URS SYSTEMS

URS Systems provides cutting technology services across several industry verticals including Telecom, Insurance, Banking & Financial Services and Education. URS Systems has the expertise to understand need to the business which helps our clients gain technical and competitive advantage.

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Telecom Operators are innovating in one space and disrupting in another space, leveraging the cloud technology

Indian telecom operators are now aggressively investing in cloud strategy to bring innovative services and products to the market while looking to implement data analytics to get more revenue from subscribers. Mobile Phone Operators have realised that their investment in cloud strategy will be very useful for their overall service portfolio.  For instance, European telcos have started innovative services line 'Gaming on Demand', wherein the gaming structure is on a cloud and a user can play it through a remote control by paying a subscription and are expecting the trend to come to India soon.

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"START SMALL BUT START":

"Information sets you free." Maybe just benchmark fixed vs. variable, or run vs. grow or transform. "You can't manage what you can't measure." IT has gleefully helped companies use metrics to give other employees and business units the equivalent of a 24/7/365 proctology exam.  "Every publicly traded company today is evaluated from a performance perspective on generally accepted accounting principles" that standardize metrics like income statements, balance sheets, cash flows, and changes in equity. "Those statements provide an apples-to-apples comparison. IT's never had that." It's not that there's no accounting now. But it's too general and not up to the task of metrics-driven decision-making. "Every organization, right now, manages their IT department with a general ledger," he says. "Those general ledgers are insufficient in developing a way to make decisions."  "The discussion of running IT as a business is driven by the business demanding that visibility." "Start small, but start,". "Information sets you free." Maybe just benchmark fixed vs. variable, or run vs. grow or transform. "You can't manage what you can't measure."

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Communications Service Providers (CSP's) are increasingly looking to MANAGED SERVICES to improve their performance and keep them competitive.

Driven by the demands of rising markets, rapid changes in new technology, greater competition and the relentless drive to improve bottom line results, communications service providers are increasingly looking to managed services to improve their performance and keep them competitive. Initially, managed services were mainly about the outsourcing of low-level, back-end processes such as monitoring IT systems or the network, with the sole primary goal of lowering costs. A handful of newer market entrants later broke the mold – for example, Bharti Airtel when it announced its revenue sharing model with IBM in 2003. This arrangement was initially met with skepticism, but the company is now heralded by many as an exceptional case study. Over time, more companies have begun to embrace these kinds of business models in the fight to get ahead, but how far has the industry really come? Is the pace of change what everyone expected? Which core competencies do operators need to keep in-house and what can be done better by a managed service provider? The spectrum of all managed services is broad, but the terms ‘outsourcing’ and ‘managed services’ are being used interchangeably, though in general, managed services are often considered to have a broader scope. We are not distinguishing between these terms but looking across the spectrum of how service providers are partnering with companies offering outsourcing services in functional areas or stacks of the BSS/OSS area. Some other terms, such as out-tasking are used too, which is similar in execution to outsourcing but denotes a relatively narrow function or task being outsourced. Outsourcing in the communications sectors began with organizations like IBM, CSC and some independent software vendors, primarily dealing with managed data center and billing applications or operations (such as bill rendering and mailing). These might be delivered in full outsourcing or facilities management engagements. Later, some network equipment manufacturers saw the opportunity to turn their network equipment and, in some cases, OSS or third party OSS offerings into a managed services offering. Operators outsourcing their network operations to these network equipment makers was logical at first pass.

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How to measure “SMARTNESS” of Smart Cities? Prime Minister’s vision of developing ‘one hundred smart cities’ in India

The Prime Minister’s vision of developing ‘one hundred smart cities’, allocating about Rs 7,060 crore in the current fiscal as outlined in the budget is a laudable initiative, given the rural-urban migration and the hyper growth of cities in our country. Of late, many countries, especially in developed countries including Dubai, Amsterdam and Barcelona have embarked on smart city initiatives. Shanghai has taken the lead in China.

However, in India, at this point, except for broad themes such as ubiquitous connectivity and community Wi-Fi, details on what smart cities should have is missing.

In general, a smart city should have: (i) efficient delivery of public utilities such as water, electricity, solid waste, sanitation, and sewerage as well as associated government services (ii) mechanism for supply-demand matching of surface transport services to provide congestion free roads, and minimal waiting time for public transport commuters (iii) active surveillance, monitoring and alerts at vantage points in the city to provide the much required public safety for citizens and (iv) on-demand availability of reliable emergency services such as ambulance, fire safety.

In all these dimensions, information and communication technologies (ICT) plays a vital role. No wonder, companies such as IBM and Cisco are investing millions of dollars in incubating technologies that support smart city initiatives.

Important element is the design architecture of different ICT components of smart city projects.It is required to build platforms with open gateways, application program interfaces & open data sets so that expertise of numerous Indian IT firms (both small & large) & the huge developer communities can be tapped for building innovative applications & services.

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Make your Mobile Smart Enough to be with Live the Present ERA

The overrunning vicinity of mobile has liberated the clients from the need to go to workstation and click. They can essentially connect with their pockets and that is it. This is the impact of Mobile Applications development in Bangalore. You have different kinds of uses that can get any data, administration or item that you need under this sky. Furthermore such is the reliance that they can’t let the versatile application designers escape in the event that they are not skillful enough to give them the experience they really require and merit. They do give a second thought the extent to which you charge them, the amount battery utilization is there due to the applications among numerous different things that they think about. Get connected to URS systems and experience high quality solutions here:http://www.urssystems.com/about/index.html

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Great Software Solutions Means Good Working

Business Intelligence Solutions in India are key for practically every organization that leads business on the web. For the smooth working of any framework, you have to contract the right individuals for the occupation. Outsourcing the information warehousing or programming creating is an incredible method for improving occupation done with lesser costs. When you pick a decent organization, you will get everything you need for an effective business without needing to stress over anything. This particular system leads good managed services in India which enhances growth and at the same time helps a company to grow with a greater ease.

