Comments on: Bharti Airtel to get into SaaS Business – ‘CIO in the cloud’ http://www.pluggd.in/indian-telecom-industry/bharti-airtel-to-get-into-saas-business-cio-in-the-cloud-2699/ We Heart Startups! Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:53:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Airtel launches ‘jobs on mobile’ |Technology and Business Startups in India http://www.pluggd.in/indian-telecom-industry/bharti-airtel-to-get-into-saas-business-cio-in-the-cloud-2699/comment-page-1/#comment-88485 Airtel launches ‘jobs on mobile’ |Technology and Business Startups in India Wed, 29 Oct 2008 06:42:33 +0000 http://www.pluggd.in/2008/09/bharti-airtel-to-get-into-saas-business-cio-in-the-cloud#comment-88485 [...] Bharti Airtel to get into SaaS Business - ‘CIO in the cloud’ [...] [...] Bharti Airtel to get into SaaS Business – ‘CIO in the cloud’ [...]

]]> By: Gautam Kshatriya http://www.pluggd.in/indian-telecom-industry/bharti-airtel-to-get-into-saas-business-cio-in-the-cloud-2699/comment-page-1/#comment-86899 Gautam Kshatriya Tue, 23 Sep 2008 12:10:26 +0000 http://www.pluggd.in/2008/09/bharti-airtel-to-get-into-saas-business-cio-in-the-cloud#comment-86899 Agree with Mahesh - Airtel always seems to be at the forefront of telecom innovation. I recently wrote an article about its tie up with XIUS-bcgi to launch contact-less technology - which I believe will transform small value payments by turning your mobile phone into wallets. This innovation might also change the marketing landscape, and drive more people to browse the web through their mobile phone. Check out my post on the partnership here: http://www.moneyvidya.com/blog/?s=xius Gautam Kshatriya gautam.kshatriya@moneyvidya.com http://www.moneyvidya.com/blog Agree with Mahesh – Airtel always seems to be at the forefront of telecom innovation. I recently wrote an article about its tie up with XIUS-bcgi to launch contact-less technology – which I believe will transform small value payments by turning your mobile phone into wallets. This innovation might also change the marketing landscape, and drive more people to browse the web through their mobile phone. Check out my post on the partnership here: http://www.moneyvidya.com/blog/?s=xius

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]]> By: Weekly Recap (Sep 15th-22nd) |Technology and Business Startups in India http://www.pluggd.in/indian-telecom-industry/bharti-airtel-to-get-into-saas-business-cio-in-the-cloud-2699/comment-page-1/#comment-86797 Weekly Recap (Sep 15th-22nd) |Technology and Business Startups in India Mon, 22 Sep 2008 03:52:51 +0000 http://www.pluggd.in/2008/09/bharti-airtel-to-get-into-saas-business-cio-in-the-cloud#comment-86797 [...] Bharti Airtel to get into SaaS Business [...] [...] Bharti Airtel to get into SaaS Business [...]

]]> By: Wolf Frameworks’s Platform-as-a-Service Model Helps Create Custom Business Apps |Technology and Business Startups in India http://www.pluggd.in/indian-telecom-industry/bharti-airtel-to-get-into-saas-business-cio-in-the-cloud-2699/comment-page-1/#comment-86594 Wolf Frameworks’s Platform-as-a-Service Model Helps Create Custom Business Apps |Technology and Business Startups in India Wed, 17 Sep 2008 09:59:57 +0000 http://www.pluggd.in/2008/09/bharti-airtel-to-get-into-saas-business-cio-in-the-cloud#comment-86594 [...] Wolf looks very promising - SaaS is going big in India (e.g. airtel getting into saas business) and biggies like Salesforce are conducting roadshows to increase the [...] [...] Wolf looks very promising – SaaS is going big in India (e.g. airtel getting into saas business) and biggies like Salesforce are conducting roadshows to increase the [...]

