Archive: September 30, 2020

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HackerEarth Expands its Platform; Introduces Fullstack Assessments

Sep 30, 2020 by Gouri Achary 0 Comments #Fullstack Assessments, #HackerEarth, #Hire10(1), #Sachin Gupta.

Bangalore – September 30th, 2020 – HackerEarth, a leading developer assessment and interview solutions provider, today announced the addition of full-stack assessments to help recruiters efficiently evaluate the coding skills of full-stack developers. HackerEarth’s CEO, Sachin Gupta, made the announcement today at Hire10(1), HackerEarth’s flagship virtual conference to help recruiters and engineering leaders hire top developers and build great tech teams.

According to the 2020 HackerEarth Developer Survey, more developers — over 35% — have expertise in full-stack development than in any other category. Yet evaluating these skills is notoriously difficult because full-stack development spans across multiple skills and requires a high level of customization based on the specific technology stack that an organization uses. HackerEarth’s full-stack assessment solution is highly flexible and customizable, supports a large number of out-of-the-box tech stacks, while simultaneously allowing any custom stack to be installed in the development environment. These assessments also include a powerful browser-based IDE built on top of Theia editor, providing developers with the same code writing experience in the browser as they would get on their own systems.

“Organizations are increasingly looking to recruit full-stack developers. In fact, recent data from a survey done by Indeed shows that the demand for full-stack developers in the U.S. increased by 206% between 2015-2018. However, finding a good full stack developer is hard since the assessment process is notoriously difficult and can take hours, days, and even weeks” said HackerEarth CEO, Sachin Gupta. “We added this feature to simplify the process and are working to make it easy for recruiters to proctor over longer time periods and assess using various programming languages. Our goal is to enable recruiters to evaluate developer skill from early candidate screening to more in-depth assignments in the later stages of recruitment, as well as to provide the best performance and experience possible for full-stack candidates.”

Key Benefits of the HackerEarth Fullstack Assessments Include:

● Flexibility: Can be used for full-stack, or for assessment of either frontend or backend skills independently
● The breadth of Languages Supported: Includes Python, Django, Java (Spring), Node JS for backend, and React and Angular JS for frontend
● Customizability: Recruiters can customize the development environment and the task based on their specific technology stack. Candidates can then build and run entire applications within the HackerEarth portal
● Ease of Implementation: Gives full access to the HackerEarth library of 13,000+ questions which allows recruiters to quickly build out full-stack assessments or create custom questions as well
● Automation: Fully automated backend assessment, with frontend coming soon

For a better review process, the product has a detailed report section with additional functions including:

● Real-time recording of actions taken while building the application in the form of log files which recruiters can download and review
● A preview function to help recruiters and candidates check the build easily
● Automated screenshots of the application built by the candidate so recruiters can quickly evaluate their progress

Features Coming Soon:

● Automated code quality score
● Fool-proof proctoring for longer-term assignments
● Support for more languages and frameworks, including PHP and Ruby on Rails
● Auto-evaluation for frontend
● The full-stack infrastructure will also be used to create specialized assessments for roles like Cybersecurity engineer, Game developer, etc.

To learn more about HackerEarth’s Fullstack Assessments please contact marketing@hackerearth.com.

 

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Fastest scale-up in insurance distribution: PhonePe sells 5 lakh policies in just 5 months

Sep 30, 2020 by Gouri Achary 0 Comments #Hemant Gala, #insure-tech, #PhonePe app

National, September 30, 2020: PhonePe, India’s leading digital payments platform, today announced that it has sold over 5 lakh insurance policies on its platform during the period April – August 2020. This makes PhonePe the fastest-growing insure-tech distributor in India within just 9 months of the Insurance category going live on the PhonePe app.

PhonePe forayed into the insurance segment in January this year and was the first digital payment platform to launch international travel insurance for business & leisure travellers. Since April, it has launched 5 more insurance products which include COVID-19 Insurance, Domestic Travel Insurance, Hospital Daily Cash, Dengue & Malaria Insurance, Personal Accident Cover in addition to International Travel Insurance.

