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More Strategic Through
The Adoption Of New
Technologies

Stella Andrews
Archana Ghule
Alex Noel
David King
Vishal More

John Mathew
Mary DSouza
Vishlesha Gajarmal
Abhijeet

Saurabh Nikam

he IT industry is invariably in ux. Recurrent new

products and category innovation dene and
redene industries constantly shifting its
landscape. On a continuous basis, IT Industries are reexamining the structure of their businesses and taking bold
steps towards its future. The competition, on the other
hand, has made customers more demanding, making them
desire greater performance, better features, and more
platform independence and exibility at the lowest price
point possible.
Especially, in today's economic climate, companies must
continue to justify apparently ever-increasing demands for
investment in technology to remain competitive. IT
departments increasingly need to be more strategic through
the adoption of new technologies such as the cloud, mobile
technology, social networking and big-data analytics.
Small reluctance to make major technology investments,
particularly when baseline technologies may be
undergoing fundamental changes, may well lead to a
broader adoption of cloud-computing services and other
managed virtual environments.
Perhaps the most signicant technology issue today, will
be integrating these new technologies into the enterprise
environment, while maintaining cost and other controls.
Cloud computing, adoption of mobile devices, leveraging
social networking and big-data practices also pose
challenges in terms of adoption, integration, supervision,
security, litigation and some other risk management. At the
same instance, these innovations, if leveraged correctly,
can generate cost savings, while improving or creating new
products or services and marketing potential. They can also
help to increase efciency, align leadership with functions
and capabilities and foster a more innovative corporate
culture.
All of these actions must be balanced against the increased
risk to cybersecurity threats and information security,
mainly as it relates to cloud computing and mobile
technologies.

Archana Ghule

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How IoT linked up the
Physical and Digital Worlds?

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Yashasvi Shankar
Saanvi Technologies

Artemis

Avekshaa Technologies

CBIG Consulting

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DataMetica

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eLynx

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40
Technology
Trending Technologies In
2015 That Will Change The
Way You Live

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Sistema Shyam TeleServices
Ltd.-MTS India

Highlights

How IoT linked up the Physical

and Digital World?

ccording to the evaluated records, more than 75%

organizations throughout the world are running on
and traversing the application of IoT. In addition,
many countries nd IoT as a countrywide access point for
industrial and economic development, particularly the Made
in China 2025 program of China, the Industry 4.0 program
of Germany, and the Industrial Internet program of the
United States. To accomplish these IoT initiatives we need
sensors and thing to thing connecting networks to enhance the
fusion between digital and physical world. Although,
technical and business challenges in IoT are profuse, the
mixed power of Data collection, Big Data Analytics, and
comprehensive decision-making abilities of IoT can
ultimately improve the efciency and outcome of industrial
manufacturing and agricultural productions.
According to the reports, by 2025 there will be about 100
billion IoT devices in the world, and for every single hour, 2
million new sensors will be added and deployed in IoT. It is
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evaluated that by 2025, more than 55 percent of IoT

applications will be applied to the business world, such as
intelligent manufacturing, intelligent eCommerce, Smart
City, smart public service, etc.
New opportunities brought ahead by IoT needs new products
and solutions, plus collaborative efforts of the industry. IoT
Solution is particularly concentrated on solving the following
main issues, to clear the obstructions and advancement of
IoT:

Managing and observing

connecting things

interface

for

Presently, sensor access has not been standardized, it results

in difculties in gathering broad data and for monitoring and
controlling things in the physical world.

Entering into the digital world

IoT requires versatile and rich access technologies to support

different connections that link things into the digital world.

Service management platform

The IoT requires a constant operation and management
platform to maintain a large number of connections, manage
various sensor devices, and give intelligent operational
management.

The IoT-oriented Liteos

An ultra-lightweight operating system to provide
management and control on things. This IoT oriented
operating system can manage and control sensors, and it can
be expanded to support versatile connection protocols to
satisfy a variety of service requirements. Liteos can be applied partners and customers.
in IoT applications, such as real-time monitoring, smart Currently IoT is applicable to fully wired smart cities,
watches, and other wearable devices.
wireless medical monitoring devices, wirelessly
communicating objects in smart homes, wearable
technologies with clothing, jewelry and accessories, and other
Agile adoptive IoT Gateways
It supports multiple protocols and transmission media for areas like environment management systems, infrastructure
connection and access. We can Install, manage and share IoT management systems, energy management systems, and
apps through the IoT Marketplace. It is benecial for intelligent transportation systems.
Automatic discovery, and recommendation. We can discover
nearby IoT devices based on popular device protocols and get In future, IoT will appear with growing market applications
an automatic recommendation on apps to use. It allows IoT to like smart homes and wearable tech, and these will continue to
be applied in various applications that can further impact our drive IoT forward. According to the research, the future of IoT
may involve smart wristwatches that lend
daily life and business operations.
directions to the nearest re extinguisher in
case of a re. Pens that will help to
IoT is rapidly moving, accelerated by
recall and store a customer's hand
the collaborative industry wide
motions, thus recording what
efforts and the breakthroughs
it has written. Implanted
on core technologies. It is
organs that can inform
improving from smallhospitals when they
scale trials to large-scale
begin to fail. Smart
deployments. Although,
homes that learn and
the success of IoT
adapt to their owner's
depends on having an
requirements by activatopen ecosystem for IoT.
ing or deactivating
It needs an open
residential devices based
standard based IoT
on its predictions of the
communication protocols
owner's behavior. Autoand infrastructures that are
mated Cars that reduce energy as they
compliant with these standards. In addition, it is
sense approaching gas stations and
of critical importance to have the application
water conservation systems that conserve
development platform for developing and deploying
water automatically on the basis of weather
interoperable IoT applications. Partnership of industries
predictions.
may accelerate the development of IoT, and will continue
advancing on connecting the physical and digital worlds to
create new values and business opportunities for their
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KPIT Technologies :
Building Technologies For a Better World

nnovation, Sustainability, Quality

and Agility are the most sought
after qualities in the IT industry
today. Building an integrated and
sustainable world by leveraging
technology is what the indispensable
need of the industry. Additionally,
while working in the IT industry with
consistently changing landscape,
combining technology and process
expertise to build solutions for the
customer becomes inevitable. KPIT
Technologies, stands tall on all of
these grounds.
KPIT envisions a cleaner, greener,
intelligent world, a world that is selfsufcient, sustainable and efcient, by
providing technologies that help their
customers succeed in the marketplace,
such that the products their customers
produce, are of high quality, less
costly, use less energy or fewer
materials and improve the state of the
industries they serve.
Strong Leadership of KPIT
It is on the basis of strong leadership
that a company touches the success.
KPIT's success is also bestowed by
two of its founders and leaders, Ravi
Pandit, Co-founder, Chairman and
Group CEO of KPIT and Kishor
Patil, Co-founder, Managing Director
and CEO of KPIT. The company has
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developed and benetted tremendously

under the leadership of both. KPIT has
grown over 50 times in the last twelve
years, and today has a revenue of USD
489 million (FY 2014-15).
Indispensable Team Work
As leadership is important so do the
teamwork. KPIT gives immense
importance to this, by saying that
employees are the backbone of the
company. Talent is a competitive
differentiator across all major
industries, KPIT thinks that it wouldn't
have been a success story without the
support of its teams and human
resource.
Products And Services Offering
KPIT is a vertically focused IT
consulting and product engineering
solutions and services provider for
automotive & transportation,
manufacturing, energy & utilities and
Life Sciences corporations.
In the automotive vertical, KPIT helps
companies in the areas of navigation,
automotive infotainment, telematics,
semiconductors and more. They work
on product development that caters to
imminent future needs and challenges.
KPIT's products for vehicles include
On bus Intelligent Transportation
System (ITS), Revolo (the plug-in
hybrid solution), K-SAR (an

AUTOSAR suite), KIVI (infotainment

platform). It also provides product
engineering solutions and services
across automotive sub-systems.
For customers in the energy and
utilities sector, KPIT offers solutions
for materials planning, procurement,
supply chain, contracts, revenue
accounting and asset management.
As an innovative technology company,
KPIT provides a wide range of
solutions for OEMs, which consist of
the entire manufacturing spectrum.
This helps global manufacturers
deliver customer delight, improve their
supply chain visibility and boost
protability with offerings that include
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP),
Product Lifecycle Management
(PLM), Value Chain Planning &
Execution.
With a potent combination of adept
nancial management and tech
industry experience, KPIT leverages
the full scope of SAP and Oracle,
offering efcient solutions to
companies in the manufacturing,
automotive and energy sectors.
Progressing Towards Future
Forestalling All The Obstructions
Believing every challenge is an
opportunity, KPIT is progressing every

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single day. The recent announcements by the

Government of India around Make in India,
Digital India, Smart Cities, show that KPIT is at
the threshold of a massive positive change in the
years to come. The scope to create solutions for
problems to build a better tomorrow is what
excites KPIT tremendously. They are constantly
working towards creating innovative technology
solutions which are cleaner, safer, greener and
more affordable in our focus areas.

Huge Importance To The Client Relationship

KPIT has established a strong client relationship
with clients, continuously working with the
organization for a long duration. It currently
partners with 200+ global corporations, including
Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) and
Tier 1 companies, most of which they have been
working with for many years. KPIT has a strong
focus on client retention and customer delight for
the companies with which they work.

Values Followed By The Company

The values that the company works around, are
customer focus, agility, passion and
trustworthiness. KPIT understands its customer
requirements and their challenges, according to
which they deliver products and solutions. KPIT
has always anticipated change, adapted and
responded to their customers with new and
innovative technologies. Its passion for work
drives them to bring out their best performances
and ultimately they are trustworthy partners to
their customers, employees, colleagues and other
stakeholders in the ecosystem. These values are
deeply ingrained in the culture of KPIT and have
played a crucial role in their establishment.

Strategy Followed To Be Ahead Of The

Competition
The inevitable thing in this competitive industry
is to follow a perfect strategy. The differentiators
that provide KPIT with a competitive advantage
are innovation, sustainability, focus on industries
and a commitment to quality.

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Working in a dynamic environment makes

constant innovation crucial. KPIT's solutions
enable customers to offer globalized and
integrated products and services. Acknowledging
the importance of being interdependent with
partners in the ecosystem is another essential
factor to sustain relations and deliver excellence,
followed by the company.

