VARINDIA IT MAGAZINE

SAP SE has announced that Asian Paints has integrated its financial transactions with Citi through SAP Financial Services Network, an integration platform designed to simplify interaction between corporations and financial institutions. With SAP Financial Services Network, Asian Paints now has a comprehensive and secure connection with Citi that standardizes financial processes and improves visibility into its financial transactions. SAP Financial Services Network is a testament to SAP and Citi’s pledge to deliver the innovation and agility that companies need to defeat complexity and complete highly sophisticated tasks. The integration with Citi simplifies the intricacy of company-based banking services and makes it easier for businesses to connect their payment systems with the bank, saving these customers time and money. It helps standardize banking operations to improve financial workflows, mitigate risk and track global cash. “SAP Financial Services Network has enabled us t

WD, a Western Digital company, has introduced WD Purple NV, a purpose-built line of 3.5-inch, high-capacity 4TB and 6TB hard drives for the greater demands of scalable network video recorder (NVR) surveillance systems. Compared with standard WD Purple drives, the new member of the WD’s surveillance video recording family of drives, WD Purple NV, is designed for larger-scale network surveillance systems utilizing higher hard drive bay counts and greater numbers of attached cameras, which demand increased storage capacity and durability. The new drives’ high capacities also enable long video retention periods for analysis and reference. WD Purple NV is also designed to withstand the demands of always-on digital NVR recording environments. It offers low-power consumption and many advanced performance features typically reserved for higher-end surveillance storage. “The global video surveillance market is expanding with the increased accessibility to easy-to-use systems for small bu

With a goal of generating the most innovative ideas to be incubated and incorporated in Dell’s solutions, Dell organized a 3-day Hackathon event at its Bangalore and Hyderabad campuses last week. The annual Hackathon, which saw an overwhelming participation of over 2,000 employees, also served as a collaborative platform to learn and network. With the theme of “creating next-gen experience for internal stakeholders and external customers, leveraging latest technologies such as cloud, social, analytics/ BI, gaming, etc” this year, employees comprising software engineers, technical product managers, product owners, business intelligence data scientists, and analysts participated in the event, to compete for the grand prize. This year’s contest resulted in novel ideas on next-gen technologies and customer experience, such as – a mobile app to bring down call center costs; the ability to purchase Dell products from Twitter, without having to reach the Dell website; a security solution

Favouring net neutrality, Infibeam has taken a stand and is against all the biased Internet Service Providers (ISPs) of the country. Access to equal internet speed for any website or mobile app is the right of every consumer who is paying money for data to the ISPs. Hence, the ISPs cannot be biased and have to provide traffic equally. In India with over 15 ISPs, there are about 10 crore internet users. Despite huge number of internet subscribers and mobile users, the ISPs, which are also telecom operators, have been affected heavily. As per industry estimates, of the total revenue of the telecom companies, over 75% is contributed by voice and the rest is by value-added services, including data. Due to high investments and competition, the margins in voice are heavily squeezed. As an impact, the telecom operators are finding one or the other way to increase revenue and profit. Recently, a few telecom operators announced of giving free internet access to consumers for certain e-

To further strengthen its leadership team, Snapdeal has appointed Dharmarajan K as Head – Customer Service. In this new role, Dharmarajan will be responsible for strengthening the company’s efforts towards building world-class customer service operations. He will be a part of Snapdeal’s leadership team and will lead customer service operations. Dharmarajan has an experience of over 15 years in senior leadership roles with expertise in Customer Experience Management, Green-Field Set-up and Start-ups across multiple sectors –E-commerce, Telecom and Financial Services. He has worked for organizations like Etisalat, Bharti Airtel, ICICI Bank and Flipkart. Prior to joining at Snapdeal, he was head of customer service operations at Flipkart where he played a key role in bringing a paradigm shift in customer experience management through process and product innovation, new-age service parameters, deep customer insights, people and partner collaboration. Rohit Bansal, Co-Founder, Snap

