Online discount brokerage firm Upstox has been working towards making financial trading fair, hassle-free, and accessible. And with some cutting-edge technology initiatives, the brokerage firm has delivered on its business objective. Upstox has witnessed unprecedented growth, from achieving a milestone of 10 lakh customers in June 2020 to crossing one crore customers in May 2022. It has now set up an ambitious target of onboarding 20-30 crore customers over the next 4-5 years.  “Upstox will continue to strive to be the most trusted, stable, reliable, fast, and secure platform of choice fo ..read more

Veeam will always be one step ahead in its pace and velocity of innovations in data management Anand Eswaran, global CEO of Veeam Software and also a director on the board took over the coveted role late last year. In these nine odd months since joining, he has been busy talking to customers, partners, and his teams to ensure that the company stays on top of innovation to provide end-to-end backup and recovery solutions. Every organization – small or large – aims to be data-driven but has a fair share of struggles en route including data diversity; distributed nature of data sets; and, of cour ..read more

Avinash Joshi, CEO NTT (Ltd.) India outlines the strategy for wider, deeper coverage  After taking over as the CEO of NTT India, Avinash Joshi, an industry veteran with over three decades of industry experience including 18 years spent with IBM, is on a mission to harness the resource pool, skills and innovations to engage deeper with customers in India.    In the year 2019, NTT (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone) Corporation merged 28 companies, including NTT Communications, Dimension Data and NTT Security, into one and that created a $ 11 billio ..read more

The cement maker has embraced digitization and sustainability to earn a competitive advantage and build resilience. Transporting cement is akin to walking a tight rope. Everything – every step in the process – must happen seamlessly. One can encounter several changes on an order right up until the last minute. It doesn’t matter. You are still expected to come through. Cement maker JK Lakshmi Cement (JKLC) has been aware of the inherent challenges facing the industry. Right from gaining foothold in the new and emerging markets in the country to investing in the latest R&D, it has continued ..read more

The ongoing wave of digitization in banking that was further accelerated after the pandemic is evident, but the transformation is not uniform across the entire banking services footprint. Loan collections and debt resolutions segment has been ripe for digital disruption due to rising non-performing loans (NPLs), high operational inefficiencies, poor customer experience, extensive manual processes, siloed operations and lack of a data driven approach. Certain key areas such as loan collections continue to remain ignored and have not yet benefitted from the advancements in digital technologies ..read more

Thrissur-based Manappuram Comptech and Consultants Ltd. (MACOM) is an IT product and services company backed by the Manappuram Group. It handles and supports the IT infrastructure and services of the majority of Manappuram Group firms. Saiprasad Sivadasan, Senior Vice President at MACOM believes in the rapid, practical application of digital technologies to resolve present and emerging needs. In this interview, he shares his views on cloud, data ethics, risk management, and his take on innovation. Prior to his current role, Sivadasan was accountable for all the IT requirements (software and in ..read more

RAKSUL has been one of Japan’s most successful startups. It started its journey in 2009 by offering a listing and facilitating a web service that allowed users to look up and compare the prices of various printing services. Later, the company ventured into the logistics space and then disrupted the market by democratizing TV commercials. In October 2020, the company entered into another line of business in India by setting up an R&D Center of Excellence (CoE) in Bengaluru with a focus on data science, AI, mobile, cloud, and web technologies. The aim is to create enterprise solutions for th ..read more

Technological advancement in healthcare and healthcare systems is advancing and ever-evolving. The advent of digital technologies in healthcare is helping transform the unsustainable healthcare systems of yesterday into sustainable ones. By reducing inefficiencies in the healthcare continuum, modern technologies are paving the way for the facilitation of cheaper, faster, and more effective healthcare delivery. In short, digital advances in healthcare are leading to an increase in healthier individuals and healthier communities. In the timeline of continuous progress in science and medicine, IV ..read more

The advent of digital revolution has made businesses think beyond the usual, disrupt conventional methods and carve new pathways, with enhanced perspectives of performance and productivity. One such innovation is in the form of email communication and collaboration suite or what can be called as a smart email platform. According to a McKinsey report, well-connected teams see a productivity increase of 20-25%. CMSWire reports that 97% of employees believe communication impacts their task efficacy on a daily basis. Even though almost 75% of employers rate collaboration and teamwork as “very impo ..read more

A new whitepaper, commissioned by Lenovo & Intel, led by IDC,highlights key challenges and drivers transforming the healthcare landscape across Asia Pacific. The white paper Titled ‘Leveraging High-Performance Compute Infrastructure to Address the Genomic Data Challenge in Life Sciences’,  underlines humanity’s greatest challenges where  genomics  research-led  intervention  could impact significantly. When we talk about ‘smart healthcare’ predominantly it means use of technology to personalise medical care by evaluating genetics. The idea is leveraging the power o ..read more