The Indian IT industry is in for a tougher visa regime in its biggest market, the US. Firms such as Infosys, TCS and Wipro that send thousands of techies on short-term business assignments to the US will now have to disclose personal details of these employees and names of the American companies they are assigned to.
French consulting-IT major to focus on specialised areas in energy, tax and telecom
The largest subsidiary of India's second largest IT services company reported a 400-basis points improvement in operating margins, to 22 per cent in 2011-12.
To focus on leadership grooming, corporate governance and brand repositioning
Philippines might have emerged as the new capital for call centre works, but the country still has a long way to go to match India in the overall business process outsourcing (BPO) segment not just in terms of size of the industry, but also in terms of range of services.
The IT budgets for 2012 may remain flat or even decline marginally, but the silver lining for the Indian IT services players is an increasing component of offshoring in the overall budget.
Microsoft's interactive self-service assets (client, people and technologies) are to be merged with 24/7 Customer, to be now known as 24/7 Inc.
Global IT major HP is understood to be in the last leg of lapping up the largest of the eight contracts under the India Post IT modernisation programme. The deal is estimated to be in excess of Rs 1,000 crore, making it one of the largest e-governance contracts in India.
They are realising unstructured data generated from social media and mobiles is vital for business decisions.
Aim is to drive accountability and bring the organisation closer to the client.
The corporate affairs ministry has mooted the idea.
According to highly-placed sources in the company, Sanjay Purohit, vice-president and head of corporate planning and business assurance at Infosys, has been appointed as head of innovation.
Industry chieftains, strategists and analysts were unanimous that a slowdown, if at all happens again, won't affect the prospects of the $17-billion industry.
Both these roles were handled by Laxman K Badiga, who took 'voluntary retirement' earlier this month after over three decades of service.
T K Kurien, CEO, IT business of Wipro, throws light on the company's strengths of weaknesses and its strategy.
With the appointment of Mahendra Kumar Sharma, former vice-chairman of Hindustan Unilever Ltd, as an independent director of Wipro, it is clear that the tech giant wants to strengthen its corporate governance practices.
The company has separated SMB, earlier part of its consumer division, to make it an independent business.
Wipro is trying to strengthen its presence in the banking, financial services and insurance (BFSI) segment by increasing its revenue share on par with other leading Indian information technology (IT) service companies.
iGate Patni is all set to compete with the likes of IBM, Accenture, Infosys and Congnizant.
Banerjee was one of the people instrumental in shaping the future of Wipro's IT business in its early days.
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