Peter Freer | Founder & CEO
LETTER EDITOR’S
Business APAC Futuristic Companies of 2022
Reinventing with Future Builders! of 2022
The great differentiator in business is when an organization steps out and creates value from something never
tried before.”
Thinking ahead of time and envisioning out-of-the-box solutions is a necessity of the new era and this thought has been wonderfully depicted in the above quote. Having a futuristic mindset helps think beyond present possibilities and situations as well as assists to remain competitive in the world. Stepping out of the comfort zone does sound crucial. The plus point is that it has far-reaching effects and is valuable in the future.
We are surrounded by advanced technology and with each new day, it is becoming a driving factor of an uplifted business environment. Moreover, the future attracts us for more technological innovations, considering past achievements and modern business’s ever-moving targets. To break the barriers of old tactics and disrupt conventional processes, futuristic ways help businesses redecorate their strategies to forge ahead in the industry.
As a modern digital platform, Business APAC has been consistently enlightening its loyal readers about the fascinating stories of enterprising companies and their ingenious as well as ahead-of-time solutions. These companies have been making a mark in the industry and distinguishing themselves in every possible sector such as neurotechnology, clinical practices, robotics, logistics, engineering & IT services, and construction. Continuing the legacy, “Business APAC Futuristic Companies of 2022” features prominent companies in the APAC region that are significantly transforming their respective industries with a futuristic approach.
On the cover page of the magazine, we have featured Freer Logic —an eminent B2B company which provides solutions of neurotechnology for training and monitoring. It mainly focuses on the well-being of people and aims to innovate neurotechnology to provide best-in- class products and solutions. Elsewhere in the magazine, you will find compelling narratives of Optimizt Technologies Private Limited, Annexus Technologies, Avekshaa Technologies, Kaaspro, Concreative, Proximie, Eternal Innovations, Edgistify, and Yugasa Software Labs. These companies are renowned in their respective fields for their cutting-edge solutions and futuristic visions.
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BUSINESS APAC
Freer Logic
Information Revolution
Becoming the corporate group needed most by people around the world
Peter Freer Founder & CEO
Leveraging Neurotechnology to Improve Human Performance
As the list of technologies grows every day, the world is transforming existing businesses and personal lives. These technologies have the potential to ease people's lives and improve their personal and business dealings. Companies and individuals who do not follow some of the big tech trends run the risk of being left behind. Understanding current trends will allow individuals and businesses to plan and seize opportunity. One such extraordinary leader who is looking ahead and identifying the most important trends is Peter Freer , the Founder, and CEO of Freer Logic . He strongly advocates that the seemingly impossible can be achieved with the right passion and dedication. Through Freer Logic, he is implementing ideas that once seemed impossible to execute.
A Pioneer in the Field of Neurotechnology
Carolina-based Freer Logic is a primarily a B2B provider of neurotechnology for monitoring and training. The company's aim is to innovate neurotechnology with the objective of providing safety and wellbeing to the users. Freer Logic's neurotechnology delivers best-in-class solutions and products. It also integrates neurotechnology with 3D training environments to enhance human performance.
The futuristic company has bleeding edge neurotechnology to monitor drivers' brains to improve their cognitive performance, safety and provide enriching entertainment. The technology consists of a contactless brain monitor that is discreetly incorporated into the headrest. This removes the need to wear cumbersome and invasive headsets that have been dismissed by most in the industry. Freer Logic's technology is geared towards an autonomous future recognizing human emotion and cognitive states to change the car's ride and environment and to aid the driver with services. Imagine a car that says, “I notice you are stressed. May I play some relaxing music? Adjust the temperature? Change your seat position?” or, in autonomous driving, “We are approaching your destination. It's time to wake up. Shall we play a game to put you in a peak performance state before you make your presentation?”
A Pertinacious Leader behind the Company Success
Peter established Freer Logic with a mission to provide disruptive neurotechnology that enables people to access and control the most valuable asset they own—their brain. Previously, he worked as the CEO of Unique Logic and Technology and developed Play Attention, a training program for the attention deficit hyperactivity (ADHD) market. Play Attention is now the #1 neurocognitive training program for ADHD children and adults distributed globally in 10 languages.
Our vision is to be an integral valuable part of people's everyday lives to provide a bridge to human /machine interfaces of never imagined connectivity, safety, and wellbeing.
A futuristic company is a company whose current product can adapt and evolve to solve problems and enrich lives for many years to come.
His contributions to the field of neuroscience and its practical application in the field of education and human performance have garnered him seven patents with others pending. The forward-thinking leader has lectured on behalf of NASA at the National Space Society in Washington, DC as well as lectured at the United Nations in Vienna, Austria. He is co-author of a white paper on human performance with the International Atomic Energy Agency of the United Nations.
The role of the captain of a ship is to lead from the front and navigate through bad weather. Freer performs many roles including algorithm development, hardware development, app development, patent development, financial director, futurist, and far more. He is also responsible for adapting and evolving with the market as well as taking the company to a new height of success. As an innovator, Peter believes that the technology and apps developed by Freer Logic are future-proof from any upcoming challenges. He shares, “ The only limitation is our imagination. And we have huge imaginations. ”
Catering Diverse Verticals, Most Preferred Clientele in APAC
The team of Freer Logic are striving to provide quality products and solutions to their clients. Currently, the skilled team is catering three verticals; automotive, consumer electronics, and training. In automotive, they create safety features such as drowsiness detection, cognitive load detection, distracted driving, and stress detection. It will grow to create emotional recognition algorithms, cognitive activities such as apps for mindfulness, apps for relaxation and apps for peak performance. As for the consumer electronics, it is an exciting field. Peter asserts, “ Imagine offering clients the
ability to control apps on their cell phone, tablet, or desktop by mind alone or enhancing their mental abilities through apps specifically designed to improve their lives. ” For the training vertical, Freer Logic has trained da Vinci robotic surgeons, NASA, NASCAR, nuclear power operators, Olympic athletes, and many others.
