The 20 most admired companies to watch 2018

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Businesses- Marching Towards the Pinnacle

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he realm of business has stayed pretty much the same until the innovations in technology or the industrial revolution came its way. However, none of us can say that it is going to be the same hereafter. The Industrial Revolution had brought few changes in the manufacturing sectors which were followed by mass production and usage of electricity. While the early stages of industrialization had initiated a shift to machinery factories and mass production, the third revolution changed the business to what we see today. This age brought some of the smartest innovations which were the computer and automation. With the introduction of computers, the functioning of many businesses had witnessed a drastic change.

The internet later was a major break into this demesne. The world today is connected and the dominion of business has seen sweeping changes unlike before. This has altered the entire process of business and introduced new changes. Businesses today, are adapting to these changes at a sheer pace and never before in history have these changes occurred so fast.

One of the major changes that occurred was ‘mobility’. Having rewritten the paradigm of marketing, business of all types (small or big) can now be handled from anywhere in the world. Starting with content marketing, sales enablement to customer relations and every other process of business can now be done with the click of a single button. However, it gets more interesting as the customers now are also very much equipped with these facilities. This single process has not only awakened a new era of consumer-ship but it has also changed how business is being received. In other words, industrialists today, are closer to the customers.

In the present world, technology has found a way to invade into business somehow or the other. Starting from managing all the aspects of business like, marketing, production, manufacturing, data storing and others, technology now plays a key role. Industrialists are already leveraging the pervasive power of Cloud based solutions, cloud computing, AR/VR, Augmented Intelligence, SaaS and other advancing

technologies to bring agility to business. Managing progressive changes in business, the world is yet to spectate what technology has in store for future.

In this issue titled as, “The 20 Most Admired Companies to Watch 2018” we have put forward few such companies who have adopted a new approach to business and are initiating reformist changes with their unique services. On the cover of the issue, we have presented an exclusive coverage about the company named Lakes Environmental Software. This company offers technologically advanced IT solutions which help in solving complex environmental problems.

The other enterprises enlisted within, who are gaining attention for their exceptional services are, Accordant Technology Inc.;for providing phenomenal experience to its customers by leveraging technology, BISTel ; the leading provider of intelligent manufacturing software solutions enabling the realization of the smart connected factory, Keono; which is a multichannel digital advertising agency that offers solutions through digital marketing channels, Sightline Systems; for providing real-time performance analytics, automated root-cause analysis and capacity planning that helps organizations in proactively predicting performance issues, VerseOne; for offering unique digital solutions to housing, healthcare, and other business sectors, POC Medical systems; owner of Pandora CDxTM , a disruptive platform which helps in rapid screening of diseases, Sports 1 Marketing; a global sports and media marketing agency that has been leveraging the relationshipcapital built by its founders, Symphony Solutions; a company offering high quality IT, BPO and Consultancy services, StraitsBridge Advisors; which offers comprehensive consulting solutions to banks and financial institutions in multiple domains and Möbius Partners; for its exceptional and most advanced and strategic technology solutions.

While flipping the pages, take a note to read CXO articles namely, Block chain- Savior of the Logistics Industry, and How VR Can Be Used in Industrial Training, drafted by industry professionals. These articles give a detailed insight into the current trends in business. Also, while brushing through the leaves of the issue make a note to read the write-ups penned down by our in-house writers. Through these articles namely, A Contented Employee is a Key to Successful Business Operations, and Business Operations Leading to an Eco-friendly Environment, we have made a mere attempt to introduce our readers to the industry leanings.

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Lakes Environmental Software: Cleaning Air Pollution and Protecting Human Health through Development of Advanced Environmental IT Management Solutions

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CXO Standpoint Tech-Byte

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Block chain- Savior of the Logistics Industry

Virtual Tutor

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How VR Can Be Used in Industrial Training

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Marketing Strategy Components of Digital Marketing

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Employees’ Diary

Going green

A Contented Employee is a Key Business Operations Leading to to Successful Business Operations an Eco-friendly Environment

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Accordant Technology:

Möbius Partners:

Creating Remarkable Customer Experience with ‘Best-of Breed Technology’

Accelerating Business Outcomes with the Most Advanced and Strategic Technology Solutions

28 Keono:

Targeting the Right Customers in Real Time

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The Architects of Intelligent Manufacturing Solutions

38 Offis:

Underpinning Disruption with Cloud Services and Automation

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Symphony Solutions:

POC Medical Systems:

An Agile Driven Company Delivering Digital Solutions

Shifting Patterns of Next-Gen Point-of-Care Diagnostics

48 Sports 1 Marketing: Highly-Effective Marketing Partner with a Distinctive Approach

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VerseOne Group:

Sightline Systems: Streamlining IT Operations with Real-Time Performance Analytics

Leading the Market Space withDigital Transformation

50 StraitsBridge Advisors: Delivering innovative solutions to Financial Institutions

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LAKES ENVIRONMENTAL SOFTWARE:

Cleaning Air Pollution and Protecting Human Health through Development of Advanced Environmental IT Management Solutions

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We are specialized in providing clients with environmental IT solutions that help in solving today's most pressing challenges in air quality, solid waste and wastewater management, permitting, compliance and reporting.

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ore than 95% of the world’s population is breathing unhealthy air. According to the 2018 Annual State of Global Air Report, recently published by the Health Effects Institute (HEI), longterm exposure to air pollution contributed to an estimated 6.1 million premature deaths across the globe in 2016. The report states that exposure to air pollution resulted in strokes, heart attacks, lung cancer and chronic lung disease, causing a significant number of premature deaths. The report also indicates that air pollution is the fourth-highest cause of death among all health risks globally, coming in just below high blood pressure, diet and smoking.

According to the 2016 Cost of Air Pollution World Bank Group study, air pollution related diseases and premature deaths cost the global economy $225 billion in lost labor income and $5.11 trillion in welfare losses worldwide. For reference, air pollution related costs are approximately the size of the gross domestic product of India, Canada, and

Mexico combined.

All these factors should serve as a sobering wake-up call that more must be done to protect human health and the environment.

To address these complex issues, clean up the air and reduce the disease burden caused by air pollution, all potentially contributing emission sources must be identified and accurately characterized. Development of the emission inventory is the critical first step toward identifying and understanding the highest priority control and mitigation actions that can be taken to protect public health in a cost effective manner.

To help regulatory agencies, industry and the public achieve this level of understanding, Lakes Environmental Software developed a state-of-thescience environmental management system that enables users to catalogue all sources of air emissions, quantify pollutant concentrations once released into the atmosphere, and estimate the resulting human health impacts including cancer risk and non-cancer health effects. Armed with this information, it is then possible to develop effective mitigation plans and apply targeted air pollution control equipment to address the most toxic pollutants in those areas with the highest overall adverse health impacts.

Delivering Solutions for a Better World Lakes Environmental Software specializes in providing its clients with environmental IT solutions for solving pressing challenges including issues in air quality, solid waste and wastewater management as well as permitting, compliance and reporting. The solutions offered at Lakes Environmental allow companies, regulatory agencies, and consultants to meet their environmental compliance obligations and thereby avoid enforcement actions and litigation arising from the mismanagement of

pollution. In addition, these solutions are successfully utilized world-wide by industrial facilities and consultants to proactively identify corporate risks and develop strategic mitigation policies to reduce their environmental impacts.

Making Lasting Differences The company was founded out of necessity by the company founders who desired to apply their collective technical knowledge and subject matter expertise in a niche market where positive environmental impacts could be made through the proper application of software technologies and scientific models. Lakes Environmental Software is committed to building the tools required to solve today’s most challenging air pollution problems.

The company founders are environmental scientists, developers and successful business owners, whose IT solutions are developed by a team of more than 30 senior developers that all share the passion of providing customers the tools they need to make the world a better place to live in while also allowing for growth and prosperity. The company’s vision is to provide clients with state-of-thescience environmental IT solutions and data services that will allow them to make a positive difference in the environment and global economies.

Guaranteed Regulatory Benefits In an effort to protect human health and the environment, regulatory authorities have defined allowable ambient air quality concentration limits (i.e., standards). These standards define the pollutant-specific maximum allowable ambient air concentrations that can occur while still being protective of human health including consideration of sensitive populations such as asthmatics, children, and the elderly. To enforce these air quality standards, regulatory agencies deploy ambient air monitors to measure pollutant specific concentrations. If

pollutant concentrations are found to be in excess of the applicable standard, the area is classified as being in nonattainment, which triggers additional regulatory program and compliance requirements by industry and the public.

While an important program, this approach has limitations as ambient air monitors are expensive and therefore the number of locations that can be sampled is limited. Agencies simply are unable to measure everywhere. In addition, standards are only available for the criteria pollutants and therefore do not include the hundreds of potential air toxics present in air pollution. To address these limitations, Lakes Environmental developed the Air Quality Management Information System (AQMIS) which enables agencies to conduct high resolution air quality studies over large areas such as by county level or entire states. This allows regulatory agencies to evaluate both measured and modeled air concentrations at any location and determine where the highest concentrations are located. Once high concentration areas are identified,

automated human health risk assessment modeling is conducted by AQMIS to determine what diseases and other health effects are likely in those areas. Armed with this information and an inventory of emission sources, regulatory agencies can identify which emission sources or groups of sources are causing or contributing to adverse health effects.

Once the highest contributing sources are identified, appropriate mitigation plans, and regulatory programs can be developed to protect human health and the environment. AQMIS makes it possible to perform risk-based prioritization and direct limited resources toward solutions that will produce the greatest health benefits to the population, saving lives and billions of dollars in health care costs.

High Return on Investment Industrial clients also realize significant benefit by using our AQMIS solution as they can prioritize spending on emission controls that are most effective in reducing their environmental risks and invest in technologies that ensure they remain in

compliance with the provisions of their permit. Permit violations can cost facilities millions of dollars in penalties and enforcement actions including criminal prosecution in the worst cases. Due to such factors, most organizations are in dire need of a fully integrated environment risk management solution that assists them in assessing and mitigating identified risks. “By implementing our Air Quality Management Information System (AQMIS), organizations can quickly identify the contributing risk factors, put in place effective mitigation strategies, and thereby avoid all enforcement actions and penalties saving millions of dollars each year,” quotes Jesse Thé. The costeffective solutions offered by Lakes Environmental Software are fully integrated and automated which enables its clients to achieve a high return on their investment and in turn pass those savings along to their customers and stakeholders.

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We painstakingly invest time and resources into developing and retaining our most valuable asset – our dedicated staff.

output of the intellectual thinking of Dr. Jesse L. Thé. Having founded the company, Dr. Thé also serves as the CEO. He is the catalyst of Lakes Environmental who spearheads overall business and operations and is responsible for the strategic and growth initiatives of the organization.

