Sandeep in the News
New chief aims to make Zensar a 100% digital company
Software services company Zensar Technologies is poised for the second phase of growth with focus on making it a 100% digital firm, Sandeep Kishore, who took charge as the company’s new CEO and managing director on February 15, told TOI on Tuesday. Kishore replaces Ganesh Nataranjan, the founder of the company, whose term will end on April 30.
We Are Committed To Make Zensar a 100% Digital Company
Sandeep Kishore is set to take charge from Ganesh Natarajan as managing director and chief executive of Zensar Technologies, information technology arm from the RPG Group. Natarajan had taken it from a Rs 40-crore entity to a Rs 2,000-plus crore enterprise. Kishore, an old hand at HCL Technologies, tells Shivani Shinde Nadhe why he choose to join Zensar, his growth strategy and how he intends to leverage the presence of Apax Partners.
Zensar looking to hire a chief digital officer and chief technology officer
Zensar is looking to strengthen its top deck by hiring a chief digital officer and a chief technology officer, the mid-sized IT firm’s new CEO Sandeep Kishore told ET. Kishore, who joined Zensar two months ago from HCL Tech, officially took over as CEO in the middle of February. Since then he has begun the task of reshaping Zensar to achieve faster growth.
Zensar appoints HCL’s Sandeep Kishore as CEO and MD
Zensar Technologies Ltd, an RPG Enterprises’ group company, named Sandeep Kishore as Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director. Kishore will join Zensar on January 12 and take over leadership of the company from Ganesh Natarajan, whose term comes to an end on 30 April 2016. He will be based in San Jose, California, Zensar said in a statement on Monday. An alumnus of IIT Bombay, Kishore has over 25 years of experience in the IT industry, spanning across IT services, engineering and business process outsourcing.
CMSWire publishes Building Service Provider-Client Relationships for the Long Haul
“Regardless of the type of business (digital agencies, systems integrators, consultants), today’s service providers are successful because they have a mindset of solving their clients’ problems, rather than merely offering solutions. To succeed, service providers need to act as an extension of the client’s team. They are constantly having to balance both moving forward with daily tasks and demonstrating their value to the client in order to solidify the relationship.”
Fundamatics publishes 2015 – Welcome to the second half of this decade!
“The middle of this decade is here. Much has been achieved in the first half and much more is expected from the second. While there are several key areas of focus which deserve attention and can create impact as we look into the next five years, the following five [… have] the mega potential to transform the world.”
EnterpriseAppsTech publishes Enter the chief digital officer: Creating a roadmap to the enterprise of the future
“Everywhere you look, businesses are being rejuvenated and reinvented, utilising new technologies and tools in an effort to tap into the digital advantage. This process of digitalisation is as unstoppable as it is irreversible; organisations are investing heavily to stay afloat in the new digital age. As such, digitalisation has moved way beyond high-concept discussions at the board level, to the creation of detailed roadmaps and the implementation of new ways of working and service delivery.”
Enterprise CIO Forum publishes Be Digital or Be Extinct – the existential question
“The era of “Digital Darwinism” is upon us[…] Businesses today have no choice but to adopt digital technologies or run the risk of being left in the digital dust by native digital companies which simply understand technology better and have deployed it more quickly and more effectively.”
HCL Celebrates 10 Years of Successful Engagement with Merck
“We are proud to be associated with Merck & Co. The last 10 years have been a rewarding journey with Merck & Co. It is exciting to see this relationship grow beyond the contract and where we have been able to deliver unique value consistently[…] Our relationship with Merck has played a key role in HCL’s evolution as an integrated service provider and leader in Life Sciences and Healthcare space.”
Enterprise CIO Forum publishes Big data and its impact on One
“Big data and predictive real-time analytics are critical dimensions of technology which have wide applicability across industries. IDC forecasts the big data technology and services market to become a USD 41.5 billion business through 2018. This market is growing with a CAGR of six times faster than the overall IT market and the growth rate of data and information has been incredible. As per IBM, 2.5 quintillion bytes of data is generated every day from the internet, posts on social media sites, emails, ecommerce transactions, website contents, videos, digital photos, sensors and more. All this, with only 41% of the world connected to the internet. Imagine the colossal amount of data that will be generated when the entire world is online and hundreds of billion devices become connected through the Internet of Things, IoT.”
CBR publishes Creating a digital roadmap to the enterprise of the future
“Everywhere you look businesses are being reinvented and rejuvenated, utilising new technologies and tools in an effort to tap into the digital advantage. This process of digitalisation is as unstoppable as it is irreversible; businesses are investing heavily to stay afloat in the new digital age. As such, digitalisation has moved way beyond high-concept discussions at the board level, to the creation of detailed roadmaps and the implementation of new ways of working and service delivery.”
Healthcare IT News publishes Software-led healthcare
“If you look around, it is easy to see every facet of our lives – both personal and professional – being impacted by software. Software is pivotal to the growth of most new and emerging industry segments and it has transformed mature industries such as agribusiness, mining, construction, industrial manufacturing, automotive and aerospace. The healthcare industry is no exception.”
HCL Technologies Achieves Life Sciences Competency Status in the AWS Partner Network Competency Program
“Achieving the AWS Life Sciences Competency is a strong validation of HCL’s continued commitment to developing innovative new solutions that create value for our life sciences customers in what has become a very complex and rapidly evolving environment […] By teaming up with AWS, we’ve been able to more effectively help life sciences customers conduct drug research and development with a main focus on science and patients.”
CIO Insight publishes Digitalization: The Time to Speed Up is Now
“Digitalization will be a never-ending commitment for enterprises, but it has the potential to create significant business impact and ensure relevance in the marketplace.”
Everest Group Names HCL Life Sciences IT Outsourcing Leader and Star Performer
“Receiving this recognition for second year in a row highlights our continued commitment to and success within the life sciences and healthcare industry. It motivates us to keep innovating new solutions that drive higher value for our customers.”
DistilNFO Interview on the Healthcare Industry
“[C]onsumerization of healthcare will be brought by convergence between healthcare and various other industries. Today, many leading life sciences companies are investing in multi-channel marketing strategies. Manufacturing innovations like 3D printing may go a long way in saving, and enhancing the lives of patients. Collaboration and convergence will define the next phase of growth for the healthcare industry.”
CIO Insight publishes Digital and Physical: Finding the Right Balance
“Digitization, the ever-increasing presence that surrounds us as consumers, has created some interesting conundrums for a wide variety of companies as they plot their product offerings, distribution methods and strategies for meeting and exploring customer needs.”
Business Line publishes Embrace the internet of things
“Everything we can think of around us, at home, work, factories, laboratories, hospitals, on the street, in the car, on planes, ships and so on is interconnected and continuously communicating, exchanging data and information… While [devices that we use to connect to the internet] is only going to grow, a rather steeper growth will come from devices that will either be connected to the internet autonomously… or they’ll simply be connected to each other (machine-to-machine connections or M2M).”