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Durairaj Dhanasekaran CEO QAssure Technologies
Company of the Month
Dot Com Infoway Inspires app developers to climb towards Success through GMASA
Venkatesh C R Founder Dot Com Infoway
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Vol: 2 Issue: 1 July 2016 Publisher: Shrikant Pandey Editor: Ram Avtar Morya Editorial Team: Ayanangsha Maitra Abhishek Dubey Advertisement: Anil Singh (anil@theceo.in) 9718722305
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rexit'and'Rexit (R Rajan's exit)' have made Indian market experts worried. It is very difficult to tell which has much impact on Indian economy. The United Kingdom has decided to exit the European Union. Some experts believe that it will not have any significant credit impact on India as well as in the Asia Pacific region. The World Trade Centre, Mumbai hosted an interactive session on "Brexit - Impact on Indian economy" on July 11.We have filed a story on the event in this issue.
This issue of The CEO Magazine talks exclusively on IoT and QA testing companies. We have carried stories about companies like Pingaksho, CloudSignals,W3Softech. New Delhi based EIGEN Technologies helps IoT application developers with complete IoT suite to ease development at affordable cost. EIGEN is also launching a smart agriculture app with wireless soil & weather sensors by this year. Fouryear-old organization Trantor has received huge reputation in the market for delivering large & complex QA programs. We have covered the stories of some other QA testing companies, who not only provide flexible and customized packages, but also enable customers to build quality software. Backed by a strong track-record of innovation, QA InfoTech's comprehensive range of software testing solutions enable its clients to cross new thresholds of business performance. We spoke to Ruslan Desyatnikov, CEO of New York based QA Mentor. QA Mentor's eight Global locations with two Testing Centers of Excellence in Ukraine and India allow them to cover all time zones with overlapping working hours for clients. New offices of QA Mentor will be opened in Bangalore, Mumbai and Philippines, Ruslan Desyatnikov confirmed the news. TCM has decided to feature QAssure Technologies as the Company of the Month. Establishing its position in the areas of web design and development, SEO, internet marketing, Dot Com Infoway is now encouraging and inspiring app developers. The Cover story Dot Com Infoway Inspires app developers to climb towards Success through GMASA explores the company's GMASA project in depth. Regards, Ayanangsha Maitra Editorial Associate The CEO Magazine, New Delhi @Ayanangsha ayan@theceo.in
Content Trantor continuously fuels to Innovate, build World class Testing infrastructure
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Cover Story Dot Com Infoway Inspires app developers
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to climb towards Success through GMASA QA InfoTech’s Centers of Excellence assure 14-15 unbiased Software Quality End-to-End QA Services: A boom market of 16-17 Software in a Global Age GAVEL & ZIF not just pithy acronyms- GAVS’ 18-20 levers for IT disruption and drive towards higher availability of business services
25 Fastest Growing QA & Testing Companies in India
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Siroya Constructions: A reliable & emerged Real Estate service
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North America Market calls Pingaksho 26-27 Technologies Soon to open branches in Canada & USA
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EIGEN unveils SENSEnuts IoT Smart Street 28-29 Light & CCMS, to launch a Smart Agriculture App with Smart Sensors soon!!
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QA Mentor Switching Strategies to offer Cost 32-33 effective QA Services, Flexible Solutions Business Data Gathering: The massive way 34-35 to boom your business COMPANY OF THE MONTH
QAssure brings together the essential 36-37 combination of robust domain knowledge, exceptional technical abilities and burgeoning strategic alliances Durairaj Dhanasekaran CEO
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ThinkSys - The Best Resort for Outstanding Timely and Reliable IT Solutions
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Orchid Lakeview: The dream residence in the modern era
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Trantor continuously fuels to Innovate, build World class Testing infrastructure diversified service offerings with increased focus on value added services
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nterprises today need robust and reliable solutions at much faster speed than ever before. This requires Quality Assurance and Testing teams to be nimble and innovative. Believing this Trantor set up its ground in Menlo Park, CA in 2012 that presently serves more than eighty Global Clients including five Fortune 500 clients, backed by four hundred strong professional and experienced employees. Within a year of inception, Trantor became ISO 9001:2008 and ISO 27001 certified firm and made state of the art Global delivery Center (GDC) in of 40000 sq. ft. in IT Park, Chandigarh. Four-year-old, Trantor has received huge reputation in the market for delivering large & complex QA programs. Trantor not only provides flexible and customized packages, but also enables customers to build quality software while improving time-to-market and reducing cost of quality. Trantor's Testing Centers of Excellence (TCoE) enable clients to optimize testing processes and align them with business and technology goals, improve quality focus and drive innovation. The company's software testing expertise includes designing test strategies, manual test execution, building maintainable automation, setting up test labs, documenting test processes, providing project management, security testing, performance testing, API testing, mobile testing and a host of other software testing services. In addition to these, Trantor offers QA advisory consulting services pertinent to complex industry-specific processes, as well as across several verticals. Their next gen QA services include POS Devices testing, Ecommerce Testing, Digital QA, Big Data & Analytics Testing and Test Data Management.
Rajat Julka Director & Head- India Delivery Center Trantor
"We deliver innovative technology solutions to enable our clients achieve their business objectives at reduced cost. For last 4 years, Trantor has provided independent software QA and testing services across multiple industries, serving more than 80 global customers, including Fortune 100 companies. Our experience & success is reflected through more than 200 successfully completed software development and testing projects, backed by the testimonials of our respected customers and every growing staff of highly skilled software professionals.� "We build long term partnerships with customers spread across Fintech, Ecommerce, Healthcare, Technology, Enterprise Mobility and Healthcare Technology by setting up Dedicated Center of Excellence to enable customer's scale, reduce costs and improve innovation," Trantor told The CEO Magazine.
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Executive Management Sriram Iyer, (Managing Partner) is a serial entrepreneur, who brings over twenty years of professional experience. He founded multiple successful companies - Intersoft, Second Foundation, Foundation3, Trantor and co-founded Second Foundation Inc., a Global Services company acquired by Fidelity Information Services(FIS) in 2007. Pradeep S. Bakshi (Managing Partner) - He has spent two decades in Software Services, Consulting, Global Delivery, Hi-Tech, Manufacturing, Logistics and Financial Services Industries. He co-founded Foundation3, Trantor, Second Foundation. Inc - a Global Services company acquired by Fidelity Information Services(FIS) in 2007. Rajat Julka is serving as Director & Head - India Delivery Center at Trantor and has played key role in driving the company's growth from 40 + people to 400 people in last four years. Rajat has extensive exposure in delivering software consulting to Retail, Real Estate, HealthCare, Financial and Insurance sectors. A Post Graduate in Computer Applications, Rajat loves building organizations by promoting work culture
focused on innovation, learning & value addition to customers, people and the organization. Rajat has been an active mentor to regional Technology startups. " We are working towards becoming CMMI certified organization by end of first quarter of 2017 and look ahead to double our employee strength within next 2 years. Our goal is to build an organization in Chandigarh that will give stable, challenging and rewarding opportunities to engineers and around the region so that they don't have to relocate to other parts of the country, leaving their families behind, just to find a good jobs for themselves," said spokesperson of Trantor. Trantor's experience & success is reflected through more than two hundred successfully completed software development and testing projects. The company launched Big Data Grinder - Data aggregation and curation Product in 2014 and then expanded its presence opening second office having 20,000 Sq. ft space in Chandigarh IT Park. It has world class testing infrastructure and continuously invest in developing various test labs. As a result, Trantor has become a partner of choice to the clients across BFSI, Ecommerce & Retail, Healthcare, Enterprise Mobility, Transportation and Technology verticals.
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Cover Story
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Inspires app developers to climb towards Success through GMASA Ayanangsha Maitra • New Delhi
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ot Com Infoway or DCI is an ISO-certified, CMMI L3 company that aims to strategically transform and expand in today's challenging business environment. This self-funded enterprise that has grown from a fledgling tenmember company to one of the country's leading IT companies through its CEO's mettle and vision. The world's top-most business capitals are now their customer base. It has offices in Chennai, Madurai, New York and
Germany. The differences in culture and currency of the cities of three continents do not matter to them much. DCI employs over three hundred English-speaking specialists from different areas to deliver sustainable, competitive and advanced services. The company is one of the country's leading IT firms that provides services that encompass a wide range of solutions for web design and development, SEO, internet marketing, mobile app development and mobile app marketing.
