WEEKLY INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND ECONOMY NEWSPAPER
Top 500 ICT Companies Research results including various data related to the development of the informatics sector and being a platform for many companies to have a chance to evaluate their own performances and see their place in competition will be announced on July 28. The rankings on the Top ICT Companies Research prepared by BThaber in cooperation with M2S Research and Marketing Inc. and ICT Summit Events Company is considered the most important data resource in the sector and play a decisive role in purchasing decisions of corporate customers in particular. The research’s theme this year is ‘The gears of time are turning for the ICT sector’ and it is prepared with over a thousand companies’ data in the sector. According to the information given by M2S General Manager Özlem Unan based on the research results; despite the depreciation of the Turkish lira, 64% of the surveyed companies’ income increased in 2015, only 18% had a decrease in revenue. There are 81 new companies in 2015 research and the companies’ average growth rate which increased income is 47%. 25 companies had a great success, growing over 100%. The companies in the 2015 Top 500 ICT ranking increased income by 8% on the basis of TL compared to the previous year. BThaber Publications Coordinator Ayhan Sevgi stated that as BT Haber, they are very proud to prepare Turkey’s Top 500 ICT companies research and added: “The 17th research studies we carried out with M2S have been completed and we are preparing it for the publication now. The publication will meet with industry officials at the ceremony which will be
Excitedly waiting for ICT 500 The ICT 500 Research determining Turkey’s top 500 ICT companies has been concluded. The results of the research with detailed content will be announced at a ceremony which will be held on July 28.
held on July 28. Our publication will include the detailed content of the research as well as the views of industry experts on the developments in Turkey, region and world market. Besides the Top 500 ICT Companies ranking, there will be a ranking of information technologies and communications companies in the publication, this year as well. In addition, approximately 60 charts and comments on hardware, software and services will give information on the development of the informatics sector to the
readers.” ICT Summit General Manager Neslihan Aksun gave the information that ICT 500 awards ceremony will be held on July 28, Thursday in CVK Park Bosphorus Hotel and all parties of the sectors are invited to this ceremony. She added: “The ceremony will be presented by one of Turkey’s valuable presenters Berrak Ataşen and also be a stage for many surprises. We made a number of innovations especially for the first 10 companies. The
35th Anniversary Awards started last year were highly appreciated and will be repeated this year. Turkish ICT sector seniors worked for more than 35 years in this sector will be with us at the ceremony and we will present our thanks to them on behalf of the industry.” The research is further enriched this year BThaber Corporate Group President Murat Göçe gave a statement on the ICT 500 Research and the results: “As the results of research confirms, there are two very
important factors that are missing in the ICT sector. The first one is the lack of qualified personnel which is confirmed by TÜBİSAD researches for many years. The second is statistical information. What I mean with statistical information is answers to questions as “How many companies there are?”, “Which one does what?”, “What salaries are offered in which positions?” and “What are the quality measurements of the jobs done?” Unfortunately, there are no answers to those questions right now. BTK and some NGOs are doing good work to help figuring out these matters, but these are still not enough. We are preparing ICT 500 for many years now as an effort to contribute those studies.” Our publication of the research results provides substantial benefits for institutions out of the sector, as well. This publication is used in the sense of a reference book by the institutional authorities. Not only ICT companies, foreign investors who want to invest in Turkey, managers of the corporations in the position of buyers and even commercial attaches are using this publication as a reference book. Our study has been enriched this year. We brought in a number of differences. We have made some changes in categories. In order to separate telecom and information technologies, we used to announce the top 10 list at the end not we will announce the top 5 from these categories.”
‘Ready for the Future’ strategy for Industry 4.0 CIOs are meeting at vision meetings The 6th CIO Vision Meetings of TBD Istanbul Branch will be held on July 21 in cooperation with BTHaber Corporate Group with the topic of “Digital Transformation and Cloud Strategies”. Turkey Informatics Association Istanbul Branch is aiming at carrying out solid studies that will create added value for the ICT sector and shareholders affecting the sector. For this objective, they organize many events and activities in the year as those are planned beforehand for an entire year. Turkey Informatics Association Istanbul Branch Chairman Ahmet Tosunoğlu stated that: “CIO Vision Meetings, ICT Week Events, Stars of ICT Web Competition, Future Learning Conference, Smart Municipality Summit and Istanbul ICT Congress are our projects planned for 2016 and appreciated by the sector.” Stating that these activities and events
are priorities for TBD Istanbul in 2016, Ahmet Tosunoğlu talked about their plans and CIO Vision Meetings: “We started organizing CIO Vision Meetings of TBD Istanbul Branch bringing together CIOs of Turkey’s leading companies 4 years ago. The objective is to come together with our colleagues from the sector and share information in a comfortable platform. We organized 5 CIO Vision Meetings up until now and discussed ICT’s future, business intelligence, mobility, data center and information security issues. With CIO Vision Meetings, we drive CIOs out of the busy working schedule and provide a social get-together with colleagues on the side of discussing a technical issue. We will organize the 6th CIO Vision Meetings of TBD Istanbul Branch on July 21 in cooperation with BTHaber Corporate Group with the topic of “Digital Transformation and Cloud Strategies.”
Dell developed ‘Ready for the Future’ strategy in order to offer end-to-end, flexible and safe systems for its customers. Dell created the ‘Ready for the Future’ strategy combining flexible, scalable and secure solutions with the existing infrastructure and bringing the traditional and the new approached together. Under this strategy, Dell provides end-to-end readiness and the protection of the competitive structure thanks to corporate reliability via open systems and assurance from support. The company plans to further expand this strategy with the purchase of EMC. Dell Turkey General Manager Didem Duru stated on the topic: “The studies regarding Dell and EMC merger process continues quickly, the necessary approvals from the countries are being provided. The European Union, America, Turkey and China approvals are completed. Dell is no longer a publicly traded company but EMC and VMware companies are. The merger will take place under Dell. Michael Dell does not want to disrupt VMware’s independent stance, thus VMware will not be under the roof. EMC and we are still two rival companies at
this point. However, when the merger takes place and we unite; we will be a very strong company offering end-to-end products and solutions. Dell is already the only company that currently providing end-toend technology. We do not exist in the applications and mobile phones side, but we are able to establish the whole structure and solution between the users and
data centers. Dell actually cares the most about listening to the customers, understanding and creating solutions that perfectly fit. We want to satisfy our customers by offering them open standards, flexible and free structures. Thus, that is the reason of our end-toend growth. In short, we want to establish a longterm partnership with our customers.”
Protect your corporate wealth in the right way Corporate data protection and information management company Commvault is decisive towards seizing the potential of Turkish market in this area Today, regardless of the company size and sector, data is growing rapidly in different environments. This growth also makes data as important as the financial figures for a company. Using the data in a smart way for companies, data protection in appropriate circumstances, storage and re-accessing the data after potential loss topics emerge different
technology and consulting needs. It is possible to minimize the risks by the right solutions and counseling and Commvault Channel Manager Nilgün Ercan stated that they offer a flexible and agile data protection infrastructure compatible to all sizes of organizations and all types of data; sharing the following details: “Globally, all kinds of corporate identity data are considered valuable and protected while in or country only critical applications data is getting protection currently. Data is important
for Turkish companies but data protection, backup and aging processes in accordance with the business continuity are seen as ‘secondary’ transactions. In addition, the widespread use of cloud computing infrastructure and cloud infrastructure that can be integrated with the backup software also provides an advantage and convenience for the protection of corporate data. We directly support the cloud infrastructure and enable having backups directly to the cloud infrastructure.”