Top 5 Global Companies Simplifying Group Communication for Enterprises

Businesses today have branched out to various geographical locations, employing a diverse and often, remotely located workforce. This very evolution of businesses warrants the organisations to have tools and services in place to enable unified communication. With UC solutions, companies are able to extend easier collaboration and communication between remotely located teams, saving time and unlocking business potential through systematic synergies.

Helping you in the pursuit for a reliable unified communication platform, here’s listing the top five companies to watch out for!

1.       Telebu: Audio conferencing with 10,000+ participants, and more

Building communication products for today’s ambitious and fast-growing enterprises, Telebu Communications is a leading provider of unified communication solutions. Its marque product, grptalk, an audio-conferencing solution, allows up to 10,000+ members to easily collaborate on a conference call. Unlike other mediums, the conference calls by grptalk are instantaneous (dial-outs), with participants only needing to answer the bridge calls, without any pin code or passwords. Utilising PSTN networks, grptalk offers easy connectivity, even in low network coverage areas. In addition to the audio conferencing solution, grptalk also offers bulk text and voice SMS solution, inbound and outbound call centre software, emergency alert system, and an API platform.

2.       Slack: Channelizing collaboration for enterprise success

A collaboration hub, Slack helps teams work together on a wide gamut of projects, right from daily tasks to budget discussions. It organises conversations for enterprises via channels, which can be set up for teams, projects or different locations of the office. Different members can join or leave the channels to their own accord, and conversation history can be easily searched to simplify information retrieval. Not only does slack allow team members to share text documents, audios and videos, it also keeps the data secured and protected.

3.       Zoho Cliq: Messaging & file-sharing in real-time

Real-time messaging is oftentimes crucial for decision making. Zoho Cliq allows files of varying formats to be shared instantly through a chat window. Through the same window, team members can also collaborate via audio or video calls. It also creates different channels for individual teams or projects, and the chat history is searchable for different files, documents, and texts.

4.       Avaya: For mission-critical & real-time communication

Avaya prides itself in being a global leader in digital communication software, services and devices. The solutions are available for all businesses of different sizes. The customisable solutions by Avaya are open and intelligent, bring the flexibility of the cloud to the fore, further enabling hybrid deployments. Furthermore, the planning, support, and management teams at Avaya help enterprises with efficient and optimised solutions.

5.       Samepage: Bringing offices together in a single app

An award-winning UC and collaboration platform, Samepage brings offices together in a single app. It serves various needs and makes collaboration hassle-free and simple by providing group texting, video and voice chat through mobile and desktop. The solutions by Samepage enable easy file sharing, co-authoring documents, task management, and sharing calendars. Offering a unified and singular place for employees, Samepage helps teams get more done without breaking into a sweat.

Atos Launches New Unified Cloud Identity and Access Management Solution for Ultimate Security

Looking ahead to the 4th Atos Technology Days co-located with VivaTech, Atos today launches a new unified cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM) solution for ultimate security.

Acting as a single identity provider and management system for all platforms, cloud and on-premise, this new solution, based on Evidian software from Atos, enables organizations to keep control of all identities that need access to their business systems, providing them with ultimate security.

One single sign-on to access multi-cloud and on-premise environments

Today, businesses are using and accessing numerous cloud solutions, from different providers – each one of them including their own identity system and requiring users to manage several access codes.

With the unified cloud Identity and Access Management solution from Atos, businesses can create and manage one central repository of identities and access rights. In this way, users only need one single sign-on to access multi-cloud and on-premise environments.

Enhanced security with full control of all identities

With this enhanced data security solution, businesses can protect their users’ accesses and keep control of their identities, rather than dealing with a multitude of cloud providers. Businesses will also have access to a single Identity and Access Management console for the governance and administration of their identities and access rights – thus facilitating the enforcement of policies, compliance reporting and security incident response.

Other key benefits

This unified cloud Identity and Access Management solution is integrated within the cloud platform and centrally manages the access to cloud and non-cloud platforms, and enables:

Cloud migration facilitation – avoiding the complexity of adapting access management policies when moving from one cloud provider to another
Audit simplification – with a single point of administration and tracking
Automated and cost-efficient provisioning and de-provisioning of SaaS applications at the exact time needed by clients – eliminating the risk of dormant accounts

“Thanks to the unified cloud Identity and Access Management solution by Atos, our clients can provide a secure and convenient access to critical resources for business users, while meeting compliance demands. Our solution is facilitating day-to-day work and optimizing costs” says Sébastien Brachet, Managing Director of IAM/IGA activities within the Atos Group.

