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Bill Gates praises Andhra for using tech to help farmers

PM Modi is beacon of democracy: Ivanka Trump

“Andhra Pradesh is taking bold steps. I expect we will be accelerating it (technology usage). More than half of India’s population in engaged in agricul-ture, and three-fourths of rural women are engaged in agriculture. Apart from gender equality, research has shown that having more women also increases production by 20 to 30 percent,” Gates said at the valedictory session of the AP AgTech Summit-2017. Gates also noted that the growth in economy will not only lead to a higher Gross Domestic Product (GDP), but also lift people out of poverty.“First, we can turn the largest economic sector in the country into a source of growth instead of a drag on the economy. Secondly, we can make sure that growth is inclusive and that it not only leads to a higher GDP but also lifts people out of poverty. Third, we can produce enough nutritious food to

Ivanka Trump, daughter and adviser to US President Donald Trump, visited Hyderabad for the annual Global Entrepreneurship Summit co-hosted by India and the US. For the first time, the GES was held in South Asia. The three-day summit was held from November 28-30 at the Hyderabad International Convention Centre (HICC) and Hyderabad Interna-tional Trade Expositions (Hitex). Ms Trump is leading a delegation of senior White House officials as well as American entrepreneurs.

spurt a healthy and well educated labor force for the future, when the Indian economy will depend even more on highly skilled workers,” he added.Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu was also present in the summit.Naidu requested help from Bill and Melinda Founda-tion in agriculture, nutrition and health. Gates fur-ther said, “Two examples that I am very impressed with; one is the Mega Seed Park, which really is the first of its kind and it will make available lots of high quality seeds and coupled with that is the new EC distribution application, D Krishi, which will help farmers access quality seeds in a timely manner and ensure that the government’s resources are being widely used. These are the kind of innovations that will help achieve the Chief Minister’s goal of sus-tained double digit economic growth in Andhra

Pradesh over the next decade.”Gates, landed in Visakhapatnam and visited the exhibition stalls in the summit along with Andhra Pradesh chief minister.The summit focused on innovative ideas, technol-ogies and global best practices to push agricultural transformation in the state.This three-day global event was organised by the Andhar Pradesh Government in association with Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) and Dalberg Advisors.More than 1,500 global leaders from 61 countries including business heads, start-up founders, leading policymakers, progressive farmers, NGOs, agricul-ture and technology experts participated the sum-mit over three days.

The theme of this year’s summit is ‘Women First, Prosperity for All’ and included 1,200 young entre-preneurs, and most of them are women.Hyderabad played host to the eighth edition of the Global Entrepreneurship Summit (GES). The summit was inaugurated by PM Narendra Modi. The theme of this year’s summit demonstrates the commitment of the US and the Indian governments to the principle that when women are economi-cally empowered, their communities and countries

thrive. Participants from across the world gathered at Hyderabad International Convention Centre. PM Modi addressed party workers at Hyderabad air-port, earlier in the day and said that the attention of the world is on Hyderabad. This city is hosting a prestigious international summit where industry leaders from the world are joining,” he said.Narendra Modi presented Ivanka Trump a wooden box of Sadeli craft. This craft technique of fabri-cating geometric patterns in wood is native to Surat. Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Ivanka Trump, US President Donald Trump’s daughter and presidential adviser, attended a gala dinner at the Falaknuma Palace. The dinner was hosted by the Union government as part of the ongoing Global Entrepreneurship Summit (GES) 2017. Famous for its huge Nizam-era table which can seat 101 guests at a time, the palace-turned-plush hotel is one the key landmarks of the city. Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao was among those present for the dinner. A separate dinner was arranged for around 1,500 delegates of the GES on the lawns of the palace.

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Singapore to involve in development of Amaravati

The Chief Minister met with Singapore’s Minister of Trade and Industry S. Iswaran in the Secretar-iat. The meeting included discussions regarding Singapore’s involvement in the development of the city of Amaravati, solid waste management projects, district cooling systems and skill devel-opment programmes. In the second meeting of the Joint Implementa-tion Steering Committee, the Chief Minister said that the relationship between Andhra Pradesh and the Singapore government has largely con-tributed to the planning of the capital city, and he is grateful for the continuous cooperation from their side.Before the meeting, the Chief Minister showed the Minister and the delegates the models of the buildings of the government complexes in Amar-avati (Legislative Assembly, Secretariat and High Court).In his address to the delegates, he said that the capital city will not become a concrete jungle, which exploits natural resources. He said that Amaravati will be a dynamic city, equipped with modern technology.“1,500 electric vehicles will be introduced soon,

and will be promoted extensively. The city will be planned in such a way that it should not take more than 30 minutes to travel to any part. The public transport system will also be a primary backbone, making it the most livable city”, he said.Centre for Livable Cities Executive Director Khoo Teng Chye said that the Solid Waste Manage-ment Project is also being developed for Amar-avati. The Chief Minister suggested that Swachh Andhra Pradesh Corporation can cooperate with the Singapore government for the same.Officials also discussed the setting up of the Ama-ravati Planning, Design and Research Institute and the Capital Region Investment Promotion Agency (CRIPA).Assistant CEO of International Enterprise (IE) Sin-gapore, Mr Tan Soon Kim also mentioned that they are currently working on projects to collab-orate with the AP government for skill develop-ment programmes. The Chief Minister suggested that Singapore’s Department of Trade and Indus-try and Lee Kuan University should work on pro-grammes for human resource development in Andhra Pradesh.

