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Emerging Technologies from Microsoft: Remove the Limits on Your Business

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Chalk Talk

Industry Outlook

A Peep into the Era of Cloud Computing

Startups Should Migrate to the Cloud DAMIAN CROTTY Founder & CEO

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CloudFX:

Connecting Dark Data with IoT

Transforming IT via Cloud Management Platforms & B2B Service Innovation Futurista

Enterprise Concern

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Cloud Computing in 2020

Hybrid BI Solutions Help in Tackling Data Gravity

BITCOIN is Acquiring Market in One Fell Swoop

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loud Computing buzz has slowed down and by now, people are seeing it for what it is, simply compute, put and store in a different location. Although there are discrete flavors of Cloud in the market, it is predominantly accepted that the Cloud aims to proffer more superfluous environments which are simply scalable. The actuality is that there is an enormous range of offerings that all were the same name tag of Cloud. Eventually, these kind of offerings range from boxes in a warehouse to fully managed industry leading technology in truly prodigious buildings built only to protect the data.

A Different Shade of Blue

The budding benefits of working applications as well as data into the cloud are widely known, but still there is an elephant in the room: when we move to the cloud, we enter a legal gray area and there minefield of privacy and legal implications are not fully understood by anyone. Although, Cloud Computing solves many dilemmas, at the same time generates other dilemmas as well.

Today, Cloud Computing is the biggest game changer within the enterprise since the inception of the Internet and PC. The rate at which technology is changing, coupled with the economic climate, is propelling organizations to scale back IT outlay, increasing productivity, and building a lot of amalgamate solutions as opposed to build everything internally.

Cloud Computing is permitting companies to outsource functions that are not coring to their businesses. A lot of the technology driving cloud computing services is open source software. The hype and novelty surrounding Cloud Computing can be an interruption. So working with any Cloud-focused company is so rewarding for marketers.

Moreover, as cloud computing is in vogue, several new inventions are guiding IT professionals in making strategic decisions in their everyday tactics as they are moving to this IT architecture. As organizations are shifting to IT as a Service for better resource use, this issue of Insights Success Magazine explores how IT companies use the cloud today and provides a roadmap for the future.

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Microsoft: Remove the Limits

Chalk Talk A Peep into the Era of Cloud Computing

Highlights BITCOIN is Acquiring Market in One Fell Swoop

Futurista Cloud Computing in 2020

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Enterprise Concern Hybrid BI Solutions Help in Tackling Data Gravity

Industry Outlook Startups Should Migrate to the Cloud

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16 Digital Transformation Entering the Business World with Perpetuuiti

24 Hanu:

Accelerate Your Ascent to the Cloud

26 Umbrella Infocare: Provide Razor Edge Technology Solutions

30 M-Power:

Experts in Performance Management and Business Intelligence Solutions

34 Cavalry: Paving Your Way to the Cloud

38 Cnetric:

Leveraging Cloud to Deliver Cost-Optimized Commerce and Interactive Solutions

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Damian Crotty Founder and CEO

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loudFX is a strategic technology advisory firm, delivering on the promise of technology as the core driver of business today. Gaining a world-class reputation for their advisory and execution services, they transform customers by re-architecting their entire IT infrastructure, streamlining business intelligence and providing application modernization and migration services.

Originally Headquartered in Singapore but now transitioning their Global operations to California, CloudFX is completely vendor neutral, and they work with customers to take the complexity out of IT-delivering a customized, low-risk and cost-effective solution-positioning technology as the central driving force of business. They believe technology transformation is a journey, and CloudFX is the gateway to its promise. CloudFX has local offices in the United States, Australia, Canada, Singapore, Hong Kong, India and Indonesia and works with organizations worldwide.

Since inception, CloudFX’s primary goal has been to lead and enable customers that are wishing to prosper in the Digital Age through the adoption of industry-leading Cloud platforms, disruptive technology innovation, world class solution quality and proven advanced services, as the primary business model and success differentiators.

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CloudFX’s Raison D’etre The cornerstones of the CloudFX’s value creation strategy are 4 inter-related divisions - Enterprise ITaaS Solutions, Digital Cloud Solutions, CloudFX Labs and CloudFX Managed Services. Common to all of these divisions is a deep experience, platform solution expertise, product development innovation, and solution delivery quality.

Together, these attributes create an unparalleled value chain for CloudFX’s clients to leverage and scale both today and in the future.

Adroit behind CloudFX CloudFX was founded in Singapore in 2009 by Damian Crotty, Founder and CEO, a seasoned veteran executive of the IT industry; with a clear understanding that cloud computing is disrupting business as usual and a clear vision of setting the global standard of excellence for delivering upon the promise of technology by simplifying the process of IT transformation.

Damian is a highly experienced entrepreneur with deep global experience in Sales, Consulting, Operations and Marketing leadership in the Enterprise Solutions, Cloud and Data Centre Computing industries. He has led Sales, Consulting and Operations organizations responsible for P&L, Strategy, Innovation and the overall growth agenda for Global technology leaders in Asia Pacific and EMEA.

Our goal is to be the only vendor neutral, open and completely automated Digital services management platform in the world that supports any language, any currency, any deployment, any preferred consumption model and any nally, any use case desired by our partners and their customers

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Cover Story Damian has a diverse, global background and a proven track record in leading high-growth, mature and start-up technology businesses. He has vast experience in managing large, complex organizations in demanding, result orientated business environments and over the last 7 years has built one of the fastest growing Cloud Platform Solution Companies in the world.

All About CloudFX Over the past 7 years, CloudFX has dedicated themselves to defining and delivering transformative change for their clients via professional services, but since 2013, post Intel Capital’s investment, they’ve been executing on this change agenda in a more profound way through the CloudSelect platform. CloudFX’s ability to deliver transformation underpinned by measurable and innovative change for their partners and customers to realize their greatest potential is exponentially greater than it was when they started and their commitment to remain focused on a path which aligns to a philosophy of ensuring their partners prosper in the Digital Revolution through the use of CloudSelect is maniacal and unwavering.

Peerless Services Propounded CloudFX is described largely as a Digital, Cloud and IoT platform focused company. Their platform, CloudSelect is the connective tissue that intelligently connects all capabilities required by their partners to perform, succeed, disrupt and innovate in a digital based world.

CloudSelect is an open, scalable and integrated approach for managing the hybrid cloud landscape from a single point, smartly connecting intelligent infrastructure, data, applications and business processes.

This platform services is either a multi-tenant cloud service automation, management and billing platform or an Enterprise IT as a Service platform, capable of supporting, integrating, normalizing and optimizing all deployed IT assets to simply the operational complexity associated with sourcing, consuming, designing, managing, quantifying and ultimately, optimizing the set of services which are most likely to deliver the business outcomes which their clients are seeking.

CloudSelect provides Platform partners with an OEM (white label) multi-cloud, multi-vendor management platform supporting more than 25,000 API’s, Adaptors and Connectors. It also delivers automated service provisioning across all digital and cloud services and provides seamless portability between private and public clouds. Its Enterprise-grade management capabilities ensure that the proper security procedures and standards are applied consistently across all cloud resources, and making sure that the cloud solutions are fully auditable and finally, it

offers an analytics-based, policy-driven approach that places the right workloads in the right places-delivering an optimal price/performance and automatic, pays on-demand business service scalability.

CloudSelect enables “anything as a service” from core business services to globally supported, on demand multiprovider services at unprecedented scale and they believe these capabilities set them apart as a technology and business partner not just in Asia but around the world.

Distinctive Feature of CloudFX’s Strategically, CloudFX believes that they have the pulse of the market and there are some clear trends developing which organisation’s wasting money on Hardware and Perpetual software licenses need to understand or ignore at their peril. Digital and Cloud enabled services will impact two broad activity areas of a business or the economy, each of which CloudFX enable both strategically and tactically include: · The increasing digitalization of existing markets and creation of new digital markets with platforms like CloudSelect will be the single most profound change in businesses use of technology over the next 3-5-10 years. · Businesses’ use of digital technologies and activities to execute key business functions will be based on Cloud and Digital services via platforms like CloudSelect and the use of digital technologies to source and/or use factors of production “as a service” key to the enablement of change will be significant.

Understanding this market, intimately allows CloudFX to develop a set of capabilities around CloudSelect that meet the requirements of their partners and customers both now and in the future. These capabilities focus on certain fundamental principles including Cloud Services Integration, Automation and Management that are the foundation of their business capabilities, irrespective of the source, the vendor or their type.

Finally, CloudFX has deep expertise with API’s both from an integration, development and provisioning perspective.

API's are fundamental to Digital, Cloud and IoT. They believe in Open Systems, Open Source, Mobility, Consuming, Measuring the impact of “as a service” capability and also they believe in Portability through the use of containerization enabling the world of many clouds’s, client choice, flexibility, and real-time innovation.

CloudFX’s Technology Roadmap In terms of CloudFX’s technology roadmap, it’s about broadening support for emerging technologies and

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CloudFX is committed to delivering technology services capabilities that will bring measurable and innovative change to its clients by pursuing pathways which create value, enable nancial growth, support change and drive business services agility for businesses and partnerships with which the company is engaged

CloudFX’s Team Strength CloudFX team is their company. They’ve hired great people and also bad people but eventually one learns what works and Damian couldn’t be prouder of the talent he had assembled across the company today. He is very fortunate to work with people who care about the company and their customers as much as he does. As his team inspires him to work harder, think more strategically, lead them proactively and invest in their development, so they become better students of this industry and are better placed to grow within their company and contribute more significantly to their customers and partners.