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Ravi Pandit, Co-founder, Chairman And Group CEO

Of KPIT
Holding a master's from Sloan School of Management,
MIT, Cambridge, USA, Ravi Pandit started a Chartered
Accountancy rm in Pune. It's only after a decade that he
decided to establish his own company in the Information
Technology consulting and services sector and founded
KPIT along with Kishor Patil in 1990. A gold medalist
and fellow member of the Institute of Chartered
Accountants of India, Mr. Pandit has been accoladed
with many awards for his entrepreneurial excellence.
Revered for his knack for coming up with innovative
solutions, his vitality and trustworthiness, Mr. Pandit has
effectively created and built strong relationships with
customers, partners and other stakeholder institutions. It
is his inclination towards the social sector, that made
KPIT get actively involved in many CSR activities,
ranging from inculcating an interest in Science amongst
students, to waste management drives, and water
conservation projects.

Ravi Pandit
Co-founder, Chairman and Group CEO

Moreover, KPIT strives to provide unique business

solutions and high business value by offering patented
products and services. Understanding, high quality is a
priority for their customers, KPIT have processes that
deliver high productivity and the promised results on a
timely basis.
Vision And Mission
The mission at KPIT is to create technologies for a better
world. They act towards creating a green and clean world
by collaborating with their customers and partners, and
with the mission to integrate with them to build a
sustainable environment.
Future Projects
KPIT has launched its On-Bus Intelligent Transport
System (ITS) for Bus-Manufacturers and State Transport
Utilities (STU) in India to create better public transport in
urban cities. On-Bus ITS has been made mandatory under
the JNNURM II programme which is now known as Atal
Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation
(AMRUT).

Kishor Patil
Co-founder, Managing Director and CEO

Kishor Patil, Co-founder, Managing Director and CEO of KPIT

A Chartered Accountant by profession, Kishor Patil kick-started his
career in Kirtane and Pandit Chartered Accountants in 1983.
With his ability to foresee upcoming trends, he saw huge potential in
the business prospect of integrating nancial & management
consulting with Information Technology. In 1990, he founded KPIT
Technologies along with his colleague Ravi Pandit.
Under his leadership, the company has grown over 50 times in
revenues in the last 12+ years to reach around USD 500 million (INR
3000 crores).
Kishor is a fellow member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants
of India and has been honored with the CA Business Leader Award by
them in 2014. He has been conferred as one of the top 16
entrepreneurs in India by Ernst and Young in its Entrepreneur of the
Year award program. Furthermore, he has also been included in the
Top 50 CEOs list of 2013 by The Entrepreneur Magazine. A man of
many talents, Kishor has also produced a state-of-the-art internationally acclaimed animation movie, Delhi Safari, on the theme of
conser-vation of animal habitat. He was awarded the prestigious
Golden Lotus National Award by the honorable President of India.
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KPIT's product is the rst in the country to

be certied by Automotive Research
Association of India (ARAI) for meeting the
stringent specications of JNNURM II.
They are working with different STUs
towards getting these buses on the road.
Valuable Suggestions For Start-Up's By
KPIT
It is tough to establish a new company,
however big or small. Entrepreneurs must
have utmost faith in their products and
resources. You need to support it
throughout, in good and bad times. One
must dream big, to achieve big. It is also
crucial to understand that your employees
and customers are your best way of
spreading the word. Keep them happy and
satised to have a successful business.

CIO View

Most Challenging Role of CIO's in today's

IT Scenario By Rajeev Batra

T applications and infrastructure oftentimes used areas

In the current IT scenario, IT applications and infrastructure are

frequently using two main areas Customer Facing Systems and
Retailer facing. Under Customer Facing Systems it includes,
eCommerce website, Social interfaces, Payment Channels, IVR
interface, contact centers, short-code, mobile and web applications for
Self-care and, Retailer facing includes Retailer CRM, Lead
Management Systems (LMS), Products/Services information modules,
retailer performance management, eRecharge and payment channels
It includes

Rajeev Batra
Chief Information Ofcer
Sistema Shyam TeleServices Ltd.MTS India

CSD:
Billing, CRM, Social CRM, CEM
(customer experience management),
Credit Control, Knowledge portal,
Contact Centre Technology, GIS, back
ofce applications, KYC, data de-dupe,
trouble ticketing and workow management apps.
Finance:
ERP Financials, Risk Management,
inventory management, distribution
network billing, revenue assurance,
fraud management, treasury, interconnect billing, on-line banking transaction applications, MIS
HR:
HRMS (HR Management Systems) for
all employee lifecycle management, SIP
(sales incentive planning), PMS
(performance management systems),
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Marketing & Sales:

Big Data and Business Intelligence based Analytics, Collaboration
tools, Digital Advertising, GIS, mobile applications for FoS (feet on
the street) resource information and data capturing to/from retail
outlets, LMS, material tracking from primary till tertiary levels,
branded web applications e.g. landing page, product portfolio
management.

R&R (rewards & recognition), internal The role of the CIO is evolving based
on the sector and organization size
communications.
and maturity
In Sectors where technology plays a
IT:
very
business centric role like telecoms,
Ensuring operational support for all
IT
becomes
core to business operations.
business processes automation and
Given
that
CIO
is armed with intricate
support systems, Information Security,
business
process
and critical infoData Centre operations (Tier3), VAS
rmation
he
can
play
a very constructive
applications (value added services),
role
of
partnering
with
business teams
Infrastructure related IT including
and
providing
direction
that can plug
servers, storage, collaboration systems,
any
revenue
leakages,
improve
business
statutory and regulatory compliances
processes
or
unlock
any
new
revenue
related applications
stream. Hence it is not an enigma that we
are seeing more and more CIOs
Applications may be developed through
expanding their roles to shoulder the
organic build or sourced through Cloud;
digital, innovation, customer care
nevertheless SMAC (social mobility
related accountability as well besides the
analytics and cloud) based applications
traditional role they manage. If CIOs
are slowly and steadily becoming the
does not show business value in their
essential aspects in a service sector,
domain/organization, it does not seem
regulatory compliance notwithstanding.
distant that we may start seeing small
and medium enterprises start

sourcing CIO like services in a share

model from CIO on Cloud.

force friendly, ensure compliances

and still not appear regressive.

However, in case of technology centric

and large enterprise business CIOs who
have sharp business acumen will
remain relevant and contribute to
business and revenue growth. Hence
CIO should remain a 'business partner',
who is helping business to evangelize
critical technologies for enhanced
business outcomes.
Challenges faced by CIOs of today:
Given the advancement in the available
technologies, information proliferation
and maturing software packages the
challenges in todays world are of a
different kind. Most of the workforce is
digital native and wants to use their own
devices and employ open source and
freeware software/ application to
execute their work; this poses a big
challenge despite availability of BYOD
and MDM type of ofcial and private
containers, when the regulatory
compliances are strict and penalties are
punitive in nature - hence, there is a
very ne balance which CIOs have to
maintain to be business and work-

Another challenge is free and half baked

information about buzzwords like
SMAC and BigData available in the
public domain, which promises a
utopian business environment, but in
reality a full implementation is quite
complex, time consuming and needs
s pecial technical s kills bes ides
dedicating business involvement an
aspect, which most of the business
leaders take a lot to comprehend in
distinguishing technology hype from
reality. Taming vagabond applications
in an enterprise and ensuring proper
lifecycle management for applications
is another challenge for which CIOs
have to appear a villain in the whole
scheme of things, but it's necessary to
ensure sane enterprise architecture
which performs to its fullest for business
benet 24X7 without fail. Internal
challenge comprises of managing skills
of IT team up to mark and keeping
attrition manageable in a highly
competitive environment. Last but not
the least managing business

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expectations within constraints of

dwindling budgets and fewer resources
in the name of leaner and low cost
business models.
Startup today have an expanded
opportunity in an era where
mobility has become omnipresent
Coupled with digital native population
percentage on the rise, it presents a very
viable proposition for an idea that
positively impacts human life. Aspects
that the startup may have to critically
review their business model for
success is high probability of social
networking, simple and intuitive
interface for customers, enhanced
reach, scalability, service quality and
a unique nuance that may take a nite
time to replicate but gives a rst
mover advantage.
Given availability of low cost IT
solutions offered through Cloud the
productivity enhancing tools should be
harnessed from the word Go so as not be
handicapped in a world that rewards the
agile, innovative and merit but perishes
the one who is not!

20 Most Valuable IT
Services Companies

he IT services has become more

revolutionary for forthcoming industries. It
should be capable to supply required
nancial stability through predictable, recurring
revenue and give a support platform for the user.
Although, the better execution is only done, when
you will follow the appropriate business
strategies through continuous research and
innovation, according to the impacted
technologies. IT services help organizations to
create, manage, and enhance information and
business processes with technical expertise.
Theses services are process focused and make a
framework to structure IT related all activities.
According to the experts forecast for worldwide
dollar-valued IT spending growth in 2015 has
been revised to negative 4.9%, up from last
quarter's negative 5.5%. Currency uctuations
are chiey responsible for the change, as in
constant-currency terms, forecast growth for
2015 is unchanged at 2.5%. The worldwide IT
services market will reach nearly $914 billion in
2015, growing 3.8% in constant currency in
2015, or declining 3.7% in U.S. dollars. With
outsourcing contributing more than half of
market growth in constant currency, the market
will reach $1.1 trillion in 2019.
Today, IT industries are eagerly looking for better
solutions. Insights Success magazine has covered
and presents you '20 Most Valuable IT Services
Companies', after scrutinizing a long list of
solution providers. Here Insights Success
showcases to you '20 Most Valuable IT Services
Companies' that t in accordance to your
requirements. These organizations will help you
to centralize your processes and develop a more
economical way to grow globally. The Insights
Success board shortlisted some companies and
settled upon the list of these '20 Most Valuable IT
Services Companies', who are at the forefront of
addressing the real challenges.

