Wednesday, August 6, 2014

Yahoo Aviate Now Available In India




Yahoo announced the launch of Yahoo Aviate, now available for Android users in India. Yahoo Aviate simplifies everything about your phone. It starts with a clean, new layout and apps automatically organized for you. But it’s not just about making your phone simpler - Aviate also makes your phone smarter by offering intelligent information throughout your day. Whether you’re on the go, at work, at a restaurant or just relaxing at home, Aviate automatically shows you apps and information that are useful to you based on what you’re up to.
Today’s launch includes new features and performance upgrades from the Beta version of Aviate. Check out what’s new:
More of Your Daily Habits:
Yahoo Aviate isn’t just an app. As your mobile homebase, it’s the last thing you check at night and the first thing you look at when you wake up in the morning (especially if you take advantage of our new “track your sleep” feature!). That’s why there’s one-swipe access to daily habits like your alarm clock, weather, your day’s calendar, and a twice-daily news summary.
A Smarter Way to Organize Your Day:
Some of the most exciting updates were built by the Incredible Labs team, who joined Yahoo in February. Using machine learning and predictive technologies, we’ve made Aviate even better at anticipating the information you need at each point in your day:
* Dress for the Weather: Get prepared with an alert if the weather is different from yesterday - significantly cooler or warmer, or if it’s more likely to rain or snow.
* Work Smarter: Connect to conference calls with a single tap (no more typing out conference codes!) and easily email everyone in the meeting if you’re running late.
* Get Around: On your way to work? Aviate will estimate commute time, taking traffic into consideration. Heading out to dinner with friends? Aviate makes it simple to call an Uber to get there.
 And Now, Your Favorite People:
·         Aviate automatically pulls your most popular contacts into a list of “Favorites”. Now, call or text your favorite people with a simple swipe up from the homescreen. 

ShopClues Deploys Decision Support System At Lower Cost





ShopClues.com, India’s first and largest fully-managed online marketplace, announces the deployment of the Decision Support System (DSS) at the back-end that enables the automatic selection of the most suitable courier partner for delivering a product. This intelligent support system will bring tremendous operational efficiency for ShopClues that services over 70,000 peak orders in a day.   
 
This cutting-edge DSS feature has been built in-house by the ShopClues team with the objective of eliminating the inefficiencies involved in manual selection of the courier partner for each order placed on the site. DSS will help in reducing courier costs and delivery time, since the most efficient and cost-effective courier partner will be selected by an automatic process. 

“The benefits of the augmented efficiency will be passed on directly to customers resulting in better savings and an enhanced shopping experience for them. It will also induce transparency in selection of the courier partner and will allow improved management of the growing business volume on ShopClues.com,” said Sanjay Sethi, CEO & Co-Founder, ShopClues.

“Our network of +12 courier partners delivers to nearly 15,000 destinations across India - which is the largest for any e-commerce site in the country. While the DSS will bring operational efficiency for us, it will allow merchants to offer improved delivery terms to customers on our platform,” he added.    

The system’s weighted decision-making method removes the manual intervention in courier selection and arrives at the best-suited courier partner using a pre-defined algorithm. The system will work at the back-end in alignment with ShopClues Velocity, the best-in-class fulfillment service offered to all merchants selling on this platform. 

For each order placed on ShopClues.com, the most-suitable courier partner is selected by an automated process on the basis of pin code serviceability, minimum delivery time, minimum shipment cost and the capability to service high-value orders. DSS will also enable better service on high-value orders and reduce the number of cases where an order is returned from the courier hub due to value restrictions. 

The system captures the maximum values serviceable, as defined by each courier partner. The DSS will also help ShopClues to handle embargo situations effectively - so, if a courier goes out of service then one can switch them off instantaneously. With this improved efficiency, the patrons of ShopClues.com can look forward to an enhanced experience of shopping from the site.

Dilipkumar Khandelwal New MD Of SAP Labs India




SAP today announced the appointment of Dilipkumar Khandelwal as Managing Director for SAP Labs India. Effective immediately, Dilipkumar will be responsible for driving customer-led innovations and operations across SAP Labs India facilities in Bangalore, Gurgaon and Pune. Based in Bangalore, his role as Managing Director is in addition to his current Global role as Senior Vice President and Head of Suite Engineering at SAP.

 “SAP Labs India has showcased leadership that has driven the organization to excel in innovation and product development. The team in India has contributed significantly to SAP’s products and technologies and plays a key role in the SAP ecosystem,” said Clas Neumann, Senior Vice President and Global Head of the SAP Labs Network. “Dilipkumar’s leadership will be an asset in spearheading the next wave of innovation coming out of SAP Labs India.” 

Dilipkumar has been with SAP for over 13 years in various roles. He began his career as a Technology Consultant and engaged with several large customers to help them realize value out of their IT investments. He has handled roles in Consulting, Development, Quality & Partner Enablement and has been recognized for his business leadership several times. He was conferred the SAP Leader of the Year award.

 “Being a part of a network of 14 Labs in 13 countries, SAP Labs India plays a key role in the SAP ecosystem by contributing significantly to SAP’s products and technologies,” said Dilipkumar Khandelwal, Managing Director, SAP Labs India. “I am excited to take on this additional responsibility and closely work with the team to drive customer relevant solutions by leveraging on the latest technology innovations from SAP Labs.”