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Their integrated solutions for client requirements attract five hundred clients including Forix Digital, XTRM, Cookieman, GT Bicycles. DCI has PMI and PMP certified Project Managers to handle projects of varying scales. " In the past year, DCI has expanded its ventures within both the mobile and web industries. One of our major achievements in the conception and launch of one of the industry's major mobile conferences, GMASA. DCI has successfully launched its Mobile Ad Platform, ADATHA. DCI has also recently marked first anniversary of the publication of Apps World Mag, a mobile-industry-centered publication that focuses on the latest buzz and trends in the mobile industry. DCI has also extended its reach into the startup economy with Startup 360o, a publication that aims at providing the latest news and insights into the startup sector, " Venkatesh C R, CEO of DCI expressed. Venkatesh C R, a visionary entrepreneur, CEO and MD of Dot Com Infoway (DCI), is one of the IT industry's foremost thought-leaders who is known for his tenacity and firm belief in hard work and dedication. Under his stewardship, DCI has evolved from a fledgling start-up to the country's leading IT firms. With a passion to start something on his own, he has successfully launched a number of ventures. Galatta.com is one of those. It is a media initiative and movie portal of Dot Com Infoway which is engaged in
the legal aggregation and distribution of movie related content online. Following that, in 2014, Venkatesh launched the development of ADATHA, D C I ' s mobile
ad platform which earned a spot among the top mobile ad platforms within months of its launch. Fast on the heels of ADATHA, came the publication of Apps World Mag and Startup 360o, digital magazines dedicated to the app and startup ecosphere, respectively. In 2015, Venkatesh initiated the concept of the Global Mobile App Summit and Awards (GMASA), a global conference that would bring together the mobile industry's front-runners and thought-leaders to a single platform where they could share their insights and innovations with the industry's next generation of entrepreneurs and developers. The inaugural event which was held in Chennai was a resounding success, and was followed by another grand success in Bangkok. Through Venkatesh's able guidance, the conference has grown into a globally recognized platform within the mobile community. Here The CEO Magazine presents the conversation with Venkatesh C R, where he mostly talks about DCI's GMASA initiative. The CEO Magazine: Why GMASA has become DCI's prior concern? Venkatesh C R: The Global Mobile App Summit and India
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Awards is a conference that primarily focuses on finding and rewarding exceptional talent in the mobile industry. The event sees some of the industry's leading brands and entrepreneurs gather under a single roof to share their insights and experience within the mobile ecosystem. The event is packed with keynote speeches, panel discussions, workshops, awards and exhibitions geared towards the latest trends and practices in the mobile industry. TCM: Why did you envision/conceive GMASA? Venkatesh C R: One of the main factors driving this decision was to be able to give budding app developers and entrepreneurs a leg up in the climb towards success within this industry. Bringing the industry's leading entrepreneurs and thought-leaders within easy reach gives our attendees a chance to gain a firm insight into the world of mobile app development and marketing, and thereby, help them make informed decisions and plans for their own product. In addition, through our Pitch Fests, we also hope to give promising and innovative talent in both mobile and startup ecosphere a chance to pull in much-needed investment to get their business off the ground. We aim at giving them a chance to turn their worth-while ideas into reality. Our GMASA awards aim at recognizing the best and innovative apps and ideas, to give them a muchdeserved exposure and accolades. TCM: There are a number of mobile conferences that have cropped up in recent times. What makes GMASA different from other conferences? Venkatesh C R: GMASA was primarily started with the aim to help and foster untapped talent in the industry. In putting previously unrecognized, yet innovative ideas into the spotlight and giving them a much-desired exposure, GMASA sets itself apart from other conferences. TCM: What are the takeaways from the first two events Venkatesh C R: Mobile interactivity is now an indelible part of our lives; from shopping for groceries to planning a holiday. Starting GMASA has broadened our view into the extent to which mobility has become integrated with our daily lives and the benefits of this
integration which includes personalised experiences and immediate access to information. Through GMASA, we hope to explore the wide range of possibilities that are now open to us because of the m o b i l e industry. Another major aspect is that the conference h a s sparked serious conversations on how t h e mobile industry still has a way to go in terms o f m o b i l e marketing, especially ways in which marketers can effectively plan their strategies for brand exposure and engagement through non-disruptive means. TCM: Can you indicate the future plans for GMASA? Venkatesh C R: The last 12 months has seen DCI successfully host two editions of the conference in Chennai and Bangkok, respectively, with overwhelming successful turnouts in both events. Riding on this success, GMASA is headed to Bangalore in July. Following this, there are plans to take GMASA to more overseas locations in the years to come. In addition, we hope to increase GMASA's global reach to include more countries within the APAC zone.
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QA InfoTech's Centers of Excellence assure unbiased Software Quality The CEO Magazine • New Delhi
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oftware Testing is an integral part of a company's strategy to deliver good quality products. But quality emerges as a big problem that software makers face. Combined with constraints on time and cost, quality often gets forcefully compromised, believes QA InfoTech. Offering scalable services related to software testing, QA InfoTech has grown leaps and bounds with three QA Centers of Excellence, with over one thousand employees. Backed by a strong track-record of innovation QA InfoTech's comprehensive range of software testing solutions enables its clients to cross new thresholds of business performance. QA InfoTech is an ISO 9001:2008, CMMi Level 3, ISO 20000-1:2011 and ISO 27001:2005 compliant company that started its journey with less than five testing experts in 2003. Since its inception, the company has quickly cemented its position as a partner of industry leaders across the globe. Now the company provides unbiased software quality assurance services to various companies, ranging from the start-ups to Fortune 500s. In addition to Noida, QA InfoTech has created its foot mark in Michigan, USA. By devising solutions that are smart and effective, the company has been helping clients inject quality into their product from the early stages of development focusing not just on system requirements but also end user expectations. QAIT has a flexible resourcing-model that provides significant cost savings facility to their clients. Hundreds of clients consider this firm as a specialist in providing independent offshore software testing. Services QA InfoTech offers a wide range of services that includes Test Automation, Performance Testing, Functional Testing, Mobile Testing, Usability Testing, Accessibility Testing, Security Testing,
Mukesh Sharma CEO & Founder QA InfoTech
Courseware & Content Testing, Translation & Globalization Testing, Crowdsourced Testing, Cloud Testing and Data Sciences & Analytics. Some recent additions where the company has introduced strong offerings include content QA (SME driven), big data and analytics, and technology agnostic software testing practices that are increasingly agile. QA InfoTech has setup a dedicated Software Development arm - QAIT DevLabs in 2010 for its premium customers. They have also developed various products in the eLearning space using agile development methodologies. DevLabs has adapted agile practices in a way that best suits building products from scratch as well re-building or sustaining existing software products.
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“We are among the 100 Best Companies to work for in 2010 and 2011 & 50 Best Companies to work for in 2012 and Top 50 Best IT & IT-BMP organizations to work in India in 2014. We have experience in providing customized software development solutions (with Section 508 Compliance based coding). In 2012, our company also started CDL- Content Digitization Lab that has helped in both reducing the costs and content conversion turnaround time of our esteemed clients by developing and deploying tools, processes and practices to effectively convert content. We are proud to have hundred percent repeat business," Mukesh Sharma, founder and CEO of QA InfoTech asserted. " We want to continue to grow consciously with a careful selection of testers, expand our services offerings in a few niche domains such as BFSI in addition to the ones we are serving now, all of which while still focusing on our overall corporate social responsibility," he added. The Maverick behind the company Mukesh Sharma, CEO and Founder Mukesh Sharma is committed to the customers that has enabled QA InfoTech to stand apart in the
exceedingly competitive software testing industry. Mukesh was a civil service aspirant but his father pushed him to get into IT. He attended BITS, Pilani for Masters of Science and Technology in Information Systems. He later received his ME in Engineering Management from the University of Colorado. Prior to founding QA InfoTech, he worked at DCM Data Systems, IBM Corporation, Quark Inc., Gale Group and Adobe Systems. His connect with the quality discipline in these engagements along with the state of the industry and the potential it had, together were his triggers in starting the company. His passion for excellence, eye for detail and commitment to customers have enabled QA InfoTech to stand apart in the exceedingly competitive software testing industry. A generous philanthropist Mukesh loves to read, play golf and cricket. Mukesh Sharma leads the organization's worldwide operations, marketing, sales and development efforts. He is an active evangelist in the software engineering and quality spaces - his representation with organizations including QAI STC, SQE, EuroStar continues to strengthen each year giving the company a strong industry - user connect in its operations.