New Imaging Technology Can Help

Doctors In Fast And Accurate Diagnosis

ccording to the developers of 3D model, new imaging

technology will help doctors diagnose the disease more
accurately and will make them ready for complex surgical
procedures. This will process hundreds of medical scans to generate a
perfect virtual 3D model of the human body.
Sergio Aguirre of California startup Echopixel says, "What our
software is doing is taking advantage of that data and presenting it in a
format where they can actually see the body parts from that data and
interact with them in a three dimensional space", and further added that
the doctor's can peel away virtual layers and examine tissue and organs
deep within the body.
With the use of this technology in clinical trials, surgeons were able to
more effectively correct congenital heart defects in newborns at the
same time it helped to decrease the amount of time it took to prepare for
the procedures.
Zspace, which creates real world virtual reality systems, developed
special monitor and glasses to run the software. The virtual 3D image
enabled surgeons to visualize tiny blood vessels and practice their
surgery before stepping foot in an operating room.
Aguirre stated, "These vessels are sub-millimeter and the newborn
patient is the size of your hand. So they basically get imaged and we use
our software to help the doctor to understand the curvature of the
vessels, to follow the vessels all the way through the lungs and
determine which vessels need to be surgically repaired ".
According to Dr. Louis Wexler of Stanford University, who has been at
the forefront of medical imaging for more than half a century, told that
this technology's ability to transform hundreds of 2 dimensional images
into an interactive 3D model is a game changer.
Wexler stated, "It is going to be a tremendously useful tool for the
surgeon. Some surgeons are very good at looking at X-RAY images, CT
images, MR and imagining but this shows them exactly what it looks
like in the body".
According to Wexler, the technology will save time and improve
accuracy of medical procedures, which will ultimately translate into
saving patients money and giving them access to better medical care.
And further added, "To see an object inside the body, identify it and lift
it out of the body was pretty exciting. But that isn't enough. One has to
begin to think about how is that going to help in your clinical evaluation
of something ". That is something we have to wait and see.

Company Name

Management

Brief

Artemis
artemisit.com

Travis Proctor
CEO

Artemis is a multifaceted, end-to-end IT

solutions and managed services provider.

Avekshaa Technologies
avekshaa.com

Rajinder Gandotra
Founder & CEO

Avekshaa Technologies a next-generation

information technology products and solutions
Company, providing specialized solutions in the
P-A-S-S Assurance space to the Enterprise
customers globally.

CBIG Consulting
cbigconsulting.com

John Onder
Co-founder and Principal,
Strategic Consulting

CBIG Consulting, a leading business

intelligence and Big Data
analytics consulting rm.

Chatsworth Products
chatsworth.com

Michael Custer
President and CEO

Chatsworth Products (CPI) is a global

manufacturer providing voice, data and security
products and service solutions that optimize,
store and secure technology equipment.

Chetu Inc.
chetu.com

Atal Bansal
CEO

Chetu is a global provider of high-quality

software development services, delivering
world-class technology solutions to
entrepreneurs, SMBs, and Fortune 500 clients.

Computacenter
computacenter.com

Mike Norris
CEO

Computacenter is Europe's leading independent

provider of IT infrastructure services.

DataMetica Solutions
datametica.com

Rajiv Gupta
CEO

DataMetica Solutions Private Limited, offers

Big Data design, application development,
24/7 operations, Business Intelligence
and Analytics services.

DIVERSANT
diversant.com

Gene C. Waddy
CEO

DIVERSANT is the largest African

American-owned IT stafng
solutions rm in the United Sates.

Eliassen Group
eliassen.com

Dave MacKeen
CEO

Eliassen Group is a technology Stafng and

Consulting Services.

eLynx
elynx.com

Sharon Matthews
President and CEO

eLynx provides a suite of on-demand Web-based

services that simplify paperless business processes
between enterprises and their customers and
partners.

Company Name

Management

Brief

Rupesh Sanghavi
Founder & CEO

ErgodE IT is a leading Online Store,

trading across the globe and distributing
the best services in eCommerce, outsource.

Kris Hiiemaa
CEO

Erply LTD, is a provider of cloud-based,

iPad-oriented Point of Sale and
Inventory Management software for retailers,
with a focus on multi-store operations.

Geometric
geometricglobal.com

Jamshyd N. Godrej
Chairman

Geometric is a specialist in the domain of

engineering solutions, services
and technologies.

Matlen Silver
matlensilver.com

Jim Silver
CEO

Matlen Silver, designs and implement

working solutions in a broad range of IT
disciplines and elds.

NexWave
nexwave.in

Aparna
Founder & MD

A truly composite HR Solutions company

providing single window services to corporate
clients for all their HR requirements:
Managed Services, Permanent Recruitment,
Temporary Stafng, HTD & Payroll Processing.

SmartPlay Technologies
smartplayin.com

Pradeep Vajram
President & CEO

SmartPlay Technologies is an established design

services company with expertise in providing
Digital, Analog, Embedded Software,
System Design and Geo-Modeling Solutions.

Tach Tech
tachtech.net

Kyle Rosenthal
Founder & CEO

TachTech delivers a broad range of products and

expertise spanning network, storage,
compute, virtualization, and security.

VeriStor
veristor.com

Ashby lincoln
President & CEO

VeriStor provides customized,

performance-enhancing virtual infrastructure
and enterprise storage solutions and services to
enterprise and mid-market companies.

Zensar Technologies
zensar.com

Ganesh Natarajan
Vice Chairman & CEO

Zensar Technologies, a leading software

services and infrastructure provider.

Zycko
zycko.com

David Galton-Fenzi
CEO

Zycko is an international specialist IT

distributor of innovative IT solutions, covering
technology areas for every part of the business
IT infrastructure.

ErgodE IT
ergodeinc.com

Erply
erply.com

Artemis: Simplifying your technology so you can focus on

your business.
Healthcare, Accounting, Construction,
Legal, Manufacturing, Municipalities
and Retail.

Vision and Mission

Their vision is to become the leading IT
and Cloud services partner for Central
Florida with revenues of $75 million
within the next ten years. Their mission
is to drive client success, productivity,
and protability. They do this by solving
business-critical challenges through
their proven processes, innovative uses
of technology and comprehensive
support.

Future Advancements

owadays, enterprises expect to

get a real return on their
technology investments.

Artemis is a regional IT and Managed

Services Provider, serving as one source
for all the technology needs for small to
medium sized business. This covers
everything from workstations and
networks to cloud services and business
continuity, business telephone systems
to structured cabling, and security
solutions to internet development and
ecommerce.

Artemis has found increasing interest

providing virtual CIO services to help
their
clients identify strategies and best
East Coast with over 50 full time staff.
practices that leverage technology to
their
business
goals.
They emphasize their core values: a drive
great place to work, creating raving fans, Advancements in technology and cloud
technical excellence, innovative growth computing allow businesses of all sizes
all to become a trusted business partner. to access what was only available to
enterprise level organizations. Their
team works with their clients to
We deliver the
implement and maintain the right
reliability and
balance of on-site and remote support by
performance, needed tapping into these advances.

Travis Proctor
CEO

to get the most out of The path to success for new

startups
your business
To new startups, Travis suggests, Make
technology investment. sure you are doing something you love,

In short, they help their clients manage

their technology infrastructure with an
approach that both controls costs and Artemis offers everything from
maximizes efciency and productivity. computer sales and support to network
design and installation, hosting, colocation,
internet and software
Travis Proctor, Community
development.
They are specialized in
Supporter, Innovative Business
virtualization
and high-availability
Owner & Entrepreneur
solutions,
24/7
network
monitoring and
Travis Proctor, CEO of Artemis, has a
support,
business
continuity
solutions,
computer science degree from Florida
remote
access
and
cloud
solutions.
Institute of Technology. In his
sophomore year, Travis founded
Artemis and has grown it into the The company provides distinct offerings
leading IT provider in Florida's Central to diverse industries, including
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and then be willing to put in the time to

make it a success. Identify the core
functions that need to be completed
within your business and then hire the
right people to excel at delivering those
services. Finally, pay attention to your
cash ow. Orders in the pipeline and
accounts receivable cannot pay bills,
payroll, or fund growth. When it comes
time to expand, you have more options if
you can demonstrate that your business
is a positive cash ow operation that can
scale with investment.

Avekshaa Technologies :

A Next-Generation Specialized
IT Solutions & Products Company

issues. The P-A-S-S platform is capable

of identifying issues in impacted
technology layer and supporting it with
sufcient empirical analysis where
source code is not applicable. This data
driven approach helps engage with
relevant vendors in deploying timely
xes and to provide faster resolution for
complex technology issues.

vekshaa offers products and

solutions to proactively
manage and continuously
improve the Performance, Availability,
Scalability and Security (P-A-S-S) of
complex, business-critical applications
and IT systems for leading enterprise
clients across the globe. Avekshaa's
P-A-S-S Assurance Platform based
performance engineering and assurance
solutions enables early detection and
prevention of technology failures, and
helps extract the maximum value from
the cleint's hardware and software
investments.

Vision and Mission

Avekshaa's mission is to help their

clients focus and grow their business
efciently and protably by making
their IT systems secure, faster and
Aims to be Global Market Rajinder Gandotra
predictable, with a vision to be, The
Leader in P-A-S-S Assurance Founder and CEO
leading global niche provider of
space
P-A-S-S assurance products and
recognized for its excellence,
solutions that will transform their
Rajinder Gandotra, founder and CEO of innovation and value delivered. He has customers' IT delivery, paving the way
Avekshaa Technologies, with his team also been awarded recently by the The for better business results.
of partners is building a world class Smart CEO-Startup50.
technology rm. Avekshaa is the pioneer
Future Agenda
in introducing a paradigm shift in the Proven Track Record
way the P-A-S-S requirements are
The company has achieved the trust of
Avekshaa's P-A-S-S Assurance
delivered to busines critical applications
their global clients by advising them by
Platform - led solution prevents and
and IT systems. By using a proactive,
a vendor-neutral and technologyrapidly resolves P-A-S-S related
holistic and integrated approach to
agnostic approach and has delivered
issues across all layers of technology
solving P-A-S-S issues, Avekshaa has
improved protability, customer
stack. It enables in-depth evaluation of
wow-ed CIOs across its ET500
service, and operational efciency.
clientele.

Unleash your innovation & entrepreneur

skills and solve real world problems
which have global impact and focus on
wealth creation for all your stakeholders.

P-A-S-S from an architectural

perspective and identies practical
solutions for transforming IT system
efciency. It unlocks complexities of
integrated applications that use
heterogeneous technologies in multiUnder Rajinder's leadership, the vendor scenarios, thereby making it
company has been consistently easy to isolate and resolve complex
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The company has successfully delivered

signicant efciency improvements in
some of the most transacted, highly
complex and real time systems across
the globe. Given the adoption of the
latest technology trends, these situations
of increased complexity and customer
expectations are becoming a norm and
hence need to be solved comprehensively. Avekshaa & Rajinder has
been widely covered in print and online
media - 60+ press mentions.