Over 5,000 Indian De-velopers in 6 Cities

Acquire Deep Learning Skills, Prepare for AI EraNVIDIA completed its first edition of Developer Connect 2017 in Bangalore. The six-city developer roadshow witnessed over 5,000 attendees who experienced some of the highest quality workshops and demonstrations of AI and deep learning tools, designed to meet the challenges big data pres-ents. Attendees got a closer look at NVIDIA’s DGX systems, as well as the opportunity to learn more about its new Volta architecture. Both the DGX-1 and DGX Station were on display to demonstrate the full power of these AI supercomputers.The concluding segment witnessed prominent speakers from organizations such as Ola, Cognitive Computing, Microsoft, Hewlett Packard Enterprise Labs, Shell India, Sony India and Aditya Imaging Information Technologies provide their views.


Alibaba Cloud Extends Coverage to Enable Indian Enterprises

Alibaba Cloud, the cloud computing arm of Alibaba Group, announced that clients can start to sign up for services to be delivered in its new India data cen-tre, which is set to open in January 2018. Located in the city of Mumbai, this new data centre will help meet the surging demand for cloud computing ser-vices among the fast-increasing number of Indian small and medium size businesses in the region.

India is a key market in Alibaba Cloud’s global-ization strategy, and the firm sees tremendous business opportunity given the rapid growth of the Indian economy and the nature of the enter-prises looking to expand from the country. Alib-aba Cloud’s vision to empower enterprises any-where in the world to go global is now extended to Indian clients with a comprehensive suite of high-performance cloud products including lar-gescale computing, storage resources, and Big Data processing capabilities. Indian businesses of all sizes can now run their applications on Alib-aba Cloud’s powerful, reliable and secure cloud platform. Other data centre service offerings include elastic computing, database, storage and content delivery, networking, analytics and big data, containers, middleware, and security.Alibaba Cloud now has 33 availability zones across 16 economic centres globally, with cov-

erage extending across mainland China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Japan, Australia, the Middle East, Europe, India and the U.S. (East and West Coast). Simon Hu, Senior Vice President of Alibaba Group and President of Alibaba Cloud said, “We are excited to be officially opening our new Mum-bai, India data centre in early 2018, enabling us to work closely with more Indian enterprises. These local enterprises are innovative and oper-ating in growth sectors, and we look forward to empowering them through our cloud comput-ing and data technologies. As we build out the Alibaba Cloud network globally, India is another important piece that is now firmly in place. This continues our commitment to India, helping it to develop trade opportunities with other markets in the region and beyond.”


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Powered by Kaspersky Lab, ASSOCHAM’s Cyber Resilience Summit addresses India’s most pressing security concerns

India’s most important decision-makers congre-gated at The Associated Chambers of Commerce of India (ASSOCHAM)’s Cyber Resilience Summit held at Le Meridien, New Delhi. The august gathering included top professionals from the government, ASSOCHAM, Cyber Security cells, Ernst & Young and Kaspersky Lab, one of the world’s leading cyber security brands. The one-day event addressed the most pressing issues India and the world face in cyber security, and how best to handle them. Steering Team Kaspersky was Mr. Stephan Neu-meier, Managing Director – Kaspersky Lab (APAC), and Mr. Shrenik Bhayani, General Manager – Kasper-sky Lab (South Asia). Mr. Neumeier addressed the current issues such as the cyber threat landscape is becoming ever more complex and destructive. Over few months, attacks targeting governments and enterprises have increased significantly in both number and range with measurable impact on rep-utation, revenue, operations and customers. In the last year we witnessed a number of cyber breaches, malicious ransomware and economic espionage. “For the last 20 years, Kaspersky Lab has been

working around the clock every day – analyzing and combating all kinds of IT threats that have evolved in that time, making the world a better place. I am proud that Kaspersky Lab remains at the forefront of the cybersecurity industry and being the first within the industry to start with initiatives such as the Global Transparency Centre shows our strong commitment and passion for cybersecurity,” noted Mr. Stephan Neumeier. The summit saw a strong line-up of cybersecurity experts from Kaspersky Lab giving an overview of the landscape in India and the world and what to expect in the near future. Mr. Vitaly Kamluk (Director of GReAT, APAC, Kasper-sky Lab) provided a bird’s eye view of the cyberse-curity landscape in India and the world, apprising how the situation has changed drastically over the last decade. “There is no doubt that targeted attacks have become the most dangerous threat to govern-ments and enterprises globally in 2017. Massive data breaches, black mailing with a threat of global privacy disaster and reputational catastrophe have

