Sankar Narayanan Raghvan Director-IT, Aegon Religare

Cloud Helps Aegon Religare Gain Competitive Edge

A cloud-based automated underwriting solution helps Aegon Religare fix one of the insurance industry’s most trying challenges and gives it competitive advantage.

Vinayak Khadye CTO, IndiaFirst Life Insurance

IndiaFirst Life Sets New Benchmarks for Online Insurance

By the time IndiaFirst Life Insurance entered the sector, established insurers had already gone online. It did too, but with a twist.

Joe Kempenich, VP-IT National Lloyds & American Summit Insurance, Waco, Texas

Why a Texan Insurance Company Ditched Its Hardware- For a Cloud -based SAN

Why do some enterprise managers decide to brave their way into the new and unknown of cloud-based services? Sometimes it's simply because the old technology just isn't working out that well anymore.

Satish Kotian Head - IT, DHFLW

DHFL's Centralized Architecture Helped Keep Its Business Afloat

When a fire breaks out in DHFL’s headquarters, head-IT, Satish Kotian’s disaster recovery strategy keeps the business afloat.

A. Balakrishnan CTO, Geojit BNP Paribas

Balakrishnan's Mobile Platform Opens New Channels of Revenue

Amit Gupta Head-technology infrastructure services, Fidelity Business Services

Fidelity's Gamble With Server Virtualisation Pays Off

When the I.T. head of Fidelity Business Services wanted to virtualize his servers—at a time when a few were—two forces defied him: The recession and management’s resistance. he had no choice but to prove them wrong.

Keshav Samant VP and Head-IT, Financial Technologies

How Virtualization Helped Financial Technologies save Rs. 2 Crores

When he started a virtualization project in 2009, Keshav Samant, VP and head-IT of Mumbai-based Financial Technologies was operating in the 10th most-expensive real estate market in the world. Read how this BFSI player used virtualization and brought down 78 physical servers to two.

Hitesh Arora EVP and Head-IT, Max New York Life Insurance

Max New York Life Insurance Used BI To Increase Cross-Sell Revenue By About 13 Percent

Hitesh Arora, CIO, Max New York Life Insurance, used Business Intelligence to help the company with accurate forecasts that increased the cross-selling earnings to be more than 20 percent of the overall revenue - up from 7 percent earlier.

Sandeep Phanasgaonkar Sandeep Phanasgaonkar, president and group technology officer, Reliance Capital

Reliance Capital Saves Rs1.5 Crore With Remote Infrastructure Management

Large number of employees can easily slow organizations down and translate into huge costs. Reliance Capital turned to Remote Infrastructure Management to not only reduce the turnaround time but also cut costs by Rs 1.5 crore.

Naganathan Sriram CTO and COO, Reliance General Insurance

Reliance General Insurance Introduces the First Offline Survey Solution

CIO 100 Winner: Naganathan Sriram deployed a mechanism for insurance surveyors to file their reports from the field, saving both time and money. Using a data card or mobile phone connectivity, the new solution allowed surveyors to upload and download all the required forms they needed and prepare survey reports while on the move.

R.I.S. Sidhu Chief GM, Punjab National Bank

PNB deploys an Enterprise Wide Data Warehouse

CIO 100 Winner: R.I.S Sidhu implemented an enterprise-wide data warehouse (EDW) that would leverage the bank's operational data available in multiple sources systems and give access to data required for regulatory, statutory reporting and analytical purposes.