Additionally, the APAC region is full of opportunities for companies to leverage and expand their footprint. Peter believes there is a huge expansion possibilities exist in the APAC market. Also, having strong relationships with the automotive industry, South Korea and Japan are the two countries that currently have the greatest benefit from Freer Logic's technology.
Staying on Top of the Race
Currently, the market is crowded with competitors offering solutions for clients. To differentiate and stay ahead of market competitors, Freer Logic always innovates to deliver best of breed solutions. The company has developed an award winning discreet neurotechnology embedded in a headrest called a Neurobiomonitor (NBM). The headrest can monitor the brain of a driver or passenger without physically connecting to them. It also has the ability to detect simple head motions from the driver, such as yes and no. It also maintains system functionality to a distance of about 10 inches.
Moreover, its NBM technology will accommodate safety features and driver emotion recognition in the waning years of manual driving. Peter shares, “ Freer Logic is further developing AI to address driver needs in autonomous driving. Now it is undertaking cognitive enrichment in vehicle! ”
Pursuing Even Bigger Goals
Every founder has a vision of the future, if only to imagine a world in which his\her company stands where there once was a void. Yet certain companies will play a completely outside role in deciding what's next for us all. According to Peter, futuristic technologies have to be accepted by a market that is not aware of the technology and needs to be educated about the technology. Commenting on this statement, Peter shares, “ A good example of this was Freer Logic's presentation of cognitive games in an automobile. I initiated this subject 3 years ago and most automobile manufacturers just chuckled. However, this year I've been approached by 4 auto OEM who have asked me to make these apps (apps for mindfulness, relaxation, etc.) for them. Sometimes it's difficult to be ahead of the curve. ”
Surprise App For Millennial
The future revolves around crazy ideas-bold, off-the-wall concepts that can help companies make a quantum leap forward and remain relevant in a changing world. Therefore, Freer Logic is planning surprise app for the millennial workforce that will enable them to have social connections that they never had before!
Our neurotechnology awakens the public to new levels of human performance, safety, and health by finally making discreet, fun, neurotechnology available to anyone, anytime, anywhere.
Annexus Technologies
Exceeding Customers' Expectations With Novel IT Services
Digital transformation has brought forth new opportunities and challenges. Now, companies have to manage their operations, deliver customer experience, stay relevant with industry trends, and keep on innovating new services/solutions. They need to use modern technologies to create differentiating ways of doing business to drive growth in new and existing markets. However, the journey of embracing new tools and technologies is pretty rough for companies. Companies encounter numerous challenges that slow down their productivity and growth.
Annexus Technologies has been enabling digital transformation through its services and products to help clients embrace IT technologies efficiently. Since its inception, the company's mission is to create a world where IT is ubiquitous; where it can utilize technology to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of modern tasks. By leveraging its highly skilled workforce, it is utilizing their value-added skills to design, implement, and support the products and solutions.
Customer-Centric Approach and Services
Annexus is a Latin word for binding, as such the company takes divergent technologies and fuses them into something new. Modern technologies such as Virtualization Technologies, Security and Surveillance Technologies, Structured Cabling, Server & SAN Technologies, and Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Solutions are leveraged by the company to stay ahead of competitors as
We, at Annexus Technologies, will continually invest in our human resources to ensure that we acquire and retain the best professionals. ‘‘
well as to deliver a better customer experience. As a customer-centric company, Annexus Technologies is committed to solving the client's complex business issues. To tackle this, the company put themselves in their shoes to completely understand the problems and then uses its wide range of diverse and technical professional services. They do not stop until an ideal solution is founded. They also maintain a high standard of quality throughout every aspect of its client engagement and fulfillment process.
Annexus Technologies has been leading its client engagement with prominent companies like PureStorage, Cisco, VMware, Zerto, Cato Networks, Palo Alto Network, etc. Having such wide range of partnerships boosting its services, the company is offeringcomprehensive services which include Network Assessment, Network Intrusion Assessment, Compliance Report Generation, Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery Solutions, Data Center Design, I.T. Implementations, I.T Consultations and Virtualization Solutions.
Dedicated Highly Professional Team
Annexus Technologies understands the needs of its clients and provides its team of highly skilled professionals, who deliver IT solutions that not only meet these requirements, but also are scalable and sustainable. The team focuses on solving the client's issues by offering innovative services. They strive to continue down the road of innovation with their customer-centered approach, by first recognizing consumer needs and then providing useful solutions.
Leveraging Latest Technologies to Attract Millennials
To attract millennials, Annexus Technologies believes in improving the status quo. Thus, it is willing to adopt changes on the fly to furthermore improve its technical, professional, and commercial relationships. The company utilizes the latest technology such as ZOHO, which is a highly customizable and versatile solution that has respective apps for all its areas as well as departments of the business which include Sales, Marketing, Technical Services, Professional Services, Finance, etc.
Unique Forthcoming Offering
To deliver clients with updated solutions, Annexus Technologies has already lined up some projects that are going to bring transformation in the industry.
Ÿ PureStorage FlashStack Solutions: It comprises PureStorage NextGeneration SAN, Cisco Networking and Cisco Servers and when coupled with VMware, it is a turn-key data center in a box.
Ÿ sVirtualized Desktop Solutions: This solution incorporates desktop and application virtualization that utilizes GPU Virtualization.
Ÿ Network Assessments : With the addition of a Fluke DSX-5000 Cable Analyzer and a NetAlly AirCheck G2, the company is able to certify existing Cat-5e/6/6A cable runs and 802.11a/g/n/ac/ax wireless network. They will soon be adding a NetAlly EtherScope nXG for 10 Gbps Copper and Fiber Networks.
Andrew N. Griffiths
Founder & CEO
A Seasoned Technology Expert Managing All Operations
Andrew N. Griffiths is the Founder and CEO at Annexus Technologies . He has over 10 years of experience in Business Development and Project Management, over 13 years of experience in the Telecommunications industry, and over 16 years of experience with Cisco Networking Technologies and in the I.T. Industry. He has also amassed numerous certifications such as Cisco Certified Network Professional, Palo Alto Networks Certified Network Security Engineer, VMware Certified Professional, to name a few.
