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Editorial
ell, when it comes to listing the most admired companies
Wof the year, the list cannot be fulfilled without a proper
survey and a standard set of norms. The very first
criteria we land up is the ‘Innovativeness’ of a company. In this fast
race of competition and that is too with an urge ‘to be on top of the
competition’, companies need to have certain characteristic inbuilt
and one of the most important amongst them is ‘Innovativeness’.
It is not about how well you can do something than the others, but it
is all about, as Tyler Oakley says, “Recognizing what only you can
do...is going to make you successful”. It is the uniqueness of the
company which makes it go and sit in the category of ‘Most
Admired’.
Innovation is the
Need of an Hour
But what exactly innovation means? Well to simply answer this
question, it is nothing but a value creation. The paramount objective
of innovation for a company must be to be innovative through the
aspect of development, application and bundle technology in the
products or services they come up with in the global market.
It is all about coming up with unique ideas to keep operations,
products and services as fresh as possible. It is the process to fetch
those ideas into reality is what innovation is all about. Though, it is
as hard as it could be to actually transform those ideas into an actual
product or service that will prove to be beneficial for the customers.
Once innovation is put into action and launched in the market, the
company needs to put it into practice and exploit it in such a manner
that will lead to new products, services or systems that will add
value and improve quality. Innovation will also include,
technological transformation and management restructuring,
which will generate new value and will bring significant changes
in the company.
Innovation is just inevitable in this modern day world than ever
before. With the world full of globalization technology and
knowledge revolutions, innovation brings added value and widens
the employment base. Innovation will not just elevate the rank of the
company, but will boost its moral to do something admirable in the
future too.

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Story
Contents
42
Spotlight
How an Ordinary Person
Can Turn into an
Admired Personality?
34
Chalk Talk
A Conducive Environment
at Workplace to Preserve
your Best Talent
12
26Think Tank
Creativity is not a Gift
and Can be Learned

22
AsiaPay: Secure, Integrated &
Most Comprehensive Payment
Processing Services
24
Attra: Providing a Strategic Advantage
to the Enterprises in Banking
& Payments Domain
28
Citrus Informatics: Always in
the Foreground of ICT
30
Crystal logic: 16+ years
• 70+ Team Strength • 700+ Clients

32
DigiStreet: Kept walking,
keep walking.
36
Forticode: Personally Managed
Authentication
38
Mindlogicx: Pioneering an Unrivalled
Revolution in Education Technology
40
Mithi Software Technologies:
An Innovative Collaboration Technology
Enabler For Enterprises

44
Peloton Group: The
Backbone of Innovation and
Business Transformation
46
Safexpress: Knowledge Leader
and Market Leader In Supply
Chain & Logistics Industry
48
SyncDog: Leading the Way
towards a Secured Future
50
Touchless Biometric Systems:
Biometric Solution leading the way

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Companies Need to have the
Agility to Adapt as Rapidly as
Customers and the Market Demand
eing good is not enough for the companies in today’s scenario, than being innovative, being ahead in terms
Bof technology, in terms of strategy and in terms of the best workplace for the employees. Proving themselves
in all these aspects makes a company admired from all parts of the world.
This is the reason, we have come up with an issue of The 30 Most Admired Companies of 2016. In this issue,
we have shortlisted such companies who are ahead in today’s tough competition, let it be in terms of technological
advancement, workplace environment, offering the best products and services or be the innovative on. All of these
are the companies, which are proving their metal in all these aspects.
Keeping customer satisfaction on top of everything is what makes a company successful and creates its space in the
customers favorite list too. In this issue of The 30 Most Admired Companies of 2016, we have such companies,
which are on top of the charts when it comes to customer satisfaction. With a totally customer centric services that
are fused with the latest innovation, these companies are offering the best solutions of all.
Today, operating a business speed has become the most difficult part to handle for the organizations, which is the
direct result of getting infused with the agility to adapt as rapidly as customers and the market demand. When it
comes to providing a better user experience, enterprises need to predict the changes beforehand and make changes
accordingly in the infrastructure.
Cover story of this issue, Req Technology Consulting Co. Ltd is pacifying the IT infrastructure needs of the
companies by offering world class IT Infrastructure Services on each stage of the IT Lifecycles such as Planning,
Design, Implementation and Test. Re: QTC is enabling enterprises to be in a constantly ready-state, building
business context service delivery, simultaneously speeding up delivery by unlocking trapped value.
Having some of the most impressive credentials in the IT Vendor landscape, as one of its best assets, Re: QTC is
helping companies around the world deliver faster and better business.
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Companies of 2016 will definitely prove to be the most interesting read for all.

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Giving Credence to ‘Infrastructure
Accelerates Business’
Digitalization’, a term introduced in the 21st Century, revolutionized the IT industry. It is
Digitalization which made the consumer a king availing him the power of selection, which
directly impacted the enterprises on the prime position. As the consumer has become the
decision maker, enterprises have to mold themselves accordingly and show the flexibility, speed, and
efficiency, bind together in a robust IT strategy.
Today, operating a business speed has become the most difficult part to handle for the organizations, which is
the direct result of getting infused with the agility to adapt as rapidly as customers and the market demand.
When it comes to providing a better user experience, enterprises need to predict the changes beforehand and
make changes accordingly in the infrastructure.
Req Technology Consulting Co. Ltd is pacifying the IT infrastructure needs of the companies by offering
world class IT Infrastructure Services on each stage of the IT Lifecycles such as Planning, Design,
Implementation and Test. Re: QTC is enabling enterprises to be in a constantly ready-state, building business
context service delivery, simultaneously speeding up delivery by unlocking trapped value.
Having some of the most impressive credentials in the IT Vendor landscape, as one of its best assets,
Re: QTC is helping companies around the world deliver faster and better business.
IT companies are always in the puzzle when it comes to align IT with strategic business initiatives, built-in
flexibility to adapt to a constantly changing global market, or to strategize, develop and execute new
initiatives with optimal speed to remain competitive. To solve this puzzle for the IT companies, Re: QTC

Shigeru Kamiya
President and CEO
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completes high quality troubleshooting which other
companies cannot provide at the same level and by
structuring system with newly released software products.
As a result, four major Japanese system integrators
recognize Re: QTC as one of the most trusted IT
infrastructure service providers. Re: QTC received The
Most Valuable Technical Partner Award from one of them.
Mentation, the Prime Aim
With an abundant hardware and middleware knowledge,
Re: QTC has the capability of dealing with a database
system. As an Infrastructure Consultant, Re: QTC can
evaluate database server compatibility form the totality of
circumstances and build database system infrastructure in
accordance with the requirements. This proper mentation of
a situation when it comes to solving a problem is
Re: QTC’s core competency.
Re: QTC has received great comments from their clients, in
the distribution, industrial, financial, services sectors, like,
Re: QTC’s support has been one of the important factors for
the project success.
Journey that has been an Inspiration for All
With the fast pace modern world, IT technology is evolving
day by day. Being in the list of one of the top IT service
providers, Re: QTC has proved to be a high-quality IT
service provider in the market, engaged in numerous
projects which requires design and construction of largescale
projects and mission-critical systems. These
challenges have only enhanced the technical skills of
Re: QTC’s team.
Re: QTC has been collaborating with major product
vendors and System Integrators to carry out feasibility
study and performance test. Re: QTC also built a
verification environment within the company, while
performing testing for new functions.
When it comes to describing the inspirational journey of the
company, the positive participation of Re: QTC in projects
is remarkable. Re: QTC gets involved in difficult
troubleshooting which other companies cannot deal. While
doing so, the company uses multiple newly released
software products to build infrastructure systems. These
kinds of projects become an appealing example and
contributed to earning customers trust for Re: QTC.
‘You Bring the Difficulties and Re: QTC Will Fetch the
Answers’
In this exciting journey of Re: QTC, the company has
handled many satisfied clients. But, the narration of the
journey cannot be concluded here. Once, a major travel
service company approached Re: QTC with the same issues
under the existed system. Their system provided tour
search, travel reservation, marketing to analyze enormous
tour data and the vast volume of accesses every day.
Even though the vendors participating in this project were
major HW vendors and application vendors, the customer’s
CIO wanted a professional who were able to support system
replacement from the end user’s point of view. After
learning about Re: QTC he asked them to provide technical
support and identifying the work that seems to be missing
in practice.
The queries were major, like they were getting many
complaints from in-house users, including sales
representatives; the system response is too slow during the
brisk period (event), opportunity loss had occurred that
customers moved to another WEB site during the tour
search. Not just that, there was an insufficient computer
resources (CPU / memory / IO), the system stopped
occasionally due to hardware trouble, software malfunction,
the customer planned to replace the server with high cost
performance, but it required to stop the systems for several
days for data migration and server replacement. On top of
this, they were concerned about recent cyber attacks and
internal corruption, protecting confidential information and
personal information could be at high risk.
Though the problems were huge, Re: QTC approached all
the issues with great solutions. They extensively calculated
how much computer resources are required and figured out
necessary resources (CPU / memory / IO) in consideration
of peak event time. After that, they thoroughly diagnosed
and analyzed database performance statistics, in the result,
it avail a stable performance even at peak times with the
most access. Going further, Re: QTC proposed a data
migration tool which other vendors could not come up with
due to a lack of know-how. As a result, this powerful tools
made available to move huge amounts of data to the new
infrastructure with minimum system downtime.
Unbelievably, all this transition completed in just 2 hours
with almost no system outage. It offered a product which
does not cause obstacles as much as possible, stable and
continuous operation. Also, it proposed a redundant

configuration which eliminates single failure point as
much as possible. At the end of the day, after the
operation with a new infrastructure, there was no
system outage due to obstacles.
Services That Meets the Industry Standards
In the era of building system in combination of OS,
database, middleware, server, storage and other
products by various vendors, Re: QTC was started
from the voice of customers who wanted to have a
vendor which can deal with complex issues of
building infrastructure with a sense of speed.
Re: QTC provides Designing and Building Database
System, Database Assessment Service, Database
Operation Support Service for Incident Recovery and
Periodic Diagnosis, Database Appliance
Implementation (Designing and Building) Service and
Database Security Service.
Re: QTC’s DB service covers a wide range of
customer needs from designing and building database
to migration, incident recovery and database
performance improvement which is designed by
others. Especially, for those customers who are
considering database server migration and its method
of migration, Re: QTC’s assessment service, with
hearing the customer for their system requirements
and current issues, supports the customers to decide
the direction of the system including hardware and
middleware selection, as well as it makes a valuable
contribution to customers to migrate their systems,
and it brings the customer shorter lead time, smaller
application impact, less anxiety, and fine tuned
investment.
Re: QTC provides professional services in the areas
of Virtualization, Storage, Network, Cloud
Computing, Clusterware, Network Security, etc.
Additionally, Re: QTC offers database security
services for all the cycles, including drafting database
security, the development of it, and database
operational security services.
For example, Re: QTC’s database security diagnosis
system proposes security enhancement plan based
upon the then current system set up and operations.
In addition, Re: QTC also provides services for access
management, implementation of preventative
measures against unauthorized misappropriation,
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security design changes and set ups, building systems
based on Oracle security products, security
enhancement plan, and performance fine-tuning.
