Outsourcing: Lalit Dhingra, President Of NIIT Technologies (Part 6)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Aditya Modi Sramana Mitra: What is your shortlist? What are the towns on your shortlist right now? Lalit Dhingra: I have short-listed a few, and we are very near closing on one.

Outsourcing: Lalit Dhingra, President Of NIIT Technologies (Part 5)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Aditya Modi Lalit Dhingra: The people who are doing BPO work in Manila want to venture into IT, too. Sramana Mitra: But they are different skill sets. If you want to do IT software development, you need a higher level of skills than if you are doing pure BPO

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Outsourcing: Lalit Dhingra, President Of NIIT Technologies (Part 4)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Aditya Modi Sramana Mitra: But that is true about TCS as well. TCS also has insurance clients, and so does Wipro. Lalit Dhingra: The difference is when you run and you compete, somebody wins, right? I am losing only because somebody says I want to give it to a

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Outsourcing: Lalit Dhingra, President Of NIIT Technologies (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: One of the things about domain knowledge is that in IT-specific projects, the data structure is specific to that business. So, you do need an understanding of the business to even define its data structures and workflows. Lalit Dhingra: That is correct. That is very straight business. But if you want to add

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Outsourcing: Lalit Dhingra, President Of NIIT Technologies (Part 2)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Aditya Modi Sramana Mitra: So, fifteen to 20% of the new hires every year for NIIT come out of this GNIIT program? Lalit Dhingra: The GNIIT, or wherever we do training for NIIT. SM: How many graduates does NIIT’s GNIIT program produce every year? LD: There are 2,000 training centers

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Outsourcing: Lalit Dhingra, President Of NIIT Technologies (Part 1)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Aditya Modi About NIIT Ltd and NIIT Technologies NIIT began an education company in the area of IT and was early proponent of IT and IT-enabled services in India. Later, it moved ahead in the outsourcing field with a backward integrated setup. Over two and a half decades, the

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1Mby1M Deal Radar 2011: BonitaSoft, Grenoble, France

Deal Radar revisits open source with Grenoble-based BonitaSoft. The company creates a functional open source business process management (BPM) solution that designs, simulates, and automates processes. The aim is to allow businesses to turn their processes into business applications. Bonita Open Solution is designed to be comprehensive and scalable BPM solution that includes three main

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Deal Radar 2010: Nimbus Partners

Nimbus builds business process management (BPM) software for the iPod generation. Its main product, Nimbus Control, has evolved from a single user documentation tool to a Web-based application. Clients can use Nimbus Control to create an online operations manual which can, the company says, act as the “single source of the truth” for all employees

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