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Bangalore, INDIA and Melbourne, AUSTRALIA, November 28, 2024: Sonata Software, a leading Modernization Engineering company, today announced that it has secured a multi-million dollar Modernization deal with a global leader in access solutions. This transformation deal will integrate and standardize the client’s APAC business processes across 13 countries, ensuring seamless operations and real-time engagement with customers, suppliers, distributors, and partners.

As part of this digital transformation journey, Sonata Software will partner with the client to modernize their Dynamics AX 2012 R3 to state-of-the-art D365 Finance and Supply Chain Management. This modernization will encompass migrating data from legacy systems, implementing a data platform that includes over 260 Power BI reports, optimizing advanced warehousing and planning processes, and conducting pilot programs in Australia, New Zealand, and China. Additionally, an intelligence layer will be built into their systems using Microsoft Fabric, which will accelerate their data-to-decision journey seamlessly.

This deal was secured in Q1 FY25 and mentioned during the aligned earnings call which took place on July 31, 2024.

“Our efforts will focus on automating end-to-end processes, harnessing Microsoft’s comprehensive technology stack to improve scalability and facilitate adoption for the client,” said Anthony Lange, Chief Revenue Officer at Sonata Software. “Through our digital transformation efforts, we will standardize and optimize their trading and manufacturing processes, integrate financial planning and monitoring, and simplify customization and integration by leveraging industry best practices.”

Over the past three decades, Sonata Software has made significant investments in Australia, leveraging its highly skilled workforce, business-friendly environment, and supportive government policies. This strategic growth has enabled the company to deliver world-class Modernization Engineering services to nearshore and local clients, particularly in the retail and manufacturing sectors. Most recently, the company further strengthened its presence by announcing a new Centre of Excellence, in collaboration with the Victorian Government, to address the rising demand for generative AI and data solutions.

LUCKNOW, November 28, 2024 – Genpact (NYSE: G), a global professional services and solutions firm delivering outcomes that shape the future, today announced the opening of its new office in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh. The company plans to employ more than 2,000 employees in the city by the end of 2025, marking a strong foothold in the region and contributing to India’s role as a global hub for innovation and talent.

“Lucknow is a city with a rich heritage and a promising technological future,” said Vipin Gairola, Global Operating Officer, Genpact. “By establishing a presence here, we aim to tap into the city’s exceptional talent pool and drive innovation across our global operations. Our commitment to leveraging advanced technologies and talent development will empower us to deliver exceptional value to clients worldwide.”

The investment in Lucknow is a cornerstone of Genpact’s broader strategy to cultivate a world-class AI and technology-fluent workforce and enhance its ability to deliver advanced technologies, AI solutions, and digital transformation services globally. The new office is designed to foster a collaborative environment where groundbreaking ideas can flourish. It will also provide various opportunities for local talent to enhance their skills and develop in-demand expertise to succeed in an ever-evolving world.

With existing offices in Jaipur, Jodhpur, Madurai, and Warangal, Genpact has a proven track record of driving innovation and sustainable impact in India’s tier 2 and tier 3 cities. This expansion reflects the company’s ongoing commitment to strengthening its presence and empowering local talent in emerging regions.

Bangalore, Nov 28th, 2024: OPAL-RT Technologies, the global leader for over 27 years in developing PC/FPGA-based real-time simulation solutions, proudly announces India’s first Real Time (RT) Users’ conference, RT24-IN. This mega two-day conference will be held on 17th & 18th Dec, 2024 all day at Hyatt Centric Hebbal, Bangalore, will feature live demonstrations, keynotes, User presentations and technical sessions covering a wide range of topics, including Aerospace, Power Systems, Energy Conversion, eMobility, and more.

With more than 330 customers, OPAL-RT India has been around for 20 years now.

RT24-IN is OPAL-RT’s first event of its kind and magnitude in India. It is part of OPAL-RT’s global initiative, bringing real-time innovation closer to regional hubs – a space designed for industry experts, academia, and technology innovators to showcase how OPAL-RT’s cutting-edge simulation solutions solve complex challenges across sectors. The RT24 series is being hosted across six locations worldwide, incl. Brazil, UK, Middle East, Japan, South Korea, & India. RT24-India will showcase OPAL-RT’s focus on empowering Indian Industries and Academia with transformative simulation technologies. This event will be a great opportunity to delve into trends, build collaboration, and spearhead the real-time simulation agenda.

