National Instruments (NI) , the provider of solutions that enable engineers and scientists to solve the world’s greatest engineering challenges, announced today the release of NI Trend Watch 2015. The second annual report examines a range of topics – from the industrialization of the Internet of Things (IoT) to the growth impact of the maker movement.
According to Jayaram Pillai, Managing Director, National Instruments- India, Russia & Arabia, “IoT promises to revolutionize the engineering world. We see Graphical system design platform playing a significant role in enabling the industrial IoT.”
NI Trend Watch 2015 covers trends in these areas
5G: The Internet for Everyone and Everything – The mobile Internet encourages innovation and inspires researchers to think beyond faster data and greater capacity. New networks, referred to as 5G, may unleash enormous economic potential.
When Exposed to IoT, Big Iron ATE Will Rust – For the testing challenges of tomorrow, traditional automated test equipment (ATE) falls short. Test engineers need smart ATE for the smart devices of the IoT
The Industrial IoT (IIoT) – The IIoT is a vast number of connected industrial systems that are communicating and coordinating their data analytics and actions to improve industrial performance and benefit society as a whole.
The Impact of the Maker Movement – The Internet is fueling a massive maker community. As the maker movement continues to grow, it is important to assess the impact it will have on innovation, economic growth and future generations.
To encourage and evangelize the women start-ups community in the country, The National Association of Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM) and Black Box Connect announced the launch of Blackbox Connect Female Founders Edition. The initiative will give women entrepreneurs from India an opportunity to showcase their work at a global level. The collaboration is part of NASSCOM’s 10,000 start-ups initiative to build and sustain 10,000 technology start-ups in India by 2023
Earlier Tookitaki, GreedyGames, Delta-X won the Blackbox Connect 2 week immersion program in Silicon Valley. Expressing his views on the collaboration, Mr. Fadi Bishara Founder and CEO of Blackbox said, “We are thrilled to have 10,000 Startups as a partner for Blackbox Connect Female Founders Edition and are looking forward to seeing the great companies that they will nominate. We have had a fruitful collaboration so far and we share the commitment to Google for Entrepreneurs #40Forward initiative, creating more inclusive networks and empower female leaders globally”.
Last year, the ‘10,000 start-ups’ program launched a special initiative targeted towards women entrepreneurs in technology, christened as the ‘Girls in Technology’ (GIT) program. The program was aimed at encouraging and promoting women entrepreneurs in the country. Since its launch, NASSCOM has conducted various programs in Bengaluru, Chennai and Delhi which were attended by over 350 delegates.
Expressing his views on the women entrepreneur ecosystem, Mr. Rajat Tandon, Senior Director, NASSCOM said, “Women have always been a vital part of the Indian IT-BPM industry and has about 3.5 million female employees. Hence, it is imperative that they are encouraged to join the start-up revolution in the country. Through our collaborations and initiatives we hope to create more inclusive networks and to move the needle for women entrepreneurs.”
To further the cause of helping women and girls enter and succeed in technology start-ups, with the goal of enhancing women’s talent and skills needed to fuel technological and economic growth, NASSCOM has also partnered with Women Enhancing Technology (WeTech) for a special event with a group of 60 selected girls from middle and high school in Bangalore to develop mobile applications. Women were mentored by 24 senior leaders from Goldman Sachs and Qualcomm and 3 winners were announced. Last year, NASSCOM organized a workshop on ‘GIT Version Control’ in partnership with Thought Works & Google Developers Group to encourage the women in the country to ‘Start-up’. The initiative received an overwhelming response from over 40 women entrepreneurs. These workshops were a platforms for knowledge sharing to bring together diverse women teams, enabling them to take better decisions, achieve higher ROIs, and greater IPOs.
