WiredScribe: The Business of IT

During the course of conversations with several distributors, one point that was reiterated was the need to build an exclusive channel network—a set of channel partners in different regions who would be faithful only to one particular disty. This, according to the disties 360 Magazine spoke to, would resolve the issue of low margins while ensuring the disty of a much more aggressive and dedicated channel. Even the partner stands to benefit from additional; support and greater margins. But while this may seem to be the ideal solution to a nagging problem it is easier said than done. Customers demand an array of option each time they are out shopping. If a partner doesn’t house the particular brand demanded by a customer then he is bound to lose that business. However, channel partners that do not directly deal with end customers stand to benefit from entering into exclusive relationships with a disty. And here we explore those mutual benefits. Today, disties are dedicatedly e...

Photography consumption in India has been on the rise over the past two years. According to market studies, the Indian photography market had grown at a CAGR of approximately 12 percent over the past few years. According to market analysts, the growth rate could touch 15 percent before the end of this year. Traditional photography itself is expected to continue growing at the rate of over 8.3 percent. According to the same report, India consumes close to 90 million film rolls a year. But the overall cost of photography has kept many users away from analogue cameras. Digital photography, on the other hand, comes with the promise of zero clicking costs. The Indian Digital Still Camera Market witnessed an explosive growth of 114 percent in unit terms during 2004. According to IDC, the Indian digital still camera market notched up revenues of Rs 366 crore during 2005. Each year, camera manufacturers have been introducing increasingly sophisticated, high performance digital cam...

Runbook Automation systems empower organizations to design, build, orchestrate, manage, and report on workflows that support IT processes. Run Book Automation is not limited by IT infrastructure elements and acts as the connecting layer between disparate IT processes and user-friendly service desk tools. With Run Book, enterprise users can automate routine, repetitive operational processes, drive down costs, and remove complexity from the datacenter. The solution introduces greater accountability into the system, and furnishes organizations with tools to measure productivity and improvements in efficiency. 1.0 RBA is the Next IT Battleground A study of past trends reveal that in the early nineties, businesses were more concerned about the management framework they needed to adopt in order to effectively and efficiently manage their IT infrastructure. While this need was effectively met by packaged solutions like CA Unicenter, IBM Tivoli and HP OpenView, today, the focus is...

India has developed into a dynamic market for the machine tool industry over the past years. Bangalore and Chennai are becoming important industrial centres in addition to the traditional markets like Delhi and Mumbai. Today, many European countries as well as neighbouring countries and other South East Asian nations are importing machine tools from India . Even our neighbour China has been importing from Indian manufacturers. But the machine tool industry is still a fledgling and is to a large extent dependent on servicing the domestic market and the burgeoning automobile components manufacturers. Though India has made strides to do away with the technology gap that existed earlier we still are a long way from matching the quality standards expected by consumers like The UK and other European nations both in terms of product quality and design aspects. We still have to go a long way before we can introduce our own innovations based on the international market requirements....

The growth in the machine tool sector is directly proportional to the growth in the other industries. The machine Tools Industry is the backbone of the entire industrial engineering sector. And the growth trends visible in the Indian hardware manufacturing sectors are clear indicators of this fact. , today, India is in a position to export various automobile components and other industrial equipments. If we study the growth chart, one will notice that there has been a simultaneous rise in the export of general purpose and standard machine tools to other countries including the industrially advanced nations. During the last four decades, the machine tool industry in India has established a sound base and there are around 125 machine tool manufactures in the organized sector as also around 300 units in the small ancillary sector. Engineering Review delved a little deeper into the subject to understand the opportunities that exists in the machine tool space and also the market po...