United States Information Technology outsourcing

Indian Information Technology services provider are gearing up for a slugfest with their global peers as large corporations in the United States and Europe country are set renew Information technology outsourcing contracts with a combined value of at least $19.5 billion this year. 

 

As many as 686 outsourcing Information Technology deals with value of at least $25 million or more are due to expire in 2012, show data from Information Service Group, a Information technology market research company that owns TPI, the largest outsourcing advisory. At least 78 of these deals are worth $250 million each. The number of business and the combined value are "new records", say Mr.PaulReynolds who lead group of research for the ISG. Global Information Technology service providers including IBM and Accenture hold 37 % - by value - of the expiring contracts. This spells good news for Indian Information Technology company, as over the last couple years there has been an addeding trend of corporations choosing at least one India based company among their Information technology service providing vendors. 

 

"For some peculiar reason in the market, there is large churn now," said, a senior analysts at HCL Technologies. "Before that, incumbent players continued because getting in a new vendor is not easy due to costs in outsourcing. Now every one in three deals that are up for renewal are going to new players in outsourcing market." A report by Standard Chartered pegs the value of new deals coming up for renewal this year at $47 billion. According to the report, at least $6 billion opportunity will come up for large offshore Indian vendors. "If there is a 30% churn that would mean $12 billion worth of new opportunity," the HCL Technologies spokesperson added. Over half of the deals are expected to come from Europe, in the Standard Chartered report. "Information Technology Market share gains in the renewal deal pipeline will be a key differentiator of volume growth across players in our view. Further deterioration in macro-economic environment remains a key risk to volume outlook," Standard Chartered analysts Mr.PankajKapoor and Mr.ApoorvaOza noted in Standard Chartered report. In the past few week, HCL has announced new contracts with oil & gas major Stratoil and telecommunications biggie UPM, pharmaceutical major AstraZeneca, in most cases replacing incumbents in deals which were for renewal in few week.

Other large Information Technology Indian outsourcing providers like Tata Consultancy Services too have had significant success in winning contracts where they replaced an incumbent transnational IT player. The company replaced CSC as the Information Technology services provider for Denmark's biggest telecommunications company TDC. Though the exact value of the deal is not known, the multi-year deal is pegged at well over $200 million, by industry insiders. "We expect renewal deal market will continue to open up for Indian outsourcing vendors," Mr.PankajKapoor wrote in the report. With prevailing uncertainty, the deal sizes are likely to be smaller, which could help Indian IT outsourcing vendors, especially the mid and small sized players. About 1/3 of Information technology services contracts expiring in 2012 have an application development and maintenance (ADM) component, an area where Indian IT services company are known for their strong competencies in the market. Other major services that are part of deals coming up for renewal are related to business intelligence, social media applications and enterprise mobility in endof 2012.

 

Mr.AnjanLahiri, president and CEO of mid-sized Information Technology service company MindTree's, says that though number of contracts have gone up, total Information Technology outsourcing is not going up. "This means companies are splitting up large contracts to smaller ones, which is a good thing," Mr.AnjanLahiri said. Over the last few years, multi-sourcing has been gaining strength as corporations look to work with more than one technology vendor. 

 

However, having a larger services portfolio, the transnational technology company do have an advantage over the Indian Information Technology company. "The bigger the deals, the less cost competitive Indian companies are against the likes of IBM and Accenture," Mr.AnjanLahiri added. That a good chunk of deal renewals are happening in Europe and us, test the Indian Information Technology company ability to crack the continental European Information Technology outsourcing market. So far, Indian Information Technology company have managed to gain entry into Europe (UK) market but is yet to gain meaningful traction in large markets such as Germany and France.

 

liferay administration guide

liferay administration guide

Liferay Portal is a free and open source enterprise portal written in Java and distributed under the GNU Lesser General Public License and proprietary licenses. It is primarily used to power corporate intranets and extranets.[citation needed]

Liferay Portal allows users to set up features common to websites. It is fundamentally constructed of functional units called portlets. Liferay is sometimes described as a content management framework or a web application framework. Liferay's support for plugins extends into multiple programming languages, including support for PHP and Ruby portlets.

Although Liferay offers a sophisticated programming interface for developers, no programming skills are required for basic website installation and administration.

Liferay Portal is Java based and runs on any computing platform capable of running the Java Runtime Environment and an application server. Liferay is available bundled with a servlet container such as Apache Tomcat.

Android tablet - support on website

Reliance Communications (Reliance Mobile), today became the first CDMA operator in India to enter the Tablet space by unveiling its ‘Reliance Communications CDMA Tab’, a fully loaded Android tablet. With the launch, Reliance Communications has also become the only Indian telco to offer tablets on both the 3G and CDMA networks. The Reliance Communications CDMA Tab comes with a 7-inch capacitive touch screen with google Android 2.3 OS. Loaded with 512 MB RAM and a micro SD external storage. According to a company release, the light weight (397g) Reliance CDMA Tab comes with a 2.0 MP rear camera and a front camera, among other key features, catering to both business users as well as the youth segment. The Reliance Communications CDMA Tab is supported by Reliance Communications CDMA network across 22 circles in over 1000 towns in the country. The device is priced at Rs. 12,999 and is further bundled with monthly and annual data plans. Reliance Communications (Reliance Mobile) is offering a 1 year free subscription on McAfee Mobile Security, 2 months free subscription on BigFlix+, and Rs. 250 worth of calling on Reliance Global Call, all together valued at Rs. 2,100.

