Drive Enterprise-Wide Digitization with Newgen OmniScan Web 3.0

Newgen Software, a provider of Business Process Management (BPM), Enterprise Content Management (ECM), and Customer Communication Management (CCM) platforms, today released OmniScan Web 3.0. The new version of the scanning solution offers advanced document scanning capabilities, which helps businesses fast-track processes by capturing data and converting it into actionable business information.

OmniScan Web 3.0 enables users to use web browsers to capture information and documents directly into business systems and processes. Leveraging the new version, organizations can ensure high-quality data output, reduced operating costs, better resource optimization and improved information security.

"This version offers enhanced user experience and will help organizations drive enterprise-wide digitization with access to the relevant information for business use." said Diwakar Nigam, Chairman and Managing Director, Newgen Software.

Key features include:

·  Enriched User Experience - Offers users flexibility to customize the language of the application and create templates in their preferred language. The solution supports various Unicode Languages such as Arabic, Latin, Greek and others
·   Improved Quality of Images - Enhances image quality through adaptive binarization while scanning documents such as passports, licenses and others
·   Easy to Configure Templates - Maintains consistency and saves time by allowing users to extract information such as Data class, Form fields, Document Types and Folder from OmniDocs document repository
·   Better Information Access - Helps in record identification by extracting barcode values and associating them with the index fields
·  Faster Document Processing - Enables users to process unstructured documents quickly with automated document separation
·   Easy Installation - Facilitates remote installation with MSI setup

HSIL Launches Hindware Calisto Water Purifier in an Exclusive Strategic Alliance with Flipkart

HSIL Limited, makers of the iconic sanitayware brand Hindware, today announced their strategic alliance with e-commerce major Flipkart, to launch their latest brand of home appliances - Hindware Calisto. As part of this exclusive tie up, Hindware Calisto water purifier will be the first product to debut under the new brand. The product will offer an amalgamation of latest technology and stylishly designed products to the discerning Flipkart customers.

Priced at INR 14,990, Hindware Calisto water purifier for a limited period will be available to consumers at a special offer price of Rs. 8,199. Hindware Calisto water purifier will be a Best in Class RO+UV+UF water purifier present in the Indian market. Its six stage water purification technology is capable of removing all kinds of impurities. The model is equipped with features such as 7 litre storage tank, TDS removal up to 1800 PPM, indicators for tank full, purification and power, world class components, amongst others. Going forward, the brand will also be introducing other new product categories under Hindware Calisto. 

Speaking at this partnership, Rakesh Kaul, President, Consumer Products Division, HSIL Limited said, “At Hindware, customer centric innovation lies at the core of our brand promise and this product pivots around this very approach. We are extremely excited to launch it exclusively in partnership with Flipkart. It is a natural progression to our business, owing to the boom in the e-commerce industry. Furthermore, Flipkart’s understanding of the landscape, wide reach and quest for excellency in terms of customer experience, makes this partnership an enhancement of a relationship founded on similar values.” 

Sandeep Karwa, Head of Large Appliances, Flipkart, commented on the launch, “Over the last few years, customers have shown a great appetite for improved technological products, owing to ever rising health concerns relating to water consumption. This is further validated by the growth of this segment which is in the range of 300% in the last one year. Building on our selection, we are happy to partner with Hindware to launch Calisto, their latest range of water purifiers that is a combination of latest technology a 6 step purification procedure along with great pricing, making it an easy purchase. We are positive this will be well received by consumers who are looking for a smart and an affordable product.”

The product will be exclusively sold on Flipkart India from August1, 2018. Hindware has a strong and robust After Sales Service network spread across 800+ cities in India.  

India Enterprises Eliminate IT Waste with Nutanix Enterprise Cloud OS

Nutanix, a leader in enterprise cloud computing, has announced the rapid uptake of its native hypervisor, AHV, among India customers who aim to improve efficiency and eliminate virtualization costs on licensing, maintenance and support.

