CIO Predictions: Think carbon first, not last
Ciol Technologies that help is reducing carbon footprint and low energy traction would be attractive MUMBAI, INDIA: Some experts know where to drill deep just by instinct. Like S Ramasamy, Exec...
View ArticleCan IT be a white good?
Ciol If you want to hide something from your woman, the only way to let it be durably hidden is by putting it in her purse per seGURGAON, INDIA: The trick, intriguingly enough, often works in case of...
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Top ten CIO role changes through all these years
Ciol If your mother can not find it then consider the thing lost forever INDIA: Intriguingly enough, most CIOs have to be like a super-mom - juggling many things with sheer speed and ultra efficiency...
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The elephant that stood trapped with a silk cord
Ciol It's easy to fight a challenge. It's way tougher to struggle through a mindset, specially when it's your own, conditioned and weakened ruthlessly over many years.NEW DELHI, INDIA: If you have...
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The consumer is not e-moron
Ciol Do not count the people you reach, but reach the people who countNEW DELHI, INDIA: Advertising genius David Ogilvy has left us many wise secrets and ridiculously true insights about wooing the...
View ArticleLakshmi Mittal: The man who can spin troubles around
Ciol Mittal has carried more than the Olympic flame Torch Relay; he ha carried massive and hopeless changes with panache and guts made of something the world calls, well- steel. INDIA: This is not a...
View ArticleCIO Predictions: Tilt is towards the Cloud
Ciol"Mobility space could see quite a bit of consolidation and more applications and OS scenarios will impact it"MUMBAI: Cloud is going to be the direction in times to come as Sreeram Vijay Muddury...
View ArticleCIO Predictions: Focus will be on Mobile apps
Ciol A lot of action can be expected on personal cloud MUMBAI: S Ramasamy, Exec Director, IOCL:Mobile applications would be a major thrust area as I see it. It has huge relevance for customers. Also a...
View ArticleCIO Predictions: Apps will make the difference
CiolMUMBAI:Mahesh Mathur, CIO, DLF:Mobile computing will be impactful and also applications on mobile. As availability of apps on mobile devices increase, the scenario will change.CLICK HERE FOR MORE....
View ArticleCIO Predictions: ITs importance need stressed
Ciol"IT function still grapples with secondary importance"MUMBAI:Shrikant Kulkarni, Senior VP and CIO, KPIT Cummins Infosystems Ltd:IT' role at strategic levels should change. IT function is still not...
View ArticleStrings attached to mobile wallets as SAP sees it
Ciol Survey results by SAP revealed 24 pc inclined for location-based point-of-sale offerings and 28 pc point-of-sale services such as near field communication (NFC) BARCELONA, SPAIN: New findings of...
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Big Blue. Grey Matter. White Noise
Ciol The customer is not a moron. But s/he is also not an Octopus. NEW DELHI, INDIA:Boy (in the movie ‘The Matrix): Do not try and bend the spoon. That's impossible. Instead... only try to realize the...
View ArticleBig Data or Dark Data, Gartner asks
Ciol Should IT and business leaders worry that they are behind competitors in launching their big data initiatives? MUMBAI, INDIA: According to a worldwide Gartner survey of IT leaders, 42 percent of...
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Investing in Cloud not enough, real work begins now
Ciol Investing in the latest technology alone will not propel forward a company's cloud, mobility and other communications capabilities MUMBAI, INDIA: Cloud computing, mobility and unified...
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Co-located at the tip of an iceberg: CtrlS and ambition
Ciol While the mix of local and international colocation providers varies in more established markets, local providers are leading the way in emerging markets around the world, as per Telegeography...
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Broadband Infra mkt can upload up to $17.36 bn by 2018
Ciol A Frost & Sullivan report says that mobile broadband services market is expected to witness a twentyfold growth with a CAGR of 52.8 pc till 2018 MUMBAI, INDIA: South Asia's low broadband...
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De-fuzzing Cloud mammals- from tusk to tail
Ciol It's not about the shoes. It's what you do with themMUMBAI, INDIA: Some sneak out. Some sweat uphill. While some catwalk in the campus. Before this sounds like an intensive build-up for a...
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Huh-NA: Surrounded with wonder; flanked by question-marks
Ciol If technologies could be tagged into genders, SAP's HANA would definitely be asterisked as a female. And not only because it seduces well; but for ............. MUMBAI, INDIA: HANA reminds you of...
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'ERP success depends on user and data'
Ciol It has to be ensured that problematic users are found and they are corrected, feels a IT mind when it comes to judging ERPs MUMBAI, INDIA: Preference for phased change-over and the ability to view...
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Software & technology support: More than a supporting cast?
