The 10 Best Oracle Solution Providers of 2019 by Mirror Review

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Harnessing The Power Of Oracle To Build Unique Solutions

EDITOR’S LETTER Why Oracle Cloud Solutions remain the best buy? Designed to handle the most demanding workloads, Oracle Cloud packs networking, storage, database, connectivity, and governance which can create a complete, reliable technology ecosystem in the cloud. When I keenly observed the key areas where Oracle Cloud takes the big pie, I found that Oracle’s Cloud Infrastructure bends all advantages of the public cloud with the control, security, and predictability of on-premise infrastructure. In today’s customer-focused business environment, Oracle offers business customers with flexible enterprise-IT choices—in the cloud, conventional, or a mix of both, which are more than any other vendors. The important point is, Oracle solutions have frequently been misunderstood by their short-term growth. But, they have proved that their longer-term strategic positioning and potential is always beneficial for enterprises. Therefore, this time, the team of Mirror Review brings you our latest magazine issue, “The 10 Best Oracle Solution Providers of 2019”, featuring prominent companies who are employing Oracle solutions to transform clients’ digital environment for better. Out of these leading companies, we have featured The DOC B.V. (The Dutch Oracle Company) as the cover story of this magazine. The company provides its customers with the best fitting solution for their needs and acts as a part of their organization to improve and grow their business solutions. Started his journey as an Oracle developer, the CEO, Guido Leduc guides his team at The DOC B.V. in projects and operations. Moving ahead, we have covered innovating stories of leading tech-companies leveraging Oracle technology to enhance their clients’ portfolio. On the experts viewpoint, we have Tomas López Fernebrand (VP/Amadeus) and Ricky Solorzano, (CEO/Allevi), explaining their views about advanced technologies. The team of Mirror Review always strives to introduce our precious readers with astonishing disruptive technologies. This comprehensive magazine is packed with two articles covering two of the most popular technologies, cloud and blockchain to refresh your mind and opinion about their impacts and limitations. I hope you will definitely enjoy this magazine issue. Happy Reading!

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ith products for each requirement, Oracle is a strong competitor in the market to provide the full stack solution to IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS for all level of enterprises. Oracle has a huge portfolio of products in the cloud which seamlessly integrate and collaborate with users and systems. These products are continuously expanding besides technological improvements like autonomous patching, self-performance tuning, and automatic security updates. Many Oracle’s cloud products are part of the PaaS portfolio where other cloud providers mostly provide Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). Therefore, the gap between IaaS and SaaS is ﬁlled by PaaS that provides the platform with pre-installed products to develop and run the user’s own applications.

The DOC B.V. (The Dutch Oracle Company) is an organization that mainly focuses on these abilities of Oracle technology. The company provides its customers with the best ﬁtting solution for their needs and acts as part of their organization to improve and grow their business solutions. It assists the clients in infrastructure and (custom) applications including maintenance and 24/7 support. This dedicated support enables customers to focus on their core businesses. Evolving as the Technologies Evolve Since its establishment in 1999, The DOC evolved from a technology driven company towards a solutions provider but still focused on the Oracle technology. In the past year, the company further extended its offerings from a

We transform customers’ businesses with specialized Oracle Solutions.

technology solution provider to a customer solution provider. It works with customers’ organizations by advising and supporting them on business process level coupled with technical solutions. This results in a trustworthy partnership with their customers. The prime goal of The DOC is to help clients grow their businesses without letting them worry about their IT systems. Moreover, complete customers’ infrastructures are managed by The DOC based on trust, loyalty, focus, communication, quality, and flexibility. Expanding Services with CEO’s Contribution The CEO of The DOC B.V., Guido Leduc started his journey as an Oracle developer in 1998. Working as the CEO, Guido’s role changed from pure technical into team lead, project manager, and operations manager. Today, at The DOC, he mainly plays a business-oriented role and focuses on the customers in functional, technical, and commercial matters. Besides being responsible for ‘running’ the company, Guido is still involved in company projects as a solution designer, project manager, and business consultant. In addition, he is always ready to facilitate his team members who need some form of support in their challenges at The DOC. Guido also enjoys spending his time out in the field visiting customers and prospects. As a trusted solution partner, he advises and supports his clients in their line of business with their goals. This approach of maintaining customer trust helped The DOC in expanding its customer partnerships. Fulfilling Growing Clients’ Demands with Technology Improvements Speaking of today’s business environment, Oracle business is becoming more difficult and the IT departments must improve with changing business trends and clients’ requirements. Today, it’s hard for the most IT departments to follow the changing pattern of businesses because they are mostly focused on standards and procedures rather than focusing on dynamically changing environments. Understanding this varying scenario, the main goal of The DOC is to keep a balance between business and IT. It has branch and customer focus teams, who act on the fine line between business process and IT, providing a stable solution for the data systems. It offers solutions like data analysis and visualization tools which can be used by the business on their required level and timing. Learning from clients’ needs, The DOC serves the following offerings:

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The One Stop Shop for Oracle As a full-service provider, Oracle’s knowledge and expertise are deeply rooted in The DOC. The leading Oracle solutions provider has all the facets to advice clients’ organizations in the entire Oracle spectrum. Also, it works as an extension of customers’ organization. At The DOC, clients find a culture that values cooperation and entrepreneurship which always strives for service and quality at the highest level. The DOC’s One Stop Shop is characterized by six collaborating Business Units, from which it helps customers to look for the most suitable solution. Cloud Services The cloud is expanding; working in the cloud creates huge opportunities for organizations as the cloud offers enormous flexibility, scalability and reliability to guarantee that crucial systems will always be available and future ready. Working in the cloud is transforming the entire organization’s direction. Collaborating with the right partner is of crucial interest for achieving one’s cloud success. From its Cloud Solutions Center, the team of The DOC advises how to set up and implement the best fitting cloud solution by offering cloud packages and Proof of Concepts based on a track record of successful cloud implementations and migrations. Professional Services At The DOC, Professional Services is about assisting the customer on a project basis. These services stand for inventory, advice, development, construction, and implementation. Clients’ organizations have challenges and The DOC solves those challenges in-house. It interviews clients, sparring, and brainstorming with them. This helps them to come to the right answer and develop it as a customized solution. Managed Services Initially, the client’s Oracle environment is in the form of a Service Level Agreement (SLA). Managed Services is the service where the management of the client’s Oracle environment is transferred to The DOC. The leading Oracle solutions provider monitors client’s Oracle environment 24/7, even in combination with Application Support.

We help our clients to grow their businesses while managing their entire IT systems.

Business Intelligence Business Intelligence is the future. If a customer orders an article via the internet, then the person gets additional advice on other products that may be of interest to the consumer. The factory, or the supplier, continuously monitors all available data from different angles. Patterns are recognized and mapped. Different dates are merged. Business Intelligence and Analytics is applicable within all organizations and at all levels. From reports to dashboards to predictive analyzes and data visualization. Following the same procedure, The DOC stores the data and uses it to be predictive and guiding. It examines data, adds together, discovers patterns, visualizes them, and comes to advice that is important to clients.

Product Solutions Product Solutions are the logical combination of various activities into one solution. For a large municipality, The DOC has developed a product from Professional Services to detect housing frauds by applying Business Intelligence. That was a great success on several fronts. In the financial field alone, the municipality saved many millions. Subsequently, the customer entered into a management agreement (Managed Services) with The DOC for the maintenance and management of the solution. Additionally, in consultation with the customer, the company developed this program into a product that detects address-related abuses and can be used by all municipalities or other government bodies. Further, it can also be used to track subsidy fraud or abuse of student finance.

We have the answer to clients’ development challenges, from the consultancy phase, through architecture to realization. Loyalty with Customers as the Key to Success Following the culture of loyalty, The DOC serves quality solutions according to clients’ requirements. The CEO, Guido believes that this is the key to grow a successful business. Furthermore, the dedicated team of The DOC is always happy to work for the development of new products to assist the company in expanding its solutions. The technology specialists at The DOC work pragmatically and connect seamlessly with the customers. With passion, craftsmanship, and ﬂexibility, the highly trained specialists of The DOC deliver tailor-made solutions to the clients. The solutions are fully tried and tested. The DOC constantly trains its employees and it has a competence development program that everyone needs to follow. Such programs enable the company to improve its customer support and advice. The team of The DOC believes in teamwork and its team members are the biggest assets in the company’s growth. This team is built upon core values like respecting each other and accepting that no one is perfect in everything. This empowers the team members to work with their full dedication and strengths. Building Trust among Clients with Specialized Oracle Services With continual support and improvements in clients’ services, The DOC has built a reputation among its customers. Today, customers’ requests for The DOC services are exceeding. To provide customers with quality solutions, the company has implemented customer focus teams, who can help them on business process as well as technology level to improve their businesses. The market is focusing on organizations, who are specialists in their business instead of working with companies who just assure to do all possible activities without knowing the core technology. As a specialist in Oracle technology, The DOC stands out from other solutions providers. Utilizing The DOC’s Oracle Cloud, clients’ can create great opportunities for their organizations. The Cloud offers ample ﬂexibility and reliability to ensure that users’ crucial systems are always available and their organizations are ready for the future.

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Working in the Cloud transforms the entire business. The right partner this transformation is therefore crucial for successful Cloud implementation. The DOC’s Cloud Solutions Center helps users to make a framework of the optimal design and do the successful implementation of their Oracle Cloud. The company offers consultants to look together with clients for perfect alignment and also provide targeted advice. Such support enables the client’s organization to take full advantage of the extra possibilities from the Oracle Cloud.

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Agileum Sylvain Deslandes CEO

AGILEUM is a market leader in IT consulting has adopted cloud computing to offer ﬂexible services and Oracle Cloud solutions that are ingenious and affordable. www.agileum.com

Big Bang ERP Gabriel Tupula CEO

Big Bang ERP is a boutique consulting ﬁrm that helps businesses optimize and streamline their processes by implementing cloud ERP, CRM, ITSM, MRP systems, and other cloud applications. www.bigbangerp.com

CuriousRubik, Inc Daniel Smith CEO

Curious Rubik is a multidisciplinary team of consultants and solution design experts. www.curiousrubik.com

Echo Media Paolo Campana CEO

ECOH MEDIA is a System Integration and Application Management company specializing in the design and implementation of IT systems and application solutions for companies and public bodies. www.ecohmedia.com

Enstoa Jordan Cram Co-Founder & CEO

US-based Enstoa, Inc. supports companies worldwide with advanced Oracle technologies like Oracle Primavera P6, Primavera Uniﬁer, and Aconex for capital projects. www.enstoa.com