Far ahead in the Race
Though there is a tough competition in the market,
Re: QTC is far ahead in the race. Re: QTC’s
competency is to build infrastructure for the database
systems by determining adequacy and appropriateness
of the DB server and by satisfying customer’s
specifications utilizing various experiences as a
infrastructure consultant, not just based on database
knowledge, e.g., Oracle database. It is the never
ending efforts of Re: QTC, which is keeping the
company ahead in the competition. The company
continuously gives technical trainings to all of its
engineers and shares new technical information and
solutions for troubles, these efforts make Re: QTC
competitive in the market.
Shigeru Kamiya, Visionary behind Re: QTC
With a whooping experience of more than 25 years in
the area of enterprise systems, Shigeru Kamiya is the
President and Chief Executive Officer of Re: Q
Technology Consulting Co. Ltd. Shigeru started his
career as a sales professional with a European IT
company. Joining a US Hardware Computer
Company in 1991 later, he achieved over 100%
business target for more than 10 years and received
awards for a number of times.
Later on he joined another US hardware company in
2002 as a Director and then got promoted to a senior
level Director. A glittering achievement to be
mentioned here is that Shigeru grew the system
consulting department from 7 SEs to approximately
30 sales representatives and 100 consultants in just
5 years!
It was later in 2008, Shigeru and his colleague
incorporated Re: Q Technology Consulting, which he
is leading as a President till this date. It is just the
result of Shigeru’s extensive experience and
especially his excellent communication skill and
industry knowledge, that Re: QTC experienced a
steadfast growth in its business.
Shigeru’s viewpoint for the industry is like, IT
companies have focused particularly on market share,
growth rate, and profit margin of investment.
However, they are unduly ruled by these numbers.
When it comes to talking about the Artificial
Intelligence, Shigeru opines that, IT companies
around the world have been concentrated on
developing and marketing AI as product software,
but it looks like they are fascinated by the fight for
market share and being the market leader.
As per Shigeru, the role of IT companies is not only
selling AI systems to their customers, but also
building AI systems to fit for the customer’s particular
purposes. In this accordance, IT vendors have to work
on introducing cloud systems, implementing adequate
security enhancement, completing data migration and
data construction. What customers are looking for is
building the service for information system and
deployment of it rather than AI as a tool, adds
Shigeru.
Plans ‘Down the Road’
The development of IOT and big data, need for
security is and will be on the verge in the future. What
corporations tend to have is the highly confidential
information, but there are many cases where the data
management system does not possess adequate and
proper security measures. If the database is not
adequately protected, it can easily allow someone to
steal, alter and destroy the data.
Keeping this in mind Re: QTC is planning to be a
professional services provider with 1,000 architects
with expertise in big data infrastructure, IoT based
Knowledge, and Cloud-based Server Storage Network
Security Architects.
While throwing light on the same Shigeru adds, “In
order to deploy global expansion, Re: QTC started the
business in Singapore in 2015, and the next steps are
establishing businesses in ASEAN major countries
soon as well as in North America and Europe within a
few years.”
IT Service Industry from Shigeru’s Viewpoint
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THE
MOST
30
ADMIRED
COMPANIES
OF THE YEAR 2016
Company Name
5D Robotics
www.5drobotics.com
AsiaPay Limited
www.asiapay.com
Management
David Bruemmer
Director
Mr. Joseph Chan
Founder & CEO
Brief
5DTM provides a state-of-the-art hyper-positioning and
autonomous navigation platform that can transform any
existing vehicle into a smart, precise and safe autonomous
vehicle.
AsiaPay is an accredited payment processor and payment
gateway solution vendor for banks, certified IPSP for
merchants, certified international 3-D Secure Vendor for Visa,
MasterCard, American Express and JCB.
Attra
www.attra.com
Anil Gammampila
Founder, Chairman
Attra is a multinational IT solutions and services delivery firm
focused on banking, finance and payments industry.
BioMe
www.biome.pro
Kristina Liese
Chief Marketing Officer
BioMe is an award winning start-up company creating and
developing new patent-pending materials for biomedical
industry.
Cashbook
www.cashbook.com
Greg Coulter
CEO & MD
Cashbook provides cash management software, delivering
more Automation, Functionality & Control.
Citrus Informatics
(India) Pvt. Ltd.
www.citrusinformatics.com
Sarji Mohammedali
CEO
Citrus Informatics is an Information & Communication Technology
(ICT) company that uses well-defined processes honed over the
years with rigorous process improvements, best practices and
innovative thinking to develop breakthrough solutions that leverage
emerging technologies to achieve the business goals of the clients.
Crystal Logic Pvt. Ltd.
www.crystal-logic.com
Manoj Punjabi
Director
Crystal Logic is an online marketing company with the potent
mix of clear understanding of client’s business needs and
providing robust applications to meet them.
dacadoo ag
www.dacadoo.com
DigiStreet Media
www.digistreetmedia.com
Peter Ohnemus
Founder, CEO
Sourav Ghosh
(Sr. Visualizer),
Kavish Arora (CDO),
Darpan Sharma (CEO),
Sushant Sharma
(Creative Head)
dacadoo is a Zurich based company that combines mobile
technologies, social networking, gamification and big data
analytics with the aim of helping users improve their health and
well-being.
DigiStreet offers personalized and wise solutions based on
extensive background research, a thorough market research,
followed up by comparative analysis, concluding with a
brainstorming session.
Expert 365
www.expert365.com
Vishy Karri
Co-founder,
Chairman & CEO
Expert 365 is an Australian Internet of Things solution provider
and systems integrator.

THE
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30
ADMIRED
COMPANIES
OF THE YEAR 2016
Company Name
Falt Communicatins AB
www. faltcom.com
Management
Mikael Langstrom
CEO
Brief
Fältcom connects the world through the Internet of Things.
With their MIIPS platform and its apps, you can control,
monitor, or analyze machines, buildings, and systems over the
Internet.
Forticode Ltd.
www.forticode.com
Tony Smales
CEO
Forticode have developed the world’s only Personally
Managed Authentication platform.
Hyland Software, Inc
www.hyland.com
Bill Priemer
CEO
Hyland Software Inc. is the developer of the enterprise content
management (ECM) and process management software suite
called OnBase.
K2
www.k2.com
Adrian Van Wyk
Founder & CEO
K2’s business process application solutions help companies
across the world increase agility and find new methods of
success.
LanzaTech
www.lanzatech.com
Jennifer Holmgren
CEO
LanzaTech’s technology enables energy partnerships between
multiple industries.
Linium
www.linium.com
Joe Burke
CEO
Linium is a globally recognized firm with over 16 years of
experience in consulting, recruiting and managed services.
Mindlogicx Infratec Limited
www.mindlogicx.com
Mithi Software
Technologies Pvt Ltd
www.mithi.com
Raghav Narayan
Director-sales
& marketing
Tarun Malaviya
Founder & CEO
Mindlogicx aims to enable common people with innovative
technology in education sector to drive forward the national
economy. It is providing unique services to universities, colleges
and recruitment boards to help them simplify Examination
Processes.
An approach towards an engineering platform based on reusable
components and objects, they create enterprise grade products to
solve specific business problems with technology intervention.
Njevity
www.njevity.com
Chris Dobkins
President & CEO
Njevity is a Microsoft Certified Partner that offers integrated
Cloud and On-Premise Dynamics GP, CRM and Acumatica.
NuTEQ Solutions
www.nuteqsolutions.com
Mike Roddy
CEO
NuTEQ Solutions, LLC is a SaaS provider focused on mobile
customer care. Our clients recognize that today’s consumer has
an ANYTIME / ANYWHERE mobile-first mindset.

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MOST
30
ADMIRED
COMPANIES
OF THE YEAR 2016
Company Name
Peloton
www.pelotongroup.com
Management
Guy Daniello
CEO & Founder
Brief
Peloton is a leading professional services firm that specializes in
envisioning and delivering high-value and high-quality practical
solutions within all areas of Enterprise Performance
Management (EPM).
Piramal Pharma Solutions
www.piramal.com
Vivek Valsaraj
President Finance -
Pharma & Life Sciences
The Piramal Group is a diversified conglomerate with
operations in over 30 countries and brand-presence across 100
markets around the world.
Req Technology
Consulting Co. Ltd
www.reqtc.com
Shigeru Kamiya
President & CEO
Re:Q Technology Consulting provides Designing and Building
Database System, Database Assessment Service, Database
Operation Support Service for Incident Recovery and Periodic
Diagnosis, Database Appliance Implementation (Designing and
Building) Service and Database Security Service.
Safexpress Pvt. Ltd.
www.safexpress.com
Rubal Jain
Managing Director
Safexpress offers a wide range of innovative supply chain
services including Express Distribution, 3PL and Consulting.
Silvernest
www.silvernest.com
Wendi Burkhardt
Director of
Community Relations
Silvernest is a unique roommate-matching service for boomers
and empty nesters with space to share.
SyncDog, Inc.
www.syncdog.com
The Rinaldi Group
www.rinaldinyc.com
Jonas Gyllensvaan
Founder and CEO
Anthony T. Rinaldi
CEO
SyncDog is the leading independent software vendor (ISV) for
building secure infrastructure frameworks that protect
enterprise networks from cyber breach from mobile computing
sources.
TRG is a full-service general contractor and construction
management firm, building upon it’s foundation and tradition
of self-performance in both the public and private industry
sectors alike.
Touchless
Biometric Systems
www. tbs-biometrics.com
Alex Zarrabi
CEO
TBS offers a complete portfolio of hardware and software for
any biometric application, embedded in a highly secure,
powerful and flexible biometric infrastructure.
Virgil Security, Inc.
www.virgilsecurity.com
YNG Media
www.yngmedia.com
Michael W. Wellman
Founder & CEO
Sudhir Vashist
CEO
Virgil Security, Inc., provides software developers with
password-free authentication, strong encryption, and verification
of data, devices, and identities that is quickly and easily
integrated into their products - often in just hours - with no prior
cryptographic knowledge or training required.
YNG MEDIA provides effective digital marketing services by
implementing the best of technology, creativity and analytical
expertise.

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THE
MOST
ADMIRED
COMPANIES
OF THE YEAR 2016
AsiaPay:
Secure, Integrated & Most
Comprehensive Payment Processing Services
Online sales is a booming
industry today, becoming an
essential part of every single
business. The survival of a business
today, totally depends on the electronic
sales, without which, the survival of a
business is impossible. The top rank of
the business and availability of top
notch site will be totally in vain if the
company is not able to receive
payments electronically.
But, there is no need to worry anymore
for the companies as it has become
quite easy to collect payments for
goods and services from, let’s say, any
corner of the world via payment
service providers. There are tons of
online payment service providers
available out there. But the question is
who will be the best, whom you can
trust for all the important online
transactions like, credit card, bank
transfer, or real-time orders?
AsiaPay is proving itself as an ideal
electronic payment solution available
out there. It is an accredited payment
processor and payment gateway
solution vendor for banks, certified
IPSP for merchants, certified
international 3-D Secure Vendor for
Visa, MasterCard, American Express,
and JCB.
Founded in 2000, AsiaPay, a premier
electronic payment solution and
technology vendor and payment
service provider, strives to bring
advanced, secured, integrated, and
cost-effective electronic payment
processing solutions and services to
banks and e-businesses in the
worldwide market, covering
international credit card, debit card and
other prepaid card payments.