Crossing the Hurdles In terms of challenges, talent and timing are critical.

Picking the right people, investing in the right markets, learning on the fly and failing fast are all keys to staying relevant and moving forward. CloudFX has hired wonderful leaders and imposters, they’ve invested in markets which looked attractive but delivered little in return because one need to become comfortable with failing and at the same time, remaining committed to creating change and wishing for a better set of outcomes for their clients.

Building Right Strategy In terms of CloudFX’s strategy, they’ve been on this broader transformation agenda since 2009 and with regards to platform technology, since 2013. The critical components that are seemingly simple but at times difficult to harmonize, these include innovation, investment, I.P

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simplifying the integration, automation and management of these, independently or together. The four categories they will remain heavily invested in are Digital, Cloud, IoT and going forward AI. CloudFX is shaping the market vs. responding to new technologies and rationalizing how they impact them. Every year CloudFX spend millions of dollars on R&D, somewhere between 30% - 50% of Revenue's to be exact, so they lead and rarely follow others.

creation, thought leadership, the right human capital and the right customers who test them and make them better at what they do.

As CloudFX has hired wonderful leaders, they have even invested in the largest homogeneous markets and in return, they have created a global client base. CloudFX has proven them in an industry where there is a lot of immaturity and noise but not a lot of practical solutions to enable customers in the Digital and Cloud era. With these fundamentals in place, all that’s now required is remaining committed to creating change, working towards a better set of outcomes for their clients and staying maniacal about pragmatic innovation.

Future Perspective Throughout the history of the IT industry, CloudFX has seen consistent themes of innovation, evolution and revolution and particularly when the revolution is upon them. As it is with the emergence of Digital and Cloud, specialization always trump’s generalization, at least in the first quartile of the market’s development, so with that in mind, CloudFX recognize that large technology vendors would lack the agility, expertise, specialized capabilities, execution discipline and perspective on how these trends will impact the market and more specifically customers looking for advantage through the use of Virtualization, Digital and Cloud services. The opportunity to turn capitalizes on the evolutionary nature and the speed of technological innovation inspires his team.

In consideration of these dynamics, CloudFX built a business manically focused on advising, enabling and maximizing their client’s success through the use of disruptive technologies via agnostic and vendor neutral capabilities and that’s what excites leader of the company, the opportunity to transform their customer’s businesses for the long term whilst building one of the great company’s in their industry within this new era of technology.

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loud adoption can no longer be ignored with many company resources already deployed in the Cloud, currently moving their data centers and preparing towards the unavoidable requirement. Assessing when to deploy in a hybrid, private or public environment and which IaaS to select is a critical step in any move to the

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With this emergence of Cloud computing, today’s IT organizations are playing an increasingly important role in driving business strategy. While the top priority for many remains cost reduction, scalability and business agility have stepped to the forefront for IT decision makers.

In Insights Success Magazine, be sure to check out the cover story where ‘CloudFX’ takes a pragmatic yet sophisticated approach to transforming your IT. It is a dynamic and progressive IT Transformation and Cloud Services Enablement firm that offer advisory services, cloud platforms and a partner ecosystem that together deliver on the promise of cloud computing technologies.

Furthermore, while the flipping pages of Insights Success Magazine look at the development space and the cloud platform where companies contributing to the emergence of IT landscape are making a name for themselves right next to behemoths. 7 NODES Technologies, Cavalry IT, Cnetric Enterprise Solutions, Hanu Software Solutions, Manjrasoft, M-Power Solutions, Perpetuuiti Technosoft Services, TO THE NEW Umbrella Infocare are the companies which have been catalogued in Insights Success Magazine honour the best of the best in cloud computing in several categories including infrastructure, platform development, security, storage and software.

Insights Success Magazine has collated the above list of cloud service providers in the cloud market certainly has brought offerings, now coming in a multitude of shapes, sizes and flavours. And navigating this space is more important than ever because the transitions from on-premise traditional model to a recurring revenue model is turning in a do or die proposition for many solution providers.

Insights Success Magazine has covered and presents you ‘The 10 Most Valuable Cloud Service Provider Companies 2016’, after shortlisting a long list of Cloud Service providers that look at the startups in the space satisfying a niche need where the true innovation is happening.

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7 NODES Technologies 7nodes.com

Nebu K Abraham CEO

7Nodes is a Ruby on Rails Development Firm holds a wideranging portfolio of innovative internet-based products in web and mobile purview that help businesses small, medium and large alike to meet their customer expectations without fail and on time, every time.

Cavalry IT cavalry.com.au

Peter Low, Sturt Maclennan & Barry Silic Directors

Cavalry is a Global leader in providing managed cloud solutions that help businesses innovate and grow.

CloudFX Pte. Ltd cloudfx.com

Damian Crotty Founder & CEO

CloudFX is the world’s first Unified Cloud Management platform designed to enable your Enterprise Cloud Services and Digital Business services goals, simultaneously.

Cnetric Enterprise Solutions Private Ltd. cnetric.com

Manohar Durai Founder & CEO

Cnetric is a global Systems Integrator, with its head office located in the technology hub which is Bangalore, India.

Hanu Software Solutions Inc. hanusoftware.com

Amit Kataria Global Head of HR

Hanu Software is dedicated to developing effective outsourcing partnerships with clients in order to accelerate time to market, reduce operational cost, and empower them to devote more time to their core business.

Manjrasoft Pty Ltd manjrasoft.com

Dr. Rajkumar Buyya Founder & CEO

Manjrasoft Pty Ltd is an innovative provider of choice for application acceleration services and solutions over Cloud.

M-Power Solutions mpowersolutions.com.au

Mark Simpson Director & Owner

M-Power Solutions is a specialist consulting firm delivering the world’s #1 Performance Management and Business Intelligence Solution, Hyperion, to commercial and public sector organizations across Australia and internationally.

Perpetuuiti Technosoft Services (P) Ltd. ptechnosoft.com

Rohil Sharma Founder & CEO

Perpetuuiti Technosoft is a global Enterprise Software Products Company focused on building products that help Organizations increase Productivity and Efficiency deploying emerging technologies of Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Computing, Machine Learning, Intelligent Process Automation (IPA) and Robotic Software Automation (RSA).

TO THE NEW tothenew.com

Raman Mittal Lead (Inside Sales & Marketing)

TO THE NEW is a digital technology company that builds disruptive products and transforms businesses. We leverage the power of experience design, cutting-edge engineering, cloud and analytics led marketing to enable digital transformation.

Umbrella Infocare Pvt. Ltd. umbrellainfocare.com

Sanjay Agarwal & Gurprit Singh Co-Founders Sujay Kanjilal VP(Sales) Vivek Kumar-Head(Technical) Anoop Prasad-Tech Lead (AWS)

Umbrella Infocare is a premium technology company providing solutions in the areas of Cloud, Mobility and Business Intelligence.

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7Nodes: Leaders in Innovation

Nebu K Abraham CEO

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Nodes - A Ruby on Rails App Development House avails a wide-ranging portfolio of innovative internet based products in web and mobile purview that help small, medium and large businesses alike to meet their customer expectations without fail and on time, every time.

It is their always functioning perspiratory glands and intellectual brains behind the initiative that keeps on fuelling 7Nodes in the pursuit of perfection.

The Transformation Artist Nebu K Abraham, CEO of 7Nodes is a serial entrepreneur and tech enthusiast. He has been very curious about technology since his school days and this drove him straight away to Birla Institute of Technology International Centre Kingdom of Bahrain to do Computer Science Engineering

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and thereafter to Middlesex University - United Kingdom to acquire (Hons) in Information Technology and Business Information Systems.

Soon after his studies, Nebu started working for IT companies to gain experience, while in the process, his entrepreneurial dreams were rekindled. This is when he began focus to open an IT company that eventually led him to establish 7Nodes Technology Solutions. At present, he is also the Founder, and Director of AEN Information Technology LLC a similar IT ďŹ rm based in the UAE. Spearheading and managing two companies operating in two very different economies India and UAE has taught Nebu a lot in his founding years. One of the greatest assets

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Nebu have gained through the years is the wealth of knowledge and insight into business dimensions. This has helped him in steering the companies through market fluctuations and brace for uncertainties.

conference that brings together Indian startups and world-class investors and globally establishes businessmen and corporate, all under one roof.

Nebu has learned to take advantage of the luxury of the opportunity presented, and use it wisely. From here he also ventured to establish Cocoon Venture, a venture capitalist firm, dedicated to supporting startups with growth funding.

Uniqueness of 7Nodes 7Nodes follows a customer centric approach. For delivering a great product they make sure to fully assess their clients’ business needs, aspirations and the functional goal to be achieved by the solution.

Once 7Nodes make a thorough analysis, they then move on further to design solutions that are backed by meticulous research event on the side of consumers. This enables them to design and develop products and solutions that would eventually turn out to be better than the originally proposed design.

Recently, 7nodes have introduced a merchant chat application HashMyBag, a versatile communication platform that allows physical stores to connect with their customers and share updates. This application also hosts a distinctive Buy In Chat facility that let users make purchases from their stores through chat. AirMeLive, is their another versatile talent platform that allows registered user to advertise, post videos, pictures, gifs or articles, tech inventions and showcase their unique abilities in the field of technology.

One of the latest initiatives of 7Nodes is the World Startup Expo- A 3-day

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When a client approaches 7Nodes for solutions, it’s important that they give them a solid product as anything below a great product will not sell. Moreover, client expectations are different and each has different issues to tackle. And as it is said, the true excellence of a company lies in its performance. So, 7Nodes’ team constantly works for delivering services with efficiency to their clients.

