Most Indian IT firms, including TCS, Wipro, Infosys, Mindtree, Infotech and Sasken, which started their operations in the region with a small base, have expanded their base fast.
Techies consider onsite posting rewarding because the difference between offshore and onsite packages is more than three times. Besides, onsite employees are given special allowances for working late hours, transport, medical costs and insurance.
Our technology team is very closely watching all emerging markets including BRIC countries.
Making a name for themselves as they 'drive innovation' in giants like IBM, Microsoft.
Wipro COO A L Rao tells Business Standard how he plans to keep driving innovation at Wipro.
Wipro Technologies has set up a separate group within its Telecom and Product Engineering practice to aggressively tap the opportunities in the telecom service providers' space.
Nothing works better than a price cut in a price sensitive market like India. A GSM Association study says that for every one dollar cut in prices, no fewer than 20 million subscribers could be added.
The initial focus of the hub will be to formulate marketing strategies and create marketing deliverables for print and online.
More and more domestic companies are setting up business process outsourcing units in district headquarters, tier-III cities and non-IT clusters to save on real estate costs and stem attrition rates.
Technology has long been shrinking physical distances, but now comes one that can virtually wipe them out.
RoHS-compliance is still at an awareness stage in India.
Signalling its increasing dependence on India for R&D requirements, Cisco, the global networking solutions provider, has set up a new business unit in Bangalore - the first by the company to be based outside the US.
Aztecsoft, a Rs 300 crore (Rs 3 billion) Bangalore-based outsourced product development firm, is witnessing the exit of its key board members.
India will be the first country to have a separate ranking.
As a part of its Tox Tech campaign, Greenpeace in 2005 issued a list of demands on Wipro, including introduction of a take-back policy, recycling and a policy for phaseout of hazardous materials.
Agilent Technologies, a $5 billion measurement solutions provider, plans to ramp up its R&D presence in the country significantly in the next two years.
In the second half of July this year, when Rishad Premji, the eldest son of Wipro Chairman Azim Premji, joins the company as a business manager, Pratik Kumar, executive vice president-HR will have a tough time.
The finishing schools aim to train students from the tier-II and tier-III institutions who aspire for IT jobs and don't get it.
Despite rising salaries, the country can sustain the cost advantage for another 10-15 years.
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