NASSCOM 10000 Startups is proud to be part of the Google for Entrepreneurs #40Forward challenge, and is actively working towards increasing the representation of women in their respective communities. It is amongst the forty startup Communities that are actively working to create new approaches. With the milestones the program has achieved and the planned roadmap, 10,000 Startups aims to catalyze the technology start-up ecosystem and enable thousands of entrepreneur’s setup and grow their businesses and in the process further propel India’s economy. NASSCOM commenced the 10,000 Start-ups program with the support of Google, Kotak, Microsoft and Verisign in March 2013. Zinnov is the consulting partner of 10,000 Start-ups.
To encourage and evangelize the women start-ups community in the country, The National Association of Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM) and Black Box Connect announced the launch of Blackbox Connect Female Founders Edition. The initiative will give women entrepreneurs from India an opportunity to showcase their work at a global level. The collaboration is part of NASSCOM’s 10,000 start-ups initiative to build and sustain 10,000 technology start-ups in India by 2023.
Earlier Tookitaki, GreedyGames, Delta-X won the Blackbox Connect 2 week immersion program in Silicon Valley. Expressing his views on the collaboration, Mr. Fadi Bishara Founder and CEO of Blackbox said, “We are thrilled to have 10,000 Startups as a partner for Blackbox Connect Female Founders Edition and are looking forward to seeing the great companies that they will nominate. We have had a fruitful collaboration so far and we share the commitment to Google for Entrepreneurs #40Forward initiative, creating more inclusive networks and empower female leaders globally”
Last year, the ‘10,000 start-ups’ program launched a special initiative targeted towards women entrepreneurs in technology, christened as the ‘Girls in Technology’ (GIT) program. The program was aimed at encouraging and promoting women entrepreneurs in the country. Since its launch, NASSCOM has conducted various programs in Bengaluru, Chennai and Delhi which were attended by over 350 delegates.
Expressing his views on the women entrepreneur ecosystem, Rajat Tandon, Senior Director, NASSCOM said, “Women have always been a vital part of the Indian IT-BPM industry and has about 3.5 million female employees. Hence, it is imperative that they are encouraged to join the start-up revolution in the country. Through our collaborations and initiatives we hope to create more inclusive networks and to move the needle for women entrepreneurs.”
To further the cause of helping women and girls enter and succeed in technology start-ups, with the goal of enhancing women’s talent and skills needed to fuel technological and economic growth, NASSCOM has also partnered with Women Enhancing Technology (WeTech) for a special event with a group of 60 selected girls from middle and high school in Bangalore to develop mobile applications. Women were mentored by 24 senior leaders from Goldman Sachs and Qualcomm and 3 winners were announced. Last year, NASSCOM organized a workshop on ‘GIT Version Control’ in partnership with Thought Works & Google Developers Group to encourage the women in the country to ‘Start-up’. The initiative received an overwhelming response from over 40 women entrepreneurs. These workshops were a platforms for knowledge sharing to bring together diverse women teams, enabling them to take better decisions, achieve higher ROIs, and greater IPOs.
NASSCOM 10000 Startups is proud to be part of the Google for Entrepreneurs #40Forward challenge, and is actively working towards increasing the representation of women in their respective communities. It is amongst the forty startup Communities that are actively working to create new approaches. With the milestones the program has achieved and the planned roadmap, 10,000 Startups aims to catalyze the technology start-up ecosystem and enable thousands of entrepreneur’s setup and grow their businesses and in the process further propel India’s economy. NASSCOM commenced the 10,000 Start-ups program with the support of Google, Kotak, Microsoft and Verisign in March 2013. Zinnov is the consulting partner of 10,000 Start-ups.
EY, a global leader in assurance, tax, transaction and advisory services and CustomerXPs, a leading provider of real-time multi-channel enterprise fraud management products, today announced a new alliance to assist companies with the detection, prevention and management of fraudulent transactions and activities across multiple business lines within the banking industry.
This strategic alliance brings the forensic expertise of EY’s Fraud Investigation and Dispute Services (FIDS) practice supplementing the cross-channel/cross-product fraud management solutions of CustomerXPs ‘Clari5 Enterprise Fraud Management’ to deliver optimum solutions to clients. This collaborative approach will equip banks with a real-time 360 degree view of their customers, employees, branches and external entities, using transactions and activities done across business lines and channels. It will also mitigate risks related to fraud such as internal fraud, identity theft, account takeover, credit card fraud, fraudulent transactions around card not present (CNP), mass compromise etc.
