Research firm Zinnov has released an estimate that the cloud computing market within India is expected to reach $1.08 billion by 2015. This would be a ten-fold increase from today’s $110 million market. Software as a Service (SaaS) is expected to make up $650 million of that revenue, and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and […]
Reportedly, Marc Benioff loves Apple. He loves iPads. And he loves Japan. In a recent guest column by the Salesforce executive, Benioff describes his 3-week stay in Japan that coincided with the release of the iPad. He watched as the Japanese people completely ate up the iPads in stock and revered the new device. To him, […]
Amdocs, plugged as a customer experience systems provider, has recently announced a couple of deals to increase presence on the all-important continent of Asia. Most recently was Guizhou Telecom, subsidiary of China Telecom, announcing the selection of Amdocs in helping integrate its enterprise data for improved system management. Reportedly, Guizhou is the first China Telecom […]
No one can ever accuse PacificNet, Inc. of doing things in a small way. The Asia-side provider of gaming technology, e-commerce, and Customer Relationship Management services in China, opened a joint venture with Japan-based Bellsystem24 last week. Bellsystem 24 is said to be Japan’s single largest telemarketing call center services provider. (How big is it? […]
Hey, this one’s a surprise, at least for me – I mean, i didn’t even know they drank Pernod in Hong Kong. Nevertheless, StayinFront, Inc., a provider of enterprise-wide customer relationship management applications, decision support tools, data services and e-business systems, has announced its a new multi-year contract with Pernod Ricard Hong Kong Limited. Pernod […]
Asia Commercial Bank this week announced its agreement with Hanoi-based Thien Nam Information Technology Company, an international reseller of banking and financial processing systems. Thien Nam will be upgrading Asia’s core processing platform to the latest release of Open Solutions Inc.’s classically no-nonsensically named The Complete Banking Solution. Open Solutions Inc., a provider of integrated […]
AsiaInfo Holdings, Inc., a provider of telecom software solutions and IT security products and services, has announced this signing of a contract with China Unicom subsidiary Jiangsu Unicom to upgrade the existing billing and Customer Relationship Management to support its new GPRS services. Currently plans call for Jiangsu Unicom to upgrade its GSM system to […]
Evolving Systems, Inc., a provider of software solutions and services to the wireless, wireline and IP carrier markets announced on Friday that the firm had been selected by an unnamed convergent telecoms operator in Indonesia to provide service activation solutions. Evolving Systems will provide the core solution technology, as well as related technical and agent […]
CinTel Corp. announced its signing of a stock purchase agreement to acquire fully one hundred percent ownership and equity interests of Bluecomm Co., Ltd. for an aggregate purchase price of approximately $6.5 million. Bluecomm is a Korea-based DBM (Database Marketing) and CRM solutions provider. Bluecomm entered the CRM business in 2005 and has special expertise […]