- Install the new iOS 4.0.1 update as it is supposed to fix the signal strength bars.
- Get free bumpers and cases from Apple. Those customers who have already brough the bumpers will be refunded.
Steve Disappoints iPhone Fans
The flaw in the iPhone 4 got termed as Antennagate and went viral faster than Apple could even think of a strategy or a stop gap solution. Even the Apple die-hard fans were left wondering why and how could such a problem be there in an Apple product and that too in an iPhone that was supposed to beat even the most optimistic product sales figures.
So the conference called by Steve to explain the problem to the select media and bloggers was the most sought after and awaited event. But even here, Apple failed to capitalise (going by the media reports).
Check out the press conference here.
Steve refused to admit that there was a problem and in fact claimed that problem exists with most of the Smart Phones (from RIM, HTC etc).
The solution that Steve offered were:
His solution did not seem to merit appreciation as it seemed like a stop gap solution. He did admit later that Apple engineers are working overtime to fix this problem.
Knowing Apple we can confidently say thi problem will definietly be overcomes and a solution will be there to resolve the current problems. Let's wait and see what comes out.
But Apple's competitors are happy and customers are annoyed!!!
LTE-WiMAX War Goes On
The Indian telecom sector is on a high surge. Gartner had predicted that the Indian mobile subscriber base will cross 771 million by 2013. In fact, the total telecom subscriber base for India has already reached 638.05 million subscribers with a tele-density of 54.10. Additionally, Indian mobile operators have collectively added 16.9 million new mobile subscribers and hence the total subscriber base jumped to 601.22 million.
The opening of the 3G spectrum is further expected to boost the fast growing telecom sector. The market will definitely heat up with innovative products and services which would be beneficial for the customers as well for the service providers. And in this rapidly expanding market, companies with new and unique solutions will emerge as the leaders.
3G Scenario and Perception
There is more to 3G than the faster internet access and downloads, excess data limit, and better video and picture quality. The technology and the capital involved in providing 3G services to the customers is complex. In fact, 3G operations require large scale investment and are highly risky due to increasingly diversified and segmented requirements. Additionally, the investment patterns will lead to more diversification in the market.There would be more direct investment from shareholder and strategic investor, borrowing from local and international financial market, vendor financing from suppliers and revenue generation from current asset like tower.
In addition, it would be necessary for the service providers to have a robust network to roll out the 3G services where the scalability of the network would become extremely important. So as to provide seamless services to its customers, it would become increasingly more critical for the service providers to have the correct infrastructure and network, and the appropriate amount of capital.
Even though 3G offers much higher bit rates as compared to 2G, there are other technologies that enable the service providers to cater to the ever-increasing demand for fast wireless broadband. These kinds of technically innovation can not only improved the ROI but can also cut down the costs of deploying mobile broadband networks. All these demands and economical sense have led the service providers to 4G technologies.
Note: To read rest of the article please click here: http://voicendata.ciol.com/content/ContributoryArticles/110071001.asp
The opening of the 3G spectrum is further expected to boost the fast growing telecom sector. The market will definitely heat up with innovative products and services which would be beneficial for the customers as well for the service providers. And in this rapidly expanding market, companies with new and unique solutions will emerge as the leaders.
3G Scenario and Perception
There is more to 3G than the faster internet access and downloads, excess data limit, and better video and picture quality. The technology and the capital involved in providing 3G services to the customers is complex. In fact, 3G operations require large scale investment and are highly risky due to increasingly diversified and segmented requirements. Additionally, the investment patterns will lead to more diversification in the market.There would be more direct investment from shareholder and strategic investor, borrowing from local and international financial market, vendor financing from suppliers and revenue generation from current asset like tower.
In addition, it would be necessary for the service providers to have a robust network to roll out the 3G services where the scalability of the network would become extremely important. So as to provide seamless services to its customers, it would become increasingly more critical for the service providers to have the correct infrastructure and network, and the appropriate amount of capital.
Even though 3G offers much higher bit rates as compared to 2G, there are other technologies that enable the service providers to cater to the ever-increasing demand for fast wireless broadband. These kinds of technically innovation can not only improved the ROI but can also cut down the costs of deploying mobile broadband networks. All these demands and economical sense have led the service providers to 4G technologies.
Note: To read rest of the article please click here: http://voicendata.ciol.com/content/ContributoryArticles/110071001.asp
Psstt: Google to rival Facebook
Well, there’s been a chatter doing rounds that Google is coming out with something to rival Facebook. Well, Good Luck!! It would be tough to beat the giant that Facebook has become in the social networking scenario. But then it’s Google!!!
Google did come out with Orkut to use it at the place to be in for the netizens and to touch base with their friends and known ones. It was of same idea but with a different perception. It did well in countries like India and Brazil; but it did not really hit off in the major places of the world. Then it came out with Buzz which was similar to Twitter, but again it was not really a master-stroke.
