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Mindtree, a leading digital transformation and technology services company, today announced it has been named a Top 10 Outsourcing Service Provider in USA and EMEA by Information Services Group [ISG], a leading technology insights, market intelligence & advisory services company.

Mindtree was among the leading providers in the Breakthrough 10 category for both the regions based on Annual Contract Value [ACV] won over the last 12 months, according to the ISG Global Outsourcing Index. Now in its 51st consecutive quarter, the ISG Outsourcing Index provides an independent quarterly review of the latest sourcing industry data and trends for enterprises, service providers, analysts & the media.

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Krishnakumar Natarajan, CEO and MD, Mindtree, said

Being named in the top 10 Outsourcing providers by ISG in the US and EMEA reflects our expertise in leading digital transformation efforts for clients globally. Our Digital DNA helps us create remarkable customer experiences across the value-chain, enabling our clients to outperform its competition and stay ahead of the industry.

Paul Reynolds, chief research officer of ISG said

Mindtree continues to establish itself as a leading and growing player in the global market for technology services, based on its volume of business in relation to other industry providers. This is the second consecutive time Mindtree has been featured in one of our top provider lists in 2015.

For more than a decade, the ISG Outsourcing Index has been the authoritative source for marketplace intelligence related to outsourcing transaction structures and terms, industry adoption, geographic prevalence and service provider performance.  Mindtree’s inclusion in the ISG Outsourcing Index is based on data the company submits to ISG each quarter.

About Information Services Group

Information Services Group is a leading technology insights, market intelligence and advisory services company, serving more than 500 clients around the world to help them achieve operational excellence. ISG supports private and public sector organizations to transform and optimize their operational environments through research, bench-marking, consulting & managed services, with a focus on information technology, business process transformation, program management services and enterprise resource planning. For additional information, visit ISG One

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Arcserve, a leading provider of data protection and recovery software today announced that it aims to expand its presence in Indian market rapidly with its industry first Unified Data Protection [UDP] solution which has been adopted by about 10,000 worldwide customers since the launch in May 2014.

Arcserve India is headquartered in Bangalore with sales representatives across Delhi, Mumbai and Chennai; its India Development Center is located in Hyderabad. The company achieved double-digit growth in India over the last fiscal year, post spinning out of CA Technologies.

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With an experienced team, an exclusive channel network and award-winning solutions, Arcserve plans to expand into new verticals including manufacturing, BFSI and IT/ITES to increase its foothold across India & SAARC region.

Commenting on this development, Ganesh Kuppuswamy, director for India & SAARC at Arcserve said

India is a key growth market for Arcserve in Asia Pacific and we are going to invest heavily in this market by increasing headcounts, recruiting more partners and growing the market share in the next 12 months.

According to NASSCOM, Indian SMB market will grow by 15 percent annually; which will propel the IT spending in the sector to over $18.5 billion by 2018. It says the Indian SMBs are rapidly innovating and adopting technology solutions to enhance competitiveness in the global and domestic business environment.

The results from a recent survey commissioned by Arcserve indicated that APAC market including India is slightly slower in adopting newer data protection technologies and practices that are being adopted in Europe and North America.

Over a third (35%) of the APAC respondents are holding onto their investment in tape as a primary target for backup, while 51 percent are using disk based data protection. Cloud as a primary means of backup is still not gaining traction at the business level with only four percent of the respondents using Cloud as the backup target.

Commenting on the survey, Ganesh Kuppuswamy added

From the survey results we can see that there is still a requirement for some of the ‘older’ backup technologies to be supported into the future. Tape continues to have relevance in the backup space and we suspect this will continue for a long time to come.

The survey also reveals that the backup software market is becoming more fragmented than ever before with no one dominant player. And over half of the respondents expressed willingness to change data protection solutions in the near future.

It’s clear that the data protection market in APAC is in a state of transition driven by business requirements and new technologies. We are glad to see that change is already underway and to some point a tipping point has been reached. This is a perfect opportunity for Arcserve to disrupt the market with newer technologies and better solutions.

In addition to team expansion, Arcserve has launched a new Arcserve Partner Program in July which offers a rewarding framework that channel partners can easily use to build and scale a successful data protection solution and services that customers will value. 

About Arcserve

Arcserve is a leading provider of data protection and recovery software that provides organizations with the assurance that they can recover their data and applications when needed. Founded in 1990, Arcserve provides a comprehensive solution for virtual and physical environments, on premise or in the cloud, backed by unsurpassed support and expertise. The new unified architecture, Arcserve Unified Data Protection [UDP], drives a full range of highly efficient and integrated data protection capabilities through a simple, web-based user console. Arcserve has an active customer base of 43,000 end users in more than 50 countries. The company partners with over 7,500 distributors, re-sellers and service providers around the world. Arcserve is headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota with offices around the world. Please visit Arcserve & Arcserve blog for more information.

