This value add will be made available to the members of indiaengineering.com to enable them to have exposure to ground breaking business and IT global trends to trigger their e-initiatives.

Partha Iyengar, country manager, (India), Gartner Group said that through this alliance Gartner would be able to reach out to the SME sector which it would not have been able to do on its own. "SME's are changing and many of them could emerge as aggressive users of IT," Iyengar said. Gartner has been strengthening its presence in the e-business space and is expecting 25 per cent of its revenues from e-business consulting this year.

"This alliance with Gartner will help members of indiaengineering.com who are looking for reliable and independent research," Vidyadhar Sarfare, director, indiaengineering.com said. The company recently tied up withthe Societe Generale de Surveillance for providing vendor assessment services, quality and quantity certification, valuation services and source authentication and certification to its members. Indiaengine-ering.com has 56,000 registered members and has fulfilled trade of around Rs 45 crore on it e-market place. "Our trade exchange has a mechanism for match-making of buyers and sellers using artificial intelligence," Nitin Pangam, director, indiaengineering.com said.

This enabled them to track the most relevant suppliers or buyers for a particular requirement, he said.