For Asia Pacific organizations, data center requirements are rapidly changing. C-Level executives are increasingly looking for solutions to address data center sprawl, aging facilities, energy and capacity limitations, and operational vulnerabilities and technology constraints that limit business growth and flexibility....

According to the IDC top ten predictions for 2008, enterprises are looking to meet business demands for a high level of performance with minimum exposure to risk through the IT Service Management (ITSM) framework...

The compound effect of leveraging Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Business Process Management(BPM) technologies aims to make the business and IT infrastructure more efficient, transparent and agile -- providing companies unprecedented opportunities to grow, adapt and differentiate their businesses...

Renowned content management provider Interwoven officially launched its new web optimization tool in Singapore this month. SDA Asia had the chance to catch up with Seth Rosenblatt, Interwoven's Global Product Head to find out more about the new tool...

Customer Service is increasingly becoming a competitive tool for companies. To keep up with the rising competition and increasing demand for superior services, a contact center must continuously exhibit a heightened level of customer support and service despite its growing customer database...

The real money lies in value added businesses, content distribution will become main revenue streams for telecom players. Concepts like VOIP, Video on Demand, Web TV and IPTV will be the next phase in this space.

SOA has been around for years but why is there a sudden growth in popularity and why should businesses implement a SOA architecture? Or should we say, what are the implications of a business not adopting SOA? SDA Asia sits down with Ross Altman, Cheif Technology Officer of SOA and Business Integration in Sun Microsystems to get the answers.

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), India’s biggest IT services company, reported a successful quarter despite the appreciating Indian rupee and other external factors. SDA Asia speaks to Girija Pande, Executive President & Regional Head of TCS Asia Pacific to gain insights into the key steps the organisation took to remain competitive, its recent SOA agreement with Sony Entertainment and its 2008 plans for Asia which includes new Innovation Labs.

In today’s dynamic and fast-evolving world, it is perhaps very important to be able to reach customers spread across the world at any given time. New digital marketing channels, such as Internet and mobile phones are considered to be among the powerful opportunities to reach consumers.

As market forces multiply, it has become imperative for companies to evaluate technologies and innovative business performance strategies that give them a competitive edge. Performance Management has been a powerful approach leveraging information technologies that has got traction in the region helping leading Asian and MNC companies tackle complicated market dynamics.

The success of any business depends upon the quality of the decisions it makes and to achieve this goal many companies are investing in data warehousing, customer relationship management, business process management and business intelligence, but the companies are often found unhappy with the results.

It has been 10 years since the arrival of Visual Studio. Some of the salient benefits of Visual Studio 2008 are productivity, support for the latest platforms and team development. Visual Studio 2008 delivers improved language and data features that help developers in rapidly creating modern software. For example, Visual Studio 2008 provides innovative new technologies, such as the Language Integrated Query (LINQ), that make it easier for individual programmers to build solutions that analyze and act on information...

100% focus on Developers. This is the motto of CodeGear, the erstwhile Borland Developer Tools Group. As an independent company, the CodeGear team works towards advancing and supporting the product lines like JBuilder, Delphi, C++Builder, Turbo and InterBase. They are also innovating in new areas such as Ruby on Rails with their 3rdRail product, PHP with Delphi for PHP, and Java development using Eclipse with JBuilder 2007 and the JGear Eclipse plug-ins. Here Jim Douglas, Chief Executive Officer of CodeGear, and Ravi Kumar, Principal Architect at the Java tools group at CodeGear, speak about the company's plans to move the developer community to the next level in their applications development and productivity.

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) recently reported a quarter of many firsts. SDA sat down with Girija Pande who heads the Asia Pacific region for TCS and found out what else is in the cards for this organisation in terms of financial growth, employee growth, the new services it has ventured into and how it plans to face the competition.

SDA India spoke to the Marketing Director for Alliances and Teleweb sales for Sun Microsystems in India, KP Unnikrishnan on how Sun is making sure that Sun technologies are known by every stakeholder or every prospective stakeholder for Sun, how Sun runs strategic initiatives to increase sales, making sure that we are constantly growing double than the industry standard, and, generally, outperform the competition...

Service Oriented Architecture enables innovation in business by ensuring that IT companies can adapt quickly, easily and economically to support rapidly changing business needs.

Many organizations are discovering a fast growing need to virtualise applications as they struggle to deal with two opposing forces of modern businesses: increasing dispersed and external workforces with an increasingly stringent need for security and control of data....

Industry analysts predict that BPO will slowly give way to the BPU. It is said that as the BPO market continues to move toward mass customization, business processes will increasingly be accessed as utilities, offering common services to multiple clients, making way for the BPU. SDA India spoke to C.V.Prakash, CEO of Gradatim, a BPU services provider, who uses platforms built using principles of SOA...

Enterprise Decision Management (EDM) has now become one of the major streams in business enhancements. As Business Intelligence played a role in making business better, EDM is making it wonderful. become one of the major streams in business enhancements. As Business Intelligence played a role in making business better, EDM is making it wonderful. SDA spoke to Fair Isaac's Bill Waid on EDMs, its benefits and its...

Collabnet is a collaboration company that makes open source software a real collaborative effort. The Collabnet platform supports globally distributed teams in a centralised, cost-effective manner, which can yield 20-30 per cent annual savings through reduced development infrastructure costs, increased productivity, improved project visibility and shared access to software assets. SDA caught up with Isabella Dumont; Taki...