How relevant is the online medium for software product companies/software services companies in India?
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India IT industry is known to serve it’s MNC customers at the drop of a hat, but when it comes to serving the onshore customers, the executives take a back seat. Indian Inc, as per a survey loses close to $2.4bn each year due to poor customer service, as 90% of C-level executives fail believe...
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Recession is impacting the outsourcing industry and the magnitude of impact can be measured by falling rates in the freelancers world and how other countries have dropped their rates and in turn, are heating up the market place. Take a look at the falling rates of Indian freelancers
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With Infosys bowing out of the deal, sole bidder HCL has bought 10.43% stake in Axon at 631 pence a share. Last week, within hours of Infosys Technologies deciding against sweetening its 600-pence offer for Axon, HCL Technologies announced it would implement its own £441
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The fight for SAP consulting company, Axon is taking an interesting turn – Axon has withdrawn its recommendation of a takeover bid from Infy, in favor of HCL’s bid (441 million, while Infy was 407 mn). HCL is inching ahead in the deal and is now talking of strong
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Wipro launched it’s offshore development center in SecondLife a year back and now they have launched a SOA solutions lab – which gives customers an opportunity to explore the impact of SOA in transforming their organizations to be more agile and enable business transformation SecondLife’s Business platform (called secondlifegrid) is gaining wider acceptance
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[Guest post by Sanjay Anandaram, sent in response to Vishal's post on IT Biggies being the 'Axis of Evil' for Indian startups. Sanjay wrote this article in 2005 and it's surprising that most of what he wrote 3 years back still holds true! The article talks of 'tangible' aspects that brings in innovative mindsets....
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Staffing company,TeamLease carried out a survey (sample size: 401) to understand the work culture scenario in India, and here are a few interesting results: 9.30am – 5.30pm: Recorded Standard Time! – Nearly 45% people don’t bat an eyelid while logging incorrect in / out times. If I’m late, I ain’t telling! Calling “Granny...
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I have covered the patenting status of India Inc earlier and in this article, lets compare stats from China. Here is a snapshot of Indian patent story: In 2007, the total number of patents granted increased by 8X (since 2006) and stands at 15,262. 35,000 (21% growth) patents that were filled in 2007. Comparison with China (third...
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Businessweek has published a list of top 100 Infotech companies worldwide and is interesting to see Airtel topping the India list. The ranking was done based on four criteria: shareholder return, return on equity, total revenues, and revenue growth. Intersting excerpts: US still has the highest number of companies, but the number has come down significantly since...
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The Indian PC market registered 20% growth in 2007, mainly triggered by rising demand (from both consumers and SMBs) and of course, the falling laptop prices. What’s really interesting to note is that the whiteboxes, i.e. the unbranded PCs are dominating the PC market. As per IDC estimates, assembled PCs or whiteboxes formed nearly 40 per...
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The two bigwigs of the pre-bust era have been acquired – certainly a big news for Indian product companies. 1. Talisma has been acquired by nGenera The deal size is not yet known but am sure Talisma got the deserved valuation. nGenera will incorporate the complete Talisma CIM suite of applications as a...
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The worldwide software piracy market has gone up by 20% touching $47.8 billion (~Rs2.02 trillion) in lost revenue in 2007 – and countries that top the list are: US: $8 billion worth of software was pirated in 2007. China: $6.7 billion Russia: $4.1 billion Surprisingly, India’s piracy market has fallen by 2% and we stand at $2billion. So why...
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The Indian IT and ITES sector has received $87mn VC investment in Q1 – 2/3 of the total $144mn investment made in Q1, as per report by VentureIntelligence The good news is that online services have attracted 75% of the deal – with ClearTrip leading the investment race ($18.75mn) Quick Stats Total Deals : 21 (while there...
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A country’s intellectual cap/growth can be fairly judged on the number of patents that are filed. Till 2005, the number of patents that was granted by the Indian Patent Office was 1,911. And 2006-07? The number has grown by 8X and stands at 15,262. What’s really interesting to note is the total number of patents that were...
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Surely a bad news for startups (not that they aren’t aware of the reality!) – Bangalore engineers,  working in product development companies collect the highest paycheck compared to their counterparts from other cities (Pune/NCR etc). Management consulting firm, Zinnov shared it’s annual study on “Compensation and Benefits” and it seems Pune witnessed...
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Connect the dots, signals and tell us what do you think about the IT recession? TCS has shown the door to ~500 employees (~2-3 years of work experience), citing performance issues. IBM laid off ~700 employees (mostly freshers) citing…? “performance in aptitude tests that were recently conducted in undisclosed IBM India locations.” In another news,...
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Infy was supposed to buy them, but rumor mill spells Wipro as a bidder for Capgemini, France based consulting firm. As per ToI: “Wipro has been known to be open to inorganic growth. However, that the rumoured 60 a share price tag would be quite expensive, valuing the group at around 8 billion...
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It takes no less than 3 months of training and an age old conceptual servicing...
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