AsiaPay, Offering the Best Payment
Processor and Payment Gateway
One of the leading e-payment service
providers in Asia, AsiaPay has
specifically designed a variety of
solutions to deliver secure, reliable and
cost-effective solutions for banks, PSPs
and businesses of all sizes are available
to help them mitigate fraud and risks,
reduce operation and ownership costs
and enhance operational efficiency.
Offering cross-border e-Commerce
services, AsiaPay has a diverse suite of
payment solutions, which allows both
Western and Asian businesses as well
as financial institutions to carry out
cross-border e-Commerce easily and
securely.
AsiaPay has achieved many accolades.
The company has many awards for the
best payment solutions offering. Its
variety of award-winning payment
solutions includes multi-currency,
multi-lingual, multi-card, and
multi-channel together with its
advanced fraud detection and
management solutions.
Hong Kong based AsiaPay offers its
professional e-payment solution
consultancy and quality local service
support across 12 countries in Asia,
which includes, Hong Kong, China,
India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore,
Philippines, Taiwan, Thailand and
Vietnam and rapidly expanding to new
Asia Pacific markets.
Primarily focused on helping banks
and financial institutions adapt to
technology enabled operating models
and processes, AsiaPay deliver services
such as Payment Processing, Mobile
Payment, Value-Added Solutions,
Payment Security, White-label
Payment Gateway and ACS Solutions
and Managed Services.
AsiaPay offers a unique solution called
Redeem-n-Pay, a proprietary loyalty
and rewards platform, which allows
banks to drive ‘on-us’ rates by enabling
cardholders to purchase items online
using reward points they accumulated
from card usage. It is also available as
a white label solution.
Being ‘One of its Kinds’ Makes
AsiaPay Stand Tall in the
Competition
AsiaPay covers different countries and
is progressing towards conquering the
remaining world. The characteristic of
being different than the others makes
AsiaPay stand apart from the
competition. Among other
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“We provide corporate
entities with latest
electronic payment values
that readily enhance
business opportunities,
efciency and
productivity”
e-payment service providers in the Asia Pacific
region, AsiaPay provides the widest payment
processing and settlement network of credit card
acquirers and alternative payments methods across
12 countries. This is reason which enables AsiaPay
provide the best combination of payment methods
per country based on local infrastructure and
consumer preferences to merchants, banks and even
other payment providers. One more differentiator
which makes the company different than the other
competitors and that is AsiaPay is one of the few
providers in Asia to be PCIDSS Level 1since 2006.
Their bank-grade security is recognized by acquiring
banks and card associations worldwide.
Mr. Joseph Chan
Founder & CEO
AsiaPay Limited
Mr. Joseph Chan, Brain behind AsiaPay
Mr. Joseph Chan, Founder & Chief Executive Officer of AsiaPay, founded the company in August 2000. He spearheaded
the company and product development together with his management team, to become one of the most successful electronic
payment service and technology company in Asia, with operations covering 12 countries.
Joseph received his Bachelors of Science degree and Master of Economics degree from Monash University in Australia.
Through successive positions in banking and finance industries, Joseph has consolidated his expertise and experience in
strategic planning, management and implementation of financial, electronic banking, Internet and mobile product services
and systems in Asia.
Joseph actively participates and contributes to the development of e-Commerce and e-Payment in the community and is an
active member of various renowned associations in Asia. And, he is appointed by HK Trade Development Council as member
of ICT Advisory Committee, and is awarded China Outstanding Innovative Entrepreneur Award.
Joseph’s achievement has been recognized by the society and Joseph was honorable to receive “Asia Pacific
Entrepreneurship Awards 2013 - the Most Promising Entrepreneurship Award”, “EY Entrepreneur of the Year 2014” award
and “Cards & Electronic Payments International (CEPI) Asia Disruptor 2016” Award.
While coloring the future of AsiaPay, Joseph says, “We will continue to expand our footprint in the market to expand our
product and service coverage, as well as new payment solution R&D. We look forward to value adding and empowering
businesses and financial institutions to keep pace with the technology and market disruption by offering comprehensive suite
of payment solutions cross channels, markets and devices and technologies.”
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THE
MOST
ADMIRED
COMPANIES
OF THE YEAR 2016
A ra
Providing a Strategic Advantage to the Enterprises
in Banking & Payments Domain
The technological advancements
in the financial industry are
changing the way people bank
today. This is complicating the
payments systems, as the consumers,
enterprises and banks continue to
demand more efficiency. The new
wave of ‘fin-tech’ (Financial
Technology) firms are emerging in
parallel, innovating new and unique
means for banks to interact with their
customers.
The BFSI (Banking, Financial Services
and Insurance) segment is evolving
more rapidly than it ever has in the
past. The advent of digitization has
fostered a whole host of FinTechs with
lateral ideas and solutions. This has
provided entry for new entrants into
the payments universe, such as Mobile
Network Operators, Trusted Service
Managers and OEM’s such as
Samsung, Apple and Microsoft.
The traditional means of banking are
constantly challenged by new and
efficient technologies, that not only
challenge the legacy, but in some cases
completely disrupt the space. Eg. The
Blockchain technology.
Acknowleding that they are on the
precipice of a pivotal change, Attra
have made large investments into
building Emerging Technologies,
Digital practice and Cyber Security
teams that are challenged with the
singular task of R&D, and innovations.
The teams have been successful in
building the necessary skills in order to
tackle and adequately service the
rapidly evolving banking space. Attra
aspires to stay abreast of the latest
technologies; and continue to pave the
way for its customers, specifically, and
the BFS industry in general. Attra
constantly strives for the ‘Next Best
Practice’, with state-of-the-art global
delivery centers in Bangalore, Pune,
Hyderabad, Melbourne, and Dubai.
Attra has internally reviewed
traditional means of execution and
equipped itself to render services using
an agile approach adopting Dev ops to
enable continuous integration.
Attra, ‘Transforming the
Possibilities into Reality’
Being a multinational IT solutions and
services delivery firm focused on
banking, finance and payments
industry; Attra is transforming the
possibilities into reality through the
various services and solutions offered
by them.
Attra provides a broad range of
IT services including Business Analysis
& Consultancy, Subject Matter
Expertise, Project Management,
Application Development, Portfolio
Migration and Conversion Services,
Product Launch, System Analysis, End
to End Test Management and
Execution, Certification Testing,
Integration and Production Support
Services, Automation and Digital
services covering Mobility, Content
Management and Information
Management.
Over the years, Attra has worked with
leading banking applications in the
areas of Core Financials, Fraud
Management, Transaction Switching,
Card Management and Leasing &
Lending platforms, provided by some
of the major Fintech providers.
The competition in the industry has
become as tough as it can be. In this
cut-throat competition, Attra is proving
its mettle through high end services
and solutions offering. For Attra, the
top driving differentiators are:
• Industry Relevant Services with
specific emphasis on “domain” focus
• Ability to provide a full-range of
services within the niche domain
(cards, core banking, switching, data
warehousing, analytics, automation
etc.)
• Information security through their
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“We emphasize on “What
matters to the Customer”;
which enables us to develop
deep relationships with CEOs,
CIOs and Programme
Directors in leading global
nancial services
organizations”
enterprise-wide PCI DSS V3.1 certified offshore
premises
• Nimble and Agile approach - ability to
respond quickly, sense customer pulse and
urgency, respond with equal fervor while
maintaining focus on quality and information
security, with a mindset to get it right the ‘first
time’.
Anil Gammampila, Passionista behind Attra
A technocrat with an urge to build a company
that would embody his ability to fathom
customer sentiment and his passion for delivery,
Anil Gammampila, Founder, Chairman,
Chief Technologist, Innovator and a leading
Entrepreneur laid the foundational stone of
Attra. Anil built Attra, a multinational
Anil Gammampila
Founder & Chairman
Attra
IT Solutions and Services Delivery Firm headquartered in Melbourne, Australia from the first employee in 1995 to a resource
strength of 1500+ today.
Being a truly global person, Anil was born in Sri Lanka and educated in the UK. He worked in Europe, the subcontinent, the
Middle East and Australasia. Anil is passionate about delivering exceptional client outcomes based on the philosophy
“Nothing Boomerangs On Us”
Elaborating one of the biggest project of Attra, Anil says, “Attra executed a large, complex piece of transformational work for
the largest bank in Thailand. We won this project in the face of stiff global competition and successfully migrated a 6.5
million cards portfolio from one continent to another. We installed a brand new cards platform and surrounding systems such
as fraud and risk prevention systems. This is the kind of work that one normally associates with a large international player.
We have been able to deliver it “First Time Right”. Since then, we have been awarded ongoing support and development
work for this customer. We have helped the customer double their portfolio size over the last five years.”
Future Zenith of Success
Having success in its kitty, and the return of the ‘customer on the top priority’ attitude; Attra 2.0 is eying towards working
with their customers through the sea changes of innovations. This not only includes measured data and consultancy, but also
through end-to -end services rendered through new partnerships.
Anil further adds, “Our go-to-market model is built around strong domain skills, process maturity in its delivery models, and
using Information Security as a key focus. We continue to differentiate by focusing “inch-wide” and “mile-deep”.
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Think Tank
Creativity
formative years of school have taught us that
creativity is a gift that only lucky people are born
with. Well, the good news is that creativity is not a
gift, but a skill that can be learned by the school
kids to the old people and the timing is only better
because in the competitive world today, the creative
juices are welcomed at the every level in the
organizations.
The changing scenario of business climate has made
creativity no longer be limited to artists and
inventors. Every organization needs people at all the
levels who can bring novel ideas to the table. Creative
people who can find new uses for old products, new
methods to close sales, new techniques for increasing
productivity or in short, novel ways to do with very less.
The problem has been there is that most of the people do
not believe that they have any creative ability. Our
“Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has
seen and thinking what nobody has thought,” said
Albert George. Sounds very much easy, right? But,
when we begin to think about all the things we’ve
looked at all our life, we realize how we really
haven’t thought about it in a way we should have.
The reason is we’ve been looking at those things the
same way we always have. Then, how to stop
looking at everything around us in the same manner that we
always have?
Looking at the things in different ways or getting an another
perspective has been a key to innovation. That has a part
answer to the question. The quintessence of creativity is all
about solving problems or satisfying needs give the rest of
the answer. “Necessity is the mother of invention” makes it
very much simple and easy.
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Think Tank
Well, the truth is we are also likely to enter into the league
of creative folks when something annoys us. It’s very much
similar to the squeaky wheel that always gets the oil. Think
about all the work you do, be at home or office or anywhere
else. There is at least one thing we hate still we do and
that’s common for everyone around the world. It’s always
the one we can’t avoid. That means if you hate it, there are
countless who hate it too, which makes your solution a
million dollar idea.
Then the question might strike you is that how you can
think more creatively? The answer is to observe already
established creators and imitate their characteristics. Every
creative thinker has three primary traits. The first and
foremost is the belief he/she is creative. Thinking you are
creative makes you ninety percent creative. And it comes
with the confidence that you’ll come up with the right
answer when the need arises.
