IBM News India en-in © Copyright IBM Corp. 2005, 2012. All rights reserved. See http://www.ibm.com/legal/in/ for copyright and trademark information. askibm@vnet.ibm.com Jyoti Shrian/India/IBM Wed, 8 Feb 2012 05:00:00 GMT ibm.com http://www.ibm.com/news/in/en/ http://www.ibm.com/i/ibm_logo_120x60.gif http://www.ibm.com/news/in/en/ IBM today announced the launch of a Smarter Commerce Center of Excellence (CoE) at the India Software Lab, Bangalore. The CoE will consist of a team of 25 technical experts selected from the B2B and Commerce Enterprise Marketing Management teams from India Software Lab. By bringing together a powerful combination of technical expertise, domain knowledge, and best practices from IBM’s extensive global engagements, the CoE will offer innovative solutions to automate and accelerate the purchasing, marketing, sales and customer service functions to organizations across India, South Asia and Asia Pacific. http://www.ibm.com/news/in/en/2012/02/08/u620588a31213o94.html http://www.ibm.com/news/in/en/2012/02/08/u620588a31213o94.html IBM Teams with 500 Universities in India in First-of-a-Kind Faculty Development Program to Build Skills for a Smarter Planet; Students in China, Ireland and Scotland to also Gain by Studying How Analytics Applies to Industries http://www.ibm.com/news/in/en/2011/12/21/z362028g87534u34.html http://www.ibm.com/news/in/en/2011/12/21/z362028g87534u34.html IBM has announced the launch of its seven new social networking mobile applications, targeting the enterprise users for real-time communication, online meetings and instant messaging services. As the enterprises have become BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) friendly, this software comes as a welcoming change for seamless access to business applications through Tablets, iPads, Blackberry and other Smart phones. This allows the workforce to collaboratively share data and images; and other mundane job related tasks, more effectively. http://www.ibm.com/news/in/en/2011/12/14/q240161i92765q82.html http://www.ibm.com/news/in/en/2011/12/14/q240161i92765q82.html With a daunting long term growth plan, LT Foods needed a strong technology backbone , LT Foods ties up with IBM to select the hardware to host SAP and other applications http://www.ibm.com/news/in/en/2011/12/07/y989165f41334v99.html http://www.ibm.com/news/in/en/2011/12/07/y989165f41334v99.html IBM announced that EmployWise, an HR Software-as-a-Service provider, will deliver its services on a cloud computing infrastructure using the IBM SmartCloud Enterprise Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) offering http://www.ibm.com/news/in/en/2011/12/05/y303443x08242y57.html http://www.ibm.com/news/in/en/2011/12/05/y303443x08242y57.html IBM India wins the ‘Top IT Services Company (India Market)’ award instituted by Dataquest, one of India’s leading Information Technology (IT) publication, for the 4th consecutive year (2008 2011)! This is one of India’s most prestigious industry awards, with winners decided on highly stringent criteria. http://www.ibm.com/news/in/en/2011/11/30/u073797u13993l92.html http://www.ibm.com/news/in/en/2011/11/30/u073797u13993l92.html IBM announced that it has signed an agreement with Daiwa Capital Markets India Pvt. Ltd., an investment banking company that offers integrated financial services, to help it with the recovery of their work environment by leveraging IBMs Work Area Recovery (WAR) solution, while also offering round the clock technical support http://www.ibm.com/news/in/en/2011/11/14/t020878h49993b11.html http://www.ibm.com/news/in/en/2011/11/14/t020878h49993b11.html With growth comes the added pressure to be agile, prepared to face competition, and reduce time-to-market; the India story too is no different. As the growth figures hover around 20%, more and more organizations are increasingly focusing on remaining competitive and agile, not surprisingly one is seeing an increasing demand for Business Intelligence (EI) tools and services. Incidentally the Indian market for BI continues to be one of the fastest growing software markets globally, notwithstanding the slow economic growth globally. http://www.ibm.com/news/in/en/2011/10/31/b392768p75426e03.html http://www.ibm.com/news/in/en/2011/10/31/b392768p75426e03.html