As the Founder, Andrew has numerous responsibilities to perform which include building and maintaining a client base, leading and overseeing the implementation of the company's long and short term plans in accordance with its strategy as well as ensuring complete customer experience. He also provides direction and vision to ensure that the company meets its strategic goals and Post-Sales Support for numerous solutions: Network Solutions, Network Security Solutions, Virtualization Solutions, etc.
As a seasoned technology expert, Andrew believes that a futuristic company is one that is able to get information from their clients in real-time while meeting or exceeding these requirements within a timely manner. He further says, “ Ultimately when a company becomes a trusted advisor to their clients; the company will go above and beyond for the client and in return, the clients will reciprocate with continued and increased business. ”
Dominating Technologies of Future
Technology is progressing at an unpredicted pace. According to Founder Andrew, the following futuristic technologies are going to dominate the world in the upcoming years: Personal IT Security, AI-Enabled Services, Digital Identification, AI Integration with Live Organisms, and Digital Transactions. These technologies will make the customer experience better as well as will ensure the security and reliability while reducing the time complexity of each process.
Avekshaa Technologies:
A Trendsetter In Application Performance Engineering And AIOps
According to the Gartner reports, the next 5 years globally are going to be around High Scalability. With high scale, come the challenges of performance. Forrester’s report suggests that 64% CIOs confirm, P-A-S-S™ issues impact their businesses seriously. Also, as per Butler Group reports, globally 72B+ USD is lost due to poorly performing applications alone.
The rapid advance of technology has had its seismic impact on the ways companies do business today. Companies have started leveraging the technologies to offer their finest solutions, stay relevant to industries’ requirements, to stay ahead of their competitors, and ultimately, to deliver a stellar customer experience to their end users. However, they tend to overlook the importance of performance engineering and management in their solutions. To help them address these obstacles, Avekshaa Technologies came into existence.
Since its inception, the company has been addressing the most critical, complex problems that are industry and technology agnostic. Moreover, it offers highly customized solutions that assure continuous improvements in the P-AS-S™ (Performance, Availability, Scalability, and Security) for business-critical applications and IT systems.
A Trendsetter in Application Performance Engineering and Management
Founded in 2011, Avekshaa is a leading solutions and products company in P-A-S-S™. The word ‘Avekshaa’
We are the pioneers that brought a paradigm shift in the way PASS (Performance, Availability, Scalability, Security) requirements are delivered to business critical applications and IT systems. ‘‘
defines its core values and strength — a Sanskrit word that means Care, Observation, and Attention. Because of its passion for technology, the company is emerging as a pioneer in changing the industry mindset of treating P-A-SS™, NFR (non-functional requirement) as an afterthought. It has already invented a unique, core technology platform named “ P-A-S-S™ Assurance Platform ”.
This platform is developed by using core IPs from the company, proven methodologies, use case knowledge base, and real-life scenarios. The platform utilizes an innovative and holistic approach for managing IT complexities as well as to protect and maximize the return on IT investment in an organization. It is ideally suited for a variety of IT systems and technologies. As a result, P-A-S-S™ considerations are now prioritized and imbibed at the requirement, design and architecture phases than at the final UAT phase.
Currently, Avekshaa has a robust suite of world proof solutions and products that are deployed in various industries, e.g. BFSI, Retail/eCommerce, Healthcare, Pharma, Automotive, Supply Chain. However, all the products and solutions are industry and technology agnostic and can be adopted everywhere seamlessly. These key innovations are Platform driven Performance Engineering, DEM and AIOps Products that predict & suggest future problems, and recommend remedies to those.
No One-Size That Fits Solutions and Products for Clients
To stay ahead of the innovation curve, Avekshaa has adapted AI/ML in Application Performance Engineering/Management long before, to predict problems and suggest solutions proactively, much before they actually occur. Now, the company has a wealth of 4000 + differentiated problems across diverse industries including Telecom, Banking, BFS, FinTech, Automotive, Insurance, Manufacturing, Healthcare, and Travel. It understands that all problems are uniquely complex in nature and no onesize-fits-all the clients’ needs. Therefore, it delivers bespoke solutions and products that best suit the clients’ IT infrastructure.
Ready to Expand, Delivering Valuable Benefits to Clients
APAC remains the most dynamic region in the world as it has brought forth many great opportunities for businesses to grow and expand. For Avekshaa, India has been a major contributing country in its success story in this region till date. The company is also moderately successful in SEA countries. In the near future, it is well poised to expand exponentially in MEA, ANZ, and the US.
For its customers, the futuristic company provides a wide range of benefits through its solutions. Some of these benefits are the elimination of IT downtime /outages, increase the scalability of cloud-based core banking applications by 10x, a significant reduction in IT Infra expenditure as well as in IT CAPEX, OPEX. In addition to this, improve branding through superlative customer experience, 98% reduction in Response Time, and achieve “near-zero” latency are offered by it.
The Mastermind behind Avekshaa’s Growth
process-oriented for us. It’s the unique Platform, Solutions, Products that we have created out of our wealth of experience, unique problems of scale that we have solved. ”
Attracting Millennial
The Founder and CEO, Rajinder Gandotra established Avekshaa Technologies with a mission, to help their clients focus and grow their business and profitability by making their IT systems secure, faster and predictable. He has the support of a skillful team, Rachit (Head of Delivery), Sanjay (Head of India Sales), Srini (Head of Products, Platforms), Tridib Swain (Partner, Global Head of Business). He was formerly an Associate Vice President, Principal Technical Architect, and Management Council Member at Infosys Technologies. Under Rajinder's leadership, the company has received many awards and recognitions.
Moreover, Rajinder shared his thoughts on a futuristic company, he states, “Along with my team, grow Avekshaa to be a leading, global, high-end technology company in the P-A-S-S™ Assurance space.”
P-A-S-S™
is a Remarkable Sector
Rajinder believes that P-A-S-S™ is a super-niche area. This super-specialized area demands unique acumen to identify, analyse, and provide accurate solutions. Thus, the company’s forte lies in implementing those solutions accurately to meet the desired customer KPIs. CEO Rajinder asserts, “ Most importantly, it’s not people or
Millennials and new-age entrepreneurs have understood that superlative customer experience, addressing problems of Performance, High Availability, Scalability and Security are key to success. They are equipping themselves with the required tools to solve these challenges.
