For many years now, companies have been building large data warehouses. But simply storing more and more data is pointless. To provide value from the data, its interpretation and predictive value is crucial.

Global economic pressures conditions have given rise to increased competitive and regulatory pressures on businesses. Decision making times have shrunk and time to market has shortened for most. Analytics forms an increasingly important part of every decision-making process. India has matured as the preferred outsourcing destination, and this has fortified the belief of outsourcers in high-end knowledge processing work such [...]

Barack Obama has been re-elected as US president for another four years. Although it is too early to know definitively how the new Obama administration will affect the Indian IT industry, we can look back at the previous regime to try to analyse future impact. After all, the US accounts for over 60% of revenues of the Indian IT exports. [...]

As in other parts of the world, the Indian enterprise application software (EAS) market is in a transformation phase, with the advent of new technologies including mobility, social media, cloud, and advanced BI. PAC estimates the Indian softaware applications market in 2012 to be $1.6 billion and this will more than double to over $3.7 billion by 2016. Enterprise applications [...]

Last week, India’s government, after long deliberation, formally announced the opening of the Indian retail sector by allowing 51% foreign direct investment (FDI – i.e. up to 51% ownership by non-Indian companies) in multi-brand retail operations. The government also allowed 100% ownership in single-brand retail. Similar moves in the past have stalled, but this one seems likely to stick. Retail [...]

Technology plays a very influential role in Indian financial markets, especially capital markets. Changing technologies are making trading faster and improve efficient measure of market risks. The last two decades have seen the increasing use of technology in the form of complex analytical algorithms to predict future market movements and perform valuations of complex products. PAC research has identified the [...]

The monsoon may be playing hide and seek this season in India, but the Indian IT Industry is feeling the presence of clouds everywhere. SAP, Oracle, and Microsoft have come forward in unison to say that cloud services are getting hotter in India…

US PE company Bain Capital is to acquire a 30% stake in India’s largest business process outsourcing company, Genpact, for $1 billion. Investors General Atlantic and Oak Hill Capital Partners will reduce their stake to around 5% each. Bain Capital (founded by US presidential nominee Mitt Romney) will appoint four directors to Genpact’s board to replace the current GA and [...]

T-Systems recently briefed us on its ambitious new Asia strategy. At present, APAC represents around 5% of T-Systems total revenue

The US Supreme Court has upheld the major elements of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (aka “Obamacare”), providing a victory for the Obama Administration before the Presidential polls to be held in November 2012. The law makes it mandatory for all Americans to buy health coverage starting in 2014 or pay a penalty for being uninsured. [...]