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: A private community of senior global financial executives,called MeettheBoss, has been formed which provides a platform for technologists to discuss implementation, strategy and common challenges in the financial domain. The community has 20,000 members of finance executives. Founder and CEO Spencer Green says that this community has been championed as a key tool to bring the world out of the current financial crisis.

“There are lessons to be learnt from the credit crunch of the times. This is the biggest challenge before us and we need to communicate,” says Green. The community has membership from Asia, South America, the Middle East, North America and Europe and is strictly for C-level senior finance executives around the world.

Spencer believes that India and China are the two most important potential markets and that’s where he will focus now.

Ring tone with a difference

With tariffs from voice declining, mobile service providers are devising innovative value added services. Sensing a big business opportunity, Vijay Shekhar Sharma, started One 97 to offer mobile application where users can choose, create and share video ringtones and bring the online social networking experience to the mobile space.

Says Vijay Shekhar Sharma, managing director of One97, “Over 20,000 subscribers have started using the service since it went live last month to create their own video ringtones.” Users can send each other video ringtones, which act as caller ring tones. This can be a boost to create viral videos, especially for user-generated content. The company claims that every month 140 million unique subscribers access to its various value-added services, which are offered to India ‘s leading mobile carriers.

The entrepreneurship bug bit this electronics graduate from the Delhi College of Engineering early in his life. He set up aninternet venture while pursuing his degree and subsequently sold it. Having experienced key technology roles in the internet and media world, Vijay dived into telecom and his venture won the Best Innovative Service Provider of the year award at eIndia 2008.

New model for IT governance

Quint, a global IT management consulting firm specialising in IT-related organisational challenges, will be rolling out an IT governance model to help its clients to get more value from their investments.

Says Sunil Mehta, country manager, Quint India, “The BFSI and manufacturing companies are increasingly getting automated and there is more dependency on hardware and software and the processes have to be mature and streamlined.”

With more and more global companies setting up their centralised governance function to manage relationships with IT suppliers in India, the need for an effective IT governance is being felt like never before. The company will be launching its entire range of IT governance products including education, consulting and benchmarking services by next month.