The Most Disruptive Private companies in 2018 by Insights Success Media

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Wireless Charging

Wireless Charging: Future of Green Automotive

Digi-Payments

The Age of Disruptive Banking through Digital Payment Solutions

Feyzi Fatehi CEO

Corent Technology: Democratizing SaaS

Disruption: Reshaping the Disciplines of an Established System

very once in a while, a new technology, an old problem, and a big idea, turn into an innovation.” This statement by an American engineer, inventor, and businessman, Dean Kamen, aptly describes the phenomenon of Disruption. Rather than interruption, disruption is more of a creation. It opens the door to new opportunities and markets.

There’s no doubt that how existing systems are evolving and maintaining the stability but the current corporate world is constantly experiencing uncontainable rapid changes. Thus, it has become prerequisite for the businesses to leverage those changes and create advanced business models that can add a greater value to their customers. Various businesses have entered the particular markets with the minimal resources and have reshaped the established system. We have seen the brands like Netﬂix creating a market where no one existed before, as they produced something new, essential and worthwhile and transformed the customer experiences, the way we think, do business, connect, learn, and innovate. As technologies are continuing to evolve, the disruption cycle is speeding up. With a vivid vision, passion, and tenacity, businesses are setting new milestones within the established system. Similarly, there are numerous disruptive private companies which are profoundly impacting all the aspects of the business world. By being disruptive, they are providing a new perspective to the market trends by adopting novel approaches. Taking into consideration, the factors that are reforming the benchmarks of an established system, Insights Success has curated a list of “The 10 Most Disruptive Private Companies in 2018”, which are

disturbing the status quo and thereby enabling creativity, resilience, and growth into their respective sectors. Our Cover Story features Corent Technology, an integrated cloud platform to SaaSify or migrate any Software Application. Corent has developed a powerful and proven platform to rapidly analyze software applications to rank and rate their suitability for cloud and through a single platform, SurPaaS®, which migrate applications to cloud, and then if desired rapidly transform them to SaaS. Further, this edition also includes AsiaPay, an accredited payment processor and payment gateway solution vendor for banks; Aspiricx, an Artificial Intelligence company that push the boundaries of AI and computer vision to develop real-world scientific model we call “Aspire Analyticx”; CloudHesive, a company that provides cloud services through consulting and managed services; DreamQuark, a company that helps banks, insurance companies, and asset management firms for all their artificial intelligence needs; Enervalis, a software company that develops software that provides sustainable energy solutions for electric vehicles, buildings, and microgrids; Jelastic, a cloud services provider that combines PaaS and CaaS in a single package for hosting providers, telecommunication companies, enterprises and developers; Opus Interactive, a company that pairs state-of-the-art facilities with a highly resilient network offering to create a scalable and reliable IT infrastructure; VirtaMove, a company with a mission to move the world’s legacy applications to make organizations more successful and secure. Also, make sure to scroll through the articles written by our in-house editorial team and CXO standpoints of some of the leading industry experts to have a brief taste of the sector. Let’s start reading!

Hitesh Dhamani

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Corent Technology: Democratizing SaaS

Pitching Excellence

Knowledge Keys

Setting up Gold Standard in Telemedicine Industry

Empowering Healthcare Providers in Creating and Managing Medical Records

CONTENTS Articles Digi-Payments The Age of Disruptive Banking through Digital Payment Solutions

Recharging Environment Wireless Charging: Future of Green Automotive

Future Bots Catching up with the Robotics for the Better Future

AsiaPay: Delivering an Advanced, Secured, Integrated, and Cost-effective Payment Solution

Aspiricx: Advancing the Disciplines of Sports Science with AI

CloudHesive: Delivering Cloud-Centric Solutions

DreamQuark:

Sharpen decisions in Financial Services with explainable Deep Learning

Enervalis: Enabling a Green Energy Space

Jelastic: A Comprehensive Cloud Services Platform

Opus Interactive: A Leading Cloud, Colocation, and IT Services Provider

VirtaMove:

Automated Windows Server App Migration

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Pooja M. Bansal Anish Miller Hitesh Dhamani Jenny Fernandes Abhishaj Sajeev Bhushan Ghate Ishan Mittal David King Amol Kamble Tejas Kulkarni Shweta Ambilwade

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Corent Technology: Democratizing SaaS

We offer a platform to rapidly Analyze, Cloudify, and if desired SaaSify software applications, on any Cloud and without any programing.

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Feyzi Fatehi CEO

Corent Technology's SurPaaS® platform is emerging as a disruptive force in the cloud migration and SaaS-enablement technology space initiating signiﬁcant power shift with economic impact.

ike other innovative evolving technologies such as AI, machine learning, big data, and blockchain, cloud transformation is another most highly prioritized and foundational initiative for organizations. It may seem like businesses move to the cloud in a single, sweeping motion, but the reality of cloud migration is far more complex. It is getting complicated for software vendors to find a collection of compatible tools to rapidly plan their cloud migration strategy, shift their software workloads to cloud, and thereafter continue to manage operations of multiple software products effectively. Even after completing the migration, there’s no clear and easy path towards the next step of enabling software to be delivered as scalable, efficient SaaS. Corent Technology’s SurPaaS® platform and their “Software Defined

SaaS®” technology has started to bridge this gap. A Powerful Vision: A uniﬁed platform to Analyze, Cloudify, SaaSify! With the advent of Cloud technology, the concept of applications ‘as a service’ became a reality. All that was needed was a launchpad to onboard the thousands of existing applications to the Cloud and rapidly deliver them ‘as a service’, leveraging the cloud technology. With innovation in multiple areas of Cloud operations and Software delivery as a Service, Corent launched SurPaaS® as a unifying platform to automatically scan and analyze applications, enable cloud migration and deliver them as a scalable and eﬃcient service (i.e. SaaS,) to save millions of dollars in costs and years of programing and development.

A Disruptive Innovator: Automating the Entire Cloud Migration Journey Corent Technology is engaging in disruptive innovation in the cloud migration and SaaS-enablement technology space. Its SurPaaS® platform that is used by key enterprises, system integrators and cloud providers, enables the end-to-end automated cloud migration journey including discovery, analysis, planning, and migration to the cloud and optionally, optimization and transformation of software applications to SaaS. SurPaaS® uniquely enables organizations to make their journey to the cloud with speed, eﬃciency and optimization. A Passion for Democratizing SaaS Corent was inspired by the bold vision to become the “Intel Inside” for the SaaS industry by providing the core capabilities of “as a Service”

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From left to right: Scott Chate – VP Partner & Market Development, Feyzi Fatehi – CEO, Jeremy Neal – UK Country Manager, Sean Jazayeri – Senior Executive - Strategic Alliances & Initiatives, Shafi Syed – Co-founder & CTO, Frits Veltink – VP EMEA separately from the application, becoming the common robust trusted ‘as a Service’ solution for SaaS. In other words, rapidly enable software applications as efficient, scalable SaaS, with all the tenancy, operations and commercial management capabilities needed to transform software vendors into “SaaS Providers,” without the usual costly and time-consuming re-engineering investment. This ability is disrupting the economics, business model, availability and access to SaaS – simply put, democratizing SaaS. Disrupting the SaaS industry: Enabling SaaS 2.0 Until Corent’s SurPaaS® introduction, the common belief was that in order to have a SaaS offering, software vendors have to re-architect their software to incorporate the unique demands of an “as a Service” offering as opposed to an onprem licensed software application. Corent’s SurPaaS® /

“Software Defined SaaS®” platform has started to bridge this gap, by rapidly enabling enterprise software applications to get “configured” as fully instrumented SaaS rapidly and cost effectively on most popular Clouds such as Microsoft Azure/Azure Stack, AWS, and OCI (Oracle Cloud Infrastructure,) and technology stack platforms. This way, Software Developers, will put 100% of their time, energy and effort on developing their core product with the best competing features/capabilities, as opposed to focusing on the “as a Service” delivery of their software, 2) gain immediate time to market advantage, 3) avoid capital costs and on-going maintenance costs associated with developing

their own “as a Service” capabilities, and last but not least, the avoid the typical risks associated with developing something that is outside of their own core competency, as opposed to using a proven platform. Project Open Box: Enabling Open Source 2.0 Imagine any of the over 1000 proven enterprise Open Source applications readily available as SaaS? These are applications that are developed and are constantly being contributed to and maintained by tens of thousands of tops developers in the world including developers from Microsoft, Google, IBM, Oracle, Amazon, SAP, Cisco and the like. “The reason most Open Source applications are not available as eﬃcient, scalable, SaaS validates the fact that it is not trivial to transform a sophisticated enterprise grade software into a fully-instrumented SaaS quickly

and cost effectively.” Said Feyzi Fatehi, Corent Tech CEO. “Corent offers the rapid and robust SaaSification of Software applications and cleanly decouples the tasks of development, from the task of service delivery by allowing MSPs (Managed Service Providers) to operating, manage and deliver open source applications as SaaS offerings powered by Corent’s SurPaaS Platform.” Enabled by SurPaaS, MSPs to deliver Applications as Fullyinstrumented SaaS SurPaaS is giving the ISVs (Independent Software Vendors) a chance to offer their software applications as fully instrumented, scalable SaaS without the burden of years of R&D to custom develop their “as a Service” capabilities. Corent’s breakthrough technology invention allows MSPs to expand their service offerings to include managing and operating SaaS applications, and off

load the burden of the 24X7 IT operations of a SaaS solution from ISVs. By using SurPaaS SaaS-Ops capabilities, MSPs in effect become SaaS Providers, and can operate, deliver and manage one or more sophisticated enterprise grade software applications as fully instrumented SaaS. In effect, this new SaaS delivery model allows the ISVs to put 100% of their focus, energy and effort on the application development and use the MSPs as a channel for operations, delivery, and even support of the SaaS solutions. Staying Ahead of the Curve Corent has experienced the rapid and intertwined evolution of the SaaS and Cloud industries Reinforcing each other, they together have democratized the playing field for advanced applications and infrastructure capabilities. This rapid addition of capabilities has influenced the adaptive transformation and evolution

