Category: technology

Shiprocket launches Engage, an AI-driven platform designed to help sellers reduce returns up to 40-45%, automate operations, and enhance post-purchase customer experience

October 21st, 2021: Underlying its commitment to democratizing e-commerce for sellers and enabling D2C brands to scale, Shiprocket, India’s leading tech-enabled logistics and fulfillment platform, has now launched Shiprocket Engage. Shiprocket Engage is a dedicated post-purchase order processing platform built to allow sellers to scale their e-commerce business through automated workflows and AI-based order analysis for risk scoring. Shiprocket Engage provides a robust customer experience that minimizes the RTO (Return To Origin) rate efficiently and increases profitability for online sellers.

One of the most prominent challenges that all e-commerce brands/sellers face in India is high RTO rates. All sellers, big and small, face considerable losses due to COD orders that are shipped but not delivered. Most sellers follow manual processes to review and filter orders to prevent excessive RTO losses. RTOs happen for various reasons, including incorrect addresses, impulse shopping by customers, manual errors, duplicate orders, courier network challenges, customer refusals to accept shipments at the time of delivery, and more. Brands have been facing multiple hurdles due to the lack of a robust system to flag orders with higher RTO risk. As an automation suite powered by an AI system trained on over 1 billion data points, Shiprocket Engage automatically flags orders with high RTO risk and provides a seamless post-purchase experience for end customers by reducing RTOs significantly and improving their profit margins.

Shiprocket Engage powers the entire post-purchase journey over WhatsApp, enabling sellers to confirm orders, verify and correct addresses, increase prepaid orders, send tracking notifications, and manage NDR flows to collect delivery re-attempt preferences from customers automatically. This leads to sellers’ reduced inbound (tracking-related) and outbound calls (NDR – rescheduling deliveries). Engage automates most of the post-purchase workflows resulting in optimizing the usage of human resources/manual processes.

Furthermore, Shiprocket Engage helps merchants process and ship their orders in an expedited manner, which also helps decrease the RTO rates. Without Engage, merchants need to spend an average of 24 hours to confirm orders, review, and correct addresses, etc. On the other hand, Engage does this in a non-intrusive manner, within a TAT of 3 hours to complete order confirmations, address review/corrections, and increase prepaid orders. Using a combination of WhatsApp, IVR, and manual calls, a merchant using Engage will get over 60%-70% of orders confirmed within 3 hours of receiving the order, enabling faster shipping & delivery, improving customer satisfaction, and minimizing RTOs.

Speaking on the launch, Saahil Goel, Co-Founder, and CEO of Shiprocket said, “As a leader in the D2C logistics and fulfillment space, we understand the pain points of sellers. With the rapidly growing demand for e-commerce, sellers often struggle to reduce RTO’s as they manually carry out their process, which hampers their efficiency and affects their ability to connect with customers. We wanted to address this issue by launching Shiprocket Engage, operating on cutting-edge technology, which will ensure a seamless and enhanced post-purchase experience by automating the manual processes, resulting in error-free, efficient operations and enhanced customer engagement.”

Shiprocket Engage is priced at a simple Rs 4.99 for each order processed.

Top 8 benefits & ways on how can Regtech firms like Kyzer Software help and can Support Financial Institutions

The volume of data produced by the banking & financial industry today is massive.

Leveraging this data to extract customer insights and prevent fraud requires analysis beyond the ability of any single team. Regulatory technology – or Regtech – is the branch of emerging technology rising to meet the challenge and ensure regulatory submissions. Regtech is also known as the tech firm community that solves challenges emerging from a technology-driven market through automation.

The upsurge in digital products has grown in cyber hacks, data breaches, terrorism, money laundering, and other deceitful activities. Therefore, to avoid such fraudulent activities, some companies are focused towards the creation of Banking RegTech solutions, like Kyzer Software, brandishes some benefits on how can Regtech firms help.

Kyzer’s market-established software combines regulatory expertise and advanced technology to ensure management of Multi-Regulator Reporting complexity for banks. The products deliver sustainable enhancements in financial data accuracy, process control, operational efficiency, and regulatory reporting, all of which are central to meeting regulatory expectations. The fully automated solution is scalable and replicable across multiple financial institutions.