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Taking forward NASSCOM Gaming Forum’s drive to showcase the Indian talent in video game content, NASSCOM will be sending a delegation of India’s premier independent studios to Casual Connect USA 2015 that will be taking place in San Francisco from August 11th – 13th.

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Rajesh Rao, Chairman of NASSCOM Gaming Forum stated

We are incredibly excited to be sending some of the best games development talent from India to Casual Connect USA 2015 in San Francisco. Both the IDEA showcase and the indie delegation, will offer our developers the opportunity to network and make new relationships, as they present their properties at the conference.

The delegation will consist of two sets

The first delegation will feature five Premium IDEA Showcases from studios including mobile & IP development leader [x]cube GAMES, mobile studio June Software, indie start-up All in a Day’s Play that is specializing in Trivia, Arcade & Simulation genres and mobile start-up’s Roosh and Playblazer.

The second set will feature Indian indie developers including VR Playing Games, Dastan Games, Underdog Studios, Ether Games & Seven Summits Studio, who were shortlisted by the Casual Connect Indie Prize Jury. Other Indies who are part of the delegation showcasing their games at the conference include Apar Games, Boink Games, Ogre Head Studios, Xigma Games and Zabuza Labs.

About NASSCOM

NASSCOM is the premier trade body and the chamber of commerce of the IT-BPM industry in India. NASSCOM is a global trade body with more than 1800 members, which includes both Indian and multinational companies that have a presence in India. NASSCOM’s member and associate member companies are broadly in the business of software development, software services, software products, consulting services, BPM, e-commerce and web services, engineering services and animation and gaming. NASSCOM’s membership base constitutes over 95% of the industry revenues in India and employs about 3.5 million professionals.

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GVK MIAL [Mumbai International Airport Pvt. Ltd.] & Vistara have announced the launch of mobile phone boarding pass facility for Vistara’s customers travelling out of Mumbai’s T2 terminal to New Delhi, Bangalore, Ahmedabad and Goa. The first of its kind initiative by Mumbai Airport, helps provide Vistara’s customers a truly seamless travel experience.

The mobile boarding pass facility is also a time-saver for passengers and result in reduction in usage of paper boarding passes.  Overall, the mobile phone boarding pass facility will lead to another ‘Experience Simplicity’ feature while travelling through Mumbai Airport by Vistara.

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Vistara’s customers making use of this facility for their travel from Mumbai T2 will only need to choose ‘Get Mobile boarding pass/ Collect by SMS’ option when checking-in online or on our mobile app.  The SMS from Vistara will contain the booking details and the link to access the mobile boarding pass.

Customers are encouraged to take a screenshot of the mobile boarding pass, which is readable by the technologically advanced machines installed by Mumbai T2’s domestic departure level. Paper boarding passes are not required however customers would need to carry authorized photo ID as proof of identity.

Expressing his pleasure on yet another passenger-focused and eco-friendly endeavor of MIAL, CEO Mr. Rajeev Jain said

Mobile devices assume center stage of consumer convenience in the modern day ecosystem. Technology enabled innovation has become the trigger for differentiation and MIAL has consistently pioneered to introduce passenger-focused innovations. With the launch of mobile phone boarding pass facility, we believe the passengers travelling through Vistara out of T2 terminal will experience another hassle free feature and eventually the initiative will further enhance the overall airport ravel experience in India.

Sharing his enthusiasm on the new offering, Mr. Phee Teik Yeoh, CEO, Vistara said

We continually look for ways to enhance our customers’ travel experience by harnessing the power of technology and offering operational and service excellence. I am proud to see our promise of seamless travel experience being reaffirmed with this initiative of providing our customers with the mobile boarding pass option. We are extremely pleased to partner with MIAL and we look forward to offering these capabilities across our existing and upcoming route network.

About Mobile Boarding Pass

The mobile boarding pass is an electronic boarding pass displayed on a mobile device which displays flight and customer information required to board your flight.

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Simplilearn, the largest destination for online training and professional certification courses, announces the launch of 45 new training courses in design and multimedia.  With the entry into a new domain, Simplilearn provides training in design and multimedia through short term online self-learning modules to aspiring professionals and students who wish to gain thorough expertise in creative graphics, animations and rich multimedia content and progress in their careers.

By enabling professionals to upgrade themselves with the latest industry skills, Simplilearn is scaling towards being the go-to career partner for professionals across industries.