Spice Money Achieves Massive Gross Transactional Value of Rs 2400 Crore During Q1, 2019

Spice Money achieves a massive Gross Transactional Value of INR 2400 crore during the month of April exclusively, carries out 12 million transactions within this period

Introduces a slew of product offerings such as Spice ATM to enable debit card based transactions, takes further strides in its aim to achieve nationwide financial inclusion

National, 15th May, 2019-Spice Money, a business unit of Spice Digital and one of India’s largest tech-enabled Hyper Local Payments Network, recently achieved a feat of carrying out 12 million transactions within the month of April. The transactions generated a massive Gross Transactional Value of INR 2400 crore, firmly establishing Spice Money as a preferred platform to carry out financial transactions for the unserved and underserved population in the country. Spice Money has introduced new product offerings and enriched existing ones to further its goal of extending digitized transactional benefits to a large section of people who have little access to conventional financial facilities.

Spice Money, in addition to its Aadhaar Based payment system, has added a Mini-ATM feature that enables users to carry out debit-card based transactions. It helps to circumvent a few problems which might crop up during Aadhaar based transactions, such as bio-metric mismatch, data error etc. The move is expected to serve the elder population significantly, who often complain of hassles during fingerprint based Aadhaar transactions, which might change due to age. Additionally, Debit-card based transactions allow for a higher withdrawal limit, thereby enhancing the scope of the transactions that can be completed.

Considering the same, it is no surprise that during the month of April only, 5 million unique customers have walked into Spice-money affiliated stores and carried out transactions. The platform has enabled next door Kirana stores to function as ‘Mini-Banks’, and users can also realize transactions ranging from utility bill payments, domestic remittances, travel-related transactions, Cash Deposit, Cash Withdrawal, Air Time Recharge, POS Services, Railway Ticketing Services etc. through Spice Money’s authorized agents.

Commenting on the achievement, Dilip Modi, Chairman, Spice Money, said, “The April figures underline the strong growth trajectory Spice Money has achieved over a considerable period of time. We have strived to diversify our services framework significantly, and have already acquired licenses such as Prepaid Instruments License and Bharat Bill Payment System license. We have also partnered with leading service providers across verticals, such as Yatra for travel-related transactions, to offer seamless financial experience.   We hope to expand our footprint even deeper in India and serve as the bridge between the served and the un-served, providing financial services to every individual with limited accessibility.”

Spice Money has also created substantial employment opportunities by appointing Village Level Entrepreneurs and empowering them through a cutting-edge ‘Cloud Infrastructure.’ For its continued efforts in bridging the gap between ‘India’ and ‘Bharat’ Spice Money was bestowed with the NPCI Excellence Award in 2018.

Volkswagen Inaugurates of its 1st Pop-Up & City Store at Richmond Town, Bengaluru

In a bid to enhance accessibility and touch points within the Indian market, Volkswagen, Europe’s largest carmaker today inaugurated their first City and Pop-up store in the state of Karnataka. Under the brands’ initiative towards preparing to be ‘Fit for the Future’ and being innovative, Volkswagen will be launching 30 new pop-up and city stores across key markets in the next one year.

In a two spoke strategic approach, the Volkswagen Pop-up store aims to drive in aspiration towards premium mobility in India. The brand aims to touch base with the Indian heartland and offer them the opportunity to look and feel the brand before a customer makes his purchase decision. In India, in most cities a car purchase continues to involve the agreement of the entire family. For making this a smoother effort, the Pop-up stores would facilitate this premium experience in high growth markets of the country.

While the city store, being a derivative of the pop-up store will cater to the young, vibrant and energetic customers living in urban areas. The city stores will be effective, efficient and completely upbeat while continuing to offer a premium experience. It will be paperless in nature that will address customer queries seamlessly in this new digital era. However, after-sales services will be undertaken by the nearest workshops associated to the traditional fully-featured dealerships within the city.

Sharing his thought process on this new establishment, Mr. Steffen Knapp, Director, Volkswagen Passenger Cars said, “Our business environment is changing at a breathtaking pace in view of new technologies and enhanced customer expectations. Our customers today value innovation and in turn expect a prompt and hassle-free experience with Volkswagen. In lieu of that, Volkswagen has been working relentlessly towards being ‘Fit for the Future’ within which we’ve inaugurated our first Pop-up and City store in Karnataka.”

Highlighting the details further, Mr. Knapp said, “This new format of transforming our sales stores is in alignment with our global growth strategy. As the world is moving towards connected mobility solutions, digitalization across the sales and after-sales process is pertinent. We’re constantly innovating our brand offerings and we trust our customers would appreciate the Volkswagen experience.”