The short span of time within which these products were launched is significant considering the industry usually takes a few months to develop and launch similar products. What is also noteworthy is that PhonePe has timed its products based on market needs and has also partnered with leading insurers to offer customized products for its vast registered user base exceeding 23 crores. PhonePe launched a few cost-effective insurance products for COVID-19 in April & May when the pandemic was seeing a rapid spread across the country. With the lockdown ending and domestic travel gradually starting across the country in June, the company launched a comprehensive, industry-first domestic multi-trip insurance cover at just INR 499 for all domestic trips for a year. PhonePe soon launched sachet-based insurance products in July beginning with Hospital Daily Cash to enable customers to get an assured amount if they are hospitalized due to injury or illnesses including COVID-19. Keeping the upcoming rainy season in mind which sees a huge number of cases of mosquito-borne diseases across the country, it launched Dengue & Malaria Insurance in July.

The PhonePe app has seen insurance purchases from over 15,000 pin codes covering tier-1, 2, 3 and beyond reflecting the deep penetration of its platform and tremendous customer response to its offerings. Over 70% of PhonePe’s users come from tier- 2 and 3 cities with many users buying insurance for the first time. The leading tier-2 and tier-3 cities for insurance sales on PhonePe are Visakhapatnam, Jaipur, Ahmedabad, Nashik, Vijayawada and Aurangabad.

Commenting on the milestone, Hemant Gala, VP Financial Services & Payments, PhonePe said, “We are delighted to have achieved the 5 lakh insurance policies sold milestone on PhonePe within a short span of 5 months. This is by far the fastest scale-up seen in the insuretech industry. We are thankful to our partners who have worked closely with us to innovate and co-create affordable products for our customers to cater to their specific needs. Customers continue to repose their trust in PhonePe as they find buying insurance on our platform affordable, simple to understand and easy. This is in line with our goal to be a one-stop destination for all insurance needs of our customers. We are in talks with multiple insurers and have many new products in the pipeline which will be launched in the coming months.”

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‘COMPFIE’ Set to Change Srilanka’s Compliance Landscape

Sep 30, 2020 by Gouri Achary 0 Comments #Aparajitha Corporate Services Private Limited, #Colombo headquartered 3W Consulting, #Compfie, #Mr. Nagaraj Krishnan, #Mr. Stefan Moraes

Colombo / Chennai, September 30, 2020: Aparajitha Corporate Services Private Limited, India’s no.1 company for Compliance, today announced the introduction of its Global E-Governance and Compliance Platform – ‘Compfie’ in Sri Lanka in association with Colombo headquartered 3W Consulting. This move to position ‘Compfie’ in Sri Lanka’s compliance market marks the first major development for the strategic country partnership between Aparajitha and 3W.

Compfie is an online Compliance Management tool on a cloud platform designed to global standards with a combination of sector/industry-specific knowledge, with compliance metrics within the legal framework & policy standards of Sri Lanka. Technological insights uniquely position our teams to work with organizations to achieve end-to-end digital transformation. From strategy to processes to tech enablement to regulatory changes, our multi-disciplinary teams take a holistic view of how country-specific laws, platforms and compliance output behaviours across the front, middle and back offices need to evolve.

Advantage Compfie

  • Real-time legal updates
  • A platform embedded with comprehensive legal knowledge
  • Assistance to map a legal framework for all legal entities and units
  • Opportunity to dynamically drive compliance performance
  • Auto trigger, tracking, and escalation of compliance parameters
  • Maker – Checker forensic controls
  • Multi-dimensional compliance dashboard for management review
  • An effective due diligence & audit platform
  • A Repository of all compliance records
  • Real-time performance scorecard
  • Comprehensive controls with privilege access
  • Exceptional data security with global certifications