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End-to-End QA services: A boom market of Software in a Global Age By Abhishek Dubey • New Delhi
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ver 9 years, Dayakar, the founder of W3Softech, has been a seasoned global business leader in Information Technology of Software Development, IT consulting and Business Development expertise. Since the time of founding W3Softech, Dayakar has been playing a key role and has made significant contributions to the company's growth and development. He is responsible for setting up strategic directions, providing vision in developing new service offerings to clients, increasing revenues and ensuring job growth within the Organization. Prior to W3Softech, Dayakar worked with an MNC company in Bengaluru for 2 years where he successfully lead global cross-functional teams along with outsourced partners to ensure smooth and profitable transition of manufacturing and production engineering at the end of Development/Quality IPD stages. W3softech is an independent QA and Test consulting company which brings intelligent, pragmatic and robust testing solutions to organizations across the World. . It provides end-to-end QA services driven by robust governance model providing visibility and control to the customer. We are pioneers in implementing the agile methodology. We have rich experience in Banking, Telecom, Financial services and Insurance, HealthCare and E-Commerce domains. Our robust automation frameworks help our customers in automating their application testing with easy maintenance of the scripts. W3 Softech was established in 2014 in Hyderabad with about two employees. Since last two years, the company has changed considerably and has a much broader range of services and locations. This includes the opening of additional office Bangalore in 2015, the launch of a specialist test automation division in 2016 and our first International office in USA in 2016. Given such change, the company has worked hard to consolidate each area into independent successful ventures. All three have now grown into operations which successfully serve or high profile customers. W3
Dayakar Singam Founder W3softech India Private Limited
Softech has 100 + qualified and dedicated QA professionals having expertise in a range of industry verticals & testing tools.
W3softech understands the opportunities and challenges arising from Testing and Quality Assurance. Our testing services maximize return on IT investment and deliver tangible benefits to organizations. Our previous clients have benefited from:
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§ Time to market decreased by at least 15%; § Technical and business risks significantly mitigated. § Performance improvements while reducing costs by 20-50% Effort reduction close to 40% using test automation Increased flexibility with access to large talent pool Eliminate staffing challenges and overheads Flexible and dynamic staffing Supplement your QA team with experts from W3Softech § Easy and quick ramp up and ramp down of resources with in a weeks' time § Missing capabilities and skills are supplemented by experts from W3Softech § Removal of the burden on specialist departments
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W3Tech Mission We are highly dedicated to enhance customer's desired qualities and satisfaction by exploring testing thoughts and product delivery and effectively utilizing best processes and practices. "At W3Softech, we will act as client's trusted advisor specializing in areas of Enterprise solutions and services to help achieve their business success.” Vision We have concern to implement sustainable solutions that improves the picture of various verticals, and unblemished services now and for future generations.
Core Values Our values serve as a compass for our actions and describe how we behave in the world. Every day, we are guided by our six core values.
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Fairness and Trust Ownership Noteworthy cost savings Client Success Growth Fun
We are pleased to provide our services over 15 organizations and more across India. Some of our patient customers are IMI Mobile, IBM etc. A good number of 100 people have great skills have been working for the company with "zeal & zest" and great to see them utilizing their 100% potential to grow-up the company and for customer satisfaction. Now for further grow-up, we are focusing massively in APAC market and we have high desire to enter in the USA market by 2017. We have a plan to set-up dedicated COE's on Security testing and Mobile and yet building a product CapTor a cloud on demand suite for website testing. Because of a tremendous effort by the company, it has been registered by NASSCOM of QCMMI Level-111 certificate and also certified by ISO: 9001-2008. We believe in consistence performance and keeping habit of retaining the achievements and curious for more achievements.
Functional Testing (Manual & Automation) Tools
QTP, Rational Functional Tester, Silk Test (Borland), Selenium, Rational Robot, Quality Center.
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GAVEL & ZIF not just pithy acronymsGAVS' levers for IT disruption and drive towards higher availability of business services The CEO Magazine • Chennai
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n being asked what books he has been reading, Sumit Ganguli, CEO of GAVS Technologies, and a General Partner at Basil Partners mentioned that he has been reading Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl and A Little History of the World by E.H Gombrich. We spoke with Sumit Ganguli at his Chennai office on a Friday evening, "Reading these books give one a broader perspective towards life, gives you dollops of humility and it spurs you to work towards leaving a legacy behind". "Living a life is more important than supporting a livelihood", he had heard this phrase from a commencement speech. A lot of these values and life goals are directly implemented at GAVS Technologies, which obsesses on its RITE Values - Respect, Integrity, Trust and Empathy for all its employees, clients and stake holders. Sumit has been in the US for the last 25 years and has been involve in the IT & IT Services business all of his career. He attended IIM Kolkata and NYU Sterns School of Management, after his degree in Engineering. Before joining GAVS, Mr. Ganguli worked with companies where he
was involved in Global Sales, M&A, & Strategic Consulting. He was intimately involved in GE Equity, investing in one of the companies and was the CEO of a BSE listed entity that was created through the merger of three companies with the focus on Embedded Systems. He is also an Adjunct Professor at Rutgers University in New Jersey, teaching International Business. Recently, he has taken up writing opinion pieces for various periodicals in the US and India.
Sumit Ganguli
GAVS Technologies is CEO focused on Enabling Digital Transformation for its clients through Infrastructure Solutions and newer technologies. GAVS and its leaders have committed to use this as a platform to truly create a disruption in IT, and has developed a Predictive Analytics tool, GAVeL in the IT Service Management Space. GAVeL has recently been awarded the Gartner's 'Cool Vendor' status in the ITSM 2.0 for 2016. GAVeL can predict potential outages and enhances user experience in contact center as India
well as data center environments GAVS is also promoting a truly disruptive frame work, Zero Incident Framework (ZIF) that employs Instrumentation, Real User Monitoring, Automation, Predictive Analytics and Virtualized Desktops. Through these innovative and disruptive technologies, GAVS is committed to be a trusted partner of its clients in the Bi-Modal IT trend, managing current operations, lift & shift while using Automation, Instrumentation and other tools to
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redefine the IT Infrastructure Landscape. GAVS is planning for some inorganic growth to either acquire new clients or new IP and would like to look at some liquidity event in the next 24 - 36 months. "Our endeavor is to bring predictability in the IT operations, reduce manual interventions and drive towards a higher availability of business services" Mr. Ganguli explained. GAVeL & GAVS Aided Zero Incident Infrastructure have been conceived, developed and deployed by GAVS' key leaders Chandra Mouleswaran, Balaji Uppili and Rao Haridasu. GAVS' Predictive Analytics platform GAVel correlates events and data based on human intelligence and machine learning, to provide predictive insights into the operations, thereby driving increased revenue and enhanced customer satisfaction. GAVS has also built strong
expertise around Microsoft's Azure and other Cloud and Machine Learning technologies and IBM's Blue Mix and Softlayer. GAVS was formed over 15 years ago, and one of the key characteristics of the company promoted by its two founders was deep rooted, concierge-like client intimacy. Basil Partners and its investors have taken majority control of GAVS during the last 1.5 years. GAVS is continuing this legacy of trying to provide obsessive, Seven Star Service to all of its clients while adding Innovation, Technology bias and RITE to the original recipe. GAVS has been largely operating in the US, ME and is again growing its UK foot print. Health Care, Manufacturing, Media & Publishing are the focus areas of GAVS and it has strong presence in Oman and UAE, with the leading banks in that region. GAVS is convinced that it will bring in genuine disruption in the Infrastructure India
Management space and usher a newer phase using Automation, Predictive Analytics, Instrumentation and reduce this total dependency on people based support, presently employed by the established IT Services company. GAVS, in a major Infrastructure Managed Services engagement with a leading hospital in NYC and was able to bring in a saving of almost 31% in its IT Operations costs. This allowed the hospital to continue with its Clinical Support at the same level in spite of almost 7% reduction in budget which was shy of a billion dollars. GAVS is now engaged with the hospital to look at other newer technologies like Software Defined Data Centers, Automation, Analytics to improve its patient and user experience and further cost reduction. "The CIO of this hospital terms the engagement as "IT Managed Services with a heart". "Most clients are looking for
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business agility and cost optimizations. One such customer, a large publisher in the US is currently engaged with GAVS and its partner to support their Cloud orchestration, transition to cloud and have used DevOps to work towards significant productivity gains". What are the major challenges that you have faced currently? How did you get rid of this? asked The CEO Magazine. "As a mid-sized organization, GAVS has been doing multiple things primarily being driven by clients. The current challenge is to change the organization inside out - moving away from doing multiple things to focusing on our core competencies, developing solutions and framework of IP, and to bring about cultural changes in the organization to support the growth and changes, " as per Rao Haridasu , GAVS' Head of Solutions and Strategy.
By focusing on the crest of technology, trying to stay ahead of the curve, identifying niche and developing solutions, challenging our delivery leaders to focus on solutions to address client needs, and constant upskilling and training of the people to build on the existing competencies to align with the changing needs, Sumit.
