas customers, upcoming firms are focusing on India, quenching the domestic demand for…
Read More Thanks to startup boom, new IT services providers born in India
When Vineet Nayyar joined Tech Mahindra (called Mahindra British Telecom), it was a mere $110-million company. Today, it has revenues close to $3.9 billion, and is the second biggest company in the Mahindra Group with a share of 23 per…
The next five years would come from digital. Barely a year later, the IT service provider's digital revenue is already at $2.2 billion and Chandra is upbeat. "It has been another great year. Our industry is at an inflection point…
In the final leg of Tata Group's initiative to launch a hybrid ecommerce venture comprising all its consumer companies, many group firms, including Titan and Trent, have set up special liaison teams to help with the digital drive. These teams will work with Tata Unistore,…
Read More Tata Companies firm up Digital teams before launch of Ecommerce venture
Anand Mahindra is seeking fresh blood to power his group's move to digital, and is on the prowl for 20 'high-powered folks' to make his seven-decade old auto-to-defence conglomerate more digitally savvy as Indian businesses go through a wave of…
Read More TechMahindra to rope in 20 execs for digital; poach Askme CEO Jaspreet Bindra
Building new types of computers, constructing an intelligent cloud and helping companies increase productivity are the three “interlocking ambitions” he wants Microsoft Corp. to pursue “boldly”, CEO Satya Nadella said in a conversation on Thursday. “Satya did great justice to…
Digital disruption is allowing customers to engage with organisations through new-age customer touch points like mobile devices, app stores and online communities. Traditional go-to-market channels like retail stores are being replaced by new-age digital channels such as mCommerce and eCommerce…
Read More Driving Revenue In The Face Of Digital Transformation – A CSO Directive
The correlation between employee engagement and organisational success is a no-brainer. Over decades while Chief Human Resources Officers (CHROs) have automated processes that translate to improved employee performance, they continue to search better ways to motivate employees. The need to…
Read More The Insight-Led Approach To Talent Processes – Points To Ponder for CHROs
To serve a growing customer base and better manage customer experience across all touch points, organisations are increasingly moving away from siloed Systems of Transaction in favour of contextual Systems of Engagement. These new systems are expected to help marketers…
Read More Delivering Customer Experiences That Bring Home The Dollars – A CMO’s Guidebook
With organisations grappling with modest growth prospects, expectations from the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) has come under scrutiny. In addition to sluggish growth in matured markets, CEOs are now faced with a new-world equilibrium where growth can be expected from…
Read More Rebooting Growth In New-World Equilibrium: CEO Holy Grail To Managing Disruption
With the onset of the festive season, it's raining discounts and even gold bars for customers of Flipkart and Amazon as both these e-tailers are trying to woo shoppers with best deals and grab market share. Both firms have invested…
Read More Consumers are winners in Amazon vs Flipkart war – Economic Times
Federation of Indian Micro and Small & Medium Enterprises (FISME), an apex industry body, and Microsoft have come together to enable more than 10,000 micro, small and medium businesses across the country to adopt information technology and cloud computing. This…
Read More FISME and Microsoft to enable more than 10,000 SMBs for cloud adoption – CIO India
Federation of Indian Micro and Small & Medium Enterprises (FISME), an apex industry body, and Microsoft have come together to enable more than 10,000 Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises across the country to adopt information technology and cloud computing. This…
The Redmond-based technology major Microsoft on Wednesday said that all users who have a subscription of Office 365, which is a cloud-based service, will get the new Office 2016 for free. Other users can purchase the new suite, which is available in 14…
The Redmond-based technology major Microsoft on Wednesday said that all users who have a subscription of Office 365, which is a cloud-based service, will get the new Office 2016 for free. Although the technology major may be focused on collaboration,…
Read More Microsoft Office 365 users to get Office 2016 free
Microsoft has made some significant announcements on its cloud strategy in India. The software giant has shared updates on its local data centres. As part of today's announcements, the company has launched three centres in Mumbai, Pune, and Chennai; and…
Read More Microsoft India 3 data centres launched; locally hosted Office 365 to go live
Intuit, a US accounting software company, has retrenched at least 440 employees globally and the wave has hit Indian shores, too. According to officials in the company's Bengaluru office, 35 employees including developers, sales and marketing staff were asked to leave last…
For its big day, Apple made sure to create much hype around one product iPad Pro much in advance. And, the launch of the tablet cum laptop targeted at business customers became the highlight of the Apple event. On Sep 9,…
Read More Selling iPad Pro to Indian enterprises no cake walk for Apple
From the demos and the presence of Microsoft touting its productivity applications like Office 360 and Adobe with Photoshop, it was clear that Apple's big iPad Pro announcement was about business users. Thus far, the iPad was seen as a content…
Read More Analysts don’t see Apple iPadPro take a big bite of Indian Enterprise pie
Google Inc. is continuing to sharpen its focus on its India business by attempting to get more non-English speaking users online, providing more offline content to users with poor bandwidth, boosting the growth of its Android ecosystem, and helping more…
India is one of the most exciting consumer markets in the world. An expanding middle class population with rising average income and increasing spending power, coupled with rapid urbanization, add to India’s consumption story. Fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG), with a…
What is the event about? The CIO Forum: EMC Forum is a flagship event that covers trends and cloud directions, use cases, and discussions. Connect with peers, learn from experts, and experience demos. EMC Forum is time well spent to…
Read More Greyhound Research at EMC Forum talk about Startup Approach to Information Generation
Two weeks after making Azure available locally in its three Indian datacentres, Microsoft has now announced locally hosted Office 365 services in India. On October 12, the software giant said Office 365 services will now be delivered in India from the local datacentres…
Read More Microsoft Office 365 now available from Indian Datacentres
