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Manoj Sharma
Manoj Sharma Jones Lang LaSalle

Jones Lang LaSalle Enhances Productivity Using Cloud

Using a cloud-based SCM application, project managers at property consultant Jones Lang LaSalle spend more time delivering results and less time doing routine chores.

N. Jayantha Prabhu
N. Jayantha Prabhu CTO, Essar Group

BYOD: The Essar Way

Say BYOD, and CIOs cringe. They complain of security, supporting a flood of devices and losing control. But the CIO of Essar Group just proved his peers wrong. Here’s how.

Ajay Kumar Meher
Ajay Kumar Meher Sr. VP-IT & New Media, MSM

MSM's Digital Content Transfer Strategy

How broadcasting company MSM’s digital content transfer strategy saved it over a crore a year.

CIO Mentors Insights from the CIO Governing council

Murali Krishna K. SVP & Group Head CCD, Infosys
Murali Krishna K.

What We Put At Stake

CIOs need to partner early with the business and help it succeed in an increasingly risky world by shepherding innovation and grooming security effectiveness.
Amrita Gangotra Director-IT ( India & South Asia), Bharti Airtel
Amrita Gangotra

Analyze This

For information to be captured near real-time, CIOs need to have the ability to mine data as close to the event as possible.

CIO Conversations

Cloud Computing and its role in IT-Business Alignment

R.D. Malav

Vice President- Information Technology, Jindal Poly Films

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"For IT infrastructure to be agile, flexible and easily manageable, cloud is the only effective option."

Dharanibalan Gurunathan

Vice President, Offerings Management & Development, Global Technology Services, IBM, India/South Asia

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"While businesses have understood to a great extent what benefits Cloud computing brings in, IT remains apprehensive."

CIO Debate

Is Jugaad a Good Thing?: Ayes or Nays

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Ramkumar Mohan Ramkumar Mohan

Orbis Financial, Head – IT & CISO

India’s known for its ability to maximize resources and produce high-quality products and services. That’s jugaad.
Anuragi Raman Anuragi Raman

Motilal Oswal Securities, Associate Director, BPEX Deployment Leader & Head IT

Creativity in business is about providing cost-effective solutions that have sustainable benefits. Jugaad is, at best, a short-term fix.

Who Should Lead Social Initiatives: CIOs or CMOs?: Ayes or Nays

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Ranendra Dutta Ranendra Dutta

SABMiller India, VP-IT

“Social media is forcing CIOs to learn a new set of skills and if that calls for the CIO to lead social initiatives, why should they cringe?”
Amit Mukherjee Amit Mukherjee

RPG Group, Group CIO

“Every business function in an organization is a niche function. That’s why social media should be led by the CMO.”

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Business Intelligence

Business Intelligence refers to  software applications that helps  turn raw data into information. This information in turn helps organizations take critical decisions, cost-cuttings and identify business opportunities.

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Software as a Service (SaaS)

Vendors tout the software-as-a-service (SaaS) delivery model as an easy way to deploy applications. SaaS promised easier, speedier and cheaper implementations. But is SaaS all it's cracked up to be?

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Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)

The idea behind SOA is that technology should be expressed in chunks that business people can understand rather than as an arcane application such as ERP or CRM

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Virtualization

Virtualization allows you to run multiple operating systems simultaneously on a single machine. It has its roots in partitioning, which divides a single physical server into multiple logical servers.

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Green IT

Managing information technology sustainably can reduce corporate energy bills and keep toxins out of landfills. Thinking "green" with IT can help companies manage raw materials more efficiently and increase revenue.

 

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Mobile Security

Mobiles are allowing mobile e-mail, Internet and even corporate network access. Critical enterprise information is leaking onto mobile devices whose risk of loss is much higher than it is for PCs at the office.

 

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