India’s AHV adoption rate increased over fifty percent in the company’s third quarter of fiscal 2018 compared to the same period in 2017. Moreover, in its third fiscal quarter of 2018, 83 percent of all Nutanix Enterprise Cloud OS nodes sold to customers in India leveraged AHV as their hypervisor, many of whom utilize it for virtualized enterprise workloads including SAP, Oracle and Microsoft. There is a clear shift from the traditional purchase model when customers used to purchase separate licenses from legacy vendors.

“The biggest benefit we experience with Nutanix AHV is simplicity. Nutanix has made the hypervisor invisible – which is how it should be; and this has helped reduce our IT admin efforts by over 40 percent. We have adopted AHV for running enterprise and big data workloads and find great value in Nutanix’s ability to reduce complexity that used to plague the traditional data centre,” said Rahi Racharla, CIO of The Multi Commodity Exchange of India Limited (MCX).

“The extremely high adoption of AHV in India demonstrates that virtualization is still an under-penetrated market, and by making hypervisors invisible, Nutanix is growing the surface area of the Enterprise Cloud.  Customers want to lower their total cost of ownership and also find strong value in reducing the number of separate IT silos,” said Sunil Mahale, VP and MD of Nutanix India. “Many of our customers have started called AHV its ‘Apna’ hypervisor, which means ‘my choice of hypervisor’ in Hindi. Leaders across industry verticals including finance, telecom, airlines and automotive have already seen the benefits of our Enterprise Cloud OS software.”

By including AHV with the Nutanix Enterprise Cloud OS software stack at no additional cost, Nutanix helps customers across the globe and in India reduce cost and make infrastructure invisible while enhancing the visibility and functionality to their data centres. Customers leveraging AHV can eliminate the need to purchase separate virtualization technology, significantly reducing costs and eliminating the need to manage multiple licenses.

With AHV, hyperconverged infrastructure management, capacity planning, performance monitoring and common tasks such as deploying, cloning and protecting virtual machines are centrally managed through a single comprehensive application, Nutanix Prism, rather than utilizing disparate products and policies in a piecemeal strategy.

Talentedge, Edtech Firm Saw Increase Demand in Traditional Courses

Talentedge, India’s first Ed-Tech firm, leading in live and interactive learning for working professionals, have recently conducted a survey on their various courses. It was observed that an increasing number of professionals are opting for Human Resource (HR) learning programs. Enquiries generated for HR & Talent Management courses are at par to programs like Digital Marketing, Data Analytics and Big Data.

The role of HR has changed due to digitalization. Until recently, HR systems were following periodic cycles, whereas now review and feedback is possible in real-time through interactive software and cloud based applications. These days there’s a requirement of a new breed of HR professional that possess the skills to transform the work environment to a more digitally organized system.

Aditya Malik, CEO, Talentedge said, “A growing trend in the last few years has been observed; an increasing number of working professionals opting for online courses, with an aim to acquire new skills and competencies to remain relevant especially in the human resource management. The overall business landscape has led to changing role of HR in a firm. HR today has to give more strategic inputs in business with focusing talent acquisition, talent development and productivity. We have proudly partnered with XLRI and SHRM to provide these courses.”

Basis an observation made for online course trends in India it came to light that students enrolled in HR certificate courses from Southern India saw an increase of more than 50% this year as compared to last. Additionally, post-graduates opting for talent management courses have seen a year on year growth of 20%. A recent demand of skill development in a working professional even after 20 years of experience has generated the need for them to pursue flexible online courses. Undergraduates are seen opting for generic high value HR courses in lieu of an MBA.  Thus, coupling the preferences of UG’s with 20+ years of experience and recent UG’s for generic HR courses leads to a further increase in this category.

Toyota Technical Training Institute Celebrates Graduation of its World-Class Skill Talents

Toyota Technical Training Institute (TTTI), an institute designed to train bright talents from the rural corners of Karnataka, today celebrated its 9th convocation ceremony and conferred academic degrees to 52 students from the outgoing batch of 2015-2018 [3 years TTTI course]. The academic honors were handed over by the Chief Guest Dr. K P Krishnan, Secretary – Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, Government of India along with Mr T. Kitagawa, Consul General of Japan, Bangalore and senior management representatives from Toyota Kirloskar Motor – Akito Tachibana – Managing Director, Shekar Viswanathan, Vice Chairman and Whole-time Director and Sailesh Shetty - Vice President, while proud parents, friends and relatives watched from the sea of audience members who turned out for the event.

