coMakeIT, a niche provider of product engineering, application modernization, and digital transformation services announced the appointment of a new Head of Global Sales.
coMakeIT strengthened its executive management team through the addition of Durga Prakash Kone, as Executive Vice President & Head of Global Sales. Durga is a seasoned technology professional with an outstanding track record of enabling the success of various globally renowned IT businesses.
Over the past two and a half decades, Durga held senior leadership roles at Tech Mahindra, HCL Technologies, Satyam, and Intelligroup (NTT Data), and was instrumental in scaling their business across North America, EMEA, APJ, and India.His core competencies include Strategic Sales, Business Development, Channel Sales, and building product partner ecosystems. In his previous assignment, Durgaplayed a key role in building the SAP Alliance & Ecosystems business globally for Tech Mahindra.
As EVP & Head of Global Sales, Durgawill drivecoMakeIT’s Global Sales & Ecosystem Strategy. Speaking on the occasion, he stated:
“coMakeIT is ideally positioned to leverage the challenges and opportunities of digital disruption. With its unique co-creation model of building software IP, and a strong portfolio of product engineering and application modernization services, coMakeIT is on the cusp of exponential growth, and I am excited to be a part of its next phase of evolution.”
With its exclusive focus on serving the continuously evolving needs of software-driven businesses, coMakeIT is relied upon as a strategic partner by numerous innovative software companies from Netherlands, UK, and Australia, in diverse domains including BFSI, Logistics, Fleet Management, ERP, and Education etc. coMakeIT is investing to build and further enhance its capabilities in application modernization, which has enormous potential across varied domains and geographies including ANZ, and North America. coMakeIT also offers advanced capabilities in emerging technologies, which help its customers accelerate their product innovation and reduce risk of technology adoption.
As organizations look to expand the value of analytics, developers are playing a key role in creating new and innovative answers to big data and IoT challenges through advanced custom analytics. Qlik is committed to helping developers take on any business need they can imagine more easily through analytics in all its forms. Today Qlik reconfirmed that commitment by expanding the developer analytics canvas with the general availability of Qlik Core, the company’s platform for building new classes of data-driven applications leveraging the Qlik Associative Engine.
“Developers are designing analytics offerings for the most cutting edge IoT and big data applications. Qlik is helping these most imaginative efforts come to life,” said James Fisher, Qlik Senior Vice President, Strategic Marketing. “Qlik is putting forth real-world tools and services to truly enable developers to create new data-driven applications on a proven analytics platform.”
Qlik Core delivers the Qlik Associative Engine through a developer-focused model purpose built for the cloud, leveraging Linux and a containerized approach for the engine, along with supporting open APIs and open source libraries for integration into non-dashboard projects. Developers can now quickly and easily embed analytics at the network edge or within any analytic workflow along a process, be it physical manufacturing elements, IoT devices, logistical supply chain touchpoints or financial transaction points. Qlik Core includes:
• A complete set of APIs allowing integration into a wide range of applications to drive visualization, decision making, process flow, alerting, search and other actions;
• Open source libraries such as halyard.js for data loading, enigma.js for interacting with the Associative Engine, and picasso.js for incorporating Qlik’s open source data visualization framework operational support system, as well as a library to link with external systems;
• Flexibility to easily integrate with existing application architecture elements including security, deployment, provisioning and management;
• Built in support for Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) through Docker containers; and
• The ability to be managed with Kubernetes for implementing, scaling and managing containerized applications.
“The open source and container approach to Qlik Core helped us directly embed the Qlik Associative Engine at the heart of our workforce applications. The engine’s power to aggregate and execute on multiple data types and sets pushed the applications well beyond the customer’s initial needs,” said Konstantin Sarattsev, CEO of Goodt. “Qlik Core’s design let us quickly and easily develop a set of retailer specific applications for people management, workforce scheduling and sales performance, revealing the potential of Big Data in HR.”
Qlik Core extends the company’s portfolio of developer platforms for supporting a broad range of analytical use cases and environments. Also available to developers, the Qlik Analytics Platform includes more end-user visualization capabilities to speed the delivery of more custom and embedded visual and dashboard analytical applications.
“There is no one size fits all analytical tool. That’s why Qlik has invested so heavily in its platform, community and open-source components, with layers of capabilities that unlock the value of data in any imagined environment, across the broadest range of use cases,” said Fisher.
