With its headcount at 95,000 and expected addition of 6,000 in this quarter (July to September), TCS will create yet another record of crossing 100,000 mark.
It will be an important day and TCS is likely to be the first to cross $ 5 billion mark also by mid 2008
Saturday, July 21, 2007
HCL launches PC with one terabyte capacity
On July 16, 2007 HCL (India's oldest and local No 1 brand PC manufacturer) launched its PC with one terabyte storage (Hitachi Disk) at an entry level price of Rs 35,000. It is indeed interesting. Terabyte was a capacity that many organizations did not have. About 3,4 years back LIC (the largest Insurance company in India) talked of India's first terabyte data warehouse. To get such a capacity on the desktop is indeed remarkable, more so at a price of Rs 35,000! I still remember ordering "proudly" a 80MB hard disk for Rs 50,000 in 1993!
Thursday, November 02, 2006
IT.in 2006
The ninth edition of IT.in (originally IT.com) got over on October 31, 2006.
The Palace Grounds exhibition area had air-conditioned stalls with high quality exhibits. The Palace has an unmatched elegance
There were excellent conferences (HR, Indian Semiconductor Association and SME Forum); there was an excellent CEO Forum and a Panel moderated by none other than Mr HS Balram, Editor, Times of India.
There was WiMax at work (with a tower in place); WiFi access was provided for people to access Net.
Yet the buzz was missing! There were hardly any large-scale visitors!
It is time Government of Karnataka gets serious, find an organization that plans throughout the year and runs it professionally
Else IT.in will soon be IT.out!
Sunday, October 29, 2006
Bharti joins Rs Trillion club
Bharti (telecom service provider with Airtel brand) joined the elite club of companies with Rupees Trillion market capitalization. For years only the public sector ONGC had this credit. Another public sector giant NTPC (power utility) joined the club sometime back. The first private sector to join the club is Reliance which recently moved past NTPC and ONGC. IT major Infosys joined the club two months back; another IT major TCS joined the club within days of Infosys getting to that stare. This week Bharti joined this elite club.
Today we have two public sector companies and four private sector companies in this club. IT (software and telecom) accounts for 50%!
Today we have two public sector companies and four private sector companies in this club. IT (software and telecom) accounts for 50%!
Friday, April 14, 2006
Infosys does India proud again
Infosys is 25 years old. They took 23 years to cross the first Billion Dollars of annual business. Infosys is the first listed Indian company with this distinction (TCS crossed its Billion Dollars but it was NOT listed in 2003). I did write a piece in Financial Express (April 16, 2004) that Infosys created history on April 13, 2004 with their crossing $ 1 Billion. Today on April 14, 2006 they have created history again.
Interestingly, Microsoft crossed its first Billion Dollars in its 15th year (Infosys did in 23rd year). Interestingly Microsoft took another 2 years to cross $ 2 Billion; Infosys did the same! Considering that $1 = Rs 44 or so and Infosys has bulk of the employees in India, this is indeed commendable performance!
Interestingly, Microsoft crossed its first Billion Dollars in its 15th year (Infosys did in 23rd year). Interestingly Microsoft took another 2 years to cross $ 2 Billion; Infosys did the same! Considering that $1 = Rs 44 or so and Infosys has bulk of the employees in India, this is indeed commendable performance!
Saturday, April 01, 2006
Professor Sadagopan’s Weblog › Dashboard — WordPress
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Ibahealth starts Indian operations
April 1st, 2006
Ibahealth, Australia’s largest healthcare IT Company started its India operations on March 30, 2006 in Bangalore. With its recent acquisition of the innovative healthcare solution company Medicom, ibahealth starts with 150+ staff on Day 1.
I view the next wave of growth for IT services in India through “domains” – automotive, telecom, banking & financial services, tourism, hospitality, industrial automation … AND healthcare. Naturally, I am excited with ibahealth setting up shop in India.
Healthcare is one industry whose health is always “pink”; when everyone is sick, healthcare will be growing; and when everyone is fit, it just becomes fitness industry!
India is accepted in the world for its IT prowess; Indian doctors are generally well-received around the world. It is time we combine IT and healthcare to kick-start the next growth engine.
I am familiar with Medicom, thanks to their innovative solution powering such hospitals such as Satya Sai Hospital in Bangalore; in a quick look at ibahealth web-site, I found healthcare-specific workflow. I always felt workflow would fly, only if it is aligned to a specific application segment. Healthcare being an inherently people-centric service – doctors, nurses, para-medical staff, drug delivery and diagnostic experts – workflow in healthcare would be a big hit; it will help us to build a patient-centric hospital as opposed to equipment-centric hospitals we built in the yester-years.
Operating in India, ibahealth should move beyond “best practice” to “next practice” - a term coined by Professor CK Prahalad of University of Michigan – with whom IIIT-B has special association. India is one country that can bring about 10-fold cost reduction – not 10% - as experiments like Jaipur Foot and Arvind Eye-care have proved. As Devi Shetty of Narayana Hrudayalaya would put it “healthcare if not affordable is not available”. We need to engage in models of dramatic cost reduction, if we are to take healthcare to ALL Indians.
Finally, as Mahatma Gandhi would often remark, providing healthcare would be satisfying – the satisfaction that we bring to a patient, often silently expressed as a thankful glance from the eye of a cured patient, not even well-articulated – is worth far more than millions of dollars!
