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The way of business solutions

Current Trends Time to Redeď€ ne the Present Tech Culture

Industry Concern Prerequisites for Building Effective Monitoring Infrastructures

Gaurav Dubey CEO & Founder

ITH TECHNOLOGIES Reinventing Businesses with the Latest but Proven Tech Solutions

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echnology has forever perforated into the daily lives of every individual and continues to do so at an unpredictable rate. Corporate conventions are currently premeditated through various tech-gadgets that have taken over the tech space and internet sites are increasingly being preferred over the documents. Technological advances are enduring evolving businesses, rapid shifts and stay relevant in order to remain economical in today’s rapidly fluctuating marketplace.

Revolution of Technology Helping Workplaces to Grow

Technology not only vicissitudes how a business conducts a corporate house, but also how employees are appreciated by the house. Once upon a time, individuals were valued for being able to know a particular trade. With the Industrial Revolution, people saw their trade and labor value being sternly reduced as machines were able to accomplish repetitive tasks at a faster, and a more proficient pace. The industry reformed from a business based to knowledge based economy. In this new way of directing business, employees were valued for intellect. Industries now have to keep up with the rapid advancements in technology.

Many observers focus on technology and the promise that automation provides in lieu of jobs and the workplace. We can believe that the real story is far more intricate. This is less about technological revolution and more about the manner in which humans decide to accept that technology. Complex, fluctuating and competing powers will shape the future of the workforce.

Some of these forces are convinced, but the swiftness at which they unfold can be hard to forecast. Regulations and laws, the executing administrators, broad trends in user, resident and worker sentiment, will all influence the evolution toward an automated workplace.

Future of Workplaces will twitch your thinking about the several possible scenarios that could develop, and how to best organize for the future. As a Tech organization, you should constantly remember that your initial idea matters as much as your destination; the best reaction may mean radical change, or perhaps just a few steps from where you are today. Your resulting strategy will inescapably mean a blend of palpable, ‘no regrets’ actions and the occasional, educated rise of faith.

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CONTENTS 10 ITH Technologies: Reinventing Businesses with the Latest but Proven Tech Solutions

INTERVIEW

40 Future of Education E-learning: Reshaping the Future of Education

28 Evolution & Evaluation

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Quick Heal: The Trusted Global Leader in Securing the Digital World

Challenges Faced

by TV Industry in India

Tech Corner

Tech Work

Loving data, Every Step of the Organization

How has Technology Changed the Workplace Communication?

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Business Stand How Technology is Impacting the Process of Renting

38 INDUSTRY CONCERN Prerequisites for Building Effective Monitoring Infrastructures

54 CURRENT TRENDS Time to Redeď€ ne the Present Tech Culture

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24 ACPL: Creating Benchmarks in the Cyber Security Area with Creativity and Innovation

32 First Feet:

FORMCEPT Technologies:

Promoting a Culture where People Enjoys Working

Providing Innovative Solutions for Data Analysis

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iBlink Smart Home Solutions :

Maxbyte Technologies:

Introducing Cutting-edge Smart-home Automation Technology

Driving the Industrial Digital Transformation

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Intuition Payment Systems:

MiracleCartes:

A Powerful AI based Integrated POS for Businesses

Engaging, Enhancing and Transforming the Business Lives

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Kale Logistics Solutions:

Nippon Data:

Creating Global Benchmarks in the Supply-Chain and Logistics Industry

Providing the Most Professional and Expert Business Solutions

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Pioneer Design Group:

Siam Computing:

"Successfully Creating Employment Opportunities through Innovative Domain Speciď€ c Industry Ready Skill and Transformation (as per the Industry requirements)‌.

by Pioneer Design & Engineering Pvt. Ltd."

Forwarding Technology to Shape the Business World

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72 QualiTest:

Stackup Technology Solutions:

Delivering Best-in-Class QA and Testing Services

Optimizing IT Infrastructure with Innovative Solutions

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74 Sensorise:

Tesseract Global:

Securing the Management of Connections through Various Devices Development

Revolutionizing Cyber-World with Advanced Threat Detection Facilities

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Technological Transformation Making Workplaces Evergreen

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he pace of technological transformation — whether through developments in information technology (IT), biotechnology, or such developing arenas as nanotechnology — will almost certainly quicken in the upcoming years, with synergies across technologies and disciplines making advances in research and development, production processes, and the landscape of products and services.

The use of more intelligent robotics in manufacturing will maintain the ability to swiftly reconfigure technologies to produce prototypes and new production runs, with implications for manufacturing logistics and inventories. Further technological advances are expected to endure to upsurge demand for a greatly skilled workforce, support higher productivity growth, and change the configuration of corporate and the nature of employment dealings.

In this issue of “The 30 Most Preferred Tech Workplaces,” we have adorned thirty superficial organizations, who have accomplished trademark by providing Best-in-Class Tech solutions and are well equipped for continuing the Tech sectors’ future. These organizations sponsored the diverse industries in changing their approach of business work with excellent strategy execution and customer satisfaction as the best priority.

Our magazine’s journey begins with Cover story ITH Technologies, which is a software technology company which has mainstream services in the regions of Technology Consulting, Business Strategy, BlockChain Research and Development, Turnkey Solutions for Crypto-currency Mining, Electronics, Robotics and Brain Computer/Machine Interface.

We present to you, an interview with Insights Success, Kailash Katkar, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Quick Heal Technologies Limited gave some insightful answers highlighting the influences made by his company to take IT security assets to a new level.

We have also covered CXO’s on, “Challenges Faced by TV Industry in India” by Mr. Saurabh Kabra, Director – Business Operations India, Truvison, “E-learning: Reshaping the Future of Education” by Zishaan Hayath, Co-Founder and CEO of Toppr, “Loving data, Every Step of the Organization” by Ranjan Chopra, Team Computers. “How Technology is Impacting the Process of Renting” by Nagaraju M, CEO of Rentprop4u and “How has Technology Changed the Workplace Communication?” by Samar Singla, Co-founder and CEO of ClickLabs.

We have encompassed, “Time to Redefine the Present Tech Culture,” scripted by our in-house editors in the wonderful pages of this magazine.

So, do flip the pages of our magazine to uncover the prominent Tech inspirations.

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Management

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ACPL Systems acpl.com

Mrs. Aarti Bindra Managing Director

ACPL systems provide end to end cyber security services to Large Enterprises and Govt. Organizations.

AVP Security Solutions pvt ltd avpsolutions.net

Ajitabh Puri Director

AVP Security Solutions develop, sell, install AND provide after sales service of innovative surveillance and automation solutions.

AXESTRACK axestrack.com

Vimal Kutmutia Founder

Axestrack offers Vehicle Tracking System with GPS Tracking Software india.

Cipher Cloud ciphercloud.com

Pravin Kothari Founder and CEO

CipherCloud is the leader in cloud security and governance.

First Feet Consulting firstfeetconsulting.com

Mr. Srivas Anantharaman Founder & CEO

First Feet Business Services is an integrated Business Consulting Organization that operates in India / UAE / Kenya / UK with more than 70+ Consultants in Finance, HR, Supply Chain, & SAP / Bespoke ERP Customized Solutions that integrates with SAP / Oracle.

Flutura flutura.com

Krishnan Raman Co-founder & CEO

Flutura is a niche Big data analytics solutions company with a vision to transform operational outcomes by monetizing machine data.

FORMCEPT Technologies and Solutions formcept.com

Suresh Srinivasan CEO & Co-founder

FORMCEPT is a unified data analysis platform, helping enterprises derive actionable analysis from enormous amount of external and internal data swiftly, thereby significantly reducing the data-to-decision conversion time.

GrayMatter Software Services graymatter.co.in

Anupam Dasgupta Vice President

Business Intelligence Consulting for Analytics, Big Data, Data Science, Data Warehouse is DNA of GrayMatter.

Helical IT Solutions Pvt. Ltd. helicaltech.com

Nikhilesh Tiwari Co-founder

Helical IT is a software company specializing in Open Source Data Warehousing & Business Intelligence.

iBlink Smart Home Solutions iblink.org

Neeran Chhiber CEO

iBlink is providing smart home solutions to help transform their client’s home environment, making it more comfortable, convenient, safe and entertaining.

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IBM India Private Limited ibm.com

Vanitha Narayana Chairman

IBM manufactures and markets computers hardware, middleware and software, and offers hosting and consulting services in areas ranging from mainframe computers to nanotechnology.

Intuition Systems intuitionsoftwares.com

Anand Asaithambi CEO Dr. Arun Asaithambi CEO & Co-founder

Intuition Payment Systems is an India based award winning software and analytics company that helps accelerate development of products and services in fin-tech, retail and healthcare.

ITH Technologies ith.tech

Gaurav Dubey CEO & Founder

ITH is a prominent Strategy and Technology Consulting Company.

Kale Logistics Solutions kalelogistics.in

Rajesh Panicker COO

Kale Logistics Solutions is a leading IT solution provider focused on the Logistics industry.

Maxbyte technologies maxbytetech.com

Ramshankar CS CEO Viswanathan T CTO

Maxbyte Technologies is a leading IIoT value delivery company driving industrial digital transformation.

Mind Worx Software Service mindworxsoftware.com

Baba Bhapkar Founder and CEO

MindWorx is an innovative & cutting edge provider of customized industry specific solutions to global companies across industry segments ranging from software services, software products, engineering services and automation.

MiracleCartes miraclecartes.com

Rakesh Jadhav Founder & Director

MiracleCartes is an eminent customer centric solution provider, who efficaciously helps build small and medium business houses to identify and nurture their profitable and loyal customers.

NETMONASTERY Inc. net-mon.net

Shomiron Das Gupta Founder

NETMONASTERY is a network security company which assists enterprises in securing their network and applications by detecting threats in real time.

Nippon Data nippondata.com

Harish Kumar Saraf Founder

Nippon Data is an IT-Enabled business solutions provider which delivers competitive business advantage towards their clients.

Paynear solutions paynear.in

Prabhu Ram MD & Chief Strategy Officer

Paynear Technologies provides innovative and cost effective payment transaction solutions for small, medium and large business enterprises.

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Pioneer Design & Engineering Pvt. Ltd. pioneerdesign.in

Veeravalli M. K Founder & Director

Pioneer Design & Engineering was initiated with an objective to render fast and operative integrated CAD/CAM/CAE/PLM services to OEMs and Tier1 suppliers across India, Europe and Middle East.

Plumslice Labs plumslice.com

Abnesh Raina CEO and Founder

PlumSlice is a leading cloud software company with enterprise grade PIM and other solutions for retail and distributors to plan, buy and sell smarter.

QualiTest India qualitestgroup.com

Manoj Chandrappa Managing Director

QualiTest is the 2nd largest QA & testing company with over 20 years’ experience in delivering end-to-end management of entire testing solutions. We contractually guarantee quality improvement and cost reduction.

Qualitrix Technologies qualitrix.com

Mayank Mittal Managing Director

Qualitrix is one of the fastest growing crowdsourced testing and market acceptance firms with global presence.

Sensorise Digital Services Private Limited sensorise.net

Sharad Arora Founder & MD

Sensorise is the first company to bring multi-MNO eUICC (embedded SIM cards) to India. Concentrating on cost-effective engineering and high quality of service, it supplies end-to-end solutions in lifecycle management of eSIM and IoT devices.

Siam Computing siamcomputing.com

Khuzema Siam CEO

Siam Computing is a web and mobile app development company based out of Chennai.

Spectranet spectranet.in

Udit Mehrotra Director

SPECTRA, India’s first 100% Optic Fiber Cable (OFC) based Internet service provider offering fiber optic broadband connections all over the globe.

Stackup Technology Solutions stackuptech.com

Mr. Shankar R CEO & Founder Mr. Karthik Head of Business Dept.

Stackup Technology Solutions provides cutting edge IT Infrastructure solution for better efficiency, optimization and reduced TCO.

Tesseract Global tesseract.global

Rajneesh Gupta CEO Vinay Pandey CTO

Tesseract Global is a global cyber intelligence agency with a revolutionary advance threat detection platform powered by Machine Learning Model.

W3care Technologies w3care.com

Satya Prakash Bharti CEO

W3care safeguards the client’s intellectual property, proprietary software and project specifications with very high levels of security.

Interview with Insights Success

Kailash Katkar MD & CEO

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T security in India has advanced to reflect changes in the wider business environments, including new products, technology, and regulatory requirements.

While this adds to the complexity, it also provides the opportunity to re-think and transforms processes, making them more reliable and trustworthy. To identify future IT risk possibilities along with effective solutions to keep your IT security assets safe and secure, QuickHeal is right here for you.

In an interview with Insights Success, Kailash Katkar, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Quick Heal Technologies Limited gave some insightful answers highlighting the influences made by his company to take IT security assets to a new level.

Brief us about Quick Heal: Founded in 1995, Quick Heal Technologies Limited is an Indian company pioneering in IT security software products and solutions. The co-founders Mr. Kailash Katkar and Mr. Sanjay Katkar are one of the early pioneers in the Indian software products industry. Under their leadership, Quick Heal Technologies began offering anti-virus solutions to a market that was still new to the term Computer Viruses.

Since its inception, Quick Heal Technologies Limited has set the industry benchmark for computer security standards and established itself as one of the leaders in IT security solutions in India. Ÿ

Our portfolio includes solutions under the widely recognized brand names ‘Quick Heal’ and ‘Seqrite’across various operating systems and devices. Quick Heal currently has over 8.0 million active licenses spread across more than 80 countries.