Mukul Shrivastava, Partner, Fraud Investigation & Dispute Services said, “Today, fraud risks are inescapable. The banking ecosystem too is faced with many challenges around this global hazard, making it germane to fortify their internal controls for enhanced efficiencies. The extensive domain knowledge and credentials of our forensic team, coupled with the technological prowess of CustomerXPs’ innovative solutions, gives us a unique edge to help banks safeguard their business.
Rivi Varghese, Founder and CEO of CustomerXPs said “Banks, unlike other industries, have access to much richer collective intelligence about customers, but unfortunately these are hidden in separate silos – and used by legacy silo based fraud solutions. We are happy to see that leading banks are now going away from this legacy silo based approach and subscribing to our real-time cross-channel approach to enterprise fraud management. Today we have all the major banks across all segments as our customers. The partnership with EY is a step toward our vision of creating an extended fraud network
The combined capabilities of EY Fraud Investigation & Dispute Services and CustomerXPs can enable banks to:
* Gather and prioritize requirements related to Fraud Management and Anti-Money Laundering, project management services for solution implementation, define and refine scenarios and extent of business coverage
* Re-align their organization structure and refine internal processes and policies to be aligned with the enterprise level approach toward fraud management, while benchmarking the same with other global and Indian banks.
·* Break the traditional approach of silo based fraud monitoring by providing real-time, actionable insights into data collected from various business systems, channels and products
* Leverage intelligent models based on neural network, time series and complex analytics to deliver insights
“Fraudsters have been exploiting the potential lack of coordinated and timely response by banks to single channel or multi-channel fraud schemes. Traditional systems and frameworks were designed to address specific fraud risks, products or delivery channels. As the need to connect these silos becomes more relevant today, a more strategic and enterprise-wide approach is needed. This is where the combination of EY FIDS knowledge and experience along with CustomerXPs’ software solution will provide our clients a unique edge over fraudsters.” says Amit Jaju, Director – Forensic Technology & Discovery Services at EY.
IEEE, in collaboration with the Indian Electrical & Electronics Manufactures’ Association (IEEMA), will co-host INTELECT, the conference and exposition on the efficient consumption of electricity from January 22 – 24, 2015 at the Bombay Exhibition Centre in Mumbai, India. This event, which will focus on the integration of telecommunication and the design of energy networks, is being organized by the IEEE Power Energy Society, IEEE Computer Society and the IEEE Communications Society in association with IEEMA.
Telecom and IT form the backbone of the future Smart Cities of India. Digital India is not a distant dream anymore, given the vivid roadmap laid down by the Ministry of Communications & Information Technology. IEEMA and IEEE are organizing INTELECT 2015, which aims to showcase the IT and relative infrastructure sectors for creating Smart Cities in the country. Today, India is one of the fastest growing telecom markets in the world. INTELECT is being launched when there is an unprecedented increase in tele-density and a sharp decline in tariffs in the Indian telecom sector, contributing significantly to the country’s economic growth. Besides contributing to about 3% of India’s GDP, Telecommunications, along with Information Technology, has greatly accelerated the growth of the economic and social sectors.
Commenting on these requirements, Mr. Patrick Ryan, Executive Director, IEEE Power & Energy Society, emphasized,emphasized, “The combination of digital economy strategies and energy production and distribution policies with the smart grid and electrification of transport, can be a compelling driver of the triple bottom line of sustainability with economic, environmental, and social benefits. These three factors are inter linked and necessary to ensure the success of energy efficient telecom.”
Ajit Singh Chauhan, Vice President, IEEEMA, said, “The importance of a technology as important as telecommunication will only grow and with very rapid strides. It is the pivot of every transacting and communication process and hence it is imperative to ensure that this vital technology is made both efficient and sustainable.”