Considering the changing regulations from Safety - Fuel Efficiency [CAFÉ] - Emission norms, there is a continuous need for improvement in vehicle technologies. Therefore, there is tremendous need for highly trained manpower with right skill sets who understand the modern technology and its advancements, which stresses the need for quality training facilities to impart specialized skills. Corporate are working tirelessly to bridge the widening gap between the availability of skilled manpower and industry requirements, for an accelerated economic growth and steering towards greater industrial transformations.

With a focus to bridge this gap that the industry is grappling with dearth of entry-level talent, TTTI imparts world-class skills training to young talents of economically weaker sections of the society in rural Karnataka and provides a dedicated three-year program that focuses on the holistic development of Knowledge, Skill, Body and Attitude. With a structure that ensures the highest standard of education, the curriculum offers a unique blend of complete learning experience, along with basic subjects, recreational activities and comprehensive training on automobile assembly, automobile paint, automobile weld and mechatronics. In addition, students are given practical training by applying the world renowned ‘Toyota Production Systems’ to the various manufacturing processes at the Toyota plant in Bidadi. Since establishment, the institute has trained over 531 students who have been inducted on job at Toyota Kirloskar Motor & other Toyota Group companies with 100% placements.

Appreciating Toyota’s foresightedness in making the industry tomorrow ready, Dr. K. P. Krishnan – Secretary, Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship – Government of India, said, “Our nation have extraordinarily talented youngsters, who must be nurtured and provided with the best possible opportunities to excel in the competitive society. We need more corporates like Toyota to support government’s Skill India initiative to create opportunities, space and scope for the development of the talent of the Indian youth. I would like to applaud the efforts of the faculty and staff of Toyota Technical Training Institute towards enhancing employability of the rural youth and congratulate all the outgoing students a bright future and a successful career”.

Handing over the degrees to the graduated students, Akito Tachibana, Managing Director - Toyota Kirloskar Motor said, “Toyota strongly believes that we have greater role in India than just manufacturing and selling safest and environment friendly cars.  It goes beyond the core of our business to build a talent pool that can create a sustainable business environment. Toyota Technical Training Institute has been a significant arm of Toyota for more than a decade. Our aim here is to develop world-class workforce through a structured curriculum which not only enhances the students’ knowledge & core skill talents, but also focuses to train on the overall individual development with right attitude, work ethics and principles making them better citizens of the country. It is indeed a proud moment for all of us with TTTI graduates exceling in their skill sets to meet the industry standards and being globally competitive.

I am confident that TTTI graduated students will bring out their passion at work, be the best in the industry and explore more possibility to be even better with the imparted skill sets, contributing to the development of India in future, he added.”

Established in the year 2007 as a part of Toyota’s social initiatives, the first batch of students from TTTI received their academic degrees in 2010 in the gracious presence of Dr. Abdul Kalam, Former President of India. The institute is a fully residential school. The objective of TTTI is to develop good corporate citizens equipped with Toyota specific methodologies and create learning opportunities for the deserving individuals.

The students during the course also get an opportunity to participate in the National Skill Competition & World Skill Competition (Skill Olympics) in 3 categories namely - Mechatronics, Car Painting, Prototype Modelling. The TTTI batch of 2011 secured 4th position in World Skill Competition 2015 held at Sao Paulo, Brazil & won “Medallion of Excellence”. At last year’s 44th World Skills Competition held at Abu Dhabi, Mr. Kiran, employee of Toyota Kirloskar Motor won the bronze medal in the Prototype Modelling Skill, Mr. H Varun and Mr. T A Anand Kumar who are also alumni of TTTI and employees of TKM, ranked sixth in the Mechatronics Skill category & won “Medallion of Excellence”.

