TCS bullish on BI, set ups Business Objects centre
Pricewaterhouse Coopers predicts that BI will be the biggest area of growth in the Indian IT space in 2004. A highly competitive market, complex situations and growing databases have today made business intelligence an imperative for many Indian organisations.

Keane Insight
Duty cuts: Hardware industry dances on the streets
When Budget 2003 was announced at the end of February 2003, Indian hardware vendors were an extremely disappointed lot. They were upset with the finance minister for just giving a cosmetic touch to the entire tariff reduction process by reducing customs duty from 15 percent to 10 percent in the case of routers, switches, modems and fixed wireless terminals.

Watching over SME networks
According to a Frost & Sullivan report, the firewall (FW), VPN and intrusion detection system (IDS) market was worth $22.7 million in 2003. This is expected to grow to $28.3 million in 2004 at a CAGR of 24.1 percent, the highest in the APAC region.

Collaborating for successful software development
For businesses, the killer application on the Internet is undoubtedly online collaboration. The competitive scenario today also makes it a compelling case for organisations to learn to produce a knowledge-intensive product like a software application by engaging talent, whenever and wherever available.

Hyderabad’s ITeS sector grows despite problems
The call centre business in Andhra Pradesh is now getting over the initial hype and seeing a more realistic picture of market dynamics. With exports at Rs 1,411 crore, the total contribution of call centres/ITeS services to the state’s IT exports basket was about 39 percent in 2002-03. For the current fiscal, it is expected to touch Rs 2,000 crore.