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Innovative Ventures Adding Substance To The HR Tech Industry Technology has altered every aspect of our lives— be it the way we work, or eat, or relax, or exercise, or travel etc. When our lives have been transformed by technology with such a huge impact, how come businesses remain untouched by its revolutionary waves. On that note, businesses are utilizing the latest technologies in the best possible manner to make a difference in their respective space. But here, in this brand-new edition, we would like to address the automation drive across the HR domain. Indeed, HR tech has become a ‘new normal’ in HR functions! There are a plethora of leaders who have recognised the fact that HR tech is here to stay and puts forth innumerable benefits in improving the HR operations such as— Talent acquisition, employee salary packages, HR analytics and much more. The HR tech platforms have come forth with some unique tools that are allowing businesses to improve their workforce performances by ensuring seamlessness across their HR functioning. As the business fraternity has been so fascinated by HR tech offerings, Business Connect decided to make highlights with its neoteric edition featuring such exemplary leaders adding substance to this industry. The Most Reliable HR Tech Platform to Watch in 2021— has it all! While deviating from the subject for a few minutes, I would like to convey that future is all about possibilities and hope is the motive force that propels us to defy all the odds and move forward to a radiant tomorrow. Businesses are also steadfast on this philosophy where their respective leaders have high expectations as the clouds of crisis seem to be clearing up. We also, being a prominent player in our niche space, put high hopes on the future and strive to strain every nerve to ensure an exemplary future for ourselves. Hence, our teams have been putting in diligent efforts to bring the best-in-class read for our global community of readers, and the resultant is this special issue! This exceptional edition has a collective of your favourite sections that are enriched with some stimulating content to boost your entrepreneurial spirits. A mix of some enticing success stories where the triumphs of each company have been spotlighted excitingly to establish better engagement between the publication and the readers. So, look into our extraordinary picks from the business fraternity, that have been flagging their names in their respective space while inspiring the aspiring entrepreneurs as well as the business community with their optimism, insights, leadership, values and a lot more. For the cover page, we found the vignette of an innovative company— Techfynder , founded by Praveen Madire who is leading it as the CEO, to be the most worthy mention due to its sheer focus on helping organisations to hire talented individuals by optimizing the cost of recruitment processes. Our team firmly believes that the passionate personality of the Founder and his unique entrepreneurial outlooks as well as insights on HR Tech industry highlighted in this story will kindle the entrepreneurial flames in the hearts of our adored readers. Thus, just grab a hard copy of this brand-new edition and relish this fascinating read on rainy days while sipping your tea or coffee. We are sure that the inclusion of some informative articles fervently written by Ashwathy Nair and Sanjay Maurya will keep you glued to this magazine for long hours. Business Connect believes that it is doing justice to its mission to seek and publish triumph tales of discerning leaders, energetic doers, pioneers, etc while providing motivational insights on a variety of subjects. Let us know how are we doing with your precious feedbacks!

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CONTENTS COVER STORY

10 Techfynder Techfynder is helping companies around the world to hire professional talent using a simple subscription, saving on average of 80% on total recruitment cost

16 Growth India’s Top 5 Well-Known Startups And Their Success Story

18 Bluecrest HR Consulting Pvt. Ltd.

Leading Recruitment Firm Offering Integrated Solutions for Entire HR Practices

20 K7 Consultants

Commendably Redefining The Recruitment And Training Process

22 Lifestyle Top 5 must read business books for Entrepreneur

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24 Live Jobs Global Directing All Your Comprehensive WorldClass Recruitment Solutions

26 Net HR

Making Centralized Recruitment Services Stress-Free For Fortune 500 Companies

30 Tourism How to Start Your Travel Business Become a Travel Agent

32 Origin Integrated Studios Delivering Cutting-Edge Software Solutions In The Healthcare Domain

34 Paracosma Inc. An exceptional Augmented and Virtual Reality Service Provider

36 Health How to re-energize yourself at work

38 Recany Recreating An Exemplary Recruitment Process For The Aspirants

Seceon Inc.

Empowering Enterprises And Mssps With Comprehensive Cybersecurity Platform For The Digital-Era

42 Business Culture A to Z of Entrepreneurship

44 Stewart F. Lane

The Man Who Made Theatre a Digital Experience

46 Xebia Global Services Xebia Global Services Digital Transformation Company

48 Innovation

Trends That Inspire New Business Ideas In 2021

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Cover Story

Techfynder is helping companies around the world to hire professional talent using a simple subscription, saving on average of 80% on total recruitment cost Kajal Dobhal | Business Connect

oday, HR pros are facing many impediments in seamless operations of recruitment processes as well as related functions. And the novel Coronavirus has only worsened the scenario in the whole procedure. For the time ahead, HR needs to acknowledge the significance of the HR Tech Platform to offer real-time solutions, up to date information and much more to ensure exemplary success to an organisation. Techfynder has entered the HR Tech industry with the endeavour to be substantive in this direction only. Techfynder is a unified HR Tech platform that allows companies and agencies to directly connect with professional talent and to carry out every aspect of the recruiting process via a single portal. A very targeted solution to find top talent with specific skills in any location, but with no commissions for employers and free for professional talent to join. As we sat down for a virtual meet with the Founder-CEO of techfynder.com, Praveen Madire, our team came across some inspiring business insights that have been penned down in this elegant read. He is a passionate individual with an entrepreneurial mindset when it comes to business. His wealth of experience, unique insight into the HRTech industry and entrepreneurial spirit continues to drive this business venture forward.

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PRAVEEN MADIRE Founder & CEO

Techfiynder

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OUTLINING THE BUSINESS PORTFOLIO

Techfynder has attained the stature of being a unified HR Tech platform that assists client organisations and agencies to establish a direct connection with professional talent and to carry out every recruiting process over a single portal in an efficient manner. Under the parasol of its subscription-based services comes— direct hiring, background verifications checks on candidates, pre-screening interviews, direct messaging, and shortlisting. Today, the start-up has become a one-stop solution for all size of businesses in its niche market where its clients can avail the direct access to ‘Global Talent Pool’ of professionals in over 130 countries. The expertise of the company is fixated on the HR Technology space, however, it has exemplary opportunities in almost every sector, including Accounting and Finance, Engineering, Banking, Insurance, Sales, Marketing, Pharmaceuticals and considerably more. At present, it is operating in 138 markets globally with 4 international workstations.

“Our HQ in India is our epic centre for operations and growth marketing, and we have just completed designing our new offices in Hyderabad,” unveils the Founder. Regarding its proposition, the luminary claims, “Although it was not in the marketplace till now, the premise is a direct product for businesses to hire professional talent worldwide for onsite or remote projects. What it is, is a very targeted solution to find top talent with specific skills in any location, but with no commissions for employers and free for professional talent to join.” INCEPTION TALE

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could use to promote themselves to companies and to find new opportunities. Though businesses were facing a similar scenario, the Founder comprehended the inefficiency of the job portals formulated by the companies. It was a light bulb moment for him that boosted his entrepreneurial passion that led to the establishment of a comprehensive platform that could bridge that gap between the professionals at the global level. This led him to assemble a self-motivated and passionate team of developers and marketers to ensure excellent prospects for job seekers as well as companies. Techfynder guarantees access to the best value for recruitment processes and so far; its thunderous success story has been grabbing eyeballs across the industry. Despite commencing its journey in January 2020, the organisation not just only survived Covid-19 Pandemic but witnessed upscale growth too. Its impressive cosmopolitan clientele, talent audience and unique sourcing portal have helped it to stretch its presence a cross new markets and industries.

A GLANCE OVER THE USPS

Techfynder defines its USP as adaptability, speed, flexibility and high success rate of solutions. All of their clients are enabled to have effortless access to professional-quality talent globally to bring cost optimisation and efficiency to the recruitment processes with the help of tech trends.

“We are constantly looking at the global landscape from machine learning to automated behavioural science with AI logic. Our platform is an excellent space for immediate results in the recruitment journey. Employers have access to real-time availability from the best professionals located across the globe. The platform allows both sides to talk directly with each other, set up interviews, and sign contracts without needing to leave the portal,” quotes the luminary. Using their strategic license, the employers can be relieved to see the squad of senior recruiters, delivery leads, and account managers to handle all administrative processes— from evaluation of job descriptions, rates, and promotions of jobs to supervise the overall payroll and onboarding processes. In all of these processes, proactivity and transparency play crucial roles for the successful implementation of the outlined strategies and Techfynder ensures it in the best possible manner. Additionally, their constant investment in the latest technologies leveraging the benefits of AI, ML, and Blockchain to bring Global Standards to their products is what gives them a competitive edge. These tech advancements shorten the recruitment lifecycle for the clients while allowing them to stay tuned to global markets in this fast-paced tech era.

ABOUT THE HYBRID SOLUTION

The Hybrid Solution offered by Techfynder in the form of a Strategic License avails a dedicated account manager and a recruitment team that can manage all administrative and deployment needs of the client companies to allow their sheer convergence on their business growth only. Emphasizing the significance of this unique solution, the Founder asserts, “We believe the hybrid model of utilising AI Technology with specific account management is the way forward if not already.”Since February 2021, there is a sneak peek in the hiring contingent of skilled people that have 3× if compared to the previous 3 months. Especially the segments like Payment Security, Financial Engineering, Digital Infrastructure, Risk Assessment, and Cloud Computing, have witnessed heightened demand of adept professionals. Owing to the inadequate supply of specifically skilled workforce, the recruiting industry has better possibilities to seek.

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TECHFYNDER TEAM ALONGSIDE MINISTER HEATHER HUMPHREYS AND KEVIN SHERRY OF ENTERPRISE IRELAND.

In view of this, the CEO affirms, “This curve has continued to grow throughout Q2 this year and the demand has not stopped but supply is not plentiful for specific skills in 5G and new payments technologies. The anticipation is that things are better within the recruiting industry, albeit in-house or through agencies, the remainder of the year will see demand continue with institutional-backed grants and funding to help the domestic market unfold more positively.” Some of the salient features Techfynder’s Hybrid Model are• • • • • •

SUSTAINABILITY IN THE COVID-19 CRISIS

Although most of the businesses witnessed major setbacks due to the global pandemic, Techfynder was able to navigate through the crisis by launching the right services at the right time for the right industrial space. Even during such unprecedented times, their reach extended up to 130 countries across the world. Owing to the peaking demands in cybersecurity, e-commerce, and financial engineering throughout the pandemic, Techfynder has grown in leaps and bounds by expanding its client base from many SMEs to now global accounts in India, Europe, South Africa, North America with some of the top tech innovators in the business.

Evaluate job descriptions, evaluate rates per location. Place all of their jobs on our platform and promote where appropriate. Source all candidates on Techfynder and other networks. Clients receive a dedicated manager and 3 senior recruiters. Techfynder manages interviewing, tech pre-screening, and run background verification checks. For specific clients, the company manages onboarding payroll services.

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Since the businesses started relying upon remote working models, the company has experienced an upsurge in digital transformation projects propelling them to register on its platform to hire Subject Matter Experts here to bring effectiveness in these neoteric transformations in terms of their present IT systems. Acknowledging their market understanding, global evaluation of rates, competencies and experience, many big names like HCL, KPMG, NTT Data and Oracle. And when the leader was asked to mention the impact scale of Techfynder in its targeted market, he answered that they evaluate it on the retention of their excellent colleagues and teams across the globe and

client retention, of course! To them, maintaining 90% of the active user base is what keeps them ahead of the curve at present and they feel rewarded and recognized when recruiting and technology industry giants in India and Europe reach them out for advice on market demands and tech tools for talent mapping and much more.

LEADERSHIP MAKING WAY FOR SUCCESS

The humble base for the exponential growth of Techfynder is its Management team that is diverse as well as experienced with an array of skills, contributing to its exclusive vision. Paul Guy, the Director of Global Marketing, brings a wealth of experience with 20 years of in-depth industry knowledge, insights, and expertise. Alongside the team, he is shaping a Growth Strategy, scaling the business into international markets, and developing global sales & marketing teams.

A CULTURE FOSTERING CREATIVITY

Techfynder is immensely obsessed with quality in every aspect of its functions. Its determined commitment to high-quality standards to exceed the client’s expectations in terms of its services is what it strives for persistently. Shattering the conservative outlooks, the company constantly seeks innovative and outstanding ideas to make justice to the client’s as well as job seeker’s needs. Here, creativity is nurtured and encouraged at every level among the employees. The workforce at Techfynder has a robust creative, problem solving, and knowledgeable mindset. Their in-depth acuity, cultural sensitivity, thoughtful and unique perspectives are helping them to make leaps towards exponential growth at a rapid pace. No doubt, the positivity of their work culture is majorly reflected in their services and products that have speeded up the rate of business growth.

as well as of thousands of SME type companies like Grid Info, Virtusa, etc, also gives them a sense of satisfaction which is a major milestone on its own!