Over the years, TKM has undertaken holistic skill initiatives for the development of skilled manpower that ensures a secure and steady flow of qualified human resources not only for the community but also for the industry as a whole. Toyota’s vision to create a learning organization by developing competitive human resources among all stakeholders and they contributing towards the business sustainability. Besides TTTI, Toyota have curated some dedicated initiatives such as Toyota Apprentice Scheme [Training for Apprentice], Gurukul [In-house training for its employees], Toyota Technical Educational Program [Skill program for the students of Industrial & Technical Training Institutes] and many other skill initiatives to nurture a contingent workforce for the industry as a whole.

As a long term plan of associating with Academia, Toyota aims to collaborate with the academic council to add Toyota unique traits in the study curriculum. Toyota also focuses to mentor students through Toyota Engineers to develop future ready skilled manpower covering wider spectrum of human resources with world-class competitive skill levels.

As a responsible corporate, Toyota will continue the efforts to effectively contribute to skill enhancement of the budding workforce, in support of the common goal of SKILL INDIA MISSION. Through its robust skill development curriculum, Toyota focuses to build a strong work force for the industry as a whole.

AON Soccer Tournament for India's NGO Child Rights and You in B'luru

Child Rights and You (CRY) one of India’s leading NGO’s working on child rights will be organizing a tournament - AON Soccer for Child Rights on August 04, 2018 at the FIFA approved FSV Arena at Hennur – Bagalur Road, Bangalore. The event aims to provide children from the marginalized sector of the society the right exposure to life through the medium of sports.

The 3rd edition of the event would see 30 teams coming together which includes 6 women’s team. Out of the 30 participating teams, 2 teams would be from the Vysarpadi Children Empowerment Project (one men’s and one women’s team)

This one of a kind event where corporate teams come together with the marginalized sector of the society to uphold child rights using soccer as the language of change. Sport breaks boundaries and it motivates the underprivileged children to continue education.

Buy your passes at Events High to see a spectacular game of soccer while ensuring lasting change for children!

Mayank Saksena Quits JLL, Joins ANAROCK as MD - Land & Head of South India

India’s leading real estate services provider ANAROCK Property Consultants have announced that industry veteran Mayank Saksena has joined the Firm as Managing Director - Land & Head - South India Residential Services.

Prior to this appointment, Mayank Saksena was Managing Director of Land Services international property consultants JLL India, where he was also part of the India Leadership Council (ILC). During his tenure of over a decade there, he closed several high-ticket land deals and acquisition mandates. These include some of the largest land transactions on record across large cities in the country.

In his career spanning over 16 years, he has crafted transactions and acquisitions on behalf of prominent real estate developers, corporates and Government agencies. He is an acknowledged expert on land-related transactions knowledge leader for Pan India real estate markets.

Santhosh Kumar, Vice Chairman – ANAROCK Property Consultants says, “This is a critical appointment and the next step in ANAROCK’S evolution as India’s foremost full-deck real estate services provider. Mayank brings a robust developer-focused growth framework for land transactions to the table. He will also play a leading role in building our residential vertical in South India. With his strong developer relationships across segments and geographies, Mayank has an excellent understanding of various business models and market dynamics across the real estate domain.”

Mayank Saksena is forthright about his enthusiasm in joining ANAROCK. “Having worked with Anuj Puri and Santhosh Kumar over several years, I am coming home into a very familiar business environment led by India’s most accomplished real estate experts," he says. "Land is the foundation of the real estate life-cycle, and I am excited to bring my experience in this critical vertical to help build the fastest-growing real estate company in the business. We already have several high-level mandates lined up. Moreover, South India is a major residential growth area for ANAROCK.”

At this point in time, Bengaluru, Hyderabad and Chennai still have unsold housing inventory of  85,000, 27,500 and 28,500 units respectively.

“When compared to Q2 2017, unsold inventory has declined by 24% in Bengaluru, 11% in Hyderabad and 10% in Chennai. This implies that the South Indian markets are improving and that the time is right to leverage the resurging demand,” says Saksena. “With ANAROCK’s proven abilities to unfetter pent-up inventory and its already strong presence in the South, we will now explore this market’s potential to the fullest.”

Mayank Saksena will be based out of ANAROCK’s Bangalore office and his role begins with immediate effect.