What kind of Tech Services does Quick Heal provide that makes you stand out from the competitors?

We provide IT security solutions under two brands: Ÿ Quick Heal for retail customers Ÿ Seqrite for enterprise customers Ÿ

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Briefly, tell us about the CEO/Founder of the Quick Heal

Kailash Katkar is the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Quick Heal Technologies Limited, India's leading IT Security Solutions Company. He transformed Quick Heal from a small one-room, boot-strapped electrical device repair station to a security solution empire spread over 80 countries worldwide.

A first generation entrepreneur, Kailash Katkar started his computer maintenance and hardware peripherals companyCAT Computer Services in 1991. Along with his brother, he NOVEMBER 2017

diversified his core business capabilities into the creation and development of antivirus solutions and formed Quick Heal Technologies in 1995. Today, Quick Heal is one of the leading security solutions in the consumer and SOHO segments. In 2015, the Katkar brothers rearranged their brand preference in the enterprise segment and launched Seqrite - Quick Heal's Enterprise Security brand.

Under his leadership, Quick Heal has been recognized among India’s most globally competitive SME, with business practices at par with global giants, with the Emerging India Award 2009, organized by ICICI Bank and CNBC TV 18. The company has stood out as the most preferred antivirus brand in the Consumer and SOHO category bagging the CRN Channel Champions award for six consecutive years, from 2009-2014 and as the most preferred security solutions in the Enterprise segment for three consecutive years. Ÿ

Kindly brief us about the unique tactics and solutions that used in Quick Heal

Each product is designed to simplify IT security management across the length and depth of devices and on multiple platforms. They are customized to suit consumers, small businesses, Government establishments and corporate houses. Over a span of 22 years the company’s R&D has focused on computer and network security solutions. The current portfolio of cloud-based security and advanced machine learning enabled solutions stop threats, attacks and malicious traffic before it strikes. Ÿ

How do you work on your long term relationships with your clients?

At Quick Heal Technologies, customers are at the heart of everything we do. We strongly believe that the key to success is building relationships that provide value on a consistent basis and exceed customer expectations. Ÿ

What are the future advancements of QuickHeal, and how well equipped are you?

We are at the pivot at the next stage of growth as we continue to build resilience and increase our competitive advantages. We are making the right investments in the building our R&D capabilities and investing in infrastructure, systems, technology and new products. We will continue to tap new opportunities in the domestic market and expand our presence in international market through consistent brand building initiatives.

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Creating Benchmarks in the Cyber Security Area with Creativity and Innovation

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hoosing the right cyber security services partner is very critical for any organization. The organization needs a well-rounded cyber-security services provider with broader experience to fill the gaps that exist in their security capabilities. This enables them to put together the perfect mix of defenses for growing security challenges. With the right combination of cyber security services and information security technology, the organization can operate more successfully in the world where everything is increasingly linked together.

ACPL Systems is among the largest Cyber Security Company in India.

ACPL Systems provide end-to-end cyber security services to Large Enterprises as well as Government organizations. The Company is focusing on developing their IP in the area of Cyber Security. They have invested heavily in incubating ‘Klassify’, which is a data classification tool, along with AI and deep learning based Security Systems.

The organization have used their experience in providing Security Solutions to large enterprises and used that learning to improve cyber Security solutions. They have handpicked the team of experts and given them free hand in Research & Development.

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About the Pioneer behind the Organization An exceptionally competent person in the industry, Mrs. Aarti Bindra, is the Managing Director of ACPL Systems. She is the dynamic and talented force behind the success of ACPL Systems. She is a multi-facet personality, who is taking care of numerous functions like HR, Finance, Operations, Compliance and Business Management for ACPL Systems. Aarti has successfully managed to ensure that ACPL Systems emerges as the top choice security partner for enterprises.

Her efforts have helped ACPL Systems to scale to what they call as the largest group of Security Professionals in one company. The company has constantly scaled better heights with better trainings and certifications which results in better customer retention.

ACPL’s employee retention has improved by 76% over previous years.

Under her leadership, ACPL Systems has been able to expand in new locations nationally and internationally.

ACPL Systems work culture & management system policies ACPL Systems gives a lot of space and learning opportunities to their employees. There are no limitations for the employees to pick an area and achieve high in that and then decide to switch to a completely new vertical.

People can work on their yearly goal plans with HR and get 360 Degree support to ensure they can finish it in stipulated time and take their career to the new heights.

Distinct believes that makes them Innovative Company provides Flexible and learning work environment to their employees, along with high level of empowerment and accountability.

Each employee owns his/her area of domain/function which allows him/her to be involved in company’s business decisions. Leadership development, career planning along with career growth promoted through mentoring and coaching which involves skills/competency development initiatives. Multi-Cultural exposure through onsite work opportunities are the big takeaways at ACPL Systems, making it one of the most Employee friendly organizations to work with.

As said by Aarti Bindra “we make sure that we provide best of the Compensation and Benefits to our employees.”

ACPL’s Management System Policies and Procedures help all the Departments to evaluate, access and work towards ONE mission –to be the best cyber security company in India.

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The Compensation and Benefits for Employees Apart from providing open and flexible working environment to their team, ACPL Systems also give importance to the welfare of every employee and their family. The company also focuses and invests heavily in trainings and certifications of their employees to give them an opportunity to grow. As well as, at ACPL, there are lot of motivational programs like Mentor and Buddy Program, Fun Fridays and other events which takes place to boost the morale of the team and to give them a sense of belonging and a stress free work environment. ACPL makes sure that all the Human Resource/ Labor compliances are given the topmost priority and should be strictly followed. As said by Aarti Bindra, “We make sure that we provide best of the Compensation and Benefits to our employees.”

Challenges assisting them to grasp the Opportunities Aarti acclaims, “We are in the high growth area, where there is a large demand for trained manpower. To retain our manpower and continue to grow will be our biggest challenge. Opening newer markets is becoming difficult because of low manpower availability for niche technology where we work. Long credit cycle is also a big issue.”

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businesses; there is a very large market scope available for ACPL Systems to address almost to the value of $1 Billion, in such a niche market. This gives the tremendous opportunity for ACPL Systems to grow worldwide.

Attributing the Organizational Success to the Tenacious Team At ACPL Systems, they ensure to induct the best of the professionals and train them further on the latest Technology. The company strongly believes “A happy Employee will be more Productive and will be a better Performer.” Better Performance automatically leads to Higher Customer Satisfaction. It is their continuous effort and approach to have strong Communication Channels between the Team and the Management to resolve issues and maintain the happy atmosphere.

Elucidating the Future ACPL is moving towards the Managed Security Service (MSS), to prepare for this they are working on all the aspects of People, Process, and Technology. Since this function requires high skills, so special efforts are being made to ensure they have some of the best analysts in the Business.

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irst Feet – Turnkey Business Consulting Organization fueled by Technological Solutions that optimizes Organization through “PQCDSMProduction, Quality, Cost Reduction, Delivery Efficiency (SCM), Safety, & Morale. First Feet at its epitome stands as an embodiment of People Centric Organization with Value Based Leadership Principles - at the very heart of First Feet’s philosophy, is the core value of excellence, which is embedded in all systems and processes across the organization. First Feet have built a strong edifice instituted on unwavering tenets such as passion, perseverance and responsibility.

Honesty, courage and wisdom, guide every aspect of our operational efficiency and define the very character of our company. These traits in turn induce credibility to our resolve for excellence. Objectivity and creativity in all decisions and endeavours make FF a corporate success story, rooted in the collective accomplishments of its people.

First Feet Business Services- an Integrated Business Consulting Organization that operates in India, UAE, East Africa, Ghana, and UK with more than 70+ Consultants in Finance, HR, Supply Chain & SAP/ Bespoke ERP Customized Solutions that integrates with SAP/Oracle.

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First Feet – A Business Advisory Firm that helps its clients flourish and grow in their business by providing them structured solutions, thus equipping them to take more informed and holistic decisions. With its two wings namely, Technological Innovation wing and Business Advisory wing, First Feet stands as the one stop solution for their clients, giving them a competitive advantage over their peers.

First Feet is a Gold Certified SAP Implementation Partners and also ISO 9001:2015, ISO 22301:2010(Business Continuity Management) and ISO 27011 (Information Security Management) certified. The company is also certified for CMMi Level 3 for E2E Project lifecycle implementation.

Extraordinary Services of First Feet in a Nutshell First Feet is duly attested by certification bodies to conduct Documentation Audit, Certification Audit, Re-certification Audit, and Surveillance Audit in line with the standards of QMS, EMS, OHSAS, TS 16949, CMMi, PCMM, and SA 8000. The company offers a wide range of services for providing tailored solutions to all its clients.

While taking a snapshot of First Feet, one can notice the following: · 100+ SAP Consultants,

· 50+ successful SAP Projects, · 5+ Industry Verticals and · 7+ years of SAP Partnership.

First Feet is an end-to-end Business Consulting Organization that offers best in class SAP Implementation Experience (SAP B1, SAP A1, SAP-S4-HANA on cloud)-Solutions provided by First Feet help businesses to swiftly predict risks, identify opportunities and become proactive in creating a path for realizing short-term targets and long-term goals.

First Feet is also renowned as HR pioneer in India and for their 35 years of global HR heritage. “Our brand name brings along intense focus on quality, a highly motivated team and a well-built infrastructure. This means, our clients will have access to quality services, quick delivery, and customized value-added solutions.”

- First Feet.

About the Executive CommitteeLeading the Extraordinary Enterprise Mr. Srivas Anantharaman and Mr. Mahesh Panigrahy -Co-Founder Directors at First Feet, are exceptional young entrepreneur with an extraordinary academic background.

Mr. Srivas with his Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from IIT Madras and Post-Graduation Studies in Business Administration from Indian NOVEMBER 2017

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Institute of Management, Tiruchirappalli together with Mr. Mahesh with his MBA in Finance from GLIM are the entrepreneur by spirit, out-of-the-box thinkers with more than 15 years of experience in ERP Consulting and Global Delivery. They started the company from scratch and set global footprints. Their aggressive business acumen has made First Feet to have three Business Verticals as follows: 1. SAP & Consulting – SME (Low Cost Quality Solutions for Manufacturing, FMCG, Trading, EPC, & Commodities) 2. Engineering Services- Augmenting Process Capabilities & Spare Parts Indigenization (Metallurgy) 3. Human Capability Management- Hay’ Job Evaluation & Competency Assessment Fueling Team with Inspiration to Tackle All Challenges on the Path The leader of the company is constantly fueling the team of First Feet with inspiration and training them to tackle all the challenges in their path towards growth. First Feet has the competency to offer end-to-end solutions to any customer of any vertical and now only the network must grow exponentially for company’s further progress. The company is looking forward to have scalable partnerships globally to expand the competency network. With their team working NOVEMBER 2017

Srivas Anantharaman Founder and CEO

on the Total Value Chain Integration, their global acclamations for First Feet’s Uniqueness of Solutions & Partnerships, Best in class blend of Finance, Supply Chain, HCM, & Technical Consultants, Impeccable Project Management & Program Management, the company is making a benchmark in the industry.

Founder of the company, Srivas expresses pride in having a young and transparent team, workplace with a culture of trust, integrity and invigorating work culture. First Feet gives stock options to all with a center for collective decision making and a center of excellence. Something that attributes their success is their characteristics of “Go-getter”, “Energetic and out of the box thinking” and “Adversarial thinking”.

Future through the Eyes of First Feet To maintain a healthy work environment, it is essential to have a Balanced Score Card-Incentives based on Profits, Attractive variable compensation schemes and Long service awards for one-year completion. With such innovative and creative services, First Feet plans to grow in the Middle-East and Africa for cost effective SAP & ERP Solutions, to tap the SAAS, IAAS and PAAS potential in nascent African Markets and to offer solutions for SME. 27

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About the Author: Mr. Saurabh Kabra, Director – Business Operations India, Truvison spearheads the company growth with his technology prowess and exceptional professional demeanour at work. He has completed his Masters of Science in Global Management & Pathway in Family Business from Regent University- London in 2016. He brings all his learning’s to the business in India with Truvison - a consumer durable brand expanding in India with its rst innings.

His love for music and the geeky taste buds drive him close to his product segment. With nurturing the brand right from its seeding, Saurabh focuses a large amount of his time on product development, quest for introducing global technology & innovation in the Indian Market. He is passionate about driving his team to design products that have the end user in mind and address their needs to ensure they have an enhanced user experience. He closely manages all departments from R&D and logistics to sales and marketing.

Under his leadership, the brand has introduced global Technology built Home Audio Systems and Flat Panels in to the Indian market. He believes that a brand that can manage to stay new-fangled and fresh would uphold a better stature in the market. Hence, Truvison has been proliferating its product segment with various commodities under its umbrella.

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With just a year from its Inception, the company has successfully launched three different product segments in the market. Known as an all-rounder, he truly redenes cross-function synchronisation at Truvison.

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urrently the Indian television industry is undergoing a seismic shift, operational challenges and planning for the next.

The industry like television has a large customer base. The pace of technological change is accelerating so quickly that finding the right balance between addressing today’s daily operational challenges and planning for the next big thing can be a struggle. To innovate prosper and survive has become the motto of the Industry.

Some key trends noted includes; Change in the lifestyle and spending patterns of the Indian masses on entertainment is further a boost to the Industry. Technological innovations like online distribution channels, web-stores, and multi and mega plexes are complementing the on-going revolution and the growth of the sector. The low cost of production and high revenues ensure a good return on investment for Indian Television Industry. The growing middle class with higher disposable income has become the strength of the Media and Entertainment Industry.

