Web 2.0 technologies allow Start-up companies to build great Search tools.
Open source search projects are now allowing startups such as Hadoop, Nutch along with Amazon Web Service to build scalable search solutions.
IT Outsourcing is not just to India now:
India which used to get bulk of the IT outsourcing share (about 80%) earlier from US now get less than 60 % and this off shore work is now getting spread across other courtiers like Mexico, Canada, Malaysia, Brazil and China. Some of the reasons being increase in costs, attrition rates, lack of proper infrastructure, etc...
Major Indian IT companies like Satyam, TCS and others are now looking at augmenting their presence in Malaysia, China and other countries to address this.
Friday, December 15, 2006
Wednesday, November 22, 2006
IT Technology & Business updates !
Updates from reliable sources:
Perot Systems out sources To Mexico
Perot Systems announced that it is opening a new service center in Mexico said the center will be based in Guadalajara, and will provide a broad services to companies in the U.S., including desktop support, infrastructure management and engineering services.
Perot systems sign a 10-year IT services deal with Tenet Healthcare Corp., one of the nation's largest operators of hospitals and outpatient facilities. Perot will manage IT at all of Tenet's 66 hospitals throughout US.
Computer Sciences Corporation
Computer Sciences Corporation announced to have signed a seven-year, $180 million IT outsourcing deal with Newmont Mining Corp., one of the world's largest gold mining companies and have opened a new service center in the Czech Republic
IBM
IBM is planning on working with China's Ministry of Education to introduce a curriculum that will focus on scientific programs, computer science, operations research, industrial engineering, management sciences, and other disciplines.
India’s Satyam & TCS has recently announced a seven-year deal with a combined worth of US$144.4 and will maintain IT services and application software for more than 150 applications for Australia's Qantas Airways.
Health care Outsourcing
As healthcare costs are continuing to rise in the USA, more Americans are choosing to undergo operations in other countries to lower their medical expenses. Recently ABC's "Nightline" program was about California based Planet Hospital, an online medical-tourism firm, that connects U.S. patients who are unable to afford surgeries at home with doctors and hospitals in other countries.
Infosys ADR
India’s Infosys Technologies on Tuesday issued its largest float to date of American Depository Receipts (ADR) for trading on the U.S.'s Nasdaq stock exchange. It floated 30 million of the receipts, worth a total of about $1.5 billion.
Immigrants - Successful Entrepreneurs
In a study released this week by the National Venture Capital Association indicates that thousands of foreign engineers and high-tech specialists are hoping to enter and already in the U.S. are looking at being successful entrepreneurs. The study developed a long list of foreign immigrants who founded successful companies including Intel's Andy Grove, from Hungary; Sun Microsystem's Andreas Bechtolsheim, Germany, and Vinod Khosla, India; eBay's Pierre Omidyar, France; Yahoo's Jerry Yang, Taiwan; Google's Sergey Brin, Russia; Nvidia's Jen-Hsun Huang, Taiwan, and Cascade Communications' Gururaj Despande, India and many more successful Entrepreneurs
India Online Today !
Perot Systems out sources To Mexico
Perot Systems announced that it is opening a new service center in Mexico said the center will be based in Guadalajara, and will provide a broad services to companies in the U.S., including desktop support, infrastructure management and engineering services.
Perot systems sign a 10-year IT services deal with Tenet Healthcare Corp., one of the nation's largest operators of hospitals and outpatient facilities. Perot will manage IT at all of Tenet's 66 hospitals throughout US.
Computer Sciences Corporation
Computer Sciences Corporation announced to have signed a seven-year, $180 million IT outsourcing deal with Newmont Mining Corp., one of the world's largest gold mining companies and have opened a new service center in the Czech Republic
IBM
IBM is planning on working with China's Ministry of Education to introduce a curriculum that will focus on scientific programs, computer science, operations research, industrial engineering, management sciences, and other disciplines.
India’s Satyam & TCS has recently announced a seven-year deal with a combined worth of US$144.4 and will maintain IT services and application software for more than 150 applications for Australia's Qantas Airways.
Health care Outsourcing
As healthcare costs are continuing to rise in the USA, more Americans are choosing to undergo operations in other countries to lower their medical expenses. Recently ABC's "Nightline" program was about California based Planet Hospital, an online medical-tourism firm, that connects U.S. patients who are unable to afford surgeries at home with doctors and hospitals in other countries.