become a common thing. Leaks of dangerous exploits used by intelligence agencies boosted not only cybercriminals activities but also other nation-state sponsored attackers. Every new exploit is adopted by targeted attackers now much faster than in 2016 and years before that, which makes efficient and reliable patch strategy critical to resist such threats. India is among countries that are developing very fast in technology, which opens opportunities for more cyber attacks on it’s users and infrastructure.” explains Mr. Vitaly Kamluk.As advanced threat actors continue to gain access to vulnerable development companies, back-door-ing of popular or regionally popular software will become an increasingly desirable attack vector. Mr. Denis Legezo (Security Researcher, Kaspersky Lab) spoke in detail about the security landscape against high profile targets in India. “Based on Kaspersky Security Network, in Novem-ber 2017 alone, we see an infection rate of 30.8% within the country,” said Mr. Denis Legezo.Mr. Shrenik Bhayani closed the power-packed day with a vote of thanks, mentioning how the coming together of key decision makers in one room, will pave the way forward for India. Said Mr. Shrenik Bhayani, “It was one of the most important days for India, as she prepares to face the challenges of tomorrow. Kaspersky is thrilled to partner with ASSOCHAM for the Cyber Resilience Summit. Kaspersky’s researchers have flown in from all over the world, to enrich us on how the world is battling the cyber security war and how India can prepare for the same. We feel extremely privileged to share the dais with top government officials and industry leaders. Kaspersky Lab is honored to con-tribute with its experience, knowledge and infra-structure to propel India’s position in being cyber safe!”


McAfee Honours Partners with Awards for Excellence in SecurityMcAfee, one of the world’s leading cyberse-curity companies, has announced the winners of its distinguished McAfee Channel Partner Awards 2017 for India and Asia Pacific at the company’s MPOWER and Partner Summit event, held at Sydney’s Darling Harbour. The awards recognise partners who demonstrated the embodiment of three foundational pillars of the McAfee Partner Program: strategic rela-tionships, profitable partnerships and driving better customer outcomes. McAfee’s MPOWER Cyber Security summit marked the first time the series (previously entitled FOCUS) came to the Asia Pacific region. MPOWER took place at Sydney’s International Convention Centre (ICC) and was designed to tackle a diverse range of security-related themes relevant to all types and sizes of industry. An impressive line-up of engaging and inspiring speakers educated

and challenged a delegate audience of over 750 technology professionals and their peers, including CISO’s, IT managers, security ana-lysts, security architects, managing directors along with technical and non-technical consul-tants ranging from some of the region’s largest corporations, through to SMEs and start-ups. The Partner Summit event provided a platform for direct participation amongst channel part-

ners where they could share feedback, dis-cussions, strategies and insights on the secu-rity industry landscape. This year, partners from 14 countries and 26 cities across APAC attended the event. Partners received a range of awards based on their commitment to McAfee’s business strat-egy including, building strong ecosystems, dedication to customers, demonstration of technical efficiency and successful buildout of managed services. “Partners are integral to our success and lead the way in driving our entire channel to improve and deliver high quality customer outcomes,” said Jag-dish Mahapatra, Head of Channel Sales and Alliances, Asia Pacific. “By working together, we can provide better solutions that benefit our customers with greater protection, faster deployment times and reduced costs.”

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Program on Foundations of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning from IIIT-HYDERABAD gets massive response

IIIT-Hyderabad’s Foundations of Artificial Intel-ligence and Machine Learning, a new state-of-the-art program for technology professionals announced four weeks ago, has received a mas-sive response. 250 software professionals, with a good range of industry experience, have joined the first batch. The program is slated to start at IIIT-Hyderabad’s Machine Learning Laboratory beginning January 2018, and will be executed in association with TalentSprint. Registering the response to the first batch, IIIT-Hyderbad and TalentSprint announced that enrolment for a second concurrent batch has begun. The focus this time around is to get more women professionals on board as an overall ini-tiative to promote diversity in technology compa-nies. To this end, special scholarships for women professionals are being offered by the organizers of the program.

According to Dr. P.J. Narayanan, Director, IIIT-Hyderabad, “Digital Transformation is an exis-tential imperative that enterprises have embarked upon in recent years. Awareness of current tech-nology trends and development methodologies are needed to be relevant to today’s enterprise IT environments. AI systems that were until recently largely in academic research labs have suddenly moved into the mainstream. Added to this, over the past year, is the rapid emergence of AI/ML-based solutions in the mainstream enterprise space.”Dr.Santanu Paul, Co-Founder and CEO of Tal-entSprint said, “The entire narrative in the tech-nology space has changed. AI/ML capabilities amongst working professionals has become a key requirement for career progression and profes-sional relevance. What is interesting is that we have already seen enrolments from across fifty companies, cutting across products, services, and start-up sectors. These are professionals who want to make an immediate impact in their current roles with AI/ML solutions. This is a clear indicator that the market is ready for high-end programs.”

