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ell, when it comes to listing the most admired companies of the year, the list cannot be fulfilled without a proper survey and a standard set of norms. The very first criteria we land up is the ‘Innovativeness’ of a company. In this fast race of competition and that is too with an urge ‘to be on top of the competition’, companies need to have certain characteristic inbuilt and one of the most important amongst them is ‘Innovativeness’.

It is not about how well you can do something than the others, but it is all about, as Tyler Oakley says, “Recognizing what only you can do...is going to make you successful”. It is the uniqueness of the company which makes it go and sit in the category of ‘Most Admired’.

Innovation is the Need of an Hour

But what exactly innovation means? Well to simply answer this question, it is nothing but a value creation. The paramount objective of innovation for a company must be to be innovative through the aspect of development, application and bundle technology in the products or services they come up with in the global market.

It is all about coming up with unique ideas to keep operations, products and services as fresh as possible. It is the process to fetch those ideas into reality is what innovation is all about. Though, it is as hard as it could be to actually transform those ideas into an actual product or service that will prove to be beneficial for the customers.

Once innovation is put into action and launched in the market, the company needs to put it into practice and exploit it in such a manner that will lead to new products, services or systems that will add value and improve quality. Innovation will also include, technological transformation and management restructuring, which will generate new value and will bring significant changes in the company.

Innovation is just inevitable in this modern day world than ever before. With the world full of globalization technology and knowledge revolutions, innovation brings added value and widens the employment base. Innovation will not just elevate the rank of the company, but will boost its moral to do something admirable in the future too.

Contents Cover Story

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Spotlight

How an Ordinary Person Can Turn into an Admired Personality?

34 Chalk Talk A Conducive Environment at Workplace to Preserve your Best Talent

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26 Think Tank Creativity is not a Gift and Can be Learned

22 AsiaPay: Secure, Integrated & Most Comprehensive Payment Processing Services

24 Attra: Providing a Strategic Advantage to the Enterprises in Banking & Payments Domain

28 Citrus Informatics: Always in the Foreground of ICT

30 Crystal logic: 16+ years • 70+ Team Strength • 700+ Clients

32 DigiStreet: Kept walking, keep walking.

36 Forticode: Personally Managed Authentication

38 Mindlogicx: Pioneering an Unrivalled Revolution in Education Technology

40 Mithi Software Technologies: An Innovative Collaboration Technology Enabler For Enterprises

44 Peloton Group: The Backbone of Innovation and Business Transformation

46 Safexpress: Knowledge Leader and Market Leader In Supply Chain & Logistics Industry

48 SyncDog: Leading the Way towards a Secured Future

50 Touchless Biometric Systems: Biometric Solution leading the way

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eing good is not enough for the companies in today’s scenario, than being innovative, being ahead in terms of technology, in terms of strategy and in terms of the best workplace for the employees. Proving themselves in all these aspects makes a company admired from all parts of the world.

This is the reason, we have come up with an issue of The 30 Most Admired Companies of 2016. In this issue, we have shortlisted such companies who are ahead in today’s tough competition, let it be in terms of technological advancement, workplace environment, offering the best products and services or be the innovative on. All of these are the companies, which are proving their metal in all these aspects.

Keeping customer satisfaction on top of everything is what makes a company successful and creates its space in the customers favorite list too. In this issue of The 30 Most Admired Companies of 2016, we have such companies, which are on top of the charts when it comes to customer satisfaction. With a totally customer centric services that are fused with the latest innovation, these companies are offering the best solutions of all.

Today, operating a business speed has become the most difficult part to handle for the organizations, which is the direct result of getting infused with the agility to adapt as rapidly as customers and the market demand. When it comes to providing a better user experience, enterprises need to predict the changes beforehand and make changes accordingly in the infrastructure.

Cover story of this issue, Req Technology Consulting Co. Ltd is pacifying the IT infrastructure needs of the companies by offering world class IT Infrastructure Services on each stage of the IT Lifecycles such as Planning, Design, Implementation and Test. Re: QTC is enabling enterprises to be in a constantly ready-state, building business context service delivery, simultaneously speeding up delivery by unlocking trapped value.

Having some of the most impressive credentials in the IT Vendor landscape, as one of its best assets, Re: QTC is helping companies around the world deliver faster and better business.

Also, do not forget to flip through the masterly Articles written by our writers. This issue of The 30 Most Admired Companies of 2016 will definitely prove to be the most interesting read for all.

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Giving Credence to ‘Infrastructure Accelerates Business’

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igitalization’, a term introduced in the 21st Century, revolutionized the IT industry. It is Digitalization which made the consumer a king availing him the power of selection, which directly impacted the enterprises on the prime position. As the consumer has become the decision maker, enterprises have to mold themselves accordingly and show the flexibility, speed, and efficiency, bind together in a robust IT strategy.

Today, operating a business speed has become the most difficult part to handle for the organizations, which is the direct result of getting infused with the agility to adapt as rapidly as customers and the market demand.

When it comes to providing a better user experience, enterprises need to predict the changes beforehand and make changes accordingly in the infrastructure.

Req Technology Consulting Co. Ltd is pacifying the IT infrastructure needs of the companies by offering world class IT Infrastructure Services on each stage of the IT Lifecycles such as Planning, Design, Implementation and Test. Re: QTC is enabling enterprises to be in a constantly ready-state, building business context service delivery, simultaneously speeding up delivery by unlocking trapped value.

Having some of the most impressive credentials in the IT Vendor landscape, as one of its best assets, Re: QTC is helping companies around the world deliver faster and better business.

IT companies are always in the puzzle when it comes to align IT with strategic business initiatives, built-in flexibility to adapt to a constantly changing global market, or to strategize, develop and execute new initiatives with optimal speed to remain competitive. To solve this puzzle for the IT companies, Re: QTC

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completes high quality troubleshooting which other companies cannot provide at the same level and by structuring system with newly released software products.

As a result, four major Japanese system integrators recognize Re: QTC as one of the most trusted IT infrastructure service providers. Re: QTC received The Most Valuable Technical Partner Award from one of them.

Mentation, the Prime Aim With an abundant hardware and middleware knowledge, Re: QTC has the capability of dealing with a database system. As an Infrastructure Consultant, Re: QTC can evaluate database server compatibility form the totality of circumstances and build database system infrastructure in accordance with the requirements. This proper mentation of a situation when it comes to solving a problem is Re: QTC’s core competency.

Re: QTC has received great comments from their clients, in the distribution, industrial, financial, services sectors, like, Re: QTC’s support has been one of the important factors for the project success.

Journey that has been an Inspiration for All With the fast pace modern world, IT technology is evolving day by day. Being in the list of one of the top IT service providers, Re: QTC has proved to be a high-quality IT service provider in the market, engaged in numerous projects which requires design and construction of largescale projects and mission-critical systems. These challenges have only enhanced the technical skills of Re: QTC’s team.

Re: QTC has been collaborating with major product vendors and System Integrators to carry out feasibility study and performance test. Re: QTC also built a verification environment within the company, while performing testing for new functions.

When it comes to describing the inspirational journey of the company, the positive participation of Re: QTC in projects is remarkable. Re: QTC gets involved in difficult troubleshooting which other companies cannot deal. While doing so, the company uses multiple newly released software products to build infrastructure systems. These kinds of projects become an appealing example and contributed to earning customers trust for Re: QTC.

‘You Bring the Difficulties and Re: QTC Will Fetch the Answers’ In this exciting journey of Re: QTC, the company has handled many satisfied clients. But, the narration of the journey cannot be concluded here. Once, a major travel service company approached Re: QTC with the same issues under the existed system. Their system provided tour search, travel reservation, marketing to analyze enormous tour data and the vast volume of accesses every day.

Even though the vendors participating in this project were major HW vendors and application vendors, the customer’s CIO wanted a professional who were able to support system replacement from the end user’s point of view. After learning about Re: QTC he asked them to provide technical support and identifying the work that seems to be missing in practice.

The queries were major, like they were getting many complaints from in-house users, including sales representatives; the system response is too slow during the brisk period (event), opportunity loss had occurred that customers moved to another WEB site during the tour search. Not just that, there was an insufficient computer resources (CPU / memory / IO), the system stopped occasionally due to hardware trouble, software malfunction, the customer planned to replace the server with high cost performance, but it required to stop the systems for several days for data migration and server replacement. On top of this, they were concerned about recent cyber attacks and internal corruption, protecting confidential information and personal information could be at high risk.

Though the problems were huge, Re: QTC approached all the issues with great solutions. They extensively calculated how much computer resources are required and figured out necessary resources (CPU / memory / IO) in consideration of peak event time. After that, they thoroughly diagnosed and analyzed database performance statistics, in the result, it avail a stable performance even at peak times with the most access. Going further, Re: QTC proposed a data migration tool which other vendors could not come up with due to a lack of know-how. As a result, this powerful tools made available to move huge amounts of data to the new infrastructure with minimum system downtime.

Unbelievably, all this transition completed in just 2 hours with almost no system outage. It offered a product which does not cause obstacles as much as possible, stable and continuous operation. Also, it proposed a redundant

Services That Meets the Industry Standards In the era of building system in combination of OS, database, middleware, server, storage and other products by various vendors, Re: QTC was started from the voice of customers who wanted to have a vendor which can deal with complex issues of building infrastructure with a sense of speed.

Re: QTC provides Designing and Building Database System, Database Assessment Service, Database Operation Support Service for Incident Recovery and Periodic Diagnosis, Database Appliance Implementation (Designing and Building) Service and Database Security Service.

Re: QTC’s DB service covers a wide range of customer needs from designing and building database to migration, incident recovery and database performance improvement which is designed by others. Especially, for those customers who are considering database server migration and its method of migration, Re: QTC’s assessment service, with hearing the customer for their system requirements and current issues, supports the customers to decide the direction of the system including hardware and middleware selection, as well as it makes a valuable contribution to customers to migrate their systems, and it brings the customer shorter lead time, smaller application impact, less anxiety, and fine tuned investment.

Re: QTC provides professional services in the areas of Virtualization, Storage, Network, Cloud Computing, Clusterware, Network Security, etc.

Additionally, Re: QTC offers database security services for all the cycles, including drafting database security, the development of it, and database operational security services.

For example, Re: QTC’s database security diagnosis system proposes security enhancement plan based upon the then current system set up and operations.