In terms of Challenges - From Consumers perspective it’s the Greed for fresh content; Viewers no longer solely want a passive experience with a TV programme in their front room. They want to watch catch-up TV on a laptop, download a phone app on the move engage with content on a tablet or talk about their experiences on social media sites. They want different experiences on each platform, different flavours of content, and they want it all on their personal schedules. The appetite of the viewers is increasing and nowadays people are not satisfied with the conventional broadcasting only. Broadcasters need to provide their content on all possible carriage ways. New media including IPTV, mobile TV, YouTube, and the like, would complement traditional broadcasting.

The foremost challenges on the technology front are digitization of infrastructure and migration to HDTV. Broadcasters need to define how they traverse on the digitization path and put in serious efforts to decide what services they have to deliver to viewers. Systematic phasing out of analog system in broadcasting is a prominent task to meet the analog switch-off deadlines.

Digital TV is not restricted to traditional home devices alone but is also available on personal devices. Next being Technological changes, Technology never remains static for long and often moves in unexpected ways. Technology getting better and better these days is becoming a threat to the TV Industry with the introduction of Netflix, New Apps, Mobile phones and laptops. The viewers these days want everything at their fingertips which now-a-days has become more convenient with the latest apps and technologies available. Consumers today are also very tech savvy and smart when it comes to purchasing electronics. Pushing boundaries further for consumers is the E-commerce market which changes the market dynamics when it comes to pricing.

From the Manufacturers perspective though the TV Market has grown with the online forums there have been other challenges to cater to, which brings further worry. Growing number of manufacturers have incurred heavy losses in the market. Additionally, LEDs still are under immense pressure to further lower prices. Even though manufacturers in the LED industry are being pressured to lower prices in the short term, in the long run there will be limited room for further LED price cuts. This can be explained by the growing number of manufacturers withdrawing from the market in the near future, as LED prices is close to manufacturing costs and reduce companies’ profitability.

Due to currency fluctuations, end market demands in different countries have been much lower than expected.

Another major perspective affecting the LED Industry currently would be GST – a game changer of every Industry. Some key highlights from consumer durables industry includes - Uniformity in tax rates which shall ease the pressure faced by this industry. Consumer durables will be placed under the 28% tax slab. Though it is the highest tax slab, a majority of goods are currently taxed at 26-31 per cent rate, depending on their nature and usage. However, one thing that companies may have to watch out for is whether excise duty exemption zones continue to get that benefit.

To summarize, it’s a stiff competition with new brands entering the consumer electronics segment, though each brand can participate actively by showcasing its individuality with the technology, the service and the price point offered.

The absorption and consumption of consumer electronics increasing rapidly creates a wide scope for each brand to excel, thus leading to a healthy competition in the market.

The biggest opportunity is extended by the consumers who are adaptable to new technology and versatility offered by each brand. The lifestyle of a consumer has undergone changes with time; it’s the willingness towards exploring a new technology or feature and living with the latest luxury contemporary in the society.

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Providing Innovative Solutions for Data Analysis

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n today’s fiercely competitive market, the key to survival is taking intelligent data-driven decisions quickly by processing large volumes of data. Whether large or small, enterprises are therefore turning towards data analytics to improve their business decisions and deliver superior customer experience. However, with enormous amounts of data emanating from various external sources like social media and customer feedback platforms, businesses face the challenge of unifying this unstructured external data with their internal databases to understand their customers better and adapt quickly to their ever changing tastes and preferences.

Traditional, analytics platforms do not unify external data with the internal database of the enterprise which leads to poor business decisions. This is where we come in. Incepted in 2011, FORMCEPT is a frontrunner in delivering technology solution to this pressing problem by providing a unified data analysis platform MECBOT. It aids enterprises in deriving actionable insights from enormous volumes of external and internal data on a near real-time basis, thereby significantly reducing the data-to-decisions conversion time.

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60% cost savings, 80% less effort in unifying diverse data forms, drastically reduced infrastructure burden and radically improved business RoI. An Exceptional Leadership The CEO and Co-Founder of FORMCEPT, Suresh Srinivasan, is an IIT Madras and IIM Bangalore alumnus. He is a data enthusiast and has 22 years of product development experience. He co-founded FORMCEPT six years ago, with Anuj Kumar, a business intelligence fanatic and analytics expert. Together, their

ambition is to make FORMCEPT a $25Mn revenue generating company by the end of 2019.

Suresh has previously worked with companies like IBM, HP and Oracle.

An entrepreneur at heart, he encourages qualities like managing innovations, product strategy and building strong technical teams while solving business problems. He has a track record of providing high quality products on time.

Offering a Broad Spectrum of Solutions FORMCEPT not only provides a

unified analysis platform for storage and powerful analysis of datasets, but also provides batch processing, stream processing and interactive analysis.

Their open cognitive platform, MECBOT, helps enterprises get actionable insights from their data faster, thereby, significantly decreasing the time taken to convert data into decisions.

MECBOT is built on powerful algorithms like Machine Learning, AI and Deep Learning and uses a combination of varied technologies to learn the flow of data, process it and deliver insights to the right people at the right time.

Moreover, FORMCEPT’s cutting-edge innovation INTELLIDEVICE activates industrial machines to send highvelocity data on resource performance and usage to cloud. Here, MECBOT analyzes it to generate quick actionable alerts and event-triggers. With INTELLIDEVICE, they dream to enable industries of tomorrow through interactive and intelligent machines.

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work ethics with their customers as well as employees. The various departments such as R&D, UI, Sales and Marketing, etc. work closely with each other to cater to customer demands and SLAs. FORMCEPT provides the best infrastructure and facilities to their employees and conduct recreational activities to celebrate each individual’s talents and interests.

Sullivan’s ‘New Product Innovation Leadership Award’ in 2014. They have been featured at TechCrunch International City Event, received the NASSCOM Emerge 50 Award and were finalist for the TiE50 Awards Program, all in 2013.

FORMCEPT has been recognized by YourStory.in and have raised seed funding from CIIE-IIM Ahmedabad by winning the ET power of Ideas in 2012.

Suresh believes that even if one person in the team in not in sync, meeting the timeline or desired quality would be impossible. Also at FORMCEPT, they try to inculcate important characteristics of goodwill and support into the team so that they enjoy each other’s success and also cherish the new heights the company achieves.

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Rewards and Accolades FORMCEPT has recently received ‘Series A’ funding from GVFL and this implies that investors expect to see the company grow exponentially across markets. Under the expert leadership of the founders, they have served several Fortune 1000 clients in India as well as overseas.

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FORMCEPT is among the pioneers of integrated data analysis solution in the Indian market. They are developing unique products and provide the best possible service for their clients. Their R&D team is working on the Audio/Video analytics part where based on speech or video, insights can be found. They are also working on interesting new use-cases of industries like agriculture, telecom, petroleum, IT etc. and are coming up with innovative solutions to cater to them. Presently, they are trying to make a few market-driven changes to their products and also expand their clientele.

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mart technology has always been an essential part of highend homes. Modern individuals have always been the early adopters of latest domestic devices and services.

Considering this growing trend Smart Home Device, iBlink was conceptualized in an aim to help their clients to create wireless intelligent homes where clients doesn’t need to go for any wiring change or civil work using the latest word wide standardized technologies of International Telecommunication Union and Home Automation Systems. The company is providing smart home solutions based on IOT & M2M to help transform their client’s home environment, making it more comfortable, convenient, safe and entertaining. They bring together many different technologies; thereby it also saving time and money of the users. iBlink has modernized traditional technology and introduces wireless automation solutions through exclusive modification. Moreover, the company is also introducing the smart home way which provides their clients multiple home operating options and user-friendly applications. The current ongoing innovation of home automation solutions recommends the dynamic wireless technical changes in the near future. iBlink has created a nexus between the users and the manifold of smart devices and applications which provides affordable and flexible smart home solutions.

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A renowned face in the Telecom & Smart Home Industry, Neeran Chhiber the CEO of iBlink has successfully led multiple organizations in various domains as CEO within and outside India. His ideas and experience assists the company in achieving new heights in the smart home industry. Neeran emphasizes on targeting appropriate customers and give a lot of importance to the communication with masses. He believes that effective communication is the key factor of any organization to promote loyalty and sustainable relationship with the customer.

sensors provide hands-free illumination and automatically turn on lights when someone is in the room. iBlink also provides wireless and fashionable outdoor lighting products.

Climate – iBlink’s enterprise provide temperature controlling solutions according to the customer’s needs.

This solution can control air conditioner, room heater; fan and other temperature control systems.

Moreover, it offers a platform where any settings can be activated on a schedule or with just a click of the mobile phone. It also regulates or controls the curtains without having to constantly getting up for opening and closing them manually.

Groundbreaking Solutions and Services The advanced products and services convert all existing home devices and appliances to become smart & intelligent. It can be controlled via a mobile phone from anywhere.

Audio/Video - iBlink solution gives the freedom to control audio/music system when users are not in their home. They can play music or start an educational channel for their kids via the mobile phone.

Lighting – All smart lighting applications give users the flexibility to control all indoor lights from anywhere and anytime with a single touch. It reduces the automation cost and gives peace of mind. The entire house lights can be controlled through one or two devices which are enhanced with the iBlink interface. Along with this, iBlink interface assists in controlling the smart lights even when the user is away from his home. Movement

Security - Receive an alert on predefined situations like opening door, breaking window or in emergency situations like fire and smoke detection. Smart lock with a video doorbell enables people to grant access to their home regardless of whether they are inside or outside the home.

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existing interiors or switches. No additional wiring and no additional automation DB. Ease of Installation– It can be integrated inside any gang-box and any kind of switches.

Modular & Affordable – Capability to pick and choose the required minimum configuration in beginning for automation.

Scalable and Expandable – Grow with time, customers can easily integrate other features/ spaces/rooms into the existing automation network within hours as per their needs.

Control from Anywhere – No additional cost, total control on tablet/smartphone/pc from anywhere App- Available on Google Play store (Android devices) and Apple App store (IOS devices).

ITU Standards & CE certification- iBlink is at par with ITU Standards and has been awarded CE Certification.

Globally Patented Hardware – iBlink is offering all globally patented hardware towards their customers.

Simple and Flexible – iBlink is offering Simple and user-friendly app interface.

Call Centre - 24x7 dedicated support team available at the call center, customers can call the 24-hour helpline or use support option of “my home” application. A skilled technical professional will solve issues remotely or by sending a technician on site.

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Significant Aspects of the Company IOT and M2M space, for which the demands are growing quickly, is the key factor behind the company’s phenomenal growth. The company is especially dealing with IOT segment and has seen a growth of 200% in every financial year since its inception. iBlink believes, their success ingredients are - Unique technology, Experienced and Qualified team, Team’s dedication towards work and providing support to customers 24x7, which help them to maintain friendly relation with the clients. Neeran acclaims, “Our next strategy is to target 500% growth in next two years by using our innovative strategies and team effort.”

Work Culture of the Company iBlink never force their employees for any specific work timing. The company has provided a fully automated office to their employees to maintain a regular and efficient connection with their clients. iBlink tries to provide a stress-free environment where employees are free to express their ideas and innovations. It maintains a healthy work atmosphere for their employees by providing recreational activities and helping them maintain their work life balance and including a mandatory 20 days holiday for each employee.

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A Powerful AI based Integrated POS for Businesses

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he undergoing structural change arising in the tech workplaces have changed the way business is being done. When we talk about the future of tech workplaces, one cannot avoid the subject of artificial intelligence. With its potential for automating various processes in any modern organizations in most industries, it is seen as one of the major factors in realizing the future of tech workplaces. Intuition Payment Systems is one such award winning software and analytics company which has a powerful proprietary platform and is providing new possibilities and opportunities for businesses.

most advanced, fast and completely integrated Point of Sale & Billing System from Intuition Systems.

IVEPOS: The Complete System for Business Intuition Payment Systems’ IVEPOS is a smart and all in one POS and Payment system with simple and effective tools that a conventional billing machine can't provide at an affordable price. The system is an integrated Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Cloud based solution for billing, payment, inventory management, intelligent reporting, micro inventory management, in-store marketing, accounting, customer management and many more features for easy operations. IVEPOS is lightweight, handy, and easily transportable and hence, it is suitable for events, temporary stalls, food trucks and mobile stalls which makes it a complete system for business. It is the

Mr. Anand Asaithambi is the CEO of Intuition Payment Systems and designed the award winning IVEPOS series of payment systems. He is a Mechanical Engineer specializing in robotics and software integration. Dr. Arun Asaithambi is the CEO and Co-founder of Lantern Pharma Inc., a US based Biotech Company that is using genomics and AI for personalized cancer drug development.

Arun obtained his undergraduate and doctorate degrees in the areas of biochemical engineering and biotechnology.

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The Creators of Intuition Systems Serial tech entrepreneurs Anand Asaithambi and Arun Asaithambi founded Intuition Payment Systems in 2013. While setting up and operating their semi-automated and robotics based restaurant business, first it was difficult for them to find an easy to use and all-in one digital POS/Billing/Data management/Payment solution at an affordable cost. So, to overcome this difficulty, they built India's first fully integrated touch screen system called IVEPOS.

Asai brothers are building technology organizations that bring innovative technological solution such as AI, Robotics, Software, hardware, genomics to solve radical problems in

multiple industries including fin-tech, retail, healthcare, and food industries.

