Accops Systems, leading developer and providers of Secure Workspace Virtualization solution, has been awarded under the category - "Most Innovative Indian Product for SMEs" by a jury of CIOs at SME Channels Conclave & Awards 2018.
Mohan Bhat, Managing Director & Co-Founder at Accops Systems Private Limited said, "SME Channel Partner Summit & Awards is a magnificent platform which connects partners and IT entrepreneurs under one roof. Since the IT transformation continuous in Indian market, this platform plays a crucial role in influencing and motivating the partners and showing the roadmap for their self-transformation. It also helps market experts to guide the channel partners in addressing the emerging market challenges."
SME Channel Partner Summit & Awards 2018 is the most cognized listing of super 100 channel partners who deliberate on the growth drivers of the IT industry. The event witnessed more than 300 value partners and SIs along with top executives from the IT industry, key stakeholders and key representatives from IT associations, industry clusters, Department of IT, Govt. of India and the Govt. of Delhi.
Knowledge Sessions were held by IT Decision Making community oriented at giving the channel community clarity on what today's enterprise customers demand and expect from the technology providers. The Summit saw a number of eminent CIOs from the Delhi NCR region join the partners and vendors and discussing the current challenges in technology and the way forward for the Indian IT ecosystem.
Receiving the award, Mohan Bhat said, "It is an honor for Accops to be awarded with such a prestigious award. Surely, this recognition charges up the Accops team with more strength, motivation and enthusiasm to achieve more such awards in the future. Moving further, we will strive to cater more innovative products for SMEs."
Shoptimize, India’s leading and most advanced AI (Artificial Intelligence) powered brand e-commerce platform has been recognized amongst the top 100 global start-ups by Red Herring 2018 at a recently concluded glittering ceremony in California, US. Red Herring 100 Awards are widely recognized as one of the industry’s most prestigious recognitions, with thousands of companies competing to be amongst the Top 100.
Incepted in November of 2012 by Mangesh Paditrao & Vivek Phalak, Shoptimize has been pioneering the brand e-commerce space by partnering with leading brands to help them setup and grow online sales through its AI powered growth engine. Shoptimize drives growth for a multitude of marquee Indian and global brands with the likes of Haldiram’s, Luminous, Schiender Electric, Lotus Herbal, Gits, Mother’s Recipe, Liberty Shoes, Camlin Kokuyo, Zippo, amongst others.
Speaking at the occasion Mangesh Panditrao, CEO & Co-Founder, Shoptimize Inc said, “We’re excited to be recognized among an elite group of Red Herring Top 100 Global companies. The Red Herring award further validates the strength of our company and our proven value we bring to brands, helping them build a profitable digital business through our AI and machine learning capabilities. We are particularly happy as the Red Herring announcement comes close to our planned expansion in US and Asia. Our team is gratified to see Shoptimize’s innovations to drive brand e-commerce into a successful channel being recognized by Red Herring.”
Red Herring’s Top 100 Global list has become a mark of distinction for identifying promising companies and entrepreneurs. Red Herring editors were among the first to recognize that companies such as Facebook, Twitter, Google, Yahoo, Skype, Salesforce.com, Dropbox, YouTube, and eBay would change the way we live and work.
“Choosing the companies with the strongest potential was by no means a small feat,” said Alex Vieux, publisher and CEO of Red Herring. “After rigorous contemplation and discussion, we narrowed our list down from thousands of candidates from across the globe to the Top 100 Winners. We believe Shoptimize embodies the vision, drive and innovation that define a successful entrepreneurial venture. Shoptimize should be proud of its accomplishment.”
E-commerce is transforming the way business is done in every market across the globe. With a steady rise in the penetration of internet and smartphones, the opportunity is extremely large and brands are increasingly looking beyond marketplaces to increase the share of revenue through their own brand websites. In a rapidly changing eCommerce landscape Shoptimize brings together the benefits of social commerce, SEO, SEM, quick payment technologies and superior aesthetics in one place.
Taking forward its commitment as a Safety Leader, Toyota Kirloskar Motor (TKM) organized yet another social drive under its Corporate Social Responsibility initiative, to enhance “Road Safety” in Bangalore city.
In an endeavor to create a more-safer society, Toyota Kirloskar Motor (TKM) today conducted its fifth activity under ‘ICARE’, an employee voluntary initiative to build basic road safety requirements in prime road junctions of Bangalore city. More than 100 employees jointly participated towards improving road safety infrastructure to ensure the safety of the road users.