In addition, Re: QTC also provides services for access management, implementation of preventative measures against unauthorized misappropriation,

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configuration which eliminates single failure point as much as possible. At the end of the day, after the operation with a new infrastructure, there was no system outage due to obstacles.

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security design changes and set ups, building systems based on Oracle security products, security enhancement plan, and performance fine-tuning.

Far ahead in the Race Though there is a tough competition in the market, Re: QTC is far ahead in the race. Re: QTC’s competency is to build infrastructure for the database systems by determining adequacy and appropriateness of the DB server and by satisfying customer’s specifications utilizing various experiences as a infrastructure consultant, not just based on database knowledge, e.g., Oracle database. It is the never ending efforts of Re: QTC, which is keeping the company ahead in the competition. The company continuously gives technical trainings to all of its engineers and shares new technical information and solutions for troubles, these efforts make Re: QTC competitive in the market.

Shigeru Kamiya, Visionary behind Re: QTC With a whooping experience of more than 25 years in the area of enterprise systems, Shigeru Kamiya is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Re: Q Technology Consulting Co. Ltd. Shigeru started his career as a sales professional with a European IT company. Joining a US Hardware Computer Company in 1991 later, he achieved over 100% business target for more than 10 years and received awards for a number of times.

Later on he joined another US hardware company in 2002 as a Director and then got promoted to a senior level Director. A glittering achievement to be mentioned here is that Shigeru grew the system consulting department from 7 SEs to approximately 30 sales representatives and 100 consultants in just 5 years!

It was later in 2008, Shigeru and his colleague incorporated Re: Q Technology Consulting, which he is leading as a President till this date. It is just the result of Shigeru’s extensive experience and especially his excellent communication skill and industry knowledge, that Re: QTC experienced a steadfast growth in its business.

IT Service Industry from Shigeru’s Viewpoint Having a vast experience working in the IT industry,

Shigeru’s viewpoint for the industry is like, IT companies have focused particularly on market share, growth rate, and profit margin of investment.

However, they are unduly ruled by these numbers.

When it comes to talking about the Artificial Intelligence, Shigeru opines that, IT companies around the world have been concentrated on developing and marketing AI as product software, but it looks like they are fascinated by the fight for market share and being the market leader.

As per Shigeru, the role of IT companies is not only selling AI systems to their customers, but also building AI systems to fit for the customer’s particular purposes. In this accordance, IT vendors have to work on introducing cloud systems, implementing adequate security enhancement, completing data migration and data construction. What customers are looking for is building the service for information system and deployment of it rather than AI as a tool, adds Shigeru.

Plans ‘Down the Road’ The development of IOT and big data, need for security is and will be on the verge in the future. What corporations tend to have is the highly confidential information, but there are many cases where the data management system does not possess adequate and proper security measures. If the database is not adequately protected, it can easily allow someone to steal, alter and destroy the data.

Keeping this in mind Re: QTC is planning to be a professional services provider with 1,000 architects with expertise in big data infrastructure, IoT based Knowledge, and Cloud-based Server Storage Network Security Architects.

While throwing light on the same Shigeru adds, “In order to deploy global expansion, Re: QTC started the business in Singapore in 2015, and the next steps are establishing businesses in ASEAN major countries soon as well as in North America and Europe within a few years.”

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5D Robotics www.5drobotics.com

David Bruemmer Director

5DTM provides a state-of-the-art hyper-positioning and autonomous navigation platform that can transform any existing vehicle into a smart, precise and safe autonomous vehicle.

AsiaPay Limited www.asiapay.com

Mr. Joseph Chan Founder & CEO

AsiaPay is an accredited payment processor and payment gateway solution vendor for banks, certified IPSP for merchants, certified international 3-D Secure Vendor for Visa, MasterCard, American Express and JCB.

Attra www.attra.com

Anil Gammampila Founder, Chairman

Attra is a multinational IT solutions and services delivery firm focused on banking, finance and payments industry.

BioMe www.biome.pro

Kristina Liese Chief Marketing Officer

BioMe is an award winning start-up company creating and developing new patent-pending materials for biomedical industry.

Cashbook www.cashbook.com

Greg Coulter CEO & MD

Cashbook provides cash management software, delivering more Automation, Functionality & Control.

Citrus Informatics (India) Pvt. Ltd. www.citrusinformatics.com

Sarji Mohammedali CEO

Citrus Informatics is an Information & Communication Technology (ICT) company that uses well-defined processes honed over the years with rigorous process improvements, best practices and innovative thinking to develop breakthrough solutions that leverage emerging technologies to achieve the business goals of the clients.

Crystal Logic Pvt. Ltd. www.crystal-logic.com

Manoj Punjabi Director

Crystal Logic is an online marketing company with the potent mix of clear understanding of client’s business needs and providing robust applications to meet them.

dacadoo ag www.dacadoo.com

Peter Ohnemus Founder, CEO

dacadoo is a Zurich based company that combines mobile technologies, social networking, gamification and big data analytics with the aim of helping users improve their health and well-being.

DigiStreet Media www.digistreetmedia.com

Sourav Ghosh (Sr. Visualizer), Kavish Arora (CDO), Darpan Sharma (CEO), Sushant Sharma (Creative Head)

DigiStreet offers personalized and wise solutions based on extensive background research, a thorough market research, followed up by comparative analysis, concluding with a brainstorming session.

Expert 365 www.expert365.com

Vishy Karri Co-founder, Chairman & CEO

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Expert 365 is an Australian Internet of Things solution provider and systems integrator.

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Falt Communicatins AB www. faltcom.com

Mikael Langstrom CEO

Fältcom connects the world through the Internet of Things.

With their MIIPS platform and its apps, you can control, monitor, or analyze machines, buildings, and systems over the Internet.

Forticode Ltd. www.forticode.com

Tony Smales CEO

Forticode have developed the world’s only Personally Managed Authentication platform.

Hyland Software, Inc www.hyland.com

Bill Priemer CEO

Hyland Software Inc. is the developer of the enterprise content management (ECM) and process management software suite called OnBase.

K2 www.k2.com

Adrian Van Wyk Founder & CEO

K2’s business process application solutions help companies across the world increase agility and find new methods of success.

LanzaTech www.lanzatech.com

Jennifer Holmgren CEO

LanzaTech’s technology enables energy partnerships between multiple industries.

Linium www.linium.com

Joe Burke CEO

Linium is a globally recognized firm with over 16 years of experience in consulting, recruiting and managed services.

Mindlogicx Infratec Limited www.mindlogicx.com

Raghav Narayan Director-sales & marketing

Mindlogicx aims to enable common people with innovative technology in education sector to drive forward the national economy. It is providing unique services to universities, colleges and recruitment boards to help them simplify Examination Processes.

Mithi Software Technologies Pvt Ltd www.mithi.com

Tarun Malaviya Founder & CEO

An approach towards an engineering platform based on reusable components and objects, they create enterprise grade products to solve specific business problems with technology intervention.

Njevity www.njevity.com

Chris Dobkins President & CEO

Njevity is a Microsoft Certified Partner that offers integrated Cloud and On-Premise Dynamics GP, CRM and Acumatica.

NuTEQ Solutions www.nuteqsolutions.com

Mike Roddy CEO

NuTEQ Solutions, LLC is a SaaS provider focused on mobile customer care. Our clients recognize that today’s consumer has an ANYTIME / ANYWHERE mobile-first mindset.

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Company Name Peloton www.pelotongroup.com

Piramal Pharma Solutions www.piramal.com

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Guy Daniello CEO & Founder

Peloton is a leading professional services firm that specializes in envisioning and delivering high-value and high-quality practical solutions within all areas of Enterprise Performance Management (EPM).

The Piramal Group is a diversified conglomerate with Vivek Valsaraj operations in over 30 countries and brand-presence across 100 President Finance markets around the world.

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Req Technology Consulting Co. Ltd www.reqtc.com

Shigeru Kamiya President & CEO

Re:Q Technology Consulting provides Designing and Building Database System, Database Assessment Service, Database Operation Support Service for Incident Recovery and Periodic Diagnosis, Database Appliance Implementation (Designing and Building) Service and Database Security Service.

Safexpress Pvt. Ltd. www.safexpress.com

Rubal Jain Managing Director

Safexpress offers a wide range of innovative supply chain services including Express Distribution, 3PL and Consulting.

Silvernest www.silvernest.com

Wendi Burkhardt Director of Community Relations

Silvernest is a unique roommate-matching service for boomers and empty nesters with space to share.

SyncDog, Inc. www.syncdog.com

Jonas Gyllensvaan Founder and CEO

SyncDog is the leading independent software vendor (ISV) for building secure infrastructure frameworks that protect enterprise networks from cyber breach from mobile computing sources.

The Rinaldi Group www.rinaldinyc.com

Anthony T. Rinaldi CEO

TRG is a full-service general contractor and construction management firm, building upon it’s foundation and tradition of self-performance in both the public and private industry sectors alike.

Touchless Biometric Systems www. tbs-biometrics.com

Alex Zarrabi CEO

TBS offers a complete portfolio of hardware and software for any biometric application, embedded in a highly secure, powerful and flexible biometric infrastructure.

Virgil Security, Inc. www.virgilsecurity.com

Michael W. Wellman Founder & CEO

Virgil Security, Inc., provides software developers with password-free authentication, strong encryption, and verification of data, devices, and identities that is quickly and easily integrated into their products - often in just hours - with no prior cryptographic knowledge or training required.

YNG Media www.yngmedia.com

Sudhir Vashist CEO

YNG MEDIA provides effective digital marketing services by implementing the best of technology, creativity and analytical expertise.

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AsiaPay: Secure, Integrated & Most Comprehensive Payment Processing Services

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nline sales is a booming industry today, becoming an essential part of every single business. The survival of a business today, totally depends on the electronic sales, without which, the survival of a business is impossible. The top rank of the business and availability of top notch site will be totally in vain if the company is not able to receive payments electronically.

But, there is no need to worry anymore for the companies as it has become quite easy to collect payments for goods and services from, let’s say, any corner of the world via payment service providers. There are tons of online payment service providers available out there. But the question is who will be the best, whom you can trust for all the important online transactions like, credit card, bank transfer, or real-time orders?

