Archive: October 31, 2022

ICC’s Green Urja and Energy Efficiency Awards 2022 is all set for its third edition

New Delhi, October 31st, 2022: With the aim to reward companies engaged in sustainable practices and policies, and encourage others to do the same, the Green Urja and Energy Efficiency Awards, by the Indian Chamber of Commerce (ICC), is in its 3rd edition this year. The Indian Chamber of Commerce is one of the most proactive industry associations in the country today, working towards a growth-oriented model for all the key driving sectors of the economy. The last date to apply for the awards is November 7th, 2022.

This year too, Energy Efficiency Services Limited (EESL), a JV of Public Sector Undertakings under the Ministry of Power, will be evaluating the Green Urja and Energy Efficiency Awards. The jury panel chaired by Mr. Anil Razdan, Chairman of ICC National Expert Committee on Energy and Former Secretary, Power, GOI, consists of other eminent members like Mr. Gireesh Pradhan, Former Chairman, CERC; Ms. Neerja Mathur, Former Chairperson, of CEA; Mr. KS Popli- Former Chairman and Managing Director, IREDA; Dr. Winfried Damm, Director, Indo-German Energy Program; Mr. Ashvini Kumar- Former Managing Director, Solar Energy Corporation of India Ltd. and Former Senior Director, Renewable Energy Technologies Division, TERI; Mr. Saurabh Kumar, Energy Expert; Mr. Anil Kumar Choudhary, Head – Operations, EESL.

Mr. Abhishek Gupta, Head(International), EESL, Mr. Girja Shankar, Head(CDP), EESL, and Mr. Ajay Raj, AGM(Technical), EESL are in the award evaluation team of the 3rd Edition of Green Urja and Energy Efficiency Awards 2022.

Speaking on the occasion, Mr. Anil Razdan, Chairman of Green Urja, and Energy Efficiency Awards, Chairman of ICC National Expert Committee for Energy & Water, and Former Power Secretary, GOI, said, “The development of Renewable Energy and Storage accompanied by Energy Efficiency is the path of sustainable development. India must develop these technologies indigenously in order to maximize the benefits to the economy. The ICC and EESL would like to be at the forefront of the development and promotion of these technologies.”

Adding to this, Mr. Nitin Bhatt, Senior Manager (Sales & PR) said, “Energy efficiency is a key driving force in meeting India’s environmental and climate goals. At EESL, we aim to accelerate the adoption of clean energy, increase the integration of renewable energy into the grid, and promote energy efficiency.”

Energy is the cornerstone of development and growth for every society. The use of renewable sources of energy plays a catalytic role in the overall development of a nation. Over the last decade, energy efficiency has shown its immense potential in enhancing energy security and mitigating climate change. Against this backdrop, the Green Urja and Energy Efficiency Awards gain even greater significance.

The Green Urja and Energy Efficiency award aims to create a platform for highlighting transparent innovative and sustainable practices, policies, and performances, to inspire and motivate others to adopt the same. It will acknowledge and reward companies in the following categories:

· Top Solar Park

· Top RE Manufacturing (Solar/Wind/Battery Storage)

· Top Financing Institutions for RE & EE

· Top IPP – Project Development (Solar/Wind/Biomass and Waste to Energy)

· Innovative Projects and Jury Choice (Optional)

· Top Industry in RE Consumption

· Top Industry in EE Deployment

· Top DISCOM – RE

· Top DISCOM – EE

Bank of India organizes Breast Cancer Awareness Campaign

Bank of India, in collaboration with M/s. Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital, Mumbai, organised a Breast Cancer Awareness Campaign at the BOI-Head Office, BKC Complex, from October 17 to October 31, 2022. On October 18, 2022, Shri Atanu Kumar Das, MD & CEO- Bank of India, launched a pledge signature campaign in which all employees were encouraged to sign and take a pledge to take their loved ones for a mammogram and raise awareness about breast cancer.

On October 19, 2022, Dr. Bhavisha Ghugare, Surgical Oncologist from Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital, delivered an address to all female employees, which was inaugurated by Smt. Monika Kalia, Executive Director, Bank of India. Following that, all female employees received Self-Breast Examination Training.

Pure Storage Named a Leader for Second Consecutive Year in 2022 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Distributed File Systems and Object Storage

Bangalore, India – October 31, 2022 — Pure Storage® (NYSE: PSTG), the IT pioneer that delivers the world’s most advanced data storage technology and services, today announced it has been positioned by Gartner as a Leader in the Magic Quadrant for Distributed File Systems and Object Storage for both its Completeness of Vision and Ability to Execute, in the rapidly growing storage market for unstructured data.

