Business
DataQuest
Rewriting the Rules of HR: Nuvoco's SMART Approach to Workforce Transformation
What happens when a traditionally industrial brand begins to think, act, and scale like a digital native? At Nuvoco, 'SMART' isn't just branding—it's a blueprint for how people, platforms, and performance come together to build what's next in a safer, smarter, and more sustainable way.
4 min |
June 2025
DataQuest
Targeting Threats with Precision
Inside Target's Cybersecurity Strategy: Tackling Fraud Rings and more with AI-Powered Defences.
3 min |
June 2025
DataQuest
Why Real-Time Data Architecture Is the Cornerstone of AI Success
Aerospike Founder and CTO Srini Srinivasan outlines how real-time data architecture empowers CxOs to scale AI, elevate customer experience, and lead in the AI-driven enterprise era.
3 min |
June 2025
DataQuest
AI isn't replacing people— it's empowering them
The future of HR is human and machines. Chief People Officer Agnes Garaba explains how UiPath blends emotional intelligence with agentic AI to create a workplace where people thrive alongside intelligent automation.
7 min |
June 2025
DataQuest
Do glass elevators matter?
In a world where women have to work hard on self-advocacy, face high expectations, manage tight timelines, cruise through a little margin of error, work around corporate politics, handle biased judgments, and battle unequal recognition - how fair and comfortable is the view from the top? Why are second innings and non-linear career paths important for women? Let’s sit besides Purvi Shah, an impactful CIO, with a métier that spans Real Estate, Banking, Telecom, Vehicle Finance, and Paper Stationery Exports). She helps us see this all from a window that is not gilded, not blocked with heavy curtains and bravely adorns a lighthouse.
6 min |
June 2025
DataQuest
Rethinking Finance: Where AI Acts, Explains, and Anticipates
As AI shifts from suggesting to acting—and from automating to anticipating—the finance function is entering a new phase. BlackLine’s CTO, Jeremy Ung, unpacks what it takes for CFOs to lead when decisions are no longer made at month-end, but in milliseconds.
6 min |
June 2025
DataQuest
The 5-second rule: Does it apply to ice-creams?
While the jury is out on that one, with solid resistance from kids and popsicle-lovers, one thing is for sureit surely applies to all the data around your ice-cream today. It cannot be dropped on the floors of ignorance or delays. IT and marketing teams have to eat it in real-time, before it melts. Arvind Ramachandran, Vice President — Marketing, Dairy Day Ice Creams, a leading ice cream brand across South & West India (that has grown to 80,000 outlets across 8 states) gives us a generous scoop on that, and more.
4 min |
June 2025
DataQuest
"We're excited to support India's push to develop their domestic capabilities in advanced technology"
Ritu Favre, President, Emerson Test & Measurement Business Group, answers a wide range of questions from the test market, acquisition of NI, the India story, AI, data analytics, to their partner ecosystem.
6 min |
May 2025
DataQuest
SAP NOW AI Tour Mumbai 2025: Business AI at Scale, with India at the Helm
SAP has made a strategic shift from automation to agentic AI — a framework where AI is seamlessly embedded across applications, data, and platforms to unlock autonomous, outcome-driven business processes.
4 min |
May 2025
DataQuest
Agentic Al: A la Carte or Table d'hote?
It's only been a few years since SaaS and Cloud models disrupted the IT licensing landscape with a completely new pricing approach. Will it last now? How do you crunch the 'pay as you use' maths in the AI era?
10 min |
May 2025
DataQuest
Chief Intelligence Officers? How Gen AI is rewiring the CXO's Brain
Not long ago, executive strategy hinged on experience, instinct, and PowerPoint decks.
3 min |
May 2025
DataQuest
The New C-Suite Ally: Generative AI
The role of Chief Executives and their C-suite counterparts is profoundly transformed, driven by the rapid advancements in Artificial Intelligence, particularly Generative AI (GenAI).
7 min |
May 2025
DataQuest
Packing a punch with containerised AI applications
Just like no two lunchboxes look the same, there are endless possibilities and considerations in the development of a modernised IT infrastructure.
3 min |
May 2025
DataQuest
Is Nuke the Next Normal?
All SMRs utilise nuclear energy, but not all SMRs function the same way. Which one do you prefer?
6 min |
May 2025
DataQuest
AI is like a super coder at our disposal
Ultimately, we need to shift from AI vs. developers to an AI + developers' mindset, advises Nagasanthosh Joysula, Co-founder of TableSprint, as he unpacks the new trend and possibilities of Vibe coding, while also addressing concerns around quality, accuracy, the value of human lens, copyrights, citizen-coding etc.
