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Wicamp

I'am sure you all must be wondering what's wi in the Wicamp, I'll walk you through the Wicamp, that happened yesterday. Wicamp - actually meaning We-camp, and also Wi- Wipro Innovation Camp was an unconference where most of the minds congregated to discuss, share, understand about Innovation.

New Delhi: A looming threat before the Indian IT industry now is employees' hefty pay packets that could cut down the companies' profit margins.Country's two largest software exporters, Infosys Technologies and Wipro Technologies, think wage pressures might slash their margins and dent their competitive advantage.

Oracle, Microsoft, Infosys, Wipro Finalists at Great Indian Developer Awards; Voting Open Now 

Saudi Arabia's Knowledge Economic City (KEC) Al Madinah will utilize leading Indian IT major Wipro's solutions and assess the possibility of developing an ICT-related research and development centre within KEC.

An agreement to this effect was signed by KEC chairman Sheikh Ibrahim Bin Mohammed Al-Issa and Wipro chairman Azim Premji in Jeddah Friday.

Boeing has entered into an agreement with the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) and two leading Indian information technology companies to develop wireless and other network technologies for aerospace-related applications.

The agreement, signed by representatives from Boeing, IISc’s Society for Innovation and Development, Wipro Technologies and HCL Technologies,forms the Aerospace Network Research Consortium (ANRC).

ITIL, the latest and the hottest in certification !!!

It has caught the fancy of almost everyone in IT :)

But what is it and why do you need to get into ITIL is a doubt that haunts alomst everyone....

Well, i tought with my time in implementing ITIL and learning on the job, a little clarity would be welcome by all IT'ers :)

ITIL is actually a set of 5 books that describe IT implementation BEST Practices which have been collected over time and by the master practitioners.

Web Innovation 2007 will be the forum for Designers, Developers, Product Managers, Entrepreneurs, Enterprise, VCs, Marketing Specialists, Strategists, Consultants and others to understand the WEB 2.0 tools, trends and technologies better in order to harness endless business opportunities.

This edition of WEB INNOVATION 2007 will focus on the following:

Wipro Technologies has filed patents for its SOA based solution e-Enabler. This solution provides SOA based platform to align applications to business processes, cuts deployment time and enables faster time to market.

The e-Enabler solution kit which is the result of Wipro's innovation initiatives enables rapid development and deployment of Service Oriented Architected (SOA) applications. Independent tests have shown that e-Enabler based implementation results in up to 30 percent performance gain in applications and up to 15 percent reduction in developer effort, thereby significantly lowering the TCO. Wipro has filed patents for the e-Enabler framework, which covers sub-frameworks, services and plug-ins.

The e-Enabler solution kit can be used to build SOA solutions for business processes across any industry. The offering includes a reference architecture to design and map the solution, an SOA enabler framework to accelerate development, maintenance and management of the application ecosystem.

"At Wipro we strive to offer innovative solutions that enable our client's businesses consistently perform better. Recognizing the potential of SOA as an enabler of business agility we have developed business solutions, frameworks and IPs based on SOA. The benefits accrued to our customers from e-Enabler solution validates our efforts to effectively leverage SOA based solutions to deliver business value." says Vivek Bhasin, Vice President, e-Business and BI-IM solutions, Wipro Technologies.

Wipro Technologies has realized multiple IP sales and implemented SOA solutions built with the e-Enabler kit. This has been deployed at several fortune 500 companies around the globe.

Snap-On Business Solutions, a leading provider of enterprise data software and services is using the e-Enabler kit to develop their enterprise systems.

Fibre2fashion.com had initiated a beta service called Software Solution that can help software buyers and software providers get connected in a more efficient manner. This site has been out of beta recently. The site combines news, articles & events aggregation, commentary from industry experts, user-generated content, case-studies, articles, product show-case, etc.

Million-dollar pay cheques no longer raise eyebrows in the Indian IT industry. Given the huge demand for high quality professionals, some top-notch companies are willing to pay the big bucks.

Six employees of Infosys Technologies posted overseas earn $1 million annually, perhaps making the company the highest paymaster in the Indian IT industry.

According to sources, these six employees are neither part of the founding team and nor are they board members. In fact, they are business heads of the company’s different verticals.

Multinational-Corporation (MNC) PC brands have overtaken the local Indian PC brands in terms of sales, growth rates and marketing activities, says Gartner Inc. Indian branded vendors like HCL, Zenith, Wipro and PCS account for only 14 percent of the Indian desk-based PC market and six percent of the Indian mobile-PC market in 1H07. According to Gartner, only HCL has withstood the competition.