FEATHERS IN THE CAP

A WORLD EXCLUSIVE

Techfynder has become the epitome of reliability when it comes to its offering solutions. And owing to this fact, institutions of national as well as international repute have recognised as well as rewarded it with awards and accolades. Techfynder takes immense delight to have received — Silver for the ‘’Top Tech Start-up of the Year’’ category in the 2020 National Startup Awards in Ireland for its first- phenomenal year in business. “The National Start-ups Awards is the most prestigious and sought awards program for early-stage businesses in the Republic of Ireland. The awards support, recognise and applaud businesses on every stage of the entrepreneurial journey from inspiration and learning through to start-up, scale-up, and becoming champions,” unveils the founder. Moreover, establishing its base by stealth in India as well as abroad in such a short span is yet another considerable achievement that Techfynder takes pride in. And winning the international accounts with megacorps like IBM, Oracle, KPMG

For the future, it is unwaveringly focussed on the vision of becoming a global leader in the HR Tech industry, where it aspires to add substance with its affordable and quality-driven service for businesses to source professional tech talent. Currently, they have envisaged a short term goal of on boarding — 5 million professional job seekers on its platform across the globe and 50,000 clients across all the top sectors within IT as well as other industrial segments. The leader wanted to share an exclusive piece of news with Business Connect Magazine. “We have been working on another product over the last 4 months called, ‘Techfynder Reference Check’ which is a blockchain-enabled Career Reference Locker for employees to store all their references for applying for new jobs that allow new potential employers to check references with previous employees on their work history and visa versa. Techfynder allows companies to hire vetted candidates on our portal, we are the first one to offer a blockchainbased work reference solution to our customers. Employers will see the work references of each candidate before they make a hiring decision. We are making quality hiring simple.” This unique blockchain service will be launched into targeted markets in Q3 2021 and will add to Techfynder’s innovative streak!

PARTING WORDS

“Techfynder is leading the future of work. We need to innovate to be part of a new digital edge. The future belongs to businesses that use technology at the centre of their outlook. This is a revolution, as it impacts society and is becoming today’s reality for millions of workers and companies around the world, reflecting the best of the digital and physical worlds. The challenges and opportunities posed by the future of work may seem limitless, and they can present new realities every day. Investing in the digital is fundamentally changing business and forces the future of work.” 15

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Growth

INDIA’S TOP 5 WELL-KNOWN STARTUPS AND THEIR SUCCESS STORY 1. Supam Maheshwari, FirstCry

Funding amount: US$69 million Key Official: Supam Maheshwari Industry: Ecommerce Products: Baby products

Supam Maheshwari is an Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Ahmedabad graduate and he acquires his further studies from Delhi College of Engineering as well. He started his venture for FirstCry, baby products online retailer, in Pune in 2010. Nine years ago, when the market choices for baby products in India online and retail both were quite limited. He used to buy a lot of products for his son only on his business trips abroad. Therefore, he discovered an opportunity for such a platform and established FirstCry.com. As he began researching further in this market, he figured that the baby and kids industry in India had an approximate turnover of about Rs.50, 000 Cr and 95% of these sales were offline by the stores

2. Yashish Dahiya, Policybazaar Funding amount: US$78.3 million Key Official: Yashish Dahiya Industry: Fintech Products: Insurance and Policies

Yashish Dahiya, CEO & Co-Founder, PolicyBazaar.com holds trio in education. A Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering from IIT Delhi, Post Grad Diploma in Management from IIM Ahmedabad, and an MBA from INSEAD. Yashish started his career as a Business Unit Head at Illinois at a position of Tool Works and later moved on to the Bain & Company to work as a Management Consultant. Before starting his entrepreneurial journey with the most well-known company PolicyBazaar.com, he worked with First Europa,which is a Global Online Insurance Broker company. He worked as their CEO. He is an alumn of two of the country’s top colleges – IIT Delhi and IIM Ahmedabad - Yashish being a CEO of PolicyBazaar likes to call himself a hugely risk-averse person. Yashish states that “Of course he is always excited about insurance because it’s all about risk and risk management is his favorite consultancy.

3. Kavin Bharti Mittal, Hike Funding amount: US$86 million Key Official: Kavin Bharti Mittal Industry: Social networking Products: Freeware application

Hike Messenger App by Kavin Bharti Mittal, got launched globally on 12-12-12 and was made available in more than 100 plus countries. The Delhi-based face behind the scion of the huge Bharti Group, son of Sunil Mittal, Bharti Airtel established a peculiar special platform - Hike. By starting this app every week his personal prepaid account runs out of data due to heavy internet usage. Later on, he purposefully chooses to keep a prepaid number on a low-end smartphone in order to finally identify the data related problems faced by India’s Hike mobile app users. Hence, he founded that there is almost 95 percent of whom are on pay-as-you-go packages. Afterward, they started a co-creation exercise with their users wherein they properly look at the real-time feedbacks from their users for the development of their application. www.businessconnectindia.in | Vol. 4 | Special Edition August 2021 INDIA

4. Abhinay Choudhari, BigBasket Funding amount: US$95 million Key Official: Abhinay Choudhari Industry: Groceries, eCommerce Products: Wide range of Grocery

Bangalore based CEO of BigBasket, Abhinay Choudhari founded BigBaskate (BB) in 2009 by Abhinay Choudhari, Hari Menon, and Vipul Parekh. Together their trio has scaled up the name BigBasket to be the largest online grocery platform in India. Long-time before Flipkart tapped into the retail industry for online products, a group of people like Abhinay Choudhary fuelled with passion to create and experience on founded the Big Basket as the country’s first online shopping platform which revolutionized the way of buying groceries to people. This platform establishes a unique mark in every way, the story of how Big Basket came to be is also motivating startups in India.

5. VSS Mani, JustDial

Funding amount: US$103.2 million Key Official: VSS Mani Industry: Search Products: Market search services Founded in the year 1996 by VSS Mani, Just Dial is a Mumbai-based company that tends to be biggest search engine for the local market. It generally offers classified listings of small businesses for an annual fee and it can be used to make small businesses well known. People can easily search for local and every business via phone, subscription SMS, the website, or now through the mobile app of Just Dial. Justdial is India’s Market finding search engine for local search which initially started as a classified website to list your business but as of now it’s transformed into a local search engine. Today, it employs around 9,000 employees in 15 different offices, which are spread across the country. It has also sets record for 12+ million listings in its database that are offering market services in more than 2000 small and big cities of India. The company receives a huge count of over 1.9 million calls on daily basis for the search-related causes. Other than this, number of online searches that were listed over the website was recorded to be 1125.7 million for the year 2012-2013. Hereby, form that phase the company is growing day by day and has seen almost 1.16 million unique visitors on a daily basis contributing to 7.22 million daily page views.

HERE ARE THE LIST OF FEW MORE SUCCESSFUL ENTREPRENEURS THAT REMARK WITH THEIR STARTUP STORY IN THE INDIAN MARKET • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •

Sanjay Sethi of ShopClues, Gurgaon Ritesh Aggarwal of OyoRooms – A formidable hotel industry Phanindra Sama of Redbus – A ambiguous transport service provider Albinder Dhindsa of Grofers – A wide range of grocery platform Deepinder Goyal of Zomato – Best food chain restaurant services provider Pranay Chulet of Quikr – Platform for buying and selling old goods Vijay Shekhar Sharma of Paytm – The biggest e-commerce payment system and digital wallet. Bhavish Aggarwal of Ola Cabs – Tremendous transportation service provider Kunal Bahl of Snapdeal – Man Behind everyday eCommerce shopping online Sachin Bansal of Flipkart – Cordial leader who forces Ecommerce retail services Kunal Shah, of FreeCharge – Financial marketplace for Recharge and Bill-payments Sahil Barua of Delhivery – The most renowned logistic service providers Ambareesh Murty of PepperFry - Online Furniture Shopping platform Amit Jain of CarDekho – Platform for buying and selling Used Cars Online Richa Kar of Zivame – A lady behind the biggest nightwear and women’s undergarment provider Ashish Goel of UrbanLadder – A High-Quality Furniture products provider

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Leading Recruitment Firm Offering Integrated Solutions for Entire HR Practices

SACHIIN S JOG

Founder & CEO Bluecrest HR Consulting Pvt. Ltd.

“As Steve Jobs very rightly said, the only way to do great work is to love what you do if you haven’t found it yet keep looking. Don’t settle”. Sachiin S Jog

Avishek Singh | Business Connect The Indian staffing industry poses the potential to become one of the world’s largest, with the government supporting the market with ratifying the labor laws and regulations in concern of the same.

Ancillaries, Retail, FMCG, and Media. They don’t work as a vendors with their clients but more as a “Partner”. The focus is channeled the people, all the employees are trained every six months on different programs like “Hiring through Social Media” or “Telephonic interviewing”.

With so much potential oozing from everywhere in the country, Sachiin S Jog, Founder & CEO, Bluecrest HR Consulting Pvt. Ltd is providing one stop solution for HR functions such as Executive Search, Staffing solutions, and Payroll management.

At Bluecrest, a Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO) model is put in use when the clients want huge numbers in a shorter span. Backward planning for clients is processed, once they comprehend what target the client has in mind, their team starts planning that in order to fulfill the requirement of the number of candidates are needed to source, screen and shortlist. They meet the clients regularly to understand their “pain points” and come up with solutions and also are an ERA member since inception and believe in ethical and transparent recruitment practices only.

With its registered office based in Mumbai, they specialize in recruiting for the Entry Level, Junior Level, Middle Management, and Senior Management levels across various verticals like BFSI, Energy and Power, Pharmaceutical, Textiles, Hospitality, Logistics, Engineering, Manufacturing, Real Estate and Infrastructure, Oil & Gas, Automobile &

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agency to create more awareness of what we are doing amongst the client & the candidate community.

Business Connect: Did everything come easy, or you have your story of struggle? Sachiin: I quit my job with DHL Express in January 2004 as the Head-Direct Business Unit and went back to DHL in March for a sign-up. Now I was on the other side of the table as a “Vendor Partner” and had a greater responsibility to prove myself again. I could not fail now as I had chosen this one-way street to start my own company and make it a success story. This was the start of the struggle as we needed quality employees of our own, clients who would give us mandates and also pay us on time. For the first 8 months, I was doing Sales, Recruitment, Operations, Collections, Finances, and Administration too. I used to sit in the car park of a potential client, call him and tell him that I had just finished a meeting in the vicinity and would he be free for a meeting. Some met me, others were busy but then I did not give up.

Business Connect: In terms of your market, what do you feel the future holds for entrepreneurs? Sachiin: We require people to enter our industry with a vision and having long term goals. Sadly, there are many Mom & Pop shops operating from their respective residence who are there for a short term and spoil the market by cutting rates. Clients require value-added services and not cheaper rates Business Connect: Who is your role model in the business/ entrepreneurial world and what have you learned from the person? Sachiin: My role model is Dhirubhai Ambani for the mammoth conglomerate he built from scratch. Some learnings were to roll up your sleeves and work no matter whether the job or client is small or big, dream big but dream with your eyes wide open, and change your orbit, constantly.

Any Entrepreneur has to learn on his own as there are no academic courses to churn out one. At times there are hits and other times misses too but the journey has to be carried forward.

Business Connect: How are you giving back to society (CSR, if any)? Sachiin: I am the Honorary HR Director of Triumph Blood Bank since the last 5 years and all support like hiring or payroll management is free of cost. I am a Volunteer for the last 8 years with Kotak Education Foundation and have worked in 3 interventions of theirs. We have started “The Bluecrest Foundation” to support bright students coming from the weaker sections of the society.

Business Connect: What kind of clients do you serve any special mentions? Sachiin: DHL Express was our very first client and we built a good pool of talent on our payrolls from which DHL could cherry pick the best performing employees. We have done an RPO for a large multinational in background screening services where we hired 300 candidates to be put on our payrolls for a period of 3 months. We partnered a large insurance company on a pan India basis for staffing and sourcing 1500 employees.

Business Connect: Apart from work, what else do you like to spend your time doing? Sachiin: I have finished 4 half marathons, been on the Mount Kailash parikrama in Tibet, do a bungee jump. On my bucket list - I still want to make a second trip to Mount Kailash, do the Everest Base Camp trek and do a pilgrimage walk of 290 km in 9 days.

We partnered Infomedia India before it became a part of the Network 18 group. We used to have monthly meetings with the entire HR team to understand obstacles to hiring and ways to overcome them. We used to meet line managers to solve issues and even handheld all over recruits after they joined the company for a period of 3 months. The bonding and the rapport building with the HR team were so good that post these monthly meetings we used to explore all new eating joints in the vicinity. We were the only consultant who saw a popular Hindi film with the Head HR and his team at a local cinema.

Business Connect: What are the achievements and milestones of the company? Sachiin: I think that the biggest achievement or milestone for the company was to survive the economic downturn of 2009-11 and have clients and employees who have worked with us for more than 8 years. Without them, I would not be sitting down to pen this article for you.