The company plans to aggressively

pursue the new solution approach it has
so far adopted along with the many
products that it is developing to
continuousaly differentiate and deliver
signicant value to its customers
worldwide.

www.yapstone.com

(866) 289-5977

Context-Rich Systems - Future Of Technology

evident. Just a while ago, companies that had attempted to use

Context-Rich Systems made the mistake of applying outdated
technology principles to their new technology. Biggest
example of its failure is, the Internet-connected refrigerators,
which soon became a center of a joke. But in reality, the true
advantage of context-rich systems is when the technology is
This trend of context-rich systems, is a direct response to this
used in a way that doesn't disrupt the user's life, but instead
growing need for more reactive and adaptive technology and
bridges various services to work together seamlessly.
the personalization of the experience. We are at the threshold
of a very exciting time in adaptive technology, and the use of Integration Of Context-Rich System
these complex systems and applications that draw The core of context-rich system is to collaborate the raw data
information about the situation and the environment with deep analytics, an integration that both reect awareness
surrounding people, places, and things, really has the ability of the surrounding environment and responds to the user
to revolutionize the entire world.
actions. Now, the big technology problem is how
ith the advancement of personal technology, the
personalization of the experience of technology is
advancing too. Additionally, how users will
interact with their personal technology depends on the
particular context of their use.

to deal with this raw data. These types of systems

rely on users connecting and computing from
anywhere in order to gather the constant data
required to build its context. Now, the difculty
with this data is that these large quantities of
crude data have a number of random variables
such as diversity, speed, and quantity. 'Intelligent
inferencing', is the solution over it. In it system
must make educated guesses, bridging factors
between raw data collection and intelligent,
contextually aware computing systems.
Future Perspective

Personalized Context-Rich Systems

Context-rich systems work deeper in personalization by
pulling in a number of diverse signals about the user and their
context from their location and the device they are on, to
the weather and speed they are traveling. Additionally, it can
use these signals to adjust content, display and input methods,
according to the user's current situation. It gives better
feedback to the user and allows the user to seamlessly link
together various services to engage more fully with the
website.
Ecosystems getting created by Context-rich Systems
With the increase of bringing more and more internetconnected devices into homes and businesses, the existence of
personal ecosystems has started to form, and the subsequent
usefulness of context-rich systems are becoming more
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Looking at the future, it is clear that context-rich

systems will lead the upcoming strategic
technology trends, because contextually relevant
data sharing is the ultimate goal of modern
technology, with user convenience being the
ultimate outcome.
In the meantime, beyond user experience, businesses stand to
see overall improvement with almost real-time, context-rich
results becoming of extreme importance when it comes to
ensuring swift decision making and better operations control.
Just imagine about a system that can track foot trafc in and
out of a store and then automatically recruit more oor
workers to open up registers at a major retailer, freeing up
lines and moving people through the store more quickly.
This rapid movement towards the context-rich systems means
advancing from the point where all people and their data are
expected to be connected and available all the time, to a place
where we are not only constantly interconnected, but we
expect that every object, place, and environment, will gain
awareness of who is there, what is happening in the context,

and how to interact with its surroundings.

Forth- An environmental layer : information about current

conditions, such as nearby businesses, streets and the weather

But before we can fully embrace this future, we need to

accomplish a couple of things.
Need to Develop cross-platform, universal personal proles
Need to search a way to maximize network intelligence. Well,
nding the right data is just the beginning. We will need to
bridge the gaps and boost our network intelligence. Data by
its own is totally worthless. The true value of data is in the
insights we extract from it. But the currently available
platforms are not that much of use.

There will be a need to aggregate every piece of information

about individual users into one place. This can be the only
way to fully understand the context of each user and gain a
dynamic understanding of his characteristics and needs.

For an instance, if you search for a project manager, you won't

see the same project managers that business leaders in other
In the future world, networks will have the ability to react to industries are seeing. Contrary, your results will be
data's context, not just the data itself. And then the context will personalized with the information the platform has about you,
be determined by a combination of four data layers.
such as your geographic location, your job experience, your
likes and dislikes and the brands you follow.
First- Device layer: where devices communicate with each
other
We need to gain a semantic understanding of user data. Now
this is a time to take the next step in proactively developing
Second- An individual layer: where information about
insights on users based on the context of who they are and
browsing history, location history and online records will be
what they're likely seeking.
there
What we need is, to head towards context-rich systems and
Third- A social layer: which links people across social
personalize it within the context of what's relevant to each
platforms
person.

CBIG Consulting :

ince its founding in 2002, CBIG

Consulting's services have
evolved and become more strategic in nature, culminating in advanced
analytics that help organizations grow
their market share, speed products and
services to market, increase prot
margins, decrease costs, and expand
products and services.
CBIG Consulting is a global Business
Intelligence and Big Data Analytics
consulting practice with a singular
goal,We help leading enterprises
leverage their data assets so they may
better understand and make intelligent
decisions about their customers, brand,
competitors, operations and market
opportunities. From strategy and
planning, to analytics and reporting, to
data management and stafng solutions,
CBIG offers a full array of data analytics
solutions from their network of
international ofces.

Aligning Innovative Analytics Solutions

Expert Services
CBIG offers unmatched subject matter
expertise, a structured, collaborative
approach, and a commitment to
emerging technologies. Their BI and
Big Data consultants are experts in the
eld and leverage their collective
knowledge gained in over 500 projects
that have helped enterprises increase
their value and competitive edge.

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focused, listen to your

clients, invest in your
people and create an
environment that
encourages continuous

innovation.
CBIG's project teams are comprised of
strategic business consultants, data
- John Onder
scientists and analysts, and data
engineers and architects. Together, they
insight. CBIG Principals make it a
work on behalf of their client
priority to share their BI expertise. The
scope of untapped potential regarding
Business Intelligence and Big Data
Analytics is huge, and CBIG recognizes
that its contributions in the eld
combined with important lessons
learned along the way offer tremendous
value as an educational tool for other
enterprises.

John Onder: A Connoisseur

Of Business Intelligence
John Onder, Co-founder and Principal,
Strategic Consulting, is a pioneer in the
rapidly evolving eld of Big Data and
Business Intelligence. Mr. Onder is
recognized as a leading expert in the
strategy, planning and implementation
of business intelligence, data warehouse
and big data analytics solutions. With
over 25 years of experience, he has led
successful engagements for Fortune
1000 organizations, federal government
departments, multiple State governments, higher education institutions
and non-prot organizations. Mr. Onder
has written extensively on the subject of
business intelligence, authored methodologies in use today, and regularly
speaks at industry conferences. Mr.
Onder obtained his Bachelor of Science
degree at the University of Maryland.

Startups should stay

CBIG's thought leadership and creative

vision builds mutual understanding and
lasting trust among their client
enterprises, helping their clients achieve
superior strategies for continued growth
and success.

Future plans
John Onder
Co-founder & Principal, Strategic Consulting

organizations to develop and deploy

game-changing analytics solutions that
address critical business functions to
positively impact protability and
business growth.

Envisioning Vision
CBIG's rst and foremost goal is to help
their clients be successful by taking the
vast amounts of data they collect and
transform that data into information and

CBIG continues to concentrate on

developing industry-specic solutions,
focusing on creating easy-to-deploy
products and services that solve
challenges within business units for the
industries they serve. These solutions
don't require massive system or process
overhauls and can jumpstart
improvements and automation in
business units such as marketing, sales,
operations, and IT, etc. And in the near
future CBIG plans to add more ofces.
Presently, CBIG has thirteen ofces in
the U.S., Europe and Asia-Pacic.

DataMetica :

See the invisible

nterprises are more than ever seeking to derive value from their data, to
drive business results and customer engagement. As data grows,
analytics progressively moves to real-time and becomes more
complex, the role of Big Data is in focus. There are forces at play that
enterprises must embrace driving profound changes in data management, such
as: The penetration of mobile devices, personalization of services, internet of
things, online commerce and the expectation of customers and consumers for
instant response. DataMetica is world-leading in Big Data analytics, helping
organizations gain competitive edge and drive success from their data, to save
cost, to become a real-time enterprise, to modernize their information
management strategy, tools and processes.

Rajiv Gupta
CEO

Experienced and Skilled Team

Behind DataMetica
DataMetica founders, Rajiv Gupta,
CEO and Dr. Phil Shelley, President,
bring extensive business leadership
skills with IT and analytics
b a c k g r o u n d s . Wi t h d e c a d e s o f
collective experience, they gained
skills in Big Data and Advanced
Analytics while working together at
Sears. As early adopters of Hadoop,
building and running large-scale
production Big Data environments
taught them the importance of a
reliable, well-governed and an
integrated approach to new data
platforms and advanced analytics. The
extended leadership team at
DataMetica bring deep operational
knowledge, patterns, tools and services,
with many years of hands-on largecompany knowledge, showing clients
how to integrate Big Data solutions into
an established data management
landscape.
DataMetica was fortunate to start with
customers from day one. Their trackrecord was well known and their
expertise and operational experience
were recognized by peers in other
companies; these factors helped to
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I think the key is to have products, services and

an approach to customers that delivers value,
in a way that is quickly apparent to clients.

attract clients even before they founded

the company. DataMetica leads the Big
Data industry with extensive use-cases,
governance, data modeling, techniques
and methods to migrate workload and
run operations in large enterprises.
Initiatives are focused on driving value
from data in ways previously
impossible.
DataMetica offers a blend of Big Data
and Analytics best practices, method
ologies, standards, templates, automation and process orchestration. The
rm incorporates standardized and
ready to deploy models, frameworks
for rapid delivery of high quality
application services. They offer proofof-concept leading to production, with
application accelerators, tools to handle
metadata and data movement
accelerators, all to minimize the total
amount of effort & cost spent by an
organization when implementing Big
Data solutions.
DataMetica's foundation is a pool of
skilled Big Data resources, stafng
clients needs for projects and
operational support. A robust project
governance model with a dedicated
account team is put in-place for reliable
communication and alignment. Highest

visibility and oversight from

DataMetica Executives, along with a
strong core multi-functional team,
delivers results, reliably and fast.
Mission of DataMetica
DataMetica has the single-minded
mission, to design and deliver
enterprise-class Big Data solutions,
with agility and reliability. They
dedicate their business process and
innovation know-how, their deep
industry expertise and worldwide
resources to working together with
clients. Particular areas of strength
include all aspects of Big Data, Data
Governance, NoSQL, Cloud, both
structured and unstructured Data
Processing, Web Analytics, In-memory
processing, Real Time Analytics and
Data Science.
Future Plans
Being recognized as delivering results,
reliably and quickly at a cost that is
affordable: This model is creating
waves in the IT industry.