7Nodes’ Strength The fast-paced evolution of technology and the reason why so many new solutions are being introduced in the market is the resultant of the evolving demands of customers and the ever changing needs that rise like the waves of an ocean. To tackle this, 7Nodes constantly train and evolve themselves

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Services Propounded by 7Nodes 7Nodes is a Ruby on Rails Specialized development firm which also offers a wide range of services including Design & Development of the Web, Mobile Applications and Various Other Underlying Services like Developmental & Functional Testing, Design Review & Implementation, UI and UX features completed with SEO optimization. 7Nodes proffers a hybrid Cloud Hosting and consulting services and 24/7 maintenance services for their clients even on could platforms.

We follow a systematic and user centric approach to ensure our clients receive robust solutions that best addresses their needs

to watch out and listen to their customers and community for a wider perspective. Changing technology is not a threat but in fact, it enables 7Nodes to customize and create disruptive solutions with higher potential. They adopt a responsive approach that enables them to use the changes for their advantage.

Future Outlook of 7Nodes 7Nodes hope to work on mobile applications, IoT and wearable technology in the near future. Probably even they want to develop their own devices. Another interesting technology that they are looking forward to experiment with is called Ambient User Experience. Moreover, 7Nodes company is also looking forward to expand their presence in India and other international markets in the segment of delivering prolific custom made technology solutions.

Currently, they are having international presence in the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Europe and Japan.

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Digital Transformation Entering the Business World with Perpetuuiti

Rohil Sharma, Founder & CEO

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loud computing is the hottest and biggest trend in IT for the past few years, and it will also continue to grow stronger in the upcoming years. Since most of the online businesses today need high accessibility, scalability, and resiliency, within quick time, it’s not possible to achieve all these by your own, and cloud computing becomes the best alternative solution here.

Perpetuuiti Technosoft (P) Ltd., a cloud service provider has helped several firms to remain focused on their business, without worrying about IT and infrastructure too much; this has yielded a big result for them.

Founded in 2011, the company has taken long strides and has come a very long way in such a short span of time.

Over the period, Perpetuuiti has helped leading global players with their Intelligent Business Automation and Organizational Resiliency challenges; and has established itself as a Thought Leader in the Business Automation space. Perpetuuiti has a significant global presence with their offices in the USA, UAE, India, and Singapore.

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Transformation Artist behind Perpetuuiti Rohil Sharma, Founder & CEO of Perpetuuiti possesses a rare combination of proven business knowledge, forwardlooking technical knowledge and market vision. As a leader of the company, Rohil brings to bear more than 20 years of entrepreneurial experience building, advising and investing in successful companies across the US, Middle East and India. He has Investments in Real Estate, Bio Fuel, Data Centre, Venture Capital, Media Business and IT companies.

He has successfully raised Angel and VC Investments.

Rohil’s strategic priorities towards his company include accelerating the growth of new innovative products, delivering exceptional service and value to customers, and maintaining a focus on the financial health and growth of overall business.

Services Proffered by Perpetuuiti Perpetuuiti believes in staying committed to delivering the best services to their clients. Their services include-

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iRaaS (iNTELLIGENT Recovery as a Service) - Enables every organisation with Quick, Affordable & intelligent recovery from any small & large disasters Perpetuuiti’s Products Perpetuuiti is ready with products and solutions that are internationally scalable. The company’s offerings include following Enterprise Software ProductsAv3ar™ - Av3ar is the next generation Cognitive Computing and Machine Learning system from Perpetuuiti. It is aimed to deliver end-to-end Interactive solutions that dramatically improve the operational efficiencies of customers in the global marketplace.

Ops-Central™ - Ops-Central provides a comprehensive Ops-Platform using Robotic Process Automation (RPA).

With Ops-Central RPA, you can easily and rapidly automate the Processes and day-to-day IT workload related jobs.

Ops-Central RPA does not require the prior knowledge of clients’ processes and can automate these processes on the fly, which makes the product unique in the Business Process Automation market.

Continuity Patrol™ - An intelligent, agentless, script-less and automated

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end-to-end Business Service Continuity and Availability Management Suite which enables Real-Time Enterprise Visibility in a singleclick for Business Service Availability Assurance, Orchestration and Automation.

DDE™ (Dependency Discovery Engine) Provides for real-time agentless auto Application interdependency mapping and discovery of Application IT Infrastructure supporting those Applications.

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Perpetuuiti believes in staying committed to delivering the best.

We thus have recently set up a new R&D centre in Chennai to develop solutions in the capacities of Articial Intelligence, Cognitive Computing, Machine Learning, Intelligent Process Automation and Robotic Software Automation

eBDR™ - Enabling Anywhere, Anytime Consistent Copies for hassle free Technology Refresh or Quick Rollback in less than a second is eBDR™, the Data Replication and Cloud Migration solution of Perpetuuiti. eBDR™ supports any-to-any platform (physical/virtual/cloud) data migration that is accomplished with Perpetuuiti’s unique technology that uses a proprietary content format, known as NeutralStore.

Continuity Vault™ - Enabling user a comprehensive platform that integrates People, Process and Technology, Perpetuuiti Continuity Vault™ supports creation and maintenance of effective Business Continuity Plan.

The Continuity Vault™ system automates organisational BCM practices, response and resolution identification through mobility while performing risk assessment and risk impact analysis using results of Business Impact Analysis (BIA).

Future Outlook The company aims to continue expanding and accelerating the growth based on its core experience and

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iBaaS (iNTELLIGENT Bot as a Service) - iBaaS (iBot-as-a-Service) platform provides you with the Intelligent Automation capabilities and implements ‘Intelligent Digital Workforce’ to automate a wide range of industry-specific operational and functional processes Effectively, Efficiently and Spontaneously. iBots are Intelligent Digital Workforce that would Observe, Understand, Think, Decide and Interact as a human would with empathy. The platform is based on Intelligent Process Automation (IPA) technology that converges Robotic Process Automation (RPA) into Active Intelligence (AI).

success with their global partners and customers. Harbouring satisfied clients from Fortune 500 diverse set of industry verticals such as Telecom, Banking, Manufacturing, Insurance and Consumer Products, the company continues to integrate new technology applications and best practices into its solutions.

The company continuously adapts itself to changing business needs and evolving technologies. The company is also gearing to expand further into other industry verticals and regions including the US, APAC, EMEA and Europe.

Leading the way with a positive outlook, Perpetuuiti aims to scale up and emerge as a true market leader in the area of Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Computing, Machine Learning, Intelligent Process Automation and Robotic Process Automation by leveraging on cuttingedge technologies. Perpetuuiti is also partnering with other cloud providers for iRaaS and iBaaS offerings using the latest technologies to bring more value to businesses.

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CXO Standpoint

Connecting Dark Data with IoT -By Adrian Hinrichsen, Marketing & Business Development Director of Datumize

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he above infographic is astonishing when you really delve into the numbers. The last few years have been quite interesting when it comes to the IoT space.

I have personally taken a back seat and watched how the industry has sprouted, from an embryonic platform to an early catalyst for possibly becoming the next “Skynet� (no pun intended). For some time now pundits have been predicting great things for the Internet of Things (IoT),

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from smart cities and smart homes to smart energy grids, driverless cars and autonomous robots. What is in no doubt are the number of “things” that now have “connected capability”, and it is rising fast; according to one leading analyst, 6.4billion connected things will be in use by the end of this year, an increase of 30% from last year, meaning 5million new things are being connected up to the internet every single day. The term internet of things (IoT) was coined round about the turn of the millennium and is widely held to mean the connection of “things”.

There are a number of factors driving IoT. First, consumers are demanding greater convenience, speed of delivery and personalisation of the goods and services they consume. There are also other drivers for the IoT explosion we are witnessing.

The costs of infrastructure are on a downward trajectory. Sensors are becoming smaller, cheaper and more energy efficient and battery life is improving. The further innovation of cloud computing platforms and the emergence of specialised IoT services on them mean that the data collection and analysis necessary for wide scale deployment are more accessible.

Here you can see one infographic from Deloitte in 2014 that shows the value they analysed for smart homes and smart cars. Interestingly enough these percentages have not differed too much till now.

Is IoT Fact or Future?

IoT is right at the top of the “hype” cycle and firmly perched to what everyone is talking about. Mckinsey & Co predict that the economic impact of the IoT could be between $3.9tn and $11.1tn per year by 2025. That is a huge industry considering it was only born 16 years ago.

One of the main question I get asked a lot is “where do you see IoT making the most advantage”? Currently the top industries are

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domestic/leisure, utilities/energy and transport/automotive.

At Datumize we are seeing traction in all these sectors with each project very much different to the next. Our everyday environment is changing, sometimes without us even noticing, however our lives are being made easier for it.

Although we are moving quickly to an IoT environment, we are also facing “Barriers to connection”, where businesses and consumers do not share the same vision of IoT. One suspicion is the concern for security and how IoT technology could be hijacked and manipulated by those for ill intent. Other factors are more technical in nature, and seem to be around operating systems, pricing and current offerings. All of these factors will have to be overcome if we are to achieve the holy grail of “smart Cities” and connection of things.

In Conclusion IoT is a concept which is no longer discussed only by technical scientists, it has very much moved into the mainstream. Certain industries have embraced IoT more

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than others, for example domestic/leisure, utilities and transport are leading the way. We are all consumers and citizens, and a great deal of education needs to occur before the reality of IoT is understood and accepted by us at large.

