Biswajeet Mahapatra

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Focus On GenAI In India Will Drive Core Modernization And SaaS Adoption In 2024

Biswajeet Mahapatra December 22, 2023
In 2024, generative AI will find its way into many initiatives across companies in India. Read our top five India technology predictions for 2024 here.
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Pricing Optimization Solutions Are Becoming The Key To Revenue Maximization

Biswajeet Mahapatra August 29, 2023
Competition, economic conditions, and globalization are pushing companies to investigate ways and means to maximize their revenue and profitability. They are trying to achieve these objectives by reducing costs and increasing profits through revenue growth. Revenue growth is complex, as companies need to understand and balance multiple parameters to make it work. These parameters include […]
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Software Asset Management Tools Play A Critical Role In Your Optimization And Rationalization Initiatives

Biswajeet Mahapatra August 17, 2023
Current economic conditions are forcing many IT leaders to take stock of their existing inventory of software and find ways to optimize its usage. Optimization of software assets may be part of larger technical debt reduction or application rationalization programs, which help reduce costs, drive utilization of resources, and the freeing up of investments for […]
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Getting There, But Not Quite There Yet — The Indian Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023

Biswajeet Mahapatra August 17, 2023
The Indian Parliament passed the much-awaited Digital Personal Data Protection, or DPDP, bill on August 10, 2023. This comes six years after the Supreme Court of India declared the right to privacy as a fundamental right. The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeiTY) introduced the first draft of the bill in 2022 but later […]
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Cloud Explosion: Propelling India’s Digital Growth Story

Biswajeet Mahapatra July 6, 2023
Government, healthcare, retail, supply chain and logistics, manufacturing and financial services will see an explosion in cloud adoption in India. We expect the Indian cloud market to see unprecedented growth of 24% in the coming year. Indian enterprises adopting public cloud have spent an average of ₹3.7 billion on it in the past 12 months. […]
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Indian Firms Must Take The Data Analytics Bull By Its Horns To Build An Insights-Driven Organization

Biswajeet Mahapatra May 26, 2023
In India, competitive pressures and customer expectations are driving firms to provide personalized information, products, and services to customers and employees. Improving employee and user experiences are among the top software initiatives of Indian companies for the next 12 months. Insights-driven companies stand a better chance to compete. Why? Because they have a better understanding […]
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The Data Center Colocation And Cloud Services Landscape In India

Biswajeet Mahapatra April 3, 2023
A thriving data center and cloud services market in India is spoiling CIOs with choices. Along with the established providers, there is a huge influx of local vendors. AI-enabled solutions, infrastructure as a service, platform as a service, and identity as a service are a few of the many recent offerings by these vendors. And […]
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Indian Tech Outlook Looks Very Positive For 2023–2024

Biswajeet Mahapatra April 3, 2023
All major economies have been under distress due to the Ukraine war, stress in supply chains, post-COVID pressures, and banking crises in the US and Europe. Notwithstanding these challenges, the Indian economy will grow between 6.5–7.0% in the next 12 months. This means that India will retain its tag of the fastest-growing large economy in […]
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Indian Firms Are Adopting SaaS, And It Is Not To Save Costs

Biswajeet Mahapatra February 1, 2023
Indian enterprises have had software as a service (SaaS) on their radar for the last seven-plus years, if not more. SaaS uptake in India was slow, and cost used to be the only major driver toward SaaS adoption. Indian enterprises were in dilemma when major software vendors shelved their on-premises solutions in favor of SaaS-only […]
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Indian CIOs Should Start With Tech Stack And Services Optimization To Become Future Fit

Biswajeet Mahapatra December 19, 2022
Only 7% of Indian firms qualify as future fit. Learn five critical aspects Indian CIOs should review to ensure a successful digital transformation.
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Joining Forrester To Partner With CIOs In Their Future Fit Journey

Biswajeet Mahapatra September 21, 2022
Forrester is a trusted go-to partner for many CIOs across the globe. CIOs have been working with Forrester on various initiatives to build a customer-obsessed organization of the future. I am excited and thrilled to be joining Forrester as a CIO analyst to carry forward this great legacy. Never before have CIOs dealt with both […]