UPDATED 10:38 EDT / FEBRUARY 18 2013

ServicesAngle News Briefs for February 18, 2013

Forester Gives IBM Top Score in Enterprise Mobility Services

Forrester Research Inc. has rated IBM as a Leader in enterprise mobility services in its latest “The Forrester Wave: Enterprise Mobility Services Q1 2013”. The report gave IBM the highest score overall among the 13 global enterprise mobility leaders in the report. The report says that IBM “brings clients a world-class design agency (IBM Interactive) combine with breadth and depth of enterprise mobility consulting both in terms of technology capabilities and global presence.” More

 

AWS Makes Amazon Redshift Available to All Customers

AWS has announced that Amazon Redshift, a fast, fully managed, petabyte-scale data warehouse services in the cloud is now available to all customers. With a few clicks on the AWS Management Console, customers can launch an Amazon Redshift cluster starting with a few hundred gigabytes and scaling to a petabyte or more, for less than $1,000 per terabyte per year. More

 

Google Announces 30 Winners of RISE Awards

Google has announced that 30 new organizations from 18 different countries will receive Google RISE (Roots in Science and Engineering) educational awards. Combined, they will reach more than 90,000 children in 2013, “helping to inspire and teach the scientists of the future”. More

 

Tata Consultancy Services Expands UK Operations in Liverpool

Tata Consultancy Services has announced that it is opening a new delivery center in Liverpool dedicated to delivering government services that require Impact Level 3 (IL3) security constraints. Tata will use the facilities to deliver services to the British Home Office as part of a multi-million, multi-year contract awarded in November to manage the technology needs and support services of the newly formed Disclosure and Barring Service. More

 

Forrester Rates Tata as a Leader in Enterprise Mobility Services

Forrester Research Inc. has rated Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) as a Leader in enterprise mobility services in “The Forrester Wave: Enterprise Mobility Services, Q1 2013”. The report cited TCS’s end-to-end enterprise mobility solutions that are strong in technology and development, its innovation in enterprise mobility in several verticals, and its strong pool of technical developers and integration experts. More

 

Infosys Wins 2012 Golden Peacock Award for Innovation

The Institute of Directors, India, has awarded its Golden Peacock Award to the Infosys Cloud Ecosystem Hub as the “Most Innovative Product/Service” of 2012. It won over 1,000 contestants from 25 countries. Applicants were evaluated across an exhaustive set of parameters, including innovation strategy and practices, innovation infrastructure, commercial success, and impact of innovation for customers an third-party endorsements. More

 

Infosys to Trade on NYSE Euronext London and Paris Markets

Infosys will be the first Indian company admitted to trading on NYSE Euronext’s London and Paris markets, starting February 20. To market the occasion, S.D. Shibulal, CEO and Managing Director of Infosys, will ring the bell to open the London market at 08:00 GMT. More

 

Wipro a Leader in Forrester Enterprise Mobility Services Report

Wipro Technologies has been named a Leader in “The Forrester Wave: Enterprise Mobility Services, Q1 2013”. Forrester evaluated 13 leading enterprise mobility service providers across 15 criteria relating to current offering, strategy, and market presence, based on interviews with clients. Wipro scored highest for its breadth of mobile technology skills and competencies, R&D, an go-to-market strategy. More

 

Cognizant CEO Joins GE BOD

Cognizant CEO Francisco D’Souza has been elected to the Board of Directors of General Electric Company. In making the announcement, GE Chairman and CEO Jeff Immelt said, “Frank D’Souza bring great perspective as a leader an a pioneer in services and software.” More

 

20113 Accenture Match Play Championship Attracts 64 of World’s Best to Tee Up February 20-24

Millions of golf fans in more than 224 countries will follow the 2013 World Golf Championships-Accenture Match Play Championship February 20-24. Unlike any other Tour event, 64 of the world’s best players will spend the five days in intensive match play in a head-to-head, single-elimination competition at The Golf Club at Dove Mountain in Marana, Arizona, just north of Tucson. More


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