Commenting on the occasion, Mr. Nagaraj Krishnan, Managing Director, Aparajitha Corporate Service Private Limited said, “The corporate governance culture is picking up across organisations globally as the governance landscape is rapidly changing. As regulatory and statutory compliance is considered as a high-risk category by most Organisations our product has been a welcomed platform by many. Compfie is our global e-Governance compliance platform which is designed to translate the applicable regulatory compliance knowledge and drive organisations compliance performance. Compfie acts as a Risk mitigation tool which addresses the board room worry that arises out of regulatory compliance risks for the Board of Directors and Investors. Aparajitha Strategic country partnership with 3W for Srilanka is intended to set a tone for the compliance culture in the country. The potential Market share of 1800 Crore plus in Srilanka will give us an opportunity to participate in the economic growth of Srilanka while also contributing to the employment opportunities and ITES development in the country.”

Compfie provides the winning edge and will accelerate to change the future on how Corporates and Boards plan, structure and streamline their in-house processes. Compfie’s technology set methods are designed to mitigate risk and govern compliance procedures to expedite and achieve organisational goals within the purview of a country’s / region’s statutory rules and regulations.

“There is a strong shift to governance for all multinational companies due to the unforeseen global challenges experienced. Most compliances are driven by the internal structures of the organisation with very limited statutory and regulatory legal knowledge as a part of the BCP plan. As compliance is technically managed in-house across Srilanka, we vision to change the compliance landscape in the country through our Strategic partnership with Aparajitha. There is absolutely no automated GRC software available in Srilanka today and as this is a virgin market for Compfie. Through our offering we look forward to setting a tone of an organised compliance culture in Srilanka and easily capture the Market Share in the Compliance space throughout the country,” says Mr. Stefan Moraes, Managing Director, 3W Consulting.

Aparajitha looks forward to entering Singapore, Malaysia, Philippines, Indonesia and Australia in the coming months. The company is simultaneously also exploring a foray into the UAE, UK and the US markets.

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ThefreshPlatform introduces “ready-to-cook meal kit” to create a revolution in Indian home cooking!

Sep 30, 2020 by Gouri Achary 0 Comments #Mr. Ranjan Patra, #ready-to-cook meal kit, #ThefreshPlatform, #Wecare Foods & Beverages Pvt. Ltd.

September 2020, Bangalore: Cooking was never been so fun and easy! ThefreshPlatform; a venture of Bangalore based Wecare Foods & Beverages Pvt. Ltd. brings ready-to-cook meal delivery service provider whose sole mission is to make the home cooking fun, easy, hygienic and full of nutrition and originally made at home!

Ordering a meal kit from the ThefreshPaltform website is convenient and swift with simple payment interface and varied options of dishes. A meal kit contains:

• High-quality GROCERIES sorted, washed…
• Fresh VEGGIES cleaned, cut into its required size…
• Best Quality MASALAS pasted, prepared…
• All items perfectly portioned and made pan ready for easy cooking
• Simple cooking guidance, in case you need help

350+ dishes, ranging from Breakfast, Mid Morning Snacks, Lunch, Evening Tea/Snacks and Dinner; Salads, Starter, Main Course, Rice, Dal, Indian Breads, Accompaniments to various beverages and Desserts; Indian (covering all regional preparations), Mughlai, Thai, Chinese, Oriental, Italian, Mexican and Continental cuisines delivered to doorsteps as per the choices and preferences of the customers.

ThefreshPlatform meal kits are contained with all ingredients, including salt and cooking oil. Only the water needed to be add water as and when required. That’s it!

The entire cooking and all other kitchen work can be finished in just 15-20 minutes. Is it not super convenient?

ThefreshPlatform doesn’t just deliver convenience as a simple service attribute but they deliver convenience across every customer touch-points. They create recipes, meal plans as per the customers’ food habits and palate preferences, bring healthier choices and better ingredients right to a home.

They say, “this is not so-called outside food, this is your home food, cooked by you, the way you wish to prepare for yourself and your family. We have just tried to help you to reduce your time, effort and hassle for that. And guided you to cook, whenever you needed any help.”