To upskill employees, the company has built GAVS Learning Academy (GLA), in association with George Washington University. GAVS also has a tie-up with the British Council for employees to go through communication and presentation skills. In order to prepare GAVS as an International Consulting company with CXO presences, GAVS has instituted in-house courses on Business Etiquette and cross cultural training. Being asked to discuss about GAVS' culture, Sumit Ganguli said, "Culture eats strategy for breakfast." Our company follows RITE Values; Respect, Integrity, Teamwork, Empathy - and this is seamlessly incorporated into our day-to-day functioning, and has become an integral part of GAVS' DNA. At GAVS we do not want HR and culture to be clichĂŠd and filled with platitudes. GAVS shares the same board-level quarterly updates with all of its employees. A favorite and most ubiquitous GAVS' slogan is - 'At GAVS We Care' emphasizes our response and approach to clients and employees, striving towards a better engagement that is aimed to 'delight' customers and employees alike with GAVS' commitment to goals and values. Our employee centricity steers various in-house activities and programs that keeps motivation and employee engagement levels high. " GAVS is immersed in the concept of Social Enterprise. "At GAVS, we believe that a bias towards altruism and being connected with the society at large gives our employees and leaders a larger vision and purpose, and we
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attract a different profile of personnel and it promotes a higher level of dialogue. GAVS is closely engaged with the Dream Runners Half Marathon in Chennai that directly impacts the disabled by raising funds for prosthetic limbs. GAVS is extremely blessed, that we have been given an opportunity to nurture and support a small isolated village named Ramanwadi in Maharashtra. The volunteers involved in supporting this small village have brought success in several areas of rural development and have the small hamlet inching towards self-sufficiency." Balaji Uppili, GAVS' Chief Delivery Officer explained. The testament that some of these values have trickled down at GAVS, came from the individual effort that some of the GAVSIANS exhibited during the Chennai floods. Sumit completed the interview with a small parable, which in his opinion surmised GAVS' efforts to make a difference both in the professional and altruistic world. "These are all very humble efforts compared to some of the massive projects undertaken by the largest of groups and individuals. But I am reminded of the story - when a passerby witnessed a man who was painstakingly picking up upturned baby turtles, which had washed ashore and were stuck in the sand, and was rescuing them by taking them back into the ocean. The passerby remarked that with so many of them on the beach, the man will not be able to make a difference in the world, to which the man smiled and said that to each baby turtle it would make the world of a difference".
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25 Fastest Growing
QA & Testing Companies in India Company
Person
Designation
Ardentisys Ltd.
Ashish Raina
Business Relationship Director
Bahwan Cybertek Pvt Ltd
Mr. Durga Prasad
CEO
CresTech Software Systems
Pankaj Goel
Co-Founder & CEO
Ducenit Pvt Ltd
Vish Ramesh
CEO
Evoke Technologies
Ramesh Madala
CEO
FocusQA
Pritam Bhandari,
CEO
Global Edge Software Ltd.
Mr. Kumar
CEO
Halosys Technologies
Avinash Harsh
CEO
ImpactQA
Jyoti prasad
President & CEO
Jasmin Infotech Pvt Ltd
Mr. Prasad
CEO
KiwiQA Services Pvt. Ltd.
Niranjan Limbachiya
CEO India
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Company
Person
Designation
LMS Solutions
Amit Jain
Co-Founder & CEO
Moolya
Pradeep Soundararajan
MD
Net Solutions
Sameer Jain
CEO
OAK System
Pradeep
CEO
Pingaksho Technologies Inc
Mr. Rakesh
CEO
QA Infotech
Mukesh Sharma
Founder & Chief Executive Officer
QAssure Technologies
Mr. Durairaj Dhanasekaran
CEO
Qa Mentor Testing Services Private Limited
Mr. Ruslan Desyatnikov
CEO
Red Alkemi
Atul Gupta
CEO
Silicus Technologies
Sumant Ahuja,
President & CEO
Trantor Software Pvt Ltd.
Rajat Julka
Director - India Delivery Center
W3Softech India Private Limited
Mr. Dayakar
CEO
Varite India Private Limited
Adarsh Katyal
President & CEO,
ZenQ
Murali Bollu
CEO *All the company names has been arranged in the alphabetical order, this is not ranking.
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Siroya Constructions: A reliable & emerged Real Estate service By Editorial Associate, New Delhi
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r. Shailesh D. Siroya has been well known as a business personality in the global business world. He is the Managing Partner of Siroya Constructions Limited and Managing director of Bal Pharma Limited since August 1, 1994. With massive entrepreneurial experience, he renowned himself for his management over pharma, real estate, trading and financial. He has been also taking charge of the Director of Sunil Agro Foods LTD since September 2013. In the terms of his qualifiacation, he holds a Master degree in Business Asministration (MBA) from the University of Akron, Ohio, USA. Since begining in the city Bangalore, Mr. Shailesh paid his attention to guide the Siroya Constructions to concentrate on providing luxurious lifestyle in the city with effective innovations. He has always preffered to work on costomers satisfaction along with gaining confidence of them and he is habitual to build long-lasting relationships with his costomers. He is highly concern to contribute himself to meet the infrastructure and housing development requirement of the fast urnanization process which is expected to continue at an exceptional pace for the next three decades. He has fixed an ambition to develop compact infrastructural habition zones and provide quality and affordale residential options to not only rich people but for common people also. Under the guidelins and support of Mr. Shailesh, the company, along with experienced and well qualified professionals, has achieved a wonderful recognition in realty field. The objective has been organized for
Shailesh D. Siroya Managing Partner Siroya Constructions Limited
the constructions that are superior in quality, world class luxrious facilities, and value money. Mr. Shailesh has set the yardstick of the Siroya Constructions' success as its zeal to assimilate the aspirations of its customers in every project it constructs. It has always been a major concern to make customers satisfy in the terms of quality, tenure, budget and more. But in these terms, it becomes a vast challenge for a company to retain its customer. However, Mr. Shailesh belileves working in ethical ways along with appropriate transparency. He has a great vision by which, he achieves his ambition by winning customer's trust. However, He has been utilizing his potential to find out more ways to make costumers more happy. India
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North America Market calls
Pingaksho Technologies Soon to open branches in Canada & USA By Our Correspondent
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ingaksho Technologies has cemented its position in the field of development, engineering and consulting services, serving technology startups as well as mid-size to large corporations. Two of its offices are located in Mohali, Punjab and Melbourne-Australia. The company was incorporated in 2003. Dr. Rakesh Kumar, the CEO heads the team of fifty employees of Pingaksho. Since its inception the company has maintained deep client relationships. Commenting upon this, a spokesperson of Pingaksho said "Pingaksho has deep client relationships spanning over ten years with various clients ranging from startups to Fortune 100 companies. Our Product Consulting service line offers package implementation solutions and services based on software products to customers in Financial Services, Hi-Tech, Telecommunications, and Healthcare and Government segments. Pingaksho Onsite Services offers tactical solutions to our clients for their project execution in the short and long term." A wide range of services are offered by Pingaksho which include Cyber Security Services, Software Product Development Services, Software Quality Testing Services, Software Modernization & Re-Engineering Services, SaaS Development Services and Software Localization Services. BFSI Solutions is also offered by them. Technology Consulting Services Pingaksho is a Technology Consulting Services Company powered by 10 years of experience with Microsoft Solutions including SharePoint, SQL BI & Analytics, SQL Data Warehousing, Dynamics CRM/XRM, and Azure Cloud Enablement experience.
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SharePoint Consulting Services
Cyber Security Services
Intranet
Dynamics CRM Consulting Services
Along with advanced technology services, Pingaksho also secure their clients from proliferation of cyber attacks. An end to end monitoring and protection is provided to each client by the expert team of Pingaksho. Pingaksho experts protect the digital data from external denial attacks and help the organization to achieve their goals.
Implementation
Management Consulting/Training
Migration
DevOps Infrastructure
Pingaksho also deals in Business Solutions and design, Program Management, Project Management, Financial Management, Budgeting and Estimation Defining organizational Scope, Enterprise Architecture, Framework Re-design, Branding and Social Media, Consulting Change Management.
SQL & Storage
IT Consulting
SharePoint & Web Farms
IT Consulting team of Pingaksho serves their clients with the services related to Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Supply Chain & Inventory Automation, Sales & Distribution Service Management, Employee Attendance & Remuneration Management, Web Presence Overhaul & Payroll Management Process Automation etc.