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How do firms build the necessary mobile infrastructure and secure data on multiple devices?

The way we look at it is, “how do we create a secure workspace where we start creating capabilities and really enable CRM or applications or research, content-approval processes, and workflows, all in a single secure container?” In addition to supporting external customers, banks need to support their own increasingly mobile employee base.

While much has been written about how mobile is changing the way customers and clients interact with financial institutions, CIOs and CTOs have another challenge: providing applications and infrastructure to accommodate their increasingly mobile workforce. More and more users across the financial organization demand mobile access and expect to have almost identical access across devices and from any of the company’s offices. Phones and tablets dominate the category, although executives are even looking beyond at the convergence of laptops, as they, too, shrink and add touch and location capabilities. The challenges to meet the growing demand are large and raise more than a few questions: How can firms meet the users’ demands? How do they build the necessary mobile infrastructure and secure data on multiple devices? “A firm should have a real business need to resolve for which they develop a digital strategy and a road map to deliver the required services. To control the new enterprise implementation, an effective governance model is required that gives the right measure of control and security -- particularly in our highly regulated industry -- without eliminating a firm’s ability to remain agile, an important consideration in the digital space.”

Because employees will expect to have the ability to effectively work from anywhere at any time, one of the first hurdles is building out wireless infrastructure across company branches and business centers. Preparing connections and security for executive guests and visitors has been increasingly built into that strategy. 

Legacy lives on: Maintaining legacy investment is another challenge. “Many older applications, and indeed development frameworks, were designed with no concept of mobile access or operating in an unsecured environment, with many other shared applications”. Making sure that developers learn the lessons from legacy development for the future state is the key to a firm’s success, he adds.

Enterprises are further forced to be judicious in how to enable different categories of systems, such as legacy BlackBerry devices, and the new generations of tablets and bring-your-own devices.

As devices become more and more web-centric and built around HTML5, which creates flexibility for what kind of devices the enterprise can adequately support.  The way we look at it is, “how do we create a secure workspace where we start creating capabilities and really enable CRM or applications or research, content-approval processes, and workflows, all in a single secure container?”

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BSS – More services in less time

It’s no longer about just collecting money – it’s about making money There was a story going round the BSS conference circuit about a billing manager first learning of his company’s new telecoms offer when he saw the advert on TV. No one told him. The billing system was not set up to bill for this new offer, and marketing had gone off and launched a product and no-one has bothered to check if the billing system could actually bill for it. Thankfully inter-departmental communications have advanced since then, and more than ever marketing teams in operators are getting interested in BSS. Not because they want to know how to configure a rate plan or set up real-time usage notifications. They want to know can BSS support new offers, can they support this new business model that they’re working on with new partners, and how quickly they can get these new ideas turned into products, get them out the door and generating revenue. As you can imagine, in some operators, this involvement from marketing could place a strain on IT. A casual chat with a billing or charging manager in some operators and they’ll tell you about the ‘wish list’ from marketing that appears to be taking on a life of its own with existing BSS not able to support increasingly complex requests. On the other hand, a visit to some telcos and you see IT and marketing working closely together developing and testing new offers, and quickly getting new services launched. Thankfully the latter scenario is increasingly becoming the norm with some more innovative operators.

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Leveraging Business Intelligence (BI) – The Power and Speed you need to make actionable business intelligence a reality — even in real time.

For companies in many industries — such as financial services, telecommunications, retail, and market research — an enterprise business intelligence solution is a critical resource for decision-makers. To extract information from huge, ever-growing databases and then turn it into actionable business intelligence at the time it’s needed, however, puts enormous strain on traditional data management systems.

This strain can cause major performance issues as more users run complicated, ad hoc queries on large data sets. As a result, managers and front line employees who need the information can experience unacceptable slowdowns that impede decision making and create unacceptable risks and service-level agreement problems. For more than two decades, organizations have been leveraging business intelligence (BI) platforms with the sole objective of “management by facts” for business benefits.

Business Intelligence is definitely one of the most important business initiatives, which has shown a positive impact on the health of organizations.

Business Intelligence Solution

To survive and grow in the vibrant market space, every organization is facing outrageous competition, business convergence, demand for profitable growth and intense pressure on cost. Organizations are becoming innovative in their approach to make business truly performance driven at Strategic, Tactical as well as Operational levels. To maintain a competitive edge, companies today are increasingly turning to operational business intelligence solutions that support process optimization by pushing needed data to front line analysts and managers in real time, supporting intra-day decisions. This can dramatically improve efficiency and decision-making across all facets of an enterprise. To achieve operational business intelligence, companies need solutions that can overcome data warehousing, data integration, and analytics challenges such as:

Extracting real-time data from multiple sources on the fly

Transforming traditional data into actionable business intelligence data

Making the resulting information accessible to those who need it and

Handling huge volumes of data with many users making simultaneous complex ad hoc queries.

URS solutions provide the capabilities to overcome these challenge and make operational business intelligence a reality.

According to Gartner, Indian business intelligence (BI) software revenue is expected to grow from $121.2 million in 2013 to $139 million in 2014. The forecast includes revenue for BI platforms, analytic applications and corporate performance management software. The research firm concludes that in order to increase adoption, enterprises should evaluate data discovery, geospatial and mobile based approaches.