Infosys chief mentor N R Narayana Murthy has been given the 'Lifetime Achievement Award' by IT magazine Dataquest for building an institution that has changed the IT scenario in the country.
Kiran Karnik, president of National Association of Software and Service Companies, apex body of India's software industry, was recently named the 'Dataquest IT Person of the Year 2005'. \n\n
Deepak Puri, managing director of Moser Baer, the world's third largest manufacturer of optical media, is Dataquest's IT Man of the Year for 2003.
Unfazed by the global economic slowdown, the top 20 Indian BPO firms grew their exports earnings by 15% in 2009-10 to touch revenues of $6.1 billion.
HCL Infosystems has emerged as the best employer in the information technology industry in India, according to a survey conducted by Dataquest-IDC (International Data Corporation).
The use of information technology across all hierarchies of an organisation not only increased but also became more sophisticated in the last one year, according to the observations made by a survey.
NIIT, the IT training pioneer, has been conferred the 'Top Training Company Award for 2004-05' by leading IT industry magazine, Dataquest.
Infotech publication Dataquest has chosen Tata Consultancy Services CEO Subramaniam Ramadorai as the 'IT man of the year 2004' and Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corp for its 'pathbreaker award' for the same period.
The survey conducted by Dataquest, India's leading IT magazine, consists of two parts: HR round and employee satisfaction.
Group buying sites, discounted fashion brand retailers and specialised online stores dominate the list of 20 hottest e-commerce start-ups.
The growth is a significant recovery for the industry, which recorded just 8 per cent growth in 2009-10.
The revenues do not include their business process outsourcing revenues. Which is exactly why Infosys Technologies is not included in the top 20 list.
Indian information technology companies are making a huge splash all across the world.
India's top business process outsourcing (BPO) companies posted a total revenue of Rs 32,246 crore (Rs 322.46 billion) in 2010-2011.
India's top business process outsourcing (BPO) companies posted a total revenue of Rs 32,246 crore (Rs 322.46 billion) in 2010-2011.
The top 200 IT companies in India posted the highest growth in four years.
The Dataquest-IDC best employer top 20 list is made up of a mix of firms Indian IT firms and the India development centres of software multinationals.
The 24th annual survey saw the Top 20 IT companies -- from both IT services export and domestic IT sector -- post a mixed performance, with the 8 fastest growing companies recording double digit growth.
Their fears were not unfounded, since the average salary increases of information technology professionals was down to 1.4 per cent for 2009.
There has been an average decline of 11 per cent in the placement of engineering graduates from 111 technology schools in 2009 compared to the previous year, except for 16 of them which recorded cent per cent absorption, according to the 5th IDC-Dataquest T-School, 2009 survey.
Wipro founder and chairman Azim Premji said on Friday that he was 'not hanging up his shoes in a hurry'. He was speaking to the doyens of Indian IT industry and entrepreneurs in New Delhi after receiving the Dataquest Lifetime Achievement Award 2009.
The average annual salary of graduates of the prestigious Indian Institutes of Technology has dropped by 5 per cent, while that of the National Institutes of Technology graduates has increased by 6 per cent.
iGate Corporation, the integrated technology and operations company, on Thursday announced that its subsidiary iGate Global Solutions Limited has been ranked the top IT employer in India in Dataquest-IDC's 8th annual survey.
Delhi was named the Best e-Governed State of 2007, according to the 3rd Dataquest-IDC e-Gov Survey 2008. Goa, Chhattisgarh, Tamil Nadu and Kerala followed Delhi according to the study that was conducted across 20 states in the country. Maharashtra, Himachal Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Punjab featured in the top 10. Maharashtra, of which Mumbai is the capital, was ranked sixth overall.
Even states like Chhattisgarh, Kerala and Himachal Pradesh which were way behind, have now gone several notches up in their rankings. The survey has also exposed another southern state Andhra Pradesh which has fallen to number eight from the earlier fifth position. Politically-sensitive Gujarat has witnessed a major fall in its ranking by dropping 15 levels to occupy the 19th position.
'IIT-ians want to contribute to nation building and the Pan IIT meet provides a channel to do that. We want to move beyond words and set up an action plan for this,' says Pradeep Gupta.
After three years of strong growth, top 20 IT companies in India, a majority of them engaged in IT services exports, recorded a revenue growth of 24 per cent in 2007-08, recording a sharp drop from 41 per cent in the previous financial year, according to a survey.
BPO revenues in India is likely to touch Rs 8500 crores according to a survey by CyberMedia's Dataquest.
Transcript of the IIT chat with Pradeep Gupta, chairman of CyberMedia Group.
The average Rs 6,20,000 per annum salary was significant, considering the 30-40 per cent annual incrase in the talent pool of the top 50 companies, a nation wide survey by IDC India for Cybermedia's flagship publication Dataquest said.
Companies such as IBM Daksh, Aegis, MphasiS, Intelenet, HTMT Global, Sitel India are also increasing their domestic focus.
By posting revenues of Rs 2,135 crore, the training sector also recorded a significant growth, as demand for training within corporations in India and overseas grew.
Daksh eServices is the fastest growing business process outsourcing services provider in India, was adjudged the most satisfying employer in the BPO sector.
The country's IT software and services exports from the top-10 firms crossed $15 billion to touch Rs 68,236 crore (Rs 682.36 billion) in 2006-07.
Infosys, however, remains the 'dream company' in the IT arena, while MNCs occupy the maximum mindshare of professionals.
Reflecting an immense growth potential, India's Enterprise Application Software market stood at $39.4 million on 2002 constituting six per cent of Asia Pacific EAS market, according to Gartner Dataquest.\n\n\n\n
Indian IT heavyweights continued to drive growth in the industry, with the top 20 players accounting for 53 per cent of the $28.5 billion revenues in 2004-05, according to a survey.
The Indian information technology industry grew 33 per cent year-on-year in 2004-05 to $28.5 billion with exports growing at 36 per cent to $18.5 billion, according to a survey by technology publication group Dataquest.
PC shipments have grown around 11.8 per cent over 2001, Vinod Nair, research analyst, hardware platforms, Gartner India said in a release while adding the large spenders continue to be finance, banking and telecom verticals.
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