Brian Pereira

Study: Artificial Intelligence to have Positive Economic Effects for Industries and Society

The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) has published the results of a Microsoft-sponsored study entitled, “Intelligent Economies: AI’s Transformation of Industries and Society.” The…

Inthree raises $4 mn in Series A funding by Ventureast, Orios and IAN Fund

Chennai, 13th August, 2018: Inthree Access Services Pvt Ltd., a technology enabled commerce platform for the next 500mn consumers, has raised $4…

BLOGS & OPINION

August 13, 2018

What Airlines in India need to do in difficult times

The aviation industry (and airlines) in India are again facing turbulent times. Last week I read, in astonishment, about a…

Top Story

August 12, 2018

‘Red Hat’s journey to the cloud has been a natural progression’

UPDATED 14-Aug: Red Hat has come a long way from being a provider of open source Linux solutions for enterprises…

The 1st International Blockchain Congress creates the largest Blockchain Event in Asia

Mumbai, 8th August: The inaugural edition of the International Blockchain Congress in India was successfully organised on August 3 & 4, 2018, at…

Microsoft introduces Tamil 99 keyboard on Windows 10

Tamil Nadu, August 06, 2018- As part of its efforts to make technology accessible and productive for all, Microsoft has…

Thales Data Threat Report 2018: 93% of Indian respondents plan on increasing IT security spending this year

New Delhi, 24 July, 2018: Thales, a leader in critical information systems, cybersecurity and data security, announces the findings of…

Gartner Identifies Six Barriers to Becoming a Digital Business

Mumbai, July 27, 2018 — As organizations continue to embrace digital transformation, they are finding that digital business is not…

BT Opens New Global Cyber Security Operations Centre in India

New Delhi, July 30, 2018: Sir Dominic Asquith, British High Commissioner to the Republic of India, has inaugurated BT’s new…

BSE launches ‘chatbot’, “Ask Motabhai”, for faster, more convenient access to stock market information

Mumbai, August 1, 2018: BSE in partnership with Microsoft and Shephertz today announced the launch of ‘Ask Motabhai’, an Artificial…

Gartner Says Worldwide IaaS Public Cloud Services Market Grew 29.5 Percent in 2017

Mumbai, August 1, 2018 — The worldwide infrastructure as a service (IaaS) market grew 29.5 percent in 2017 to total…

Top Story

August 2, 2018

The Warehouse Group embraces a cloud-based solution and solves a big communication headache

Aug-2: The Warehouse Group is the largest retailer in New Zealand, with 22 different retail companies and annual revenue of…

Top Story

July 30, 2018

‘We are going after the next 300 million smartphone users in India’

Indus OS claims to be the world’s first regional operating system for mobile phones. It’s an Android fork, and an…

Indian students win special award at Microsoft Imagine Cup Finals 2018 held in U.S.A

Asia Pacific, 26 July 2018 – Microsoft today announced the winners of the 16thannual Imagine Cup, the world’s premier student…

Microsoft offers free courses to build awareness around data privacy and cloud in the country

New Delhi, July 26, 2018: As part of Microsoft India’s continued efforts in building awareness around cloud technologies, data privacy…

Hyderabad to Host India’s First-Ever International Blockchain Congress

Mumbai, 26 July 2018: The inaugural edition of the International Blockchain Congress in India will be held on August 3…

AVIATION

July 27, 2018

Quora: Why don’t aircraft turn off their engine when waiting near the runway before take-off?

Quora: Why don’t aircraft turn off their engine when waiting near the runway before take-off? I have observed they wait…

Top Story

July 21, 2018

Microsoft says AI will become ambient

AI is coming into more aspects of our lives. But it is also transforming industries such as healthcare and agriculture.…

Top Story

July 17, 2018

How Alibaba Cloud is positioning itself in India, Asia

The big cloud companies are already here in India, but that does not seem to bother Alibaba. It is confident…

Alibaba Cloud Launches Distribution Channel Program at India Eco Summit

New Delhi, India, [July 13, 2018] – Alibaba Cloud, the cloud computing arm of Alibaba Group, launched its new distribution…

AVIATION

July 12, 2018

Vistara Airlines will soon fly non-stop international routes

Full-service carrier Vistara Airlines is getting ready to fly non-stop, laong-haul international routes from the end of this year. According…

IBM Study: Hidden Costs of Data Breaches Increase Expenses for Businesses

India: 11 July 2018: IBM Security today announced the results of a global study examining the full financial impact of…

IBM Watson says ‘Namaste India’

Translation is one of the hardest challenges to tackle, but it is the most promising challenge in the field of…

How pharma major Lupin Limited secures its vast IT environment, with help from Trend Micro