They founded Intuition Payment Systems that launched IVEPOS TM series, AI & cloud based POS systems.

Intuition Bio-Systems that launched Inti TM , AI & cloud driven precision diagnostics and Dosai Asai Foods that launched automation and robotics based SAAMI TM making healthy fast dosawraps.

Overcoming Challenges Intuition Systems is a growing multi-national company that is in operations in major Indian cities and expanding to other domestic and international territories rapidly. The company is serving customers in South East Asian countries with a huge demand of projects. The company is projecting revenues of over $50 Million in the next 5 years. One of the biggest challenges Intuition Systems faced is fueling such ambition of rapid growth and expansion. Some of the constraints for such rapid expansion include access to capital, human resources and partnerships. Currently, the company is organically revenue-funding their growth with a fast growing customer base and wants to focus on the best technological enhancement in Artificial Intelligence which will give an edge to business owners to run their business efficiently.

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advanced, cloud-enabled and AI-powered POS systems & payment solution which makes them stand apart from their competitors. Their aim is to empower businesses across the spectrum. Anand says, “We are in here to stay with our customer for the long haul through ups and downs and be a part of their success story. We are in this together and this thought process is instilled in our every team member. We keep our customers at the center of our operations.”

Intuition Systems is focusing on increasing their reach, customer base, customer support network, AI tech and products. The employees of Intuition Systems are stepping up their role to a more leadership and responsible positions aiding the new talents to work on cool technologies and projects. The company’s Technology, Marketing, Sales and Finance departments are recruiting talented engineers, scientists, analysts and managers to reach the milestones.

The Latest Concepts Incorporated in the Company Intuition Systems has a transparent open culture with customer-centric attitude. They say, “The cohesive working of the team comes from the trust we inculcate in each other and this has reflected in the quality of our products and growth of our company.”

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assigning a task, to incorporate that, the company gives complete autonomy to the person to achieve the goals. The company believes that this gives immense freedom to the person to achieve their full potential. In a long term, this imbibes in the company culture and has brought positive results for them. Employees are encouraged to subscribe the industry newsletter, monthly peer to peer learning sessions, and new technological advancement reads are few initiatives taken to keep employees upgraded.

Elevating the Company to Success Intuition Systems believes, “Honesty, hard work, optimism, reliability, helping other team members and never give up attitude is what we believe in a team that can elevate the company to greatness.”

On the other hand Intuition Systems is very bullish in terms of expansion and wants to grow into the #1 tech company by providing best in class products and services. They are actually in the process of hiring and looking for talented people in Software Development, Product Management, Computational Biology, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Graphic Designing, Marketing and Sales. The company is also motivating the young talents from college and providing internship opportunities to come and work with them.

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E-learning: Reshaping the Future of Education

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one are the days where no one knew or relied on e-learning. While the traditional classroom setting is still an integral part of our education, many are adopting e-learning as a facilitator these days. There are many benefits to this. E-learning allows students to consume, learn and utilize educational content in a manner that's suitable to their needs.

India's online education market is set to grow to USD 1.96 billion with around 9.6 million users by 2021. Today’s smartphone-driven generation wants quality with convenience and flexibility. E-learning covers all of it.

Trends in E-learning The use of technology has allowed e-learning to evolve over the years. Here are some of the trends that are redefining the e-learning space.

1. Cloud-based learning systems Quality educational content has always been essential to shaping the future of students in India. Unfortunately, there is an inconsistency in the quality of education imparted to students.

Cloud-based storage systems allow ed-tech platforms to centralize and store quality educational content, techniques, inputs and data that can then be mobilized to users across the country. It also gives users flexibility, transparency and consistency which they otherwise cannot get.

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2. Mobile learning 409 million people in India use an internet-powered smartphone today. That’s almost 31% of the total population. The use of mobile phones is allowing ed-tech platforms to mobilize quality educational content to users across India; right at their fingertips. Together with cloud-based services, this ensures that students aren’t inhibited by a lack of adequate teaching material or infrastructure.

3. Big Data Big Data allows ed-tech platforms to study user inputs and create behavior pattern models. They can then use these models to predict user behavior and personalize their offerings based on the individual learning ability of each user. As a result, students can focus on their strengths and weaknesses and learn at their own pace, maximising output for the effort involved. This amount of personalization is unlike anything offered by the traditional offline teaching setup.

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Goal-based learning and Gamification

Goal-based learning is a key catalyst in the personalization of education. By letting students set and achieve their own goals, ed-tech platforms are turning them into co-creators, instead of just receivers. The use of gamification techniques (with achievements) keeps students motivated by giving

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About the Author: Toppr is the India's most advanced and comprehensive after-school learning app for classes 5th-12th with a vision to personalise learning. They are backed by SAIF, Helion and Fidelity.

Zishaan Hayath, Co-founder and CEO of Toppr, started a phone commerce marketplace Chaupaati Bazaar in 2008.

In 2010, Chaupaati Bazaar was acquired by India's largest retailer Future Group (NSE:FRL).

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them an objective to work towards. It also fosters social learning by letting them compete with their friends.

5. Augmented and Virtual Reality The true potential of AR and VR has yet to be tapped into, with most ed-tech platforms having harnessed only the tip of the iceberg. The creation of virtual environments gives students a unique, immersive and interactive learning experience like never before. This not only enhances the way they learn but also helps with retention and assimilation.

Challenges in e-learning While the ed-tech space is moving in a promising direction, there are still a few challenges it is striving hard to overcome.

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Many students and parents still prefer the interpersonal dynamic of offline learning. It inspires more faith and confidence.

As a result, many students prefer a mentor or teacher who can guide them, instead of e-learning that makes them accountable for their own learning.

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E-learning puts the onus of learning on students. It empowers them as co-contributors by letting them set and achieve their own goals. In some ways, it most benefits those who want to improve themselves. If students are not as driven to excel, they might not utilize e-learning consistently. They may thus fail to see improvements that are necessary to stay motivated.

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Many students, especially in rural areas, are still not comfortable with the use of technology for learning. Maximizing their potential through e-learning can only happen after the necessary skilling has been completed. The lack of internet access in the hinterlands of India also prevents the inhabitants of those areas from accessing quality educational content like their counterparts.

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Quite often, students are overwhelmed by the sheer volume of course content available on e-learning platforms. They don’t just want to know what to study; they’re looking for the best way to study. In such cases, there are two necessary steps that need to be taken to make e-learning fun and motivating – a good course design and a personalized approach to offering solutions.

Despite these challenges, the presence and impact of e-learning continue to grow every day. This isn’t limited to just higher secondary students either. By 2021, primary and secondary education will be the largest market at $773 million.

What will be key in the future, is how these trends are harnessed to personalize learning for individual students.

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Creating Global Benchmarks in the Supply-Chain and Logistics Industry

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hen it comes to describing the most preferred tech workplaces in the industry, virtues like “Employee satisfaction”, “Team spirit”, “Healthy workspace” and “Flexibility of Working hours” are sacrosanct. Kale Logistics Solutions, an IT company catering to the Logistics industry believes in making every single day of their employee, rewarding and enriching by offering all these virtues. A typical workday at Kale Logistics is the one where an employee enjoys learning and working in a vibrant workspace with talented, skilled and experienced colleagues.

Kale Logistics Solutions is a dynamic, passionate & self-driven global team with a firm professional footing, offering a comprehensive suite of IT solutions, designed to accommodate a wide spectrum of end-to-end Logistics operations.

Winning Awards and Recognitions for excellence in the IT Logistics domain Kale Logistics has built several pioneering solutions that have driven digital transformation in the Logistics industry. Some of their pioneering solutions are: UPLIFT- India’s first multi-modal cargo community system, GMAX- world’s first most comprehensive Airport Cargo Community System, CODEX-India's 44

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Kale Logistics Solutions take pride in the fact that prior to them there was virtually no EDI between forwarders and carriers and today India is no. 6 in IATA’s e-AWB initiative and one of the fastest digitizing country in e-freight.

Kale Logistics has been winning world-wide recognitions for their contribution to Logistics industry. They

have won the “Best Logistics IT Provider” for seven consecutive years at many global forums. A case study describing Kale’s IT solutions has been published in a book named “Supply Chain Management”, co-authored by the professors of Kellogg’s Business School. Their solutions have been considered in the list of ‘Top 10 innovations’ by KPMG in their Adding Wings publication. Presently, Kale is working with several governments to aid them in trade facilitation initiatives.

The company is contributing in improving India’s ranking in the World Bank report for “Doing Business”.

Building a Work Culture with Strongly Bonded Teams, Open Atmosphere and Entrepreneurial Spirit Kale Logistics states that the key elements in their work culture are strong bonding within the teams, open atmosphere and entrepreneurial spirits wherein if one sparks, they get their own canvas to paint their picture, and passion for excellence. Kale Logistics’ 180 plus strong techno-functional workforce brings to the table, domain experience and technical excellence which are essential ingredients for successful customer engagement.

At Kale Logistics, one entails all-round skill enhancement and continuous learning. The focus is on long term career aspirations of employees, providing them with both, a platform and a launch for development and career success. It ensures a culture that exhibits innovative spirit, shared values and an inspiration to positively impact the organization.

As an organization, Kale Logistics Solutions has always believed in promoting an encouraging and positive work space. To foster this policy, the company has incorporated concepts like Open door approach policy, Balanced male-female employee ratio, Flexible working hours with work from home options, and Encouragement for building employees’ creativity.

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We regard employee satisfaction to be one of the key drivers to promote a progressive and Rajesh Panicker healthy organizational culture. For this we COO make sure that we implement employee welfare initiatives that will promote and strengthen our professional workforce. Our HR policies are formed with a greater aim of establishing employee friendly culture across the organization. Initiatives like open door policy, encouragement for inter ofce creative discussions and providing adequate and superior quality resources form a broad part of this culture.

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Apart from the above mentioned concepts, Kale Logistics also offers their employees, freedom to complete their tasks on schedule without extensive pressure. Weekly team building and stress busting activities are organised, which provide a break to employees from time to time and optimize their work performance. The focus on providing employees conducive environment is evident from the office ergonomics and décor, which encompasses of open thinking and brainstorming areas, colourful bright lighting, ample free spaces and creative décor to inspire employees to break free from their limitations and get creative.

About Leadership at Kale Logistics Solutions Rajesh Panicker, COO, Kale Logistics Solutions, spearheads delivery operations. Rajesh, whose career spans over 27 years, has contributed in executing bespoke system developments and conversion projects for various multinational companies.

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Apart from his strong expertise in managing software delivery, Rajesh has a rich and valuable stint in sales and customer relationship management. His expertise lies in driving and inspiring teams to successfully manage customer expectations through multiple delivery channels.

Reaching out to the global Logistics industry with innovative solutions.

Being an ISO certified company, Kale Logistics Solutions is already at the peak of ensuring quality standards in their various internal processes. These quality standards are reflected in the state-of-the-art IT solutions that are developed by the in-house teams. Kale Logistics have already ignited their sales engines with an office in the Middle East and a designated representative for Mauritius and African region. The company has also commenced expansion in Europe, expanding their global presence.

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n independent survey by a popular IT enterprise revealed that around 72 percent of companies expect that IIoT will substantially improve operational visibility, customer relationships and customer intelligence along the product life cycle. It has also revealed that 38 percent of businesses have planned to offer their big data services to external companies. IoT is touted for immense potential and it has been estimated by many renowned research agencies that it can generate revenue opportunity greater than one trillion by 2020.

Motivated by this industrial revolution, Maxbyte Technologies Private Limited started their venture and began working towards being the global leading industrial digital transformation value delivery company by 2020. Maxbyte is creating standard IIoT products addressing comprehensive solutions to this market and is on the path of creating a strong customer base. While keeping priorities on product innovation, talent development and employment in this industry to deliver its extraordinary values to its customers, business partners, investors and society, Maxbyte is staying ahead of the competition.

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Providers of 2017” and has been featured in prominent media publications. Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) has recognized Maxbyte as the “Best Start-up in Manufacturing Sector” at CII STARTUPRENEURS 2017. Recently, the company was identified as Digital Manufacturing Partner for Etisalat (A Leading Telecom Company in Middle East GCC region) with a motive to address the Middle East Region. Jointly Etisalat & Maxbyte has recently showcased Digital Manufacturing experience at GITEX 2017, which is one of the world’s largest technology expo, organized at Dubai.

Enabling Manufacturing Companies to Connect, Collect & Provide Real-time Insights Maxbyte’s product, byteFACTORY is a digital factory analytics suite enabling companies to connect and collect real-time insights and guide their factory shop floor machines production performance, factory utilities (water, thermal, electricity, air) performance and product service performance. The goal of this extraordinary product is to “Turn Corrective Actions & Preventive Actions (CAPA) into Predictive & Guided Actions”. With this value added product, Maxbyte also supports customers in sensors and IIoT hardware system integration and managed services to ensure that

customer’s digitization initiatives are a successful business case.

The Leading Figures behind This Award-Winning Organization Maxbyte Technologies is established in January 2016 and head quarters at Coimbatore, one of the regional Industrial hub of South India. The company is founded and managed by: Ramshankar C S - Chief Executive Officer: Experience in IoT Business Consulting, Industrial Product Lifecycle Management and Lean Six Sigma in the companies like GE Aviation, ZF Wind Power and Tech Mahindra.

