Archive: August 11, 2022

Micro Focus’ CyberRes Partners with Google Cloud to Enable High-Scale Secure Cloud Analytics with Data Privacy

Bangalore, India. – Aug. 11, 2022 – CyberRes, a Micro Focus line of business, announced a partnership with Google Cloud to support the upcoming release of BigQuery remote functions. The partnership will see CyberRes’ end-to-end enterprise data protection solution, Voltage SecureData, integrate with Google’s BigQuery data warehouse to accelerate and expand organizations’ data science initiatives and help companies comply with ever-evolving privacy regulations.

The integration will enable CyberRes Voltage customers to persistently protect data in use, in motion, and at rest in Google BigQuery. The support for remote functions also enables Google Cloud’s BigQuery customers to take advantage of Voltage’s privacy-enabling technologies. Mutual customers can use Voltage’s format-preserving encryption, hashing, and tokenization services within BigQuery in conjunction with Google BigQuery’s native security to address strict privacy compliance controls. Voltage’s cloud-agnostic and consistent data protection allows all customers to safely use regulated data for analytics across hybrid clouds.

“The availability of remote functions from BigQuery is an exciting and critical evolution of Google Cloud’s platform for our customers,” said Tony de la Lama, Vice President of Product Management, CyberRes. “The integration with Voltage SecureData means BigQuery will allow customers to utilize and support the Voltage data-centric protection approach for secure analytics, enabling enterprises to accelerate and expand their data science initiatives with privacy by default.”

BigQuery, Google Cloud’s highly scalable multi-cloud data warehouse, is designed for business agility and allows customers to gain insights with real-time and predictive analytics, access data and securely share insights with ease. This new partnership adds to Voltage SecureData’s deep capabilities in securing analytics across data warehouses, databases and data lakes and enables customers to shift workloads seamlessly and securely to BigQuery.

“Emerging threats and evolving technology needs are at the forefront of challenges in cyber security. By making its Voltage SecureData solution available to Google Cloud customers from within their BigQuery data warehouse, CyberRes is enabling customers with the technologies needed to protect their sensitive data while addressing and adhering to current data privacy regulations,” said Ritika Suri, Director, Technology Partnerships, Google Cloud.

The CyberRes Voltage portfolio helps secure organizations with continuous data discovery, insight, and protection to reduce risk and enable privacy by design. Organizations can work with high-value, sensitive customer data in its protected state to derive business intelligence without the risk of data exposure in Google BigQuery. The data protection technologies in Voltage SecureData provide flexible implementation and data-centric protection for a virtually unlimited number of structured data types in any language, and in any region, with proven performance, reliability, and scalability.

CheQ expands leadership team to strengthen future growth

Hyderabad, August 2022, Bengaluru-based CheQ, India’s first platform for simplifying the discovery, management and payment of credit products has announced the appointment of Bipin Toro as Head of Engineering, Akash Kedia as Head of Product and Viral Bansal as its Head of People & Culture.

Commenting on the appointments, Aditya Soni, Founder, CheQ said, “We are excited to have Bipin, Akash and Viral join us to accelerate our vision of making credit management easy & accessible for every Indian. They are proven leaders who all bring robust industry experience, track records of business discipline, and smart strategic insights that will drive CheQ toward future growth. I’m thrilled to welcome them to the leadership team and look forward to their contribution to CheQ’s success.”

Bringing an experience of over 24 years in the fintech & loyalty industry, Bipin Toro has been part of founding/leadership teams of startups like Reward360 and other growth stage companies, building large-scale product platforms and assembling strong engineering & operations teams.

Bipin said, “CheQ is addressing a critical social need of bridging the credit gap”, “The engineering team’s vision will be to abstract the complexities of the repayment labyrinth and present a simple story to the customer to manage and build credit.”

“We will go beyond and above to create an engineering work culture where individual growth & aspirations will be nurtured, and will attract superlative talent”, he added.

A former Flipkart veteran, Akash Kedia joins CheQ from Trade Republic in Germany where he headed growth for the EU’s largest neo broker. On bringing his rich experience in payments & martech to CheQ,

Akash said – “Credit and finance is usually a complex topic for Indians, marred by hidden information and technicalities difficult to comprehend. CheQ’s goal is to bring more transparency and convenience to the area of credit in India by taking a tech and product-first approach. I look forward to expanding our reach and helping customers realize the full value of their credit products.”

Viral Bansal joins CheQ from Genpact, where he spent 16 years driving a high-performance ecosystem of talent, culture, process, technology and analytics.

