VodafoneIn has a new ally in IBM for a whopping $1 bn deal

Vodafone, one of India's top telecom operators, is now in talks with the software major IBM for the renewal of a $1 billion outsourcing contract that will expire in June next year. The mobile network operator outsources services like management of…

Restoring & Reinventing

On 20 august — which happened to be Infosys founder N.R. Narayana Murthy’s 69th birthday — the company CEO and managing director Vishal Sikka announced a new set of services, ‘Aikido’. Named after Japanese martial art that is about defeating…

Renewable Energy: It’s Not Just About Cost Savings

With enhanced technological advances and constantly depleting natural resources, there is an increasing need for companies to factor in alternative energy resources while not just devising new industry solutions, but also in planning organization’s sustainable future. Enterprises are now seeing the…

LIC gearing up to give tough fight to private insurers. Know how

Time is ripe for Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) to go for a technology upgradation plan! To compete with private players, the state-run insurer will rely on technology upgradation. This includes handling documents, speed up policy writing, setting up…

LIC upgrading technology to compete with private sector

State-run Life Insurance Corporation of India is upgrading its technology to compete better with the private sector. The country's largest insurer has issued tenders for upgrade of its system to handle documents and speed up policy writing, creation of acall…

Wipro hikes staff wages by 7%

Fixed pay of junior and mid-level employees also raised Wipro has hiked wages of its employees by seven per cent, in line with the industry, to curb attrition and rejuvenate growth. According to Nasscom, the Indian IT industry is expected…

What Indian CIOs make of outsourcing price wars?

If you were to come up an apt phrase to describe the outsourcing market, what would it be? Not too tough a guessing game! But just in case you haven't been able to guess it right, don't cudgel your brains.…

TCS Q4 Net Profit Plummets 30%

Tata Consultancy Services has recorded a 30.7 per cent fall in net profit for the fourth quarter ended March 31, 2015, by a one-off bonus paid to employees, cross currency-movements and overall weakness in key sectors. “The very fact that…

Capgemini – IGATE Corp Deal: More MAs In India, Scramble For Clients In The Offing

Capgemini’s $4 billion offer to acquire iGATE–the largest buyout of an India-related IT services firm–could well be a harbinger of a clutch of merger and acquisition (M&A) deals involving mid-size firms, say industry watchers. “There are lots of such players…

Capgemini Acquires IGATE Corp For $4 Billion

French IT-services major Capgemini on Monday announced the acquisition of US-based IGATE for $4.04 billion in a combination of cash, stock and debt deal. With this acquisition, Capgemini expects to boost its presence in North America, the largest IT-services market…

HCL Tech Misses Estimates, Disappoints Markets

HCL Technologies, the fourth-largest information technology (IT) services provider, followed in the footsteps of Tata Consultancy Services in disappointing the markets by missing the estimates for the January-March quarter. The company's financial year ends in June. "These results are a…

HCL Tech Misses Estimates, Disappoints Markets

(IT) services provider, followed in the footsteps of Tata Consultancy Services in disappointing the markets by missing the estimates for the January-March quarter. The company's financial year ends in June.  These results are a mixed bag - while on the…

Sanchit Vir Gogia, Chief Analyst and CEO, Greyhound Research’s quote on TCS Q4 result

Greyhound Research believes that with revenue growth of 1.1% in Q4, TCS holds a sturdy position in the market in terms of growth and competitive positioning. This growth in their revenue is surely accredited to their sharp focus on emerging…

TCS Will Have To Run Harder To Stay Ahead Of The Pack

Over the past few years, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has increasingly turned out to be the bellwether for the Indian IT industry, a position long held by Infosys. Sanchit Vir Gogia, CEO of Greyhound Research in post results commentary said…

TCS Q4 Net Profit Plummets 30%

Tata Consultancy Services has recorded a 30.7 per cent fall in net profit for the fourth quarter ended March 31, 2015, by a one-off bonus paid to employees, cross currency-movements and overall weakness in key sectors. “The very fact that…

Will The New COO Rewrite Wipro’s Growth Strategy?