Data is the key to IoT and organisations seems to want to get their hands on that “Dark data”, but do not know what to do with it once they have it, or how to turn it into a value for their business. It is here that obstacles occur in our everyday business environment as the resources needed have currently not been implemented into the infrastructure and this will not happen until businesses understand the value that is passing them by on a daily basis within their organisation.

IoT is potentially the most exciting technical revolution to have happened in a long time, and if we are able to help businesses and consumers connect in a smarter way, help build the resources and infrastructure to support this new environment, then the way we live and work will change forever, in a very positive way.

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Startups Should Migrate to the Cloud

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loud computing provides several competitive benefits to today’s startups. It provides the distributive IT computer software and hardware, that saves the prices of the business’s IT infrastructure. This feature is especially helpful for startups as they easily adopt emerging software without making numerous purchases.

Business managers ought not to invest a lot in highperformance computers because cloud computing permits access to centralized applications, that don’t need to be installed locally. Businesses that migrate to the Cloud are more agile and effective, particularly when they can scale their IT infrastructure.

For Startups, Cloud is Cheaper One of the unsophisticated ideas from the initial days of Cloud computing is that the cloud is cheaper; thus it saves startups considerable amount of cash. Through the Cloud, Startups gain access to great computing power at incredibly low cost and as far as IT infrastructure is concerned, it also allows them to own something. Startups will do nice things with less physical server hardware through virtualization.

By 2018, cloud computing market will surpass $200 billion and behind such anticipations one of the major reason is its

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affordability as 80% of cloud adopters believe that it helps their organization scale back IT prices.

Scalability and Virtualization Cloud resources may be scaled up or down automatically; whereas human intervention is often needed to feature hardware and software in customary environments. The cloud environments are generally virtualized, whereas old settings comprise physical as well as virtualized infrastructure. With scalability and virtualization, you have to simply provision or de-provision resource for your convenience. For example, you can effortlessly add a minimum of 2 servers during a matter of minutes while not essentially reckoning on emails and phone calls. Cloud computing supports the unpredictable cycles of expansions that businesses are going through due to its scalable nature.

Businesses Open Up New Channels Through esteemed providers of Cloud computing such as Microsoft, ShowMax and Apple, you’re given the chance of restructuring your business. You can actually reconstitute it to a service-centric business from a product-centric business.

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For example, a business that has completed new channels through the Cloud services is Netflix. Netflix had to mass immense capacities of collections within the Cloud once Netflix started streaming services. By storing the large volumes of files in the Cloud, Netflix has time to figure out how the multitudes might systematically access them. Thus, Netflix has been able to reinvent HR through the Cloud.

Improved Collaboration Within the Cloud Cloud computing is improving collaboration and increasing user productivity too. The Cloud permits users to access services despite their location or device. Additionally, they are collaborating booms within the Cloud and can also share information with colleagues. Actually, collaboration is quite easy as the Cloud requires no effort in maintaining and managing it.

Reliability & Continuity is Improved The Cloud service providers have less period of time than most organizations with internal data centers. Cloud computing will affordably give redundancy sites, facilitating business continuity together with disaster recovery situations. The consequently managed and virtualized setting of the Cloud infrastructure permits higher and improved compliance with data management and privacy rules. In fact, it provides safer remote access to company data and quicker and reliable recovery of data systems and backup. |September 2016|

Quality is Improved with the Cloud Moving towards cloud computing means improved quality of IT provision as well as manageability. By using cloud computing, a business will simply be secured into its internal IT department and can effectively reduce dependence on internal IT. As a result, the requirement to give management attention and resources to IT infrastructure will be reduced. And the competitive dynamics of the Cloud to get IT infrastructure which is both efficient and effective will be used by the business. The capability to provision and setting up resources automatically means that substantially cloud services have better manageability.

Moreover, despite all the above-mentioned reasons for adopting cloud computing; one among the foremost reasons for migrating to the cloud is that it is exceptionally powerful. Apart from better analytics, cloud computing helps business in accessing data and applications from anywhere, regardless of the device being used. Also, one must avoid storing confidential business data in mobile and PCs, since from there that can easily be stolen. Although cloud computing brings lots of benefits that are too real to ignore, but that doesn’t mean there are no risks at all.

However, the biggest risk is being surpassed in a competitive situation by rivals who are quickly adopting the cloud.

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Hanu:

Accelerate Your

Ascent to the Cloud

Amit Kataria Global Head of HR

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he business IT landscape is increasingly getting disrupted due to the onslaught of cloud, data science, AI, and IoT adoptions on both consumer and enterprise side. Hence, the talent community is keen on securing their career by moving to Cloud and other latest techs to ensure their employability for a decade or even more. While most of the IT service providers are still in a dilemma to push cloud or push legacy or how much on which cloud, Hanu Software is painlessly attracting top talents in the industry with its sheer focus on Azure Cloud.

Debuted in 2004 with few fresh graduates to drive some small-sized projects in the U.S., Hanu Software initiated to solve the talent scarcity problem to achieve the leading service provider position for Microsoft Azure ever since Microsoft announced it around 2007.

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The Enablers of Hanu Amit Kataria, Global Head of HR and Manoj Srivastava, Managing Director are the leaders of Hanu Software Solution. Having 15+ years of IT project experience, Manoj orchestrates Hanu’s quality professional services and project deliveries from offshore software development centre in India. He has a strong SDLC background and excellent flair for creating the high-level view from details.

Hanu’s Modus Operandi ‘Any workload, anywhere to Azure’ is its single-point solution for everyone globally. Hanu enables everyone on Azure adoptions-be it ‘Do It Myself’ CxOs or get it Outsourced CxOs by helping some of the selected IT implementers and also by loaning Azure talents on contracts.

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International movements and assignments are yet another talent attraction factor, since, in Hanu’s model, an onshore-offshore effort ratio is lot more skewed in favour of onshore. A 24x7 global recruiting team of Hanu is building the capacity to ensure that it can meet the growing demand of Azure talent from all corners of Hanu as well as other companies sometimes. It also runs a talent helpline, where anyone can make a call.

Tremendous Growth ‘Grow within’ being its talent development mantra, this 300+ people strong Cloud IT service company has not only added several Fortune 1000 clients, but foresees ending up with 350+ people (500+ by the end of 2017) and a revenue of $10-12 million by this year end, and envisions growing tenfold by 2020.

At this exceptionally dynamic organization, every rock star is given vast opportunities to pursue his/her career in the desired domains via Hanu IJP and Job rotation programmers, which enables them to up-skill and perform more with enthusiasm. Hanu’s ROCK’U (Rock Star University) program is an industry first program to produce finest Azure talent in the world.

Enriched with over 100+ certified Azure professionals with vast cloud

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implementation experiences, the company has accomplished 250+ small or big Azure adoptions and POCs. With such a huge consolidated experience in specific technology-a unique trait only a handful of companies can boast ofrock stars can deepen their cloud talent and also grow in positions and hierarchies as per its fast-paced growth program.

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We truly believe in our rock stars that have consistently proved that in the world of cloud technology, Hanu remains the No.1 player and brand is synonym to innovation and the sharpest of minds

A Culture of Appreciation While Hanu’s Recognition Screens installed at varied locations throughout the global offices continuously runs the photos and summary of all the monthly collected achievements of its staff globally, its private social network powered by Yammer broadcasts all the praises and appreciations as a natural course of life there. Moreover, it has formal hierarchical monthly monetary reward practices akin to leader/team scout of the month and the likes.

“In my past seven years, I haven’t come across an organization with such a positive environment and have a supportive and collaborative culture that encourages both professional and personal growth. The leadership team here is full of visionaries, who make a consistent effort to recognize and reward the achievements of teams and individuals. Hanu cultivates its rock stars for internal growth and career progression with a great work/life balance,” quotes Sumegha Chaudhary, Manager-Client Services, Hanu.

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By making the right bet on a technology that is growing at a 120150 % rate, Hanu is witnessing the unprecedented speed of growth that every rock star (R.O.C.K indicates Respect, Open, Client Obsession & Kaizen-Hanu’s core values) stands to benefit.

Industries’ Finest Benefit Structure Apart from statutory benefits, Hanu’s dizzying array of benefits include Health plans for self and family, free weekly medical OPD services at office, flexible work hours & leave policy, cost-free company transport fleet, 24x7 café with subsidized food, nap rooms to rest when needed, dedicated sports facility (full-sized sized volleyball & badminton courts) on campus, fully equipped gymnasium and pretty much everything that eases their lives and channels their unwavering focus towards clients.

Furthermore, its monthly celebration bashes including goodies to the birthday rock stars and the recognized rock stars, team dinners at the places of the team’s choice, occasional team outings to movies, adventure & theme parks are a few of the many perks of being in Hanu family. Well, being a rock star is never boring!

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Umbrella Infocare:

Provide Razor Edge Technology Solutions

Gurprit Singh Co-founder

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elhi NCR-based Umbrella Infocare (UIC) with its regional office at Mumbai is a leader in Cloud computing, Mobility, Enterprise Virtualization and Managed Services. The company has come a long way in a relatively short span of time. Since its inception in 2013, UIC has grown to serve customers of all sizes and segments by leveraging the power of Cloud and Mobility to accelerate their businesses.

