2# JUNE 2010
MAGAZINE
IN THIS ISSUE NEW OFFiCE AMiT iN SWEDEN MATHEM CRiCKET WiTH OFFiCE AND MORE
MAKES YOU GROW
WORDS OF INDPRO Indpro makes you grow. With these words in mind we came to start Indpro. In this magazine you will get to know our company, our members and our values. We work with values in our company. Values are important. They will guide you, they will give you comfort and provide a foundation for effective communication, production and decision-making. Values provide the foundation for the organization to move forward as one entity. Values provide the informal rules and routines that make the formal organization work as a community of practice pursuing a joint enterprise in the name of the company and its members. These values do not only make our company and members grow, it enables us to provide services to our clients that make them grow. Our mission has always been to make our organization, our members, and our clients grow. And we work towards professionalism and personality. We work towards communication, collaboration and agility. We work together with our clients to achieve business wellness a nd growth. Together we will grow!
04-05 | NEW OFFiCE
06-07 | AMiT iN SWEDEN
08-09 | CRiCKET WiTH OFFiCE
10-11 | MATHEM
12-13 | TECH ViSTA BANGALORE
14-15 | NEW EMPLOYEES
NEW OFFiCE End of last year Indpro grew out of it’s office space. A new bigger office were required and since the office floor above the existing one was free it felt natural to move one floor up.
The new office is filled with bright white on all walls with a touch of Indpro’s colours orange and red. One nice detail is the logo in the reception. Indpro’s logo formed with big letters sticking out of the wall giving a nice 3D-effect. With a capacity for up to 90 employees it makes the new office twice the size of Indpro’s space from the last office.
“The new office is a good sign that Indpro is growing” said Marcus Lippert.
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Indpro’s t-shirt logo design on a board held by Marcus Lippert.
Senior software developer Prakash prepares some tea from the newly installed coffee machine.
Inauguration of the new office. Marcus Lippert holding a speach and cutting the band.
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AMiT iN SWEDEN Amit Mondal one of our Team Leaders at Indpro went to Sweden for two weeks. We asked him to share his experiences with us.
Name: Amit Mondal Age: 33
Origin: Darjeeling, India Civil status: Married
Role description: Team Leader
End of last year you traveled to Sweden for the first time. What was your expectations?
“It was my first foreign trip and as such lot of things was going in my mind. How Sweden will be? How will I feel when I first set my foot in a foreign land? Is it going to be very different from this part of the world? I was though a bit worried about the climate there. Will it be too cold? Whether the clothes I brought is enough? I expected it to be same as what I see everyday in BBC or Discovery Channel but I wanted to feel it by going there! I was getting crazy to set my foot there!
When I saw a board with “Arlanda” written on it from my airplane window, I realized that I am finally in Sweden! It was a great lifetime feeling for me! I said to myself, -”Yes! Finally I’m in a foreign land!”.
Your purpose of visiting Sweden?
It was for attending an IT exhibition where a software product that I have worked day and night for more than 2 years, was going to be made public for the entire world to see and use. That was a great feeling in itself and I was feeling proud and at the top of the world. Besides that meeting top scientists and engineers from throughout the world was an experience in itself. Apart from that I need to work in my clients office so that I understand them better, the way they work and the technologies they deal with.
I worked in my clients place at Kista which I think is termed as the Silicon valley of Sweden. It was a great feeling to meet people with whom you were meeting virtually on Skype everyday for 2 years and finally you meet them face to face. I learned lot of things from them, the way they work! How particular they are about time!
What is your best memory from Sweden?
My best memory from Sweden is that of visiting Alfred Nobel’s museum, the City hall and Concert hall. I was feeling great to visit a place and keep my foot in a place where great people like Einstein, Madam Curie, Mother Teresa, CV Raman, Rabindranath Tagore had once set their foots to get their Nobel Prizes! I was comparing that on one hand there are these sets of great people who wants to move the world forward by their research, discoveries and the other hand we have the negatives who wants to destroy the world we live in! I was immensely motivated by seeing the Nobel Museum where the works of these great giants are displayed!
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OFFiCE AT CRiCKET End of last year Indpro went for a cricket game with the office.
Unfortunaly the Bangalore team Royal Challangers lost the game. But we had a great time toghether at the stadium.
The game was between Royal Challangers Bangalore and Victoria Bushrangers in the Twenty 20 cup.
Cricket is the most popular sport in India. You can see young people playing the game on the fields and even streets where ever you go.
Indpro’s HR Manager, Mr. Vijayasarthy arranged the event. Everything from bus ride from office to stadium and arriving early to make sure we should get good seats and the best of views.
“I had never seen a live cricket game before and i liked it alot” said Navid Khaledi.
Royal Challangers Bangalore vs. Victoria Bushrangers in Twenty 20 cup.
Bangalore vs Victoria Final Score, Results Bangalore: 127/6 Victoria: 133/3 (15.5/20 ov)
Victoria won by 7 wkts (with 25 balls remaining)
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MATHEM Mathem is a new grocery store on internet that offer their customers new and more extended services that are usually offered by e-commerce sites dedicated to selling groceries online.
Mathem specializes in, among other things, an option to search for specific products but also for specific recipes that get automatically transformed to a shopping list with the correct selection and number of products based on how many portions you want. When you are done shopping and you shopping cart is full, you simply check out, pay and get it delivered to your front door.
Mathem also provides services that can customize your search results, recipes and more according to your profile settings where you can give preference to ecological products, lactose free products etc. You can also subscribe to automated orders and readymade weekly menus and also use a feature called “Buy direct� that allows you to enter a list of products and let the website fill your shopping cart automatically.
Mathem was selected as �Best web� by the Swedish magazine Internet World in January 2010.
Indpro helped Mathem to develop the site from scratch and we are still developing the site with new features and optimizations. It is built using ASP.Net and MySQL and has a rich graphical user interface developed with JavaScript, jQuery and Ajax.
For more information, please go to:
www.mathem.se
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Microsoft Research TechVista
MiCROSOFT RESEARCH TECHVISTA Amit Mondal participated in the Microsoft Research TechVista 2010 held in Bangalore.
“It was really a great event and I’m sharing some of the interesting topics that I listened to when i went there” said Amit Mondal.
Exploring new horizons of computing Dr. Hsiao-Wuen Hon, Managing Director Microsoft Research Asia
Managing structured data: What’s new?
Dr. Surajit Chaudhuri, Research Area Manager, Data Management, Exploration and Mining group, Microsoft Research
Verification, testing and statistics
Dr. Sriram Rajamani, Assistant Managing Director Microsoft Research India
Embracing uncertainty: the new machine intelligence
Dr. Christopher M. Bishop, Chief Research Scientist, Microsoft Research Cambridge, Professor of Computer Science at the University of Edinburgh
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Amit Mondal at Microsoft Research TechVista.
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WELCOME TO THE NEW EMPLOYEES OF INDPRO JUNE 2010 | 15
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