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Yahoo! Bangalore centre will remain global hub

Published at December 17, 2007 in IT, News and Software. 0 Comments

Yahoo! Bangalore centre will remain global hub

“We have almost 1,500 employees in the Bangalore R&D centre itself, which is a huge number for any one centre,” official says.

India will continue to be Yahoo’s research and development (R&D) hub for catering to the global information technology market, a top company official said.

“Our India operations, namely Yahoo! India, has its R&D centre in Bangalore. It was set up for doing product innovations for not only India but also for the global market. This function of our R&D centre will continue and even grow in the future,” Head, Yahoo! Research, Prabhakar Raghavan, said here.

“India has the right atmosphere for catering to the global market by providing Internet services, technological tools and marketing solutions for businesses both in India and internationally. We have almost 1,500 employees in the Bangalore R&D centre itself, which is a huge number for any one centre. This shows the capability of the centre to be an international hub for IT related activities,” Raghavan said.

The Yahoo! Research Head was here to attend a two-day summit on the IT sector called Infovision 2007.

On the prospects of the convergence of mobile phone and Internet application in India, Rahgavan said that though India and China had many mobile devices, most of them were not data-rich phones, not fully digital.
“The challenge here is to create service and monetisation models that would help serve the market in a better way. We have such programmes in the pipeline. The challenge is also to find a greater variety of services to appeal to a larger audience,” he said. Source: deccanherald



Wipro wins award for best software testing tool

Published at December 14, 2007 in IT and Technology. 0 Comments

 Wipro wins award for best software testing tool

IT major Wipro Technologies has won the best practice award for software testing, set up by the US-based International Institute for Software Testing (IIST), the company announced in Bangalore on Friday.

The company’s testing services division was given the award for innovating a statistical tool that reduces the time taken to test a product.

“As part of our proprietary tools suite code-named StORM (statistics, operations, research, matrix), the tool helps us to reduce test case development effort by about 30 per cent,” Wipro vice-president and testing services’ head CP Gangadharaiah said in a statement.

With over 10 years of experience in independent testing services, Wipro is the largest third-party offshore testing service provider worldwide.

It has also set-up the first wireless fidelity (Wi-Fi) pre-certification and certification lab at its Bangalore campus.

The IT bellwether offers software testing services to global customers in partnership with other leading vendors such as Hewlett-Packard, IBM and Microsoft.

“The award is one of the initiatives we have taken to advance the software testing profession and encourage IT firms to adopt best practices. The award also enables firms to share their best practices with the software testing community,” IIST chairman Magdy Hanna said.

Wipro was chosen for the award out of 36 technology firms worldwide that were short-listed by the institute. Source: hindustantimes



IT: need for more gender equality

Published at December 14, 2007 in IT, Jobs, News and Software. 0 Comments

IT: need for more gender equality

The National Association of Software and Service Companies (Nasscom) President, Kiran Karnik, said here on Wednesday that a study by the association indicated that the percentage of women employed in the IT (information technology) and ITeS (IT-enabled Services) sectors might grow from 30 per cent to 45 per cent by 2010.

The male-female ratio was also expected to improve from 76:24 in 2006 to 65:35 by early 2008, he said.

Speaking at the Nasscom Women IT Leaders summit here, Mr. Karnik said, “There is a clear trend of more educated young women joining the industry because of progressive and flexible human resource management policies. IT does not require any gender-specific skills”.

Britannia Industries Managing Director, Vineeta Bali, said, “While competency will remain a basic skill for either gender, men in senior positions have to initiate changes needed for more gender equality. The industry should realise the vast talent pool in the form of women with necessary skills. Bobby Mitra, Managing Director, Texas Instruments-India, said “Within our organisation, women have filed for 25 patents in the U.S. over the last two years, meeting stringent criteria. Recently, a team led by a woman successfully completed a project that produced a chip twice the speed of a competitor”.

Jerry Rao, Chairman of MphasiS, said “Men in senior positions now need to realise how talented women staffers, if encouraged, can help the organisation. Sadly, even HR heads, who are women, do not recommend women for some senior positions. Managements on their part can meet some of the handicaps faced by women executives by providing training in communication skills such as making business presentations”. Source: Hindu

Bangalore to host Web innovation 2007 conference

Published at December 12, 2007 in Events, IT, News and Software. 0 Comments

“Web Innovation 2007: The Nextgen Web Technology Revolution: 2.0 & Beyond”, a conference focusing on potential and benefits of Web 2.0, will be held here from December 18.