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approach, the company designed into its SurPaaS® Platform. It has clearly seen the need of migration as a cloud journey instead of a single event. This need arises due to continuous presence of new technologies or capabilities that customers would like to be in a position to incorporate in and evolve towards as opposed to being rigid and becoming obsolete and irrelevant. Supporting the Entire Cloud Journey Life-cycle Corent’s focus on the customer’s cloud journey, is not only at the time of a ﬁrst cloud migration, but also as a continuous process of scanning, analyzing, optimizing and managing, including continuous optimization due to changes in the usage patterns or IT the environment. The company believes that this involvement with its customer is the key to being customer centric. The technology of the cloud is constantly evolving, and the way that application workloads are deployed to take advantage of it will need to evolve as business needs and priorities change. SurPaaS® Continuum™ is

designed to provide the ability to help evolve the customers’ application portfolio operations and deployment and how it is optimally leveraging the cloud as an integral part of the business and technology evolution. Corent’s approach to the customers’ cloud journey enables simple lift & shift, as well as sophisticated Smart Shift™ and PaaS Shift™ capabilities for re-topologizing and converting to PaaS services and components of applications as they are migrated. This can result in large gains in efficiency, scalability, resiliency and performance. When it SaaSifies an application into a scalable Multi-Tenant version that can run on the cloud, the cost of service delivery for the SaaS Provider can be reduced significantly. This focus on optimizing the results of the customer’s cloud journey is the true efficiency that SurPaaS® provides. Stellar Management and Advisory Board Corent has assembled a stellar management team of seasoned and

enthusiastic Silicon Valley veterans from Microsoft, IBM, HPE, EMC, Oracle, WMware, and Accenture among others. Some of the recent additions to their advisory board includes Jim DuBois, recent CIO at Microsoft, Mazda Marvasti, former CTO at VMware, Randy Seidl, former SVP/GM of US Enterprise Group at HP, and Carrie Francey, former VP of Strategic Alliances at HPE. People, Product, and Partnerships Besides attracting great team members and its relentless focus on product excellence, Corent has been a partnership centric company. In that sense, Corent sees its role as a technology provider, enabling Systems Integrators (SIs), Managed Service Providers (MSPs) and other IT consulting ﬁrms with a platform on which to base their ongoing Cloud Journey with their customers and further enable them to take advantage of the disruptive opportunities that the twin revolutions of cloud and SaaS are providing.

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AsiaPay asiapay.com

Joseph Chan CEO

AsiaPay is an accredited payment processor and payment gateway solution vendor for banks.

Aspiricx aspiricx.com

Kannan Dorairaj CEO & Chief Architect

Aspiricx is an Artiﬁcial Intelligence company that push the boundaries of AI and computer vision to develop real-world scientiﬁc model we call “Aspire Analyticx”..

CloudHesive cloudhesive.com

Jim Walker CEO & Managing Partner

CloudHesive provides cloud services through consulting and managed services.

Corent Technology Inc. corenttech.com

Feyzi Fatehi CEO

Corent Technology is an integrated Cloud Platform to SaaSify or Migrate any Software Application.

DreamQuark dreamquark.com

Nicolas Meric Founder & CEO

DreamQuark helps banks, insurance companies, and asset management ﬁrms for all their artiﬁcial intelligence needs

Enervalis enervalis.com

Stefan Lodeweyckx Founder & CEO

Enervalis is a software company that develops software that provides sustainable energy solutions for electric vehicles, buildings, and microgrids.

Jelastic jelastic.com

Ruslan Synytsky Co-founder & CEO

Jelastic is a cloud services provider that combines PaaS and CaaS in a single package for hosting providers, telecommunication companies, enterprises and developers.

Opus Interactive opusinteractive.com

Shannon Hulbert CEO

Opus Interactive pairs state-of-the-art facilities with a highly resilient network oﬀering to create a scalable and reliable IT infrastructure.

VirtaMove virtamove.com

Nigel Stokes Founder & CEO

VirtaMove is a company with a mission to move the world’s legacy applications to make organizations more successful and secure.

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he way people make payments are changing faster due to the improved integration of digital technology. This has beneďŹ ted the industry with increased competition and consumer demands.

The changes can be witnessed in Travel, E-commerce, Household Bill payments etc. The recent integration of technology in payment solutions makes transactions fast and seamless and can be done at the comfort of your homes. Although we are witnessing a considerable change in the payment solution industry, there is still a consistent use of the cash and cards, which solely depends on the geographical setting. In some places, people prefer cash and cards, while in other places, they encourage the more use of digital solutions; for example: The United States and Canada. Analysis has shown that

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in these areas, they are likely to switch completely to technology enabled payment solutions. The payment solution processes will become more innovative because of the following disruptive trends;

the result will lead to easy merging of both the traditional medium of resource management concepts with the recent and digitalized concepts. Various ﬁnancial organizations that may not be able to handle the process of migrating from the traditional format to the digitalized platform ﬁnds ease in doing so by partnering with technology companies.

· Digital Banking and Remote Payment Approval As the younger aged masses are turning up to technology more than the traditional mediums, there is a notion that most payment solutions will be done through digitalenabled mediums rather than cash or cheque. This will result in more engagement of mobile phones and digital software applications. Various business outlets are accepting more of mobile payment which is helping them to improve customer experience. The addition of instant alerts, appreciation notifications and instant payment delivery is making this innovation more interesting. · Customer-Focused Strategy as a Priority One retained customer is one attained success. ~ Chidiebere Moses Ogbodo Customer experience post business encounter is what makes a difference in the industry. Digital banking solutions are improving the way customers feel after making their payments. In the past years, one need to stand in a queue in the bank before they can make even the smallest transaction, but the integration of technology innovation has reduced the stress to the lowest level. We can witness improved services and instant expense management which is helping everyone that is using this medium to stay above the crowd · Improved Customer Satisfaction through Rewards A customer tends to check back on the sales-person who gave them a tip or discount after purchase. This is also applicable in payment solution. After people makes a purchase online or even via cards and the seller offers them a certain percentage of discount, they will always want to come back. The good news is that most business enterprises are supporting this idea in collaboration with the finance institutions. · FinTech Collaboration and Expansion of Networks The innovation in payment solution is incorporating feasibility of resource management between the financial and non-financial organizations. Through this development, October 2018

Organizational growth is measured both in market value, infrastructure and the extent of their networks. The integration of digital technology advances in payment provisions helps especially the finance-oriented establishments to easily expand their reach, even to the most hidden places in the world. This helps to touch the lives of people no matter the class and status and it repays with tremendous customer growth. · Improved Security and Payment by Codes Security is huge concern when money is involved. People are so conscious and very inquisitive about how their money will travel from the sender to the receiver. In so many cases, they will even think that such platforms as digitalized mediums are not trustworthy as a single wrong number can direct their money to unknown destination. The transaction as of the old was true cheques. But today, there will be a limited need for those methods, rather, payment will simply be done by inputting a certain username and password and your dashboard will be opened. Through this page, you can easily make every payment. The age of digitalization is turning the whole process into codebased and this raises the question of how to stay safe. It is also believed that for security purposes, the instant notification of transaction, linking of secured email and encryption to individual data and disaster-recovery provisions will lead the innovation to better direction. This concern has a big deal with blockchain, augmented reality, IoT and biometrics. You may be asking how the future will look like with techenabled payment solutions. As the world is growing and globalization is gaining a good ground, people blends in to what they see that is working well. So, as digital payment solution is making even the life of the lay man on street easy, more people in the near future will completely adopt this innovation. It will not harm the financial institutions, but it will be great if they can migrate or better integrate some form of technology strategies in their financial solutions. This change may be slow, but it will be consistent as the technology changes are not giving room for procrastination.

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AsiaPay: Delivering an Advanced, Secured, Integrated, and Cost-effective Payment Solution

he present disruptive technological era is witnessing a considerable change in the payment solutions industry. Multiple companies, with their distinctive approaches, are changing the way people make payments. Amongst those companies, a premier electronic payment solution and technology vendor company, AsiaPay is striving to bring advanced, secured, integrated, and cost-effective electronic payment processing solutions and services to banks and e-businesses around the world. Its services are in abundance, covering international credit card, debit card, bank account/net banking, wallet, over-the-counters, and other prepaid card payments in Asia. AsiaPay is an accredited payment processor and payment gateway solution vendor for banks. It is a certified IPSP for merchants and also a certified international 3-D secure vendor for Visa, MasterCard, American Express, and JCB. An Ideal Payment Provider AsiaPay offers its variety of awardwinning, multi-currency, multi-lingual, multi-card, and multi-channeled payment solutions. Alongside with its advanced fraud detection and management solutions, it is the ideal payment provider for Asia. Among other payment service providers in the Asia Pacific region, AsiaPay has the widest payment processing and settlement network of “Credit Card Acquirers” and

“Alternative Methods of Payments” across 16 countries. This enables the company to provide merchants, banks and even other payment providers the best combination of payment methods per country, based on local currencies, infrastructure and consumer preferences. Besides, AsiaPay is one of the very few players who are capable of providing local quality payment processing, local acquiring network and service support to merchants in 16 countries located in Asia. It has specifically designed its payment gateway platform to deliver unparalleled security, customizability, scalability and reliability. The company is also one of the few providers in Asia to be Level 1 PCI DSS certified since 2006. Its bank-grade security is recognized by acquiring banks and card associations worldwide. Exemplifying Visionary Leadership As the Founder and CEO of AsiaPay Group, Joseph Chan started up the first high-quality third-party e-Payment solution and technology firm in 2000 in Hong Kong. He spearheaded the company’s business strategies and product development together with his management team, and led AsiaPay to become one of the most successful world-class electronic payment service companies in Asia. In regard to business growth and market recognition, Joseph’s vision is to operate a successful and socially responsible company which continually provides individuals and corporate entities with newest digital

payment convenience and values, readily enhances one’s quality of life and maximizes business opportunities, efficiency and productivity. One line which aptly describes Joseph’s philosophy is, “Nothing can stop us to aim/attain higher, only if we really try hard to learn and walk the steps. Believe there is limited luck or fortune in life, but persistent hard work and passion speak for itself.” Surging Ahead of the Competition What truly sets AsiaPay apart from the competition is its ability to provide custom solution development, tailored to its client’s specific requirements. Its data-driven approach allows it to analyze its customers’ business needs thoroughly and empower its experienced IT team to craft a solution that best meets their project’s challenges. Whether it’s a more security or authentication related like Customized Payment Page (CPP), Tokenization/ Visa Token Service (VTS), or Payment Analyser and even Member Payment System, AsiaPay has got it covered. Due to its continuous product’s Research & Development, AsiaPay’s steadfast dedication to create and offer better value-driven services has significantly improved its product capabilities across markets, thus setting it apart from its competitors. In addition to its strong alliance with eCommerce platforms to provide ready checkout plug-ins, it adopts the latest e-Payment and m-Payment technologies and standards, and forges product and technological partnership

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with leading players in the market. It also strives to continuously enhance product oﬀerings to address the current and coming market needs.