Ranjan PatraAnnouncing the launch of the one of its kind service, Mr. Ranjan Patra, founder & CEO of ThefreshPlatform said, “Urban life may give all the amenities for inhabitants but may not provide the peace of mind and ease of getting wholly home-cooked food. People are either dependent on eateries or relying on their cooks for their daily meal. People are working and working for longer than they can. Busy. Crazy. Nonstop! By the end of the day, they are depriving of the basic requirement for life! Home-made FOOD! Now it’s more of a vex than ever due to the Covid19 pandemic. Eateries may or may not be safe, allowing cooks or helping hands to your home may or may not be secure and of course, stepping out of home for groceries is an additional task. So all you have to do is to leave your all worries to ThefreshPlatform! Just order your meal from us and we will take care of your food.”

Further emphasising on the USP of ThefreshPlatform, Mr.Patra said, “we procure the best and fresh fruits and vegetables and other food ingredients needed for your choice of meal directly from the source, in turn benefiting our customers and farmers thereby bringing cost-benefit and transparency to all. We tie up directly with farmers and suppliers thereby ensuring the freshness of ingredients that distinguish ThefreshPlatform from others.”

ThefreshPlatform provides fresh and non-dehydrated products that are delicious, nutritive, and ideal for daily consumption unlike dehydrated food that contains zero water, results in loss of taste and is not benefited for health. All are packed in a hygienic sealed box, one just needs to cut the pouches, pour it in a pan and finish cooking in a jiffy. This food is absolutely homely and light on the stomach.

ThefreshPlatform is backed by an experienced team of Food Technologists, Nutritionists, Chefs, IT and Supply Chain Management professionals. ThefreshPlatform serves only vegetarian products.

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On the Occasion of World Heart Day: Global Hospital, Mumbai initiated an awareness drive on wellness

Sep 30, 2020 by Gouri Achary 0 Comments #Dr. Praveen Kulkarni, #Global Hospital, #Mumbai

Global Hospital, Mumbai initiated an awareness drive on wellness: Healthy India can be a Happy and Prosperous India.

As the saying goes “An Apple A Day Keeps the Doctor Away,” with this mind, Global Hospital, Mumbai distributed an apple to every patient and visitor in the hospital. As we are already fighting the pandemic, it is high time that we all take care of our health to reduce the burden of heart disease and help the society at large. The key to a healthy life starts from healthy eating habits and therefore, this initiative has been taken to send across the message of embracing a healthy lifestyle.

Approx. 300-350 apple were distributed among the visitors at Global Hospital. With the distribution of apple, the team conveyed the message of the importance of healthy eating habits and lifestyle. The objective of the event was to inspire people to stay fit and lead a healthy life. The visitor was surprised by the gesture of apple distribution.

Dr. Praveen Kulkarni, Senior Cardiologist, Global Hospital, Mumbai, “Heart disease is the leading cause of death. It remains so even in times of COVID. Please do not ignore cardiac symptoms and seek timely cardiac care.:

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Covid Fuels NoBrokerHood Expansion to 5 more cities

Sep 30, 2020 by Gouri Achary 0 Comments #Amit Agarwal, #NoBrokerHOOD

September 30, 2020: NoBrokerHood, the visitor, society, and payments management app by NoBroker has been steadily gaining ground over the past few months. It is now available in a total of 11 cities including Bangalore, Mumbai, Pune, Hyderabad, Chennai, Delhi-NCR, Kolkata, Jaipur, Ahmedabad, Kochi, and Nagpur. As the app offers convenient and secure living with numerous helpful features, the growth is fueled by imperatives such as social distancing and staying home due to pandemic scare.

As India entered into first lockdown and uncertainty regarding procuring daily essentials sent people into a state of frenzy, the app launched a grocery store overnight and was quick to partner with grocery giants- Bigbasket and ITC, to help society residents by optimizing deliveries.

Not just that, it has also launched an array of features to help residents mitigate the risk of Covid-19. Many of these features are first of their kind such as Touchless Entry using facial recognition that detects residents and frequent visitors such as domestic help, drivers, and other staff without physical contact. It is also integrated with Aarogya Setu to ensure that visitors entering the society do not bring in any risk of infection. The Health tracker feature on the app which was also launched in the interest of safety gives hyperlocal details about containment zones near the society and if a visitor is coming from one.

