Jon Hirschtick, Co-founder and CEO
Modern CAD that lets Teams Design Together in a Secure Cloud Workspace
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he technology would have not been this advanced without the emergence of cloud computing. Cloud has become the essence of all technologies. Let it be IoT, Big Data, Virtualization, Mobility, or Software; Applications of all the technologies require cloud directly or indirectly for their operations. Realizing the infinite opportunities provided by cloud, numerous companies have emerged to leverage the power of internet to empower their clients. In “The 10 Best Cloud Solution Providers to Look for in 2018,” we have shortlisted the 10 companies who have exhibited their innovative approach in the most efficient manner and became the most prominent technology partners in the industry. On the cover of this issue, we have featured Onshape, a company that has utilized the advantages of the cloud technology to bring modeling tools and design data management in a secure cloud workspace that is accessible on any device, never loses data, and eliminates design gridlock. Doing so, Onshape’s modern CAD system frees engineers to focus on doing their best work. In this story, we have inscribed brief information about the founders—Jon Hirschtick, John McEleney, David Corcoran, Tommy Li, Scott Harris and Michael Lauer—and the original builders of SOLIDWORKS®. In this magazine, we have Clairvoyant, a company headquartered in Chandler, Arizona, that assists organizations to build innovative products and solutions using Big Data, Cloud, Design Thinking and Lean Architectures. Clairvoyant has recently developed Kogni that enables companies to discover sensitive data in enterprise data sources, to secure data as it is ingested, and to continuously monitor data sources for possible breach and policy violations. We have shared the story of CloudPassage, which is a company that provides an automation platform, delivered via software-as-a-service, improving security for private, public, and hybrid cloud computing environments. Furthermore, we have scribbled about Epos Now. Epos Now is an award-winning point of sale software and hardware provider committed to providing industry-leading technology to SMEs in the hospitality and retail sector. Going ahead, we talk about HashedIn Technologies, a leading cloud services solution provider and an Amazon Web Service (AWS) Advanced partner; ISHIR, a global diversified outsourced IT services company which brings Offshore Outsourcing to clients’ doorstep; Jimdo, a platform providing the easiest way to create a website on a computer, smartphone, or tablet; and MageCloud, a web development company specializing in Magento ecommerce development. In “The 10 Best Cloud Solution Providers to Look for in 2018,” we have also comprehensively listed the services provided by Zerone Consulting and Zoolz Intelligent Cloud. Along with their services, we have included initiatives taken by them to deliver client satisfaction and the factors that make these companies better than competitors. We congratulate these companies for creating and delivering noble cloud solutions and we are positive that their continuous innovations will further expand the cloud industry.
Editor-in Chief Vikram Suryawanshi
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Publisher Archana Ghule
Project Manager Roger Johnson Rohan Yadav Rahul Vishwakarma
Editor-in Chief Vikram Suryawanshi Managing Editor Anuja Mulmule
Graphic Designers Poonam Magdum, Sumit Bonage
Editorial Coordinators Bansidhar Tigga, Nikita Pathak
Art Director Mark Davis
Head of Distribution and Production Aakash Mahajan
Research Analysts James Adams Maria Smith David Thomas
Head of Operations Robert Smith
Advertising Jacob Eddy
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Chandra Ambadipudi
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Carson Sweet
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ISHIR Heavens 28 Jacyn Epos Now
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Muayyad Shehadeh
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Christian Springub Matthias Henze Fridtjof Detzner
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Jimdo 40 Jeyash Puthuparambil Zerone Consulting
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Jon Hirschtick, Co-founder and CEO
Modern CAD that lets Teams Design Together in a Secure Cloud Workspace
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IoT, Big Data & Cloud Computing services, reshaping the e-healthcare system
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Onshape
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IoT, Big Data & Cloud Computing services, reshaping the e-healthcare system
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Clairvoyant Chandra Ambadipudi, Cofounder & CEO
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ISHIR Rishi Khanna, Founder & CEO
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Jimdo Christian Springub, Fridtjof Detzner,Matthias Henze, Co-founders
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Onshape Jon Hirschtick, Co-founder & CEO
Zerone Consulting Jeyash Puthuparambil, CEO
Zoolz Muayyad Shehadeh,Founder & CEO
Company Info Clairvoyant assists organizations to build innovative products and solutions using Big Data, Cloud, Design Thinking and Lean Architectures.www.clairvoyantso .com CloudPassage, Inc., is one of the fastest growing company, offering innovative & trouble shooting solutions on the front lines of cloud computing & security.www.cloudpassage.com Epos Now is a company that was founded on a belief that all businesses and entrepreneurs should be able to leverage the power of both cloud computing and modern technology to power their businesses.www.eposnow.com
HashedIn Technologies Pvt. Ltd., is a leading cloud services solution provider and an Amazon Web Service (AWS) Advanced partner.www.hashedin.com
ISHIR is one such globally diversified and leading offshore software development company, with experience and expertise in a broad range of services and solutions.www.ishir.com