 Bridging the gap between local market demands and SAP's development organization, SAP Labs India is SAP's third largest Research & Development and Global Services & Support center in the world. SAP Labs India contributes to all areas of the SAP product value chain- Research & Breakthrough Innovation, Product Development, Global Services & Support and Customer Solutions & Operations.


TE Completes Acquisition Of Raychem RPG India



 

TE Connectivity (TE), a world leader in connectivity, has announced it has completed the acquisition of the telecom business of Raychem RPG (RRPG), a joint venture company co-owned by TE and RPG Enterprises. The acquired business will now become part of TE's Network Solutions segment.

 As part of the acquisition, TE recently inaugurated the new manufacturing facility in Vasai, Mumbai, which will be the hub for telecommunication engineering services supplying the fiber market in the Southeast Asia region. With this acquisition, TE strengthens its local telecom engineering and manufacturing expertise in India. 

“We aspire to become the market leader in the telecommunications sector and the acquisition will further strengthen the foundation of our company, which is admired for outstanding customer service, technology leadership and product innovation,” said KK Shetty, director, India and SAARC, Network Solutions, TE India.

 RRPG was established in 1989 by Raychem Corporation and RPG Enterprises, and has completed 25 successful years in India. TE acquired Raychem Corporation in 1999, and the operations were run as a 50-50 joint venture between TE and RPG Enterprises. The joint venture company manufactures and markets cable joints, transformers and insulation products in the energy space which will continue and remain unaffected.

Monday, August 4, 2014

Leaders Discuss Role Of IT In Powering Future Growth


Microsoft India today organized the first ever MNC IT Summit in Bangalore. The Summit brought together over 70 leaders of India-based IT organizations of multinational corporations (MNCs), in an endeavor to shape their collective vision for the industry and identify areas for collaboration. The attendees represent Fortune Global and Forbes 1000 companies with combined annual revenues in excess of $2 trillion, employing six million people globally including more than one million in India.

The Global In-house Centers (GICs) of these multinational corporations provide a range of services to their parent multinational corporations – IT services, Business Process Management and Engineering Research & Development. India’s GIC exports are expected to reach $17 Billion in 2014.

The theme of the summit was “What will it take for the MNC IT Community to increase its impact ten-fold in five years?” The MNC IT leaders articulated their vision, approach and path forward for their community. They committed to work together in enhancing India’s IT brand to attract more MNCs to set up IT centers in India, and called for sharing of best practices to help expand existing centers and enable them move up the IT value chain by doing mission-critical work from India. 

The Summit included keynotes, panel discussions and focused workgroup sessions by prominent speakers from academia, business, government and media including Adil Zainulbhai (Senior Advisor, McKinsey) Prof. Anil Gupta (IIM Ahmedabad), Dr. Pramath Raj Sinha (Founding Dean of ISB, Founder Managing Director 9dot9 Networks), Dr. Raghunath Mashelkar (Former Chairman, CSIR), Rajesh Dalal (Senior Consultant – Healthcare & Former MD – Johnson & Johnson), Prof. S. Sadagopan (Director, IIIT Bangalore) and Som Mittal (ex-Chairman, NASSCOM).

The Microsoft MNC IT Summit 2014 was kicked off by Microsoft India Chairman Bhaskar Pramanik who said, “The IT-GICs have been playing an important role in adoption of cutting edge technology by their organizations. At Microsoft we are committed to strengthen the ecosystem with future-ready productivity and platform tools for the mobile-first, cloud-first world.”

Microsoft CIO Jim DuBois said, “It has been amazing to watch the IT industry grow and evolve in India. Cloud is the next big trend that is driving the next wave of IT growth and transformation, not just for large enterprises but also for SMBs, governments and citizens.”
Microsoft IT India Managing Director, Raj Biyani said, “By collaborating closely, the leaders of the MNC IT units can boost India’s IT ecosystem exponentially in the next five years.” He touched upon key insights from the three-year journey that fundamentally transformed Microsoft’s own IT-GIC into a talent hub. This transformation has been documented in recent case studies by Harvard Business School and the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta.

A documentary “Inventing the Zero, Reaching for Infinity: The Story of India and its IT Industry”, directed by Emmy Award winner Rafeeq Ellias, was unveiled at the summit which puts the spotlight on the role of MNC IT ecosystem’s symbiotic relationship with India and features perspectives of its leaders from the IT industry.

Dr. Sadagopan pointed out that IT centers in India are playing a leading role in establishing centers in other countries, including Vietnam and Argentina. Adil Zainulbhai, of McKinsey & Company, and editor of “Reimagining India: Unlocking India’s Potential” emphasized the vast untapped potential of India’s youthful economy.  In a panel discussion titled “Innovating and Winning from India”, Pramath Sinha, Dr. R.A. Mashelkar, Rajesh Dalal and Prof. Anil Gupta shared inspiring examples of successful innovations in India, what Dr. Mashelkar labeled as “affordable excellence.”

Som Mittal highlighted the contribution of the overall IT industry to India’s economy creating 3.2 million jobs and generating over $100 billion in exports. IT-GICs make a substantial contribution in this impact. He appreciated the spirit of collaboration among Indian IT organizations stating “there is no place elsewhere in the world where competitors collaborate so fiercely."

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