Now Google is reportedly taking the talked about social networking initiative seriously. A Google insider even mentioned that Google sees Facebook as a strong competitor, and amount of data it stores (thanks to it ever growing members)—it won’t be a surprise if it comes out with a Search Engine of its own.
Google has the muscle and the talent to do it. Just look at success of its Android phones. Here wishing luck to Google!!!
Google did come out with Orkut to use it at the place to be in for the netizens and to touch base with their friends and known ones. It was of same idea but with a different perception. It did well in countries like India and Brazil; but it did not really hit off in the major places of the world. Then it came out with Buzz which was similar to Twitter, but again it was not really a master-stroke.
Now Google is reportedly taking the talked about social networking initiative seriously. A Google insider even mentioned that Google sees Facebook as a strong competitor, and amount of data it stores (thanks to it ever growing members)—it won’t be a surprise if it comes out with a Search Engine of its own.
Google has the muscle and the talent to do it. Just look at success of its Android phones. Here wishing luck to Google!!!
Oracle Primavera P6 Analytics Gives Visibility & Transparency into Project and Portfolio Performance
Having worked as a Program and Project Manager, I have realized the importance of getting an insight into the project and portfolio performance so to do a health checkup of the project status. Although there are tools in the market for project and portfolio management, but I could not really find a solution that would give me a real time look into the projects.
Oracle Primavera P6 Analytics seems to be the solution that would help managers to get real time information about project portfolios and hence make better project investment decisions. It is a new business intelligence solution that enables organizations to identify issues and uncover trends to reveal valuable insights into project and program performance. It can also provide management-by-exception capabilities through interactive dashboard reports, enabling organizations to benefit from enterprise-level reporting across the portfolio and insight into project trends and history. Another attractive part of the solution is that it will enable users to conduct root cause analysis and take corrective actions by drilling directly from the Oracle Primavera P6 Analytics dashboard into Oracle’s Primavera P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management solution.
Primavera P6 Analytics users can quickly identify projects that do not align to strategic objectives, are over-budget or under-performing, and then make the necessary course corrections. If needed, companies can add to the pre-built views by quickly and easily customizing additional views and dashboards. A common Web-based portal helps ensure that users can quickly and easily access and navigate their dashboards and reports. The solution is based on Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition Plus (Oracle BI EE), which helps ensure that Primavera P6 Analytics leverages best in class BI technology that reduces implementation time for future integrations. Oracle BI EE’s ability to support Oracle and non-Oracle applications and data sources enables Primavera P6 Analytics to match project data with information from different systems in the enterprise, such as financial and customer data, enabling organizations to create a single source of truth for their projects and programs. By providing transparency into project portfolio performance and a single source of truth, Primavera P6 Analytics adds value to existing Oracle Primavera P6 Project Portfolio Management deployments by enabling managers to identify and to identify greater efficiencies and potential ROI on their projects.
This product is a true blessing for the managers and PMs to handle projects and portfolios effectively!!!
Oracle Primavera P6 Analytics seems to be the solution that would help managers to get real time information about project portfolios and hence make better project investment decisions. It is a new business intelligence solution that enables organizations to identify issues and uncover trends to reveal valuable insights into project and program performance. It can also provide management-by-exception capabilities through interactive dashboard reports, enabling organizations to benefit from enterprise-level reporting across the portfolio and insight into project trends and history. Another attractive part of the solution is that it will enable users to conduct root cause analysis and take corrective actions by drilling directly from the Oracle Primavera P6 Analytics dashboard into Oracle’s Primavera P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management solution.
Primavera P6 Analytics users can quickly identify projects that do not align to strategic objectives, are over-budget or under-performing, and then make the necessary course corrections. If needed, companies can add to the pre-built views by quickly and easily customizing additional views and dashboards. A common Web-based portal helps ensure that users can quickly and easily access and navigate their dashboards and reports. The solution is based on Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition Plus (Oracle BI EE), which helps ensure that Primavera P6 Analytics leverages best in class BI technology that reduces implementation time for future integrations. Oracle BI EE’s ability to support Oracle and non-Oracle applications and data sources enables Primavera P6 Analytics to match project data with information from different systems in the enterprise, such as financial and customer data, enabling organizations to create a single source of truth for their projects and programs. By providing transparency into project portfolio performance and a single source of truth, Primavera P6 Analytics adds value to existing Oracle Primavera P6 Project Portfolio Management deployments by enabling managers to identify and to identify greater efficiencies and potential ROI on their projects.
This product is a true blessing for the managers and PMs to handle projects and portfolios effectively!!!
Managed Sevices--a Cost Effective and Smart Move
The managed services market in India is in a growth spree, and the future too looks great. In fact, IDC’s India Managed Services 2008-2012 Forecast and Analysis reported that the Indian domestic managed IT services market is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 24.9%, to reach a US$2.78 billion industry in 2010. The Indian Managed Services market will become one of the fastest growing markets in the Asia/Pacific region.