The top 8 key benefits include:

1. Improved Regulatory Management – Complete Regulatory overview across multiple data sets and bank divisions ensuring decision making and reporting is based comprehensive data.
2. Improved Customer Communications – Real-time interface for banks and their customers, allowing oversight teams to monitor KPIs, breaks and workflows via configurable dashboards.
3. Data Quality Insights – Automatically make Regulatory data available for Data Analytics and Reporting.
4. Risk Based Supervision – Computations on Risk Ratings – Transaction wise, Customer wise, etc.. The products provide the controls you need to meet your regulatory obligations and manage your reporting risks.
5. Throughput Improvement– Ability to interact with multiple core, non-core systems, and data sources simultaneously as required with improved operational efficiency and  reducing non value added activities.
6. Cost Reduction – Proven cost reduction for existing operations and lower investments as operations scale.
7. Advanced Regulatory Reconciliation – Ensure completeness of reporting by processing the raw data across systems. All data sources are reconciled and high volumes easily accommodated.
8. Implementation Framework for New Regulatory Changes – The ability to enhance and scale existing processes in line with changing regulatory requirements.

Kyzer Software can also Support Financial Institutions such as a single reconciliation engine integrating data from multiple sources. Other than this, there are many ways, benefits, and features that you must know about:

• Advancement and segregation of data points based on business process requirements.
• Easily adaptable to incremental changes due to a new regulation, new data sources, and ongoing process refinements.
• Efficiently Robust control functionality, including maker checker rules using workflow management.
• Insightful and automated report generation and data extracts.
• Accelerated implementation timeframe supporting a fast ROI.
• Proactive support teams that understand your systems, backed by extensive training.
• Benefit from Tech and Domain Expertise in Trade Finance and Regulatory Management.

Lido Learning announces its first-ever Coding Boot Camp for over 2 million Indian students

National, October 20, 2021: Lido Learning, leading Indian EdTech startup and the country’s top small-group tuitions platform, has announced its first-ever Coding Boot Camp. The Boot Camp is Lido’s attempt to discover and mentor India’s budding coding superstars. The top 5% boot camp participants will get the opportunity to take the Microsoft Office Specialist exam, all expenses for which will be borne by Lido Learning. Upto 30 participants will be eligible for participation at the India-level of the Microsoft Office Specialist World Championship. The Indian winner will go on to compete with other countries’ winners for the title of the World Champion and a bumper cash prize.

The free 5-session online boot camp is aimed at students from Grade 1 to 10. Schools from across the country are invited to enrol themselves for the Lido Boot Camp to give their students this wonderful opportunity. While every participant who completes the Boot Camp will receive a participation certificate from Lido, the top 3 participants will win an all-expenses-paid trip to Silicon Valley, USA, for not just themselves, but also their school principals. The winners of the Boot Camp will be selected by Lido’s panel of judges from Stanford and Harvard.

The eligibility criteria for the Lido Boot Camp is surprisingly simple, for such high-stakes rewards. Students must simply have access to a laptop or desktop to be able to take the 5 sessions, and attend at least 4 of the 5 sessions to qualify for the rewards.

Speaking on the launch of this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for young coders in India, Sahil Sheth, Founder & CEO, Lido Learning, said, “There is so much untapped coding talent in India. There are a lot of opportunities, but at Lido we truly believe that India’s young coding superstars are at par with their global peers, and with the right training and mentorship, can easily make their mark on the international stage. We also see this as a great opportunity for young coders to learn from their peers and exchange ideas in the spirit of healthy competition. It’s been a tough couple of years for children, the Boot Camp and all the rewards it comes with is our way of giving children something to look forward to even as they learn a valuable life skill.”

Registrations are now open for schools for the Lido Coding Boot Camp. Visit https://www.lidolearning.com/bootcamp/ for more details and to register.

About Lido Learning:

Founded in 2019, Lido Learning is the first-mover in small-group online tutoring in India’s K-12 segment. The company currently offers classes in Maths, Science, Coding and English, for students from KG to Grade 12. Designed by experts from Stanford, Harvard, and IITs, Lido classes have just 6 students in a class, and use a combination of AI, immersive curriculum, and gamification to ensure success for every child. The company’s pioneering ACE program guarantees improved test results within just 8 months of classes.