It’s an opportunity for young business and software decision makers to know about Web 2.0 and beyond, said Bal Tarakad, CEO of Trade Fairs & Conference International which is organising the two-day event.

Bangalore to host Web innovation 2007 conference

More than 45 Web 2.0 experts will speak at the conference, which is expected to attract 750 delegates from across the country, he told a press meet.

The phrase “Web 2.0″ hints at the second innings of the World Wide Web.

The idea of Web 2.0 can relate to a transition of some websites from isolated information silos to interlinked computing platforms that function like locally-available software in the perception of the user.

Web 2.0 also includes a social element where users generate and distribute content, often with freedom to share and re-use.

Chairman and CEO of Brickwork, Vivek Kulkarni, who is part of the conference advisory committee, said the event focuses on the importance of Web 2.0 technology and its applications.

“In a nutshell, Web 2.0 technologies tend to foster innovation in the assembly of systems and sites composed by pulling together features from distributed, independent developers”, Kulkarni said. Source: economictimes

IBM plans SOA leadership centre in Bangalore

Published at December 12, 2007 in Business and IT. 0 Comments

IBM plans SOA leadership centre in Bangalore

IBM today announced plans to open a SOA leadership centre in India designed to address business challenges using service oriented architectures (SOA).

The centre will be set up in Bangalore, and would be the first-of-its-kind in Asia-Pacific and the fourth in a series of SOA leadership centers planned across the world. The centre will become fully functional during the first quarter of 2008.

The SLC in Bangalore will be staffed by IBM’s global SOA experts, and will focus on three key areas: SOA education and training, SOA implementation support, and SOA exhibitions and demonstrations.

“Opening this centre is a direct response to what our customers in India are demanding,” said Panini Dwivedi, Country Manager – WebSphere, Software Group, IBM India/ SA.

He added: “IBM has helped thousands of early SOA adopters around the world successfully overcome some of today’s most challenging business problems using SOA. Now, the SOA Leadership Centre can help customers develop the skills and knowledge to help enable them to use an SOA to attain business goals. Partnering with local universities will also be a major focus of the center, with a goal of building SOA skills in the emerging work force in India.” Source: business-standard

US firm opens centre in Bangalore

Published at December 10, 2007 in Business, IT and News. 3 Comments

US-based Technosoft Corporation, which provides outsourcing services, has opened a development centre in Bangalore. At present, the company operates a centre in Chennai employing close to 350 personnel.

“We have decided to expand our Indian operations and leverage the large pool of skilled resources in Bangalore to service our growing client base,” Technosoft Corporation CEO Rajiv Tandon said.

The company will employ over 200 people over the next 12 months.

Headquartered in Southfield, Michigan, Technosoft, which started as an Information Technology Outsourcing (ITO) services provider, ventured into BPO in 2005 with the Chennai centre.

The $50 million company services small to mid-size businesses in the US to various industries, including financial services, government, healthcare, manufacturing and utilities. It employs over 500 people in the US.

The company’s BPO unit assists healthcare providers, insurers, third party billers with routine business processes ranging from medical billing to claims processing and debt collection. The company also provides backoffice support service.

Tandon said the company’s dual-shore model leverages India’s talent pool, quality standards and time zone advantage.

Technosoft currently offers centres of excellence for areas such as .Net, SAP, Wimax, enterprise search, business intelligence, testing and revenue cycle management.

In medical billing services, the company carries out secure scanning, digital imaging and indexing of all Patient Call Reports (PCR), reimbursement checks and Explanation of Benefits (EOB)

Technosoft separates the billing, posting and deposit functions. All posting activity is reconciled with deposits on a daily basis by Accounts Receivable.

“We prepare a daily report consisting of activities performed and any new events that occurred,” company officials said.

The company has instituted quality assurance measures in its medical billing process services. Standard procedure calls for data entry personnel to check all data immediately after posting, followed by an audit.

“In addition, we create a customised quality process that focuses on the specific types of errors identified during the normal quality audit process,” they stated. Source: business-standard

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