CXO Standpoint

IT and
Communication
Trends for
Critical
Infrastructure
30 | SEPT-OCT 2015

ritical infrastructure such as electric, gas and water

utilities rely on Information and Communications
Technology (ICT) solutions to deliver reliable,
efcient and affordable services throughout the world. UTC
is the trusted resource for ICT solutions, collaboration and
advocacy for utilities and other critical infrastructure
industries. The growing convergence of IT and OT within
utilities is quickly becoming a catalyst for greater
interoperability and real-time communications.
New discussions involving smart city technologies are
starting with the electric utility infrastructure. The new
Envision America initiative announced by the White House is
issuing a challenge to America's cities to become smarter by
accelerating deployment of innovative technologies that
tackle energy, water, waste, and air challenges. UTC brings
together government, the research community, utilities and
cities to discuss innovative solutions to problems citizens care
about like reducing trafc congestion, fostering economic
growth, improving sustainability, ghting crime and

With billions of data packets

and millions of endpoint
connections, utilities are
exploring optimization and
efciency solutions from a
Quickly emerging issues
multitude
of vendors,
around cyber and physical
including large established
security are bringing a new
companies
as well as
challenge to cities and utilities
entrepreneurial
solutions built
large and small. Not a single
on the latest protocols. The
week goes by without a news
key
decision point for packetstory about a company or
b
a
s
e
d communications
government agency being
networks is not only cyber
hacked and millions of
security,
but also latency with
personal,
customer
or
the communications network.
otherwise
sensitive
Machine-to-machine
and
grid
edge computing interacting
information exposed. Disruption of critical infrastructure by a
with
central
computing
and
data
analytics demands real-time
cyber-incident is a serious concern for utility executives and
technical practitioners. UTC believes that cyber security is the communications over secure networks.
21st century reliability challenge. To help our members
address this challenge, UTC is implementing a How will telecom providers address the massive growing list
comprehensive, holistic strategy that provides practical tools of smart devices, which gather terabytes of data for critical
and information about handling cyber security challenges in a infrastructure processes? Join the conversation at UTC
Telecom & Technology 2016, which will take place in Denver
utilities environment.
at the Colorado Convention Center May 3-6, 2016.
mproving the delivery of
important critical infrastructure services.

About Bobbi Harris

Bobbi Harris is the VP of Market Strategy and Development at UTC.
She is a smart city industry expert with more than 15 years of
experience focusing on environmental issues and sustainability
technologies to address water and energy challenges, including smart
water infrastructure, smart grid, cleantech and green building
initiatives. UTC is a global trade association dedicated to creating a
favorable business, regulatory and technological environment for
companies that own, manage or provide critical telecommunications
systems in support of their core business. Founded in 1948, UTC has
evolved into a dynamic organization that represents electric, gas and
water utilities, natural gas pipelines, critical infrastructure companies,
and other industry stakeholders.

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Bobbi Harris
VP of Market Strategy and Development
Utilities Telecom Council

eLynx :

An Absolute On-demand Web-based Services

ince 1994, eLynx has been helping customers in the

nancial services and real estate industries capture and
manage documents and associated data electronically
throughout the document life cycle, ensuring compliance
with industry regulations, reducing costs, improving
workow efciency, and automating paper-intensive
processes.

went into effect. These new regulations are the most

signicant the mortgage industry has seen in nearly 50 years.
Future Panorama
On the basis of two key values eLynx has consistently
overcome roadblocks year in and year out. The rst is an
unrelenting focus on their customers and the second is
reliability. If they make a customer commitment, they rally as
an organization to get it done.

Sharon Matthews, guiding hand behind eLynx

Australian born but now a long-time resident of Northern
California, Sharon Matthews, President and CEO, joined eLynx's mission is to automate and unify the processes,
eLynx in 2007 just as economic markets were heading into the documents and data essential to the highly regulated, security
sensitive workows in the nancial
worst turmoil of this generation. Being a
services industry.
seasoned executive with experience in
software development, sales and the
service industry, Sharon artfully steered
It's broad vision is to become the most
eLynx to success, emerging stronger
trusted and valued provider of essential
and more stable. Sharon also serves as
document delivery and collaborative
the Chair of City Year San Jose/Silicon
data technology, value-added services
Valley, a non-prot dedicated to the
and innovative ideas in the eyes of their
increasing graduation rates for at-risk
customers, partners, competitors, team
youth in the community.
members and shareholders.
The executive team of eLynx provides
senior leadership and management
across all the key functional areas and
disciplines within the company. Sharon
trusts her team to help her run and
manage the company.

eLynx is excited to be so wellpositioned to be a part of the new

changes and to play their part in moving
the industry forward.
Sharon Matthews
President & CEO

Client Relationship basics

eLynx believes that the "perfect" client
Services Offered
relationship would be one in which there
eLynx provides on-demand Web-based Whether you just need a is an equal and fair recognition of value
services that simplify paperless
given and received on both sides, a
piece of the puzzle or a
business processes between enterprises
collaborative
rapport whereby their
comprehensive solution,
and their customers and partners. eLynx
client understands that their contrieLynx can help.
helps lenders convert paper-based
butions play an important role in
lending processes to more efcient and
determining success, continual and
less costly data-driven paperless workows. Their products organic account growth over time through value-added
and services ensure that their customers remain compliant services, and open communication at all times that leads to
with complex lending regulations, while making the loan constant learning, strong dialogue and opportunities for
process easier for consumers to transact and more transparent innovation.
for secondary market investors.
Suggestions for the new startups
Find good, loyal people and invest in them heavily. A good
eLynx has recently launched its most comprehensive set of team can make a bad strategy work well enough to rene or
enhancements and new features to its Expedite platform. evolve it into a good one. The other piece of advice Sharon
These new capabilities help mortgage lenders comply with gives is, 'to really understand what you're good at and then
entirely redesigned regulatory rules and forms that recently focus on making that your differentiation.'
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Editors Pick

Gear up for the future of the

Green IT environment

reen Computing drives energy-saving techniques for Additionally, European organizations may suffer with more
enterprise systems, from network proxies and virtual government taxes if they do not address the environmental
implications of their infrastructure. Public expectation of
machine migration to the return of thin clients.
governmental action is high in Europe. As per EC Climate
Implementing sustainable equipment is actually Green Change report from 2011, it was found that most of the
Computing or Sustainable Computing. It turns around Europeans suffer from climate change, which is a more
creating environmentally sound Information Communication serious problem than the economic situation. Indeed, 20 per
Technology (ICT). But Green technology is only protable to cent of Europeans feel climate change is the single most
us when it will work efciently and effectively, with minimal serious problem.
or no impact on the environment.
Apparently, everybody is willing to go for green computing. Green Technology: Reasons To Invest In Sustainable
As San Murugesan was already pointing out his opinion in Technology
'Harnessing GreenIT' -We are legally, ethically, and socially
required to green our IT products, applications, services, and
While investing in green technology, one factor is most
practices.
important to consider, that is how to identify sustainable ICT
Equally, Tariq Soomro and Muhammad Sarwar observe in products at the rst instance.
their paper Green Computing: From Current to Future
Trends- Organizations are realizing that the source and
ENERGY STAR is known for an international standard for
amount of their energy consumption signicantly contributes
energy efcient consumer products, introduced in the United
to Greenhouse Gas emissions.
States in 1992 by the Environmental Protection Agency and
the
Department of Energy, then in Australia, Canada, Japan,
According to Soomro and Sarwar,In the past, the focus was
New
Zealand, Taiwan, and the European Union implemented
on computing efciency and cost associated to IT equipment
the
program.
Devices having an ENERGY STAR label like
and infrastructure services were considered low cost and
computer
products
and peripherals, kitchen appliances,
available. Now the infrastructure is becoming the bottleneck
buildings
and
other
products,
generally use 20 to 30 percent
in IT environments, and the reason for this shift is due to
less
energy
than
required
by
federal
standards. Alternatively,
growing computing needs, energy cost and global warming.
for
a
company
to
join
the
ENERGY
STAR program, an
This shift is a great challenge for IT industry.
organization's top-ranking ofcial must make a public
commitment to improve energy efciency.
Green Technology: Fast And Futuristic Change In Europe
According to the EPA, this award is a new distinction that
IT departments of European countries and ICT professionals recognizes products that deliver cutting edge energy
are consistently facing the challenge of providing a green IT efciency along with the latest in technological innovation.
environment for upcoming years.
There is a race within enterprises developing ever larger, more
powerful and more efcient equipment. So, if green
May be, it is possible that organizations are in growing purchasing is a factor, it's useful considering the ENERGY
demand for the global energy. According to the European STAR Most Efcient awards.
Commissions Energy Road Map 2050, European companies
face rising energy costs for at least another 15 years.
For example, EPA awarded two Lenovo monitors in 2014, the
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ThinkVisionLT2223d Wide, and ThinkVisionLT2452p Wide,

its 'ENERGY STAR Most Efcient' products designation.
Both monitors exceed ENERGY STAR 6.0 power
consumption requirements and can deliver long-term savings.

In case of MIT's Product Attribute to Impact Algoritham

(PAIA) is supported by major ICT providers. It is expected
that PAIA will empower the industry as a whole to surround a
standard method for evaluating the carbon footprint of
products. In the near term, PAIA is enabling participating
companies to build tools like the Lenovo Energy Calculator,
Green IT: Estimating the cost and ROI of sustainable
which provides annual energy cost estimates for several IT
computing
congurations. It is expected that this sort of tool will
increasingly become part of the ICT decision-making
Investing in green technology is effective, only if process.
organizations can calculate their Product Carbon Footprint
(PCF), but it is again difcult. According to this Product
According to a report from the United Nations University, it
Carbon Footprint Strategy, published by Lenovo, There are
takes about 1.8 tons of chemicals, fossil fuels and water to
numerous and, in some cases, nearly insurmountable
produce a typical desktop computer - and worldwide over one
challenges to calculating an accurate carbon footprint for ICT
billion computers have been sold. According to the sources,
products, especially if the intent is to use the data for product
Carbon Trust evaluated that ofcial devices currently
to product comparison. Collecting and compiling
accounts for about 15 percent of total UK energy use. This
dependable data from multiple geographies with a
gure is expected to increase about 30 percent by 2020, with
continuously evolving ICT product portfolio represents a
computer equipment to account for about two-thirds of this
benecial challenge.
energy consumption. In April 2007, a Gartner Press Release
also explained that the global ICT industry accounts for about
Even when an organization has data on its carbon footprint, 2 per cent of global carbon dioxide emissions, or roughly the
it's hard for ICT managers to use it effectively. The range of same as aviation.
different standards and measurements can make comparison
between competing products difcult. Presently, the ICT
With energy costs rising, and European governments
industry is working towards a common carbon footprint
legislating more and more about carbon footprint
framework that will simplify PCF measurement.
management, it is always a good practice to analyze the
energy usage of ICT purchases.