He holds a Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Waterloo, where he also serves as an adjunct professor.

Jesse believes that companies must provide a sense of purpose, a career path, and continuous professional development opportunities, in addition to competitive salaries and benefits.

He quotes, “This is a very important point for us since we are in a field of continuous change, where professional expertise becomes obsolete very fast.”

In order to maintain a satisfied workforce, Dr. Thé continuously offers unstructured and structured learning opportunities and numerous office amenities that promote a creative and relaxed office environment to his team members.“We truly care about our employees and their families and instill that mindset across the company”, comments Dr. Thé.

Marching Ahead of the Obstacles The niche environmental software market has been facing two primary difficulties: hiring experienced software developers with environmental subject matter expertise and navigating the current political environment where funding for key U.S. environmental regulatory programs have been significantly cut in recent years. Environmental Regulations and enforcement of these regulations are major market driving factors. Fortunately, the company continues to overcome all challenges and celebrated its 22nd year of

software sales in 2018. To address the difficulties that reduced funding plays in the U.S. market, steps have been taken to diversify the company into other IT markets including cloud business communication and security solutions. These solutions are marketed under Zebu Infrastructure Online which is a new company division driven to “Optimize the World” by seeking out opportunities and creating intuitive products that improve and optimize the essential parts of work and life.

The company has even solved the problem of hiring candidates with the necessary qualifications by maintaining active recruiting programs, engaging with universities and other scientific organizations that foster the qualifications based on its current needs and interests.

The uniqueness of the company comes from the organic interaction that has developed between its most valuable assets, the dedicated and hardworking staff, resulting state-of-the-science products, extensive user base, technical expertise, commitment to excellence and unmatched customer support. The team of environmental scientists and software developers at Lakes Environmental are specialized in emission inventory, air dispersion modeling, air quality forecasting, ambient air monitoring, GIS/Mapping, human health risk assessment, reporting and systems administration.

The recent trend in the environmental software market continues where vendors and users are migrating away from desktop applications to cloud hosted solutions with subscriptionbased services. This has been another benefit for Lakes Environmental as they began offering cloud subscription IT solutions starting in 2010. Lakes

Environmental now leads the market in providing clients with fully integrated cloud hosted environmental IT solutions. Additionally, regulatory agencies and industrial clients are investing in its automated solutions as a means to reduce or completely eliminate their dependence on reoccurring consulting services.

Accomplishments and Accolades Among many of the honors received, Lakes Environmental was awarded as the Best Environmental IT Solution Provider by the United Nations Development Program for its AQMIS Web – a Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) technology. This tool was managed by the UNDP for the State of Kuwait. Lakes Environmental also won the title of ‘Best Worldwide Scientific Paper’ in GIS (Electronic Mapping) from ESRI which competed against top universities and mapping companies.

What to Look Out For? The future of Lakes Environmental Software is promising as the firm continues to heavily invest in strengthening its R&D programs. The team at Lakes Environmental Software endeavors to improve its solutions portfolio through a research-oriented methodology. “Our business strategy in the past has allowed us to thwart competition and we intend to further extend through early adoptions of disruptive technologies such as the use of neural net processing in our air quality forecasting solutions and many others,” says Michael A. Johnson, Director of Software Development at Lakes Environmental Software.

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Accordant Technolog Inc. accordanttechnology.com

Tim Tyler Founder & CEO

An End-User- Compute Company, Accordant Technology provides awesome experience to its customers by leveraging technology.

Allgress, Inc. allgress.com

Jeff Kushner Cheif Marketing Officer

Allgress, a company based out of California brings agility to business by enabling enterprise risk, compliance and security professionals the ability to efficiently manage their risk posture.

W. K. Choi Founder & CEO

BISTel is a leading provider of intelligent manufacturing software solutions that enable the realization of the smart connected factory or Industry 4.0.

Catalyst catalystsecure.com

John Tredennick Founder & CEO

Catalyst is an information technology company that designs and develops cloud based software for the easy management of electronic legal discovery.

Exchange Solutions exchangesolutions.com

Mike Hughes Co-CEO & COO

Exchange Solutions is the company that offers customer engagement solutions that helps in maximizing customer lifetime value.

Global Thermostat globalthermostat.com

Graciela Chichilnisky CEO & Co-founder

Global Thermostat is a company that develops and commercializes unique technologies to capture carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and other sources and thus eliminating the catastrophic risks of climate change.

InfinityAr infinityar.com

Motti Kushnir Co-founder & CEO

Infinity AR is a technology company that leverages the power of Augmented Reality to convert any platform to augmented platform.

Keono keono.com

Michael Medema Founder & CEO

Keono is a multichannel digital advertising agency offering solutions through digital marketing channels.

Lakes Environmental Software weblakes.com

Jesse L. Thé Founder, CEO

Lakes Environmental Software offers technologically advanced IT solutions for solving today’s most complex environmental problems.

Möbius Partners mobiuspartners.com

Jay Uribe President and Co-founder, Junam Ali President and Co-founder

Möbius Partners excels in providing the most advanced and strategic technology solutions to innovate, transform, and deliver positive business outcomes.

BISTel BISTel.com

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Offis offis.com.au

Franck Demoiseau CEO

Offis is one of Australia’s longest-running managed cloud and consulting providers, having managed public, private, hybrid and multi-cloud services.

One Contact Center onecontactcenter.com

Butch Nievera CEO

One Contact Centre is one of the leading providers of outsourced customer care and back-office solutions.

POC Medical systems pocmedicalsystems.com

Sanjeev Saxena Chairman & CEO

POC Medical Systems Inc. is a healthcare technology startup with a disruptive platform called Pandora CDxTM for rapid screening of diseases.

Robomaster robotmaster.com

Chahe Bakmazjian Founder & President

Robotmaster is specialized in CAD/CAM solutions for robots, which helps manufacturers to maximize their productivity by easy and efficient industrial robot programming.

Sightline Systems sightline.com

Brandon Witte CEO

Sightline Solutions provides real-time performance analytics, automated root-cause analysis and capacity planning that helps organizations proactively predict performance issues and prevent unplanned downtime.

Sports 1 Marketing sports1marketing.com

David Meltzer Founder & CEO

Sports 1 Marketing is a company is the global sports and media marketing agency that leverages the relationship capital built by the founders.

StraitsBridge Advisors straitsbridge.com

Sanjay Uppal Founder & CEO

StraitsBridge Advisors provides comprehensive consulting solutions to banks and financial institutions in multiple domains supporting them to achieve their transformational objectives through a unique mix of pragmatic implementation strategies of finance, risk, business intelligence, technology, productivity and organizing skills.

Symphony Solutions symphony-solutions.eu

Theo Schnitfink CEO & Founder

Symphony Solutions provides West European, American, Canadian and even Indian companies with high quality IT, BPO and Consultancy services, so the clients automatically leverage all the significant benefits.

Teknowlogi teknowlogi.com

Spencer Askew Founder & CEO

The pioneer Logistics Expert System, Teknowlogi is the creator of Tai, the industry’s sole cloud-based solution that combines mobile intelligence (MI), business intelligence (BI), transportation management systems (TMS), artificial intelligence (AI), and consulting intelligence (CI).

VerseOne verseone.com

Alan Neilson Founder

VerseOne Group is a technology integrated digital service provider which provides digital solutions to healthcare, housing and other business sectors.

Accordant Technology:

We believe at happy users make successful companies and we are committed to making e user experience second-to-none.

Creating Remarkable Customer Experience with ‘Best-of Breed Technology’

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n today’s world technology has solutions to most of the problems lingering in business. The market space is flooded with companies who are standing out due its unique features. Amidst of all the chaos of staying ahead in the competition and being updated with the advancing technology, balancing these technologies and keeping it updated can be lot of task.

Accordant Technology, a company based out of Franklin, TN has put forward some ground breaking solutions and is changing the way technology is leveraged by business. The sole purpose of this company is to deliver secure virtual workspaces and cloud-based solutions. Accordant is an End User Compute (EUC) company focused on delivering world class secure virtual workspaces and cloud solutions with a 5 Star User Experience. Taking advantage of strategic technologies including Citrix Systems, Crossmatch, Carbon Black and Nutanix, Accordant provides the best-of-breed technology stack for the services.

Accordant delivers few unique and operational services.

However, the factor that sets Accordant apart is its relentless focus on the user experience. Having founded 5 years ago, the company strongly believes that “Happy users make successful companies”.

Trusted Technology Partners at Service Gaining unbreakable confidence among clients is not something many companies have mastered. While many are still mastering the challenge, Accordant is standing out among the crowd and has gained the poise among its client and the market. Staying focused on its mission and goal has helped the team at Accordant overcome challenges.

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However, the most exceptional feature of Accordant is the technological products it offers which aids its clients to achieve an absolute user experience. The strategic technologies are: · Citrix, which offers End-to-end secure digital workspace and cloud solutions · Crossmatch, helps in Biometric Identity Management and Multi-factor authentication · Carbon Black, helps in providing End-point security and Next Gen AV · Nutanix, who is the leader of Hyper-converged technology for world class infrastructure.

Complete Blend of Experience and Creativity The greatest asset of any company is the employees yet, it’s the mentor who guides both the company and the employees towards success. One such visionary mentor is Tim Tyler, who is the Founder and CEO of Accordant.

With over 20 year of experience in IT, Tim found a market for EUC where companies in the territory were under served from a consulting and support perspective.

Accordant has found a niche in the market by being laser focused on the end user experience and not deviating from making that experience the best it can be with providing users with a secure, consistent and always available – from anywhere, on any device – solution.

Tim and his team of technicians and engineers at Accordant do not compromise for anything less than satisfied clients.

This commitment towards serving clients has crowned it as one of the most trusted IT solution provider in the market.

Tim also makes sure that the company has a culture of extreme ownership. He adds saying, “Each member of our

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team is aware of their responsibilities and has autonomy to excel at that with complete ownership of their attitude, behavior and deliverables”.

Tim believes that extreme ownership when strongly impressed upon each individual can result in getting the job done to the best of the ability of the employees and the outcome is on them. Agreeing on the fact that the success behind strong companies is great ideas, Tim encourages new and innovative ideas from his team members. He quotes, “We encourage all to bring creative ideas constantly that help us be better every day and contribute to our overall mission which is consistently providing a 5 Star user experience.”

Aiding the Daily business Having founded with purpose to narrow down the gap between virtualization and solutions cloud market, the solutions offered by the team of software developers and engineers have placed the company at the top in the field of virtualization and cloud technologies. Consulting, System Integration, Support, and Fulfillment are the services provided at Accordant.

Consulting: Detailed planning, installation and management is the key factors needed by technology service providers to help clients achieve their goals. Taking this under consideration the team at Accordant understands every aspect of virtualization, application delivery, hosting and mobility which includes methodologies such as AssessDesign-Change-Maintain.

designing, installing, training, testing and documents within technology is a nightmare for many of the IT experts.

