Launch of Metamorphosis School of Entrepreneurship - Virtual Learning Platform for 6-12th Grade Students

Metamorphosis, an edu-tech company today announced the launch of their ambitious project - Metamorphosis School Of Entrepreneurship (MSE)- World’s First Virtual School for Entrepreneurship at middle and high school level. Students from 12+ cities from across the country have enrolled in the first cohort of Metamorphosis School of Entrepreneurship and the platform is planning to empower 1 million students by the end of year 2020.

MSE is a virtual, dynamic, practicalistic school of entrepreneurship with expertly curated content for the 6-12th grade students. It’s a two year long case-study based program and the entire curriculum comprises 3 divisions i.e Meta Core, Meta Electives, and Meta X. 

On the launch of the virtual entrepreneurship school, Mr. Pavan Allena, Founder & CEO of MetamorphosisEdu says, “We have always been dedicated towards our goal of creating a healthy startup ecosystem in the country. MSE is our next big step in the same direction and through the program we are trying to inculcate the nuts & bolts of Entrepreneurship among the middle and high school students”

Youth is the future of any nation and our prime focus at MetamorphosisEdu is to nourish and empower these seedlings so that they grow up into big Entrepreneurial success” - He further adds.

The MSE program takes students on an entrepreneurial journey (from idea generation to new venture creation) by imbibing the 21st century skill sets, idea pitching opportunities, b-plan competitions and many more. Each and every student works up their way as an entrepreneur under the guidance of 50+ mentors (who are real-time entrepreneurs) and personal proctors. The next cohort of Metamorphosis School of Entrepreneurship will start from October 1, 2020. 

Till date, MetamorphosisEdu has empowered 15000+ students across the country. The company is also responsible for 45 success stories of student entrepreneurs who have launched their ventures that have garnered accolades and market traction. 

About MetamorphosisEdu: (https://www.metamorphosisedu.com/)

Metamorphosis is the world’s first virtual school that teaches entrepreneurship to high school students.  It strives to make students job creators instead of job seekers. The company was founded in 2017 by Pavan Allena when he felt the need to empower young minds with entrepreneur skills and guide them on a path of leadership and innovation.

The company began with a physical business model which quickly evolved into a mix between a physical and digital model. As a result of using digital technologies, the company has been growing exponentially. Between 2017 till 2019, Metamorphosis grew five-folds. Today, more than 16 people work at the company, and aims to build the largest entrepreneurial community across the globe at the school level. 

Otipy to Acquire Women Resellers Through its Partnership with SHEROES

Otipy, one of India’s fastest growing social commerce ventures, in partnership with the largest women-centric social networking app, SHEROES, today announced a new initiative to empower thousands of women pan-India, by providing them an earning opportunity as Otipy partner resellers.

The partnership between Otipy and SHEROES will be based on a revenue-sharing model, with strong synergies between both the app based platforms.  The idea of the initiative being that women can take advantage of the current scenario to earn and become independent, while being in the comfort of their homes. By choosing to partner with Otipy and SHEROES, interested resellers could be just a step away from being self-reliant earners, without the need of any additional investment. Through just a few clicks, they can be empowered within their communities by selling and coordinating deliveries of high-quality fresh fruits and vegetables to thousands of homes.

The initiative is looking to partner with more than 1,000 women in becoming Otipy resellers, in the Delhi-NCR region alone. For starters, resellers will be supporting farmers by taking up the mantle of delivering fresh farm produce in the Delhi-NCR region. The objective is to provide healthier alternatives to an increasingly health conscious society, which is yearning for safe, hygienic and eco-friendly produce as an alternative to the standard-fare products of questionable quality, that are usually available at a corner store. The hope is to create a healthier ecosystem, while simultaneously enabling women to make most of an opportunity to attain financial independence and recognition. Otipy, along with SHEROES, wishes to replicate this model across the country, as they intend to leverage the expansive SHEROES community to find enthusiastic women partners. 

