Outsourcing: Ed Cross, Executive Director – Procurement & HRO at Xchanging (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: What do you think is driving that trend? Why is procurement outsourcing growing? Ed Cross: A couple of things. One is that businesses need to save money. Though the global economy is starting to come out of recession, there was a level of retrenching that went on when economic conditions were difficult for

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Catching Up On Readings: Coolest Tech in 2014

CNN features a list of ground-breaking developments of the year ahead ranging from space tourism to crowd-funding. For this week’s blog posts, click on the paragraph link.

Bootstrapping with Services in India: Srishtisoft CEO Ajay Sharma (Part 5)

Sramana: What was the size of the healthcare team when the companies split? Ajay Sharma: The healthcare side had grown to 50 personnel. Today, we have around 145 people on the team. We were generating around $500,000 in revenue during our beta phase. Sramana: Was that revenue earned from Indian customers or global customers? Ajay

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Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Sameer Patel, Senior VP and GM – Enterprise Social and Collaborative Software, SAP (Part 1)

SAP plans to step-up business integration a notch further with an extension to SAP Jam that aims to deliver personalized information to enhance organizational productivity. Join us in this interview with SAP’s Senior VP and GM, Sameer Patel, as he gives us a blow-by-blow account on this new addition to its arsenal and other latest

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Outsourcing: Ed Cross, Executive Director – Procurement & HRO at Xchanging (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: You said you have about 4,000 people in India. What’s the global distribution of the workforce? Ed Cross: We have about 8,500 people around the world, of which about 4,000-4,500 are in India. About 2,000 are in the U.K., about 1,000 in Europe, several hundreds in North America, about 500 in Australia, and the

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Bootstrapping with Services in India: Srishtisoft CEO Ajay Sharma (Part 4)

Sramana: I don’t see what risk they were afraid of. You were financing the company with your own cash. The engineers were not taking any risks. They were just there earning their salary. Ajay Sharma: Some of them thought that we were not going to be able to pay their salary. At that time, the

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January 31 – Kolkata TiECon 2014

Kolkata TiECon 2014 will serve as a forum for entrepreneurs, particularly the enterprising youth, who are looking for a platform to network and interact with industry veterans and thought leaders – a perfect opportunity for them to gain inspiration and motivation for career aspirations. The Kolkata TiECon 2014 revolves around the theme ‘Idea to Corporation’

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Thought Leaders in Online Education: Mike Pellerin, Director, Enterasys University (Extreme Networks) (Part 7)

Sramana Mitra: Well, it can be looked at differently as vocational training. For example, there are plenty of jobs in computer networking. We live in a networked world. Somebody who is trained in computer networking and has a good theoretical understanding can deal with equipment and so forth. This is a very nice vocation even

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