IBM India has registered the highest revenue share growth of 4.2 per cent among the top server vendors in India during the first nine months of 2003, according to the IT sector tracking firm IDC.
These two products have undergone two years of development and testing by more than 25,000 businesses around the world.
Vanitha Narayanan's appointment comes at a time when the IT sector in the country is grappling with the after effects of the slowdown and is weighed by an uncertain economic environment and spending cuts.
"India plans to build close to 14 nuclear power plants. We see huge opportunity here"
India is becoming a key market for IBM with the IT behemoth logging a 45 per cent growth in revenue in 2004 besides adding about 16,000 professionals in 2005 to reach a strong employee strength of 38,500.
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IBM on Wednesday announced that Pavan Vaish has been appointed as the new CEO of IBM Daksh. As co-founder of Daksh e-Services
In its efforts to thwart Microsoft, IBM had unveiled Lotus Symphony a few months back, challenging the former's dominance in the office desktop software market. The package includes a word processor, spreadsheets and a presentation suite. Edward Orange, director, Lotus Business Unit (Software Group), IBM Asia-Pacific, said, "Since it's free, Lotus Symphony is a formidable challenge to Microsoft's new Office 2007 suite in the market for Windows-based productivity software."
Faced with criticism over offshoring jobs to India and other developing countries, IBM Corp has adopted new internal transfer policies aimed at filling vacant positions in the company with workers who would otherwise get a pink slip.\n\n\n\n
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Both companies are also strong supporters of open-source Linux and Java software
Bangalore-based IBM employee Narendra Babu, who was detained by the Malaysian authorities for overstaying his visa, is back home, the company said on Wednesday.
Software giant IBM is offering its recently laid-off employees jobs in 'growth markets' like India and Russia through a new programme and will help with moving costs as well as providing visa assistance, media reports said.
Global information technology player, IBM, has selected 100 employees across 33 countries, including 20 from India, for specific projects under its Corporate Service Corps initiative, launched as part of its corporate social responsibility drive. These 100 employees are being sent to emerging and developing countries to address core challenges confronting society in fields like education and environment.
IBM Global Services, the IT services arm of IBM, is eyeing new business areas like business process outsourcing and human capital solutions, a senior company official said in New Delhi.
London-based IBM executive Rajiv Bhattacharya, reported missing from the city on Wednesday, was traced to Mughalsarai railway station in Uttar Pradesh.
In about five years, you may be able to feel the touch of a Banarasi or a Kanjeevaram sari through your smartphone screen before buying it online, claims IBM.
IBM Corporation is taking its datacentre business under the Project Big Green concept to the next level of fruition by launching three new datacentre designs for the Indian market.
Global companies would continue to spend on IT and on processes to improve efficiency of existing IT infrastructure in their organisations, a top IBM official said.
IBM's first quarterly earnings were mainly driven by double-digit revenue growth in BRIC countries -- Brazil, Russia, India and China -- and robust revenue contributions from software and services segments.
The deal is designed to boost efficiency and further enhance customer service and aims to ensure scalable, flexible and resilient IT support for the fast-paced roll out of new network infrastructure to keep up with the rapid growth in Vodafone Essar's customer base.
Three groups blame companies of excluding locals from hiring in the country.
Telecom major Bharti Airtel on Friday said it has selected global technology giant IBM to manage computing technology and services for its African business.
IBM also announced that for the first time, it will offer its invention know-how and patent portfolio management software to clients seeking to enhance their intellectual property management capabilities in support of innovation-based growth strategies.
The Bangalore centre will allow IBM consultants to develop and deploy solutions in over 50 key business areas such as Consumer Driven Supply Chain Optimisation, Banking Risk and Compliance and Retail Merchandising.
Based on advanced speech processing techniques, the technology was initially developed for a leading call centre in India to help improve the capabilities of their agents, an IBM statement said.
IBM said on Tuesday it plans to nearly triple its investments in India over the next three years to $6 billion.
Infosys prepares to take Accenture and IBM head-on in their own turf and rules with an aim to play big game on global scale, according to independent technology and market research company Forrester.
A gay woman, who claims she was both the daughter and 'wife' of one of the daughters of IBM founder Thomas J Watson Jr, is fighting for a share of his fortune.
The tool, released across the globe on Friday, assesses how well an organisation is prepared to respond and continue operations in the face of disruptions without losing momentum.
Revenues from IBM's software sector increased 11 per cent to $5 billion.
Both companies, along with three others, were suspended in 2010 on grounds of irregularities.
Close on the heels of Boeing's defence of India to the US International Trade Commission's investigation into India's trade, investment and industrial policies, IBM has also sprung to New Delhi's defence in an otherwise sea of criticism of India's violations of intellectual property rights, local content requirements, among other issues of concern to US business and industry.
There have been reports that nearly three-fourths of the millions of engineers and B-school graduates are simply not employable at all, speaking volumes about the quality of both the academics as well as the admission process in the country's education systems.
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