NoBroker is a tech-driven platform and uses advanced technologies to the benefit of the customers. As a testimony to the tech innovations in NoBrokerHood, the app has experienced 8x growth over the last 4-5 months. It grew from less than 1000 societies to 4500 societies quickly. Expanding to more cities was the next natural step and it has already been onboarded by famous societies across the newly launched cities; Silver Crown in Jaipur, DLF Galleria in Kolkata, Indraprastha Tower in Ahmedabad, Empress city in Nagpur and Trinity World in Kochi.

Commenting on the fast expansion, Amit Agarwal, CEO and Cofounder of NoBroker said, “We are consistently working to better our app to offer better customer experience. We have launched over 11 new features in the NoBrokerHood app over the last 4 months in the interest of resident safety during these trying times. We want more and more cities and more and more societies to benefit from it. We are very humbled with the warm reception that we have received from our newly launched cities. We have always been a customer-centric company and all of what we do and innovate hinges on customer experience. We are happy to be able to bring the safety experience to more societies.”

Society living is increasingly becoming the preferred option by most people today because of the many benefits and amenities that are packaged with gated communities. NoBroker believes that the pandemic necessitated the launch of these security features. India has over 2 lakh societies and NoBroker feels it has just scratched the surface and there is a lot more to conquer. The app which went live in 2018 is onboarded by 4500 societies presently and is aiming to be present in xx societies by 2021.

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Infobip launches ‘Moments’– helping brands add a human touch to customer communications

Sep 30, 2020 by Gouri Achary 0 Comments #Harsha Solanki, #Infobip, #Moments

New Delhi, 30th September 2020: Global cloud communications platform Infobip, has now launched an omnichannel customer engagement hub, Moments. Moments empowers brands to segment their customers by demographics and behaviour alongside other metrics, thereby driving contextual messaging and rich experiences across major marketing channels.

As more people join the digital bandwagon in the New Normal, ‘Moments’ leverages Infobip’s mobile-first telecommunications solutions to ensure all customers have rich and consistent experiences across all marketing channels. It delivers the right set of messages to the right customer at the most optimal times. Moments does so across the channels that a brand’s customers generally prefer. Some of them include social messaging apps (such as WhatsApp, Viber, Facebook Messenger, Line, etc), SMS, email, voice, mobile applications, websites, and also the emerging channels such as RCS.

Moments empowers marketers and businesses to drive highly effective campaigns that resonate with their customers on a personal level. It provides a 360o view of every customer which can be used to automate ‘multi-step communications flows’ and ‘behaviour-triggered messages’ across different channels. The platform can even analyze an end-user’s actions as well as the interactions at each step of the consumer journey. This approach ensures that every customer comes across cherry-picked communication that drives superior engagement with great personalization.

Harsha Solanki, Managing Director India, Infobip, comments: “The digital lines are bedimming very rapidly. A customer in nothing flat can get lowdown on, with your business on WhatsApp and wind up at your website after a quick Google search. This globe-trot gets cyclic when the same entity engages with you on WhatsApp again. This cyclic engagement holds good even for other channels of marketing including voice and emails. The present scenario merits the prerequisite of a robust omnichannel strategy in place that ensures you don’t miss out on any customer or conversation – be it on your website or WhatsApp.”

“We have developed Moments while taking all such scenarios into consideration. Moments builds on Infobip’s state-of-the-art technology and empowers organizations to deliver personalized messages that generate optimal results amongst your target audience. We do so across the widest range of programmable channels offered by any platform globally. In the wake of the pandemic-induced digital surge, we are sure that this approach will prove crucial in driving brands closer to a customer-centric form of marketing.”Key features include:

Easy cross-channel campaign management: Moments allows marketers to create, orchestrate, and run campaigns across Infobip’s vast portfolio of channels through a single interface. Messaging campaigns can be delivered and scaled at the right time on the customer’s preferred and most relevant channel.