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CXO Standpoint

Can Analytics Change the Way Companies Collaborate

and Consume Technology?

an we honestly say that our professional day starts

with a morning clearly with intentions as to what we
should be doing, how we should be working, whom
we should be working with and when should we get things
done by? There is an option for all of us that is Analytics.
Now, can Analytics combined with smartly-enabled
collaboration tools make a difference in how we choose to
spend our time?
Top teams and organizations make decisions every day on
how best to achieve their goals, but do we have all of the
information required to make the right decisions at the right
moment? Will Big data, predictive modeling with connected
devices that provide real-time insight be the next new trend to
change the way we work?
But to while it comes to save time, I honestly do not think we
have mastered the art of collaboration because we still seem
to be working harder and not smarter. It seems as though the
technology we use works us, more than we work the
technology. Why is it that we still nd ourselves completing
work task the same way we did back in history? In our
personal lives, we denitely have new levels of multitasking
and time runs by, but in business have we really gained the
most with our utmost precious valued commodity called
time?
We exist in a time where information is accessible at the tap
of a button. With the rise of new gadgets, apps on our iPhone
and portable devices
comes the inux of new
techies. But, why
then we are still stuck
with unproductive tasks
which no more than a
waste of time? In
today's world, we have
Instant Messaging at
our workstations and
even video endpoints to
connect us with
anyone in the world.
Still, we nd people
spend 50% of their time
Stephanie Carhee
in the wasteful, ineffecPresident
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tual and uninspiring meetings, ruining their fteen to twenty

hours a week. With all the advancements in technology, can't
this ill-favored corporate pastime be executed better?

Technology Collaboration and Consumption

The goal has always been to collaborate better. Access to
basic information across multiple data sources coupled just in
time could enable us to have insights on who we should invite
to the meeting, selection of collaboration tools that yield the
fastest results and meeting spaces that will generate the best
outcome and highest output of participation from key team
members during collaboration. For this new level of
collaboration to be the most effective should the information
come before you book the meeting or afterwards. At UC
Interlink, we think about everyday how to enable IT services
engine to yield recommendations with the right outcome,
when you're ready to consume it and way before it turns into
another wasteful meeting.
With the right data sources and business intelligence, the
options are prescriptive and predictive, and limitless.
Imagine improving your time to market for a new product
launch, having absolute focus and team alignment, via
tracking behaviors of the team, while getting recommended
efciencies to keep the team working at its best.
With this platform of intelligence, the Business Leaders can
target key performance metrics that enable them to devise
strategies, because if you are in such a place, then results
matter, gaining time matters and the behaviors of the
workforce matter. Regardless of the industry or application,
incorporating the use of data and analytics provides the
organization the ability to move from a defensive to an
offensive posture. Currently, we are working on algorithms
that can think and recognize patterns, predictions and choices
based on the collective knowledge.

Amazon's Model
The list of technology giants that have gured out how to
solve the problem of what is best to consume when you need
it is a short list with one name at the top of it; Amazon.
Amazon, attributes 40% of its revenue to recommendations
the e-commerce giant makes to its customers, based on their

search histories and previous purchases.

For example, last week when I wanted to
add lighting to my walk-in closet, I
searched Amazon, not only did my
Amazon search, locate the best
reviewed product, it also recommended
the right size Amazon batteries. This is a
simple idea, but has limitless potential
that can be applied to how users can
consume valued IT resources within the
enterprise.
Let's examine how this concept can be
used to optimize IT service delivery. By
tracking and mapping work patterns,
preferences, daily activities, past behaviors, technology usages, connected
devices and networked systems; we can
recommend the right tool based on the
role of the worker, key performance
goals, and business outcomes or even
based on dened user experience
strategy. This is what I call the Internet
of Things (IoT) personied.
Companies have to think about how they
want to spend their time and investments
in software applications. Purchasing
collaboration software tools in isolation
is not a silver bullet, but when combined
with technology adoption expertise,
user analytics and smartly-enabled
devices and software, the possibilities
are endless. At their core, big data
solutions are designed to provide the
right information, to the right person, at
the right time.
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The Road to Business Analytic rather let the data drive your decisions
coupled with experts that know your
Adoption Services
My personal advice to companies is to
stop wasting time and resources, stop
making the same mistakes and actually
challenge your technology partners to
think differently about the outcomes you
want. This can be achieved by creating
and dening a Collaboration Strategy
that will optimize how you do things and
empower the best people to deliver their
best work.

Here are some Collaboration

Strategy best practices

environment and how to interpret the

data to achieve your key goals.
Use the Internet of Things (IoT) as a
strategy to tie unlikely data sources
together to make better decision and
improvements in the way you work.
Devise a game plan based on your
company's trends, and vulnerabilities
(not obvious by the naked eye) to enable
your teams to work smarter and be better
prepared than the competition.

Have intention behind every software

tool, work station and conference room Hold your technology partners
than can be enabled by your cloud and accountable to not selling you another
technology service or product, rather
network capabilities.
incentify them to deliver an outcome
Understand how all of your dipartite that you can track and measure.
software collaboration tools and devices
can be seamlessly connected to each Collaboration at Its Best
This kind of business insight will change
other.
the game, reduce loss of revenue and
Let the user experience drive your take technology investments in
technology decisions and not the other collaboration software tools to new
levels of value. Let's face it, our top
way around.
assets are the people with whom we
Understand the behaviors of every user work.
within your workforce to identify what
is working well and what can be In the end, technologies are designed to
improved to obtain a workforce trans- help you work better and get things done
in time or we should say save your time
formation.
and compete to win!
Don't set out on this journey using only
instinct to answer tough questions;

ErgodE IT : Nucleus of Distinct IT Services

hroughout history, technological innovations have often led to greater

efciency in our lives. Let those advances occurred during the industrial
revolution or in this time period, the world is constantly changing as a result
of these advances. Modern technology enables us to be connected to the world
through social media and video technology. And today, we have Industries running
on the premises of these interconnecting Technology.
There is one such company, who on the basis of these communication technologies,
working all over the world as a part of IT industry. Based in Richmond, TX, ErgodE
IT has an ocean of e-commerce services to offer. Here at ErgodE IT, you will get a
complete set of skills from software development to marketing in house for
efcient solutions.
Rupesh Sanghavi - Adept
Personality behind ErgodE IT
Founder and CEO of ErgodE IT,
Rupesh Sanghavi has Bachelors in
Engineering from University of
Mumbai, Masters in Chemical
Engineering from A&M University
Kingsville, Texas. Started working as
Application Engineer in Invensys, later
founded the company in 2005 and did
moonlighting for business for almost 4
years before leaving the job. It proved
to be his biggest achievement, now that
he expanded company, multi-fold since
then and heads team of 250 people
across 5 vertical lines of business.
Portfolio of Services Offered
Specialized in to eCommerce, ErgodE
IT offers a variety of services, from IT,
eCommerce to Outsourcing services.
They have created 12 websites through
which they sale. Additionally, ErgodE
IT is a seller on Marketplaces across the
world - serving customers in 174
countries, large parts of ErgodE IT's
business come from U.S.A.
ErgodE IT offers quality products at
most competitive prices with the best
possible service. Having 24x7
customer support center and lenient
return policy and they do their best to be
price competitive.

Key Values Of The Company

Firm believer of customer is a king,
ErgodE IT follows this adage to the
core and keep the customer at the center
of every decision they make or offer
they do. Considering the supplier as a
partner ErgodE IT creates a win-win
environment for them. They have
focused on creating order through their
website than through any marketplace.
Many suppliers give ErgodE IT
exclusive access to their inventory
through drop-ship means because
customers feel that they bring
additional buyers to their products.
ErgodE IT increase brand value of the
product and show products to buyers

ErgodE IT:
One stage,
Numerous
advantages
who do not always follow conventional
trafc patterns.
In today's tough competitive world,
ErgonE IT believes that vertical

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Rupesh Sanghavi
Founder & CEO

integration with category focus website

would help their business.
Vision and Mission
ErgodE IT's vision is to be trusted seller
of items that consumer needs around
the world. It follows the mission of
making every item available around the
world to every consumer around the
world.
Future Aspect
ErgodE IT has grown multi-folded till
this time. It's team size is an indication
of that where they have more than
doubled to 250 in last one year alone
and on to actively hiring the best talent.
ErgodE IT gives those tools and
platform to express their creativity.
Most exciting part of their future is its
eCommerce executed on a Global
scale.
Valuable Guidelines for Startups by
ErgodE IT
Be persistent. Be Willing to go the extra
mile. Brainstorm solution and you will
nd one. Believe in Multiple Truth.
Keep it simple. Take risk and you
would be rewarded.

Technology

Trending Technologies In 2015

That Will Change The Way You Live

ew technologies hitting the market with smart

gadgets, cars, watches and virtual reality, for which
you pay with just a touch on your smartphone? 2015
may make it a reality.
The Smart-Home
AS we are getting smarter with smart gadgets, your home
could be smarter too. Whether you call it the internet of things
or a smart tech home for interconnectivity of separate devices
and ecosystems, where connected devices are added
importance in our day to day life. Today IoT is a future of
domestic settings. Companies are pulling the ideas of the
smart home primarily into focus. Ultimately, it means more
smart devices aimed at monitoring utilities and home systems,
supporting productivity and delivering entertainment.
Smart Appliances

range of services. Android's app Zapp launched in 2015, and

EE's Cash on Tap service is laying the foundations for a year
where every transaction could get the mobile treatment. Apple
and Samsung introduced Pay services like Apple Pay and
Samsung Pay respectively. Even Wallet by google has been
launched this year.
Drones
Drones are used in cases, where manned ight is difcult. The
coming months will continue to place unmanned aerial
vehicles as a xture in our collective day-to-day consciousness. Drones can carry lightweight parcels quickly and easily
within a small distance. Cities like New York nd drones more
easier and cheaper than a two wheeler. While it's the most
obvious and immediate application, drones will completely
go beyond deliveries. They have been already proven
invaluable for cinematographers seeking impressive camera
shots, real estate agents lming sweeping tour videos of
homes, and farmers analyzing their crops and dusting them
with pesticides. It may act as a common device to supervise.
Companies like Amazon are very much interested in utilizing
them to use for delivery and may be more in coming days. As
drones nd more utility amongst us, they will become an
essential part of our lives.