Business Connect: How do you ensure unbreakable faith of clients in your company? Sachiin: We keep them updated on all new developments E.g. regards to compliances etc. We honestly tell them as to what is possible and what is not, no false hopes or promises. We respect our clients and are always professional with them. We give them a quality talent or “benchmark candidates” who will add value to them. The feedback that our candidate is doing well in the company bring a smile on the face of our consultant

From one branch in Pune, Bluecrest HR Consulting Pvt. Ltd is now looking forward to spread their branches in Bangalore and New Delhi in this coming year as well and head to a higher path to sucess.

“I believe that the journey has just begun and I walked a few steps. I still have to cover a long distance. For me, each day is a new day where am going to learn new things and explore new opportunities to make the journey of our candidates a magical one.”

Business Connect: How do you keep pace with the changing market trends? Sachiin: We conduct regular training programs for our team E.g. Social Media hiring, we invest in technology like an Applicant Tracking System and appoint a Social Media

Sachiin S Jog

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K7 Consultants Commendably Redefining The Recruitment And Training Process

BHUVANESHWARI. R

Proprietor, K7 Consultants Mehak Malhotra | Business Connect

“Our dedicated, strong, work-from-home employees are the backbone of our business. We empower them financially, utilizing their knowledge and education, while they are at home taking care of their kids and family, without having to waste their time and money in traveling.” Bhuvaneshwari. R, Proprietor, K7 Consultants

In the business for almost a decade now, K7 Consultants have been successfully providing manpower and handpicked HR training for a number of business houses. They also bring to the table entrepreneurship training employability training for inexperienced and experienced recruits, and consultation, guidance and hand-holding for startups.

Business Connect: What gives you an edge over your peers? Ms. Bhuvaneshwari: We save clients’ precious time to focus on business expansion by saving their 80% energy spent on recruitment. I educate clients on hiring the right people and what skill set to look for while hiring. We give a bonus to our client: Free induction and orientation to all selected candidates before joining. Our USP is our constant postplacement follow-ups with both clients and candidates for the first 6 months and then on an as-needed basis.

Striving to be the world leader in innovative workforce solutions, connecting human potential to the power of business. They serve both large and small organizations across all industry sectors through our brands and offerings.

Business Connect: Do you see any transformation happening in the entrepreneurial world? If yes, please mention a few of those. Ms. Bhuvaneshwari: Yes, definitely. With great foresight, budding entrepreneurs apply practical strategies for success. They unlearn the non-result oriented strategies through training, skilling and reskilling to match the current and foresee the future trends. Like-minded entrepreneurs are doing collaborative businesses rather than seeing others as competitors, they support each other and grow together. They also are open to learn new skills and diversify their businesses in different sectors in the form of inviting investors or working partners, sharing basis, etc.

Ms. Bhuvaneshwari. R, Proprietor, K7 Consultants, in conversation with Business Connect Magazine, taking us on a tour of the firm and its mannerisms. Business Connect: How have you adapted yourself to the latest needs of the market? Ms. Bhuvaneshwari: By knowing the pulse of the millennials and clients, and changing business strategies to the continuous transformation in the HR field. www.businessconnectindia.in | Vol. 4 | Special Edition August 2021 INDIA

Business Connect: Did you face any obstacle during the initial days? How did you sail through them? Ms. Bhuvaneshwari: Yes, of course. Obviously, without obstacles, can anyone grow in the business world and reap success? I am the first generation entrepreneur in my family. Initially, I faced hurdles in building a reputation in the market and Streamlining timely deliverance strategies. With transparency in our dealings, we overcame those obstacles. Choosing the right client helped a lot as well to overcome these obstacles.

detailed orientation and induction process to understand our style of working and company culture, timely deliverance of productivity on a daily basis. Empathizing their difficulties and help them grow in their career with time management strategies. Business Connect: Who is your role model in the business/ entrepreneurial world and what have you learned from the person? Ms. Bhuvaneshwari: Mr. Ratan Tata. Strategic building and diversification of business, he ensures that his employees are well trained before they start their job and Mr. Narayanamoorthy, with a simple start to massive growth, he’s a game changer in IT field.

Business Connect: What was your learning during struggling days so that our readers could prepare themselves for upcoming challenges? Ms. Bhuvaneshwari: Be confident, be positive, be honest and be frank with all your dealings with customers because one satisfied customer is equal to 10 new customers. Provide hassle-free payment structures and don’t waste your time with time-consuming clients. Have a mentor to measure your success and rank you without any judgment and learn from the mistakes. Do not repeat mistakes.

Business Connect: Highlight a few achievements of the company. Ms. Bhuvaneshwari: We are strongly positioned for a decade now in the field of HR recruits and training. We have built trust and reputation in the job market among employers and employees, and we are the leaders in Coimbatore, providing a wide range of manpower from around Tamilnadu, placing approximately 1500 – 2000 candidates so far.

Business Connect: Please tell us something about your clientele. Mention some well-recognized names that could be published in our magazine. Ms. Bhuvaneshwari: We have a family of strong 500+ clients, we have served a wide range of SMEs and MSMEs from 5 crores up to 1500 crore turnover companies in and around districts of Coimbatore.

Business Connect: What are your thoughts on women participation in the entrepreneurial world? Ms. Bhuvaneshwari: Creative women always have great chances to start and own a business. Once you have identified your forte and understood how to use your skills suitably, be a man or a woman, nothing is far from your reach.

Business Connect: How do you ensure the unbreakable faith of clients in your company? Ms. Bhuvaneshwari: Will ensure all our clients get the best workforce to match their job description with meager attrition and be an asset to the company in the long run. By giving our best service with extra mileage and asking for feedback. Though there is a rare chance, if at all if we foresee delay or non-availability of our services, we will keep them informed in the first place. Getting consistent post placement feedbacks will help us in further streamlining it better.

Business Connect: What are the future plans for the company? Ms. Bhuvaneshwari: We are looking forward to giving employment for more women to work-from-home to utilize their education, knowledge, and experience and to get financial freedom. We want to help a lot more candidates to get decent jobs and bring technological advancement in the recruitment process. Also, we will come up with a chain of upskilling and reskilling centers for the unemployed. We request all our candidates who get job through our consultancy to plant a neem tree at their home as part of gratitude they show to us for getting them placed in decent companies in a decent salary; otherwise, we do not charge any registration fee or payment fee for job given.

Business Connect: How difficult is it to remain relevant and motivated in this competitive world? Ms. Bhuvaneshwari: By providing the utmost extra care and extra mileage of my services to my clients. I constantly listen to podcasts and read books of world-class life coach like Mr. Dan Lok, Mr. Robin Sharma, Mr. Warren Buffet and evergreen couplet treasure of Thiruvalluvar’s Thirukural and Dr. Irai Anbu’s wide range of books and such range management books.

Business Connect: What core values do you carry till date that have remained a constant? Ms. Bhuvaneshwari: Be patient to build trust within consumers, learn business skills and gain stable clients. There are no shortcuts to success. There are no failures or setbacks in life, but they are all rich experiences. Above all, attitude decides one’s success.

By connecting the dots and seeing where was earlier and what have I achieved in a decade. Appreciating ourselves when we achieve our target is a great motivation from my point of view. Not expecting others’ opinions for my decisions unless there is confusion about it. Though I get various ideas, I make sure the final decision is purely based on my discretion which suits the strategy of the business line.

Enabling a suite of ground-breaking workforce managing solutions, K7 Consultants covers an absolute range of placements, human resource management, training and more. They bring you solutions that help to take the business forward with custom-made solutions to suit the requirements of the organization.

Business Connect: Tell us something about your staff. How do you ensure their efficiency and positivity towards work in challenging times? Ms. Bhuvaneshwari: My full time and freelancing recruiters are highly dedicated and understand our way of business. We provide extreme care in the selection process, a clear-cut

With a vision to give employment to lakhs of job seekers, they ensure developing the most productive skills in a recruit to gain the potential of a successful entrepreneur in the future.

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Lifestyle

An erudite person can always learn from his hunger for more knowledge and the best thing he knows is that the perfect knowledge is waiting inside a book. In addition, to all of the ways of reading, it helps you develop a healthy mindset; it also makes you a better thinker and a better writer. Powerful reading for entrepreneurs of the 21st century allows them to experience other points of view and makes them a better leader for forging companies. In this article we talk about the Best Must-Read books for Entrepreneurs. According to a successful entrepreneur - Bill Gates, he believes that reading is still the main way that he both learns new things and tests his understanding.

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, the man who never reads lives only ones.” Let us discuss the ten most admired books by Entrepreneurs of 2019.

Lost and Founder by Rand Fishkin Rand Fishkin’s book takes a refreshing outlook on the life of a super tech startup CEO. Lost & Founder, is the perfect narration of how a startup has a life as a CEO. Most of the CEOs can easily relate to pretty much every chapter of this book. They feel more connected with this book and agree on 99% of Rand’s idea. It generally talks about startups, marketing, funding, and more. The central idea of the books pulls back the curtain from what is really like to battle for success in the startup world. The advice from the author is sound and can be applied to any type of business, no matter the size or industry.

For aspiring entrepreneurs of 2019, this particular book is reading on a glimpse into what it takes to go from a startup founder to CEO of a publicly-traded company. This reading makes the entrepreneur realize that even the world’s most successful entrepreneurs once started as paper distributer and door-to-door salesmen. Bill Green’s goal in All In is to inspire entrepreneurs and start-ups of all ages and phases to take up the challenge of a growing business with passion and joy. In All In, he provides the readers the101 Real-Life Business Lessons for Emerging Entrepreneurs. He shares 101 key insights he has gleaned over a 40-year business career that began with a flea market table.

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The Achievement Habit book for forging entrepreneurs is written by Doctor Bernard Roth, who is an engineering professor and co-founder of Stanford School. This book is his half biography and half self-help book for entrepreneurs who use the concepts of design thinking, awareness, and a bias to action to help you shape your life. “Let people see you as human. Be real. Ask yourself, who would you rather see at your door, a friend or a door-to-door salesman?”

-Bernard Roth (Quote from -The Achievement Habit: Stop Wishing, Start Doing and Take Command of your Life)

The Achievement Habit book aims to motive on the topic: Stop Wishing, Start Doing, and Take Command of Your Life Jim Collins and his research team set off to find out, why ‘Good is the enemy of Great’. Over the five years, their whole team studied 28 companies and pouring over their data to find out the key determinants of success and failure.This is how the author sets off a riveting journey explaining the findings from his and his teams half a decade of research in the conquest of how to make good companies great. Generally, ‘Good to Great’ is a very rare and toughest book by Collins. In his research, Jim Collins (the author), has found out systematic phases through which any great company goes through and lays out a framework.

One of our modern history’s most successful entrepreneur, role model, and investor Warren Buffett explains his take on everything in the book of Essays from very basic business principles to aligning high-level business skills. This skill polishes your interests with those of your investors as well. “I will tell you how to become rich. Close the doors. Be fearful when others are greedy. Be greedy when others are fearful”.

-Warren Buffett (Quote from- The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America) This piece of work from Buffett is the most revolutionary investing book of ideas from the past thirty-five years of modern finance theory. The book is an elaborate set of ideas that establishes one simple and misleading art of investing. 23

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Live Jobs Global

Directing All Your Comprehensive World-Class Recruitment Solutions

“Nothing comes easy in life, you have to work hard to gain whatever you strive for. Moreover, I was not among the ones born with a silver spoon, I worked hard for my achievements”. Sajjan Karna

SAJJAN KARNA

CEO, Live Jobs Global

Indranil Roy | Business Connect ne of the biggest impacts that the transforming dynamics of the company ecosystem has seen is on the augmented demands of recruits. In the race to stay ahead of the curve, there have been rapid innovations in technology and market conditions have evolved massively in terms of charting the demands of adding talented professionals to the network. These rifts mean that the role of staffing firms is affirmatively large in the present scenario.

Largely this is only one of the few prudent reasons why the manpower providers have become an inevitable part of meeting the right talent. There are other reasons like job creation to absorb the growing working population as well that the government is paying interest on, eventually to help a larger number of companies to share the burden of recruitments and manpower service companies facilitate this process at large. Likewise, equipped with a swarm of a corroborated database of job hunters, Live Jobs global is a leading Manpower oversees recruitment consultant from India and the brainchild of Sajjan Karna, CEO, Live Jobs Global, that fulfills manpower requirements for global clients based in Dubai, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Canada, Singapore, South Africa, Bahrain, Oman, Kuwait, Malaysia, and London. Sajjan Karna, in a conversation with Business Connect Magazine, enlightens our readers about his Certified Recruitment Company, his dedicated recruitment team that’s competent to fulfill both permanent and contractual job requirements in a defined time frame,

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Mr. Karna: Every morning there are a number of challenges to overcome and I have to deliver productive work at all times, for which the plan comes under a managed budget and results come-post the equal level of indulgence and zeal.

Business Connect: How do you feel you are different from your competitors? Mr. Karna: Our commitment to delivering qualified talent while adhering to stringent professional standards makes us an undisputed recruitment partner in the times of need. We deliver quality services to our premium client in the stipulated time.