However, even they are losing out to MNCs in the consumer segment. The Indian PC landscape is divided among three different groups: MNCs, local brands and white box vendors. In the past few years, although local brands are growing at a steady pace, they are clearly way behind the growth rates of the MNC brands.

Indian vendors' shipments grew 18 percent year over year in 2006 and 35 percent year over year in 2005, while MNC shipments grew 73 percent in 2006 and 50 percent in 2005. This disparity gets even more accentuated considering that in 2004, local and MNC brands were growing at roughly the same rates.

“Unable to withstand the pressure of the marketing blitz and the reach of the MNC brands, the local brands have almost exited the consumer segment and are rethinking their strategy to focus more on government, education, and small and midsize business (SMB) segments”, said Diptarup Chakraborti, principal research analyst for Gartner’s client computing group.

“Moreover, the mobile-PC segment in India, which has been growing at 74 percent year on year, has seen little traction by local brands. MNC brands are dominating this niche yet high margin segment with 94 percent per cent of the market share.”
Top 5 desk-based PC Vendors

Top 5 mobile PC Vendors

The key growth drivers in 2007 were the education, small business, consumer and government sectors. Mobile PCs continue to out perform desk based PCs in terms of growth.

The key factors contributing to this phenomenon is the rapidly decreasing price differential between mobile PCs and desk based PCs, performance parity between the two, availability of a wide portfolio of products ranging from entry level to high end and push from both vendors and channels to grow this segment.While mobile PCs have grown at 74 percent, desk based PC growth has slowed down to 3.9 percent.

However, with small business and education segment likely to continue with their spends on IT infrastructure desktops should see some rapid upward mobility in the coming quarters.

Gartner recommends a roadmap for local brands to improve their market share in the India:

Improve product lineup: Indian vendors lack a complete product lineup. They are primarily focused on the low-and-mid range desk-based PC segments and miss out on the lucrative mobile PC and high-end desk-based PC segments.

To grow their market share they should focus on introducing and pushing AMD-based products, maintain specific stock keeping products for smaller cities and gain technological advantage by concentrating on high-end digital lifestyle and gaming machines where none of the MNC brands have a dominant position. ·

Increase brand visibility: It would be a challenge for local vendors to quickly ramp up their visibility through marketing activities. They should therefore use a more focused approach of targeting select retail outlets in major cities where they can increase POS material, display space, product range, customer assistants, etc.

They should also leverage key channel partner for joint marketing initiatives in smaller cities. Such programs haven't yet been undertaken by MNCs in smaller cities, so local vendors can get a head start.

Improve channel mind share: Local vendors, although gradually, are losing channel mind share, but not necessarily the channels themselves resulting in fewer new-client. Local vendors must invest more to gain channel loyalty by adopting a more proactive approach toward their channels, investing in building a brand at the POS, improving their product range, and forging deeper bonds with the likes of Intel and Microsoft. Indian vendors must continue to focus on and dominate government, education and small-business segments, a space where their MNC counterparts haven't yet made major inroads.

Wipro Limited has announced the completion of the cash tender offer by its indirect wholly-owned subsidiary, Roxy Acquisition Corp, for all outstanding shares of Infocrossing Inc. at a price of $18.70 per share in cash.

The depositary for the tender offer has advised Wipro that, as of the expiration of the tender offer, approximately 20,465,514 shares had been validly tendered and not withdrawn in the tender offer, and such tendered shares (together with all shares tendered pursuant to guaranteed delivery procedures) represent approximately 100 per cent of Infocrossing’s issued and outstanding shares.

All validly tendered shares have been accepted for payment in accordance with the terms of the tender offer, Wipro said in a release

Assuming the receipt of a sufficient number of shares tendered pursuant to guaranteed delivery procedures to ensure that Wipro holds at least 90 per cent of Infocrossing’s outstanding shares, Wipro intends to complete the acquisition of Infocrossing through a short-form merger as soon as practicable.

If necessary, Wipro intends to exercise its option under the merger agreement to purchase newly issued Infocrossing shares in order to ensure ownership of at least 90 per cent of the outstanding Infocrossing shares to complete the short-form merger. In the short-form merger, all outstanding Infocrossing shares not purchased in the tender offer will be converted into the right to receive $18.70 per share in cash.