ITCabarique Martín Cabarique Founder

ITCabarique is a leading company, providing Oracle services, information technology support and integrated equipment. www.itcabarique.com

Mastertics Hugo Alexander CEO & Founder

MASTERTICS was established with a mission to provide high quality solutions for companies through the use of technology, knowledge. www.mastertics.com

Technology Xpress Info Solutions Pvt. Ltd. Manisha Borade CTO

Technology Xpress Info Solutions, Pvt. Ltd. (T-XIS) is an expert in providing superior quality Oracle ERP solutions and services to the global market. www.techxis.com

The DOC BV Guido Leduc CEO

The DOC B.V. (The Dutch Oracle Company) is an organization that mainly focuses on these abilities of Oracle technology. www.thedoc.nl

Trempplin Kalmesh Kallur Co-founder & MD

Trempplin Centre of Excellence (TCoE) consulting is a global leader in technology consulting and software services domain with a constantly expanding focus on banking and ﬁnancial services. www.trempplin.com

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usinesses are witnessing a generational change with an increasing number of companies migrating to the cloud. The cloud pools ondemand resources that are accessible from a wide variety of devices, serving multiple customers and creating economies of scale. Moreover, the cloud provides security, elasticity, flexibility, and speed. Understanding the potential and convenience of using cloud solutions, AGILEUM, a market leader in IT consulting has adopted cloud computing to offer flexible services. AGILEUM offers Oracle Cloud solutions that are ingenious and affordable. Additionally, it provides a range of cloud services and technologies to respond to organizations’ changing needs. With these solutions, the leading IT company is helping enterprises towards cloud-empowered enterprise transformation. Following Continuous Improvement Strategy To upgrade the quality of its services, AGILEUM has adopted a continuous improvement process. It has built centers of excellence and these centers come up with new ways of working, new set of in demand skills, and adjusted delivery methodologies. Focusing on the quality of process, AGILEUM uses robust and sustainable technologies. Likewise, the leading cloud service provider utilizes standard methodologies, metrics, file

structure and process and security audits. Because of these measures, AGILEUM can create an infrastructure for engineering, delivery, and execution. AGILEUM is also certiﬁed by the latest international standards that have introduced new ways of working and new perspective in its risk management processes. CEO, Driving the Growth of AGILEUM With the mission to aid clients prepare for a digital future, Sylvain Deslandes, the CEO of AGILEUM creates, plans, and drives strategy for the company. At AGILEUM, Sylvain strives to create a positive environment where his teams can accomplish their goals. Likewise, AGILEUM’s core values assist employees in nurturing and securing the necessary resources to enhance their skills and provide the right tools. Staying relevant to clients’ needs and growing the interest of his team members are among the key rituals of Sylvain at AGILEUM. His daily contribution in balancing his clients and team members helps his company to go beyond customer expectations. In addition, he ensures that AGILEUM navigates successfully into a fast-changing business environment, where technology is rapidly evolving. Furthermore, to keep up with today’s speedy improvements, Sylvain regularly analyzes and rethinks AGILEUM’s offerings and skills. Utilizing Social Approach to Generate Sustainable Solutions

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AGILEUM aims to help its customers improve their operational performance and successfully manage their digital transformation. While transforming clients’ enterprises, AGILEUM understands that there has been acceleration in consumerism, technology, and sustainability. Due to such developments, every industry can gain beneﬁts from it, but the lack of digital transformation is the major restriction. To empower digital transformation in developing countries like Mauritius, AGILEUM is helping customers to take a step further and implement advanced

infrastructure in their businesses. The leading Oracle Cloud solutions provider helps companies to stay agile and make better and faster business decisions. Currently, AGILEUM is focusing on the adoption of cloud solutions in the Indian Ocean and African Region. The company is also helping SMEs with products like NetSuite and creating open source business solutions and API factory. Helping Clients Create Profound Opportunities for Businesses With advanced data and analytics solutions from AGILEUM, clients can discover useful insights that will allow them to better understand their businesses, customers, and competitors. These insights will enable users to formulate tailor-made solutions for their clients. Further, AGILEUM’s skilled consultants transmute existing business operations, making them smarter, faster, and more cost-effective. The leading IT solutions provider delivered projects based on SAP, Oracle, Microsoft and IBM cloud solutions. Here are the key benefits of using AGILEUM’s advanced data solutions. · Focus on the core business activities · Identify bottom-line performance improvements · Increase efficiency and best-practices · Improve operational excellence · Gain better access to technology Striking Ahead of Competitors with New Achievements AGILEUM has a culture of continuously improving its solutions according to clients’ requirements. This culture has proactively helped the leading IT company to expand nation-wide. Today, AGILEUM is one of the few companies to successfully integrate cloud applications in Sub-Saharan region. Recently, AGILEUM conducted the first regional implementation of best-in-class cloud supply chain management solution. It assisted in numerous financials cloud projects and rapidly enhanced its security services line for major players in private or public sectors.

