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Innovating in a Digital World
A decade ago, smartphones (as we know them by today’s standards) didn’t exist. Three decades earlier, no one even owned a computer. Unbelievable? Digital Disruption is here to stay. Organizations need to adapt to keep up with the pace of change of technology.
Why Are More And More Organizations Taking The Route of Managed Services During Remote Working?
This pandemic has forcefully changed the business world globally. For small and large, global and national organizations, the basics – how we do business, the way we do business, where we do it from – is all new. Chances are, for many, this might become permanent, considering the spiked...
5 ways Managed Services can Help Your Business Optimize up to 40% of Your IT Costs
Startup or a Fortune 500 company, IT plays a crucial role in the growth and hassle-free running of the business of every size and stripe. Thus, managing the infrastructure environment optimally becomes equally crucial. The latest semi-annual service tracker forecast from IDC has unveiled that the managed IT services...
Everything you need to know about Managed Services in under 3 minutes!
5th December, 2019 | Embee Sumit J., IT Manager of a media company based out of Mumbai, joined the organization when it was a very small company with barely 20-25 resources and operations limited to Mumbai and its suburbs. Gradually, within the span of nine years, the organization grew,...
Becoming Cloud Native
83% Of Enterprise Workloads Will Be in The Cloud By 2020 In one of my earlier blogs where I discussed the importance of shifting to mega Cloud platforms, I mentioned Application migration as one of the major impediments for enterprises to completely embrace Cloud. The need for “Application Modernization”...
Get on to the Cloud Before Monsoon Hits
I was on my way back to office after an interesting meeting with a customer based out of South Mumbai. The clouds were ominous, but rain remained elusive. Weather woes aside, at the meeting, we were engaged in conceiving how to extract full value of moving the bulk of...
4 Considerations for Successful Adoption of Payroll Management System
One of the most vital aspect of a business is payroll. An aspect that can easily turn into an encumbrance to organizational growth, if not managed correctly. Besides varying salaries, there are multiple other factors like shift differentials, leaves, increments, bonuses, benefit contributions, taxes to be calculated while calculating...
How Intelligent Cloud Can Help to Build Intelligent Enterprises
Today’s businesses are striving to be more intuitive, responsive, agile and efficient – in a nutshell, more intelligent. Technologies like machine learning, artificial intelligence, business intelligence, smart contracts, virtual/augmented reality and intelligent infrastructure are at the core of this enhanced ‘intelligence’ that transforms a standard business into a visionary...
5 Key Enterprise Mobility Trends to Look Out for in 2019
2018 saw a surge of businesses adopting advanced mobile technologies to protect data, boost productivity, improve employee satisfaction and lower costs. Now, with Stratistics MRC predicting the Global Enterprise Mobility Market to reach $1225.78 billion by 2026, let’s look at the new trends reshaping this sector:1. Use of Artificial...
8 Ways HRMS Can Help to Reduce Employee Turnover
Four out of five (78%) business leaders rank employee retention as a critical business need. Yet managing employee turnover is still one of the biggest challenges of the Human Resource (HR) department for many organizations, if not all. High employee turnover inevitably leads to a whole new phase of...
What You Need to Know about Infrastructure Management in 2019
As the pace of innovation in businesses get increasingly faster, IT departments are having to step up to do a lot more than what they were expected to do before. IT infrastructure management now means to actively take on the role of strategic deliverers of services and enablers of...
Top 3 Managed Services Trends to Watch Out for
Today’s volatile, macroeconomic IT environment has necessitated implementation of Managed Services. While adopting transformational technologies like Cloud, Analytics, and wearable technologies are business priorities, businesses place equal weight to adequately maintain and secure their corporate IT infrastructure. Thus, we’ve shortlisted the three key Managed Services trends that are reshaping the...
6 Ways ERP Can Help Optimize Supply Chain Costs
The supply chain is one of the most vital and complex aspects of a business. Consisting of a wide network of manufacturers, suppliers, distributors, retailers and customers supply chain management (SCM) is instrumental to achieving business growth in a highly volatile market scenario. It is noteworthy that supply chain...
Moving to the Cloud? 5 Key Reasons You Must Avail Managed Cloud Services
The Cloud platform is the foundation of a game-changer strategy. However, navigating the complex environment of SaaS, IaaS and PaaS is easier said than done. No matter which level of expertise your organization’s IT department has, there will still be an extensive learning curve and wide-ranging analysis involved, before...