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HCL and Siemens Partner on Industry 4.0 Solutions

NEC to Establish FIWARE Lab Node in India

Telit Unveils AppZone 4 In-module IoT Development Environment

HCL Technologies (HCL), a leading global IT services company, has entered into a strategic partnership with Siemens on Industry 4.0 solutions, with a stra-tegic collaboration on the Siemens Industry Soft-ware Suite. The global partnership with Siemens on Mindsphere, a cloud–based open Internet of Things (IoT) operating system, comprises technology, appli-cation development, connectivity solutions, system integration and go–to–market strategy.“We are seeing traction in Industry 4.0 initiatives as our Manufacturing customers leverage automation, cyber–physical systems and IoT technologies to cre-ate ‘smart’ ecosystems. This collaboration comes as a proof of our leadership in the segment and lends further credibility to our market positioning in the Industry 4.0 space,” said G.H Rao, President, Engi-

NEC Corporation and NEC Technologies India Pri-vate Limited (NECTI) announced that they will establish a FIWARE Lab node in India. The objective is to encourage application developers and solution provider organizations, government bodies and academia to experiment and innovate FIWARE(1)-based solutions for smart cities. Having a FIWARE Lab node within India will encourage more partic-ipation from Asian countries as they can keep all experimental and research data within the bound-aries of the region.The FIWARE Lab node in India will help to foster a culture of collaboration between various partici-pating entities and help to promote their solutions in the FIWARE community. With the Indian govern-ment increasing its focus on Open Source Software, FIWARE can introduce open APIs based on specifi-cations which are public and royalty-free.Slated to start operation from April 2018, the facility will be the first FIWARE lab node in India endorsed by FIWARE Foundation e.V. The NEC Group aims to achieve revenues of more than 150M USD from India and other parts of South East Asia by fiscal year 2020 through FIWARE-based solutions aided by the FIWARE Lab node, which is being established with an overall investment of 15M USD over the same period.FIWARE Lab, which is part of the FIWARE commu-nity, is a non-commercial sandbox environment where innovation and experimentation based on FIWARE technologies take place. Organizations, entrepreneurs and individuals can utilize this lab for learning FIWARE, as well as to test their applications while capitalizing on Open Data published by cities and other organizations. FIWARE Lab is deployed over a geographically distributed network of feder-ated nodes leveraging a wide range of experimental infrastructures.“The FIWARE Foundation welcomes the new FIWARE Lab node starting in India. FIWARE is used by an increasing number of cities in Europe and other regions and I wish this new FIWARE Lab node will trigger the adoption of FIWARE both in India and other APAC countries,” said Ulrich Ahle, CEO of FIWARE Foundation. “It is also our plea-sure to have the NEC Technologies India team’s commitment of making contributions to the FIWARE community, which will strengthen the FIWARE technology as well as its globalization as a smart city platform.”

Telit, a global enabler of the Internet of Things (IoT), announced immediate availability of ver-sion 4.0 of its IoT development environment, the IoT AppZone. The new version of IoT AppZone expands features for the well-estab-lished flagship AppZone C and adds new func-tionality including an emulator and support for Lua, a lightweight scripting language optimized for embedded systems that are constrained by limited processing power and resources. The

neering and R&D Services, HCL Technologies.“We believe HCL is a strong partner, who brings scalability and a global footprint to the table. The HCL offerings seamlessly fit into our industrial products and platform range, making HCL a strate-gic and natural partner of the digital product and solution organisation of Siemens,” said Paul Kaeley, Senior Vice President, Global Partner Eco-system, Siemens PLM Software.HCL can now take Siemens’ MindSphere solutions to their customers across multiple sectors. Together with Siemens, HCL will work on the development and innovation on this platform, strengthening its positioning in the market. During key industrial and IT events, several joint collaboration activities with Siemens will be conducted.

new framework also enhances support for static libraries that simplify management of complex software projects and integration of existing code base.The IoT AppZone is a complete solution for developers to create, debug and run embed-ded software on the application processor of the Telit IoT module. It is comprised of an Eclipse-based integrated development environ-ment (IDE) rounded out by IoT targeted tools,

libraries, online documentation and sample code. AppZone C is the family’s flagship appli-cation framework. It is lightweight, runs on RTOS and delivers optimized performance and fast response. The framework includes a full set of APIs programmable in C language, enabling access to the modem, hardware, peripher-als, operating system and other services. As a cross-platform framework, AppZone C enables code portability across several products and technologies.


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RDP unveils ThinBook 1430p

RDP, India’s leading IT hardware and mobility m a n u f a c t u r -ing company announced a new 14.1 inch laptop, Thin-Book 1403p

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ABB is previewing its newest collaborative robot, now with a single arm, at the International Robot-ics Exhibition (iREX) 2017 in Tokyo. As their name suggests, collaborative robots are designed to work alongside humans on the factory floor to raise productivity and support the transition to mass customization. The robot will be officially launched in 2018.Like YuMi, a small-parts assembly robot intro-duced in 2015, the new robot has a payload of 500 grams and, thanks to its compactness, is easily integrated into existing assembly lines, increasing productivity. The new robot also fea-tures lead-through programming, eliminating the need for specialized training for operators.Per Vegard Nerseth and Sami Atiya at the preview of the newest member of the YuMi family at iREX (ABB)“The success of YuMi has exceeded expectations; it was originally designed for small-parts assem-bly, but it has turned out to be exceptionally ver-satile – it can solve a Rubik’s Cube, make sushi, wrap gifts and conduct an orchestra.