Jimdo is the easiest way to create a website on a computer, smartphone, or tablet—no coding necessary.www.jimdo.com
MageCloud is a leading PaaS for open source e-commerce company; making Magento more accessible to businesses and developers.www.magecloud.net Onshape is a venture-backed company that includes key members of the original SOLIDWORKS® team plus elite engineers from the cloud, data security and mobile industries.www.onshape.com Zerone Consulting supports enterprises of all sizes to get up and running with different cloud infrastructure deployments. www.zerone-consul ng.com
Zoolz Intelligent Cloud, is a market leading provider of cloud based storage, that offers an affordable and secure cloud solution for businesses and individuals.www.zoolz.com
Modern CAD That Lets Teams Design Together in a Secure Cloud Workspace
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We’re very excited to empower design and manufacturing teams across the world with modern CAD. As Onshape delivers product improvements every three weeks, the development team is able to prioritize new features and enhancements based on customer needs. Onshape co-founder John McEleney was previously the CEO of CloudSwitch, a cloud enterprise software company which was acquired by Verizon. He recommends that future entrepreneurs in the cloud space focus on two questions: 1. What Problem Are You Solving?: “Focus on the problem, NOT the platform. Too often, entrepreneurs will immediately dive into the technology of their proposed solution and argue why they have a superior solution. They rarely talk about the problem they’re trying to solve. Try to personalize the story of who has the problem (create a persona) and explain how they are currently trying to deal with it. Then and only then should you discuss how your solution is the best solution to the problem. The cloud should primarily be thought of as a delivery mechanism for your solution.” 2. Why Are You Creating This Solution? “Try and answer this question honestly and with a level of specificity. How many people have this problem and how important is it to solve? Are people running around with their “hair on fire” looking for a solution, or can they wait a while to solve the problem? If they can wait a year or two (or more), then you have an urgent problem.” Onshape’s Quick Learning Curve Onshape has a quick learning curve for engineers with previous CAD experience. Many CAD users who sign up for an Onshape Professional trial quickly recognize the benefits of modern cloud CAD and switch to Onshape as their primary CAD system.
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enables companies to identify and stop stolen credentials, insider threats, and data breaches. The firm uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to secure cloud applications, this deal is made to enhance security of Amazon’s offerings. Alphabet acquired Kaggle in March: To enhance the AI capabilities in the cloud, Google has acquired Kaggle. Kaggle is the world's largest data science community and offers a platform to data scientists to write and share codes, host data sets, and conduct machine learning contests. Microsoft acquired Cloudyn in June: Cloudyn is a company helping clients to manage their cloud billing efficiently across multiple clouds. This acquisition is made to support the customers’ decisions about implementing multi-cloud strategy. Amazon acquired GameSparks in July: GameSparks is a company providing cloud-based development platform for game developers. This acquisition is a prudent move from Amazon to expand as a platform to build and host games. Microsoft acquired Cycle Computing in August: Cycle Computing is a company specialized in providing software for orchestrating computing and storage resources, particularly in cloud environments. This acquisition is expected to help customers to utilize Big Computing capabilities such as High-Performance Computing (HPC). Alphabet acquired Bitium in September: Bitium is a startup focused on providing identity access and management tools for cloud-based services. This deal is expected to allow Google to manage the security levels within the organizations.
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Clairvoyant Transforming Businesses With Powerful Digital Disruptions
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Chandra Ambadipudi CEO & Co-founder
Our deep technological expertise, “ industry best practice, architecture designs, and repeatable solutions help us to provide quality solutions to customers and hence drive our success.
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CloudPassage: Delivering Innovative, Automated Security & Cloud Compliance Solutions
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Carson Sweet Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer
“At CloudPassage we're aligned on a single goal: providing the best cloud security solution available anywhere at any scale ”
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Epos Now: Empowering Business with Latest Technologies
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Jacyn Heavens Founder & CEO
“In order to achieve our goal in becoming the name synonymous with EPOS excellence, we intend to retain the dynamic and agile company culture of a startup to ensure our products are at the cutting edge of innovation.
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HashedIn Technologies: Engineering Outcomes By Leveraging Digital Technologies In Innovative Ways
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loud Computing has revamped the entire IT landscape. It has offered mobility, flexibility, agility and high accessibility to the workforce. Cloud has been responsible for increased enterprise economies and high tech computing infrastructure, thereby reducing IT expenditure. Enterprises and companies of all sizes are swiftly adopting this new wave of digital transformation by utilizing cloud based software, platforms, operational systems, enhanced visibility and lower IT entanglements.
