Healthy Diet Gives Vigorous Scalp & Hair, Says AHS Experts

Advanced Hair Studio (AHS), a leading hair replacement, hair re-growth company recently conducted a hair care session with Bangalore’s renowned nutritionist Ryan Fernando and AHS ambassador Kate Hallam, Former Beauty queen, Actress and International Model and Wife to Lucky Ali in Bangalore. The session included an informative talk highlighting the importance of simple dietary requirements to get a perfectly healthy scalp and beautiful hair. The session also answered a plethora of conventional myths regarding hair care, highlighted the latest hair trends, advancements in the hair industry as well.

Ryan Fernando, while discussing the importance of hair in the session, strongly recommended that eating healthy is the best way to look beautiful. Human cells are made up in a very basic way of raw materials (Carbon, Hydrogen, Oxygen and Nitrogen and plethora of minerals) and eating right provides these essential raw materials that lead to the perfect maintenance, growth and regeneration of hair.

Further talking about healthy eating, Ryan Fernando, renowned Nutritionist (Bangalore), said, “Hair, nails and skin are the first indicators for bad eating, where they lose their vibrancy. Therefore, one needs to be very conscious of eating the right foods (fruits, vegetables, grains, dairy products and water) as well as eating the right calories (protein, carb and fats). It is very important for us to determine the nutrients value and accordingly supplement our food intakes.

I thank Advanced Hair Studio and Kate Hallam to have come up with this concept of educating people about healthy eating and its benefits.”

Kate Hallam, Former Beauty queen, Actress and International Model and Wife to Lucky Ali and Advanced Hair Studio brand ambassador while addressing the media said, “It’s high time that we start taking our diet seriously. Increasing stress, erratic sleeping schedules, busy lifestyles, pollution, everything adds to the regular wear and tear of body. Hair being a vital component of our body requires equal attention and dietary needs, as we have noticed it only catches our attention, when we have already lost a major portion of it. I consider myself lucky to have come in the sanctuary of Advanced Hair Studio and their unique procedures that helped me enhance my locks. Their regular hair care sessions on helped me know more about my hair inside- out and increase their luster over the time.

I would also like to take this opportunity to thank Ryan to provide have shown such great support and have come out with us to promote this cause with us. ”

We, at Advanced Hair Studio strongly has also devised a unique procedure, called Advanced Fitness Programme, which is considered as one of the best treatments in the world to control hair loss and save existing hair.  It also thicken your existing thin and weak hair, re-grow hair in areas where the hair follicles are still alive but not dead, improves scalp condition and improves the texture of hair.

Advanced Hair Studio Fitness Program promises to benefit all those who face hair thinning or hair fall problem. This procedure has given results to thousands of clients across the world.   

Adarsh Credit Co-Op Implements SAP Financial To Stengsthen Customer Engagement

SAP India has announced that Adarsh Credit Co-operative Society Ltd, a leading multi-state credit co-operative society, has chosen SAP solutions for financial services with clear goals: faster development and introduction of new products and meet increasing customer demands by shaping solutions to fit the realities of the modern-day financial service institution.

This implementation enables Adarsh Credit Co-Operative Society Ltd to improve the accessibility of customer information and empower its customers to conduct financial transactions on a user-friendly and cost-efficient application platform. Adarsh Credit Co-Operative Society Ltd. becomes one of the front running customers to leverage the strength of SAP solutions for the financial services institutions.

 With a reach of over a million members across India through its branches and advisors network, Adarsh Credit Co-operative Society Ltd serves customers based in remotest areas of India. They needed technology solutions that supported their vision of financial inclusion at any time or place across India. Their team already runs SAP Mobiliser that helps them empower the low income population with simplified cash collection procedures and secure transactions conducted over mobile device.

The financial services sector has always been a key focus for SAP India to deliver innovative products and services which can further upward organizations to unlock growth opportunities and better serve customers with new-age technology. SAP solutions for the financial services sector are designed to support customer centricity, real-time processing and standardization while enabling faster product innovation.   

New HP’s FunDex To Help Businesses Win in Mobile App Economy

HP has announced new software releases designed to help organizations deliver mobile applications that delight customers and score 5-star ratings. The innovations harness HP’s unique assets in big data analytics,application lifecycle management, IT operations management and security to enable organizations to accelerate the delivery of every phase of the mobile app lifecycle, from creation and pre-production, to delivery and post-production management.