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2009 Batch IAS office Mr, Saurabh Kumar who is former IIT, Powai student is taking innovation to field. Presently working as collector of Dan-tewada district which is in LWE effected area of Chhattisgarh region has came up with an initia-tive to support Tribals of his district. With Hon.

“Smart Industry” isn’t a random label one can just throw around, but the current industrial revolution brought upon by a sophisticated and precise set of technologies that are changing man’s relation to manufacturing. Industry 4.0, which we will use interchangeably with “Smart Industry,” was coined in early 2010 as the German government tried to make fac-tories smarter by bringing connected technol-ogies and manufacturing together. Hence, the Working Group on Industry 4.0, which offers recommendations to German leaders on how to bring this new industrial age, has formalized the framework of this new step in the evolution of manufacturing. The name “Industry 4.0” shows it’s the fourth Industrial Revolution. The first one took place between 1760 and 1840 with the advent of mechanization, as well as the use of chemical manufacturing, water power, and steam. Then came batch production between 1870 and 1914, which is was the second Industrial Rev-olution. During that time, assembly lines and the use of electricity completely changed how plants operated. Finally, the third revolution took place during the 20th century, when com-puting systems and automation replaced man-power.

PM of India calling for sweet revolution this young IAS officer has gone a step further and developed a mobile Honey processing unit. The aim of this innovative idea is to help 10,000 tri-bals in the region to take advantage of technol-ogy and gain value for their honey. This mobile

In their paper entitled Design Principles for Industrie 4.0 Scenarios, German scholars Her-mann, Pentek, and Otto define the four pillars of the smart industry: Technical assistance, information transparency, interconnection, and decentralized decisions. As we sat down with Vipin Bothra, Market Development Director at ST, the one thing that became apparent is that the company behind this blog is the only one in the world to offer leading solutions for all four of these principles. That means it can bring comprehensive innovations that work together in the most optimized and efficient way possi-ble to realize the potential of this new revolu-tion.Smart Industry: Technical Assistance and Infor-mation Transparency - Here’s a quick overview of these four foundational concepts:· Technical assistance means workers are no longer just operators but use machines to make critical decisions. For instance, mobile devices carry information that shape judgment calls and new systems make all tasks safer. Informa-tion visualization is a significant component of this principle, and ST offers multiple devel-opment tools to help engineers build the apps they need to make technical assistance a reality.

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· Information transparency is the ability to bring all the elements of a smart plant together to substantially increase efficiency, thanks to the use of new models. It’s basically where the virtual and the physical world meet. The con-sequence of this increase in efficiency is an augmentation in productivity and a decrease in energy costs. On top of enabling information transparency, ST makes it possible to com-pound those energy savings through low-power solutions, such as better motor-control systems or SiC components, among others.Smart Industry: Interconnection and Decentral-ized Decisions· Interconnection is what most people mean when they talk about IIoT (Industrial Internet of Things) or Smart Industry. However, as we’ve seen, the Industry 4.0 is so much more than that. This principle signifies that all the sen-sors, devices, machines, and people are able to interact with one another by using secure and ubiquitous communication protocols that facilitate the exchange of information. ST has a crucial role in this domain because it offers fantastic software libraries to take advantage of powerful transceivers, and it is a major partner in most of the consortiums that define those protocols’ specifications.· Decentralized decisions are the eye-catch-ing aspects of this revolution because this prin-ciple moves the intelligence of the plant out of a centralized system to peripheral nodes. Thanks to low-power microcontrollers (MCU) offering new levels of horsepower, like the STM32 and STM8, more devices can make crit-ical decisions, monitor activities and function autonomously. This increases efficiency and ensures the consequences of a failure are not as problematic since the rest of the plant is less affected, if at all.

honey processing unit unlike reg-ular units work at low power and on the field (door step of honey producer). With market linkages established this idea i s changing the face of the region. We wish more IAS officers like him with take steps needed for the real New India that we all want to see.This bus was recently launched at GES event held in Hyderabad on 28,29 and 30th where Advisor to USA president Ms. Ivanka Trump and Hon. PM of India Shri. Narendra Modi was present.