Eminent academicians like, Prof. Dr. Siddhartha Mukhopadhyay, IIT Kharagpur, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Sarasij Das, IISc, Prof. Dr Faruk Kazi; VJTI, & Dr R K Singh; Professor, IIT (BHU) will deliver keynote speech on Dec 17th.

Leading Non-Academia users will meet Dec 18th, with keynote talks by Mr. Pulak Halder; Scientist, RCI-DRDO, Ms. Ujwala Karle; Deputy Director, ARAI, Mr. Himadri Bhushan Das, Chief Solution Architect, Electra EV, Mr Reji Kumar Pillai, President, ISGF, and Mr.Arun Kumar Chaudhry, Scientist-MNRE.

This event will be inaugurated by OPAL-RT’s Global’s President Founder & CTO, Mr Jean Bélanger and Executive Vice-President, Ms Lise Laforce with Mr Ashot Minasyan, Chief Technology Officer, Bitlismen.

OPAL-RT will also be showcasing partner technologies who help us form the entire ecosystem of products to suit customer needs like Bitlismen on Electrical Engineering Benches for Utilities and Academia, Comemso on Batteries and Charging, ExataCPS on CyberSecurity, etc.

On this auspicious occasion, Mr. Girish Nanjundaiah Managing Director – India, a 31-year expert shaping the Engineering Landscape expressed his enthusiasm stating, “We are happy to bring RT24 to India, as we aim to serve the Indian market by integrating our technology for complex systems designs, enabling faster, more reliable testing & prototyping. For the past 20 years, we have been part of many customer successes”.

He further opines that,”The event will address the demand & supply of talent in India. OPAL-RT’s real time simulation tools will help both the Industry & Academic personnel to engage and bridge the gap between the talents and real time simulation industry. In this conference, we will have experts, discussing how the ever-growing $20 billion real-time simulation market of today will further unlock unique challenges and opportunities in finding ways to leverage the increasing demand for real time simulations. We will have a bevy of knowledgeable experts/users of OPAL-RT products discussing/solving the real time problems; identifying the cause and provisioning prompt solutions to grow in their areas. ”

Bangalore, November 28, 2024 – Kyndryl (NYSE: KD), the world’s largest IT infrastructure services provider, released the second Global Sustainability Barometer study, commissioned by Microsoft. The study, conducted by Ecosystm, shows that while 21% of organizations surveyed globally use technology to reduce their environmental footprint and shape their overall sustainability strategy, 54% of organizations in India leverages technology to achieve sustainability goals. Since last year, 31% of Indian organizations have increased their sustainability goals and execution.

“As the world faces increasing climate-related challenges, businesses are under pressure to act decisively and place sustainability at the forefront – and this year’s Global Sustainability Barometer study highlights that organizations must move from intent to collective action to drive change,” said Faith Taylor, Chief Corporate Citizenship and Sustainability Officer at Kyndryl. “By integrating sustainability into a company’s business strategy, processes and systems, organizations can maximize the value of their people and technology to achieve internal goals and deliver positive impact.”

The study shows that leaders are increasingly recognizing the benefits of sustainability initiatives for their organizations, with specific areas where improvements can be made. By embedding technology into sustainability strategies, organizations can turn abstract goals into actionable, data-driven plans.

The study highlights the following areas of opportunity:

While 59% of Indian organizations say sustainability goals and initiatives are incorporated into existing reporting processes, only 12% fully use data for strategic planning and decision-making.

99% of Indian businesses use data to track or measure sustainability efforts to some degree, however 87% don’t use the data from their sustainability initiatives to guide the organization’s transformation journey 29% of the Indian businesses believe AI will significantly impact their achievement of sustainability goals. However, 51% of organizations do not consider the environmental impact when implementing AI solutions.

Matthew Sekol, a Sustainability Global Black Belt at Microsoft, added, “Companies can gain the insights needed to deliver on their commitments and drive resilience by integrating sustainability data with operational and financial data, and using traditional data analytics and robust AI tooling to reshape operational efficiencies and foster sustainable innovations.”