Viswanathan T - Chief Technology Officer: Experience in IoT, Automotive ECU Diagnostics, Controls & Analytics and Engineering Solutions Program Mgmt. in the companies like iASYS, KPIT Cummins and iGATE. Sri Sabarinathan D - Chief Customer Officer: Experience in Digitization, Business Consulting, Marketing, and Presales, by working closely with B2B & B2C clients in the companies like Accenture, Infosys and ICICI. Krishna Kumar S - Chief Operating Officer: Experience in Automotive Embedded Technologies and Program NOVEMBER 2017

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Management in companies like Robert Bosch and Hexaware Technologies.

The joint effort of this team is playing the role of catalyst in driving the company forward towards its destination.

Providing end-to-end IIoT Industry Ready Solution Maxbyte is also focused on creating rich User Experience (UX) and gamification concepts for its customer’s business benefits. It offers its customers with different business models and value propositions in terms of cost and deployment to make them embrace their solutions in the best suited way for them. Maxbyte is helping its customers to reach out as one stop shop for all their smart factory needs. “Based on our analysis and customer feedback, these end to end IIoT solutions offered by Maxbyte is generally not provided by our competitors,” asserts the customer relationship team of Maxbyte.

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Offering Solutions that combines Multiple Technologies and Domain Specialization Maxbyte’s IIoT solutions are an excellent combination of multiple technologies and domain specialization. An open and clear communication within the team and across cross-functional teams and a positive atmosphere within the organization is what maintains a healthy environment in the office at Maxbyte. The company encourages regular fun engagement activities, outings and games to help employees build team spirit, ignite their creativity. Options like open and inclusive work environment, flexibility of work from home and other interesting features like using Facebook Workplace tool is keeping employees happily engaged in their work. With such extraordinary facilities, and responsible team, Maxbyte confidently defines their future goals and says that they are building a clear roadmap as per industry needs using technologies like edge analytics, machine learning, artificial intelligence, blockchain & robotic process automation along with their well-defined leadership programs.

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Engaging, Enhancing and Transforming the Business Lives

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he technological landscape is evolving faster than ever. The utility of mobile devices has surpassed all legendary predictions and has penetrated into almost every avenue of the world. Indian as well as global consumers are increasingly spending more time and money on digital data consumption. With the advent of new software tools and platforms with advanced connectivity capabilities, accessing digital content has become convenient. An eminent customer centric solution provider, MiracleCartes efficaciously helps build small and medium business houses to identify and nurture their profitable and loyal customers.

MiracleCartes is regd. as Miracle Smart Card Pvt. Ltd. MiracleCartes’s iGainspark Platform is presaging an innovative era in Customer Engagement and Retention. iGainSpark’s unique Gamification and Location Based notifications ensure that the Customers get hooked on with the Merchants. MiracleCartes Solution platform “iGainSpark” nurtures their 'lifetime customers’ like any regular SMB's need by deploying these following building block. ·

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overheads Providing it’s customers with relevant, contextual and timely experience And finally, is Affordable!

Also, their CLOUD based Loyalty Platform with an option to use - either on SaaS or On-premise - empowers the Business & Merchants to Engage & Enhance their relationship with their customers.

About the Creative Leader of MiracleCartes An Engineer from Mumbai University and an MBA graduate from S.P Jain

Institute of Mgmt & Research, Mumbai, Rakesh S. Jadhav, Founder & Director of MiracleCartes has worked for more than 14+ years in the IT industry in different areas and capacities, i.e. right from Product development, Project Management, Solutions Architect, Consulting , Contract Negotiation , Account Management, and Alliance & Partner Development. He later decided to start his own venture to aid businesses with customer acquisition and retention strategies. Rakesh noticed that , in most of the business houses, especially SMB businesses, there was a big gap in

Understanding Customer Retention vis-a-vis Customer Attraction. The concept of Lifetime Customers was absolutely alien too. This elicited the thread for building something simple, affordable and aligned and woven around new technology.

Dedicatedly working towards Client Satisfaction MiracleCartes knows that, for businesses of any size, it is those 20% of customers that bring in 80% of the business. These 20% customers are the lifetime customers which are the ‘Lifeline of Business’. However, the sad story is that they are not identified and nurtured properly. Well, large businesses can afford the processes and technologies to achieve the same, however the SMBs, most of the time, are clueless and confused and in an effort to increase their business, the sales department spend most of their resources in ‘customer acquisition’ and none in ‘customer nurturing’.

Rakesh Shares his initial experience of MiracleCartes by articulating, “At start the company was not very different from others as well. We too had intial hiccups with the trial and errors they did. We spent around 1.5 to 2 years figuring the different permutations and combinations in the product we built, till they struck with “Our Why”! This gave us the confidence to build the right solution they wanted which NOVEMBER 2017

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addressed “Our How” and “Our What”!”

MiracleCartes has been blessed with some good Business Partner Organizations who have bestowed confidence in them and their product. Their first International Business partner is based in West Africa and they selected their standalone product for a few local implementations and very soon they partnered together for a very large custom product development project spanning for 1.5 years. Now, they are in the 4th year of their business partnership and are currently involved in multiple implementations, one which is the largest retail bank in that region with 1.3 Million Customers!

Healthy and Wealthy Working Enviroment “Success is a concoction of the values you believe, your team ( employees), your customers and partners,” Rakesh asserts. MiracleCartes have a small and unified team and has cultivated their culture on the three support columns viz. Purpose , Potential and Play. ‘Purpose’ helps them know their ‘Why’ and it helps them Value the work too.

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success by saying, “I encourage new ideas and perspective from all the team members in building and enhancing our core product and try to build the sense of belongingness and trust in whatever things they do. This releases their true ‘Potential’ and perform better. And finally , ‘Play’ is linked to learning instinct, experimentation and exploring. This I believe keeps them motivated!”

Future Panorama MiracleCartes is looking forward to ripen the preferred solution partner for the client’s customer engagement journey and making its presence in over 20 countries in the next 7-8 years. Currently, their team is focusing on three new areas like Content Collaboration , Predictive Analytics and Language Internalization. Well they do exist in some basic form now in the baseline version. However, the company plans to make it more exciting and relevant for business of different regions and language, and to marque more informed decisions related to Loyalty Programs and Content Communication.

Having the right values in place, Rakesh puts more emphasis on motivating the team towards company’s

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About the Author: Founded in 1987 by Ranjan Chopra, an alumnus of IIT-Kanpur, Team Computers emerged as a leading IT Infrastructure and Information Solution Provider in the last two decades. Team Computers views itself as a bridge between the world of business needs, and the world of affordable and high quality IT solutions. With 25 offices & 260+ support locations across India and 1,300++ Team Members on-board nationwide, 1800 happy customers over 800 multi-skilled engineers across locations, it has 1800+ Active Happy Customers Nation-wide. It is a ISO 9001:2000 certified company, CMM Level – 3 Certified.

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veryone knows that it is the perfect time for organizations to embark on a data journey and those that do not follow suit will just perish and die.

Succeeding in getting big data and analytics right goes beyond putting in place a set of tools or hiring a bunch of data scientists. While most organizations recognize the importance of data backed decision making for their sustained growth, they forget that it needs to be accompanied by sowing the seeds of and nurturing a data culture. Without a shift in culture towards data, organizations just won’t get it right.

Team Computer’s, in its twelve and visualization tools to worked with organizations to infrastructure in place but also nurturing data cultures within

years of providing business intelligence enterprises and startups alike, has not only get the data architecture and create strategies for building and organizations.

Winston Churchill summed up this failure during WWII when he said (1943) “The difficulty is not in winning the war; it is in persuading the people to let you win it” The same can be said for a culture of analytics – analytics is not the challenge, it’s persuading your employees to leverage analytics and data to make better business decisions and harness the value from your data” says Abhisheck Bhardwaj, Head of Alteryx practice at Team Computers.

Here are a few steps that organizations need to keep in mind to create a thriving data culture: Measure Aggressively: Establish the company;s metrics for success and then derive the corresponding metrics for each function and team from this. For example, imagine you are a manufacturer of FMCG products and want to increase your profit by 20% in the next financial year. Define the contribution of operations, distribution channels, direct sales, marketing etc to this 20%. Do operations need to reduce its inventory and sourcing costs by 15%? What NOVEMBER 2017

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part of this has to come from increased marketing? Does your distribution network have to increase by multifold? Communicate these metrics in an effective manner to your employees and encourage them to define measure and monitor all aspects that contribute to the KPIs defined by them to achieve this.

At Team Computers, we follow the same practice. As our MD, Ranjan Chopra, says, “Data is the new oil. And all of us have our own oil fields at Team Computers. Our day starts with data analytics and ends with synthesis.”

Unify it all: Just because data is stored in silos, does not mean it should not or cannot talk to each other. It is imperative that the data from different sources talk to each other to help achieve the unified goal of an organization. For example, if marketing leads are not connected to their sales outcomes, the quality of such leads can never be improved. Or if a sale isn’t linked to inventory, then it’ll either lead to failure in fulfilling orders or high inventory costs, both of which are undesirable.

The right tools and technology are imperative: Provide employees with the right training and tools to get data out of Excel and into formats where analysis is less cumbersome. There is a range of tools available in the market addressing different aspects of the journey such as Tableau for visualization to Alteryx for data blending and predictive analytics. Each of them address different needs and can be useful to different team and functions within the organization. Pick the tool that best addresses their needs and see the wonders it can do to their productivity.

Deepak Rai, a BI enthusiast and head of the Auto and FMCG practice at Team Computers, firmly believes that „each aspect of the decision making today at the organization level is yielding more opportunities to look deeper for better, faster and cheaper solutions.

This is becoming the theme of how organizations are transforming. Becoming increasingly data obsessed. So much so that even cooking classes is measuring customer satisfaction using both qualitative and quantitative data points.

Remove reliance on instinct completely: The shift in mindset from “gut-based” to “data- based” decision is difficult and sometimes needs to be led from top down. No decisions should be taken without effective data points. Ask why, and only accept answers backed by data. If no internal data is available, use data from research/surveys.

Show them the benefit: Help employees understand how the use of data will benefit them. There are two primary fears that people have when shifting to a data-driven culture: first, that they will be scrutinized (and potentially punished) because everything is being measured more publicly. Second, that becoming more numbers-focused will cause it to feel like a less personal work environment.

Leadership must be able to address these concerns.

As employees of your organization start using data on a daily basis, they will start noticing the benefits and become increasingly addicted to it. The firing of the bullets may need assistance, but once the trigger is pressed, you will see it gain its own momentum.

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Time To Redene The Present Tech Culture

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he Indian Technology Sector has earned an enormous reputation throughout the world in previous decades. Some Indian Technology company has set its work culture at Global standard.

Work Culture is all about the stakeholders and their coexistence with one another. The key factor for the tech firm is to maintain a culture flow comprising of particularly regular behavior and decisions. This conversation is mostly ini tiated at the top level to sustain the suitable work culture in the organization. Work culture has changed more rapidly with joining of the new employees across the world in the Indian Tech companies so handbooks and policies about work culture must be revised time to time.

Indian Technology Company follows a different kind of work culture. Likely, some follow very strict work culture like banning even the use of mobile phones in the office or wearing casual clothes. On the other hand, some companies are provide an employee friendly work environment, foe example they even allow them to work from home, emphasizing on achieving targets, rather than following very strict or disciplined work culture.

Over the last decade, Indian Technology Companies has raised significant capital to build businesses and expand its base beyond its boundary.

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Current Trends As defined by one of the leading Tech Company in India “What is culture but a shared set of beliefs, values, and practices? Our culture is the foundation of our success and it is completely people oriented, touching lives and making a difference to employees, stakeholders, customers and partners alike. We believe that excellence is not a destination but a journey of continuous improvement and we keenly promote an open culture, encouraging feedback, and actively transforming it into action”.

Management desired work Culture In a Technology Company most of the employees are very young and fresh college graduates. So they always expect them to be very innovative and provide new insightful ideas. They're also always ready to provide liberty to their employees to experiment with their ideas and thoughts.

Some companies create an atmosphere where the new employee gets the power to be involved in small as well as big strategy decision. So that each employee is glued in to what happens in the company.

The tech firms provide employment solely on the basis of applicant's competencies and qualifications. They strive to create a work culture where an employee will enjoy equal opportunity in all aspects of employment, including training conditions of service, recruitment and career growth.

Furthermore, they are committed to maintaining a workplace where each employee’s personal dignity and privacy is respected and protected from threatening or offensive behavior including violence and sexual harassment.

An example is wherein the countries renowned IT Company based on its market performance, gives a lot of importance to the gender diversity and believes that the high number of women employee holds the company in high esteem and creates huge goodwill in the market. Most of the Technology Companies run Management Development Program throughout the year and allowed the young employee to learn Management skill.

Young Employees Aspire High As growth rate has slowed down due to multiple factors, it will be huge challenge for the Indian IT companies to manage expectations of their employees including retaining of their staff, in the era of rapid technology evolution.

Employee expectations are a delicate thing to deal with.

Providing too much will probably spoil a company’s profitability while too less could result in higher attrition rate. This is already very high near to 15 % in Indian Technology Companies. Career progression, benefits, NOVEMBER 2017

leaves are the normal expectation of the employee as in other industry too but as in Tech companies most of the employee are very young and they are hungry to receive the acknowledgment that he or she is doing a good job and they also wanted to learn new things ongoing basis. It is of paramount importance to maintain diversity in the workforce because the imbalance in workforce percentage may create the negative vibe in the women workers. As Technological development strengthens Firms, clients are facing industrial disruption and are always expected to deliver best, cannot afford to be relaxed. But providing healthy, friendly and relaxed workplace atmosphere can do the magic in terms of meeting the expectations of the employee.

