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While many long term plans were put off due to the Covid-19 pandemic, executive leaders should act now in implementing a strategic planning process for future revenue growth, according to Gartner. Organizations must actively prepare to respond to future disruptions and anticipate change. Executive leaders should evaluate the use of technological, political, economical, social/cultural, trust/ethics, regulatory/legal, and environmental (TPESTRE) — …

Rackspace Technology, a multi-cloud technology solutions company, has launched Rackspace Elastic Engineering for Security. The security offering transforms cloud security operations by providing customers access to a pod of experts who work as an extension of internal staff to address complex cybersecurity and compliance challenges. The company claims to be the only provider in the market offering a cloud-like way …

Ninety six percent of enterprises have increased their budget investment in security operations during the Covid-19 pandemic, 86 percent have increased their staffing and 91 percent have increased their adoption of advanced security technologies, according to the annual State of Security Operations report from CyberRes, a Micro Focus line of business. The key reason cited for the increased investment was …

Nearly 80 percent of workers are using collaboration tools for work in 2021, up from just over half of workers in 2019, according to the Gartner Digital Worker Experience Survey. This is an increase of 44 percent since the pandemic began. “Collaboration tools found renewed importance during Covid-19 for their role in ensuring the productivity of suddenly remote teams,” said …

IBM is working to set up a Software Lab in Ahmedabad, Gujarat in India. IBM Software Labs are the global innovation centers that develop and deliver next-generation software portfolio and cloud offerings. In a meeting, Vijay Rupani, Chief Minister, Gujarat; Sandip Patel, Managing Director, IBM India and Gaurav Sharma, Vice President, IBM India Software Labs discussed the role of technology …

Strengthening its leadership position in the projector market, Optoma Corporation, has announced that it has become number one projector brand in DLP and 4K UHD segments in India for Q2, 2021 as per the latest PMA report. Optoma is a designer and manufacturer of projection and Interactive Flat Panel for corporate, education, professional video and home entertainment segments. Continuing its …

Hitachi Vantara has launched the next generation Lumada DataOps Suite. The portfolio of data management and analytics software is designed to help businesses rapidly identify and utilize data to enhance customer experiences and provide a source of competitive advantage – from customer, operational and product intelligence to compliance and fraud management. The Lumada DataOps Suite helps lower the cost of …

Bharti AXA Life has completely digitized its sales operation to meet the demands of an evolving customer with 100 percent adoption amongst Front Line Sales Executives. Bharti AXA Life Insurance unveiled its revamped website recently with an enhanced and intuitive customer experience. The company which completes 15 years of operations this month, embarked on an ambitious journey of digital transformation …

India government IT spending is projected to total $8.3 billion in 2022, an increase of 8.6 percent from 2021 according to a latest forecast by Gartner. “Digitalization initiatives of Indian government organizations took a giant leap in 2020 because of the global pandemic. The pandemic forced the government to shift priorities as supply chains and revenue streams dwindled,” said Apeksha …

Salesforce has collaborated with Slack to introduce Slack-First Customer 360, a single platform for connecting employees, customers, partners with the apps and workflows they need to get work done with a single source of truth for their business. “Salesforce and Slack are creating the digital HQ to help every company get back to growth in today’s digital-first, work anywhere world,” …