An ex-Wipro employee has reportedly filed a court case against nine of his former seniors who he says forced him to resign after making him go through hell at work
According to a news report in Mid Day, Hyderabad-based G Ram Mohan has filed a private complaint in the court of Chief Judicial Magistrate, Bangalore Rural, against nine Wipro officials because he says the police did not look into his grievances when he approached them.
In the complaint, Mohan told the court that he was an employee of Wipro Technologies, Electronics City, from December 3, 2007, till his services were terminated on March 10.
Mohan has alleged that his bosses made him run personal errands and humiliated him. In his complaint, the software professional has claimed that when he opposed this, they threatened him and sought his resignation. The nine Wipro employees named in the complaint are Keshav Kumar, Sreeranganathan, Ankur Chadha, Anuradha Raju, Ganesh Halapethi, Supriya Mahajan, Vikram Mirani, Sulekha Jagadish and Shalini Macaden.
Mohan told the news daily that he had nine years of experience in software testing when he joined Wipro in 2007.
According to the report, spokesperson of Wipro, when contacted, sought more time to reply to queries about the complaint filed in the court.
Source: IndiaTimes
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
IBM, Infosys, New Deals, TCS, Wipro
TCS, Infy, Wipro, IBM to bid for Rs 2000 cr online FIR project
Vijay Kumar Singh hopes that by 2012, most of those he gets to see in person would be potential criminals.
Well, Singh happens to be a cop. And those whom he intends to spare from his appointment diary are the general public. Singh’s hopes are pinned on a new automated complaint filing and tracking system that the ministry of home affairs (MHA) plans to roll out across India, aimed at trimming the time the general public spends in doing the labyrinthine rounds of the good old police station.
At the Greater Kailash-1 police station in South Delhi, where Singh is the station house officer, the existing Zipnet search is pretty much an ornament. The system tracks from a set base of data, often outdated, and fails to read the latest inputs from other law enforcement agencies.
The new integrated system police officers like Singh are looking forward to will network initially 14,000 police stations across the country, and all the 6,000 higher offices in police hierarchy (like headquarters, range offices, zonal offices). It will bring the benefits of India Inc’s technology prowess to this British era institution, hopes Singh.
Well, Singh happens to be a cop. And those whom he intends to spare from his appointment diary are the general public. Singh’s hopes are pinned on a new automated complaint filing and tracking system that the ministry of home affairs (MHA) plans to roll out across India, aimed at trimming the time the general public spends in doing the labyrinthine rounds of the good old police station.
At the Greater Kailash-1 police station in South Delhi, where Singh is the station house officer, the existing Zipnet search is pretty much an ornament. The system tracks from a set base of data, often outdated, and fails to read the latest inputs from other law enforcement agencies.
The new integrated system police officers like Singh are looking forward to will network initially 14,000 police stations across the country, and all the 6,000 higher offices in police hierarchy (like headquarters, range offices, zonal offices). It will bring the benefits of India Inc’s technology prowess to this British era institution, hopes Singh.
IT market
Companies filter emails of staff to prevent data transfer
Any technological innovation can be used or abused. Unfortunately, many observe that mobile phones with cameras as well as internet facilities are more abused than used.
While Indian conglomerates are yet to bar the use of mobile phone cameras within office premises, they have started filtering mails being sent by employees to avoid transfer of key data or information to the enemy .
While some like the cigarettes-to-hotels & FMCG conglomerate ITC ensure that mails being sent by colleagues get approved by department heads, others like IVRCL Infrastructures & Projects are looking to impose these safety guards in its wholly-owned subsidiary company Hindustan Dorr-Oliver as it is involved in technical and complex work.
Said ITC Ltd CIO VVR Babu: “External email access in ITC is given to users based on specific approvals. Use of IT facilities including email is governed by the Employees Code of Conduct. Since our emails are archived, mails can be accessed and reviewed post facto by the user’s manager in case there is a need to do so.”
“This apart, we do not allow users to access external mail sites such as Gmail, YahooMail, Hotmail, Rediffmail, etc. from the ITC network for security reasons ,” Mr Babu added.
A leading IT security firm Websense’s spokesperson Manish Bansal concedes: “As much as 70-80 % of information leaked happen inadvertently. That is why a strict check on mails are a must for companies. There are instances where employees of a certain department have leaked classified information to colleagues of other departments.”
Adding, Mr Bansal said: “Organisations which keep a tab on their email systems define what breed of information can be termed as essential to a firm. These are carefully monitored. There are softwares that scan every mail — both outbound and inbound. IT service firms and financial organisations dealing with customer data as well as telecom companies are ones that use the monitoring system on a regular basis.”