Lupin Limited is an innovation led transnational pharmaceutical company developing and delivering a wide range of branded & generic formulations,…

Top Story

July 3, 2018

Google: Indian developers have a great desire to learn

In an interaction with the media at the Google Cloud Summit in Mumbai last month, Rick Harshman, Managing Director, Asia…

Top Story

July 2, 2018

Why IBM is investing millions in developer programs

Developers are highly revered these days, as they are becoming more responsible in charting out the IT blueprint for organisations.…

Top Story

June 27, 2018

Want business success? Create a machine learning model

Knowing customers well and then creating innovative products, services and great experiences are ingredients for success in modern business. The…

InMobi Forms Strategic Partnership with Microsoft to Power New Cloud-Based Enterprise Platforms for Marketers

SAN FRANCISCO and REDMOND, Wash. — June 26, 2018 — InMobi, a global provider of enterprise platforms for marketers, today announced…

How Google helps Truecaller block spam messages

Did you know that there is an Indian spammer who sends out 55 million spam SMSes? That’s one spammer alone!…

Riverbed Survey Reveals Major Gap Between Digital Aspirations and Digital Performance

INDIA – June 19, 2018 – Riverbed, The Digital Performance Company, today announced the results of the Riverbed Digital Performance…

AVIATION

June 22, 2018

How one airline cut baggage mishandling by 60% on its busiest route in just six months

INDIA – 20 June 2018 – Global air transport IT provider SITA has announced that its technology, BagJourney, is managing…

Infographic: Digital Consumer Insights 2018

Indians are digitally active, but not digitally aware and secure: Experian Report

National, June 18, 2018: Digital consumption in India is on a rise with Indian consumers actively engaging on digital platforms…

Top Story

June 19, 2018

How Automation, Intelligence and Analytics helped PolicyBazaar.com grow 100%

PolicyBazaar.com is India’s largest and leading insurance aggregator website. It specialises in making comparative analysis of the insurance products of…

INTERVIEWS

June 9, 2018

‘The playing field is levelled for developers’

Craig Stires, Head of Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, and Big Data, Amazon Web Services, Asia Pacific tells us what’s really changed…

INTERVIEWS

June 5, 2018

‘We offer the ability for a business to take its services and offer it to the rest of the world’

Local presence, global business is becoming a norm today. Advances in cloud technology and the availability of new infrastructure services,…

IBM Watson Now Helping Marketers Create World-class Campaigns

IBM will now be offering its Watson Customer Engagement (WCE) services, the world’s leading AI Powered Enterprise Marketing Cloud solution from its…

Dimension Data Helps Secure and Digitise a Top Global Telecom Service Provider’s Shared Services Centre

31 May 2018 – Dimension Data, a USD8 billion global technology integrator and managed services provider, today announced that it…

Top Story

May 31, 2018

IBM’s approach to the cloud market in Asia

With one of its competitors taking half of the cloud market, IBM is going to need a lot more data…

INTERVIEWS

May 28, 2018

We need a strong partner network to be successful

In the second part of the interview, Bikram Bedi, Head of India Region, Amazon Internet Services Private Limited (AISPL) tells Digital Creed…

Top Story

May 28, 2018

How Tata Steel saved 40% energy on cooling towers through software algorithms

Domain experts from Tata Steel used simulation, modelling techniques and algorithms from Mathworks to improve efficiencies of its cooling towers.

Apollo Hospitals Adopts IBM Watson for Oncology and Genomics to Help Physicians Make Data-Driven Cancer Care Decisions

Bengaluru, KARNATAKA, India – 22rdMay 2018: IBM and Apollo Hospitals – one of India’s largest specialty hospital systems – today…

Top Story

May 23, 2018

Industry leaders say customer experiences are driving investment in digital

Dimension Data and its ecosystem of partners, customers, sales force, NTT Group companies, media & analysts got together for the…

Top Story

May 22, 2018

SBI reveals secret to doing innovation at scale

Dimension Data has been helping the State Bank of India in its digital transformation. The bank has 60 digital branches…

PHOTOS & VIDEOS

May 20, 2018

Snapshots from Elevate 2018

INTERVIEWS

May 20, 2018

We are seeing Cloud becoming the new normal in the Enterprise sector

For the past 10 years, Amazon Web Services has been helping enterprises across verticals in India move to the cloud.…

Top Story

May 19, 2018

Explainers: What is Blockchain technology?