Extranet Migration Line-of-Business Integration
xRM Development Azure Consulting Services Application Platform
SQL Consulting Services Data Management BI & Analytics “Partnering with Pingaksho, you will get a partner who understands how to effectively lead and manage technology-enabled transformation initiatives. You will also get a partner committed to fast-tracking payback on technology investments," the spokesperson said. Working with Pingaksho on your solution implementation initiatives you can count on: A strong guidance partner with capabilities and knowhow across Microsoft Technology platforms and software solutions. Global delivery capabilities with world class consultants Migration Accelerated and predictable deliverables using strong project governance and agile practices
Pingaksho has a Manufacturing unit which deals with Healthcare, Education and E-Commerce. The experienced employees of Development team mainly focus on Dot Net (ASP.Net, VB.Net, C#), Web Designing, iOS, Android Applications and SEO. The company promotes a culture of individual and professional growth within an environment of continuous learning and team collaboration. Over a decade, Pingaksho has helped its clients deliver their products and services faster, with higher capabilities and quality, in a cost effective manner. Speaking to The CEO Magazine, Pingaksho revealed that they are going to open offices in Canada and USA.
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EIGEN Unveils SENSEnuts IoT Smart StreetLight & CCMS to launch a Smart Agriculture App with Smart Sensors soon
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IGEN is the developer of popular SENSEnuts IoT Hardware/Software platform, which includes connectivity devices, sensors, data collection & visualisation GUI/Mobile app. Witnessing the gap in connectivity of IoT Hardware modules, Smart Sensors and IoT Platforms, EIGEN Technologies Private Ltd., which is a decade old company, started working on wireless network technologies & embedded systems. Together with addressing this gap of connectivity, EIGEN also helps IoT researchers & application developers with complete IoT suite, with end to end stack and well developed SDK, to ease smart application development at affordable cost. The company provides seamless connectivity with modular hardware design, firmware, Middleware & development platform. They are one of the first to indigenously design & develop a very affordable and easy to integrate IoT based Smart Light controllers & CCMS compatible with Range of LED manufacturers. With domain knowledge in VLSI, Embedded Systems and Wireless Technologies, EIGEN has changed the landscape of its business. EIGEN launched their proprietary WSN/IoT products with
brand name "SENSEnuts" three years back. They have also launched "SENSEnuts EnLighten" Smart Streetlight Controllers in third quarter of last fiscal. For the proliferation of IoT in India and preparing required human resource with appropriate technical skills, EIGEN has collaboration with top Universities & research labs of the country to provide state of art IoT infrastructure & advance trainings. Prestigious technical Universities and leading research institutes including IITs, NITs, CEL, ICAR, DRDOs are the clients of EIGEN Technologies. EIGEN is also one of the few proud partners of Government of India's flagship program SMDP run by MCIT & CEERI to provide best EDA tools & Technologies for VLSI manpower development. Currently the company has strong & cohesive team of around twenty engineers and look to grow fast by next few quarters. EIGEN's co-founder Pranav Tyagi leads a team of exciting & talented designers with focus on developing the market for SENSEnuts IoT devices & IoT Platform, exciting smart applications for Smart Cities and Smart Homes. With their diverse set of in-house skill set, EIGEN provides its products & India
Pranav Tyagi Co-Founder EIGEN Technologies
services to their clients across different industrial domains. EIGEN's services can be categorized into three broader categories. These are SENSEnuts IoT suite - Includes IoT devices, Smart Sensors & Platform with cloud integration, Data Collection, visualisation & analysis, Management GUI/Mobile app. These are being used by researchers and application developers for smart automation of Industries, Agriculture, Cities or homes. SENSEnuts EnLighten Smart Streetlight Controllers - Low power Mesh network based wireless controllers for Streetlights and IoT gateway with WiFi/2G/3G based internet connectivity to Cloud or Server Central Control & Management System(CCMS) SENSEnuts Wireless Links Energy efficient battery powered mesh network based wireless links
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for remote monitoring & data analysis of various wired sensors with legacy protocols RS235, RS485 etc across domains. These devices convert existing sensors to smart wireless sensors connected to cloud or remote server with easy deployment and battery life of months & years. Recently EIGEN was shortlisted among Top 20 Indian IoT solution providers by an IT Magazine. The company is well recognised and appreciated for it's IoT products across research & industrial markets, by top technical universities like IITs, NITS, VIT, Jadavpur, CEL and LED Light manufacturers. Commenting upon their competition, a spokesperson of EIGEN said " End to End solution with energy efficient connectivity infrastructure, Firmware, Wireless stack Middleware and Cloud/Server based Central monitoring & data
analysis are the sources of revenue of our company. There are not many Indian or even International companies working across whole IoT value chain, but in bits & pieces like few in connectivity hardware radio modules, few in sensors and some in IoT platform. Therefore this give us edge as we are in a unique position to provide complete portfolio from wireless connectivity nodes to internet gateways with cloud analytics or remote server CCMS� EIGEN Technologies is busy developing a smart agriculture app integrated with intelligent soil & weather sensors and plan to launch beta in next few months. Such apps are recently under testing in US and target to help farmers with timely irrigation, efficient usage of scarce water availability, or effective pest management to enhance crop productivity per acre and improve farmers economic health. Speaking to The CEO Magazine Mr. Tyagi
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said "After successfully testing the ongoing Smart Agriculture app, We have plan to enter new markets with innovative & exciting smart applications with energy efficient smart sensors and IoT suite to improve productivity of industrial processes or more glamorous Smart Home consumers. Also We'll be expanding our presence in the global market in near future.� Being the co-founder of EIGEN Technologies, Mr. Tyagi has been serving the company right from the day of its inception. He is presently the VP of SENSEnuts IoT Platform & Smart applications. Mr. Tyagi is an Electronics & Communication Engineer to the core and has industry experience of around 14 years across domains both at Middle & Senior management. He started his career as application support engineer for EDA & Simulation tools, and then moved to sales & marketing of various high end design softwares .
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25 Fastest Growing
IoT
Companies in India
Company
Person
Designation
Aviconn Solutions Pvt Ltd
Manish Gupta
Co-Founder
Briston Tech
Arpeet Gupta
CEO
CloudSignals
Ankit Gaur
CEO
Dolphin RFID
SK Sawhney
President & CEO
Eigen Technologies
Pranav Tyagi
Vice Persident
Frugal labs Tech Solutions
Anirban Chowdhury
Co-Founder
Gizmeon Technologies Private Limited
Firoze Moosakutty
CEO
Hakuna Matata Solutions
Nanda Kumar
CEO
InduTech Research Labs
Sai Yanamandra
Co-Founder
JPC Technologies
Jimmy Padia
CEO , Co-Founder
kii Corporation
Masanari Arai
CEO , Co-Founder
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Company
Person
Designation
LogicLadder
Mayank Chauhan
CEO
Mobitrail
Vikas Kedia
CEO
Mesawite Technologies
Bhanu Uday
CEO
Nex- G Exuberant Solution
S.S. Bhowmick
CEO & Founder
Opcito Technologies
Chaitanya Jawale
Founder
Peesh Venture Capital
Mohan kumar
Founder
Precimetrix Technologies
Ashish Nene
CEO
Recruiters Factory
Satya Reddy
Founder
Sensorise Digital Services
Sharad Arora
CEO
Think Embedded
Sampath Kumar Konda
Director
USOFT ACADEMY
Kishore Deshpande
CEO
Volansys technology
Manan Patel
CEO
Waygum
Sundar Krish
CEO & Founder
Yogin Technologies
Ojas kikani
Founder *All the company names has been arranged in the alphabetical order, this is not ranking.