Joseph Chan

As AsiaPay is in a payment service business, it takes risk management and control in a very prudent way, including business risks, regulatory risks, compliance risks, etc. On regulatory and compliance risks, it proactively works with monetary authorities in various operating countries and engages law ﬁrms and professional organizations to ensure necessary compliance and control practices.

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Glorious Achievements AsiaPay has been felicitated with numerous awards due to its novel approach. It received the Smart Economy Hong Kong Smart City Awards 2018. The company also received Most Valuable Services Awards in Hong Kong 2018 for its consistency in delivering excellent services. It is proud to be one of the Visa Token Service partners.

e-Payment service and

Additionally, AsiaPay was honored to join as Business and Technical Associate in EMVCo to accelerate payment technology innovation and development. With its leading position in e-Payment industry, it was also honored to be included in FT1000: High-Growth Companies in AsiaPaciﬁc.

by oﬀering comprehensive suite of payment solutions across channels, markets, devices and technologies.

Safeguarding the Payment Industry AsiaPay envisions being the leading Electronic Payment Service and Technology player in Asia and beyond. It will continue its commitment and dedication to continually support the market and safeguard the payment industry. Moreover, it is planning to expand its footprint in the market through its coverage as well as new payment solution R&D. It looks forward to empower businesses and ﬁnancial institutions to keep pace with the technology and market disruption

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availability, we have not only attained significant cost savings, but also substantially enhanced our services to our customers with more payment options with enhanced security, appreciate their tireless efforts in meeting our needs and pro-activeness in adding value to their services…” SaSa.com, the largest listed cosmetic and healthcare Group in HK “The Empire Hotels and Resorts was the first among Hong Kong’s hotels to engage AsiaPay as a provider of the hotel group’s internet payment gateway on the strength of AsiaPay’s established presence in Hong Kong and Asia and its expertise in this specialized technology.”- The Empire Hotels & Resorts

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Aspiricx: Advancing the Disciplines of Sports Science with AI

he past few years have been landmark years for advancements in Artificial Intelligence (AI). Businesses have leveragedAI to develop and advance multiple fields and industries. Similarly, an AI company, Aspiricx, Inc. is redefining the disciplines of sports science with its path-breaking scientific advancement. Aspiricx is on a mission to push the boundaries of Artificial Intelligence and Computer Vision to develop its real-world scientific model, Aspire Analyticx. Aspire Analyticx is a full dimensional scientific model developed with the concept of modeling human potential using AI. Decades of AI and deep learning research will be leveraged through this model to explore the fullest potential of athletes and will aspire them to break their boundaries by competing against their potential self. Inception of the Scientific Model Sports analytics have always been comparing one athlete’s performance against fellow competing athletes, be it individual sport or team sport. Aspiricx realized an athlete needs to surpass his or her own true potential to make a significant difference. This realization originated the idea of building its model, Aspire Analytics, enabling athletes achieve their true potential thereby aspiring them to do more. This model was conceptualized to model 3D objects and analyzes the athlete’s performance against its ideal self. Aspiricx aspires to provide real-time

analytics for athletes by leveraging video and 3D imaging technologies without invasive sensors. Computer vision and AI image processing, neural networks, genetic algorithms, and machine learning are used to process the visual data and to develop its model, Aspire Analyticx. At the core of the Aspire Analytics ecosystem is its real-time deep learning AI engine, Vision Bot. Vision Bot grew much bigger than what it was conceived to be and turned out to be giant project on its own. Over a short span of time, it outgrew its purpose multifold finding application in Aspiricx’s Automotive and healthcare and bionics projects. Owing to its generic implementation as an AI deeplearning engine, the company envisages great deal of use for Vision Bot in every field of science and technology and more. It believes that after the WWW and mobile revolution at the turn of the millennium, AI will be the next great technology revolution and Vision Bot will be one of the mainstream catalysts. Enhancing the Sport of Swimming A team of world class visionaries, technologists, swimmers, analysts and coaches have transformed Aspiricx’s ground breaking Aspire Analyticx, full dimensional model to two product lines, “LaneVision” and “StokeVision” to enhance the sport of swimming LaneVision is conceptualized to solve the statistical mysteries of the pool swimming’s laps, splits, stroke count, velocity and much more by using widely beneficial scientific advances

ever made in Augmented Reality (AR) and Computer Vision to get data without any invasive sensors. LaneVision with non-invasive sensors lets Aspiricx achieve the never achieved objective of using it in a competitive race environment to get the results that really count. Strokevision is intellectualized to model swimmers and analyze their swim stroke techniques. AR and Projection of Visual Data provide real time comparison and feedback. The swimmer is 3D scanned to get their exact body dimensions and the model is loaded and trained with swim

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engineering results to get the ‘ideali’. The swimmers stroke technique is then compared against their ideali scientiﬁc model. With science backed analytics, Aspiricx achieves the never achieved feet of doing this in real-time to redeﬁne the Sport. A Visionary behind Technology The technology behind Aspiricx is the brainchild of Kannan Dorairaj, the CEO and Chief Architect, a successful entrepreneur with experience in AI, IoT, data and the solar industry. Kannan has always laid out the foundational cornerstones for Aspiricx. He drives vision, strategy, & innovation at Aspiricx. He envisioned the whole business model, product visions and the technology forefront. Although an entrepreneur, Kannan has always been an engineer at heart. He makes sure he is at the heart of every single technology decision and details, be it setting up the core architecture or review that last line of code. He has truly driven the technology side of the company with great knowledge and enthusiasm. He has been an inspiration for all those who are involved in developing this cutting technology product. To compliment his vision and technology he put together a great team with Priya Rangaswamy, an expert in business process as co-founder and COO. A right set of world class team joined together to make the vision come true for Aspiricx including, “12 times Olympic Medal Winner, Natalie Coughlin”, “USA National Junior Team Coach, Ethan Hall” along with a set of analysts, skilled engineers and architects under the guidance of advisory board members including “USA National Team High Performance Manager, Russell Mark”. A Complex Start Certainly, no start is easy, or a cakewalk. Similarly, for Aspiricx, there have been several obstacles over the course of setting up its core aspire

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Kannan Dorairaj CEO & Chief Architect

Aspire to be ideali. analytics concepts. The company had initial struggle in working with latest advancements such as computer vision and machine learning that are tough to perfect and more over time consuming tasks. In addition to these, laying out key performance metrics and collecting immense amount of dataset for continual training had also been challenging for Aspiricx. The primary challenge was setting up the computer vision to work through the water. Kannan’s prior work in the solar industry and untiring eﬀorts in deep research helped him understand light rays. His solution for the problem posed by water is now Aspiricx’s core Intellectual Property. Introducing New Sources of Growth Aspiricx’s vision has the potential to introduce new sources of growth and will create signiﬁcant business opportunities and societal value. In building its swim analytics product, the company realized how hard and time

consuming it is to set up computer vision and machine learning infrastructure. Hence, it is en route to build a state-of-the-art integrated vision platform. It is in process to build a seamlessly integrated, flexible and managed full stack computer vision enabler platform for the world of vision driven applications. It will be single integrated platform that will offer ready-toimplement APIs that converge with latest advancements in computer vision and the expertise needed to train and build custom models that can be used to develop custom applications effectively. Words of Admiration “You want to aspire to be better, and that’s the kind of whole vision of the company Aspiricx, is to help you aspire to be better than you are today.”Natalie Coughlin, Olympic Champion

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Wireless Charging: Future of Green Automotive

ill now we have witnessed about wireless charging for electronic gadgets and devices only, but now we can also charge electric bikes, cars and buses wirelessly. Imagine that, we are driving on highway and our car’s battery drains. Now, instead of finding a fuel pump, electric power source, adapter, cable, etc. we just have to stop or park our car on wireless charging platform for short time, available at any shopping complex or food malls, again no need to come-out of the car, besides anyone’s assistance. This is really an amazing idea and this is going to true. History Electromagnetic Induction, which dates to inventors such as Michael Faraday in the year 1831 and Joseph Henry in the year 1832. Faraday was the first to publish the results of his experiments. Nikola Tesla utilized electromagnetic energy to transmit the power between two coils in the early 1900s. Faraday’s law of induction is a basic law of electromagnetism forecasting how a magnetic field will interact with an electric circuit and produces an electromotive force (EMF)—a phenomenon called electromagnetic induction. It is the fundamental working principle of transformers, inductors, and many types of electrical motors, generators, solenoids and wireless charging. Functioning Working of wireless charging is nearly same as ‘electric transformer’, but difference is in application only—Transformers are used to increase or decrease the alternating voltages in electric power applications through electromagnetic induction and Wireless Charger are used to transfer energy between two objects using electromagnetic field.