The second trait of the innovators is that have fluidity in the
thoughts. They are flexible with their thoughts even when
they don’t have to be. Traditional ways of seeing things are
abandoned from their thinking and they go with the new
thoughts in the direction. In short, they aren’t afraid of
taking risks and breaking the rules. You can try yourself
too. Select any item on your desk and think of an alternative
use of it. Difficult to choose? Let’s take an example of a
paper clip. How many times you have distorted it into a
new solution? Yeah, you were forgotten how creative you
already are. You can select any other item, and you’ll be
surprised with the things you come up with.
Now, select two objects and try to come up with an idea to
make a new product. One definition of the definition of
innovations is the amalgamation of two or more existing
ideas into a new one. In fact, many of the R&D departments
employ people to do just that which just might explain
some of those strange holiday-season gift inventions.
Exposing themselves to new experiences and different
viewpoints is the third and most important trait of creative
thinkers. By opening their minds to new boost, they lay
down new neural pathways in their brains literally by
creating new electrical connections between brain cells and
opening the new channels of the thoughts. It makes them
ready to assist them with the problems whenever they are
confronted.
Creativity is a renewable resource that we can tap into at
any time and yes, it’s a process that can be taught and will
be a way for survival.
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30
ADMIRED
COMPANIES
OF THE YEAR 2016
Citrus Informatics:
Always in the Foreground
of ICT
THE
MOST
In today’s globally competitive
world, a software product
company’s success is based not
only on its ability to come up with
quality products and services, but also
on its ability to take on challenges, be
it in the realm of technology upgrades
or price positioning. This is especially
true since radically changing
technologies and customer
expectations are forcing companies to
create innovative yet cost effective
solutions. It requires skill and creative
thinking to deliver solutions that
catches the customer’s attention.
Using well-defined processes, best
practices and innovative thinking to
achieve the business goals of clients,
Citrus Informatics, an Information &
Communication Technology (ICT)
company is breaking the mould
delivering breakthrough solutions that
leverage emerging technologies.
Citrus Informatics offers product
development as well as custom
software services using cutting-edge
technology at affordable costs. The
processes, methodologies, and tools
that are used as part of the integrated
project management approach result in
better quality solutions. This coupled
with robust frameworks and
components ensures reduced cycle
times, fast product delivery, lower cost
of ownership, better risk mitigation,
faster return on investment and quicker
time to market.
Innovation Enabler of Citrus
Informatics, Sarji Mohammedali
Sarji Mohammedali, founder
and CEO of Citrus Informatics (India)
Pvt. Ltd. has 20 years of diverse
experience of spearheading large IT
Divisions spanning Program & Project
Management, Infrastructure &
Operations Management, People
Management, Research, Product
Development & Engineering,
Technology management, Application
development, Information security and
Quality Management across a broad
spectrum of verticals in the IT industry
in USA and India.
Having started his career as a
lecturer in Computer Engineering at
the Institute of Human Resources
Development for Electronics in Kerala,
Sarji later moved to the IT industry and
worked in various key roles. He
worked at Avenir Inc. and Atinav LLC
in India and USA in the capacity of
Senior Vice President - Technology,
prior to Citrus Informatics. He has also
served as the Head of Projects &
Operations at UCI Technology Private
Limited (Software R&D Division of
Trading Room Technologies, USA).
With a vision to bring about a
radical change to the ICT space, Sarji
founded Citrus Informatics in 2010.
According to Sarji, the primary goal of
any company should be to deliver
quality solutions to its customers.
While talking about the primary aims
of the company, he says, “Delivering
quality solutions always has been the
rule we live by. We never compromise
on quality or cut corners. We pride
ourselves in being able to provide
solutions that will run on its own when
deployed and requires minimum
maintenance”.
Apart from Citrus Informatics
(India) Pvt Ltd, Sarji Mohammedali
decisively serves three different IT
companies in the USA. Since 2010, he
has been serving Netspective
Communications LLC, USA as
Offshore Head; since 2009, as
Offshore in charge of TCTI Inc, USA;
and since 2010, for Alim Foundation, a
USA based Non Profit Islamic
Organization, as Board member and
Senior Technology Consultant. He is
also an IT Advisory to RGB
Broadcasting Equipments Pvt Ltd,
Kerala, India.
Citrus Informatics, Always a Step
Ahead in the Competition
Clearly defined processes,
performance metrics, quality checklists
and standards established through
rigorous process improvement have
taken Citrus Informatics to new
heights. More than twenty five satisfied
customers around the globe (mostly
from USA) have made Citrus
Informatics, a partner of choice, for
innovative solutions that fully meet
requirements in terms of quality,
functionality and affordability.
Sarji adds, “Our team of
competent and qualified professionals
ensures projects big and small conform
to the highest quality standards, meet
their intended purpose, and are
completed on time and within budget.
We use a range of technologies to
provide our clients with the solutions
they need, and ensure greater
consistency, reduced cycle times, lower
cost of ownership, better risk
mitigation and faster return on
investment.”
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“Keeping ourselves up-to-date
with the latest technologies
and market trends allows us to
provide our customers with cost
effective solutions that give
them a competitive edge in the
market place”
“It is not about using cutting edge technologies just for
the sake of using them. It is all about choosing the
technology that best meets the customer requirements in
addition to providing reduced cycle times, lowers the cost of
ownership, gives long term benefits, better risk management
and faster return on investment. We have an ideal mix of
resources, proficient in varied technologies, so that we can
meet the business needs of the customer in a significantly
better way”, said Sarji Mohammedali.
“We always stick to our motto of ‘transparency, integrity
and ethics in all business transactions’. At Citrus Informatics,
customer satisfaction is of prime importance and takes
priority over everything else”, he added.
Sarji Mohammedali
Chief Executive Officer
Citrus Informatics
(India) Pvt. Ltd.
‘Robust, creative and happy employees are the core asset of a successful company’ - says Citrus
The working environment forms the foundation of every company and a constructive working environment is essential to its
growth. Just like the saying “Every drop makes an ocean”, Citrus Informatics believes that the contribution of every
employee is significant. Employees are encouraged to express their ideas. Suggestions and thoughts are valued. These are
discussed and debated openly to finally reach a consensus.
Sarji asserts, “As a family, we at Citrus Informatics strive to achieve an atmosphere of confidence and mutual support,
where every team member confidently contributes to their team and the team leader supports each team member. Ideas and
opinions are appreciated and debating of ideas is encouraged to bring out the finest of ideas.”
Citrus Informatics - a highly reliable organization, says customers
Many of the customers around the world talks highly about Citrus Informatics.
“Citrus Informatics executed the cloud based multi-year development project flawlessly. DSI, Inc. is greatly indebted to
the development work carried out by the Citrus Informatics team on this complex software development system.” - Andrew
Wildman, CFO of DSI.
Citrus Informatics had developed two order and transportation systems for Direct Services, Inc. (DS) a U.S. based
pharma transport company. The systems developed by Citrus informatics allows DSI, Inc. to automatically receive customer
shipping orders from clients and then efficiently route the transportation of temperature sensitive pharma products from
multiple plants by line haul and last mile delivery across the U.S.
“Citrus Informatics was the best team that I have worked with in accomplishing rapid software development for business
applications. Their work was of the highest quality while being able to work from requirements via conferencing calls.” Ross
Dennis, Director of Clearsight-Research, LLC, USA.
Looking into the Future
While striving to provide the best of ICT services to its clients, Citrus Informatics keeps itself abreast of the latest
technologies and trends. “Currently our main focus is on software services. We plan to venture into product development
where we will be coming up with good technology/application products which can solve specific business needs and which
are needed for the global IT market. We need to identify niche areas in which we can have products. By 2018 we aim to
generate at least 40% of our revenue from our products and 60% from software services.”
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30
THE
MOST
ADMIRED
COMPANIES
OF THE YEAR 2016
Crystal Logic :
16+ years • 70+ Team Strength • 700+ Clients
Crystal Logic Pvt. Ltd. is a
Mumbai based company that
designs premium websites,
develops web applications and carries
out online marketing for their clients.
Their field of expertise is in leveraging
cutting edge web technology to
generate high returns for organizations
across various industries. They work
for over 700 clients including some of
the leading corporates in India and
overseas. Crystal Logic Pvt. Ltd. offers
360 degrees internet related solutions
and conceptualizes custom built
solutions based on client demands.
Crystal Logic Pvt. Ltd. is now in its
th
16 year of operation. Over the years
Crystal Logic Pvt. Ltd. has built 550+
websites and 100+ custom apps. They
have also proved themselves to be
quite agile, with unparalleled services
when it comes to online solutions.
Crystal Logic: The Brand to Reckon
with
Crystal Logic Pvt. Ltd. has always
evolved with the times. The company
started at a time when the internet was
just about catching on in India.
Websites and custom built applications
was the forte to start with. By creating
great looking websites they made sure
that they were in-sync with the client's
vision and well aligned with the
ongoing trends in the respective
industries. Crystal Logic’s SEO
division was launched as soon as
Google started gaining popularity. This
made the offerings quite formidable as
now Crystal Logic Pvt. Ltd. was not
only building great web solutions but
also helping clients in marketing
themselves online. The advent of smart
phones saw the launch of their mobile
app division. Today all their solutions
factor mobility as quite a large browser
audience is on hand held devices.
Social Media Marketing is another
avenue through which Crystal Logic
Pvt. Ltd. helps its clients reach out to
their target audiences and generate
great ROI.
Crystal Logic Pvt. Ltd. has diverse
service offerings and it would be
difficult to pick one project as the
‘greatest’. We have built websites for
various large corporate houses. We
have also built various custom
applications including custom ERP
software for one of UK’s largest hot air
ballooning companies which allowed
the various stake holders of the
organization to work and interact
seamlessly. One of India’s largest
travel insurance companies works on a
custom software that we have built.
This software allows the various
employees and agents of the
organization to generate travel policies
seamlessly apart from fulfilling all the
other requisite business functions like
accounts, etc...
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“Making
the web
work for
you”
Leadership: The Source of
Inspiration
Talking about the driving force of the
company, Nikhil Jhalani, being an
avid technology enthusiast since his
childhood has gained over 20 years of
experience with various web
technologies. A Graduate from
Mumbai University; he is well versed
with a passion for problem solving and
automated services, garnered through
the understanding of many generations
of technology and devices.
Manoj Punjabi with his 18 years of
experience in sales and marketing
compiled with excellent people and
networking skills, heads the business
development team for websites and
social media at Crystal Logic.
Manoj Punjabi
Director
Crystal Logic Pvt. Ltd.
For the past 15 years, Crystal Logic’s financial health and wellbeing has been in the safe hands of Girish Sewani who also
heads the marketing team for web and mobile applications at Crystal Logic.
Crystal Logic Pvt. Ltd. is a one stop shop, which means that the client does not need to deal or co-ordinate with multiple
agencies. A common project manager is allocated to each client who assists them with design, development and marketing of
their websites / portals all under one roof.
Future scope: Success lies in Accurate Forecasting
Crystal Logic Pvt. Ltd. has always evolved with the times and will continue to do so in the future as well. The focus has
always been to constantly keep pace with the ever changing technological advancements in the web solutions industry. The
current focus of the organization is towards building smarter and more socially aware websites / applications Hand held
centric features are being constantly experimented and implemented. The company has also moved towards web solutions
that recognize voice and cater to the differently abled in our society.