The identified roads are potential risk interms of road accidents. In order to avoid such safety risks, as a preventive measure - Toyota identified the road safety structures to be installed at prime locations. This is to ensure the road users are safe and stay alert on the roads, thereby minimizing the road safety related mishaps.
Proper road safety systems helps to create a conducive environment for road users and eases the vehicular movement. This voluntary activity would involve installation of road safety - Sign Boards, Solar Blinkers, Cat Eyes Reflectors, Convex Mirrors at turns in the Primrose Road, Brunton Road and Magrath road of Bengaluru. With these basic safety measures on the roads, Toyota hopes to prevent road accidents and fatalities, reduce congestion and pollution.
Speaking on this initiative, Naveen Soni, Vice President - Toyota Kirloskar Motor said, “At Toyota, we believe in integrated strength to give back to the society we live in. Our objective is not only manufacturing ever better cars, but also enrich community lives.
Safety has been the DNA of Toyota and of prime importance. And hence, we started the awareness program on road safety to school children from 2007 onwards. We were the first corporate to set the road safety infrastructure at schools with the philosophy of “Seeing is Believing” to bring about a positive behavior change amongst children towards developing responsible future road users.
‘ICARE’ is driven solely by the passion of our employees and shared responsibility to make a big difference in the society we live in. These kinds of activities empower our employees to be the change makers in the community and support them grow as individuals with real understanding of the social issues around them. Our employees have been actively involved to drive many CSR interventions in the areas of health, environment and education. This initiative further focuses on road safety being one of the key national issues. It is heartening to see our employees as social enthusiast, joining in large numbers to support this road safety initiative and needless to mention with “Safety” culture that is so deep rooted in each one of our employees being part of their work culture.
As a company, we are committed to the cause of Safety. We hope to see this transcend beyond vehicles into everyday lives of everyone while using safer roads.” He added.
Commenting on the employee engagement initiatives by TKM, Vikram Kirloskar, Vice Chairman, Toyota Kirloskar Motor, said, “I would like to thank Prime Minister, Narendra Modi for launching a digital platform “Self 4 Society”, and encouraging corporates to organize employee engagement initiatives for social causes. At Toyota, we are always committed to give back to the community in our own way and try to uplift the lives of the underprivileged. We are happy to align Toyota’s employee engagement programs with “Self 4 Society”, thus strengthening the impact of the causes we stand for. We would like to dedicate this program to the “Self 4 Society” initiative by the Prime Minister”.
Toyota follows an integrated safety approach towards addressing the grave issues of road safety in our country, aiming to build a safer community by adopting 3 dimensional concept – Manufacturing Safe Cars, Developing Safe Drivers & Building Safer Environment.
In pursuance of its safety mission, “Safest Car with Safest Driver”, Toyota Kirloskar Motor has been consistently engaged in Road Safety initiatives since 2005 through various pan India campaigns. TKM launched Toyota Driving School [TDS] across India in cities like Kochi, Lucknow, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Chennai [2 driving schools], Faridabad, Surat and Vijayawada. With TDS, the company aims to bring down the rising number of road accidents caused majorly due to human error, by developing Safety Ambassadors. The training module will integrate technical expertise along with enhancing behavioral skills to create awareness about safety nationwide. The. Toyota Driving School has till date enrolled 4,500 plus. By 2020 the company plans to cross 50 such schools across India, voicing their traffic safety commitment louder.
As a safety leader, Toyota initiated the Toyota Safety Education Program (TSEP) in 2007 which aims at educating school children and teachers through phase wise approach on important aspects of road safety and eventually passing on the learning to the general public. Toyota has educated more than 700,000 school children on road safety across India until now as part of “Toyota Safety Education Programme”
Further the company has also launched “Safety Model Schools” as part of the “Team Toyota Activity (TTA)”, aiming to enhance safety awareness among the school children, teachers, parents and school vehicle drivers on responsible road safety habits, to create a safer traffic environment for all. The unique comprehensive program will help school children know & learn about the road safety habits in their daily curriculum. The program is aimed at developing Safety Ambassadors in schools by creating safety zones within school premises, implementation of Toyota Safety Education Program (TSEP), and training of school vehicle drivers and creation of safety group in the school. So far, Toyota Dealers & Suppliers have rolled out this initiative in partnership with Toyota at Delhi, Kochi, Varanasi, Hissar, Rewari & Kolkata.