The release further added that the Reliance Communications CDMA Tab has a 7-inch form factor for Internet, email on-the-go, social networking, video streaming, and gaming. For business users, the Reliance Communications CDMA Tab provides a user-friendly email experience with push email capability and is bundled with ‘Documents To Go’ that supports Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint and PDF formats. Other features include Mobile TV, voice calling, GPS and video recording.

SPECIAL :- Indian Tablets: Announcing the launch of Reliance Communications CDMA Tab, Sanjay Behl, Group Head, Brand & Marketing, Reliance Communications Limited, said “Having redefined the Tab market in the country last year with the launch and roaring success of Reliance 3G Tab, we are now yet again the first to introduce the country’s first CDMA Tab. With the rapid increase in data consumption in India and with Reliance’s Communications superior HSD Network in over 1000 towns, the launch of the Reliance Communications CDMA Tab is another step to carry forward our mission of Wirefree India.” Reliance Communications CDMA Tab is pre-loaded with 15 most popular applications to provide information services (browsing, navigation maps and search), communication services (email, blog, SMS, and MMS), entertainment services (music, video, and games, photo shearing), and social networking services (Facebook) and access to thousands of applications provided through the Google Android Market. Supporting the launch, a 24X7 customer care will be made available to the customers for all technical assistance and support on website. The Reliance Communications CDMA Tab comes with a free 4GB SD card, which can be upgraded to 32 GB. The Reliance Communications CDMA Tab is available with attractive postpaid plans offering discounts of upto 40 pc on the regular rates. All Reliance Communications CDMA Tab plans will come with default voice tariff plan of 50p per min for all intra and inter circle calls and 50p for local and national SMS.

Reliance Communications tab Price : Reliance Communications tab device priced at Rs. 12,999 and is further bundled with monthly and annual data plans. Reliance Communications company offering a 1 year free subscription on McAfee Mobile Anti Virus Security, 2 months free subscription on BigFlix+, and Rs. 250 worth of calling on Reliance Communications Global Call, all together valued at Rs. 2,100.

companies partnership with Ingersoll Rand will be using intelligent data

The penetration rate of remote energy conservation in India is still minimal, and promoting energy efficiency and sustainability in the country is of paramount importance in the context of growing urbanization, said Mr.VenkateshValluri, chairman and president, Ingersoll Rand India. Addressing media persons here on Monday, on the sidelines of signing a energy conservation deal with IBM, Mr.VenkateshValluri further said that both the companies were committed to working for an energy-efficient future in India. “India's energy requirements are increasing with the growing urbanization. All the companies in the country are now looking to reduce energy consumption and thus, save on costs. Our alliance with IBM is based on this concept,” he said. The companies will provide remote energy and asset management solutions in India to drive greater energy efficiencies for organizations, which are engaged in infrastructure creation or maintenance for high growth sectors. This solution leverages IBM Intelligent Building Management (IIBM) system (a combination of monitoring, asset management and advanced analytics), along with Ingersoll’s energy optimization technologies, to help trigger preventive and predictive maintenance in order to create smarter buildings.

Buildings in India account for 30 per cent of energy consumption. Of this, the major usage is due to HVAC (Heating, Ventilating and Air-Conditioning) and lighting. As the Indian economy grows and commercial infrastructure gets built, it has become essential to drive robust initiatives to improve energy efficiency and sustainability. In the current economic scenario, with rising energy costs, organizations are facing capital and operating budget challenges. Maximizing capital productivity requires increasing asset utilization, efficiency and uptime. Similarly, operating costs of energy and maintenance need to be optimized. “Technology today can make it possible to 'listen' to the abundance of information emitted from buildings. IBM is working towards building a Smarter Planet. This partnership with Ingersoll Rand will be using intelligent data to build Smarter Buildings that are accountable for energy and carbon resource use, helping create a sustainable environment.” said Nipun Mehrotra, vice president & general manager, Sales & Business Development, IBM India/South Asia.

Microsoft language tutoring software - language training

Speak any language without learning

Researchers at Microsoft have made software that can learn the sound of your voice, and software use it to speak a language that you don't. The system could be used to make language tutoring software (Microsoft) more personal, or to make tools for travelers. In a demonstration at Microsoft's Redmond, Washington, campus, Microsoft research scientist (language tutoring software Microsoft) Mr.FrankSoong showed how Microsoft software could read out text in Spanish using the voice of his boss, Rick Rashid, who leads Microsoft's research language tutoring software efforts. In a second demonstration, Mr.FrankSoong used his software to grant Craig Mundie, Microsoft's chief research and strategy officer, the ability to speak Mandarin. In English, a synthetic version of Mundie's voice welcomed the audience to an open day held by Microsoft Research language tutoring software, concluding, "With the help of this system, now I can speak Mandarin." The phrase was repeated in Mandarin Chinese, in what was still recognizably Mundie's voice. "We will be able to do quite a few scenario applications," Added Mr.FrankSoong, who created the system with colleagues at Microsoft Research Asia, the company's second largest research lab, in Beijing, China. "For a monolingual speaker traveling in a foreign country, we'll do speech recognition followed by translation, followed by the final text to speech output [in] a different language, but still in his own voice," added Mr.FrankSoong.

