Posts From Anil Chopra
How Q-Cop is Empowering Construction Companies with Digitalization
The real estate and construction sector is amongst the biggest industries globally. According to IBEF, it’s among the top 14 major sectors in India in terms of how it impacts other sectors of the economy. In fact, the real estate
How Consumer Lending Fintech ZestMoney Plans to grow its User Base from 5 Mn to 40 Mn by 2020
It’s interesting to note that in our country, out of a population of 1.2 billion people, only 50-60 million have a credit card. The remaining ‘credit-deprived’ consumers find it difficult to enter the elite ‘credit-worthy’ class because they first need
Video: Ensuring Secure Customer Experience in Digital Transformation
In an interaction with CMR at the recently held Big Switch Forum in Udaipur, Leo Joseph, Head of HP Inc’s enterprise sales discussed the importance of device security in digital transformation and how HP’s solutions are ensuring a secure digital
Video: Global Mega Trends and their Impact on Enterprise Business Transformation
At the recently held Big Switch Forum in Udaipur, HP Inc. India’s MD, Sumeer Chandra explains the key socio-economic and technology mega trends taking shape globally, their impact on enterprises and how to gear up for the same. Watch the
Enabling Digital Customer Experience at Maruti
In 2015, India’s largest automaker, Maruti Suzuki, decided to re-define their customer experience and launched the NEXA premium dealership. It was developed to attract high-end customers and change the customers’ mindset about Maruti Suzuki being an automaker only for the
Key Trends in Digital Business Transformation
We’re living in interesting times where the pace of change is accelerating. Due to this, every aspect of an enterprise is undergoing a huge change, be it customer support, revenue, new business, operations, etc. The center of all this action
What Next in Digital Transformation?
Most enterprises today are serious about leveraging digital technologies to transform their business, be it for revenue growth, cost optimization, improved customer outreach/experience, or higher efficiencies. IT plays a pivotal role in this journey, for which enterprises have either appointed
Secure Device Management in a Dynamic Workplace
The workplace is undergoing a major transformation in India, because of so many different types of mobile devices, IoT, emerging security threats and the changing nature of people who use them. Employees have become more tech savvy and therefore expect
THE DIGITAL MINDSET-PART I
Jayesh Ghatge, Market Principal, ThoughtWorks We are living in truly transformative times as consumer technology grows faster, as evidenced by India’s central government’s expectations to nearly double the number of existing Internet users to 730 million by 2020, due to
What Every Business Should Know About Chatbots
The latest technology to catch the fancy of a lot of businesses are chatbots—self-learning computer programs designed to have intelligent conversations with humans over the Internet. Several announcements were made recently by leading Indian banks and insurance companies about deploying
How Scientists Let you Cram Terabytes of Data in a 3.5-inch hard drive
According to Seagate Technologies, if they were to stack up all the storage media that they have produced so far, then it would attain a height of 950 meters. Doesn’t sound like much? How about if we told you that
Cloud is a Key Growth Market for Seagate in India
While the PC market might have declined, there are lots of new opportunities cropping up, both for hard drives and solid state drives in India. We had a face to face interview with Seagate’s global sales head, BS Teh to
New developments in analytics that enterprises can’t afford to ignore
What do you trust more for business decisions? Your gut-feel or facts and figures provided by data? If you said the former, then you’re not alone. According to a survey conducted by QlikTech recently, 65% managers said they rely more
How Kotak Mahindra Bank is Surging Ahead on its Digital Journey
Kotak Mahindra Bank has been in the news for having successfully undertaken several noteworthy digital initiatives, ahead of competition. In a free-wheeling interview with Anil Chopra, Kotak Mahindra Bank’s CDO, Deepak Sharma talks about the bank’s digital transformation initiatives, opportunities,
Does bimodal IT indicate the end of traditional IT?
NEW DELHI, INDIA: At a recently held conference, Gartner India’s chief, Partha Iyengar highlighted that the future of enterprise IT is bimodal. What it means is that moving forward, organizations will have to split their IT into two parts—mode 1
The future of IT is bimodal: Gartner
NEW DELHI, INDIA: On one side, IT is not able to respond fast enough to growing business demands, and on the other, organizations are seeing new and unimaginable competition emerge in the new digital era. As a result, organizations are
Smart cities as the ultimate form of digital transformation
BANGALORE, INDIA: What would it be like to live in a smart city? Cisco has already created a blueprint for it on its own sprawling 2.6 million sq ft. campus in Bengaluru. We explain how such smart cities will integrate
