Datamatics’ Internal Magazine

buzzbuzzSEPTEMBER 2014

ADVENTURE RIDE

table ofC O N T E N T S

Rahul l. Kanodia felicitated with ‘ceo of the YeaR’ awaRd05

08 dR. dwivedi invited as session chaiRman at the asia Pacific hRm congRess

nashiK headcount cRossess 100006client visit07

editoR’s note03 vaRad wins anotheR accolade09

datamatics shines at 2014 edge awaRds04

11ceRtifications

18tech geeK

19teacheRs’ daY

21fun facts

22BaBies on BoaRd

10eQuitY linKed saving schemes (elss)

Because leaRning can neveR stoP15

//Editor’s NOTE

Varad Kamini

BUZZ Datamatics

Adrenaline junkie, thrill seeker, the ones who live on the edge; no matter how you see them, there exists a little bit of them in each one of us.

Some of us with a stronger heart seek extreme sports, while some can only stomach the adventure rides. The rest get an adrenaline rush just at the sight or at the thought of these.

I fall in the middle category and have had my own share of adventure rides. The sense of euphoria that I experience after adventure rides is unassailable.

The excitement and anticipation of the free falls; an adrenaline rush from spine-tingling, hair-raising roller-coaster rides; it’s that moment when fright gives way to excitement; an experience that pushes us to our limits and a thrilling fleeting moment of liberation!

Whoever said that amusement parks are for kids, was kidding. These rides are for brave hearts!

DATAMATICS SHINES AT 2014 EDGE AWARDSTwo projects involving Datamatics won the prestigious Information Week Edge awards at INTEROP Mumbai 2014. This is the fourth time that a Datamatics project has won an Edge award. Wipro, Infosys and L&T Infotech were among the other prominent winners this year.

The first award was for automating Insurance Policy issuance for ICICI Prudential with the help of iQ. This solution enabled huge benefits both in terms of turn-around-time and human resource optimization. The second project to win the award was one where Datamatics provided an efficient Alfresco based Document Management Solution to help Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) streamline their document management system and build a base for smooth e-governance.

NASHIK HEADCOUNT CROSSESS 1000The headcount of employees at our Nashik unit crossed 1000. The occasion was celebrated by spending an evening with music & dinner at the Nashik premises on 26th August. Here are a few glimpses from the evening:

ClIENT VISITOur client, BUPA, carried out the Information Security & BCM Audit – 2014 at Datamatics’ BUPA GDSC on 22nd September. The auditors went back very satisfied after a day-long audit.

DR. DWIVEDI iNviTED As sEssiON CHAirmAN AT THE ASIA PACIfIC HRM CONGRESSDr. Chandra Mauli Dwivedi, our Global Head – HR & CSR was invited as Session Chairman at the Asia Pacific HRM Congress 2014 which was held on 11th & 12th September 2014 at Taj, Bangalore. The theme for the Congress was “building a great place to work with powerful results”.

The Asia Pacific HRM Congress is the largest rendezvous of HR Professionals. It was attended by over 500 professionals from 50 countries.

VARAD WiNs ANOTHER ACCOlADEVarad Kamini, Head – Marketing Communications at Datamatics Global Services Limited (DGSL), won the prestigious Women Achievers in IT award in the Business Leaders category.

The awardees comprised some of the best and the brightest in the current Indian IT scenario including Aruna Jayanthi – CEO, Capgemini India; Debjani Ghosh – President, Intel India and Kirthiga Reddy – Head of Office, Facebook India.

Contributed By:- ca devanandFor further information on the subject, contact him at devanand.r@datamatics.com

EquITy lINKED SAVING SCHEMES (ELss)ELSS is a tax saving instrument sold by mutual funds for that specific purpose. The proceeds from ELSS are mostly invested in the stock market so that the investors get the benefit of appreciation in stock prices. Some of its salient features are listed below:

Maximum amount – Rs, 1, 50,000 per year u/s 80C of Income Tax Act, 1961

Lock-in period – 3 years – lesser than NSC and PPF

Taxpayer can choose the dividend option and get some benefits during the lock-in period

Taxpayer can opt for a Systematic Investment Plan (SIP)

Risk factor is higher when compared to NSC and PPF

CERTIfICATIONS Congratulations! To these DGSL employees on receiving the following certifications:

itil v3 foundation (itv3f)

SANJEEV GEJAGE

cloudera certified developer apache hadoop (ccd-410)

cognos 10 Bi author (cog-612)

ANIL KUMAR U

NIKHIL WANI

SREEKANTH R T

HARSHAL SONAJEJAGRUTI MULAY

SURENDAR NATARAJAN

GAURAVKUMAR WANKHEDE

VEERENDRA NATH

JANHAVI MAHAJAN

CERTIfICATIONS (CONTiNUED)

Congratulations!

italian language training - level 1

JULIET SHALINI D

RAJA MUTHUKUMAR S

SRINIVASAN P

SENTHIL G

TAMILSELVAN M

PORSELVI R

MUHILAN S

MAHESH J

VIJAYALAKSHMI A

SUGUNARAJ P

POONKODI R

VIJAYAKUMAR G

CERTIfICATIONS (CONTiNUED)

Congratulations!

italian language training - level 1

INDUMATHI S SANJIV KUMAR SINHAABARNA V

NIVED N

JOTHI RAVI KUMAR G

PREETHE G

NITHIYA RANWER ALI S

CERTIfICATIONS (CONTiNUED)

Congratulations!