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The new courses are priced from INR 1999 and help individuals enhance their skills and stay ahead in the highly competitive creative industry. Learners will benefit from over 340 hours of high quality e-learning content, downloadable work files and course completion certificates.

Commenting on the launch of the new courses, Ankur Arora, Category Head at Simplilearn said

The digital phenomenon has catapulted graphic design and multimedia to a whole new level; the result of which can be seen in gaming, education, marketing, telecommunications, advertising, print and electronic industries.Creative Industries contribute 4.7 Million jobs to the US economy alone. It is essential for creative professionals to be skilled with latest software and technologies in the rapidly changing creative market.

The design and multimedia certification training from Simplilearn emphasizes on design and creative liberty while providing intensive technical training that will enable professionals to become the ‘go-to expert’ in their domains.

Professionals can choose from an array of software training that includes Aperture 3, select Adobe Premiere CC, Lightroom 5, Autodesk 3ds Max 2013, Maya 2013, Sony Vegas PRO 12, Maxon Cinema 4D & Avid Media Composer 6 to name a few.  Aspiring graphic designers, animators, photo, video editors and anyone who is looking to build a creative career can benefit from these online training’s.

About Simplilearn

Simplilearn is a leading provider of certification courses that addresses the unique learning needs of working professionals. Having trained over 4,00,000 professionals worldwide,  Simplilearn provides unmatched customer experience, which handholds a customer – right from enrolling into an online course to getting Industry-recognized certificate in hand. Simplilearn has also diversified into vendor certification like those from Microsoft, Cisco, and Salesforce. For more information, visit www.simplilearn.com 

 

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E-Billing Solutions Pvt. Ltd [EBS], a leading pan-India online payment aggregator, has achieved a significant penetration into the education segment. Over the last 2 years, EBS has doubled the number of education institutes in its portfolio with almost 6 times surge in the number of transactions and around 150% increase in payment volume through its payment gateway in the same period.

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This remarkable achievement is a result of EBS’s unparalleled pioneering approach that provides a technical platform between online sellers & service providers [merchants] and banks via a secure payment gateway solution.

Serving over 11,000 merchants presently, EBS is one of the most trusted names in the payment aggregation industry. It has been providing online payment solutions to merchants since 2005, and was the first Indian online payment aggregator to achieve the PCI DSS compliance. This, along with ISO 27001- 2013 standard certification, has been instrumental in cementing its position as one of the most secure online service providers in India.

Speaking on the achievement, Bhavin Mody, Director, E-Billing Solutions Pvt. Ltd, said

EBS was launched with an aim to provide a secure and robust interface between merchants and banks. Completing a significant penetration into the education segment while empanelling leading education & learning institutions such as Bharati Vidyapeeth, ISM Dhanbad, and Shankar Mahadevan Academy demonstrates the trust online merchants have in our services. With our reputation for seamless transaction processing, we are expecting acquisition of larger accounts in our ever-growing merchant base.

Offering one of the widest range of payment options available in India, EBS is continuously expanding its network to successfully cater to the ever-increasing tech savvy population.

About E-Billing Solutions Private Limited

E-Billing Solutions [EBS] established in the year 2005 is head quartered in Mumbai. It pioneers in providing a technical interface/ platform between merchants and banks by providing software that connects a merchant’s website to multiple participating banks. It facilitates online purchases from a merchant’s website and helps them to collect payment from the end customers through net banking, credit and debit cards. It is an intermediary that assembles the online payment options offered by various banks, cash card brands and many other payment processors onto a single platform in the context of the merchant website.

In the year 2011, EBS was acquired by Europe’s leading payment service provider OGONE, thus enabling European vendors’ access to the Indian market and adding capabilities to the EBS portfolio. EBS is the first Indian merchant account provider to achieve the PCI DSS 3.0 Standards of Compliance. For more information, please visit EBS

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Target India announced the third batch of the Target Accelerator Program [TAP]. Five startups, Findmeashoe, TimeFlex, BugClipper, Discover Dollar & House of Blue Beans will be developing disruptive ideas that are relevant to the retail industry.

The four-month immersive program will focus on themes such as Merchandising, Digital Marketing, Omni-channel, Mobile, Supply Chain & Analytics Technology along with areas like Finance & DevOps that are core to retail technology.

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The program has evolved to strengthen the innovation capabilities at Target – the latest batch includes three internal teams in addition to the five external start-ups. The initiative will provide team members a platform to test and learn faster. For the start-ups, this presents a chance to understand how Target is transforming to better meet the needs of our guests.