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GST will definitely help the country grow faster over the next few months

Tally is a big name after GST in the country today when it comes to business, how do you feel about this?Overall we definitely believe that the imple-mentation of Goods and Services Tax (GST) was long due for the country. While there have been initial troubles, the new tax regime will benefit both businesses and consumers in the medium to long term. Since the announcement of GST, we have spent several months assisting busi-nesses to transition into the GST era. In the earlier months of GST introduction, there was uncertainty due to lack of awareness and edu-cation.Through our collective and dedicated efforts, we physically reached out to over 10 lakh busi-nesses to educate them on the new law and how it will affect their businesses. In addition, we have reached out to over 50 lakh businesses through our blog and webinars. These aware-ness efforts will continue being one of the focus areas over the next few months till the country has transitioned successfully. Can you reflect on some of the moments of Tally at the time of beginning by Bharat Goenka to the present you, how do you feel about the change?I think a few things have remained constant and a few things have changed. The desire to help build technologies that drive growth for small and medium businesses has been constant and this forms the backbone of everything we do as a company. Many defining moments of my grandfather’s interactions with my father, the founders of the business have shaped this con-stant focus. The first few product demos, the first few customers are milestones that have all been extremely memorable. In the last few years, the business has expanded to include sev-eral lakh customers and thousand partners who are part of the Tally family. Continuing our focus on the core beliefs, we still feel that there is still lot that can be done to help small and medium businesses grow and that focus will continue in all that we do.We have been listening in the IT hardware mar-ket that the sales have gone down drastically. Do you think it’s because of GST implementa-tion or demonetization or the market moved to online players?Honestly, we are not entirely clear about the reason and won’t be the right people to talk to about the decrease in sales.What is your idea on the method Government used to implement GST? Being practical and looking to the problems faced by the small businessmen, is there any need to change the

filing methods?We feel a lot of simplification can be brought into the filing methods for the small business-man. The struggles have been hard for many of us and we have made several recommendations that can help the government focus on the basic

premise of the GST return filing process which is invoice matching.The country is transforming from cash business to electronic payment business, Will GST help the country to transform economy?GST will definitely help the country grow faster over the next few months. We see 3 key benefits arising out of GST: (1) Reduced tax on tax due to the ‘one nation one tax’ concept that GST is based on. (2) Simpler trade across state bound-aries, and (3) Greater transparency in return fil-ing and auditing due to the concept of invoice matching.

The focus of the government must be to first implement GST correctly for the existing tax payer base, and only then focus on expanding this base. Currently, simplifications in the pro-cess are needed to bring this vision alive, and with every council meeting it seems like the government is clear with their intent about its implementation.The way Tally is growing is remarkable, there is a big change in the partners network of tally, can you brief us what is the method your com-pany has implemented to satisfy the channel business? How many partners have grown this year after GST was implemented, can you put some statistics on your entire business model?The partner network is a clear and an important focus for us as we do our business through our partners only. Over the years, we have built a partner model that works for us and also allows the partners to grow. We have two types of partners, a Certified Partner and an Associate Partner. The Certified Partners helps us ensure a specific service level and quality for our custom-ers, and the Associate Partners help us reach first time customers who were unaware of the potential to grow with the Tally license. In order to serve this network effectively, we work with Distributors and a new type of partner called the Tally Xcelerator. Tally Xcelerator was intro-duced recently and focuses on helping the Cer-tified Partners grow their business by acting like mentors and coaches. With the introduction of GST, every partner in the Tally ecosystem has seen unprecedented growth in their business.I have been in touch with many Tally users that they have bought the pack but finding difficult to implement, do you have any team which looks after this? Do you give this service or train the user once the tally is purchased? How do you track this?For customers who had purchased the software in the months of July, August and September, this was an area of concern that came to light. We had focused on transitioning our existing customer base to GST and in the process many new customers faced problems. Tally Care is our dedicated team that addresses all queries and concerns related to the software. Since then, we have increased Tally Care capacity to over 3 times of what we had in July, and are actively reaching out to our customers to ensure that they are happy with the Tally experience. If they haven’t had a good experience, I would strongly encourage them to visit our help.tallysolutions.com website and if they need assistance they can call our Tally Care toll free line at 1800-200-8859.


Tejas Goenka, Executive Director, Tally Solutions Pvt Ltd.

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Reasserting The Importance Of ‘I’ In A CIODigital trans-formation, new technologies and increased need for C-level e n g a g e m e n t have forced CIOs to evolve. In this Essential Guide, explore

the changing role of the CIO and strategies to adapt to the digital marketplace. ustires. It is the time where the I in the word CIO is getting prominence across the indIn an exclusive chat with Cell IT, Amit Phadke, CTO, Global Software Company, tells CELL IT, his views on the evolving trends in the digital landscape. Edited excerpts. What is your view on IT using technology is directly involving in the P&L and not just a support role?Largely IT using technology is directly involved in P&L irrespective of the industry or domain. IT is no more looked at as back-end function. Across various industries technology is looked as business enabler or partner. IT works closely with business heads and stake holders to meet organization goals. IT ensures effective application of technology to redefine and smoothen the processes; increase productivity and lower cost in the organizations. In the current age of digitization it is important that companies push the boundaries of generally accepted business and IT roles.What do you think, the role of Indian CIOs will be evolving in the coming years?Corporate IT is on verge of groundbreaking trans-formation wherein a different IT-Business partner-ship model is evolving. More often each business unit devises its own strategy and makes its own decision including technologies that it needs to take its products or services to customer. As a result each business unit will increasingly determine its own technology strategy too. Corporate IT will be required to provide overall strategic guidance, sup-port and deliver solutions, act more as integrator when business choose to adopt some technology and business process. This new partnership model

