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DRONA- Corporate Mobile Training

The Basic fact of corporate life is that everyone needs training, and the basic fact of life in India is that everyone has a mobile handset. If you put the two together then you have a winner of an idea, only problem is that Divyesh Kharade has beaten you to it. He is the entrepreneur with the amazing business idea of putting corporate training on mobiles. The founder of Deltecs InfoTech Pvt. Ltd told us more about DRONA, India’s only purpose built development and delivery platform for mobile learning.

Kallos…at the forefront of a changing paradigm in the Indian IT industry

The 1990s heralded the growth of India as a global giant in the IT industry; however competitive advantage dictated that India’s focus within the IT industry remained on services and project execution as opposed to product development. Product development was seen as a high R&D investment game with little “annuity” or regular cash flows seen on the services side, and hence best left to the global biggies in the arena like IBM, SAP, Oracle, Microsoft, etc. In 2003, George foresaw a confluence of new technologies and business models around model based rapid development and Software as a service (SaaS) emerging that he expected would lead to an eventual restructuring of the Enterprise Applications market. These emerging new technologies provided an opportunity for newer players to enter into an established product technology development market dominated by few players.

Who said sports is for kids. Sportingmindz has shown that sports is a serious business for those involved in it. Their success is an example of market creation where one did not exist before.

Sameer Mehta (Sam to his friends and people who know him) is a member of the advisory board of Sportingmindz, the TechSparks 2010 winner. Sportingmindz enhances performance of people in sports through its analytical tools.

“Enhancing performance thro’ innovation”

Software that can help players perform better on the field, improve their game and registermore wins sounds like something straight out of the future. Entrepreneurs are however people who look to the future and “SportingMindz Technology” is a positive step in bringing the future to the present.

When IPL-3 was broadcast earlier this year on Youtube, the Internet behemoth Google got a couple of things wrong. For one, it grossly underestimated how cricket-crazy this nation is, as was evident when the service was bogged down by the large number of people trying to watch the matches online simultaneously. For another, even those who managed to to reach the IPL page, the experience was stuttering.