To drive transformation and deliver enhanced client value, Polaris has roped in Sanjay Vatsa as Executive Vice-President & Chief Strategy Officer. Vatsa will be focussing on propelling Polaris’ industry role as a leader in digital 360 transformation. In his role as Chief Strategy Officer, Vatsa will be collaborating with all areas of the organization to identify new ways in which Polaris can bring value to its client base. Through both strategy and execution, he will be focussing on identifying and solving major industry pain points, such as cybersecurity and digitization, while helping clients improve business processes and managing down costs. With his extensive experience in operational excellence, transformation, risk and compliance, Vatsa is well-positioned to drive business growth, create centers of excellence and enhance client experience. Jitin Goyal, CEO & Executive Director, Polaris Consulting & Services Ltd, said, “Sanjay is an important addition to our gl

Intel Software has concluded its two-day Internet of Things (IoT) roadshow in Bengaluru. 153 makers and pro-makers came together at this 24-hour hackathon to build IoT-enabled solutions. 45 IoT solutions were created using the Intel IoT Developer kits which include an Intel Edison board which is an Arduino-compatible development board featuring Intel architecture. The winner, DriveAlert, created a smart IoT-enabled solution to prevent mishaps due to drowsy driving/ flying and enhancing driver efficiency using their driving data. The solution will not only help detect drowsy driving but also improve driver’s efficiency by using the captured data. The device will capture behaviour patterns of the driver and his interaction with the components of the vehicle. This gathered data will be then used to give the driver a feedback, in turn improving his efficiency. Narendra Bhandari intel 150x150 Intel successfully concludes IoT Roadshow in BengaluruNarendra Bhandari, Director, APJ, Inte

To support the company’s New IP innovations, Brocade(NASDAQ:BRCD) has announced the opening of a new state-of-the-art Development Center in Bangalore, and stated that it will invest US$300 million in India over the next five years. The new Center reaffirms Brocade’s commitment to accelerating growth in one of the world’s fastest-growing economies, and will play an important role in the development of networking innovations based on the New IP architecture. The Center will enable Brocade India to showcase proofs-of-concept and pilot projects for customers and partners – while contributing to the development of next-generation, fabric-based and software networking solutions. The Center will also work closely with Brocade technology and solution partners and networking industry thought leaders across India, enabling the company to achieve greater penetration in industry verticals such as service providers, media, banking and finance, education, and the public sector. Brocade CEO

ZTE has announced a breakthrough in 5G research, with the company’s new Multi-User Shared Access (MUSA) technology demonstrating the capability to more than triple overload capacity of wireless access networks. Based on the simulation results, ZTE’s MUSA algorithm delivered an over 200% improvement in the overload radio, helping to transition networks for the era of the Internet of Things. MUSA is one of ZTE’s research projects on Pre5G, which use 5G-ready technologies to provide commercial 4G LTE end-users with 5G-like access experience. Other Pre5G technologies developed by ZTE include Massive MIMO, and Ultra-Dense Network (UDN). ZTE expects its Pre5G technologies will be commercially deployed in 2015. ZTE has also successfully tested its Pre5G UDN solution, which makes full use of the sophisticated Pico RRU hardware platform and Cloud Radio interference cancellation technology, allowing for denser deployment of base stations for operators to gain higher capacity density. Xi

Comverse and Tech Mahindra have announced that they have reached an agreement in principle on a strategic relationship, whereby Comverse will accelerate its transformation as a global innovator in digital services by leveraging Tech Mahindra’s expertise and scale in development and delivery of digital offerings.  As part of this initiative, employees from certain functions within Comverse’s Digital Services business unit are anticipated to join Tech Mahindra. Tech Mahindra will complement Comverse’s R&D and engineering operations through innovation in product development techniques and just-in-time capability reinforcement. Tech Mahindra will bring its experience in developing and creating a start-up ecosystem that has helped launch solutions for the connected world. The company will also enable global exposure and long-term career opportunities for the employees coming onboard from Comverse. This relationship gives Comverse access to a flexible operating model to respond mo