The CII Karnataka IT Conclave 2013 held on February 22, 2013 at Bengaluru witnessed the release of a CII Report titled "Adopting Cloud Services to Drive Business Value".
The Report is based on a paper co-authored by Saurabh Suman Choudhuri and Vikram Bodavula, students of the IIM Bangalore Post Graduate Programme in Management - PGP 2011-2013.
Narayan Rajan (left), Co-Convener, CII IT Panel; Soumitra Bhattacharya, Vice-Chairman, CII, Karnataka, and Joint Managing Director, Bosch Ltd.; Sudhir Kumar Reddy, Convenor, CII, IT Panel, and CIO, Mindtree Ltd.; I.S.N. Prasad, Principal Secretary, Department of IT, BT and S&T; Bhaskar Pramanik, chairman, Microsoft India, and Chairman of IT and ITeS Committee of CII; and L. Krishnan, chairman, CII, Karnataka, and Managing Director, Taegutec India Pvt. Ltd., releasing the CII report prepared by two IIM Bangalore students in Bengaluru on Friday 22nd February 2013. The report was highly appreciated by industry leaders.
Abstract of the Paper
The paper aims at creating awareness, exploration and adoption of Cloud services by SMEs/SMBs so that they can leverage on the positive aspects of Cloud technology and grow their businesses. It starts with a chapter introducing the Cloud Services by drawing parallels to the activities that everyone is familiar with, like renting a house. It helps IT managers to know about the capabilities of the cloud services existing in India and the way they can adopt them to their business. Then it helps the reader understand the competitive advantage one could gain by using the cloud technologies vis-a-vis the competition. Cloud Service along with process changes to fully exploit its potential can prove a boon to the companies in any industry since the cloud services are built on the industry best practices which most of the companies are unaware of or could not implement due to cost implications. The final chapter will give out a list of things the IT managers should look out for before embracing the cloud services. It will help them decide which are the go and the no-go areas in cloud computing based on their size and industry.
The paper also contains case studies of Indian companies like redBus, JVS Textiles & 2 other firms that adopted cloud services to gain a competitive advantage. A detailed survey analysis of 30 IT managers' responses is also presented.
SS Choudhuri Vikram Bodavula
Related link: http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/smes-can-see-speedy-growth-by-adopting-cloud-computing/article4443480.ece
The CII Karnataka IT Conclave 2013 held on February 22, 2013 at Bengaluru witnessed the release of a CII Report titled "Adopting Cloud Services to Drive Business Value".
The Report is based on a paper co-authored by Saurabh Suman Choudhuri and Vikram Bodavula, students of the IIM Bangalore Post Graduate Programme in Management - PGP 2011-2013.
Narayan Rajan (left), Co-Convener, CII IT Panel; Soumitra Bhattacharya, Vice-Chairman, CII, Karnataka, and Joint Managing Director, Bosch Ltd.; Sudhir Kumar Reddy, Convenor, CII, IT Panel, and CIO, Mindtree Ltd.; I.S.N. Prasad, Principal Secretary, Department of IT, BT and S&T; Bhaskar Pramanik, chairman, Microsoft India, and Chairman of IT and ITeS Committee of CII; and L. Krishnan, chairman, CII, Karnataka, and Managing Director, Taegutec India Pvt. Ltd., releasing the CII report prepared by two IIM Bangalore students in Bengaluru on Friday 22nd February 2013. The report was highly appreciated by industry leaders.
Abstract of the Paper
The paper aims at creating awareness, exploration and adoption of Cloud services by SMEs/SMBs so that they can leverage on the positive aspects of Cloud technology and grow their businesses. It starts with a chapter introducing the Cloud Services by drawing parallels to the activities that everyone is familiar with, like renting a house. It helps IT managers to know about the capabilities of the cloud services existing in India and the way they can adopt them to their business. Then it helps the reader understand the competitive advantage one could gain by using the cloud technologies vis-a-vis the competition. Cloud Service along with process changes to fully exploit its potential can prove a boon to the companies in any industry since the cloud services are built on the industry best practices which most of the companies are unaware of or could not implement due to cost implications. The final chapter will give out a list of things the IT managers should look out for before embracing the cloud services. It will help them decide which are the go and the no-go areas in cloud computing based on their size and industry.
The paper also contains case studies of Indian companies like redBus, JVS Textiles & 2 other firms that adopted cloud services to gain a competitive advantage. A detailed survey analysis of 30 IT managers' responses is also presented.
SS Choudhuri Vikram Bodavula
Related link: http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/smes-can-see-speedy-growth-by-adopting-cloud-computing/article4443480.ece