Electric vehicle (EV) with wireless charging is having secondary coil fitted at bottom of vehicle and primary coil is securely installed on ground (i.e. charging platform). The basic wireless charging system needs two coils. The primary coil, encased in a pad that sits on the floor of a garage or parking platform, is connected to a power source. Alternating current flows from an outlet into the coil, set up an electromagnetic field that enables the power to jump to a secondary coil in a pad attached to the bottom of the vehicle. When the vehicle parks in the proper position over the primary coil pad, an indicator light goes on and charging begins. The two coils must be facing within about 8 inches of each other for effective charging. Pre-eminence over Cable Charging Wireless Charging gives a convenient, safe, and reliable way to charge and power electrical vehicles at home, in the workplace and in industry. Wireless power maintains safe, continuous, and reliable transfer of power for all types of electric vehicles. Wireless charging eliminates the use of physical connectors and cables. It provides a number of efficiency, cost and safety pre-eminence over the traditional charging cable. This make possible to install it anywhere like; on the side of highways, parking lots, malls, multiplexes, toll plazas, etc. Experts predict more powerful wireless stations will be like to appear at office buildings, shopping centers and restaurants. When anyone parks vehicle at office or at restaurant it will get charged automatically in that space of time. Due to this effortless frequent power availability and safety, a vehicle does not need large batteries unlike for conventional cable charging. It makes vehicle light and compact, that tends to increase overall efficiency of vehicle.

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Plug-in stations can be easily damaged in crowded metro cities. A number of municipalities have reported problems that thieves have cut EV charging cables to steal the copper from the wires. High-powered Level 3 stations, also called DC fast-charge, have large cables, which make them even more attractive to thieves. “Imagine wireless electric-vehicle charging being as easy and widespread as Wi-Fi is today,” said Chris Borroni-Bird, former director of advanced technology vehicle concepts for General Motors and who is a vice president of strategic development at Qualcomm Technologies. Implementation is in Progress Wireless charging technology is almost ready for the big stage. It is on the verge of initial deployment, starting from the Mercedes-Benz S500e plug-in hybrid sedan next year. They plan to ﬁt wireless charging on the S500e plug-in hybrid sedan in 2017. BMW is also working together with Mercedes-Benz on the technology, to develop a wireless charging system for its i3 electric vehicle and i8 plug-in hybrid. A prototype test version, made by Qualcomm technologies, is already in use in the BMW i8 safety car in the Formula E electric-vehicle October 2018

race series. Qualcomm has exhibited its Halo system in various vehicles, including the Drayson B12/69 electric racing car. Evatran’s Plugless aftermarket system is now commercially available for the LEAF and the Volt, and a Model Scompatible version is likely to come. Several major automakers have indicated that they’re working on offering wireless charging for future EVs. Tesla is also on the way of introducing its EV’s with wireless charging. It is also already being piloted by some community bus systems. Buses need to take number of stoppage in city. A wireless charger can be installed on a stopping platform— tends to reduce size of batteries— will improve efficiency electric bus. Wireless charging technology is really amazing as invention of electric current. It is interesting to see how it will put back the conventional fossil fuel powered vehicle with clean, green, safe, silent and efficient electric vehicles with wireless charging for healthy future of planet Earth.

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CloudHesive

ost of the companies are concerned with the growing issues of theft, data leakage and deletion of their critical information. Taking this traumatic scenario into consideration, CloudHesive came into inception with the focus on security, reliability, availability, and scalability. The company provides cloud services through consulting and managed services. Its team of experienced cloud engineers helps its clients reduce their operating costs and increase productivity, while improving their cloud security posture by migrating and securing mission-critical workloads on to Amazon Web Service (AWS) and other cloud partners such as Microsoft Azure. A Home-grown Platform CloudHesive efficiently handles its clients’ cloud infrastructure through its home-grown platform, Centricity. Centricity is a platform that has a core management layer and has modules that plug into the framework the company has built. CloudHesive view Centricity as a key solution that helps it grow its business and provide customers with a seamless AWS solution that fills some of the operational gaps in the AWS service offering. Centricity is not only offered to CloudHesive’s clients but also to all AWS’ clients. It is a solution for VDI and Contact Center management on the top of AWS services. This will make it

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easier for companies to leverage AWS services without having to internally build complex solutions to drive adoption into their organizations. The entire platform is built on top of AWS and is focused on leveraging their services. There are 3 modules in Centricity, each of which focuses on three separate functional areas including Media Box, a media module for Centricity that will leverage the Amazon Elemental services, Secured Workspaces, an end user computing module that will combine liquidware and workspaces to provide an end to end solution across multiple accounts in one platform, and Customer Connect, a contact center system that pulls together the reporting and functionality of the Amazon Connect platform into one system. Strategic Leadership CloudHesive was founded by Jim Walker, the CEO and Managing Partner, and Patrick Hannah. Previous to starting CloudHesive, Jim Walker worked for Pegasystems out of Cambridge, MA. He was recruited away from a CTO position with Arise Virtual Solutions to be the Global Head of Cloud Operations and Security for Pegasystems Pega Cloud division. During his time with Pega, he built a team from 5 individuals to over 90 peoples between India and the United States Operations teams. Jim left Pega in 2014 to start CloudHesive. Developing an End-to-end Solution Being a partner of AWS Advanced

Consulting and a Managed Services, CloudHesive is a part of an elite group that works directly with the Amazon Web Services team. It leverages nextgeneration DevOps automation to increase scalability with its cloudcentric security solutions, controls and innovative management platform, which makes it stand out from other managed service providers. CloudHesive engineers’ architect and manage environments to meet stringent uptime SLAs. Presently, CloudHesive is focusing on driving its migration and managed services offerings across the Florida region. It is also working on adding an application refactor team that will help customers to refactor their applications once they have been migrated to AWS. This will help the company to have an end to end solution for its customers who want to move towards server-less solutions. Expanding Footprints In the current year, CloudHesive focused on increasing its marketing and sales footprint to include having more brand awareness and overall presence in specific markets including Tampa, Orlando, South Florida, Texas, Southeast US, Mid-Atlantic US and LATAM. With that said, its marketing efforts have been and still are aimed on making itself the go to AWS partner and an industry leader for cloud centric solutions as a managed service provider.

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CloudHesive helps businesses reduce their operating costs and increase productivity while improving their cloud security posture.

—Jim Walker CEO & Managing Partner

In addition to its services, CloudHesive is dedicated on making cloud services easier to adopt and use for its customers. It has built a SaaS tool that brings the power of the AWS services to its customers without having to implement a large team of engineers or developers. Its Centricity platform works across several AWS services which include Amazon Elemental, Amazon Connect, and Workspaces. It has filled the usability gaps with AWS by providing an easy to use interface and integrations to other third party products to help its customers get the benefits of cloud services faster. Prestigious Achievements CloudHesive takes pride in its prestigious felicitations. In the year 2015, it was recognized as winner for Business of the Year awards hosted by South Florida Business Journal and as one of the “25 Most Promising Cloud Service Providers” by Outsourcing. The Channel Company and CRN put out their MSP 500 list, which recognizes 500 Managed Service Providers in North America for their outstanding work and CloudHesive made into the list for the years 2016 and 2017. In 2016, it was also recognized as Top 100 Cloud Service Providers and got listed on CRN Next-Gen 250 list. Currently, it got certified as an AWS Microsoft Workloads Competency Partner and was announced as one of the 2018 Florida Companies to Watch.

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Showcasing Customer Satisfaction “CloudHesive’s approach to understanding our infrastructure, applications and pain-points has been invaluable to the ongoing success and scale of our operations.”- Neil Redmond, Director of IT and SaaS Operations / e-Builder “Everyone I’ve interacted with at CloudHesive has been very responsive, easy to communicate with, and always resolved any issues or question we’ve had. We look forward to growing and building our partnership with CloudHesive.”- Chad Simpson, Oﬃce of the CIO / City Furniture “It wasn’t so much hiring a technician or IT team, it was more like hiring a technical partner that could help us with the architecture, that could help us with the strategic deployment, and then be the backup of the backup,” says Irizarry. When something went wrong, it went to our software teams, and if our software teams couldn’t get it solved, it went to CloudHesive.”- Charles Irizzary, Managing Director, Rokk3r Labs

DreamQuark: Sharpen decisions in Financial Services with explainable Deep Learning

Nicolas Meric Founder & CEO

rtificial Intelligence is spreading its elegancy in almost every sector. When it comes to finance, AI can be applied generously in delivering smart financial services. Taking this into consideration, DreamQuark set a mission to provide the right tools to enable financial institutions to build an Artificial Intelligence they can trust, control and easily use in their day-to-day business with a measurable ROI, while remaining compliant with any regulation changes. The company has developed a unique platform that automates the data processing and the training of predictive models based on Deep Learning. Banks and insurance companies can easily create and deploy smart applications for fraud, risk, marketing and compliance.

From the ground up, Brain has been developed to provide a unique and simple experience. The platform automates all data science tasks to let the user focus on his business goals. Banks and insurance business experts can create and deploy AI-based applications within few clicks. In addition, DreamQuark has developed a unique explainability technology (patent pending) that provides all the variables and their weight for every single decision. Business experts can now fully understand the predictions to take a better decision and the organization remains compliant with any regulation changes. An Astute Player of Deep Learning Nicolas Meric, Founder and CEO, is the ingenious mind behind the inception of DreamQuark. Nicolas was a PhD student in particle physics at University Paris-Diderot working in theoretical and experimental aspects of Quantum Chromodynamics. His topic was related to the calculation and the measurement of perturbative corrections to Quantum Chromodynamics processes which inﬂuence the search of new signals in the high energy region that is studied at LHC. He was also involved in the analysis of detector noises in the ATLAS experiment and the development of new algorithms to catch them eﬃciently.