The Home cannot be a smart home without smart gadgets and

appliances. Now home appliances and home gadgets will also
pop up in the development area alongwith security,
entertainment and utility. For example, if you wear a UP24 the activity tracker on your wrist by Jawbone, it will alert your
thermostat when it notices you have woken up and increase
the temperature to something more comfortable. Again a
Smart Lock helps you every time when you leave the house. 3D Printing
The lock will alert the Nest Thermostat and it will switch to
Away mode automatically.
Recently, NASA made it possible for a 3D printed spanner to
be created aboard the International Space Station. Serving to
The Vessyl smart cup can accurately identify your drink, tell highlight how far the technology has come, this will help 3D
you how many calories you are consuming, let you know how printing into an amazing development. Hardware and
hydrated you are, and alert you when it's time to drink again. equipment costs will lessen, leading to increased access to
You can have your refrigerator tell you what is in it or your them and can be applied in industrial, health and commercial
kitchen range text you when a roast is almost done With LG areas. A 3D printer won't become a reasonable buy for the
and Samsung technologies.
home any soon, but yes, 3D printing services will become
more popular across the world and more accessible as
Mobile Payments
regulations are cleared up.
Mobile payment services are becoming widespread and more Virtual Reality At Home
usual in 2015. People prefer these services to save time and for
their convenience. Now no need to carry cash, cheque, or The Oculus Rift, Sony's Morpheus VR, and upcoming device
credit card, a person can use a mobile phone to pay for a wide by Microsoft are all being passionately developed and tuned
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up. However, with a bluster solid software support the

Microsoft's device appears to become available at the end of
2015. The Rift and Morpheus VR should follow with
consumer launches of their own, and advocates will ensure at
least one is accepted. It's still too early to know whether
virtual reality devices have a longer-term appeal or not. The
coming year should help to answer the question. When one of
the three aforementioned products comes to market, we can
be sure the others won't be far behind.
Connected Cars

Smartwatches
Tying your Phone to the hand rather than holding is more
convenient now a days, as smartwatches are available with
functionality alongwith sporty and stylish looks. If you are yet
to succumb to pairing your mobile life with a smartwatch, you
may be tempted next year. 2014 saw companies growing in
the market and struggle for position, and we can expect to see
more. The Apple Watch will solve the problem with hard
touch screen by iPhone and iPad users, while Android's strong
end to the year will lead to even more innovation. Some good
performing smartwatch offerings will come together with the
ongoing development of the Android Wear ecosystem. We
can even see a shift away from watches being dependent on
phones. A watch with its own SIM-card, number and
completely independent data connection cannot be too far
away. Samsung's Gear S has hinted as much.

Connected cars are already being explored by Apple's Carplay

system. Android's forthcoming Android Auto will develop the
market further, transferring apps and services from our
smartphones to the dashboards. But these are just initials. At
the same time Android and Apple will be a key in generating
thoughts about what drivers need and can gain, cars will
become smarter with advance apps. We can take benet of Wearable Smart Ring
built in mobile hotspots, smartphone connected security
In wearable gadgets, smart ring is one kind of jewelry
systems and manufacturers' own integrated systems.
designed by Indiegogo and Kickstarter. Projects such as Mota
4K
SmartRing, and Cuff zipped past their funding goals, proving
that women may not be interested in bulky smartwatches, but
The replacement for HD, 4K as the Ultra HD resolution will they sure do love the idea of smart jewelry. Freshly into the
only become popular across the world with a fall in price, market is Intel's trending MICA smart bracelet, which
sensible business models and the expansion of 4K content and bundles smartwatch features into an attractive bangle. The
services. 2014 was considered to be the year for 4K, but snake skin bracelet even has gold accents and semi-precious
without a convincing argument for the standard and the means stones like pearls tacked on for style. Some rings like Ringly,
that people can access it easily, it did not make a good mark. Mota, and Cuff will ensure that smart jewelry makes it big in
4K is now 2015's to champion and the choices are it either 2015.
falling away or being moved into an attractive proposition.
The latter is far more likely.

Trending
Technologies

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CXO Standpoint

Success Mantra
Is To Embrace
New Technology,
Give Chance To
Young Talent

s we all know Internet of Things is capturing most of

the world's market. Analysis says that by 2020 there
would be 50 billion connected devices.
The innovations that occurred in the 20th century are
responsible for the global challenges of the 21st century.., no
doubt new technology will solve a lot of global problems like
food, energy, health etc..
One of the biggest breakthrough in technology is the cloud
computing. IT innovation and agility are two main things
what cloud computing can help., cloud computing is
becoming the hub for operational infrastructure. Big data,
generated through Internet of things, is an important factor
for organizations to adopt the cloud. Existing organizations
are willing to invest in improvement of existing Cloud
solutions and we will see more and more such companies
coming forward in investing for this development. 3-D
printing again makes a great breakthrough where a customers
personalized stuff can be done in a batch size, thus meeting
business and consumer demands with the correct
specications.
The most important of all what we need to watch is the
'Project Loon' from google which is supposed to be launched

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project services? Are sufcient funds

being invested to train people to perform
these highly talented skills? The answer
is NO. We still have an acute shortage of
skills for most of the emerging
technologies and there is a big gap there.
Government and big corporate fundings
on research and training on these skills at
a nominal and affordable price is very
much important to get those talented IT
guys to do many of these. In a country
like India and China.. I have seen plenty
of talented youth who is deprived of
getting training on these due to heavy
costs involved and a narrow approach by
some corporate giants to monopolize the
market is killing young talent.

Yashasvi Shankar
President & COO

in a couple of years where helium process structured and unstructured data

balloons are launched where Billions of which cannot be processed using
people can get online at a time.
traditional methods. This increases the
efciency of a company to act, deliver
There are tons of other emerging and track faster than earlier methods.
technologies. But according to me the This looks simple, but may have many
most important ones to be on the radar important features attached to it. UPS is
are the IoT(Internet of things), Cloud an example with its 10 Million
and the Project Loon because.. customers, sending 18 million tracking
Whatever you are, these three connect requests a day.. Would need something
you wherever you are.. make you do called Big data to assist them to
whatever you want to.. make you realise streamline their operations and save
whatever you have dreamt of. All money and increase efciency.
provided taken in the right manner.
Whatever we spoke above is about few
Big Data being one more great emerging technologies.. But the
inventions in technology has been limitations are heavy.. Where are the
saving millions of dollars for many required skills to perform all these? Are
organizations. Big data simply help the government assisting in research and

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Entrepreneurs are taking a lot of

challenges when dealing with big
corporate giants entrepreneurs are
killing themselves with indigestion.
They do not know when to say NO to a
client.. They need everything and they
cannot deliver. This is nothing but
GREED. Get off it.. Work on what you
can digest. Entrepreneurs need to create
a work culture where they can retain
skilled workers or Talent to build their
company. With increased federal
regulations, laws, etc. They are overburdened with other priorities than
maintaining a healthy ow stream of
what is mainly required.
To get the required funding is one of the
main problems what current entrepreneurs are facing.. So we see many
companies fail on the verge of being
successful. To end this note..
Everything is with you as an entrepreneur. Thinking of being an Entrepreneur itself is a great success.. Then
why can't you take the boat to the shore?
If it's fear get over it and I always
believe in Every Entrepreneur has his
day.

NexWave : Complete Talent Management Solutions

professionals to complete missioncritical projects and solve their vital

recruiting challenges. Companies
choose Nexwave for stafng solutions
because of their commitment to
understanding their needs and
exceeding
their
expectations.
Professional consultants come to
Nexwave because of their ability to
Here NexWave comes in a role, provide the best match between their
providing Talent Solutions. It focuses on skills and our clients' needs.
helping clients to develop best-in-class
Talent Acquisition and Recruitment Aparna said, When it comes to a new or
Initiatives that are not only aligned to a existing technology projects, nding the
client's business, but that serve as critical best candidates for the job can be a
strategic enablers helping to drive
overall corporate objectives.
o survive in this ardent
competition today, what
organizations need is the right
number of people, the right kind of
people at the right place, right time,
doing the right things for which they are
suited for the achievement of the goals
of the organization.

Company Description
A truly composite HR Solutions
company providing single window
services to corporate clients for all
their HR requirements: Managed
Services, Permanent Recruitment,
Temporary Stafng, HTD & Payroll
Processing.

Challenges Faced
NexWave is running successfully in
Bangalore & Hyderabad for the last
8 years. NexWave has come over all
the challenges they faced, only on
the basis of their belief in- Promise
what you can deliver & Deliver what
you promise no matter what,
Aparna
Founder & MD
Respect For All, Trust, Honesty &
Openness, Customer Care &
Relationship, Excellence, Lifelong
difcult, time-consuming and costly
Learning & Continuous Quality
process. Many companies turn to
Improvement.
workforce stafng solutions companies
to help them nd the best candidates for
their job. When you turn to an IT stafng Vision and Mission
solutions company for help in hiring NexWave has a broad vision before
experts for your long-term project, you them, which is to be the preferred talent
can reduce up to 70% of the cost. You partner for all the corporate clientele
will also nd the most talented and globally.