The general availability of Qlik Core coincides with the website relaunch of Qlik Branch®, the 30,000+ Qlik developer community. Along with the recent debut of the Qlik Trusted Extension Developer (TED) program, Qlik continues to build out its overall developer experience and support for the growing analytics open source community. From hands-on products, to extension accreditation and a community where developers share experiences and build together, developers have a partner in Qlik along the entire journey from ideation and concepting to full innovation through analytics.
Cinthol, a brand that has been leading for over 66 years, today, announced its foray into the male grooming market by launching 8 new variants for face, body, hair and beard applications. Cinthol’s male grooming range was unveiled by Mr. Sunil Kataria, CEO – India & SAARC, Godrej Consumer Products Limited (GCPL) in a grooming show with Asian Games gold medallist Arpinder Singh and actor Harshvardhan Kapoor as showstoppers.
With this launch, Cinthol becomes the first ever brand to offer complete grooming solutions in the INR 5,500 crore male grooming market. Cinthol is one of the most iconic brands for men in India and has witnessed the evolution of men understanding them better. Cinthol’s male grooming range is a comprehensive offering with innovative, multi-benefit and functionally superior products, specially made for today’s awesome men.
Cinthol male grooming range consists of 8 new products that includes Cinthol Shave + Face Wash & Cinthol After Shave + After Trim (Face), Cinthol Head to Toe Wash (Body), Cinthol Hair Cream & Cinthol Hair Gel (Hair) and Cinthol Beard Oil, Cinthol Beard Wax & Cinthol Beard + Face Wash (Beard).
Speaking on Cinthol’s entry into male grooming market, Mr. Sunil Kataria, CEO – India & SAARC, Godrej Consumer Products Limited (GCPL), said, “Studies have shown that men in 18 to 25 years age group spend more money on grooming and personal care products than women in India. They seek simple and multi-functional products that save time. The Cinthol male grooming range perfectly meets this requirement of a man on the move and I am confident that it will make the lives of our male users more awesome and alive. I am particularly excited about the first of its kind unique Cinthol Shave + Facewash and the entire beard range comprising Beard + Face wash, Wax, Oil, After Shave + After Trim which demonstrate multi-functionality and ease of use.”
The objective of Cinthol Male Grooming range, is to expand the category across all the aforementioned categories and increase penetration by offering an end to end male grooming solution
Commenting on Cinthol male grooming range, Asian Games gold medallist, Arpinder Singh, said, “It is an honour to be associated with Cinthol which has given us the coolest grooming experiences. For me, grooming is a very important part of my lifestyle. I like to keep my grooming regime simple and less time consuming. Cinthol’s male grooming range has successfully managed to do the same. The multi-functional products like the Shave + Face Wash and the beard range will find a convenient place in my bag whether I travel, hit the gym or when I tour for my work. A guy’s best friend has got to be things that are hassle free and easy to use and Cinthol is that buddy.”
Trusted by 47 million households, Cinthol is INR 750 crore flagship personal care brand, celebrating the spirit of feeling alive. With premium international fragrances and innovative designs, Cinthol is undoubtedly one of the coolest grooming experiences across soaps, deodorants, talcum powders and shower gels. With its entry into the male grooming market, Cinthol aims to become the grooming choice of vibrant, young India.
Actor Harshvardhan Kapoor, said, “Cinthol has a rich legacy of six decades. I have used Cinthol in my growing up years as well! I am excited to be associated with its new and awesome grooming range. I am an absolute outdoor person and hence for me, grooming is something that should be easy, simple, more DIY and hassle free. With Cinthol’s new range, I see that happening very easily, especially now that I can carry these in my bags wherever I go during my outdoor shoots. It complements my personality, my lifestyle. Infact, Cinthol and me both share a legacy of great men and talents. While I come from an out an out Bollywood family, I have grown up seeing Cinthol being endorsed by iconic personalities such Vinod Khanna, Shahrukh Khan, Hrithik Roshan, Virat Kohli. I am sure this new collection from Cinthol will disrupt the grooming market today!”
