Tag: INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

L&T Infotech, Oracle to offer joint solutions for manufacturing and construction sector

| Devika Nithin

L&T Infotech said it will develop and market solutions based on the Oracle’s Internet of Things (IoT) cloud service. The companies will work together on cloud solutions to help manufacturing, utilities and construction companies digitize business processes and improve operational efficiencies. L&T provides comprehensive Oracle solutions and applications encompassing smart sensors, connected assets, real-time visualization and […]

Reliance Jio: 15-minute SIM activation now available in most cities

| Trisha Thomas

Ten days after Mukesh Ambani, chairman of Reliance Jio, promised to roll out a superfast activation procedure for new SIMs within “2-4 weeks”, the facility is now available in several small towns, suggesting that the company may be running ahead of schedule on its e-KYC roll-out. The new system has been rolled out with the […]

Zensar Technologies gets digital transformation deal from South Africa

| Roshan Ravi

Zensar Technologies, an RPG Group company, said it has bagged a digital transformation project from Avis Fleet, a South African taxi fleet management company. Though the company did not mention the value of the contract, it said that the project would be spread over a period of two years. Sandeep Kishore, CEO and Managing Director […]

Mississippi goes live on TCS-developed unemployment benefits platform

| Roshan Ravi

IT company Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) said it has deployed software to provide unemployment insurance by the Mississippi, Rhode Island and Maine Consortium to help unemployed individuals. Mississippi’s unemployment insurance program helps provides monetary benefits to those who have involuntarily lost their jobs while they look for new employment opportunities, the company added. The TCS developed unemployment insurance solution […]

Ramco Systems’ aviation suit to be used in Royal Canadian Air Force

| Roshan Ravi

Ramco Systems, a aviation software company, announced that it has won a project from Canada’s L-3 MAS to implement Ramco’s aviation software to support Royal Canadian Air Force fleet in engineering & programs, materials management, maintenance, compliance & quality, flight operations and offline maintenance, said the company. L-3 MAS is among Canada’s leading providers of […]

Dutch navigation company TomTom sets up innovation hub in Pune

| Roshan Ravi

TomTom, a company from Netherlands into manufacturing of navigation devices, inaugurated its first global innovation hub in India at Pune. The innovation hub will enable employees to upgrade their skills, innovate, raise ideas and think like entrepreneurs thereby helping to develop a deeper culture of innovation in the company with a free-flow of information and […]

TCS and GE join hands to reduce gas turbine manufacturing cost

| Roshan Ravi

IT services provider Tata Consultancy Services(TCS) said it developed a solution to reduce the manufacturing cost and time of gas turbines in collaboration with General Electricals (GE). The digital solution along with GE’s operating system will analyze temperatures at various points on the metal turbine parts when they are assembled and cooled thereby allowing the […]

Cyber crime up four-fold in three years in India – report

| Trisha Thomas

In India, there has been a surge of approximately 350% in cybercrime cases registered under the Information Technology (IT) Act, 2000 from the year of 2011 to 2014, a ASSOCHAM-PwC joint study said. The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) has also reported a surge in the number of incidents handled by it, with close […]

Sonata acquires US-based mobile sepcialist Halosys

| Deepti Rajan

Sonata Software said that it has agreed to acquire US-based enterprise mobile specialist Halosys. Based in Santa Clara, California, Halosys is an innovator in providing technology platform and solutions that help enterprises implement mobile solutions for their business. “Halosys provides a single Unified Enterprise Mobile Enablement platform that enables businesses build, secure, manage and deploy […]

Acquisition to boost Cyient’s MRO, aftermarket capabilities

| Trisha Thomas

The acquisition of Singapore-based Global Services Engineering Asia from Pratt & Whitney (P&W) will strengthens the Indian IT provider’s aftermarket capabilities in the aerospace segment, analysts said. Global Services has been catering to P&W’s MRO (maintenance, repair and overhaul) requirements in the region. Global Services currently has a revenue base of USD10-12mn with EBITDA margin […]

Mobile app developers will be in high demand for enterprise – Gartner

| Trisha Thomas

By the end of 2017, market demand for mobile app development services will grow at least five times faster than internal IT organization capacity to deliver them, according to Gartner, Inc. Gartner forecasts mobile phone sales will reach 2.1 billion units by 2019, which will fuel demand for apps in the enterprise that meet the […]

Banned in India, Bangladesh goes virtual with Google Street View

| Trisha Thomas

It may be banned in India, but that has not prevented India’s neighbour Bangladesh from going online in a big way with Google’s Street View. The service allows users to virtually walk along any street using their computer or mobile phone using the Google Maps app. Globally, 65 countries are on Google Street View. Google […]

FITE says TCS Chennai termination case only partly resolved

| Deepti Rajan

FITE, which was formed by disgruntled IT workers to prevent large-scale layoffs in the sector, hailed the withdrawal of the termination letter to a female employee that has been challenged in a labor court in Chennai. The ‘Forum for IT Employees’, a semi-formal organisation that uses social media extensively for propagating its stands and attracting […]

India ranks fourth in no of startups globally – Nasscom

| Prashant Duggal

With more than 3,000 tech start-ups, India is the fourth largest base for young businesses in the world and it is expected that by 2020 the base will increase to 11,500 tech start-ups, Nasscom said in its “Tech Start-up in India: A Bright Future” study today. The report, created in association with research firm Zinnov, […]

Is the golden age of the IT professional over as Infosys, TCS, Wipro lose weight?

| Prashant Duggal

Wipro will cut one third of its employee base. Tata Consultancy Services to apparently let go off 25,000 senior employees (according to Business Standard). Infosys is in the middle of a transformation aimed at limiting the number of employees and increasing the use of automation. Is the golden age of Indian Information Technology over? More […]

IT no longer the safe career option it used to be – report

| Prashant Duggal

The millions of engineers who pass out from Indian colleges every year looking for IT jobs will have to either learn specialised skills, or look for other sectors, a new report said. The report said recruitment by IT companies in India will halve over the next four years. “Incremental recruitment by the information technology (IT) […]

Cyient acquires big data start-up to boost service line-up

| Prashant Duggal

Cyient Ltd, formerly known as Infotech Enterprises, said has agreed to a majority stake in Invati Insights Private Limited (Invati), a start-up data sciences company. The new entity is proposed to be renamed Cyient Insights to better reflect brand and market aspirations, the Mumbai-based company said. Invati will strengthen Cyient’s data analytics capabilities and offerings […]