Sylvain Deslandes CEO its project delivery and uplifting project outcome to be highly predictable. AGILEUM’s CEO Sylvain believes that his team is the backbone of his company. Therefore, the company also invests in enhancing the skills of its team members. As a result, these investments consistently improve AGILEUM’s offerings. Adding Value to Solutions for Future-proof Projects In FY19, AGILEUM will be essentially focused on creating new successes for its clients. It has upcoming projects around the integration of cloud ERP and development of interfaces with cloud-based or onpremises business solutions. AGILEUM is bringing added value through its strong expertise, robust solutions, and innovative thinking. The leading oracle cloud solutions provider is also prepared for blockchain and AI’s disruptive impacts that are going to create new opportunities for its clients and team in the near future.

The rapid growth motivates AGILEUM to offer improved solutions for its clients. Currently, the leading cloud solutions provider is scaling up by industrializing

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n this dynamic and competitive digital age, it is a second nature for most professionals to keep abreast of trends and predictions in the IT applications and IT infrastructure space. The formation of new technologies with a potential to alter lifestyles and challenge traditional business models has made it imperative for business leaders to study what lies ahead and evaluate to be ready for it.

CIOs. Higher customer expectations and the competence will be a building stone for CIOs in the upcoming years. It is estimated that the entire range of IT enterprises would be cloud-based by 2020. So what will be the development in the upcoming years? Ÿ

Cloud computing has become a scalable services consumption and delivery platform in the ﬁeld of Services Computing. The technical foundations of cloud computing include Service-Oriented Architecture and Virtualizations of hardware and software. The goal of Cloud computing is to share resources among the cloud service consumers, cloud partners, and cloud vendors in the cloud value chain. The resource sharing at various levels results in various cloud offerings such as infrastructure cloud, software cloud, application cloud, and business cloud. As the cloud computing market grows, there would be more expectations and pressure on the 20

Multi-cloud: Over the recent years, multi-cloud has been creating a major buzz in the information technology industry. However, it has often been confused with hybrid cloud because of certain similarities speciﬁc distinctions. While hybrid cloud is an amalgamation of on-premises private cloud and third party public cloud, multi-cloud is a mix and match combination of cloud services from different service providers catering to speciﬁc workload requirements. In other words, multicloud is one form of hybrid cloud running in multiple public cloud environments.

A multi-cloud strategy enables several strategic beneﬁts. Companies relying on a single cloud

service provider might encounter problems such as cloud data center bandwidth issues that could potentially hamper their business and even result in possible loss of customers, especially when some of their critical applications are involved. Usage of multiple cloud services ensures that the risks of downtime and data loss are averted even if there is a failure with respect to any components in the software, hardware, network, etc. Additionally, a multi-cloud strategy provides companies the ﬂexibility to speciﬁcally cater to the divergent requirements of their different business functions, teams, and departments. These include security, privacy, performance or geographic reach of their cloud. Companies need to involve their IT and business units and work with the right partner in setting up an ideal multi-cloud solution. This can shift their focus from managing technology infrastructure to investing in business transformation, thereby depriving the maximum competitive advantage.

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complete. It is conceptually similar to Microservice Architecture, wherein every service in an architecture lives as an independent module. Amazon was the ﬁrst to introduce the serverless computing concept with its product named Lambda. This was inspired by Simple Storage Service (S3) one of their highly popular products and is concerned with storing objects. How Serverless computing will function in future? Ÿ

On-demand Execution of Tasks: The serverless system executes the function when an event triggering it occurs.

Speciﬁc Function Coding: People can write code so that whenever they load some data into a database, it is instantly stored in a data warehouse.

Applications with IoT: In an IoT system, realtime responses are required on a massive scale making serverless computing an ideal platform. It is especially helpful in areas of poor connectivity, so that routing through a data center can be avoided.

Cost and Time Saving: Serverless computing can be thought as outsourcing – people need to pay only for managing stuff like application logic, databases, and servers, which was managed by companies earlier.

Kubernetes: Kubernetes is fast becoming the operating system for the cloud. It has the potential to offer massive beneﬁts for tech-ﬁrms and developers. However, the future advancements in kubernates are as follows:

Ÿ Serverless Computing: Serverless computing

refers to a new way of creating cloudbasedapplications that shifts the burden of heavy infrastructure to the cloud service providers such as Amazon, Microsoft and Google. This means that the developers can just focus oncreating applications without needing to worry about the server provisioning or storage allocations.The term ’Serverless’ is a bit of misnomer.There are still servers involved, but their management and provisioning is hidden from the developers. It is a complex concept and is commonly referred to as Function as a Service (FaaS). Each function lives as an independent module, which is brought to life when triggered with an internal or external event. The server hosting the

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Simpler microservices API: From a programmer’s perspective, microservices architectures are challenging to implement, because user requires complex APIs to enable communication between microservices.

Unikernels: The concept behind the unikernel is simple: provide just enough software to power the desired application. The unikernel is software minimalism in practice. Unikernels depend on specialized compiler systems to combine application software and operating system support functions at compile time instead of runtime. The result is a single application image that contains everything the application needs to run. All drivers, I/O routines, and support library functions normally provided by an operating system are included in the executable. None of the thousands of utilities, unneeded drivers, unnecessary I/O routines, or unused support libraries is included.

GUI-friendly containers: People can run applications with graphical user interfaces

(GUIs) inside containers, but existing solutions for doing so are clunky. As a result, most of the container cases focus on applications that do not require a GUI to run, or whose GUI can be accessed via the web. If a technology can make it easier to deploy traditional GUI apps inside containers, it would open up vast new opportunities for deploying containerized applications.