I wish ibahealth (and “Medicom Inside”) the very best in the years to come
(Keynote Address given on March 30, 2006 at Bangalore at ibahealth India launch)
Ibahealth starts Indian operations
April 1st, 2006
Ibahealth, Australia’s largest healthcare IT Company started its India operations on March 30, 2006 in Bangalore. With its recent acquisition of the innovative healthcare solution company Medicom, ibahealth starts with 150+ staff on Day 1.
I view the next wave of growth for IT services in India through “domains” – automotive, telecom, banking & financial services, tourism, hospitality, industrial automation … AND healthcare. Naturally, I am excited with ibahealth setting up shop in India.
Healthcare is one industry whose health is always “pink”; when everyone is sick, healthcare will be growing; and when everyone is fit, it just becomes fitness industry!
India is accepted in the world for its IT prowess; Indian doctors are generally well-received around the world. It is time we combine IT and healthcare to kick-start the next growth engine.
I am familiar with Medicom, thanks to their innovative solution powering such hospitals such as Satya Sai Hospital in Bangalore; in a quick look at ibahealth web-site, I found healthcare-specific workflow. I always felt workflow would fly, only if it is aligned to a specific application segment. Healthcare being an inherently people-centric service – doctors, nurses, para-medical staff, drug delivery and diagnostic experts – workflow in healthcare would be a big hit; it will help us to build a patient-centric hospital as opposed to equipment-centric hospitals we built in the yester-years.
Operating in India, ibahealth should move beyond “best practice” to “next practice” - a term coined by Professor CK Prahalad of University of Michigan – with whom IIIT-B has special association. India is one country that can bring about 10-fold cost reduction – not 10% - as experiments like Jaipur Foot and Arvind Eye-care have proved. As Devi Shetty of Narayana Hrudayalaya would put it “healthcare if not affordable is not available”. We need to engage in models of dramatic cost reduction, if we are to take healthcare to ALL Indians.
Finally, as Mahatma Gandhi would often remark, providing healthcare would be satisfying – the satisfaction that we bring to a patient, often silently expressed as a thankful glance from the eye of a cured patient, not even well-articulated – is worth far more than millions of dollars!
I wish ibahealth (and “Medicom Inside”) the very best in the years to come
(Keynote Address given on March 30, 2006 at Bangalore at ibahealth India launch)
Saturday, October 15, 2005
Indian IT services companies continue to shine
Indian IT services companies continue to excel
October 16th, 2005
It is heartening to note that InfoSys and TCS crossed $ 1 Billion mark in their first two quarters of 2005 (April Sep as per Indian financial year).
TCS created another history by crossing the 50,000 mark
Wipro’s results would be announced soon, along with that of Satyam.
iGate, MPhasis and Mastek results are great too.
October 16th, 2005
It is heartening to note that InfoSys and TCS crossed $ 1 Billion mark in their first two quarters of 2005 (April Sep as per Indian financial year).
TCS created another history by crossing the 50,000 mark
Wipro’s results would be announced soon, along with that of Satyam.
iGate, MPhasis and Mastek results are great too.
Sunday, October 02, 2005
MIT Media Lab unveils the details of $ 100 Laptop; OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) will ship it in year 2007
It was interesting to see Professor Nicholoas Negroponte, Director of Media Lab, MIT announcing the launch of OLPC and showing off the first designs of $ 100 PC that he talked about in World Economic Forum last year. Economist talked about this development yesterday; there is a lot of heightened expectations.
It is promising, but one has to keep one's fingers crossed about the many assumptions; they plan to sell directly millions of pieces- one million is the minimum- to Ministries of Education in China, Brazil, Thailand and Egypt; they plan to use low-cost $ 35 dual LDC display; there is no storage and there is a definitive need for connectivity and content.
Will Governments be able to buy in millions directly without a "tendering process"? Will the display stand the heat & dust as well as usage by high school kids? Will not the cost of communications and other useful content + software take away the charm of "low cost"?
With $ 20-40 mobile phones a reality today, will it not be worthwhile for the Governments to subsidize the last mile communications cost (with communications being far more useful to the child's entire family than computing that is targeted primarily for the children)? Can large-scale project take off without extensive field trials?
These are issues I am sure the learned professors at MIT must have addressed; the only doubt is whether professors at MIT can really "feel" the "reality" in third world countries.
Only time will tell if the project succeeds in the field.
It is promising, but one has to keep one's fingers crossed about the many assumptions; they plan to sell directly millions of pieces- one million is the minimum- to Ministries of Education in China, Brazil, Thailand and Egypt; they plan to use low-cost $ 35 dual LDC display; there is no storage and there is a definitive need for connectivity and content.
Will Governments be able to buy in millions directly without a "tendering process"? Will the display stand the heat & dust as well as usage by high school kids? Will not the cost of communications and other useful content + software take away the charm of "low cost"?
With $ 20-40 mobile phones a reality today, will it not be worthwhile for the Governments to subsidize the last mile communications cost (with communications being far more useful to the child's entire family than computing that is targeted primarily for the children)? Can large-scale project take off without extensive field trials?
These are issues I am sure the learned professors at MIT must have addressed; the only doubt is whether professors at MIT can really "feel" the "reality" in third world countries.
Only time will tell if the project succeeds in the field.
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