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Offshore outsourcers likely to beef up security following Bangalore blasts

A series of bombs have exploded in Bangalore and companies that have technology operations in India are likely to need increased security precautions following what appears to be a terrorist attack. According to various reports from Reuters and Rediff.com, nine bomb blasts have rattled Bangalore, which hosts...

Tags: India, Bangalore, Rediff.com India Ltd., Sacchin Uppal, Outsourcing, Business Security, Security, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-25

Is Bangalore no longer a cost-saving location?

My good friend and former colleague at the Yankee Group, Arijit "Apu" Sengupta pictured - who is now CEO of outsourcing quality improvement software firm BeyondCore - alerted me to a startup that reverse-offshored its development team from Bangalore back to the US:  “Bangalore wages have just been growing like...

Tags: Bangalore, Salary, Benefits, Human Resources, Phil Fersht

Blog posts 2008-01-02

Photo: Indian techies seek stress relief

Meditation may be just what the doctor ordered to help Bangalore's software professionals deal with work demands.

Tags: Bangalore, photograph, software

Image galleries 2005-07-18

Photo: Indian techies seek stress relief

Meditation may be just what the doctor ordered to help Bangalore's software professionals deal with work demands.

Tags: Bangalore, photograph, software

Image galleries 2005-07-18

Additional Resources

Did Microsoft copy Mac OS for Windows 7? Yes ... uh, wait ... no ...

How do you like this....Microsoft has just patented "sudo":http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20091111094923390RE: Did Microsoft copy Mac OS for Windows 7? Yes ... uh, wait ... no ...Of course, Microsoft has been copying things from the Mac for years. Look at Windows and Mac OS from the very beginning... the Mac had a...

Tags: Operating systems, Desktops, Sudo, Microsoft Corp., Apple Inc., Apple Macintosh, operating system, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 7, Apple Mac OS

Discussion threads 2009-11-12

Bangalore International Airport Limited (BIAL) Tightens Security, Reduces Costs With New Operating System

Bangalore International Airport Limited BIAL is committed to establishing the new Bengaluru International Airport as India's leading airport in terms of quality and efficiency and set a benchmark for the future commercial development of Indian airports. BIAL required a simplified IT environment that would improve IT management, enhance security and...

Tags: Operating System, Airport, Microsoft Windows 7, Security, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software

Case studies 2009-10-11

The troubling thoughts re: outsourcing

Some facts and inferences should be updatedAccenture's Consulting revenue dropped 12% and Outsourcing grew by 1%http://stocks.investopedia.com/stock-analysis/2009/Accentures-Future-Remains-Bright-ACN-IBM-HPQ1005.aspxSome of the issues you highlighted around process innovation, dated technology, etc will continue to remain. However, the nimbler players will also adopt the benefits of innovations like SaaS and Cloud platform.Underlying platform is an...

Tags: Managed hosting, Business process outsourcing (BPO), Programming languages, outsourcing, BPO, COBOL, outsourcing company

Discussion threads 2009-10-06

Microsoft Bing gets visual search; full 2.0 update later this fall

Top iPhone appsHa ha, one of the visual search galleries is for iPhone apps, how ironic!BUT, Can We Block The Bing Cookies?One issue that is irritating me with MS is their disregard for me, and for every person who uses MS products. (No, I am not anti MS. However, I...

Tags: Web browsers, IE8, Microsoft Bing, cookie, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-09-14

Cloud may complicate SOA load balancing act

Shine your own light in the cloudLori is correct to suggest that the cloud can obscure what you see. Cloud offerings tend to be basic, covering CPU, bandwidth and storage, and are very much of a 'one-shape-fits-all' nature. This is a consequence of building the offering on multi-tenanted...

Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Middleware, Lori, SOA

Discussion threads 2009-09-09

Satyam: PWC's version of the 'Who's On First?' comedy routine

Who's on 1st? Thank you, thank you, thank you to the folks at TechMarketView for finding the most inane testimony yet in the still amusing Satyam fraud saga. The story, and you’ve got to read the source document in The Times of India, is...