Asked whether use of such software slows down the mail systems, Mr Bansal said: “Current day softwares are dynamic enough not to slow down systems .” Some like IVRCL Infrastructures & Projects have not felt the need to filter mails being sent by its employees.
“We are, however, looking to impose these safety guards in group company Hindustan Dorr-Oliver as the firm works on far more technical and complex projects,” E Sudhir Reddy, chairman & managing director , IVRCL Infrastructures, pointed out.
Elaborating further, Mr Reddy said, “Many of the processes being used by Dorr-Oliver are patented. In the past, Dorr-Oliver lost out because these processes were either transferred surreptitiously to the enemy camp or were retained by the fabricators and subsequently , used the processes to execute other projects. Past experience suggests that we put a strong system in place as far as Dorr-Oliver is concerned.”
“Chip design companies, manufacturing entities, healthcare firms, BFSI and software development companies even control use of USB drives, CD/DVD or uploading of data to the net either through mail or any other system . If an employee tries to upload sensitive company information, the system automatically blocks it and the company’s IT department can pin him down,” said Kartik Sahani, country head McAfee, another leading IT security firm.
“At Novartis, we have a code of conduct to which all employees are party as also an information security policy which clearly lays down the dos and don’ts to be followed by employees with regard to all information they come in contact with by nature of their jobs. While we do not bar employees from using other mail systems, we expect employees to not misuse company time and resources. In case an employee is found guilty of such misuse, he/she could be liable to disciplinary action,” said Ranjit Shahani, vice chairman & managing director, Novartis India.
The firm, however, restricts use of mobile phones with cameras in certain areas where there is a risk of data getting transmitted outside the company.
Does all this mean Indian conglomerates and business houses may soon restrict use of camera phones within office premises? Who knows!
While Indian conglomerates are yet to bar the use of mobile phone cameras within office premises, they have started filtering mails being sent by employees to avoid transfer of key data or information to the enemy .
While some like the cigarettes-to-hotels & FMCG conglomerate ITC ensure that mails being sent by colleagues get approved by department heads, others like IVRCL Infrastructures & Projects are looking to impose these safety guards in its wholly-owned subsidiary company Hindustan Dorr-Oliver as it is involved in technical and complex work.
Said ITC Ltd CIO VVR Babu: “External email access in ITC is given to users based on specific approvals. Use of IT facilities including email is governed by the Employees Code of Conduct. Since our emails are archived, mails can be accessed and reviewed post facto by the user’s manager in case there is a need to do so.”
“This apart, we do not allow users to access external mail sites such as Gmail, YahooMail, Hotmail, Rediffmail, etc. from the ITC network for security reasons ,” Mr Babu added.
A leading IT security firm Websense’s spokesperson Manish Bansal concedes: “As much as 70-80 % of information leaked happen inadvertently. That is why a strict check on mails are a must for companies. There are instances where employees of a certain department have leaked classified information to colleagues of other departments.”
Adding, Mr Bansal said: “Organisations which keep a tab on their email systems define what breed of information can be termed as essential to a firm. These are carefully monitored. There are softwares that scan every mail — both outbound and inbound. IT service firms and financial organisations dealing with customer data as well as telecom companies are ones that use the monitoring system on a regular basis.”
Asked whether use of such software slows down the mail systems, Mr Bansal said: “Current day softwares are dynamic enough not to slow down systems .” Some like IVRCL Infrastructures & Projects have not felt the need to filter mails being sent by its employees.
“We are, however, looking to impose these safety guards in group company Hindustan Dorr-Oliver as the firm works on far more technical and complex projects,” E Sudhir Reddy, chairman & managing director , IVRCL Infrastructures, pointed out.
Elaborating further, Mr Reddy said, “Many of the processes being used by Dorr-Oliver are patented. In the past, Dorr-Oliver lost out because these processes were either transferred surreptitiously to the enemy camp or were retained by the fabricators and subsequently , used the processes to execute other projects. Past experience suggests that we put a strong system in place as far as Dorr-Oliver is concerned.”
“Chip design companies, manufacturing entities, healthcare firms, BFSI and software development companies even control use of USB drives, CD/DVD or uploading of data to the net either through mail or any other system . If an employee tries to upload sensitive company information, the system automatically blocks it and the company’s IT department can pin him down,” said Kartik Sahani, country head McAfee, another leading IT security firm.
