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A running recap of top 10 happening in the IT Channel Industry 1. Hopes Alive For Come Back Of Nokia And BlackBerry Nokia And BlackBerry, the two handset legacies of its times are struggling hard for their survival in the highly contested smartphone market. The hopes of come back of these two technology giants are still alive. The leader of the market once upon a time, both the tech giants needs to understand the market dynamics and changing business equations in the smartphone business to make its grand entry in the...

HCL Infosystems has enabled the design, development and deployment of Defence Communication Network (DCN) - the first tri-service communication and IT network of the Armed Forces. The network has been fully designed and developed in India. The DCN was today dedicated to the nation by Defense Minister Manohar Parrikar. Speaking on the occasion, Premkumar Seshadri, Executive Vice-chairman and Managing Director, HCL Infosystems Ltd. said, “This is a moment of great honour for us. HCL Infosystems is proud to design, develop and deploy the first ever converged tri-service communication and IT...

Worldwide IT leader Cisco unveiled LaunchPad in order to mentor and empower the innovation eco-system in the country. The LaunchPad is designed to bring together Cisco, their channel partners, developers and their start-up enterprises and jointly look at solving issues to addressing new markets, and build on digital businesses. Mentorship will come from Cisco’s finest own talent who will be connecting the start-up talent with potential investors and guide them on creation of solutions and scaling of businesses. The LaunchPad will also bring other enablers like certified service providers and...

Microsoft Thursday named Gavriella Schuster as its new global channel chief. Schuster , a 21-year Microsoft veteran takes over Microsoft’s channel at a time of major transition and transformation. In her new role Schuster is tasked with guiding tens of thousands of partners as they transition to a cloud solutions business model and tackle the massive Windows 10 upgrade cycle. Schuster, who has been Microsoft’s interim channel chief since Phil Sorgen stepped out of the role in May, was formally named corporate vice president for the Worldwide Partner Group for...

Intense Technologies, a global enterprise software products company, has inked a multiyear, managed services contract with a leading communications services provider that enjoys a customer base of 100 million in India. The engagement marks a transformative landmark deal for the company in terms of size, scale and duration. Under this agreement, the company will be working with the client to streamline business processes of customer onboarding, customer communications and data monetization opportunities across all their physical and digital channels, thereby promoting the non-network customer experience processes. Today’s announcement augments the...

NASSCOM is working both with both Washington and Indian authorities to ensure call centre impostor frauds originating from India do not impact the long-term health of the Indian BPO industry. US government official called out Indian call centres as a source of various importer frauds that have targeted Americans, thus NASSCOM in response took such initiative. Read Also:Tata Comm Partners Anam To Curb SMS Fraud “Another area of international concern involves Indian call centres, which like their Jamaican counterparts, continue to be the source of various imposter frauds that have...

India’s largest software exporter TCS said it was recognized the Employee Engagement Project of the Year and Social Responsibility Project of the Year at the North American Employee Engagement Awards ceremony in Chicago. Tata Consultancy Services was highlighted as the top firm in two of 16 categories and possible winners on June 22. Read Also:TCS Wins SAP’s Partner Of The Year Award It won the Employee Engagement Project of the Year - for large public enterprise - due to its culture of promoting high impact employee engagement, senior management connections...

Computers & Media Dealer’s Association (CMDA), Pune has rolled out several crucial projects for its members to generate business for channel partners. The association has developed a mobile app which intends to enhance networking among the CMDA members and non members. The association recently announced the new managing committee for the year 2016-2017. Sanjeev Pathare, owner of Computer Shoppee has been elected as a president and Vivek Ashturkar, owner of Prominent System Solutions has been elected as a secretary for the current fiscal year. Speaking to Channel Times, Pathare said that...

Razorpay today announced it is working with MasterCard to speed the adoption of online and mobile payments among small businesses in India. As part of an ongoing effort to speed the timing of individual purchases, Razorpay has integrated the MasterCard Payment Gateway to enable merchants and card issuers to authenticate each other prior to the authorization of a transaction. Since late 2015, Razorpay has worked with the MasterCard Start Path program – a global effort to support startups developing the next generation of commerce and fintech technologies – to get...