{"id":1058,"date":"2007-12-05T12:55:45","date_gmt":"2007-12-05T16:55:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/?p=1058"},"modified":"2007-12-05T12:55:45","modified_gmt":"2007-12-05T16:55:45","slug":"ibm-announces-launch-of-smb-operation-in-orissa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/archives\/1058","title":{"rendered":"IBM announces launch of SMB operation in Orissa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This appears in various news media. Following are excerpts from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kalingatimes.com\/business_news\/news1\/20071205-ibm-advances.htm\" target=\"_self\">a report in Kalinga Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8230; IBM India on Wednesday announced the launch of its SMB operations in Bhubaneswar .<\/p>\n<p>This expansion will enable IBM to provide better support to SME clients in and around Bhubaneswar and help IBM&#8217;s customers leverage IT for business growth.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, mid-market businesses will also benefit from the new IBM Express Advantage initiative that provides SMEs with a unified end-to-end approach to help them innovate and expand.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;Earlier this year, IBM had announced a plan to extend its presence to 14 cities outside of the key metros, and has successfully launched operations in Bhopal , Chandigarh , Coimbatore , Cochin , Goa, Jaipur, Jamshedpur , Lucknow , Nagpur , Nashik, Surat , and Vizag. It will look to expand into Ludhiana and Madurai as well.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; IBM&#8217;s SME offerings have already been accepted in various industries and organisations. Some existing customers in Bhubaneswar include, Government of Orissa IT Department &#8211; OCAC, Dept of Treasury Orissa, Paradeep Phosphates Ltd, Vedanta Alumina Ltd, Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology, Biju Patnaik University of Technology, and Utkal University to name a few.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This appears in various news media. Following are excerpts from a report in Kalinga Times. &#8230; IBM India on Wednesday announced the launch of its SMB operations in Bhubaneswar . This expansion will enable IBM to provide better support to SME clients in and around Bhubaneswar and help IBM&#8217;s customers leverage IT for business growth. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,286,65,620,7,298],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bhubaneswar-cuttack-puri","category-ibm","category-industry-it","category-kalinga-times","category-district-khordha","category-mse-medium-and-small-enterprises"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1058\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}