With the remarkable success of the inaugural edition of SBI Green Marathon, country’s largest commercial Bank announces the launch of its 2nd season. In its second edition, this mega event will be held in 15 cities across the country pledging for a greener future. The SBI Group is organizing a 5K, 10K, 21K run on the 2nd of December in Bangalore. The event is going to be a zero-waste event and is expected to witness close to 4700 participants who will run to spread awareness about the importance of cleaner and greener globe.
SBI General Insurance is going to be the health partner for SBI Green Marathon whereas SBI Life, SBI Mutual Funds and SBI Cards are also significantly contributing to this cause. The 15 city marathon event will start from 30th of September, 2018 in New Delhi followed by Lucknow, Hyderabad, Mumbai, Kolkata, Bangalore, Trivandrum, Guwahati, Bhopal, Bhubaneshwar, Chennai, Chandigarh, Ahmedabad, Patna and concluding in Jaipur on March 4, 2019. The run category for this fiscal’s SBI Green Marathon would include 5K, 10K and 21K.
Prashant Kumar, DMD & CFO, SBI said, “It gives me immense pleasure to step in to the second edition of SBI Green Marathon. With SBI Green Marathon, the Bank has reaffirmed and endorsed its continued commitment towards greener environment & sustainable development. We hope for maximum participation from across the country which in-turn will help us achieve the goal of a greener future.”
The “Run for Green” theme of this marathon event recognizes every participating individual as agents of change for a greener globe. All the participants will be given organic t-shirts to promote healthy and greener city. Even the runners’ bib would consist of seeds which can be planted after the Marathon. Also bio degradable and recyclable material is to be used by the bank making this a zero waste event.
Nandan Petrochem Limited (NPL), a leading manufacturer of genuine oils, greases, specialty oils and AdBlue/DEF announced the appointment of Alisha Abdullah – India’s first female racing champion as its brand ambassador, for its signature brand VELVEX, in the Lubricating oil and AdBlue segment.
Alisha's association with VELVEX offers an opportunity to leverage the symbiotic synergy between the fast action motorsports and VELVEX brand ethos of passion, persistence, performance and competitiveness.
With a vision to be closer to the customer through presence in multiple locations and regional plants, VELVEX has been developed to provide complete satisfaction by offering value for money with environment conscious premium quality products. Driven by the best-in-class German technology, and accelerating growth through innovation in total lubricant solutions , NPL strives to deliver high performance in all odd situations.
“Passionate about motorsport, I am excited to be associated with VELVEX as a leading brand known for its high-performance lubricants and AdBlue. This is indeed the first time that a female motorsport champion is the face, the brand ambassador of an auto lubricant brand, in an industry that is highly dominated by male brand ambassadors. This association with VELVEX is a reflection of a symbiotic relationship of maintaining the competitiveness at both ends, and I look forward to an exciting journey together.” said Alisha.
Speaking on the occasion, Nandan S Agrawaal – Managing Director, NPL said, “The one who overcomes all obstacles and barriers, and faces every challenge with courage, emerges as the real champion. Both Alisha as well as VELVEX share the same story. On behalf of NPL, we welcome Alisha Abdullah. A youth icon who personifies our new age, ultra–modern, high performance lubricants and AdBlue under brand VELVEX. The brand reflects passion, quality and endurance – breathing a philosophy of excellence. Alisha too had a similar success story full of hardships and her extraordinary courage to overcome every obstacle that came her way - akin to our brand ideals. In a sport where female participants are rare, Alisha paved her way to the top and won accolades. This association between VELVEX and Alisha is a close collaboration that shall accelerate journeys to their respective peaks to success. Our association with Alisha would further enhance our engagement with motorsports as well as the millions of fans and consumers across the country.”
Partnering with government’s Make In India initiative, the company increased its production by twelve times in the past fifteen months by leveraging world class technologies, and pursuing deep innovation to setup state of art infrastructure with seven manufacturing plants PAN India to produce indigenous products and setting global standards in industry.
Having commissioned first AdBlue plant in 2011, NPL is India’s largest manufacturer of AdBlue, a high purity, chemically produced solution that helps diesel vehicles reduce NOx emission and maintain environment friendliness. The upcoming BS VI norms are expected to mandate usage of AdBlue in all passenger and commercial vehicles powered by Diesel Engines and NPL is set to increase its output capacity to meet industry demands. In its position as the market leader for AdBlue, NPL is also actively liaisoning with the authorities to initiate a mechanism to regulate the quality of AdBlue. Usage of substandard AdBlue defeats the purpose of BSIV and BSVI implementation causing damage to the environment through harmful emissions and failure of vehicle resulting into heavy repair cost to the customers.