HashedIn Technologies Pvt. Ltd., is a leading cloud services solution provider and an Amazon Web Service (AWS) Advanced partner. Incepted in 2010, the company was founded with the vision to help businesses create a unified digital experience by translating ideas to market ready products at speed, and innovative ways. Till date, it has been highly successful in building, transforming and launching 105+ products for customers in the US and APAC region. The cloud solutions provider, specializes in building creative software products for enterprises using cloud-native architecture, micro services, and agile processes. The company's strength lies in leveraging digital technologies, by integrating applications and thereby providing a seamless, efficient and intelligent platform. Their business accelerators and software engineering process helps in deploying digital technologies to create a unifying customer experience. Role Model & Peoples’ Leader Himanshu Varshney is the CEO of HashedIn Technologies Pvt. Ltd. Himanshu is an Alumni of IIT Guwahati and has been an active leader and volunteer for the IIT-G Alumni Bangalore Chapter. He was termed as an All-Rounder in his graduate batch for being excellent both at academics and extracurricular activities. Himanshu has 14+ years of experience in the software industry.
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He started his career with Trilogy Software and further climbed the career ladder very quickly to the role of Director, Global Service. In his capacity as the Director, he headed delivery for Trilogy Inc, that consists of working with 50+ vendors from 10+ countries delivering technology solutions for Fortune 500 enterprises. He has been largely instrumental in driving 100% customer success rate and in bringing guaranteed outcomes for businesses. Before starting HashedIn, Himanshu had clarity and determination of how, what and where he wanted to take his dream company. In his current role as the CEO, Himanshu wears multiple hats at HashedIn and has led the team from its inception. Known as the people’s leader by Hashers, he follows the philosophy of ‘Lead by Vision.’ Himanshu is one of the best advocates for customer success and inspires everyone around him with the same. He has received many accolades and recognition from the customer, and his Alma-Mater for the same. Remarkable Range of Cloud Solutions HashedIn has been offering a unique range of cloud solutions since its establishment. As part of their DevOps as a service, the company is focused on providing a host of cloud services for small, medium and large enterprises. Over the years of their association with AWS, the cloud solutions provider has helped 40+ organizations in creating reliable, scalable and robust cloud infrastructure. Few of its applications hosted on AWS handles have garnered around 1M+ hits per day. Over the last few years, HashedIn has played an important role in educating and migrating multiple legacy enterprises to AWS. Below mentioned are few of its solutions. As part of HashedIn’s AWS offerings, the company• •
Architects highly available and reliable systems on AWS. Help large/medium enterprises in moving to
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AWS cloud or adopt new AWS services. Optimize the existing cloud infrastructure in terms of cost, scale or performance. Unifies AWS systems with external services like dockers, on-prem systems, 3rd party services integration, CI/CD, SaaS systems etc.
Key Reasons Behind HashedIn’s Success Hashers (Employees): The decision makers of the company credits their employees for taking timely initiatives, delivering successful results and staying loyal to the company. Partnerships: HashedIn has strong partnerships with RedisLabs and the only leading technology service providers from the APAC region as a part of the RedisLabs ecosystem. It is also an AWS advanced consulting partner, as one of the few AWS 50 certified company in India. Core Values: The team functions on strong core values such as customer success, growth as well as fun.
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Philosophy: Every employee acts as an owner and use their judgement to make the right calls for themselves, their team, the company and society as a whole.
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Upcoming Projects Himanshu, and his team of Hashers will be betting and investing next on Voice. The entire Hashers group has been doing experiments and PoC on the new project. This is being supported by leveraging machine learning and artificial intelligence. Furthermore, the cloud service provider in looking to innovate conversational business intelligence by using AWS services and Alexa: Amazon Lex (Build Voice and Text Chatbots) and Amazon Polly (Turn Text into Lifelike Speech). Since this is the current and growing space, HashedIn has been anticipating to conquer these challenges over the next few months.
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environment around themselves. As there are many opportunities in the market, the seasoned CEO suggests the young generation, to stay firm about what they believe in, and take ownership of all the tasks by giving their best shot.
Words of Wisdom Himanshu Varshney advices the budding entrepreneurs to follow their passion, remain physically active, happy and create a positive
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ISHIR: Bringing Offshore Outsourcing Services To The Clients’ Doorstep
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Rishi Khanna CEO & Founder
“ At ISHIR, we act as client's trusted advisor specializing in areas of technology and digital services to help achieve their business success.�
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Jimdo: Enabling Entrepreneurs to Create a Website in Minutes
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Christian Springub, Fridtjof Detzner, Matthias Henze
“By giving people the possibility to create a stunning website themselves, to have it quick, affordable and the way they want it to be, we can help the best ideas get out into the world and have a real impact �
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MageCloud: Delivering High Class e-Commerce Tools For Businesses
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Paul Ryazanov CEO
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Zerone Consulting: Architecting The Next Generation Of Digital Enterprise With Cognitive Technologies
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Jeyash Puthuparambil CEO
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Zoolz The Future of Intelligent Cloud Storage
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Muayyad Shehadeh, Founder & CEO
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