Bentley Institute recently organized its first ever Product Training Partner Summit 2018 on September 14 in Bengaluru, India.
The objective of the Summit was to establish a knowledge-sharing platform to apprise the authorized Product Training Partners about Bentley Institute’s vision, upcoming plans, current industry trends and opportunities to enable Bentley Institute and its stakeholders align their growth paths.
Bentley Institute’s Product Training Partners from India, Middle East and South East Asia attended the Summit. Vinayak Trivedi, Vice President, Global Head, Bentley Institute delivered the key note speech about ‘Going Digital’ with Bentley’s technology, introduced the audience to various facets of Bentley Institute and the variety of programs offered by the Institute to help existing and future industry professionals advance in their infrastructure careers. He also stressed on the effects and solutions of the existing skill gap in the infrastructure industry and potential solutions and avenues available for up-skilling of talent.
Vinayak Trivedi expressed, “In the current scenario, the focus of the infrastructure industry professionals is to execute projects within limited time in a cost-effective manner, without losing focus on digitalization. For existing industry professionals and future professionals to be employable, it is important for them to upskill their knowledge with practical experience of using cutting-edge technologies and tools. Our Product Training Partner Program offered by Bentley Institute enables them to achieve it”.
Rishabh Tandon, Manager, Product Training Partner Program, Bentley Institute informed the audience about the program vision and the way forward.
Sudipto Goswami, Director, Bentley Institute Press, shared inputs about the various content initiatives for training the industry professionals and briefed about the Building Information Modeling (BIM) fundamental course & assessments.
The Summit also hosted technology experts like Mr. Sajit Nair, Director Product Management, Bentley Systems, who shared insights on the critical need for developing sustainable infrastructure and the solutions offered by Bentley for civil structures, airports, tunnels, culverts, tanks, bridges, buildings and plants. He further explained the opportunities which ‘Product Training Partners’ can leverage from such a diverse portfolio.
M Rajathurai, Senior Services Manager, User Success at Bentley Systems presented use cases on how Bentley’s CONNECT Edition is helping industry partners in ‘Going Digital’ and advancing their workflows. He also highlighted the new capabilities of CONNECT Edition which will help advance team productivity and efficiency. He concluded the talk with the solutions offered by Bentley Systems for implementing better infrastructure outcomes, especially in road and rail projects.
Campus and entry level recruiting is a critical component of every corporate HR strategy but often involves many months of onboarding and mentoring to get these employees productive. Simplilearn’s New-Hire Training Initiative significantly shortens this time-to-productivity via a structured training curriculum for campus recruits that they can complete before their first day on the job, or within their first couple of weeks.
Simplilearn focuses exclusively on digital-economy skills such as Big Data, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Cloud Computing, and Digital Marketing. These mission-critical skills are also ones that enterprises are increasingly turning to fresh graduates to fill. Simplilearn’s new program enables organizations to help their recent on-campus recruits become job-ready (and even certified) with necessary technology skills, gained through Simplilearn’s online training courses prior to onboarding of the new employee.
“Campus hiring has never been more critical. With today’s rapid technology changes, it has become essential to ensure young professionals are up-to-date with the digital skills they will need to have an immediate impact at their new companies,” said Krishna Kumar, Founder & CEO of Simplilearn. “Offering our vast experience in the latest technologies, Simplilearn is well-suited and proud to help Fortune 500 companies and other organizations bridge the gaps in skills and productivity that often come when onboarding new employees fresh from academia.
During their final semester in their college or university degree programs, recruits will undertake this training, following predefined learning paths that match their upcoming job roles. In addition to online videos and instructor-led lessons, the courses also include practical applied projects and assessments that are relevant in the high-demand fields such as data analysts, programmers, developers,
Simplilearn has partnered with leading IT/ITes, consulting, internet retail companies and Global System Integrators to support their new hire training initiatives. Also, as part of the company’s core offerings, the Simplilearn Digital Transformation Academy covers all aspects of people, process and technology to help organizations achieve competencies in digital technologies and applications. The Digital Transformation Academy is designed to be customizable across a wide variety of industries and for all employee and management levels and roles while delivering on Simplilearn’ s outcome-centric, high engagement learning approach.
Flipkart, India’s largest e-commerce marketplace, in the run up to the festive season has introduced a new payment option ‘Cardless Credit’ which will enable millions of Flipkart customers to get an instant credit line of upto Rs 60,000 to make their festive shopping experience affordable while being able to buy more. This is a continuation of Flipkart’s fintech journey which started with ‘Buy Now Pay Later’ and has helped customers get a convenient and worry free shopping experience.
As the festive season kick starts in India, and Flipkart gears up for its Big Billion Days, customer aspiration and need to buy more is at the centre of conversation. Flipkart is introducing cardless credit as a customer focussed initiative that will simplify access to credit in real time while simplifying credit assessment and application process. Customers will be able to get instant credit which they can use to make purchases on Flipkart. This is aimed at millions of credit worthy yet underserved customers who the traditional banks are not able to serve / underwrite credit for.
Credit cards are also a very metro phenomenon and as per industry estimates only 20 million people have a credit card. In the last 10 years, Flipkart has simplified e-commerce and made efforts to make it more inclusive. Cardless Credit is a step in the direction to make e-commerce more inclusive and help customers with small ticket credit line while they make a purchase at Flipkart.
Commented Ravi Garikipati, Sr. VP and head of Fintech Flipkart, “At Flipkart our vision is to solve for our customers. We always look at what our customers are seeking and then build solutions around it. Cardless Credit comes into existence as we understand that close to 45 million customers on Flipkart do not have access to credit, not that they are not entitled to. Amongst consumers, there could be gap in terms of purchasing power but the gap is not in ambition and quality that they want to own. The challenge is of affordability and that is what we are trying to solve. Cardless Credit will have potential customers including the emerging middle class mobile active borrowers who do not have access to credit cards or credit limits. We will leverage the understanding of these customers’ shopping behaviours and offer credit underwriting in a simple and transparent way, to make their shopping experience affordable.”
The current process of getting access to a credit card takes ~ 10 days and the high cost of getting credit makes small ticket-size loans cumbersome & unviable. Most of the customers do not get credit due to inability of the Indian banking industry to underwrite new-to-credit customers due to lack of data & insights. In India ( as per RBI estimates) there are only 20 million credit card holders/ customers and of the 400 million potential credit worthy Indians the credit coverage only has a penetration of about 20%.
Cardless Credit, How does it work:
Customers sign up for the credit line on Flipkart
● Simple 60 seconds application process
● Instant access to credit line (upto Rs 60K) based on scores derived from customer behavior on Flipkart
During checkout, they get access to
● Two propositions: Pay Later next month and EMIs of 3-12 months (No Cost EMI available)
● OTP less checkout for value < Rs 2000
At the end of the month, they can pay their dues
● Payback on the Flipkart app using Debit card or Netbanking
This credit line can be used to purchase any product on Flipkart using EMIs or Pay Later (payback by 15th of next month).
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.
