Tuesday, September 8, 2009

33 Free Tools to Make Your Website Better

Source: http://www.grokdotcom.com/2008/11/13/33-free-tools-to-make-your-website-better/

Few tools are:

Customer Focus Calculator

BT Buckets

Bad Neighborhood Link Checker

Webbed-O-Meter 2.0

Website Grader

Spider Simulator and Spider Test

Google Analytics and Google Website Optimizer

Sunday, September 6, 2009

Gartner: The Top 10 Strategic Technologies for 2009

Source: http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=777212
The top 10 strategic technologies for 2009 include:
1. Virtualization

2. Cloud Computing
3. Servers — Beyond Blades
4. Web-Oriented Architectures
5. EnterpriseMashups
6. Specialized Systems
7. Social Software and Social Networking
8. Unified Communications
9. Business Intelligence
10. Green IT

Thursday, September 3, 2009

IT and Retail Vertical


According to leading global analyst firm Forrester Research online retail sales in the US market (the largest buyer of Indian IT solutions), will touch USD 229 billion by 2013, growing at a CAGR of 10 per cent over the five-year forecast period (2008-13).
Recent research has indicated that the total retail market in India is worth around INR 1,268,000 crore and encompasses over 12 million outlets. Of this, organised retail accounts for approximately 4.5 per cent of this figure (i.e. INR 5, 7020 crore), and is expected to grow to 10 per cent of the total market in the next five years, the current economic climate notwithstanding.








Tuesday, September 1, 2009

India Today Survey: Best cities to work and live

Source:
http://indiatoday.intoday.in/index.php?option=com_registration&task=gallerycat&exist=yes&photocat=3&thumbid=1439
1. Gurgaon
2. Chandigarh
3. Channai
4. Hyderabad
5. Mumbai
6. Noida
7. Bangalore
8. Pune
9. Surat
10. Ahmedabad

NASSCOM: IT Services & BPO Industry Performance and Rankings 2008-09

Source:
http://blog.nasscom.in/nasscomnewsline/2009/07/nasscom-announces-industry-performance-and-rankings/
Top-5 IT Services exporters are:
1. Tata Consultancy Services
2. Infosys Technologies Ltd
3. Wipro Ltd
4. HCL Technologies Ltd
5. Tech Mahindra Ltd
Top-5 BPO exporters are:
1. Genpact India Pvt Ltd
2. WNS Global Services (P) Ltd
3. IBM-Daksh Business Process Services Pvt Ltd
4. Wipro BPO
5. Tata Consultancy Services BPO

According to the findings of NASSCOM Annual Survey on performance of Indian IT-BPO industry, the sector reached USD 58.8 billion in FY2008-09 up from USD 52 billion in FY2007- 08. Export revenues for the Indian IT-BPO industry recorded a growth of 16.3 percent and clocked revenues of USD 46.3 billion in FY2008-09 up from USD 40.4 billion in FY2007- 08. The domestic segment grew by 21 per cent to register revenues of INR 570 billion in FY2008-09 from INR 470 billion in FY2007-08.

Global IT Spending (In Industry & Regions)

Source http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/02/24/gartner_2009_it_spending
Gartner: Global IT spending will rise in 2009 (slightly): (February 2009)
Top-5 Industries where more IT spending is expected
1. Utilities
2. Healthcare
3. Government
4. Communications
5. Education
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"Gartner is forecasting that IT spending in the EMEA region will decline by 0.3 per cent (utilities do the best and services firms do the worst), while rising 4.4 per cent in Latin America and 2.9 per cent in Asia/Pacific. Brazil, India, China, Argentina, Chile, and Peru will lead the IT spending charge in these two regions, but Japan is expected to see a 0.1 per cent IT spending decline this year."
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The AMR Research Supply Chain Top 25 for 2009

Source: http://www.amrresearch.com/Content/View.aspx?compURI=tcm:7-43469
Top-5 are:
1. Apple
2. Dell
3. P&G
4. IBM
5. Cisco Systems

Latest Statistics on World Internet Uses

Source: http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm

Asia is leading with more than 41% of the total internet users worldwide.

Europe and North America are lagging behind with 2nd and 3rd share respectively.

E-Resources for Market Research


http://search.ebscohost.com
(EBSCO database is with the list of Full text Journals all over the world. )
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http://free-ebooks.bestmanagementarticles.com/
(Big collection of eBook, Articles, Ideas, and Strategies related to all fields of management. Free membership is available)
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www.pdfoo.com
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http://cacm.acm.org/
(Advanced Articles in computing and profession)
http://www.scribd.com/doc
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http://www.docstoc.com/
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http://www.buzzle.com/
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http://www.uniraj.ernet.in/
(Collection of Articles and Journals of management studies online)
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www.12manage.com
(A collection of management concepts and models)
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www.cfo.com
(a magazine for financial directors and treasurer)
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http://www.aresearchguide.com/
(Research Guide to students)
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http://article.tqmcasestudies.com/
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http://www.law.kuleuven.be/
(Institute for International Law)
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http://www.un.org/law/
(All the details related to International law)
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http://www.uncitral.org/uncitral/index.html
(United Nations Commission on International Trade Law)
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http://www.jus.uio.no/lm/
(It has Articles on trading, information on international commercial law with subsidiary interests in commerce that may be of interest to law and management academics and professionals worldwide.)
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http://www.iccwbo.org/
(International Chamber of Commerce is the voice of world business championing the global economy as a force for economic growth, job creation and prosperity)
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http://europa.eu/
(Gateway to European Union. All Details are available)
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www.exinfm.com/training
(Financial Management Training Center: All courses are free and accessible to download)
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www.investopedia.com
(Finance and Investment related Articles)
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http://www.doaj.org/
(Directory of Open Access Journals. 186570 articles, 3380 journals)
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http://www.baselinemag.com/
(Online Magazine and you will find latest news and articles from corporate world)
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http://scholar.google.co.in/
(Search Articles, books or any reading material)
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http://www.proquest.com/
(Collection of Information from different organization)
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http://whitepapers.technologyevaluation.com/
(Free online library for the latest technical white papers, web casts, and product Information. Make login to access)
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http://www.managementjournals.com/ (PAID)
(International Management Journals.)
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www.free-itebooks.com
(This is a free article resource site where you can find almost any article under various amounts of topics under the sun)
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http://www.docstoc.com/documents/business/
(Shared Professional Documents from business, technology, education and finance)
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http://www.managementhelp.org/
(Library provides easy-to-access, clutter-free, comprehensive resources regarding the leadership and personal management. There are approximately 650 topics in the Library, spanning 5,000 links.)
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http://www.1888articles.com/
(Free article directory)
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http://www.rbi.org.in/financialeducation/Home.aspx
("Project Financial Literacy” from RBI)
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http://books.google.co.in/
(Online collection of books)
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http://findarticles.com/