However, Accordant has strategies to manage all these valuable services.

Support: The technology audits of Accordant helps in improving the quality and performance of the client's technology. The IT expert at Accordant works with its client's in-house team and analyzes their IT infrastructure and helps in identifying opportunities that can be useful to save money.

Fulfillment: The team of experts here in Accordant will help acquiring the best technology in the market that helps its client to reach the peak of their business in a cost-effective way.

Accordant’s Future is Proportional to the Advancing Technology The improvements in technologies like AR and VR has opened new opportunities for Accordant. The team here sees it as a way to help its clients navigate a cloud first/cloud ready environment. Software manufactures pushing their consumption model to cloud-based subscription allows companies to access, use, and consume software. Focusing on the end user, Accordant also helps companies to become flexible and agile so that they can leverage cloud solutions from anywhere, on any device.

All these factors have triggered an aggressive growth mode of Accordant. Being fully serviceable at US, Tim and his team are planning to expand geographically to Mid America and TOLA regions.

System Integration: The nightmare of architecting,

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The Architects of Intelligent Manufacturing Solutions

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he industrial revolution in Great Britain during the 18th century brought a sea of change in the manufacturing sectors across the globe. The world witnessed the first industrial revolution, in the form of standardization and mechanization, water and steam power.

The second era saw mass production and economies of scale, assembly line, use of electricity, and the third was the use of computer and automation. The fourth industrial revolution, which is also known as Industry 4.0 today, is coming in the convergence of systems.

Industry 4.0 is the current trend of automation and data exchange in manufacturing technologies. It has entirely transformed the world of manufacturing with the advent of big data, A.I., IoT, cloud computing and cognitive computing into a “Smart Factory”. These smart factories work in the ecosystem of highly precise and automated robotic machinery. However, these highly advanced and automated machines need accurate and intelligent real-time monitoring solutions, which is beyond human capability.

Thus BISTel, an industry leader in intelligent manufacturing software solutions, enables the realization of the Smart Connected Factory, i.e. Industry 4.0.

BISTel’s intelligent manufacturing software solutions include advanced, proprietary technology that leverages Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), Big Data and cloud computing.

BISTel and the Visionary Leader BISTel’s foundation was laid in 2000. Headquartered in Seoul, South Korea, it has spread its wings across the globe with offices in Silicon Valley, California, Austin, Texas, Shanghai and Shenzhen in China, as well as Singapore.

WK Choi, Founder and CEO, has fostered BISTel to

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BISTel technologies are at e f efront of e next industrial revolution – Industry 4.0. BISTel technologies help customers transf m manufacturing inte igence into smart decisions resulting and achieve e highest return-on-investment (ROI).

become the market leader in intelligent manufacturing solutions over the years. He says, “We know how very important time is for every engineer, and that’s why we design and build solutions that they can use to make the quickest and smartest decisions. This efficiency lets manufacturers achieve the highest return on investments (ROI) in months instead of years.”

BISTel offers modern and hi-tech solutions such as engineering equipment solutions (EES), dynamic fault detection (DFD), and predictive maintenance (PdM) solutions that collect and manage big data, monitor the health of machines and equipment, optimize process flows, analyze massive amounts of data quicker than anyone and identify root cause failures to mitigate risk in manufacturing. This certainly helps customers reduce costs, improve quality, and increase productivity.

Steve Jobs once said, “Great things in business are never done by one person. They’re done by the team of people.”

BISTel is growing rapidly with over 320 employees worldwide. The workplace should not be something that people dread every day. Employees should look forward to going to their jobs. The organization from start has nurtured healthy and enthusiastic work culture through all these years, where employees are treated as assets than liabilities.

BISTel has a global market presence with highly esteemed clients from automotive, steel, and electronics manufacturing domains. It also has a deep customer following in semiconductor, LED and FPD manufacturing.

Smart and Intelligent Solutions The manufacturing sector is a very competitive, fast-paced, ever-evolving sector which comprises of highly expensive, sophisticated machinery and equipment, which produce goods and products across diverse verticals, often working

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24x7, 365 days. One of the major pain areas for any company is to spend huge capital on maintenance and repairs of this machinery, so as to avoid downtime and any adverse impact on production. One of BISTel’s new products includes a predictive maintenance (PdM) solution that lets customers determine the condition of their machines, thereby helping them to predict when maintenance should be performed.

BISTel has developed an innovative patented technology called engineering equipment solutions (EES) and intelligent manufacturing solutions. It helps customers solve problems in manufacturing that negatively impact production.

“For instance, BISTel’s Dynamic Fault Detection (DFD) product detects problems. Once found, BISTel’s innovative eDatalyzer analytics products then analyze large data and quickly identify the root cause of the problem. By using the eDatalyzer advanced analytics tools to find what’s causing the manufacturing problems, BISTel helps its customers stay highly productive and profitable,” says CEO WK Choi.

BISTel’s intelligent solutions aid manufacturers to perform real-time fault detection; thanks to advanced machine learning technologies. It enables these manufacturers to predict equipment faults before they occur then self-heals by conducting the required maintenance before it fails.

Big data analytics has become crucial nowadays and possess huge potential. BISTel has cleverly leveraged it to quickly conduct root cause analysis of the faults detected, saving arbitrary cost, improving strategic business decisions and providing an edge over the competitors.

“BISTel’s is assiduously working towards the advancement of the manufacturing industry by delivering world-class

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products and solutions. Our intelligent manufacturing solutions are shaping the factory of the future, improving costs, efficiencies, and quality across factories by connecting the manufacturing ecosystem to better detect, analyze, predict and adapt real-time to changing manufacturing environments,” expressed Choi.

Future in Industry 4.0 Choi says, “BISTel technologies are at the forefront of the next industrial revolution – Industry 4.0. BISTel technologies help customers transform manufacturing intelligence into smart decisions resulting in the highest return-on-investment (ROI).”

The industry is going to be driven by A.I. and Big Data in the coming future, through which manufacturers can predict the quality of products before they go into production.

The management reveals, BISTel in the near future is about to release its, next-generation adaptive intelligence (A.I.) manufacturing platform, that will include innovative new auto-learning, predictive, self-healing, and continuous improvement features that accelerate smart manufacturing and further reduce risk.

But, some of the inherent challenges that lie with Industry 4.0 are data security, a high degree of reliability and stability, maintaining the integrity of production process and loss of high paying human jobs that need to be tackled with utmost care. However, the benefits of Industry 4.0 model could offset these concerns as long as companies like BISTel deliver innovative products and intelligent solutions to the world.

The future is certainly bright!

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Company Founder, Matthew Telesca serves as the President and CEO of MGN Logistics, Inc. Telesca is a serial entrepreneur, investor, and tech enthusiast, who sold his rst company by age 32. A ve-time recipient of Inc. Magazine’s prestigious Fastest Growing Private Companies in

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America award, and two-time nominee for CEO of the year, Telesca is a long-time member of The International society of Logistics.

He was selected as one of the top 50 most creative CEOs to watch in 2016 and has been featured in numerous technology and logistics magazines.

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echnology in business continues to evolve and disrupt major companies and markets.

If you need confirmation of that point, just look at the top 10 retailers fifteen years ago compared to today’s list.

Nearly all the largest retailers from a bygone era have either closed or filed for bankruptcy. They have been replaced by an online retail model that emphasizes convenience and nearly unlimited options. Think about what Uber has done to the taxi industry, or Facebook to the advertising market.

Yes, technology is not only here to stay, but will continue to influence nearly every part of our lives, and business is not immune.

In fact, for business, it becomes even more imperative to stay attuned to these changes and differentiate between passing fads versus a truly transformative technology. One such example has been the introduction of blockchain, originally devised for the digital currency, Bitcoin. The blockchain technology has since exploded with a vast number of other potential uses and varying platforms.

However, many main stream businesses have been very slow to adopt this technology, often taking a wait and see mentality. And rightly so, if a company is not careful, they could recklessly spend substantial resources, time and money, pursuing a technology that could ultimately be a passing fad.

Or worse, bet on a technology that the market doesn’t assimilate and find them with a worthless platform.

Blockchain, however, in many ways is revolutionary. It doesn’t address make

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believe problems or over exaggerated inconveniences, but rather, the realworld challenge that nearly every transaction involves, that of trust and incorruptible data. Yes, every transaction of value has the potential to be corrupted or compromised in today’s digital world. Therein lies the genius of blockchain. It is a decentralized digital ledger that can guarantee the validity of a transaction through it distributed registers and secure validation mechanism. Simply put, it brings the highest level of accountability to every transaction.

With such an essential key attribute, how could blockchain be anything other than a revolutionary new technology that will eventually need to be embraced?

The company’s current undertaking entails utilizing blockchain’s incorruptible ledger to synthesize with transportation related transactions.

With many transportation processes still being very manual and the high level of human error or even fraud in the market place, MGN felt it was ripe timing to introduce a new robust TMS that offered its users and those interfaced with a higher level of accountability, true end to end visibility and greater degree of automation. While several companies in the space have been focused on the international application, MGN has concentrated on the domestic LTL and truckload markets where their blockchain technology would be first to market.

It’s been with this core belief, that MGN Logistics, based out of Easton, Pennsylvania has been pushing forward with the logistics industries first blockchain based Transportation Management System (TMS). An early adaptor of web-based technology and one of the first companies to launch a fully automated on-line freight platform called Logistics Quote, MGN has continued to bring to market cutting edge technology for the transportation space. These innovations include its’ award winning TMS, big data truckload and LTL pricing apps, sophisticated business intelligence KPIs and hundreds of API connections.

The company has grown organically and through a series of private party acquisitions, including offices in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Michigan, Florida, and the Dominican Republic.

Today, with fraudulent double brokered loads on the rise, and shippers losing visibility into this process, we envision a platform that would end double payments for loads that have been delivered. We are creating a technology; we believe will end the insanity of tending a load of value to a carrier or broker with potentially little or no validation of who they are. We are creating a platform based on blockchain technology that will provide the most secure transportation transactions on earth. And we have a track record of not just talking or envisioning but delivering on those innovations.

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Keono: Targeting the Right Customers in Real Time

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he advent of digital marketing into business has changed the conventional method of how marketing was performed in the yesteryears.

Advertising is one of the trickiest parts of business. In the coming days industrialists will witness more of digital marketing. The involvement of internet into business has not only changed the industry but has also changed the customers. People involved in business, even the customers now have equal access to all the information available in the market.