Current work culture Trend in Indian Tech Company A Technology Company by its nature is democratic. Since most of the information remains accessible to all employee as most of the records remain in digital form. This system helps the workplace become more transparent and accountable. Earlier Tech companies use to offer a challenging environment for motivating the employee to take out best from their works. But in recent past lot has changed in the work culture and they are creating an employee friendly work culture where an employee can feel relaxed even in the challenging situation. Many Tech companies now allow the employees to work from home and it creates lots of values in the mind of the employee and in turn helps companies to maintain a friendly relationship with the employee. Gym, library, relaxing zone, a good restaurant has become an integral part at the premises of a technology company. They also organize various entertainment programs on regular basis. Not only this but technology companies also provide the opportunity for the employee to nurture their other talent like music band, photography club, painting, acting, movie making, guitar classes, Zumba lessons, sports tournaments etc, to help the employee to develop their overall personality.

Work culture play very vital role in the growth of a company. It defines the personality of the company. Work culture in any company gets influenced by the culture of the country where it operates. Since Indian Technology Companies has their widespread presence in many other countries, they represent and adopt global culture. One of the major challenges faced by Indian Technology is higher attrition rate. To retain an employee for the long term is of paramount importance, and to create strong work culture so that an employee fits within the culture easily and also help the company to improve the productivity.

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Providing the Most Professional and Expert Business Solutions

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he protuberant company Nippon Data Systems Ltd is an IT-enabled business solutions provider which delivers the clients competitive business advantages. Since the inception of NIPPON DATA, they have built a strong foundation of success with sustainable growth accompanied with over the year incremental development of their IT solution offerings. Nippon Data proudly delivers business solution services to their treasured clients to elucidate their business issues. The company specializes in solving business problems by harnessing technology and implementing them for developing and implementing customized and standard IT solutions.

NIPPON DATA’s effort in bringing NEWTON Enterprise Suite helps clients to afford Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) that can be implemented faster than any other solution available at the most competitive pricing.

Additionally, Nippon Data provides Industry Specific Solutions without putting the burden on financial and other resources of the organization resulting in higher ROI. They claim to be a partner in the growth of their valued client and not just a service provider. A high standard of integrity is followed by the company in all its dealings with internal and external stake-holders. They deliver senior leadership involvement in client engagements.

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Creative Team behind the Organization Harish Kumar Saraf, CEO & Founder of Nippon Data Systems, is a B.Tech in Computer Science and is a gold medal holder for his performance in his academia. He came back to India from the US to establish Nippon Data Systems where he established NEWTON ERP with his team and introduced it in with a unique way, which helps many organizations to successfully handle many critical

issues with great success.

Harish believes, “Struggling through initial period, perseverance, hard work, self-belief and honesty within the team-mates helped them to build the prominent company. Their commitment to the customers is unconditional. They believe that their success is because of their customers.”

Unique Approaches of the Organization The unique footsteps, of Nippon Data, are to use technical expertise and partner with their customers to deliver business solutions to their satisfaction and assist them in realizing their full potential. Nippon Data shall strive to conduct business with the highest degree of ethics and treat each

transaction with fairness and honesty and be among the top five preferred solution providers in the market.

Nippon Data also wants to create an amicable working environment which respects and encourages innovation and helps employees look at Nippon Data systems as a long-term employer.

Proffering Exclusive Solutions of the Company Nippon Data with the most professional and advanced resources, bring the most satisfactory outcomes for their client’s business. They make sure that through their solutions; customers can get one-stop industry solution effortlessly and are capable of tackling IT related issues in the best possible manner.

Nippon Data industry-specific solutions include: NEWTON ERP, this software available in both (On-premise & On-Cloud) can manage information management needs of enterprises operating in diverse business segments ranging from a single-location, single-product operations to multi-location, multiproduct, multi-factory, and multidivision operations.

NEWTON CRM, (On-premise & On-Cloud) the vision of the solution is to automate all non-financial and financial needs of business which are obstacles to growth and consume extraordinary resources.

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motivation, empowerment, and admirable recognitions

NEWTON SCM is the combination of art and science that goes into improving the way the company finds the raw components it needs to make a product or service and deliver it to customers.

Technical Professional Services – Provides technical and engineering personnel to successful businesses. They have an extensive database of pre-screened candidates and one of the highest retention rates in the industry.

Today’s technology is constantly changing, forcing businesses to seek versatile employees with specialized skills, experience, and certifications Nippon Data can fill almost any requirement, including the following areas: 1) Engineering 2) Research & Development 3) Design, drafting & CAD 4) Technicians etc.

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continuity and on-time completion of Services.

Business Intelligence & Analytics - Nippon Data specialize in Business Analytics and have been enabling various companies to manage their client’s data and leverage the data in making business decision.

Nippon Data Systems is a Gold volume licensing partner and CSP (Cloud service provider) tier 1 partner of Microsoft.

Successful Attributes towards Believes Harish expresses, “We all crave for high-end professionalism when it comes to looking for development of the organization. Be it outsourcing or development within the firm, it is important to get the best results to retain the existing clients and attract newer ones and let the business flourish without boundaries.”

Nippon Data believes that constant effort can improve efficiency in all aspects of their relationship with customers and employees. The essential elements which help them to overcome all obstacles and maintaining the most impressive relation with the customer are their Honesty, Integrity and Ethical Business Conduct, Trust (Customers, employees, partners) and Personal ownership of responsibility.

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"Successfully Creating Employment Opportunities through Innovative Domain Specic Industry Ready Skill and Transformation (as per the Industry requirements)…….. by Pioneer Design & Engineering Pvt. Ltd."

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IONEER DESIGN Group, East in 2009 has the main vision to provide quality Strategic Staffing/Project Services to Clients in IT/CAD/CAM/PDM/PLM Technologies by Creating Industry Ready Talent Pool (Work Ready Force) through Domain Specific In-house Competency Development Programs in Engineering and Design by bridging competence gaps between the academic environment and the industry requirements for CAD/Design Engineers by all the major automotive, aerospace, heavy and general engineering companies across India and overseas at short notice.

AcCEPT (Academic Centre of Excellence in PLM Technologies), a Skill & Competency Development arm of Pioneer Design Group offers various specialized programs in Product Design (CAD/CAM/CAE), that are specially designed to meet this demand for very qualified, highly skilled engineers with profound experience in delivering all aspects of the project.

AcCEPT is currently establishing Industry Ready Engagement centers (AcCEPT-IREC) at Universities, Engineering and Diploma Colleges, Tool Rooms across India, to offer Industry Ready Internships, PG Diploma & M.Tech programs at the college level to create ready to deploy work force. This concept of Internships at academic engineering colleges in 58

large scale is designed by keeping in view the output of large numbers (in Lakhs) of students from the colleges and the lack of infrastructure and facilities by our Indian industry sector to accommodate interns in large numbers in the particular fields.

AcCEPT-IRECs offer Industry Ready Internship Programs for Diploma/Engineering Students in Product Design (CAD/CAM/CAE), that are specially designed to create work ready force to meet the high demand of CAD/Design Engineers by all the major automotive, aerospace, general & heavy engineering industries across India and overseas. During this program, all the Engineering Students will be given hands on OEM project experience related to engineering & Design in Automotive Interior/ Exterior/ BIW/ Sheet metal/ Seating/ Lighting using CATIA V5, in depth understanding/knowledge about GD&T, Plastics, Sheet metal, Tool Design & Mold Design according to the client specification with the standards followed by various OEM Companies.

Pioneer Design Group Credentials: 1. Pioneer Design is an MSME (Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises) registered, having offices spread across pan India, with more than 20000 SFT of office space, located in Bangalore,

Chennai, Pune, Hyderabad, Coimbatore, Kochi, Vijayawada, Visakhapatnam.

2. Pioneer Design is proud to be a PIA (Project Implementing Agency) to Government of India’s DDUGKY(Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Grameen Kaushalya Yojana) for skill development programs with PRN(Permanent Registration Number: AP2016CR10017) 3. Pioneer Design has more than 100 people, including 70 high-end design engineers, 4 Technical Managers and 6 members Human Resource Team, who drives the company towards success.

4. Pioneer Design is directly serving top 10 Automotive Tier1 Supplier companies in various domains like Interior, Exterior, BIW, Seating, Lighting, Wiring harness, Emission & Exhaust systems.

5. Pioneer Design is the largest and the most preferred EPP partner to Dassault Systemes, France offers Dual Catia V5 Certification and the only company in India to achieve 250+ Catia V5 Certifications in last one year time.

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of design and engineering,” says Veeravalli the Founder & CEO. His own caption “Get Industry Ready and Get Default Job opportunities” is being practiced in Pioneer Design for many years and this is proven by 600+ engineers, who transformed their lives through Pioneer Design’s Industry Ready Product Design Engineer Programs and

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Veeravalli and his team always direct themselves towards offering strategic project staffing to automotive OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) companies & Teir1 suppliers in CAD/CAE/PLM. They have a pool of industry ready engineers, who can join, participate and execute clients’ projects instantly without any delay.

Flexible Business Partner with Transparent Strategies to Achieve the Success

working with world class Automotive, Aerospace, Rail, and Engineering domain companies.

Veeravalli MK Prasad started his corporate journey from Rastriya Ispat Nigam Limited (Vizag Steel) as an Engineering Supervisor for almost ten years, later joined with CSM Software, Bangalore. He also served and Director of Business Development at Aufeer Design, a MATADOR Company.

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The company differentiates itself on its many services, technical capabilities, extensive knowledge of its key markets and the long term strategic relationships it has with its clients. In past 6 years, PDEPL has successfully supported the clients and provided the best for their specific requirements. With a strong sense of market, Pioneer Design has concentrated on serving the fastest and the most effective integrated services to OEMs and Tier1 suppliers across India, Europe and Middle East. Pioneer Design has been chosen as ‘The Best Support Partner’ by one of their Pune based European clients. The company’s industry ready design engineers provided them highly flexible solution for mission critical requirements that had to meet strict time constraints.

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ith surveys predicting an almost fully digitally connected world within the next decade, most services are in the process of going online. A report by World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on the Future of Software & Society had noted, among other things, a world as early as 2022 where everything from clothes to your street will be online. With more than 80 percent of the global population having a digital presence and internet access a basic right, smart homes and cities will be the norm.

Here in India too, things are changing. More and more of the population in cities now shop online for groceries,

clothing and gadgets. A lesser-known service available is that connected to managing your property. Owners of property as well as those looking for a rented place can now get assistance online.

End-to-end online rental solution for tenants and property owners is making life easy for many. For the tenant this does away with precious time wasted checking out for suitable rented space, as well as handling documentation work, utility connections and actual moving in. The rent can be paid online too.

Owners can beneďŹ t in property managementand in ďŹ nding the right tenants.

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Beginning with a click on verified property listings, a prospective tenant is connected to numerous properties, avoiding brokers. The immersive virtual experience allows for a picturisation of the property with features such as’360degree view’ taking one in and around the place.

Complete details like locality, square feet, rent, commutation, availability of hospitals or a super market in the vicinity are loaded on these sites. This helps tenants to pick and choose and save a lot of time.

Technology also does away with ambiguity in terms of rent as well as negotiations by providing the standard market rent, arrived at from data analytics. There is a humungous amount of data that is generated; data that can be mined and analysed to discern a pattern or trend. Property management firms are among those cashing in on such data to provide satisfactory services for owners and tenants. Some firms employ their own personnel in crunching and analysing the numbers derived from ground and online research, while some others use readymade software to arrive at conclusions.

From checking the general time taken in signing up a potential tenant, the time between signing the agreement to moving in, client preferences, whether it fits into any particular age dynamics or one based on income, any change in pattern across time, effective marketing route, conversion ratios from visitors to clients, etc data mining has come in as a useful and necessary task in the world of real estate.

Digital technology makes the process of agreement easier too. The standardised format clearly shows where one signs and the process is completed without hassles for both owner and tenant.

In the next step too, with payments made online through direct bank transfers, there is no worry of cheque bouncing and fraudulent payments are done away with. Tenants also get payment reminders online.

Online sites also connect tenants to the best packers and movers in town, available at affordable prices.

Beyond all this, online services also help tenants find vendors online to undertake maintenance issues and repairs covering power, water, fumigation, etc. There is no need to run from pillar to post looking for a plumber or electrician.

For the property owners, the services include a thorough background check of prospective tenants and an assured, maximum rent. Tenants with dubious background or weak finances can be weeded out.

Portals developed specifically for online payments, tenant screening, immersive virtual tours of property, accounting and so on helps reduce workload and make the process free of human errors. Free cloud services make available personal portals for owners, tenants and service providers to communicate, pay and collect rent, tie up with vendors, upload pictures and manage requests.

Help is just a click away in the digital world. From a click to a thought or signal could be the next step.

Implantable mobile phones to be available within the next ten years will not only monitor the health of the person but allow him or her to communicate with just a thought. Visualise a dream house and the signals will connect you to the best options in the market.

Welcome to the 21st century.

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Delivering Best-in-Class QA and Testing Services

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e spend nine to ten hours a day in our workplaces, literally more time than we spend in our homes or with family and friends. At the end of the day, while riding a bus, bike or driving your car, we all feel tired. If we start feeling that the work is both exhausting and making our life difficult, then that workplace is not the one we were looking for all throughout our life.

