IBM, Accenture beef up analytics
The biggest global players in IT are adding strong analytics and consulting capabilities to their offerings out of India.
By Sujit John, TNN |
MUMBAI: The biggest global players in IT are adding strong analytics and consulting capabilities to their offerings out of India. It’s being driven both by the availability of such talent in the country, and the fact that such a move helps them get a larger part of the customer’s business. Customers, too, expect vendors to offer not just technology solutions, but complete business-cumtechnology solutions to the issues they face.
Rekha Menon, executive director, Accenture India, said analytics was the next space to be. “We are going to the top B-schools for this. We need people who can look at data, crunch that data and come up with good business insights that companies can use to improve their business,” she said.
IBM had announced in November the setting up of a high-end business analytics and optimisation centre in Bangalore. The company now says analytics and business transformation consulting will be a key offering from India in four of its verticals — banking, telecom, healthcare and retail.
Rajesh Nambiar, VP for global delivery in IBM India, said that in global delivery, client expectations were going up. “They don’t want a tech-centric discussion. They want deeper conversations, business centric discussions that will help them understand how their performance can improve and precisely how technology can help in this. So we should be able to have a conversation with not just the CIO, but also the CFO and others,” he said.
Jim Champy, chairman of Dell Services’ consulting practice , said analytics capabilities were available in India at very good costs. “And these are higher level sophisticated offerings, with high margins ,” he said.
Rekha Menon, executive director, Accenture India, said analytics was the next space to be. “We are going to the top B-schools for this. We need people who can look at data, crunch that data and come up with good business insights that companies can use to improve their business,” she said.
IBM had announced in November the setting up of a high-end business analytics and optimisation centre in Bangalore. The company now says analytics and business transformation consulting will be a key offering from India in four of its verticals — banking, telecom, healthcare and retail.
Rajesh Nambiar, VP for global delivery in IBM India, said that in global delivery, client expectations were going up. “They don’t want a tech-centric discussion. They want deeper conversations, business centric discussions that will help them understand how their performance can improve and precisely how technology can help in this. So we should be able to have a conversation with not just the CIO, but also the CFO and others,” he said.
Jim Champy, chairman of Dell Services’ consulting practice , said analytics capabilities were available in India at very good costs. “And these are higher level sophisticated offerings, with high margins ,” he said.
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