Tags: Audit, PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting, Satyam, Indian, Financial Accounting, Financial Statements, Outsourcing, Finance, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-07-02

PwC: rotten to the core or just plain stupid?

I hope that my good friend Vinnie Mirchandani doesn't take offense to the title of this post. PwC is his alma mater in a past life. However, events at Satyam in India, which have not received the attention they deserve in the US, have taken a decidedly weird or comic...

Tags: PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting, Satyam, Francine McKenna, Financial Accounting, Outsourcing, Finance, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-06-30

My Experience with Dell's Namastechnical Support

Despite my dislike for all things outsourced, my first experience with DELL's call center in India was a largely positive one. So this week, during a particularly intense session of software testing, the 500GB hard drive on my DELL Precision 530 decided to...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., PC, CD, Call-center, Indian, Minesh, Call Centers, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Desktops, It Operations, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-06-24

Ramco Systems Case Study: Auto Component Manufacturing

A leading auto component manufacturer headquartered in Bangalore, with operations that include fabrication of body parts for heavy commercial vehicles and manufacturing construction equipments, trucks, buses and automotive parts was looking for a solution that would help standardize and streamline their business processes across the organization and improve operational control...

Tags: Ramco Systems, Manufacturing, Construction

Case studies 2009-04-29

HP Officejet 6310v or Photosmart C5140 plus Windows XP-an exercise in installation futility

My Samsung office printer/fax/scanner/copy machine/trash compactor/cat food dispensor bit the big one. Although it was a quirky machine having the requirement for very hard to find, expensive toner modules, it was possible to use most of its features from Linux, Mac OS X and both Windows XP and Vista. Since...

Tags: Software, Hewlett-Packard Co., Microsoft Windows, Tools & Techniques, Printers, Management, Hardware, Peripherals, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2009-04-13

Bajaj Capital Drives Dynamic Online Portal Forward With Two-Factor Authentication

The Bajaj Capital Group is one of India's leading investment advisory and financial planning companies. Headquartered in New Delhi, it has a presence in all of the subcontinent's major cities including Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkata and Bangalore, and since 1965 has been providing a range of services to private and institutional...

Tags: RSA Security Inc., Two-factor Authentication, Bajaj Capital Group, Digital Security, Network Security, Portals, Security, Networking, Internet

Case studies 2009-03-01

News to know: Dell; Azure; Yahoo reorg; Facebook; Oracle

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily.  For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Mary Jo Foley: Azure: One big, happy platform? Microsoft: Here are some of the Win 7 changes coming in...

Tags: Facebook, Larry Dignan, Dell Computer Corp., Oracle Corp., Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., E-books, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Leadership, Strategy, Personal Technology, Hardware, Management

Blog posts 2009-02-27

Hard times hit Bangalore

Hard times hit BangaloreSun Microsystems is an outsourcing company?I don't really think that's Sun's core business.

Tags: Outsourcing, Hard Times

Discussion threads 2009-02-26

PPoPP 2009 wrap-up

The 3-day Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming (PPoPP 2009) conference ended last week with a session on parallel compilers and tools, another on high end computing software, and a keynote by ACM fellow Jack Dennis. Although the last day was a short one, it was not light on content....

Tags: Compiler, Memory, Conference, Los Alamos National Lab Roadrunner Computer, Composability, Flash Memory, Processors, Productivity, Development Tools, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Ed Burnette

Blog posts 2009-02-23

Social silly season

I'm often asked whether getting into the fashion for all things social is something enterprises should contemplate. Given the volume of noise coming from the likes of Jeremiah Owyang, Forrester analyst and other social media/brand mavens, it's hardly a surprise. Enterprise reality though is an altogether different thing from the...

Tags: SAP AG, Twitter, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-02-17

Google wants to tap into your electric meter; Enters smart grid fray

Google wants to tap into your electric meter; Enters smart grid frayDo you REALLY think most consumers care "where the power is going."?Not likely.And so what? Is someone NOT going to use their dryer because they see a spike on a graph? What a complete waste of time. Google is...

Tags: Google Inc., Google Wants, electric meter, power company, grid

Discussion threads 2009-02-10