The past few quarters have been busy for us at Greyhound Research. At one end, our team of analysts and consultants have been working closely with some of the world's biggest companies and helping them with their digital transformation strategy.…
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Business As Usual For IT Companies Despite Omicron, Say Experts
The United States and UK are the top two markets for the $190 billion Indian IT industry and the spike in Covid-19 cases has brought back concerns of a global lockdown, and how this would impact the sector. Sanchit Vir…
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Industry Spotlight E01: IBM Customer Experience Solutions For Banking & Financial Markets
The past few quarters have been busy for us at Greyhound Research. At one end, our team of analysts and consultants have been working closely with some of the world's biggest companies and helping them with their digital transformation strategy.…
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Product Spotlight E01: IBM Watson AIOps
Over the past months, we at Greyhound Research have received a ton of requests from our end-user clients to offer more product deep-dives. Essentially, share insights that go beyond the usual 30,000 feet conversations and focus on products/suites that IT…
#CounterpunchWithSVG E10: IBM To Focus On The Contact Centre And This Time It’s About Data & AI. But Are The Clients Ready?
In the past month, I have spoken to over two dozen contact centre decision-makers on how they have managed the floor during #COVID19 times - all have stated the need to invest in more technology as key for operations hereon…
#CounterpunchWithSVG E09: Despite Its Battles, IBM Is Confident That Its India Business Will Thrive. Will It, Really?
#CounterpunchWithSVG crossed a significant milestone yesterday. In this year so far the series has garnered over 30,000 views from over 100 countries. More than anything else, I see this milestone as the best stamp of approval for this format and…
#CounterpunchWithSVG E08: Oracle Believes Its Cloud Is Like No Other. But Is It, Really?
#CounterpunchWithSVG is now seven exchanges old and has been read more than 20,000 times from over 100 countries. I have had the pleasure of hosting some big names from the world of technology who have braved not only some straightforward…
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#CounterpunchWithSVG E07: NTT Ltd. Is Experiencing Record Growth, But Is It Enough?
The year 2020 has turned out to be a rather dramatic one so far. The COVID-19 pandemic has literally halted the world in its tracks. While parallels are being drawn to World War II, this pandemic is far graver and…
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#CounterpunchWithSVG E06: Red Hat Believes Open Hybrid Cloud Is The End Goal. But Is It?
The year 2020 has turned out to be a rather dramatic one so far. The COVID-19 pandemic has literally halted the world in its tracks. While parallels are being drawn to World War II, this pandemic is far graver and…
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IT Companies Resort To Layoffs As Pressure Mounts Due To Covid Crisis
The information technology (IT) industry is laying off thousands of employees across the globe and in India, on grounds of non-performance, lack of projects and rightsizing surplus staff as pressure mounts on firms due to an uncertain business environment. …
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Cognizant Slashes Jobs As Part Of Cost Cutting, Revamp Plan
Cognizant Technology Solutions will eliminate as many as 7,000 mid-senior level jobs globally and reskill about 5,000 employees as part of a plan to save costs and simplify the company’s organizational structure. “Such layoffs are already happening quietly in the industry…
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Indian IT Looks Homeward As Digital Transformation Kicks In
Exports-focused Indian IT services firms have stepped up focus on the typically smaller footprint domestic market, driven by Indian companies transforming their business using digital technology and as the government moves to use technology to improve governance. In the past…
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Vishal Sikka’s Vian Systems Raises $50 Million In Funding
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Vodafone-Idea, IBM Deal Set To Exceed USD 1 Bn
Vodafone Idea Limited (VIL) is believed to have finalised a new $700-800 million (Rs4,900 crore-5,600 crore) five-year technology outsourcing contract with IBM, a deal that is expected to contribute a major part to the Rs8,400 crore annual opex savings that…
Vodafone-Idea, IBM Set To Seal $700-800 Million 5-year IT Outsourcing Deal
Vodafone Idea is believed to have finalised a new $700-800 million (Rs4,900 crore-5,600 crore) five-year technology outsourcing contract with IBM, a deal that is expected to contribute a major part to the Rs8,400 crore annual opex savings that the telecom…
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Episode 2: #GreyhoundTV #DoubleDecaff – IBM Announces Sydney Multi-Zone Region
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Episode 1: #GreyhoundTV #DoubleDecaff – AWS Launches New Region in Hong Kong
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Vodafone Idea Outsourcing Deal To Exceed USD 1 Billion for IBM India
Vodafone Idea Ltd. (VIL), India’s top telecom operator, may miss an internal deadline of December 2018 to finalise new IT contracts, and is holding advanced talks with US software major IBM to finalise a multi-year deal by March end, which, some estimates suggest, could…
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Cognizant Tax Evasion Issue Unlikely To Have Significant Impact
Industry experts believe that Cognizant will not see much impact from its ongoing case with the income tax authorities in India. "Cognizant is not a company that is known to be non-compliant. That said, a company of its stature should…
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AI Is Coming Of Age, So Should You
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Busting The Myths of Artificial Intelligence
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Episode 5: Greyhound TV Dealing With Digital – In Conversation With Bjorn Engelhardt
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Episode 3: Greyhound TV Dealing With Digital – In Conversation With Vilakshan Jakhu
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Tweet Chat On The Future Of Mainframe – All About Digital Transformation
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Here’s Why Mainframes Are Still Relevant In The Cloud & Mobile Era
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Tweet Chat On The Future Of Mainframe
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In 3 Years, Sikka Helps Buoy Infosys Profit
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IT Industry Stares At Jobless Growth
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Data Centre & Compute Modernisation: Critical Success Factors In Digital Transformation Agenda
Digital Transformation is topping the priority charts not just with technology leaders but with CEOs and Boards alike. Findings from a recent Greyhound Research study titled, Global CEO Priorities 2017, tell this tale eloquently. Per the study, over 95% global…
Reskilling: Indian IT Sector Starts Massive Effort To Learn New Tricks
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