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The Indian e-Commerce maverick Flipkart plans to raise $1.4 billion; the furniture e-Tailing platform Urban Ladder rears up to reap $200 million revenue by the mid- 2016 and another e-Commerce giant ShopClues was recently valued around $1.1 billion through its series E funding. In fact, the aforementioned developments are a few examples that represent the humongous growth of Indian retail industry, which is estimated to touch $1.3 trillion by 2020, and the online retailing industry that is expected to reach $70 billion during FY15-FY20. Considered as one of the fastest growing industries in the world, the...Read More

Elucidating the niche big data market is nothing more than iterating a well rooted fact of today. The global big data bazaar is anticipated to grow from $28.65 billion in 2016 to $66.79 billion by 2021, at a high Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 18.45 percent. The Asia-Pacific region is expected to finish on top. The aspirational gazes on these numerals are steered by startups this time, even though the giant masses are catching up. The current swing of market value leveraging is an outcome of industry’s ‘new-norm’, trust-the-beginners. The investors keep piling money into open source...Read More

 The International Data Corporation (IDC) anticipates that 3.2 billion people, or 44 percent of the world's population, will constitute the Internet traffic in 2016. Of this data, more than two billion will be using mobile devices to get into this business. Internet access, the perfect key for Web Development companies, was leveraged by well rooted organizations all these years. But the war field is undergoing sudden shifts & swirls with the big-bang of Internet traffic. The heritages are finding it hard to handle the number of exigencies arising in Website Development Services fragment. The...Read More

Gartner anticipates that the worldwide cloud services market is directed to grow 16.5 percent in 2016 to hit $204 billion, up from $175 billion in 2015. The cloud IaaS will host the highest growth with 38.4 percent, while Cloud Advertising, the prodigious sphere of the global cloud services market, is expected to grow 13.6 percent to reach $90.3 billion. The numerals itself unrolls the plethora of versatile opportunities in the ‘new-heritage’ vertical of the industry. The Cloud computing in APAC is pivoting to the next stage where the demand is for hybrid deployment models as workload priorities...Read More

Rewind back to the early 2000s, the days when people had to manually visit doctors even for minute health problems like cold or cough. Not only was communication between doctors and patients a problem, but there was also a dire shortage/absence of technology infrastructure. However, we have a totally different scenario at hand now. The global Healthcare industry, which is worth $100 billion today, is expected to grow to $280 billion by 2020. Technologies like IoT and SMAC have invaded the Healthcare domain and transformed it into one of the most burgeoning industry segments the world across. Patients can now...Read More

India is the global digital hub which is constantly building up competencies and offerings. Being the largest terminus of BPO-IT industry, India has witnessed a rapid evolution due to the hyper progress in technology startups and product landscape in the country in the recent years. As per the NASSCOM report, BPO-IT industry has grown twice as India’s total exports over the last 10 years, it has modified the country’s export mix, from traditional commodities to services. By 2020, nearly 18-20 percent of India’s exports are expected to come from the IT-BPO industry. The industry strives to...Read More

India is the global digital hub which is constantly building up competencies and offerings. Being the largest terminus of BPO-IT industry, India has witnessed a rapid evolution due to the hyper progress in technology startups and product landscape in the country in the recent years. As per the NASSCOM report, BPO-IT industry has grown twice as India’s total exports over the last 10 years, it has modified the country’s export mix, from traditional commodities to services. By 2020, nearly 18-20 percent of India’s exports are expected to come from the IT-BPO industry. The industry strives to...Read More

Due to the plunging price of smartphones, the number of mobile application downloads is estimated to touch 268.69 billion and the mobile app revenue is predicted to rise steeply to attain $76.53 billion globally in 2017. Though the average Indian smartphone user lag behind global users when it comes to the number of apps stored in their mobile (32:42), it is set to increase rapidly with the dawn of mobile apps that are delving deep into regional languages and m-Commerce becoming more and more hyper local. Not only individuals, but businesses are also beginning to embrace the mobile revolution, since it has...Read More

“The IoT is big news because it ups the ante – ‘Reach Out and Touch Somebody’ is becoming ‘Reach Out and Touch Everything’.” — said Parker Trewin, Senior Director - Content & Communications, Aria Systems. Nothing could better explain the scope and impact the Internet of Things (IoT) is having on the organisational processes and the end user. According to the recent survey by Gartner, over 40 percent of businesses worldwide are planning to implement IoT solutions into their business processes in 2016. Witnessing the massive adoption of IoT technologies...Read More

Rightly denoted as the "Land of Spices", India is hugely popular for its diverse cuisine which is reminiscent of unity in diversity. Therefore, our country reflects an exceptionally vibrant Food & Beverage market and has witnessed unprecedented growth in the recent past. The Union Budget for 2015-16 divulged a corpus fund of Rs.2,000crore to provide cheaper-credit loans to the degree courses centered on food processing and entrepreneurship. At the same time, the government has primed a "Vision Document 2015" to promote food processing industries.Furthermore, it already set up $20...Read More

Years-over-years, marketing research has matured in India and moved towards becoming a huge industry. With efficient analysis of the information gathered, marketing research strives to orient the enterprise with customer expectation and delivering value. Trusted as the one of the key decision making tools, the whole gamut of this industry has witnessed a radical change due to the introduction of social media and access of the real time data of the consumers. Overall India-based marketing & research services industry has touched $20 billion in 2015 and all set to double by 2020 to $38 billion. Due to the...Read More

As we stand on the cusp of a BI volume revolution, significant changes are being witnessed with improvement in mobile technologies, the cloud maturing into a powerful business entity and neo web development tools that are taking IT to the next level of the BI wave. New business insights, improved decision making with greater finesse are the key benefits that many enterprises are already witnessing by turning more data into actionable insights an increasing array of data sources -data that stems from within or outside of the organization. While BI has traditionally been a non -social phenomenon, the increasing...Read More

Animation & VFX industry in India has witnessed an unprecedented growthin recent times. As per the recent study of FICCI-KPMG, the industry is expected to grow at 16.3 percent  to reach Rs.95.5 billion by 2019. In today’s world, multimedia acts as the medium of communication and hence, virtual experience has turned out to be the best medium to reach the audiences. Be it Walk through, 3D show reels, Interior/Exterior or Landscape Design, outstanding 2D/3Darchitectural structures, designs & processes are depicting the idea clearly & bringing immense clarity on various projects, as...Read More

Manufacturers are fabricating products with the infusion of IoT, cloud computing and big data analysis to achieve a better product lifecycle. To sustain the day-to-day operations, manufacturers have begun setting up state-of-the-art infrastructure facilities and adopting the latest technologies. The electronics industry is all set to take over long standing businesses by taking on the latest widely adopted trend of incorporating intelligence into devices, services and process, connecting them to virtually everything surrounding you. Now we do not need separate controllers to operate our devices. We have the...Read More

The most precious resource of any organization is human capital. Placing the right employee on the company board is indispensable for any entity’s success. Today, performing in an extremely vibrant environment, HR industry has witnessed utmost transition in recent years and estimated to grow over Rs.30,000 crore. As per NASSCOM report, augmented usage of technology by HR has resulted in enhanced employee satisfaction, transparency in HR policies along with healthier communication between management and employees. Read More