Taking action to advance sustainability strategies

The study’s detailed analyses and deep insights can enable organizations to enhance their sustainability efforts. To fully realize an organization’s potential, consider the following guiding principles:

Technology must be core to strategic planning. 34% of Indian businesses leverage IT to reduce their technology environmental impact, while 20% say data and technology is helping achieve organizational sustainability goals. Only 18% of businesses focus on achieving both through technology. In the next year, companies should consider integrating technology into sustainability strategies to turn abstract goals into actionable plans.

Recast the role of AI. 76% of Indian organizations use AI to monitor energy use and emissions, but only 28% use AI to predict future energy consumption based on current data. Integrating AI-powered scenario planning and climate risk mitigation allows organizations to adopt a holistic approach to environmental responsibility, enhancing readiness for future challenges.

Harness data for proactive business transformation. Disparate data across various enterprise planning systems is seen as a clear challenge as only 13% businesses in India use data to guide their transformation journeys. By effectively integrating the disparate data, organizations gain a more comprehensive and accurate understanding of their environmental impact, which leads to informed sustainability decisions.

Foster a culture of collective responsibility. CEOs continue to shape sustainability goals and 55% of organizations consider Chief Sustainability Officers and sustainability teams key stakeholders. The next step is for organizations to fully engage cross-functional teams, particularly finance and technology, to move sustainability into a core business priority and ensure implementation.

While the benefit of AI for sustainability is gaining traction, AI’s environmental impact is a growing concern. Only 46% of Indian organizations are considering the energy implications of their AI solutions. Kyndryl and Microsoft provide actionable strategies for organizations to measure infrastructure baseline emissions and optimize AI architectures, including AI and machine learning models to minimize energy use and reduce waste. The two companies work closely with organizations to ensure that technological advancements contribute positively to sustainability goals without compromising innovation.

“The study’s findings confirmed our understanding of the Indian market: consumers are increasingly demanding sustainable products and services. As customer expectations rise and regulations tighten, Indian organizations must prioritize sustainability initiatives,” says Sash Mukherjee VP Industry Insights Ecosystm. “The power of data and technology extends beyond environmental benefits, enabling organizations to integrate sustainability into their broader strategic goals.”

India, Mumbai– 28 November 2024- Palo Alto Networks, the global cybersecurity leader, released its 2025 cybersecurity predictions for the Asia Pacific region, outlining five key trends that cyber practitioners can expect to unfold in the coming twelve months and position their organisations for a more secure future.

Organisations across the APAC region have emphasised embedding AI into business processes in 2024. This includes cybersecurity processes, where organisations and their adversaries are engaged in an AI arms race. But alarmingly, according to a recent PwC report, more than 40% of leaders say they do not understand the cyber risks posed by emerging technologies like Generative AI. In 2025, AI will become central to cybersecurity strategy with organisations using AI to proactively mitigate risk. Crucially, they will also seek to secure their own AI models.

Swapna Bapat, Managing Director and Vice President, India & SAARC, Palo Alto Networks:

“In 2025, the cybersecurity landscape will enter a pivotal phase, driven by the dual forces of AI-powered innovation and increasingly sophisticated threats. Cyber adversaries are leveraging AI at unprecedented levels, orchestrating attacks with precision and speed. To counter this, organisations must embrace a unified, proactive security approach powered by transparent, ethical AI. The ability to centralise and analyse data effectively will determine who stays ahead in this high-stakes game. Trust, adaptability, and innovation will be the cornerstones of resilience, ensuring organisations can safeguard not just their operations but also their reputations in this rapidly evolving digital era.”

From the anticipated surge in high-impact cyber attacks to the integration of quantum AI for energy-efficient solutions, these predictions for 2025 serve as essential guidelines for organisations to shape their cybersecurity strategies and maximize the potential of AI technologies.

Cyber Infrastructure will be centred around a single unified data security platform
In 2025, the organisations will address increased complexity by reducing the number of cybersecurity tools in use, and shifting to a unified platform, offering enhanced visibility and control. The ongoing cyber skills shortage will continue to accelerate this trend. A unified platform will provide end-to-end visibility and context, spanning code repositories, cloud workloads, networks, and SOCs. Ultimately this creates a more holistic security architecture with fewer dashboards. The convergence of all security layers onto a unified platform will optimise resources, improve overall efficiency, and enable organisations to build more resilient, adaptive defences against evolving threats

2025 is the year deepfakes go mainstream in APAC
Deepfakes are already being used for nefarious purposes in the APAC region. While some have been used to spread political misinformation, the most effective attacks have targeted corporations for financial gain, like the employee at a Hong Kong engineering firm duped into wiring millions of dollars to a scammer who had used deepfakes to imitate the CFO and executive team on a video conference.