Blockchain. Get used to hearing that word a lot in the coming year. For those of you who don’t know…

IBM Study: Majority of Businesses View GDPR as Opportunity to Improve Data Privacy and Security

ARMONK, N.Y., May 16, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — A new study from IBM reveals that nearly 60 percent of organizations surveyed…

Microsoft Build highlights new opportunity for developers, at the edge and in the cloud

REDMOND, Wash. — May 7, 2018 — Monday at Microsoft Build 2018, Microsoft Corp.’s annual developer conference, Microsoft leaders showcased new technologies…

Microsoft calls on developers to build intelligent apps for where the world works

REDMOND, Wash. — May 7, 2018 — On Monday at Microsoft Build 2018, Microsoft Corp.’s annual developer conference, Microsoft called on developers…

INTERVIEWS

May 7, 2018

‘Digital infrastructure helps organisations transform data into actionable information’

In an exclusive interview with Digital Creed, John Lombard, CEO, Asia Pacific, Dimension Data explains why organisations need to take a…

Top Story

May 5, 2018

Hate filing Travel & Expense reports? This app does it instantly

Sunil Gupta is a VP at a global FMCG company in India. He spends most of his work days on…

Dell Technologies, Microsoft Partner on IoT Solution Delivery

Dell Technologies has teamed up with Microsoft to deliver a joint Internet of Things (IoT) solution to help vertical customers…

Top Story

April 25, 2018

Global IT companies look to India to build new capabilities

For a long time, global companies outsourced work to India, taking advantage of labour arbitrage, English speaking engineers and software…

BLOGS & OPINION

April 21, 2018

Information amalgamation is the next killer application

We live in a truly connected world where apps and services are gathering information about us. There are numerous possibilities…

AVIATION

April 21, 2018

Honeywell Connected Aircraft Services Empower Ojets

India, April 18, 2018 – Honeywell has been selected as the in-flight connectivity services provider by OJets, a private luxury jet…

AVIATION

April 21, 2018

SITA CEO: Future of Air Transport will be Driven by Digital Transformation

ASIA PACIFIC AIR TRANSPORT IT SUMMIT, INDIA – 19 April 2018 – The future of air transport will be driven…

Dimension Data Secures a Multinational Technology Services Provider with Next-Gen Cybersecurity Solutions

Mumbai, 18 April 2018 – Dimension Data, a USD 8 billion global technology integrator and managed services provider, today announced…

Top Story

April 20, 2018

NTT i3: We’d like to do some innovation around agri-tech in India

In a candid chat Nina Simosko, President & CEO, NTT i3 (Innovation Institute Inc) tells Brian Pereira about the charter of…

Top Story

April 16, 2018

How Content Creators and Consumers Can Earn in the Token Economy

Udaykumar Kadirvel, CEO & Co-Founder, Mobigraph Inc., PEP Network explains how artists and other ecosystem players can earn and benefit…

PHOTOS & VIDEOS

April 15, 2018

The Triangle of Trust

Sumeet Mathur, VP, Cyber Security, CA Technologies, India speaks about the changing security landscape and the triangle of trust.

PHOTOS & VIDEOS

April 14, 2018

Innovation at CA Technologies, India

Tanuj Vohra, Senior Vice President, R&D Centers, CA Technologies, India speaks about innovation at the India Technology Center. TRANSCRIPT OF…

PHOTOS & VIDEOS

April 14, 2018

How DevOPs helps in rapid and secure application development

Sakaar Anand, Senior Vice President, DevOps, CA Technologies, India on the future of DevOPs and how it is helping organizations…

PHOTOS & VIDEOS

April 14, 2018

CA on CA Program

Uday Bikkasani, VP, Engineering and Platforms, CA Technologies India talks about the CA on CA Program

Digital Transformation to Contribute US$154 Billion to India GDP by 2021

New Delhi, April 11, 2018 – By 2021, digital transformation will add an estimated US$154 billion to India’s GDP, and…

Dimension Data powers 60 Digital Branches for SBI

Mumbai, India, 10 April 2018 – Dimension Data, a USD 8 billion global technology integrator and managed services provider, today announced that…

AVIATION

April 10, 2018

Engines in the Data Cloud

Today, the Internet’s storage repositories are filling up with user-generated data from social media posts and user videos. But in…

INTERVIEWS

April 8, 2018

‘AR will be most suitable for Digital Projects’

In the second part of our interview with Guido Jouret, Chief Digital Officer, ABB Group, we learn about the Group’s investment…

PHOTOS & VIDEOS

April 5, 2018

Inside Microsoft Garage

PHOTOS & VIDEOS

April 5, 2018

Inside Pegasystems’ office (Hyderabad)

IBM X-Force Report: Cybercriminals Focused On Ransomware And Destructive Attacks in 2017

CAMBRIDGE, MA – April 5, 2018 – IBM Security today announced results from the 2018 IBM X-Force Threat Intelligence Index…

