First Vegan Ayurvedic Aromatherapy Spa – Vedaearth - Opens in Bengaluru

Vedaearth part of Addvantis Enterprises LLP, a Bangalore based startup known for its ideology of being vegan, cruelty-free, with no animal byproducts, no harsh chemicals or parabens in any of its products, launched first of its kind vegan spa, ‘Vedearth lounge’ in the city today. The lounge was inaugurated by Sudha Murthy, Chairperson Infosys Foundation, philanthropist and acclaimed writer. Vedaearth Lounge will use specially curated skin, hair and wellness products, with the goodness of Ayurveda and Aromatherapy to help patrons discover a refreshing and revitalizing way to pamper themselves. The brand has a holistic approach to wellness, and all products are crafted with an unwavering belief in the healing power of herbs and the uplifting aura of aromas.

Speaking on the launch Sudha Murthy, Chairperson, Infosys Foundation, philanthropist and acclaimed writer said, “I believe that Vedaearth is a venture that is truly a pioneer in vegan beauty and wellness. The products that Vedaearth offers do not use harsh chemicals, are close to nature and most importantly not tested on animals and hence cruelty free. I always encourage youngsters like Divya, who are entrepreneurs and create their own path for excellence. I wish them all the very best in their endeavors and hope to see more and more people switch to such practice.”

The lounge will offer an array of services to relax, de-stress and provide nourishment to mind and body. These include clear cleanse, radiance revive, miracle mane, eye elixir, aromatic aura and other such refreshing and revitalizing treatments. Recognizing the growing requirements of the people, Vedaearth will soon launch a range of essential oils, skin toner and soaps. The curated formulas for the lounge are prepared in – house, tried and tested carefully in their own research and development facility.

Divya Dinesh Founder, CEO of Addvantis Enterprises, the parent company of Vedaearth said, “The Indian market is one of the fastest growing markets in terms of skincare and wellness products. However, we recognized a gap in the industry for vegan products and seized the opportunity to provide like-minded people with products that combined the trusted traditions of Ayurveda, with the healing properties of Aromatherapy. From sifting the benefits of natural ingredients to creating products under the guidance of qualified Ayurveda and aromatherapy specialists, triggered the remarkable journey of Vedaearth. The Vedaearth Lounge is a way in which we could bring to life our philosophy and ideologies in the form of an experience that instills a new and natural sense of well-being in all of us.”

She further added, “90% of our products are exclusively prepared in-house and the rest 10% are outsourced from vendors who follow stringent guidelines and adhere to being vegan and cruelty free. Our therapists are especially trained in-house and currently they will be available in the lounge in different shifts. Additionally we will offer 60 plus services in our facility.”

Vedaearth offers a host of Skincare products comprising of face packs, facial oils, anti-pigmentation, anti-ageing, under eye, cleansing oils for clean and radiant skin. Wellness products include bath salts for relaxation, mood elevation and even pain-relieving oils. They also provide hair oil for nourishment and treatment of hair-fall.  Since its inception all the products have become a rage and have gained immense popularity among women.

Vedaearth is constantly striving for better products through regularly innovating traditional knowledge to suit the modern lifestyle of consumers and offer the best of beauty care and wellbeing products in terms of quality, efficacy and safety. The products have received certifications from PETA, are Ayush approved formulas and have GMP certifications.

CORE Diagnostics Hosts a Confluence of Innovators and Entrepreneurs at ICC 2017 in Bengaluru

Liquid biopsy, genetic testing offer new potent weapons for diagnosis and treatment

CORE conducts unique Startup Pitch Fest to select and reward innovative and potentially path-breaking entrepreneurial ideas in the healthcare domain

India’s most trusted diagnostics partner CORE Diagnostics Pvt. Ltd is supporting a comprehensive discussion platform for Oncologists and medical experts to talk in depth about the Indian perspectives on genetic mutation and its role in augmenting cancer risk at the 2^nd chapter of the Indian Cancer Congress.  Over 3500 oncologists have converged at the conference to talk about latest strategies in treatment and prevention against cancer.