DP World Launches Cargoes Logistics: A Single Window Digital Solution for Smart Logistics

National, October 20th, 2021 – DP World, the leading provider of smart supply chain solutions, today announced the launch of its new digital logistics platform, CARGOES Logistics. The platform provides customers with a single-window solution enabling seamless, safe, secure, and efficient movement of their cargo. With CARGOES Logistics, customers can choose from multimodal logistics options, ship freight by sea, road, and/or rail, get instant quotes, swift booking confirmation and multiple secure payment options in three simple steps – Search, Choose & Book. It will offer easy and swift cargo booking from origin to destination. The first phase of launch will immediately offer customers access to book cargo from UAE to India as well as India to multiple destinations across the Middle East, Subcontinent, Southeast Asia, the Far East and North Africa.

CARGOES Logistics aims to address complexities and inefficiencies that exist in global supply chains including multiple handovers, inefficient tracking and limited visibility of a shipment across the supply chain. The new digital platform will enhance transparency by providing deep tracking of cargo with real time insights, end to end visibility & predictability, an all-inclusive price with no hidden charges and highly efficient end to end digital experience backed by DP World’s extensive network of integrated logistics assets and best-in-class service levels. It will facilitate ease of doing business, boost reliability & flexibility and provide seamless experience to customers for all their logistics needs.

Rizwan Soomar, CEO & MD, Subcontinent, DP World said: “This announcement is a testament of our commitment towards enabling smart logistics globally. With CARGOES Logistics, our aim is to build and offer highly efficient, seamless and end-to-end transparent supply chains.

The new digital solution will simplify the container shipping experience providing visibility across all modes of transportation through smart enablement of IOT based solutions. We will continue to invest in technology and work with our customers to drive innovation, continually add new products & features and provide solutions to meet their global logistics needs.”

Pradeep Desai, Chief Technology Officer, DP World concluded: “Demand for digital solutions has never been higher and will only keep growing. We are leveraging technology to create value for our customers and help drive growth. CARGOES Logistics by DP World is part of the broader CARGOES software suite of products. DP World created CARGOES to solve pressing challenges caused by supply chain related inefficiencies. It’s a holistic solution powered by technology targeting all aspects of global trade including Finance, ERP, Tracking, Terminal Operating System, Customs software and enabling end-to-end logistics. We are excited to provide Logistics as one of our first CARGOES offerings to customers.”

For more information on CARGOES, or to request a demonstration, please visit: https://cargoes.com/logistics

Quantum Announces New Collaboration And Remote Editing Solution For Adobe Premiere Pro Users

BANGALORE, India – October 20, 2021- Quantum Corporation (NASDAQ: QMCO) today announced the immediate availability of the Quantum® Collaborative Workflow Solution powered by CatDVTM. This solution was designed specifically for Adobe® Premiere® Pro users to address the challenges of remote workflow editing and collaboration for large creative teams seeking maximum productivity. The turnkey solution is the result of months of testing and tuning to ensure that Adobe Premiere Pro customers receive a completely integrated, Quantum-tested and supported solution.

The Quantum Collaborative Workflow Solution solves the challenge of creative teams needing highly reliable and scalable offerings for teams that are increasingly dispersed, with some members working onsite in an office or studio location and some working from a remote location. The solution integrates everything needed for a comprehensive collaborative and remote workflow based on the Adobe® Creative CloudTM tool set including Adobe Premiere Pro. Quantum StorNext™ shared storage provides the workflow storage while Quantum CatDV Asset Management with included CatDV Cloud Panel for Adobe Creative Cloud delivers asset and project management and orchestration. For project archive and asset protection customers can choose their preferred asset archiving solution, ranging from Quantum Scalar® tape to Quantum ActiveScaleTM high-performance object storage, or any S3-compatible cloud storage. The complete, integrated solution is installed and supported by Quantum Professional Services and reseller partners certified to install StorNext® and CatDV.