Commenting on the Volkswagen India partnership in Bengaluru, Mr. Rajiv Sanghvi, Managing Director, PPS Motors Pvt. Ltd. said, “To enhance the customer purchase experience in today's digital age, we are driven to deliver this world-class showroom that combines traditional and digital tools to offer a seamless sales experience to our customers.”

Both the City and Pop-up stores are now fully operational and can be visited for a heightened customer experience. With this, Volkswagen will cover a total network of 119 showrooms, 113 workshops in 100 cities across India.

Thomson Smart TVs Offer On Flipkart Big Shopping Days Sale from May 15-19, 2019

Thomson announces price drops on all its TV models, including the newly launched India’s only 40 4k TV sets. The five day long Flipkart BSD Sale for TV & Appliances category is starting on 15th May when the brand will offer full smart TVs for a price starting from INR 10,999 to INR 33,999 and non - smart TVS from INR 7499.

THOMSON had recently launched India’s only 40 4k TV keeping in mind today’s space crunched Indian consumer who aspires to watch 4k content and high quality videos at a super affordable price. THOMSON always have kept the need of Indian consumer in mind from all sectors of the country. The brand re - launched in India early last year and since then it has introduced umpteen number of SKUs from smart, non – smart to 4k televisions.

This is THOMSON’s biggest price cuts before the FLIPKART Big Billions Days SALE and the brand wants it’s consumers to make the most of it.

Announcing the offers, Avneet Singh Marwah, CEO SPPL, and Exclusive Brand Licensee of Thomson in India, said: “Flipkart BSD Sale has always been important for us. This year Thomson will be offering some great deals and will be dropping prices for the first time in 2019.”

FLIPKART BSD Price List

Thomson B9 Pro 80cm (32 inch) HD Ready LED Smart TV: INR 10,999
Thomson B9 Pro 102cm (40 inch) Full HD LED Smart TV: INR 16,999
Thomson UD9 (40TH1000) 40-inch 4K Smart TV: INR 19,999
Thomson UD9 Series 108cm (43 inch) Ultra HD: INR 23,999
Thomson 43TH6000 (43-inch) LED Smart TV: INR 23,999
Thomson UD9 124cm (50 inch) Ultra HD (4K) LED Smart TV : INR 29,999
Thomson UD9 140cm (55 inch) Ultra HD (4K) LED Smart TV : 33,999

Non Smart

Thomson R9 60cm (24 inch) HD Ready LED TV : INR 7499
Thomson R9 80cm (32 inch) HD Ready LED TV : INR 8999
Thomson R9 122cm (48 inch) Full HD LED TV   : INR 20,499

About Super Plastronics Pvt. Ltd. (SPPL):

SPPL is a manufacturing concern established in 1990 with its Head Office in Noida. Its initial business was plastic injection molding which then graduated to manufacturing of CRT TV’s and to LED TV’s on date. We were one of the largest manufacturers of CRT TV cabinets in the 90’s and early 00’s. Today we are one of India’s foremost OEM’s in CRT and LED Television. We have 3 manufacturing plants in India located in Noida, Una and Jammu. We have an employee strength of over 1000 across India and are expanding as we grow. For additional information on Thomson TVs in India.

Visit us at www.thomsontv.in, follow us on Twitter @thomsontvindia, or like us on Facebook at Thomson India.    

Sagisu Bags the Prestigious GlobalTiE50 Award at TiEcon 2019

Sagisu a new age intracity logistics partner which is disrupting the transportation eco-system, recently bagged the sought-after TiE50 Award. Now in its tenth year, the award institutionalised by TiEcon is the world’s largest conference for tech entrepreneurs.

Through its proprietary Smart Hub and state-of-the-art technology, Sagisu is changing the fragmented Logistics Market by deploying technology, achieving efficiency, better volumes at lower costs to deliver state-of-the-art intracity transportation experience to customers.

Mithun Kadur, the Founder of Sagisu said, “We are the next generation urban freight service provider, specialising in intracity movements and catering to enterprise customers in their logistics needs. The award reciprocates the same value and vision we cherish the most – to fulfill the aspirations. Such appreciation from the industry boost our efforts and fuels us to work even harder for achieving our mission”.

The company known for its unique business and service model, with its offices in Bengaluru, Chennai and Hyderabad started its expansion plans for the entire South India by setting-up its operational offices in the two most important business hubs in the region. It’s a giant leap from the promising start-up which sets to increase its trucker’s fleet to 1000+ in the next 6months servicing 25+ clients in each city.

The initial area of service is aggregation business with primary focus on Ecommerce, Retail, Pharma, Logistics, Dairy & Farm Fresh, Real Estate and CPG sectors. Sagisu has hired initial employee strength of 15+ people in each of the two cities.  Both the regional offices are being led by General Managers with their past experiences from Paytm, Ola and the likes, supported by Supply Operation Managers, Territory Business Managers and the frontline Supply Executives.