Savvy criminals will take note and use ever-improving generative AI technology to launch credible deepfake attacks. The use of audio deepfakes will also become more widespread in these attacks, as the available technology allows for highly credible voice cloning. We can expect deepfakes to be used alone or as part of a larger attack much more often in 2025.

Beyond the Quantum security hype: what to expect in 2025
Quantum computing projects are spreading across the region, with governments and venture capital firms investing heavily in local initiatives.

While quantum attacks on widely used encryption methods are not yet feasible, nation-state-backed threat actors are expected to intensify their “harvest now, decrypt later” tactics, targeting highly classified data with the intent to unlock it when quantum technology advances. This poses a risk to governments and businesses, with the potential to jeopardise civilian and military communications, undermine critical infrastructure, and overcome security protocols for most internet-based financial transactions. We will likely also see nation state actors target organisations developing quantum computers themselves, in corporate espionage attacks.

To counteract these threats effectively, all organisations will need to act and adopt quantum-resistant defences, including quantum-resistant tunnelling, comprehensive crypto data libraries, and other technologies with enhanced crypto-agility. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) recently released final standards for post-quantum cryptography. Transitioning to these algorithms will help secure data against future quantum threats. Organisations that require high security should explore quantum key distribution (QKD) as a means of ensuring secure communications. As quantum computing continues to become more and more of a reality and potential threats loom, it will be essential to adopt these measures to keep pace with the rapidly evolving cyber landscape, prevent data theft, and ensure the integrity of their critical systems.

For now, CIOs can debunk any hype around this topic to the board. Though significant progress with quantum annealing has been made, military-grade encryption has still not been broken.

Transparency will be the cornerstone for maintaining customer trust in the AI era
Regulators in the APAC region are starting to zone in on the data protection and cybersecurity implications of the growing use of AI models. This is part of an overall bid to build trust in AI use and encourage AI-driven innovation.

In 2025, APAC legislators’ AI focus on ethics, data protection and transparency, will remain, However, increased use of AI models will lead to greater emphasis being placed on AI security and the integrity and reliability of the data being used. Transparency and proactive communication about AI model mechanics—specifically regarding data collection, training datasets, and decision making processes—will be essential for building customer trust.

Increased focus on product integrity and supply chain security in 2025
In 2025, organisations can be expected to focus more on product integrity and supply chain resilience. Specifically, they will conduct much more thorough risk assessments, consider accountability and legal implications of business outages and review insurance arrangements.

In cloud environments, where complexity and scale amplify risks, real-time visibility has become a necessity. Expect to see greater focus on comprehensive monitoring involving continuous tracking of both infrastructure and application performance metrics.

Mangaluru, November 28, 2024: Bharti Airtel’s new AI-powered spam detection system has provided much-needed relief to customers in Karnataka. In the 63 days since its launch, this pioneering telecom solution has successfully identified 682 million potential spam calls and 46 million spam SMS messages in Karnataka.

All Airtel mobile customers in Karnataka now have automatic access to the free solution without needing to request service or download an app.

Commenting on the launch, Rajnish Verma, Chief Executive Officer, Karnataka, Bharti Airtel, said, As customers increasingly rely on and engage with technology, they face a growing risk of exposure to scams and harmful communications that have led to numerous online fraud incidents. In response, Airtel is proud to launch a cutting-edge, AI-driven solution designed to proactively identify suspected spam calls and messages. By leveraging advanced in-house AI technology, Airtel is building a secure digital platform for its 50 million of customers in Karnataka, empowering them with greater awareness and control over the calls and messages they receive.

Developed in-house by Airtel’s data scientists, the AI-powered solution uses a proprietary algorithm to identify and classify calls and SMSes as “Suspected Spam”. The network powered by a state-of-the-art AI algorithm analyses various parameters such as the caller or sender’s usage patterns, call/SMS frequency and call duration amongst several others, on a real time basis. By cross-referencing this information against known spam patterns, the system flags suspected spam calls and SMSes accurately.