Additionally, P-A-S-S™ is no longer a pipe dream in the digital era, where hypergrowth, SaaS sales, digital marketing, customer experience drives global business. Realizing this fact, global enterprises are spending big bucks to ensure they offer superlative customer experience to their end customers, brand loyalty. To overcome this hurdle, Avekshaa has expert team members who are keen investors and retainers of millennial talent that are everfamished to solve complex problems of hyperscale. They hone, mentor and empower them to solve unique P-A-SS™ problems for their customers.
AI/ML is the Future
Rajinder believes that in the next few years the adoption of AI/ML will become mainstream and will continue to dominate. He also believes that quantum computing is another technology that will be useful for research, forecasting, trading, healthcare, etc.
Founder & CEO
Rajinder Gandotra
Concreative
Drawing The Future Of Construction
In the era of constant changes, civil construction field is
also on the way of drastic modernization of construction methods through robotics and digitization. The construction industry is one of the slow moving industries as compared to others, as there are various factors affecting it. It is one the major capital oriented industry where the requirement of working capital is huge due to the nature of daily transactions. Understanding the current changes taking place in construction, heralded by digitalization and robotic needs of the industry, Concreative aids its team of engineers and architects in developing new skills in a new sector. It also supports new job positions that are able to create beyond the boundaries, where robotics, architecture and civil construction are developing strong interconnections.
Integrated Services Developing the Client’s Vision
Concreative offers an integrated service from Design to Construction for bespoke elements. It has developed turnkey solution for the clients willing to develop structural elements and architectural products. Here is the procedure which is followed by the company while creating a 3D model.
Ÿ Concrete 3d Print Preliminary Design
The first and foremost step is to design combining the idea of the client and creating a conceptual one. The experienced team of Concreative works on the design to meet the needs and design the optimum technical solution for 3D printing.
Ÿ Full Parametric Modelling & Structural Design Assistance
After understanding of the design, the second step where the architects and structural Engineers develop efficient and printable 3D model is to assist in the detailed design of specific and complex shapes.
Ÿ Concrete 3D Printing & Production
Third and one of the most important steps is to ensure that every printed piece complies with technical criteria and the applicable standards by implementing a strong, consistent quality control measures.
Ÿ Site Assistance & Methods of Installation
As every project is unique and the main focus is client’s satisfaction. Final step is when the Methods Engineering team plan, control, built and inspects the project to comply with client’ s specifications at site before handover.
Innovation Combined Technical Expertise
Vincent Maillet, Operations Manager of Concreative is dedicated to technic and engineering and which is fuel within Soletanche Freyssinet (world leader in soil, structural and nuclear engineering). During the past 15 years, innovation combined with technical expertise has always driven his career developments in bridge construction. Accepting new challenges, Vincent is trying to bring digitization and robotic at the spearhead of the new construction industry. These are of course technical challenges but also developing new mindset about construction and innovation in the design.
Building Partnership to Provide Expertise Service
We design and Manufacturer highly complex elements in concrete unachievable with standard formwork methodology.
Concreative is a partnership between 3 companies — Drawlink, an Architect and interior design firm, Econstruct, an Engineering firm and Freyssinet – setting the benchmark in specialist civil engineering, part of Vinci Construction, the world’s largest general contracting firm. Besides engineering and specialty works, Concreative has a large general contracting capacities and expertise. It is implementing a new tool on the civil construction sector to unleash architects from previous constraints.
Meeting Customer Demand for a Superior Service Experience
Concreative intends to develop concrete 3D printing service for architectural and civil construction. With high experience in civil engineering, Concreative aims to develop strong expertise in concrete 3D print structural elements. Using standard formwork methodology, the team at Concreative designs and manufactures highly complex elements in concrete unachievable form.
Clients are the main focus point of the industry as many of the designs are based on the client’s vision and planning. The end product is also directly related to the client, Concreative take efforts to understand the client’s vision and hence are able to deliver the high quality of the finished product. It considers clients as a major point of investment, which makes it a client oriented company. Concreative has to produce challenging product better always considering that the final focus will be the visual aspect of the product, either in the construction market or in the architect product for interior design.
Latest Technology Contributing to Build Safer and Better Environment
By 2030, Concreative’s mission is to provide the technology and services able to satisfy U.A.E strategy in the construction sector as instructed by His Highness Sheikh Mohamed: 25% of the construction in 3D printing. The mission is set due to the availability of two opportunities, firstly the availability of a very mature and advanced 3D printing technology developed by French Partner XtreeE, and secondly, the ambition of the UAE to be a large construction platform development with and for 3D printing. Concreative Concrete 3d printing is thus moving to an industrial scale in the UAE particularly thriving and proactive market.
Going forward, Concreative is implementing a new tool on the civil construction sector to unleash architects from previous constraints. With the help of global engineering and contracting expertise, Concreative propose integrated services to develop structural elements beyond the conventional boundaries with the high standard of quality. The business contributes to the transformation of cities and territories. The latest technology will contribute to build safer and better considering large environmental commitment.
Vincent Maillet Operations Manager
EDGISTIFY Simplifying Logistics with Technology
In recent years, consumer demands have been constantly on a rise – particularly in terms of quality and service. Observing the changing trends, supply chain managers have realized the importance of using the latest technology to ensure better accountability and visibility – allowing them to maintain tight control and thrive in the cut-throat competition. Thus, more companies are incorporating technology into their supply chain management systems to stay at the forefront of the complex business world. Meeting this demand in the supply chain landscape, is one of India's most credible on- Edgistify demand supply chain solution companies offering a techenabled one-stop platform for multiple logistics requirements.
Edgistify's roots date back to 2017 when , Umang Shukla Kamal KumawatAntim Suman Co-founders , and ( at Edgistify ) observed the limitations in the supply chain and logistics sector and wanted to address these constraints with the idea that can revolutionize the industry. Moreover, as India was taking big steps towards digitization since 2015, facilitating the supply chain industry with a tech-based platform was the core thought behind the foundation of Edgistify. Consequently, reaching out to more than 300 supply chain heads, the trio established Edgistify in 2017. The company aims at becoming the leading supply chain support partner powered by its robust data strength and works in the direction of streamlining various touch points across the value chain.