“HP allows us to take big data and make it actionable, so we can deliver exceptional user experiences on our mobile speech translator app,” said Yan Auerbach, COO, SpeechTrans (@SpeechTrans), a leading speech translation company. “Previously, it took us up to three weeks to fix an app issue and now we can address any problem in less than 2 days. Leveraging HP software has enabled us to achieve consistent 5-star ratings in mobile app stores – a key driver of new customers and revenue.” Video: learn how SpeechTrans uses HP Software to increase their number of downloads, boost their Android ratings, and go from three to five star reviews in the app store.

Mobile applications are increasingly becoming the “front door” for a company’s brand, and future revenue and market share often depends on an end user’s immediate overall app experience. Mobile application users expect world-class performance, availability, security and quality, as well as contextual understanding that delivers the right content at the right time.

However, delivering an enjoyable and useful user experience is a non-trivial task – mobile developers, testers, and IT management must contend with a complex and constantly changing web of challenges. These include developing apps for a constantly expanding array of devices, operating systems, networks, and platforms, understanding and acting on the massive volumes of user and device data, and accurately predicting scale and usage levels to enable peak app experience.

HP’s latest innovations are designed to address these challenges by combining its proven assets in application development testing, monitoring and systems management with HP Haven analytics, HP security software, and elegant SaaS-based interfaces. Together, these capabilities result in solutions that help make designing, delivering, and managing mobile applications an intuitive, collaborative and fun process. Businesses can use HP’s solutions to accelerate application delivery, test and monitor apps across multiple devices and operating systems, and provide mobile users with exceptional and secure experiences.

Continuously Improve the User Experience to achieve a 5-Star Mobile App
HP has released a unique new offering that leverages the HP Haven big data platform to allow businesses to gain visibility into the health of their mobile apps and measure overall user experience. HP App Pulse Mobile constantly monitors and analyzes performance, stability and resource usage on mobile apps. The tool provides a “FunDex” score that provides a top-level view of problems that negatively impact the user experience with recommendations to explore and fix the root cause of each issue.

Accelerate Application Delivery with the Power of Big Data

HP has released a new version of its Agile project management software to assist mobile teams in adopting Agile practices and delivering high-quality mobile applications faster:

·         A new version of HP Agile Manager supports real-time integration with HP’s  Application Lifecycle   Management software so that no matter how fast Agile teams deliver, they can have data-driven insights that facilitate quality assurance with each release  

·         HP has also released an enhanced version of Application Lifecycle Management that greatly simplifies the task of defect and test management across fast-moving mobile dev and test teams and extends support across a wide array of browsers and platforms.

Test across Multiple Devices without Compromising Time to Market

HP has delivered new updates to its mobile testing software designed to help customers automate realistic performance and functional testing and manage their mobile test lab to accommodate for network behavior, regardless of constraints:

·         The new version of HP Mobile Center speeds and simplifies app testing on real devices supporting both native iOS, Android and hybrid applications including common JavaScript frameworks such as JQM, Angular and Sencha, and adds support for seven different languages (English, French German, Russian, Japanese, Korean and Chinese)

·         A new version of HP Network Virtualization, with an enhanced user interface and updated performance optimization capabilities helps app development teams incorporate real mobile network conditions in development and testing, ultimately enabling the delivery of apps with an ideal user experience. 

·         A new version of HP Service Virtualization provides critical capabilities for driving mobile development without delays, by extending support for popular protocols such as Websphere MQ, SAP RFC/IDOC.

Deliver Beautiful Experiences that Perform and Scale

HP has unveiled new performance engineering solutions designed to help teams continuously scale mobile apps in the face of peak user loads and maintain availability and responsiveness:

·         Supporting mobile performance testing, new releases of widely adopted HP LoadRunner and HP Performance Center are now integrated with HP Mobile Center, giving mobile QA and development teams’ continual access to real devices in their performance test scenarios.

·         New updates to HP’s cloud-based load testing service: HP StormRunner Load improves performance analytics, extends international geographic coverage to create local load, and supports additional native languages (adding both Chinese and Japanese).  HP StormRunner Load’s intuitive user interface makes it easy to scale both web and mobile load tests to over one million virtual users.

Deliver Secure Mobile Applications that Protect End Users

Just as mobile applications are the front door for a company’s brand and path to revenue, they also serve as an entry point for hackers and security breaches. To help deliver secure mobile applications, HP provides application development and testing that infuses security into coding and testing processes. The new releases of HP Application Lifecycle Management solutions are fully integrated with the HP Fortify application security suite, which is designed to assess and test security at every step of the application development lifecycle, and is continually updated with state of the art algorithms and programming practices.   