An AI based Software Platform DreamQuark has developed a software platform, called Brain, which democratizes the use of Artiﬁcial Intelligence. With Brain, the company aims to remove the barriers of Artiﬁcial Intelligence technology adoption including its complexity, lack of trust and control, unproven ROI and the challenge of industrialization.

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This keen interest of deep learning and neural networks made him realize that this technology would disrupt the way companies are processing their daily data if he could get it out of the academic sphere to make it accessible to domain experts without Data Science education. Nicolas founded DreamQuark in 2014 with the objective of developing Brain, a software platform that automates model training based on Deep Learning and allows an easy deployment, quick to meet the daily needs of companies in financial and health sectors. In 2016, he created DreamUp Vision developing a cognitive learning engine which relies on deep-learning technologies. Nicolas has been recognized in 2017 as one of the 10 French brains that fascinates in the Artificial Intelligence field by side with Yann LeCun, Jérôme Pesenti and Emmanuel Mogenet. Delivering Embedded Algorithms Startups and companies developing AI technologies are mainly focused on score performance and the scientific approach. DreamQuark believe that AI cannot be adopted, whatever how it performs, if users cannot easily use, trust and control it. The company has developed an innovative platform that automates the data preprocessing as well as the model training. Its algorithms provide explanations for every single generated score. Business experts can now create AI applications without data science knowledge and understand the results to turn them into concrete business actions. It has also build an easy way to embed its algorithms in a light scoring instance API that can be easily integrated in any existing IT infrastructure for large industrialization. Glorifying Achievements DreamQuark has won multiple awards including the “Fintech of the Year” price by Finance Innovation, “10000 startups to change the world” national contest, as well as the “Best Cognitive Platform” award by Bank & Innovation. Major banks and insurance companies such as BNP Paribas, AG2R la Mondiale, GAN Prevoyance and Groupement des Cartes Bancaires always count DreamQuark for AI based financial processes. A Vision of Creating Universal AI As DreamQuark is driven by the challenge of making the impossible possible, the company built a dream team composed of the best scientists and engineers in the field. This elite squad spends days and night creating the most advanced algorithms and pushing deep learning potential way further raising the bar higher than ever. Major Banks and insurances are already benefiting from DreamQuark state-of-the-art technology. Being a Key Player in Europe, the company is planning to enter the US market within 2 years.

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Our mission is to provide the tools to enable people to build an Artiﬁcial Intelligence they can trust, control and use in their everyday life for good.

Clienteles Expressing their Gratitude “DreamQuark was selected as a partner thanks to the performance and transparency of its solutions”- Benoit Douxami, Associate Vice President of GAN Prévoyance “Certainly one of the most fascinating AI company in Europe, leveraging a unique proprietary technology to solve previously unsolvable business problems and creating massive value for Large Banking and Financial Institutions. Where will you stop?”- Stéphane Guinet, Founder & CEO of KAMET “Congratulation to Nicolas Meric and DreamQuark’s team with whom I have the pleasure to develop an ambitious project for BNP Paribas!”- Khalid Saad Zaghloul, Head of Digital Risk & FinTechs at BNP Paribas Personal Finance

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Setting up Gold Standard in

TELEMEDICINE Industry

he adoption of Telemedicine is rapidly expanding across the United States. The increased need to close gaps in the industry’s lack of physicians has led to an escalated number of Telemedicine startups trying to offer solutions. Since its adoption, Telemedicine solutions and services surged from 54 percent in 2015 to 71 percent in 2017 according to a 2017 HIMSS study. Healthcare SaaS provider PatientClick, Inc. is revolutionizing the way healthcare institutions provide the highest quality of care in The United States and worldwide. PatientClick is facilitating medical organizations and helping solve some of the most critical issues: Shortage of physicians and clinicians, communication barriers, lack of office efficiency and difficulty engaging with patients. The software, an Electronic Medical Record provider with integrated Practice Management and Telemedicine solution, helps healthcare institutions provide patient care without losing revenue or practice efficiency. PatientClick offers a one-of-a-kind solution; an integrated live, videobased Telemedicine, EHR/EMR, and practice management platform. The allin-one software allows healthcare providers to optimize appointment reminders, payment collection and patient engagement in the same care delivery model.

Fastest growing Telemedicine SaaS Platform Without a doubt, PatientClick’s platform is the fastest and most costeffective way to provide Telemedicine services. San Diego, California based company has been providing SaaS solutions for many years, expanding its services to serve most specialties in the industry. For years now, PatientClick has been offering innovative SaaS solutions designed and built specifically for physicians. Many healthcare organizations prefer this platform because PatientClick handles all the technical implications of handling, operating and maintaining of the system. The company has been able to quickly scale and supply the demand of healthcare organizations in need of reliable software. A Cutting-Edge Telemedicine Platform PatientClick’s dynamic and powerful platform allows physicians to focus on patient care without losing any revenue. This software comprises the most customization, integrations, and dependability of any software in the industry. This true cloud-based SaaS solution requires no on-site servers, no heavy capital investment, with an easy to install solution that helps clinical staff to focus on patient care. The multi-platform application is easy

to navigate for both; customer and provider, includes customizable dashboards, integrated patient portal, and multi-provider communication tools. The Software has Artificial Intelligence (AI) built in the platform allowing providers and care management team to make better-informed decisions based on overall information about a patient from a clinical as well as from a medical perspective. The platform is available for multiple devices laptop, desktop, tablet, smart devices, and smartphones with a published mobile application on Apple and Android app stores. It also allows the patient to access the portal through their smartphone, tablet or desktop computer to enable better patient engagement and involvement in care management. The patient engagement tool allows for a diverse use such as a request for an appointment, real-time and scheduled education material, online bill payment, ability to upload documentation, finish intake form from home or office, email and text-based reminder for same day appointment and future appointments. Physicians are able to securely exchange health information since the software is certified to use both Continuity of Care Document (CCD) and Clinical Document Architecture (CDA) standards.

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About the CEO Ashish Mehta, is the CEO of PatientClick Inc., a web based electronic health record system. He has served as an advisory board member, executive and project engineer in various sectors such as healthcare, renewable energy, petro chemicals, Information technology and business consulting. Mr. Mehta has served as Ambassador for World Trade Center in Cleveland. Key features: All-in-One Platform: The platform includes live, video-based Telemedicine Solution integrated with EHR/EMR and Practice Management. Ease-of-use: The software is designed as easy as possible for the practitioner to use, to reduce data entry, and to consume as little of their time as possible. It is also designed to provide practitioners with the information they want, when and where they want it, from Meaningful Use data to patient information, to financial graphs/reports. Meaningful use compliance: This software is Meaningful Use Stage 1, Stage 2 complete and Stage 3 modular to ensure data confidentiality, interoperability to share data among other functions. EHR solution: The electronic health record solutions include integrated e-Prescription, electronic lab interface, and electronic signature capability. Practice Management Solution: Integrated clearing house, patient statement, data analytics, and management dashboard. Faster treatment for patients: PatientClick’s iOS and Android apps enable physicians to enhance their practice while connecting with their patients in real-time face-to-face. It also allows patients to access their information over their cell phone. Geo-location Tracking: This location-based ability allows patients to connect with the provider based on their location. For example, they can set up reminder alerts to go off at a specific place. Automated patient reminders: The reminder system allows physicians to remind patients about appointments through email, app push-notifications, text or auto-voice calls. They are easy to implement without straining office staff resources, reducing the number of no-shows, and increasing patient satisfaction. Patient portal: patients are able to request appointments online, review visits summary, edit demographic information or

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PatientClick Inc. medical history before virtual visits, request medication refills, and access educational material. PatientClick’s platform has continuously been rated by clinicians and physicians as a top SaaS software for its convenience and simplicity, features and functionality, customer support and its affordability. Clients appreciate the adaptability and flexibility of the platform and as well that is HIPAA compliant and Meaningful Use certified. With the ever-changing technology in the healthcare industry and the rising cost of care, PatientClick strives to connect people, process, and technology without the burden of high costs. Despite the many solutions available in the market, they are not cost-effective. They may not offer services which are customized to ACOs, Medical Groups, and healthcare institutions, unlike PatientClick. The company believes is their primary responsibility to bring the innovative next-generation tools to doctors’ offices. These solutions are fully scalable and can meet the demands of today’s healthcare consumer.

Enervalis: Stefan Lodeweyckx

Enabling a Green Energy Space

Founder & CEO

he ﬁeld of green energy holds some of the most exciting opportunities any entrepreneur could wish for. Several of the world’s largest companies are currently exploring its almost limitless possibilities. Joining them are a number of innovative startups also pushing the boundaries of what Man can achieve with altruistic motivations. The ideal example of this philosophy is Enervalis.

We believe the world is evolving to 100% green energy production.

Walking the Walk Enervalis was founded by Stefan Lodeweyckx, the CEO in 2013. Stefan is an accomplished digital electronics engineer who has always had a passion for green technology and environmentalism. Unlike the typical C-suite executive, he doesn’t live in a palatial complex of glass-and-steel. Instead, his family of six resides in an old house they are renovating and are evolving to a completely fossil fuels free consumption pattern. Stefan himself is an avid gardener and as much as time allows, he grows together with his wife much of the fresh food they consume.

“Years ago, I began to wonder what I would say when my children were grown and asked me what I had done for society,” he reveals, “I realized that, at that time, the answer would be ‘Nothing’.” Stefan was already a renowned digital engineer who had spent almost two decades leading large teams at major corporations like Sony and Philips. Not content to excel in just a single ﬁeld, he also earned an MBA to complement his technical knowledge with business insight.

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His journey includes experience with smaller companies and startups, as well. However, it was a program at Sony that sowed the seed for environmental consciousness in energy.

beneﬁt. Enervalis has created a simple operating system with the ability to convert the latent ﬂexibility into real world results.