Business Connect: In terms of your market, what do you feel the future holds for entrepreneurs? Mr. Karna: There is supreme importance of time, which further adds to amplify the focus and accuracy to identify the right client. If you are selling a unique concept with appropriate services, it will sell. You also should know your rivals well and always have set plans to compete healthily.

Business Connect: Did you see any transformation happening for startups, over the years in your field? Mr. Karna: In the previous times the picture was different, but now, hiring at managerial levels in particular country 87% chances are that they would select the candidate of local nationality, 10% hiring goes for European and rest 3% for different countries.

Business Connect: What do you ensure the most while setting up the recruitment process? Mr. Karna: When we take an interview for recruitment, we make sure to extract the right talent out of the interviewee and put them into the right place matching the experience and position.

Business Connect: Did everything come easy, or you have your story of struggle? Mr. Karna: Nothing comes easy in life, you have to work hard to gain whatever you strive for. Moreover, I was not among the ones born with a silver spoon. I did my schooling from a Govt. school in Bihar, then moved to Delhi for Senior Secondary education. It was an abrupt change in thought, lifestyle, and language, things were in favor and I finished my M.B.A, but unfortunately, it was the time of recession. Due to which I couldn’t find a suitable job, I moved to Mumbai, gave various interviews, resided with relatives due to lack of finances and somehow managed to sustain my living.

Business Connect: Who is your role model in the business/ entrepreneurial world and what have you learned from the person? Mr. Karna: More than a role model, I have stronger morals and values, I have core beliefs that I carry and have kept me strong. I work hard and in the right direction to meet the required value in the market, I entrust my faith in my co-workers and try to always target the right segment of the market. Business Connect: Apart from work, what else do you like to spend your time doing? Mr. Karna: I like to invest my time in reading and understanding about the market and the constant transformations, concepts, future potential etc. that happens in connection to my industry, like I have been going through a lot about the government inputs and the new plan accelerated in the year 2018 and that would be of a great help to my industry.

As they say ‘try and try again until you succeed’, I tried and bagged a decent job in the world’s largest Aluminum company, learned strategies and business plans. This encouraged me to start something of my own and I started Live Jobs Global a year ago, and rest is history. Business Connect: What kind of clients do you serve? Mr. Karna: We serve client spread throughout the globe, most of which are in the Gulf, UAE, and Europe. We work in Mining (Underground or Open pit), Metals, Construction, Fertilizers, Oil & Gas, Infrastructure, Power, IT & Telecom.

Business Connect: What does the future hold for the company? Mr. Karna: Our vision is to become the leading International service provider of Human Resource Competencies. Also, to be recognized as an innovative & cost-efficient India based HR Consulting Partner that solely are serving the clients and job seekers with professionalism, integrity, and honesty.

Business Connect: How do you ensure unbreakable faith of clients in your company? Mr. Karna: By proving them unmatched services. We ensure that we provide quality services and delivery on time. Following and upholding the highest standard of professionalism and business ethics no matter what comes in our way of success.

Business Connect: What is your profit ratio cut on promotional expenses? Mr. Karna: For any business, marketing is the first key factor to run the company. We make sure that 10 % revenue in each month is spent on all the possible ways of marketing. If we are looking to be in the market, there is a high need to have influential visibility for our potential and current clients to see us on various social pages and website.

Business Connect: How do you keep pace with the changing market trends? Mr. Karna: As per the business forecast especially 2019 and 2020 recruitment strategy will change gradually, companies are focused to hire local nationals as per the government regulation and meet the MOL regulation and under the government body, we are moving and making own database for the local national active job seeker through our website. Western candidates are preferable for top 10 companies who seek qualified candidates with an international passport.

A number of studies have taken place over time and proven that this industry is entitled to grow at the rate of more than 10% in the following years. And with the swiftly changing market trends, a number of business houses will have to boil down to the services of manpower service providers to proactively find the suitable candidate.

Business Connect: Do you still come back to work with the same zeal, like you did when you started?

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Making Centralized Recruitment Services Stress-Free For Fortune 500 Companies

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Understand that there is no success without hard work, understand that success alone breeds success. All the best things happened when people said they’re impossible, someone will be the first one, might as well be you.

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Dr. Sanjay Salunkhe

Kriti Anand | Business Connect Regardless of what a business house is dealing with, from manufacturing to services, the backbone, the most essential part of the process is to bring together a team that successfully handles the complete process. Hiring the best talent for the job role not just ensures optimum results but also helps in remaining competitive and in the front row of the market. Dr. Sanjay Salunkhe, Founder and group CEO, Net Employment Services Pvt. Ltd. (Net HR) is making this possible with 19 years of experience in specialized executive hiring. Net HR is a leading Technology recruitment consultant, based out of Mumbai with operations pan India via multiple offices in India. They offer Permanent recruitment solutions from Mid-level to Highest level for its clients, thanks to their massive data. Their Fortune 100 clientele combines Investment Banking, Software Product Firms, Technology Services, Insurance, Broking, Hospitality and Retail Banking sectors. They are able to actively gauge the changes in the market needs because of their experienced team and a pan India presence. In a conversation with Business Connect Magazine, Dr. Salunkhe talks about being the preferred partner in technology hiring space, adapting the latest technologies, large database management, internal team management, and external communications and more. www.businessconnectindia.in | Vol. 4 | Special Edition August 2021 INDIA

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is to steer the company towards the emerging trends to be a leader.

Business Connect: Did you face any obstacle during the initial days? How did you sail through them? Dr. Salunkhe: I went through big losses in 2001-2002 due to all eggs in one basket (IT recruitment) and had to mortgage the house to pay staff salaries, but within 1 year through hard work and cooperation of employees we were able to turn around the company. And in 2006 I sold major (54% stake) to a Japanese staffing company. Our company was valued at 4 million US dollars then.

Business Connect: How have you adapted yourself to the latest needs of the market? Dr. Salunkhe: With a close eye on the new trends in the market, we always mold and update ourselves in a timely fashion. We have an edge on understanding in terms of quality benchmark, ideal to practical turnaround time and right fitment.

Business Connect: What was your learning during struggling days so that our readers could prepare themselves for upcoming challenges? Dr. Salunkhe: Never put all eggs in one basket (only one industry recruitment) because if that industry suffers due to recession or any other reason you are affected a lot. Trust yourself and your judgment and carry the team with you. Your trust is their trust and your people are your biggest asset. I learned that the staff will go through hardship and struggle with the boss if they believe in the boss, his vision and his struggle and know that there is honesty and integrity in the individual. When the turnaround happened I shared the rewards with them too.

Business Connect: What gives you an edge over your peers? Dr. Salunkhe: What makes us better than our peers is the well experienced, expert and highly motivated team strength we possess. Along with that, we do not rely on the portals only for recruitment as we have a huge base of passive content being in the industry for 19 years which helps us to give a high offer-to-join percentage. Business Connect: What kind of clients do you serve? Dr. Salunkhe: Our clientele consists of Top Global Giants from Investment Banking, Financial Services, Information technology (Product & service), Insurance, Banking & Broking and Fin-tech Space.

Business Connect: How difficult is it to remain relevant in this competitive world? How do you keep yourself motivated during tough times? Dr. Salunkhe: As I have gone through major problems earlier, now no issues scare us. To be relevant one has to be aware of the market, emerging forces as well as political trends because shifts in trends in one country can affect the recruitment of staff in another. Likewise, upcoming countries can be new areas to not only diversify the basic pool to recruit but also become the area to bring employment opportunities for IT experts from India.

Business Connect: How do you ensure the unbreakable faith of clients in your company? Dr. Salunkhe: Having strong ethical mindset, we work with full integrity and honesty and that’s how our client relies on us for 11th-hour support in crisis situations also.Providing quality at right time with right fit has helped us to build an unbreakable faith in all our clients. Business Connect: Tell us something about your staff. How do you ensure their efficiency and positivity towards work in challenging times? Dr. Salunkhe: Our team strongly follows the values of the organization. We ensure their efficiency and positivity towards work in challenging times by regular training & grooming of the team, motivating them by giving additional entrepreneurial responsibilities.

Business Connect: Who is your role model in the business/ entrepreneurial world and what have you learned from the person? Dr. Salunkhe: There is not one specific person. But Attributes in the people who taught me, who guided me, who stood with me through thick and thin. As a CEO, you need to be a master of various traits along with a strong hold on finance as it is the heart of businesses. Having a risk bearing trait is the biggest asset of all along with the will to fight.

Business Connect: Please let us know about the achievements of the company. Dr. Salunkhe: We have been Top 5 vendors for Majority of our clients for over a decade and with continuous efforts, we intend to be the most preferred vendor.

Business Connect: What are your thoughts on women participation in the entrepreneurial world? Dr. Salunkhe: The world is an open arena for women entrepreneurs. Women have the capacity to multi-task and that is what being an entrepreneur demands. You have to keep track of numerous things and yet keep yourself sane enough to take the right decisions. Their natural sensitivity and empathy helps them to bring out the best and yet like a mother they can be hard for the good of the child. Women are in that regard naturally geared and and have always proved themselves worthy. In NET HR 90% of employees are women and even in our other verticals like the Education Company, they make up 60% of the staff.

Dr. Salunkhe avers that in the coming few years AI (Artificial Intelligence) will change a lot of things like an assessment of skills through robotic testing, tracking changes in the way entrepreneurial skills are developed etc. Portions and segments of workplace work will give way to Robots, so that would need a new set of IT people who would be able to track and ensure the Robots perform. In the future, it is anticipated that the management of the Robots would be a new set of skills and will give way to evolving self-learning Robots. The supervision arm would still have to be Human. Ahead in time, tied to robotics is the entire world of virtual and augmented reality and their use for the medical and other fields that will eventually give rise to a different set of skill needs in IT.

Business Connect: What are your short term and long term future plans for the company? Dr. Salunkhe: Short term plans are to keep pushing the envelope and create more business while the long term goal

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Tourism

How to Start Your Travel Business Become a Travel Agent

If you are someone who loves travel, meticulous planning and helping others have great experiences, consider becoming a travel agent and starting your own business today.

The modern travel business provides services: • Honeymooners and newly weeds • The retired and old age people • Families with kids and grandkids • Spring breakers like solo travel • Specialty groups (Christian, Hindus, LGBT, Musicians, etc.) • Business travelers and companies travel

Becoming a travel agent or starting your own Travel Business are the same but difficult things. They can be inexpensive as business ventures go, and you can often get started with limited staff and little upfront cost in this business plan.

This business in travel services can also tailor the services for groups who are willing to have someone else arrange their travel, such as: • Technologically- or internet-challenged luxury flights • Travelers with complex demands such as a comfortable travel • first-time cruisers services to the coastal area • Travelers with special demands, like eco-tourism, visiting Amazonian tribes, etc. • Travelers who simply want to save time and money – Budgetfriendly travel

Travel is a big part of many people across the globe in virtually every country. Hereby, there is a wide variety of travel things that people tend to do, which includes domestic, international, adventure, pilgrimage, eco-tourism, food, and wine-related family gathering, etc. For these reasons, the travel industry is gigantic. In fact, according to the US Travel Association, every year the travel and tourism industry generates trillion of revenue as the economic activity.

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In the past, traditional travel business was established businesses with many employees and agents all around the world. However, nowadays that is not necessary. Previously, the travel business is just like to book a hotel and flight to plan a travel. Nowadays it turns its back and moves further in the form of booking party halls in cities, taxi services for whole travel, sightseeing tickets and demands, cruise or helipad services if needed, breakfast to dinner meals, pick-ups, and drop-offs if you are traveling and any other specialization as per customers.

motor travel agency, you need to manage your funds through bank loans as they provide this business easily. On the other hand, if you were planning to launch an online travel agency, you would need a smaller investment to just cover some low overhead costs of the website and IT services. Both these types of travel business structures should set aside some funds for advertising tools like business cards and flyers along with social media advertising. All in an attempt to enjoy a fast cash flow and your travel business can avail other funding options like venture capital funding, angel investment or personal loans from lenders or banks.

You can start your Travel Business from your own home and become a travel-based traveling agency with much lower overhead and similar revenues. If you have ever considered turning your passion for travel into a business, now is the perfect time to start over and plan further. Below are certain actionable pointers that will help you to plan your travel business gain an edge over your competitors as a new emerging start-up in Tour and Travel market.

UNCOVER THE POWER OF SOCIAL MEDIA For any business, acquiring a new customer is a huge challenge in itself. Entrepreneurs in the travel space should also aim at building a strong customer base through social media and by employing the principles linked to community building social media. Research and Development by social platforms indicate that the travel business enjoys 50% of the total business coming from repeat business and referrals by the internet.

CONCRETE ON A PLAN OF ACTION Any business proposition calls for a well-thought-after plan and a travel business is no exception to this primary requirement. While keeping a close watch on every small detail, you as an entrepreneur should look into the market specifications that

It is for this reason that travel agencies should invest in building strong customer relationships through social media interactions via direct and clear and information about tours and services. Another factor is the feed baking process to allow your tourists to share all their travel experiences on social networking sites so that others can have an idea about your services and it will add new customers to your travel database. Personal recommendations can help you build a strong tourist community when you maintain a constant touch with your customers.