“Collaborative teams who rely on Adobe Creative Cloud apps like Adobe Premiere Pro, After Effects, or Photoshop, need a platform that gives them the performance and flexibility to realize their vision,” said Sue Skidmore, head of partner relations for Adobe Video. “Our users value the tight integration and flexibility of environments provided by Quantum CatDV and StorNext.”

“Quantum is proud to incorporate a high level of integration with Adobe tools so that creative teams can stay productive in their workflow, yet still have a seamless, powerful interface to all of the capabilities of Quantum CatDV. This new solution incorporates the latest workflow best practices for a ready-to-use StorNext and CatDV environment that makes it easier for Adobe Creative Cloud users to love,” said Dave Clack, general manager, Cloud Software and Analytics, Quantum.

The Quantum Collaborative Workflow Solution will be installed and configured by a combination of Quantum Value Added Resellers (VARS) and Quantum Professional Services team, and is customized to each customer’s environment and needs, and choice of archiving technology and size.

The offering includes:

• A complete, high-performance StorNext 7 collaborative shared environment tuned for both on-site and remote team members for maximum productivity
• Installation and integration of the CatDV Panel for Adobe Creative Cloud, including Adobe Premiere Pro,
• After Effects, and Photoshop, giving creative users access to their entire content and project asset library directly within the Adobe workflow tool of choice
• Installation and tuning of a complete installation of CatDV Server and Worker Nodes powering automation workflows for file ingest, proxy creation, and content push and pull from shared storage to archive
• CatDV archive plugin installation and configuration, and customer’s option of library archive storage of up to 240 TB of Quantum Scalar Tape, ActiveScale, or Cloud
• Optional remote workstation integration for Teradici or similar services
• All support and training included for a turnkey, ready-to-work solution

“Quantum is investing in field and technical resources in conjunction with our alliance and reseller partners to make solutions highly repeatable, reliable, and leveraging the latest field-tested best practices. We’re proud to showcase this solution for Adobe Creative Cloud teams; Customers have long asked for tested solutions like this one that are delivered as a turnkey offering yet can be highly customized to their needs,” said Christine Brennan, director of partner alliances at Quantum.

More information about the solution can be found at: https://www.quantum.com/adobe

Softline welcomes Omer Qureshi as VP of Strategic Alliances

LONDON, United Kingdom – October 19, 2021 – We’re excited to welcome Omer Qureshi to Softline as our VP of Strategic Alliances. Omer will play a key role in maintaining and developing our relationships with key partners. His main focus will be on further developing and strengthening our partnership with Microsoft, as well as identifying opportunities to introduce Microsoft’s cloud and cybersecurity solutions in regions where Softline is operating and growing.

Omer most recently worked with Optimus Cloud Solutions, a boutique consulting practice which he co-founded to provide cloud consulting for businesses and government organisations in the USA. Simultaneously, he held the role of head of cloud solution sales and product leader at Avaya’s startup group focused on Cloud and Ai solutions. During the time that he worked at Avaya, Omer was instrumental in helping them to make the shift from legacy IT to a leader in Cloud and AI solutions, as well as playing a pivotal role of Avaya’s IPO in 2018.

Omer is excellently positioned to add value to Softline by drawing on his experience developing Softline’s key relationships with partners like Microsoft, a company where he worked a few years back as Director of Strategic Partnerships. His track record for identifying new opportunities and building partnerships in the areas of cloud, distribution, services and OEM is sure to prove invaluable at this exciting point in the company’s expansion and future plans.

Omer’s main focus will be to facilitate growth in the company’s cloud and subscription services, while also working closely with Softline’s regional sales teams to deliver on our near-term vision for improving the business. Omer will also be playing a key role in defining and articulating new growth opportunities both within Softline and in the industries we operate.

Omer will report directly to Softline International’s President, Roy Harding and Softline Group’s Global CEO, Sergey Chernovolenko, who commented, “Softline is focused on driving growth in cloud and subscription services, as well as helping our customers to take the necessary steps towards digital transformation, and building on our partnerships with leading global vendors. We have every confidence that Omer’s experience in generating multi-million-dollar revenue growth for industry leaders such as Microsoft, VMware, and Bank of America will help us to deliver on this goal.”

