February-2005 issue
Cover Story
Author: Michelle Thoeny
One company that has marked its presence in the IT consultancy and services industry is Global Consultants Inc. (GCI). With a consistent ranking among the nation’s fastest growing technology firms for over five years, this enterprise...
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Cover Feature
Sridhar Jayanthi
Most employees in IT departments of large enterprises are already aware of the term “Zero-Day” by now. The term may not be...
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Sanjeev Jain
A one-stop-shop for all security solutions sounds very peculiar. However, this is where many large security players are...
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Guru Rajan
During the past year, e-mail has centrally emerged as a major source of enterprise IT vulnerability. According to the Radicati...
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Harish Revanna
“It’s not common in India,” says the analyst. Phishing, phonetically “fishing” is the next profit market for online...
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Pradeep Shankar
MicroWorld Software Services maybe small with just 150 employees, but its ambitions are big. They want to offer cutting edge...
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Gary Bahadur
Security has always been viewed as a cost center and never associated with revenue-driving initiative. This makes it difficult...
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Pradeep Shankar
The venture capital community is calling on security startups, more often than ever before.” Are you interested in raising...
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Shantanu Dasgupta
The growth of information technology and IT networks in businesses leads to many issues and challenges—key one being...
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Sanjeev Jain
Vijay Kumar is a regional sales manager of a FMCG company. His job requires him to take weeklong business trips meeting various...
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Technology
Pradeep Shankar
Neeraj P Singh was confronting a real challenge; after a long stint with the ERP system in HLL—a FMCG giant, he was moving to...
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Vinod Dham
The Pune-born Vinod Dham grew up to be renowned as ‘Father of the Pentium Chip’. Vinod graduated engineering at...
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Abhay Dubey
For many in India, who believe that the Internet is just a surfing, chat or email enabler, the Tsunami was an eye opener of...
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Entrepreneurship
Raja Kumar
Having experienced the VC game during testing times, I constantly wondered the criterion that encompasses becoming a VC or an...
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Michelle Thoeny
In this new feature, we bring you Indian self-founded start-ups who are currently seeking their first round of outside funding...
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Priya Pradeep
Twelve summers ago, Beehive Systems began its chequered journey without a murmur. The noise about it gathered along the way and...
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Business
Michelle Thoeny
There is an old saying among international businesses: think locally, and act globally. Due to the recent explosion of...
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Robin Mathews
It is the last day of the month. Meghana Motors, a dealer of Hero Honda in downtown Banglaore is preparing the monthly order...
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Prof. Srikumar Rao
Now there is an intriguing question to put you on the spot. Why should someone do business with you rather than someone else?...
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Harris Diamond
A Recent NASSCOM reports confirm that the IT sector will measure up to the growth targets it set last year. While it is...
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Vinnie Mirchandani
Buy versus Build is a choice every corporate technology decision weighs. India has benefited largely from the strategic...
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In My Opinion
Srini Rajam
We live in a world where physical assets are often under-stood and valued better than the idea or knowledge that helps to...
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Leadership
Dr.Anand Deshpande
On Leadership Style
Leadership is tested when the company begins scaling up. When the company moves from ‘A’ to ‘B’...
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VC Chakra
si Team
Approva Corporation, a provider of enterprise control management software for ERP-enabled business processes, has raised $5...
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Career
Vibhas Joshi
Transaction processing systems have been used for a long time by most industries. This has matured and stabilized in most of...
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Priya Pradeep
A Programming is technical, designing is technical. Is that where the technical ladder stops? Read on and decide for yourself....
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Harish Revanna
Kentaro Tayoma decided to go east, although his room window in his American house faced east, reminding him of his ancestral...
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Harish Revanna
Kentaro Tayoma decided to go east, although his room window in his American house faced east, reminding him of his ancestral...
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Editor's Desk
Harvi Sachar
Security stocks were one of the preeminently performing groups in otherwise anemic market of 2004. Businesses invested...
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si Team
As a sequel to the era of IT outsourcing are other eras of animation and car designing. Although initial work offshored to...
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si Team
India, one of the worlds’ fastest growing telecom markets, will soon have the first homemade mobile handsets as mobile...
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si Team
As silent as the ‘T’ in Tsunami came the silent killer waves snuffing out lives and obliterating landed properties across...
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In Focus
Harvi Sachar
Security stocks were one of the preeminently performing groups in otherwise anemic market of 2004. Businesses invested...
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si Team
As a sequel to the era of IT outsourcing are other eras of animation and car designing. Although initial work offshored to...
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si Team
India, one of the worlds’ fastest growing telecom markets, will soon have the first homemade mobile handsets as mobile...
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si Team
As silent as the ‘T’ in Tsunami came the silent killer waves snuffing out lives and obliterating landed properties across...
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Last Word
Bjorn Krylander
In the early 90s, ‘The Economist’ (Article titled: The Caged Tiger), fretted that India’s enormous potential was being...
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