April-2011 issue
Cover Story
Author: Vimali Swamy
Established in 1999, Xchanging India, the Indian subsidiary of UK based Business Processing and Technology Services Company, Xchanging, is bent on more than transforming the core model of providing business processing services; it hopes...
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In My Opinion
Sunny Gupta
If you spend enough time with CIOs from large enterprise organizations, you will hear the word “transformation” thrown...
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Cover Feature
Hari Anil
Doomsday, Armageddon, end of the day, as we all know these words or phrases have negative connotations, and outside religion...
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Business
Aparna Challu
Superstition, despite our age of science and technology, plays a prevalent role in our day to day life, and it can be seen...
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Rahul Kanodia
The Indian enterprise market has matured enough for Indian BPO providers to start targeting the domestic market. What factors...
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Milind Godbole
The Indian telecom industry, especially the mobile, is one of the fastest growing across the globe, with growth from a one...
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Hemant Elhence
Here are the top eight lessons that I feel all entrepreneurs, especially in the technology space, should heed. These are...
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Suresh Yannamani
Business Process Outsourcing, whether viewed through the eyes of the vendor/provider or the corporate business owner, has...
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Vinit Nijhawan
U.S. public and private research universities are by far the best in the world at educating young people and conducting basic...
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CEO Spotlight
Ankesh Kumar
This is the era of Internet and there is a large movement towards consumer shopping. It is different from what we saw in Web...
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Manoj Malhotra
The IT enabled services industry is projected to grow at 9-10 percent both in international and domestic market. There are...
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Bikram Dasgupta
The IT services industry, as we all know, was badly hit by the recent financial recession and is currently in the recovery...
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CEO Speak
Jaya Smitha Menon
Prashant Ranade was appointed CEO of Syntel in February 2010, after serving on Syntels Board
of Directors since 2007....
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VC talk
Rajeev Srivastava
According to Gartner, global IT Service spending in 2010 was approximately $800 billion but there seem to be very few, if any,...
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VC Chakra
RadiumOne, an online advertisement company that leverages social media for better advertising performance, closed a $21 million...
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HubSpot, vendor of an all-in-one marketing software platform for small and medium sized businesses, raised $32 million in a...
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Technology
Saurabh Chandra
Cloud computing
Cloud computing will become as ubiquitous in next decade as renting a server or a space on a rack became in...
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Ezhil Arasan Babaraj
Cloud Computing is nothing but providing Information Technology (IT) related components such as computing, storage, network...
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Murthy Chintalapati
In the age of LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter and other social networking tools, it has become increasingly important to provide...
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Ravi Thakur
Two significant things have been happening over the past few years that have fundamentally changed how organizations operate....
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In Focus
The Indian ecommerce industry is expected to grow by 47 percent and touch Rs46,520 crore ($10.4 billion) by end of 2011. This...
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Many Indians and Indo-Americans are included in the list of Young Global Leaders for 2011. The list by the World Economic Forum...
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University of Buffalo’s Provost Satish K. Tripathi is recommended by Chancellor Nancy L. Zimpher of the State University of...
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Global clean energy finance and investment grew considerably in 2010 to $243 billion, a 30 percent increase from the previous...
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Two Indian-origin professors are among the four to have been named 2011 MacVicar Faculty Fellows for their outstanding...
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U.S. President Barack Obama has nominated two Indian American women to key posts in his administration. Chicago based Deepa...
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Editor's Desk
Christo Jacob
This time all Indian delegates were excited about world’s billionaire Warren Buffet’s visit to India and his move to invest...
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