Approach of the companies towards Managed Services
Managed services are most popular in the telecom sector. Lately, Banking and Insurance, Healthcare, Industrial Manufacturing, Infrastructure, HR, Payroll and Education sectors have also realized the importance of managed services and are using them quite aggressively these days.
Companies have realized that they can grow their business with the help of managed services. The MSPs manages the applications, infrastructure and many other mission mission-critical aspects of the companies; hence companies can avoid the humongous investments, the operational cost of maintaining a highly skilled operations team, and complexities of implementation and management of applications. In addition, companies can transfer any technology obsolescence risk and upgrade necessities, and all other operational work to the MSPs.
Managed Services Benefits & Challenges
The usage of managed services no doubt limits the risks related to economic and technological investments of the companies. As the businesses look for ways to cut cost but continue with the best of class services, the dependency on MSPs is bound to increase. The importance of MSPs will increase in this cost conscious market as they offer cost effective bundled solutions that are customized to the companies’ needs and requirements, and as they provide services to manage and monitor all the mission critical aspects required for the growth and survival of the businesses.
There are definite challenges and limiting factors that are hindering the growth of managed services in India. Traditionally, the Indian companies are bit hesitant about outsourcing their mission critical operations to others. So the main challenge for the MSPs would be convincing these hesitant customers that managed services would be secured, best of the class quality and would ensure a faster ROI. In addition, defining or creating service definitions, determining the appropriate pricing and migrating existing customers to the new managed services model are some challenges in the Indian market.
Conclusion
The Managed services market in India will definitely become very big. The MSPs have launched cost effective, highly flexible and global standard products that are increasingly becoming a must have in the cost conscious and highly competitive market scenario. As mentioned earlier, according to IDC the Indian domestic managed IT services market is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 24.9%, to reach a US$2.78 billion industry in 2010.
NOTE: Please check out http://voicendata.ciol.com/content/ContributoryArticles/110060101.asp for the whole article.
Approach of the companies towards Managed Services
Managed services are most popular in the telecom sector. Lately, Banking and Insurance, Healthcare, Industrial Manufacturing, Infrastructure, HR, Payroll and Education sectors have also realized the importance of managed services and are using them quite aggressively these days.
Companies have realized that they can grow their business with the help of managed services. The MSPs manages the applications, infrastructure and many other mission mission-critical aspects of the companies; hence companies can avoid the humongous investments, the operational cost of maintaining a highly skilled operations team, and complexities of implementation and management of applications. In addition, companies can transfer any technology obsolescence risk and upgrade necessities, and all other operational work to the MSPs.
Managed Services Benefits & Challenges
The usage of managed services no doubt limits the risks related to economic and technological investments of the companies. As the businesses look for ways to cut cost but continue with the best of class services, the dependency on MSPs is bound to increase. The importance of MSPs will increase in this cost conscious market as they offer cost effective bundled solutions that are customized to the companies’ needs and requirements, and as they provide services to manage and monitor all the mission critical aspects required for the growth and survival of the businesses.
There are definite challenges and limiting factors that are hindering the growth of managed services in India. Traditionally, the Indian companies are bit hesitant about outsourcing their mission critical operations to others. So the main challenge for the MSPs would be convincing these hesitant customers that managed services would be secured, best of the class quality and would ensure a faster ROI. In addition, defining or creating service definitions, determining the appropriate pricing and migrating existing customers to the new managed services model are some challenges in the Indian market.
Conclusion
The Managed services market in India will definitely become very big. The MSPs have launched cost effective, highly flexible and global standard products that are increasingly becoming a must have in the cost conscious and highly competitive market scenario. As mentioned earlier, according to IDC the Indian domestic managed IT services market is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 24.9%, to reach a US$2.78 billion industry in 2010.
NOTE: Please check out http://voicendata.ciol.com/content/ContributoryArticles/110060101.asp for the whole article.
SaaS Adoption High on the Rise in APAC Region- CRM leads the Pack
As per a report from Springboard Research, Enterprise spending on Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) in Asia Pacific (excluding Japan) region is expected to grow at 46 percent between 2008 and 2012, pushing the market to $2.25 billion by 2012.
Additionally, other interesting find seems to be that highest SaaS penetration in Asia Pacific (excluding Japan) is amongst large enterprises (more than 1,000 employees). This has changed the popular belief that only the SMB sector is interested in SaaS based solutions. It seems the need for cost effective solutions and buzz about Cloud Computing have also driven the interest towards SaaS.
CRM Rules the Roost
It is not surprising to see that CRM is the most widely adopted SaaS application. Although CRM is currently more popular, collaboration will assume more significance in the future.