The event is being held from Nov 8-12 here at the Silicon Valley of India and has experts in medical oncology deliberating upon the Indian as well as global perspectives in the incidence of different types of cancers and the causes of their rising prevalence.  A rapidly expanding start up and an expert in Oncology testing, CORE have constantly differentiated themselves by their innovative edge in the diagnostics market.

Keeping up with the newest technologies in the cancer detection and prevention space, CORE has an entire section dedicated to the latest buzz in the segment called COREtalks at their booth. Some of the featured talks include “BRCA: An Indian perspective on incidence and patterns,” " Liquid Biopsy: An answer to when tissue is an issue," and Next Generation Sequencing and beyond in the management of Cancers - Where do we stand?”  CORE is also hosting a Lunch Symposium on Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence in Oncology - The Myth & the Reality as well as participating on several debates and panel discussions.

CORE Diagnostics has also initiated a one of its kind effort to boost innovation as a means to usher in potentially game changing ideas in the field of Indian healthcare/

Underlining the need for promoting innovation in healthcare, CORE Diagnostics’ Founder & Managing Director, Zoya Brar said, “Putting appropriate thrust on innovation can bring about revolutionary solutions in healthcare. This is particularly important for a country like India where dynamic ideas are needed to expand the reach of quality healthcare to rural as well as remote areas. In this direction, for the first time ever at a conference, with a platform as great as the ICC, we’re hosting a unique ‘Startup Pitch Fest’. This fest will provide a one of its kind platform to boost brilliant ideas in the healthcare domain that can play a pivotal role in diagnosis and positively impact patient treatment. The winner gets cash prizes worth Rs 3 lakhs. I’m very excited and look forward to hearing from the selected finalists for COREcatalyst on November 10^.”

Tally Solutions Pvt. Ltd. Appoints Arvind Kumar as Chief of Research & Development

The country’s premier business software provider, Tally Solutions has appointed Arvind Kumar as the chief of R&D (Research and Development) with effect from 8^th November 2017. Arvind will directly report to the Tally MD, Mr. Bharat Goenka. He will be based out of the Bangalore head office and will lead the R&D team of over 150 resources.

Arvind has been associated with stellar brands in the past and developed his expertise in defining and implementing platform solution for console, enterprise and cloud.

Prior to Tally, he was working with Philips as Director R&D of Health Suite Digital platform. He has also worked with GE Healthcare, Hughes Network Systems, NIIT Ltd, and Methodex System in various technology leadership roles.

“I am excited about the possibilities that lie ahead with Tally, and honoured to have been made a part of this team. As an economy, we are in a very interesting space with the growing emphasis on technology and digitization, and I look forward to exploring these avenues in my role at Tally” commented Arvind on his appointment.

Arvind brings with him over 20+ years of experience in executing large scale distributed and enterprise software, Platform & Services, web technology, and cloud computing. His expertise spans across domains including medical imaging informatics, enterprise application, e-commerce and telecom. He has completed his B.E from IIT Roorkee.

Dilip Jose Appointed MD & CEO of Manipal Health Enterprises Ltd

Manipal Health Enterprises Private Limited (MHEPL) today announced the appointment of  Dilip Jose as the Managing Director & Chief Executing Officer (M.D &CEO) of the company and will take charge from Dr. Ajay Bakshi who was associated with MHEPL for the last three plus years.

Having over 25 years of rich experience in various sectors and across functional areas he dedicated the last 16 years to the Healthcare industry. Dilip Jose served as a senior advisor to TPG Capital for close to two years and prior to this he was the group CEO of Care Hospitals, Hyderabad. He was also the Regional Director with Fortis Healthcare, managing their operations in Southern Region. He has held several leadership positions/ roles in the areas of para-medical education as well as tertiary healthcare delivery. In his previous role at TPG, and as senior  advisor to the Manipal group Jose has contributed immensely in terms of operational excellence , and has provided value and knowledge of the best practices in the Healthcare industry.

