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Blog:India Tech Market 2013 Predictions

The Forrester Asia Pacific (AP) team has just published its predictions for 2013 in the IT Industry Disruptions Fuel Renewed Asia Pacific Market Growth report. Some of the top trends and predictions...

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Blog:Indian CIOs Are At The Crossroads Of Their Future Role; Change Or Fall By The Wayside

I presented the keynote at the Biztech2 event in Mumbai last week. It was a big evening, as almost all key Indian CIOs were present at the event. The theme of my keynote was “The Empowered BT...

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Blog:IBM Bullish On Smarter City Opportunities In India

  At last week’s India analyst briefing, IBM outlined urbanization as a key factor driving “Smarter Cities” initiatives in India. IBM expects India to invest about $1.2...

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Report:Software Innovation In India

How Firms Can Best Capitalize On Software Development And Configuration Opportunities In India

The continued economic viability of software development in India, whether by independent software vendors (ISVs) or "captive" business units, depends less on pure labor arbitrage and more on...

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Report:India Server Virtualization Market: A Snapshot

The server virtualization market in India is still in its nascent stage with enterprises experimenting with virtual servers running non-critical applications. This document is designed to allow...

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Blog:India Ranks Second In Expected 2013 Asia Pacific Mobile Software Spending Growth

Data from Forrester’s Forrsights Budgets and Priorities Tracker Survey, Q4 2012 highlights that a total of 53% of IT organizations interviewed in India plan to increase their software spending...

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Report:Systems Integrators Are Failing To Meet The Expectations Of Indian CIOs

Business Results, Not Products Or Solutions, Differentiate SIs In The Eyes Of These CIOs

The CIO's role is clearly evolving to become less technical and more business-oriented. Indian CIOs have started looking beyond IT when engaging systems integrators (SIs) with the objective of...

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Blog:Key Takeaways From Forrester’s India CIO Summit

Forrester held its first CIO Summit in New Delhi, India on September 26, 2012. The theme of the event was “From IT To Business Technology (BT) And Beyond.” There were more than 100...

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Report:Trends In India's eCommerce Market

How Online Retail In India Is Evolving Differently From Other Major Markets

India's eCommerce market is at an early stage but is expected to see huge growth over the next four to five years. Over the past 12 months, venture capitalists have invested heavily in India's...

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Blog:Infosys Wins $126 Million Deal From India Post

  Infosys recently won a financial services systems integration deal from the Department of Post in the Ministry of Communications and IT of India worth INR 700 crore (US$126 million). In 2010,...

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Blog:NASSCOM Restructures Itself For 2020 Vision: A Step In The Right Direction, But Long Road Ahead

On March 4, 2013, NASSCOM, the industry association for the IT BPO sector in India, announced a restructuring plan to help realize its goal of India becoming a $300 billion industry by 2020. The...

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Report:What India's 12th National Five-Year Plan Means For ICT Vendors

Aligning Strategies With Key Government Priorities Is The Key To Success

The Indian public sector is an extremely difficult market for IT vendors due to its extended business cycles and high levels of diversity, hypercompetition, bureaucracy, and procurement complexity....

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Blog:Misaligned Perspectives Are Driving CIOs And The Business Apart In India

Data from the Forrsights Budgets and Priorities Tracker Survey, Q4 2012 highlights the increasing gap between CIOs and business decision-makers (BDMs) in India — a gap that originates in...

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Blog:iSPIRT: Why India’s New Software Think Tank Will Struggle To Make A Big Impact

  Thirty software product members of NASSCOM, the industry association for the IT BPO sector in India, announced that they would form a group to expand the software ecosystem in India: the...

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Blog:India's Public Sector Forecast: 2012 To 2017

The most critical factor driving the Indian public sector over the next five years will be India’s 12th national five-year plan, which covers the period from 2012 to 2017. I have just published...

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Blog:IBM STG Is Upbeat On PureSystems And Growth Markets

  Last month, I attended an IBM Systems and Technology Group (STG) Executive Summit in the US, where IBM outlined its key strategies for accelerating sales in growth markets, including:...

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Blog:SingTel Lands Big Government Cloud Win In Singapore

On May 15, 2012, the Infocomm Development Authority (IDA) of Singapore announced that it would award its much-awaited externally hosted g-cloud infrastructure five-year tender to SingTel. My...

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Report:With Vast Government Cloud Opportunities In Asia Pacific, Vendors Need To Know Where To Look

The Shift To Government Cloud Is Evolutionary, Not Revolutionary

Economic, technological, and behavioral changes are driving a fundamental transformation in how governments deliver services. Asia Pacific governments will leverage cloud computing to create more...

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Blog:Threats And Opportunities For Software Innovation In India

The continued economic viability of software development in India, whether by independent software vendors (ISVs) or “captive” business units, depends less on pure labor arbitrage and...

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Report:Asian Urbanization Creates Opportunities For ICT Suppliers

With increasing urbanization, Asian cities will undergo rapid transformation, creating opportunities for vendors that align themselves with city-level objectives. City opportunities are growing...

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Blog:System Integrators Are Failing To Meet The Expectations Of Indian CIOs

The rapid rise of social media, cloud computing, and mobility in India has started to affect how organizations do business in the country. This is driving a fundamental shift in the CIO role as it...

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Report:India Is At A Business Technology Crossroads

Indian CIOs Risk Losing Business Credibility If They Do Not Improve Their Understanding Of BT

A slow but relentless global revolution is sweeping traditional technology management. Historically, only IT organizations delivered technology for employee use. But this is changing: Technology use...

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Blog:What The India 2012-2013 Budget Means For ICT Vendors

The Indian government announced its 2012-2013 budget on March 16, 2012. While the announced budget does not contain direct incentives to promote the domestic ICT industry, there will be adequate...

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Blog:Mobile Governance Initiative In India: A Step In The Right Direction, But With Caveats

The Department of Information Technology (DIT) of India recently launched a paper on “Framework for Mobile Governance” that aims at providing fast and easy access of public...

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Blog:Indian CIOs Are At A Business Technology Crossroads

  Indian CIOs are at the risk of losing business credibility if they do not improve their understanding of business technology (BT). This is the key finding from the latest report that John...