This has increased the task of marketers as they want to reach out to their targeted audience. The renowned brands in the market want to hit their consumers with ads everywhere, yet consumers prefer to maintan the privacy of their data. While many marketers struggle with best data practices which often leads to data breeches and compliance issues, Keono is committed to best practices and is an expert at sending targeted messages. This multichannel digital advertising company has succeeded in delivering high quality results through digital marketing channels.

An Extension to Marketing Department Keono is a digital marketing advertising agency specialized in introducing new customers to the best renowned brands in the global market. It produces high-performance email and multi-channel digital marketing campaigns powered by strategic vision, innovative digital services and world-class technology. This ‘multi-channel’ digital marketing agency delivers new leads by using email, display, social and mobile digital channels.

Catalyst of Change in Keono The innovative thought, Keono is the product of Michael

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We do real marketing and no one is better an us at sending targeted messages to e right customers.

Medema. Having founded the company, Michael also serves as the Founder and CEO. One of the biggest advantages that Keono holds is the vast pool of experienced team members it has. Michael having an experience spreading over 25 years is an expert in this sector. Under his leadership and shrewd guidance Keono has grown 1000 % in just 3 years.

When asked about the differentiating factor that sets Keono apart in the crowd, Michael commented, “We differentiate ourselves from others with our service, extensive database and simply consistent results. Brands know when they work with Keono that we make the entire marketing program a great experience and we are doing everything possible to utilize best industry practices which ensures protection to their brand.”

Delivering Solutions Proportional to New Customers It is no secret that any business, small or big will always and forever look for a strong customer base and try to attract more customers into their roster. Attracting new clients or increasing the customer base is what Keono is best at.

The finest team of marketers at Keono is an expert at sending targeted messages. Inbox Delivery is one of the unique services offered by Keono. Aiming for 90% - 98% inbox delivery rate on every campaign, Keono provides creative revision tips aimed at improving the campaign delivery and performance of its clients.

Match and Deploy, the service offered by Keono offers its customers an edge in their customer outreach. The task of sending marketing emails to the customers has been made

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effortless by Keono. Once the clients provide their name and postal file, the team at Keono runs the data against its vast email database which results in finding relatable matches. Once all the potential customers are shortlisted, Keono then deploys the marketing message to the respective mailing address. Keono even allows its clients to amend the messages. Since the clients are given a freehand on the messages, the clients can decide the target audience they want the message to be reached.

Choosing to stand out from the crowd, Keono has accepted a creative approach to send the messages to the customers of its clients. The expert digital team at Keono takes the responsibility of molding the message and gives it a professional look which enhances credibility.

Influencing Marketers Globally Proudly presenting a team seasoned with years of experience, Keono has an unmatched reputation in the advertising sector. Keono has been gaining global recognition for the extraordinary digital marketing services it offers.

Gaining blind trust by the clients is what has made Keono climb the ladder of success. When asked about the benefits gained by the clients of Keono Michael comments, “Incredible service across the company is always there.

Consistent results and flexible pricing options is other factor that attracts clients. We also follow strict industry best practices which protects our clients’ brands. Net, they trust us and enjoy doing business with us.”

The story of one such successful campaign was in the auto vertical. While others were marketing cars, Keono simply sold ‘more’ cars. Enjoying appreciations from clients has resulted in the global visibility of Keono. Mazada, Honda, Buick, Jaguar, Lexus, BMW and Toyota are some of the gratified clients which Keono has in its kit.

The Mantra to Success The frontrunner of this revolutionary idea, Michael shares his thought and the mantra to success. He quotes that, “Building the right team that shares a common vision is critical to any company. Growing a company the right way is much more important to me than simple growing revenue.

Company culture is vital to the success and wellbeing of a growing team. It’s critical for hiring talent and it also forms the foundation by which founders interact.”

A Glance at the Future Roadmap The future of advertising budgets will continue transitions from traditional channels like print, radio and direct mail to the digital channels. This might create hurdles like compliance issues. However, Keono will continue to serve as a transition from an email only agency to a multi-channel digital agency. Adding to the statement Michael asserts, “Thus, our display and social services will continue to improve over time. We also were 100% acquisition marketing and now we’re doing more and more retention marketing.”

Keono helps its clients with all advertising needs and provides solutions to all types of advertising requirements.

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igital Marketing is marketing done on digital platforms such as search engines, websites, emails and mobile apps. It is an efficiently targeted, conversion oriented and interactive marketing of products and services by optimally utilizing digital platforms to acquire customers. The scope of digital marketing is not limited to advertising. It also includes Acquiring new customers and sustaining the current customers. The reason why digital marketing is a topic of discussion is the statistics behind the same: · 81% of shoppers conduct online research before making big purchases. (Retailing Today, 2014) · 65% of smartphone users agree that when conducting a search on their smartphones, they look for the most relevant information regardless of the company providing the information. (Google, 2015) · 51% of smartphone users have discovered a new company or product when conducting a search on their smartphone. (Google, 2015) · 61% of marketers say improving SEO and growing their organic presence is their top inbound marketing priority.

(HubSpot, 2017) Components of Digital marketing Digital Marketing is known to be an umbrella under which all the aspects of online marketing activities are covered.

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Following are the most common types of marketing activities under digital marketing: Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Search engine optimization is a process of utilizing all the available resources in order to optimize the overall performance of a website. Through SEO, a company can improve the quality of the content on its website, increase the reachability, attain higher user engagement, etc. For example, Amazon generating content to be on top of the search engines is a type of SEO. According to statistics, 67% of the clicks come from the first five listings of a search page. This clearly states how important it is for companies to use SEO. Pay Per Click (PPC) Pay per Click is when a company bids for a certain keywords and optimizes its website accordingly to be on the top of the search results page. The companies pay the search engines every time someone clicks on the websites link. In the process, the search engines look at three aspects before putting them on the top of the list in their search results page: · The amount of money the company is bidding · How relevant the keyword is with the website and its products · How optimized is the landing page of the website

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MARKETING STRATEGY

Content Marketing Content Marketing is a process of creating relevant content to acquire new customers. The content must be valuable to the customers and consistent in quality. It is a key tool for SEO and helps the website to get noticed on social platforms. Good Content should not be promotional but educational and inspirational so that the user can see the website as a source of information.

Mobile Marketing Mobile marketing refers to advertising/selling the products and services to potential or existing customers through text messages on their mobile phones. This is one of the most direct ways of marketing as the response time from customers via smartphone is highest. 97% of all the text messages are read within 4 minutes of being sent. The companies acquire new customers every day by offering them discounts on its products through text messages.

Social Media Marketing Social media marketing refers to the process of interacting with customers through social media platforms. Companies advertise, sell, and assist customers on social media for numerous reasons: · · · · · · ·

Creating brand awareness for free To get feedback directly from customers Get more traffic on website and improve SEO rating Acquire new customer and expand sales Marginally low marketing cost 47% of all internet users are on Facebook 88% of product purchases are Pinterest pinned

Email Marketing Email marketing is a form of marketing that enables companies to communicate potential/current customers through electronic mails. The process includes: · Sending emails to current customers to enhance relationship with them for brand loyalty · To acquire new customers or to convince the current one to purchase · Advertising through mail The key benefits of email marketing include cost effectiveness, flexibility and better rate of success. The content must be relevant and useful to the user, should look authentic and strategic and well-coordinated.

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Marketing Automation Marketing Automation is a tool that keeps all your digital marketing activities together and synchronizes them for efficient and effective business. It also measures the performance and ROI for faster growth. Automation gives direction to the company by providing it data that shows the area of improvement and ways to improve it. In other words it enables the company to know what it is doing and whether is it feasible or not.

Digital marketing has become a milestone in this ever changing digital world and has replaced traditional ways of marketing to some extent by offering a variety of marketing tools that are very cost efficient compared to the old marketing techniques. It enables better interactions with customers, resilient marketing and better customer relation, rapid growth in sales and overall effective development of business. Needless to say, Digital Marketing may just be named as Marketing.

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Möbius Partners: Accelerating Business Outcomes with the Most Advanced and Strategic Technology Solutions

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igital transformation is not only about embracing technology; it is about embracing the disruption and accelerated business processes that come with implementing the right technology. In the current global market, many organizations are chasing a digital transformation strategy. The key to a growth-generating outcome is a sound and strategic approach to digital transformation. In order to accelerate business processes and competencies, companies need a partner with the expertise to develop a cost-effective transformation strategy.

At Möbius Partners, we knew that to be admired and respected we needed to establish a thriving and creative internal culture, so that our employees were empowered to develop innovative technology solutions that propel our customers’ businesses.

enterprise businesses implement the right technology.

Nearly 18 years after starting Möbius Partners, Jay and Junab stay true to the tenets on which they established the company. Jay and Junab believe if they get it right with their employees, the employees will get it right with their customers. With a strong belief in a shared vision, the Möbius Partners team is known for finding that hard-tofind groove of expertise, innovation and collaboration.

That unique ability is the origin of their nickname: Groovers.

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Möbius Partners has a pulse on the most advanced and strategic technology trends and leverages their expertise to deliver positive and growth-generating outcomes for enterprise businesses. A trusted advisor, Möbius Partners collaborates with the world’s leading enterprise technology companies. Since 2000, the company has served corporate and public sector customers throughout Texas and the central US. Based in San Antonio, with offices in Dallas and Houston, the Möbius Partners team is committed to providing constant, responsive, transformational support.

PARTNERS IN INNOVATION Junab Ali and Jay Uribe are co-founders of Möbius Partners. These two high school friends leveraged their complimentary expertise and backgrounds to help

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Möbius Partners is consistently recognized for their creative office culture and their innovative work in the industry, receiving annual accolades such as ‘Best Places to Work in Texas’ and ‘Best Places to Work in San Antonio’. The company has been designated in ‘CRN Magazine’s Tech Elite 250’ and named as ‘CRN Magazine’s Solution Provider 500’. Möbius Partners has also been named among the ‘Top 10 Data Center Networking Solution Providers’ in 2016 and 2017 by ‘Enterprise Networking Magazine’.

DELIVERING STRATEGIC TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS Like their customers, Möbius Partners is driven by business outcomes. They invest in long-term relationships

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with their customers in order to maximize the impact of their technology expertise. The company has a unique ‘work hard/play hard’ culture and believes in working together with customers to get the job done right. The Möbius Partners team is often considered an extension of their customer’s workforce because of their strong relationships and commitment to the success of the business.

Innovative, collaborative efforts lead to costeffective solutions, which are structured around a variety of technology services focusing on Cloud Adoption, IT Task Automation, Monitoring, IT Service Management, Data Center Optimization, Application Delivery, DevOps, Security Compliance, Analytics and more.

Junab Ali President & Co- founder

Fortinet, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Micro Focus, New Relic, Red Hat, Splunk, Turbonomic, and VMware.

CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT Always evolving to stay ahead of technology trends, Möbius Partners is focusing on the delivery of new managed service offerings for new and existing customers in the near future. The key to business success is a sound and strategic approach to digital transformation. In order to accelerate business processes and competencies, Möbius Partners will continue to provide companies with comprehensive IT solutions.

Möbius Partners offers a dedicated support management team to help maximize performance, minimize risk and identify cost-saving opportunities across customer environments. MP SupportLink is a multi-vendor Support Contract Management solution that provides much needed visibility to proactively, effectively and efficiently manage service and support contracts. The company’s top partners include Aruba, Cisco, CloudPhysics, Cohesity, Dell EMC, Docker, F5,

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t looks and feels like a video game. It lets workers test realistic scenarios without needing to step foot in the actual workplace. And, while training them for a particular specialised task, it also enhances the safety of the workers and others around them by reducing risk born out of negligence or lack of practice.

We’re talking about using VR in training. And, it’s been quite a revolutionary journey so far.

Even though several manufacturing companies haven’t yet grasped the potential benefits of using VR in industrial training, many have noticed how the tech has slowly grown into a cost-effective yet powerful teaching tool.

Employees Want Extra Training & Conventional Tools Aren’t Good Enough Anymore A Middlesex University study revealed that 74% in a sample of 4300 workers cited the lack of development opportunities as their reason for lagging work performance.

Globally, companies spend around $130 billion on training. Yet, only 25% of such programs amount to an improvement in business. In fact, one out of every three employees blames uninspiring content for their lack of interest in the training programs.

And, an employee who leaves within the first year of acquisition can cost the company three times the person’s salary.

Using VR in Training- the Benefits Interactive content is better than the good old theoretical teaching, no doubt there!

The stimulation can be designed to mimic real-life scenarios very closely.

Complex or high-risk situations can be played out to let the employee practise their response without posing any threat to anyone.

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It incorporates a combination of visual, verbal, aural, and physical cues, thus enhancing the likelihood of a positive outcome. · offers high trainee engagement and retention levels · saves time and money · increases productivity · makes the entire training process more comprehensive and engaging Among the high-consequence industries, like aerospace, healthcare, chemicals, energy, manufacturing, and investment/finance, over 30% identify VR in employee training as a top learning priority, as per the Learning Strategy research by Brandon Hall Group.

15% of the high-performers (with improving KPIs) in this sample admit to increasing their use of virtual reality training modules in the near future.

45% term the simulation-based training modules as critical measures needed to reach the business goals over the next two years.

Experiments in Industrial Virtual Reality so Far In February 2018, Honeywell launched a cloud-based simulation tool in collaboration with Microsoft’s HoloLens to train plant personnel on industrial activities.

Meraki, in collaboration with a few global FMCG companies, is in the process to prepare virtual training content for the industrial safety method 'Lockout and Tagout’. It ensures that dangerous machine shut down and stays inactive during the period of repair.

About the Author Parth Choksi is an IIT Bombay alumnus with Masters in Mechanical Engineering, who holds great passion about work in the areas of branding and marketing.

Parth had previously cofounded LevoDrive, an intra-city public bus transport system. He has also worked with ITC, where he worked on projects based on renewal energy, having commissioned a 1MW solar power plant and designed a 10MW solar power pack. He has also commissioned a complete storage facility for Finished Goods for the group. He currently heads the technical and marketing function at Meraki, one of India's first Virtual Reality Studios.

The outcome can indeed be a set of well-trained employees who would be thoroughly acclimated to working on risky equipment with all the right responses practised well in advance.

The result- significantly reduced risk to workers, and continually improving performances and ROI.

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Underpinning Disruption with Cloud Services and Automation

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ased out of Pyrmont, NSW, Offis is one of Australia’s longest-running cloud service providers and is considered as the official incumbent Tech Data Cloud Partner of the Year. For more than five years, Offis has been assisting customers to leverage public, private and hybrid cloud to bring considerable agility and efficiency into their business. The company manages systems on behalf of its customers, and is a leader in cloud automation and transformations, having built a successful consulting practice around this. What gives Offis a very big edge over other service providers on the market is its proven model-driven automated process for replatforming and automating the complete rebuild of a complex brownfield IT environment for cloud.

Offis gives companies the ability to self-provision a highly complex IT environment (including hundreds of servers, multiple network tiers, thousands of Firewall rules, and hundreds of applications) in an hour or so into the customer’s own data centre or any private / major public cloud. The automation collateral produced by Offis becomes the DNA or the blueprint to re-build any part of or an entire IT environment whenever needed (for development, test, production and disaster recovery), for a wide array of uses, including evolving applications and infrastructure in an agile manner, testing and upgrading systems, patching servers, migrating systems to cloud, or accessing best-of-breed cloud PaaS services.

The Visionary Leader Franck Demoiseau, CEO of Offis is a transformational

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General Manager and Company Director with over 10 years of experience in C-level roles across IT, Operations and Finance, in Australia, Asia and Europe. He has vast experience across multiple industries including Banking & Finance, Telecommunications and Professional Services.

With the extensive experience and knowledge in Business and Information Technology, Franck showcases a strong commercial acumen, vision, and a passion for leveraging technology, data, people and processes to transform business by adopting the digital disruption.

Automation, the Core Practice Offis is not just a leader in automation; automation is core to the innovative cloud service provider’s ethos. Offis believes strongly in the existential need for enterprises to become more agile, productive, and cost-effective by automating and orchestrating the deployment of their environments and subsequent operations. Operations can now be managed without specialised expertise as the build and run of every part of the infrastructure and every application is documented and automated. In an ultracompetitive world of disruption, high productivity, and near-zero marginal cost, automation is no longer a nice to have, it is an absolute necessity.

Forge: Crowning Achievement of Offis Over the last few years, Offis has been building considerable expertise in automation and continually improving the process for re-platforming a brownfield environment. Combining the expertise and knowledge of

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infrastructure engineers, enterprise architects, software developers and automation engineers has taken Offis to its crowning achievement: Forge.

Offis Forge, a low-code Environment Provisioning as a Service platform (EPaaS) consists of: · An architecture and configuration model that allows to input the specifications for a complete enterprise environment (applications, networks, databases, servers, O/S, Firewalls, Firewall rules, data, etc) as meta data; and · A generator that leverages the meta data in the model to programmatically generate and execute the blueprints (the automation templates which could be in a choice of popular formats, such as Terraform templates, RightScale Cloud Application Templates, vRealize templates, AWS Cloud Formation templates, Azure Resource Manager templates, and others) to forge full or partial environments.

the entire cloud gamut, enabling DevOps and CI/CD across the board.

“In an age of disruption, innovation, massive economies of scale, and high productivity, companies must become agile, innovate, leverage New Tech and reduce their costs. Cloud automation is essential to all of these and we see it as Ground Zero for companies to solve their existing issues around legacy and complexity. Cloud automation also underpins the essential instant delivery mechanism to make IT systems and staff efficient and agile. Companies that fail to appreciate and leverage this will struggle more to be competitive”, Franck predicts.

This model-driven automated approach to automating the forging of a complex brownfield environment means that only meta data needs to be input / updated in the configuration model and the model is subsequently able to instantly and automatically generate the equivalent of potentially hundreds of automation templates containing thousands of lines of code. Offis Forge also massively simplifies maintenance for the enterprise, which can continually update the configuration model (without having to touch the automation templates) to evolve its environments when it wants, as often as it wants, across

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POC Medical Systems:

This Company is unique as we rea y care about e we -being of people. Hence, from e very beginning, is company was founded wi a mission to 'save lives' and we have continued to strive f is rough our innovative product.

Shifting Patterns of Next-Gen Point-of-Care Diagnostics

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ecent studies have stated that the Multi-billion global next-generation point-of-care diagnostic markets are poised to grow strong from USD twenty-three billion in 2017 to USD thirty-eight billion by 2022, at a CAGR of ten-percent. The largest sector of diagnostics forecasted is in the breast cancer segment, due to the high incidence rate of breast cancer triggering the need for early screening and diagnostic tools.

The world needed a platform which is very simple, easy-touse, portable and cost-effective in nature which seeks to replace ELISA-based screening technology. As a result, POC Medical Systems developed a next-generation diagnostics technology, named, Pandora CDxTM. The Global Marketing Head of POC Medical Systems, Aparna Venkatesh, says, ‘There is a dire need for convenient and low-cost early screening for breast cancer and other diseases that today are expensive, cumbersome or painful.

Such revolutionary technologies by POC will bring a paramount difference to the quality of a woman’s life, her family and the community.’

Pandora CDxTM is a scalable and a flexible platform enabling new applications for various life-threatening diseases, where early screening will make a paramount difference in the quality of one’s life.

An Organization on a Mission to ‘Save Lives’ POC Medical Systems Inc. is the brainchild of Sanjeev Saxena, Chairman and CEO, and was incepted in the year 2013. The company is a technology startup with a disruptive TM platform called Pandora CDx . This startup was instituted with a vision of ‘saving lives’ across the globe.

“Our sole intent to bring up this company was to address the dire need for creating medical diagnostics technology platform for screening cancer, cardiac and infectious

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diseases. Which is reliable, portable and accessible to every person living, even in the remotest corners of the world, at a very low cost,” says the founder.

The dream to create such state-of-the-art technology ultimately manifested in the form of Pandora CDxTM, which is creating a stir in the global diagnostics industry today.

Rapid Point-of-Care Screening Solutions Pandora CDx- The Robust Miniature Lab The recent epidemics like Ebola, Influenza, H7N9 virus, etc., in different parts of the world, have accentuated the early and accurate diagnosis by point-of-care screening facilities. This screening leads to the effective prevention and clinical management of infectious diseases.

Rapid diagnosis benefits patients in allowing timely therapy to prevent complications; and benefits public health. Collection of these data for epidemiological studies can prevent outbreaks and spread of diseases in future. However, the existing lab process in cumbersome in nature, which consists of collecting the blood sample, blood separation, mixing, incubation and determining the result by lab technicians.

Pandora CDx completely transformed the blood separation, mixing, incubation into the fully automated process, where blood is drawn from the finger and introduced into the sample port; microfluidics and centrifugal force replace the work done in the lab by technicians.

Simplifying Breast Cancer Screening Millions of women lie undetected from the deadly cancer cells in the very first stage, due to the cumbersome and timeconsuming screening procedure. And if detected, they have already reached its second or final stage. This screening facility is accessible mostly in the urban and semi-urban areas, leaving the rural population unreachable. Recovery from the

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second or final stage cancer is very a painful process and that too, it has its own implications, with least survival rate. The standard Mammography process to detect breast cancer involves, disrobing the patient, compression, imagining, and an interpretation of test results, which is apparently can be repetitive and prolonged. To overcome this impediment, POC Medical System’s indigenously developed Pandora CDx, has an incredible breast cancerscreening tool called MammoAlertTM. It enables the early detection of breast cancer with a single drop of blood.