Unified customer data: Creates richer customer profiles by connecting and unifying data from multiple sources, enabling businesses to understand customer needs better and create personalized campaigns.

Smarter audience segmentation: Personalize messaging campaigns at scale by segmenting audiences based on events, tags, behaviour, or special occasions.

Dynamic marketing automation: The ability to onboard, activate, and re-engage via multistep campaign automation, and create an event and behaviour-based triggers to respond instantly to customer actions.

Powerful analytics: Through event and segment analytics, businesses can optimize customer interactions by setting goals to track conversions and access insight-driven funnel reports. There is also the ability to test which messages and channels get maximum engagement results with A/B testing.

Harsha concludes: “In India, we’ve remarked an overwhelming adoption of smartphones and digital tools of late. Perhaps, Moments will enable brands to unlock the true power of communications by adding a human touch to it. The overarching objective will be to turn business communications into something a lot more meaningful thereby curating the perfect ‘moments’ for both businesses and their customers.”

To learn more about Moments, visit www.infobip.com/products/moments

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ICICI Bank launches special festive bonanza

Sep 30, 2020 by Gouri Achary 0 Comments #Festive Bonanza, #ICICI Bank, #Mr. Anup Bagchi

Mumbai: ICICI Bank today announced the launch of a festive bonanza that presents thousands of offers– discounts and cashback– on basic as well as luxury items from the stable of leading brands and e-commerce platforms. Called ‘Festive Bonanza’, it also offers attractive benefits to retail and business customers on various banking products and services. Some of the offers will be available from as early as October 1, 2020, and others at different dates of this festive season.

The customers can avail various offers on categories such as electronics & gadgets, apparels & jewellery, health & wellness, grocery & food ordering, automobile & furniture, entertainment & e-learning. The list of marquee brands offering attractive discounts includes Amazon, Flipkart, Bigbasket, Grofers, Zomato, Swiggy, Pepperfry and Tribhovandas Bhimji Zaveri (TBZ). Customers can avail these offers using ICICI Bank’s debit and credit cards, net banking and mobile banking application, iMobile. They can also enjoy offers on a long list of banking services and products such as loans, debit and credit cards, savings and current accounts, NRI accounts, money transfer, consumer finance and investments, among others.

Speaking on the launch, Mr. Anup Bagchi, Executive Director, ICICI Bank said, “With the onset of the festive season, we have put together a wide range of offers for our customers to make their celebrations more special this year. We have tied up with an array of leading eCommerce players as well as popular brands across various categories to bring forth attractive offers. These offers are applicable to using ICICI Bank’s debit/credit cards, net banking, mobile banking and digital wallet Pockets to make payments. Further, we have also introduced festive benefits across a range of banking solutions– home, balance transfer, top-up on a home loan, auto, two-wheelers, personal education loan— no-cost-EMI for financing electronics & gadgets, savings & current accounts and NRI accounts among others. With this, we believe that our customers will get the best-in-class offers to celebrate their festivities, even while they are indoors or maintaining safe distancing.”

Key benefits of ‘Festive Bonanza’ on loan products are:

 Home loans and balance transfer of home loans from other banks: Attractive
interest rate (repo rate linked) starting from 6.90% and processing fee starting from ₹3,000.

 Auto loans: Flexible schemes to help customers own car with tailor-made EMIs. EMIs
starting at ₹1,554 per ₹1 lakh for a tenure of 84 months. Women customers get a flat
processing fee of ₹1,999.

 Two-wheeler loans: EMI as low as ₹36 per ₹1,000 for the tenure of 36 months. Special processing fee of ₹999.Instant personal loans: Attractive interest rate starting from 10.50% and flat processing a fee of ₹3,999.

 Consumer finance loans: No cost EMI available on leading brands of home appliance
and digital products. The quick and completely digital process with minimal documentation.