ONE-STOP LOGISTICS SOLUTIONS
Edgistify currently offers two main solutions including, • Warehouse & 3PL - Identification and Finalization: The Company assists its clients in discovering suitable
warehouses in more than 150 cities across India through its tech-platform known as Warehouse Edge. It lists warehouses based on more than 200 parameters thereby availing the most relevant choices for its clients. It also connects its clients with the most befitting and pocket-friendly 3 party logistics options. It currently has more than 500 3PL vendors associated
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At Edgistify, we aspire to organize the unorganized logistics sector through means of digitization.
with it. The company helps them in reducing their sunk costs and bringing customers. It has the clients' MTM inventory on its platform – by the means of which it pitches customers for 3PL.
• On-demand Warehousing : Edgistify offers Ondemand warehouses through its newly introduced vertical called Storage Edge. It avails storage solutions based on demand for both short term (days to weeks period) and long- term (month to yearly period) requirements.
A TRIO OF ASTUTE PROFESSIONALS
All the services and solutions provided by are Edgistify helmed by the three co-founders. Individually, they make
Kaew Boonsoontornpat CEO Kamal
( Left to Right )
Kumawat, Antim Suman & Umang Shukla, Co-founders
sure that they bring something new yet aligned with the organizational objectives. As Edgistify has a multi-sided platform, the trio has divided clients viz. enterprise customers such as Jio, Britannia, Pidilite, etc., and warehousing network, etc. among themselves. The roles and responsibilities of the trio are predefined which helps them avoid functionality problems. Together, they have been working relentlessly to drive the company's growth and serve clients in a better way since Edgistify's inception.
RESTRUCTURING AND REGROUPING
The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted business operations around the world in several ways. Businesses that were dependent on physical contact such as HoReCa, Travel & Tourism, etc. were the major victims of the pandemic and suffered a severe loss. At the same time, businesses that fell under the essential services category gained momentum. As digitization became the only means of supply and consumption, tech-driven startups generated more leads during the pandemic.
Unlike the rest of the world, the APAC region lagged in terms of digital inculcation. Particularly in the logistics industry, companies in the APAC region were not inclined towards digitization before the pandemic as compared to the rest of the world. However, presently, the loss of physical connectivity led by the pandemic has revolutionized the business models across the APAC region, making it mandatory to place technology at the heart of the logistics businesses.
Heeding to these changes, Edgistify restructured and regrouped to make the most of the opportunity presented by the inclination towards digitization. Alongside internal structurization, the company worked on transforming the physical components of the business to digital such as site visits, negotiations, etc. Taking the crisis in a positive light, its team churned out creative ideas for communication, content, and operations thereby strengthening its tech backend. Furthermore, as a social responsibility, Edgistify introduced a new vertical for employing in the blue-collar area –helping people to connect and gain jobs, especially in the logistics and supply chain sector.
STRENGTHENING THE DIGITAL SPINE
The arrival of the pandemic has impacted several lives and business all over the world. At the beginning, Edgistify faced numerous issues which include Lack of connectivity. From the employee engagement point of view, virtual connectivity has helped in various occasions but it had its own limitations. Employees felt disconnected as they were in touch with their teams but not with the rest of the organization. In this phase, Edgistify's HR teams played a vital role by arranging several cross-term virtual activities and ensuring continuous engagement.
Furthermore, the company organized some L&D sessions for the employees. It made sure that all the employees were on the same page by implementing the Kaizen process to take inputs from the employees on its live projects. Rather than adjusting to the new normal, Edgistify benefitted from it by emphasizing on strengthening its digital spine.
TECH-TRANSFORMATION IN THE LOGISTICS SECTOR
The rise of better technologies, growth of ecommerce, and escalation of investments in the last half decade are fueling potential opportunities for the tech-transformation within the logistics sector of the APAC region. Aiming to maximize these opportunities, Edgistify is planning to introduce on-demand warehousing– a plug and play warehouse vertical that avails warehouses for short term and long term requirements. The company is also planning to expand business with the 3PL companies that associate with it for their vacant space availability. Ultimately, Edgistify's long-term goal is to cover the entire supply chain from MHE to transportation through the medium of its tech-based platform.
Giving Logistics Companies a Competitive Edge
Digitization is presently the prominent driving force for businesses around the globe as it automates business processes as well as optimizes business performance. The digital capability drives competitiveness and helps companies make faster and better decisions than ever before. Companies that exercise digital transformation improve not only customer service processes but also create new customer values that deliver a better customer experience. Thus, businesses worldwide seek digital business solutions, resulting in the intensified demand for digital solution providers.
Companies such as provides digital Eternal Innovations business solutions to meet the rising demand. Headquartered in Bangkok Metropolitan and established in 2003, Eternal Innovations helps businesses transform, innovate, and grow in the fast-paced digital world. The company partners with its clients from start to finish and focuses on their needs while producing innovative ideas, developing effective strategies, and designing high-quality, scalable solutions.
WIDE RANGE OF DIGITAL BUSINESS PLATFORMS
Eternal Innovations (ETi) team works closely with its clients to solve the critical issues facing the clients of many businesses of all sizes and small start-ups. ETi offers a wide range of digital platforms with the necessary tools and expertise to help businesses transform, compete, and grow. Ultimately, the company provides a broad range of services and solutions to help organizations facilitate change, achieve their vision, and optimize performance
and productivity. The cutting edge solutions offered by the company include,
• Digital Transformation Platform: ETi team has incurred valuable digital transformation experience through working with leading companies and helping
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At Eternal innovations, we combine our insights and skills to transform your processes and strategies, and in turn, your company.
them digitize the business processes, customer experience management, customer service processes, the voice of customer analytics, and supply chain management processes.
• Customer Analytics and Monitoring Platform®: The company has put immense efforts into developing the Customer Analytics and Monitoring Platform (CAM®) with the strongest belief that Service is the Heart of Business . CAM® helps firms better manage customer experience and deliver the best value to the customers.