Collaboration in 2019 – A Closer Look
Global businesses struggle with lack of seamless and effective collaboration tools. This challenge often leads to compromised product quality, missed delivery deadlines and extra expenditure. However, McKinsey claims that organizations can improve their productivity by 20 to 30% by adopting process and networking tools!In order to adopt more productive...
Importance of Real-time Analytics in Supply Chain Management
“The supply chain stuff is really tricky!!” We aren’t saying this. Elon Musk did! With time, in order to meet the increasing demand for faster turnaround times and competitive end-product pricing, supply chain operations have become very complex and distributed. Managers across departments, often, find it difficult to monitor...
Transformative Role of Automation in Banking and Finance in 2019
The Banking and finance industry was one of the first to automate processes to reduce manual labor, minimize redundancies in operations and ensure a sustainable future. While this automation-powered transformation is still in its nascent stage, it is undoubtedly set to create newer opportunities for BFSI industry in the...
The Role of People Analytics in Organizational Growth
Data-driven insights have exploded in every sector and Human Resources is no exception. Technological advancements like Cloud-based HR systems, advanced analytics, Artificial Intelligence (AI), chatbots, Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR), gamification, automation, blockchain etc., are transforming the way businesses work, but when it comes to HR, arguably it’s...
How Is Technology Reshaping Various Aspects of the e-Commerce Industry?
Technology has gone far and beyond from being just the foundation of e-Commerce industry; it is now powering the huge wave of changes happening in it. In the last decade itself, e-Commerce has seen heightened consumer interest and participation, leading to eMarketer estimating that sales will top $27 trillion...
7 HRMS Myths Debunked
Rapid changes in technology have impacted businesses in multiple ways, resulting in globalization and organizational realignment. Today’s workforce has also become more dynamic and mobile. The need to effectively manage such a dexterous and fluid workforce has compelled Human Resources (HR) to go from being a merely compliance regulatory...
5 Ways a Mobile Workforce Can Benefit Your Organization
The way of working has transformed over the last two decades. While the last decade saw glimpses of this change, the way businesses function today is completely different. And mobile devices – may it be smartphones, laptops, tablets - are at the center of this change. Mobile technology, along with...
5 Ways to Avoid Ransomware
2019 saw more than 9.9 billion Ransomware and malware attacks – heavily impacting the healthcare, manufacturing and financial industries. And experts expect the damage to reach $6 trillion by 2021. What are we doing about it?Ransomware attacks getting increasingly frequent and sophisticated. How vulnerable are you? The ransomware landscape...
The Role of Business Intelligence in Healthcare Industry
Business Intelligence is revolutionizing the Healthcare Industry. From improved patient safety and management to reduced costs, increased revenue to better visibility into financial operations, from monitoring cash flows to remaining compliant, the healthcare industry is moving into the data-driven world. And while, it’s only the beginning, BI is no...
6 Ways Managed Services Help to Improve IT Security
Your data is always at risk. The source can be internal or external, nonetheless, there is always the risk of security breach. The global average cost of a data breach in 2018 is up 6.4 percent over the previous year to $3.86 million. The Ponemon Institute study also found...
8 Common ERP Implementation Mistakes and How to Avoid Them
Costing hundreds of dollars and just as many man hours, enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems are undoubtedly massive investments of money, resources and time. What businesses must understand is a successful ERP implementation can help the company streamline workflow and optimize costs, whereas a less than perfect rollout can...
HR Automation: Why Is It Important and Why You Must Care About It Now
Intelligent automation technologies are well on their way to transform life as we know it. From smart cars to smart air conditioners to smart home assistants – automation have become a much more integral part of our day to day activities than we realize. Thus, it’s no surprise that...
6 Disaster Recovery Myths Debunked
Only 6% of companies suffering a catastrophic data loss survive. Hence, it is needless to say how critical a disaster recovery solution is for your business stability. However, despite that, most businesses seem to take the reactive route, rather than the proactive one when it comes to disaster recovery....
Key Take Aways from Satya Nadella’s Corenote Speech at Microsoft Inspire 2018
“How should we meet the unmet, unarticulated needs of customers?” That is the question that guided Satya Nadella’s speech at Microsoft Inspire 2018. This year the event kicked off on July 15 at Las Vegas, but it wasn’t until July 18, Wednesday, that we got to hear what the CEO...
Busting Myths about Enterprise Mobility – Part 2
Continuing from our previous blog about busting enterprise mobility myths, here are a few more of the same that can prove to be blockades in the path of organizational evolution.Myth 7: Employees don’t like BYOD. Businesses conveniently believe that employees do not like to use their personal devices for work....
