Friday, April 20, 2007

No more, water scarcity in Chennai

No more, water scarcity in Chennai city. National Institute of Ocean Technology developed world's first floating desalination plant off the chennai coastline.

This plant will produce fresh drinking water from Ocean water and handle the water shortage in costal India.

Desalination Plant will be live in 2008 with a capacity of one million litres per day.

Google to acquire DoubleClick

Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) announced on 13 Apr 2007, a definitive agreement to acquire DoubleClick Inc., a global leader in digital marketing technology and services, for $3.1 billion in cash from San Francisco-based private equity firm Hellman & Friedman along with JMI Equity and management. The acquisition will combine DoubleClick's expertise in ad management technology for media buyers and sellers with Google's leading advertising platform and publisher monetization services.

Thursday, April 12, 2007

High Definition Video Company

LifeSize, the high definitions video communication company become a fast growing company is HDVC space.

LifeSize has Bangalore Design Center with focus on software development and contribution to engineering efforts across the company’s high definition video product line.

I guess communication is a notable space for a constant growth in following years

Cisco has seen accolades go to Google in recent years, and the company is bent on changing that

Cisco’s pace of investment is kicking back into ’90s-style high gear again - as said by an analyst

Cisco bought web app hosting firm Reactivity; two social networking software firms, Five Across and Utah Street Networks; and an on-demand app firm, Webex.

On the global front, Cisco invested an undisclosed sum in Ozon, Russia’s Amazon.com, and last December invested $50 million in China Communications Services Corporation Limited, a state-run telecom firm.

“India is both a compelling end market and a compelling source market,” - Hilton Romanski, Head Global Investment Strategy - CISCO

eReveMax set to sell their products in Indian market

eRevMax Technologies has become a pioneer in hotel industries most popular online distribution management tools, RateTiger. With its international client base eRevMax is undertaking a spirited and ambitious challenge this year:

According to Udai Singh Solanki, CIO, "With the help of our international exposure and dynamic local talents, we are putting India on the map and within the perspective of revenue management. We are showing international firms today that India has the potential to provide not only product development and support services, but world-class leading solutions as well"

Wednesday, April 11, 2007

Joost : Something to watch

Joost is a new way of watching TV on the internet. With Joost, you get all the things you love about TV, including a high-quality full-screen picture, hundreds of full-length shows and easy channel-flipping.

Joost is started by the founders of Skype

China dominates in manufacturing

China's superior infrastructure led to India losing its bid to build Intel's new $2.5 billion factory.

A decision by Intel to build a $2.5 billion chip factory in China represents a key loss for India, which won't likely see any chip factory projects from major companies this year due to its poor infrastructure.

India, which is best known for its research and development prowess and focus on outsourced services, has been trying to attract chip factory investments to build up its manufacturing talent

The Indian government needs to take more proactive measures on its infrastructure if it hopes to win major companies manufacturing factory projects over the next few years.

Indian ISV's promotes Oracle Fusion Middleware in global market


Oracle has announced that leading Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) across India and Asia Pacific have deployed more than 200 solutions on Oracle Fusion Middleware

Google Developer Day

Google Developer Day is a chance for programmers around the world to meet Google’s developer product teams conduct Workshops in 10 countries could be aimed at find new revenue streams in addition to new developers.

Google
woo more developers to its Web services software platform with a 27-hour-long "Developer Day" on May 31.

Webby Nominations Announced

2007 Webby Nominees Announced. Vote for Your Favorites.

The Nominees and Official Honorees for the 11th Annual Webby Awards have been announced. See them all and vote for your favorite Nominees in the People's Voice until April, 27th.

Friday, April 06, 2007

Symphony Technology Group

Symphony Technology Group is planning to expand in India.

Symphony Technology Group companies are CAPCO, ImmediateFX, IRI, Lawson, Symphony Metreo and Symphony Services

Yahoo's tailor search

http://au.alpha.yahoo.com - customizable search engine

proto.in

proto.in is a premier event to showcase new products, technologies and companies to a selected gathering.

proto.in is planned for July 21st - 22nd at Chennai.

Venue yet to be confirmed.

India's Business Franchise Directory

www.franchisebusiness.in a franchise business directory which helps the potential users to find, research, and apply to franchise directly.