Prior to joining Softline, Omer held several sales and product leadership positions focused on enterprise sales, channel development, strategic partnership and M&A. We believe that the level of ingenuity required for this role, combined with his experience with key vendors such as Microsoft, make Omer the perfect person to deliver on Softline’s vision for strategic alliances.

Omer commented on his new role at Softline, “There’s a sense of something magical in Softline’s DNA, and I’m officially fired up about this opportunity. While my primary focus will be on our strategic relationships with Softline partners, I will also be evangelizing for the brand in the US and beyond. I intend to be a vocal agent for change, bringing best practices for our continued growth and transformation. I’m looking forward to many years of success, not to mention celebrating that success with you all!”

Omer plays an active role in several community initiatives for underprivileged youths and other causes. He also serves on the boards of several startups and nonprofits in his hometown of Seattle. In his free time, he enjoys reading, travelling, and spending time with his wife and three children.

About Softline Group

Softline facilitates digital transformation and cybersecurity services to customers from 50+ countries and in almost 100 cities around the world. Our near than 2,600 highly-motivated sales and marketing specialists (c. 45% of the Group’s FTEs), and around 1,900 engineers, developers and other IT experts (33% of the Group’s FTEs), engage with our clients to choose and integrate the right products in the most efficient way, creating and managing hybrid and secure infrastructures. Hand-in-hand with our clients, our global support and maintenance teams manage and support the infrastructure needed to underpin world-class digital transformation, cloud-based services and rock-solid cybersecurity.

Today, with over 25 years of experience, around 6,000 worldwide employees and a turnover in 2020 of $1.8 billion, Softline is a leading global provider of digital transformation, cloud services, cybersecurity and related solutions & services. Thanks to our more than 6,000 vendors, we have helped upwards of 150,000 small, medium, and large enterprise businesses from the private and public sectors transform their business into the digital world.

Softline’s goal is to help you improve your business performance, and your quality of life through the most effective use of technology.

For more information, please visit www.softline.com.

What is Insider Data Exfiltration?

Mr. Filip Cotfas, Channel Manager, CoSoSys

Data exfiltration refers to the unauthorized copying, transfer, or retrieval of data from a company computer or server. It can be performed by a variety of actors: by outsiders through malware or phishing attacks that can lead to data breaches, by malicious insiders looking to inflict harm on an organization for their own or other entities’ gain, or by careless insiders who leak data by accident. Most often, data exfiltration is a deliberate attempt to appropriative sensitive and valuable data.

Types of Data Exfiltration

There are several ways in which data is exfiltrated on-site by malicious insiders. The most common method, is outbound emails. Legitimate users attach files containing sensitive data to emails and send them to their personal email accounts. They can also copy-paste sensitive information directly into the body of emails or forward confidential internal communications to their own or competitors’ email addresses.

The second most popular data exfiltration method is uploading sensitive data to cloud storage websites.  Information can be exfiltrated from cloud storage when data is uploaded to insecure or misconfigured services. Misconfiguration in particular is a common cause for data leakage when uploaded files are accidentally left exposed to the public. Malicious insiders may also intentionally misconfigure services to give access to unauthorized third parties or make files accessible to themselves from a personal device. Uploading sensitive information to personal cloud drives from company computers is also a frequently used data exfiltration technique.

Another common data exfiltration method is the use of unauthorized removable devices to copy confidential files. Insiders can download sensitive data from the corporate network and store it locally on their work device. Those files can then easily be copied onto USBs or other removable devices connected to the computer. This technique allows employees to steal data without requiring internet or network connection. In fact, by taking their devices offline, insiders can sometimes bypass security policies in place against this type of data theft.

Preventing Data Exfiltration

Sensitive data classification is essential for effective data exfiltration threat detection. While most organizations will flag categories of data such as personally identifiable information (PII) safeguarded under data protection legislation, as sensitive, they often disregard other categories of data that could be deemed sensitive in the context of their industry.

It is therefore important that companies evaluate the data they produce and identify which categories are critical to their business operations and which need to be protected to vouchsafe their competitive advantage. Once these types of data are discovered, organizations can put security controls in place to protect them.