Busting Myths about Enterprise Mobility – Part 1
While research states that 70% of professionals will work via smart, mobile devices by 2018, many organizations in India hold numerous myths about Enterprise Mobility. It’s time to bust them.Let’s take a look at the most common myths: Myth 1: Mobility Compromises Data Security. Businesses believe that improved mobility...
Actionable Insights, Not Simple Data, Can Help You Achieve Sustainable Growth
For many years now, business leaders have emphasized the need for data-driven operations. Organizations, big, small and everything in between, have realized the importance of capturing abundant data to truly fathom the state of their business and to strategize for the future. This data may range from performance metric...
6 Industries That Are Most Vulnerable to Digital Disruption
Digital disruption is well upon us. While a survey conducted by the Global Center for Digital Business Transformation for the large and midsized private sector companies agreed, to varying degrees, that digital disruption comes with its own set of benefits, it is also true that Digital Disruption is threatening...
Top 6 Disruptive Technologies That You Should Look Out for in 2018
As the world becomes progressively digitized, more and more industries face disruption through technology. 2017 saw the increased traction of Big Data Analytics, Virtual and Augmented Reality, Smart Machines, Internet of Things, 3D Printing amongst many others which are bringing a wave of transformation for businesses. What will 2018...
6 Common Misconceptions About Data Security
2019 has seen some of the most extensive cyber-attacks in the modern day attacking government institutions to global organizations. Uniqlo, a global fast retailing fashion brand lost over four hundred thousand customer information while the U.S customs and border protection faced a breach exposing a hundred thousand traveler records....
Spreadsheets Or ERP: It’s Not About Technology but About Making Your Strategy Future-Ready
In day to day work environment, you often get to hear, “I’ll just mail the spreadsheet to you”. A fairly harmless expression by itself, but if you stop for a moment to consider, it highlights a vital point, not so much a flaw but definitely a shortcoming.Emerging technologies like...
Key Features of an HRMS Software for Your Business
A human resource management system is a growing necessity for small, mid-sized and large enterprises. It gives the management a micro and macro overview of their employees, their collective and individual performance, automating all processes and helps them to make better decisions. A KPMG survey revealed that 72% of...
8 Business Intelligence Trends to Look Out for in 2020
Businesses today realise the power of data and are altering their processes to become a data-driven company. Global beverage leader, Coca Cola witnessed savings of over 260 hours a year – that is more than six 40 hour weeks - when they moved from their manual reporting processes to...
Top 4 Media Tech Trends That Will Impact the Industry in 2018
The Media industry today is faced with a number of unique challenges. From the deterioration of traditional business models to the explosion of new distribution channels, from a fragmented customer base to the new varieties of content demanded, from redefining their influence on the society to finding new ways...
5 Tech Trends That Will Drive Innovation in eCommerce Industry in 2018
Few industries can boast of a future as bright as that of eCommerce. With increasing investments in Artificial Intelligence (AI), Augmented & Virtual realities (AR and VR) and personalization, eCommerce growth is expected to reach $4.48 trillion in 2021. In fact, Walmart has recently wrapped up its Flipkart acquisition...
4 Tech Trends Impacting the Healthcare Industry in 2018
Innovation is already disrupting healthcare sector, and that too at great speed. In most business sectors, technological innovations are aimed at streamlining processes and increasing efficiency however when it comes to healthcare, technology transcends convenience and aids directly in saving lives.Check out how these healthcare tech trends, shortlisted by...
The Biggest Security Threats Affecting BFSI Organizations in 2020
The exponential growth in online payments in India, with total digital payment market expected to grow to USD 1 trillion by FY23E and the post-demonetization emphasis on building a cashless economy highlighted the need for strengthening and bolstering financial cybersecurity, the cyber threats attacking the BFSI sector have been...
4 Manufacturing Tech Trends to Keep an Eye On in 2018
Digital disruption is restructuring manufacturing, at an unprecedented rate. It is no longer about survival of the fittest, but about the survival of the most agile.Surveying the global manufacturing landscape, and taking into account transformative technologies like greater intelligence in operational assets and processes, data capitalization, the convergence of...
5 Edtech Trends to Look Out for in 2018
Remember the time when you sat in class and the teacher wrote on the blackboard with a screeching white chalk? Those days are gone. Well almost! Today the education sector in India has taken a more interactive approach. The rapid digitization, coupled with increasing internet speed, has led to...
Top 6 Retail Tech Trends to Watch Out for in 2018!