Govern your tour-planning business agency. If you plan to establish a home-based travel agency or small-scale travel business, you need to tie up with a host travel agency (Bigger one), which will provide you with the status of an independent contractor for planning and plotting of tours. Alternatively, if you want to set up an online travel business, you should have a welldesigned website that compels visitors to sign up with you and get your services directly.

It is very important that you hire the professional services of a web developer and SEO expert for your travel website if you are not an IT pro. You should ensure that your website shows up compelling content. An easy-to-update website is a boon to travel agencies. Entrepreneurs should strive to optimize their online travel interfaces so that their website gets the top search engine rankings.

MAINTAIN YOUR TRUST IN THE MARKET The primary motive is to provide your customers with the best services as a service business of travel. Secondly, this business is to stand apart from your competitors, so you can support your travel website with WordPress. A WordPress certified website provides a higher level of security as well as business in terms of your web and e-commerce applications by employing encryption technology. Make a section of feedback for maintaining trust over society.

PARTICIPATE IN TRAVEL BUSINESS EVENTS Another actionable tip that will work for opening a travel business is to attend trade events that are organized in your locality. Such meetings for the travel business will provide you with invaluable information about your travel industry and its trends. Alongside helping, you to meet some important and notable people connected to your travel industry. You will simply get a chance to interact with the participants and spread the word about your upcoming travel agency.

KNOW YOUR COSTUMERS SECURITY DEMANDS In addition to signing up for a travel website, you need to go a step further to secure the confidential information of your customers. It is because everyone wants data security. It is the need of the hour for your travel agency to comply with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS) guidelines. Adhering to these rules and explain these to customers make you an industry pro for the travel market.

BUILD CUSTOMERS RELATIONSHIP While aiming to carve a niche for yourself in the already competitive travel business space, entrepreneurs and homebased small-scale business persons should aim at specializing their business. For this, you simply need to select a couple of potential itineraries and aim at resolving all the queries of your target audience who connected with your business.

MEET THE LEGAL REQUIREMENTS It is indeed a simple task to set up a travel agency, but it can be difficult when it comes to legal stuff. However, all the entrepreneurs should meet certain requirements as per the law of the land. Certifications and licenses are some of the legal requirements that your business should meet for opening a traveling agency. Additionally, you should also come up with a formal name for your business along with applying for a Tax ID number.

Given the fact, the internet provides volumes of travel-based information, you are deliberate and consistent attempts to offer help to your target audience can differentiate you from others. Therefore, the trick here is to identify the specific travel needs of tourists and address them by providing personalized solutions and ease of travel. This way, you will be able to build long-term business relationships with your clientele.

FUNDS AND MONEY MATTERS Planning a travel agency involves a lot of thought about the funding requirements. In the event you plan to set up a brick and 31

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ORIGIN INTEGRATED STUDIOS Delivering Cutting-Edge Software Solutions In The Healthcare Domain

Dr. Amit Mishra | Business Connect In the past few years, Malaysian Healthcare has grasped the attention of masses across the globe due to the smooth best-in-class healthcare experience and affordable quality care offered to the travellers. Malaysia is one of the well-reckoned countries attaining the fame for medical tourism in Southeast Asia. This industry is said to be booming in the near future as the number of ageing population in the country is increasing significantly. The entrepreneurs in this domain can seek golden opportunities as the time passes by. Origin Integrated Studios is scaling the heights in the private healthcare by offering innovative software solutions for Malaysia and its regions. It is converged to render software development services in the healthcare industry and striving to form a long- term relationship with its consumer base. It has become one of the fastestgrowing Multimedia Super Corridor(MSC) software development and solutions company, headquartered in Kuala Lumpur. Incepted in the year 2015, it managed to expand its verticals in the Asian countries especially in Indonesia within a year only. Presently, it has collaborated with its consumer base for the sake of their business expansion in the Philippines, Vietnam, and South Korea. The Firm is currently serving in over 20 hospitals and 15 clinics in Malaysia and Indonesia. Offering exceptional services in the healthcare industry such as Hospital Information System (HIS) and Electronic Medical Record (EMR), the Company has become a leading EMR solution provider with the largest implemented market share for EMR in Malaysia. During the initial phase, it started with a handful team of software developers in a confined workstation at suburb Petaling Jaya. But today, their technical team has grown exponentially to over twenty; projecting an accelerated growth of approximately 100%.

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EXCLUSIVE CLIENTELE It is an onerous and challenging task to implement the HIS and EMR solutions offered by the Company at the old hospitals. But, Origin has now acquired tremendous experience in transforming old hospitals that are about 45 to 116 years old. Some of the hospitals belonging to the oldest group in the country are Loh Guan Lye Specialists Centre, Mount Miriam Cancer Hospital, Assunta Hospital and Perak Community Specialist Hospital, etc. At the early stage, Origin offered its services to a single standalone hospital, but currently, it is serving several group hospitals and clinics in Malaysia. Their excelling success stirred the domain and they were offered subsequent opportunities to replicate to another within the group. At present, Origin is offering its exclusive services to Putra Group of Hospitals, Sunway Healthcare Group, and B Braun dialysis clinics.

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ACKNOWLEDGING THE SIGNIFICANCE OF R&D Research & Development serve as the most essential way to ensure progressive brand development by being in synergy with the market dynamics. This arena can assure incremental innovation in the services to be offered in any of the domain. The CEO asserts that innovation is more of an adaptation to the wavering demands of the relevant market. Origin has always considered R&D quite essential pertaining to its growth strategies to expand its verticals. It bolster them to remain competitive for sustainability and prolonged survival. The perceptive CEO states, There is no escape for Origin than to incorporate technologies such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) and to integrate with Internet of Things(IoT), m Health, telemedicine and patient monitoring devices such as vital signs monitor and wearables. We do not reinvent the wheel, but we work closely with our technology partners to provide a total comprehensive solution to fulfil our customer’s requirements in the respective domain.

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A GLANCE AT THE WORKCULTURE The technical division of the Company is segregated into different teams. And each team converges on specific modules and further divides into more

confined spheres such as development and support. They wholeheartedly embrace the vibrant diverse culture of coaching and on-the-job practical skills, upgrading and learning from each other rather than the usual internal trainings. The Management offers flexible working hours to the employees but also ensures proper performance measurement of the task assigned to them. They keep a check on the quality of work and rewards the talents that rose up by outperforming others. The team members are in great harmony with each other even while working with the new norm of ‘Working From Home’,owing to COVID-19 outbreak. The Company ensures respect and protection to its employees and also conducts regular appraisal with them to maintain a balance. They acknowledge and appreciate the diverse talent that has been assembled in the Workforce; making strenuous efforts to retain them in the organization. MEET THE CREATOR OF THE COMPANY Intending to keep up with the high demands of the newly established hospitals of Malaysia, the CEO, Kenneth Kee set up Origin Integrated Studios to constitute innovative products with an adroit team of software developers. He attends conferences and seminars to stay in tune with the industry veterans, healthcare specialists, and healthcare solution vendors. Kenneth initially started his career as a Sales Executive, serving an ICT Consulting Company in Asia. He was associated with the same domain for around 18 years and offered his services in banking, manufacturing, and healthcare industries. He was determined to upgrade the conventional old technological system in the hospitals by rendering healthcare digitalization. Kenneth says that the commencement of this venture took place with a request from a local healthcare provider that required a state-of-theart comprehensive EMR with HIS solution. And now, it has emerged out as one of the fastest-growing MSC Status software development and solutions companies.

Amidst COVID-19 crisis most of the hospitals are forced to seek Telehealth solutions to serve the patients from home who are reluctant to visit the hospital. In this context, the Company integrated its solutions to an external mobile appointment system to facilitate the patients in direct online banking payment. Utilizing this exclusive offering from their end, patients can now make payment after teleconsultation for consultation services and medication to be delivered at their doorsteps. STERLING ACHIEVEMENTS In the past five years of its exclusive services, Origin has bagged numerous awards proudly. It has earned top industry honours and accolades for its performances and exceptional contribution to the healthcare community. Over the last two years, the Company has impressively bagged more than ten awards in its favour, from Small and Medium Enterprise(SME) association, mainstream media newspaper and magazine, consulting firm, the Government, and more essentially branding awards that included Superbrands and The Brand Laureate. It was also offered appreciable rank by Financial Times and Statista in Asia Pacific High-Growth Companies 2020 and Malaysia’s Growth Champions 2020 respectively. Origin has aimed to commence venture in Philippines and Vietnam, in the near future, primarily serving the Asia Pacific region. It is in close collaboration with the partners in delivering HIS and EMR solutions; willing to join hands with the right allies while pursuing their future outlooks. The Firm is striving to make its platform well-reckoned at the global level with offering comprehensive avant-garde solutions to its consumer base.

Being the leader of the Company, Kenneth always ensured synchrony with the wavering market trends.

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An exceptional Augmented and Virtual Reality Service Provider Sugandh Bahl | Business Connect Newer and more advanced developments in technology have been successful in bringing dynamic transformation in multitude business sectors. With a blend of new innovation and technical evolution, Augmented and Virtual Reality are revolutionizing different systems and processes to escalate enterprise growth and success.

in Japan and Nepal with a technical and sales office in Tokyo and development center in Kathmandu. With over 75 employees, including 45 artists and 30 engineers and developers, our scope and scale allow us to provide expertise in more areas than smaller competitors. While our offshore development center allows us to provide very high-quality services and best-in-class rates.

We at Business Connect are fortunate to have with us, Ken Ehrhart, Founder & CEO, Paracosma Inc. In a conversation with him, we have covered some indispensable intricacies of Paracosma and its significant contribution to the AR/VR domain.

How do you ensure the unbreakable faith of clients in your company? In many cases, we are providing services for companies that are not broadly available because of the fast pace of AR and VR innovations. Thus, we are usually engaged in long-term partnerships where we are working together with the client to envision what is possible to meet their requirements. We are honest about the current limitations and future potential of AR and VR to develop the most advanced solutions that are realistically possible. This type of open collaboration engenders confidence in our ability to deliver on results that exceed expectations.

Please walk us through your company profile and its services. Paracosma is an Augmented and Virtual Reality (AR/ VR) Service Provider. Its services include 3D content creation, 360 videos, application development, and project implementation across a broad range of AR & VR platforms. Additionally, Paracosma creates its own content in the gaming, entertainment, tourism, enterprise and education/ training spaces. Paracosma also has proprietary technology for producing, viewing, managing and distributing 360-degree photo and video content.

How do you keep pace with the changing market trends? Because of our large team of experts with experience across a broad range of AR, VR and 3D platforms, we are able to keep abreast of the latest innovations in the field.

What kind of clients do you serve, any special mentions? We primarily serve larger enterprise clients who are embracing the potential of AR & VR.

Because of our low costs we are able to experiment with new technologies before they can deliver ROI (return on investment) as part of current commercial projects. Thus, when the technology matures, we already have an understanding of its unique strengths and benefits.

For AARP, the 38 million-member US non-profit serving aging consumers, we have been producing brain fitness games for their Alcove VR application for Oculus Go and also a version of Alcove for the Magic Leap AR glasses. The applications were recently demoed at the 2020 CES show in Las Vegas.

What’s the newer or newest technology that your Company uses? We are focused on developing delivery platforms and processes to turn previously difficult and expensive custom solutions into low-cost, easily deployable high-quality turnkey products. This lowers the barrier to entry for clients seeking to integrate AR and VR into their current business processes.

We also recently announced a partnership with UrsaLeo, an IoT (Internet of Things) company. We are producing realistic 3D digital twins of UrsaLeos’ clients’ facilities to enable them to visualize real-time sensor data on a clear representation of the actual space.

Do you believe R&D is essential for the growth of the company? R&D is a critical component of our planning and growth expectations. We are currently conducting R&D across numerous areas where we believe we can develop innovative new business lines and products. Because of the newness of the field, it is not easily possible to determine the timing and scale of new opportunities. Thus, having multiple projects under development simultaneously offers the greatest assurance that we will continue to grow revenues and clients faster than more constrained competitors.

We are also providing VR Training for Oil & Gas and Medical applications; AR for manufacturing machine maintenance, holographic videos for management training, and photorealistic 3D models for photography replacement, a 360 video distribution platform and other services. What makes you different from others? Paracosma Inc. is a US-based company with headquarters in San Francisco, and wholly-owned subsidiary companies www.businessconnectindia.in | Vol. 4 | Special Edition August 2021 INDIA

Apart from work, what else do you like to spend your time doing? Paracosma founded a team that is now one of just 77 Qualified Teams in the ANA Avatar XPRIZE Competition. It is a fouryear competition to design a robotic avatar that allows a minimally trained user through VR technology to immersively interact with and help another human in a remote environment. There is no immediate commercial benefit for Paracosma’s AR & VR clients, but the competition is an exciting chance to branch out into robotics, sensor tech, machine vision, AI, telecommunications and other fields that are necessary for success. What are the achievements and milestones of the company? Since Paracosma’s founding four years ago, we have been able to consistently grow our team, clients and revenues at a rapid and sustainable pace. This has been possible, in large part by turning one-time projects into long-term client relationships. We now have ongoing monthly and multi-year repeat business that creates a stable base from which to grow. The launch of our in-house developed VR game, called Unnamed VR, provides a great example of our capabilities for our enterprise clients, while providing a very entertaining experience for consumers.