Most successful enterprises keep a keen eye on the productivity of their employees, company's profit and loss and a prime focus on the employee satisfaction.

With a rich experience of 20 years, QualiTest is delivering the best-in-class end-to-end management of entire testing solutions to enrich industry with quality. Being the world’s second largest Quality Assurance and Testing Company, QualiTest is leveraging their deep technology, business and industry-specific understanding to deliver solutions that align 100 percent with their clients’ business goals. With expertise in the field, the company guarantees quality improvement and cost reduction.

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path of their destined goal is employee satisfaction. QualiTest reveals the secret behind their successful story of two decades and says, “The culture we drive through QualiTest Happiness Model is ‘Enjoy what you do’. Happy employees lead to delighted customers, increasing engagement with QualiTest, hence ensuring increase in turnover and recognition.”

About the Pillar of QualiTest With a rich experience of over 20 years in Delivery, Competency Building and Operations, Manoj Chandrappa, Managing Director of QualiTest India division, is leading the team with expertise and excellence. He established TCL India in 2008 at

Testing is both an Art and a Science, says QualiTest The highly experienced QA and testing company asserts that testing is a combination of art and science which only few people are adept at. At QualiTest’s current growth rate, finding a good fit for testing seems is one of the biggest challenges the company is currently facing. The management of the company further states that finding the right people and aligning these tester mindsets to client business goals in a rapidly changing global and local business environment is a challenge.

They are addressing this critical concern through their Learning and Development programs.

The industry scenario suggests that QualiTest stays ahead in the industry for the following reasons:

Bengaluru, India, fully acquired by the QualiTest Group nearly five years ago.

Currently, Manoj leads the QualiTest India leadership team in taking the company forward towards achieving its desired goals and vision of being the #1 independent software testing company.

● QualiTest delivers results by combining customer centric business models, critical thinking and the ability to gain a profound comprehension of customers’ goals and challenges. ● Aligning with their customers’ business context enables software deployment that their customers can trust. ● The training focus is on creating QualiTesters who deliver efficient and innovative solutions. ● Focused effort towards knowledge and innovation.

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Encourages Team Play and Employee Loyalty to Increase Performance and Establish Perfection QualiTest implements the ‘QualiTest Happiness Mode’ in line with GCH and GNH models. Every employee is encouraged to participate and bring change at the workspace within the logical framework, combining the core values “Strive to understand the big picture”, “Think about what’s best for the QualiTest family” and “Be proactive”. Their main core values also to ‘Become the best in the world’, ‘Be a team Player’ and ‘Show Leadership’.

QualiTest says that this is what lays the foundation for their team unity and employee loyalty.

“80 per cent of our management team started out as Junior Testers!” – proudly asserts QualiTest.

QualiTest is focused on employee engagement, their satisfaction and their happiness alongside their performance and company’s output. To ensure employees enjoy their work, the now second largest QA and Testing Company invests heavily in measuring employee engagement using the Happiness Index. The Managing Director of the company further defines their Happiness Model and states that it consists of nine different elements and each of them NOVEMBER 2017

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has further objectives which are measured and then utilized to arrive at the engagement of the employee, resulting in a happiness index which provides an insight into each and every employees’ engagement.

The Goals QualiTest is Aiming to achieve in the Near Future Currently, QualiTest is building competencies in niche skills in data science, cloud storage, bitcoin, blockchain, network, cloud testing and AI. By creating Community of Practices (COP) internally, the company is coming up with innovative solutions to fulfill their clients’ business objectives. “By way of mergers and acquisition we inherit the best of work cultures that enrich our way of work,” asserts Manoj.

QualiTest proudly celebrates 20 years of growth and success and continues to thrive and expand while employing “the best testers in the world”.

In addition to their organic growth, QualiTest is looking at mergers and acquisitions as a mechanism to infuse domain, technological skills and the wealth of experience that will enrich the company and their services.

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Securing the Management of Connections through Various Devices Development

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ensorise Digital Services is an Indian startup, which is emerging as a prominent solution provider for M2M connectivity and networks, embedded design, secure applications, cloudbased portals, and solutions in M2M/IoT space with their cutting-edge proven telecom solutions. Sensorise is the first company to bring multi-MNO eUICC (embedded SIM cards) to India.

Concentrating on cost-effective engineering and high quality of service, it supplies end to end solutions in life cycle management of eSIM and IoT devices.Sensorise embarked on a journey to solve the challenges they experienced in M2M connectivity area and became the first company to bring the multi-MNO eUICC (Embedded SIM cards) to India. The eUICC has been in use in the countries like USA, UK, Germany, and France but introducing it in India was a huge challenge. Other than the technology, it required building Telco partnerships, consulting and certification of OEMs, evangelization with standards and policy-making and the loads of capable supply chain processes required for any telecom solution. A significant USP is the Sensorise ability to supply the eUICC in any form factor at any scale.

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solutions using a carrier class portal hosted in India. All the Sensorise sensors comply with the Indian Z-wave frequency, are easy to install and natively integrated to the SenseMatic Portal and App. Offering a great service, which is secure and easy to use, is the critical aspect of the Sensorise service. The company’s pioneering solution can be installed in any existing buildings and houses without having to do any wiring. If a company shifts from one office to other, these can be easily taken out and installed on other premises.

An Erudite Leader of the Company With more than twenty-two years of experience in the telecom sector Sharad Arora, is the Founder and MD of Sensorise. Previously he had five years of experience in the field of electronics and R&D in the Office Automation industry. He is the chief architect of Sensorise and also the main industry connects for the company. Sharad spends a significant share of his time on development of IoT / M2M / Telecom standards participating in various standards and technical committees. His strategy is to manifest Sensorise’s Brand Tagline – “Connect and Serve”. Sensorise is emerging as a cutting-edge solution provider in the areas of M2M Connectivity, Remote Asset Management, Quality of Service and Security, as this is where the industry needs are and the technology gaps are most visible. He believes in a performance culture based on openness and transparency in all internal and external transactions.

Products which makes the company Ingenious Sensorise’s product portfolio consists of: TM Ÿ QoSIM : Multi-Operator SIM card in Embedded as well as pluggable form factor to provide, Secure and high QoS connectivity to the M2M devices.

TM Ÿ SenseLCM : Portal to manage life cycle of Connectivity and Devices Ÿ SenseTise: Solution to capture customer feedback data, reliability and securely transfer it to servers for analytics and decision making. Ÿ SenseTrack: Solution for remote asset tracking and monitoring.

Transforming Challenges into Opportunity Sharad highlights, “Much has been written about the explosive growth of Machine-to-Machine (M2M) and the Internet of Things (IoT) with staggering projection of numbers. A commercial M2M use case requires an ecosystem of (a) Device Manufacturers (OEM) (b) Network Connectivity Providers (TSP & OSP) (c) Government policies, standards and regulators and (d) Enduser to work together. The government has seen this challenge and envisaged the need for an M2M Service Provider (M2MSP).

The beneficiary M2M / IoT Industry is besotted with problems of factory fitment of embedded connectivity, industrial grade cards, secure and manageable subscriptions. With the innovation of QoSIM product, Sensorise has adopted the relevant standards to develop a solution that overcomes these challenges, through embedded SIM as NOVEMBER 2017

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security token. A draft guideline on M2M SP registration was released for industry consultations by DoT in May 2016, which has been endorsed by the honorable TRAI as part of its 5 Sep 2017 M2M Guidelines. Sensorise sees this as a big enabler for the Automotive, Transport, Metering and Remote Asset Management sectors and hopes to be a role-model M2M SP in time to come.”

Work Culture of the Company Sensorise is a technology startup, and most of the team which came on board is highly experienced with decades of knowledge in their field, which spans across Telecom, Cloud Infrastructure, and Analytics & Supply Chain. They hire people with an entrepreneurial mindset. This helps the company to continue agility and flexibility. The company follows agile methodology not only for the development purpose but also in project management. Every day they take inter-departmental status review meeting and appreciate the new actions that are generated and assigned. These information exchange platforms enable everyone to share their views, agree on a plan and remain focused towards the unified organization goals. The organization encourages their team members to take initiatives and back them if something fails.

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providing an end-to-end solution which includes the device, connectivity, and management, secure data transfer between device and server and application portal with machine learning models hosted on Class 5 cloud data center.

In addition to this, Sensorise is enhancing their QoSimTM product to be able to provide diagnostics information for the customer to root cause analysis in case of loss of data.

Sharad added, “Biggest focus is on information exchange processes and agile methodologies. We are deploying tools as and where needed to enable this. We believe once people understand the purpose they would be able to take right decisions and put in right efforts.”

A Bright Future Ahead Embedded SIM cards are the key factor behind the successful deployment of M2M/IoT use cases. In the last few years majority of the deployment has been in industrial use cases. However, with the launch of Samsung Gear and the Google Pixel phone with the embedded SIM, the eSIM capability is reaching out to the consumer segment. The honorable TRAI has already seen the significant benefit to the IoT/M2M enabled industry with the capability of embedded SIM and Remote Provisional Subscription profiles. Once the DoT policy is released, this will enable TSPs / MVNOs/ M2MSPs to service the dispersed IoT / M2M assets with highly serviceable connectivity. Sensorise is ready with solutions to to provide the required features as and when they are allowed by policies and regulations.

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About the Author Samar Singla, Co-founder and CEO of ClickLabs, is a serial entrepreneur and alumnus of IIT Delhi and University of Maryland. He came to India to bring technology to the poultry sector and created Prodigy Foods which is the largest company providing soya substitute as poultry feed today. One year after stabilizing the operations he sold off the majority stake in Prodigy to start focusing on the next entrepreneurial gig, Click Labs. Click Labs is a mobile applications development company with a mission to provide technology solutions that just work right! In a span of three years, Click Labs has grown to a team of 120 members and offices in India and USA. It has executed over 100 successful applications for mobile gaming, small businesses and enterprises.

Samar is an avid traveler and an amateur photographer who likes to document the mundane and the everyday world.

He has specialties in entrepreneurship, mobile advertising, mobile strategy, mobile development, SEO, ppc, Social media, design, data and analytics.

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he effectiveness of any organization’s communication systems forms an essential part of its working. We have come a long way from handwritten letters to typewriters, to pagers, and now tools like Emails, Skype and Messenger calls, Slack, and Workplace by FB to name a few. The accessibility and instant availability to talk to anyone and at any place is what makes technology an integral part of the workplace environment. Effective communication channels like instant messaging and conference calls over internet contribute highly to work productivity. As a result, the virtual office technology has removed workplace boundaries and has led to business expansion faster than we thought.

If organization was a machine, it would work smoothly when oiled with effective and transparent communication, both internally and externally. The effectiveness of any organization’s communication systems forms an essential part of its working. The accessibility and instant availability to talk to anyone and at any place is what makes technology an integral part of the workplace environment. Emails, conference calls, Skype calls, Messenger chatbots and various other channels of communication contribute highly to work productivity. As a result, the virtual office technology has removed workplace boundaries and has led to business expansions.

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Tech Work Efficiency Effortless communication is the core of organizational efficiency. Since there are multiple layers of communication involved in businesses, including communication with clients, co-workers, peers, customers, and other stakeholders, the choice of communication channel can help make quick business decisions. The integration of technology has not only changed the pace at which inter and intra organizational communication works, but has also impacted the way work is done. It brings flexibility and ease of connectivity, which makes the global workplace mobile. The introduction of liquid computing is increasing efficiency by eliminating constraints like time, place and manner.

Transparency New trends in communication is gradually eliminating the traditional ways of workplace communication, thus, making way for ideas to flow in a coherent space. The idea is to bring transparency and trust in the communication which motivates the employees and makes the leaders less authoritative in a positive way. It creates a connection between the employer and employee hence bridging the gap between the two. It leads to quick problem solving and building of teams which essentially stems from effective means of communication. The mobile-friendly tools of communication are now seen to be taking over the age-old legacy of hierarchy.

Employee Engagement Free flowing communication and

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accessibility to connect with anyone irrespective of hierarchy motivates employees for active participation in the company’s workings and be a part of the decision-making process. This boosts the morale of the employees and makes them work toward the common objective of the company and themselves. The employee engagement through such tools not just promises workers’ productivity but also ensures the overall business success. It is believed that workers’ productivity increases by 20-25% where employees are connected and apparently company revenue is directly related to employee engagement.

Saves Time & Costs while Analyzing Data Unlike old times when the records were prone to all kinds of damage and miscommunication, the digital records provide a great way for data analyzing,

based on old communication records.

It also simplifies the process and provides automation of rigorous tasks which, historically, would require a lot of staff and time. For instance, bookkeeping can now be sought by software applications which reduce the labor cost and working hours. While the work today exists irrespective of different time zones and boundaries, the communication has truly made the workplace global in a true sense.

Tech-based communication also allows the easy way of sharing and retrieving information. The cloud storage eliminates the paperwork, makes the systems faster and agile and, saves a

lot of costs involved while providing abundant spaces of filing the information.

Secures the Work and Data Revolutionizing the world of work and connectivity, technology has made sure to reach people at a global level. A huge amount of business sensitive information which can be stored and accessed by people at work is prone to be hacked or damaged; but innovative ways of technology safeguards the information from possible security breach, which makes impossible for pertinent information to leak.