The tool system has been designed to provide a costeffective, reliable test to enable population screening in developing countries like India and bring about 100% survival rates for Stage 1 breast cancer in developed countries. Any woman over the age of 30 can be screened safely and periodically using this minimally invasive test.

The Prolific Leader The former President of United States, Dwight.D.Eisenhower once said, “The supreme quality of leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.”

Sanjeev is spearheading POC Medical Systems with the utmost integrity and nurtured it into one of the top nextgeneration diagnostics company over the years. He is an internationally acclaimed serial entrepreneur and cofounded several Biotech and Medical device companies in the past. A true leader’s thoughts reflect through his positive actions which results into a constructive society.

Awards and Accolades Abraham Lincoln once said, “Don’t worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.”

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several awards and recognition for his outstanding work. He is honored with the prestigious ‘Udhog Lagu’ award in India and ‘The European Science’ award in the UK. He was also nominated by Ernst and Young for the ‘Entrepreneur of the Year’ award in 2011 in India. POC has been profiled in Inc, Entrepreneur and was felicitated by the CSR World Congress with the ‘50 most Social Innovator’ awards.

The company has achieved the feat of time and again awarded the ‘Risk Takers and Dreamers’ award and the ‘Game Changer’ award by the Tri-Valley Innovation. He is the recipient of the title of ‘The most Innovative CEO’s of 2018’ by CV Magazine and Sanjeev and POC have been recently written up in Frost and Sullivan as a novel, ‘breakthrough early screening test for breast cancer’ in the Technology Innovation Award edition.

Future Outlook Pandora CDx is a platform technology that will allow for other screening panels to be ported on. We will continue to develop more screening panels that are affordable in oncology, cardiac and infectious diseases, expressed the founder.

Ramana Tadepalli, COO, asserts that ‘We truly believe our solution will be the most affordable accessible and low-cost screening option that can help save lives.’ This disruptive technology platform is targeted to provide point-of-care screening rapidly, efficiently and effortlessly using a minimally invasive and safe technique.

The screening tool will enable ‘distributed but connected pointof-care’ screening and diagnostics to bring a paradigm shift in the way breast cancer will be treated in the world.

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Sightline Systems:

Smart manufacturers have turned to Sightline to transf m machine data into actionable insights at a ow em to increase uptime, automate shop-flo processes and improve profitability.

Streamlining IT Operations with Real-Time Performance Analytics

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s digital transformation sweeps across the enterprise, IT operations are scrambling to keep up with the pace of change, respond to competitive challenges and deliver world-class customer experiences.

Without collecting, visualizing and analyzing IT and manufacturing performance data, organizations have trouble responding to real-time changes within their infrastructure, addressing sudden spikes in demand or preventing unexpected service outages.

Sightline Systems leverages recent advances in big data visualization, machine learning and predictive analytics to deliver real-time performance analytics, automated rootcause analysis and capacity planning to help organizations proactively predict performance issues and prevent unplanned downtime. Sightline Systems helps its customers optimize the performance of their IT and manufacturing infrastructure by leveraging existing hardware and software investments efficiently and effectively. Sightline makes it easy to identify trends, diagnose problems and take decisive actions to continuously ensure quality, reduce costs and improve profitability.

Unlocking the Power of IT Performance Data Sightline Enterprise Data Manager (EDM) is a highlyeffective performance analytics solution that provides realtime visibility across today's modern cloud, hybrid and virtual IT environments. EDM leverages machine learning and predictive analytics to automate the aggregation, visualization and analysis of massive amounts of IT performance data or Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) data to help organizations fully understand the past, present and future state of their infrastructure in order to diagnose

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performance problems, pinpoint root causes and forecast capacity constraints.

Brandon Witte, CEO of Sightline Systems, explains that EDM helps organizations turn time-stamped data into actionable insights, up-to-the-minute alerts and intelligent business decisions to quickly resolve existing issues or optimize existing systems. “EDM’s ability to make sense of IT performance data captured in the data center or smart sensor data captured on the factory floor, provides unique insights into how small changes affect performance, quality and even energy efficiency,” added Brandon.

Sightline minimizes the need for manufacturers to hire specialized data scientists to determine which processes are causing performance problems, production losses or safety issues. Sightline also provides IIoT analytics that allow organizations to take advantage of all that Industry 4.0 has to offer while providing distinct competitive advantage over manufacturers that have not taken steps to benefit from the Industrial Internet of Things.

Moving Beyond Legacy IT Monitoring As IT Operations continue to move beyond conventional IT monitoring solutions, IT teams will increasingly rely on sophisticated correlation, visualization and data analytics capabilities, along with advanced automation technologies to streamline incident management resolution processes.

Sightline EDM allows organizations to replace multiple legacy monitoring tools with a single-pane-of-glass solution to identify performance issues, determine root cause and take corrective action from a centralized dashboard to minimize disruption to internal and external stakeholders.

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Sightline enables IT teams to continuously monitor their IT and manufacturing infrastructure in real time and quickly determine how to address problems by correlating performance metrics, detecting system anomalies and streamlining remediation processes. Unlike traditional IT monitoring solutions that provide alerts, but not answers, Sightline EDM helps IT departments dramatically reduce mean time to identification and resolution, enabling them to quickly take corrective action to prevent problems from affecting customers, systems or services.

When asked about the unique features of Sightline Systems, Brandon asserts, “Sightline is the only performance analytics provider that allows organizations to collect metrics across thousands of systems, servers and applications. Our powerful data compression, storage, correlation and analytics capabilities allow organizations to understand massive amounts of data in real time to identify performance issues and determine root causes that are missed by legacy IT monitoring solutions that are unable to process the same quantity or quality of data in such granular time frames.”

allowing customers to reduce storage requirements, increase storage capacity and optimize system performance.

This unique system architecture takes advantage of machine learning and predictive analytics to baseline existing system performance and automatically identify anomalies outside the normal range of workload behavior.

Gaining International Awards and Recognition Sightline EDM has garnered awards around the world.

Sightline Systems was listed among the ‘Top 10 Manufacturing Intelligence Solution Provider of 2017’ by Manufacturing Tech Insights. Sightline was also selected to provide real-time, millisecond data collection, visualization and analysis as part of a joint Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) and facility management solution in Nippon, Japan.

Sightline’s millisecond data speed was verified by one of the world’s largest automotive manufacturers as the industry’s fastest and most accurate data collection and retrieval solution after a comprehensive competitive review.

Advancing the Capabilities of Performance Analytics Sightline’s continued success is due to consistently evolving and improving EDM and its analytic capabilities.

The recent release of Sightline EDM 5.5 adds new features such as real-time anomaly detection, data storage and compression capabilities, along with enhanced visualization and reporting features to deliver next-generation performance analytics across today’s IT and IIoT environments. By leveraging the new SightlineDB data repository, EDM delivers up to 10x data compression,

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he growth in a successful business enterprise is due to its working personnel. Currently, the employees are being the pillar of the development of the business practices. Besides, they are concerned about the challenges they have to face with the emerging layoffs and restructuring. The employees need a workplace where they get the satisfaction of their work in addition to the provided opportunities for their self-growth and bliss. At present, the companies are ramping up to take necessary measures to keep its staff enthusiastic and with fewer discontents. For a business to flourish, the integration of employees with the surge of giant steps towards staff pleasure is needed.

companies need to make the limited number of rules and regulations for an employee that will build a sense of trust in them prominently uplifting their dedication in their respective work. Proper counseling and motivation can result in drastic changes in the abilities and flexibility of a worker, playing a vital role in the development of a business enterprise.

The companies should also focus on motivating the employees to always keep on learning the new things, benefits of which will be received by the business organizations itself.

Dress Codes are the Past Entities Nowadays, companies are liberal about the dress codes that once were a compulsion in the traditional business practices. Allowing individuality in the dress codes can back hold the extremity of professionalism. This compatible environment at the workplace keeps a worker happy, reflection of which is/ can be seen on the operations carried out by them with an approach positively affecting the company in high grounds. Basically, companies need to focus on the work performance of an individual rather than judging them on the basis of their appearance. This measure will attract the employees to work hard which will lead to the growth and development of business.

Small Appreciations Make Big Differences The employees are the backbone of a business organization as they dedicate all their hard work and perseverance to it. For these acute commitments, the company must take the measures to acknowledge all employee profiles for their work and offerings on regular intervals. Verbal thanks to an employee can make a colossal transformation in his/her personality and thereby support the work ethics. Besides, a kind memo can help the company workers to be pleased, explicitly surge the development of the business organization. Appreciations in the form of an email can inculcate more positivity among the workers that would highlight the company’s development and lead to smooth employer-employee operations. The staff will be happy with this small act of gratitude making the pillars of the business enterprise more strong.

Motivation is Much Needed It’s the duty of an employer to motivate their employees on regular basis to attain stability at the workplace. The employees are sometimes under stress and pressure due to the excess workload which can be soothed by activation of workshops related to managing the burden and stimulating the improvement in an individual performance. The

Flexible and Pleasant Workspace The employees can only contribute to the development of a business if the environment around them makes them happy. The people around them and the people with whom they work play a vibrant part to concentrate and maintain their focus. The flexible operations occurring in a company can uplift the self-development of a worker thereby being the catalyst for

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company’s success. A company should carry out necessary operations to keep its business environment majorly satisfying and free from manipulation.

Pleasant workspace helps the employees to properly focus on its targets. The workspace should be designed in such a way that its personnel would admire it always, work with full enthusiasm in the pink of their health.

Patience is the Need of the Hour A company can never be successful overnight. It has to strive hard for certain achievements. The company needs be patient with its employees, in situations dealing with profit and loss.

The employers should believe in their employees and make them realize that they matter to the company. The business organizations needs to tolerate the staff in terms of serious damage to the productivity of the company and be open and available to them in all sorts of discussions and activities. Stability among the workers can be achieved if the companies remain calm with them.

This will lead to constant and secure operations between the employees and the respective organizations. Dealing with the workers patiently will make a bigger difference in the bond of the trust and build a greater sense of satisfaction amongst them.

The employment sector has to face critical layoffs in the private as well as the government sector. But the technology is emerging with big solutions and opportunities for the employees helping them to become a leader in the near future. Besides, new generation employment masses are truly getting influenced by the use of the smartphones that will surely demonstrate them with new skills and knowledge. The upcoming scenario of employment sector will be an integration of the business organizations and the technology.

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Sports 1 Marketing:

We utilize our situational knowledge to be statistica y successful in every ing we do.