AsiaPay is proving itself as an ideal electronic payment solution available out there. It is an accredited payment processor and payment gateway solution vendor for banks, certified IPSP for merchants, certified international 3-D Secure Vendor for Visa, MasterCard, American Express, and JCB. Founded in 2000, AsiaPay, a premier electronic payment solution and technology vendor and payment 22 | December 2016

service provider, strives to bring advanced, secured, integrated, and cost-effective electronic payment processing solutions and services to banks and e-businesses in the worldwide market, covering international credit card, debit card and other prepaid card payments.

AsiaPay, Offering the Best Payment Processor and Payment Gateway One of the leading e-payment service providers in Asia, AsiaPay has specifically designed a variety of solutions to deliver secure, reliable and cost-effective solutions for banks, PSPs and businesses of all sizes are available to help them mitigate fraud and risks, reduce operation and ownership costs and enhance operational efficiency.

Offering cross-border e-Commerce services, AsiaPay has a diverse suite of payment solutions, which allows both Western and Asian businesses as well as financial institutions to carry out cross-border e-Commerce easily and securely.

AsiaPay has achieved many accolades.

The company has many awards for the best payment solutions offering. Its variety of award-winning payment solutions includes multi-currency, multi-lingual, multi-card, and multi-channel together with its advanced fraud detection and management solutions.

Hong Kong based AsiaPay offers its professional e-payment solution consultancy and quality local service support across 12 countries in Asia, which includes, Hong Kong, China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam and rapidly expanding to new Asia Pacific markets.

Primarily focused on helping banks and financial institutions adapt to technology enabled operating models and processes, AsiaPay deliver services such as Payment Processing, Mobile Payment, Value-Added Solutions, Payment Security, White-label Payment Gateway and ACS Solutions and Managed Services.

AsiaPay offers a unique solution called Redeem-n-Pay, a proprietary loyalty and rewards platform, which allows banks to drive ‘on-us’ rates by enabling cardholders to purchase items online using reward points they accumulated from card usage. It is also available as a white label solution.

Being ‘One of its Kinds’ Makes AsiaPay Stand Tall in the Competition AsiaPay covers different countries and is progressing towards conquering the remaining world. The characteristic of being different than the others makes AsiaPay stand apart from the competition. Among other

“We provide corporate entities with latest electronic payment values that readily enhance business opportunities, efciency and productivity” e-payment service providers in the Asia Pacific region, AsiaPay provides the widest payment processing and settlement network of credit card acquirers and alternative payments methods across 12 countries. This is reason which enables AsiaPay provide the best combination of payment methods per country based on local infrastructure and consumer preferences to merchants, banks and even other payment providers. One more differentiator which makes the company different than the other competitors and that is AsiaPay is one of the few providers in Asia to be PCIDSS Level 1since 2006.

Their bank-grade security is recognized by acquiring banks and card associations worldwide.

Mr. Joseph Chan Founder & CEO

AsiaPay Limited

Mr. Joseph Chan, Brain behind AsiaPay Mr. Joseph Chan, Founder & Chief Executive Officer of AsiaPay, founded the company in August 2000. He spearheaded the company and product development together with his management team, to become one of the most successful electronic payment service and technology company in Asia, with operations covering 12 countries.

Joseph received his Bachelors of Science degree and Master of Economics degree from Monash University in Australia.

Through successive positions in banking and finance industries, Joseph has consolidated his expertise and experience in strategic planning, management and implementation of financial, electronic banking, Internet and mobile product services and systems in Asia.

Joseph actively participates and contributes to the development of e-Commerce and e-Payment in the community and is an active member of various renowned associations in Asia. And, he is appointed by HK Trade Development Council as member of ICT Advisory Committee, and is awarded China Outstanding Innovative Entrepreneur Award.

Joseph’s achievement has been recognized by the society and Joseph was honorable to receive “Asia Pacific Entrepreneurship Awards 2013 - the Most Promising Entrepreneurship Award”, “EY Entrepreneur of the Year 2014” award and “Cards & Electronic Payments International (CEPI) Asia Disruptor 2016” Award.

While coloring the future of AsiaPay, Joseph says, “We will continue to expand our footprint in the market to expand our product and service coverage, as well as new payment solution R&D. We look forward to value adding and empowering businesses and financial institutions to keep pace with the technology and market disruption by offering comprehensive suite of payment solutions cross channels, markets and devices and technologies.”

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he technological advancements in the financial industry are changing the way people bank today. This is complicating the payments systems, as the consumers, enterprises and banks continue to demand more efficiency. The new wave of ‘fin-tech’ (Financial Technology) firms are emerging in parallel, innovating new and unique means for banks to interact with their customers.

The BFSI (Banking, Financial Services and Insurance) segment is evolving more rapidly than it ever has in the past. The advent of digitization has fostered a whole host of FinTechs with lateral ideas and solutions. This has provided entry for new entrants into the payments universe, such as Mobile Network Operators, Trusted Service Managers and OEM’s such as Samsung, Apple and Microsoft.

The traditional means of banking are constantly challenged by new and efficient technologies, that not only challenge the legacy, but in some cases completely disrupt the space. Eg. The Blockchain technology.

Acknowleding that they are on the precipice of a pivotal change, Attra have made large investments into building Emerging Technologies, Digital practice and Cyber Security teams that are challenged with the singular task of R&D, and innovations.

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The teams have been successful in building the necessary skills in order to tackle and adequately service the rapidly evolving banking space. Attra aspires to stay abreast of the latest technologies; and continue to pave the way for its customers, specifically, and the BFS industry in general. Attra constantly strives for the ‘Next Best Practice’, with state-of-the-art global delivery centers in Bangalore, Pune, Hyderabad, Melbourne, and Dubai.

& Consultancy, Subject Matter Expertise, Project Management, Application Development, Portfolio Migration and Conversion Services, Product Launch, System Analysis, End to End Test Management and Execution, Certification Testing, Integration and Production Support Services, Automation and Digital services covering Mobility, Content Management and Information Management.

Over the years, Attra has worked with leading banking applications in the areas of Core Financials, Fraud Management, Transaction Switching, Card Management and Leasing & Lending platforms, provided by some of the major Fintech providers.

Attra has internally reviewed traditional means of execution and equipped itself to render services using an agile approach adopting Dev ops to enable continuous integration.

Attra, ‘Transforming the Possibilities into Reality’ Being a multinational IT solutions and services delivery firm focused on banking, finance and payments industry; Attra is transforming the possibilities into reality through the various services and solutions offered by them.

Attra provides a broad range of IT services including Business Analysis

The competition in the industry has become as tough as it can be. In this cut-throat competition, Attra is proving its mettle through high end services and solutions offering. For Attra, the top driving differentiators are: • Industry Relevant Services with specific emphasis on “domain” focus • Ability to provide a full-range of services within the niche domain (cards, core banking, switching, data warehousing, analytics, automation etc.)

• Information security through their

“We emphasize on “What matters to the Customer”; which enables us to develop deep relationships with CEOs, CIOs and Programme Directors in leading global nancial services organizations” enterprise-wide PCI DSS V3.1 certified offshore premises • Nimble and Agile approach - ability to respond quickly, sense customer pulse and urgency, respond with equal fervor while maintaining focus on quality and information security, with a mindset to get it right the ‘first time’.

Anil Gammampila, Passionista behind Attra A technocrat with an urge to build a company that would embody his ability to fathom Anil Gammampila customer sentiment and his passion for delivery, Founder & Chairman Anil Gammampila, Founder, Chairman, Attra Chief Technologist, Innovator and a leading Entrepreneur laid the foundational stone of Attra. Anil built Attra, a multinational IT Solutions and Services Delivery Firm headquartered in Melbourne, Australia from the first employee in 1995 to a resource strength of 1500+ today.

Being a truly global person, Anil was born in Sri Lanka and educated in the UK. He worked in Europe, the subcontinent, the Middle East and Australasia. Anil is passionate about delivering exceptional client outcomes based on the philosophy “Nothing Boomerangs On Us” Elaborating one of the biggest project of Attra, Anil says, “Attra executed a large, complex piece of transformational work for the largest bank in Thailand. We won this project in the face of stiff global competition and successfully migrated a 6.5 million cards portfolio from one continent to another. We installed a brand new cards platform and surrounding systems such as fraud and risk prevention systems. This is the kind of work that one normally associates with a large international player.

We have been able to deliver it “First Time Right”. Since then, we have been awarded ongoing support and development work for this customer. We have helped the customer double their portfolio size over the last five years.”

Future Zenith of Success Having success in its kitty, and the return of the ‘customer on the top priority’ attitude; Attra 2.0 is eying towards working with their customers through the sea changes of innovations. This not only includes measured data and consultancy, but also through end-to -end services rendered through new partnerships.

Anil further adds, “Our go-to-market model is built around strong domain skills, process maturity in its delivery models, and using Information Security as a key focus. We continue to differentiate by focusing “inch-wide” and “mile-deep”.

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Think Tank

Creativity formative years of school have taught us that creativity is a gift that only lucky people are born with. Well, the good news is that creativity is not a gift, but a skill that can be learned by the school kids to the old people and the timing is only better because in the competitive world today, the creative juices are welcomed at the every level in the organizations.

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he changing scenario of business climate has made creativity no longer be limited to artists and inventors. Every organization needs people at all the levels who can bring novel ideas to the table. Creative people who can find new uses for old products, new methods to close sales, new techniques for increasing productivity or in short, novel ways to do with very less.

The problem has been there is that most of the people do not believe that they have any creative ability. Our

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“Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought,” said Albert George. Sounds very much easy, right? But, when we begin to think about all the things we’ve looked at all our life, we realize how we really haven’t thought about it in a way we should have.

The reason is we’ve been looking at those things the same way we always have. Then, how to stop looking at everything around us in the same manner that we always have?

Looking at the things in different ways or getting an another perspective has been a key to innovation. That has a part answer to the question. The quintessence of creativity is all about solving problems or satisfying needs give the rest of the answer. “Necessity is the mother of invention” makes it very much simple and easy.

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Well, the truth is we are also likely to enter into the league of creative folks when something annoys us. It’s very much similar to the squeaky wheel that always gets the oil. Think about all the work you do, be at home or office or anywhere else. There is at least one thing we hate still we do and that’s common for everyone around the world. It’s always the one we can’t avoid. That means if you hate it, there are countless who hate it too, which makes your solution a million dollar idea.

