In continuation to Pitney Bowes’ Accelerator Programwhere the company will be incubating software start-ups in India, the company recently organized a start-up pitch session, in association withNASSCOM (National Association of Software and Services Companies), premier organization which represents and sets the tone for public policy for the Indian software industry. During the session, each prospective start-up was given the opportunity to present their business development ideas illustrating the project concept and strategy to be a part of the accelerator program. This initiative falls in line with the company’s commitment in connecting and supporting start-ups in India. So far, seven of the top start-ups in the country across location intelligence, cloud computing and navigation industries presented their ideas to the jury.

Manish Choudhary, Vice-President, Worldwide Engineering, Pitney Bowes, said, “We are looking at exceptional entrepreneurs who are building companies for India and global markets, primarily in the location, mobile analytics, data integration and e-commerce space. For those who have groundbreaking ideas to present are free to reach out to us.”

The Pitney Bowes Accelerator Program will begin in June 2014 when the selected start-ups will have unlimited access to Pitney Bowes’ software, application programming interfaces (APIs) and data for the duration of the program. In addition, training, technical and business guidance and mentoring will be provided to the start-ups from Pitney Bowes engineering and innovation leaders, and from software industry experts.  To further these strategic connections, start-ups in the Pitney Bowes Accelerator program will also arrange networking with prospective investors……See More

Addressing customers’ needs to combat zero-day attacks and advanced persistent threats (APTs), Cisco(NASDAQ:CSCO) has broadened its Advanced Malware Protection and data center security offerings. These innovations, spanning the Cisco security portfolio, protect against threats across the full attack continuum – before, during, and after an attack. The innovation to both portfolios, along with today’s acquisition of ThreatGRID, further supports Cisco’s strategy to deliver intelligent cybersecurity for the real world.

The newest updates to Cisco Advanced Malware Protection (AMP) make it the first solution to correlate Indications of Compromise (IoC) data between network and endpoint, with integrated threat defense and shared intelligence – providing customers with continuous and pervasive protection against the most advanced threats. AMP also now features Mac OSX support and a private cloud appliance, an on-premises solution that delivers continuous analysis.

ThreatGRID’s technology, with its dynamic analysis capabilities both on-premises and in the cloud, complements AMP and allows enhanced aggregation and correlation of data for advanced threat intelligence across the extended network and across Cisco security solutions and services.

“Faced with advanced threats that have the ability to disrupt businesses before most tools even take notice, companies today require complete solutions that continuously detect and stop the most sophisticated attacks. With these threats infiltrating environments at the endpoint, in the data center and through the cloud, Cisco’s mission is to provide solutions that move beyond point-in-time threat response to deliver anytime, all-the-time threat-centric protection,” said Christopher Young, Senior Vice-President, Security Business Group, Cisco..……..See More

Wipro(NYSE:WIT) has announced the launch of its “Finance and Accounting Business-Process-as-a-Service” (F&A BPaaS) solution for enterprises. Developed in partnership with NetSuite (NYSE:N), the industry’s leading provider of cloud-based financials / ERP and omnichannel commerce software suites, Wipro’s F&A BPaaS is a comprehensive, end-to-end business process solution that can help improve business agility, user experience and process efficiency.

Wipro’s F&A BPaaS is built on the industry-leading NetSuite platform, along with best-in-class Wipro process capabilities in finance and accounting. The solution empowers customers to selectively manage and control their finance and accounting processes on a standardized platform, in a 100% variabilized cost model. It also enables rapid implementation of business processes, improves compliance standards, and provides operational readiness, leading to significant cost savings.

“As enterprises renew their focus on agile finance and accounting processes, there is an intensifying need in the market for a platform that can provide end-to-end F&A solutions in an ‘as-a-service’ model. As a result, enterprises are increasingly moving to innovative cloud-based models. Leveraging Wipro’s comprehensive cloud services proficiency and business process expertise, the F&A BPaaS solution helps organizations in process harmonization, optimal organization design and change management, offering transformational benefits to our customers,” said Jeff Heenan-Jalil, Senior Vice-President & Global Head, Advanced Technologies & Solutions, Wipro……..See More