Data Loss Prevention (DLP) solutions, that allow sensitive data to be defined based on a company’s needs, can be used as part of cybersecurity strategies to ensure data security. DLP tools come with predefined profiles for common types of protected information such as PII and intellectual property but also allow for customizable policies to suit a particular organization’s requirements. Once sensitive data is defined, DLP solutions monitor and control its transfer and use.

By monitoring sensitive data and logging any attempts to violate policies, DLP tools allow security teams to spot suspicious user activity and identify employees acting with malicious intent. DLP technology is particularly useful against the two most popular data exfiltration techniques: it can block files containing sensitive information from being transferred to personal email addresses or cloud storage services and even prevents confidential information from being copy-pasted into the body of an email.

When applied on the endpoint, DLP solutions such as Endpoint Protector can also ensure that its policies remain active on a work computer whether it is in the office, used remotely, and regardless of whether it is connected to the internet or not.

Insider data exfiltration is a real threat to company data security and organizations wishing to protect their most valuable data must look for ways to mitigate it. While this can prove a daunting task because it involves insiders with privileged access to confidential information, tools such as DLP solutions can help companies avoid data theft through exfiltration.

Keysight Delivers New IoT Security Assessment Test Software

Bangalore, October 14, 2021 – Keysight Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: KEYS), a leading technology company that delivers advanced design and validation solutions to help accelerate innovation to connect and secure the world, has delivered a new Internet of Things (IoT) Security Assessment software solution that enables IoT chip and device manufacturers, as well as organizations deploying IoT devices, to perform comprehensive, automated cybersecurity assessments.

Increasing numbers of connected IoT devices enable hackers to leverage cybersecurity vulnerabilities for a range of attacks including malware, ransomware and exfiltration of data. According to Statista, the total installed base of IoT connected devices worldwide is projected to grow to 30.9 billion units by 2025 from 13.8 billion units expected in 2021.

“IoT device vulnerabilities are especially dangerous as they can facilitate sensitive data breaches and lead to physical danger, such as industrial equipment malfunction, medical device defects, or a home security system breach,” wrote Merritt Maxim, vice president, research director, and Elsa Pikulik, researcher, Forrester, in the State of IoT Security Report 2021.1 “In 2020, IoT devices were the second most common vector for an external breach and technology leaders rank security issues as a top concern plaguing or hindering IoT deployments.”

IoT Security Vulnerabilities – BrakTooth Discovery

Recently, researchers at Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) discovered a group of vulnerabilities, they named BrakTooth, in commercial Bluetooth chipsets that impact billions of end-user devices. The SUTD research was funded with a grant from Keysight. The SUTD published results were leveraged into improvements in Keysight’s IoT Security Assessment software.

BrakTooth captures fundamental attack vectors against devices using Bluetooth Classic Basic Rate/Enhanced Data Rate (BR/EDR) and is likely to affect Bluetooth chipsets beyond those tested by the SUTD team. “It is hard to accurately gauge the scope of BrakTooth affected chipsets,” commented Sudipta Chattopadhyay, assistant professor, SUTD. “We advise all Bluetooth product manufacturers to conduct appropriate risk assessments, especially if their product may include a vulnerable chipset. We are thankful to Keysight for generously supporting our research and the opportunity to collaborate with the experienced Keysight security team.”

The vulnerabilities, which include 20 common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVEs), as well as four awaiting CVE assignments, are found in Bluetooth communication chipsets used in System-on-Chip (SoC) boards. These pose risks that include remote code execution, crashes and deadlocks. The SUTD team responsibly disclosed the findings to the affected vendors, providing a means to reproduce the findings and time to remediate vulnerabilities.

“Research activities like these at SUTD are critical to improving cybersecurity in the connected world. If the good guys don’t improve it, the cyber criminals will take advantage of vulnerabilities for nefarious purposes,” said Steve McGregory, senior director of Keysight’s security research and development team. “While investment into research is needed and helpful, software and chipset manufacturers are responsible for delivering secure products using rigorous security testing.”