Then the question might strike you is that how you can think more creatively? The answer is to observe already established creators and imitate their characteristics. Every creative thinker has three primary traits. The first and foremost is the belief he/she is creative. Thinking you are creative makes you ninety percent creative. And it comes with the confidence that you’ll come up with the right answer when the need arises.

The second trait of the innovators is that have fluidity in the thoughts. They are flexible with their thoughts even when they don’t have to be. Traditional ways of seeing things are abandoned from their thinking and they go with the new thoughts in the direction. In short, they aren’t afraid of taking risks and breaking the rules. You can try yourself too. Select any item on your desk and think of an alternative use of it. Difficult to choose? Let’s take an example of a

paper clip. How many times you have distorted it into a new solution? Yeah, you were forgotten how creative you already are. You can select any other item, and you’ll be surprised with the things you come up with.

Now, select two objects and try to come up with an idea to make a new product. One definition of the definition of innovations is the amalgamation of two or more existing ideas into a new one. In fact, many of the R&D departments employ people to do just that which just might explain some of those strange holiday-season gift inventions.

Exposing themselves to new experiences and different viewpoints is the third and most important trait of creative thinkers. By opening their minds to new boost, they lay down new neural pathways in their brains literally by creating new electrical connections between brain cells and opening the new channels of the thoughts. It makes them ready to assist them with the problems whenever they are confronted.

Creativity is a renewable resource that we can tap into at any time and yes, it’s a process that can be taught and will be a way for survival.

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Citrus Informatics: Always in the Foreground of ICT

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n today’s globally competitive world, a software product company’s success is based not only on its ability to come up with quality products and services, but also on its ability to take on challenges, be it in the realm of technology upgrades or price positioning. This is especially true since radically changing technologies and customer expectations are forcing companies to create innovative yet cost effective solutions. It requires skill and creative thinking to deliver solutions that catches the customer’s attention.

Using well-defined processes, best practices and innovative thinking to achieve the business goals of clients, Citrus Informatics, an Information & Communication Technology (ICT) company is breaking the mould delivering breakthrough solutions that leverage emerging technologies.

Citrus Informatics offers product development as well as custom software services using cutting-edge technology at affordable costs. The processes, methodologies, and tools that are used as part of the integrated project management approach result in better quality solutions. This coupled with robust frameworks and components ensures reduced cycle times, fast product delivery, lower cost of ownership, better risk mitigation, faster return on investment and quicker time to market.

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Pvt. Ltd. has 20 years of diverse experience of spearheading large IT Divisions spanning Program & Project Management, Infrastructure & Operations Management, People Management, Research, Product Development & Engineering, Technology management, Application development, Information security and Quality Management across a broad spectrum of verticals in the IT industry in USA and India.

Having started his career as a lecturer in Computer Engineering at the Institute of Human Resources Development for Electronics in Kerala, Sarji later moved to the IT industry and worked in various key roles. He worked at Avenir Inc. and Atinav LLC in India and USA in the capacity of Senior Vice President - Technology, prior to Citrus Informatics. He has also served as the Head of Projects & Operations at UCI Technology Private Limited (Software R&D Division of Trading Room Technologies, USA).

With a vision to bring about a radical change to the ICT space, Sarji founded Citrus Informatics in 2010.

According to Sarji, the primary goal of any company should be to deliver quality solutions to its customers.

While talking about the primary aims of the company, he says, “Delivering quality solutions always has been the rule we live by. We never compromise on quality or cut corners. We pride ourselves in being able to provide solutions that will run on its own when deployed and requires minimum maintenance”.

Apart from Citrus Informatics

(India) Pvt Ltd, Sarji Mohammedali decisively serves three different IT companies in the USA. Since 2010, he has been serving Netspective Communications LLC, USA as Offshore Head; since 2009, as Offshore in charge of TCTI Inc, USA; and since 2010, for Alim Foundation, a USA based Non Profit Islamic Organization, as Board member and Senior Technology Consultant. He is also an IT Advisory to RGB Broadcasting Equipments Pvt Ltd, Kerala, India.

Citrus Informatics, Always a Step Ahead in the Competition Clearly defined processes, performance metrics, quality checklists and standards established through rigorous process improvement have taken Citrus Informatics to new heights. More than twenty five satisfied customers around the globe (mostly from USA) have made Citrus Informatics, a partner of choice, for innovative solutions that fully meet requirements in terms of quality, functionality and affordability.

Sarji adds, “Our team of competent and qualified professionals ensures projects big and small conform to the highest quality standards, meet their intended purpose, and are completed on time and within budget.

We use a range of technologies to provide our clients with the solutions they need, and ensure greater consistency, reduced cycle times, lower cost of ownership, better risk mitigation and faster return on investment.”

“Keeping ourselves up-to-date with the latest technologies and market trends allows us to provide our customers with cost effective solutions that give them a competitive edge in the market place” “It is not about using cutting edge technologies just for the sake of using them. It is all about choosing the technology that best meets the customer requirements in addition to providing reduced cycle times, lowers the cost of ownership, gives long term benefits, better risk management and faster return on investment. We have an ideal mix of resources, proficient in varied technologies, so that we can meet the business needs of the customer in a significantly better way”, said Sarji Mohammedali.

“We always stick to our motto of ‘transparency, integrity and ethics in all business transactions’. At Citrus Informatics, customer satisfaction is of prime importance and takes priority over everything else”, he added.

Sarji Mohammedali Chief Executive Officer Citrus Informatics (India) Pvt. Ltd.

‘Robust, creative and happy employees are the core asset of a successful company’ - says Citrus The working environment forms the foundation of every company and a constructive working environment is essential to its growth. Just like the saying “Every drop makes an ocean”, Citrus Informatics believes that the contribution of every employee is significant. Employees are encouraged to express their ideas. Suggestions and thoughts are valued. These are discussed and debated openly to finally reach a consensus.

Sarji asserts, “As a family, we at Citrus Informatics strive to achieve an atmosphere of confidence and mutual support, where every team member confidently contributes to their team and the team leader supports each team member. Ideas and opinions are appreciated and debating of ideas is encouraged to bring out the finest of ideas.”

Citrus Informatics - a highly reliable organization, says customers Many of the customers around the world talks highly about Citrus Informatics.

“Citrus Informatics executed the cloud based multi-year development project flawlessly. DSI, Inc. is greatly indebted to the development work carried out by the Citrus Informatics team on this complex software development system.” - Andrew Wildman, CFO of DSI. Citrus Informatics had developed two order and transportation systems for Direct Services, Inc. (DS) a U.S. based pharma transport company. The systems developed by Citrus informatics allows DSI, Inc. to automatically receive customer shipping orders from clients and then efficiently route the transportation of temperature sensitive pharma products from multiple plants by line haul and last mile delivery across the U.S. “Citrus Informatics was the best team that I have worked with in accomplishing rapid software development for business applications. Their work was of the highest quality while being able to work from requirements via conferencing calls.” Ross Dennis, Director of Clearsight-Research, LLC, USA. Looking into the Future While striving to provide the best of ICT services to its clients, Citrus Informatics keeps itself abreast of the latest technologies and trends. “Currently our main focus is on software services. We plan to venture into product development where we will be coming up with good technology/application products which can solve specific business needs and which are needed for the global IT market. We need to identify niche areas in which we can have products. By 2018 we aim to generate at least 40% of our revenue from our products and 60% from software services.”

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Crystal Logic : 16+ years • 70+ Team Strength • 700+ Clients

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rystal Logic Pvt. Ltd. is a Mumbai based company that designs premium websites, develops web applications and carries out online marketing for their clients.

Their field of expertise is in leveraging cutting edge web technology to generate high returns for organizations across various industries. They work for over 700 clients including some of the leading corporates in India and overseas. Crystal Logic Pvt. Ltd. offers 360 degrees internet related solutions and conceptualizes custom built solutions based on client demands.

Crystal Logic Pvt. Ltd. is now in its 16th year of operation. Over the years Crystal Logic Pvt. Ltd. has built 550+ websites and 100+ custom apps. They have also proved themselves to be quite agile, with unparalleled services when it comes to online solutions.

Crystal Logic: The Brand to Reckon with Crystal Logic Pvt. Ltd. has always evolved with the times. The company started at a time when the internet was just about catching on in India.

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industries. Crystal Logic’s SEO division was launched as soon as Google started gaining popularity. This made the offerings quite formidable as now Crystal Logic Pvt. Ltd. was not only building great web solutions but also helping clients in marketing themselves online. The advent of smart phones saw the launch of their mobile app division. Today all their solutions factor mobility as quite a large browser audience is on hand held devices.

Social Media Marketing is another avenue through which Crystal Logic Pvt. Ltd. helps its clients reach out to their target audiences and generate great ROI. Crystal Logic Pvt. Ltd. has diverse

service offerings and it would be difficult to pick one project as the ‘greatest’. We have built websites for various large corporate houses. We have also built various custom applications including custom ERP software for one of UK’s largest hot air ballooning companies which allowed the various stake holders of the organization to work and interact seamlessly. One of India’s largest travel insurance companies works on a custom software that we have built.

This software allows the various employees and agents of the organization to generate travel policies seamlessly apart from fulfilling all the other requisite business functions like accounts, etc...

“Making the web work for you” Leadership: The Source of Inspiration Talking about the driving force of the company, Nikhil Jhalani, being an avid technology enthusiast since his childhood has gained over 20 years of experience with various web technologies. A Graduate from Mumbai University; he is well versed with a passion for problem solving and automated services, garnered through the understanding of many generations of technology and devices.

Manoj Punjabi with his 18 years of experience in sales and marketing compiled with excellent people and networking skills, heads the business development team for websites and social media at Crystal Logic.

Manoj Punjabi Director

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For the past 15 years, Crystal Logic’s financial health and wellbeing has been in the safe hands of Girish Sewani who also heads the marketing team for web and mobile applications at Crystal Logic.

Crystal Logic Pvt. Ltd. is a one stop shop, which means that the client does not need to deal or co-ordinate with multiple agencies. A common project manager is allocated to each client who assists them with design, development and marketing of their websites / portals all under one roof.

Future scope: Success lies in Accurate Forecasting Crystal Logic Pvt. Ltd. has always evolved with the times and will continue to do so in the future as well. The focus has always been to constantly keep pace with the ever changing technological advancements in the web solutions industry. The current focus of the organization is towards building smarter and more socially aware websites / applications Hand held centric features are being constantly experimented and implemented. The company has also moved towards web solutions that recognize voice and cater to the differently abled in our society.