• Smart Logistics Optimization and Management Platform: ETi Smart Logistic Optimization and
Kaew Boonsoontornpat CEO
•Management Platform is working with a mission to partnering with a logistics company to digitize Thailand's trucking and logistics industry. The company has leveraged its plethora of experience to gain an in-depth understanding of key obstacles that prevent many logistics players from competing in the digital world.
With these digital solutions, the company aims to improve social conditions and make the world a better place to live.
ENSURING UTMOST PRODUCTIVITY
The COVID-19 pandemic has proved to be a wake-up call for businesses, mainly in business practices and crisis management. The pandemic has caused negative impacts such as budget spending pause, budget-cutting, temporary companies, shops & restaurants closedowns, and a curfew in some countries. However, it has shown several positive impacts as well. In Thailand, business people, owners, and individuals have joined together to share and help each other in every possible way. Moreover, due to the sudden increase in demand for digital solutions, many companies reinvent their business strategies.
Eternal Innovations, too, has adapted to the new normal. Firstly, it exercised the work from home policy for its entire staff. Though it did not have the prior preparation for these working conditions, it was learning by doing experience. In these challenging times, ETi ensured that the team contributes their time and efforts the way they have done before the pandemic. Since controlling the eight-hour working period was difficult, the company
inculcated on four main pillars—effective at time management (deadline-driven), trustworthy, open & honest, and reliable—to ensure unparalleled service throughout the crisis.
PROACTIVE AND AGILE APPROACH
Since working from home had no attendance tracking, notime-in, time out of office, ETi's team struggled a bit in the beginning. Thus, it emphasized effective time management that allowed the teams to start managing their own time and how they work, including how they communicate among themselves and the clients.
To resolve this, the company implemented an agile method to have morning scrum to allow each individual to update, discuss, raise issues, and seek consultation. “ It becomes a critical part of daily work. The team enjoys that and creates open and honest communication Kaew ,” adds BoonsoontornpatCEO Eternal Innovations (of ). Being the CEO, she sets up new standards and rules, particularly for the work from home situation.
ETi wanted to have the same quality and deliverable standards as before the pandemic. Hence it emphasized open communication, accessibility (both from clients and the team), and agility that helps the team achieve and accomplish goals. As the leader, Kaew proactively approaches each individual to inspire, connect, and build a stronger working relationship among the staff.
GAINING A COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE
The rise of on-demand and express delivery resulted from the pandemic is expected to shape the future of the logistics industry. Shortly, more logistics companies with manual or legacy systems will have to migrate to a digital application and process automation to gain real-time and end-to-end visibility. The data that incurs from digital applications will be valuable to support decision making and increase competitive advantage.
“ We will gain more value by making sense of the data from the logistics application with analytical tools. We will see trends and forecast into the future opportunity by exercising AI-based technology and predictive analytical tools ,” asserts Kaew. In the coming years, Eternal Innovations will emphasize turning the data collected via the platform into intelligence and innovations, helping logistics companies perform better and gain a more competitive advantage.
Kaaspro:
A Reliable, Trusted HealthCare Information Technology Solutions Partner
With new technological advancements and developments, a significant number of healthcare aspects are about to change and progress. Today, the rising demand for quality care delivery and the highest level of information accuracy is putting heavy pressure on healthcare providers. In line with the current requirements, hospitals and healthcare institutions need a reliable, secured digitized medical data management system.
Headquartered in Chennai (India), Kaaspro Enterprises is a futuristic health information technology services company that aims to provide effective, affordable cloudbased medical data management solutions to medical organizations and clinicians regardless of the size and type of their practices. Founded by Kumar Subramaniam ( Co-founder and CEO ) and supported by Anish Kumaramangalam ( Co-founder and CTO ), the company’s mission is to help medical practices and clinicians to increase their efficiency and productivity while empowering patients to better engage in their care, thus improving patient safety and outcomes.
Leveraging Modern Technologies
By leveraging modern technologies, Kaaspro is spending efforts and resources on innovating newer technologies that help to enhance medical information technologyrelated services. Through its solutions, a massive amount
We endeavor to present the most reliable and robust health care technology products that make complex processes simple. ‘‘
of medical data can be stored, thereby making it easier for medical organizations and medical professionals to reduce data storage costs. It is also utilizing a real-time exchange of knowledge that significantly assists health care providers and hospitals on a daily basis as well as during emergency times. Moreover, Kaaspro is leveraging health information technology products like 75Health to ensure security as well as affordable data storage while providing portable access to the concerned health informatics professionals.
Future-Proof Healthcare Services
With the advent of information technology in the healthcare ecosystem, innovative and ground-breaking applications and remarkable information accuracy have become possible. However, the increasing demands for care quality among individuals are presenting new challenges. To address this challenge, Kaaspro has been leveraging artificial intelligence (AI), cloud computing, and mobile technology to transform healthcare delivery. It is making considerable investments in research and development to future-proof its existing and potential products from challenges whatsoever. By doing this, the way of managing medical information and making information-based decisions will significantly improve in the near future.
Added-Value Benefits
Clients choose Kaaspro’s products because of its remarkable benefits, which include accurate medical information, the convenience of use and exchange of information fast and secure. The real-time information sharing capability and fast and easy communication are the added advantages. Also, the company’s cloud-based, intelligent healthcare software systems are HIPAAcompliant and they adhere to the latest legal and industry standards. More importantly, the products are designed according to the need of individuals as well as the need of providers. Kumar shares, “ We have designed all our
Anish Kumaramangalam
Co-founder & CTO
products in a simple, yet the precise way that warrants accurate documentation and sharing of critical patient data. ”
Expanding Presence in the APAC Region
The APAC region is presenting numerous opportunities for healthcare providers. To make medical data management simpler and efficient, Kaaspro’s exclusive health information technology products such as 75Health Electronic Medical Record Software and Practice Management Software have been successfully deployed in India, African countries, and the USA. The company plans to expand into several countries in the Asia Pacific Region in the future.