Sharing his excitement on nurturing an organization from the word go, Viral said, “The problem we are trying to solve and the purpose we are trying to serve is extremely powerful, it’s a real need in India’s economic growth story. I look at my role as keeping our purpose a north star in everything we do; and enable building an organization that can nimbly balance long-term thinking & immediate business results.”

HDFC Bank alliances with AGBS launches an 8-month certification programme for aspiring bankers…

Mumbai, August 11, 2022: HDFC Bank, India’s largest private sector bank, in association with Amity Global Business School (AGBS), one of India’s leading educational institutions, has launched an 8-month certification programme known as ‘Rising Bankers’ for aspiring bankers. The programme aims to turn young graduates into well-trained, customer-facing personnel. It involves on-campus learning, an internship, and a full-time job opportunity at the Bank on successful completion of the certification.

The programme is accepting applications from candidates across the country looking to get real world experience and earn while they learn. Through this programme HDFC Bank will create a pipeline of qualified talent who will offer a consistent, high-quality customer service experience across geographies and languages in the country.

The programme will train candidates in all facets of banking operations in a working environment. The 8-month course will entail a 5-month stint at the state-of-the-art facility at Amity Global Business School campus in Noida, where candidates will attend residential classroom sessions. This will be followed by a 3-month paid internship at any HDFC Bank branch across India.

On successful completion of this intensive programme, the students will be employed with HDFC Bank as a Customer Care Executive or Customer Experience Executive with a starting salary of Rs 3 lakh per annum Furthermore, they will be awarded a PG Diploma in Customer Experience Management from AGBS.

“We have institutionalised a service-first culture at HDFC Bank. To ensure that we are able to deliver on this promise we are looking at different ways to build our talent pipeline. The Rising Banker programme is one such avenue that will enable us to nurture fresh talent today to develop them as young leaders of tomorrow,” said Mr. Vinay Razdan, Chief Human Resource Officer, HDFC Bank. “We are certain that through this partnership with Amity Global Business School, we’ll be able to ensure a consistent, high-quality standard of customer service across touchpoints.” 

Candidates can apply from the HDFC Bank site: https://risingbankers.myamcat.com/

Eligible candidates will need screened through an online entrance exam followed by an interview. The course fee is Rs. 2.2 lakh + taxes.

Esri India Marches Ahead with 51% Indian Ownership

New Delhi – 11th August 2022: Esri India, the country’s leading Geographic Information System (GIS) Software & Solutions provider has today announced that its Managing Director, Agendra Kumar has consolidated his holding in the company to over 51%. This move will strengthen Esri India’s leadership position as the leading GIS Software and Solutions company in India.

Agendra Kumar, Managing Director, Esri India, said, “Esri India started as a JV between NIIT and Esri Inc. in 1996, NIIT being the majority partner. Esri India has been in a transition phase since 2019 when NIIT Technologies Ltd. was taken over by Baring PE and NIIT’s holding in Esri India was acquired by Esri Inc. With this step of 51% Indian ownership, Esri India will again be recognized as an Indian company under the guidelines of DPIIT and DST. The Government of India announced new guidelines for Geospatial Data last year. Being an Indian entity, Esri India will be able to acquire, process, store and disseminate geospatial data without any restrictions. Esri India already offers more than 550 layers of geospatial data and over 130 solution products developed in India for its users through Indo ArcGIS and this Indian ownership will create more avenues for India-specific offerings.”

Esri India has entered into strategic partnerships with content providers like Here Maps, Genesys International, and Maxar to provide more solutions to GIS users in various segments like urban development, water and other utilities, forest management, agriculture, disaster management, etc. Esri India has also partnered with leading private and government cloud infrastructure providers to deliver affordable, scalable, and robust GIS solutions to its users.

With over 5 lakh users of Esri technology in India, Esri India counts more than 800 degree-granting colleges and universities, many smart cities and urban local bodies, government mapping agencies, state forest and water resource departments, and leading manufacturing and telecommunication companies amongst its customer base of more than 5000 organizations.

As an Indian entity, Esri India is poised to add many more credible names to its customer base, and much higher growth in the number of users and revenue in the years to come.

HAFELE India launches a novel range of kitchen products…

Hyderabad, August 11, 2022…..The World Leader in interior functionality, HAFELE India launched a new range of kitchen products nationally in Hyderabad.

The new range of kitchen and home solutions from its in-house global assortment includes – the Matrix Drawer and Runner Systems, Free Flap Fittings, Metalla 510 Furniture Hinges and Wire Storage Solutions disclosed Ms Shweta Rangra, Head Marketing –Hafele India addressing a press conference in Hyderabad.