Highly-Effective Marketing Partner with a Distinctive Approach

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mid of all the marketing and communications tools used in business, Relationship Capital is often neglected. The important asset for any organization is ‘Relationship’ and there is no room for discussion to the fact that business thrives on good relationships. In any organization, big or small, building strong relationships between the members of an organization and their industry is very crucial. A group of sports enthusiasts at Sports 1 Marketing have leveraged this asset, becoming leaders in digital marketing. Sports 1 Marketing is a global sports and entertainment marketing agency that leverages the relationship capital and situational knowledge that David Meltzer, Warren Moon, and Scott Carter, the founders of Sports 1 Marketing, have built up over 38 years.

Combined Force of Knowledge and Relationship Capital A member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame and one of the most important trailblazers in the history of professional football, Warren Moon is the President of Sports 1 Marketing. Warren along with veteran technology executive David Meltzer founded Sports 1 Marketing after meeting while working at the renowned Leigh Steinberg Sports and Entertainment agency, where David served as CEO. Combining David’s expertise in technology and Warren’s relationships in sports and business, Sports 1 Marketing has unmatched relationship capital and situational knowledge to offer its clients.

When asked about attributes that set Sports 1 Marketing different from others, David exclaims, “Founded in 2010, we have utilized our situational knowledge to be statistically successful in everything we do. We are able to bring the right people to our projects to attract more of the

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right people. This elevates the awareness and exposure of the project thereby allowing us to maximize its monetization in order to deliver on our company’s mission, which is making a lot of money, helping a lot of people, and having a lot of fun!”

An Exceptional Marketing Strategy The support provided by the company consists of a customizable marketing tool that is utilized at entertainment events, NFL, NBA, MLB, and NHL games, as well as thousands of charitable galas and events. Sports 1 Marketing’s award-winning platform, the Aggregated Marketing Platform (AMP), was launched in January 2016, in order to help event producers and sponsors to connect traditional media and sponsors’ products, encourage event attendee engagement, and create a measurable direct response environment. This platform helps in reducing logistical issues with sponsorship, optimizes traditional media at events, provides sponsors with data of the consumers they interact with and improves the overall experience of event attendees.

The secure end-to-end solution offered is customizable and can be tailored to individual events or experiences, providing a custom “playbook” for all partners. This unique approach has gained appreciation worldwide and won accolades from FierceWireless for Innovation in Cloud Services and was named by both the American Business Awards and International Business Awards as the Best App/Website in Sports, outperforming competitors such as DraftKings.

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However, the “secret sauce” behind the success of this platform can be attributed to its combination with the media arm of Sports 1 Marketing, S1Media House. Combining the benefits of AMP with S1Media House brings together unique content packages for event sponsors, capturing their branding in action, in order to amplify and leverage their message.

Acquired by Sports 1 Marketing in 2017, S1Media House has a focus on creating turnkey digital content for distribution on platforms of all kinds, working with national and international brands including Entrepreneur, K-Swiss, and Wheels Up. The Celebrated Accomplishments

content and leveraging the situational knowledge of its team, Sports 1 Marketing promises to offer unique branding and sponsorship opportunities to small businesses, Fortune 500 companies, and everyone in between.

Making Humanitarian Contributions The team of Sports 1 Marketing is dedicated to philanthropy and requires every project that is taken on to have a charitable component. The long list of its charitable partners includes the ‘Unstoppable Foundation’, ‘Crescent Moon Foundation’, ‘St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital’, ‘March of Dimes’, ‘The Rose Bowl Legacy Foundation’, and the ‘Irvine Public School Foundation’, among many others.

Acknowledged globally for their unique marketing strategies, Sports 1 Marketing has won many titles including being crowned as one of the “Best Places to Work in 2017” by the Orange County Business Journal. Adding on to the list of accomplishments, Sports 1 Marketing was awarded ‘Advertising & Entertainment Advisory Firm of The Year’ in 2017 by the ACQ5 Global Awards, as voted by its peers. The founder and CEO, David Meltzer was also named by ACQ5 as the GameChanger of the Year (2017) and was recognized as ‘Sales and Marketing Leader’ of the Year 2017 by SMLA, among other accolades.

Peep into the Future The services and tool offered by Sports 1 Marketing work in concert to deliver on today’s increasing demands for digital content. Understanding the varying trends of digital

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StraitsBridge Advisors: Delivering innovative solutions to Financial Institutions

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traitsBridge Advisors is a leading provider of consulting and implementation services to banks and financial institutions across multiple domains with a primary focus on finance, risk and enterprise analytics. The prime aim of the organization is to maximize value for its clients across verticals such as business intelligence and analytics, big data, financial management, and risk management. StraitsBridge prides itself for achieving and delivering innovative solutions, outstanding outcomes, and building sustainable value for its clients.

Inception and Salient features of StraitsBridge StraitsBridge was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in Singapore with offices in UAE and India. The company aims to bridge the gap between the advice and implementation support financial institutions need and what traditional consulting firms offer. StraitsBridge believes that financial institutions are best supported by practitioners who bring wide-ranging hands-on experience and leverage leading global practices to develop and implement bespoke solutions.

StraitsBridge delivers end-to-end solutions to clients with specialization and deep expertise in financial services & analytics technologies. StraitsBridge proudly presents its pool of experts which includes industry experts in banking and technology who are dedicated to achieving exceptional outcomes for its clients. This salient feature of the company has set it apart in the market and has crowned it as the best in what it does. StraitsBridge professionals understand the financial institutions, the complexity of processes involved, policies and systems across an organization. The firm brings together a unique mix of strategy, finance, risk, business intelligence, technology, productivity and organizing skills

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Delivering innovative solutions to Financial Institutions.

which makes it a leading choice for financial institutions seeking lasting transformation.

Contributing to Client Growth with Customized solutions StraitsBridge provides leading-edge advisory and implementation services across finance, risk and analytics domains to banks and financial institutions in Asia, Middle East & Africa. Services are provided across the following domains: · Finance: This covers financial control, performance management, balance sheet & capital management, finance systems, investor relations, and strategy development. · Risk: catering to both risk governance and risk management. · Data and Analytics: handling business intelligence, analytics, predictive modeling, and big data.

StraitsBridge assists its clients achieve desired transformation through developing practitioner-led impactful strategies and implementing them effectively. The use of this unique approach to consulting and implementation enables StraitsBridge to build a robust case and deliver the desired transformation based on a deeper understanding of clients’ business and its stakeholders. Since the methodologies at the firm are developed by hands-on executives the results are practical and actionable, and always with a view to creating value.

StraitsBridge Leadership Sanjay Uppal is the Founder and CEO of StraitsBridge Advisors. Sanjay has a Post Graduate Diploma in Management (MBA) from the premier Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, a Master’s degree in Physics and a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical & Electronics

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Engineering from BITS, Pilani. He has also completed the Strategic Financial Leadership program from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.

Sanjay’s experience in senior leadership and Board positions across leading banks in Asia and the Middle East helps him bring 25 years of expertise in developing and delivering successful regional and global transformations for the firm’s clients. Under such valuable experience and leadership, StraitsBridge has flourished and achieved many milestones in a short span of time.

The Path to Success The awards and applauds clearly speak of StraitsBridge’s prowess. Despite being a young firm in its domain, StraitsBridge is evidently punching above its weight and is increasingly recognized and engaged by financial institutions for strategic projects and initiatives.

Additionally, StraitsBridge’s techno-functional specialization and its unique delivery model have been recognized by global technology majors who have now entered into formal partnerships with the firm. In 2016, StraitsBridge was recognized among the: · 25 most promising Business Intelligence Solution Providers by APAC CIO Outlook, and · 20 most promising Enterprise Performance Management Solution Providers by CIO Review.

Values behind the Company’s Successes At the core of the firm are its values, which distinguish it from others in the field. The company’s fundamental beliefs guide the actions and behavior and influence the

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way the employees engage with each other, clients and communities. The firm’s core values are encapsulated in ‘The SPIRIT of StraitsBridge’, reflecting Service excellence, Passion, Integrity, Respect, Innovation, and Teamwork.

The company strives to excel in each aspect of its business and seeks continuous improvement. Passion has a measurable impact on all the work that is carried out in StraitsBridge, which helps the firm deliver extraordinary outcomes for the clients. StraitsBridge’s advisors uphold the highest ethical and professional standards in business practices.

The firm treats everyone with dignity and values the knowledge, skills, experience, and diversity; be it employees or clients. The company believes that each person plays a valuable role in the success of the company. A positive attitude towards innovation and creativity is a key feature of the environment in StraitsBridge. The firm believes that applying innovative thinking and creativity to every task at hand, helps develop a strong and customized solution to problems. The team of StraitsBridge Advisors trusts that everyone and every act of cooperation makes a difference and the company thrives to make each and every member become successful.

Recent Initiatives and Future Growth In January 2018, StraitsBridge launched its latest venture – FinBOTS AI – that provides strategic consulting, implementation and delivery services for robotic process automation (RPA) to Financial Services industry. The firm is also looking forward to integrating the power of Robotics Process Automation (RPA), Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, and Big Data to bring leading-edge solutions to its clients.

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he world is emerging with the acute development in the Industrialization and the businesses, thereby making an outlandish move towards the environment. But currently, the business enterprises and organizations are engaging in the operations that cause lesser or no harm to the environmental setting. They are coming up with innovations for the betterment of the surroundings. The commercial industries are upgrading their ethics of the business in a way to support the environment. They are nonchalantly are taking actions to protect the resources and being the helping hand for a secured and eco-friendly environment.

Green Finance Backing Ecology Agriculture and the local ecology are majorly affected by the rapid evolution in the urbanization and other industrial activities. This effect of business organizations on the local ecology can be reduced with the help of green finance. Green finance focuses on the sustainable agriculture practices by assisting the local and the community-level projects. It also

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provides with the applications regarding the booming educational opportunities. It has its emphasis on the funding of the art projects and the operations that maintain the local ecology. Green finance is supporting the communityecology with a vision to attain social profit. When conventional investors are reluctant, the green financial institutions come up with the positive approach to support ecological space.

Sustainable Construction Securing Environment The world has witnessed severe harm to the environment by the developing construction companies and its applications.

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GOING GREEN association with the vegan, gluten-free, and paleo meal options. Organic food will cause a lesser impact on the depletion of the environment and its resources. Organic catering will maximize the food composting practices that will surely benefit the environmental setting. Organizations engaged in food packaging are making use of eco-labels to create a social awareness to minimize harmful environmental impacts.

Managing Events in Sustainable Manner Businesses evolves day by day with successive meetings and events organized that emits huge amount of waste and consume high levels of energy and water. Managing these events can make a giant difference in securing the environment. Many business organizations are coming up with green expertise and event-planning skills. These companies deal with finding the eco-friendly venues, materials, and accommodations. This results in curbing the harmful effects of meetings and events on the environmental setting. The adverse effects to the environment are minimized by managing the occasions with pre-planning of the transport of the attendees. The business organizations have started highlighting their brand by using a bin with the company name which is an ideal opportunity for them to play a vital role in forming an ecofriendly environment. ecological construction methods, eco-friendly production and the recycling.

