VARINDIA IT MAGAZINE

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Maveric Systems has signed a multi-year contract with SBI General Insurance to provide Software Testing and Validation services. SBI General Insurance, a joint venture between the State Bank of India and Insurance Australia Group, is a greenfield venture in the Insurance domain in India. Maveric will be a strategic partner supporting SBI General's complete technology rollout and product launches. With validation and production support from Maveric, SBI General has rolled out its first set of products across the corporate and retail space. Ranga Reddy, CEO & Founder, Maveric Systems said, "Maveric has had a deep relationship with SBI and SBI Life Insurance and the team is now very excited to be partnering SBI General in this prestigious project. There have been rich learning till date and we look forward to the forthcoming product launches. The challenging scale and intense complexity of this venture make it one of Maveric's m...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Amdocs has released the findings of a global research report, conducted by Heavy Reading, which highlights the importance for service providers around the world to integrate charging and policy management capabilities to enable their future pricing strategies for data services. The recent rise in new data price plans is being driven by the need for service providers to offer customers an improved data experience and to better monetize their investments in network capacity. Ari Banerjee, Senior Analyst, Heavy Reading, said, "We can expect new data price plans to flood the market as data usage skyrockets with the introduction of improved tablets and smartphones, such as the iPhone 5, BlackBerry Torch and the Nokia N series. Our research shows there is global consensus that integration of charging and policy management capabilities is required to monetize these new data pricing strategies. Service providers have found attempts to integrate ...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE F5 Networks Inc. has announced that its intelligent, carrier-grade Domain Name System (DNS) services enable Communications Service Providers solutions (CSPs) to scale their DNS infrastructures more efficiently, significantly reduce costs, and more quickly deploy critical new revenue-generating services. With these services, F5 continues to fulfil its vision of Service Delivery Networking (SDN), providing a unified platform for CSPs to deliver voice, data, and video services on a single IP-based network. Akshay Sharma, Research Director, Gartner, said, "The landscape for communications service providers is shifting radically as data traffic grows relentlessly and traditional business models move from circuit-based voice to all-IP services. With these changes, DNS services, which have never before taken center stage for CSPs, are more important than ever. They must be rock-solid secure, flexible, and sophisticated enough to enable CSPs to ...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Idea Cellular Ltd. has chosen to reap the benefits of CommScope's superior performance smoothwall RF feeder coaxial cable, replacing most use of traditional corrugated copper cabling in its network. Idea is to utilize the high-performing coaxial cable in their base station sites in India in choosing HELIAX FXL cable. The FXL smoothwall cable is believed to be delivering a new level of benefits in wireless network performance and reliability compared to its corrugated copper predecessor HELIAX VXL. Stan Catey, Sr. VP & GM, Cable Products, CommScope, said, "HELIAX 2.0 FXL smoothwall cable from CommScope is a great choice for operators and OEMs in India because of its superior performance and cost efficiency as compared to standard corrugated copper cable. The smoothwall cable is built to ensure the operator receives a consistent quality connection. Additionally, it offers significant immediate cost savings over corrugated copper ca...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE NEC India Pvt. Ltd. has announced a strategic alliance with Trimax IT Infrastructure & Services Limited (Trimax) to explore opportunities in delivering "SaaS" services [using an integrated application aggregation platform]. As a part of this association, NEC will be leveraging Trimax's data center capabilities to provide business applications such as CRM, ERP, Human Resource Management, Inventory, Security, etc. to the enterprise customers. This partnership is to leverage NEC's technological expertise and Trimax's local market reach to offer SaaS applications to SMBs in India via an opex model, thus reducing their IT expenditure and total cost of ownership (TCO). Ken Sugata, GM, Global Carrier Cloud division, NEC Corporation, said, "Cloud computing has paved an innovative way for enterprises to meet the ever-changing business needs to deal with complex business environments. We foresee strong market interest and...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Genpact has acquired High Performance Partners, LLC (HPP) and their Quantum Mortgage Technology. Genpact had previously announced an initial equity investment in HPP in March 2010 and now owns 100 per cent of the company. Genpact will leverage the Quantum software platform to support its Mortgage Business Process as a Service (BPaaS) offering. The Quantum platform helps originators and lenders to automate and streamline major elements of the loan origination process, resulting in a shorter loan lifecycle and a more transparent mortgage asset. Quantum's software platform combines automated decisioning and highly efficient processing with its data-centric approach. Roger Hull, Founder & CEO of HPP, will lead the ongoing development of Quantum for Genpact as Vice President of Genpact Mortgage Services. He has more than 27 years of real estate, finance, information technology and executive leadership experience. In addition to founding HP...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE FUJIFILM has launched the new FinePix S4000. The special feature of this newly launched digital camera is said to be its Super Long Zoom. The Electronic Viewfinder (EVF) automatically switches display from the LCD to the highly responsive electronic viewfinder as one keeps his eyes on EVF. It also features SR AUTO, Face detection, Face recognition, Blink detection and smile & shoot mode, etc. FinePix S4000 has a 14-mega pixel resolution. It is a highly sensitive camera with maximum sensitivity of ISO6400. Fujinon 30x and Wide 24mm zoom lens has been used in this camera. 45-step zoom control enables you to take photos as you like smoothly and 24mm optical zoom lens allows you to capture the real scale, depth, dynamism of the scene at a wide angle. FinePix S4000 discovers the impact of full-screen HDTV image display. K. Tanaka, MD, Fujifilm India, said, "FUJIFILM is pleased to introduce latest FinePix S4000 camera to the market. Super...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Research In Motion Co-CEO Jim Balsillie has unveiled a new way for BlackBerry smartphone users to connect with one another and share multimedia content during his keynote presentation at the GITEX conference in Dubai. BlackBerry Tag, which is said to be incorporated in the next BlackBerry 7 OS update, is said to allow users to share contact information, documents, URLs, photos and other multimedia content by simply tapping their BlackBerry smartphones together. BlackBerry Tag is also believed to enable friends to instantly add one another as contacts on BBM (BlackBerry Messenger). Jim Balsillie said, "BlackBerry Tag is an exciting and innovative feature that makes sharing contact information and multimedia content effortless and seamless. BlackBerry Tag opens a new dimension to the BlackBerry platform that is powerful, simple and intuitive and we think it will be welcomed by both users and developers." BlackBerry Tag takes advanta...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Microsoft India has launched its Touch Mouse. Designed for Windows 7, the new Microsoft Touch Mouse marries natural human gestures with the ability of an electronic mouse and helps click, flick, scroll, pan, tilt and swipe on Windows 7 seamlessly. The Touch Mouse's multi-touch functionality helps users navigate easier and faster with a flick of their fingers. Its matte black surface gives it the grip. Satish Parreddi, Senior Category Manager, Microsoft Hardware India, said, "Touch today is increasingly becoming a fun way of interacting with devices. When it comes to mice, while the desktop users want precision and control, the gesture of their fingers exceeds the power with the touch mouse. This is the first time we have married the control and precision of a mouse with the interactivity that touch delivers on the PC. With Touch Mouse, we are giving a simple and complimentary experience to all the Windows 7 users like never possible...