is evolving forcing IT departments to be strategic partners. CIOs are learning to provide services in such environment with focus in deriving optimum business value from IT. CIOs work with these busi-ness units to define what is absolute necessary and what is nice to have. CIOs are engaged on conver-sations where there is a shift of focus from cost and service levels to value creation in form of innovation and competitive advantage. In short CIOs will con-centrate on helping the entire company develop the analytical sophistication needed to make the most of the rapid digitization in every aspect of business — effectively reasserting the importance of the “I” in CIO.Many research agencies suggest that IT teams should work like a start-up enterprise within their organization having the start-up approach in bud-get, technology and so on. What is your take on that?Thinking like start-up may not fit every organiza-tion. There are systems & processes which are built over years. There are concrete business plans which are long term. So budget and technology approach should consider this aspect when drawing the plan.How does a role of a CIO heading a tech company serving logistical companies is different from the role of a CIO a tech company serving other indus-tries?Every CIO role depends on the industry their com-pany is part of. Domain expertise matters when drawing business solutions. Overall it is a good challenge for CIO in a tech company as everyone from trainee to the top management is tech savvy and demands are ever increasing aligned with latest technology trend. CIOs are expected to be techno-logically updated at a comparatively much faster pace than other employees of non-tech companies.How tech-savvy is logistics/ travel companies? How should a CIO of a company that provides tech to them should have enough? As said before all industries today are extremely tech savvy. As technology becomes more and more pervasive across industries and functions, most companies are racing to become technology inno-vators in their segment. Logistics and travel com-

panies or service providers to these verticals are no different. Everyone is up the curve focusing on block-chain, artificial intelligence (AI), Robotics, IoT and machine learning. Companies are investing on these technologies to keep themselves in compe-tition, generate new revenues and finding better ways of serving customers.According to many, the role of a CIO will be inclined towards a profit-making and not cost-cutting. How you see this trend?I agree that the trend has already changed wherein CIOs are not managing IT which was treated as a cost center. IT is a business partner in almost every field and drives business focusing on revenue streams, maximize returns through customer ser-vice or touch points, improve efficiency and much more.There is a debate that AI and robotics would replace human beings. It is a hard fact that mundane work will be done more efficiently and precisely by ana-lytical and robotic technologies. But I feel this is a compliment to what humans do. So one should har-ness maximum out of these technologies and stay ahead of curve rather than looking it as a threat. There is so much of data lying out that can be used in various ways to transform businesses.How you see Indian enterprises going 100% digital? How you see the role of Chief Digital Officer?Indian enterprises have started their journey 2-3 years back towards digital transformation and there is a long way to go. I guess next 3-4 years will be interesting to watch in terms of technology adop-tion by these enterprises to go 100% digital. Going digital is not necessarily adopting latest technol-ogies to harness so called black gold (data) which every organization holds. It is about treating this data as an asset; utilizing this information for pro-cessing, analysis, mining and information trading. CDO is expected to lead the enterprise focusing around vision and strategy, people and culture, process and governance, technology capabilities and disruption. In short it is about digital transfor-mation maturity improvement that is to be worked upon.

SonicWall Appoints Wias Issa as Vice President and GM of Asia Pacific, JapanSonicWall, the trusted security partner protecting more than 1 mil-lion customer net-works worldwide, announced that it has appointed Wias Issa to Vice Presi-dent of Sales and General Manager of its Asia Pacific and

Japan (APJ) business. As the latest addition to SonicWall, Issa will be responsible for managing and driving growth and profitability through the definition and execution of business strategies, pursuit of strategic partnerships, and identifi-cation and penetration of new markets, while

maintaining a relentless focus on securing and defending customer organizations. “SonicWall has already garnered unprec-edented global traction with customers and channel partners since spinning off as an inde-pendent cyber security company in November 2016,” said SonicWall Senior Vice President and Chief Revenue Officer Steve Pataky. “Wias’ expertise will strengthen the deep partnerships we are building with our customers and chan-nel partners in the next phase of our growth.” Issa, who will be based in Tokyo and report to Pataky, has nearly two decades of experience in building and leading security businesses across the globe, and is known for his unique blend of international business acumen and technical depth in cyber security. “I am excited to be joining SonicWall at a

time of unprecedented innovation and growth,” said Issa. “As the volume and sophistication of cyber attacks continue to rise, SonicWall is playing a pivotal role in securing and defend-ing customer environments. The value of Son-icWall solutions, and the potential to help businesses alleviate their security problems, is incontestable. The growth potential in APJ is nothing short of tremendous.” Spurred by an ever-evolving and increasingly dangerous threat landscape, the demand for SonicWall’s latest advanced real-time breach detection and pre-vention solutions has fueled rapid growth in the APJ region. Customers are struggling to mitigate advanced zero-day threats, devastating ran-somware attacks, and encrypted threats arising through complex supply chains and distributed networks.