Mphasis, a leading IT services provider, today announced its partnership with Aureus Analytics to bring advanced predictive analytics and big data solutions to insurance and banking players. Under the partnership, Aureus’ comprehensive big data and analytics capabilities will complement Mphasis’ established customer base in Insurance and Banking space thus creating a huge potential for value add to end customers.
The new solutions will focus on Customer Management, Risk and Operations and boost efficiencies by rapidly unifying data, construct complex analytics and manage business critical issues to make the right decision. The problem specific products and Big Data-ready platform will support speedy insights at the point of decision by leveraging massive internal and external data sets.
The banking and insurance industries are embarking on a multichannel customer experience transformation globally. The collaboration will allow tracking starting with Business Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) all the way to operational and Information Technology KPIs. By bringing analytics where they are needed the most, Mphasis, together with Aureus Analytics will help revolutionize the industry and deliver better service to customers and better results to companies.
“Mphasis’ grip in the Indian insurance market is quite strong. Our strong reach coupled with Aureus’ innovative Big Data driven predictive analytics solutions will make outcome based business models a reality. With this partnership we look at driving a culture of data driven decision making because of timely availability of information to people who make decisions or interact with customers” says, Elango R Chief Human Resources Officer and Head Emerging Geographies Business Unit, Mphasis.
“The impact of Big Data analytics is significantly higher if made available at the point of decision. Our aim is to make this possible and bring the power into the hands of business users in an easy and seamless manner over the cloud. Our products and platform will support Mphasis by bringing efficiency, reliability and predictability of outcomes. The partnership will further strengthen its customers’ experiences thus increasing the rate of customer acquisition, retention and operations.” said Ashish Tanna, COO and Co-Founder at Aureus Analytics
Aureus Analytics has a Big Data-ready platform called Aureus Statistical Analytics Platform (ASAP) and a suite of industry and problem specific predictive analytics products - Aureus Persistency Analytics (AUPERA) and Aureus Customer Analytics (AUCUA). Its solutions bring power to the decision makers and practitioners by enabling analytics at the point of decision.
Aureus Analytics bridges the interpretation gap between multi-dimensional data and actionable insights to help businesses leverage the power of its most important asset- their Data. Aureus brings together the four essential pillars that are required for a successful Big Data Analytics solution – Deep Domain Skills, Big Data Capabilities, Data Sciences skills and Analytics expertise.
With Mphasis’ customer base spread across the globe, this partnership will deliver solutions that will catalyze quick decision making, reduce operational inefficiencies and boost bottom lines for all insurance players.
The National Association of Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM) has announced that the Government of Telangana and NASSCOM have jointly selected Hyderabad to host the World Congress on Information Technology (WCIT) in the year 2018. This is the first time that the prestigious global event will be held in India. WCIT will present a great opportunity to position Hyderabad as a global platform for trade and investments from organizations across the world.
Contribution of Indian IT-BPM industry in the global arena:
* 16000 world’s largest number of IT-BPM firms in India
* 55 % share in the global sourcing market
* 7.5% contribution to the GDP of the country
* ~10 million employed by the sector
* Revenue contribution USD 118 billion (nearly 73% exports)
The WCIT will bring together world’s leading thought leaders, including business delegations from amongst the 80 countries that WITSA represents globally. The representatives include companies keen to do business in India, along with government functionaries and innovation driven academia. WCIT will additionally provide the State an ideal audience including global decision makers who would be participating at the event and making relevant trade and investment decisions.
NASSCOM has also sought support from the government of India and we are hopeful that they will join hands with us in hosting this event.
Sharing his views on the development, R Chandrashekhar, President, NASSCOM, said, “We are extremely proud to have the opportunity to Co-Host WCIT 2018 along with the Government of Telangana. Hyderabad has been the pioneer of the illustrious ICT success journey of India. Over the years, Hyderabad has established itself as one of the most attractive investment destination for the ITeS sector and has created quantifiable economic impact for the country. With the WCIT 2018, we aim to focus on digital empowerment to define new paradigms for emerging verticals and build a conducive ecosystem for growth.’