What does the future hold for the company? Paracosma plans to continue to strengthen its position in AR, VR and 3D content creation in parallel with the growth in those markets. We are excited to see the industry’s progress and are optimistic that we can continue to expand at an even faster pace. Lastly, what message would you like to give to the readers of the Business Connect magazine? The transition to 3D digital technology goes far beyond the scope of consumer AR & VR. Looking at the evolution from plain text to HTML websites and voice to video in the past, we see the current advance is from 2D imagining to 3D. We have retail clients saving millions of dollars a year on photography costs through the use of rendered 3D models. We see movie production moving from live-action sets to green screens combined with entire environments rendered in 3D game engines. These trends are inevitable and accelerating.

Ken Ehrhart Founder & CEO

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Health

How to re-energize yourself at work Tiredness at work is a lack of energy, motivation, and concentration towards work. The all-too-worn-out phrase, Energy is the power that enables us to do work and gives stamina for doing hard work, gets at the crux of the “chicken or egg” problem. However, you can hold so much power over yourself by following some easy ways to reenergize whenever you are feeling low. We all believe that a day just has 24 hours and you too only have so much energy at your disposal on any given day. You may be surprised to find out that our bodies hold the equivalent of 1.86 million kilotons of TNT energy or 88,403 times more explosive energy than the hydrogen bomb that destroyed the whole city. Not the right picture to understand, but you get the point in the head by this example. A person has more energy in them, where we can imagine a person as a human-machine to work accordingly. Now how do you harness the situation of Tiredness and know about why you are so tired? The first step is to realize that tiredness in your body, mind, and spirit’s way of telling you that something is out of balance. Sleep: Poor Quality Studies have shown that nightshift work and sleep duration of fewer than six hours or greater than nine hours is detrimental to your health in terms of lack of proper sleep. Besides, taking sleep medication to obtain optimal hours of sleep does not ensure improved sleep quality, this will affect badly. How do you know if you have poor sleep quality or quantity? First, ask yourself the following questions: • Do I wake up tired? • Do I wake up with a dry smelly mouth? • Do I wake up with a headache? • Do I get up at night more than once to urinate? • Do I snore? www.businessconnectindia.in | Vol. 4 | Special Edition August 2021 INDIA

If you experience any of these, you may have sleep apnea and should discuss your sleep further with your doctor. Meditate10 minutes of deep breathing and clearing your mind before bedtime. This way is amazingly good for you to give your best time to sleep. There is much soft music available as meditation music and programs to choose from a list. Take a bath and lit a few candles and a couple of drops of your favourite oil into running water is pure heaven at the end of a long day and make you pamper. Do not caffeinate yourself after 5 pm as a normal person at work already had 2-3 drinks per day. Exercise boost your body Exercise during working life does not mean heavy gymming and early morning walk; most of us do not get enough of it to do. However, a normal person needs at least 30 minutes of exercise every day. It can be anything like a walk after lunch at the office or using stairs and steps. You do not need to spend any vast amounts of money on gym fees or classes for fitness just follow your steps and think of as many ways you can do for yourself. The simplest way to get more exercise is to incorporate it into your daily routine with 10 minutes of meditation as an exercise of mind and 10-20 minutes’ walk after your mid-meal. If you practice this method, then you do not have to spend any extra money on the gym. You can also set your alarm 30 minutes earlier than usual and can go for a brisk walk before breakfast if you can do. A walk before breakfast energizes your body and mind, getting the blood flowing and your heart pumping so that you will work as a pro at your working place. Moreover, best of all this walk, it is free! If you cannot go in the mornings, then try to incorporate a walk into your daily routine like lunch and dinner walk. In another way, you take public transport to work, then hop off a few stops earlier and walk the rest of the way. If you drive for the work, then take at least 30 minutes at work during the day to go for a walk. In this way, not only will your body benefit, but also your brain, when you get back to work. Let us look into 12 other ways that can energize you at work:1. Medication and it calmness effects 2. Playtime during work and at home with kids 3. Create a ‘not to do’ list at night before sleeping 4. Walk and talk at work, wherever it is possible 5. Oxygenating your body by an adequate amount of liquid and exercise 6. Drinking natural spring water to be on top 7. Belly laughing with company and home makes you mentally happy 8. Planting and gardening for feeling good 9. Group sports and exercise to keep yourself fit 10. Expressing Gratitude towards everyone 11. Honour special occasions as the best time ever 12. Good food and Juicing for diet

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Recreating An Exemplary Recruitment Process For The Aspirants

PRADEEP KUMAR PADHI Founder & CEO

Sanjay Kumar | Business Connect Unemployment is one of the monolithic problems of this nation; youngsters acquire the Bachelor’s or Master’s degrees in their respective streams, but they face a lot of struggle to find the optimum jobs. This needs to be dealt with by the rational minds of the nation. Innovative ideas with sound technology provide aid to youngsters for dealing with this existent issue. Recany has brought a drastic and positive change in the recruitment process of our country.

competitive phase, companies want the best individuals to work with them. “We provide the placement opportunities to youth; companies are benefitted from our process by having extremely skilled employees.”- says Pradeep Corporate Scenario of the Company Companies, in the present scenario, want highly talented individuals who are efficient, and for the obvious reasons are not lacking in ethics. Recany plays a vital role in rendering the best employees to clients. Following are the reasons why companies want to invest in it. • Recany has a highly skilled workforce that is built on referral and successful partnership. • Recruiters possess a clear understanding and are exceptionally skilled in identifying the topmost talents around the globe and matching them with the client’s needs. • Recany has an amazing record in the recruitment process. It provides 85% fill ratio for each open position they are aligned within the stipulated time period. • 90% of candidates they provide who continue to work for more than 2 years. • The process is pure and transparent; clients never feel the trace of dishonesty.

Inside story of Recany Recany (formerly known as JJ Consultants) is one of the top-notch recruitment companies in India which serves both national and global staffing needs. The inception of this organization took place in 2008, since then, it is setting a breaking record. For the continuous progress of Recany, Mr. Pradeep Kumar Padhi has put all his vital energies and always being the backbone of it. Recany has created an extremely potent and intelligent team which helps the organization to achieve the toughest goals in the most adverse situations by applying out-of-the-box thinking. The foremost and prime responsibility of Recany is to hire talented employees for different companies. In this www.businessconnectindia.in | Vol. 4 | Special Edition August 2021 INDIA

Commendable services offered by the enterprise In today’s times, when the trust is falling apart over the recruitment companies; Recany, on the other hand, is continually winning the hearts and faith of its clients. By offering the exemplary services, unshakeable confidence, it is creating on the minds of clients. Let’s look over the services; the leading organization has to give:

Traits which make Recany different from the Competitors Undoubtedly, in the reign of competition, companies need to show their uniqueness in the market so that they can beat an intense competition. There are some traits which make Recany a powerful recruitment company, from which other companies of the same league have a fear of. According to Pradeep, an ardent; their transparency, genuine behavior, to the point recruitment, fast process and the result- oriented strategy are the traits which make Recany stands strong in front of its rivals.

. Permanent Recruitment The process is not temporary which means Recany provides the best-suited individuals to various industries in the shortest span by collaborating with the companies of all types and sizes in the search of excellent talent.

“If there is no competition, there is no interest and urge to improve.” There is a major transformation happening for startups, over the years in the field of recruitment, for which the team of Recany prepares itself and always strives for the uniqueness in the process.

Recruitment Process Outsourcing Recany provides customized, scalable and flexible Recruitment Process Outsourcing solutions (RPO) for the requirement of skilled candidates with the desired profiles.

Learning from Challenges Pradeep faced a lot of challenges during an initial phase of the enterprise; to overcome them he worked so hard which is evident from the company’s success. He enjoyed the challenges during his struggling period. Constant learning attitude is the supreme factor which makes Recany a regal enterprise in the market.

Contract/Temporary Staff Recruitment A Contract/temporary Staff can lead to cost savings and enhanced productivity for the organization. It also enables you to focus on your business without many overheads each month. Embrace flexibility and business freedom with Recany’s quality contract staffing services. International Jobs Placement and Visa Youngsters, after accomplishing their academic tenure or acquiring experience in their jobs, want to go overseas to test their truest potential. International companies also want to hire talented employees who can work efficiently for them.

There is no comparison of encouragement / aggressiveness with SELF CONFIDENCE. Clients associated with Recany Pradeep’s strong relations with the clients develop unbreakable trust and faith over him. The man has dominated over all verticals such as Mechanical, Aerospace, Oil & gas, Electrical, BPO, IT, Electronics, FMCG, Automobile, Healthcare, Commercial, Retail, and Startup hiring.

Recanny has successfully placed many job seekers in Dubai, Sharjah Malaysia, Thailand, Maldives and other countries and has provided various visa services like Visit Visa, Work Permit and Employment Visa to its candidates so that they do not face obstacles to start new in abroad.

Tycoon possesses a positive growth mindset; each client inspires him to work harder with the same zeal and passion.

Critical Recruitment Process for the potent candidates As already mentioned above, Recany works for recruitment both in India and globally; the process of hiring recruitment is the same in both cases. There are some norms that excellent team of Recany has designed to filter the cream layer out of the total candidates. So, let’s talk in detail the underlying process:

Some personal Insights! An entrepreneur always keeps an astounding balance between his personal and professional life; there is no compromise between the two. When he is not working then we find him spending his leisure time with family. Whenever got time, he used to take his Mother for Religious Tour. As per him “He is always blessed by MAA”. He is a family-oriented individual; it is his strength, the source of daily motivation.

The first requirement from the candidates has updated CV in MS-WORD format in accord to their sample CV. Curriculum Vitae should include all the relevant information such as educational history, work experiences, personal information, and contact details. In case of Mechanical / Technical Candidate has to include the photos of their Machine, Product & mention their Client name. There should not be any kind of discrepancy in the CV; it ought to be true. After getting the CV, Recany will match the CV with the current requirements. Suiting the requirements, there will be two telephonic interview rounds with the candidate from the consultancy. After executing these steps, they schedule client interview either through Skype or Telephone. Once after completing the client interview, they need five working days to update the candidate about the result. They will take multiple interviews matching his/her profile if not shortlisted in the first go. Once after getting finalized by the employer, Recany will confirm the candidate about his/her joining in the Company.

Pradeep’s father, Lt. Sri Chandra Sekhar Parhi, played a crucial role in his life journey and being a role model in business/entrepreneurial world. Achievements and milestones of the company There are breathtaking achievements Recany has achieved. It occupied the space in the top 20 Promising Recruitment Consultants in 2018 by Silicon India Magazine Milestone. Now, it is eager to start work with some European Country Companies. Our future aspiration is to be one of the strong career making consultancies of the current young generation. “One, who respects time, never faces a depraved one.” Lastly added Pradeep. 39

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SECEON INC.

EMPOWERING ENTERPRISES AND MSSPS WITH COMPREHENSIVE CYBERSECURITY PLATFORM FOR THE DIGITAL-ERA

Kiran Mishra | Business Connect

Chandra Shekhar Pandey | CEO and Founder The dominance of digitization across the globe has benefitted humans a lot, but every coin has two sides, so is with the burgeoning digital economy. Several unwanted and alarming cyber threats are imposing a serious security breaches. To counteract threatening issues; there is a dire need of cybersecurity and its implementation for making the processes more secure and reliable. Seceon, the pioneer of the first fully-automated, real-time cyber threat detection, containment and elimination platform has transformed the digital ecosystem. Founded by Chandra Shekhar Pandey, Seceon’s mission is focused on “Cybersecurity done RIGHT.” Seceon empowers Enterprises and MSSPs to provide “Comprehensive Cybersecurity for the DigitalEra”, through the coalescence of Seceon’s Dynamic Threat Models, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence (AI) with actionable contextual awareness to proactively surface threats and breaches that matter as well as to automatically contain and eliminate them in real-time. Seceon offers two solutions that are built on its Open Threat Management (OTM) Platform:

SECEON aiSIEM™

Seceon aiSIEM™ goes beyond traditional SIEM and eliminates the need for adding multiple silo solutions. It ingests raw streaming data – logs from all devices, OS, Apps and Services in the ecosystem (on-premise, cloud); Flows, such as NetFlow, IPFix, sFlow, jFlow from network infrastructure, and subscribes to identity management infrastructure, such as Microsoft® Windows® Active Directory™ service, LDAP, DNS, DHCP, Azure AD, etc.. This streaming platform has functionalities of traditional SIEM, SOAR, user and entity behavioral analytics (UEBA), Network Traffic Analysis (NTA), Network-Based Anomaly Detection (NBAD), Intrusion Detection System (IDS), threat intelligence feeds for correlation and enrichment, advanced machine learning (ML). It also has AI with actionable intelligence and proprietary feature engineering, Policy 2.0 to proactively detect threats/breaches, automatically or via push button containment and elimination of threats in real-time and continuous compliance & reporting. The aiSIEM platform generates meaningful alerts with context and situational awareness and enhanced accuracy from the scores of threat indicators otherwise analyzed by the security experts.

