Software Product Engineering EIIR (Engineering, IoT, Industry 4.0 and R&D) Trends Q-2 2019

How are software enterprises leveraging R&D service providers? (Deals/Contracts/ Partnerships)

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  Thomas Cook is leveraging Accenture for its online portal. It has seen a 14 per cent jump in lead conversion, with the use of analytics, artificial intelligence (AI) and upgradation of the internal technology portal. Great example how engineering service providers can help brick and mortar companies in their digital journey and help them compete with digital natives.

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  Catalina, the market leader in shopper intelligence and personalized digital media that converts shoppers into buyers, has selected GlobalLogic to help bolster innovation, and accelerate the development and delivery of its robust product pipeline – bringing new data-driven products and digital solutions to market more quickly.

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  Persistent is doing product engineering for a global, analytics, business Intelligence and data management software provider

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  Persistent has signed engineering partnership for building next generation liquid chromatography data systems for a global diagnostics and life science research corporation

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  Persistent is taking engineering ownership of an encryption, data security and privacy solution for a US-based global software major

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  Persistent is strengthening the security experience of customer-centric web portals for a US-based bank

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  Persistent is doing product engineering around analytics for the world’s largest immigration software company

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  Persistent is doing data strategy and integration engagement for the world’s largest food and beverage company

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  Persistent is helping in delivering platform-led value-based care solution for a health benefits management services company in the US

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  AVEVA and Cognizant Expand R&D Partnership to Build Next-Gen Industrial Software

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  Microsoft, Topcoder and Wipro are pushing crowdsourcing boundaries to power QA and Testing. Gig economy at scale

How are software enterprises organizing their R&D? (GICs/ R&D Best Practices/Solutions)

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  Flipkart doubling down on its tech presence in Israel. Firm setting up an R&D centre to focus on cyber security, cloud computing and data protection.

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  ThoughtSpot to invest $25 mn in India R&D center.

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  Spiceworks, an Austin, Texas-based marketplace for products and solutions for the IT industry, has opened a development center in India.

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  Google has opened its first Africa Artificial Intelligence lab in Ghana

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  Airtel may monetise its data analytics capabilities to offer services to other telcos. If more enterprise follow this route – First develop internal digital capabilities and then monetise them to offer services to others – wouldn’t it be a threat for Indian and global IT service providers?

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  Amazon has made a very large bet on virtual and augmented reality (VR/AR) by launching Sumerian, an all-in-one development platform that can build AR and VR apps for smartphones and headsets

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  Salesforce chooses Singapore for its first Asia-based AI research centre

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  Huawei launched the world’s first AI-native cloud database GaussDB.

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  F5 Networks opened its first centre of excellence for product development in India in Hyderabad . The company that works in the space of multi-cloud application services has opened the CoE with a seating capacity of 440. Currently, it has employed 200 people and in less than two years it plans to double the headcount to 400 employees at the Hyderabad center. The centre will assist in the development of F5 core solution areas and advance its cloud capabilities. The products developed by the team here will be used by its 25,000 clients globally.

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  Acronis will expand its operations by the creation of a European centre for cyber protection, artificial intelligence and blockchain projects, as part of its existing R&D centre in Bulgaria, and will hire an additional 130 software engineers in the process

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  Socure is opening its engineering center in India Interestingly the location selected is Chennai because of low attrition.

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  Pegasystem is transforming its R&D GIC into a profit center by actively selling in India.

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  Ola to set up base of mobility tech innovation in Silicon valley with 150+ engineers

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  GOJEK acquires AirCTO. In last three years GOJEK acquired five Indian startups- C42, Codelgnition, Leftshift, Pianta and AirCTO. GOJEK will also setup its development center in Gurgaon and plan to increase its India headcount to 500 from current 400.

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  Dell Boomi will open R&D center at Devon, UK.

How are service providers developing their solutions and capabilities?

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  Globant announced the launch of a new office in Paris to approach the French and European market.

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  Globant is acquiring Avanxo, a leading cloud transformation company with presence in the United States, Brazil, Mexico, Colombia, Peru and Argentina.

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  Google acquires Looker for $2.6 Billion to boost its cloud business.

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  Hexaware acquires Mobiquity for $180 Million and enters in software product engineering service space

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  Salesforce is buying Tableau for $15.7 billion.

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  Cybage opens two new development centers in Gandhinagar and Pune.

Software product engineering industry news

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  Publicis Groupe is acquiring data marketing giant Epsilon in a $4.4 billion deal

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  Startups in Dubai, Singapore, Indonesia, Germany hiring Indian engineers both for their India operations and global operations.

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  CSC sues TCS for source code misaapropriation and use it for BaNCS.

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  Accenture sued over website redesign by Hertz. Delayed deadlines, functionality not as promised, buggy code, and charging more fees to fix issues.

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  Baidu reports first quarterly loss since 2005. Loosing money on search business in shift to mobile or general business sentiment down in China or on some of moonshots – AI, self driving cars, etc?

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  Oracle would shut down its research and development (R&D) center in China laying off nearly 1,000 employees.

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  Australian court asks Infosys to share source code of a banking solution on complaint from Qudos

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  Cyber attack hits Australian Banks. ANZ Bank warned customers about an elaborate email scam and Westpac have had a PayID breach of almost 100,000 customers.

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  Microsoft has pulled its facial recognition database MS Celeb.

Software Product Engineering resources: consultant/ analyst updates

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  McKinsey: How to select and develop individuals for successful agile teams: A practical guide (Link)

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  A new era of enterprise IT where traditional IT stack is shifting to cloud ecosystem is a major growth driver for software product engineering service. (Link)

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  Inside Airbnb’s engineering challenges (Link)

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  McKinsey: Enterprise Software: An industry in transformation (Link)