Progressive times october 2011

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August 2010

Announcements CEO Speak Hello everyone and welcome to another jubilating edition of Progressive Times in this festive season.

Technology and business have converged like never before in the last few years. From enabling small businesses to compete effectively in a global environment, to generating new avenues of growth and competitive advantage for mature organizations, technology has occupied the center stage in every industry we can think of.

At Progressive, we have helped our customers to use technology effectively and hence in furthering their business interests, for over 12 years now. These years have been filled with extraordinary achievement, growth and satisfaction at seeing our clients grow their businesses based on our solutions, and leverage their technology investments in an ever-changing business landscape. And, sure, we have grown as well in this time – both in scale as well as in the quality of work we do.

Attitude, Win, Collaboration, Innovation and Quality were the pillars on which we founded this company and these remain our biggest assets even today. We have taken great care in forging strong relationships with our customers and partners, building trust one day at a time.

As we move forward, we are continuously looking for ways to get better at what we do, and how we do it.

At the center of our strategy are our people – brilliant, innovative and raring to go! Progressive hires, trains and retains the best of the best in every sphere of its operations, and this is the competitive advantage that sets us apart. It gives us the courage to compete effectively with much larger organizations and makes us the preferred solution provider for numerous clients in India and abroad.

Wishing a very blissful festive season ahead to all our readers, let's continue to stretch… deliver… always… to our valued customers.

MS Cloud Accelerator Partner

Progressive, as Microsoft Cloud Accelerator Partner, will offer Microsoft Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS) solutions to its customers. Microsoft's BPOS consists of software-as-a-service bundles that organizations access through Microsoft's server farms. BPOS applications are based on Microsoft Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, Office Communications Online and Office Live Meeting.

Progressive will add BPOS to its Professional Service Line, which provides complete cloud computing offerings to organizations.

Windows Azure™ is Microsoft's cloud services operating system that serves as the development, service hosting and service management environment for the Windows Azure™ platform. Windows Azure™ provides developers with on-demand compute and storage to host, scale and manages web applications on the internet through Microsoft® datacenters.

Microsoft and Progressive are well-positioned to offer cloud services that will help customers innovate and differentiate while reducing costs. The two companies collaborate on various Microsoft technologies as well.

HP Platinum Partner Progressive is proud to be associated with HP as a “Platinum Business Partner”. Progressive expects much of the partnership with HP and believes that this agreement will enhance the professional bonding between HP and Progressive.

Platinum Business Partner

Key Wins NIIT Technologies

Warm regards and best wishes!

Prateek Garg MD & CEO

Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI)

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Events Technology Senate 8.0 – What CIOs Want Hong Kong Technology Senate is a 'by-invitation-only' annual forum for India's leading CIOs and IT decision-makers. It is an innovative platform for knowledge sharing, peer networking, celebrating achievements and showcasing exciting new technologies, at an offshore location. You can enjoy exciting sessions with prominent researchers, analysts, CTOs and industry leaders. Sessions include special keynotes, panel discussions & stimulating case studies with industry experts.

Progressive participated in this event as a Technology Partner and Mr. Gulshan Kharbanda, Vice President - Global Services addressed on the issue of Corporate Performance Management.

IT Expo, Mumbai The Asia ITEX 2010 is a milestone event that will assist the IT and Converging Technology companies, to leapfrog into the future. It will bring industry leaders, analysts, government agencies, academia, integrators and decision makers on this fertile platform. One platform to network, integrate, promote and establish a company's presence.

The Expo also provides the ideal platform for upcoming players in this industry to establish their presence and spotlight their expertise. In other words, it showcases the dipstick for future developments and trends of Indian Converging Technologies market.

Progressive exhibited in this 4 day expo held in M u m b a i . M r. R a t a n Dargan, Vice President Enterprise Solutions addressed the conference consisting of more than 100+ CXOs on Progressive's Converged Infrastructure Solutions & Services.

Joy of Giving Week – CSR Activity Progressive recently came out with their CSR initiative by contributing in a unique way towards the under privileged people & children through Joy of Giving week. Associates of Progressive spent their whole day meeting underprivileged at 3 different places in Noida and shared clothes, utensils, packed food, toys & other household items which came from associates from all ranks through an internal collaboration.

The activity started with a small village in Noida called 'Naya Gaon' with a population of around 100, mostly children.

The second destination was a small locality in Noida Sector 50, with a population of around 200 and the majority being women. The last destination was an Orphanage in Noida called Sai Kripa, where distribution of food items like rice, Maggi, noodles, Bournvita and chocolates was handed over to the Orphanage Management.

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Horizontal Solutions # 2 Cloud Computing Introduction Cloud Computing is an Internet-based computing, whereby shared resources, software, platform and information are provided to computers and other devices on demand.

Cloud computing promises more agile, efficient, and costeffective infrastructure solutions for building, scaling and using applications and services. Inherent to the Cloud, however, are the challenges of running applications over a highly unpredictable and unreliable platform - the Internet. Cloud-based offerings will need to overcome these challenges in order to meet enterprise computing requirements such as speed, scalability, availability and security.

These requirements must be met before companies can justify migrating their business-critical applications to the Cloud.

Furthermore, while enterprises have begun to embrace Cloud computing, they are approaching it in a modular way, in order to facilitate experimentation, reduce risk and meet specific business requirements. For example, a company may simultaneously: • Run highly-sensitive legacy functions at an in-house data center • Use on-demand storage services for their growing library of rich media assets • Leverage established SaaS modules to enrich application functionality • Develop new application features and extensions on top of dedicated

Types Private Cloud, Public Cloud & Hybrid Cloud Progressive's Services on Cloud • Cloud Assessment • Cloud Migration • Cloud Management Key Benefits • Customize IT infrastructure solutions • Pay per Use • Optimize resource utilization & save cost.

• On-demand Services

Associate Benefit Programs Kwench, Online Library Solution

Khojguru, The Discount Master

Kwench is an online library solution where an associate can register himself on their website and order the book online. The requested book will be delivered to the associate within 24 hours of time span. Progressive associated with Kwench as a part of associate engagement activity and currently implementing this for Noida, HO.

Progressive recently has a tie up with Khojguru, one of India's leading discount coupon player on the Internet.

Khojguru provides online discount coupon covering top brands across categories exclusively for the associates of Progressive and that to 'Free' of cost. The main categories covered are travel, health & beauty, food & beverages, gifts, music & mobile, electronics, movies and apparel.

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