To ensure safest drivers on Indian roads, TKM has been conducting Driver Training Programs & Health Check-Up Camps for Airport taxi drivers in Hyderabad, Bangalore and Delhi International Airport since 2014 as part of the CSR Initiatives on road safety awareness with over 5,000 drivers participating in the campaign till date. Through this initiative Toyota aims at creating a strong road safety sense amongst the drivers, and encourage them to adopt safer driving practices.
Through varied CSR projects, Toyota has touched more than 11,00,000 lives. Toyota will further continue its various CSR interventions from a longer-term perspective and development of socio-economic stature of the society, touching many more lives to make a difference in each one’s well-being.
Jaguar Land Rover India today announced the start of local manufacturing of the petrol derivative of Jaguar’s first performance SUV, the F-PACE. Available in the Prestige derivative and powered by a 2.0 l 4-cylinder, 184 kW Turbocharged Ingenium petrol engine, the locally manufactured Model Year 2019 F-PACE is priced at ₹ 63.17 Lakh (ex-showroom price in India).
Rohit Suri, President & Managing Director, Jaguar Land Rover India Ltd (JLRIL), said: “In the two years since its launch in India, the Jaguar F-PACE has captivated the imagination of Jaguar fans and our discerning customers. With the launch of the locally manufactured Ingenium petrol derivative of the F-PACE, the appeal of our first Jaguar SUV is further enhanced.”
The Jaguar F-PACE has been designed and engineered to offer the agility, responsiveness and refinement that all Jaguars are renowned for, together with unrivalled dynamics and everyday usability. For 2019, the Jaguar F-PACE comes with a range of exciting features including Park Assist, Lane Keep Assist, Cabin air ionisation, Driver condition monitor, 360 degree parking sensors, Adaptive LED Headlights, Wi-Fi Hotspot & Pro Services and 25.91 cm (10.2) Touch Screen. Additional changes for Model Year 2019 include illuminated metal treadplates, chrome switches for the 10-way seats, suede cloth headliner and bright metal pedals.
Further details on the Jaguar F-PACE are available on the Jaguar India website www.jaguar.in.
Jaguar Product Portfolio in India
The Jaguar range in India includes XE (starting at ₹ 39.73 Lakh), XF (starting at ₹ 49.58 Lakh), F-PACE (starting at ₹ 63.17 Lakh), XJ (starting at ₹ 110.38 Lakh) and F-TYPE (starting at ₹ 90.93 Lakh). All prices mentioned are ex-showroom prices in India.
Jaguar Land Rover Retailer Network in India
Jaguar Land Rover vehicles are available in India through 27 authorised outlets in Ahmedabad, Aurangabad, Bengaluru, Bhubaneswar, Chandigarh, Chennai, Coimbatore, Delhi, Gurgaon, Hyderabad, Indore, Jaipur, Kolkata, Kochi, Karnal, Lucknow, Ludhiana, Mangalore, Mumbai, Nagpur, Noida, Pune, Raipur, Vijayawada and Surat.
Huawei has announced the launch of its OpenLab in India to provide a one-stop ICT infrastructure support for smart city and enterprises digitisation transformation. A testimony to Huawei’s commitment to Government of India’s Digital India agenda, the OpenLab Delhi aims to establish an industry ecosystem and serve as a co-innovation platform for Huawei, its customers and partners, both in India and global, for incubating industry solutions to address the challenges of digital transformation.
Commenting on the development Jay Chen, CEO, Huawei India said, “The OpenLab Delhi marks a new step in our commitment and collaboration with India which began more than 18 years ago. It is going to pave the way for a more rapid development of a new “Smart Nation” offering various type services to its citizens. Over the next 3 years, Huawei will be investing 23 million USD jointly in its OpenLabs in India and Thailand. These facilities will provide platforms for customers and partners to innovate together using Huawei's ICT capabilities and India’s local talent.”
Built as a part of Huawei’s Global OpenLab Program, the OpenLab Delhi is the 12th facility globally. Located at Huawei India’s Gurugram headquarters, the facility will serve as an open, flexible, and secure platform for joint innovation with customers and partners. The OpenLab Delhi will focus on driving Smart City innovations in areas as diverse as IoT, Smart Pole, Smart Building, Smart Campus (perimeter alarm, smart parking, energy efficiency management and visitor management), Smart Transportation, Intelligent Video Surveillance solutions and Convergent Command & Control solutions.