CloudWalker, a Smart TV company and Spuul, a popular online video streaming service has announced a partnership to enable users to watch Bollywood and regional movies on Cloud TV X2, India’s First 4K-Ready Full HD Smart TV on Android 7.0 Nougat OS. This association will bring about more than 10,000 hours of exciting Bollywood movies right in the living rooms of users of Cloud TV X2, thus providing an immersive viewing experience promised by Cloud TV X2, that’s powered by the latest Android 7.0 Nougat.
Commenting on the association, Jagdish Rajpurohit, President of CloudWalker, said, “At CloudWalker, we are driven with a vision to provide users with the best of digital content and technology on a Smart TV. Thus, after introducing Cloud TV X2 that packs powerful features like a Made in India content discovery & curation engine with the latest Android 7.0 Nougat, we have been working intensely to aggregate the best of digital content for our viewers. To the same end, we are delighted to announce our partnership with Spuul - one of the leading global OTT platform for latest to blockbuster Bollywood movies. We are hopeful that our viewers will prefer to consume this exciting content in our future ready Smart TV, Cloud TV X2.”
Echoing a similar thought, Rajiv Vaidya, CEO at Spuul, added, “Spuul has always been at the forefront of allowing users to consume content on multiple devices like phone, tablet, laptop, e-reader or TV wherever you go. This association with the latest and futuristic features available on CloudWalker, is a step forward in providing an improved and seamless viewing experience for our users. We look forward to our association with CloudWalker and making our extensive collection of blockbuster Bollywood movies available on Cloud TV X2.”
With a global footprint of more than 100 enterprise users, Altizon is a leading Industrial IoT platform provider recognized by Gartner in its Magic Quadrant for IIoT Platforms and by other leading analyst firms including Forrester Research, Frost & Sullivan, VDC Research, BCG, and MachNation. Altizon’s proven technology helps enterprises accelerate their Smart Manufacturing initiatives, modernize Asset Performance Management services and launch new business models for service delivery, among other processes. Altizon’s proven technology is successfully being used in a number of industries, including the automotive, tire, steel, chemical, energy and Fast-Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) markets.
Dr. Rishi Mohan Bhatnagar, President, Aeris India said, "Our partnership with Altizon enables us to expand upon our offering to our manufacturing clients with end-to-end solutions that transform their factories into a smart manufacturing facilities. Through complementary integration of our Aeris IoT Service Platform and Altizon’s Datonis Industrial IoT Technology Platform, we now have the capability to deliver comprehensive and distinct IoT solutions for the complete manufacturing value chain. Our partnership clearly brings a measurable competitive advantage to our customers.”
Vinay Nathan, Chief Executive Officer and Co-founder, Altizon says, "With the IoT technology, talent, experience and expertise on the Altizon and Aeris teams, we fully expect to deliver best-in-class IoT solutions that not only improve, but digitally transform, our customers’ businesses like never before. We are proud to be partnering with Aeris to help customers take advantage of the power of IoT to create new revenue streams and service opportunities while building customer engagement and loyalty.”
Aeris, a preferred Internet of Things (IoT) technology partner for the enterprise, and Altizon, a global industrial IIoT (Industrial IoT) platform company today announced a strategic partnership integrating Altizon’s industry leading machine learning and IoT Edge technologies and Aeris’ IoT Services platform.
Aeris offers end-to-end IoT and machine-to-machine (M2M) solutions and services for the automobile, insurance, healthcare, utilities, and manufacturing industries. Its comprehensive Aeris® Mobility IoT Platform (AMP) helps enterprises enhance revenue, create new services and business models. Aeris allows enterprises to evangelize and embark on their digital transformation journey across a portfolio of business solutions. The company has successfully created unique IoT ecosystem for enterprises, original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), technologists, system integrators and solution providers across vertical sectors. Aeris empowers organizations to optimize human intervention and attain real-time remote monitoring of machines, equipment, and other assets along with predictive and preventive maintenance of various products and assets within enterprises.