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THE
MOST
ADMIRED
COMPANIES
OF THE YEAR 2016
DigiStreet:
Kept walking, keep walking.
If the swiftness of the rabbit were
to coalesce with the resilience of
the tortoise in the race to the
finish, the story would have been the
apropos metaphor for DigiStreet.
Somewhere during the year 2013,
while the country was still coming to
grips with the euphoria of startups and
entrepreneurism that was about to
become the centerpiece in the Indian
business model for the years to come,
CEO and Founder: Darpan Sharma
(a veteran-in-the-making of the
advertising industry) set out to explore
the digital domain, hinged on it’s
prospective future and development in
the country. And while the startup
journey has never been without it’s
own set of speed-bumps, it didn’t stop
DigiStreet from pressing the pedal of
diversification, as the organization took
the creative highway on its drive to
become a completely equipped by-thebook
advertising agency. 4 years down
the line, DigiStreet’s formula of
speedy-resilience success seems to be
paying off with a large kitty of the
versatile client desk, including a few
listed under the Fortune 500 banner
(as of December 2016). Surprisingly
unencumbered by the growth scale, the
core team members prefer to keep their
feet on the ground rather than to keep
their head in the clouds; after all the
“startup attitude” is hard to shrug off
for the true entrepreneur!
Going organic in the digital space
While the startup boom in India was
followed closely behind by a platoon
of angel investors in their immaculate
three piece suits, offering candies to
the gullible talent that started sprouting
everywhere, DigiStreet had a very
different agenda on its cards. Instead of
raising money from external sources,
like most startups do, the organization
instead put the focus on developing its
own greenhouse to grow and nurture
talent. Purely organic! Naturally,
hardships had to be endured as growth
was frustrating slow at first, but as has
been the crux of the words spoken
often by Jack Welch and John Kotter;
putting faith in people is more lasting
and rewarding than putting trust in
money.
DigiStreet has a solid digital and online
backbone with its offering ranging
from an industry housekeeping set of
jobs like SEO, Website Development,
Mobile Application to the very
cornerstone of the entire digital
presence and experience: Online
Reputation Management. Kavish
Arora, co-founder and CDO, being
the proverbial Google certified nerd
spearheads the entire digital experience
with his seemingly endless list of
offerings and services when it comes to
anything and everything you see on
social screen nowadays.
Humble and hardworking to the core:
Darpan doesn’t believe in standing
alone on top of the ladder. His opendoor
policy and a strong belief in the
abilities of his team members has
abstained him from the only one taking
the pains and pleasures of the business,
as he has over the time instilled the
sense of ownership within every team
member of DigiStreet. And that was
what saw DigiStreet through its biggest
challenge thus far.
The Big Challenge
While most in the advertisement
fraternity argues that the client throws
the biggest challenges, it was the year
2016 which turned out to be the
biggest challenge for DigiStreet.
Clients fell like flies for DigiStreet at
the beginning of the year and anybody
who knows about agency life, knows
how horrifying that can be.
When the setback in-terms of revenue
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“Whether clients,
team members or
target audience,
advertising is all
about people, and
if you understand
them, then the
possibilities are
endless!”
were at its lowest for DigiStreet,
Darpan made it his sole goal to
cushion his people financially and
buoy their spirits, while at the same
time he encouraged an operational
overhaul of the company’s way of
doing things. Instrumental in this
process was the Creative Head:
Sushant Sharma, who grabbed the
opportunity with both hands and
with his most able and like minded
team to develop concepts before
briefs.
“Develop an idea, and I will find
the client for it” is what Darpan
encouraged Sushant to do. Although
not brothers in blood, but brothers in
the work, they exceeded their own
expectations as they refloated the
seemingly sinking boat of DigiStreet
to convert a dark challenge into a golden opportunity. It almost seems providence, as this fateful year comes to a close, that
DigiStreet has established its presence in Mumbai as well. Again, all organically! Seems like the greenhouse is thriving after
all.
It will always be about the people
Sourav Ghosh (Sr. Visualizer),
Kavish Arora (CDO),
Darpan Sharma (CEO),
Sushant Sharma (Creative Head)
DigiStreet Media
Having bounced back and multiplied substantially, team DigiStreet doesn’t believe the worst times are behind. They keep
themselves sharp and resilient to the fluctuating industry trends and the challenges that come along when one steps into
bigger shoes. While DigiStreet is constantly snaring clients (both local and global) away from the big guns of advertisement
industry, it is practicing experimental diversification into greener pastures of consultation in corporate restructuring and new
business development through the innovative product development. In closing, what has been and what will always be are the
people you rub your shoulders with and as Darpan and his team chimes: “Whether clients, team members or target audience,
advertising is all about people, and if you understand them, then the possibilities are endless!”
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Chalk Talk
A Conducive Environment at Workplace
to Preserve your Best Talent
ecruiting and retaining the right talent is the key to
Rsuccess, but implementing it in business is not
happening with most of the companies. Not every
organization is a Silicon Valley Giant where people get
attracted themselves and organizations do not need to worry
about recruiting right people.
Even if companies succeeds in hiring the best talent, most
organizations fail to create a positive working environment
and thus, leading to loss of the best people. The best thing
about the right talent is that they get recognized at one point
or another, and when it happens they would be at deserved
place in a deserved company. Positive working environment
plays an important role when we distinguish between
satisfied and unsatisfied employees. No employee wants to
work in an environment where he/she would feel detached
or demoralized, unless they are getting paid extremely well,
that too in case of needy people. But most of the time your
money will not attract the right people if you are unable to
provide a positive working environment.
Once you create a positive working environment, the next
step is to recognize and reward the right behavior. Every
employee wants to get admired and that’s no surprise unless
he/she is a saint. The want to get recognized and
appreciated is in the nature of every human being and no
one can disagree with that. The money and benefits will
attract people, but you will need something to keep them in
your company. A successful recognizing program doesn’t
need to be expensive, but to be effective. Companies get an
advantage with such recognizing and incentive programs
over other companies, which lack such programs.
People showing up at the work don’t define the fact that
they are productively engaged. Keeping them involved and
engaged is the next thing companies need to understand.
Right talent doesn’t want to waste a single moment of their
life doing nothing, thus they always want to be occupied
with good work which would not give them a feeling of
wasting time. Having the right policies, to keep them
engaged where they can contribute their ideas for the
betterment of the company is the key here. Best employees
don’t want to feel left out where they cannot be useful to
the company’s growth. However, organizing regular events
to encourage them to open up about their ideas will only
help keep them engaged and involved in the organization.
Never-ending improvement and continuous evaluation is
the concluding step organizations can take into
consideration. The focal purpose of evaluation is to figure
out the progress and find out what satisfies and dissatisfies
your workforce. The process of evaluation includes the
measurement of morale, attitudes, turnover, and the
engagement level of the workforce. When an employee
knows that their work is getting evaluated and improved
with time, they will feel valued and will be in your
organization till you have such culture.
Alast, these are just simple and basic steps and transforming
them into a culture will only help companies retaining best
employees in the organizations.
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Forticode:
Personally Managed Authentication
As the internet gives new
dimensions to people’s lives,
security concerns are on a rise.
From availing banking services
anytime, anyplace to accessing
valuable online content- everything
needs a password. But with this
convenience, there also comes a very
real concern to create a secure method
of proving an identity that cannot be
compromised.
People have fallen out of love with
passwords as a form of identity proof,
as it has become highly cumbersome to
create a strong password that conforms
to policy, and almost impossible to
remember these passwords without
writing them down. But more
importantly, due to the increasing
complexity of passwords, and the
growth of malware based keyloggers,
they have become an easily exploitable
chink for the hackers to attack systems
through.
Password breaches costs companies,
individuals and the economy millions
of dollars every year. Password
hacking extends beyond elite-profile
attacks, as it regularly victimizes small
ventures and personal accounts too.
So, to solve this dilemma, Forticode
have developed world’s first
“Personally Managed Authentication”
platform underpinned by the patented
“OneTiCK” indeterminate ciphering
process. Launched as “Cipherise”, it
provides a simple personally controlled
way to authenticate to a platform or
service using a single, simple
password, while also protecting the
enterprise by not requiring any form of
centrally managed (and exploitable)
credentials.
Innovator’s Innovation
Tony Smales: The back bone of
Forticode’s vision is to make the
internet safe again, by allowing
identity authentication for anyone, at
any location, in any language and
using any device.
Tony Smales, the creator and founder
of Forticode, has a diverse technology
background starting as a game
developer at the age of 15. Having a
keen interest towards technology he
pursued his higher education with a
degree in Computer Science
specialising in Artificial Intelligence,
and then worked across several IT
consulting firms including as the
Development Manager role in a
wireless R&D company. He has also
served as GM and CTO for some
renowned gaming, R&D and
petrochemical companies. Having
more than 30 years of experience, Tony
has proved himself to be a highly
motivated, entrepreneurial and people
focused individual with high levels of
passion dedicated towards delivering
solutions with understanding and
collaboration.
Converting Challenges into Assets
Every start-up during their initial
stages face the financial crunch, so
unsurprisingly Forticode had the
challenge of balancing the continual
process of innovation against the
permanent risk of running out of
money, before their innovation
achieves market traction. However,
rather than being hobbled by this
continual start-up pressure, they made
a key decision to structure their
company for long term success,
creating a formal board to ensure
compliance with good governance, and
funding their business through limited
private share issue processes, with
complementary funding through the
Australian Government’s R&D
concession process.
Cipherise: Revolutionising the
Authentication Process
Cipherise - the world’s only Personally
Managed Authentication platform,
represents the culmination of almost
5 years of development and design.
Underpinned by the patented OneTiCK
indeterminate ciphering process,
Cipherise simplifies the login process
using a single simple password, while
concurrently enforcing ‘invisible’
Multi-Factor authentication to keep
user credentials safe and secure.
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“The
Convenience
You Want, with
the Security
You Need”
Cipherise also supports the requirements of Physical
Access for buildings using the same common
authentication process, while also offering a way to
secure the IoT world where authentication is currently
almost non-existent.
But their greatest simplicity comes from using
Cipherise to securely access a system, application or
service without any form of interaction. Using a
simple QR scanning process, Cipherise completes a
multi-factor authentication process invisibly - once
scanned, and validated; the user is immediately
logged on. This simplicity (with the embedded and
hidden security) is being seen as an ideal solution for
public facing website access, and it is currently being
trialled across several Australian businesses.
Tony Smales
CEO
Forticode Ltd.
Being Unique
Forticode has been described as introducing the only innovation in the field of access management within the last 10 years.
Unlike other companies competing in this space, their focus on user experience as a priority has seen the innovation
developed that is now embodied by the Cipherise platform.
It is important to understand that individuals rarely get hacked directly, and moreover it’s the poor security by their service
providers that leads to personal data being compromised. Cipherise eliminates this latent risk by removing the need of service
providers to ever hold users credential data, and have introduced an idea of using a simple “asymmetric private key-pair”
model to allow a trust ‘assertion’ the be generated through the Cipherise mobile application.
Cipherise is built around the OneTiCK indeterminate ciphering technology, and Forticode have proven that it eliminates all
attack surfaces within the authentication process, making it immune to common exploits such as brute-force, key-logging,
recording, observation, and man-in-the-middle threats. They believe that they are sole contender in the race, having
developed a method to provide protection against all these threats from within a single application, and via a simple and
convenient user experience.