Built from the ground up to address the most challenging unstructured data requirements, Pure Storage rewrote the rules for scale-out storage with the introduction of its unified fast file and object platform, FlashBlade®, the first high-performance storage solution for modern data. FlashBlade is used by more than 25% of the Fortune 100, leveraging nearly unlimited scalable metadata architecture while delivering cloud-like simplicity and agility with consistent high performance and control.

“We’re thrilled to be positioned as a Leader in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Distributed File Systems and Object Storage. We believe Pure’s position as a Leader is further validation of our continued efforts to deliver a flexible, scalable and powerful platform that can tackle the critical unstructured data challenges modern enterprises experience. Thank you to our teams, customers and partners who made this achievement possible.” – Matt Burr, VP and General Manager, FlashBlade, Pure Storage.

FlashBlade has had several recognitions over the past year, including:

● Introduction of FlashBlade//S™: the new FlashBlade//S, the latest addition to the FlashBlade family of products, is built using the same proven Purity//FB with a modular architecture. Its unique co-designed hardware and software delivers more than double the density, performance, and power efficiency of previous versions. Supported by Pure Storage’s Evergreen™subscription services, FlashBlade//S is a flexible, scalable platform that evolves over time to meet customer needs, while minimizing waste.
● Industry Momentum: FlashBlade is continuing to see meaningful adoption across use cases. More than 10 of the leading autonomous vehicle software development companies and half of the top 10 semiconductor companies rely on FlashBlade to fast-track innovation, remain competitive, and expedite time-to-market.
● Impact on Enterprise Sustainability: Supported by Pure Storage’s DirectFlash® technology, built-for-flash software, always-on deep compression, and Evergreen architecture, FlashBlade can achieve unrivaled energy savings. With FlashBlade, Pure delivers 67% in direct energy savings versus competing legacy all-flash offerings and 60% in direct energy savings versus competing upstart all-flash offerings.
● Customers’ Choice Recognition: FlashBlade was recognized as a 2022 Customers’ Choice for Distributed File Systems and Object Storage within the Gartner®Peer Insights™ “Voice of the Customer” report. According to Gartner Peer Insights, FlashBlade received an Overall rating of 4.7 out of 5, with 96% of customers ‘Willing to Recommend’ it out of 86 Overall Reviews as of Jan 2022.

Magic Quadrant™ reports are a culmination of rigorous, fact-based research in specific markets, providing a wide-angle view of the relative positions of the providers in markets where growth is high and provider differentiation is distinct. Providers are positioned into four quadrants: Leaders, Challengers, Visionaries and Niche Players. The research enables organizations to get the most from market analysis in alignment with their unique business and technology needs.

4 travel tech startup with disruptive tech spinning the Travel industry

Our daily lives have been impacted by technology, which has changed the way we work, shop, eat, and enjoy our free time. The travel sector has profited from ongoing technology improvements as well. Today, we can plan full trips by making reservations for hotels, flights, sightseeing excursions, and other activities on our smartphones. Nowadays, travel is a necessary component of our way of life. Glory Days Bay estimates that the worldwide travel technology industry will cross the $12 billion threshold by 2026, rising at an anticipated CAGR of more than 7.7% from 2021 to 2026.

Some smart brains made the decision to start a venture in the travel sector with the advantages of travel in mind. The market is anticipated to reach $9 billion by 2025 as a result of a surge in contemporary travel start-ups and shifting consumer preferences. Travel companies help customers create customized travel arrangements to make their vacations hassle-free, from booking tickets to occasionally offering exhilarating discounts and deals.

We have narrowed down the list of 4 travel tech startups that clout the technology to revolutionize the Travel Industry:

Alike.io:
Alike.io is the world’s first content creator-focused Travel Commerce platform that incentivizes content creators by sharing revenues of bookings influenced by the creator. Launched in collaboration with Dubai Tourism, Alike.io is the flagship offering of travel tech innovator – kitmytrip. Powered by their e-commerce-enabled no-code platform, Alike.io offers the content creators (the Insiders) their own studio to showcase their travel content, boosting the success of a whole new set of travel micro-entrepreneurs – the Travelpreneurs.

