{"id":998412,"date":"2026-03-16T08:15:41","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T02:45:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=998412"},"modified":"2026-03-16T08:42:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T03:12:49","slug":"ai-is-a-survival-tool-not-a-productivity-tool-vk-mathews-founder-of-ibs-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/03\/16\/ai-is-a-survival-tool-not-a-productivity-tool-vk-mathews-founder-of-ibs-software\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018AI is a survival tool, not a productivity tool\u2019: VK Mathews, Founder of IBS Software"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The AI disruption has rattled the global tech sector, with software and services stocks taking a sharp hit in recent months. VK Mathews, founder-chairman of IBS Software Services \u2014 an enterprise SaaS company whose clients include Emirates, Singapore Airlines, Lufthansa, and Delta, and which holds over 50% of the global air freight software market \u2014 spoke to Anees Hussain about what this means for Indian IT and his own business. Excerpts:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The AI disruption has rattled the global tech sector, with software and services stocks taking a sharp hit in recent months. VK Mathews, founder-chairman of IBS Software Services \u2014 an enterprise SaaS company whose clients include Emirates, Singapore Airlines, Lufthansa, and Delta, and which holds over 50% of the global air freight software market \u2014 spoke to Anees Hussain about what this means for Indian IT and his own business. Excerpts:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-998412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=998412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998412\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=998412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=998412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=998412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}