The 2011 Indian M&A chronicle – ‘India growth story’ stumbles

‘Spending the 31st night at home for the first time since the last 10 years’ – This was the latest Facebook update of one of my friends who works with a mid-sized investment banking boutique firm in Mumbai. The poor guy had just been retrenched by his employer citing weak business. If you look at

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Non-existent link between IT performance and business impact in financial sector

In today’s world every business is handicapped without technology. This is even more apparent in banking and financial sector. Any delay in application delivery results in decline of performance, which can cause lower productivity, lost customers, revenue loss,  and higher costs.

IT applications are a platform to communicate and represent value proposition to the customers. For

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End user monitoring - Top priority, but metrics unclear…

Let me describe a recurring situation in almost every organization. When companies deploy critical business applications requiring 99.9% uptime, it’s because users expect this level of delivery. But this is not the reality. The system is up and running and it is close to 99.9% uptime, but the end users are still complaining that the

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Can the new take over norms turn the tide for plunging Indian M&A?

For quite some time now financial experts have been predicting that the M&A scenario in India will significantly improve. Investment bankers have already run the ‘India growth’ story ragged and investment banks are again on a hiring spree expecting an increase in the deal flow. But factual data suggests otherwise!

According to the ISI emerging markets

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Indian M&A falls in Q1 2011, but prospects still bright

The first quarter of 2011 saw a decline of more than 60% in the number of M&A deals as compared to the earlier quarter (Q4 2010) as high valuations and increasing uncertainty about macroeconomic factors such as fiscal deficit, interest rates and inflation made corporates watchful.

As per ISI emerging markets database,

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