UIC’s Head Honcho The secret of success in life is to be ready for the opportunity when it comes, believes Sanjay Agarwal and Gurprit Singh Co-Founders of Umbrella Infocare. As the leaders of the Umbrella Infocare (UIC), they have realized that a successful entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

As the Co-Founder of Umbrella Infocare, Sanjay oversees the operations and assists his team in rolling out key practices that unlock the value of UIC solutions and

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Sanjay Agarwal

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services. He is also responsible for driving the go-to-market strategy for consulting and partner solutions.

Sanjay brings with him more than 20 years of experience in IT and aviation. Throughout his career, he has held senior management positions in wide-ranging areas like Operations, Sales, Finance, and HR. He has vast experience in driving operational excellence and overall customer and partner satisfaction across various industries. He was also founder Director of Momentum Infocare. Preceding his IT experience, he held a finance leadership role in a North India based Airline.

In his personal time, Sanjay enjoys spending time with his family and friends. He likes sports, Bollywood movies and travels. In life, he is a firm advocate of karma or actions.

“Karma is like the boomerang,” he advocates. “Whatever you give out, will come back to you.”

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Gurprit is the Co-Founder of Umbrella Infocare (UIC). His role provides leadership and direction to UIC’s sales, technology and customer relations, driving continuous productivity improvements and greatly contributing to the realization of revenue and profitability goals.

He has more than 20 years of experience in sales, strategy, business development in Information Technology Industry. Gurprit was Director of Momentum Infocare. Prior to Momentum Infocare, he has held senior leadership roles in Tata Consultancy Services and IBM India.

In his leisure hours, Gurprit is heavily into reading books. His interest includes wide-ranging subjects like management, life, mythology, and keeping himself up to date with technology trends. He likes travelling, and keeps himself fit by walking and jogging regularly.

A resident of Delhi, he holds an MBA Degree from IMT Ghaziabad and Masters in Operational Research from Delhi University.

Crossing the Hurdles It was, however, not an overnight success for Umbrella Infocare. The company went through many roadblocks and challenges during their journey so far. According to Sanjay, adopting a new technology has been a big challenge for the company.

“Initially, adoption of Public cloud and Mobility(EMM) was slow. It was also difficult for us to acquire the first few customers for these new offering in 2013” But the company managed to deal with this challenge by persistence and doing

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POC(proof of concept) as per customers requirement and also tied up with industry leaders AWS for Cloud services and Citrix for Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM).

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Team Strength of UIC It’s actually the people who work here makes UIC the company it is today. UIC engage folks who are smart and determined, and value capability over experience. UIC’s work environment is conducive to open culture often related to startups, in which everyone is at ease sharing ideas and opinions.

Although UIC employees share common goals and visions for the company, they come from different paths of life. And, when not at work, UIC members pursue interests ranging from playing cricket to watching movies.

The Clientele UIC provide solutions and services to help businesses of all size and kinds to accelerate their performance. These offerings form the backbone of their business.

Our industry expertise helps us to create focused solutions tailored to each client. We leverage our deep understanding of domain knowledge to show how technology can be effectively applied to transform your enterprise, and set their business apart.

UIC offerings, which range from Cloud Solutions and Enterprise Virtualization, Managed Services and Business Intelligence bring down costs and help organizations to be more productive and competitive.

Our mission is to help our clients overcome complexity with simple and easy to use Cloud solutions

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Originally, from Shahjahanpur (UP), he holds a degree in Chartered Accountancy (ICAI) from Delhi.

•Attention to details •Assessment and consulting •Improving system efficiency •125+ Cloud migrations and deployments •50+ Managed Cloud Customers •50+ Citrix customers •Trained, certified and experienced AWS, Citrix and Qlik team •Customer Centric Engagement Model •Managed Services for enterprises ensure uninterrupted business operations with lower costs and better uptime. Backed by Service Level Agreements (SLAs), proactive 24×7 support can help lower capital expenditures, accelerate business processes.

•Awards: 1.“AWS Regional Rising Star-North India” for 2016 2.Winners of “Citrix Best Mobility Partner 2013” Award 3.Citrix Specialist Gold Partner

UIC’s Value Proposition Totally customer focused •Listen to customers •Partner to solve business challenges

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Chalk Talk

A Peep into the Era of Cloud Computing

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oday, much like electricity, one can easily access any kind of information through internet whenever they need. All this became possible just because of cloud computing. This new cost-effective as well as an environment friendly methodology for both users as well as service providers is a win-win solution.

Irrespective of the core competency of one’s business, Information Technology (IT) is becoming ubiquitous. But, queries on the acquisition and management of IT systems still baffle several business owners. This newest methodology Cloud Computing has made their lives more comfortable and easier by enabling the user to access IT solutions remotely whenever required.

Clearance of the Cloud Being an Internet-based computing solution, Cloud, on demand denotes a set of shared resources, software and information provided to computer devices. Over the network, information tasks are assigned through a combination of connections, service and software in the cloud.

This on-demand approach to IT resources can be laid down for use with infrastructure, applications or platforms. Also,

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customers can avail fixed plans, by which there is a flat fee and their data center is managed by the company or they can go for a variable plan where on virtual machines they can access the solutions online and pay per use. Reducing the energy costs for running and cooling hardware, there is a need for reduction in hardware components as an incidental benefit in various companies. Furthermore, as this process reduces carbon dioxide emissions, it is more eco-friendly.

Universal Acceptance Over the next five years, International Data Corporation (IDC) is expecting global spending on IT cloud services to grow almost threefold. And the pace with which expenditure is done on cloud computing will be accelerated, capturing 25% of the growth than in the earlier years. The cloud market is estimated to grow up to 1 billion dollars in India.

Especially, concept of cloud is favorable for the small as well as medium enterprises as tremendous cost cutting in IT is enabled through this. Today, it has seen demand from the Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) segment, from online media companies, trading companies and manufacturing companies. This estimates that SaaS

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(software-as-a-service) market to grow by 35% from the current million dollars. The IaaS (Infrastructure-as-aService) market is at 3-4 million dollars currently and is expected to grow with 50-60% growth rate. Although different studies give different estimates, but this will be the upcoming market trend.

Also, it is believed that this concept will spread across segments. As this shared computing resource is percolating to healthcare industries, banking, BPO and finance segments while startups and SMEs are becoming aggressive about it.

Accruing Benefits Cloud computing provides various advantages to its users.

Firstly, it helps in conserving energy so it is eco-friendly. It minimizes the expenditure on IT infrastructure and also it benefits cost economy and resources. Additionally, pooling of resources is leading to load balancing, superior performance and entire use of server capacity.

Accessing solutions remotely indicate that the user can be found anywhere. These processes of remote access help in strengthening the security and monitoring systems. Since, virtual memory systems are running simultaneously, breakdown does not affect operations as service providers stack multiple virtual machines. Also, it enables the IT head |September 2016|

to keep focus on strategies that are aligning IT usage to company requirements.

Way Forward Over the years, cloud computing has given a paradigm shift from the way IT has been used till now. Its nascent stages are still prevailing, but, the service providers are optimistic based on their own experience. For example, in May 2008, NetMagic within 8 to 9 months of launching Cloud 1.0 acquired 100 customers. And in next year by September 2009, the company experienced 400% growth by launching their Cloud 2.0 virtual machine model. According to the resources, cloud computing contributes 10% of NetMagic’s revenues to the tune of about 4 to 5 million dollars.

In addition to building its own products, CA Technologies formerly known as Computer Associates International has also acquired several companies including NetQoS, Oblicore and 3Tera to enter into new and adjacent markets, substantially upgrading existing offerings to its clients. This segment is not only generating substantial interest amongst users and service providers but also these are the examples of IT companies wanting to come on board the cloud wagon. Alike as this presents each with a viable solution to their business needs. Indeed, cloud computing promises to be the next big thing in IT.

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M-Power: Experts in Performance Management and Business Intelligence Solutions

Mark Simpson Director & Owner

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ncorporated in 2003, M-Power Solutions is at the forefront of the Cloud revolution. As the largest Oracle Business Analytics Cloud partner in APAC they provide a complete suite of pre-built, Cloud based Planning, Budgeting, Forecasting, Reporting, and Analytic solutions.

In a world awash with data, but limited insight, M-Power provides business focused solutions to unlock the power of your greatest asset, information.

The Creator Mark Simpson, Director & Owner along with Rick Cooper and Steve Hitchman is managing M-Power Solutions since its inception. Mark Simpson has had a distinguished IT Services career working in senior leadership and director roles building and growing a

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number of successful Business Intelligence and Performance Management consultancy firms. His role in MPower focuses on business growth strategies, the adoption of new delivery approaches and solutions and the development of the organization to support the business growth.

While Rick and Steve come from the business/functional side working in high profile finance roles before they decided to move into the consultancy side and start MPower. They focus on project delivery and ensuring successful business outcomes for their customers. Their experience, leadership and strategic focus are unrivalled in the APAC market and have been a cornerstone of the success of the business.

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M-Power delivers the most advanced Business Analytics Cloud solutions in the market today and is the perfect business partner to help organisations navigate the Cloud Revolution. This is underscored by their position as the leading Oracle Business Analytics Cloud Partner in Asia Pacific, a title earned by their consistent success in helping customers harness the business-tangible power of Oracle Analytics and Hyperion software solutions.

Crossing the Hurdles As founders, Mark, Rick and Steve wanted to own, run and be part of a company that focused on business outcomes for their customers rather than consultant utilization for them.

They decided that building long term; trust based partnerships with customers would be good for their company’s growth and for their customers businesses.