Furthermore, the fastest-growing company has been receiving inquiries from APAC countries for innovative medical data management products that are under development. Countries such as South Korea, Singapore, and Japan are at the forefront of health care technology adoption. Presently, it is formulating a plan to expand into these destinations in the near future with its innovative products.
Upcoming Healthcare Products
To deliver quality healthcare, Kaaspro is working on building innovative and intelligent systems that will immensely assist doctors to improve their efficiency while enhancing patient care considerably. The company
has lined up two unique products that are under development — My Health Record System and Personal Health Record System . These systems are programmed to bring unheard changes to the way individuals maintain their health records.
Preparing For The Future
Having an industry experience of over 20 years, Kumar has gained the expertise and capability to drive the company ahead. His primary responsibility as the head of the most modern health information technology services company is leveraging the cloud-based platform for making health care more intelligible. He shares, “ I was motivated to initiate the process of building a technology-driven, easy-to-use, health information technology service that not only enables the medical fraternity to meet the challenges related to efficient patient care but also increased patient participation and outcomes .”
Furthermore, he believes that future organizations must leverage innovative technology in a significant way to enhance health care quality. Also, to enable better medical practices and providers to meet the futuristic demands in the medical domain, technologies like AI, ML, and robust data analytics will be required.
Co-founder & CEO
Kumar Subramaniam
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Optimizt Technologies Private Limited
A Global Platform - Providing Engineering Product Design And Collaborative Business Services
APAC region is gaining popularity for the novel tech advancements. Due to the presence of tech giants like Infosys & TCS and the good market opportunity in India, numerous tech aspirants were inspired to enter the IT industry. One such tech enthusiast was Jitendra Jagtap , the Director of Optimizt Tecnologies Pvt Ltd (OT) . He realized the potential in this sector and came up with the idea of working in the field of engineering consultancy services business. Jitendra aimed to work as consultancy services for initial years and then developed new products along with its clients.
Today, Optimizt Technologies is the most recognized, trusted and value-added engineering & technology partner by its customers globally. Fortune 500 and globally listed companies like Johnson Controls, Emerson, GE Oil & Gas, Alfa Laval, Atlas Copco, Forbes Marshall, MAHLE, Mahindra, Henkel, HORIBA MIRA, Putzmeister, TATA Autocomp, TATA Consultancy Services, Jindal, Volvo Eicher are few of its clients to whom OT has been providing services & consultancy.
The Leading Engineering Research Centre
Optimizt Technologies was founded a decade ago with smart & experienced professionals keeping in mind the objective of providing high level technical and value-added business solutions. Due to OT's diverse services expertise and portfolio, globally renowned companies seek assistance from OT.
Optimizt Technologies mainly caters to industry sectors like automotive, automation, appliance, process industry & railway. Due to the strong domain skills in New Product Design, Detail Engineering, Product Validation & Testing, Prototyping and Project Management, OT can enhance distinct and enduring synergies for its client's business.
The outstanding performance & service quality has rewarded the company as India's leading Engineering Research Centre. OT has also received 9 International awards & recognitions from world renowned business & media companies from USA, UK and INDIA. Since year 2018, every year OT has been getting couple of nominations for business excellence.
The Techno-Commercial of Optimizt Technologies
Jitendra established Optimizt Technologies with a vision to provide value-added services to clients through innovative engineering services and technologies. He has over a decade of experience in the engineering design and research field along with project management. Before establishing the company, he worked at few MNCs including world renowned TATA Group. At Optimizt Technologies, Jitendra describes his role as the techno-commercial. His role and responsibilities include identifying emerging technologies, overseeing cross-functional groups, key accomplices, OT's branding and defining new business strategies.
The dynamic leader has been instrumental in enhancing and growing Optimizt Technologies. He believes that the secret behind the success of the company - improving processes & facilities while training team technically competent.
Innovation, Integrity, Value, Trust and People are the key parameters which OT focuses on as part of business strategy to successfully standout in the future market.
He further asserts, “ The onsite or near-shore business model has been developed for our existing clients which has brought more clarity and success in our business. Perfection in project management, well-defined processes, value-added services, strategic partnership and at last investment in resources has also helped us to succeed .”
Phenomenal Understanding of Teammates
As much as the company's success relies on strategy and
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vision, employee performance also plays a key role in completing the vision. Throughout the journey, Archana , the Director of HR & Operations has witnessed that the staff was dedicated and determined towards achieving goals. Each individual of the OT team has a phenomenal understanding to execute business. Archana proudly asserts, “ Along with high performing top management team, we believe that our staff also plays very important role in OT's success so far. ” The skilful team consistently strives to come up with new design concepts and solutions whilst working closely with clients.
The OT's staff is pleasant and very friendly, the team together tries to develop, translate and turn the new ideas into reality for clients' future growth and success. Content with the services and solutions, most of the team members have received awards and appreciations by its clients and many patents are in their credit too.
Rising Competition creating opportunities
The traditional engagement models have witnessed a significant change due to emerging technologies and market trends. Due to these changes, Optimizt Technologies is also facing challenges like the pricing aligned to client business metrics, new competitors, shorter delivery models, stringent quality demand and retention of talent in the defined budget. However, OT is viewing these challenges as an opportunity to think, reinforce and fine-tune a business model for the long run.
Director
Jagtap
Optimizt Technologies is now focusing on Innovation, delivering technical excellence, custom business models aligned to client business needs. OT is investing in future technologies to add new services vertical in offerings and upholding professional pride and integrity. The company is working tirelessly and ethically to ensure that values are added to every service it delivers. In order to do so, this India based company is going to leverage the massive pool of skilled workforces within country to deliver outstanding technology services.