“As businesses get serious about their mobile application strategy, they realize that point solutions fall short in helping them to quickly create and deliver amazing mobile experiences that are secure, high-performing, and beautiful,” said Saurabh Saxena, Country Director - India, HP Software. “HP is uniquely positioned to lead in the mobile market by bringing together our proven assets in application development, operations management, security, and big data to help businesses deliver winning mobile apps that delight customers and positively impact their brand, revenue, and market share.”    

Carriers Advance Initiative to Scale Ethernet Service Interconnectivity

Following its GEN14 announcement of the project launch in November, the MEF has now approved the next phase of the MEF Ethernet Interconnect Points (EIP) project to standardize guidelines for current and future Ethernet Carriers around the globe.  In a first for the MEF, the organization has assembled some of the largest Ethernet Operators, all under one roof, for the purpose of streamlining how they interconnect their Carrier Ethernet services. The EIP project complements a separate, newly introduced MEF initiative – the Services Interconnect Program (MEF-SI) – that will give hundreds of small wholesale Carrier Ethernet Operators the opportunity to offer standards-compliant Carrier Ethernet services quickly for their customers.

The EIP project will provide rapid feedback from prototyping to help the project participants agree on a common approach to interconnecting by using MEF specifications. EIPs comprise all aspects of Ethernet interconnect – including all the requirements needed to provide a customer with an end-to–end Ethernet service spanning multiple operators. Specific aspects include: location selection, External Network-to-Network Interface (ENNI) parameters, and alignment of business processes.

With more than 50 current MEF specifications for Carrier Ethernet architectures, connectivity services, and service lifecycles – and many more in the pipeline to cover the emerging area of Lifecycle Service Orchestration (LSO) – demand for implementation guidelines for multi-carrier environments is growing rapidly. The EIP project is developing use cases representing topologies and service characteristics typically used by carriers that interconnect their Carrier Ethernet services with one another to create end-to-end Carrier Ethernet services.    

BT’s Cloud of Clouds Helps Customers With Diversified IT Environments

BT has announced a new generation of cloud services that allow large organisations around the world to connect easily and securely to the applications and the data they need, independently of where they are hosted. They will empower customers to integrate and orchestrate the IT resources hosted on their own private clouds as well as on BT’s global cloud platform and on the platforms of other leading cloud providers. The new services take advantage of BT’s global network infrastructure and build on BT’s long standing expertise in the delivery of enterprise-grade cloud services. They rely on innovative technology developed by BT and its partners in the fields of diversified infrastructure management, service management, global network optimisation, application performance acceleration and security.

BT’s ‘cloud of clouds’ vision builds on a roadmap for future service delivery and is underpinned by a wide range of services and industry sector solutions, delivered over BT’s global network infrastructure. The services are managed by customers through a single user-friendly service catalogue, using BT’s new Cloud Management System. They include:

* IT infrastructure and applications delivered “as a service” to customers across BT’s global network; 

* Seamless provision and integration of cloud and non-cloud services;

* Integration of private, public and hybrid cloud services to support all the IT needs of customers;

* Freedom of choice for customers by bringing together the best services in the cloud from BT and from world class partners such as Amazon Web Services, Cisco, Equinix, HP, Interxion, Microsoft and Salesforce;

* Transition to the cloud and a great user experience through globalnetwork optimisation, application performance acceleration and management capabilities leveraging proven technology from BearingPoint, Dynatrace,Ipanema, Riverbed and others;

*  Apps from BT allowing the deployment of applications on the cloud and supporting the development of new cloud services;

* Control and security of customer data to protect information and meet global and local regulations based on the BT Assure portfolio;

*  Support through a globally distributed operations model to deliver the required service level agreement wherever customers operate; and

* Accelerated transition to the cloud-enabled economy using BT Advise professional services expertise to get the benefits faster.

Melanie Posey, Research Vice President at IDC said: “ ’One size fits all’ does not apply to cloud services. Enterprises will be operating in diversified IT environments and consuming more and more cloud-based services from a range of providers. Therefore, enterprise customers need heterogeneous cloud frameworks that support a range of solutions tailored to different business requirements. They will want a provider that can serve as a trusted broker -- a partner capable of integrating and managing ‘multi-cloud’ IT estates in a secure fashion.  Global network infrastructure and broad ecosystems of third-party solutions are key components of diversified IT environments.  As such, BT with its ‘cloud of clouds’ vision is well positioned to guide enterprises into the next-generation of federated cloud IT.”