Ciol Smart players are realizing and tapping the hidden layers of inimitable growth underneath plateaus like ‘third-party support'. Having a product-agnostic service can matter a lot in a market...
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SAP India: The view from the top
Ciol Customer pet peeves, in-memory tides, cracking new segments, boxing old rivals and still not getting caught in myopic loops; there's a lot on the MD's plateMUMBAI, INDIA: It is often assumed that...
View ArticleFive more minutes will matter to YouTube
Ciol Forrester analyst spells out its strategy guess. Will YouTube's subscription model undercut its ad model in an echo of the infamous paywall problem that has bedeviled online newspapers as they...
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License to not kill?
Ciol Revenge is a dish that is best served cold. Is it (still) the same with money-slices of license support? MUMBAI, INDIA: ERP Licenses are irreversibly earning the level and affection that only...
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CEOs to find 70 p.c. of Indian CIOs reporting by 2016
Ciol This expectation is reflected in current hiring practices in India, where the majority of CIO job openings on the market will report directly to CEOs NEW DELHI, INDIA: Currently, 40 per cent of...
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From desktops to clouds, ice cream anyone?
Ciol Is there a mystical land of white fantasy for virtualization majors, if they step a tad beyond the cloak of desktops?Management classrooms can be fatally boring without three Ds: Daydreaming,...
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Can Analytics decipher Mona Lisa?
Ciol It’s definitely a trend that is making a lot of noise, but can it be music worth tuning in to when we expect a breed of analytics that is proactive, sharp, deep-cutting, niche-intelligent,...
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Part 2: Analytics 2.0: New vendors, New customers?
Ciol The rise of predictive genre and thus new players to fill some nooks and corners of the city called Analytics is hard to ignore. The plot turns another new page as CMOs enter the stage too.INDIA:...
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Nuts and Bolts - Chitale Dairy: Mithai made from IT
Ciol The so-called hinterland of India has seen a Green revolution and a White revolution. What if someone shows a Black-and-White revolution with RFID, servers and tech-savvy labs letting buffaloes...
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Nuts and Bolts: Why should patients carry too many name-plates?
Ciol A diagnostics player assesses the relevance of analytics in this industry while also stressing on the need for better tech-synchronization GURGAON, INDIA: When a diagnostics lab puts something as...
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What does rupee's slide mean for CIOs?
Ciol ROI templates are generally developed to gain approvals and are typically limited to cost savings, but very few CIOs actually link their IT spending to clearly defined business outcomes NEW DELHI,...
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Some R&D centres are labs, others are kitchens
Ciol If tech vendors are vying for the secret sauce, what makes EMC's chef saucier confident that they are cooking the right aroma?BANGALORE, INDIA: Whenever David Ogilvy, the legend of Advertising,...
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Africa CIOs can easily embarrass Indian CIOs. Really?
Ciol Here's a CTO's point of view on how the 'baniya' mentality can be hurting Indian businesses more than they realize. More so on the technology pulse points.BANGALORE, INDIA: Travelling across the...
View ArticleDigital also spells revenues, if CIOs read correctly
Ciol CIOs advised to work with high-influence HR executives to investigate talent orchestration and to redesign the learning programs required to build digital business expertise MUMBAI, INDIA: Digital...
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A Series: Safe about Analytics?
Ciol From Black Markets to 'do not disturb' dilemma, this CXO helps with a real take on analytics. Here's starting our special series on virtual enterprises. NEW DELHI, INDIA: Talking to Vikas Bagaria,...
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BI: Not a lotion but soap
Ciol Analytics and innovating with IT can indeed be skin-deep and much more than just a cosmetic layer. It has the possibilities of cleansing many issues and scrubbing out old constraints for good, if...
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CIOs need to play double roles
Ciol CIOs must come up with a game plan and add a BT agenda to your team's tech management metrics, is the tip from a Forrester analyst NEW DELHI, INDIA: Digitally empowered customers are forcing firms...
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Windows XP part 1: Ready to drive without the 3rd wheel?
CIOLMicrosoft is pulling out support cushions from the XP couch. How comfortable or otherwise would customers, specially enterprise ones, feel from here on?[Read more]
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Some clouds have a platinum lining
CIOLEver paused and wondered how much non-production computing can mean to business costs? And how much burden can it vaporize when boarded on a Cloud? ICICI Lombard did just that[Read more]
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Building Castles Out of IT
CIOLA CxT project builds a new skyline of revenue growth, conversion figures and operational efficiencies for this real estate enterprise. The grounds-up account[Read more]
View ArticleA CIO's take on Repo rate
CIOLFeels that stable interest rates and improved liquidity conditions good for economic recovery [Read more]
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