Alike.io’s uniqueness is its capability to make travel content bookable. For this Alike.io has already done tie-ups with experience providers across 200 global destinations, which is being made live on the platform in phases over the coming months. Building on their rapid growth, Alike.io is already collaborating with marquee brands like Zomato, SBI, and Dubai Tourism to bring the benefits of their platform to the global traveler.

SafetyWing:

SafetyWing is building the first global safety net for remote companies, remote workers, and nomads worldwide. Our products are built and designed by a fully remote team of nomads distributed across three continents. Starting with Nomad Insurance – a travel medical insurance for nomads, and our most recent product, Remote Health – comprehensive health insurance available for remote companies and individuals worldwide. We are building out a product collection of insurance, pension savings, and income protection – that in the future will be available as a membership.

Mint House :

Mint House combines the classic comfort of home and the modern luxury of a hotel, giving guests all the perks and none of the tradeoffs. We’ve ditched losable key cards, long lines, room service, and other relics for the things we miss when we travel—kitchens, groceries, workout routines, and the space to spread out. Every part of the Mint House experience is powered by smart technology, making your stay personal, predictable, and effortless.

Self-book:

Quietly transforming the hospitality landscape by setting a new standard in travel payment from any direct touchpoint. Amid this global transformation that has crippled the hospitality industry, Selfbook aims to propel the industry forward by empowering hotels with better ways to recover and reconnect. By improving their direct booking conversion, hotels can increase revenue and save up to 25% on commissions and fees while elevating the customer booking experience online.

Avantra sets benchmark for SAP operations with new ‘automation native’ release

Philadelphia, PA – October 31, 2022: Avantra, the industry-leading AIOps platform for SAP operations automation, announces the launch of its latest software release, Avantra 23. The updates deliver service quality that has never been seen before in SAP operations, with ready-to-use workflow automation templates, including SAP system refresh, automated SAP security analysis, and much more. With the rise of hybrid architecture in enterprise landscapes, there is growing complexity in SAP operations, making the need to save time ever more important.

The new Avantra 23 platform update gives businesses that rely on enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems something that nothing else can – exceptional service quality of ERP operations. Research from Deloitte shows that 55% of an IT budget goes to keeping operations running and only 19% to building innovative new capabilities. The latest Avantra release provides customers with a force multiplier that releases talent from time consuming manual activities. Even a conservative 10% reduction alone saves organizations millions over the course of a year, and hours of time that could be used to introduce the applications that businesses crave.

John Appleby, Avantra CEO, explains that “There is so much work to do in enterprise IT operations, and not enough people to do it. So we need to be thinking about them as automators rather than operators. That is the talent transformation that has to happen in our industry.

“The biggest challenge for business automation is that key talent holds all the knowledge about the activities which an organization wants to automate, and are also the busiest. With Avantra 23, we are solving this paradox by automating repetitive monitoring and maintenance activities and providing a foundation that enables the automation native to rise above the manual work that holds them back. And that’s how the Avantra AIOps platform is enabling hyperautomation for customers.”

The enhanced automation engine provides updated customizable workflow templates and the ability to automate system refresh, creating time for the operations team to focus on greater business value projects that deliver shareholder value, revenue, and profitability. Speaking at the tech company’s customer summit in October, Appleby said, “There’s no easy way to say it, businesses just have to prioritize automation. That also requires the need to give ERP operations teams a little space to put in automation, because it will give back benefits 10 times over.”

Avantra CTO, Bernd Engist explains, “Everything Avantra automates pays back by making your most critical assets less busy. System refreshes that previously took four days of complex manual operations are now automated and completed within a few hours. Our fully automated system refresh ability now brings support for Oracle and Sybase databases, in addition to SAP HANA – a major migration project for many customers right now. This new release gives Avantra customers the ability to better deliver their business needs – be that digital transformation, hyperautomation, or cloud migration projects.

“Avantra customers have always been able to integrate with many ITSM solutions, including ServiceNow. Avantra 23 now harnesses our platform’s deep SAP automation capabilities to allow customers to connect other workflow and automation systems, such as Red Hat’s Ansible. This integration, developed in partnership with Red Hat, enables customers to swiftly build and deploy SAP automation solutions as part of any existing automation strategy.”

Avantra 23 is available in Standard, Professional, and Enterprise editions; all featuring an improved user experience and advanced monitoring capabilities. While the Professional edition adds the enhanced automation engine, the Enterprise edition provides a wealth of automation templates and Red Hat Ansible integration alongside the existing SAP HotNews analysis and AI predictive analytics introduced in Avantra 21.11.