“One of the very revolutionary, very forward-thinking concepts that we explored was the use of PlayStations as an energy service. With more than 100 million consoles out there, there is amazing potential to diversify what an entertainment unit can deliver.”

The raw appeal of green energy lies in its feel-good factor. Everyone would rather invest in, and be a part of, a project that delivers environmental benefits as well as financial rewards. Enervalis taps into that innate altruism by giving every user complete control over how they fit into the energy production and consumption network.

While that concept did not materialize at Sony, it gave Stefan an idea that would evolve into Enervalis. Thinking Green As he considered the range of services a company like Enervalis could provide, Stefan delved into trends emerging in the green energy sector. “I realized that there is inherently a lot of volatility in a green energy society,” he says, “Green energy sources like wind and solar are beyond our control. On the other hand, electrification is booming and thermal processes like indoor heating are driving that change.” Stefan recognized that there was a fundamental mismatch between the demand for energy and the inconsistency of the green energy supply. Not only was this factor thwarting organic industry growth, but it was also discouraging widespread adoption. “We identified the singular need for efficiency. Taking it a step further, we understood that there was real value in the ability to predict supply and demand. At the heart of what Enervalis does is our process that quickly and accurately calculates demand and adjusts supply accordingly.” That is a winning business model because both the user and the supplier

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Personalized Energy Intelligence

“Energy grids are moving steadily away from huge regional, national, and continent-wide networks that dominate today. The future lies in interconnected, intelligent microgrids. Certain elements of the sturdy grid backbone will remain but they will largely give way to community-level energy management.” These community-level energy grids will foster increased engagement by giving individuals and families an understanding of how they consume energy. The first level of management will be at the personal level and then the household level. This tier system can scale seamlessly to a large building and to a community. This is not an entirely new concept – the idea of sharing energy is promoted by a number of companies in the field. However, Enervalis’s strategy takes a revolutionary new approach. “A lot of our competitors look at single, specific aspects of energy management. For example, they may focus on a voltage operator or another component to improve consistency or reliability of energy delivery. Unfortunately, those individual parts are single components in a building – without a holistic solution, it will inevitably underperform or fail entirely.”

Stefan differentiates how Enervalis deals with optimization. “I see too many companies addressing physical optimization. That is characteristic of a failure to understand energy management as a symbiotic process. A microgrid is almost a living, breathing thing; it is flexible and fluid. You cannot hardcode it with inert, rigid physical restrictions.” “Enervalis has designed an operating system that delivers a range of services instead of limiting itself to any single segment or energy service. That’s definitely different from the majority of our competitors.” The silo approach used by other companies will limit their ability to adapt and expand in the future. Conversely, Enervalis’s open perspective will keep them relevant for decades to come. Universal Success Stefan is driven by a desire to make a major sustainable impact for the world. “I believe that the whole energy sector has to transform fundamentally. Trillions of dollars are spent on energy annually and we tap into its very center through intelligent management. Simple tweaks based on intelligence will reduce bills and make a significant difference in creating a sustainable, green society.” The beauty of Enervalis’s solution is that everyone wins – the consumer, the energy supplier, and, most importantly, the planet. That’s a hard argument to bet against.

n an interview with Insights Success, the CEO and Cofounder of Jelastic, Ruslan Synytsky, shares his insights of looking beyond and keeping a rich set of plans. Jelastic builds its roadmap based on the needs of its clients and serves them accordingly. Along with its cohesive team, it is committed to follow the rule of using its own in-house implementation. Below are highlights from the interview conducted between Ruslan Synytsky and Insights Success: Give a brief overview of the company, its vision.

Ruslan Synytsky CEO & Co-founder

Jelastic Company provides a Multi-Cloud DevOps PaaS for ISVs, telcos, service providers and enterprises needing to speed up development, reduce cost of IT infrastructure, improve uptime and security while automating routine and complex tasks. What inspired Jelastic Corporation to enter into The Most Disruptive Private Companies in 2018?

Freedom of choice and simplicity in a turnkey PaaS solution.

We’re sure that we offer a high-quality product and are proud of that. By entering The Most Disruptive Private Companies in 2018, we’d like to spread the word about our offering, the gained technological and business results. What are the cutting-edge products/services offered by Jelastic Corporation? Jelastic platform automates creation, scaling, clustering and security updates of cloud-native and legacy applications. Jelastic has a unique pay-as-you-use pricing model and is available as public, private, hybrid and multi-cloud in about 60 data centers of certified Jelastic hosting partners worldwide. Jelastic ability to work in any data center provided by the top clouds like AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud makes the multi-cloud offer very advanced in terms of locations and interoperability across the decentralized network of cloud vendors. The platform supports Java, PHP, Ruby, Node.js, Python, .NET, Go environments, as well as Docker containers and Kubernetes clusters.

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What strategies has Jelastic Corporation undertaken to stay ahead of the competition? Throughout the development of our PaaS solution, we witnessed increasing interest in container technology and multi-cloud availability. And some of our initial architectural decisions made it easy for us to keep up with the modern trends: Ÿ From the very start, we built Jelastic on top of Virtuozzo containers, so when Docker technology evolved, we already had substantial expertise in this sphere and smoothly integrated this standard into the platform. Ÿ Initially, Jelastic was created as a platform for service providers to oﬀer public cloud and managed services around it. But considering that it could be easily installed on bare metal or any IaaS, we coped to launch private and hybrid cloud options rather fast. Afterward, some technical adjustments and partnership with globally known cloud vendors helped us to provide a multi-cloud implementation. Describe the experiences, achievements or lessons learnt that has shaped the journey of the company. The initial prototype of the Jelastic PaaS was built for own internal needs trying to solve the waste of human resources on the conﬁguration of application servers and databases, ongoing maintenance of the infrastructure, security updates, and of course, architecture modernization

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when the project is growing, for example, going from standalone to a cluster mode. Then we ﬁgured out that there is a high demand for such a solution among other developers. From that time, we have two rules - to use our product internally where it is possible and to build a roadmap of future enhancements based on the requests from customers. In such a way we can track real needs and keep meeting demand. Where does Jelastic Corporation sees itself in the long run and what are its future goals? As usual, Jelastic has a rich set of plans. Currently, we are actively working on enhancing and spreading scalable and clustered packages for businesses. In addition, we are working on self-deployment of the lightweight version of Jelastic PaaS. As a result, customers will be able to install the platform automatically on the hardware or the cloud of their choice. Among the ﬁrst implementations, there will be installations on top of Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, and Digital Ocean. In the long run, we plan to grow our partner network of service providers covering new locations and markets, as well as to go deeper into the enterprise market with our private and multicloud solutions. About The Leader

He takes an active part in both business and technical aspects. Ruslan is an expert in large-scale distributed applications and enterprise platforms. Currently, he is focusing on development of cutting-edge cloud solutions and business partnership around it. Testimonials from Jelastic’s Clients “With Jelastic we complement our services, skills, and the data center environment. We bring world-class, globally tested and highly effective concepts to our customers. This partnership supports our strategy in growing and expanding our international footprint” “Ilmari Vallo, the CEO of DataCenter, Finland” “Jelastic thrives on flexibility for partners and customers offering wide choice of programming languages, Docker containers orchestration, datacenter distribution of workloads within hybrid cloud, and automation of the main DevOps processes. Jelastic has rich container adoption and high level of DevOps automation. Partners liked Jelastic’s ease of self-provisioning and worldwide support.” IDC article “We are very satisfied with the overall deployment of Jelastic. The benefits that we realized are highly available environments, clustering, and failover coverage.” Ted Kleczko, IT & Ecommerce Manager at Miele, USA

Ruslan Synytsky is not only the CEO of Jelastic but also one of its creators, as he has designed its core technology.

Future-Bots

Catching-up with the

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obots have always been pictured as a man-made advanced technological creativity, which do and will favor the human species for future. As robotics is vibrantly globalized, soon it will be mainstreamed in various fields and sectors. Currently, there are numerous enterprises worldwide which are implementing robotics into industrial, healthcare and commercial use. Whereas, robotics have experienced a lot of up’s and down’s during this tenure, but with the time, it held a stronghold in the digital world. Whenever the discussion arises about the applications of robotics, the industrial sector has bespoken benefits’. Robots have become more affordable, smart and productive over the years. The sectors like agriculture, construction, warehousing and logistics, and customer services. By investing more in robots, an enterprise

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will be solving certain problems more accurately and efficiently. Meanwhile, utilizing robots will help enterprises to push their limits in order to fill up the productivity voids. With each slippage of time, the technology is upgrading so does the robotics. The advancements in robotics field will be a boon to the enterprises in order to increase growth and productivity rate. There are certain parameters that should be considered while implementing robotics in the enterprise, such as Following up Parameters before Reaching the Depth of Robotics Modifying; as per the user’s need Generally, robots used to require advanced training in order to operate comfortably. It’s not an issue for the big enterprises as they acquire the skilled people to deal with, where the small enterprises are not so gifted with