Conclusion Cloud technology is still growing as it continues to be more mainstream than on-premise deployments. Organizations must look to simplify their environments as they move more and more workloads into the cloud, especially if organizations are working with multiple cloud providers. To better utilize cloud technologies, a proper management of resources is important and automation backed by cloud technology will play a prime role in helping business succeed.

Transforming Capital Projects By Enhancing Communication, Streamlining Processes And Deploying Data For Fact-Based Management

racle PaaS enables companies to leverage important emerging technologies like AI, machine learning and IoT. Such innovations are attracting forward-thinking organizations, many of which already have a huge amount of Oracle tech and applications. US-based Enstoa, Inc. supports companies worldwide with advanced Oracle technologies like Oracle PrimaveraP6, Primavera Uniﬁer, and Aconex for capital projects. Enstoa is a gold partner with Oracle’s Construction and Engineering Global Business Unit (CEGBU) to advance capital projects building. Co-founder and CEO Jordan Cram established Enstoa with a vision of bringing evidence-based decision making to organizations in capital projects and construction. The company is built on the core foundation of helping organizations use advanced technologies to reduce risks, speed up performance and deliver on strategic objectives.

Driving Clients’ Capital Projects with Technology Great projects are built on a solid foundation of evidence and data. It’s common to hear about ambitious and well-resourced projects that fail due to a lack of comprehensive and reliable data. Enstoa ﬁlls this gap and offers an evidence-based approach, with high quality industry expertise in capital projects and a proven, repeatable way to improve project portfolio performance. Enstoa also provide clients with the insights and best practices needed to move forward conﬁdently. One CEO, Many Facets As CEO, Cram prides himself on not having a static role, instead being where he is needed most to drive value to clients and support the Enstoa team. For example, this quarter Cram is working with the product innovation team to help the company launch new AI-based products in 2019.

He was honored with the 2017 Smart CEO NYC We see a world in which award, and Enstoa has been on the Inc. 5000 list of all capital projects achieve fastest-growing private companies for seven years. Prior to Enstoa, Cram was co-founder and principal of maximum return on the Cram Group. investment. In which data and Cram emphasizes the booming potential of analytics inform crucial decisions technology and the changes it will bring in the future. He believes that technology is an about where and how to spend essential enabler for organizations to capital dollars. In which the risks continuously innovate and optimize For more than 20 years, Cram and challenges inherent to projects performance. has used strategic business consulting and smart technology solutions to assist leading are reduced through an organizations navigate the digital journey evidence-based approach.

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successfully. His advice has helped clients to spend more strategically on improving their operations in leading markets like China, the Middle East, India, Europe, North America, and Australia. Recently, Cram announced that he and his colleagues have implemented a new model to help engineer culture and team performance. He calls it the science and technology of Evidence-based Team Design (EBTD), which uses individual and team data to optimize project teams for their given tasks. EBTDis enabling a unique business strategy at Enstoa, taking the science-based approach to capital project improvements to a new level. The energetic CEO asserted, “We’re going to do big things.”Cram hinted Enstoa is on the verge of introducing new innovations into their product lineup. Topping the Market and Leading Capital Projects Worldwide In the current industry environment, an organization’s efficiency is determined by its adaptability and effective use of digital solutions. With capital projects, their scale and resourcing levels require nimble integration and a cloud-centric approach. Enstoa’s technical know-how and agile implementation approach, the “90-day Sprint™,” ensures even the most complex systems integration. It also helps companies achieve true process transformation and 360° project visibility. With thousands of configured business processes from Enstoa’s best practices database, its digital team brings relevant data to all its engagements. Likewise, the configured business processes serve as an invaluable resource for benchmarking and configuration. Enstoa’s team of experts provides both industry acumen and technology-enabled accelerators. This helps clients to realize measurable value in as little as

Jordan Cram Co-founder & CEO 90 days. The company offers unlimited support to its clients, which includes quick access to its experts, proactive support, reliable performance, and peace of mind. Clients can streamline data gathering, identify trends, and quickly communicate KPI-level performance with Enstoa’s suite of battle-tested capital projects and facilities management reporting dashboards. Growing with Specialized Capital Projects Improvements Today, Enstoa has become a key player in the capital projects market and is the leading systems integrator for capital projects worldwide. The New York-based tech company is expanding worldwide, with a radically growing client roster across a range of industries, including manufacturing, energy, construction, and public infrastructure. Enstoa has a history of collaborating with world-class clients, teammates, and partners. The company grew 35% in 2018 and aims to go even higher in the coming years. Such dedication, passion and commitment to quality drives Enstoa as they realize a better way to build. 25

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llevi is building tools to design and engineer with life. Our 3D bioprinters and bioinks are used by leading researchers all around the world to find solutions to humanity’s most difficult problems – to cure disease, to test novel drugs, to eliminate the organ waiting list, to build with life. Founded in 2014, our mission is to make it easy to design and engineer 3D tissues. We created our desktop 3D bioprinter to be the most versatile, powerful and easy-to-use bio printer on the market. Since our humble beginnings, we have grown to serve hundreds of labs in all corners of the world and have become leaders in the bio fabrication revolution. At Allevi, the biggest challenge is definitely the symphony of things that need to work together to make the overall solution work. 3D printing is a mixture of robotics, software, and material science. For us we still use robotics, software, and material science, but our added layer of complexity is that we print cells. This is truly where we derive our specialty. We’ve learned a lot in the past to be able to print and pattern cells. The next step is really to get the biology to perform. The way we look to accomplish this is working with biologist around the world and are excited for this next step.