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Pondy IT Expo Aims Reaching Out To Customers, Corporates

NASSCOM Foundation Reports a Rise in the Industry CSR spending

The much-awaited annual computer exhibition by the inhabitants of in and around Puducherry by ITTA-P is slated to happen in January 2018. This year, the association is targeting the stu-dents, SOHO, enterprises and home users’ technology update and to generate more reve-nue for our IT vendor/dealer communities.Some of the products that will be showcased in 90 stalls through channel partners include,

NASSCOM Foundation at its flagship event, The CSR Leadership Conference (CLC), announced that the Industry had widely accepted the 2% CSR rule with a trend of more companies com-ing out openly to declare 100%+ utilization of their CSR money for 2016-17. This year the CLC went beyond discussing basic intervention areas, to talk about new develop-ments, innovative tools and disruptive ways of making the ecosystem better, more impactful and efficient. In this process, the CLC will deep dive into Re-Calibrating Employability through CSR, Social Impact Investing, Leveraging Big Data for Impact, Unlocking the Value of Corporate Sus-tainability in the form of panel discussions, fire-side chats and impact talks.NASSCOM Foundation in partnership with Good-era released the report: ‘Catalyzing Change’. Some key highlights from the report:· Growing number of companies spending 100% and above of the CSR funds, among both MNCs

HP, Dell, Cisco, Samsung, Canon, Intel, Lenovo, ASUS, Microsoft. The event will happen in a fully air-conditioned venue spanning around 1000 Sq Meters. According to the association close to 18 Thousand footfalls are likely to get registered during this event. Apart from the channel partner stalls, there are also plans for having an exclusive hall for the brand showcase for IT Vendors.

and Non-MNCs: 61. 6% of the surveyed compa-nies reported spends of 100% or above their pre-scribed CSR budget. This includes 63.3% of the MNCs and 68% of the Non-MNCs.· Smaller sized companies (turnover below INR 100 Crore) proactively pushing CSR initiatives with full utilization of prescribed budget: While 57.57% of large companies, 53.3% of medium companies are spending 100% of CSR funds, an impressive 72.7% of small companies spending 100% of CSR funds.· Underspending is a rare condition: Only 5% of companies surveyed reported a spend of less than 50% of their CSR budget.· Education remains the top focus area of com-panies’ CSR activities especially in MNCs: 76% of MNCs reported highest CSR spend on Education. Other MNC focus areas:o 12% on Hunger & povertyo 18% on Gender equality.· MNCs increasing liaison with government to

“The event brings in Majority of Consumers, Cor-porate Houses, Government Sectors and Educa-tional Institutions. The event has ensured a vis-ibility through media campaigns through news-papers, magazines, social media, TV channels, FM radios, and hoardings. Media coverage in and around Pondicherry (Main Hub), Cuddalore, Villu-puram, Chidambaram, Neyveli, Karaikal are also commenced,” said a media note.D. Venougobalou, Chairman of the exhibition said ‘After the last year’s IT exhibition, computer mar-ket has done very well. Now after the GST imple-mentation also, we are expecting more business and customers from various states and cities at the exhibition. And the footfall is expected to be 25,000 to 30,000.”The chairman further added, “We are planning to allot a separate stall for electronic waste (e-waste). The consumers can get their e-waste and get rid of them. They will be given a coupon against their particular e-waste product to shop at the exhibition”.

tackle developmental issues: While overall, 43.3% of participating companies confirmed work-ing with the Central/State government in their socio-economic projects for 2016-17 Shrikant Sinha, CEO, NASSCOM Foundation, said, “The IT BPM Industry has been at the forefront of social development initiatives and it is heartening to see the industry emerging as one of the most effi-cient and innovative adopters of corporate social responsibility. Technology continues to prove a force multiplier in social impact with more than half of the companies that spent 100% or more of their CSR funds, claiming efficient use of technol-ogy to deliver innovative CSR programs aligned to the Goverment agenda.”The event saw over 400 CEOs, CXOs, CSR Heads, HR Heads of the top most companies from across various industries with the NGO Leads, Gov-ernment officials, thought leaders, Tech4Good champions, social innovators come under one roof to discuss and create collaborative and inno-vative ways of fulfilling the most important Social Development Goals for India.The CSR Leadership Conference also had on show-case, innovations from various social startups and NGOs like Sohum Innovation Lab, Neurosynaptic, EYE-D, Bleetech Innovations, Sankalptaru, Foun-dation for Ecological Securities, Headstreams, CFBT among others.Through its unique NGO impact wall and Net-working spaces, the CSR Leadership Conference also provided an opportunity to 100+ participat-ing NGOs to showcase their work to the corpo-rates and connect at a programmatic level.


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