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DigiStreet: Kept walking, keep walking.

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f the swiftness of the rabbit were to coalesce with the resilience of the tortoise in the race to the finish, the story would have been the apropos metaphor for DigiStreet.

Somewhere during the year 2013, while the country was still coming to grips with the euphoria of startups and entrepreneurism that was about to become the centerpiece in the Indian business model for the years to come, CEO and Founder: Darpan Sharma (a veteran-in-the-making of the advertising industry) set out to explore the digital domain, hinged on it’s prospective future and development in the country. And while the startup journey has never been without it’s own set of speed-bumps, it didn’t stop DigiStreet from pressing the pedal of diversification, as the organization took the creative highway on its drive to become a completely equipped by-thebook advertising agency. 4 years down the line, DigiStreet’s formula of speedy-resilience success seems to be paying off with a large kitty of the versatile client desk, including a few listed under the Fortune 500 banner (as of December 2016). Surprisingly unencumbered by the growth scale, the core team members prefer to keep their feet on the ground rather than to keep their head in the clouds; after all the “startup attitude” is hard to shrug off for the true entrepreneur!

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Going organic in the digital space While the startup boom in India was followed closely behind by a platoon of angel investors in their immaculate three piece suits, offering candies to the gullible talent that started sprouting everywhere, DigiStreet had a very different agenda on its cards. Instead of raising money from external sources, like most startups do, the organization instead put the focus on developing its own greenhouse to grow and nurture talent. Purely organic! Naturally, hardships had to be endured as growth

was frustrating slow at first, but as has been the crux of the words spoken often by Jack Welch and John Kotter; putting faith in people is more lasting and rewarding than putting trust in money.

DigiStreet has a solid digital and online backbone with its offering ranging from an industry housekeeping set of jobs like SEO, Website Development, Mobile Application to the very cornerstone of the entire digital

presence and experience: Online Reputation Management. Kavish Arora, co-founder and CDO, being the proverbial Google certified nerd spearheads the entire digital experience with his seemingly endless list of offerings and services when it comes to anything and everything you see on social screen nowadays.

Humble and hardworking to the core: Darpan doesn’t believe in standing alone on top of the ladder. His opendoor policy and a strong belief in the abilities of his team members has abstained him from the only one taking the pains and pleasures of the business, as he has over the time instilled the sense of ownership within every team member of DigiStreet. And that was what saw DigiStreet through its biggest challenge thus far.

The Big Challenge While most in the advertisement fraternity argues that the client throws the biggest challenges, it was the year 2016 which turned out to be the biggest challenge for DigiStreet.

Clients fell like flies for DigiStreet at the beginning of the year and anybody who knows about agency life, knows how horrifying that can be.

When the setback in-terms of revenue

“Whether clients, team members or target audience, advertising is all about people, and if you understand them, then the possibilities are endless!” were at its lowest for DigiStreet, Darpan made it his sole goal to cushion his people financially and buoy their spirits, while at the same time he encouraged an operational overhaul of the company’s way of doing things. Instrumental in this process was the Creative Head: Sushant Sharma, who grabbed the opportunity with both hands and with his most able and like minded team to develop concepts before briefs.

“Develop an idea, and I will find Sourav Ghosh (Sr. Visualizer), the client for it” is what Darpan Kavish Arora (CDO), encouraged Sushant to do. Although Darpan Sharma (CEO), not brothers in blood, but brothers in Sushant Sharma (Creative Head) the work, they exceeded their own DigiStreet Media expectations as they refloated the seemingly sinking boat of DigiStreet to convert a dark challenge into a golden opportunity. It almost seems providence, as this fateful year comes to a close, that DigiStreet has established its presence in Mumbai as well. Again, all organically! Seems like the greenhouse is thriving after all.

It will always be about the people Having bounced back and multiplied substantially, team DigiStreet doesn’t believe the worst times are behind. They keep themselves sharp and resilient to the fluctuating industry trends and the challenges that come along when one steps into bigger shoes. While DigiStreet is constantly snaring clients (both local and global) away from the big guns of advertisement industry, it is practicing experimental diversification into greener pastures of consultation in corporate restructuring and new business development through the innovative product development. In closing, what has been and what will always be are the people you rub your shoulders with and as Darpan and his team chimes: “Whether clients, team members or target audience, advertising is all about people, and if you understand them, then the possibilities are endless!”

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A Conducive Environment at Workplace to Preserve your Best Talent

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ecruiting and retaining the right talent is the key to success, but implementing it in business is not happening with most of the companies. Not every organization is a Silicon Valley Giant where people get attracted themselves and organizations do not need to worry about recruiting right people.

Even if companies succeeds in hiring the best talent, most organizations fail to create a positive working environment and thus, leading to loss of the best people. The best thing about the right talent is that they get recognized at one point or another, and when it happens they would be at deserved place in a deserved company. Positive working environment plays an important role when we distinguish between satisfied and unsatisfied employees. No employee wants to work in an environment where he/she would feel detached or demoralized, unless they are getting paid extremely well, that too in case of needy people. But most of the time your money will not attract the right people if you are unable to provide a positive working environment.

over other companies, which lack such programs.

People showing up at the work don’t define the fact that they are productively engaged. Keeping them involved and engaged is the next thing companies need to understand.

Right talent doesn’t want to waste a single moment of their life doing nothing, thus they always want to be occupied with good work which would not give them a feeling of wasting time. Having the right policies, to keep them engaged where they can contribute their ideas for the betterment of the company is the key here. Best employees don’t want to feel left out where they cannot be useful to the company’s growth. However, organizing regular events to encourage them to open up about their ideas will only help keep them engaged and involved in the organization.

Never-ending improvement and continuous evaluation is the concluding step organizations can take into consideration. The focal purpose of evaluation is to figure out the progress and find out what satisfies and dissatisfies Once you create a positive working environment, the next your workforce. The process of evaluation includes the step is to recognize and reward the right behavior. Every measurement of morale, attitudes, turnover, and the employee wants to get admired and that’s no surprise unless engagement level of the workforce. When an employee he/she is a saint. The want to get recognized and knows that their work is getting evaluated and improved appreciated is in the nature of every human being and no with time, they will feel valued and will be in your one can disagree with that. The money and benefits will organization till you have such culture. attract people, but you will need something to keep them in your company. A successful recognizing program doesn’t Alast, these are just simple and basic steps and transforming need to be expensive, but to be effective. Companies get an them into a culture will only help companies retaining best advantage with such recognizing and incentive programs employees in the organizations.

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Forticode: Personally Managed Authentication

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s the internet gives new dimensions to people’s lives, security concerns are on a rise.

From availing banking services anytime, anyplace to accessing valuable online content- everything needs a password. But with this convenience, there also comes a very real concern to create a secure method of proving an identity that cannot be compromised.

People have fallen out of love with passwords as a form of identity proof, as it has become highly cumbersome to create a strong password that conforms to policy, and almost impossible to remember these passwords without writing them down. But more importantly, due to the increasing complexity of passwords, and the growth of malware based keyloggers, they have become an easily exploitable chink for the hackers to attack systems through.

Password breaches costs companies, individuals and the economy millions of dollars every year. Password hacking extends beyond elite-profile attacks, as it regularly victimizes small ventures and personal accounts too.

So, to solve this dilemma, Forticode have developed world’s first “Personally Managed Authentication” platform underpinned by the patented “OneTiCK” indeterminate ciphering process. Launched as “Cipherise”, it provides a simple personally controlled way to authenticate to a platform or

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service using a single, simple password, while also protecting the enterprise by not requiring any form of centrally managed (and exploitable) credentials.

Innovator’s Innovation Tony Smales: The back bone of Forticode’s vision is to make the internet safe again, by allowing identity authentication for anyone, at any location, in any language and using any device.

Tony Smales, the creator and founder of Forticode, has a diverse technology background starting as a game developer at the age of 15. Having a keen interest towards technology he pursued his higher education with a degree in Computer Science specialising in Artificial Intelligence, and then worked across several IT consulting firms including as the Development Manager role in a wireless R&D company. He has also served as GM and CTO for some renowned gaming, R&D and petrochemical companies. Having more than 30 years of experience, Tony

has proved himself to be a highly motivated, entrepreneurial and people focused individual with high levels of passion dedicated towards delivering solutions with understanding and collaboration.

Converting Challenges into Assets Every start-up during their initial stages face the financial crunch, so unsurprisingly Forticode had the challenge of balancing the continual process of innovation against the permanent risk of running out of money, before their innovation achieves market traction. However, rather than being hobbled by this continual start-up pressure, they made a key decision to structure their company for long term success, creating a formal board to ensure compliance with good governance, and funding their business through limited private share issue processes, with complementary funding through the Australian Government’s R&D concession process.

Cipherise: Revolutionising the Authentication Process Cipherise - the world’s only Personally Managed Authentication platform, represents the culmination of almost 5 years of development and design.

Underpinned by the patented OneTiCK indeterminate ciphering process, Cipherise simplifies the login process using a single simple password, while concurrently enforcing ‘invisible’ Multi-Factor authentication to keep user credentials safe and secure.

“The Convenience You Want, with the Security You Need” Cipherise also supports the requirements of Physical Access for buildings using the same common authentication process, while also offering a way to secure the IoT world where authentication is currently almost non-existent.

But their greatest simplicity comes from using Cipherise to securely access a system, application or service without any form of interaction. Using a simple QR scanning process, Cipherise completes a multi-factor authentication process invisibly - once scanned, and validated; the user is immediately logged on. This simplicity (with the embedded and hidden security) is being seen as an ideal solution for public facing website access, and it is currently being trialled across several Australian businesses.

Tony Smales CEO Forticode Ltd.

Being Unique Forticode has been described as introducing the only innovation in the field of access management within the last 10 years.

Unlike other companies competing in this space, their focus on user experience as a priority has seen the innovation developed that is now embodied by the Cipherise platform.

It is important to understand that individuals rarely get hacked directly, and moreover it’s the poor security by their service providers that leads to personal data being compromised. Cipherise eliminates this latent risk by removing the need of service providers to ever hold users credential data, and have introduced an idea of using a simple “asymmetric private key-pair” model to allow a trust ‘assertion’ the be generated through the Cipherise mobile application.

