Intense Tech tool for ICICI Pru 
June 03, 2008
Source: Google

Intense Technologies on Monday announced that ICICI Prudential Life Insurance has implemented Intense’s intelligent Enterprise Customer Communication Management (iECCM) Suite for handling customer documents. 

The CEO of Intense Technologies, Mr Raghav Sahgal, in a statement said “ICICI Prudential Life Insurance’s endorsement of our solution illustrates the value proposition of the iECCM Suite for the insurance vertical. Intense also serves Bajaj Allianz and Bharti Axa.” 

The Senior Vice-President-IT, ICICI Prudential Life Insurance, Mr Sumit Puri, said: “Intense’s solution offers cost-effective, multi-modal delivery of branded customer documents like Welcome Kits, first premium notice, policy statements etc.” According to Intense, its iECCM Suite has been implemented in majority of the telecom companies and in the banking, telecom and manufacturing verticals. 

Infy bags patents for mobile tech, holography    
June 03 , 2008 
SOURCE: TNN

NEW DELHI: Infosys Technologies’ R&D efforts got a major boost on Monday as it was granted patents for mobile communications and holography. 

This is the first time that Infosys has bagged patents from the US Patent and Trademark Office work done by its Software Engineering and Technology Labs (SETLabs), a 500-people center comprising researchers, engineers and consultants. 

The Lab, set up in 2000 with the aim of bolstering research practices, has filed over 100 patent applications in the last 18 months. The two patents have come at a time when the company is looking at non-linear growth model, breaking the link between revenue and employee growth. 

Subu Goparaju, head of SETLabs, told ET, "the use of intellectual property in products and solutions for clients is very important for IT services companies. The idea is to do faster innovation and how we can help clients in adopting new technologies. The two patents granted now were for applications filed about a year back." 

The patent titled `Displaying holographic 3-D images’ describes the realization of actual 3-D communication using computer holography to send and receive information and the associated optical elements required to make a lightweight handset. 

Existing technologies use high-resolution LCD to give the illusion of 3-D while actually displaying a 2-D image. Actual 3-D imaging, which includes a representation of depth along with amplitude information, is not being used in these cases. This patent addresses the issue of 3-D in mobile communication. 

The other patent titled `Method and system for providing reliable and fast communications with mobile entities’ proposes a mobile Internet-based solution to support generic mobility over heterogeneous networks (GSM, CDMA, 3G, etc). 

The solution from SETLabs leverages a split-TCP (transfer control protocol) approach where the TCP connection between the communication entities is split at a suitable gateway. 

It helps a mobile handset to adapt to changing networks. Besides these two, the work for which patents are pending for SETLabs includes Mantra, a maintenance platform; Nconnect, a middleware to create faster mobile applications; Radien which is a Java application development framework and Influx a business process modelling method to develop requirements in an accurate manner. 

Says Goparaju,"it takes two to three years for a patent to be granted after filing an application. We focus on research areas such as malleable architecture, pervasive access, flexible processes and personalized information and look at how R&D can help our clients." 

Across Indian IT services companies, the $5.7-billion TCS has filed over 200 patent applications in the last five years. Says Avinash Vashishta, CEO, Tholons (an advisory firm), "India IT majors have been running a software factory and R&D is one area where they have to do a lot. The focus being services, barring a few small exceptions they have not been able to create a business around R&D — that is, develop IP products and market them." 

Now, to get to the higher billing tasks and delink revenue growth from manpower growth, a focus on R&D is a must. The top IT majors could show the way here. 

New CEO, CFO for Hexaware     
June 03, 2008 
SOURCE: Business Line

IT firm Hexaware Technologies has appointed Mr P.R. Chandrasekar as the Chief Executive Officer and Vice-Chairman and Mr Prateek Aggarwal as the Chief Financial Officer of the company. The erstwhile CEO, Mr Rusi Brij, will continue with the company as a board member and serve as Vice-Chairman. Prior to joining Hexaware, Mr Chandrasekar was President, Americas and Europe with the Bangalore based Wipro. Mr Aggarwal succeeds Mr P.K. Sridharan (the acting CFO) who will continu e in the company as Chief Mentor and Executive Director. In his previous role, Mr Aggarwal was Head of Finance of the software division of HCL Technologies.