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QA Mentor Switching Strategies to offer Cost effective QA Services, Flexible Solutions We are positioned to provide your company with skills and information that aren't taught in any books ~ QA Mentor AYANANGSHA MAITRA
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ew York based QA Mentor offers an array of integrated services in and around the Software QA domain that combine top-of-the-range technology with deep sector expertise. Ruslan Desyatnikov, the supremo, strives to make the name of the company a reflection of transparency, excellence, and hard work. The company understands that businesses have divergent needs and budgets and want flexibility with payments and service contracts. QA Mentor's eight Global locations with two Testing Centers of Excellence in Ukraine and India allow them to cover all time zones with overlapping working hours for clients. The award-winning QA Mentor was born in 2010 to guide, coach, and train various companies within the United States to improve their QA methodology. Currently they support enterprises from startups to Fortune 500 companies across different geographies. For them, the size, strength, or time zone of an organization does not matter. Neither does the industry a company is in as QA Mentor has clients ranging from healthcare to gaming. From utilizing their expertise on an as-needed basis, to having a team of their QA Professionals onsite for a long term contract, QA Mentor has a model that will meet nearly all client demands. Their employees work hard to devise clear processes for managing testing efforts of any kind. Years of experience have
helped them to create efficient and effective testing methodologies for all testing types. Nearly 150 QA experts work with QA Mentor full time in their offices across the world or even from home. These experts have knowledge of and keep updated on over 50 automation tools and solutions across seven different domains. 82% of QA Mentor resources are certified by ISTQBI or Brainbench organizations and have a minimum of three years QA Experience. Commenting upon the company's culture, Ruslan Desyatnikov, founder of QA Mentor said, "There aren't any politics in this organization as it's a very transparent company. Every month we choose an employee of the month to highlight their great efforts, and our employees are very active in charity works. We bought school bags, books, and notepads and distributed them in different areas of Asia and the US. Our employees celebrated the New Year with hundreds of kids in the US, Ukraine and Thailand in the past." QACoverage(www.qacoverage. com), offered by QA Mentor, is a new generation test management solution with an innovative vision and workflow to manage Software Test Life Cycles more effectively and efficiently. It boosts test productivity and provides visibility to better handle and control a client's established QA process via comprehensive Requirements Management, Test Design, Test Execution, Defects Management, and Metrics & Reporting modules. India
Ruslan Desyatnikov CEO QA Mentor
They also have a new proprietary technology solution - Magic Converter that converts business requirements, functional requirements, use cases, and wireframes into detailed test cases through the model-based automated process. They can create 1000's test cases in couple of hours which normally takes multiple weeks and several resources to complete. This magic tool uses a pairwise testing algorithm to create a minimum number of test cases that cover all requirements with a complete traceability matrix. "Magic Converter supports our unique QA Service - Test Design ondemand. As part of our deliverables, we provide an optimum set of positive and negative detailed test cases with associated test data, UML User Case Diagrams, and Process Flow Diagrams along with a test case priority map for better control and execution prioritization. This product brings huge benefits such as a superfast turnaround time for test design and effective
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requirements coverage to avoid defect leakages," said Ruslan. Computer Information Systems graduate Ruslan Desyatnikov holds an MBA in Technology Management from Phoenix University of Arizona and a number of Quality Assurance/Testing and Project Management certifications. He is an active board member of multiple QA Organizations in the United States and Europe. He has two decades of Quality Assurance, Quality Control, Process Improvement, and Software Testing experience. He is responsible for growing QA Mentor as a trusted partner for software testing, independent verification and validation, and strategic consulting for a client base around the world. Prior to expanding operations at QA Mentor, Ruslan worked at Citi for 3 years as the Global Head of Testing of Worldlink Technology. He actually switched to Citi from Sterling InfoSystems, one of the biggest background screening companies in the world. At Sterling, he transformed over 10 non-IT employees to seasoned QA Professionals by providing training, guidance and mentoring and established high performance QA Organization with separate automation,
performance and build & deployment practices. As a final mission, Ruslan established a QA Testing Center in Mumbai, India by hiring 80% of junior and entry level resources and growing them into seasoned QA professionals within 1 year. On a larger scale, Ruslan performed similar duties for 4 years at HSBC bank in a transactionbased environment working with multiple client server platforms and various technologies. There, he established a Testing Center of Excellence with its own QA methodology and customized Quality Center by launching it to 3000 IT users within HSBC North America and managed over 120 resources located in 8 different countries. Ruslan has also worked at several start-up companies, including Solbright Inc., Unicast Inc, and DigitalEdge, performing various duties as a Lead Quality Assurance Analyst and Quality Advisor. His skills include QA architecture and Process architecture for Software Development Life Cycles (SDLC) and Quality Assurance Life Cycles (QALC). "We have very sophisticated QA methodologies and best practices that attract customers. We also have various open-source tools, India
enterprise versions, and our own automaton proprietary frameworks. We're the only company covering all timezones due of our four working shifts. Our offices in Moldova, India and the Ukraine allow us to operate 24*7. We will launch a product next year that will help QA managers to monitor Quality Metrics and KPIs (Key Performance Indicators)," Ruslan Desyatnikov asserted. Nitin Tawde leads QA Mentor's India operation from the Pune office. Since European resources are becoming costlier, the company is eyeing Asia to set up their extension. Soon, QA Mentor will open two branches in Bangalore and Mumbai and one in Philippines. The company aims to launch an additional group of services by the end of this year relating to testing Big Data and Internet of Things as well as create 5 more e-learning courses. "Essentially, the goal is to first become the most cost-effective service provider in the world, and secondly to spread our methodologies, our best practices, and our approaches in every single country in the world. Last, we aim to continue to be an advocate of Quality Assurance. We will educate decision makers on the importance of QA," QA Mentor expressed The CEO Magazine.
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Business Data Gathering: The massive way to boom your business By Abhishek Dubey • New Delhi
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ounded in April, 2015, CloudSignals has been working consistently in the space of Fast data based on real-time analytics. Mr. Vivek Sharma having seven years of work experience with various technology companies, is one of the perpetrators and is the core founder of the company. Vivek has a vast experience with United Health Group, Nagarro etc and have worked in delivering complex technology solutions to a lot of diversified industries from Healthcare to Consumer electronics and International government bodies. Let's know more about CloudSignals CloudSignals has been working with offices in Noida, Gurgaon and London. Soon, we are going to expand our team in Sydney, Australia. The main objective of the company is to be gather data from various sources in desired time, be it an enterprise system or IoT enabled machine network. This collected business data is curated for knowledge and actionable insights which are then used by management to take quick actions for businesses. We curate this data for various forms of analysis and deliver interesting insights onto the mobile devices of the customer using CloudSignals mobile app which has quite familiar interfaces similar to any social networking site. We have basically evolved as an enterprise information network where information is presented in form of easy to consume feeds. In addition to these posts, we also enable people of who have interests in the particular insights to be able to comment
Vivek Sharma Co- Founder & CTO CloudSignals
and collaborate on these posts. We look forward to be seen as a global leader in insights creation and delivery space for enterprise companies. Our mission is to provide smart and intelligent solutions globally to enterprise companies with the right combination of technologies in IoT | Analytics and Mobility on Cloud. We are working with an objective to make discovery and consumption of complex business facts/insights as simple as a cakewalk and easily adoptable by any company as per their needs, without the need to invest into heavy analytics resources, be it hardware/software or human resource. How does it work? CloudSignals integrates with your exiting business software/infrastructure to read business data using our proprietary data capturing bots so as to generate machine learning based knowledge about your business. This knowledge is then utilized to monitor India
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your business processes like a diligent manager who is trained on your business history. Once trained, CloudSignals engine then monitor your entire business in an autopilot mode and keeps you posted with feeds related to process progress as well as any risks/exception alerts based on your subscription choices. We have a unique way to provide our service in which our tools are having machine learning at core of the offering where most of the processed and data is monitored via an artificial intelligence enabled algorithms and then results are delivered over a private social network. You may imagine it to be your private social network where you are getting feeds about your business in an auto-generated mode how you get feeds about your friends and family members on Facebook.
company with "zeal & zest" and its great to see them utilizing their 100% potential to grow-up the company while keeping customer satisfaction at its core.
We are devoted to provide our service to customer in subscription mode to pay a per user subscription fee per month to use the service without getting into any long term commitments and contracts. It enables SMB companies also to experience the power of machine learning and artificial intelligence at a fraction of cost what otherwise they would have to invest in setting up the whole dedicated infrastructure.
In today's competitive market, team is successfully empowering the company while there are some other companies working in the similar space like, Maven systems in India and Sopho.com from USA. End of this year we are planning to go for some seed funding that will be deployed to expand into more international geographies.
We are pleased to provide our services to over 20 customers across India and 3 other countries as well. Some of our patient customers are Stylohomz, CT Plastics, Discovery Logistics etc. A very small team of 10 people have great skills have been working for the
Tremendous effort and innovation at the core of DNA of the company has enabled it to be nominated for Prime Ministers Startup India event in January 2016 amongst top 2000 companies out of 1.5 lac companies who applied for.