A dual-layered protection, the solution has two filters – one at the network layer and the second at the IT systems layer. Every call and SMS passes through this dual-layered AI shield. In two milliseconds the solution processes 1.5 billion messages and 2.5 billion calls. This is equivalent to processing 1 trillion records on a real time basis using the power of AI.

Additionally, the solution also alerts customers to malicious links received via SMS. For this, Airtel has built a centralized database of blacklisted URLs and every SMS is scanned in real time by a state-of-the-art AI algorithm to caution users from accidently clicking on suspicious links. The solution can also detect anomalies such as frequent IMEI changes – a typical indicator of fraudulent behaviour. By layering these protective measures, the company is ensuring its customers receive the maximum level of defence against the evolving landscape of spam and fraud threats.

BANGALORE, India, November 27th, 2024 – Whatfix, a global leader in digital adoption platforms (DAPs), today announced that it has been named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Digital Adoption Platforms, Q4 2024 report. The company holds the top score (4.80/5) in the Strategy category amongst the top “seven (DAP) providers that matter the most in the market.” It received the highest score possible (5/5) across 15 of 21 criteria, including product architecture, industry expertise, software change management, software usage and adoption, analytics and insights, AI/ML, vision, innovation, roadmap, and pricing flexibility and transparency. These high scores validate Whatfix’s unique strengths, solidifying its leadership in DAP and recognition across multiple analyst reports.

The Forrester report mentions three key challenges in digital transformation, the rapid growth in the number of enterprise applications, their increasing complexity, and the pressure software-related change places on resources. DAPs (like Whatfix) address these by providing real-time assistance, using data-driven insights to drive adoption, and supporting upskilling and learning. Given the ongoing reliance on legacy applications, the report counsels that DAP providers must support both nontraditional and legacy systems.

The Forrester report by Vasupradha Srinivasan, Principal Analyst at Forrester, states that “Whatfix shines with formidable features and innovativeness”. Its “current vision and strategy are to deliver hyperpersonalized, contextual, ‘userized’ experiences across enterprise applications. It continues to attract venture capital and market interest, with its customer-first approach enabling co-innovation and unique offerings like Mirror.”

We believe Whatfix’s comprehensive DAP solution with “end-to-end DAP with top-tier features” stands out in software usage, adoption, and change management. The Forrester report adds, “Whatfix seamlessly integrates AI for translation, error handling, and self-service, with innovative features like analytics for desktop apps, support for legacy systems, and prompt-based reporting, solidifying its market leadership.”

“We see this recognition as validation of Whatfix’s position at the forefront of the digital adoption platform market,” said Khadim Batti, CEO and co-founder of Whatfix. “Our continued focus on innovation, end-user experience, and customer success has allowed us to deliver a best-in-class solution that empowers enterprises to drive greater software adoption and productivity.”

“Whatfix simplifies everything. Our team addresses SAP Concur questions from employees in many different countries. Whatfix acts as an extra pair of hands, providing a starting point that enables employees to overcome Concur-related issues independently, allowing our team to focus on more complex issues,” said Patrick Ruiz, Service Delivery Manager of Global Shared Services at OMRON.

Whatfix recently raised $125 million in Series E funding to fuel growth beyond DAP, driving both organic expansion and strategic acquisitions. Whatfix was honored as the only DAP “Customer’s Choice” in Gartner’s Voice of the Customer report, underscoring its strong customer satisfaction. The company’s ongoing innovation is further highlighted by its fifth consecutive year as a Leader and third consecutive year as a Star Performer in the Everest Group DAP PEAK Matrix® 2024. Additionally, Whatfix was named a Leader in the inaugural IDC MarketScape and has been ranked on Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500 for four consecutive years. Powered by AI, Whatfix’s product suite delivers an enhanced user experience to over 700 customers, including more than 80 Fortune 500 companies, including Beacon Building Products, Microsoft, Kyndryl, Manpower Group, Aramark, Arrow Electronics, AutoZone, Becton Dickinson, Schneider Electric, and Shell.

By: Brad Jones Chief Information Security Officer, Snowflake

Heading into 2025, the cybersecurity landscape is set to grow more complex, with new challenges emerging as quickly as the technologies driving them. Brad Jones, CISO at Snowflake, shares insights on how AI will shape the cybersecurity landscape in the coming year.