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loads of assets initially. But, with the new advances in robotics technologies, it has become easier for small ventures to invest in robots for increasing the productivity generating more revenue. Just by giving wireless commands from an IOT, demonstrating tasks to the robots gets easier. Nowadays, there are numerous varieties of robots to carry out multitasks, thus as per the user’s need, one can invest in robots for the industrial purpose. Easily Compatible Unlike the big manufacturing robots in huge industries, there are various collaborative robots which are specially designed to work alongside and to assist human workers in a variety of tasks. Earlier it was sort of stressful for an enterprise to allot speciﬁc man-power for certain task, but by implementing co-bots such issues are resolved. As the size and shape of co-bots are getting more

compact, it may benefit the enterprises in various terms. Easy to Develop Earlier robots were not able to program easily due to the incompatibility between the user interface and hardware. But, now Robotic Operating System (ROS) is dominating the industry by providing solutions for varied robots in order to perform the task without lagging. It’s an opensource framework which helps developers to redirect the programming in different ways. This open-source framework is dominating the growth towards the constructive direction. Amplifying the Range of Applied Robotics The 21st century—is the era of implementing new ideology and technologies in various sectors. While technological disruption has collectively affected every possible

sector, robotics is still unaﬀected. From past few years, the technology, as well as its implementation, has increased substantially. Have a look on such few areas for possible applications. Obliging Enterprises through Robotics Cobot’s: Assisting Humans Unlike big manufacturing robots, collaborative robots are designed to work with employees in enterprises and corporates. The design is smart enough to assist humans and also, compact enough to handle. Generally, the small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are slightly boon by implementing co-bots in day to day life, as they are easily adaptable, easy to process and most importantly it’s aﬀordable. According to some experts, there’s a possibility of enormous growth in the business, if Co-bots are implemented widely. The main motive of industrial robots is to the prioritized safety of employees and workers, yet the chances of accidents are always at high risk. Whereas, co-bots works as a service robot; they come in various shape and sizes easing the workability and reducing the liability of employees. In order to get sanctioned as service robots, any co-bot has to pass certain testing parameters by robot manufacturing companies, factors such as easily compatible with other devices and programs, safe in use, easy to command, and processing at a faster rate. Currently, co-bots are used for processes like machine tending, packaging, and material handling. In spite of industries, co-bots are used in various sectors such as in farming, hospitals, healthcare and facilities, and labs. It does come under robot-as-aservice format.

with personal robotics cloud which will help robots to take and give information directly. Depending on the robot, it can process various functions such as lifting, leveraging, handle vision, object recognition and other, thus certain robots acquire such skills and will provide information to the cloud. Then, this information helps other robots to get enlightened. In simple words to say, robots will teach other robots for the better good of the enterprises. On the other hand, as robots are getting more and more evolved, ﬁltering of essential information from rest will get much easier. This will comfort both big and small enterprises to manage big data more precisely. With the emergence of advancement in robotics, they are on the verge to touch skies already. If considering the above possible factors, this evergreen era of robotics is less likely to get saturated due to technological disruption. As the technologies are growing faster, the enterprises must to catch-up with them accordingly. It’s high time to implement new technologies especially of the robotics as its utilization is not only subjected to warehouses but also, towards the inhouse enterprise work. Hopefully, there’s a possibility of robot-oriented industries in the future.

Cloud Robotics Imagine an enterprise with robots that are totally independent to the user commands, in other words, no external programming may require in order to process robots for the various tasks. In accordance to that, a User Interface to be exact might not be needed in the future, as machine learning is already on its verge to get explored. Currently, in order to carry out certain tasks robots are been told to what to do using the interface whereas, cloud robotics directly twitch compatible code from the clouds which are required for the tasks. To work alongside with humans, robots must be deep learning the subjects simultaneously able to point out problems and provide solutions right away. Meanwhile, it will be a boon for the enterprises if the employees will get to interact with robots as a personiﬁed object rather than a machine. Soon, there

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Shannon Hulbert CEO

Opus Interactive: A Leading Cloud, Colocation, and IT Services Provider

n an interview with Insights Success, Shannon Hulbert, CEO of Opus Interactive, Inc., shares her insights and experiences over products and motto of the organization, along with the organization’s future goals in revolutionizing industry. Below are the highlights of the interview conducted between Shannon and Insights Success: What are the cutting-edge products/services oﬀered by Opus Interactive? Basically, we apply the strategy of the Dream Team. Remember them? After spending years not being competitive against the seasoned professionals on other Olympic teams, the US Olympic Basketball Team was allowed to

include players from the NBA. So, they selected ten of the top players from a range of NBA teams and swept past the competition. The Dream Team showed the world what you can accomplish when the best of the best comes together to meet a single goal. They won every game by no less than 40 points to bring home the gold medal in 1992. The Opus Interactive Game Plan is written on the wall for the whole team to read. It reads “DO IT BETTER. Compile the best team of IT pros to build and maintain the most eﬀective solutions inside of state-of-the-art facilities.” Everything we do stems from that. We set the bar high for team, solutions, and facilities, and put 20 years of partnerships and honed service

offering to work for each customer from hosted virtual desktops environments, to end-to-end IoT solutions that monitor and control fans that reduce humidity, to multi-cloud monitoring and maintenance that ensures data distribution is optimized. The whole world is going digital and we’re providing the infrastructure that enables that transformation. It’s pretty cool. Give a detailed description of the Founder/CEO/Management’s contribution over the company and the industry. I spent a summer as a wild land firefighter for the State of Oregon – specifically, the crew navigator. That was back before GPS. We’d get the call and all load into the engine and I’d be

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the one in the middle with a lap full of rolled up maps and a radio in hand communicating township and range coordinates and translating the best route to get us all to the fire. And when we got there, it was all hands on-deck, working together with one purpose in mind. Today, I have the honor to work with the Dream Team of IT and they’re working every day bringing together some of the best ideas they’ll have in this lifetime to accomplish common goals together and deliver the quality services we can all stand proudly behind. As the CEO, my role is still navigator -- set the vision, communicate the goals and strategy so we’re all moving towards the same destination, and move as many obstacles out of the way as possible. While saving the planet. No pressure. What strategies has Opus Interactive undertaken to stay ahead of the competition? The one-word answer is partnerships. For facilities, we offer our services from inside of world class facilities. We’ve carefully selected state-of-the-art data center partners known to provide the best in renewable energy, low cost power, low PUE, high security, and premium connectivity from coast to coast with global access. For partners, we’ve spent decades understanding the space and forming partnerships with trusted vendors. From door handles to direct connect, our customers are getting the very best. For MSPs, we officially launched our OI Partnership Program in 2013. The program is the best of both worlds – it expands our own network and gives our partners the ability to deliver more for their customers. For network, we work with best in breed to deliver the endto-end solutions our customers can rely on. The OpusCloud is a robust VMware and HPE compute and storage solution that launched in 2005 and has continued to be improved on for more than 13 years. We pair our own private cloud offering with a range of services developed for private, public, multi-cloud or hybrid-cloud environments. Our long history of working with our partners allows us to understand what solutions are available, quickly determine whether they fit the use case for any particular customer, and quickly go from planning to deployment to monitoring to maintenance.

Technology, Meet Humanity. ideas and effort every single day, our partners who take the time to work together to find the best solutions and continue to tell other people about our services, and every person along the way who opened a door so a nimble womanowned IT services company can come out of the blue to be included in The Most Disruptive Private Companies in 2018. It’s people that shape the journey. Where Opus Interactive sees itself in the long run and what are its future goals? Continuing on the path of bringing together the best team, solutions and facilities, and expansion of our cloud node and managed services offering all the way out to the edge, globally. Give us a few testimonials of your clients that accurately highlight Opus Interactive’s position in the market. “We’ve got a 15-year history of working with Opus Interactive. Their commitment to customized, high performance hosting solutions is phenomenal. At the end of the day, we just trust that they’ll deliver.” – Todd Hutchinson, WEtap Media “We weren’t interested in being part of the price wars being waged by public cloud providers. We were looking for a business partner with the same level of integrity as Corios, who could deliver top shelf capability. Opus Interactive was that partner.” –Robin Way, President & Founder, Corios LLC About the Company Opus brings a personable approach into the complex process that businesses face with digital transformation. The Opus team has spent over 20 years honing a mix of purpose-built cloud and colocation solutions that we deliver from world class data centers located in the most connected places on the planet. Opus offers custom IT solutions available from state-of-the-art facilities that enable our customer’s connectivity from coast to coast, with global access.

Describe the experiences, achievements or lessons learnt that has shaped the journey of the Opus Interactive. My biggest takeaway every single day is gratitude – for the people. From our team for continuing to show up with great

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VirtaMove: Automated Windows Server App Migration

ompanies need tools to speed up and automate their application migration and modernization projects. VirtaMove identified this market need and developed a suite of Migration Intelligence products to help customers save time and money in modernization efforts. Since 2010, VirtaMove has helped customers automatically migrate Windows Server applications to new operating systems, on new in-house servers or clouds. The company is disrupting and re-inventing the way customers move applications from Microsoft Windows 2000, Windows Server 2003, 2008, and 2012 servers. It offers an automated way to make applications portable and re-installable on modern servers and VMs, leveraging virtual moving containers. VirtaMove software discovers and reveals a complete view of the servers and apps in a network. Its monitoring software uses AI to “learn” customers’ applications in real time and build migration templates. VirtaMove software can upgrade legacy apps from old to newer Windows Server operating systems in hours, instead of months. It provides smart automation to realize significant momentum and cost savings in modernization efforts. Offering Tailored Professional Services VirtaMove software is backed by a team of Migration Experts and a methodology, offering tailored professional services with years of experience. We’ve successfully moved thousands of bespoke and off-the-shelf applications to newer platforms for hundreds of leading Fortune 500 customers in all industries. VirtaMove’s Migration Intelligence Suite consists of three

core products: V-Maestro, which orchestrates and manages V-Monitor and V-Migrate agents for automatic Windows Server application discovery, sizing, and migration; VMonitor, which automatically discovers and monitors the applications running on its customers’ current Windows servers; and V-Migrate, which automatically migrates apps to new Windows Server operating systems and servers. Leadership VirtaMove’s experienced management team is headed by Nigel Stokes, Chief Executive Oﬃcer and Co-Founder of VirtaMove. He is an experienced software entrepreneur and a Venture Capitalist who has founded and built a range of DevOps companies. Prior to VirtaMove, he was the CEO and co-founder of DataMirror, a public, real-time data integration company. DataMirror was publicly listed for 12 years and was sold to the Information Management division of IBM in 2007. As a venture investor, Nigel has seed funded a range of software and technology companies. Both the VP of Development and VP Sales of VirtaMove also have years of DevOps experience. Standing Ahead of the Software Curve Thanks to its strong management team and patented technology, VirtaMove has been ahead of the software curve and has been disrupting the market for application migration since its inception. The company works closely with customers to develop real-world solutions to real problems. Focused on customer challenges and pain points, it listens to and works closely with customers to build software solutions that solve tangible DevOps problems. VirtaMove developed virtual containers for packaging

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At VirtaMove, we’re re-inventing how customers address the modernization challenge for Microsoft Server 2000, Windows Server 2003, 2008, and 2012 applications, using industry-leading Migration Intelligence.