Many companies are emerging with the idea of recycling the materials utilized in infrastructure repair.

Sustainable construction innovations are uplifting the high grounds of the secured environment. Companies are now avoiding the adverse use of the steel and concrete, making their railroad ties and pilings with the help of the recycled plastic. Infrastructure companies are majorly operating by using the eco-friendly raw materials thereby lending their support to safeguard the environment. Construction companies are focusing on the idea of green building that creates structures and uses processes that are environmentally responsible and resource efficient.

Minimizing Environmental Impact through Organic Catering Food is the entity needed by every living organism for its survival. But this food is chiefly wasted. The impact of the wasted food results in the damage of environment damage and increase in pollution. To avoid these impacts the business organizations are diverting their attention towards organic catering. The food production companies have started using nutrients that are made from organic and locally grown ingredients. They offer free-range meats in

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Businesses Engaging in Upcycled Furniture The interior is the focus of a house or any other accommodation. This interior is recognized by furniture that ends up in landfills. The business organizations have initiated their steps forward in reusing the old and broken furniture. They are using basic templates and technologies to break down and reassemble the chairs, tables, and dressers into an innovative piece which can be painted and sold. Also, there are online markets providing with secondhand entities which support both the money as well as the environment. Companies are emerging with ideas that recycle the broken furniture into new stuffs in a way excluding the waste of the manufacturing process and materials required to produce a new piece. This will minimize the landfill and can also bring a piece back to its original form thereby reducing environmental harm.

The upcoming future will demarcate newer innovations and inventions for a secured environment. There will be a massive change in saving the energy with the consumption of the solar power. The business idea of the air duct cleaning will save on the energy bills. Besides, the sale of energy saving bulbs will reduce the energy consumption.

Business ideas like cardboard recycling, selling of used books, starting an ink-refill business, opening a movie downloading shop, opening an energy auditing firm will definitively minimize the use of energy resources and also benefit in establishing an eco-friendly environment.

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Symphony Solutions:

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ymphony Solutions is an international Dutch IT company with offices situated at Netherlands, Ukraine, Macedonia and Poland. Symphony Solutions is a digital transformation and agile transformation Services Company which designs, develops, quality assures, and maintains custom software, web, and mobile solutions for clients all over the world.

The dedicated and nimble team of Symphony Solutions exemplifies the Symphony values to forge strong relationships and drive success of the company. The agile principles are deeply imprinted across the organization.

Symphony Solutions encourage and embrace strong relationships of trust and mutual understanding with employees and clients. Perhaps that is why they have never lost a client.

The Journey So Far The company was founded in October 2008. Since then Symphony Solutions has been offering a creative open space for those who are passionate about their job and in pursuit of constant improvement, sharing the same values and respect personal and cultural diversity. In the year 2014, Symphony Solutions moved to an amazing new office in Lviv. The unique interior design of this office, famous for its green zones and the real Dutch spirit, was inspired by a small Dutch village, the Zaanse Schans.

2015 was the year when they expanded the company and searched for new opportunities outside Ukraine.

Symphony Solutions opened a new office in Rzeszow, Poland, Skopje and Macedonia. Further in the year 2016, the company has close to 300 employees working with them.

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Today, Symphony Solutions proudly presents itself as an established company with delivery centers in three countries (Ukraine, Macedonia and Poland) and HQ in the Netherlands. Their clients leverage all the significant benefits that Global Sourcing could provide. Symphony Solutions offer a wide range of IT and BPO solutions, including digital marketing and design services.

Architect of Symphony Solutions Theo Schnitfink, is the CEO & Founder of Symphony Solutions. Prior to starting his own company, Theo Schnitfink was Vice President Europe at Cognizant Technology Solutions and Senior Vice President Europe at Cambridge Technology Partners. The company then and now is the result of his passion for values as drivers of job satisfaction and success.

When starting the company, he envisioned a work place where he himselfwould have like to work during his career, evident first in the physical space, a replica of a real Dutch Village with a circular design of Dutch inspired meeting rooms around a central common area called The Park, complete with picnic tables, almost realistic grass on the floor, and a huge swing suspended from the high ceiling. The Amsterdam Bar across the park is where everyone meets over coffee, breakfast and lunch, breaks, or after work. Everything serverd by their own barristas It is also evident in the agile culture, based on flexibility, close personal and trusting connections, flat management, “same desk policy” for all levels, and the “colleagues choose colleagues” hiring process.

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predominantly male line-up at most IT companies. Also, Symphony Solutions shares his pride that their selfmanagement system has worked well throughout their 10year history, especially in attracting and retaining the best talent. Symphony Solutions have a very low turnover rate, owing to their scrupulous hiring process, where cultural fit is as important as individual skill.

Great Place to Work From the very beginning, they have aimed at creating a corporate culture that would eliminate, where possible, all the barriers created by traditional organizations in favor of a high degree of self-management. Trust is the foundation of their organization. Symphony Solutions cultivate a warm and close relationship with clients and among colleagues. They have implemented a unique employee selection process “Colleagues choose colleagues”, which helped them to create an environment where everybody enjoys working together and to attract highly motivated people who are capable of providing high quality software development services. These principles lead them to flourish and be the leader in the ever growing industry of today.

client has the discretionary right of final authorization.

This creates a dual sense of ownership and a shared investment in each person’s future.

Achievements and Recognitions Awards and recognition include: · “50 Best Workplaces to Watch 2017,” from CIO Bulletin · “Agile Transformation Company of the Year, 2017,” from The Technology Headlines · “20 Most Promising Java Development Solution Providers – 2016,” from CIO Review · “20 Most Promising Quality Assurance Solution Providers – 2016,” from CIO Review

An Unmatched Client Base Clients come to Symphony through trusted referrals. That means that they are already prone to be a Symphony-style client, those who have similar ethics and work styles.

Then it is the responsibility if the company to meet each other to confirm the cultural fit before they start the partnership. The customers of Symphony Solutions know that they hire only the top 20% of industry talent, but a

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VerseOne Group: Leading the Market Space with Digital Transformation

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he interpretation of digital technology in business has transformed the conventional method of business. It has not only changed the way business was being perceived but also how it is being performed.

Predictably, every aspect of business including, management and operation is being operated using modern technology. This digital disruption has also changed the way of providing services to customers. Once entering the realm of digital world, every business is set for a competition to stand out among its competitors. With every information just finger tips away for the customers, the business world has become more cautious than ever.

However, the winner of this race would only be one who is ahead of others in every aspect.

While there are many service providers helping industrialists to always stay ahead of the competition, VerseOne Group is one such solution provider company that delivers outstanding customer engagement and user experiences powered with digital transformation solutions.

The Complete Business Partner A successful digital service and technology integration organization, VerseOne Group’s sole purpose is to provide its customers with innovative Digital Transformation solutions across multiple channels that deliver outstanding customer engagement and user experience. The incomparable business advocacy offered by VerseOne includes web technology platforms, digital, and creative services to the social housing, healthcare, local government, and other commercial markets. The team at VerseOne aims to deliver a highly-personalized, functional and beautifullycrafted digital transformation solution that offers the best

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We put our customers' requirements at e heart of what we do by helping em cut rough e online noise to deliver eir content and messages to eir target audience on any device and in an inte igent, personalized and effective way.

engagement and experience to its clients which would help them in enhancing their business content. “We put our customers’ requirements at the heart of what we do by helping them cut through the online noise to deliver their content and messages to their target audience on any device and in an intelligent, personalized and effective way”, quotes Alan Neilson, Founder of VerseOne. Having 15 years of experience in blending creative and digital knowledge with online and mobile technologies, VerseOne has been leading the market space with its exceptional business content. The recognitions gained by VerseOne for its innovation, quality, and corporate culture have proven that its strategy of focusing on its customers’ needs and working in partnership with them is the right approach to gain success in business.

Creator of the Digital Gateway Alan Neilson, the Founder of VerseOne is the driving force of this digital hub. Apart from managing VerseOne, Alan also acts as a director, adviser and investor for other early-stage IT and technology companies. Being a graduate in BSc in Computer Studies, Alan has profound experience in the IT industry which spans over his 30-year career. His past experience includes serving as the Founder and CEO of Royalblue Technologies Plc; a wholly owned subsidiary of Royalblue group Plc - now Fidessa group Plc, a FTSE 250 organisation. Alan was the catalyst of company and played a major role in all aspects of growth at Royalblue Technologies. Among the various roles played by him in VerseOne, Alan is responsible for the formulation of VerseOne’s current and long range strategies and executing the best strategies to maximise the group’s success through delivering innovative and value for money solutions to the

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customers. Alan also makes sure that the work culture at VerseOne is adaptable and productive for the employees.

He believes that right company culture helps in expanding business.

customer’s existing business technology platforms.

VerseOne also has taken unique steps for the security of the data with the help of its hosted solutions located in ISO 27001 data centers situated in the United Kingdom.

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While there are countless digital solution providers, VerseOne is exceptional due to its extraordinary features. It is no secret that the greatest asset of any organization is the employees. VerseOne is proud of its pool of experienced employees who are the key factors of the company. While employees are the key ingredients, VerseOne believes that having satisfied and happy clients are very important for any business to flourish. The team at VerseOne acts as an extension to its client's business and to understand how they can maximize their values. Alan adds, “Value and cherish your IP whilst at the same be open to collaborating with key strategic partners to offer the greatest value to the customers within the intended market sectors”.

While promising to release new and improved content management functionality, VerseOne primarily focuses on delivering real value and return on investment (ROI), whilst being incredibly easy to deploy and having a low and predictable cost of ongoing ownership. Being widely appreciated for this approach, VerseOne enjoys a customer base of more than 120 organizations. VerseOne’s digital services and technology platforms spreads over 200 websites, intranets, secure portals, and stakeholder management solutions.

The team at VerseOne believes that effective and intelligent managing and sharing of business content creates unique competitive advantages and real return on investment.

Hence, one of the proven approaches to provide the best digital solutions for its customers is through the content.

This approach of the company has helped it in its organic and profitable growth over the past 15 years.

The list of honors received by VerseOne includes being been twice recognized by Red Herring as one of the Top 100 Technology Companies in Europe and entitled as ‘One of the Global Top 20 CMS Providers’ by CIO. VerseOne was also shortlisted for the Technology Company of the Year 2017 by the UK National Technology Awards.

Committed to enhance the customer experience the team at VerseOne is always evaluating the latest products, best practice methods, and design trends. The team also ensures its solutions are extensible and future-proofed, developed using open standards to provide robust integration with its

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