The talent gap in the industry is huge, says N Chandrasekaran, MD & CEO, TCS.
'Artificial intelligence works best on unstructured data. And no other country has the amount of unstructured data like India has.'
Niraj Bhatt discovers how a CFO 'without a finance background' made it to the corner office at TCS.
Freshdesk also launched an IT service management product Freshservice to offer cloud-based service desk solution for smaller companies for their internal IT support.
We must work in the direction of an innovation and technology driven economy which could boost up creation of jobs and open advanced and newer avenues of employment within the country.
Traditionally, financial institutions have operated risk functions in silos. However, the nature of unknown threats today requires industry participants to work together, says Vikram Limaye.
Most of the large mid-caps share similar business model as the large-caps and have more of less similar set of clients.
Wipro Ltd, India's third-biggest software services exporter, posted about an 8 per cent rise in quarterly profit as clients in North America and Europe spent more on technology.
Infosys, Wipro may follow suit as investors eye a piece of the large cash kitty as growth slows.
TCS is tapping an emerging opportunity called IT modernisation, which potentially could be a growth driver for the entire IT services industry for the next two to three years, says Raghu Krishnan.
Think organic food, affordable homes, artificial intelligence, suggests Prof Manmeet Barve.
This challenge has been made a little more daunting with the addition of two new uncertainties.
TCS MD talks about demand environment, margin outlook and the growing number of its employee base.
Fanfare of FIFA World Cup 2014 travels continents as Indian techies root for the tournament
Globally, the focus has moved back to India, especially in terms of telecom assets. Vodafone Idea, with some 300 million customers, continues to be attractive with shares available at a low price.
'There is large-scale sacking, and salaries in smaller companies are lower than the minimum wages of Rs 18,000 a month.'
In conversation with Anil S Nair, CEO & Managing Partner at L&K Saatchi & Saatchi India.
They need to upgrade their skills and become smaller, smarter organisations, says Devangshu Datta.
With all the brouhaha over GST, and (often) a limited understanding of the long-term forces shaping India's logistics sector, companies seem to have omitted factoring in some underlying trends that could shape supply chain excellence, says Neelesh Mundra.
At Infosys and Wipro, 8,200 roles have been impacted in six months.
The 3,423 kg GSAT-29 carries Ka and Ku band high throughput transponders intended to meet the communication requirements of users, including in the North East and in Jammu and Kashmir.
Software employees can opt for company-run programmes, online courses, boot camps to upgrade skills.
Here's the full text of President Ram Nath Kovind's customary address to the joining sitting of Parliament on the first day of the budget session.
The event, organised by Deutsche Messe AG, is held each year at the Hanover fairground, the world's largest, in Hanover, Germany.
Here's the full text of President's Ram Nath Kovind's address to the joint sitting of both houses of Parliament on the first of Budget Session 2022.
'Lakhs of engineers graduate every year in India and the IT industry used to be the primary recruiter. That is going to end.'
The investment arm of US-headquartered chip-maker Intel Corporation expects India to add around 300 million internet users over the next five years.
Slowing growth, stronger rupee and higher local hiring to pull firms down this financial year
The company has also stepped up its courtship of machine-learning PhD's, joining Google, Amazon, Facebook and others in a fierce contest
An innovator creates intellectual property for a need no one knows exists, says Chandru Chawla.
Amidst fear of layoffs across many IT companies, Saurabh Govil, bottom left, head of Wipro's Human resources, explains who are the affected lot and why it is essential to re-skill for employees in this sector.
There has also been a shift from hiring freshers to those with two to five years' experience.
Practo is an online health service platform which assists patients to meet the best doctors and keeps digital records.
Once tipped to emerge as the biggest exporter, the pharmaceutical industry is yet to acquire the scale of those in software services, says Krishna Kant.
With the advent of new banks, IT firms will get boostto their businesses.
Ginni Rometty, who is on Donald Trump's advisory committee, discusses the importance of an open workforce, work visas, and why India is a microcosm of all of IBM.
Teams of students and coders demonstrated in 24 hours diverse programmes impacting health and livelihood issues with use of a personal identity number.
Unless the judges factor in the ungovernability of technologies and their beneficial owners, present and future Presidents, prime ministers, judges, legislators and officials handling sensitive assignments may become redundant with reference to their age-old roles for securing 'national resources and assets', warns Dr Gopal Krishna.
'The only way to create more jobs is to make sure that we anticipate the skills that will be required in the future and prepare ourselves for those skills.'
These include Microsoft's Satya Nadella, Mastercard CEO Ajay Banga, and Harman International Chairman Dinesh Paliwal.
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