]]> By: Shankar Saikia http://www.pluggd.in/indian-telecom-industry/bharti-airtel-to-get-into-saas-business-cio-in-the-cloud-2699/comment-page-1/#comment-86518 Shankar Saikia Tue, 16 Sep 2008 06:36:15 +0000 http://www.pluggd.in/2008/09/bharti-airtel-to-get-into-saas-business-cio-in-the-cloud#comment-86518 TELCOS NEED HELP GETTING INTO VALUE ADDED BUSINESS APPS If Bharti Airtel intends to offer SAAS products it would have to be more than an infrastructure provider. Even as an infrastructure provider all the telco's can offer is wireless spectrum and landlines. If telcos want to provide any value and make money they need to get into design and development of SAAS apps. At the moment they can at most distribute simple apps like e-mail, search etc. Complex business apps like ERP, CRM etc. is a whole different ballgame. Any telco that wants to get into the SAAS game or any other business value added solutions space, they need to work with the Salesforces and Oracles of the world. Great opportunity to use that Bharti Innovation fund! TELCOS NEED HELP GETTING INTO VALUE ADDED BUSINESS APPS

If Bharti Airtel intends to offer SAAS products it would have to be more than an infrastructure provider. Even as an infrastructure provider all the telco’s can offer is wireless spectrum and landlines. If telcos want to provide any value and make money they need to get into design and development of SAAS apps. At the moment they can at most distribute simple apps like e-mail, search etc. Complex business apps like ERP, CRM etc. is a whole different ballgame.

Any telco that wants to get into the SAAS game or any other business value added solutions space, they need to work with the Salesforces and Oracles of the world. Great opportunity to use that Bharti Innovation fund!

]]> By: Telecom solutions India http://www.pluggd.in/indian-telecom-industry/bharti-airtel-to-get-into-saas-business-cio-in-the-cloud-2699/comment-page-1/#comment-86482 Telecom solutions India Mon, 15 Sep 2008 10:30:20 +0000 http://www.pluggd.in/2008/09/bharti-airtel-to-get-into-saas-business-cio-in-the-cloud#comment-86482 I completely agree Mahesh ... Sunil Mittal will always be a part of the change .. I completely agree Mahesh … Sunil Mittal will always be a part of the change ..

]]> By: Sumanth http://www.pluggd.in/indian-telecom-industry/bharti-airtel-to-get-into-saas-business-cio-in-the-cloud-2699/comment-page-1/#comment-86471 Sumanth Mon, 15 Sep 2008 05:54:06 +0000 http://www.pluggd.in/2008/09/bharti-airtel-to-get-into-saas-business-cio-in-the-cloud#comment-86471 Ashish, The reason Zoho is not in the picture is not hard to fathom... Telcos are signing up Google Apps primarily for one application - e-mail. Google Docs is far from being a credible alternative to Microsoft Office for real-world business use but Gmail can pretty much do everything that Outlook/Exchange does (and then some). Zoho, on the other hand, has an anemic e-mail offering (in private beta for several years now) and is therefore not in the reckoning. Of course, their other Office apps are at best, marginally better than what Google offers and still have a long way to go before threatening Microsoft Office too. Also, Zoho's stand seems to be to offer office productivity apps for free and then upsell business apps (like CRM) which to my mind is a leap too far! I think this obfuscates the positioning/proposition that they offer to potential partners like telcos and make the sell more difficult. Ashish,
The reason Zoho is not in the picture is not hard to fathom… Telcos are signing up Google Apps primarily for one application – e-mail. Google Docs is far from being a credible alternative to Microsoft Office for real-world business use but Gmail can pretty much do everything that Outlook/Exchange does (and then some).
Zoho, on the other hand, has an anemic e-mail offering (in private beta for several years now) and is therefore not in the reckoning. Of course, their other Office apps are at best, marginally better than what Google offers and still have a long way to go before threatening Microsoft Office too.
Also, Zoho’s stand seems to be to offer office productivity apps for free and then upsell business apps (like CRM) which to my mind is a leap too far! I think this obfuscates the positioning/proposition that they offer to potential partners like telcos and make the sell more difficult.

]]> By: Mahesh http://www.pluggd.in/indian-telecom-industry/bharti-airtel-to-get-into-saas-business-cio-in-the-cloud-2699/comment-page-1/#comment-86470 Mahesh Mon, 15 Sep 2008 05:23:36 +0000 http://www.pluggd.in/2008/09/bharti-airtel-to-get-into-saas-business-cio-in-the-cloud#comment-86470 If anything innovative/creative happens in india telcos, Sunil mittal will be a part of it ALWAYS. He likes transformation very much. just like from 15 Rs /min to 10paise/min to this step. he has real passion for tech and biz If anything innovative/creative happens in india telcos, Sunil mittal will be a part of it ALWAYS. He likes transformation very much. just like from 15 Rs /min to 10paise/min to this step.

he has real passion for tech and biz

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