Derek Hao, President, Enterprise Business Group, Huawei India stated, “India is a key market for the Enterprise business and the OpenLab Delhi is an important part of Huawei’s global OpenLab plan. With this OpenLab, Huawei looks to serve India as well as global partners and customers leveraging its global expertise, talents, technologies, and customer business successes. Aiming to develop the industry ICT ecosystem development locally, Huawei’s OpenLab aims to empower enterprises to quickly respond to new market opportunities and develop competitive, commercialized solutions by testing them in a real live environment. We will also be providing training and certification to Indian ICT talent in latest technologies at the OpenLab Delhi.”
Aiming to enhance the ICT ecosystem in India, the OpenLab Delhi will offer ICT training to nearly 400 personnel per year; provide ICT Career Certification to 250 engineers per year; and Proof of Concept Training to nearly 100 engineers annually.
Huawei will partner with System Integrators (SI), Independent Software Vendors (ISVs), Independent Hardware Vendors (IHVs), and Consultants for its OpenLab in India. Huawei, together with industry alliance and partners like Trinity, Videonetics, Qogno in India and Honeywell, SAP, Johnson Controls, OBS at a global level aims to build ICT ecosystem in the country in response to industry’s digital transformation. Currently, a total of 211 of Fortune Globe 500, including 48 of the top 100, have chosen Huawei as their partner in digital transformation.
Compared to traditional technology-centric labs, Huawei OpenLab Delhi will be market-oriented, and aim to develop hardware and software services as well as solutions based on customers’ requirements during their digital transformation. Designed and conceptualized to enable access to visitors to witness and experience the solution demonstration area, the OpenLab Delhi will be connected to Huawei’s global OpenLab network allowing universal exchange of ideas about new business models, market needs, and technical solutions. It will operate through four functional centers: Partner development center, solution joint innovation center, talent training and certification center, and industry experience center.
Up until the Q3 of this year, Huawei had already opened 12 OpenLabs focused on enterprise customers: they are in Delhi (Gurgaon), Bangkok, Singapore, Munich, Paris, Dubai, Istanbul, Mexico City, Cairo, Johannesburg, Moscow and Suzhou (China) which are facilitating joint innovation and solution launches with more than 700 partners across Smart City, finance, transportation, energy, manufacturing and media sectors. In the future, Huawei will continue to invest in its OpenLab program to have more than 20 facilities globally. Over the next three years, Huawei will allocate nearly 1,000 talents around the world and invest a total of USD200 million in the program.
Platform + Ecosystem Strategy Accelerates Digital Transformation with Customers and Partners
The Global OpenLab program is aligned with Huawei Enterprise Business Group’s ‘Platform + Ecosystem’ strategy. This strategy focuses on collaborating with partners and customers to develop innovative, differentiated and leading industry-specific solutions that enable open, elastic, flexible, and secure platforms to drive enterprise digital transformation. Huawei is focused on facilitating a digital transformation ecosystem to implement joint innovations and expand the ecosystem in terms of industry alliances, business alliances, developer platforms and open source communities. Huawei is working with outstanding local companies to integrate their capabilities into the global value chain and promote their capabilities across the world, helping to enhance the competitiveness of local ICT industries.
Huawei has also rolled out its Developer Enablement Plan for the SEA region under which it will aim to support digital economy and ecosystem building in the region. Over the next three years, Huawei will invest US$81 million in building OpenLabs, enabling cloud developers, and cultivating ICT talent in the Southeast Asia region. It's a huge opportunity for developers to create targeted solutions for industry digitization and grow their own businesses. The company will also hold a special competition in Southeast Asia to provide guidance to local developers. This will include sponsoring the developers who innovate on Huawei Cloud, and will present an award up to US$150,000 to developers who meet established requirements.
JetPrivilege, the award-winning loyalty and rewards programme and the frequent flyer programme of Jet Airways, has announced the launch of ‘Hotel Stay Redemptions’ that enables members to redeem their JPMiles for hotel bookings. JetPrivilege members can redeem their JPMiles for hotel stays on hotels.jetprivilege.com bringing them closer to their dream holiday.
While choosing to redeem their JPMiles for hotel stays, members have the flexibility to pay either by redeeming their JPMiles completely or by paying part in JPMiles and part in cash. With over 4,00,000 hotel redemption options to choose from, members are well on their path towards funding their complete travel (flights as well as stay) with JPMiles thus, expanding their overall rewarding experience with the programme. Members can choose from a wide array of Hotels, Homestays and BnBs on hotels.jetprivilege.com
JetPrivilege members can continue to redeem their JPMiles for free award flights on jetprivilege.com or for 1000+ products at the JetPrivilege Rewards Store. JetPrivilege’s partnership with IndianOil, earlier this year, enabled members to also earn and burn JPMiles on fuel spends. With the introduction of this new feature, JetPrivilege members can now redeem their JPMiles for an aspirational reward of their choice.