Luis Alvarez, CEO, BT Global Services, said: “In the future digital age, no business will be successful unless it makes the most of the cloud. CIOs ask for choice and flexibility, trusted security and the best know-how in the industry to meet their business challenges. This matches perfectly with our network-centric vision of the ‘cloud of clouds’ and leverages the experience gained through the cloud ecosystems we have already built for the global financial services and life sciences sectors. We’re investing with our partners to bring the widest possible range of options to connect our customers’ critical applications and data, wherever those are hosted, whenever they need them, on whatever device they use. We also aim to provide our customers with a strong end-to-end service level agreement guaranteeing performance, predictability and flexibility. And we have the expertise and capabilities required to defend and protect our customers, providing trust and confidence in the cloud. We aim to be the leading global cloud services integrator.”    

Where Are the Profits in Omni-Channel Selling?

A new JDA study reveals an enormous amount of money, energy and time retailers and consumer goods manufacturers are spending to improve their omni-channel sales capabilities. While this may not be surprising given the current business environment, the JDA report reveals an unexpected and disturbing fact: despite these significant investments, only 16 percent of companies say they can fulfill omni-channel demand profitably today.

This finding, and others are highlighted in The Omni-Channel Fulfillment Imperative, a new report prepared for JDA Software Group, Inc. by PwC. This study is based on a global survey of more than 400 retail and consumer goods CEOs from around the world, conducted in late 2014.

What is eroding retailers’ margins as they sell and deliver products across multiple channels? It’s simple: the high cost of fulfilling orders. A full 67 percent of respondents reported that these costs are growing as they increase their focus on selling across channels. Survey respondents reported their highest costs associated with omni-channel selling as:

* Handling returns from online and store orders (cited by 71 percent of respondents) 

* Shipping directly to the customer (67 percent)

* Shipping to the store for customer pick-up (59 percent)

The CEOs in the JDA study recognize that they need to continue investing in business improvements to enhance their omni-channel performance. However, reducing the associated logistics costs is not their primary focus. When asked to rank their top initiatives for improving business operations, CEOs’ number-one choice (57 percent) was spending capital on creating new customer experience. Similarly, when asked to rank strategic growth enablers for the year, reducing/reformatting physical store footprints to focus on expanding the ecommerce business was the top choice at 53 percent.

“Every time retailers receive an online order, they have a number of options to fulfill that demand. They can pull the product from a local store, send it from a centralized warehouse or ship it directly from the supplier. JDA’s new study demonstrates that most retailers lack the insight to make these decisions in a profitable manner — and are not sufficiently focused on this critical capability gap,” said Kevin Iaquinto, chief marketing officer at JDA. “They need intelligent logistics and fulfillment solutions that can reveal the hidden costs, and the customer service trade-offs, associated with every delivery option. In addition, to truly win in the omni-channel marketplace, retailers need the upfront demand forecasting tools to make sure products are already distributed across all locations in a manner that supports profitable delivery.”

While they might not be focused on actions today to create profitable fulfillment and delivery schemes, the JDA study leaves no doubt that CEOs are aware of the importance of profitable omni-channel fulfillment to their future survival. Seventy-one percent of respondents said omni-channel fulfillment is either a high or a top priority. And these CEOs are planning to invest an average of 29 percent of their total capital expenditures for 2015 on improving their omni-channel fulfillment performance.

The fulfillment capability most cited as needing attention was transportation and logistics, named by 88 percent of CEOs as a priority for the future. The second capability CEOs will focus on is improving inventory availability to fill orders, cited by 85 percent.

“Having products available, then finding the most profitable way to deliver them —are critical activities that lie at the heart of supply chain excellence,” noted Iaquinto. “The CEOs in the JDA survey clearly understand the challenges they have ahead of them with regard to fulfillment, and they know they will have to innovate if they are to be profitable while meeting customer expectations across channels. The good news is that advanced technology can help retailers and consumer goods manufacturers master omni-channel fulfillment. However, until companies fully leverage these solutions, they will fail to realize positive financial returns on their omni-channel investments.” 

See...Buy...Gone

In the first-ever live flash sale for Lenovo A7000 held at Flipkart office in Bangalore on April 15, 2015, Lenovo claims to have sold 30,000 units in 4 seconds.

Launched on April 07, 2015 in India, the A7000 being the world’s first Dolby Atmos equipped smartphone, has created a lot of stir in the smartphone market and has received overwhelming response from the consumers.

The Lenovo A7000 sale began today at 2 PM on Flipkart. The next sale of A7000 will be on April 22, 2015. The registrations for the next sale will start on Wednesday, April 15, 2015 at 6 p.m.