They agreed that they would only ever take on projects that they could deliver and wouldn’t chase things they couldn’t do. They decided it was important to surround themselves with likeminded, highly skilled people not just technical experts and finally and most importantly, they agreed that their customers should be the focus of everything they do. They have done quite well so far and are proud to stand

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with the team they have built and the customers they work with.

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Strategy that Keeps M-Power Unique After a detailed review of their business, customers’ requirements and the infrastructure revolution, the Cloud was enabling and they decided to make a strategic decision to move their focus from traditional on premise Oracle solutions to delivering Oracle Cloud Services. Many consultancy firms providing Business Intelligence and Planning and Budgeting solutions continue to look backwards towards the “old” world where they install, manage and upgrade traditional on premise solutions for their customers’ which safeguards their revenue stream. M-Power’s focus is on reducing costs and improving outputs for modern, forward thinking organizations using Cloud solutions.

The Client Base M-Power believes building long-term, trust-based partnerships with their clients and only ever taking on projects that they can deliver provides an unrivalled outcome for their customers.

More specifically, Team M-Power has worked hard to build their industry and functional expertise into their pre-built Xcelerate Application Templates for the Oracle Analytics Cloud Service. MPower’s Xcelerate solutions are easy to implement, accelerate project delivery timescales, reduce overall costs and most importantly reduce project risks.

Future Perspective M-Power’s growth opportunities excite them about the future. They think of themselves as if they are a 13-year-old start up as their organization has

Our vision was, and still is, to build long and trusting partnerships with our clients by being great at what we do and easy to deal with

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Services Propounded M-Power has the been able to harmonise many years of experience successfully delivering traditional, on premise Budgeting, Forecasting, Reporting, Analytic and Big Data solutions with the technological advances enabled by the Cloud, which has put M-Power at the forefront of the Cloud revolution.

completely transitioned to a Cloud solution provider. They are excited to be at the forefront of the Cloud explosion which has driven the fantastic growth of their business over the last 2 years and allowed them to deliver exciting new solutions to customers of all sizes.

In the past, M-Power’s customers were predominantly large complex organizations but now they are able to provide the same powerful solutions at a fraction of the price to small and medium size businesses as well. It is also an exciting time for existing Oracle customers who are working with them on their journey to the Cloud which is helping them to reduce costs, drive innovation and improve user engagement through the new Cloud interfaces.

With new functionality being delivered through the Oracle Cloud every month they have changed the cadence of their implementations as customers can access new software immediately allowing them to truly change the software paradigm, they look forward to the ongoing Cloud revolution!

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BITCOIN is Acquiring Market in One Fell Swoop

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iving a surprise to the world with a bang on, Microsoft announced that they have become an active member of the Chamber of Digital Commerce which is a trade association that focuses in promoting distributed ledger technology known as blockchain.

Enthusiasts of crypto currency will have an idea about this name as they are the major trading organization focusing on how it can be used, and which possibilities are on the horizon.

By offering a secure and transparent way for completing financial transactions and digitally tracking the assets of ownership, blockchain is modernizing legacy financial processes. Before being verified through cryptography, every recorded online transaction is tied with the previous one. This helps in enabling stocks and bonds trade to be finalized within minutes as well as eliminating the need for clearing houses, cutting costs and also reducing the risk of fraud. At present, Bitcoin a virtual currency is one the famous example of blockchain technology.

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can be widely used. Various software giants also approve its efforts in establishing training and selfregulatory schemes for assisting new entrants and grow innovation across the industry.

Marley Gray, Microsoft’s director of BizDev & Strategy - Cloud and Enterprise stated that Virtual currency is already the focus of regulatory interest at both the state and Federal level in the US, as well as in other markets around the world.

All over the world these days, blockchain technology is acquiring

focus in identifying critical use cases.

Although every business model will not have the same need for specific blockchain platforms, yet its flexibility allows developers and engineers to scale the solution according to their needs. On the Azure platform, Microsoft with their blockchain-as-aservice business model has ventured into the world of distributed ledgers.

This doesn’t only provide fast and easy access to blockchain technology for developers, but they can also get benefited from other tools like multifactor authentication offered by Azure.

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launched Blockchain-as-a-Service (BaaS) initiative and since then has added over 40 partners. Recently, the R3 consortium of over 40 major banks chose Microsoft’s BaaS as their favorite platform for experimenting and developing new offerings that are related with blockchain. In the last few months, when the blockchain was undergone through scrutiny by politicians, various questions were raised related to the need of specific regulatory requirements.

Explaining the situation, Marley Gray said that Microsoft is thrilled to join the Chamber of Digital Commerce. We firmly believe, industry collaborations are critical to bringing distributed ledger technology to market. The work of the Chamber will advance distributed ledger technology in a thoughtful, pragmatic way.

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hindering growth in the sector is like walking in a fine line. Recently in Europe, during meeting at the European Parliament, it was declared that no further action will be taken in the blockchain regulatory space.

Instead of that the same lenient approach will be taken in the rest of the world for making the involvement of Microsoft more valuable in the Chamber of Digital Commerce.

When companies like Microsoft that are involved in blockchain technology come together then the Chamber of Digital Commerce is a significant player for distributed ledger enthusiasts. It also focuses on training and educating newcomers in the world of this technology.

According to recent scenario, companies that are leading today’s market are entering into an ecosystem of blockchain with an unprecedented pace. They are further underlining the

potential and importance of blockchain technology which is transformative in nature and are quickly realizing that efforts of education and advocacy are proving as critical mission for the success of this industry's future.

Moreover, Microsoft is also welcoming several new BaaS partners, including Jumbucks, Bitswift, Storj, Vcash, Shadow, Blocknet, Blitz, Gamecredits and Okcash. In addition to this, for developing Solidity contracts, “Ether.Camp Ethereum Studio IDE”, a web-based integrated development environment (IDE) for Ethereum developers, on Azure is also available as well. The IDE permits developers to write and compile Solidity smart contracts, play with them in Sandbox, and then send the contracts to the real net.

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Cavalry: Paving Your Way to the Cloud

Sturt Maclennan(L), Barry Silic(C) & Peter Low(R) Directors

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n 2016, spending on public cloud Infrastructure as a Service hardware and software is forecast to reach US$38B, growing to a staggering $173B in 2026.

Technology companies that have developed their expertise in the cloud are well positioned to ride this wave and capitalise on this extraordinary opportunity. One such company is Cavalry. Headquartered in Sydney and with presence across Asia Pacific and Australia / New Zealand they are recognised as a global leader in managed cloud solutions.

Cavalry has made their mark across the region and clients and competitors are sitting up to take notice. One of the differentiators of Cavalry is that they help their clients see beyond the utility of IT and work with them to see how they can use technology as a key driver for growth and innovation. Cavalry were the first company in Asia Pacific to build a secure, multi-tenant, hosted desktop solution on Microsoft Azure. They consult, migrate and manage cloud resources for many recognized global brands across Asia

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Pacific. As Cavalry help their clients deliver on growth and innovation they become a profit centre for their clients which in turn, creates further business growth opportunities.

The Enablers It was in the year 2000 that the terrific trio of Peter Low, Sturt Maclennan and Barry Silic incorporated Cavalry with the vision to transform managed cloud solutions across the globe. It was an ambitious vision but with their commitment to succeed, a complimentary skill set and a world class team they have exceeded even their own expectations. A brief on each of the Directors shows a glimpse of this: • Peter is passionate about developing Business Leaders to leave a lasting legacy. He is driven by building an extraordinary company culture powered by a motivated team. Well versed in best-in-class practices he has undergraduate and post graduate qualifications in business (with an MBA from the AGSM).

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• Barry Silic is the IT Strategist with an uncanny ability to make the complex simple and knows how to lead highly skilled technical teams. He has driven the technical direction of the business to create the unique skillset and offering that Cavalry provide to their clients. He is also a huge football fan...the real football!

United, the Directorship is bound together to settle for nothing less than ultimate success.

Happiness is the Core value of Cavalry Cavalry is motivated by their core value of Happiness. It is what drives their organization and is the “why” behind the “what”. As part of their quest to deliver client happiness and consistent with their commitment to continuous improvement, Cavalry has developed industry leading software that measures client’s happiness on a per interaction basis. This software and approach is unique to the industry and is a key driver for how Cavalry continues to outpace their competitors across all key metrics including: revenue growth, profit, staff engagement etc. Key benefits of this system fall into the following categories: User Experience: This agile and realtime feedback is used to continually assess how well Cavalry is delivering on its’ promise of client happiness across all areas of the business.

Understanding the client’ experience across the entire user base is unique and help promotes client satisfaction across all levels.

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Optimize Operations: At Cavalry, client feedback is seen as a conduit to gold. If their core value is to deliver happiness then they must actively and measurably seek feedback (You can’t improve what you can’t measure.) All feedback is assessed and improvement opportunities identified so the company can continue to optimize operations and further differentiate its client value proposition. This process coupled with their commitment to continuous improvement helps increase Cavalry’s relevancy to their clients.

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A Motivated Team: At Cavalry, they operate with the belief that people don’t want to “work”, rather they want to be a contribution. People want to know that the results of their endeavors mattered to someone and helped create a better world. When Cavalry assists their clients, they enable them to deliver on their brand purpose which helps propel society forward. Cavalry acknowledges and incentivizes their team on their ability to create these happy interactions. At Cavalry, they goal and reward their team based on the number of happy experiences they create rather than the traditional metrics of each respective department.

They can objectively see that as they focus on delivering happiness, that the traditional KPI’s are also delivered.