Future Prospects
Forticode wants to “change the way the world authenticates”. Their goal is to make people safe while accessing online
systems, applications and platforms, by removing the threat of being compromised via login process. They believe that their
solution will be adopted across all vertical lines of the industry and that over time, users will become familiar with Cipherise,
ultimately demanding that their service providers implement this new way of logging in.
They are also looking forward to extending the platform to allow security companies to move away from transferable card
swipe systems for building access, and have prototyped some ideas to significantly change the method of offline storage for
data and information.
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Mindlogicx:
Pioneering an Unrivalled Revolution
in Education Technology
THE
MOST
Education in India is a
prominent topic of discussion.
Not just lack of basic facilities
to provide but to deliver advanced
education has been a constant struggle
with the government. With a rapid
evolution in technology, business
enterprises focused on delivering
quality services, are eliminating these
vast differences in education sector.
Education Technology is a rapidly
growing industry in India and
companies are competing to provide
the best affordable technological
solutions to their clients.
In the midst of this revolutionary
period in education sector, Mindlogicx
Infratec has been a beacon shining
bright with its innovative technology in
the domain of “knowledge
Engineering.” The company offers best
of its class technology products and
solutions for knowledge management,
skills enhancement, and e-commerce
framework through an intelligent
socially connecting platform
encompassing all the stake holders,
tightly integrated and interwoven, as
the single largest technology platform
®
known as VEDAS . The innovative
technology enabled platform of the
company, assists the users to access,
store, retrieve and reuse implicit and
explicit knowledge to power their
competency in a knowledge based
ecosystem.
Founded in 2003, Mindlogicx was
established with a vision of taking
technology to the common man.
Mindlogicx specializes in Knowledge
Engineering domain and has rolled out
many products and services in the
virtual learning space to revolutionize
the way education is delivered to the
masses.
Leader with Experience and
Strategic Know-How
Raghav Narayan, Director-sales and
marketing, is a known face among the
academia and has been a sales force of
Mindlogicx. With a diverse track
record of over 25 years in building
brand recognition and sales momentum
across IT Services & Products,
Engineering & Education domains,
Raghav has also handled several
projects promoted by the government.
Raghav’s key strengths lie in strategic
& tactical planning, profit centre
management/ business operations,
sales & marketing, project
management, key account
management, employee motivation &
team building.
He has been instrumental in
spearheading business expansion
strategies of Mindlogicx and establish
a strong sales pipeline to achieve
exponential growth to position the
company as a pioneer and market
leader in this segment.
Unparalleled Services with
Unmatched Results
Mindlogicx is a product development
company that offers end-to-end
solutions in e-governance, e-business,
virtual learning, digital content
management, tele-education system,
enterprise management, business
intelligence, SOA, EAI and IT
consulting.
Mindlogicx has introduced an industry
®
first - VEDAS , an intelligent
assessment system. Under this
platform the company delivers
compelling products and solutions to
the clients in Examination
Management System (EMS),
Knowledge Management System
(KMS), Payment Management System
(PMS) and MindMall (an intelligent
and integrated market place for
powering e-commerce transactions).
Many start-ups and business
enterprises are competing in the Ed
Tech space that focuses on
administration, content creation, tools
and assessment platforms that
complements the entire learning
process across the K12 and Higher
education space. But the major concern
with this practice is that there is no
sorted business model in place, in spite
of investing more than 100 million
dollars in the recent past.
Distinguishing itself from others,
Mindlogicx have developed a very
successful commercial model for
implementing the solution in this space
which is highly scalable and is widely
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“Mindlogicx is more
than a mere technology
development company;
it is a movement to
empower people
with knowledge”
accepted by the industry. The company has been
working tirelessly to create a solid product that caters
to the needs of the industry.
A Unique First in the Industry
Mindlogicx has developed a one of its kind in the
world, technology suite, which has revolutionized the
way examinations are conducted by large government
universities and other examination bodies. The
®
technology suite called IntelliEXAMS , offers
complete automation and management of “paper and
pen” based examinations in diverse settings for large
clients like the universities, state education boards
and recruitment boards. The technology platform
manages the entire phase of examination processes
persistently from registering to result processing.
Raghav Narayan
Director-sales & marketing
Mindlogicx Infratec Ltd
The solution has been successfully deployed and used by many marquee clients in India like University of Mumbai,
Visvesvaraya Technological University, Karnataka, Gujarat Technical University, and Central Board of School Education
(CBSE).
Mindlogicx is delivering seamless services to over 3.5 million users covering over 15 organizations with remarkable
credentials. The company is delivering 26.41 million question papers to over 3.5 million students, with accurate result
processing from 23 network operating centers, from 558 Examination Delivery Centers.
Empowering Common People with Dedication and Innovation
Mindlogicx is a movement to empower people with knowledge, which would enable the creation of a knowledge society
which would in turn propel the national economy through a knowledge based eco system. True to its belief, the company
strives to take knowledge to the desktop of the users, to create a “Youniverse” that empowers the individual to decide his own
future, at his own pace, on his own terms.
The initial challenges faced by Mindlogicx were tackled using innovation oriented approach, in all the spheres of the
business. Be it technology development, operations or deliveries, Innovation has been an imperative focal point for the
company.
Mindlogicx is technology driven and people focused and pride itself through innovations in the Knowledge Engineering
domain. The company is expanding globally and to be at the pinnacle in this domain, they are working on a plethora of ideas
from IoT for the Ed Tech space to Analytics that drives decision making.
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OF THE YEAR 2016
Mithi Software Technologies:
An Innovative Collaboration Technology
Enabler For Enterprises
Whether it is people like us
using smart devices to
communicate with our
friends, or an enterprise relying on
collaboration technology to boost
productivity and solve mission-critical
business problems - technology helps
bring people together and gets things
done faster and with lesser waste.
With this singular focus, Mithi
Software Technologies has been
working continually toward making
technology accessible, useful and
affordable to every enterprise.
Mithi distinguishes itself in providing
Email, Collaboration and Archiving
Software that help substantially lower
operational costs & boost productivity.
Mithi’s innovative software have been
adopted by organizations of all sizes
and spread across many enterprise
segments such as Healthcare, Financial
Services, Education, Government
Organizations, Agro Industries,
IT/ITES, Retail and many more.
Secure, Dependable and Adaptable
Collaboration Solutions
Connect Xf, enterprise collaboration
platform launched in 2005, has been
adopted by some of India’s leading
enterprises. The software has been
delivering high outcomes in very
demanding environments and on high
performance standards for scalability,
security & availability.
However, the experience of the users
varied depending on the kind of
resource available at an enterprise.
With better resourced businesses
experiencing better outcomes. With a
view to delivering a uniform high
outcome across enterprise of any size,
Mithi launched SkyConnect, a Cloud
based Email & Collaboration Service
based on the Connect Xf platform and
served via the AWS Cloud. The service
offers even higher reliability, security,
scalability and performance to
customers.
The key benefit of Mithi’s cloud
service is uniform high performance
regardless of the size of the customer,
with great flexibility in adopting the
solution as per the changing needs of
the enterprise. It’s about making the
best of technology solutions accessible
to every enterprise.
Distinctive Cloud Hybrid
Integration: One of the most
distinguishing features of their
solutions is the ability to connect to
other business systems. It can be
configured to co-exist with other
mailing systems, as an on premisecloud
hybrid and integrated with other
enterprise applications, to drive the
core business workflow. This hybrid
provides a secure and durable platform
which helps customise performance,
security and costs to match the special
needs of an enterprise. The ‘onpremise
plus cloud’ hybrid model is
useful where the last mile internet
connectivity is poor.
Vaultastic, the latest offering by
Mithi, is the easiest and most secure
cloud email archiving solution that
comes with unlimited storage and
provides 99. 99999999999% data
durability. Vaultastic works seamlessly
with G Suite, Office 365, MS
Exchange and other popular email
solutions.
In Vaultastic, email is archived during
transmission and storage and can be
accessed from a read-only self service
portal eliminating the chance of
malicious or accidental deletion of
mail. The benefits to the user is quick
recovery from disaster and even
continuity of work while the core
service is being restored.
Using their Strengths to Overcome
Customer Challenges
Mithi’s strengths in handling message
streams, resource efficient engineering
and UI/UX design capabilities, enables
them to provide better security,
optimised performance, easy
manageability & new applications at
affordable costs.
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“Mithi Software’s
mission is- To make
technology more
accessible, useful and
affordable to every
enterprises”
Cost being a significant barrier in the adoption
of technology, the firm always aims to offer
better cost customisation to meet individual
business needs, without compromise on
performance.
Increasing dependence on collaboration means
that a disruption in service can create greater
loss of productivity. So security and availability
become critical concerns when designing
solutions. Mithi’s solutions come
built in with several security features such as
encryption, scrubbing, password management,
policies etc. to guarantee high levels of
e-mail security.
Tarun Malaviya
Founder & CEO
Mithi Software
Technologies Pvt Ltd
Creating Products to Power the Next-Gen
Collaboration
The company believes that no matter how technology advances and moves in the future, teams will have to keep
collaborating within and with external teams to resolve exceptions, discuss ideas, create plans, execute projects, etc.
Mithi intends to build derivative and lateral products that will help businesses create more dependable, secure and productive
collaboration environments without incurring high costs.
The decision to move to the AWS cloud, meant big investments and a immediate impact on the company’s cost of operation
and margin, but was deemed necessary to deliver high reliability, infinite on demand scale, high performance and a better
overall customer experience.
To remain relevant with the ever changing business and technology landscape, Mithi’s objective is to continue with
improving the convenience, flexibility and performance of their basic platform, while also investing in new generation
collaboration apps that will make the basic task of collaboration easier for people.
A soon to be launched product, the company says, will make it easier to collaborate remotely on many tasks & projects
simultaneously, without losing context over extended periods of time. It promises to get teams to work better while reducing
email traffic between them by as much 80%.
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Spotlight
History has given us every kind of geniuses and we owe to it. It’s
because of them, we are standing at the peak and making their
contribution worthwhile. We are in forever debt of the technology
inventions and improvisation every brain made in the way of helping mankind
reach the silver stage.
But the fact is that when we talk about the admiration of the world changing
people, we have been unfair to them. It has been happening time to time that
the genius people get admired ages later. While few people get admiration in
their areas, remaining don’t. But it's also not only up to the people admiring but
who aim to get admired.
The question ordinary people have been asking to the society is how can we get
admired? Well, the answer lies within us and small changes in behavior can give
tremendous effects. Honesty, hard work, and perseverance are very much important
when one thinks about getting admired. These small changes can turn into an admired
one if you already are not.
Hard Work is the Key
Doesn't matter if you are working for minimum wage or managing a large firm, taking
pride in the work you do is as important as doing work efficiently. It will demonstrate that
how you are competent and capable of doing your part. Going above and beyond in the
workplace can make your image more powerful. Doing work with pleasure will only help
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you get admiration from co-workers or employees.