These products reflect the strong competencies that Hafele holds in research, development, engineering and manufacturing; and come with the well-recognized quality standards that our brand stands for, globally, she added.

Häfele India services its customers with a base of over 1300 employees, a well-networked Franchise network of over 190 shops along with over 500 direct dealers and 90+ distributors who in turn cater to over 8000 satellite dealers. The subsidiary has a sophisticated Logistics centre in Mumbai along with distribution centres in Delhi, Bangalore, Kolkata and Colombo respectively.

Being the world leader in interior functionality, Hafele has been enhancing homes in India for almost 20 years now. We have every product in our range that can potentially add value to different interior spaces like homes, offices, institutions and hotels; and can create functionality for the different applications within any interior space. The brand Hafele is strongly associated with intelligent and smart home appliances as well as flexible and innovative kitchen solutions, stated Shweta.

To increase its reach and strengthen its brand recall among end customers, Hafele has launched a new communication strategy that redefines its position as a “Lifestyle brand” that can bring ease, convenience, creativity and flexibility to homes.

Hafele is a brand that exists around you in every possible way – be it through its clever storage solutions and intelligent and smooth hardware in kitchens, its smart digital security solutions for doors, its holistic range of sliding solutions for any application, its extensive range of lighting solutions for different areas of the home or its modern range of intuitive home appliances and more. Hafele products lend experience, novelty, flexibility and future readiness to different spaces in any home, Shweta informed.

With Hafele’s new byline “Let’s Reimagine” the brand invites everyone to dream and choose from the endless options from Hafele’s many product ranges – to create or recreate their perfect homes.

Mr Jurgen Wolf, Managing and Marketing Director – Hafele South Asia, says “For a long time Hafele has enjoyed a leadership position in the B-to-B segment in South Asia. We now want to take our brand and what it stands for, directly to the end customer through our newly launched ‘Let’s Reimagine’ campaign. With this well-defined communication strategy for our brand, we are trying to visualize the many interior solutions which Hafele is offering. We are hoping that this will whet our customer’s appetite to visit one of our Hafele Showrooms where they can touch, feel and experience the solutions.

Hafele has 5 manufacturing units, 4 located within Germany; and 1 located in Budapest, Hungary. Our in-house brands developed at these units through investment in engineering and manufacturing, ensure that we achieve the highest standards in terms of functionality, quality and design, making Häfele a leading manufacturer. These brands include:

Ixconnect – Connector systems for furniture construction.
Dialock – Sophisticated access control electronic RFID locking systems
Lift & Turn – Free family flap fittings.
Loox – Plug and play modular LED lighting systems for furniture.
Matrix – Modular drawer and runner systems for all applications
Slido – Sliding door systems for furniture, domestic and commercial applications.

90% of 39 Indian interns transition to full-time employees at Ivanti in July

Bangalore — August , 2022 — Ivanti, the provider of the Ivanti Neurons automation platform that discovers, manages, secures, and services IT assets from cloud to edge, today announced that 35 (90%) of its recent 39 Interns in India have transitioned to fulltime employees at Ivanti. They joined the Bangalore and Hyderabad development centres in July.

“The number of our intern cohorts who are now full-time Ivanti employees speaks not only to the caliber of education Indian engineer students are receiving but also to the success of Ivanti’s internship program at preparing these students for the workplace,” said Chaithanya Rao, Director of Human Resources at Ivanti. “Our internship program provides hands-on work experience that helps students put their education into practice while developing their technical and interpersonal skills, giving them a competitive advantage in the marketplace. We look forward to repeating and expanding this internship program and the success we have seen on an annual basis.”

As part of its partnership with engineering colleges in Bangalore, Hyderabad, and Chennai, Ivanti offers six-month internships beginning each January. The rigorous selection process includes a pre-placement discussion followed by an online coding test. From there, a shortlist of applicants are then interviewed by Ivanti technology and management panels.

Ivanti’s Internship Program features bootcamp-style training that includes valuable real-time performance feedback from colleagues, managers, and department heads, allowing interns to maximize their experience. Every intern is assigned a mentor to help guide them through the program.

“Our internships are designed to help shape the next wave of engineers,” said Nagesh Ayyagari, Vice President of Engineering and India country lead at Ivanti. “Ivanti provides avenues for students to gain valuable real-world experience by participating in on-the-job technical training, as well as being exposed to real-world product development and encouraged to be proactive in their self-learning. As a result of their success in our internship program, I’m excited to see future contributions these new employees will bring to Ivanti.”