The festive offers are available for retail consumers as well as business customers with
discounts on processing fee on loans, reduced EMIs, gift vouchers and more benefits. The Bank has tied up with leading brands to present these offers to its customers. Users of ICICI Bank debit/credit card, net banking and digital wallet Pockets can avail attractive discounts across categories as under:

Offers on leading brands & e-commerce platforms: 10% discount on online shopping
with major e-commerce players like Amazon, Flipkart, Paytm and Tata Cliq

Electronics & Gadgets: Up to 20% cashback across leading electronics brands like Samsung, LG, Panasonic, Sony, Voltas, Toshiba, Godrej and many more. Also, avail up to ₹5,000 cash back on select Samsung mobile phones. Customers can also avail attractive discounts at Croma, Vijay Sales, Pai International and Poorvika.

Apparel & jewellery: Additional 10% discounts on leading apparel brands like Myntra, Ajio, Flipkart, Paytm Mall, Central, Fab India, Vmart among others. Also, avail Up to ₹5,000 cashback on minimum purchase of ₹50,000 from Tribhovandas Bhimji Zaveri (TBZ)

Grocery: Avail exciting discounts on grocery purchase with Amazon, Big Basket, Paytm Mall, Grofers and Milk Basket.

Health, fitness and grooming: Avail up to 50% additional discounts on Shilpa Shetty’s
Simple Soulful App. Also avail attractive discounts on Goqii, Mindhouse, Practo, 1mg and others

Online food ordering: Up to 20% discount on leading food delivery apps like Zomato,
Swiggy and Domino’s

For news and updates, visit www.icicibank.com and follow us on Twitter at www.twitter.com/ICICIBank

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ESDS recognized as India’s Best Workplace for Women 2020 by GPTW survey

Sep 30, 2020 by Gouri Achary 0 Comments #Dr. Chandra Mauli Dwivedi, #ESDS Software Solution Pvt. Ltd, #Great Place to Work for, #India’s Best Workplaces for Women 2020, #Mr. Piyush Somani

Nashik/ Mumbai, September 30th, 2020: ESDS Software Solution Pvt. Ltd. holds immense pleasure to announce its unique achievement of being awarded as “India’s Best Workplaces for Women 2020” under the Top 50 category, certified by “Great Place to Work for” organization. ESDS has created a platform of equality and empowerment for the esteemed women employees with 0% wage gap between men and women.

This year there was a participation of 852 organizations which represented voices of over 4,59,386 women employees across 17 different industries.

The credibility of ESDS’s work culture lies with its Mission People HR Team which strives to create a culture of safety and happiness for their employees through its people engagement activities, training programs, webinars, learning sessions from legends to enhance leadership skills and ensure their talent, competence, skills and certifications. Every ESDSian has been supportive and nurturing towards uplifting the culture of equality for every woman colleague.

The Great Place to Work recognition holds a prestigious relevance as it builds pride and commitment amongst the potential employees of the company and also increases awareness of the organization culture. This is an acknowledgement which sizes the visibility of the brand and its stellar reputation. It also helps the company to stand different from the crowd of Employer Brand Recognitions in the world.

On this achievement the Chief Human Resource Officer, Dr. Chandra Mauli Dwivedi said, “The COVID-19 lockdown has had an enormous and profound impact on the workforce, business and economy. Many of our employees are working from home, while some of them are working at different data centres for critical business services. Our HR team are encouraging and keeping the employees engaged in various people engagement activities. We are also ensuring that our employees are fit and fine. Even our Chairman and Group CEO Mr. Piyush Somani is conducting online yoga sessions, meditation and pranayama every day to maintain physical and mental health. We must say that ‘Employees are our customers and their joy and satisfaction are our prime focuses’.”

