How Traditional Businesses Are Disrupted By A Spark Of The Digital

VS PARTHASARATHY, Group CIO & Group CFO, Mahindra & Mahindra, gives a perspective of how traditional businesses are getting disrupted by the digital phenomenon

JK Cement Is Banking On IoT, RPA, Analytics For Digital Growth

JK CEMENT, one of India’s premier cement companies, has undergone a massive digital journey in the last two and a half years. The company has now become more data-centric and technology-driven than ever before

How Hero Motocorp Is Using Emerging Technologies To Accelerate Its Growth

From AI to AR to IoT - the country's largest two-wheeler maker, Hero MotoCorp, is taking a series of huge digital bets to redefine its future

Inside India's First Iot Implementation In Glass Manufacturing Industry

AFTER IMPLEMENTING THE Real Time Manufacturing Insights at Piramal Glass, the production efficiency has been enhanced by 1 per cent, which means the production lines (in five plants) are able to manufacture 1 per cent more, amounting to 20 crore in monetary terms, since the technology started working in all the plants over nine months back. EC’s Abhishek Raval speaks with Vijay Shah, Director - Piramal Glass & Executive Director - Piramal Enterprises and Poorav Sheth, CDO, Piramal Glass

Sharda University: Tech Enabled Campus For Academic Excellence

LOCATED IN GREATER Noida, Delhi NCR, Sharda University has a multi-discipline campus spread over 63 acres and equipped with world class facilities. Prashant Gupta, Executive Director, Sharda University highlights the various ways technology is playing a significant role in ensuring academic excellence at the prestigious institution

Microsoft's Emerging Tech Push Helps It Accelerate In India

Microsoft India is taking a big bet on emerging technologies such as machine learning and AI to radically change the way the company’s products and solutions are implemented in India

HDFC Bank's Digital Drive Is Helping It Carve New Markets

ALWAYS A PIONEER in taking new digital initiatives, the bank has used its digital mediums to outpace its competitors

We Have Made The Network Smart And More Open For Innovation

IT WOULD NOT, be an exaggeration to say that hardware networking giant Cisco built the fundamental technology that has driven the rise and growth of the Internet. Recently, Cisco took another major initiative called ‘Intuitive Network’ that will scale, re-provision, and bring security at different levels aimed to make the network more agile, secure and open for innovation. Cisco CEO, Chuck Robbins spoke to Mohd Ujaley to share his views on ‘Network Intuitive’, its relevance, impact on business and how Indian enterprises and the government can leverage the new network.

'UP Can Proudly Claim To Be Amongst The Top It Hubs In The Country'

IN A TÊTE-À-TÊTE WITH EXPRESS COMPUTER, Kumar Prashant, Special Secretary, Department of Electronics and Information Technology, Uttar Pradesh, shares the vision of the UP Government for strengthening the IT infrastructure, and highlights how the Yogi Adityanath-led government desires to replicate the success of the IT industry witnessed by Noida and Greater Noida in other parts of the state

Tech Senate 2019: Catalysing Digital Transformation

THE 19TH EDITION OF TECHNOLOGY SENATE, the flagship annual CIO forum by Express Computer, took the conversation on the digital transformation of enterprises a notch further

IT Enabling Transformative Reforms In Uttar Pradesh's Education System

Uttar Pradesh deputy chief minister Dr Dinesh Sharma is also the Minister for Secondary Education and Higher Education, Science and Technology, Electronics and Information Technology, Government of Uttar Pradesh. In an exclusive interaction with Vishwas Dass, Dr Sharma speaks shares how IT is bringing transformative changes in the education sector along with other key citizen centric initiatives

How HDFC Bank Is Banking Upon AI Across The Organisation

Use of AI in customer services has become mainstream, especially in the banking sector. HDFC Bank has been exploring an array of domains where AI can be deployed

Himachal Pradesh Focuses On Bharatnet, Citizen Services And Computerisation Of Departments

HIMACHAL PRADESH IS moving with decent speed in rolling out the BharatNet project, despite of its hilly terrain. Express Computer speaks to Rohan Chand Thakur, Director - IT, Himachal Pradesh

How Rajasthan Transformed Itself Into A Digital State

THE BIGGEST CHALLENGE for Rajasthan’s ICT department was to shed the stigma of ‘Bimaru State’ that has been attached to Rajasthan. Turning the odds of poor connectivity and providing digital services to the last mile, project RajNet – a multi-mode connectivity network, connecting Jaipur with all 9,894 Gram Panchayats and 183 municipal areas in Rajasthan – has changed the outlook of the state. Today, the state is poised to transform from Rajasthan to ‘DigiSthan’. Akhil Arora Principal Secretary, IT, Government of Rajasthan, shares interesting insights