Challenges to SaaS adoption in India
The major challenges towards SaaS adoption in India seems to be:
• Lack of connectivity and low broadband penetration
• The India companies have security concerns regarding SaaS and seem hesitant about putting its information in vendor data centers.
• Insecurity in the IT department is another factor that has affected the pace of SaaS adoption. IT teams are afraid that the shift to a SaaS model will diminish their significance in the enterprise.
Conclusion
SaaS based applications are surely going to be extremely popular. Additionally, SaaS CRM will be a highly sought after solutions. There are many companies like Oracle that offers SaaS CRM which are not only cost effective but can also help to efficiently manage customer relationship management of any organization.
Additionally, other interesting find seems to be that highest SaaS penetration in Asia Pacific (excluding Japan) is amongst large enterprises (more than 1,000 employees). This has changed the popular belief that only the SMB sector is interested in SaaS based solutions. It seems the need for cost effective solutions and buzz about Cloud Computing have also driven the interest towards SaaS.
CRM Rules the Roost
It is not surprising to see that CRM is the most widely adopted SaaS application. Although CRM is currently more popular, collaboration will assume more significance in the future.
Challenges to SaaS adoption in India
The major challenges towards SaaS adoption in India seems to be:
• Lack of connectivity and low broadband penetration
• The India companies have security concerns regarding SaaS and seem hesitant about putting its information in vendor data centers.
• Insecurity in the IT department is another factor that has affected the pace of SaaS adoption. IT teams are afraid that the shift to a SaaS model will diminish their significance in the enterprise.
Conclusion
SaaS based applications are surely going to be extremely popular. Additionally, SaaS CRM will be a highly sought after solutions. There are many companies like Oracle that offers SaaS CRM which are not only cost effective but can also help to efficiently manage customer relationship management of any organization.
Security Concerns about Chinese Telecom Equipments— Issues and the Realities
The current hulla-bulla about the security concerns in the Chinese telecom equipments has garnered a large media space. The Chinese vendors operate all over the world and have great working relationship with majority of operators all over the world. And the things seemed to be looking great for them as they supply cost effective and innovative equipments. In fact, their equipments are much cheaper than the equipments offered by the vendors from the other countries but equally as good as those provided by the other international vendors.
But the story about Huawei’s equipment having spyware in them brought back the focus to national security concerns and again the Chinese equipment vendors seemed to have hit the brake in terms of acquiring more orders.
But currently even the operators are supporting the Chinese telecom equipment providers as they offer great products and that too at lower prices.
It is clear to everybody that the lowering of the tariffs in the Indian telecom market has been possible due to these lower priced but extremely efficient equipments from the vendors like ZTE.
The murmurs in the industry are that there is a large lobby that is feeling the threat from the Chinese vendors and hence wants to keep them at bay. The Chinese equipment vendors have captured a big chunk of the Indian telecom market share within a short period of time, and are even challenging the market leaders in the domains and areas where they have reigned supreme for ages. For example, ZTE came to India around 10 years back and within that time span the company is counted among the top 5 in the Indian telecom arena.
The Chinese vendors are asking the government to treat them at par with the other vendors in the market. For example, ZTE which is a listed company and openly share information with the stakeholders are requested to go through and comply with all the stringent security measures and tests that the government officials set up. In fact they are working with operators in 140 countries and none of them are complaining about any security concerns.
In this era of globalization, it would be wrong to treat any company from any country differently. In fact any listed open that share its internal information openly and which is willing to comply with any security tests and meet any stringent policy and guidelines should be given a chance to prove and perform.
But the story about Huawei’s equipment having spyware in them brought back the focus to national security concerns and again the Chinese equipment vendors seemed to have hit the brake in terms of acquiring more orders.
But currently even the operators are supporting the Chinese telecom equipment providers as they offer great products and that too at lower prices.
It is clear to everybody that the lowering of the tariffs in the Indian telecom market has been possible due to these lower priced but extremely efficient equipments from the vendors like ZTE.
The murmurs in the industry are that there is a large lobby that is feeling the threat from the Chinese vendors and hence wants to keep them at bay. The Chinese equipment vendors have captured a big chunk of the Indian telecom market share within a short period of time, and are even challenging the market leaders in the domains and areas where they have reigned supreme for ages. For example, ZTE came to India around 10 years back and within that time span the company is counted among the top 5 in the Indian telecom arena.
The Chinese vendors are asking the government to treat them at par with the other vendors in the market. For example, ZTE which is a listed company and openly share information with the stakeholders are requested to go through and comply with all the stringent security measures and tests that the government officials set up. In fact they are working with operators in 140 countries and none of them are complaining about any security concerns.
In this era of globalization, it would be wrong to treat any company from any country differently. In fact any listed open that share its internal information openly and which is willing to comply with any security tests and meet any stringent policy and guidelines should be given a chance to prove and perform.
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