This is part of Catch is specialist online division of Reed Business Information

Bangalore's new mobile service provider

There is a good news for fellow bangaloreans, We have all the major mobile service providers like AIRTEL, HUTCH, SPICE TELECOM, BSNL and now there is one more new player AIRCEL is going to be added in near future.

AIRCEL is first mobile communication company to provide 3G service in India. As you know HUTCH is taken over by VODAFONE

I am sure this going to create more options and high competition between existing players

A recent Largest SOA player

Software AG (TecDAX, ISIN DE 0003304002 / SOW), Europe's largest systems software and Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) provider, and webMethods, Inc. (Nasdaq: WEBM), a leading business integration and optimization software company, today announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement for Software AG to acquire webMethods in a cash tender offer for $9.15 per share or approximately $546 million.

Wednesday, February 21, 2007

Wikicamp.in

Wikicamp is all about harnessing and understanding the power of Wikis. It is a one day event aimed to bring together the best minds from the Wiki/Internet space to talk about issues, opportunities and what the future and evolution of this valuable tool looks like. Crowd sourcing, Wisdom of crowds, User generated content and collaborative knowledge sharing have become the keywords of today's Internet. Wikicamp aims at demystifying these terms. The event will feature workshops, debates and keynotes on the present state and evolution of the wiki. Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia and President of Wikimedia Foundation will be attending the event. He will share with us the vision for Wikipedia and his experiences.
Cost: Rs.200 per person. It's a door donation to meet the expenses towards venue, logistics and lunch. It's still an unconference. Which means that each of us helps out by becoming a speaker or helping with the organizing or blogging/video blogging the event.

Location:
Tidel Park, Canal Bank Road, Taramani, Chennai

Date:
25th February 2007

Chief Guest: Jimmy Wales - Founder of Wikipedia & President of Wikimedia foundation

Monday, January 29, 2007

Technical Architect - Business Intelligence - Mumbai

Technical Architect - Business Intelligence - Mumbai

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

· Perform consulting services that follow proven Services Implementation Methodology (Analyse, Design, Build, Deploy, Operate). Maintain customer satisfaction and success through excellence in personal delivery of consulting services to customers and partners alike. · Perform best-in-class BI software installations conforming to company’s recommendations and proven practices. Ensure high-quality and complete technical delivery of consulting services. · Provide technical services for BI and related software products to support enterprise deployment including areas of architecture, security, performance and scalability and load testing. · Determining usage and hardware requirements and troubleshooting environmental issues. · Maintain and upskill knowledge of company’s BI products and related technologies by utilising internal and external courses, internal training days, kick-off meetings, field support, published resources (on-line and print), trakweb & self-study. · Working closely with Customer Support, Product Management and Development Teams to advise and develop best practices within the technology practice area. · Use of onsite education and/or workshops, one-to-one training/handover during onsite consults. · At all times following up on all open issues and questions, tracking outstanding issues to Customer Support following engagements. Periodically contacting the customer & communicating/escalating problems with to Managing Consultants, Services Managers & Account Managers. · Submitting weekly reports for engagements longer than a week or, while at customer site submit a status report containing work planned for visit, work accomplished, outstanding issues and suggested next steps for customer. · Timely and accurate submission of expense reports, timesheets etc · Billing activities to complete customer engagement, maximising billable activities and minimising non-billable activities in accordance with customer, company and personal needs. · Communicating client needs or problems to the Account Manager or Services Manager identifying how additional services can contribute to the customer’s solution. · Providing assistance, direction, and support for fellow employees as appropriate. · Travel will be required, predominantly within India, and occasionally overseas.

EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE
1. Education - Educated to degree level or equivalent preferred. - Proven minimum 4-5 years IT industry experience. - Completed training in Enterprise Planning and Business Intelligence software, particularly Server and Technical Administration courses. - Microsoft MCP/MCSE/MCDBA, UNIX and Linux Certifications highly regarded.
2. Technical Skills - High proficiency in installation, configuring, troubleshooting, testing BI and related software - Operating Systems including Windows, Unix, Linux and Networking Operating Systems - Knowledge of Financial Budgeting and Planning and Reporting Applications - Knowledge of Database Technologies including DB structures, Modelling & Design, Administration, Diagnostics/Troubleshooting/Tuning, ODBC/Connectivity, Metadata Management, Data Mart Planning & Development and Datamart & Enterprise data warehouse integration methods - Application Programming HTML, JavaScript, Java or Visual Basic, Cognos Script & SQL - Web Technology/Applications: Intranet concepts, Extranet concepts, XML/SOAP, J2EE Application Servers, Java Servlet Containers, Web Server Management, Web Development, Security Administration (LDAP) - System and Network Configuration and Tuning, TCP/IP, DNS, Proxy Servers, NETBUI, WINS, HTTP(S), FTP, Routers/Firewalls - High Availability Concepts and Disaster Recovery

Complete BI/DWH product knowledge is preferred.

Write to : Kartik Ganeshkartik@daedalus.co.in

Solutions Architect / Senior Solutions Architect - Bangalore

Solutions Architect / Senior Solutions Architect - Bangalore

POSITION SUMMARY:

Solutions Architect (SA) / Senior Solutions Architect (SSA) report directly to the ASIA Regional Presales Manager and India Country Manager. They are directly responsible for providing senior pre-sales support for major/strategic and in-direct sales opportunities in India primarily as well as other parts of ASIA, delivering product presentations for prospects, customers, seminars, marketing opportunities, and conducting solution demos, workshops and complex technical solutions (proof of concepts). They are also responsible for assisting in closure of sales opportunities by working with assigned sales personnel or partner to develop and execute an account plan that meets both the requirements outline by prospective customer and sales objectives of the US MNC company. This includes closing the opportunity in a timely manner and increasing the size of existing implementations through active account management.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

Pre-sales Support
· Provide strategic and senior level product presentations and demonstrations. · Deliver advanced or complex proof of concept evaluations/prototypes. · Develop, and assist in the development of, needs analysis and RFP/RFI responses. · Provide senior level account follow-up for technical issues during and after a sales cycle. · Develop comprehensive technical account plans in conjunction with sales representatives that include: technical qualification of prospects, proposed demonstration criteria, trial/prototype plans and closure planning. · General technical support to partners · Develop and execute account expansion plans, through active account management.
Business Development/Marketing Support
· Deliver local technical account update programs for strategic/major accounts. · Support local trade show/seminar activity. · Support the strategic business development partners
Personnel Management
· Assist other area technical personnel in account planning and closure activities.
Management Reporting and Administration
· Provide Regional Sales or Presales Management with required periodic activity reporting. · Provide any other reporting defined by sales or technical management.
Domain Skills
· Minimum 5 years' experience in presales of enterprise software. · Comfortable and confident in speaking in a group · Good presentation and demo skills · Willing to travel (both within India, and in ASIA) · Self insufficient · Professional and matured · Customer-facing skills · Analytical & problem solving skills
Technical/Industry Skills
Primary Skills · Business Intelligence / OLAP · ETL / Data Warehousing / Star Schema · Scorecarding (BSC etc) / Dashboard · RDBMS (Oracle, SQL Server etc) · Prior skills in Business Objects / Hyperion / SAS is an advantage
Secondary Skills · Windows & UNIX OS · Security (LDAP) · Web Serivces (Java, HTML, SOAP, SOA, XML, WSDL etc) · Knowledge of Corporate Performance Management · Basic finance knowledge is an advantage

Write to : Kartik Ganeshkartik@daedalus.co.in

Sr. Systems Engineer Bangalore, Mumbai & New Delhi

Sr. Systems Engineer Bangalore, Mumbai & New Delhi
Exp : 8 - 10 yrs

Requirements:
· Good understanding of Enterprise market segment and solutions.
· Good communications skills, presentation capabilities are a must.
· The position involves educating the customer on company products and solutions, preparation of technical proposals, competitive advantages etc.
· Good understanding of Routing and Security solutions.
· Demonstrate the product capability in POC and customer site demos.
· Presenting US MNCo. platforms and solutions to customers, partners and at events and seminars.
Qualifications - Engineering Graduate

Write to : Kartik Ganesh
kartik@daedalus.co.in