Speak Your Mind
Speaking your mind out is very much important when you
work in an organization. Standing up to the boss when
he/she is wrong only helps growing confidence. If you think
some things could be improved with your ideas, then it is
best that you let it out. Sucking up to the bosses is not the
ideal thing to do in any business. Your contribution will not
go unnoticed when you speak up.
Respect Do Reciprocates
That’s true. Every person who respects other people gets
admired by everyone at any place. If your employees are
doing well, then appreciating them is the best thing to do.
Giving respect is very much important if you are looking
for admiration. If you can treat others kindly and recognize
their success, then you are worthy of admiration.
Of course, Leaders Don’t Follow
Leaders are the people who are unafraid to do something
novel or strange. Being a leader doesn’t make them
outranking to anyone else. Leadership needs more than
acting and speaking in an influential and inspirational way.
If you are willing to take responsibility when something
needs doing, you are worthy of that admiration.
Integrity is the Solution
Being honest when representing yourself to others and to
yourself makes a person with integrity. If you don’t
compromise on your core values and you stand still by the
things you believe, you are already in the game. When you
maintain your personal integrity by staying true to who you
are, even when it is unpopular or controversial makes you a
perfect fit for admiration.
Positive Attitude
No, a positive attitude doesn’t mean carrying a false feeling
that everything is great all the time. It’s pretty much
unrealistic. Instead, looking for good things in every
situation even if it is a bad patch defines a positive attitude.
Being with a positive attitude will give you confidence,
hope, and the belief that tomorrow will be brighter.
It is said that people look for admiration even when they are
not capable of carrying the weight. Because admiration
comes with a weight one has to carry to maintain his/her
admiration. What one can do is to be prepared for getting
admiration and then also for carrying it throughout.
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MOST
ADMIRED
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OF THE YEAR 2016
Peloton Group:
The Backbone of Innovation and
Business Transformation
Peloton Group (“Peloton”) is a
nationally-recognized leader in
Integrated Cloud Solutions for
Enterprise Performance Management,
Enterprise Resource Planning, and Big
Data-Analytics. Peloton provides
comprehensive guidance and solutions
through its Advisory, Consulting, and
Managed Services. Peloton uses its
deep functional and technical expertise
to assist clients in the Life Sciences,
Retail, Manufacturing, Insurance,
Aerospace and Defense, and Financial
Services industries. Unlike other
industry experts, Peloton’s business
and technology professionals have a
unique, innovative, and collaborative
approach to achieve results.
Peloton Group is committed to
assisting clients to leverage analytics,
drive business transformation, and
achieve optimal performance.
Peloton’s holistic approach drives
business transformation for its clients
by envisioning and delivering
high-value and high-quality practical
solutions from end-to-end.
Specializing in Understanding
Business Transformation
Focused on building a culture based on
an inspired purpose and core values,
Guy Daniello, CEO and Founder,
believes that working with the right
people in the right organization can
help achieve business results faster. For
20 years, Guy Daniello’s specialty has
been understanding that business
transformation is really about change
management - helping people adopt
and adapt to technological change
within a company. The force behind
any successful organization is its
people. “Having a great leadership
team and the right people on board,
helps us foster a culture that supports
innovation and change in others,”
states Guy Daniello.
Culmination of Experience and
Innovative Services
Peloton has been at the forefront in
driving today’s rapidly changing
digitized financial landscape. Long
before the buzzwords like ‘Big Data’
were used, Guy understood that the
ability to analyze data assets within the
larger strategic purposes provides a
unique competitive edge. Speaking
about what distinguishes Peloton from
their competitors, Daniello says, “The
fundamental concept behind Peloton is
helping companies leverage
information to be more efficient and
effective in how they operate and to
perform faster in their respective
marketplaces. We strongly believe that
using a holistic, transformative
approach focused on people, process,
and technology is the key.” Providing
the right enabling technology gives
Peloton clients a highly accurate,
360-degree view of their financial
systems and operations, and helps them
stay ahead of the market and the
competition. The driving force behind
Peloton’s and its client success is its
unique, collaborative implementation
methodology. The standard software
implementation approach tends to keep
a client at arm’s length and results in
minimal solution adoption and
potential rework. Peloton’s
Breakaway methodology reimagines
the standard implementation as a fully
collaborative engagement, requiring
the clients to participate in each stage
of the project from day one to go-live.
The Breakaway Methodology
immerses the client in the proposed
solution using visualization and
simulation techniques early on in the
project life-cycle. Business adoption
modelling sessions merges enabling
technology (software), business logic
(client requirements), and an
environment (platform to host the
software) with stakeholders to drive
consensus and increase learning and
drive adoption throughout the project
lifecycle.
A Learning Organization
“At Peloton, our people are our most
valuable assets. The knowledge,
passion, and dedication that we provide
to our clients is the beating heart of our
business. Our Peloton family is made
up of collaborative individuals who are
continuously striving to provide our
clients with the best service and
solutions for their unique business
needs. Peloton’s culture embodies
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“Our holistic approach
drives business
transformation for our
clients by envisioning and
delivering, high-value
and high-quality,
practical solutions from
end-to-end”
opportunity, innovation, and growth. We have
dedicated our Fridays to knowledge sharing,
collaboration, building relationships, and career
growth. What sets us apart from our competitors is
our investment and confidence in our team members,”
adds Daniello.
Peloton invests in the latest technologies, both
on-premise and in the cloud, to ensure it’s people
have hands-on experience with the latest capabilities
Guy Daniello
of the tools to implement for the clients. The team
CEO & Founder
engages in frequent training, certifications in the
Peloton Group
technology platforms that Peloton supports, as well as
the softer and business process skills have played a
vital role in the company’s unrelenting goal to
provide the best services to its clients. By refining its
advisory and implementation methodologies, Peloton ensures that its experiential learning and development capabilities
remain current with the change in technology and pace of innovation.
“The Greatest Project”
LogMeIn, which provides software as a service and cloud-based connectivity services located in Boston, MA, is a great
example of how the full life-cycle approach, collaborative implementation methodology, and innovative team culminates in
client success. LogMeIn needed a consistent planning and reporting process that could seamlessly integrate with its existing
cloud-based Oracle Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system. Peloton Group partnered with LogMeIn to launch a
clean-slate implementation of a single cloud-based planning and reporting solution, Enterprise Planning Budgeting and Cloud
Services (EPBCS).
Peloton helped LogMeIn to modernize and fully integrate its existing ERP system into a single comprehensive planning and
reporting system, ultimately enhancing its visibility into the end-to-end financial and operational processes of the business.
Peloton implemented EPBCS - with all four business processes; financial statements, workforce planning, capital asset, and
project planning - providing LogMeIn the ability to take a long-range view of its current and future needs. The
transformation resulted in a flexible, scalable, and maintainable system that modernizes the financial forecasting and
reporting needs of their existing and new business.
A promise to Lead the Future
Peloton will continue expanding the breadth and depth of its industry specific teams, across the value chain. Peloton leads the
transition to the cloud and expands regionally to serve their US-based and multi-national clients. As the technology landscape
changes, Peloton aims to continue to lead the pace of change and be the backbone of innovation.
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THE
MOST
ADMIRED
COMPANIES
OF THE YEAR 2016
SAFEXPRESS
Knowledge Leader and Market Leader
In Supply Chain & Logistics Industry
Safexpress began its journey in
1997 with a mission of
delivering logistics excellence to
its customers and ensuring their
success. Today, the firm has firmly
entrenched itself as the ‘Knowledge
Leader’ and ‘Market Leader’ of supply
chain & logistics industry in India.
Safexpress offers a wide range of
innovative supply chain services
including Express Distribution, 3PL
and Consulting. The firm provides
value-added logistics services for
8 different business verticals ranging
from Apparel & Lifestyle, Healthcare,
Hi-Tech, Publishing to Automotive,
Engineering & Electrical Hardware,
FMCG & Consumer Electronics and
Institutional.
The firm adds maximum value to
businesses at every level, right from
providing world-class warehousing
support to ensuring time-definite
deliveries of goods anywhere in India.
Safexpress delivers more than 80
million packages a year, traversing
over 6,00,000 kms a day. The firm has
warehousing space of over 12 million
square feet and is operates 24 hours a
day, 365 days a year. Over 2500
employees have been working for the
company.
EXPRESS DISTRIBUTION
Safexpress offers innovative solutions
which are designed to meet all the
distribution requirements of an
organization, through its fully
integrated surface, air and multimodal
infrastructure. Safexpress covers all
688 districts of India through its
massive distribution network of 620
plus destinations. The company has a
fleet of over 4500 GPS-enabled
vehicles, operating 365 days a year on
more than 1000 defined routes across
the country. The firm delivers in excess
of 80 million packages to over 5000
corporates in India. Safexpress ensures
time-definite and absolutely safe
deliveries to every square inch of the
country.
3PL
Safexpress offers 3PL solutions
ranging from designing, implementing
to operating the complete supply
chains of companies. These solutions
help in reducing costs, streamlining
delivery schedules and enabling
organizations to focus on their core
competencies. The firm has expert
teams capable of addressing an
organization’s complete 3PL needs,
which bring on board rich experience
and best practices from various
industries. The services offered include
inventory management, packaging,
labeling and reverse logistics. The
3PL services are supported by a total
warehousing space of over 12 million
sq. ft. across India.
CONSULTING
Safexpress provides value-added
services beyond physical operations, in
the form of supply chain consulting.
The team of consultants is vastly
experienced and offers global knowhow,
best practices and cutting edge
technology solutions, to make an
organization’s supply chain model
more dynamic. Safexpress creates
strategies which focus on processes &
technologies required to drive growth
and profitability. The consulting
services include planning, strategizing,
network designing as well as end-toend
supply chain implementation.
SAFEAIR
SafeAir is the Air Cargo service of
Safexpress. It offers the fastest and
safest way to deliver goods within the
committed delivery time to any part of
the country. This service meets the
most demanding requirements,
irrespective of the consignment size,
origin or distribution. The service is
backed by the organization’s state-ofthe-art
infrastructure and its massive
distribution network, which covers
every square inch of India. SafeAir
provides extensive air and multimodal
connectivity due to the company’s
association with Air Taxi Operators
such as Jet Airways, IndiGo, Air India
and SpiceJet.
CAMPUS2HOME
Campus2Home is a campus logistics
service which exclusively focuses on
the distribution requirements of college
students. It helps the students to
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“We offer cutting
edge logistics
solutions to our
customers, enabling
them to focus on their
core competencies”
manage their hassles related to baggage movement
during their educational courses. To support students
in packing their belongings, 20 Kg ‘campus2home
boxes’ are provided free of cost. The services offer
door pickup and delivery of the student’s baggage.
Free insurance, packaging and documentation support
are highlights of the service, which is available at a
call, an e-mail or even an SMS.
SAFERETURNS
SafeReturns is a unique service offered by Safexpress
Rubal Jain
which is specially targeted at companies participating
Managing Director
in exhibitions, conferences and seminars. This service
Safexpress Pvt Ltd
enables company delegates to make smooth exits by
ensuring hassle-free returns of their firm’s products
after the exhibition is over. SafeReturns provides
pickups at desired times, i.e., when the event is over and provides door delivery to any place in India. The service is costeffective
with the option of To Pay freight. This service is provided by staff which is well-experienced in handling events.