Infosys ADR
India’s Infosys Technologies on Tuesday issued its largest float to date of American Depository Receipts (ADR) for trading on the U.S.'s Nasdaq stock exchange. It floated 30 million of the receipts, worth a total of about $1.5 billion.
Immigrants - Successful Entrepreneurs
In a study released this week by the National Venture Capital Association indicates that thousands of foreign engineers and high-tech specialists are hoping to enter and already in the U.S. are looking at being successful entrepreneurs. The study developed a long list of foreign immigrants who founded successful companies including Intel's Andy Grove, from Hungary; Sun Microsystem's Andreas Bechtolsheim, Germany, and Vinod Khosla, India; eBay's Pierre Omidyar, France; Yahoo's Jerry Yang, Taiwan; Google's Sergey Brin, Russia; Nvidia's Jen-Hsun Huang, Taiwan, and Cascade Communications' Gururaj Despande, India and many more successful Entrepreneurs
India Online Today !
Friday, November 10, 2006
Techology updates this week ! Week of Nov 6th 2006
Technology updates this week!
Cap Gemini to acquire Kanbay Intl
Leading IT service provider, Capgemini, has entered into an agreement to acquire Kanbay International Inc., an IT services firm based in Rosemont, IL USA.. This acquisition will enable Capgemini to boost its services from India as Kanbay has a strong developer base in that India for its offshore delivery.
Red Herring by Intel - Web 2.0
Intel has announced partnership with a group of Web 2.0 companies to form a suite of Web software that will help small and medium businesses share information in an announcement this week and this web 2.0 is the second wave in the Internet phenomenon as it allows consumers to create their own dynamic web pages, collaboration and sharing with others including share photos and videos.
Microsoft & Linux
Microsoft and Novell Corp, making Linux software, this week have entered into an agreement to allow Novell's open-source Linux software to work with Microsoft’s Windows platform.
Phising on the rise
Leading industry analysts believe that Phising scams are on the rise and innocent users are getting conned and giving away their personal data to these scam e-mails or websites. Phishing is a scam to steal valuable information such as credit card and social security numbers, user IDs and passwords, is normally done through e-mails sent to users and pretending to be from their Financial bank or retail stores.
Internet users are recommended to not take click the links to the Banks or Online Stores in the e-mails they do not recognize to avoid these scams.
It is also advisable to upgrade to the latest versions of web browsers such as Inter Explorer 7 or Firefox 2.0 as they have some built-in anti-phising features.
India Online Today !
Cap Gemini to acquire Kanbay Intl
Leading IT service provider, Capgemini, has entered into an agreement to acquire Kanbay International Inc., an IT services firm based in Rosemont, IL USA.. This acquisition will enable Capgemini to boost its services from India as Kanbay has a strong developer base in that India for its offshore delivery.
Red Herring by Intel - Web 2.0
Intel has announced partnership with a group of Web 2.0 companies to form a suite of Web software that will help small and medium businesses share information in an announcement this week and this web 2.0 is the second wave in the Internet phenomenon as it allows consumers to create their own dynamic web pages, collaboration and sharing with others including share photos and videos.
Microsoft & Linux
Microsoft and Novell Corp, making Linux software, this week have entered into an agreement to allow Novell's open-source Linux software to work with Microsoft’s Windows platform.
Phising on the rise
Leading industry analysts believe that Phising scams are on the rise and innocent users are getting conned and giving away their personal data to these scam e-mails or websites. Phishing is a scam to steal valuable information such as credit card and social security numbers, user IDs and passwords, is normally done through e-mails sent to users and pretending to be from their Financial bank or retail stores.
Internet users are recommended to not take click the links to the Banks or Online Stores in the e-mails they do not recognize to avoid these scams.
It is also advisable to upgrade to the latest versions of web browsers such as Inter Explorer 7 or Firefox 2.0 as they have some built-in anti-phising features.
India Online Today !
Friday, November 03, 2006
Trends in Outsourcing Business in India - 2006
Trends in Outsourcing
In 3rd qtr 2006,
Major companies such as IBM, Infosys, TCS, Wipro are continuing to expand their employee base in
IBM's global operations recently announced the opening of new software development centers in
SOA based applications have a large market share in the coming years and IBM as well as Oracle are investing heavily in this area and adopting the use of standard open source technology.