Commenting on the hotels.jetprivilege.com platform enhancement, Manish Dureja, Managing Director, JetPrivilege, said, “The online Hotel booking platform in the stay category has been one of our strongest programme platforms and the launch of ‘Hotels Redemption’ was a natural progression aimed at delivering a seamless, end to end travel experience to our members. At JetPrivilege, we are constantly looking at ways to enhance the overall member engagement and deliver an exceptional and rewarding experience.”
For managing the new hotels redemption platform, JetPrivilege has partnered with RocketMiles, a leading online travel agency.
Members continue to have the option of earning JPMiles on their hotel stays when they book their stay on Agoda.com, Booking.com, Expedia, Hotels.com and Homestay.com via hotels.jetprivilege.com.
JT Special Vehicles (JTSV), a 50:50 Joint Venture between Tata Motors and Jayem Automotives, has launched its much-anticipated JTP range of performance vehicles – the Tiago JTP and the Tigor JTP, to bring back the ‘Joy of Motoring in everyday commute. With a sporty design and a performance packed engine under the hood, the Tiago JTP and Tigor JTP will be available at select Tata Motors dealerships* from early November 2018, at a starting price of INR. 6.39 Lakhs for the Tiago JTP and INR. 7.49 Lakhs for the Tigor JTP, ex – showroom, New Delhi. Further, riding on the festive cheer, motoring enthusiasts can book these cars starting today at select Tata Motors dealership with a down payment of INR 11,000.
Announcing the launch of the power packed JTP range, Mayank Pareek, President Passenger Vehicles, Tata Motors, said, “Motoring today has become monotonous and regimented. We are committed to offering our customers an elated drive experience in an everyday commute. The JTP range of cars have been designed and engineered with precision to keep the excitement & passion of motoring alive and reverse the commoditization of car purchase. Customers can enjoy their city drive and experience the thrill of driving with these cars. The JTP products will also have a halo effect on the Tiago and Tigor brands.”
According to Gubbi Nagbhushan, CEO, JTSV, “We at JTSV are excited to launch the first 2 cars of JTP range of vehicles. The Tiago and Tigor are extremely capable products, which have further been boosted with Jayem’s technical know-how of developing performance cars. Targeted at the urban customers who are driving enthusiasts with a hidden streak of adventure, the Tiago JTP and the Tigor JTP have been engineered to provide customers with the thrill of driving.”
The joint venture between Tata Motors and Jayem Auto focuses on design and development of performance cars, including the uniquely styled parts. The joint venture enables faster development, specialized capabilities, and access to true performance motoring pedigree.
Manufactured at the Tata Motors Sanand facility, the Tiago JTP and Tigor JTP are powered with the 1.2L turbocharged new generation Revotron petrol engine. These performance cars are engineered to deliver the thrill of driving with 114PS power and 150Nm torque and will come with Multi Drive Modes – City and Sport. Equipped with performance oriented intake and exhaust systems, these vehicles come with a 5 speed manual transmission with optimized gear ratios & final drive for superior acceleration and exciting performance to help provide its drivers with an exhilarating driving experience. Tuned for precision, the suspension setup has been amalgamated with reduced ground clearance for improved driving dynamics. Capped at a maximum speed of 160 kmph, the car can go from 0-100km/h in 10 seconds.
While the base cars that JTSV uses are already created under the Impact Design Philosophy, the strategic addition of the custom design JTP elements amplify the impact of the design further, in line with the ‘thrill to drive’ philosophy of JTSV products.Built to provide that extra kick while driving, these cars are not only performance oriented on the inside but also provide the customers with a dynamic sporty look. The bold exterior styling with new front end design with large grill, smoked projector headlamps, bonnet and fender vents, 15” diamond cut alloy wheels and side skirts for a dynamic side gives it a distinct look on the outside. Building on the sporty interior design, the all black interiors with sporty accents on AC vents, premium leather wrapped steering with contrast red stitching and performance aluminum pedals provide the inmates with sporty yet luxurious feel.
With the JTP range of performance vehicles, JTSV has worked towards offering exciting, innovative and aspirational cars with an objective to bring back the ‘Joy of Motoring’ to the Indian customers.