Microsoft language tutorial software training, The new technique could computing also be used to help students learn a Microsoft language tutoring software, said Mr.FrankSoong. Microsoft language tutoring software, system needs around an hour of training to develop a model able to read out any text in a person's own voice. That model is converted into one able to read out text in another language by comparing it with a stock text-to-speech model for the target language. Individual sounds used by the first model to build up words using a person's voice in his or her own language are carefully tweaked to give the new text-to-speech model a full ability to sound out phrases in the second language. Mr.FrankSoong says that this approach can convert between any pair of 26 languages, including Mandarin Chinese, Italian and Spanish. Preserving a person's voice when synthesizing speech for them in another language would likely be reassuring to a user, and could make interactions reliant on translation software more meaningful, says Mr.ShrikanthNarayanan, a professor at the University of Southern California, in Los Angeles, leads a research group working on systems to translate speech in situations such as doctor patient consultations. Microsoft language tutoring software research group is investigating how features such as emphasis, intonation, and the way people use pauses or hesitation affects the effectiveness and perceived quality of a word-for-word translation. Mr.FrankSoong says that this approach can convert between any pair of 26 languages, including Mandarin Chinese, Italian, and Spanish.

software simulation system

MIT researchers group have developed a software simulation system to evaluate multi-core chip designs more accurately. According to the researchers group, the software simulator system, dubbed Hornet, MIT researchers group Added, MIT researchers group Added, models the performance of multi-core chips and scales up to 1,000 of cores. At the International Symposium on Networks On Chip in 2011, the MIT group won the best paper prize for their work. MIT researchers group Added, presents an enhanced version of the simulator in the forthcoming issue of IEEE Transactions on Computer Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems that factors in power consumption as well as patterns of communications between cores, the processing times of individual tasks, and memory-access patterns. MIT researchers group Added, To maintain accuracy of simulation and achieve reasonable run times researchers typically use models of processor cores implemented on programmable chips. To finish in a reasonable time software-only simulations have to sacrifice accuracy and precision.

Hornet sits between the two approaches, according to Myong Hyon Cho, a PhD student in MIT's department of electrical engineering and computer science (EECS) and one of Hornet's developers. It is intended to complement the other two approaches. Although Hornet is slower than some predecessors it can provide cycle-accurate simulation of chips with 1,000 cores. Cycle accuracy is important to catch race and deadlock conditions. Hornet has already proved itself in the simulation of an architecture in which tasks are handed out to cores holding relevant data – rather than moving data to cores running particular tasks. Hornet found a deadlock condition. The researchers also proposed a way to avoid it—and demonstrated that their proposal worked with another Hornet simulation. Hardware-based simulators cannot be reprogrammed so easily. Hornet could have advantages in situations where "you want to test out several ideas quickly, with good accuracy," according to Edward Suh, an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at Cornell University, whose group used an early version of Hornet. However, because Hornet is slower than either hardware-accelerated simulation or less-accurate software simulation it does tend to be used to simulate small parts of an application.

photo sharing application

With Android news that the iOS-only photo sharing application has swelled to 27 million registered users, Instagram is now on its way to google Android. In the near future, google Android users will be able to start sharing photos on Instagram, according to TechCrunch. The popular application is coming "really soon," the app's founders MRKevinSystrom and MR.MikeKrieger said at a South by Southwest conference presentation today. "In some ways, it's better than our iOS app. It's crazy," MRKevinSystrom said. Instagram is a free photo sharing app that let's users touch up and share photos with other followers on the app; pictures can also be uploaded to social-networking sites like Twitter, Tumblr, and Facebook. Some describe Instagram as a visual version of Twitter and until now it was only available for iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch. According to TechCrunch, Krieger and MRKevinSystrom said that the people at Google are happy with the way the app is turning out.

"I don't think it took us so long. We just had priorities," MRKevinSystrom said. "Had we tried to be both on Android and iPhone at the same time, it would've been tough to innovate in the way that we have." Last week, rumors leaked that Instagram was on the verge of raising $40 million from investors that would value the startup at $500 million. However, neither of the company's founders confirmed this deal during their presentation at SXSW, reports TechCrunch. When Instagram first launched in 2010, some 25,000 users signed on and it continued to grow rapidly. By December, the company said it had a base of more than 15 million users, according to TechCrunch. Today, Krieger and MRKevinSystrom announced that they now have 27 million registered users. Much of this growth, they said, came with the launch of the iPhone 4S and Apple naming Instagram "App of the Year."