Ajeenkya Dy Patil University Bets Big On Competency Based Transcript System

IN THE WAKE of increasing implementation of IT solutions in the education sector, Ajeenkya DY Patil University has set a benchmark in India’s education space with its unique Competency-based Transcript System. The university is also studying the blockchain technology for future implementation

How Technology Is Driving NSDC's Kill Development Mission

NATIONAL SKILL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION (NSDC) aims to promote skill development by catalysing the creation of rge scale, quality and for-profit vocational institutions. Dr Manish Kumar, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, DC highlights the diverse technology interventions enabling them to reach the objective of skilling up the people in India

States Working On Comprehensive And Integrated Digital Payment Framework

THE DIGITAL PAYMENT platform will be an aggregator-like, one stop shop for all the payment options available for use, for G2G and G2C services.

GSTN Has Over-invested In State-Of-The-Art Technologies And Processes

THE GOVERNMENT HAS recently completed one year of the roll-out of GST. It can be argued that India has come a long way from a complicated taxation system, with over a dozen different taxes and many more cesses. GSTN operates the IT backbone for the collection of GST data of over 1.11 crore registered business entities. In an interaction with ECs Sandhya Michu, Nitin Mishra, EVP (Technology), GSTN, talks about this mammoth network and how the technology piece played its role.

What Will It Take For Mumbai To Become A Global Fintech Hub

MUMBAI HAS THE ADVANTAGE of close proximity to all elements that comprise a global fintech hub - financial institutions, regulators, fintech companies, talent pool, etc. Suniti Nanda, Chief Fintech Officer, Maharashtra speaks about the requirement of the right alignment between these stakeholders to make Mumbai an international fintech capital

AI Powered Humanoid Enables Over 100 Sales Bookings At A Home Expo For Puravankara

The two humanoids - Mitra and Mitri - were recently introduced at one of the flagship home exhibitions, Bengaluru Home Habba. A major advantage was seamless customer data accumulation in almost 10 times lesser time in comparison to any conventional method. In an interaction with EC, Ashish Puravankara, MD, Puravankara Projects provides more insights

Axis Bank To Ramp Up Investments In Digital Technologies

THE BANK INTENDS to increase the digital budget by approximately 25 per cent in 2018-19; investments will continue in Axis Aha, the AI/ML based chatbot. Further with multiple channels, the focus this year will be on investing in an omni-channel kind of a platform. Praveen Bhatt, Head - Digital Banking & Customer Experience, Axis Bank, shares more information

DHFL Plans To Make AI An Underlying Capability Across All Business Processes

AI in housing finance has automated processes and reduced the cost of serving customers. While AI has reduced the cost of financial services it has also made financing convenient

Bajaj Allianz Hires Tal.port, An AI Enabled Talent Acquisition Tool

The tool allows video interviews to capture candidate’s aptitude and behavioural aspects along with the essential technical skills

How HDFC Bank Is Banking Upon AI Across The Organisation

USE OF AI in customer services has become mainstream, especially in the banking sector. HDFC Bank has been exploring an array of domains where AI can be deployed

Niti Aayog Aims At ‘AI For All'

Anna Roy, a 1992-batch officer of the Indian Economic Service and an advisor at NITI Aayog, who was instrumental in bringing out the paper on National Strategy on AI, sets the roadmap in ‘AI​ ​​​​​​for All’ mission

How Customer Experience Is Driven By Product Insight At Ashok Leyland

EACH IOT POWERED vehicle generates one data package every second, one terabyte of data every day and 1.2 billion kilometers of data every month

The Transformation Of RBL Bank Into A Digital Hybrid Bank

USING AN AI-POWERED MODEL, the bank loads 20-30 per cent less money in the ATMs, without changing the customer demographics

Rajasthan Leads India's First Government Blockchain Implementation

THE FOUR YEARS of Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje-led Rajasthan government has witnessed a slew of digital initiatives. To further the pace on the digital path, the state has become the first in India to have a fully developed Blockchain fabric, and a live use case on Blockchain. Akhil Arora, Principal Secretary, Information Technology & Communication, Government of Rajasthan shares his views towards Blockchain implementation and the state's success story with Abhishek Raval

Data Analytics: The New Asset And Opportunity For Government

INDIA HAS CREATED perhaps the biggest data repository in the world. It now faces the challenge of using this mammoth information for better governance

CRIS Drives Technology Enablement At Indian Railways

INDIA HAS THE FOURTH longest railway network in the world; and Center for Railway Information Systems (CRIS), the ICT arm of Indian Railways has been the driving force to introduce slew of technological innovations as part of the government’s Digital India initiative. Securing this large ICT infrastructure is also one of the biggest responsibilities of CRIS. Express Computer finds out these new intiatives taken by the CRIS