Cipherise is built around the OneTiCK indeterminate ciphering technology, and Forticode have proven that it eliminates all attack surfaces within the authentication process, making it immune to common exploits such as brute-force, key-logging, recording, observation, and man-in-the-middle threats. They believe that they are sole contender in the race, having developed a method to provide protection against all these threats from within a single application, and via a simple and convenient user experience.

Future Prospects Forticode wants to “change the way the world authenticates”. Their goal is to make people safe while accessing online systems, applications and platforms, by removing the threat of being compromised via login process. They believe that their solution will be adopted across all vertical lines of the industry and that over time, users will become familiar with Cipherise, ultimately demanding that their service providers implement this new way of logging in.

They are also looking forward to extending the platform to allow security companies to move away from transferable card swipe systems for building access, and have prototyped some ideas to significantly change the method of offline storage for data and information.

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Mindlogicx: Pioneering an Unrivalled Revolution in Education Technology

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ducation in India is a prominent topic of discussion.

Not just lack of basic facilities to provide but to deliver advanced education has been a constant struggle with the government. With a rapid evolution in technology, business enterprises focused on delivering quality services, are eliminating these vast differences in education sector.

Education Technology is a rapidly growing industry in India and companies are competing to provide the best affordable technological solutions to their clients.

In the midst of this revolutionary period in education sector, Mindlogicx Infratec has been a beacon shining bright with its innovative technology in the domain of “knowledge Engineering.” The company offers best of its class technology products and solutions for knowledge management, skills enhancement, and e-commerce framework through an intelligent socially connecting platform encompassing all the stake holders, tightly integrated and interwoven, as the single largest technology platform known as VEDAS®. The innovative technology enabled platform of the company, assists the users to access, store, retrieve and reuse implicit and explicit knowledge to power their competency in a knowledge based ecosystem.

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technology to the common man.

Mindlogicx specializes in Knowledge Engineering domain and has rolled out many products and services in the virtual learning space to revolutionize the way education is delivered to the masses.

company that offers end-to-end solutions in e-governance, e-business, virtual learning, digital content management, tele-education system, enterprise management, business intelligence, SOA, EAI and IT consulting.

Leader with Experience and Strategic Know-How Raghav Narayan, Director-sales and marketing, is a known face among the academia and has been a sales force of Mindlogicx. With a diverse track record of over 25 years in building brand recognition and sales momentum across IT Services & Products, Engineering & Education domains, Raghav has also handled several projects promoted by the government.

Raghav’s key strengths lie in strategic & tactical planning, profit centre management/ business operations, sales & marketing, project management, key account management, employee motivation & team building.

Mindlogicx has introduced an industry first - VEDAS®, an intelligent assessment system. Under this platform the company delivers compelling products and solutions to the clients in Examination Management System (EMS), Knowledge Management System (KMS), Payment Management System (PMS) and MindMall (an intelligent and integrated market place for powering e-commerce transactions).

He has been instrumental in spearheading business expansion strategies of Mindlogicx and establish a strong sales pipeline to achieve exponential growth to position the company as a pioneer and market leader in this segment.

Unparalleled Services with Unmatched Results Mindlogicx is a product development

Many start-ups and business enterprises are competing in the Ed Tech space that focuses on administration, content creation, tools and assessment platforms that complements the entire learning process across the K12 and Higher education space. But the major concern with this practice is that there is no sorted business model in place, in spite of investing more than 100 million dollars in the recent past.

Distinguishing itself from others, Mindlogicx have developed a very successful commercial model for implementing the solution in this space which is highly scalable and is widely

“Mindlogicx is more than a mere technology development company; it is a movement to empower people with knowledge” accepted by the industry. The company has been working tirelessly to create a solid product that caters to the needs of the industry.

A Unique First in the Industry Mindlogicx has developed a one of its kind in the world, technology suite, which has revolutionized the way examinations are conducted by large government universities and other examination bodies. The technology suite called IntelliEXAMS®, offers complete automation and management of “paper and pen” based examinations in diverse settings for large clients like the universities, state education boards and recruitment boards. The technology platform manages the entire phase of examination processes persistently from registering to result processing.

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The solution has been successfully deployed and used by many marquee clients in India like University of Mumbai, Visvesvaraya Technological University, Karnataka, Gujarat Technical University, and Central Board of School Education (CBSE).

Mindlogicx is delivering seamless services to over 3.5 million users covering over 15 organizations with remarkable credentials. The company is delivering 26.41 million question papers to over 3.5 million students, with accurate result processing from 23 network operating centers, from 558 Examination Delivery Centers.

Empowering Common People with Dedication and Innovation Mindlogicx is a movement to empower people with knowledge, which would enable the creation of a knowledge society which would in turn propel the national economy through a knowledge based eco system. True to its belief, the company strives to take knowledge to the desktop of the users, to create a “Youniverse” that empowers the individual to decide his own future, at his own pace, on his own terms.

The initial challenges faced by Mindlogicx were tackled using innovation oriented approach, in all the spheres of the business. Be it technology development, operations or deliveries, Innovation has been an imperative focal point for the company.

Mindlogicx is technology driven and people focused and pride itself through innovations in the Knowledge Engineering domain. The company is expanding globally and to be at the pinnacle in this domain, they are working on a plethora of ideas from IoT for the Ed Tech space to Analytics that drives decision making.

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Mithi Software Technologies: An Innovative Collaboration Technology Enabler For Enterprises

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hether it is people like us using smart devices to communicate with our friends, or an enterprise relying on collaboration technology to boost productivity and solve mission-critical business problems - technology helps bring people together and gets things done faster and with lesser waste.

With this singular focus, Mithi Software Technologies has been working continually toward making technology accessible, useful and affordable to every enterprise.

Mithi distinguishes itself in providing Email, Collaboration and Archiving Software that help substantially lower operational costs & boost productivity.

Mithi’s innovative software have been adopted by organizations of all sizes and spread across many enterprise segments such as Healthcare, Financial Services, Education, Government Organizations, Agro Industries, IT/ITES, Retail and many more.

Secure, Dependable and Adaptable Collaboration Solutions Connect Xf, enterprise collaboration platform launched in 2005, has been adopted by some of India’s leading enterprises. The software has been delivering high outcomes in very demanding environments and on high

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performance standards for scalability, security & availability.

However, the experience of the users varied depending on the kind of resource available at an enterprise.

With better resourced businesses experiencing better outcomes. With a view to delivering a uniform high outcome across enterprise of any size, Mithi launched SkyConnect, a Cloud based Email & Collaboration Service based on the Connect Xf platform and served via the AWS Cloud. The service offers even higher reliability, security, scalability and performance to customers.

provides a secure and durable platform which helps customise performance, security and costs to match the special needs of an enterprise. The ‘onpremise plus cloud’ hybrid model is useful where the last mile internet connectivity is poor.

Vaultastic, the latest offering by Mithi, is the easiest and most secure cloud email archiving solution that comes with unlimited storage and provides 99. 99999999999% data durability. Vaultastic works seamlessly with G Suite, Office 365, MS Exchange and other popular email solutions.

The key benefit of Mithi’s cloud service is uniform high performance regardless of the size of the customer, with great flexibility in adopting the solution as per the changing needs of the enterprise. It’s about making the best of technology solutions accessible to every enterprise.

In Vaultastic, email is archived during transmission and storage and can be accessed from a read-only self service portal eliminating the chance of malicious or accidental deletion of mail. The benefits to the user is quick recovery from disaster and even continuity of work while the core service is being restored.

Distinctive Cloud Hybrid Integration: One of the most distinguishing features of their solutions is the ability to connect to other business systems. It can be configured to co-exist with other mailing systems, as an on premisecloud hybrid and integrated with other enterprise applications, to drive the core business workflow. This hybrid

Using their Strengths to Overcome Customer Challenges Mithi’s strengths in handling message streams, resource efficient engineering and UI/UX design capabilities, enables them to provide better security, optimised performance, easy manageability & new applications at affordable costs.

“Mithi Software’s mission is- To make technology more accessible, useful and affordable to every enterprises” Cost being a significant barrier in the adoption of technology, the firm always aims to offer better cost customisation to meet individual business needs, without compromise on performance.

Increasing dependence on collaboration means that a disruption in service can create greater loss of productivity. So security and availability become critical concerns when designing solutions. Mithi’s solutions come built in with several security features such as encryption, scrubbing, password management, policies etc. to guarantee high levels of e-mail security.

Tarun Malaviya Founder & CEO Mithi Software Technologies Pvt Ltd

Creating Products to Power the Next-Gen Collaboration The company believes that no matter how technology advances and moves in the future, teams will have to keep collaborating within and with external teams to resolve exceptions, discuss ideas, create plans, execute projects, etc.

Mithi intends to build derivative and lateral products that will help businesses create more dependable, secure and productive collaboration environments without incurring high costs.

The decision to move to the AWS cloud, meant big investments and a immediate impact on the company’s cost of operation and margin, but was deemed necessary to deliver high reliability, infinite on demand scale, high performance and a better overall customer experience.

To remain relevant with the ever changing business and technology landscape, Mithi’s objective is to continue with improving the convenience, flexibility and performance of their basic platform, while also investing in new generation collaboration apps that will make the basic task of collaboration easier for people.

A soon to be launched product, the company says, will make it easier to collaborate remotely on many tasks & projects simultaneously, without losing context over extended periods of time. It promises to get teams to work better while reducing email traffic between them by as much 80%.

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istory has given us every kind of geniuses and we owe to it. It’s because of them, we are standing at the peak and making their contribution worthwhile. We are in forever debt of the technology inventions and improvisation every brain made in the way of helping mankind reach the silver stage.

But the fact is that when we talk about the admiration of the world changing people, we have been unfair to them. It has been happening time to time that the genius people get admired ages later. While few people get admiration in their areas, remaining don’t. But it's also not only up to the people admiring but who aim to get admired.

The question ordinary people have been asking to the society is how can we get admired? Well, the answer lies within us and small changes in behavior can give tremendous effects. Honesty, hard work, and perseverance are very much important when one thinks about getting admired. These small changes can turn into an admired one if you already are not.

Hard Work is the Key Doesn't matter if you are working for minimum wage or managing a large firm, taking pride in the work you do is as important as doing work efficiently. It will demonstrate that how you are competent and capable of doing your part. Going above and beyond in the workplace can make your image more powerful. Doing work with pleasure will only help

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you get admiration from co-workers or employees.