In terms of the 3D printing industry, the globe is moving towards demands of more regional personalized products as well as thoughts around sustainability. In an era where mass manufacturing has become mainstream, new generations are more conscious of where products are bought, who makes them, and how do they beneﬁt not only themselves but their community. I believe we will see 3D printing continue to take a greater and greater role in providing these more regionalized sustainable products for new market demands. In terms of Allevi, medicine is also driving in a more personalized direction. Informed patients are understanding that tailored medication will drive more efﬁcient and effective results for their treatments. This is particularly true when it comes to either more chronic or cancerous diseases. Therefore, 3D bioprinting will allow physicians to be able to print out patient’s disease tissue to study drugs to understand the personalized prognosis for the patient in a quick fashion. Likewise, physicians will also be able to in the future print personalized medical devices. The future of medicine is personalized and Allevi is excited to be catalyzing this new era.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Ricky Solorzano as the CEO of Allevi guides the vision, strategy, and day to day operation. He has been obsessed with tissue engineering for 8 years, created the ďŹ rst desktop 3D bioprinter out of his dorm room, and has been a Forbes 30 under 30, Inc 30 under 30, and Business Insider 100: The Creators #65.

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n the world of transformation where every business is getting modernised by adapting new technologies, it becomes very important to keep up the pace and stay a step or two ahead than the rest. Therefore, the reinvention of the business model and clinch to new age tools & technologies is essential to get success. Besides, one of the largest software makers, Oracle has made numerous revolutions in the IT field. It has vast expertise in developing database software and technology cloud engineered systems and enterprise software products. Today, Oracle’s database technology is widespread in developers as its wide-ranging software array and supreme domain proficiency is being acclaimed for its flexibility and cost savings. Similarly, it has proved its importance in some of the most vital applications in business such as Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Customer Relationship Management (CRM), and Supply-Chain Management (SCM). ERP is the incorporated management software of core business processes and is facilitated by software and technology. Focused on the capabilities of Oracle, Technology Xpress Info Solutions, Pvt. Ltd. (T-XIS) is an expert in providing superior quality Oracle ERP solutions and

Empowering Businesses with High Class Solutions Headquartered in Pune, T-XIS has an expertise in delivering high quality business solutions & consulting. It is known that integration of data is the crucial objective to be achieved in any ERP system and therefore, this start-up was initiated with the idea of providing data in integrated models. The leading organization is an Oracle Gold Partner, assisting clients to get the most out of their businesses. The company also has proﬁciencies in supporting technology related products related to Application, Database, Middleware, and infrastructure. Presently, T-XIS has developed a vast experience in developing, modifying, and improving medium to large scale ERP and offers unmatched ERP solutions and services to prominent clients comprising of medium and large companies. Impressively, the signiﬁcant assets of T-XIS are unique merger of onsite and offshore implementations, and advanced project management practices. New Type of Cloud with Abundant Added Features

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services to the global market. Primarily, T-XIS was established to provide customers with the best-in-class services in the ERP domain.

T-XIS utilizes the power of Oracle PaaS to assist customers to develop, run, and manage web applications with simplified building. It also helps them to maintain the infrastructure that is characteristically associated with developing and launching an app. Today, it has replaced the traditional way and is now helping enterprises in making better use of cloud such as securing, mobilizing, integrating, and proving analytics on the data in much simplified way. Moreover, PaaS comes with many advantages such as IT efficiency, business upgrading, and risk reduction. Besides, it increases automation, improves scalability, and increases

IT focus on business results rather than platform management. Leader Contributing to Mission and Vision of the Firm A leader is the one who guides the team towards the goal and walks with the team. One such leader for T-XIS is Manisha Borade, Chief Technical Officer at T-XIS. As the CTO, Manisha has many responsibilities and she handles them with great pleasure. Her technical responsibilities are product development, innovative models which are built as per the market trend and customer feedback. Manisha and her team enjoy developing products and solutions that are completely workflow driven, analytical, and dashboard ready as this is what the modern customers demand nowadays. Furthermore, Manisha likes to contribute to the mission and vision of the firm. The mission of T-XIS is to accomplish the objectives with due consideration to humanity, honesty, and transparency towards the clients, employees, strategic partners, and society at large. Vision and Values of the Company T-XIS is envisioned to be a global, pioneering organization by providing customized niche business resolutions, helping organizations to attain their vision through quality technology, delivered by experts. The company’s core values have helped it in the journey, and given unique character and reputation that defines it. The team of T-XIS is concentrated on important values like customer focus, knowledge worship, respect, empowering individuals, entrepreneurship & innovation, integrity, community contribution, teamwork, long-term relationships based on trust, and focus on profitable growth. Technology Driven Team Empowering the Growth of T-XIS Teamwork is very important for any organization to get success and with collaborative efforts comes the great accomplishments. T-XIS is a team of expert IT professionals with strong domain knowledge and high

Manisha Borade Chief Technical Ofﬁcer

calibre, comprising of talented experts with approach engrossed on implementing unified solutions for the customers. T-XIS has produced a productive and collaborative work environment greatly influenced by open communication, safety & trust, synergy, and knowledge sharing as these are the fundamental things needed to produce a constructive work culture. T-XIS team is very passionate about technology and the firm follows an open work culture to inspire each other along with sharing and participation amid the team members at all levels. Here, multiple teams work together in managing sales, marketing, finance, administrations, etc. Roadmap for the Future Presently, T-XIS emphasises on building an ERP model for customers which is completely integrated and intelligent to analyse the critical business extents and generate informative data for the management. It is also intended to create mobile applications necessary for crucial decision making. The firm is also planning to solidify its existence in Automation, Analytics, and mobile applications. Today, T-XIS is focused on the market needs and is aiming to magnify its horizon in Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS).