SECEON aiMSSP™

Seceon aiMSSP™ enables Managed Security Service Providers (MSSPs) to offer outsourced security services that include security monitoring for 24x7, threat intelligence, proactive threat detection, elimination and containment in real-time, at minimal and predictable costs. It empowers MSSPs to deliver affordable, managed / co-managed security services - aiMDR, aiSIEM, and aiSOC - to enterprises, SMEs, and SMBs maximizing their revenue-generation. aiMSSP enables MSSPs to grow without having to make significant upfront investments of resources (pay-as-you-grow model) and become a Master MSSP by acquiring new MSSP customers.

HOW ARE YOU DIFFERENT FROM THE COMPETITORS?

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enterprises will not be spared either. As cyber risk continues to grow, and threats become more intelligent and capable, they look at the growth of a comprehensive platform approach eliminating the need for silo solutions that leave gaps in the enterprise security posture. Seceon has been on the cutting-edge of cybersecurity with its innovative platform and solutions and they strive hard each day to stay steps ahead of the competition, providing significant value to our customers.

credentials, insider threats, denial of services for applications & protocols, vulnerability exploits for web/ emails/OS applications, data breaches and exfiltration, IT mistakes, IDS, Network Behaviors and IoT. Factors that separate Seceon’s solution from competitors include: Comprehensive Visibility The OTM Platform ingests all raw streaming data (Logs, Packets, Flows, and Identities) and provides a realtime extensive view of all assets (users, hosts, servers, applications, data access and movement, traffic) that are on-premise, cloud or hybrid and their interactions.

Seceon is led by a team of industry experts in cybersecurity, machine learning, artificial intelligence (AI), fast/big data streaming and dynamic threat modeling. Each member of the leadership team has diverse and unique experience spanning decades of working in cybersecurity and technology.

Reduce Mean-Time-To-Identify (MTTI) with Proactive Threat Detection. The platform proactively detects threats and surfaces threats in real-time without an agent or alert fatigue.

ACHIEVEMENTS AND MILESTONES

Incredible graph of the performance has led the company to win several accolades the solutions it offers. Seceon has won more than 100 cybersecurity awards since it has launched its platform in April 2016, including for both aiSIEM and aiMSSP solutions. Most recently, NextGen Security Information Event Management (SIEM) and Publisher’s Choice Managed Security Service Provider (MSSP) InfoSec awards presented at RSA Conference 2020.

Reduce Mean-Time-To-Resolve (MTTR) with Automatic Threat Remediation The OTM Platform performs automatic threat containment and elimination in realtime. It also provides clear actionable steps to eliminate the threats that can either be taken automatically by the system or manually by the security expert post-analysis. Continuous Compliance, Policy Management and Risk Monitoring The platform provides continuous compliance and scheduled or on-demand reporting for HIPAA, GDPR, PCI-DSS, NIST and many other similar regulations

Gained recognition from leading industry influencers, including 451 Research, Gartner, Ovum, Enterprise Management Associates, IDC Research, CSO International Data Group, Markets and Markets, and Solutions Review, the Company has conquered the Cyber Security space. In 2019, Seceon aiSIEM was named as a leading solution for the “EMA Top 3 Decision Guide for Security Analytics.” Built an award-winning channel partner program, steadily building Seceon’s network of 100+ U.S. and international Managed Service Providers, distribution and reseller partners.

ABOUT THE CLIENTELE

Catering to the requirements of the vast clientele, Seceon has a mix of both Enterprises and Managed Security Service Providers (MSSP) as its customers. These MSSPs have deployed Seceon platform to provide security text to SMEs and SMBs. For creating the trust, it is essential to provide exquisite and impeccable services to the clients. On the same notion, Seceon aspires to provide the most effective and affordable cyber threat detection, containment and elimination solutions so that any organization and add space service provider, regardless of size, can be Seceon continues to be focused. Chandra Shekhar Pandey says, “By empowering our customers to stay protected, we enable them to focus their efforts on what truly matters to them which is, running a successful business”

Also, the company released its 6th generation of the platform in Jan 2020 (one major software release every year).

FUTURE PROSPECTS

Seceon aspires to provide the most effective and affordable cyberthreat detection and elimination solutions so that any organization and managed security service providers (MSSP), regardless of size, can be properly shielded from cyber risks. By empowering their customers to stay protected, they enable them to focus their efforts on what truly matters to them, namely, running a successful business, following their missions.

At Seceon, Inc., they will continue to be laser-focused on adding innovations to aiSIEM and aiMSSP solutions and winning customers & partners around the globe. We are never going to take customers’ and partners’ trust for granted.

The CEO, Chandra Shekhar Pandey says, “We will continue to be laser-focused on adding innovations to aiSIEM and aiMSSP “Comprehensive Cybersecurity for the Digital-Era” solutions and winning partners and customers around the globe. We are never going to take customers’ and partners’ trust for granted.”

SYNERGY WITH THE MARKET TRENDS

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Business Culture

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Lets talk about the nursery classes. Do you remember your first lesson??Yes!! We alllearnt the very first thing in our childhood is A B C D, learning alphabets first and then learnt how to make sentences. Similarly in the case of enterprises, a leader first have to gain the knowledge of the basic alphabets of entrepreneurship. A leader is the one who carries the load of enterprise in such a brilliant manner that event concludes in successful crowning. The best result comes out of best efforts only. Entrepreneur has the responsibility to direct, command, organize and to analyze each & every pinpoints of the organization. In this article, we the team of business connect magazine are going to elaborate the A B C D of the entrepreneurship to mold it more easy informing the sentences of triumphs in the annual report card.

A – AMBITIOUS

A entrepreneur should have the powerful desire to achieve something and ambitious about the goals that had been targeted to accomplish.

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B – BRILLIANT

Every mind get rewards for its brilliancy and excellent approaches to tackle the odds in perfect time.

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Let’s start the nursery classes for the potential leaders to get the basic plethora of know-hows more effectively.

C – CALM

Calmness is something that gives one a positive and relaxed sensation in the tough times.

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as it is truly a necessary and most pleasant value that one can have.

D – DEDICATED

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A person who is dedicated towards life and determined for his up works can only slate the glory in his board.

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Innovation and you!! All goes along with each other. Complex and outdated things are never preferred by anyone. People are curious about NEW and serving the NEW is your work.

E –ENTHUSIASTIC

Energy in right direction can make anything in its favor, a enthusiastic person can turn every stone for the organization’s goodwill.

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F – FORESIGHTED

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G – GOAL– ORIENTED

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L – LOYAL

Loyalty always reward sugar pocket out of bursting balloons. The one who is loyal to organization is equally loyal to nation.

H –HONEST

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K – KINETIC ENERGY

According to science, kinetic energy is anything in motion. In entrepreneurship we say, kinetic energy as the dreams in motion to shape reality.

To be a focus and goal oriented is very important thing to pursue in one’s nature. Just remember that “Framing the goals in the right courts can onlylead to win points on score card”

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J –JUDICIOUS

A firm walks on the path designed by YOU, being protected and logical about the decisions and fair enough for the whole thing is a needed quality.

Lets start from the beginning, what is the initial phase of any business. Yeah! A business idea, it is a picture of future for which one works in present. Only fore sighting eyes can see the difference between failures and success.

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I – INNOVATOR

M – MOTIVATED MOVER

Motivation gives breath to soul for indulgingoneself to the whole. A motivated mover can inspire the individual, group, organization and also the universe. 42

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N – NOVATURIENT

Battles are part of life, one owes to fight the battles of roller coaster life by their own. An entrepreneur is same like warrior who fights with own risk to win the crowns.

The person who has powerful desire of change in life and situation, such person can raise high tides of creation and uniqueness in the ocean.

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O – OPTIMISTIC

Rigidness is equal to limitness. Versatilityscopes the business much wider than expected as you are not limited within the boundaries.

Optimistic approach is concerned issue for a psychological of potential entrepreneur. Seeing the things 360° is very important and must have ingredient for a successful entrepreneur.

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P – PRECISE and PASSIONATE

Q – MAKER

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DECISION

R – REALISTIC APPROACH

While employing funds, one shouldhave the proper engagement of knowing the probable properties of present investments for gaining future endeavors.

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S – STRATEGIC MIND

Z –ZEAL FUL

An entrepreneur pensthe picture of respect by grace, utmost zeal, passion and efficiency. All the business need a standviz. the pillar of efforts.

Making things profitable are in the hands of business minds. One should have pre determined strategies for the situations likely to occur.

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Y – YIELDING INVESTMENTS

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Dreams are must but finding thatthe dreamhas anyrealizablevalue or not is more important. A person should rely on real environment and realistic approach so as to assure feasibility.

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X – The X FACTOR

What makes you different from other is THE X FACTOR. One should know the value of self. So, just go and check out what’s your X FACTOR.??

All the organization’s structure juggles upon decision making. Delay or pendency in decision making leads to messed up situations and increase in cost of the projects too.

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W – WEALTH CREATION

Just tell me one thing- why are we reading entrepreneurship?? I mean why we think of doing business?? The reason is same – For profit. Everything in a business ends on creating wealth. So, a entrepreneur should keep in mind that the decision he is going to make should have enough worth.

Nothing goes far except preciseness Perfection is not impossible, the only thing required for being PERFECT is to be PASSIONATE for the desires.

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V – VERSATILE

T – TRANSPARENCY

When you put a transparent sheath over the works, it become more likely to resort customers BACK to you. Customer are the king and king should know every thing that is must for him to know.

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U – ULTIMATE FIGHTERS

Wrapping up the lecture of Alphabets of entrepreneurship in a nutshell. We hope that it might be helpful for you to get new mind winds. Wishing you a wonderful entrepreneurship ahead!!. 43

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STEWART F. LANE

The Man Who Made Theatre a Digital Experience Indranil Roy | Business Connect Has streaming become the new face of theatre? During the pandemic, the answer is definitely “yes.” Although the authentic experience of live theatre can only be enjoyed physically, digital platforms have ushered live entertainment to a whole new era and will remain a part of the industry post lockdown. Streaming visionary and six-time Tony Award winner, Stewart F. Lane speaks on this, “I have been involved with filming stage to screen productions for many years because I believe it expands the audience for Broadway”. Lane is an eminent theatre producer with a decades long career of critically acclaimed live shows and he is co-owner of the legendary Palace Theater. In 2015, Lane founded BroadwayHD and it is transforming the Broadway industry by streaming full length shows on the Internet. BroadwayHD has often been referred to as the “Netflix for Broadway”. In it’s short history, BroadwayHD has made the Guinness World Record for the first live stream of a Broadway show, won eight Telly Awards, been nominated for a Webby, and amassed subscribers in 124 countries. Meanwhile, the average age for a Broadway ticket buyer dropped for the first time in over 20 years. This change in demographics is evidence that by making Broadway accessible to a younger and more diverse audience on the Internet, it is motivating them to buy tickets to the live stage shows. BroadwayHD is proving to be a win-win for everyone who loves Broadway by serving the current Broadway fan and ensuring a strong audience for the future. ONE-OF-A-KIND STREAMING PLATFORM BroadwayHD is a niche subscription streaming platform having full-length stage plays and musicals captured specifically for multiplatform viewing to theatre fans across the globe. BroadwayHD offers unlimited on-demand access to a library of 300+ theatre productions from Broadway to every subscriber. Every piece of content on the platform is a treasure as it had to cross several barriers before hitting the spotlight. The platform is engineered by a team of theatre enthusiasts, tech-experts and digital marketing specialists, whose combined focus resides on making theatre available to everyone. “The ticket-buying audience for the live stage shows is easy to reach and affluent. And theatre fans that could not afford tickets or get to the theater are thrilled to have access to a brand previously unavailable to them”, asserts Lane. BroadwayHD’s Motto - “If You Can’t Get to Broadway, Get to BroadwayHD”. BroadwayHD’s positive reviews, an enormous fan base and international recognition fuel its popularity for their digital filmed shows. The platform is barrelled with emerging innovations so that subscribers get access to a robust and dynamic library of continuously streaming content. Incorporating subscriber feedback and staying ahead of technology trends creates opportunity for new shows and builds a constant pipeline for streamed contents. www.businessconnectindia.in | Vol. 4 | Special Edition August 2021 INDIA

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LIVE THEATER BACKGROUND Lane’s motivation in establishing BroadwayHD is driven by an exceptional career in the theatre arena. His passion and love for theatre started in childhood after seeing Neil Simon’s “Little Me” on Broadway. Making up his mind to pursue a career in theatre, he attended Boston University and received a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in Acting. After five years starring in regional theater and touring productions, Lane wanted to return to New York so he set his sights on producing. Lane worked on Broadway as an Assistant House Manager and eventually secured a position working for his mentor James M. Nederlander. Lane’s experience and love of live theater has led him to his place as a theater historian. Lane has authored the books - Black Broadway: African Americans on the Great White Way, Jews on Broadway: An Historical Survey of Performers, Playwrights, Composers, Lyricists and Producers, 2d Ed. and Let’s Put on a Show! Theatre Production for Novices. These books are a holisticguide to anyone aspiring to a career in theatre production and those interested in the rich history of theater.