Generative AI takes center stage as businesses’ personal security experts.

While there is a lot of talk about the potential security risks introduced through generative AI, and for good reason, there are real and beneficial applications already happening today that people neglect to mention. As AI tools become more versatile and more accurate, security assistants will become a significant part of the SOC, easing the perennial manpower shortage. The benefit of AI will be to summarize incidents at a higher level — rather than an alert that requires analysts to go through all the logs to connect the dots, they’ll get a high-level summary that makes sense to a human, and is actionable.

Of course, we must keep in mind that these opportunities are within a very tight context and scope. We must ensure that these AI tools are trained on an organization’s policies, standards, and certifications. When done so appropriately, they can be highly effective in helping security teams with routine tasks. If organizations haven’t taken note of this already, they’ll be hearing it from their security teams soon enough as they look to alleviate workloads for understaffed departments.

AI models themselves are the next focus of AI-centered attacks.
Last year, there was a lot of talk about cybersecurity attacks at the container layer — the less-secured developer playgrounds. Now, attackers are moving up a layer to the machine learning infrastructure. I predict that we’ll start seeing patterns like attackers injecting themselves into different parts of the pipeline so that AI models provide incorrect answers, or even worse, reveal the information and data from which it was trained. There are real concerns in cybersecurity around threat actors poisoning large language models with vulnerabilities that can later be exploited.

Although AI will bring new attack vectors and defensive techniques, the cybersecurity field will rise to the occasion, as it always does. Organizations must establish a rigorous, formal approach to how advanced AI is operationalized. The tech may be new, but the basic concerns — data loss, reputational risk and legal liability — are well understood and the risks will be addressed.

Concerns about data exposure through AI are overblown.

People putting proprietary data into large language models to answer questions or help compose an email pose no greater risk than someone using Google or filling out a support form. From a data loss perspective, harnessing AI isn’t necessarily a new and differentiated threat. At the end of the day, it’s a risk created by human users where they take data not meant for public consumption and put it into public tools.

This doesn’t mean that organizations shouldn’t be concerned. It’s increasingly a shadow IT issue, and organizations will need to ratchet up monitoring for unapproved use of generative AI technology to protect against leakage.

SAN JOSE, Calif., and LONDON, UK  November 27, 2024 – Cisco, worldwide technology leader and NTT DATA,  a global digital business and IT services leader, today announced an expanded partnership to transform how global enterprises access wireless connectivity.

As demand for flexible and cost-effective connectivity surges, Cisco and NTT DATA are responding with a unified solution backed by world-class support services from both companies. Historically, connectivity has focused on connecting office environments through landlines. However, with the advent of eSIM in the market, the time has come to think broader and deliver network connectivity securely wherever needed.

Cisco and NTT DATA’s expanded partnership propels their vision of delivering exceptional, secure, and innovative digital services to meet the surging demand for flexible connectivity. The partnership will leverage Cisco’s eSIM technology, initially embedded into Cisco infrastructure solutions. The eSIM will connect to NTT DATA’s Transatel network, enabling customers to activate, provision, and configure Cisco solutions ‘out of the box’, for a simplified provisioning and setup process to launch secure mobile branches anywhere, on-demand with ongoing enhanced network device management.

Cisco’s eSIM technology will be the cornerstone of this transformation, paving the way for digital connectivity.  With eSIM technology at its core, enterprises can easily scale and manage their network needs, ensuring their networks are always connected and optimized for peak performance.

By integrating Cisco’s networking technologies and NTT DATA’s global connectivity capabilities, the two companies will empower enterprises to effortlessly connect to the network, using cellular technologies for primary or secondary connectivity. This advancement will provide faster onboarding to connectivity with ease and ensure new levels of security and resilience, paving the way for the future of enterprise connectivity.

Supported by this collaboration, enterprises will be able to activate, manage, and monitor Cisco infrastructure, connecting to NTT DATA’s Transatel network, remotely across 180 countries while benefiting from simple and flexible pricing plans. The initiative promises to transform the digital experience for mobile workforces worldwide.

