CommunicAsia is considered to be the ideal launching pad for the brands to expand their presence in the South East Asian market. Now in its 21st year, the exhibition continued to focus on cutting-edge technologies and commercial implications, as well as fast-growing technological sectors. It is the most looked forward event for showcasing mobile phones, in particular!
Wipro continues to build a stronger channel as it tries to expand its market presence and work on many initiatives across its range of offerings. VARIndia finds out what the vendor has up its sleeves.
According to NASSCOM, India's IT industry is insulated from the financial crisis that has hit many economies globally, and companies here have not stopped hiring professionals either.
The festive season is that time of the year when companies try to increase their sales by announcing several lucrative schemes and buyers cash in on these schemes to get the best products and best deals. But given the global slowdown and Rupee depreciation, there are guesses that product sales will be slow this time. VARIndia talks to several IT companies and tries to find out how they are prepared to cash in on this festive opportunity.
Indian business has witnessed a revolution of sorts in the last ten years with the remarkable growth of enterprise applications. Today, the entire information cycle of enterprises from sectors as diverse as retail, telecom, automotive, real estate, construction or government, is being automated with the aid of enterprise solutions.
Microsoft has released its Visual Studio 2008 software development platform. Initially, it was available for download on MSDN to subscribers, but later on it was available on CDs for professional developers, teams and enthusiasts.
Today, we are witnessing a transformation in the way users view technology ––from being a– good to-have to a must-have; from being viewed as an expensive investment with doubtful returns to one that delivers high returns. This transformation, on the one hand, is driven by lower costs of computing and storage, therefore allowing increasing the number of customers to invest in a combination of devices. On the other hand, lowered costs of bandwidth have spawned a new world over the Internet. The result is the emergence of a new paradigm in technology access, delivery and usage – one that is not restricted by vendor, affordability, and that is not restricted to an ‘either/or’ situation: i.e. either offline or online. Instead, this new paradigm is driven by the most important factor of them all – customer need.
In a recently published report, Gartner said that the current US economic slowdown will lead buyers of IT services to consider increasing the percentage of their labour in offshore, lower-cost locations.
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