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Company of the Month
QAssure brings together the essential combination of robust domain knowledge, exceptional technical abilities and burgeoning strategic alliances plans on getting into Digital Transformation and Digital Assurance for enterprises over the cloud The CEO Magazine • New Delhi
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oftware Testing has become compulsory for an effective performance of software application or product. Singapore born QAssure is one of the leading Independent end-to-end Testing Services Company with a focus on providing independent verification, validation and Testing Services worldwide. It brings together the essential combination of robust domain knowledge, exceptional technical abilities and burgeoning strategic alliances which currently include HP, Neustar, Experitest, Bomgar, Electric Cloud, Query Surge, IBM,Oracle,SAP, Compuware and Perforce. Having managed complex Testing projects in the Financial Services Industry of different localities, Mr Durairaj Dhanasekaran laid the foundation of QAssure Technologies in 2005. Qassure leverages its in-depth testing expertise and experience over multiple engagements to develop unique solutions and smart products that deliver accelerated testing outcomes. Cementing its position in the global market and providing faster, better and cost efficient testing services, QAssure has opened offices in Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, India and USA. Their development centers those assure SLA driven deliveries, are located in Chennai and Bangalore in India. With dedicated team of hundred and fifty employees, QAssure has strong domain experience in software testing and helps clients across BFSI, telecommunication, education, healthcare and public sector. Their teams of innovative consultants leverage
Durairaj Dhanasekaran , CEO technologies construct tools, frameworks and point solutions; implement industry leading testing processes and methodologies that improve software testing efficiency and efficacy. " Our company focuses on different kinds of testing under the Application Lifecycle management ( ALM) stage from functional, performance and security testing to automation testing of enterprise and mobile applications for the (Banking, Financial Services and Insurance), telecommunications, education and Government domains. Our growth sees us extending India
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our global footprint, making it possible for us to meet software testing demands with versatile onsite, liquid workforce, shared services and managed testing services delivery capability," said a spokesperson of QAssure. Quality related managed services, Testing Services, Validation and Verification, Quality Certification Services and Quality related consulting services - these are the services, QAssure provides to clients of different geographies and sectors. QAssures managed testing services provide a transformational approach with the appropriate test organization, processes and environment specific for the business. Their services combine superior technology, best practices and motivated, experienced talent that helps realize optimum value. They always undertake a pioneering spirit in the software testing market and benchmark against peers with longer experience in the industry. Mr. Durairaj Dhanasekaran, CEO of QAssure Technologies, brings over twenty five years of experience in software development and quality assurance industry. Over the past 12 years he has been dedicated in bridging the gaps in the software testing related to enterprise application. He is focused in building Testing Practices in the area of Test Consulting ,Performance Testing & Test Automation practices.
Dhanasekaran has been instrumental in building and leading QAssure's Software Testing practices across various domains like the BFSI, government, Healthcare, Real Estate and Telecom across Asia Pacific region. He attended State University Of New York at Buffalo for MBA in Management. Speaking to The CEO Magazine Dhanasekaran said " Qassure takes pride in their strong technical and innovative team and through the years they have devised methods like generating strategic scripts and assembling keywords to lighten the role of Testers. In Some Instances, testers may not have the programming and technical skills to write the script and Qassure helps business analysts create automated test scripts."
In the near future the company plans on getting into Digital Transformation and Digital Assurance for enterprises over the cloud. We will also build Test Business Solutions to accelerate time to market with speed of delivery, he added .
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Vol. 2, Issue 1
July 2016
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ThinkSys - The Best Resort for Outstanding, Timely and Reliable IT Solutions
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n an agile environment, integrating automation to ensure smooth functionality in development may become extremely difficult, but by using their expertise, cost-effective and efficient IT solutions, professionals at ThinkSys have managed to do this efficiently for their many customers. Their services have created a benchmark among their clients across the globe.Founded in the year 2012, ThinkSys grew rapidly to hit a mini-milestone team of 75 employees and the strength has grown to an impressive 150 in the year 2016. The main vision for ThinkSys while starting was to act as a global boutique services firm for eCommerce, Web and Mobile services, delivering high-quality, cost-effective capabilities that help organizations improve and grow their business across channels. Located in the US and India , ThinkSys' team of highly learned professionals develops, tests and implements innovative solutions running in the cloud or on-premise. Their services specialize in providing effective solutions in Software Quality Assurance, Software Development in Microsoft and Java, and Open Source Technologies. The decades of experience and knowledge in different fields of technology that individuals who are a part of ThinkSys come with makes it one of the company's greatest USPs. The teams take an overall look at the organizations they are dealing with and closely monitor their Google Analytics, Java Development, QA, Testing and even Cloud Computing. Years of consistent and quality services have
helped ThinkSys carve out a global name for themselves. They deal with platforms such as Interface Designing and Architecture Designing, and are also one of the official partners of Microsoft. This acts as an added advantage as all their certified professionals got the opportunity to master various technologies and platforms that fall under the umbrella of Microsoft Technologies. Another factor that provides ThinkSys with an upper hand as compared to other organizations in the same space is the wealth of knowledge and experience provided to them by their founders. This helps them in understanding the detailed needs of their clients and encourages them to give in the best of their services. Fulfilling the clients' requirements and ensuring the growth of their organization has always been the center point of ThinkSys' approach. Keeping in mind this factor, they execute the process of designing the solution for every client. Along with ensuring that the solution is appropriate and works towards the welfare of the organization, the team at ThinkSys makes sure that it is a cost-effective plan. Also, they work according to a planned schedule and ensure that not a single deadline is missed so that the client has an overall positive experience. The team at ThinkSys is good at re-synchronizing and customizing their solutions according to the client's needs and requirements. They work closely with the client and implement state of the art technology and methodologies for designing their solutions. Their expertise ranges across various India
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mobile app development platforms, using which they provide high-tech services for the iPhone, iPad, Android, Windows Phone, HTML5, and Xamarin. The kind of solutions that ThinkSys provides for Software Testing and Quality Assurance services to clients include Automation Testing, Functional Testing, Mobile Testing, Performance Testing, and Low-Cost QTP Selenium Migration. And when it comes to Software Development, the services include .Net Development, Ruby on Rails, PHP, Java and Python. Krypton is another one of ThinkSys' products that enables manual QA Testers to become experts in Automation without the knowledge of a programming language. A Selenium based Open Source framework for QA Automation needs of the clients, Krypton is meant for Web and Mobile and also supports features such as Cross Browser Compatibility Testing, Keyword Driven Testing, Rich Automated Reporting, Parallel Recovery, etc. Its Test Management Tools Integration feature helps maintain all test cases and defects in a single place. ThinkSys aims towards becoming the pioneer of other services relevant to this industry.
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Acquisition News Tech Mahindra acquires UK based BIO Agency Ltd
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echnology services provider Tech Mahindra Ltd on 22 June, 2016 acquired UK-based digital transformation firm. The BIO Agency Ltd to strengthen its digital portfolio in providing better digital strategy, services and customer experience.BIO
Agency Ltd specialises in digital transformation across sectors such as retail, financial and travel. It offers digital strategy, service design, digital retail, connected products, product innovation and e-commerce solutions. Tech Mahindra will acquire 100 percent
of shares of the company. The acquisition was carried out in an allcash deal for an enterprise value of up to 45 million pounds. The acquisition will also help The BIO Agency to make sizable inroads into the telecommunications and enterprise clients of Tech Mahindra.
Microsoft announces acquisition of LinkedIn
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icrosoft Corporation and LinkedIn Corporation on 13 June 2016, announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement. As per the agreement, Microsoft will acquire LinkedIn for 196 dollar per share in an all-cash transaction valued at 26.2 billion dollar, inclusive of LinkedIn's net cash. LinkedIn will retain its distinct brand, culture and independence. Microsoft Corporation, world's largest software maker by revenue, and one of
the world's most valuable companies, is a multinational technology company headquartered in Redmond, Washington. It develops, manufactures, licenses, supports and sells computer software, consumer electronics and personal computers and services. It was founded by Paul Allen and Bill Gates on 4 April 1975. Business-oriented social networking service LinkedIn was founded on 14 December 2002 and launched on 5 May 2003. As of 2015, most of the site's revenue came from selling access to
information about its users to recruiters and sales professionals. LinkedIn is mainly used for professional networking. Jeff Weiner will remain CEO of LinkedIn, reportingtoSatyaNadella,CEO of Microsoft. "The LinkedIn team has grown a fantastic business centered on connecting the world's professionals ...Together we can accelerate the growth of LinkedIn, as well as Microsoft Office 365 and Dynamics as we seek to empower every person and organization on the planet," Satya Nadella Microsoft said.