Since technology is an ever-evolving game, the best way to integrate technology in the workplace is adopting new trends and using the mix of various tools looking at the benefits it has on the employees. Every organization and its employees wish to work towards a meaningful purpose. Therefore, a well balanced mix of latest technology and talented team leads to optimum use of the work-days. Like many organizations, Click Labs, being a tech startup has always been a frontrunner in adopting and experimenting with new techniques of communication. Different tech tools are adopted by the company leading to smooth flow of information among all channels of the organization. This helps to improve employee engagement, relationship building, and collaboration among different verticals.

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Forwarding Technology to Shape the Business World

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ogical work signifies effective and innovative acumen in building tech which not only generates higher standards in market but also creates loyal customers for the company too. A leading organization, Siam Computing, is well-known for deploying this kind of work to help startups build their own products. The key difference is in the word, “Product”. Having built their clients products, Siam knows how involving product development gets. Unlike typical IT projects, product development is much more intensive.

Technology is only a subset of the whole scope.

Computing is passionate about technology. He started using technology as enabler to build better businesses, which led him to start Siam Computing. He works with companies from across the world and has helped build technology products for both startups and enterprises alike. A stickler for details, nothing pleases him more than a solution that’s well-designed and crafted with the end user in mind.

“The joy of watching the end product in the hands of hundreds of thousands of users is priceless”, by keeping this in mind, Siam works with founders/clients to understand what their idea is, by shaping their product screen by screen, and module by module based on what the end user wants. They understand and analyze the pain points their clients are facing, and later they go on a journey with the founder to comprehend the entire scope which will further get transformed into a final product.

In 2015, he started building Hisabing, with a mission to bring technology to the grassroot small and medium businesses of India. He also helped co-found Startups Club, a premier destination for early stage startups.

A graduate of Crescent Engineering College, his other passions include playing table tennis, taking care of his terrace garden and watching at least one movie per week. His long term passion is to see India becoming a superpower in his lifetimes.

The Stupendous Persona of Siam Computing

Superior Formulation of Business to Rule the Tech World

An entrepreneur from Chennai, India, Khuzema Siam, CEO of Siam

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“The biggest challenge remains to have the right set of folks work with you.

Being a young organization ourselves, the team that you build at the growth stage defines what kind of organization you are building. There is an old adage: People are your most valuable assets.

The truth actually is that it’s the Right people that are your most valuable assets. Just the way it’s important to onboard the right people, it’s also equally important to keep an eye out and be surgical in removing the folks that don’t.”

As a creative leader Khuzema believes, “It’s because we are pretty tough on ourselves on what we accept as good.

One of the values that we hold in the organization is that good enough is not great. From the way we communicate, to how we build a team, to the kind of work we deliver. The other key element would be that we are as invested in our client’s product as much as they are themselves.

Working with several startup founders, we are aware of the fact that a lot of their dreams and aspirations ride out on how the tech is handled and we take the trust that they have placed in us very seriously.”

Creative and Positive Work Culture The characteristic that Siam is working towards is that of collective ownership.

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brings in far better results than any number of policies.

Khuzema says about its team that, “At Siam, we are a flat team. No one has closed cabins, including myself. We all work together on the same floor; we share victories together as much as we brood over upsets. The culture is getting things done, one of competing with yourselves before competing with others.”

The company knows that for them, it’s a sensational time to stand as a tech company. There are several advancements happening in and around in Siam, both market wise as well as technology wise that creates a ton of opportunities for them to take advantage of. Right from Machine learning to blockchain, these technologies are opening widens area for the Siam.

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meetups, conferences have 10 points, taking part in the CSR activities have 10 points, etc. leading to a total score of 100. Based on the score a person gets, they get their traffic light accordingly. 75 - 100 are green, 50 - 75 is amber, 25 - 50 is red and less than 25 is grey. The traffic lights are implemented for everyone, right from the CEO to the Admin. This helps each one see individually where they are.

For future, Siam is continuing the goal of building products for themselves that is constructing an ecommerce Chatbot.

Their aim is to make discovery of products easier and more natural on ecommerce sites. With the bulk majority of shopping having moved online, an AI powered Chatbot can make shopping a personal and enjoyable experience again.

Boosting Goals for Future Advancements At present, Siam are looking to implement a concept called ‘traffic lights’. They have divided several activities of the organization into multiple line items with individual points for each. For example, on time work has 25 points, taking part in NOVEMBER 2017

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Optimizing IT Infrastructure with Innovative Solutions

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ccording to Gartner, Indian IT infrastructure spending will rise to US$ 2.2 Billion by the end of 2017, a 1.5% increase from 2016. This IT infrastructure market includes server, storage and networking equipment. The report further says that with growing technological adoption across the business verticals, there is a dire need of an IT Infrastructure solution which is agile, contemporary, lean, and secure. Stackup Technology Solutions has designed such innovative solution to optimize IT operation and improve overall efficiency.

Stackup Technology Solutions is an emerging IT startup firm, which came into existence in 2014. Stackup Technology Solutions is a Hyperconverged IT infrastructure product company that spearheads innovation in software defined infrastructure components. Stackup Tech offers products that are intended at simplifying IT infrastructure, untangling IT operations and increasing IT operational efficiency.

The Torch Bearer of Stackup Technology Mr. Shankar R, CEO & founder, is the leading light of Stackup Technology Solutions Private Limited.

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completed B.E from Electronics and Communication Stream. Later, he had been conferred with MS (Research) on Neural networks based routing in satellite communication by prestigious Anna university.

Mr. Shankar has a vast experience of over 15 years in IT infrastructure solutions. He has worked with many multinational giants like Bharti Airtel, Tata Teleservices & Riverbed technology. He has proven track record of high technical expertise in IT infrastructure solutions. He has delivered diverse range of services like solution architect, Product sales specialist, Pre sales consultant & consultant in many prominent organizations. His coworkers admired him for his integrity, honesty & quick problem solving skills with a razor sharp attention to even a minuscule problem. Mr. Shankar’s vision & great business acumen has led Stackup technology to complete 150 IT infrastructure deployments in a very short span of time.

Mr. Karthik is another eminent person of Stackup Technology who has also contributed immensely for the growth of this organization. He has served at Hughes, Tulip and Bharti Airtel holding key business development roles. His exposure in Enterprise account management and high value tuen key projects aides Stackup to grow well. He has been leading the business development operations since

the inception and has added many customer jewels in the crown of Stackup Technology.

Cutting Edge IT Products and Services The idea of crafting an optimized, quick & simple IT infrastructure for all businesses types, led to the inception of Stackup Technology. “Stacbloc” is the flagship product of Stackup Technology that amalgamates Server, Storage, Networking and Security, all in a single efficient solution. Stacbloc simplifies the IT operation, avoids hardware sprawl and provides an agile infrastructure. Stacbloc solution caters the need of Enterprise Data Centre, remote offices, SMB to consume holistic IT services in a flexible, customized way and reduces TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) by 50%.

With “Stacbloc”, IT infrastructure support operations like cloning, migration, backup, patching or up gradation can be smoothly executed with near “zero downtime”, thus providing application and server availability 24/7 for all 365 days in a year. Apart from the premier product “Stacbloc”, Stackup Technology provides many distinguished business tools like Ticketing engine, E mail services, Infrastructure Monitoring engine, Virtual Desktop engines as virtual machines.

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Technology better than its peers.

Innovation: Stackup technology provides radical trainings to its valued employees from highly knowledgeable external consultants. The training is designed to enhance an employee’s technical skills and out of box thinking process in order to create sustainable and innovative solutions for varied IT problems.

Agility: Stackup technology believes that listening to customer’s problems and tailoring a customized solution in a quick time is also an important facet required for success.

The company is gaining prominence in the industry due to its cutting edge, highly innovative and cost effective products. Customer acquisition rate, operational scalability, process deployments are some of the current challenges which Stackup Technology sees as an opportunity to grow further.

Dynamic and Open Work Culture In today’s highly competitive business environment, transparency and open work culture plays an eminent role in an organization’s success. Transparency and open work culture always gives birth to a new business idea and helps an organization to achieve overall productivity, and

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employee satisfaction as well. Every employee of Stackup Technology has been given full liberty to present & share their ideas, which can leverage efficiency, productivity and profitability of the organization. The management always mentors employees to transform any good idea into real action. Various departments of Stackup Technology work in tandem to achieve a unified goal.

Facets of Stackup Technology which makes it a favorable workplace Few or no levels of middle management between staff and executives (Flat structure or no hierarchy).

Common workplace or no closed cabins.

Instant recognition to employees for their eminent contribution towards organization’s growth.

Full liberty for presenting & experimenting new ideas.

Future Goals Innovating new products, refining customer service & capturing new market/clients across the verticals is the immediate future goal of Stackup Technology. Stackup Technology is enhancing their products for private cloud and business continuity planning areas using ‘sustained innovation’. With a group of experts with great business acumen on its advisory board, Stackup Technology is all set to expand their footprint even in untested waters.

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o ensure positive work culture and ignite productivity, Tesseract Global, a global cyber intelligence agency, is implementing the power of being insightful and passionate while achieving the targeted goal and a mindset to never give-up. Their mindset, their achievements and their appreciating nature makes Tesseract Global one among the top most preferred tech workplaces. “We feel our team has got everything needed to boost the growth and level of excellence every year.” –Tesseract Global, an Inc. based in San Francisco, CA. Tesseract Global is having a revolutionary advance threat detection platform powered by Machine learning model. The company built this platform with a motive to disrupt the way legacy Signature based Antivirus or IDS works. Their extraordinary product “Peerlox” has been proven by various independent bodies and the trusted customers of the company and given extraordinary results in combating advance and trending ransomware and sophisticated data breaches.

Transforming the World of IT The recent world witnesses the transformation of the IT world where most of the businesses are still dependent on legacy signature-based threat detection. As per the recent report, average cost of advanced data breaches reached $4 million and 74

ironically, all the victims were having anti-virus in place. With the revolutionary product “Peerlox” and with its unique machine learning capability, Tesseract Global can detect each data breach and ransom ware attempt at any stage of Cyber Kill chain and respond promptly to defeat.

Tesseract Global have been very specific about their workforce as a result, the company have been well-known for fastest growing cyber Security Company specifically in the field of machine learning based threat detection. The cyber intelligence agency has defined specifically their corporate and human resource policy about hiring Cyber Security experts.

Getting the right candidate takes much longer time than expected and that is what the company considers to be a critical challenge. With an extraordinary management team and a skillful leader, Tesseract Global easily overcomes any problem with ease and perfection.

About the Men behind this Revolutionary Organization Rajneesh Gupta, CEO at Tesseract Global, is the leading man behind this company providing extraordinary cyber intelligence. Rajneesh plays a critical role in innovating and developing products like Peerlox that creates value to customers, delivered with in-depth focus on excellence, by a team of highly passionate security practitioners and extensively experienced Data Scientists.

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CEO, Rajneesh was a Senior Security Architect at HP; he held the responsibility for delivering managed security to premium accounts worldwide. Earlier, he has worked in various reputed organizations like Alcatel-Lucent and was charged with security innovation for major telecom service providers of various countries and to facilitate resilient security transport functions globally.

The CEO of Tesseract Global, Rajneesh is a recognized expert in the field of eGovernance, IoT Security, Threat Intelligence and Risk Management with appearances in various media publications like International Archivers Conference and DNA among many others. Within a very short span, Rajneesh has been recognized by numerous well-known organizations as one of the top CEOs in the industry.

Vinay Pandey, CTO, is responsible for developing the company’s technology strategy and conveying it to the executives, investors and partners.

He is also responsible for maintaining the information about technology standards and regulations successfully.

He is the brain behind the company product- Peerlox. Mr Pandey Screens new ideas, creates Proof of Concepts, scrutinize the relevance of the product and manages the research and development cell of Peerlox.

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Technology. He is also an active member of International system security standard, Silicon Valley chapter and Internet Society for San-Francisco Chapter.

Bindu Gupta, Chief People Officer, Bindu plays a very vital role in establishing HR system at Tesseract Global.

She believes in the power of listening, simplicity and excellence in design and execution, and bringing her passion for organization, personal growth and resilience into each and every part of her position. Bindu ensure’s that the Tesseract Globals culture continues to grow and thrive throughout every aspect of the business.

Helping Businesses Reduce Risks through Intelligence Systems The team at Tesseract Global works on various projects for numerous companies, some of which remains confidential and undisclosed. Tesseract Global is revolutionizing the IT world and helping organizations with revolutionary business risk intelligence systems to ensure their clients to work in a negligible risk environment. The company deals projects of plenty of independent security researchers and communities which are the major factors contributing in the growth of expertise of the team in the industry.

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Appreciates Innovative Ideas and Maintains a Healthy Work Culture The management of the Tesseract Global ensures that each department and team members are open to put their thoughts on weekly meetings. The company openly appreciates every innovations and ideas to encourage new inventions and maintain the wave of innovative energy among all team members. They say that they just do not serve security, but uses it extensively. With their own team collaboration system with military grade security, the company offers extraordinary security.

Innovating Exclusive Workplace Facilities The company strongly believes in ensuring right office environment and set employees up with right situation and motivation as that is what helps them to tackle huge challenges. They say that in every quarter, at least one admin comes up with a workplace innovation idea such Hot-Desking (No assigned seating), plant and greenery.

Their efforts clearly say that the company is in the way to build a military-grade cyber defense grid with the power of artificial intelligence to protect businesses. While talking with the CEO about their strength, Rajneesh said, “The power of being Insightful and passionate while achieving the right goal and mindset of never give-up makes us apart in the crowd.”

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