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Indian IT runs home, new geographies for growth
News Hit by global recession, India's local tech firms target projects on home soil and venture into new regions including Middle East and Latin America.
Tags: IT outsourcing, Outsourcing, Growth strategies and tools, Business, Infosys Technologies Ltd., Banking, Growth, Market, Information Technology, revenue
APAC CIOs wary of social networking
News Adoption of collaboration tools will grow, in spite of recent survey that found nine-in-10 Asia-Pacific IT heads had no plans to roll out Web 2.0 tools soon, says analyst.
Tags: Web 2.0, Web services, Web logs, Asia-Pacific, Tool, collaboration tool, social networking tool, Springboard Research, CIO, social networking
India will still enjoy IT growth this year
News update Boosted by expected arrival of 3G, infrastructure consolidation and SMB outsourcing, India's IT spend will grow 14.1 percent in 2009, says Springboard Research.
Tags: Growth strategies and tools, Green IT, IT outsourcing, Business, Growth, India, Telecommunications, IT-spending, Asia-Pacific, Small And Medium Business
Open source adoption 'anomaly' in Philippines
News Country's private sector is unexpected early adopters of open source, which analysts say will be further boosted by entrance of Google's upcoming Chrome OS.
Tags: Open source, Support, Open-source Software, Philippines, Google Inc., International Data Corp., Survey, Asia-Pacific, Springboard Research, Open source
Unified comms adoption in APAC still slow
News Few organizations in Asia understand how to unify their communication systems and majority of early adopters are larger enterprises, new study finds.
Tags: Communications, VoIP/IP telephony, India, IP, wireless phone, Tool, Small And Medium Business, Australia, Springboard Research, phone
Report: 85 million LTE users by 2013
News The first "truly global" mobile telecom system, long term evolution will initially be launched in countries such as Japan and China, says Cantab Wireless.
Tags: Next-generation technology/networks, WiMax, Qualcomm Inc., Mobile, China Mobile Ltd., Telecommunications, Asia-Pacific, HSPA, Springboard Research, 4G
License auctions stifling mobile development
News news analysis India will finally hold its 3G spectrum auction in December, but market analysts say this form of license distribution can negatively impact industry growth.
Tags: 3G (Third Generation), Local Government, Taxes, License, Operator, India, Money, International Data Corp., Spectrum, Auction
SOA awareness up, but adoption slowing
News Growing understanding of service oriented architecture means the technology's place in enterprises is ensured despite slowing adoption, says analyst.
Tags: Services, Service level management, SOA, Survey, Asia-Pacific, Gartner Inc., data integration, best practice, middleware, Springboard Research
India firms to spend more on outsourcing
News Majority of Indian enterprises will invest more on IT outsourcing within next two years, in attempt to reduce operational costs, says Springboard Research.
Tags: IT outsourcing, IT budgeting
Govt app store levels playing field
News Having applications in the cloud can help administrations such as Singapore, resolve infrastructure inadequacies and better utilize resources, says analyst.
Tags: Cloud computing, Web services, Software-as-a-service (SaaS), Government, Hewlett-Packard Co., Security, Singapore, public sector agency, Cloud computing, Software-as-a-service (SaaS)
Importance of top support often overlooked
Blogs Over coffee a couple of weeks back, I had an interesting chat with a Singapore-based CIO who listed a string of deployme...
Most Asian firms don't have green strategy
News Whopping 90 percent of businesses in region still have not implemented green IT strategy, despite being aware of ability to increase ROI, Springboard finds.
Tags: Green IT, Business, Green IT, Strategy, Symantec Corp., information technology company, Asian company, information technology, storage, Asia-Pacific
Budget sufficiently for cloud, SaaS user warns
News Companies rolling out their software-as-a-service projects need to allocate sufficient budget for licenses and pay attention to user acceptance and training.
Tags: Cloud computing, Software-as-a-service (SaaS), IT budgeting, Budgeting/cost control, Positioning, CRM, Singapore, Sales, Software-as-a-service (SaaS), Cloud computing
SaaS ERP market poised for strong growth
News Market for software-as-a-service-based enterprise resource planning in Asia-Pacific excluding Japan is expected to reach US$193 million by 2012, says Springboard.
Tags: Software-as-a-service (SaaS), Enterprise resource planning (ERP), Software, India, Survey, Asia-Pacific, Small And Medium Business, product lifecycle management, product lifecycle, ERP
Indian firms turn to software-as-a-service
News Local startups and small businesses deploy hosted business applications to avoid incurring heavy capital expenditure and having to hire IT professionals.
Tags: Software-as-a-service (SaaS), Cloud computing, Business applications, Security, India, Small And Medium Business, ERP, Cloud computing, Software-as-a-service (SaaS), software
