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Industry News: Information and Communications
There aren’t too many IoT success stories: Studyedit
At a time when IoT, or Internet of Things, is the buzz word, a study by Cisco has found that as many as 60% of IoT initiatives stall at the Proof of Concept stage, and only 26% of companies have had an IoT initiative that they considered a complete success. Even worse: a third of all completed projects were not considered a success.
IoTThis is the biggest reason behind IT layoffsedit
So the way I look at it, automation may threaten lower-end jobs that are repetitive in nature and can be done with minimal human interference. What we are seeing in the industry now is that the resources being released are being retrained, reskilled and redeployed in other value-added jobs.
IT IndustryIT industry in India will continue to witness layoffs at low-end skills for next 18 months: Expertsedit
“Manufacturing, agriculture-related, healthcare and pharma, home automation, automotive, power and energy, logistics, BFSI, e-commerce are major sectors which will see these jobs being created. Next 5 to 10 years are crucial as automation, Internet of Things (IoT) growth will decide what the jobs needs human intervention and what can be automated,” Ballurkar said.
IT Industry5G doesn’t seem like it’s coming to India anytime soonedit
According to a report in the Financial Express, Abhay Savargaonkar, the director of network services (India and South Asia) for Bharti Airtel, said, “The 5G and Internet-of-Things (IoT) applications have tremendous potential to transform lives and we are pleased to partner with Nokia to enable these future technologies for our customers.”
IoTTelecomVirtualization: The key to Service Providers’ successedit
IoT has transformed the way communication service providers operate their business today. This is a result of the huge amount of opportunities that IoT brings along, not just in terms of the scale of investment for the businesses but also the global impact it creates.
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Reskilling: Indian IT sector starts massive effort to learn new tricksedit
By Shivam Shrivastav
Buzzwords such as big data, internet of things, artificial intelligence and machine learning dominate the changing need of technology implementation. Gupta gives the specific example of the auto and telecom — how these two industries collect terrabytes of data and use analytics to study consumer behaviour and improve customer experience.
ReskillingNew diploma courses on offer in re-skill pushedit
Five two-year diploma courses will be introduced at advanced training institutes in India from August-September. These will be on welding technology, industrial electronics and automation, manufacturing, automotive technology and IT, networking and cloud computing.
ReskillingCareer stagnation, layoffs pushing IT professionals to go in for multi-skillingedit
By Ranjani Ayyar
The recent IT layoffs have spurred software professionals with three-eight years of experience towards having multiple skills in their kitty. E-learning companies such as Upgrad, Skillsoft and Simplilearn have seen a surge in the demand for their courses in specialised areas like analytics, product management.
Skill DevelopmentIT firms look for new skill sets in prospective employeesedit
By Ayan Pramanik and Kiran Rathee
Nasscom says the industry is witnessing an increasing demand for services using new technologies, such as artificial intelligence (AI), internet of things, machine learning and big data analytics. “While reskilling is imperative, there is a clear shortage of talent in skills, both in India and globally,” R Chandrasekhar, president, Nasscom, said in a telephonic interview. “But it is hard to give a number.”
Skill DevelopmentModi in Germany: In backdrop of Modi-Merkel meet, success story in educationedit
By Shubhajit Roy
As Prime Minister Narendra Modi and German Chancellor Angela Merkel meet on Monday and Tuesday for bilateral talks, they are expected to find a unique success story on Indo-German cooperation in higher education: the number of Indian students in Germany has more than doubled in the last five years.
Higher EducationAhead of the curve: Private universities put in place international tie-upsedit
By Varuni Khosla
At a time when the unemployability of engineers is a matter of concern, some newage universities are giving their students an edge with their international tie-ups with top universities like Yale, Georgia Tech, University of Oxford among others.
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Let there be lightedit
By Kameshwara Rao
The growth of renewable energy is starting to strain the grid at a regional level; already, 28 per cent of generation capacity in the Southern Region is based on renewables. The positives for a consumer, such as surplus capacity and low tariffs, are a negative for producers, and poor returns will discourage future investment. The government will have to use the newly gained confidence to lay foundation for the next stage of reforms.
Renewable EnergyFavourable winds blowing? Producers of the renewable power beg to differedit
While the government has been a champion of renewable energy so far, wind energy hasn’t been receiving its share of love — or so it would appear. A combination of lower tariffs, muddled policy, and lowered incentives are threatening to cripple the industry. At the core of the soul-killing malaise is perhaps the government’s decision to procure power through a reverse auction.
Renewable Energy5% GST on solar panels not to hurt renewable energy sector: reportedit
By Gireesh Chandra Prasad and Mayank Aggarwal
Revised rate structure will not have any material negative impact on the industry and will allow project developers to proceed with construction,” said BTI, but added that the union ministry of new and renewable energy (MNRE) needs to still play a hands-on advisory role for all affected entities to ensure smooth transition for the industry.
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