5 min |
May 2025
DataQuest
Public sector in India is looking at the next wave of digitization and digital transformation
Shipra Sinha, Lead Analyst – Industry Intelligence Group (IIG), CyberMedia Research (CMR), engaged in a conversation with Rishi Mehta, President and CEO of WAISL, and Pankaj Gupta, Leader – Public Sector, AWS India and South Asia, to explore how digital transformation is reshaping India’s public sector and aviation industries.
3 min |
May 2025
DataQuest
India's Critical Role: Flexera's CTO on Strategic Growth and Talent
As the pace of digital transformation speeds up, Flexera is investing even more into India, in particular as a strategic hub for innovation, product development, and customer success.
3 min |
May 2025
DataQuest
How Enterprises Can Rethink Data Management in the AI Era
Enterprises are generating data at an unprecedented scale, requiring a shift from traditional storage to AI-driven solutions. Sanjay Agrawal from Hitachi Vantara discusses how enterprises can rethink data management with AI.
4 min |
May 2025
DataQuest
Generative AI and New Geopolitics
Why does the US government restrict companies like NVIDIA from supplying GPUs to other countries, including China? What did the fall in NVIDIA and other tech giants of the USA share prices with the launch of the DeepSeek signal? What is the response of the USA and other countries?
6 min |
May 2025
DataQuest
Betting on AI vs. Banking on AI
AI in banking is as much about privacy, transparency and explainability as it is about higher wallet-share and personalisation. Rajashekara V. Maiya, VP and Global Head of Business Consulting, Infosys Finacle, explains why, and how carefully, banks are embracing AI while he also assesses the prospects of microservices, APIs, open banking, embedded finance, decentralised financing, capital markets, wealth management in this shift to AI-assisted and AI-driven banking.
4 min |
May 2025
DataQuest
If IT is the curate's egg, can the right open source wipe away all the egg-shells?
We are not No.1, says this CTO.
10+ min |
May 2025
DataQuest
How Oberoi Realty is Redefining Luxury Real Estate Through Digital Transformation
In an exclusive interview, Pankaj Pandit, CIO of Oberoi Realty, discusses how the company is leveraging digital transformation—from AI and IoT to cloud computing and BIM—to redefine customer experiences and operational excellence in luxury real estate.
6 min |
May 2025
DataQuest
Liquid Cooling is ideal today, essential tomorrow, says HPE CTO
Ranganath Sadasiva, CTO of HPE India, discusses how generative AI is reshaping enterprise IT, the urgent sustainability challenges facing data centres, and why liquid cooling is the future of high- performance computing.
7 min |
May 2025
DataQuest
Red Herrings, where Red Flags should be!
AI-washing is serious, but AI Safety-washing is worth an extra furrow over the eyebrows. When hats are packaged as helmets, the furrow leads to a deeper and darker rabbit-burrow.
7 min |
May 2025
DataQuest
The Identity Illusion: Open-Source Trust in a Post-Perimeter World
Attackers no longer breach networks—they breach assumptions. With federated identity systems powered by open-source code and 80+ machine identities for every human user, security teams face a growing, ungoverned surface. CyberArk's Lavi Lazarovitz lays out why defence-in-depth must now start at the identity layer—and where most stacks fall short.
3 min |
May 2025
DataQuest
Dual role of AI in security-both as a tool for protection & a vulnerability
The DQ Digital Leadership Conclave 2025, themed “India and the AI Revolution,” brought together industry experts to discuss the role of AI in enterprise transformation. A look at the panel on “How Indian IT Services Can Lead in the AI Revolution “
3 min |
April 2025
DataQuest
The New Bert for a new Mary Poppins - in an AI opera
Would AI be a Shepard tone always — sounding all higher and higher but creating more stress than melody? Or would it be new-world Theremin that we would need to learn with precision, complexity and invisibility? An AI Opera Maestro shares some notes.
10 min |
April 2025
DataQuest
Hoodies taking over lab coats
From vector databases to hallucinations, to the purity of open source, to how hyper-personalisation and real-time delights are redefining the afternoon shift of databases – this CTO reorganises a lot of shelves. And in a fun way!
7 min |
April 2025
DataQuest
Trump's 26% Tariffs: A Setback or a Strategic Opportunity for India's ICT Industry?
The global tech sector, already dealing with supply chain disruptions and semiconductor shortages, now faces the prospect of steeper import taxes that could reshape the competitive landscape.
4 min |
April 2025
DataQuest
We must move from data collection to strategic data utilization
The Dataquest Digital Leadership Conclave provided an engaging discussion on the evolving role of artificial intelligence (AI) in India. Key industry experts in AI and data analytics were brought to a panel discussion.
3 min |