NOFILTR Group and Chrome Hospitality come together to help creators build exciting F&B businesses

Mumbai, October 31, 2022: NOFILTRGroup has come together with Chrome Hospitality Founders – Pawan Shahri, NikitaHarisinghani & Dhaval Udeshi to enable the creator community to start offline businesses. Through this association, Chrome Hospitality is partnering with select creators of NOFILTR to help them establish an entrepreneurial presence in the F&B industry.

NOFILTR will be supporting its talents to ideate and conceptualize whereas Chrome hospitality will assist them in setting up the F&B properties. While NOFILTR has been known for molding the most promising digital talents across the country, Chrome Hospitality has been a renowned hospitality company that manages and consults restaurants across the country. The two stalwarts are collaborating with social media’s most loved content creators to build exciting new offline businesses in the F&B sector. This joint partnership is also providing a platform to creators with a following of close to 3 million.

Talking about the association, MihirSurana, CEO and Partner, NOFILTR says, “NOFILTR has always endeavored to empower its talents in more ways than one, the collaboration with Chrome Hospitality is another step in our vision to help creators build multi-faceted businesses. We are looking forward to this exciting journey”.

Echoing similar thoughts, Pawan Shahri, Founder, Chrome Hospitality says, “Chrome Hospitality is on the forefront of experiential F&B in India across our management and consulting divisions. We look forward to partnering up with NOFILTR Group to enable creators to start their F&B journey and help them scale operations Pan-India. Chrome’s presence across segments like casual dining, cloud kitchens & QSRs will be leveraged to give a platform to the creators to start a profitable offline business supported by their online distribution.”

NOFILTR and Chrome Hospitality’s plan entails creating almost 75000 sq. ft of F&B properties by 2023. The outlets will be spread throughout major Tier 1 and Tier 2 centers, apart from metros like Chandigarh, Indore, Jaipur, Surat, Ahmedabad, and many others.

The NOFILTR Group has nurtured and brought forth a world of much-loved content creators, while Chrome Hospitality is one of the most sought-after hospitality players in the country. This collaboration will mark a new chapter and help bring delicacies closer to home by their favorite creators.

After a successful partnership with TATA group, the Israeli retail-Tech company, Onebeat, expands to more Indian Retailers

India, 31st October 2022: Today, One beat, the Adaptive Inventory Management software, is expanding its operation in India; working with major retail corporations such as Madhura Garments, Titan Watches, Tanishq, and Metro Shoes in order to increase their footprint in the region. Through this strategic partnership, One beat will enable retailers, wholesalers, and brands across India to achieve retail disruption through operational excellence and innovation. Their AI-based technology will help businesses in real-time using AI and big data tools across verticals such as Apparel, Footwear, Jewelry, Sporting Goods, and Luxury.

Founded by Dr. Yishai Ashlag and Avihai Schnabel in 2018, One beat raised $5M in funding; led by Surround Ventures and AnD Ventures. Onebeat’s platform synchronizes stores’ management, directs online sales, and manages product assortment. Onebeat’s system adapts the amount and variety of products daily, for each point and channel of sales.

“Today, India is one of the largest retail markets in the world and is estimated to reach 100% by 2023. Using our AI-based Technology, we wish for every one of our clients to find exactly what they need in the store. Customers will purchase the right product for their needs, not just the products on sale. In today’s world, consumerism leads to overproduction and excess inventory, which are left unused or dead. With smarter management, we believe it’s possible to manufacture and showcase fewer products, and still meet customer needs, eventually leading to a reduction in prices for customers,” states Avihai Schnabel, Co-Founder of One beat.

Onebeat’s algorithm has the ability to break products into basic attributes such as color, model, fabric, price, cut, etc, finding multiple correlations between different attributes and products in various locations. In turn, Onebeat’s system can predict the type of products sold in each location in real time. Eventually, such information will lead to proper inventory allocation in physical stores and the promotion of the right products online.

Currently, One beat partners with leading global retailers like WeShoes, American Eagle, Naf Naf, and Toys R Us in a variety of industries, including fashion, footwear, jewelry, pharmacies, and beverages. The company’s clientele in India includes corporations such as Titan, Tanishq, Croma, Madhura Fashion brands, Metro Shoes Thangamayil, Max & TCNS.