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Indian
hinterland emerges as saviour of hardware market
 The
MAIT-IMRB review of the hardware sector was released
recently, and while
it proved that PC and peripheral sales
sank as never before, the good news is that smaller towns are
increasingly becoming consumers of IT. Gaurav Patra & Shipra
Arora have more details on the report
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E-learning:
Belying great expectations
E-learning was once hyped as
a “killer application” and a “key economy
driver”. The market was quite upbeat about its potential,
but somehow it did not live up to the expectations. |
Realizing
ROI on IT
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Industry Veterans share their Views
In the recent Network Magazine-ORG-MARG survey, 34 percent
of the IT Heads said they consider ROI as an important
decision-making parameter for an IT investment. |
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the News |
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Estel introduces inter-carrier billing
system
C-DAC and Horizon form alliance
Intel
rolls out Itanium 2 processors
Customisation
will fuel IT growth for companies
Wipro
to begin work on Kolkata centre
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| India
Trends |
Indian enterprises warm up to enterprise
portals
While
portals are hotter than firecrackers in the global market, Indian
companies are still in the early adopter phase. Prashant L Rao
finds enterprise application vendors squaring off for a tussle
in this promising segment that offers single screen, single
sign-on access to the length and breadth of an enterprise’s
data resources
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E-Business
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Kinetic
Engineering ups competitive drive using IT
If
bikes and mopeds are the engines, then IT is the fuel that powers
growth in Kinetic Engineering. Srikanth R P says IT is at the
very core of Kinetic’s strategy
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Technology |
The
CEM recipe for better customer loyalty
Lifelong
customer loyalty is the ultimate frontier for true market leadership
in today’s competitive marketplace. Vivek Dayal explains how
Customer Experience Management can be used as an effective means
to achieving this end |
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HCL:
India’s home-grown IT giant
From
PCs and peripherals to cutting-edge software coding and IT education,
the HCL group has a presence in every sphere of the IT industry,
and also has a foot in other areas like telecom. |
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Analysis |
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Vedaris
takes the lead in energy sector
Energy
companies have budgeted around $300 billion for IT spend globally,
of which $2 billion is for risk management software. Delhi-based
Vedaris Technology provides risk management systems for energy
trading markets. Gaurav Patra reports on how this company
is hoping to partake in these massive figures
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