Speak Your Mind Speaking your mind out is very much important when you work in an organization. Standing up to the boss when he/she is wrong only helps growing confidence. If you think some things could be improved with your ideas, then it is best that you let it out. Sucking up to the bosses is not the ideal thing to do in any business. Your contribution will not go unnoticed when you speak up.

Respect Do Reciprocates That’s true. Every person who respects other people gets admired by everyone at any place. If your employees are doing well, then appreciating them is the best thing to do.

Giving respect is very much important if you are looking for admiration. If you can treat others kindly and recognize their success, then you are worthy of admiration.

Of course, Leaders Don’t Follow Leaders are the people who are unafraid to do something novel or strange. Being a leader doesn’t make them outranking to anyone else. Leadership needs more than acting and speaking in an influential and inspirational way.

If you are willing to take responsibility when something needs doing, you are worthy of that admiration.

Integrity is the Solution Being honest when representing yourself to others and to yourself makes a person with integrity. If you don’t compromise on your core values and you stand still by the things you believe, you are already in the game. When you maintain your personal integrity by staying true to who you are, even when it is unpopular or controversial makes you a perfect fit for admiration.

Positive Attitude No, a positive attitude doesn’t mean carrying a false feeling that everything is great all the time. It’s pretty much unrealistic. Instead, looking for good things in every situation even if it is a bad patch defines a positive attitude.

Being with a positive attitude will give you confidence, hope, and the belief that tomorrow will be brighter.

It is said that people look for admiration even when they are not capable of carrying the weight. Because admiration comes with a weight one has to carry to maintain his/her admiration. What one can do is to be prepared for getting admiration and then also for carrying it throughout.

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Peloton Group: The Backbone of Innovation and Business Transformation

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eloton Group (“Peloton”) is a nationally-recognized leader in Integrated Cloud Solutions for Enterprise Performance Management, Enterprise Resource Planning, and Big Data-Analytics. Peloton provides comprehensive guidance and solutions through its Advisory, Consulting, and Managed Services. Peloton uses its deep functional and technical expertise to assist clients in the Life Sciences, Retail, Manufacturing, Insurance, Aerospace and Defense, and Financial Services industries. Unlike other industry experts, Peloton’s business and technology professionals have a unique, innovative, and collaborative approach to achieve results.

Peloton Group is committed to assisting clients to leverage analytics, drive business transformation, and achieve optimal performance.

Peloton’s holistic approach drives business transformation for its clients by envisioning and delivering high-value and high-quality practical solutions from end-to-end.

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been understanding that business transformation is really about change management - helping people adopt and adapt to technological change within a company. The force behind any successful organization is its people. “Having a great leadership team and the right people on board, helps us foster a culture that supports innovation and change in others,” states Guy Daniello.

Culmination of Experience and Innovative Services Peloton has been at the forefront in driving today’s rapidly changing digitized financial landscape. Long before the buzzwords like ‘Big Data’ were used, Guy understood that the ability to analyze data assets within the larger strategic purposes provides a unique competitive edge. Speaking about what distinguishes Peloton from their competitors, Daniello says, “The fundamental concept behind Peloton is helping companies leverage information to be more efficient and effective in how they operate and to perform faster in their respective marketplaces. We strongly believe that using a holistic, transformative approach focused on people, process, and technology is the key.” Providing the right enabling technology gives Peloton clients a highly accurate, 360-degree view of their financial systems and operations, and helps them stay ahead of the market and the

competition. The driving force behind Peloton’s and its client success is its unique, collaborative implementation methodology. The standard software implementation approach tends to keep a client at arm’s length and results in minimal solution adoption and potential rework. Peloton’s Breakaway™ methodology reimagines the standard implementation as a fully collaborative engagement, requiring the clients to participate in each stage of the project from day one to go-live.

The Breakaway™ Methodology immerses the client in the proposed solution using visualization and simulation techniques early on in the project life-cycle. Business adoption modelling sessions merges enabling technology (software), business logic (client requirements), and an environment (platform to host the software) with stakeholders to drive consensus and increase learning and drive adoption throughout the project lifecycle.

A Learning Organization “At Peloton, our people are our most valuable assets. The knowledge, passion, and dedication that we provide to our clients is the beating heart of our business. Our Peloton family is made up of collaborative individuals who are continuously striving to provide our clients with the best service and solutions for their unique business needs. Peloton’s culture embodies

“Our holistic approach drives business transformation for our clients by envisioning and delivering, high-value and high-quality, practical solutions from end-to-end” opportunity, innovation, and growth. We have dedicated our Fridays to knowledge sharing, collaboration, building relationships, and career growth. What sets us apart from our competitors is our investment and confidence in our team members,” adds Daniello.

Peloton invests in the latest technologies, both on-premise and in the cloud, to ensure it’s people have hands-on experience with the latest capabilities Guy Daniello of the tools to implement for the clients. The team CEO & Founder engages in frequent training, certifications in the Peloton Group technology platforms that Peloton supports, as well as the softer and business process skills have played a vital role in the company’s unrelenting goal to provide the best services to its clients. By refining its advisory and implementation methodologies, Peloton ensures that its experiential learning and development capabilities remain current with the change in technology and pace of innovation.

“The Greatest Project” LogMeIn, which provides software as a service and cloud-based connectivity services located in Boston, MA, is a great example of how the full life-cycle approach, collaborative implementation methodology, and innovative team culminates in client success. LogMeIn needed a consistent planning and reporting process that could seamlessly integrate with its existing cloud-based Oracle Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system. Peloton Group partnered with LogMeIn to launch a clean-slate implementation of a single cloud-based planning and reporting solution, Enterprise Planning Budgeting and Cloud Services (EPBCS).

Peloton helped LogMeIn to modernize and fully integrate its existing ERP system into a single comprehensive planning and reporting system, ultimately enhancing its visibility into the end-to-end financial and operational processes of the business.

Peloton implemented EPBCS - with all four business processes; financial statements, workforce planning, capital asset, and project planning - providing LogMeIn the ability to take a long-range view of its current and future needs. The transformation resulted in a flexible, scalable, and maintainable system that modernizes the financial forecasting and reporting needs of their existing and new business.

A promise to Lead the Future Peloton will continue expanding the breadth and depth of its industry specific teams, across the value chain. Peloton leads the transition to the cloud and expands regionally to serve their US-based and multi-national clients. As the technology landscape changes, Peloton aims to continue to lead the pace of change and be the backbone of innovation.

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SAFEXPRESS

Knowledge Leader and Market Leader In Supply Chain & Logistics Industry

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afexpress began its journey in 1997 with a mission of delivering logistics excellence to its customers and ensuring their success. Today, the firm has firmly entrenched itself as the ‘Knowledge Leader’ and ‘Market Leader’ of supply chain & logistics industry in India.

Safexpress offers a wide range of innovative supply chain services including Express Distribution, 3PL and Consulting. The firm provides value-added logistics services for 8 different business verticals ranging from Apparel & Lifestyle, Healthcare, Hi-Tech, Publishing to Automotive, Engineering & Electrical Hardware, FMCG & Consumer Electronics and Institutional.

The firm adds maximum value to businesses at every level, right from providing world-class warehousing support to ensuring time-definite deliveries of goods anywhere in India.

Safexpress delivers more than 80 million packages a year, traversing over 6,00,000 kms a day. The firm has warehousing space of over 12 million square feet and is operates 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Over 2500 employees have been working for the company.

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distribution requirements of an organization, through its fully integrated surface, air and multimodal infrastructure. Safexpress covers all 688 districts of India through its massive distribution network of 620 plus destinations. The company has a fleet of over 4500 GPS-enabled vehicles, operating 365 days a year on more than 1000 defined routes across the country. The firm delivers in excess of 80 million packages to over 5000 corporates in India. Safexpress ensures time-definite and absolutely safe deliveries to every square inch of the country.

3PL Safexpress offers 3PL solutions ranging from designing, implementing to operating the complete supply chains of companies. These solutions help in reducing costs, streamlining delivery schedules and enabling organizations to focus on their core competencies. The firm has expert teams capable of addressing an organization’s complete 3PL needs, which bring on board rich experience and best practices from various industries. The services offered include inventory management, packaging, labeling and reverse logistics. The 3PL services are supported by a total warehousing space of over 12 million sq. ft. across India.

CONSULTING Safexpress provides value-added

services beyond physical operations, in the form of supply chain consulting.

The team of consultants is vastly experienced and offers global knowhow, best practices and cutting edge technology solutions, to make an organization’s supply chain model more dynamic. Safexpress creates strategies which focus on processes & technologies required to drive growth and profitability. The consulting services include planning, strategizing, network designing as well as end-toend supply chain implementation.

SAFEAIR SafeAir is the Air Cargo service of Safexpress. It offers the fastest and safest way to deliver goods within the committed delivery time to any part of the country. This service meets the most demanding requirements, irrespective of the consignment size, origin or distribution. The service is backed by the organization’s state-ofthe-art infrastructure and its massive distribution network, which covers every square inch of India. SafeAir provides extensive air and multimodal connectivity due to the company’s association with Air Taxi Operators such as Jet Airways, IndiGo, Air India and SpiceJet. CAMPUS2HOME Campus2Home is a campus logistics service which exclusively focuses on the distribution requirements of college students. It helps the students to

“We offer cutting edge logistics solutions to our customers, enabling them to focus on their core competencies” manage their hassles related to baggage movement during their educational courses. To support students in packing their belongings, 20 Kg ‘campus2home boxes’ are provided free of cost. The services offer door pickup and delivery of the student’s baggage.

Free insurance, packaging and documentation support are highlights of the service, which is available at a call, an e-mail or even an SMS. SAFERETURNS Rubal Jain SafeReturns is a unique service offered by Safexpress Managing Director which is specially targeted at companies participating Safexpress Pvt Ltd in exhibitions, conferences and seminars. This service enables company delegates to make smooth exits by ensuring hassle-free returns of their firm’s products after the exhibition is over. SafeReturns provides pickups at desired times, i.e., when the event is over and provides door delivery to any place in India. The service is costeffective with the option of To Pay freight. This service is provided by staff which is well-experienced in handling events.