He is a management graduate from IRMA and has attended several Executive Development Programs at institutions such as IIM (A), XLRI and ISB. He is a member of the National Healthcare Council, CII and the GLG Healthcare Council. His interests include trekking and volunteering for social causes.

Commenting on the appointment Dr. Sudarshan Ballal, Chairman, Manipal Hospitals said “We congratulate and extend a very welcome to Dilip Jose on taking over this assignment. He is undoubtedly one of the finest minds in the Healthcare Industry and I am confident that he will take MHEPL to new heights with his strong vision and dynamism.” We wish him the very best in this endeavor

Office Rental Projections to Remain Strong Across Primary Markets like Bengaluru

Office rental projections for the next one year continue to point to solid growth across all prime markets, according to a recent RICS’ India Commercial Property Monitor. In terms of the city breakdown, Bengaluru exhibits stronger rental growth projections when compared with Mumbai and the National Capital Region (NCR).

RICS’ India Commercial Property Monitor is a quarterly guide to the trends in the commercial property investment and occupier markets. The guide is based on survey questionnaires sent out to RICS members over a month long period ending 6 October, 2017. Respondents were asked to compare conditions over the latest three months, with the previous three months and give their views on the outlook.

Capital value expectations for the next one year for office, retail and industrial segments are slightly lower. Still, solid growth is expected across segments over the next one year. Likewise, respondents also lowered their expectations for rental growth for a second consecutive quarter, with the largest downgrades coming in the industrial segment. 

Credit conditions have improved slightly in Q3, possibly because of a further cut in the RBI’s key policy rate in August, this year. The Investment Sentiment Index was unchanged during Q3, again posting a reading of +6. This measure is an indication of marginally positive momentum behind the investment market. Investment enquiries increased in the office sector, with the pace of growth, exceeding that of the previous quarter. Meanwhile, demand was flat in the retail portion of the market, and fell for industrial assets. The supply of property for investment purposes held steady for the third consecutive quarter. 

Tenant demand increased at a reasonably solid pace in the office sector, picked up only marginally in the retail sector, while demand for industrial space fell during Q3. Availability of leasable space was more or less unchanged for the second successive quarter, although a slight rise was reported in the retail segment. Meanwhile, landlords opted to increase the value of incentive packages in the office and retail portions of the market

As far as market valuations are concerned, around three quarters of respondents are of the opinion that the commercial real estate market is either at or below fair value currently. This proportion rose modestly when compared with Q2, when around two thirds of contributors took this view.

U2opia Mobile to Help Banks and Insurers Speed Up the Aadhaar Verification Procedure

Linking of Aadhaar (Unique Identification Number), issued by the UIDAI, has become an important part of our lives. The government has made it mandatory for financial institutions, including banks and insurance companies, to verify and link Aadhaar of their customers with their bank accounts. There are millions of people across the country who still haven’t completed the formality because of either lack of awareness or due to their busy schedules. U2opia Mobile is helping banks with accelerating this tedious process with its Aadhaar Verification Service.

U2opia Mobile ensures an easy process of linking one’s Aadhaar with their bank account as customers can get their KYC done from the comfort of their home and at a time of their convenience. The user will have to dial a USSD short code from their Registered Mobile Number, then type their Aadhaar number and they will get verified instantly. The simple three screen verification process will remove the need for OTP verification or paper-based verification for KYC.

’We are trying to help the Banks and Insurance Companies complete the Aadhaar verification of all their customers on time by making the procedure easy and hassle-free. U2opia Mobile’s Aadhaar verification Service works well on all mobile handsets as USSD is a basic 2G/3G mobile feature’’ added Sumesh Menon, Co-Founder, and CEO, U2opia Mobile. 