Meaningful Client Engagement: Clients rightfully expect that their technology requirements are delivered “As a Service” much like a standard utility such as electricity or water. By engaging in an agile manner, Cavalry can address client’s needs as they happen rather than when they are raised for discussion in retrospect. By ensuring the BAU (Business As Usual) operations are delivered, they have increased opportunities to engage in more meaningful discussions around

We work on the mantra that: Apparently money doesn't make you happy, but we've found that happiness makes us money

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• Sturt is a fervent leader who enjoys creating businesses with the true customer in mind. He is motivated by customer ‘happiness’ and sets the Sales and Marketing direction for Cavalry.

Sturt has deep experience with the IT industry having held senior roles with many global based vendors.

how technology can help drive their organization forward. This could be in areas such as reporting, workflow, management dashboards etc.

Cavalry’s Happy Customers Every company is equated with something. At Cavalry, they want to be associated with ‘happiness’. They strive to build a customer obsessed team that delivers what they promise and take ownership at all times.

Cavalry measures every engagement by a staff member and by the client.

They have gamified this system that helps create Awards and Recognitions Cavalry has won numerous awards including: • MSP 501 - Top 200 Managed Service Firm Globally (Multiple Winner).

• APAC CIO -Top 15 Cloud Company in Asia Pacific.

• EY - Shortlist for Entrepreneur of the Year.

• CRN Fast 50 - Top 50 fastest growing IT firm in Australia (Multiple Winner).

• ARN - Shortlist for Australian IT Partner of the year (Multiple nominee).

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Cloud Computing In

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he future has a great promise when it comes to the cloud. No doubt, cloud computing has taken off in the recent years with business applications and new innovations. But knowing where will be the cloud computing by the end of the decade can be little difficult for those who don’t know what cloud computing is.

So, what is cloud computing and how will it help my business? Cloud computing is a kind of computer hard drive with a difference of storing and accessing data over the internet. When the data is stored on the hard drive, it is called local storage and computing.

Migration To Private Clouds With More Education Companies are starting to know the differences between public, private, and hybrid cloud computing. Companies opting to stay with the shared clouds will have the risk of slower performance and more security threats, which would result in migration to private clouds in the future.

More Hybrid Cloud Computing Some industry leaders predict that about 50 percent of companies will have hybrid clouds by 2017. Hybrid cloud computing would provide a combination of strengths like on-premise solutions and management convenience.

How will cloud computing evolve? And how will it affect the future? Are the questions organizations aims to find out.

Here are some predictions for the companies that look cloud computing as a cost-effective in a long-term.

Increased Cloud Development An 85 percent of the new applications are being built with the cloud in mind, which expects to see more and more resources going towards cloud development. Companies can expect an increase in the third party, commercial and enterprise developers and API exchanges.

Application Availability On The Cloud Will Be More It’s estimated that by the end of 2020, more than a quarter of all applications will be available on the cloud. More than 58 percent of companies spend about 10 percent of their annual budgets on the cloud, while about 56 percent of companies think cloud to be a strategic differentiator. As researchers predicted, there will be about 8.2 billion active mobile devices by 2020 with more and more applications to follow. Applications will be made available on the cloud to build and deploy applications that would lead to better technology and faster response time.

End Of Traditional Infrastructure Due to the evolving features of the cloud, software can be expected to almost completely stay away from hardware, since many companies are starting to search many applications available online by eliminating the need to keep buying new servers. Companies can expect software applications to get more complex and larger for scalability.

The emphasis will be mostly on modular software since applications tend to get larger. The modular software will require a novel approach to the technology by saying goodbye to the traditional infrastructure.

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The 10 Most Valuable

Cloud Service

Provider Companies

Cnetric:

Leveraging Cloud to Deliver Cost-Optimized Commerce and Interactive Solutions

Manohar Durai Founder & CEO

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n today’s dynamic digital era, the need for speed, flexibility and innovation is increasing at an unprecedented rate. In this swift-moving world, where everything is reachable with a single click, Digital Commerce is an unavoidable fragment of technology. Many leaders evolve, but some catch our minds…..Cnetric Enterprise Solutions is such a pioneer in delivering Digital Commerce and Interactive solutions on Cloud that has changed the way the consumers research, interact, purchase and engage with brands. As mobility and pervasive connectivity continue to transform buying habits, Cnetric is focused on helping businesses discover and maximise new opportunities-be it direct to consumers (B2C), or via distribution channels and resellers (B2B), or by other innovative business models.

Cnetric is a boutique Systems Integrator, delivering OmniChannel Commerce solutions and Interactive solutions for mid-market and enterprise customers. With over a decade of experience in Digital Commerce and several 38

implementations worldwide, Cnetric team utilises a range of partner solutions across order capture, order management, supply chain management, international logistics, search optimization, analytics and marketing automation to optimise the demand and supply chain.

Cnetric ensures adaptability in utilizing the technology appropriately for a client’s business size, operational complexity, and roadmap.

Exclusive Cloud Solutions by Cnetric Cnetric provides Small and Medium Business (SMB) retailers with a cost-effective, scalable e-commerce platform on cloud to create and maintain online stores to address their specific business needs and expand their market reach.. The solution is provided as an OPEX-based service targeted to the mid-market segment.

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Cnetric also recognises that a successful eCommerce strategy is not only centred around the eCommerce platform, and has therefore developed an interactive practice to help organisations drive adoption of their digital channels by providing an exceptional experience across any touchpoint that a customer might choose to interact through. Cnetric helps create engaging UX/CX Design, responsive web applications & native/hybrid mobility solutions and leverages analytics and marketing automation platforms to continuously improve the customer experience, leading to increased revenues and loyal customers.

Cnetric’s IBM Partnership Cnetric has been an IBM Premier partner since 2004 and have several joint cusrtomer references in AsiaPaciifc in the Telecom and Retail domain. IBM Softlayer was an obvious choice as the cloud infrastructure provider to deliver Cnetric Softwareas-a-Service solutions to customers.

“Customers are very particular about data centres being in their own country.

IBM has its data centres in India, Singapore and Australia which are preferred by our customers,” Mr. Manohar propounded. He added, “IBM is also better in terms of hardware specifications on which it supports cloud. IBM cloud is more secure and comes with an end-to-end solution, which is advantageous for our customers.”

With their experienced Cloud services team, Cnetric doesn’t just provide the ability to operate applications on the

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Cloud, they also help organisations modernise their applications and migrate them to the Cloud and provide ongoing DevOps support of the entire application and cloud infrastructure.

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We knew that a Commerce on Cloud service built around enterprise and content commerce platforms would help us to free customers from a Capex model and benet from our pay-as-you-grow Opex model to drive their online business

The Exuberant Leader Manohar Durai, the founder & CEO of Cnetric Enterprise Solutions, is responsible for business growth, brand building, product/service ideation and go-to-market strategies. At Cnetric, he has pioneered several innovative managed service offerings for the mid-market leveraging IBM Cloud and AWS Cloud.

Mr. Manohar has over three decades of experience in enterprise consulting and implementation of emerging technologies across Telecom, Retail & Distribution and Manufacturing industries in Americas, EMEA and Asia-Pacific region. Mr. Manohar has a background in enterprise middleware and integration, e-business / ecommerce, sales force automation and CRM, product data configuration & management, document imaging and management / workflow.

Prior to Cnetric, Mr. Manohar has played technical sales and consulting roles at CrossWorlds software and IBM in North & Latin America, EMEA and in IBM in Asia-Pacific.

Cnetric’s Strength Cnetric’s quest to reach the pinnacle of success intensifies every day and the company work culture fosters creativity and innovation. Cnetric’s commitment to client success has been

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business analytics to capture valuable customer insights and effectively influence buying decisions led to the development of the Cnetric Commerce-as-a-Service on Cloud solution.

the strength of the company wellevidenced by the several awards and customer case studies.

Clientele in the Foreground Cnetric has worked with global clientele including Canon, Telstra, David Jones, Hobby Hall, King Power, DKSH, Kmart, OfficeWorks and Just Group, and the company envisions expanding its sales and delivery teams globally to launch new Commerce and Interactive solutions for Retail, Distribution and Manufacturing. From Cnetric's global headquarters in India, the company has expanded to empower clients across four continents, with offices located in Singapore, USA, Australia and the UK. Cnetric seeks to empower customers with digital solutions and innovations that will accelerate digital transformation and drive their customer acquisition, engagement and retention strategy in this digital age where a seamless brand experience across all channels including social media is imperative to the success of the brand.

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Enterprise Concern

Hybrid BI Solutions Help in Tackling Data Gravity

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s the industry is inclining towards apps and then to the Cloud with less downtime, BI is also heading towards Cloud, Data Warehouses and various other data sources that might still live on-premises for a longer time. Hence, the need for BI apps to query across both realms will increase too. Data gravity proposes compelling industry challenges while BI has initially lived on-premises only with a small percentage of BI applications living in the cloud.

Data gravity is an undeniable market force that can be seen in mid-life crisis of BI industry. Compared to on premises, more data is generated in Cloud for the mobile and cloud’s first world of bazillion apps. The center of data gravity is shifting day by day as more apps are being delivered via Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud and Mobile.

It’s Impacting on BI The value of data in Cloud cannot be ignored by BI and analytics pros. Typically, the gorgeous dashboards created by them are not at the dead end of a one way street. Many projects of analytics are very iterative in nature. These dashboards send action items for adjustment which further enlightens a decision maker. At various points from various data sources, business process is monitored by dashboard which is simultaneously tuned for optimal performance.