german language training - level 1

WASI HAIDER ALI KALPESH SALUNKEABHIJEET PATHAK

YUVRAJ VATARESANDEEP JADHAV

GOPAL BANERJEEGANGADHAR THALLA

oral communication via webex

29th August, Mumbai

team effectiveness27th August, Mumbai

neev-Behavioral session27th to 28th August, Mumbai

Business communication & time management

18th August, Mumbai

html5 overview27th August, Mumbai

neev-fresher’s induction Program - Phase 18th to 26th August, Mumbai

PmP stakeholder management27th August, Mumbai

BECAUsE lEARNING CAN NEVER STOP!

attitude & motivation at work9th August, Puducherry

oral & written communication6th September, Puducherry

Personality development & grooming23rd August, Chennai

Journey towards effectiveness at work23rd August, Chennai

BECAUsE lEARNING CAN NEVER STOP!(CONTiNUED)

six sigma white Belt13th to 15th September, Nashik

interpersonal skills13th September, Nashik

attitude and motivation at work13th September, Nashik

floor etiquettes18th September, Nashik

BECAUsE lEARNING CAN NEVER STOP!(CONTiNUED)

TECHGEEKshoEs with haptic fEEdback

The world of consumer technology is ever changing and the latest trend the industry is abuzz with is wearable technology. An Indian startup company, Ducere Technologies, has created a Bluetooth enabled smartshoe named LECHAL (meaning “take me along” in Hindi) which is responsive to haptic stimuli. The shoe was originally designed for the visually challenged but has now found a wider application. The shoe has a Bluetooth enabled device that syncs up with a smartphone app to use Google Maps for hands-free navigation. The shoes can also be used as a more accurate way to record distance travelled and also come with a calorie tracker and a pedometer.

The LECHAL footwear also comes with something called Smart Assist, which alerts you if your phone is not in close proximity. If you don’t like the style of this new smart shoe, you can just buy the insole which is also fitted with vibration technology and use it in your own favourite shoe.

LECHAL is Ducere’s first product, and is expected to retail for around $100 to $150 this September. They are compatible with Windows phones, iPhones and Android.

Visit http://www.lechal.in/shoes.html for more information on the product.

tEachErs’ DAYTeachers’ Day was celebrated at all our venues on the 5th of September. The employees were encouraged to come dressed as school going children and wish a Happy Teachers’ Day to their supervisors with creative greeting cards and poems for the occasion. A quiz competition was also organized. It was a day of fun as evident from the numerous snaps.

WINNERS’ LIST

UNIT GREETING CARD BEST DRESSED & POEM QUIZ SDF IV (117-120) B&H Jucilia Fernandes Krishnan S. & Renuka Patil

SDF IV (110) Namrata Thanekar Namrata Thanekar Mahesh Palleli

SDF VI (172) Aksaa Temrekar Customer Experience team Megha Nair

SDF VI (189-190) Priyanka Kalekar OBS DB team & ITS Richa Shetty & Sunil Kr. Kondam Marketing team (spl prize)

SEEPZ++ LMS Environment UKMU Regressin team Nishant Mishra

CDIS Mamata Kotawadekar Megha Kamat (1st) and Shraddha Gujarathi Sanjivani Lavalae (2nd)

HEALTHCARE Prajakta Angaj Pranali Redij Pravin Poojari

KC Priyanka Sawant, Outsourcing team Rohan Jain Amar Poojari, Akshaya Shetty & Abhineet Gupta

Nashik AMS team (1st) & DMS team & Krishna Gauda (1st) Madhuri Sonawane (1st) Mayuri Kuwar (2nd) Blue Star team & Tazmin Khan (2nd) & Sagar Ahire (2nd)

tEachErs’ DAY

fuN FACTs

Opened in 2010, the Formula Rossa, located in Abu Dhabi, currently holds the crown of the fastest roller-coaster in the world and propels riders to a staggering speed of 150mph in just 4.9 seconds using technology similar to aircraft carriers when they need to launch jets into the air.

The concept for roller coasters was first conceived in 15th century Russia, where they constructed slick ice slides between seventy and eighty feet tall and hundreds of feet long that people rode on sleds. Usually sand was used to slow the riders down at the bottom. Sometimes this worked, sometimes it didn’t!

At 17 stories, the Verruckt waterslide opened in 2014 in Kansas City, Kansas; is taller than Niagara Falls.

Tivoli Gardens in Denmark is one of the oldest operating amusement parks in the world. It opened in 1843 and was reportedly one of Walt Disney’s inspirations for his parks. The park’s first proprietor, Georg Carstensen, got permission from King Christian VIII to build the park by saying, “When the people are amusing themselves, they do not think about politics.”

The “Most Track Inversions on a Roller Coaster” record goes to The Smiler at Alton Towers in the UK. Thrill-seekers brave enough to ride get inverted 14 times.

Richard Rodriguez set the record for “Longest Marathon on a Roller Coaster” by riding the Pepsi Max Big One in Pleasure Beach, UK, for more than 405 hours! The record required he ride continuously during park hours (about six hours a day) for 112 consecutive days.

The first Ferris wheel was designed and built by George W. Ferris, a bridge-builder from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvannia for the 1893 World’s Fair, held in Chicago to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Columbus’s landing in America. The Chicago Fair’s organizers wanted something that would rival the Eiffel Tower built by Gustave Eiffel for the Paris World’s Fair of 1889, which honored the 100th anniversary of the French Revolution.

//BABIES ON B ARD

Logesh from DMS was blessed with a baby girl named Kaviyavarshini L on the 19th of August. Our warmest welcome to the newborn!

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