Commvault Announces Partnership with Google Cloud

Commvault, a leader in enterprise backup, recovery, archive and the cloud, today announced a new strategic partnership with Google Cloud to help enterprises leverage the range of cloud services available on one of theindustry’s fastest growing cloud platforms, Google Cloud Platform. The partnership will be highlighted at Commvault GO, Commvault’s annual customer event, with a keynote delivered by Google executive Adam Massey on how this new relationship addresses the increasing need for data protection for fast growing multi-cloud, hybrid IT environments requiring flexibility, security, high data availability, and business agility.

Today’s partnership announcement with Google Cloud Platform outlines new opportunities for joint enterprise customers to scale faster, innovate easier, and more securely protect, store and use data in the cloud. By supporting all four Google Cloud Platform storage classes for content repositories – Coldline, Nearline, Regional and Multi-Regional – Commvault helps customers optimize their cloud investments byenabling them to achieve the right balance between access and cost economics of data storage. Google also made its cloud platform available for the India region today with option for making payment in Rupees. With this partnership, Commvault will enable businesses in India to have speed, security and analytics they need to grow.

According to a recent Commvault executive cloud survey conducted in partnership with CITO Research, 56 percent of responding organizations are cloud-only or plan to move 100 percent of their workloads to the cloud. In a separate cloud security survey commissioned by Google, research by MIT Sloan found that 75 percent of IT and business executives said data storage was their top workload deployed in the cloud today. These findings underscore the importance of cloud adoption for modernizing IT processes, improving operational efficiencies and increasing business agility.

“Our enterprise customers are looking for support for their migration strategies to Google Cloud Platform,” said Adam Massey, Director of Strategic Technology Partnerships, Google Cloud. “And with that comes a requirement for comprehensive data protection. Commvault will help our customers accelerate their migration by making it easier and faster to move data to Google Cloud Platform.”

Commvault compression and global deduplication help enterprises rapidly and cost-effectively move huge volumes of data to Google Cloud Platform. Across on-premises and cloud storage locations, the Commvault platform provides a single comprehensive view of data, making it simpler and more cost-effective to manage data and satisfy regulatory requirements. With Commvault, industry standard encryption secures data in motion and at rest, providing additional peace of mind in meeting security and compliance requirements.

Through the strategic partnership, Commvault and Google Cloud are empowering enterprises to transform their businesses by deploying a single solution for holistic data management, including data backup, recovery, management and e-discovery across on-premises, Google Cloud Platform and other cloud environments.

“Enterprise customers need flexibility to ensure high availability and reduced risk across their entire data infrastructure, which is why we support so many cloud storage options,” said N. Robert Hammer, Chairman, President and CEO, Commvault. “Our analytics on cloud usage and recent surveys continue to reinforce the increasing need for the Google Cloud Platform as a high performance, flexible and reliable option for customers. Through the power of the Commvault Data Platform, we’re helping enterprise customers in both the public and private sectors takeadvantage of the capabilities of Google Cloud Platform as they continue on their multi-cloud journey.” 

Commvault helps Google Cloud Platform customers securely and optimally move, manage and use data. Commvault supports most common enterprise-class applications running inside Google Cloud Engine, including various file systems on Windows, Unix and Linux. Applications and databases, such as SAP, Exchange, Oracle and DB2 are supported, as are big data applications such as GPFS, Mongo DB, Hadoop and more. Commvault also offers data management capabilities on Google Cloud Platformfor GSuite applications such as Gmail and Google Drive,including backup, recovery and management.

“The ability to use Commvault across Google Cloud Platform and our on-premises data store backups has made it simpler and more cost effective to protect, access and manage our information assets,” said Phil Ventimiglia, Chief Innovation Officer at Georgia State University. “This capability has helped increase our operational efficiency and advance our business continuity and disaster recovery efforts."