Speaking about TAP, Navneet Kapoor, president and managing director, Target India said

Engaging with the start-up ecosystem provides access to innovative ideas and a newer talent pool that helps us advance our innovation journey. We are excited that the scope of the Target Accelerator Program has been extended to include three internal teams in addition to the five startups. This evolution in scope reflects the breadth of ideas being explored within the organization and externally. Our teams and the startups have a great opportunity to develop their ideas and co-learn through this initiative.

Five Startups selected for the TAP are below:

  1. Findmeashoe helps find the right footwear through virtual shopping
  2. TimeFlex provides cloud based monitoring for micro environments
  3. BugClipper reports bugs and share feedback through screenshots and screen recordings
  4. House of blue beans provides best-in class 3D product visualizations
  5. Discover Dollar’s revolutionary technology stops leakages and over-payments

The internal ideas include applications for curated sales suggestions and DevOps related solutions:

  1. XL-O-Rest provides automated testing suite for restful APIs
  2. ZeroToOne provides a DevOps platform for product engineering
  3. Sales Suggest helps curate sales suggestions for team members during in-store guest interactions

Target extensively reviewed several start-up applications and conducted a competitive evaluation internally to finalize the third batch. This program will run out of a specially designed energetic and creative hub at Target India’s office in Manyata Tech Park, Bengaluru. The teams will have access to a pool of industry’s best mentors and retail insights from Target leaders.

About Target Corporation India

As an extension of our headquarters, Target India operates as a fully integrated part of our global team. Target India’s more than 2,300 team members are engaged in work that supports Target’s global strategy across business areas such as technology, marketing, human resources, finance, merchandising, supply chain, property development, analytics and reporting.

Target cares about and invests in the career development of more than 347,000 team members worldwide and the communities where they live and work. Target’s International Giving Program focuses on creating accessible, quality educational opportunities for children and youth in many of the countries where Target has offices, including India.

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WizIQ, one of the world’s largest cloud based education platforms, added another feather to its growing cap of accolades at the South Asia Education Summit 2015. WizIQ was recognized for its valuable contribution in the e-learning sector in the “Virtual Classroom Provider” category.

The annual awards, held to felicitate education innovations in South Asian countries of India, Pakistan, Nepal, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Maldives and Sri Lanka, also saw keynote speakers from across various industry verticals attend the event.

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Established in 2007 and head-quartered in Chandigarh, WizIQ is a cloud-based platform that enables learning service providers and enterprises to build their own online academy. By providing advanced technologies such as a virtual classroom, video streaming, and online assessments, WizIQ empowers them to deliver and monetize self-paced and live instructor-led learning services to increase learner engagement, improve instructor effectiveness and reach new markets.

Speaking about the achievement, Maneesh Sharma, Chief Revenue Officer, WizIQ, said

The WizIQ virtual classroom extends learning beyond the physical classroom, providing educators with opportunities to create and utilize real-time, direct connections to students. With the ability to enhance live-course convenience, collaboration and engagement, now also through mobile delivery, educators at K-12 schools, universities and in corporate learning centers can deliver live, interactive classes, without compromising the learning experience.

Virtual Classroom’s software supports up to 2,000 students, who can take an online class at the same time. More than 400,000 educators worldwide have taught classes on WizIQ to more than 4 million students.

Some of the WizIQ’s celebrated customers in India include Aakash Institute, Meritnation, Bayju’s Classes, Studentnest and TCY Online.

WizIQ has been felicitated with many noteworthy awards in recognition of its stellar contribution to the e-learning space, such as “Best Virtual Classroom Provider” for two consecutive years [2012/13] at the World Education Congress’ Global e-Learning Awards, 2013 Shiksha Ratna Award for “Best Virtual Classroom”, the Public Choice Award for “Best Innovation in Open and Distance Learning” at the 2011 World Education Awards & the “Best Education Webinar Series” Jury Award at the 2012 Indian Education Congress.

About WizIQ

Founded in 2007, WizIQ is one of the world’s largest cloud based education platforms. Over 400,000 educators have leveraged WizIQ to deliver learning services to 4 Million+ learners across 200 countries. WizIQ’s award winning Virtual Classroom solution that enables online delivery of live instructor-led learning, has received acclaim from education service providers from around the world.

The WizIQ Online Academy Builder represents an evolutionary leap in education technology by empowering education service providers to set up their own customized academies within minutes. Online Academy Builder is designed to increase learner engagement through cutting-edge features, such as mobile learning, video streaming, live online classroom, discussion boards, assessments, insights and analytics. The in-built e-commerce capability enables them to monetize their services and rapidly expand their reach to newer markets.

WizIQ is backed by Bertelsmann SE & Co., which runs Random House and Kaizen, a private equity fund focused on the education sector. For more information, please visit WizIQ

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