The Founder, CMD & Group CEO of ESDS Software Solution, Mr. Piyush Somani says, “Our journey to become a Great Place to work started 15 years ago right at the time of inception. Before ESDS, I worked in two companies and have witnessed that 15 years back the work culture was such that as you spend more time in a company, it becomes difficult for employees to work there. That is where I decided to establish a workplace where each and every employee will be treated respectfully and taken care off. This work culture was sown right at the time of inception. I am proud to say that we have successfully managed to retain this culture over the years. We also have a “No Sir, No Ma’am” policy wherein everyone in the company is called by their first names right from a 60-year-old person to a 25-year-old employee. This type of culture motivates the employees and helps them to excel in their work. Also, more than 2 dozen of pantry staff at ESDS have upgraded themselves as engineers and at CXO roles as well over 10 years. This depicts the culture of ESDS and showcases how talent and skills are respected here to scale-up. I am thankful for recognizing us as the Great Place to Work and assure to inspire rest of the world and create more such organizations.”

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Smart TV Ecosystem in India – Top 3 Customised Operating System Solution for Next-Gen Smart TVs

Sep 30, 2020 by Gouri Achary 0 Comments #Cloud TV, #Customised Operating System Solution for tv, #LG Web OS, #Smart TV Ecosystem, #Tizen OS

When buying a smart TV, there’s one question people often overlook: which smart TV operating system is best? When anyone says the word Android the first thing that comes to mind is Android-powered smartphones. But this isn’t 2012 any more smartphones are not the only devices powered by Android. The world of smart TVs has seen supremacy from the Android OS. As important is to choose the right panel, resolution and sound quality is to television, selecting the correct operating system have become equally important if not more.

Here are the Top 3 Operating System that you should consider while purchasing the Smart TV.

CLOUD TV

Cloud TV is a Legally Licenced, CERTIFIED Operating System for all Android-based Smart TVs that comes with it’s a licensed App store featuring certified partnered apps, Content Discovery Engine & more that sets you free from the hassle of embedding unlicensed software or apps; Allows for an easy and minimal licensing procedure for quick go-to-market and to compete with confidence. The state-of-the-art CERTIFIED solution is compatible with all Android-based OEM/ODMs, TV manufacturers and Smart TV brands. It also has a unified launcher and Built-in Alexa, categorically designed to deliver rich and immersive digital entertainment experiences. Designed to facilitate total control over UI/UX development, the Cloud TV OS offers end-to-end customization possibilities for all Android-based Smart TVs.

The Cloud TV platform is equipped with a built-in, licensed App store with certified partnered apps. These include a mixed range of broadcasters, OTT players & Live channels including Disney+ Hotstar, Zee5, SonyLIV, Voot, SunNXT, JioCinema, Eros Now, ALTBalaji, Hungama Play, Shemaroo, YuppTV, Movie Box, DocuBay, EpicOn, Bloomberg, The Quint, Home Veda, Aptoide & more. The ever-evolving UI/UX simplifies the process of embedding licensed apps by partnering with multiple app owners and making all certified apps available in a single store.

LG Web OS

LG announced its TV operating system called WebOS. Despite it being so old, it is currently one of the best TV OS available. It comes with all the major video streaming service support. But the key highlight of the OS is its launcher bar that appears when the Home key is pressed on the remote. It grants access to all the apps and services to the users and comes with a wide range of pre-installed apps such as web browser, Live TV, TV guide and recordings. It also has a dedicated My Channels and My Content options where users can add their favourite shows and other contents for quick access. In addition to this, the OS is also certified for Dolby ATMOS and Dolby Vision.LG has also added voice control that comes in handy while searching for content. In a recent update, the company has also added ThinQ AI to the OS that can be used to communicate with supported devices. Alexa Skills and Google Home are also available.

Tizen OS

Samsung Tizen OS for TVSamsung’s TV OS is based on their Tizen OS, which also powers their other range of home appliances. The idea behind this is creating an always-connected ecosystem where each device communicates with each other, including supported washing machines and refrigerators. Although Samsung’s Tizen OS features a similar-looking bottom launcher like LG WebOS, they have added a second row that shows some recommendations based on the app selected allowing users direct access to it right from the home screen. It also comes with voice command support which can be used while searching content. Samsung has also added SmartThings support allowing users to connect and control smart home devices such as lights and thermostat, etc.