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Indian states take flight with SWANs
News Country's US$713 million State Wide Area Networks initiative to interconnect 29 states and six union territories is now in full swing.
Tags: Local Government, State Government, LANs and WANs, Networking technology, Tata Consultancy Services Ltd., Hewlett-Packard Co., E-government, Goa, UTStarcom Inc., GEPON
Indian passports to go digital next year
News Country preps for e-passports and overhaul of backend infrastructure to enable better security, easier access and faster issuance of travel documents.
Tags: Local Government, Data security, Traveller, Tata Consultancy Services Ltd., E-passport, Security, India, Chip, Infineon Technologies AG, Passport
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, India, Information Technology
Will there be too many chefs cooking India's UID broth?
Blogs Today's newspapers carry a photograph of Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz offering a bouquet of flowers to India's Prime Minister M...
The lowdown on India's Web 2.0 generation
Blogs India's demographics (50 percent of India's population is below the age of 25 years) has been perceived as both a boon a...
TCS trims UK headcount by 10 percent
News Indian outsourcer TCS has reduced its UK workforce to 4,500 people as part of a cost-cutting drive, pulling back staff from delivery centers and customer offices in the United Kingdom to fill other posts in India.
Tags: Human resources, Tata Consultancy Services Ltd., Outsourcing, British Telecommunications, CRM, Outsourcing Company, Sales, Consulting, Lakshmi, public sector
Indian tech giants to transform UK government?
News A U.K. parliamentary group formed recently to bolster trade links between the two countries, are introducing executives from outsourcing powerhouses such as HCL, Infosys and TCS to British MPs and civil servants.
Tags: IT outsourcing, Outsourcing, Offshoring, Tata Consultancy Services Ltd., Infosys Technologies Ltd., Outsourcing, India, Outsourcing Company, Britain, Government
TCS looks to needs of SMBs
News With its IT-as-a-service offering being piloted in India, the company aims to provide smaller firms with applications as well as managed IT and telecom services.
Tags: Software-as-a-service (SaaS), Services, Business, Tata Consultancy Services Ltd., IT Services, Telecommunications, Outsourcing Company, Small And Medium Business, SCM, software
When cash is king in M&A
Blogs Following on from last week's posting, we've seen more merger and acquisition (M&A) activity with TCS acquiring Citigrou...
Mahindra Satyam aims to 'win back everybody'
News Now that the reasons alienating company from its customers have gone away, Mahindra Satyam has earned 24 new clients since April, says CEO C.P. Gurnani.
Tags: Protocols and platforms, IT outsourcing, Business applications, India, Outsourcing Company, Europe, FIFA, CIO, public sector, CEO
Indian tech tries to retain top workers
News Infosys, Wipro and others are trying to avoid layoffs by reassigning skilled workers to subsidiaries or asking them to accept reduced salaries.
Tags: Human resources, Tata Consultancy Services Ltd., Wipro Technologies, Infosys Technologies Ltd., Training, Bench, ERP, Sabbaticals, business intelligence, Worker
Satyam suitors expected 'within a week'
News Outsourcing giant Satyam could soon be snapped up by competitors or lose out to them as competitors are prospecting their clients in this times of uncertainty.
Tags: IT outsourcing, Outsourcing, Acquisitions, Tata Consultancy Services Ltd., Wipro Technologies, David Mitchell, liquidity, National Outsourcing Association, NOA, Bombay
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
Outsourcing shifts past Bangalore, Mumbai
News While India remains popular with the top 50 outsourcing companies, vendors are progressively creating more bases in cities such as Chennai, Noida and Hyderabad.
Tags: IT outsourcing, Outsourcing, Outsourcing, India, Outsourcing Company, Pune, Chennai, Silicon.com, outsource, Bangalore
Firms, vendors not keen on lower SLAs
News Despite economics of easing parameters in service level agreements, Asia's tech stakeholders warn against going down that path just to save money.
Tags: Service level management, Tata Consultancy Services Ltd., MessageLabs Ltd., Service Level, Asia, Asia-Pacific, SLA, Environment, CIO, e-mail