Fortinet Completes Acquisition of AccelOps Bangalore: Fortinet, the global leader in high-performance cyber security solutions announced on June 13 its acquisition of AccelOps, a leading provider of network security monitoring and analytics solutions. The acquisition further extends Fortinet's recently announced Security Fabric strategy by enhancing network security visibility, security data analytics and threat intelligence across multi-vendor solutions. After this acquisition, AccelOps solutions will become FortiSIEM and become part of the Fortinet Security Fabric. This will provide customers with greater visibility across both Fortinet and multi-vendor security solutions, thereby enabling more comprehensive end-to-end network segmentation strategies, from IoT to cloud. Security correlation and analytics results will feed directly into the Security Fabric allowing automated threat prevention. Fortinet secures the largest enterprise, service provider, and government organizations around the world. Fortinet empowers its customers with intelligent, seamless protection across the expanding attack surface and the power to take on ever-increasing performance requirements of the borderless network - today and into the future. Only the Fortinet Security Fabric architecture can deliver security without compromise to address the most critical security challenges,
whether in networked, application, cloud or mobile environments. More than 270,000 customers worldwide trust Fortinet to protect their businesses. Ken Xie, founder and CEO of Fortinet said "Sixty-percent of all security breaches result in stolen data starting within minutes of the breach and go undetected due to ineffective threat monitoring and security event correlation. In addition, the lack of a holistic view across organizations' entire distributed, multi-vendor networks and the growing quantity and complexity of threat information create big-data security challenges. With the acquisition of AccelOps, Fortinet extends its Security Fabric to address these challenges by combining security and compliance monitoring with advanced analytics for multi-vendor security solutions, enabling automated and actionable security intelligence from IoT to the cloud." AccelOps has fundamentally changed the way organizations identify, prevent and manage threats, unifying network security monitoring and network performance analytics by providing unprecedented insight into the network. AccelOps's virtual appliance software monitors security, performance and compliance in local and virtualized infrastructures, resulting in a unified view of the environment. The software India
seamlessly discovers, analyzes and automates IT issues across multi-tenant or single networks, spanning servers, devices, storage, networks, security, applications and users. AccelOps currently serves hundreds of clients across numerous vertical industries, including a strong presence in the Enterprise, Government, and Managed Service Provider segments. This acquisition builds on Fortinet's already significant and growing total addressable market, with entry into the $2 billion SIEM market, which Gartner projects to grow to $2.9 billion by 2019. “Fortinet and AccelOps share a common vision of providing holistic, actionable security intelligence across the entire IT infrastructure. Our mission has always been to help our customers make security and compliance management as effortless and effective as possible. The synergies between AccelOps's solutions and Fortinet's Security Fabric vision and thought leadership will ensure that our customers are protected with the most scalable and proven global threat intelligence, security and performance analytics and compliance and control across all types of network environments with multiple security and networking vendor products, " Partha Bhattacharya, founder and CTO of AccelOps expressed.
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Funding News Teabox raises fund from Singapore's Cameron Jones
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eabox, a Siliguri, West Bengal based online start-up has raised an undisclosed amount from Cameron Jones, a Singapore-based angel investor in funding. The company also raised venture debt from DBS Bank Limited (DBS), SouthEast Asia's largest banking, and financial services company. In January
Teabox had raised an undisclosed sum from Ratan Tata. Founded in 2012, Teabox sources the tea from 150 estates across Darjeeling, Assam, Nilgiris and Nepal.Serving customers in 94 countries, the firm is planning to ship tea in 100 countries by this year.India is the second largest tea
producer in the world. "When our customer becomes our investor, which Jones is, there is no better feeling than that and may be we are one of the very few start-ups in the country who has been able to do that," Kaushal Dugar, founder and CEO of Teabox, told The Telegraph, an English daily.
Kyazoonga bags funding from Ratan Tata
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atan Tata, chairman emeritus of Tata Sons and India's top global business leader has invested in Kyazoonga the country's first and largest ticketing company that is rapidly expanding and making massive strides globally. Kyazoonga is believed to be the only company from the sub-continent that has its own IP and ticketing technology and platform. The company offers consumers easy access to all forms of ticketed entertainment and sports with multiple payment options through its online, retail, mobile, social and box-office distribution channels. Started in 2007, Kyazoonga has delivered seamless ticketing services to most of the largest international sports and entertainment events and fans in the Indian subcontinent and around the world. It has ticketed major international events
including the ICC Cricket World Cup in three countries, t h e FIFA World Cup Qual ifiers, SAFF Cup, bil ateral international cricket matches and d o m e s t i c tournaments such as the Indian Premier League and the Pro Kabaddi League, Nehru Cup and others. "We are delighted to have Mr. Tata on board. As we scale Kyazoonga into a global enterprise, glad to know he shares in the excitement of our mission of 'Tickets made simple for everyone, everywhere'. We continue to focus our efforts on the large potential for paid access that India represents and pushing the envelope on significant global opportunities. Personally, as a
lifelong fan of his work that has included building several Tata companies into global majors, and as someone whose early world view of business was shaped by interactions with the Tata Group and Bombay House and his office, it is an honor and a privilege to g e t h i s validation for our team, product and market," said Neetu Bhatia, CEO and co-founder of Kyazoonga. When Neetu Bhatia was accepted as a graduate student into MIT and as a research student at the worldrenowned International Motor Vehicle Program at MIT, Mr. Tata had written her a personal note encouraging her to come back to India and change the world.
Kabadiexpress receives funding
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abadiexpress has raised Rs 1 crore (about $147,000) from a Delhi-based affluent individual. The scrap collector
collects scrap from homes and offices and sells it to recycling plants. It searches old newspapers, magazines, furniture, electronic
products and metal objects from the customers' doorstep and sells these to recycling plants and mills.
CIBA invests in 6Degree
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ech platform for fashion community, 6Degree, has raised an undisclosed amount in seed funding from Centre For Incubation & Business
Acceleration (CIBA), Goa. CIBA has initiated the funding with an overall target of $1 Mn which is likely to be closed in the next few months. 6Degree was founded by Nikhil India
Hegde and Amit Bhardwaj in 2014. It is a fashion talent platform for professionals, employers, designers, students, bloggers, and photographers.
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July 2016
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Orchid Lakeview: The dream residence in the modern era By Abhishek Dubey • New Delhi
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n 1970, Late Rampurshottam Goyal founded Goyal & co., a leading real estate development company in Western India, both in terms of residential and commercial. In the modern and high competition age, the brand has brought massive changes in the skyline of Ahmedabad as well as earned the respect of the city with a legacy, synonymous with excellence, innovation and transparency. Choicest locations, perfect planning and immaculate implementation have ensued value for money for its customers. Known for delivering beyond the call of duty, the company has systematically constructed on its credibility and goodwill with every project it has launched over the years. Goyal & co. is highly concern of each one being a true testament in innovation, design and construction. The company is well known for its planning to utilize the space provide by its clients. It's well talented and skilled team works well for compulsion of efficient utilization of space. Optimizing carpet space and reducing corridor space has enabled us to achieve efficient plans across both the 2 and 3 bedroom variants. Lakeview offers apartments that range 'between' 1281 to 1830 sq. ft. The utility space across apartments has been visually tucked away. So, even if you prefer the aesthetic of an open kitchen, guests in the dining and living areas will not see any laundry drying. Mr. Rampurshottam Goyal's legacy has inspired a whole new generation that is filled with a discerning fire to efficiently transcend Goyal & Co into the new millennium, creating new landmarks that are a culmination of experience and technology Goyal & Co has successfully completed more than 165 projects including apartment developments, villas and plotted developments, etc. It is a remarkable achievement with having complete satisfaction of our customers. Now the company has brought a new project "Orchid Lakeview", located near Bellandur lake; a region of Bangalore that needs just little introduction for few people. This prime property has been placed with a great strategy in the midst of work spaces, malls and reputed educational institutions. The location is considered for both investment and practical use from initial period and for the nature beneficial views as well. Our main priority is to provide complete package of luxury any peaceful life for the residents. We had a vision in which, we have provided the facilities in the respects of all ages people with innovative technology. Key Officials To provide such wonderful & needful products to our
resident customers, a very trustworthy, knowledgeable, experienced and devotee team has been working together to make it phenomenal and dream project. Let's know more about them
§ Trilok Goyal: He has earned his bachelor degree from Gujarat University. He overseers the real development activities of the group in Ahmedabad and plays a key role in the planning and implementation stage of all activities. § Shivshankar Goyal: He is a commerce graduate from Gujarat University. He mainly looks after the marketing and sales of the company's various schemes and projects. Over the years, he has developed strong relations and has been instrumental in the company's success. § Sandeep Goyal: He has completed his graduation from Karnataka University in Civil Engineering stream. He is wholly and solely looking the charge of the construction activities of the company and is instrumental in achieving highest quality parameters. § Mukesh Goyal: He has earned Master of Business Administration (MBA) from sydney University, Australia. He has responsibility of looking financial activities of the whole group and looks after land acquisition and corporate leasing. § Tanmay Goyal: He is a graduate from the University of North Carolina, USA. He exclusively overseers the development and sales of all the Bangalore based real estate projects. § Manan Goyal: He is a Graduate from Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. He is the procurement head for the group and is instrumental in making sure that quality products are sourced at the right prices. India
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