Emerging Technologies
Standard Chartered Hosts TechExpo 2010 – A platform for EMERGING Technology Companies to Showcase Innovation
Further to the post that we had written earlier on NASSCOM EMERGE Community breaks new ground with sales focused community platform for Emerging & Start-up Companies. Yesterday we had 12 companies which exhibited and showcased their products/solutions at the Standard Chartered. Here is a press release which was issued yesterday to the media.
NASSCOM EMERGE Community breaks new ground with sales focused community platform for Emerging & Start-up Companies
The NASSCOM EMERGE community takes a giant step forward in a new direction by organizing a forum for emerging companies offering innovative BFSI solutions to pitch directly to a Global Bank – Standard Chartered. This first of its kind Product Showcase will take place in Chennai on February 3rd 2010 and is a direct result of the NASSCOM EMERGE Product CIO Showcase held during the NASSCOM Product Conclave last year. The event is being jointly organized by NASSCOM and the CIO Association.
Not one, but many Microsofts in the making
Even before Bill Gates dropped out of Harvard to join Paul Allen’s efforts to build a BASIC interpreter, firms like IBM, ICL, DEC, Data General, Cray and yet some more existed. However, Microsoft (MS) did not come out of their cradle. It was born in an unlikely place called Seattle, from the efforts of two very unlikely people who would not have been candidates for beatification in the first four decades after ENIAC.
Everyday SME Challenges, Tried and Tested Solutions’ – NASSCOM EMERGE Friday’s 2.0 (25th session – Chennai)
Everyday SME Challenges, Tried and Tested Solutions’ a panel discussion by four business leaders (Serial Entrepreneurs), most of them having co-founded and promoted two or more businesses, who have walked your path earlier.
Panel Discussion on Entrepreneurship Challenges
Moderator: Mr. G. Shankaran Nair, President – Corporate Strategy, Servion
- Panelists:
- Mr. Ashok Ramaswamy, Managing Partner, Sandpath Capital
Charting a growth story – Featuring EMERGE 50 Leader company (InfoSoft Global)
InfoSoft Global was designated a leader in the “Products” category of the NASSCOM EMERGE 50 due to its success in establishing its data visualization application FusionCharts globally. Read the article to learn about this company’s winning strategies in the difficult to conquer software products space.
12 Product companies to be showcased to the CIOs at the NASSCOM Product Conclave 2009
When we embarked on the journey a couple of weeks back, we thought of creating a platform, which would enable the Product Start-ups and Emerging companies to showcase their products to the CIO Community. We partnered with partnered with CIO Association of India for this initiative.It has indeed been a tough job for the selection committee members and NASSCOM for selecting the 12 companies for the NASSCOM EMERGE Product Showcase. The bigger challenge of course was selecting the parameters on which the applicants would be judged, to enable a fair and objective verdict. Some of the parameters looked by the jury when they ranked the companies are:
Role of SIs in product ecosystem
Most of you attending the NASSCOM Product Conclave have bright ideas, technologically advanced products, proof points of deployment and cost advantages but if your challenge is how can your ‘Made in India’ product make a mark globally ? how can you scale dramatically ? then do not miss the session: “Role of SIs in product ecosystem”. Find out how global and Indian SI (System Integrators) companies can take you there ….come and learn how others have done it and how you can create the right partnerships and the multiplier effect.
Technology Opportunities serving the millions of India: The next major growth area for Indian technology firms
The last decade has witnessed a number of technology innovations targeted specifically at the bottom 60% of the world’s economic population to wonderful effect. Indian models and innovations are proving to be highly profitable and expandable to other markets; Indian telcos are registering the highest growth rates in the world, thanks in large part to innovative business models like lifetime prepaid cards and inexpensive phones that make a mobile connection affordable for almost every one. Indian MFIs are scaling and refining Bangladesh inspired models to reach millions who have traditionally lacked access to formalized credit. Our startups are creating mobile marketplaces for jobs, health and local services with players like JustDial showing how a company can overcome the constraints of low-literacy and computer access in both customers and companies – and make more money from search than established players such as Google (at least in India).
Startups – network with CIOs, Investors, Mentors and more at NASSCOM Product Conclave 2009 (27-28 Oct, Bangalore)
This year, the NASSCOM Product conclave will be reaching out to virtually all stakeholders in the software products eco-system, including ISVs and MNC captives, the investor community, startups/product advisors, enterprise CIOs, SIs, corporate incubation centres and academic research and incubation centres.
Where are the tech startups?
Indian Software Industry has come of age. With the Indian companies now moving quite up in the value chain. And global software services majors often citing strategy decisions to better the Indian Sis. But is all well? Isnt much of this vibrant eco-system just a software-services’ factory for the world? How much of this is long-term value creation? How much of this is IP and innovation led? Isn’t this the next wave that will also provide long-term sustainability for the industry? If so, why are there so few software product companies?
