As India slips on the Ease of Doing Business Index, it is imperative to understand why businesses are struggling to operate at maximum efficiency levels. Our survey of 1500+ key decision-makers from emerging large organisations established another major problem -…
Read More More than 75% Indian Organisations Run Their Key Business Functions In Isolation
Amazon Web Services (AWS) said it will open an AWS infrastructure region in India for its cloud computing platform in 2016. "Tens of thousands of customers in India are using AWS from one of AWS's eleven global infrastructure regions outside…
Read More After IBM and Microsoft, Amazon plans to set up data centre in India next year @firstpost
Over the past few months, RPG Enterprises chairman Harsh Goenka, has been having an assignation every other Friday for a few hours. That's when he meets his think tank of former consultants and investment bankers. Their task— to come up…
Amid high expectations from the IT industry, Finance minister Arun Jaitley presented his first full-year Union Budget 2015 in the Lok Sabha on Saturday. This time the expectations were much higher, given the fact that technology was a focus area…
Read More Sorry Mr Jaitley, Your Budget 2015 Has Left The IT Sector In The Lurch
Earlier this morning I was chatting with a CIO of a large manufacturing organization with presence across multiple continents. They are currently benchmarking Mobile Device Management (MDM) vendors to help secure their mobile environment and we are helping them with…
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Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Saturday announced the Union Budget for 2015, and the new budget comes with a number of benefits for technology companies. The public might not be so happy to see the rate for service tax inch…
Earlier this morning I was chatting with a CIO of a large manufacturing organization with presence across multiple continents. They are currently benchmarking Mobile Device Management (MDM) vendors to help secure their mobile environment and we are helping them with this…
Read More Putting EMM Vendors Through Poodle Attack Check: All But One Pass Ring of Fire
If the big idea of Budget 2014, announced on 10 July, was clearly start-ups, the Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance government took it a step further by announcing on Saturday an allocation of Rs.1,000 crore to enable information technology…
On a call earlier today (with an end-user client) I was discussing enterprise security norms around cloud-based productivity suite offerings. Like many IT Decision Makers who are taking the leap to the cloud, our client (based in the APJ region)…
Read More Microsoft Office365 Impacted With Poodle Attack: Case Of Cloud Security Fallen Short
Sanchit Vir Gogia, Chief Analyst, Greyhound Research says that announcements made in Budget 2014 have remained mere aspirations with lack of clarity on policies with regard to Digital India, uncertainty over the Rs 10,000 crore start-up fund for MSMEs, as…
Read More Greyhound Radio with Sanchit Vir Gogia on Union Budget 2015
Through its landmark initiatives such as ‘Digital India’ and ‘Make In India’, the Indian government has demonstrated the importance of digital technologies for industries to sustain and grow. In the Union budget 2015-16, IT industry expects the finance minister to…
Read More Will Union Budget Give Impetus To Digital India Dream?
GST - Clarity on place of supply rules While the government has floated a bill for common goods and service tax (GST) across the country last month, contemplations appear with respect to various aspect of GST design including price and…
Read More Budget 2015: Analyst Seeks Relief From Double Taxation On Software
A smart city is definitely much more than the ICT deployed in it but at the same time there is no doubt that it is the ICT solutions that go into making of the city and turning it smart for…
GST – Clarity on place of supply rules Greyhound Standpoint - While the government has floated a bill for common goods and service tax (GST) across the country last month, contemplation's appear with respect to various aspect of GST design including price…
Read More Greyhound Standpoint On Top Expectations Of IT Head Honchos From Budget 2015-16
The budget is just round the corner. Everyone has their own set of expectations from the upcoming budget. While common man is hoping the budget to bring some tax relief and cheaper commodities, industrialists are keeping their fingers crossed about…
Read More What IT Head Honchos Are Expecting From Budget 2015-16
The budget is just round the corner. Everyone has their own set of expectations from the upcoming budget. While common man is hoping the budget to bring some tax relief and cheaper commodities, industrialists are keeping their fingers crossed about…
Read More What IT Head Honchos Are Expecting From Budget 2015-16
Cap Gemini SA, the Paris-based consulting and software services firm, is trying to save costs by farming out more work to its centres in India and hiring freshers from colleges.Capgemini, which has software development centres in more than 10locations outside France,…
Read More India to become Capgemini’s default offshoring location soon
Despite wage hikes and currency fluctuations, top tier Indian IT firms managed to keep their profits in fine kettle on a year-on-year basis thanks to better utlilisation rates and a slow uptick in the demand environment. The near term looks…
Read More #GreyhoundInMedia: IT takes an optimistic curve #Press #Media #CommunicationsToday
Despite wage hikes and currency fluctuations, top tier Indian IT firms managed to keep their profits in fine kettle on a year-on-year basis thanks to better utlilisation rates and a slow uptick in the demand environment. The near term looks…
Read More #GreyhoundInMedia: IT takes an optimistic curve #Press #Media #TheFinancialExpress
The revenue opportunity from these projects could be as large as Rs.25,000 cr over the next few years. With the new government pushing for e-governance, government agencies have once again begun floating online tenders for information and communications technology (ICT) projects, a…
Read More #GreyhoundInMedia: Govt bodies float e-tenders for ICT projects #Press #Media #Mint
After a prolonged and disheartening drought for two years, things are finally looking up for the auto sector. Due to positive consumer sentiments and new models being introduced in the market, the auto sector is showing signs of revival. The credit,…
Read More #GreyhoundInMedia: IT Scores as Automobile Sales Grow #Press #Media #ComputerWorld
After a prolonged and disheartening drought for two years, things are finally looking up for the auto sector. Due to positive consumer sentiments and new models being introduced in the market, the auto sector is showing signs of revival. The credit,…
Read More #GreyhoundInMedia: IT Scores as Automobile Sales Grow #Press #Media #CIO
Rahul Banerjee, vice-president of sales and marketing in a leading consumer goods company, is a road warrior. He spends almost 20 days a month visiting various cities. Earlier, on his trips, he routinely packed his laptop, his iPad and a…
A discussion with IT leaders and managers on cloud security is always an interesting one. While I’ve had the pleasure of having multiple such discussions over the last 2-3 years, the roundtable I chaired during the recent NASSCOM India Leadership…