Abid Neemuchwala’s appointment comes at crucial time, with top executives set to retire. “It will help Kurien to focus on acquisitions and new business models,” added Sanchit Gogia, an analyst at Greyhound Research. To read the Full Article, click here:…

$130-b Software Sector Braces For Currency Correction

After TCS and Mindtree set the alarm bells ringing with their cautionary outlook, exporters in the $130-billion sector are bracing for currency volatility, as global currencies have depreciated sharply against the dollar in the recent past. The slowdown can also…

With IT Companies The King Of Good Times, Clients Want To Be Prince

Indian companies are asking their information technology vendors to pass on the benefits of automation and improving technology in the form of rate cuts and outcome-based pricing, highlighting the need for Indian IT players to speed their move away from…

Big Local Tech Buyers Push IT Vendors For Rate Cuts

Indian companies are asking their information technology vendors to pass on the benefits of automation and improving technology in the form of rate cuts and outcome-based pricing, highlighting the need for Indian IT players to speed their move away from…

Blackstone In Race To Acquire Serco’s BPO Unit

Private equity giant Blackstone is in the race to buy the Indian BPO unit of Serco as the London-listed group scouts for a new owner for the outsourcing firm it acquired four years ago. According to sources, Serco is in…

Blackstone In Race To Acquire Serco’s BPO Unit

Private equity giant Blackstone is in the race to buy the Indian BPO unit of Serco as the London-listed group scouts for a new owner for the outsourcing firm it acquired four years ago. According to sources, Serco is in…

Infosys To Buy Automation Tech Firm Panaya For $200 MN

Betting big on new technologies to boost growth, country's second-largest software services firm Infosys will acquire US-based automation technology company Panaya for USD 200 million (over Rs 1,200 crore). The all-cash deal is the second-largest acquisition for the Bangalore-based firm, after…

Infosys Buys US-Based Panaya For $200 Million

Betting big on new technologies to boost growth, country's second-largest software services firm Infosys will acquire US-based automation technology company Panaya for USD 200 million (over Rs 1,200 crore). The all-cash deal is the second-largest acquisition for the Bangalore-based firm, after…

Infosys To Buy Automation Tech Firm Panaya For $200 MN

Betting big on new technologies to boost growth, country's second-largest software services firm Infosys will acquire US-based automation technology company Panaya for USD 200 million (over Rs 1,200 crore). The all-cash deal is the second-largest acquisition for the Bangalore-based firm, after…

Infy To Buy Panaya For $200M

Infosys will acquire US-based automation technology company Panaya for $200 million (over Rs 1,200 crore). The all-cash deal is the second-largest acquisition for the Bangalore-based firm, after Swiss consulting company Lodestone, which it bought for about $350 million (Rs 1,932 crore)…

Infosys To Buy US Automation Tech Firm Panaya For $200 MN

In keeping with its new chief executive officer, Vishal Sikka’s vision of being more digital and introducing more automation, India’s second-largest software services exporter Infosys Ltd said on Monday it will buy automation technology company Panaya Inc. for about $200…

Infosys To Buy Automation Tech Firm Panaya For $200 MN

Betting big on new technologies to boost growth, country's second-largest software services firm Infosys will acquire US-based automation technology company Panaya for USD 200 million (over Rs 1,200 crore). The all-cash deal is the second-largest acquisition for the Bangalore-based firm, after…

Infosys To Buy Automation Tech Firm Panaya For $200 MN

Betting big on new technologies to boost growth, country's second-largest software services firm Infosys will acquire US-based automation technology company Panaya for USD 200 million (over Rs 1,200 crore). The all-cash deal is the second-largest acquisition for the Bangalore-based firm, after…

The days of ‘big bang’ hiring by IT firms may be over

‘Trespassers will be recruited,’ an adage that defined the hiring needs of India’s $120-billion IT services space in the last decade may no longer hold true. All indications are that frontline companies may hire fewer staffers going forward as they bring…

Infosys Q3 net profit up 13% at Rs 3,250 crore; beats expectations

Beating expectations, Infosys on Friday reported 13 percent jump in consolidated net profit for the third quarter to Rs 3,250 crore, helped by increase in business and clients from North America, as also from India. However, Greyhound Research CEO Sanchit…