Aparna, Procient Persona of

NexWave
Aparna, founder & MD of NexWave,
holds graduation engineering degree.
She worked in IT for 8 years in India &
US. In 2008, Aparna started NexWave
which was primarily focused only on
corporate trainings & related services.
After 2 years, she found out that
companies HR Talent Acquisition teams
face huge challenges in recruiting talent
experienced employees faster than any
with the right mix of skill, availability,
other hiring process.
location, cost & scale then, she started
these services.
Aparna added We recently have made
huge investments into niche skills
Services offered
technology categories, like SMAC,
Nexwave provides highly skilled talent Digital, SAP HANA, Hybris, Azure,
for business organizations on a Contract Security, AWS & Mobile Developers
OR Contract-Hire basis in sectors such and have built Managed Services
as IT & BFSI sectors. Hiring can be done competencies in these technologies. The
on need basis for these highly skilled
talent in these technology categories is
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very rare and is not available at all for

companies from the marketplace. Either
companies have to imbibe these skills
through their internal trainings which
require lot of overheads in terms of time,
energy, un-billable & more importantly
money OR they come to Nexwave and
make use of available resources with us.
This saves a lot of time for companies
since these skills are readily available
with us. These professionals from
NexWave works at client's premises as a
dedicated workforce of the client.
NexWave also manages the HR,
Administration
and
regulatory
compliance's. Aparna added, This
is the core reason for our growth.

Valuable advice to the new startups

NexWave suggests to the new startups,
to identify the customer pain point. You
should dene the Solution/Service with
key metrics. Recruit the right team and
clearly articulate their job roles &
responsibilities along with incentive
structure and their career paths. Always,
deliver the best.

TachTech :

A Trusted Information Technology Solutions

Innovator

anked high in an exclusive ranking of the nation's

fastest-growing private companies and chosen in the
top-tier list - TachTech, a San Francisco based
information technology solutions provider is ying high with
its excellence in IT solutions.
TachTech is a global provider of information technology
solutions. Their passion for people, business, and technology
results in superior experiences for their clients. TachTech is
Committed to deliver and adapt solutions that position their
clients for optimal performance and sustainable competitive
advantage. TachTech's approach aligns innovation and best
practices with each client's unique constraint and business
strategy.

Kyle Rosenthal, A Technology Evangelist

Kyle Rosenthal, Founder and CEO of TachTech, has over
twenty years of experience in information technology. He has
Kyle Rosenthal
a long-standing reputation in the San Francisco Bay Area as a
Founder & CEO
community builder, emerging technology evangelist, and
proponent of best practices in web scale infrastructure and resilience, teamwork, empathy and most importantly, putting
monitoring.
people before prots.

Services Offered

TachTech differentiates itself by providing highly innovative

TachTech is designed to deliver IT innovation in an and tailored solutions that only a smaller provider has the
unprecedented way, and offers global logistics services agility to provide, coupled with the global logistics
traditionally associated with large rms whose primary value capabilities of large providers.
is logistics versus technical leadership.

Future Perspective
TachTech delivers a broad range of products and expertise
spanning network, storage, compute, virtualization, and
security. Today's data center best practices demand this
breadth of expertise, along with programming capabilities to
leverage the DevOps approach to agile operations. TachTech
also provides global logistics and integration services to help
ease the challenges and lower the costs associated with its
clients demands for international expansion and support.
TachTech addresses the needs of both traditional and agile IT
environments while delivering global logistics capabilities
that include importer of record services to more than 75
countries.

TachTech recently announced its global expansion to more

effectively serve clients in more than 75 countries. This
includes offering importer of record services to ease and
speed up international deployments, and the ability to deport
equipment globally.
In addition, TachTech is developing a plan to offer
international integration centers. TachTech projects that a
portion of the market will align with innovative practices from
established vendors, while others will seek more open
solutions that efciently leverage hardware commoditization.

Key Values

Valuable Guidelines For New Startups by

TachTech

TachTech is connected to this culture of innovation in a

special way, and has shown it can deliver results as evidenced
by its growing client base and industry recognition. All of this
could be only possible on the basis of high values followed.
TachTech follows values like integrity, persistence,

Culture is a key. The right culture will glue a team together to

adapt to market opportunities and yield success. Be prepared
to be humbled daily, and to gain a deeper understanding of the
values that drive your culture. You will need to be a student
and a teacher.

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In Conversation

Effective Memory Management

Strategy Can Support Chips With
Thousands Of Cores

loud Computing is generally used for

keeping organizational data in the cloud and
then organizations access those data from
the cloud. The data here moves from one device to
another and it is possible only if you are online or
connected to the internet. There is no issue using the
cloud to store your data, but the way we are
completely relying on the internet. Yingwei Wang of
the Department of Computer Science, at the
University of Prince Edward Island, Charlottetown,
Canada, said, "If any problem happens to the servers
or an internet connection is not available, the user
cannot access their data."
Organizations run with complex data and to
maintain those data manually between the cloud and
interconnected local computers is quite important
for the admin. According to Wangs architecture,
there are dew servers that clasp on the local systems
that appear as a buffer in between the local user and
the cloud servers avoiding the problem of data
inconsistency from source to destination. It is
possible only if one can return back to the old
school approach in which data is carried only on the
local server whether it is in network or not. Wang
elucidated, "The dew server and its related
databases have two functions: rst, it provides the
client with the same services as the cloud server
provides; second, it synchronizes dew server
databases with cloud server databases."

But what is dew server? It is a lightweight local

server that continuously holds a copy of the given
users data making it available, online or ofine and
synchronizing once more with the cloud server just
right after connection is available again. The cloud
dew architecture is also used to make websites work
without internet or ofine. This is a really signicant
concept for organizations to reduce internet data
expenses, where organizations are dependant on
internet connectivity to process huge data. Evidently
lling forms online or exchanging emails would be

difcult this way where you always need an internet

connection, as the code communicates with the server
through several responses and redirects. But functions like
displaying le images, playing audio or video will be
possible through dewsite from the web throughout the
last connection made.
Here is the logic. In a 128 core chip, the new technique
would require only one third memory as its predecessor. If
talking about Intel 72 core high performance chip, the space
saving expands to 80 percent, and with 1,000 core chip, 96
percent. It simply means when multiple cores are stored at
the same location and they read the data, there is no
problem. Incompatibility only appears when one of the core
would like to update the shared data. In directory system
the chips looks up which cores are working on that data and
sends them messages invalidating their locally stored copies
of it. Xiangyao Yu, an MIT graduate student in electrical
engineering and computer science and rst author on the
new paper states, "Directories guarantee that when a write
happens, no stale copies of the data exist. After this write
happens, no read to the previous version should happen. So
this write is ordered after all the previous reads in
physical-time order."
Discussion Overview
Besides the saving
space in memory,
Time machine
and spacecraft
also removes
the requirement to broadcast invalidation messages
to all the cores
that are sharing a
data item. In enormously
multicore chips, Yu states, this
also could lead to performance improvements. We didn't
see performance gains from that in these experiments, but
that may depend upon the benchmarks, Yu informed. --the
industry-standard programs on which Yu and Devadas
tested Tardis. They're highly optimized, so maybe they
already removed this bottleneck, Yu states.
There have been other people who have looked at this sort
of lease idea, informed Christopher Hughes, a principal
engineer at Intel Labs, but at least to my knowledge, they
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You would give a lease

to somebody and say,
'OK, yes, you can use
this data for, say, 100
cycles, and I guarantee
that nobody else is
going to touch it in that
amount of time.
-Hughes
tend to use physical time. You would give a lease to
somebody and say, OK, yes, you can use this data for, say,
100 cycles, and I guarantee that nobody else is going to
touch it in that amount of time. But then you're kind of
capping your performance, because if
somebody else immediately
afterwards wants to
change the data, then
they've got to wait
100 cycles
before they can
do so.
Whereas here,
you can just
advance the
clock. That is
something that, to
my knowledge, has
never been done before.
That's the key idea that's really
neat. Hughes said, however, that chip
designers are conservative by nature. Almost all massproduced commercial systems are based on directory-based
protocols, he states. We don't mess with them because it's
so easy to make a mistake when changing the
implementation. But part of the advantage of their
scheme is that it is conceptually somewhat simpler than
current schemes, he adds.

Zycko : Delivering Services for Channel Growth

David Galton-Fenzi, a Growth

Enabler
Appointed as Sales Director from
September 2001- March 2013, David
Galton-Fenzi, is now working as a CEO
of Zycko from April 2013. Prior to
joining Zycko, David held the position
of Sales Manager at Comstor and was
instrumental in the period of rapid
growth that saw sales ramp up from
$50m to over $500m per annum.

Services offered by Zycko

Zycko has an extensive suite of
professional services and business
services that they utilise to research the
market, complete due diligence, provide
partner enablement, create sales tools,
fully support solutions, and help drive
business generation. These services are
wrapped around technology areas
including network and communications,
accessories
and
infrastructure,
monitoring and management, storage
and virtualization, cloud and
performance management.

We offer
tried &
tested
solutions
for IT
channel
partners

ycko was founded with the

original business concept to
provide a portfolio of
accessories and infrastructure into the
networking channel. As a value added
UK IT distributor, Zycko's offering
includes pre-sales expertise, technical
support, custom conguration, industryleading
accredited
training
programmes, full demonstration and
proof of concept facilities, nancing,
and in-house marketing support.

will never be able to compete with

Zycko for depth of knowledge, vendor
focus, market condence & loyalty.
Zycko also offers a global services and
fulllment program, allowing European
based partners to deliver managed
projects worldwide.

transformation into a worldwide

services organisation through
leveraging their unique technical and
enablement expertise, Zycko aims to be
recognised as the go-to services partner
for SIs, SPs and VARs for delivering
next generation best-in-class
technologies.

Roadblocks overcome
On the basis of their core principles &
philosophy, high adaptability,
knowledge,
capability
and
differentiation, Zycko proactively
accelerated the evolution of many of
their vendor channel programs and
customers. Their key values such as
collaboration, clear communication and
enablement is within their DNA and it is
these values that have seen Zycko grow
both in front end revenue and
protability in the ever changing ever
more competitive world of IT.

A characteristic which differentiates

Zycko from its competitors is, its focus
on new and emerging 'for the next
generation' best-in-class technologies.
Zycko takes active responsibility for
driving market demand, whereas other
distributors concentrate on fullling
more established brands while
Future Vista
simultaneously offering competitive
With the vision to continue their
vendors. Their model of 'distribution'
48 | SEPT-OCT 2015

David Galton-Fenzi
CEO

In the future it is going to be important

that Zycko stay one or two steps ahead of
their SIs, SPs and VARs customers in
order to help them lower the initial cost
of investment and then allowing them to
exponentially scale their own services
securely on demand.

Suggestions for new startups

The root to any successful project is its
'preparation', seek industry advice, do
extensive market due diligence, employ
good people and nd a way to keep
them.

GRIP

That Truly Works.

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