Speaking about the partnership Varun Khurana, Founder, Otipy said “Otipy is thrilled to partner with SHEROES, as they have been at the forefront of creating tangible impact in society through the creation of a community exclusively for women, which allows them to explore expert opinions and work opportunities among other things. Otipy shares similar values with SHEROES and we hope that through this initiative, thousands of women will be provided financial avenues, while driving the larger purpose of healthier food consumption in the country.”

Sairee Chahal, Founder & CEO SHEROES said “One of our major goals has always been to facilitate the inclusion of women into the workforce and our partnership with Otipy only strengthens our resolve in reaching that ambition. It is our belief that Otipy’s opportunity has the potential to transform the prevalent thinking behind women-centric decision making and we are working towards creating success stories that have the power to reinforce the ecosystem for the empowerment of women.”

Otipy’s platform has been designed to meet the requirements of an average smartphone user, with a friendly app interface and simple payment gateways, while ensuring quick next-day delivery. Otipy and SHEREOS encourages users and community champions on the app to apply by logging in to their accounts and make use of the opportunity, and become partner resellers.     

LTI Launches Canvas, a Modern Software Engineering Platform for Remote & Hybrid Workforce of Future

Larsen & Toubro Infotech (BSE code: 540005, NSE: LTI), a global technology consulting and digital solutions company has launched LTI Canvas, a modern software engineering platform that addresses critical need of enabling work from anywhere. LTI Canvas is an integrated platform that brings together various processes, tools and methodologies to drive technology and business outcomes in an environment where teams are operating in a distributed environment.

A resilient digital platform, LTI Canvas can help organizations improve their effectiveness and ability to innovate in a remote or hybrid environment. LTI Canvas is a bundle of Microsoft technologies and LTI solutions to help IT professionals across industries collaborate easily and stay productive. It is based on microservices architecture and leverages Microsoft platforms like Azure and Microsoft 365 including Teams, among others along with LTI’s Ways of Working solution stack. LTI Canvas streamlines processes like software development, support, transition, knowledge management, infrastructure management, and information security. It consolidates capabilities across Cloud, Agile, DevOps and Design Thinking leveraging AI/ML and analytics.

Nachiket Deshpande, COO & Executive Board Member, LTI said: “The pandemic has forced enterprises to rethink their approach to business continuity and employee productivity. With hybrid work environment gaining quick traction, we designed LTI Canvas as an integrated platform that allows software engineering to be delivered remotely. LTI Canvas drives impactful interventions and also enables upstream processes like solutioning, requirement workshops and transitions to be carried out remotely. LTI Canvas is our design for the future of software engineering.”

Meetul Patel, Executive Director, Strategic Growth, Microsoft India, said, “We are inspired by our customers and partners who are harnessing digital tools to navigate the emerging environment across industries and geographies. Microsoft Azure and advanced technologies will help securely accelerate tech intensity across organizations and enable the innovations that can reimagine the workplace. We’re pleased to partner with LTI on LTI Canvas, which has a unique layered approach to achieve the best outcomes for organizations developing work-from-anywhere capabilities.”

Going beyond Work from Home (WFH), LTI Canvas approaches Everything from Home (xFH) in five layers, each with a specific set of tools, governance and outcomes. The first layer addresses the core requirement to be ‘Operational from Home’ and enables swift and efficient remote working for employees. The next layer offers secure connectivity options to be ‘Secured from Home’. The third layer helps to stay ‘Engaged from Home’ and enables active collaboration with remote workforce. The fourth layer helps attain higher output levels and be ‘Productive from Home’. The final layer enables ‘Growth from Home’ at both, personal and organizational level to be able to scale appropriately.

To know more about the platform, visit https://canvas.lntinfotech.com/

Why must enterprises move to Green technologies?

Going green is the mantra often heard among Indian IT enterprises. It is an important business initiative that is driving good corporates towards greener technologies.

Going green is not just about being environment-friendly but also translates into one of the best ways to save money. A recent IDC report indicates that energy and cooling expenses will grow eight times faster than purchasing costs of new servers through 2010. In IDC’s latest Green Poll in the APAC region, almost 81 percent of the participating organizations said that the Green-ness of an IT technology would become increasingly important when it comes to selecting suppliers. About 18 percent of the organizations said that they were already considering this factor while selecting suppliers, while 30 percent said they were putting systems into place to start doing so in the near future. So Green IT opens up an abundance of opportunities for enterprises in any country.

