Brian Pereira

Brian Pereira is the Executive Editor of BW CIO. He has over 22 years of journalism experience and has covered business technology for the Indian Express and Times of India. He is also the former editor of CHIP and Informationweek magazines in India.

Latest Articles By Brian Pereira

We Are Highly Dependent on Dashboards, BI and Analytics: Micromax CIO

Micromax is just one of many organisations that is benefiting from visual analytics. It is not just top management who is using BI and analytics; even line of business heads are now passionate about data and drawing their own inferences and business insights, for decision making. Here’s why its users swear by analytics.

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‘Our Aim Is To Be a Data Authority In The Hybrid Cloud’

BW CIO World met Deepak Visweswaraiah, Senior Vice President & Managing Director of NetApp India to discuss some of the innovations at its GCOE in Bengaluru. Deepak talks about his vision for the GCOE, which will one day become “world-class” and “second to none” as he puts it.

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‘Partners, ecosystem and communities are a key part of our GTM strategy’

Dan Sommer, Senior Director, Global Market Intelligence Lead at Qlik explains how his organisation works with a partner ecosystem to offer more data analytics value to customers.

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‘We were the first in the market to analyse unstructured data’

Ady Meretz, President, Verint Systems, Asia Pacific talks about the applications of speech analytics and how it helps resolve many customer issues for organisations. He also talks about the challenges of doing speech analytics in India.

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India Sails Into The Perfect Storm

Affordable data and mobile plans sets off digital revolution, with increased content consumption through mobile

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‘Indian Learners Are Extremely Focused on Building Tech and Business Skills’

In an email interview, Raghav Gupta, India Country Director, Coursera tells BW CIO World how Coursera is rising to address the demand for quality courses to address the dire requirement for new skills. He talks about Coursera for Business and the high quality courses they are introducing in India, in partnership with esteemed institutions such as Indian School of Business (ISB).

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Why Flock Could Be Bhavin Turakhia's Next Big Jackpot

The Turakhia Brothers have been immensely successful with all the businesses they started and this is rare for startups. Each of their businesses is in the top 5, in their respective category. And all their businesses are bootstrapped. They sold their advertising technology company Media.net to a consortium of Chinese investors last August, for $900 million. That makes them billionaires today. Bhavin Turakhia talks about his next big venture and how it is poised to revolutionise team collaboration and instant messaging in business.

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‘Digital is a Layer on Top of Our Core Business’

Parag Rao, Country Head – Card Payment Products, Merchant Acquiring Services & Marketing, HDFC Bank Ltd tells BW CIO about the Bank’s focus on digital, as another means to reach out to the customer.

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‘Cloud Has Become a Central Part of the Discussion with Customers’

IBM wants to leverage its vast experience with enterprise customers and integrate all parts of its business to offer cloud services to another segment – the small and medium businesses. Vikas Arora, Country Manager, Cloud Business, IBM India & South Asia tells BW CIO his go-to-market strategy to achieve this goal. He also speaks about the potential of IoT and AI and how some of IBM’s customers are using these technologies on the IBM Watson platform.

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Manufacturing Industry Surfs Digital Wave At Last

The manufacturing industry in India is finally embracing digital technologies like IoT and machine learning. Yet there are many challenges in the road to digitisation.

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