“At Novartis, we have a code of conduct to which all employees are party as also an information security policy which clearly lays down the dos and don’ts to be followed by employees with regard to all information they come in contact with by nature of their jobs. While we do not bar employees from using other mail systems, we expect employees to not misuse company time and resources. In case an employee is found guilty of such misuse, he/she could be liable to disciplinary action,” said Ranjit Shahani, vice chairman & managing director, Novartis India.
The firm, however, restricts use of mobile phones with cameras in certain areas where there is a risk of data getting transmitted outside the company.
Does all this mean Indian conglomerates and business houses may soon restrict use of camera phones within office premises? Who knows!
New Deals, Satyam
Satyam bags Rs 100-cr Airbus deal
Mahindra Satyam has won a Rs 100-crore ($20 million) outsourcing contract from the world’s largest maker of commercial aircraft, Airbus, to manage its internal quality and processes.
Sources said the three-year contract involving technology maintenance, will put Satyam at a vantage point as they can now have an overview of the projects and technology which controls the organisation. “The work outsourced mainly includes quality management,” said a person familiar with the matter.
An email query to Mahindra Satyam and Airbus remained unanswered at the time of this report going to press. This is the second important contract Mahindra Satyam has bagged in the last few months.
It won an IT outsourcing contract last month from Swedish defence and aerospace firm, Saab, to develop its operations for the global defence and security market in India in a deal valued at around $300 million.
Sources said the three-year contract involving technology maintenance, will put Satyam at a vantage point as they can now have an overview of the projects and technology which controls the organisation. “The work outsourced mainly includes quality management,” said a person familiar with the matter.
An email query to Mahindra Satyam and Airbus remained unanswered at the time of this report going to press. This is the second important contract Mahindra Satyam has bagged in the last few months.
It won an IT outsourcing contract last month from Swedish defence and aerospace firm, Saab, to develop its operations for the global defence and security market in India in a deal valued at around $300 million.
TCS
TCS' BaNCS ranked no 1 in China
The core banking solution of Tata Consultancy Services BaNCS has been ranked as the leading core banking solution in China based on its performance in 2008 by IDC, a global market research and analysis firm specialising in Information technology.
This was the third year in a row that TCS had been ranked at the top of solution providers for the financial services industry in China, an IDC release said on Monday.
"New customer wins on a periodic basis have been central to TCS' success as a leader in this region", Serena Shang, Senior Analyst, IDC China, said.
"TCS BaNCS' capability to scale and address a wide range of financial institutions coupled with their global track record is an attractive proposition. They can consolidate their initial learnings to make faster progress in perhaps one of the toughest markets in the world", she said.
This was the third year in a row that TCS had been ranked at the top of solution providers for the financial services industry in China, an IDC release said on Monday.
"New customer wins on a periodic basis have been central to TCS' success as a leader in this region", Serena Shang, Senior Analyst, IDC China, said.
"TCS BaNCS' capability to scale and address a wide range of financial institutions coupled with their global track record is an attractive proposition. They can consolidate their initial learnings to make faster progress in perhaps one of the toughest markets in the world", she said.
IT market
India beats Europe in IT pros salary
Is Indian software industry fast losing its low-cost destination advantage? So it may seem. According to the 2009 EE Times Global Salary & Opinion Survey, Engineers' salaries in India and China have risen at a pace faster than that in some of their counterparts like Japan and countries in North America and Europe.
Almost 40 per cent of the respondents in India have seen their salaries grow much or slightly higher than what they were 5 years ago, while only 34 per cent of respondents in Europe and 25 per cent of that in North America reported a hike during the same time.
The study says that competition for engineering talent in India and its emerging rival China has got tougher in the last ten years as hardware and software companies have accelerated the transfer of manufacturing and design operations from Western locations to lower-cost parts of the globe. This growing competition, often makes companies offer attractive incentives to hire experienced engineers, only to lose them to rivals after a couple of years.
However, though IT employees in both China and India have seen better raises over the last few years than their counterparts in the developed world, majority of the techies in the two countries still earn considerably less than their counterparts elsewhere, the study adds.
Almost 40 per cent of the respondents in India have seen their salaries grow much or slightly higher than what they were 5 years ago, while only 34 per cent of respondents in Europe and 25 per cent of that in North America reported a hike during the same time.
The study says that competition for engineering talent in India and its emerging rival China has got tougher in the last ten years as hardware and software companies have accelerated the transfer of manufacturing and design operations from Western locations to lower-cost parts of the globe. This growing competition, often makes companies offer attractive incentives to hire experienced engineers, only to lose them to rivals after a couple of years.
However, though IT employees in both China and India have seen better raises over the last few years than their counterparts in the developed world, majority of the techies in the two countries still earn considerably less than their counterparts elsewhere, the study adds.
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