Keysight’s IoT Security Assessment Software

Keysight’s IoT Security Assessment software leverages more than 20 years of experience in network security testing to reveal security vulnerabilities across any network technology. The software offers comprehensive, automated testing to rapidly cover a large matrix of known and unknown vulnerabilities. IoT security assessments include novel cybersecurity attack tools and techniques for wireless interfaces such as Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) to test known vulnerabilities, as well as to discover new vulnerabilities.

Development organizations can easily integrate Keysight’s API-driven solution into their development pipeline with a single API for control and reporting. Organizations deploying IoT devices can leverage the software to validate IoT devices before they are delivered to end users and as new vulnerabilities become a concern. Ongoing research from Keysight’s Application and Threat Intelligence Research Center provides updates to the latest protocol fuzzing and attack techniques.

1Forrester, The State of IoT Security, 2021, by Merritt Maxim, Elsa Pikulik with Stephanie Balaouras, Chris Sherman, Benjamin Corey, Peggy Dostie

About Keysight Technologies

Keysight delivers advanced design and validation solutions that help accelerate innovation to connect and secure the world. Keysight’s dedication to speed and precision extends to software-driven insights and analytics that bring tomorrow’s technology products to market faster across the development lifecycle, in design simulation, prototype validation, automated software testing, manufacturing analysis, and network performance optimization and visibility in enterprise, service provider and cloud environments. Our customers span the worldwide communications and industrial ecosystems, aerospace and defense, automotive, energy, semiconductor and general electronics markets. Keysight generated revenues of $4.2B in fiscal year 2020. For more information about Keysight Technologies (NYSE: KEYS), visit us at www.keysight.com.

SG Analytics receives GPTW certification in its maiden attempt

Pune, October 13, 2021 – SG Analytics, a market leader in data-driven research and contextual analytics services, has been certified as a ‘Great Place to Work (GPTW)’ in its maiden attempt. The Great Place to Work Institute uses a rigorous and objective methodology to assess and benchmark organizations from over 60 countries every year.

This prestigious recognition is awarded solely on the basis of employee feedback and their experience working at an organization.

“This global certification is a testament to our resolve of building a ‘source company’, wherein everybody is successful and content. It also reflects our accountability-oriented workplace that nurtures performance, growth, and appreciation. Congratulations to all my colleagues for us being certified as a ‘Great Place to Work (GPTW),” says Sushant Gupta, Founder & CEO, SG Analytics.

Vineet Agarwal, CO-CEO, SG Analytics adds further, “It is heartening to see that even during such trying times, our people continued to be upbeat, committed, and positive, in their belief that SG Analytics is a great place to work for them. What helped us through this difficult year is the resilience of our people and the support of our clients, as well as our values of excellence, co-creation, accountability, leadership and fun. For this, we are grateful and would like to congratulate everyone for embodying the spirit of SGA.”

SG Analytics has remained consistent in its efforts towards employee welfare in a very holistic way. Earlier this year, SG Analytics announced and institutionalized a profit-sharing plan for all employees, and also introduced a path-breaking policy of leave-sharing, reflecting its unique employee-oriented approach.

Sandeep Dutta, Head of HR & Admin, SG Analytics says, “For all of us at SGA, it is a great honour to have been certified the industry coveted ‘Great Place to Work’ in the first attempt. The GPTW certification is special to us because it is based on trust index, culture audit, and anonymous feedback from our valued team members who, through their direct ‘feedback’ tell the story SG Analytics, unfiltered.”

SG Analytics conducted two major hiring drives during the pandemic to onboard talented professionals when many companies were laying off their staff.

About SG Analytics

SG Analytics, is one of the leading research and analytics firms to offer data-centric research and contextual analytics services to companies across BFSI, Media & Entertainment, Technology & Healthcare sectors including Fortune 500 companies. With its presence in the US, the UK, Switzerland, and India, SG Analytics has been consistently meeting and exceeding customer expectations through its knowledge-based ecosystem and impact-oriented solutions. The company serves across a strong portfolio of Fortune 500and other clients. With the philosophy of a ‘source company’ at its center, the firm has been able to create a dynamic and growth-oriented environment at the workplace for over 950+ employees, enabling it to become a Great Place To Work (GPTW) certified company.