Bharti- Pain-points and Things to do (Premium) - View Free Sample
Financial Over-exposure: With entry to Africa and on account of 3G and BWA license acquisition, Bharti is over exposed financially. It had taken a loan of $8 bn from a consortium of banks led by Standard Chartered bank for Zain acquisition worth $10.7 bn. As of December 31, 2011, Bharti Airtel has a net debt of $12.72 bin which impacting Bharti's bottomline. Leadership Crisis: The firm that was held as an example for its leadership qualities a couple of years back is suddenly felt to be in the middle of a leadership crisis. The dynamism of Sunil Mittal is being missed. The dynamism, man-management qualities and technical skills of Kohli are being missed in a big way. Experts believe, that the leadership focus has somewhat shifted to Africa, leaving India vulnerable to losing market share. Even Bharti has not been able to come to terms with restructuring even after 7 months. The confidence and the visibility of the top management is at the lowest.

Point of View

One of the key opportunities facing retailers today is the expanding definition of "multichannel" to now include mobile and social shopping. This paper tackles this subject, head on.

The New Mobile Marketing Imperative: Measuring What Matters
Aberdeen Group
This paper will outline the impact of mobile marketing performance measurement, and highlight the key factors required to support execution of measurement as a key strategy in order to build a Best-in-Class mobile marketing infrastructure.

Building Mobile Applications
Jeff Linwood
In this paper, we discuss how to build a stand-alone mobile app for the iPhone with jQuery Mobile and PhoneGap that communicates with your Drupal server using the Services 3 module.

Mcafee

Newer mobile computing models are pushing the boundaries of security. The unprecedented growth in smartphones and tablets in the enterprise, a strong trend toward the consumerization of IT, a crush of software vendors mobilizing their business applications, and the revelation that web 2.0 technologies are here to stay in the workplace, is putting enterprise information technology and security professionals under intense pressure. And even more pressure comes as IT organizations are expected to manage and secure mobile devices faster than ever before while becoming and staying compliant. There are three primary steps organizations should pursue in parallel - this paper defines and identifies the basic requirements and next steps for each, as well as highlighting the most important security technologies with which devices need to integrate to achieve the objective.

Mobility is an opportunity for innovation- Dr Michael Gorriz CIO Daimler (Premium) - View Free Sample
Dr Michael Gorriz, CIO and head, ITM, Daimler AG, is responsible for strategy, planning, and development of all IT systems as well as the operation of all data centers and communication networks. Dr Gorriz etched his career graph at Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm GmbH, a German aerospace company, which was later known as the Daimler-Benz affiliate DASA, and has recently been merged into EADS. In 2000, Dr Gorriz took over the reins as vice president, IT business systems at Daimler's IT management division. Later in 2005, he was additionally promoted as CIO Mercedes-Benz cars and vans, and entrusted the responsibility of worldwide IT systems within the division of Mercedes-Benz cars and vans at Daimler AG. In an interaction with Dataquest, Dr Gorriz highlights the challenges that the CIOs face with bring your own technology. Excerpts.

Delivering Web to Mobile
JISC Observatory

Simplifying the VSAT Ecosystem (Premium) - View Free Sample
For many years VSAT dealt with escalating bandwidth prices and scarce satellite capacity; but the next few years will bring terabytes of bandwidth at vastly reduced costs. Overall, VSAT players have much more to offer than what appears. For many years, we have seen, heard, and written about escalating bandwidth prices and scarce satellite capacity that doomed this industry, but the next few years will bring terabytes of bandwidth and at vastly reduced costs with innovative technologies and services. Even though VSAT industry struggles to deploy new technologies and trends with regulatory bottlenecks and cost constraints; we cannot deny that the industry still shows a steady growth immense opportunities.

Telcos root for Testing (Premium) - View Free Sample
Chanting the success mantra of 'ensuring QoS', telcos are all set to be proactive and not just reactive. The service providers and ISPs are expanding their subscriber base at a robust growth rate. Consequently, the growth of mobile network is taking place at a very rapid pace with millions of subscribers being added every month. If they had not been able to provide a minimum decent quality in all their services, they wouldn't have reached where they are now.

Budget 2012- The wait continues for Telecom (Premium) - View Free Sample
Industry leaders had expected this budget to spur growth that the telecom industry has deserved for so long; but it had to face disappointment yet again. The struggling telecom industry set its basic demands in purview of the governing bodies; but yet again got a big blow with Union Budget 2012-13 discarding the industry's demands. Waiting in high hopes, industry leaders had expected this budget to spur growth that the industry deserved for so long; yet faced only disappointment this year. Overall Pranab Mukherjee's budget 2012-13 addressed 5 objectives--focus on domestic demand driven growth recovery; create conditions for rapid revival of high growth in private investment; address supply bottlenecks in agriculture, energy, and transport sectors, particularly in coal, power, national highways, railways, and civil aviation.