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From time to time, I’ve cited many success stories of Enterprise Agentic AI: Bajaj Finance: Agentic AI powers 10% of quarterly loan disbursements, worth Rs. 1,600 crore, by analyzing millions of calls and creating tailored offers that added Rs. 325 crore in volumes. DBS: Inhouse AI agent built on top of ChatGPT cuts down KYC … Read more
From: Ketharaman Swaminathan To: editet@timesofindia.com Subject: Time to Score Own Goals Dear Editor: This has reference to the op-ed entitled Time to Score Own Goals by Chandrika Soyantar in today’s Economic Times about GCCs and the nature of R&D work carried out at them. For the uninitiated, GCC stands for Global Capability Center. It’s a delivery unit … Read more
Indian IT industry did many big ticket M&As in FYE 2026. Despite that, no Indian IT company made it to the latest FORTUNE GLOBAL 500 list. This runs counter to my prediction that M&A will propel the Indian IT industry to Fortune Global 500. Before we get into the Indian IT industry, here’s a quick … Read more
Vivek Ramaswamy, the Republican candidate for Governor of Ohio, posted a tweet on 26 December 2024 in which he blasted the American jock culture for creating a shortage of geek talent and blamed muddled American cultural priorities for creating the need to import STEM / engineering talent from India, and other countries, into USA. All … Read more
In SaaSpocalypse Now – Part 1, we saw five updates on the SaaSpocalypse narrative: SaaSpocalypse shaaspocalypse Discounts ahoy AI hits point SAAS hard AI does more than coding SaaS can do AI better than AI can do software In this second part, we will cover five more. 6. New twist in the SaaSpocalypse tale The … Read more
In a series of posts published on this blog well before the term SaaSpocalypse was coined, I predicted that AI will kill many SAAS companies (see the RELEVANT READING section at the end of this post). Here’s a quick recap of those posts: “SaaS Repatriation” is the replacement of SaaS applications with bespoke software built in-house … Read more
Aspirational Selling is selling to aspirational goals of the customer, with a proven track record of achieving those goals for other customers in the past, and every intention of achieving them for the said customer at present. – Aspirational Selling Is Not Overselling In our GTM work around Enterprise AI with nearly 100 prospects and … Read more
Anthropic and other Artificial Intelligence labs have recently started charging customers for token usage in addition to per-seat subscription. This is like Prime Video asking paid subscribers to pay separately for some movies and shows! This move has had a knock-on effects on Cloud Service Providers and SAAS vendors who consume tokens. Microsoft, ServiceNow, and … Read more
Dear Editor: Recap by ChatGPT: Victim of Stellar Success India’s rapid solar-power expansion has outpaced the supporting infrastructure needed to use it effectively. In states like Rajasthan, surplus solar electricity cannot be stored or transmitted to demand centres because of inadequate battery capacity and transmission lines. As a result, large amounts of renewable energy are … Read more
In her article entitled AI moved forward, marketing did not, Melissa Reeve, Co-Founder, Agile Marketing Alliance, makes a valid point: Marketers were early adopters of AI, but while it has evolved most teams are still stuck using it like a smarter autocomplete. According to Reeve, the key reason for marketing to miss the AI race is erosion … Read more