Future of Blockchain & ERP

Blockchain-based ERP systems

lockchain technology is being implemented in a large number of industries from supply chain, IT services to ﬁnancial services. Today, blockchain’s distributed ledger technology is one of the greatest innovations. It is likely to take a substantial amount of time before global adoption. Nonetheless, technologists and leading businesses have realized that the blockchain technology can play a big role in areas like logistics, supply chain, and production that typically falls under the ERP systems domain. It is foreseen that the blockchain application in ERP will help businesses in reducing the recall requirements. It has the ability to share the production diary among all original equipment manufacturers (OEM). Therefore, it is possible to accurately and promptly recall the affected products. All 30

manufacturers in the ecosystem can strictly control the flow of goods and payment transactions. In this manner, it helps in improving transaction-processing speed and minimizes risks. In financial companies, blockchain with ERP minimizes recording errors like duplicate financial transactions and make payments quicker. Transparency and reliability in transactions are the major benefits of using blockchain with ERP. However, there are several challenges associated with blockchain adoption that must be mitigated before its widespread integration can happen. Like many futuristic business leaders, if you too aspire to implement blockchain in ERP systems for seamless results, you must overcome these top 5 challenges beforehand.

1. Managing growing number of users Currently, blockchain technology is facing problems in effectively supporting a large number of users on a network. Therefore, to match the high user base, blockchain will need to have better scalability. The leading blockchain technology-based networks Bitcoin and Ethereum get slower in transaction processes. Moreover, higher fees are charged per transaction because of a substantial rise in users. There should be in-depth research about how to upgrade blockchain to improve its user management capability. It will take a signiﬁcant amount of time to develop such capacity to handle the increasing growth in users. Further, thoroughly vetted and veriﬁed scaling methods are important before implementation into the ledgers. Thus, one should consider the scalability before connecting blockchain with ERP systems on a wide scale. 2. Illegal usage and exposure Blockchain technology is mostly used in bitcoin, altcoins, etc that are illegal in some countries. In a paper titled “A Survey on the Security of Blockchain Systems” published through the Cornell University Library, a team of researchers found that criminals use cryptocurrencies to purchase restricted materials on online marketplaces. Likewise, they use it as a tool for money laundering and payment methods for ransomware. Nevertheless, these illegal activities are a result of people’s applications of digital currencies in global trade and can be carried out with approved currency too. However, for blockchain technology to be accepted by the public, it must restrict its usage in such scenarios. 3. Security and privacy In their initial design, developers made blockchains to be publicly visible. The Bitcoin blockchain is designed to be accessible to all those who have made a transaction on the network. In such cases of bitcoin

and other cryptocurrencies, public visibility is an important feature. However, for governments and companies, this exposure creates a number of concerns. Most of the ERP systems in companies need to protect and restrict access to their data for a myriad of reasons. Therefore, blockchain technology cannot work in spaces with sensitive data until developers find out the resolution for this challenge. As a solution to public visibility, one can customize blockchain to meet the needs and specifications of the specific ERP system. A blockchain can be made restricted to others. This means that people can only access parts of the blockchain which are relevant to their tasks. Creating such custom blockchains takes a sizable amount of expertise and planning. Today, security and privacy is the prime concern of ERP systems. Therefore, a clear and secure blockchain-based ERP model with limited and customizable data access should be developed to tackle such issues. 4. Unsustainable energy consumption The Bitcoin network and Ethereum network both use the proof-of-work (PoW) algorithm to validate transactions made on the blockchains. It is most popular mechanism for blockchain. It requires the computation of ultra-complex mathematical problems to verify and process transactions and to secure the network. Therefore, combined with ERP, blockchain systems will consume extra power to run the computers and a considerable amount of infrastructure will be required for cooling and maintaining the systems. According to a recent finding, the miners who work to validate transactions in the Bitcoin blockchain consume about 0.2 percent of the global electricity total per year. The solution over the high-energy consumption problem is to use Proof-of-stake algorithm instead of Proof-of-work (PoW). This will also help the

Future of Blockchain & ERP

implementation of blockchain in ERP to operate with sustainable energy consumption. Still, the shift from PoW to PoS has to be compatible with current systems and run as per the output requirements.

understanding of this complex technology and help progress the market. Moreover, there are potential opportunities for standards to play a role in sectors where provenance tracking is important. Conclusion:

5. The need for industry standards Designing a standard blockchain-ERP system that is conﬁdential and secure is a big task. Thus, companies need to agree on standards and practices for seamless connectivity through such blockchain-based ERP models. Moreover, the user must overcome the slower processing rate to avoid interaction failure between IoT devices and other systems. With some proof of concepts, global industries should adopt a common standard and give it the time to convert and become compatible. These standards will play an important role in ensuring scalability and interoperability between multiple blockchain implementations. It will also help in reducing the risk of a fragmented ecosystem. Further, standards could improve

In the heart of today’s business world, where people’s lives are enmeshed with digital technologies, the blockchain powered ERP system can be a breakthrough product. ERP providers are slowly realizing the positive impact blockchain technology could make. But, it needs to tackle the above challenges effectively in order to emerge as prime support for ERP systems. Blockchain enables frictionless functioning of businesses in a uniﬁed ecosystem and allows them to control their resources and growth far better. Experts say that blockchain could potentially transform how modern businesses operate. Currently, ERP softwares are focused on individual enterprises, while blockchain integration adds more ﬂexibility, but the security and privacy should not be compromised.