Lane not only re-defined the theatre experience but has also given back to the theatre community. Lane serves on the Board of Trustees at Boston University, The Actors Fund and The American Theatre Wing. He has formed scholarship funds at Columbia University Business Graduate School, Boston University College of Fine Arts Undergraduate School and UMass among others. He has actively supported LaGuardia High School and many other performing arts schools across the US. In honour of his efforts, Five Towns College has renamed their business school the Stewart F. Lane School of Business for his contributions to the World of Entertainment.

Lane launched a Trailblazer’s Rail of Content on BroadwayHD to impart support to the marginalized voices – Women, LGBTQ and other under represented communities. BroadwayHD shines a spotlight on the under represented so that they are encouraged to pursue similar opportunities as the established artists. In his journey to revamp theatre culture, Lane aims to infuse his platform with engaging content and cement his ultimate goal of creating accessibility for all. He further comments, “I look forward to more vibrant content and my place as a mentor and advisor to inspire the next generation of theatre-makers and audiences.”

A COURTEOUS AMBIENCE ‘Safety’, ‘Respect’ and ‘Community’, these are the three core values that uphold BroadwayHD. Lane envisioned this platform not only to propagate the splendour of Broadway but to empower theatre enthusiasts as well. At BroadwayHD, whether it’s employees, the subscriber’s data or content – everyone and everything exult a wholesome environment. The cohesiveness amongst these propels the brand to a broader community and helps it thrive. Every team member puts forth an equilateral love and appreciation for the theatrical productions and responsibly protects and promotes that content. A lot of Lane’s and his team’s efforts go to live stage shows but still, they manage a work-life balance by spending time with their families on weekends and vacations.

in yourself – it is the best investment “ Believe for your career and life. Be sure of what you WORDS OF WISDOM BY STEWART F. LANE

are doing and the audience you are attracting. And always be ready for a roller coaster ride of winning and losing!

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BESTOWED WITH REVERENCE AND ACCOLADES Lane’s eminence and experience make him a connoisseur of his segment and constantly powers his goal to re-define Broadway shows. Through his media technology platform, he has sculpted the long-standing art from an elitist form to an art form accessible to everyone. “Our shows are priceless, and we treat them that way and our content partners appreciate that and the subscribers adore it”, Lane exclaims wholeheartedly. He has produced the Olivier winning Top Hat, and Olivier Nominated musicals ‘Thoroughly Modern Millie’ and ‘Ragtime’, and the world premiere of JFK: A musical Drama as well. His longlasting stretch has fostered many more timeless shows and shaped him to the pioneer he is. Lane was bestowed with the Guinness World Record in 2016 for premiering the first Broadway Show (She Loves Me) as a live stream. He has received - 4 Drama Desk Awards, a Drama Critics Circle Award, an Outer Circle Critics Award and a Drama League Award. His productions and talent are further conferred with the prestigious Ellis Island Congressional Medal of Honor, The Actors Fund Medal of Honor, The Jewish National Fund Tree of Life Award, and many other prestigious awards. 45

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HARNESSING TECHNOLOGY XEBIA GLOBAL SERVICES

Xebia Global Services Digital Transformation Company

ANAND SAHAY CEO

Kajal Dobhal | Business Connect COMPANY OVERVIEW

Xebia Global Services is a The Netherlands-based Digital Transformation Company that provides innovative solutions and services to enable organizations to become digital winners. It is organized into Centers of Excellence and specialized in new technology like Agile, DevOps, Continuous Delivery & Integration, Big Data, Cloud, Software Craftsmanship, and Data Centre Automation. In the last fiscal year, Xebia Group’s turnover was USD 100 Million. Mr. Anand Sahay, CEO of the company, and other senior Java specialists were instrumental in starting it in 2001 in The Netherlands. It has grown from a company with a handful of employees based out of the founder’s home into a $100 million company. To cater to the increasing demand from across the globe, Xebia decided to set up in India in 2006. According to Mr. Anand Sahay, CEO, Xebia, “The entrepreneurial ecosystem in India is the third largest in the world. What I do for Xebia is a stint in entrepreneurial upcycling. My experiential knowledge from the earlier parts of my career play a huge role in strengthening what Xebia does. We are not only making a mark in cutting edge technology but also exploring and creating new frontiers.”

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Since then and especially in the last six years, Xebia has been spreading its footprint and has expanded globally to Middle East, USA, UK and in India to cities like Pune, Bangalore and Hyderabad. These are mini Silicon Valleys of India and Xebia has a substantial presence there. Xebians are known for their prolific and profound open source contributions. Xebia is known for turning latest technology trends into significant competitive advantage for customers by creating new solutions.As a software development company, Xebia constantly looks for new ways to thrive. In Xebia, the team members are enhancing their capabilities through partnerships to implement more end to end and innovative solutions for their customers. They have partnered with the industry’s top technology providers to enable collaboration and provide the right kind of solutions to the customers. Digital Transformation is permeating industries — Aviation, Banking, Healthcare, Retail, or E-Commerce and enabling companies to expand their footprints on a global scale. These sectors are embracing digital transformation to bring a paradigm shift in their customer experience. The clients in the banking sector want to digitise their processes, improve mobile and online banking applications, and build “Future of Banking” concepts to remain in close connection with their customers. Airline companies are looking for ways to enhance customer experience across the entire travel value chain—pre-booking, reservations, price optimisation, loyalty programs, in-flight experience — and use analytics to provide improved customer experience by rolling out programs that could provide a fillip to their businesses. This approach has helped Xebia cultivate long-term relationships with over 65 global prestigious clients.

WORK CULTURE AND CHALLENGES

True knowledge workers find Xebia an inspiring place to work where they are challenged by peers. Their open work culture, flat hierarchy, independence provides a perfect balance to people to innovate and also create quality software. Xebia lays great emphasis on the personal development and growth of its people, investing heavily in the knowledge sharing and refinement of skills, through various knowledge sharing programs like XKE’s, XTR, Blogs. People are free to choose a training that would aid and enhance their potential, from anywhere in the world! Xebia Knowledge Exchange (XKE) provided a fortnightly forum to learn and share about the latest and greatest in technology. Techies are encouraged to blog, write books, and participate in new and emerging technology events. To encourage the women employees and to increase their number, Xebia runs a program called #SheTalksTech. Under this, it organises mentorship programs where all women professionals can discuss with an experienced Xebian about their aspirations, areas of interest, challenges faced, and get the support required to grow professionally. In Xebia it’s not just about working on technology, but about harnessing the collective creativity and innovation to create something new; it’s about making a difference! Xebia has global presence and while different geographies come with their own sets of challenges and advantages, their current challenge is the “education around technology”. Today in terms of technology, we are only constrained by our own imagination. If we can imagine it and understand the tools around us, we can build solutions, we can build integrated frameworks, we can quite simply solve problems that deserve tech insight. While Xebia prides itself on its human capital, it is becoming all the more difficult to keep ready a healthy pipeline of folks who are passionate about technology and are skill ready for using cutting edge technologies.

FUTURE PLANS

Today the technology industry is undergoing a tectonic shift. For business growth it is critical to be at the forefront of technology and digital transformation. Transformation must happen at the core of a company’s business model, processes, and infrastructure. It needs disruptive thinking and innovation. Xebia encourages its people to work on new ideas and latest and upcoming technologies to foster a culture of innovation. If the idea is commercially viable, it helps it to spin it off as a separate company (a mini startup) within its Holding Company. Xebia provides the right kind of support to achieve scale and profitability. Companies like Stack state and Xebia Labs were formed based on this premise and spun-off to operate just like any other start-up and at the same time are a part of the Xebia group.

Xebia will continue to be Tech Driven with disruptive domain solutions at the heart of it. They will look for opportunities to grow their technology width as well as take leading positions on the domain side. As a company they want to be seen as a high quality technology services company with a product mindset leading to almost technical debt-free softwares for their customers. Xebia has been predominantly innovating on the tech side of business. In the future they intend to verticalize their services where they also start innovating on the domain side of business. Xebia will start with creating Banking and Financial services & Airlines as two domains where new ideas will be conceptualized to disrupt the business processes itself. Xebia stands perfectly poised for this. 47

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Innovation

Trends That Inspire NEW BUSINESS IDEAS in 2021

Are you looking for a business launch this year?

Welcome to our list of the best small business ideas for 2021. Follow the five simple steps that are generally taken out from across a variety of industries.

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To make a simple list, these businesses must require: • Be positive and get the potential to be profitable now and plan well for many years in the future • Be strong enough to tackle uncertain economic trends • The small business, do not require a Ph.D. or MBA degree with decades of experience. Some require trade school training and simple calculation, a university degree is not much required, while others need only some prior experience and a passion for the industry • A simple idea and determination is the best trend for starting a business, it does not demand large amounts of start-up capital. However, what every start-up business requires is the best dedication, hard work, perseverance, patience and a desire to succeed in every goal.

size. Most of the entrepreneurs and new business startups believe that it will be an important trend for business in 2021. Today, DevOps has a steep learning curve for companies that requires specialized skills to successful deploy, but this will change shortly for betterment. In today’s era, thousands of tools are being developed as we speak and there are plenty of options in the market. Nevertheless, DevOps is regarded as a hot trend for business in 2021. Large vendors were paid hundreds of millions of rupees for tools that make DevOps easier for business. For the past year, he has been developing the next generation of DevOps, which includes a visual interface that dynamically generates code. As the next generation of automated cloud deployment tools becomes more available, new businesses will be able to afford them and use them to deliver features, fixes, and updates at a faster rate.

All the small businesses expect their revenue to grow throughout the new and upcoming year; the outlook of small businesses looks promising. However, 2019 is already gone and over, and you should start planning and considering the business strategies to use in the year 2021.

Social Media Marketing Experts Will Be Key

The overall weightage of small businesses is more than 70 percent and the usage of social media in 2021, will be expected to grow that number over the next few years. Due to this, it is crucial that your business is active on platforms like Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Instagram as a trending source of information regarding the business.

In this article, we will reveal the top five emerging trends for small business owners to pay attention to and discuss how these trends can help you grow in 2021. Here are our top picks for the best small business ideas 2021 based on current trends in business and technologies, in no particular order, just the new trends.

In addition to your independent social efforts for business, you may benefit from hiring a social media influencer to utilize your business with a new idea. These professionals specialize in increasing engagement rates and can leverage their large following to bring attention to the products or services of your business. Hence, it works as the best trends for business in 2021. If you are serious about getting more eyes on your social media marketing campaigns and drives then you are doing good. You may want to research influencers in your industry that can help you by social marketing and proved to be the latest trends for business in 2021.

Direct interactions for community

It is believed that peer and group heads are going to rise in the next decade. Many entrepreneurs in small businesses struggle to find meaning and connection with their communities and they lack sometimes because of interaction and their real preferences. In an increasingly tech-driven world, we all been focused on feedbacks and reviews, but they are not enough; there will be a need for more interaction “truly human interaction”. Hereby, the peer groups will be the place to find that connection. This trend of interaction between every level of the company is very helpful for business in 2021. Hence, the business and company culture works like a clear talk based environment where direct interactions with the community are important.

Remote Work and The Freelance working; New Norm

In the past, business owners and managers believed that if their employees were not working from their business location then it is nothing for business and were not being productive. However, the research shows, it is quite the opposite and the remote work is a new trend for business in 2021. A study proved that remote employees put in a full day’s work or more as they are at their best comfort level. Instead of being distracted or unproductive, they will put in more work, and they do not have to waste time commuting to the office by travelling. This thing will be so relaxing for employee and gives more productivity to the employer.

Implementation of machine learning and AI

Machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) are being more integrated nowadays into the business world. The machine learning in a start-up is said to be the best trend to inspire new Businesses in 2021. Expects these technology trends and transform how to live and work shortly. By the implementing of machine learning, you can look at a bright future where the simplest of actions that we inculcate to complex business processes are considered. It is a huge opportunity in the world of business and these technologies bring advancement of work without much workforce that is why many entrepreneurs like machine learning.

Apart from work from home, many small and big companies believe in the Freelancing work environment rather than full-time work culture. Therefore, it is very beneficial for small companies that do not have a big capital or building for employees. Hereby, if you do not currently own a workplace for small business then freelancing the work will be the best trend of 2021 for small business and your hustle could be a great way to get your feet wet as a new entrepreneur.

DevOps availability for businesses of all sizes

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