EASY2MOVE Easy2Move is an unparalleled solution offered by Safexpress. This service is customized for SMEs having less volume loads as well as for delivery of personal goods, promotional items, samples, boutique goods, stationery, consumables, gifts, spare items, etc. The service is ideal for movement of products not having industrial packing. This service offers door pickup and door delivery of goods. Free 20 Kg ‘Easy2Move boxes’ are provided under the service with a flat rate per box for any destination. This service is also useful for customers requiring help during relocation of their businesses.

SAINIK EXPRESS Safexpress honors the defense personnel and their families by offering special delivery services for their baggage. The nature of these defense personnel’s job demands a lot of traveling and carrying heavy baggage, which is an arduous task. Safexpress provides the military personnel with free door pickup and door delivery of baggage anywhere in India. While these soldiers take care of our nation’s safety, Safexpress takes care that their baggages are delivered in a cost-effective manner and safely.

Safexpress does this by giving them special prices, easy payment options and inbuilt risk coverage.

STOCK2SHELF Stock2Shelf enables multi-brand retail stores and shopping malls to function seamlessly throughout the year. This service ensures time-definite delivery, with the help of a professionally trained crew that manages stocks along with the necessary documentation required to enter the malls. Stock2Shelf offers comprehensive mall supply chain services, including the movement of retail and lifestyle goods, inspection, estimation, professional packaging, security clearance, storage, destination delivery, unpacking, reassembling goods and reverse logistics.

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SyncDog: Leading the Way towards a Secured Future

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specific version builds are now available for Healthcare and U.S. Government Department of Defense workflow requirements.

SentinelSecureTM is SyncDog’s flagship enterprise mobility security product. This containerized mobile workspace allows organizations to control and manage how employees exchange relevant, time-critical information back and forth between their devices and the organizations’ secure networks. This containerized mobile security partition protects mobile apps and organizational data by employing FIPS 140-2 certified (NIST cert. #2687), AES 256-bit encryption with a simple software-based deployment.

Expert in Enterprise Security Solutions Jonas Gyllensvaan, Founder of SyncDog has more than 20 years of experience in mobile IT solution development and software business development. Jonas is a serial entrepreneur, having founded three successful startups and is currently on the board of advisers for several others.

Jonas has also designed, developed, and implemented technology projects for government agencies and commercial enterprises in more than a dozen countries, over the past 20 years.

Most of the time, Jonas is visiting customers and travelling to leading industry conferences, learning about the clients and marketplace needs. He then uses this knowledge to build solutions with a focus on technology architecture, product design, and business management. Across his 20year career in the mobile IT industry, Jonas has an established track record of leading-edge product development, building profitable companies while forging beneficial business partnerships with clients.

yncDog is the leading independent software vendor (ISV) company, building secure infrastructure frameworks that protect enterprise networks from cyber breach and from mobile computing sources.

With a goal of revolutionizing how mobile security products and services are sold, SyncDog is making its way to new heights.

The SentinelSecureTM container comes with a full suite of mobileenabled productivity applications, including SharePoint, Enterprise Chat, Geo-location Services, DropBox, a Personal Information Management (PIM) suite, Office Suite, Office 365, Secure Mobile App Management & Development, File Sync, and many more. Also, SyncDog’s industry48 | December 2016

Distinguishing itself from the Crowd SyncDog SentinelSecureTM is the best-in-class mobile container

available from any ISV in the market today, securing enterprise data at rest within a FIPS 140-2 certified application workspace, data in transit using AES 256-bit encryption, and supports a full suite of mobile-enabled productivity applications.

Additionally, SentinelSecureTM can be deployed as a standalone EMM or as a complementary layer of security for existing EMM/MDM investments, and to accommodate for a host of specific customer requirements, SyncDog maintains flexible pricing options.

SyncDog SentinelSecureTM can be found in the MobileIron Application Marketplace, has certified integration with MobileIron, Snow Software, and Good Technology EMMs, and holds field integrations with other leading EMMs. SyncDog’s military-grade application, “Wrapper” restores mobile productivity and functionality while making CXOs believe that enterprise networks are protected from the cyberrisk intrinsic in unsecured mobile endpoints.

Growing and Developing with Astronomical Strides The team always follows a philosophy of never becoming complacent or comfortable in their work and adapting themselves with changing security

“Keeping our ears to the ground and responding quickly to evolving marketplace needs has been the foundation of SyncDog’s success” concerns, customer requirements, and compliance considerations, in order to develop the most relevant and secure solution. SyncDog believes in prioritizing the ability of the team and flexibility in their products while keeping a finger on the pulse of changing marketplace trends and opportunities. For instance, in addition to already being iOS 10 ready, SyncDog currently offers a secure framework for IoT connectivity- growing concern in the enterprise mobile security community.

Jonas Gyllensvaan “This lean approach to product development Founder & CEO and services gives our customers the confidence SyncDog, Inc. that they’re investing not only in our products, but in the longevity and attentiveness of our solutions offerings and services. We don’t intend to get snatched up by a large vendor and force our customers into the all too common decision of “assimilate-or-startover” with their mobile security strategy,” asserts Gyllensvaan.

Government intelligence, IP, and communications are essential to the nation’s security and thus, Gyllensvaan and the team have been meeting with officials at the Department of Defense (DoD) over the last year in order to develop a version build on SentinelSecureTM that communicates directly with the requirements of federal workers, whether they’re using mobile devices to access network data in abroad, or even on the battlefield in hostile territory. Additionally, this year also included SyncDog’s achievement of FIPS 140-2 certification (certificate #2687) from NIST, which has given even more credibility to the high security standard to which the firm adhere to in all of their solutions.

Painting a Picture of Success for Future SyncDog anticipates high business growth over the next several years in both direct and partner channels. They have been steadily adding sales, marketing, and development infrastructure to support their growth strategy. SyncDog will continue to broaden SentinelSecure’s customer base by adding EMM, MDM, and MAM partnerships. Also, they will continue to be a complementary offering to enterprises that need greater security, but still want to leverage existing IT investments.

Additionally, SyncDog is adding functionality to SentinelSecureTM in the coming months to provide more context-capable deployment of end-user policy management per organization. Geo-location and Geo-fencing via GPS data and time-sensitive policy enforcement are the couple of new things SyncDog has in store for the clients.

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Touchless Biometric Systems: Biometric Solution leading the way

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nnovation is a beautiful art, between the overwhelming excitement of pushing new technical boundaries, and the obligation of providing solid tested products to the customers.

No innovations can be carried out without challenges, but what matters for the innovative companies is to stand by their customers generously and thoroughly through the process and deliver beyond expectations.

Touchless Biometric Systems is one such innovative company which has shown extreme agility and has successfully emerged as one of the most innovative companies in biometrics. Inventing and committing has always been the bedrock of TBS’ creative ideas in a conservative industry, while eventually providing solid and highly reliable solutions trusted to secure palaces and nuclear plants.

TBS, No Less TBS is a biometric one-stop-shop for all major security organizations, providing innovative solutions for access control (security) and attendance (productivity). TBS offers complete biometric solutions to government, multinationals, small enterprises, institutional organisations or residential buildings for security.

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Switzerland, and complements it with a disruptive software platform, which has now integrated with almost every major global security company that includes Honeywell, Siemens, Johnson Controls, Kaba, Lenel, Nedap, Allegion and more.

TBS was the first in the biometric industry to use web services and also brought design to biometrics, with a range that was distinguished by the Red Dot design award. Their disruptive software approach was a great success and since has been followed by others.

TBS is best known for its first Touchless biometric reader in the world that scans fingerprints in 3D. Even after 6 years, the 3D (currently in its second generation) is still the most secure, tolerant and accurate reader based on the information of a single finger.

The team which drives Company’s Success Alex Zarrabi, Chief Executive Officer, TBS has over 15 years of experience in the technology field.

Alex has a wealth of knowledge from his background working within Europe and the Middle East. Prior to TBS, Alex was CEO, Alpine DMCC/Switzerland and General Manager, IndigoVision Middle East.

He studied mathematics and graduated from the Swiss Institute of Technology - EPFL and other institutions with mobile phone, satellites and network engineering specialities.

At TBS, he is closely relying on a team of experienced leaders comprising: Daniel Kohler (Chairman), Torsten Meister (CTO), Philippe Niederhauser (Head of Sales & Marketing), as well as a strong R&D and support team.

“The urge for excellence is reected in not only our products, but also in the service-culture” Since the creation of the company till the current management team, TBS’ DNA has always been a vibrant teamwork.

Unique fingerprint technology changing the business 3D fingerprint technology, the company’s flagship product is extraordinary. Due to increased image quality, more fingerprint details can be captured and greater recognition capabilities can be achieved. This is also aided by differentiating between the most difficult fingerprints and identification in very large databases with up to 10,000 users. The technology also works under harsh conditions such as those on a construction site.

Alex Zarrabi Chief Executive Officer Touchless Biometric Systems

Also, TBS is also the only company to bring under one roof all 3 fingerprint technologies (2D fingerprint, 2D+ multispectral dermascan and 3D Touchless fingerscan). This is also a major value differentiator for TBS, since it has every option at the disposal of end-users, and does not “sell”, but “advises” its customers.

TBS does not follow the usual strategy of selling through “as many channels as possible”, but sells through very few companies, and declines daily requests for partnership. “The reason is that we want to extend our teamwork spirit to our partners. We know, meet and train them, and try to make sure that they deliver our products to the customer’s entire satisfaction. We also try to meet our end-users as often as possible. So even in the event something needs to be attended, we can intervene and solve the concern, because we know every customer case individually. A TBS solution simply works.

Thanks to its different approach, TBS has created a reputation of utter “peace of mind”, asserts Alex.

Growing and Developing with Stride and Pride TBS’ success has grown quickly from Europe to the Middle East, despite the fact that it is a young company, and now looking forward to further expanding its operations and presence in Asia, US and Africa. However, the growth has always supported many ideas, enhancing their platform along the journey.

TBS thinks that a new step forward will be achieved thanks to some upcoming innovations: 3D Face, advanced Iris, Heavy Duty and portable biometric. The company believes that 2017 should confirm TBS’ position as the No 1 innovation provider in the biometrics world.

“There are great competitors out there, whom we respect and who help keeping us on our toes. I’m biased obviously, but I truly believe that TBS will be progressively recognised for building the most versatile and robust set of technologies from any manufacturer in the world. Our wish is to create more value for customers and play increasingly the role of advisor, benchmark and authority in biometrics”, concludes Alex.

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