Expressing his views KT Rama Rao, Minister for IT, Government of Telangana said, “India has made a mark globally and the Indian ITeS industry has helped it create a niche for itself on the global landscape. The WCIT will add another illustrious milestone to this journey. We are thankful to NASSCOM to bring WCIT to India and select Hyderabad to host this prestigious confluence of global technology leaders. We consider Telangana as the ‘Start-up’ State of India, as we are the youngest state, but we assures complete cooperation and commitment to make this a successful event. We are sure that WCIT will help the world, view Telangana and Hyderabad from a new perspective. “
Hyderabad will showcase some of the important achievements in the field of technology, and infrastructure and the State’s openness and transparency of doing business on a global platform. Quantitatively, as seen from the key deliverables achieved from previous WCIT’s, a direct ramification for Hyderabad will be the ability to generate employment and millions of USD through direct business opportunities and investment decisions. The WCIT will also lay a huge focus on organizing B2B business events with business delegations from across the world. On the innovation front, this will help attract VC funding and provide support for innovation driven early stage technology companies in the state.
WITSA is a consortium of over 80 ICT industry associations from economies around the world, representing more than 90 per cent of the international ICT market. WITSA is the global voice of the ICT industry and over the years NASSCOM has represented India at the WITSA. The WCIT 2018 will be an international high level congress that would bring together more than 50 exhibitors and up to 2,500 delegates from around 80 countries - such as Corporate leaders, Policymakers, Government officials and Academia Members to discuss emerging issues on ICTs, and address how legal, political, and economic trends affect business models.
The race for TRPs among some private television news channels has come into a sharp focus at the two-day conference of the Global Communication Association (GCA) that kicked off today.
Communication professionals from across the world gathered here for the conference with the theme of “Breaking Barriers – Creating new communication horizons”.
In his opening remarks, Prasar Bharati Chairman A Surya Prakash described the chase as more of “Blood Pressure Raising Points (BRPs)” as certain news channels keep having eight to panelists debating at the top of their voices. No other country in the world seems to have this kind of a Maara Maari on TV news channels, he said and called upon the viewers switch over to Doordarshan if they get fed up with the private channels. “We do not ape the west, we are very much Indian,” he remarked describing the ethos at Doordarshan.
Pointing out that mass media in general has been experiencing an exponential boom in the country, Mr Surya Prakash called for “our own solutions” to meet the challenges of growth.
Echoing the same sentiments, Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramiah, who was the chief guest, said some electronic media channels appeared to be in a great race to meet deadlines. This was why, he said, sometimes the viewers might not see anything big in the so-called breaking news.
He suggested that steps should be taken to curb monopolies among media houses and even private treaties. The role of the Press Council should be redefined to cover TV news channels as well, he said.
He said he always stood for the freedom of the Press and constructive criticism.
Dr Vinod Nowal, Deputy Managing Director of JSW Steel Limited, who was the guest of honour, said there was a huge barrier between what people at the helm say and what they do. India needed to improve a lot on infrastructure allocation of natural resources if it has to emerge as the global manufacturing hub. He pointed out that the interest rates in the country are very high at 18% as compared to the developed countries which enjoy a rate of 3% to 4%.
In his keynote address, Mr Deepak Mukherji, Communication consultant and former director of corporate affairs at Shell India, dealt with challenges in breaking barriers of communication and said the professionals ought to differentiate between trustable and trustworthiness. “We all seem to be experts in publicizing promises and not what is delivered,” he said and called for an increased focus on the trustable element rather than talking about mere transparency among corporates.
Conference curator and organizing secretary Krishna B Mariyanka said the two-day event will focus discussions on Faltering Media social responsibilities, Communication CSR through media, news distribution in social media, communication for PPPs, sustainability communication, branding, new digital journalism, challenges in multi-cultural communication, political communication, digital privacy, healthcare communication, and so on.
Achievers in various sectors will be felicitated with the A.P. Chowdappa memorial award for excellence in communication at the end of the conference tomorrow evening.