— Nigel Stokes CEO & Co-founder

applications over many years. It developed unique patented technology that makes applications portable, regardless of the environment or operating system. Hundreds of leading customers in pharma, retail, oil and gas, banking, and insurance save money and time in their modernization projects using VirtaMove. The company helps customers protect their brand from the malware threats inherent in old, unsupported platforms. In the process, the VirtaMove story has become part of the customer’s story. Fine-Tuning the AI Aspects VirtaMove understands that Windows Server application modernization isn’t a one-oﬀ issue; it’s here to stay, as apps continuously age and fall out of support. For each Windows release and version, the company helps its customers move and modernize their apps on new Windows platforms. Software senescence is a part of business life, as are compliance, malware, and security exposures. VirtaMove helps its customers speed up software modernization projects. The company continuously ﬁne-tunes the AI aspects of its software, to take advantage of pattern recognition and machine learning.

solution we could find. They have been quick to help us as we work through each application.”- Tammy Key, Manager, Production Operations Support, American Cancer Society “We utilised the tool to migrate complex applications without engaging app vendors to perform the migration, resulting in considerable cost savings. VirtaMove has provided a key advantage for us. For those programs requiring a specific configuration, the only way to successfully migrate those was by using VirtaMove.”- Anil Kalra, Project Manager at Cochlear “VirtaMove provided “a huge time savings” on the PBC migration, estimating the savings at 3-4 weeks, or more than 50% of the time the project would have taken without VirtaMove. Beyond the time savings, VirtaMove made the migration much more effective and accurate than a forensic manual rebuild approach would have been.”- Pabst Brewing Company

Our Customers Say it Best “We have several legacy applications that cannot be upgraded as is and still living on Window 2003 servers. We had to ﬁnd an immediate solution to keep these applications compliant for support purposes. VirtaMove was the only

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Knowledge Keys

Empowering

Healthcare Providers in Creating and Managing

Medical Records

he healthcare sector has been repeatedly disrupted over the last several decades, more often than not due to external forces including more governmental requirements such as HIPAA and meaningful use, complex requirements from health insurers, astounding changes in technology including the implementation of EHR/EMRs. Many of these changes have not been favorable to healthcare providers. They find themselves spending far more time performing mundane tasks of paperwork and clinical documentation, less face-to-face time with patients, and more time spent away from family and other personal pursuits. Practices saw their most valuable assets - physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants - spending time doing data entry, tethered to their computers, yet ending up with very little actionable information. Mark D. Boyce, President and CEO, recognized that the current state was not sustainable. Scribe Technology Solutions was formed to mold the latest technology and services to fit and simplify clinical documentation. These technology-enabled services employ leading edge concepts including artificial intelligence and robotics, next generation speech recognition, and Natural Language Processing (NLP) to ensure best of class, lowest cost and highly scalable infrastructure and service delivery methods. “All those things you’ve been forcing people to do through data entry, all these disparate systems don’t work together. Our technology lets providers speak what happens in a patient encounter and then our technology will do the heavy lifting, do the analysis, do the transfer of the information, do the actual creation of the info, do the parsing of the info, so it’s more meaningful, valuable and then transfer that info

where it needs to go. You can do things differently than in the past. That’s the disruption,” says Boyce. Scribe’s clinical documentation solutions are easy to use because they are based on the way providers recorded patient encounters in the past - simply recording their observations and findings. What is innovative and progressive, and therefore perceived as disruptive, is how Scribe takes that recording and uses NLP to input the information directly into the EMR/EHR. This saves the provider hours at the keyboard. Tom Luther, Scribe’s COO says, “We’re not asking for providers to do anything that they didn’t do 20 years ago, rather we provide them tools within a cloud-based platform, in affect allowing them to revert back to using “old school” workflows that most are familiar and comfortable using. By recording their instructions and patient visits, Scribe consolidates the data and takes care of returning it directly into their EMR systems as discrete data. The provider becomes more efficient and effective in seeing their patients by allowing them to spend more time with patients, see more patients, spend more time with their families, or a combination thereof.” With new regulations and requirements being layered onto the healthcare workload, providers are sometimes wary of yet another “solution” or “disruption.” Scribe takes a unique approach with healthcare practitioners. By talking about their goals, what they perceive as barriers to the goals, and learning about the practice workflows, Scribe can develop a tailored system that is right for a provider’s work style. Luther adds, “EMRs/EHRs were developed as a black box that was developed for one thing -- to store medical documents regarding a patient encounter in a computer, replacing the need for a paper

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medical record; that was the original intent. But then providers were told they were to be responsible for reporting more quality measures through governmental mandates such as Meaningful Use in order to be appropriately reimbursed for the services provided and the documentation burden became overwhelming and much more time consuming than maintaining a paper record. But there are others ways of capturing these measures, and Scribe’s platform will manage the information appropriately for providers so they have all the information they need for the government, payers, and regulatory agencies. We show providers how we can make their life better - not disruptive, rather productiveand in a more progressive manner. When providers experience our tools in action during a risk free pilot period, they see our tools as progressive, and it reflects the way they used to document patient encounters in the past, and disrupts more current dysfunctional methods.” The results of using Scribe’s tools are immediately clear to the providers. They can have more quality time with their patients and don’t have to spend as much time at the computers doing mundane tasks. Sometimes IT departments or practice administrators aren’t excited about another new system until they learn that Scribe’s implementation is easy and they see how the revenue improves, providers are benefiting, often adding to their daily patient visits. Another important outcome of using Scribe’s solutions is the meaningful, useful data that can be extracted from the records. Boyce says, “We’ve always tried to develop technology to understand what humans want to have happen. Speech recognition technologies were first, NLP came next, and now we have technology that lets those pieces work together so that at the other end you have lots of discrete pieces of information that are more meaningful and useful. Once you have those meaningful pieces that enhance data, you can apply a final piece of technology to get it where it needs to go, including the use of automation tool such as robotics. There’s another important feature - Scribe’s tools provide analytic feedback. In the past, the ability to analyze data has required a statistical background. Now, if you can categorize information in a medical practice, and break pieces of text into meaningful data and enhance that,

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Mark D. Boyce President & CEO of Scribe.com

you’ve gained the ability to automatically apply standard common analytical techniques to provide meaningful summaries of information to people. We can automatically summarize that information, give it back to the provider, and instead of taking time, they can have better dashboards in order to have more intelligence, ask better questions and give better care to patients.” A practical application of this might be seen with a physician who sees many patients with Type 2 Diabetes. The doctor could pull records to determine how many are on speciﬁc medications, how often they’re seen compared to patients on other medications, and how eﬀective the treatment might be. Or, using Scribe’s technology, the doctor can create a dashboard that will quickly input this information to a report without the labor required to review every record. Dashboards can be created easily for any analytics a provider might need. So one might ask the question “Does going back to the old-school dictation make Scribe a disrupter?” Luther

Boyce added, “Just like other organizations and people have disrupted tech industries - million dollar widgets that 5 yrs later you can get anywhere for $150 - that’s what I look at in terms of what we’re doing. Companies are selling million dollar clinical documentation systems and all the services related to them, and there needs to be something that disrupts those costly, highly ineﬃcient models with technology at a much lower cost price point, that takes cost out of system and streamlines the process. That’s what makes Scribe disruptive. Our solutions are progressive for those that use them.”

Tom Luther CMPE - Chief Operating Ofcer

believes “Companies like ours look to develop new solutions and provide progressive services to improve the healthcare industry and that’s why we’re sometimes perceived to be disruptive. Are we disruptive? Maybe depending on who you ask. We see ourselves as pioneers, assisting medical practices and healthcare institutions with ﬁnding ways to simplify the many demands put on them by collecting and making sense of the patient data. We are giving providers their life back by simplifying how to collect data on their patients and then making the data useful for the payers and patients themselves. In essence, Scribe provides healthcare providers the tools to collect data on a patient in a very non-invasive way, allowing providers to focus and maximize their face-to-face time with their patients. This allows them to practice medicine at the top of their professional license(s) which hopefully results in better outcomes for their patients.”

The good news is the adoption of Scribe’s platform is quick and easy, it is not mandatory for every provider within a practice to use it, and it accommodates any type of clinic workflow. Today, almost every provider carries a device like their iPhone with them non-stop, and now they can use it in a way that makes them more productive without learning anything new. Our platform is extremely flexible, it can accommodate a more seasoned provider who might be more comfortable using digital voice recorders or a younger provider who might be more comfortable with using the technologies like “Alexa” and “Siri” to gather patient information. Bottom line, providers utilizing Scribe’s tools will increase their productivity, improve their revenue, and impact the quality of care because they are enabled to focus on what matters most - patient care. By using Scribe’s solutions and services, providers are situated to easily adapt to any new disruptions that may come their way through the government, insurers, and other external forces. And we all know that history repeats itself and unwanted “disruptions” are inevitable. Scribe leadership believes that its business model is well-placed to continue to be innovative, progressive and even “disruptive.” Boyce concluded, “As an agile streamlined company we move quickly, change direction as needed, and we are not encumbered by corporate bureaucracy. We provide the resources and tools necessary to empower our employees to do what needs to be done as quickly and efficiently as possible. In addition, we pride ourselves on being a virtual company, our workforce is not located in one site, allowing us the opportunity to hire the brightest and best no matter where they are in the world.”

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