Retail is one of the 6 industries most vulnerable to digital disruption, with technology reshaping it in terms of power, consumer behavior and marketplace. If the pace and variety of innovation are anything to go by, this disruption will continue in 2018 and beyond. These innovations have paved the...
7 Business Intelligence Trends to Look Out for in 2018
2017 saw an explosion of data, more organizations moved to Cloud and spreadsheets took a backseat to make way for interactive dashboards with actionable insights visualizations. That being said, 2018 is a new year with new possibilities. While the practices of last year will continue to play big roles,...
Create Your Competitive Edge with Business Intelligence
What made Apple what it is today? Innovative thinking? Excellent product? Exceptional marketing? Definitely those. But most importantly it was Business Intelligence. They developed products which met precise needs of their users without their customers even knowing what their needs were, what they really wished deep inside. That’s what every business is aiming for...
6 Answers You Must Know Before You Invest in a Disaster Recovery Plan
Organizations are often faced with risks of business disruption due to unexpected failures, natural disasters or targeted cyberattacks. Which is why they are often on the lookout for a proven business continuity solution. However, selecting a disaster recover solution that embeds security, privacy, as well as compliance into their...
SAP B1 9.3 Is All Set to Make Your Business Processes More Efficient
IDC confirms that businesses stand to lose 20% of their revenue every year due to process inefficiencies. In order to avoid losses resulting from inefficient business processes, business leaders turn to enterprise resource planning (ERP). Recently, ERP giant, SAP, has made the latest version of its flagship solution, Business...
6 Benefits of ERP for the Manufacturing Industry
The manufacturing industry is highly dynamic and competitive in nature which makes it imperative for such businesses to have an integrated solution that can enhance efficiency, diminish costs, increase sales and profitability but most importantly, enable the organization to make accurate, informed and strategic decisions. An enterprise resource planning...
How Managed IT Services Help to Optimize Your Budget
With the ever-increasing importance of IT across all industries and domains, most businesses, if not all, are finding it difficult to maintain and upgrade their IT infrastructure as required. The major issues they face are: keeping their IT infrastructure operating at optimal levels at all times, and simultaneously managing...
5 Business Communication Tools Every Business Must Use
Irrespective of industry and size, business environments across are becoming fiercely competitive and plagued by plummeting profits and knowledgeable customers. What businesses need are ways to enhance their productivity, hasten the decision-making process and simplify the daily operations. Having robust business communication tools is one such way.While there is...
Is Audio Video Conferencing Still Relevant in 2017?
Businesses have always been skeptical about audio video conferencing – whether trust and relationships can be built through this medium or can it eventually truly replace ‘the handshake’. But reports suggest that such systems have become more popular in the recent years. And as businesses grow, teams expand, we...
Why is it Imperative for Every Business to Adopt an ERP Solution?
Running a successful business depends quite heavily on the ability to take informed decisions. However, when you are running a business that’s growing, it is challenging to have a complete view of the organization’s performance. Your customers are increasing, your team is growing, principals and distributors are rising, product...
Top 4 Questions to Ask While Planning Your Enterprise Mobility Solution
Mobile devices are ubiquitous today. With every individual having access to an average of 2 devices, business houses are adopting the concept of BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) to allow employees access to business’ critical data on their personal devices. This is done to boost employee performance and drive...
Why Disaster Recovery Should be a Top Priority for Your Organization
Has your business ever suffered an outage? It’s a nightmare. A power outage at a Verizon data centre in 2016 impacted the operations of JetBlue operations. The airline experienced network issues because of the outage that impacted customer support systems, including jetblue.com (that was down for over 2 hours),...
SMAC: Are They the Real Game Changers?
The global market place is changing. It is becoming increasingly complex and uncertain and unlike previously, the customers have unmatched access to information. The competition too is on the rise. All these factors combined are forcing organizations to constantly look out for solutions just to help them maintain their...
The War of the Titans – Azure vs AWS
If you are familiar with Cloud computing, there’s every good chance that you have heard multi comparisons between enterprise-level IaaS platforms, mainly Amazon’s AWS and Microsoft’s Azure platforms.While Gartner recently reported that AWS cloud is about 5 times bigger than the size of all the next 15 competitors combined, they,...
6 Reasons to Move to the Cloud
2016 was widely considered the year of the Cloud in terms of adoption rates with 80-90% of all global enterprises moving to the Cloud in some form or fashion, but 2017 promises to be much more exciting as adoptions grow and real, innovative uses of the Cloud begin to...
What’s the Buzz about Big Data?