Supporting Clients to Achieve their Goals with Advanced Tech Offerings

he ever-evolving nature of technologies has made the world unpredictable; a major breakthrough can change the way business world functions. Moreover, the advantages of continuously changing technologies have opened several doors for improvement in each sector resulting in enhanced outcomes and numerous growth possibilities. The significant overlap of ever-shifting technology and its benefits for banking products and services has been the prime motivator for Trempplin to create possibilities for its clients and their end customers. Trempplin Centre of Excellence (TCoE) consulting is a global leader in technology consulting and software services domain with a constantly expanding focus on banking and financial services.

banking and ﬁnance domain with a major work experience in Oracle SQL and PL/SQL. Kalmesh with his team of technical talents strive to deliver services and build longlasting relationships with customers and partners consistently. A Colossal Range of Deliverables The Bangalore, India based organization leverages its cutting-edge infrastructure and highly skilled team members to deliver quality software products for the businesses. In addition, TCoE also trains students aspiring to build a career in the Information Technology arena. 1) Services

Incepted in 2016, TCoE is an Oracle Silver Partner that has made its own position in the market with its software development, training, and consulting services. Considering “creating possibilities” as an integral part of its culture, TCoE has been exactly doing that in more than 10 countries globally. Kalmesh Kallur, Co-founder and Managing Director of TCoE, is an expert in core processing areas of

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FlexCube: The IT solution provider’s major offering is a core banking application and ﬁnancial IT solution dubbed as FlexCube. FlexCube is a group of networking bank branches. TCoE’s team facilitates FlexCube implementation, optimization, and version upgrade. Moreover, FlexCube is designed to serve as a technology enabler to meet the ever-growing needs of Financial Inclusion in banks and Financial Institutions (FIs) in emerging market economies.

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TCoE’s services help its clients in banking, implementation, digital banking, optimization, version upgrade, business intelligence, and anti-money laundering.

Consulting: Under its consulting solutions, TCoE provides specialized banking advisory services that aid banks in making a strategic and thought driven decision. Its team does this by a thorough analysis and computation of various requirements of the organization. Ÿ

Other additional offerings: Apart from its major offerings, TCoE is also involved in ERP development, website development, HRMS Application, Leave/Attendance Management System, School/College management system, technical training etc.

Courses

Besides the above array of services, the continuously growing organization also offers different courses in Oracle, JAVA, software testing, HADOOP, SAP, web development, banking, and Six Sigma Green Belt. All these courses are upgraded with time and are comprised of basic to advanced contents. Moreover, its team of experts with deep domain knowledge makes the training impeccable. 3) Product Ÿ

MicroFlex: This simple and reliable core banking system for Microfinance institutions and banks enables their customers to operate accounts and avail Microfinancing services from any branch of the Microfinance. In this way, customer convenience is enhanced, thus making them a part of Microfinance’s customers list instead of the branch. Notably, MicroFlex comes with two major features; first is customer loan online, which allows customers to make loan payments online. Using this time saving and user-friendly feature, customers can be benefited in many ways like expenses control, reduced risk of loss and theft, low commission etc. Secondly, the SMS Alerts for Customers function allows users to keep track of their accounts. SMS alert service comes with multiple functionalities like loan reminder alert, loan repayment/disbursement alert, and deposit or withdrawal alerts.

Collaborative Culture Strengthening Trempplin Knowing the fact that collaboration can invigorate organizations by fully engaging employees, improving retention, and increasing innovation, TCoE believes in creating a team-oriented workforce that not only helps it to promote great work environment but also ensures employees job satisfaction. Moreover, having such an environment within, which focuses on the success of the team as a whole and not on individual accomplishments, the strength of an individual member of a team working together is leading TCoE towards continued success.

Kalmesh Kallur Co-founder & Managing Director

managing overall operations and resources of the company. Moreover, being its public face; he also acts as the main point of communication between the board of directors and corporate operations. Furthermore, Kalmesh likes to be indulged in social responsibilities, as it helps to maintain awareness of the competitive market landscape, expansion opportunities, industries, and development. Moving ahead with a Unique Approach to Measure Success Presently, the team of TCoE is striving to push boundaries in the technology product space with a path-breaking mobile based application—FlexCube. Further, as the proﬁcient leader, Kalmesh believes that physical expansion is no longer necessary to grow a proﬁtable business. Moreover, in the near future, TCoE looks ahead to offer online transactions like instant payment to its users. As the company is in the boom stage of its journey, Kalmesh reports that they are hiring new people, launching new campaigns, and also building new partnerships actively.

A Far-Sighted Personality Leading Trempplin Being the Managing Director of TCoE, Kalmesh is responsible for making major corporate decisions, and

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