Upgrading with the new trends
With the rapid Innovation & technological advancements, Optimizt Technologies is looking forward to invest in technologies like AI, Data Analytics, IIoT, AR/VR. The company also has plans to initiate marketing and operations in the handpicked countries while building customer credibility, developing domain expertise and promoting the acceptability of the offshore concept. Being amongst the leading company in the APAC region, OT is looking forward to start operations in Europe, Japan, Australia and North America to provide nearshore services to new clients. Jitendra asserts, “ As of now, much remains uncertain due to COVID-19 pandemic globally. The technology will be more dominant in future and hence the tech companies. The use of smart & advance devices may help to control such pandemic for survival. After mid 2020, our company has plan to initiate Biomedical product design services. ”
Jitendra
Archana
The APAC region is experiencing a rapid rise in digital healthcare. The increased mobile connectivity across the region has given rise to technologies like cognitive intelligence, virtual reality, augmented reality, and voice interfaces; these technologies are being quickly adopted and telehealth is emerging as a viable means to democratise healthcare.
Dr. Nadine Hachach-Haram FRCS (Plast), BEM, is Consultant Plastic Surgeon and Head of Clinical Innovation at Guy’s and St. Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust. She is someone who has witnessed and played a proactive role, in the telehealth boom, which has been recently hastened by COVID-19. In 2015, the clinical entrepreneur drew on her surgical experiences and her passion for innovation and education, to create ; a technology platform on a Proximie mission to save lives by sharing the world’s best clinical practice.
Extending the Virtual Reach of Clinical Expertise
“ Imagine a world where every surgeon had all the expertise and information available in real-time so they could deliver
PROXIMIE
Saving Lives By Virtually Sharing The World’s Best Clinical Practice
the best surgical care, for every patient, every single time? ”
Dr. Nadine explains. “ As a training surgeon I grew increasingly frustrated with the widening inequity in care and I wanted to see if we could create a solution, using technology, that could empower surgeons to virtually and practically interact with each other from anywhere in the world, in order to share expertise at a scale that could help to save lives. This variation wasn’t only witnessed in the developing world where I had dedicated my time to global surgical initiatives, but it was also witnessed in the developed world across established health systems. ”
Proximie is a technology platform that uses a combination of machine learning, artificial intelligence, and augmented reality to empower surgeons and clinicians to virtually and practically interact with each other from anywhere in the world. Before, during, and after surgery. Using augmented reality, healthcare practitioners can remotely interact in a procedure or assessment from start to finish, and mentor a local clinician through a live operation, in a visually and intuitive way. An internet-connected device allows them to view a live camera feed of the assessment or operation, provide verbal instructions, draw or overlay important patient scans or X-rays, and virtually reach into the clinical field to provide precise guidance.
Dr. Nadine says: I had been exposed to early-stage telecommunications platforms, but all of them are anchored to one moment in time. One meeting, one call, one conference, but then it’s gone. The options available did not enable a continuum of sharing knowledge and expertise, and they were too passive.
“ What we wanted to do with Proxmie was to create a multisensory experience that was a catalyst for collaboration and could digitise a surgeon’s footprint. We wanted to extend the geographical reach of a surgeon and create the effect of a borderless operating room that could empower surgeons to remotely share the knowledge that could ultimately reduce variation in care .”
It is being used by hospitals, the UK military, universities, medical device companies, and most recently to support in
Dr. Nadine Hachach-Haram
the fight against COVID-19. The platform is secure and has been deployed in over 50 hospitals around the globe, completing more than 300 surgeries each month, in 30 countries. Proximie is fundamentally changing the way clinicians train, interact, apply their expertise, and provide optimum patient care now and in the future.
Disrupting the Status Quo
Building a business that aspired to change the paradigm of surgery, whilst still a trainee surgeon with a young family, was ambitious and not without its challenges, Dr. Nadine concedes.
" Disruption in healthcare is complicated and anyone who says it’s easy or straightforward has probably never experienced it ,” She explains. But if it’s solving a problem, then the adoption can be swift and decisive.
" I think when we first set out there was understandably some skepticism about whether or not we could match our ambition to change the paradigm of surgery! There was also concern about whether or not we could build something intuitive yet capable of supporting the type of precision that is required in an operating room. Would Proximie end up being too otherworldly or cumbersome from an integration perspective? ”
Dr. Nadine adds: “ We knew we had to build something for the here and now, as well as for the future. It had to answer an urgent need and have the potential to both decrease costs and increase the efficiency and quality of care. That was the dichotomy we had to overcome. ”
Mission-driven Healthcare Professional
Being a surgeon has been instrumental in the Proximie story to date, according to their founder, with Dr. Nadine suggesting the insight she has accrued as a clinician has provided her with a crucial overview of a complex industry. " I’m a frontline surgeon that has been exposed to the complexities of healthcare systems ,” Dr. Nadine says. “ I understand the challenges around behavioral change, and how sometimes the adoption of new technologies can be slow. I also understand what may or may not work, within the healthcare environment because I have experienced it first hand. That has been invaluable ." She adds: " Proximie was born out of a need, and my ambition as a surgeon was to find a solution and scale it using technology ."
Apart from being a surgeon, Dr. Nadine reviewed several technological elements ranging from the role of genomics to advanced robotics as part of her role on the Royal College of Surgeons “Future of Surgery” Commission. Having a keen eye on future technological advancements has served her well to date, but Dr. Nadine concedes COVID-19 has been a catalyst for the rapid adoption of new technologies, and that the pandemic is having a profound impact on healthcare systems all over the world.
Necessity is the Mother of Invention
“ Necessity is the mother of invention, which is particularly palpable within the current COVID-19 climate ,” Dr. Nadine says. “ We have seen Proximie can help form the basis of a responsive approach to some of the challenges being posed by COVID-19 .”
We are changing the way clinicians interact, apply their expertise, and provide optimum patient care, now and in the future.
In many respects, Proximie was built for a pandemic of this nature, due to its easy integration and the fact it works at low bandwidth, with existing or easy to resource hardware, which has meant the platform has been able to be installed across multiple sites to support during the acute phase of the pandemic.
Dr. Nadine says: “ We must use a pragmatic, collaborative and innovative approach to meet the challenges presented by this viral pandemic, and that has meant us being even more agile than we were before. There is an urgent need to incorporate integrated technologies like Proximie into routine or complex practices, because we can seamlessly maximise healthcare resources, scale the delivery of expertise, reduce transmission of the virus, and ultimately ensure that every single patient has access to the best possible care, regardless of where they are in the world. ”
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