Microsoft will invest $5 billion in IoT over the next 4 years globally

Microsoft has announced that the company will invest US$5 billion in the Internet of Things (IoT) globally over the next…

Top Story

April 5, 2018

Lessons learned from the Facebook-CA incident

Updated: 8-April-2018 On March 16, the world was distraught to hear news about how Cambridge Analytica (CA) misused consumer data…

INTERVIEWS

April 4, 2018

‘Current Indian laws are inadequate to protect consumer data’

What's to stop Facebook and other platforms from selling consumer data from Indian subscribers? It’s a well-known fact that there…

INTERVIEWS

April 1, 2018

‘Indian companies can leapfrog industrial automation’

Guido Jouret, Chief Digital Officer, ABB Group explains ABB Ability and how Indian industries such as Power, Manufacturing and Transportation will…

PHOTOS & VIDEOS

March 30, 2018

What is ABB Ability?

Guido Jouret, Chief Digital Officer, ABB Group has over 24 years of experience in the IT-sector and is committed to creating high-tech…

Top Story

March 29, 2018

How an idea born in The Garage is helping Indian Farmers

India has almost 100 million farmers who are heavily dependent on agriculture for their survival and livelihood. These farmers borrow…

Microsoft inaugurates The Garage – India

The Garage is a resource for Microsoft employees that supports experimentation and encourages problem-solving in new and innovative ways, ultimately…

YouTube reaches 80% of all Internet users across age-groups in India

Mumbai – YouTube completes its tenth year in India and celebrated its anniversary with a multi-city event called Brandcast 2018.…

Top Story

March 24, 2018

‘Experiential’ makes a difference in Talent Transformation

KNOLSKAPE Solutions creates experiential solutions that transform organisations into a modern workforce.

PHOTOS & VIDEOS

March 21, 2018

When a Printer is hacked…(curated)

Top Story

March 17, 2018

CeBIT takes on a refreshingly new format this year

CeBIT is changing from the trade fair to a business festival for innovation and digitization. Show dates moved to June…

PHOTOS & VIDEOS

March 16, 2018

Uber Elevate – The Future of Commuting (curated)

PHOTOS & VIDEOS

March 14, 2018

How businesses should prepare for MASA

Gartner Says Enterprise Application Software Spending Is Increasing Rapidly in India and China

Mumbai, India, March 12, 2018 — Enterprise application software spending in India is projected to reach $2.5 billion in 2018,…

Study: SMBs Can Improve Market Access & Profitability by 3x with Cloud Technologies

New Delhi, March 12, 2018 – In a study to measure the social and economic impact of cloud usage among…

INTERVIEWS

March 11, 2018

‘Blocking cryptocurrencies is bad for the startup economy’

In his Union Budget 2018 speech, the Finance minister said the government (of India) does not recognise cryptocurrencies as legal…

PHOTOS & VIDEOS

March 7, 2018

Digital BLUR is redefining business models

Digital BLUR is a unique framework created by KNOLSKAPE to help organizations and individuals navigate the disruption caused by the…

REVIEWS

March 7, 2018

A book that prepares CXOs for the age of AI-led decision making

Every progressive organization and visionary business leader is thinking about AI (Artificial Intelligence) today. They acknowledge that it will shape…

Top Story

March 5, 2018

What exactly is the Modern Software Factory?

The way business is conducted today is a lot different than what it used to be in the last century.…

INTERVIEWS

March 4, 2018

Software and IT are playing an important part in Banking and Financial Services

In the third and final part of our interview with CA Technologies, Sunil Mangalore, Managing Director, India explains how his…

Digital Business Requires Growth Mindset and Not Just Technology

Mumbai, India, 26th February, 2018 — When embarking on a digital business transformation, too often organizations ignore the need to change the mindset of…

Top Story

February 26, 2018

All Organisations Need to Become Software Companies

Everyone talks about digital transformation, but few know how to get there. Transition is the key and organisations must become…

AVIATION

February 22, 2018

Qatar Airways Takes Delivery of the World’s First Airbus A350-1000

DOHA, Qatar – Qatar Airways today celebrated the delivery of the world’s first Airbus A350-1000 as the aircraft’s global launch customer…

INTERVIEWS

February 19, 2018

‘The secret of Pegasystems’ success is Empowerment’

The Government of Andhra Pradesh (GoAP) recently selected the Pega Government Platform from Pegasystems India as the technology backbone for e-Pragati –…

Top Story

February 18, 2018

How the Modern Software Factory can Accelerate Digital Transformation

Businesses today are struggling with digital transformation. Accelerating this transformation comes in with a risk of developing sub-standard products and…