Big Data is everywhere. And ‘everywhere’ is expanding to spheres the common man is unaware of and at a speed one cannot fathom. In 2003 the scientists at the University of California, Berkley claimed that from the beginning of recorded history till 2002 humans had created 5 Exabyte (or...
Top 5 Cloud Computing Trends to Look Out For in 2015
With over 60% of businesses using the cloud services, it is obvious that cloud computing is not only here to stay but grow substantially. Accordingly, here are some of the major trends in cloud that are supposed to become dominant through the year 2015.The emergence of the hybrid cloud...
6 Reasons to Invest in IT Security
Global organizations spent approximately $124 billion on Security Solutions in 2019, an increase of 146% from 2010. However, in-spite of such high investment, 9 out of 10 large global businesses have admitted to having suffered some kind of security breach in 2019 alone. Marriot reported a breach on its...
3 Ways Collaboration Tools Boost Your Business Performance
As businesses grow beyond boundaries, build dynamic cultures and work intimately across time-zones, the need for integrated collaboration tools become even more critical. And why not? Such tools enable businesses to access, store and share documents quicker and make teamwork more effective. It is undeniable that much depends on...
How to Cloud – Public, Private or Hybrid?
Before moving to the Cloud it’s important to evaluate what different Cloud technology solutions offer and the different Cloud models and their offerings in line with your business strategy. Currently, there are 3 primary cloud models, namely Public Cloud, Private Cloud, and Hybrid Cloud.Let’s help you understand the nuances of...
IT Security: 6 Tips to Prepare Your Company at the Time of a Data Breach
While there has been a rise in organizations implementing enterprise level security solutions, the global business environment is also witnessing an increasing number of cyber-attacks. One part of the problem rests with the fact that many decision-makers still possess certain misconceptions about data security. We have put together the...
Microsoft Azure – the preferred platform for businesses
Organizations all over the world recognize Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services as the most trusted Cloud partners for enterprise and hybrid infrastructure. But, which platform is best for your business? Gartner’s 2019 Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service features Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure as leaders. But what...
The Role of Organization Culture in an Organization
“Our assets walk out of the door each evening. We have to make sure that they come back the next morning,” - a famous quote by N.R. Narayana Murthy.Every organization is dependent on its top performers for a year-on-year growth. But what happens when the brightest stars of your organization leave?...
The Rise of the App Culture
Ever used the HDFC Bank mobile banking app for fund transfer? The Domino’s Pizza app to order your pizza? The Weight Watcher app to track your calorie consumption? Flipkart’s mobile app to shop? Or played the Candy Crush app for some entertainment? Yes. Reality pinch. There is an application...
5 Ways An HRMS Solution Can Benefit Your Organization
The human resource industry has been on an exciting, but challenging, journey in the past few years. A dynamic work environment, advanced technological ecosystems and a workforce that’s constantly demanding more from an organization and vice versa are just a few signs of its growth. HR’s role of merely...
Planning to Move to the Cloud, But Are You Ready?
It is without doubt that Cloud technology solutions offers immediate cost savings with its pay-as-you-go model and promises a future of greater agility, speed, and reach. However, Cloud Computing still has its risks. Security remains a concern among many CIOs, as does the fear of data being permanently captured...
Its time for an upgrade!
153 days – If you are on Windows Server 2003, that’s the exact no. of days you have left to upgrade. As we all know Microsoft announced End of Support for Windows Server 2003 sometime in 2013. So after July 14th, 2015 Microsoft will no longer provide support of...
4 Reasons Your Business Needs Virtualization
Bluntly said, the eventual goal of every business is to be profitable - to compound the profits, curtail the losses and bring in cost efficiencies. However, with the ever rising competition and plummeting profits, businesses are urgently seeking every avenue to even stay afloat.Over the last few years, Virtualization...
BYOD – Should Indian Inc. Companies Adopt This Trend?
Imagine this setting: in 2009 (not that long back) you are on your way to work. You have to complete an urgent presentation and send it across to your boss. But because of the terrible traffic you’re delayed and in a lot of trouble. Sounds familiar? Now jump to...
5 Questions to Ask Before Adopting the Cloud
It is without doubt that Cloud technology solutions offers immediate cost savings with its pay-as-you-go model and promises a future of greater agility, speed, and reach. However, Cloud Computing still has its risks. Security remains a concern among many CIOs, as does the fear of data being permanently captured...
Why organizations are Pro O365?
Businesses across verticals and dimensions are facing difficulty in managing their IT infrastructures, which, in most cases, are turning out to be complex, costly and inefficient. Moreover, unlike the preceding years where organizations controlled the market, the market is now manipulated by the customers. The abundance of technology and...
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