Why should your IT go Green?
Rising global warming, increased energy costs and greater awareness about its socio-economic implications has forced organizations to look for ways to reduce their carbon-emission footprint. However, what has escaped attention is the massive amount of energy your IT consumes. Enterprise IT, which accounts for up to 40 percent of an organization’s energy requirement, has a big role to play to reduce greenhouse gases. According to a Forrester survey, over 41 percent of people in the IT departments believe energy efficiency and equipment recycling are important factors that need to be considered. In the same survey, 65 percent believed reduction of energy related operating costs as the driving factor for implementing Green IT.

What drives Green in India?
Adoption of Green IT is not just about buying green data centers and setting up Green IT infrastructure. It needs a complete 360-degree approach - starting from the vision of the top management to the awareness among employees. “An environment-conscious organization should define what ‘green’ means to it as there is no global, industry-wide recognized standard today that defines a green data center or organization, and take steps to follow the corporate green guidelines. The long-term goal of the green data center operation is to achieve carbon neutrality.

Data centers – The Energy Guzzlers
Undoubtedly, data centers have the maximum energy requirements, given the massive number of powerful servers that are housed in today’s data centers, which are sometimes as big as the size of a football field. And these data centers may require as much cooling power as the electricity to run them. Some studies say that these data centers account for between 1.2 and 2.0 percent of electricity consumed in the United States. It is also a known fact that many of the servers in the data centers run at a low utilization level of 10% to 15%. This causes significant wastage through redundant hardware, memory, network devices and power supplies. In earlier times, enterprises would have put up with this excess capacity, given the IT department’s risk-aversion. However, with maturing IT coupled with need to rein-in energy use, organizations are now forced to adopt strategies to reduce their data center operational costs.

Strategies to implement Green technologies
What are the steps you should take to optimize the consumption of electricity as well as reduce the number of servers in your data center? Enterprise IT groups are looking at various options – such as PC Power management software and deployment of energy efficient servers and network devices. However, these piecemeal steps will not yield the desired results; you need a more holistic approach to solve this problem. The answer lies in the adoption of Cloud computing and Virtualization within your enterprise IT – two strategies that can a go a long way in reducing your energy-dependency and thus make your organization truly green.

Embrace Cloud Computing
Cloud computing lets you use computational power and storage space from a third-party service provider, thus lowering demand for addition of more servers in your data center. You can also reduce the number of applications deployed on your data centers by using similar applications hosted by SaaS providers. Now, cloud computing means different things to different people – depending upon which vendor you talk to. Therefore, it could be utility computing or grid or Software-as-a-Service or even Platform-as-a-Service. However, one thing is clear – all of them refer to some service provided by a third-party provider outside the corporate firewall. It is true there are concerns with respect to security, availability and customer’s data privacy in these services – as shown recently by the outage at Amazon’s S3 storage service. However, these issues will get addressed as the technology and industry matures.

There are primarily two types of cloud services, namely Infrastructure in the cloud and Applications in the cloud. Infrastructure in the cloud refers to raw CPU power and data storage space you can use on-demand over Internet.

You should also explore applications in the cloud type of services as a tool to minimize data center load. Look at business applications that are not critical to your business or those you can’t afford to maintain with a separate IT group in-house – such as CRM apps, HR/HCM, Backup and Restore, Security etc. Instead of running these applications on your data center, you should consider using applications provided by third-party service providers. This, in turn, reduces the number of servers in your data center – which means you have less energy consumption.

Virtualize your data center
As you look for ways to optimize your data center operation, consolidation of servers through virtualization technology provides considerable energy savings. Virtualization is a technology that allows you to partition a physical hardware into multiple logical boxes, with each having its own operating system and network connectivity running in a sandbox. This makes additional standby servers redundant since you can dynamically provision a new virtual machine and then run a new instance of your application on this VM. With advances in virtual machine technology, you can now move a running virtual machine from one server to another server. This further increases the utilization rate of your server stack in the data center; hence you can host more applications with reduced number of servers.