“For over 27 years as a not-for-profit organization dedicated to fostering entrepreneurship and with a global footprint of half million entrepreneurs, enterprise executives, and investment professionals, at TiE Silicon Valley we take pride in the fact that we have created TiE50, a strong 10-year-old brand for recognising high potential startups,” said B.J. Arun, President, TiE Silicon Valley.

Now celebrating its tenth year, TiE50 Awards provides a one-of-a-kind showcase for the world’s top technology and technology-enabled startups. Since its inception, 84 percent of TiE50 winners and top startups have been funded at a total of over $1 billion. Many of these companies went on to acquisition or IPO with 29 of the exits at over $100 million.

About Sagisu: Sagisu was incorporated in May 2016 with an idea to be the new-age intra city logistics service provider who seamlessly integrates demand and supply between our Customers & Truckers. Based out from Bangalore, 'Sagisu' truly reciprocates its meaning - seamlessly move the goods from one place to another. The company addresses the core problem of a demand supply asymmetry between truckers & customers for intracity logistics with an integrated cutting-edge technology to provide a seamless & consistent experience. Guided by its values and beliefs, the company thrives on collaboration, cohesion, and fostering a culture where employees’ stands for ‘diversely equal’. Sagisu plans to further expand its operations in major cities across South India catering to more cities and clients supported by a highly skilled operations team.

Amazon India’s First Community Centre in Karnataka Celebrates Two Years of Transforming Lives

Amazon Cares, the CSR initiative of Amazon India had launched its first Community Centre in Karnataka in April 2017 to support 17 villages like K. Mallasandra, Besthamanahalli, Mayasandra and Samethanahalli, in Bangalore in line with its continued efforts for positive engagement with the ecosystem it operates in. The Community Centre set up in partnership with FORD India (Forum for Rural Development) has now completed two years of focused initiatives in education, health & hygiene, environment, livelihood & skill development and women empowerment. There are two Community Centres currently in the region with fourteen such centers across the country with the objective of achieving sustainable development.

“Keeping our vision in mind, over the past 2 years, we have created opportunities for close to 5,000 individuals to realize their potential in Karnataka and in turn supported the transformation of the lives of the local communities. We are committed to using our resources and infrastructure of innovation and technology to enable diverse communities succeed. We believe that through our sustained efforts we can help support India’s development” said Karuna Pande, Director, Customer Fulfilment, Amazon India.

Commenting on the same, Srinivas, Headmaster, Lower Primary School, Rachamanahalli village said “The Centre has created spaces for women, youth and children in our villages to learn various skills, become more computer literate, have access to books for reading and learn with educational aids. Over the past two years, by adopting better health and hygiene practices, we have witnessed a significant change in the quality of life. With the experience of Amazon India and the focus of our local community, we are confident of building a sustainable effort towards creating a better future for all of us.”

Education: Aligned with the National Digital Literacy Mission (NDLM), the education support initiative enabled access to quality education for the community through digital literacy and has positively affected the lives of about more than 700 people so far. The centres have also imparted basic training sessions on computer skills, reading and writing workshops and career counselling sessions to women and youth that has enabled them to secure better job opportunities.

Amazon India has supported parents with Early Childhood Development sessions across 13 anganwadis in the villages where around 500 children in the age group of 2 -6 years ‘learn while they play’ through various activities. There are two libraries in these Centres, well equipped with thousands of carefully selected books ranging from school textbooks and encyclopedias to novels and competitive examination reference books that have helped more than 200 students in the region.

Livelihood: The livelihood initiative focused on creating awareness among the community members about government schemes that work towards supporting the marginalized and economically weaker sections of the society. The project has reached out to more than 700 beneficiaries of the community.         

Women Empowerment: In order to promote women empowerment, the centres have assisted around 1,200 local women to support their families financially by training them on vocational skills like Basic and Advanced Tailoring, a beautician course and so on. Many women were also provided sessions on micro-entrepreneurship, financial literacy and given exposure visits for practical learning.

Health and Hygiene: Amazon India promotes preventive healthcare through partnerships with the local medical community and government organizations. Some of the initiatives rolled out at the centres include awareness programs on cleanliness and household waste management, maternity care and menstrual hygiene to name a few. Besides this, regular health check-up camps are conducted for people across all age groups. Overall, around 1,700 adults and children have benefitted from these programs so far.

Amazon Cares demonstrates the philosophy of being ‘good neighbors’ through the activities undertaken in areas where Amazon India operates. The Company imbibes this philosophy to empower and engage its employees, customers, sellers, local communities and other stakeholders in its contributions to create opportunities and transform lives.