Swiss multinational biotech giant Roche Pharma has set up a state-of-the-art Global Analytics and Technology Centre of Excellence (GATE) in Hyderabad, making it the company’s second data analytics centre in India. With the latest expansion, GATE will have a total headcount of 100 by the end of 2022 and has expansion plans as well.
Salesforce, the global leader in CRM, announced collaborations with GiftAbled, an organization that empowers people with disabilities; Skillible, an upskilling platform to help women start or restart their careers post a long break and the Pride Circle Foundation, a non-profit that works actively to uplift, and empower the LGBTQIA+ community in India. These collaborations aim to strengthen Salesforce India’s commitment to ensuring inclusion and diversity in the Salesforce ecosystem.
Oracle launched a unique Cloud infrastructure platform that will enable partners and organisations, including in India, to become cloud providers and provide more than 100 services available on the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) to their own customers wherever they are. Called ‘Oracle Alloy,’ the new Cloud platform is a key announcement for India since the company has a lot of existing customers there, operating in the regulated industries.
Treasure Data will provide its system to free for companies that are stuck in contracts with other CDPs. The trade-up program is available to companies with roughly firms with $1 billion or more revenue, that already have a competitive CDP in place. There will still be some costs for services to make the conversion but Treasure Data says these are fairly small since it has considerable experience with such projects.