EASY2MOVE
Easy2Move is an unparalleled solution offered by Safexpress. This service is customized for SMEs having less volume loads
as well as for delivery of personal goods, promotional items, samples, boutique goods, stationery, consumables, gifts, spare
items, etc. The service is ideal for movement of products not having industrial packing. This service offers door pickup and
door delivery of goods. Free 20 Kg ‘Easy2Move boxes’ are provided under the service with a flat rate per box for any
destination. This service is also useful for customers requiring help during relocation of their businesses.
SAINIK EXPRESS
Safexpress honors the defense personnel and their families by offering special delivery services for their baggage. The nature
of these defense personnel’s job demands a lot of traveling and carrying heavy baggage, which is an arduous task. Safexpress
provides the military personnel with free door pickup and door delivery of baggage anywhere in India. While these soldiers
take care of our nation’s safety, Safexpress takes care that their baggages are delivered in a cost-effective manner and safely.
Safexpress does this by giving them special prices, easy payment options and inbuilt risk coverage.
STOCK2SHELF
Stock2Shelf enables multi-brand retail stores and shopping malls to function seamlessly throughout the year. This service
ensures time-definite delivery, with the help of a professionally trained crew that manages stocks along with the necessary
documentation required to enter the malls. Stock2Shelf offers comprehensive mall supply chain services, including the
movement of retail and lifestyle goods, inspection, estimation, professional packaging, security clearance, storage, destination
delivery, unpacking, reassembling goods and reverse logistics.
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THE
MOST
ADMIRED
COMPANIES
OF THE YEAR 2016
SyncDog:
Leading the Way towards a Secured Future
yncDog is the leading
Sindependent software vendor
(ISV) company, building secure
infrastructure frameworks that protect
enterprise networks from cyber breach
and from mobile computing sources.
With a goal of revolutionizing how
mobile security products and services
are sold, SyncDog is making its way to
new heights.
SentinelSecureTM is SyncDog’s
flagship enterprise mobility security
product. This containerized mobile
workspace allows organizations to
control and manage how employees
exchange relevant, time-critical
information back and forth between
their devices and the organizations’
secure networks. This containerized
mobile security partition protects
mobile apps and organizational data by
employing FIPS 140-2 certified (NIST
cert. #2687), AES 256-bit encryption
with a simple software-based
deployment.
The SentinelSecureTM container
comes with a full suite of mobileenabled
productivity applications,
including SharePoint, Enterprise Chat,
Geo-location Services, DropBox, a
Personal Information Management
(PIM) suite, Office Suite, Office 365,
Secure Mobile App Management &
Development, File Sync, and many
more. Also, SyncDog’s industryspecific
version builds are now
available for Healthcare and U.S.
Government Department of Defense
workflow requirements.
Expert in Enterprise Security
Solutions
Jonas Gyllensvaan, Founder of
SyncDog has more than 20 years of
experience in mobile IT solution
development and software business
development. Jonas is a serial
entrepreneur, having founded three
successful startups and is currently on
the board of advisers for several others.
Jonas has also designed, developed,
and implemented technology projects
for government agencies and
commercial enterprises in more than a
dozen countries, over the past 20 years.
Most of the time, Jonas is visiting
customers and travelling to leading
industry conferences, learning about
the clients and marketplace needs. He
then uses this knowledge to build
solutions with a focus on technology
architecture, product design, and
business management. Across his 20-
year career in the mobile IT industry,
Jonas has an established track record of
leading-edge product development,
building profitable companies while
forging beneficial business partnerships
with clients.
Distinguishing itself from the Crowd
SyncDog SentinelSecureTM is the
best-in-class mobile container
available from any ISV in the market
today, securing enterprise data at rest
within a FIPS 140-2 certified
application workspace, data in transit
using AES 256-bit encryption, and
supports a full suite of mobile-enabled
productivity applications.
Additionally, SentinelSecureTM can be
deployed as a standalone EMM or as a
complementary layer of security for
existing EMM/MDM investments, and
to accommodate for a host of specific
customer requirements, SyncDog
maintains flexible pricing options.
SyncDog SentinelSecureTM can be
found in the MobileIron Application
Marketplace, has certified integration
with MobileIron, Snow Software, and
Good Technology EMMs, and holds
field integrations with other leading
EMMs.
SyncDog’s military-grade application,
“Wrapper” restores mobile
productivity and functionality while
making CXOs believe that enterprise
networks are protected from the cyberrisk
intrinsic in unsecured mobile
endpoints.
Growing and Developing with
Astronomical Strides
The team always follows a philosophy
of never becoming complacent or
comfortable in their work and adapting
themselves with changing security
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“Keeping our ears to
the ground and
responding quickly to
evolving marketplace
needs has been the
foundation of
SyncDog’s success”
concerns, customer requirements, and
compliance considerations, in order to develop
the most relevant and secure solution. SyncDog
believes in prioritizing the ability of the team
and flexibility in their products while keeping a
finger on the pulse of changing marketplace
trends and opportunities. For instance, in
addition to already being iOS 10 ready,
SyncDog currently offers a secure framework
for IoT connectivity- growing concern in the
enterprise mobile security community.
Jonas Gyllensvaan
“This lean approach to product development
Founder & CEO
and services gives our customers the confidence
SyncDog, Inc.
that they’re investing not only in our products,
but in the longevity and attentiveness of our
solutions offerings and services. We don’t
intend to get snatched up by a large vendor and force our customers into the all too common decision of “assimilate-or-startover”
with their mobile security strategy,” asserts Gyllensvaan.
Government intelligence, IP, and communications are essential to the nation’s security and thus, Gyllensvaan and the team
have been meeting with officials at the Department of Defense (DoD) over the last year in order to develop a version build on
SentinelSecureTM that communicates directly with the requirements of federal workers, whether they’re using mobile
devices to access network data in abroad, or even on the battlefield in hostile territory. Additionally, this year also included
SyncDog’s achievement of FIPS 140-2 certification (certificate #2687) from NIST, which has given even more credibility to
the high security standard to which the firm adhere to in all of their solutions.
Painting a Picture of Success for Future
SyncDog anticipates high business growth over the next several years in both direct and partner channels. They have been
steadily adding sales, marketing, and development infrastructure to support their growth strategy. SyncDog will continue to
broaden SentinelSecure’s customer base by adding EMM, MDM, and MAM partnerships. Also, they will continue to be a
complementary offering to enterprises that need greater security, but still want to leverage existing IT investments.
Additionally, SyncDog is adding functionality to SentinelSecureTM in the coming months to provide more context-capable
deployment of end-user policy management per organization. Geo-location and Geo-fencing via GPS data and time-sensitive
policy enforcement are the couple of new things SyncDog has in store for the clients.
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30
ADMIRED
COMPANIES
OF THE YEAR 2016
Touchless Biometric Systems:
Biometric Solution leading
the way
THE
MOST
Innovation is a beautiful art,
between the overwhelming
excitement of pushing new
technical boundaries, and the
obligation of providing solid tested
products to the customers.
No innovations can be carried out
without challenges, but what matters
for the innovative companies is to
stand by their customers generously
and thoroughly through the process
and deliver beyond expectations.
Touchless Biometric Systems is one
such innovative company which has
shown extreme agility and has
successfully emerged as one of the
most innovative companies in
biometrics. Inventing and committing
has always been the bedrock of TBS’
creative ideas in a conservative
industry, while eventually providing
solid and highly reliable solutions
trusted to secure palaces and nuclear
plants.
TBS, No Less
TBS is a biometric one-stop-shop for
all major security organizations,
providing innovative solutions for
access control (security) and
attendance (productivity). TBS offers
complete biometric solutions to
government, multinationals, small
enterprises, institutional organisations
or residential buildings for security.
Operating since 2009, TBS
manufactures its quality hardware in
Switzerland, and complements it with a
disruptive software platform, which
has now integrated with almost every
major global security company that
includes Honeywell, Siemens, Johnson
Controls, Kaba, Lenel, Nedap, Allegion
and more.
TBS was the first in the biometric
industry to use web services and also
brought design to biometrics, with a
range that was distinguished by the
Red Dot design award. Their disruptive
software approach was a great success
and since has been followed by others.
TBS is best known for its first
Touchless biometric reader in the
world that scans fingerprints in 3D.
Even after 6 years, the 3D (currently in
its second generation) is still the most
secure, tolerant and accurate reader
based on the information of a single
finger.
The team which drives Company’s
Success
Alex Zarrabi, Chief Executive
Officer, TBS has over 15 years of
experience in the technology field.
Alex has a wealth of knowledge from
his background working within Europe
and the Middle East. Prior to TBS,
Alex was CEO, Alpine
DMCC/Switzerland and General
Manager, IndigoVision Middle East.
He studied mathematics and graduated
from the Swiss Institute of Technology
- EPFL and other institutions with
mobile phone, satellites and network
engineering specialities.
At TBS, he is closely relying on a team
of experienced leaders comprising:
Daniel Kohler (Chairman), Torsten
Meister (CTO), Philippe Niederhauser
(Head of Sales & Marketing), as well
as a strong R&D and support team.
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“The urge for
excellence is
reected in not
only our products,
but also in the
service-culture”
Since the creation of the company till the current
management team, TBS’ DNA has always been a
vibrant teamwork.
Unique fingerprint technology changing the
business
3D fingerprint technology, the company’s flagship
product is extraordinary. Due to increased image
quality, more fingerprint details can be captured and
greater recognition capabilities can be achieved. This
is also aided by differentiating between the most
difficult fingerprints and identification in very large
databases with up to 10,000 users. The technology
also works under harsh conditions such as those on a
construction site.
Alex Zarrabi
Chief Executive Officer
Touchless Biometric
Systems
Also, TBS is also the only company to bring under one roof all 3 fingerprint technologies (2D fingerprint, 2D+ multispectral
dermascan and 3D Touchless fingerscan). This is also a major value differentiator for TBS, since it has every option at the
disposal of end-users, and does not “sell”, but “advises” its customers.
TBS does not follow the usual strategy of selling through “as many channels as possible”, but sells through very few
companies, and declines daily requests for partnership. “The reason is that we want to extend our teamwork spirit to our
partners. We know, meet and train them, and try to make sure that they deliver our products to the customer’s entire
satisfaction. We also try to meet our end-users as often as possible. So even in the event something needs to be attended, we
can intervene and solve the concern, because we know every customer case individually. A TBS solution simply works.
Thanks to its different approach, TBS has created a reputation of utter “peace of mind”, asserts Alex.
Growing and Developing with Stride and Pride
TBS’ success has grown quickly from Europe to the Middle East, despite the fact that it is a young company, and now
looking forward to further expanding its operations and presence in Asia, US and Africa. However, the growth has always
supported many ideas, enhancing their platform along the journey.
TBS thinks that a new step forward will be achieved thanks to some upcoming innovations: 3D Face, advanced Iris, Heavy
Duty and portable biometric. The company believes that 2017 should confirm TBS’ position as the No 1 innovation provider
in the biometrics world.
“There are great competitors out there, whom we respect and who help keeping us on our toes. I’m biased obviously, but
I truly believe that TBS will be progressively recognised for building the most versatile and robust set of technologies from
any manufacturer in the world. Our wish is to create more value for customers and play increasingly the role of advisor,
benchmark and authority in biometrics”, concludes Alex.
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