Regardless of where they live, for delivering iterative

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intelligence effectively, added context and data is flowing back to forth between the analytical assets, data sources and apps rapidly.

Nowadays, more and more business apps in Cloud such as Marketo, Dynamics and Workday are lining. Because of growing volume of cloud data, copying and moving cloud data for analytical purposes is getting a bit more challenging. Today in a variety of use cases, specifically if data center managers are migrating workloads to Cloud, copying or moving data from the cloud to on-premises database servers make no sense. It matters how much value you get from your data and not the place its lives. That is why capabilities of hybrid BI is becoming essential for BI pros.

Hybrid BI Data Source Patterns Since so many years, Salesforce that has been in the cloud game and BI pros are struggling in downloading Salesforce history of each company into a local data warehouse.

Pulling excess amount of data with the default Salesforce bulk, APIs turned into a nightmare. Initially it seems as if it would work but surely will run into timeout issues. DBAmp proved to be the best solution for this issue as it created a SQL Server linked server connection with richer capabilities to the Salesforce bulk API. It helped Salesforce tables look like local SQL Server tables to make easier

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Power BI Query

Results

Azure Blob storage

query with BI apps. As hybrid BI technologies and Cloud develops gradually, linked server pattern is seen intrinsically in few places ranging from data virtualization to remote distributed queries.

Another potent technology, Elastic queries allow users to query multiple databases with T-SQL and perform crossdatabase queries too for scaling out queries residing in the cloud to BI apps on-premises. Another hybrid BI Microsoft |September 2016|

technology, Azure Data Factory is wrapped in the Cortana Analytics Suite that coordinates bigger data movement activities between cloud-to-cloud data sources. It connects wide variety of data sources. Next pattern is Power BI Data Management Gateway which is fairly unique to Microsoft.

It enables centralized registration of on-premises data sources. Today, most Cloud BI solutions don’t require Power BI instead they copy data to cloud. Power BI helps in copying data from the cloud.

Future of Hybrid BI The upcoming highlighted area of hybrid BI seems to be iterative and actionable as it includes R, Azure ML, new Power Apps integration with Power BI and Office.

Embedding of predictive analytics capabilities in cloud applications will be enabled by Azure, ML and R. Regardless of deployment location choice, rapid deployment of intelligent analytics will be enabled by a catalog of predefined analytics solution templates.

Moreover, with millions of users already using Office 365 in the cloud, still Office is the world’s most popular productivity tool. Between Office apps and Power BI, there are many synergies like group collaboration and awesome data storytelling with Sway. New Power Apps will allow business users in designing, building and deploying business process apps from templates. And for making Power BI an iterative and actionable decision making solution, no code should be used, technical users should not create forms instead of applying business logic and add workflows too.

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CXO Standpoint

Emerging Technologies from Microsoft: Remove the Limits on Your Business

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emaining on top of technology trends is a critical concern for entrepreneurs and professionals. Skill sets come and work at a breakneck tempo, and it’s important to remain in front of the curve in an effort to predict the next hot spots of technology to keep ourselves relevant in our alwaysshifting universe.

IoT is about devices that are connected to the internet to perform the processes and services that support our basic needs, economics, health and environment. Cloud computing acts as a front end to access IoTs. Cloud computing has now been a more popular service that arrives with more characteristics and advantages. In reality, cloud computing is based on users who perform the computer tasks using services delivered entirely through the Internet.

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and organization to achieve more. For businesses today, It is believed that the Internet of Things (IoT) represents not only the next major wave of computing, but also the next competitive advantage.

Harnessing signals and untapped data from existing and new devices unlocks powerful insights.

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Microsoft Cloud Platform IT today is under more pressure than ever before to deliver resources faster, support new business initiatives, and maintain pace with the challenger. To handle these demands, commercial enterprises need a pliant and resilient infrastructure that is easy to handle and easy to scale.

With Windows Server, Microsoft System Center, and Microsoft Azure, you can transform the datacenter. You can get advantage of innovation across the datacenter and the cloud to simplify your infrastructure and rapid delivery of services to the business. Enterpriseclass virtualization and unified management give you a foundation in your data center, while hybrid options provide you admission to the boundless capacity of the swarm. Hold open your business competitive with the Microsoft cloud platform.

Microsoft Data Warehousing and Big Data The traditional data warehouse is under pressure from the growing weight of increasing volumes of data, the expansive variety of data types, and the real-time processing velocity of how information is being used to develop and operate the line. Data warehousing has made the most important tipping point since its origin. The biggest, possibly most elaborate information

management system in IT is shifting.

The traditional data warehouse was designed specifically to be a central repository for all data in a troupe.

Disparate data from transactional systems, ERP, CRM, and LOB applications could be cleansed-that is, extracted, transformed, and loaded (ETL) -into the warehouse inside an overall relational schema. The predictable data structure and quality optimized processing and reporting.

Nevertheless, preparing queries was largely IT-supported and based on schedule batch processing.

The Microsoft data warehouse is built on symmetric multi-processing (SMP) technology. With SMP, adding more capacity involved more powerful hardware and then fork lifting the prior data warehouse into it. This was necessary because as the warehouse approached capacity, its architecture experienced performance issues along with a scale where there was no room to add incremental processor power or enable synchronization of the cache between processors.

Nevertheless, data volume is expanding tenfold every five years. A lot of this new information is driven by devices from the more than 1.2 billion people who are linked to the Internet worldwide, with an average of 4.3

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connected devices per person. Devices including smart phone also offer documentation for remote monitoring sensors, RFID, location-based data, transactions and more.

Microsoft Upgrades a New Standard for Wearables Only lately, Microsoft filed a patent for a wearable smart bracelet, but it’s unlikely the patent was lodged for this updated device. In the patent, the company explains the device is comprised of “interactive smart beads” attached to a connecting element, and spreads out the possibility for interaction with toys-to-life franchises.

Microsoft Band offers an impressive set of characteristics, including built-in GPS, call-screening, the ability to scan incoming e-mails and texts, a fullysynced calendar, a heart rate monitor, and more. But the key to getting the most of Microsoft Band is Microsoft, Health, an ambitious and superbly organized wellness app, which

provides a full selection of wellness and fitness tools.

The Microsoft Band has been designed to function with all smart phones.

Whether you’re a disciple of the Windows Phone or not, the Band will sync with Android and IOS devices as well, then no need to worry if you’re not a Microsoft dedicated. Tracking your heart rate, your steps taken, your calories burned and sleep patterns, the Microsoft Band tracks your daily physical activity and allows you to go over your stats with a bare glimpse at your wrist.

With a GPS Run Mapping system, you can map all of the paths that you've run, cycled or hiked and save your most challenging or your preferred roads. Including email previews, calendar alerts, incoming call notifications and text messages, the tracker carry a 48 hour battery.

Kris Nanda President V.L.S Systems Inc.

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Microsoft: 2016 Will Be the Year Of AI Microsoft is applying artificial intelligence to create detailed maps illustrating population density and the access to the internet across the world.

This should help Microsoft bring internet to parts of the globe that are without access. Microsoft has analyzed 20 countries and 21.6 million square kilometers amounting to 350TB of data.

Microsoft is also reported to be creating deep learning AI which aims to recover out what matters to Microsoft users. Microsoft is definitely not new to the AI game. In 2010, it introduced facial recognition technology that could distinguish people in photos, and in 2013, Microsoft dedicated a lab to AI research and also recruited deep learning experts to set up the AI headquarters. Microsoft says its design for AI is to personalize what matters to each user, populating timelines with things they genuinely care about rather than people and places they’d opt not to look.

Microsoft has determined to leverage Artificial Intelligence in order to enable better offline translation for the Translator app to be changing the way we communicate with the machines and also the way machines learn from our slipway. Cortana has been a fine piece of example when it comes to artificial intelligence, making things more comfortable for us and now Microsoft has leveraged the technology to bring about some worthwhile improvements in the Translator App. The best piece of the new AI inclusion is the very fact that it will bring in a much more potent and reliable offline

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translation, the caliber of which can be compared with the online translation.

The new AI feature will be the world’s first Deep Neural Network powered offline engine for Android. All you need to do is download language packs and get near online quality of interpretation.

A Microsoft Perspective: To Be Successful, Organizations Must Be Strategically Aware Today’s organizations have to deal with dynamic and uncertain environments. To be successful, organizations must be strategically aware. They must see how alterations in their competitive environments are opening. They should actively look for chances to exploit their strategic abilities, adapt and seek improvements in every area of the business, building on awareness and understanding of

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current strategies and successes.

Directors who made long-range plans generally assumed that better times put down in front. Future plans were simply extensions of where the organization had been in the yesteryear. But a bit of environmental shocks undermined this approach to strategic planning: rapid technological developments, the maturing or stagnation of certain grocery stores, increased international competition.

By now, you will see that Microsoft was making a rather unique resource.

Its approach to software “componentization” allowed the firm to leverage intellectual property across multiple product lines. And it likewise made it attractive for third-party firms to leverage Microsoft’s platform, equally opposed to others.

But how did this allow the firm to react effectively to technical change?

Foremost, it received an established foundation of knowledge that could be brought to bear on new emerging opportunities. Second, it possessed a well-defined process through which new intellectual property could be codified and integrated into this knowledge base in a manner that ensured compatibility with its living elements. And third, its established processes evolve this knowledge home to ensure it reflected changes in the broader technological context.

All in all, Microsoft believes that the pursuit of an effective entrepreneurial strategy is mainly through information.

Keying out the competitive advantages has to be represented through the aggregation and analysis of data from existing experiences.

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