“There are multiple use cases across industries such as retail, manufacturing, hospitality, financial services and others, where there is a real need to standup secure mobile branch services at short notice,” said  Andrew Brown, Practice Lead IoT Research, Omdia. “The need to lower setup and installation costs as well as provide vital services, such as backup in a managed and secure end-to-end fashion are pivotal to customers. This integration between Cisco and NTT DATA will simplify and streamline the process of getting customers up and running at scale and will provide an excellent complement to fixed line offerings.”

“With NTT DATA, we strongly believe we can enable a faster, simpler and more convenient way for enterprises to securely connect their organizations through an enhanced setup and provisioning process,” said Masum Mir, SVP/GM, Cisco Provider Mobility. “This collaboration is a game-changer for the enterprise market as it delivers a variety of valuable use cases, such as on-demand SD-WAN, fast scaling for 5G carriers, and edge computing for IoT applications.”

“Together with Cisco, NTT DATA is setting a new standard for enterprise connectivity and customer experiences,” said Shahid Ahmed, Group Executive Vice President of Edge Services at NTT DATA. “This partnership will deliver the future of connectivity today, allowing businesses to focus on their digital transformation journeys without worrying about the complexities of network management.”

Empowering modern industries

The joint solution and services from Cisco and NTT DATA are expected to benefit numerous industries, including:

• Financial Services: Ensuring uninterrupted services delivery with simplified management of branch and temporary location connectivity and enhanced security measures.
• Retail: Enabling omnichannel experiences with increased resilience for PoS systems backup, security and mobility for pop up locations and customers.
• Hospitality: Centralizing and simplifying cellular connectivity management across multiple locations for seamless guest experiences as well as providing convenient and secure connectivity for events, outdoor activities and systems backup
• Manufacturing: Reducing downtime with self-provisioning connectivity solutions that enable rapid secure deployments for remote locations.

“Today’s mobile and distributed enterprises face increasing pressure to simplify operations while accessing real-time, high-quality data for faster, more informed decision-making. Seamless, secure, and scalable connectivity solutions are now essential for unlocking innovation and growth in a connected world,” said Alejandro Cadenas, Associate Vice President at IDC and mobility, 5G and IoT lead in Europe. “These advancements reflect a broader shift toward democratizing access to advanced connectivity solutions, ensuring organizations of all sizes can capitalize on emerging opportunities with agility and confidence.”

Hyderabad, November 27, 2024: Phenom, a global AI SaaS company, proudly announces the launch of IAMPHENOM INDIA, a first-its-kind Intelligent Talent Experience Conference, taking place on Friday, December 13, 2024 at the Trident Hotel, HITEC City in Hyderabad. Building on the success of its flagship event in the U.S., IAMPHENOM INDIA will bring together over 500 senior HR professionals across talent acquisition, talent management, HR, HRIT and the c-suite to learn, celebrate customer successes and share innovative ways to accelerate hiring, development and retention with AI and automation.

IAMPHENOM INDIA is a unique educational opportunity for organizations to discover and embrace scalable AI innovations and strategies to adapt and thrive in a rapidly evolving HR landscape. The 1-day long, in-person conference will focus on the most critical topics for organizations today, including unlocking productivity, strategic talent acquisition, holistic talent development, and proactive talent retention by leveraging intelligence, automation and experience.

Set against the backdrop of Hyderabad’s burgeoning reputation as a global technology hub,

and expanding on the success of its U.S. events, which have become a hallmark of HR thought leadership, IAMPHENOM INDIA will address the unique challenges and opportunities faced by India’s HR and talent community. It is a space where the industry’s top minds will educate and inspire, learn about best practices, and discuss innovative solutions tailored to the complexities of today’s talent ecosystem.

Sharing his enthusiasm for the conference, Mahe Bayireddi, CEO and Co-founder, Phenom says, “The overwhelming success of IAMPHENOM in the U.S. has proven that when HR leaders come together to share insights and innovations, transformative change becomes possible. With IAMPHENOM INDIA, we aim to empower even more organizations with the tools and strategies needed to navigate today’s rapidly evolving talent ecosystem, unlocking human potential on an unprecedented scale. India is a critical driver of global workforce innovation, and we are thrilled to bring IAMPHENOM here.”

Event Details

Date: Friday, December 13, 2024

Venue: Trident Hotel, HITEC City, Hyderabad