IBM is looking at having about 55,000 employees in
Infosys, the second largest Indian software exporter, had great year so far and the business deals with
TCS and Wipro also had a very good year so far. However the number of big deals between $500 million and $1 billion is appear to be declining, smaller contracts of less than $250 million are on the rise.
The attrition rate is also high at around 15% and these large companies giving salary increases to keep the attrition rate in check.
The operating margins for these outsourcing companies are stagnant or increasing at a moderate pace due to the increase in salaries.
Saturday, October 28, 2006
Future Technologies & IT Skills
Business are now looking forward to have IT solutions that are built on standard platforms using reusable components such as web services, SOA.
Skills in the area of developing & use of SOA, web services, and understanding the concepts of BPM (Business process mapping), BAM (Business Analytics monitoring), BPEL (Business process execution languages), AJAX are critical to the development of such IT solutions.
Major vendors including Oracle, TIBCO, IBM, Microsoft etc are using these technologies to build solutions for the future.
Let us know if you have any comments or contact us for more updates on this technology.
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Skills in the area of developing & use of SOA, web services, and understanding the concepts of BPM (Business process mapping), BAM (Business Analytics monitoring), BPEL (Business process execution languages), AJAX are critical to the development of such IT solutions.
Major vendors including Oracle, TIBCO, IBM, Microsoft etc are using these technologies to build solutions for the future.
Let us know if you have any comments or contact us for more updates on this technology.
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AJAX - Interactive Web Applications
AJAX application make web pages have a better responsive, interactivity and speed as only small amounts of data are retrieved from the web server and the entire web page does not get loaded and refreshed when user clicks on the web page for any changes.
AJAX is not something that is absolutely new and is really a combination of several technologies as it uses XML, XHTML, XSLT, CSS and Asynchronous request using XML HTTP Requests with JavaScript binding these objects together amongst others.
Google Maps and other Google applications have successfully implemented this technology and several other software vendors are now using this technology to provide more interactive web applications.
Recently Salesforce.com has announced the Apex development technology, which the company plans on using internally, as a "Java-like" or web application programming language. Applications will be built using the language and these will be available as a Web service and accessed using XML and SOAP standards.
Now the Businesses will also be able to use the Apex language to customize core features and functions of Salesforce.com on-demand applications to build their own add-on components. The Apex software is likely to made available to the developers to build custom applications and build interfaces.
The applications developed with Apex can also be shared with others through the App Exchange directory.
Salesforce.com is currently building elements of the Apex platform for running Apex-built applications. They also include APIs to access and manage complex data relationships including real-time messaging and integration for notifying other applications or middleware of business events in the applications.
Like all newer technologies, when building applications using AJAX technologies, due consideration has to be given to the security to prevent intrusions and security holes.
Let us know if you have any comments or contact us for more updates on this technology.
India Online Today !
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AJAX is not something that is absolutely new and is really a combination of several technologies as it uses XML, XHTML, XSLT, CSS and Asynchronous request using XML HTTP Requests with JavaScript binding these objects together amongst others.
Google Maps and other Google applications have successfully implemented this technology and several other software vendors are now using this technology to provide more interactive web applications.
Recently Salesforce.com has announced the Apex development technology, which the company plans on using internally, as a "Java-like" or web application programming language. Applications will be built using the language and these will be available as a Web service and accessed using XML and SOAP standards.
Now the Businesses will also be able to use the Apex language to customize core features and functions of Salesforce.com on-demand applications to build their own add-on components. The Apex software is likely to made available to the developers to build custom applications and build interfaces.
The applications developed with Apex can also be shared with others through the App Exchange directory.
Salesforce.com is currently building elements of the Apex platform for running Apex-built applications. They also include APIs to access and manage complex data relationships including real-time messaging and integration for notifying other applications or middleware of business events in the applications.
Like all newer technologies, when building applications using AJAX technologies, due consideration has to be given to the security to prevent intrusions and security holes.
Let us know if you have any comments or contact us for more updates on this technology.
India Online Today !
_________________
Visit: http://IndiaOnlineToday.com
Contact:
http://DadiAssociates.com
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