New Delhi: TO THE NEW, a leading digital technology company, today announced the launch of its cloud spend optimization solution – ‘CloudKeeper’, which guarantees to cut down AWS bills by 5-15% without any volume commitment.
As a premier consulting and authorised reselling partner of AWS, TO THE NEW has empowered 200+ companies around the world to cut down AWS costs. The solution provides customers with complete flexibility to move across Instance family or size as well as operating systems and regions. TO THE NEW’s marquee customers including Abbott, CreditSense, FEN Learning, In-flight Dublin Tata Sky and other clients across Enterprises, ISVs, eCommerce, and FinTechare are saving millions of dollars with CloudKeeper.
TO THE NEW offers freedom from all long-term planning & commitments by billing one year reserved like pricing while customers run all their workloads on-demand. This leads to direct guaranteed savings in their AWS cost from Day 1 without any commitment /upfront payment or lock-in. It also provides its customers with valuable insights into their cloud usage and helps them make intelligent data-driven decisions by providing real-time dashboarding and analytics while managing their AWS billings. With CloudKeeper, customers also get quarterly cost optimization audits and recommendations on how to save costs further.
According to Deepak Mittal, CEO & Co-Founder, TO THE NEW Pvt. Ltd, “As businesses walk through difficult times, we have witnessed an increased demand for a cost spend optimization solution on Cloud. CloudKeeper has been successfully helping many organizations by enhancing their operational efficiency, controlling their growing cloud costs and allowing them to make smart business decisions by making use of valuable data insights. We expect this trend to continue in times to come, with CloudKeeper emerging even more powerful in the future.”
TO THE NEW’s CloudKeeper has been helping customers navigate the COVID crisis by offering them transparency, visibility and cost-savings all bundled in one unique offering, while keeping the AWS account security safely in customer’s hands. In FY 2019-20, TO THE NEW registered 200% YoY growth in Cloud transformation services and the company expects this to grow exponentially this fiscal.
Women have careers that are rife with glass ceilings, stereotypical binds, and familial orthodoxy. To add to that, with a country and culture that naturally puts domestic responsibilities on women, subliminal biases that automatically assume that women have less time to work, and a pandemic that disproportionately hit women, questions such as can we really achieve equality come to mind.
Despite all of that, female leaders are now more tenacious than ever. Women have been actively championing technology that will not only enable other women but also empower them. And that makes all the difference. Take our app example- majority of our creators are women! That’s because we are working towards creating a safe and positive community for everyone, especially females, and empowering them with a platform to be vocal. Summing it up, innovation, continuous development, having an identity, and rising above all of society’s prejudices are crucial for every female entrepreneur to succeed.
Mumbai – Leading logistics SaaS platform, FarEye has announced the appointment of Suvrat Joshi as its Chief Product Officer (CPO). Based in Seattle, Suvrat brings with him over 20 years of experience of handling product leadership roles at Yahoo, Amazon, Microsoft, Facebook and most recently Dropbox. Suvrat will drive the product vision and accelerate FarEye’s global product expansion with key focus on the customer’s needs.
He has an MBA degree from the University of California, Berkeley and an MS in Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, New York. Suvrat is also a certified Lean Six Sigma Black Belt
“Suvrat is a product-visionary and has an impressive background with some of the biggest product organizations across the globe. I am excited to have him on board as the Chief Product Officer,” said Kushal Nahata, CEO & Co-founder, FarEye.“With his passion and talent, he is the right fit to be a part of our mission to make logistics better for everyone with a robust technology platform. The goal is to enrich lives globally and make a significant difference together” adds Nahata.
As FarEye continues to gain popularity and accelerates its expansion in the Americas and EMEA, the company is aiming to recruit and retain the best talent. FarEye recently announced that in order to capitalize on unprecedented demand from Retailers, Manufacturers, and Logistics & Transportation organizations for the company’s platform, the emerging SaaS unicorn will hire 100 technology professionals globally in 2021.
“I am a strong believer in the power of technology for building solutions that can solve the real-world problems,” said Suvrat Joshi,Chief Product Officer, FarEye. “Logistics forms the backbone of any economy and FarEye stands at the forefront – driving innovation in the industry by solving the complex challenges that cost the supply chain and logistics industry trillions of dollars. I am impressed with the team’s passion and energy to build this world-class product and excited about the opportunity ahead of us.”
Mumbai, 04 February 2021: One of the most prominent players in India’s steel industry with more than three decades of manufacturing expertise, Tata Steel BSL, partners with FarEye to accelerate its digital transformation goals.
With the aim to improve in-plant and in-transit visibility, optimize transportation costs, mitigate delivery delays, reduce loading times and slash manual dependencies, FarEye is on-boarded to ensure intelligent management of logistics that will reduce turnaround-time, help risk mitigation, end-to-end transportation visibility, and delivery efficiency.
Tata Steel BSL is now achieving high levels of operational excellence via efficient SLA (Service Level Agreement) adherence, Key Performance Indicator benchmarking, bottleneck mitigation, and data-driven business risk calculations. The steel manufacturer now predicts estimated time of arrival with absolute precision, manages exceptions and risks proactively, and has gained end-to-end real-time visibility of ground-level operations.
Subrata Basak, Chief Logistics Officer, Tata Steel BSL says “In this volatile situation in the world, to help us sustain our leadership position, we have made many interventions in our operation process. Due to COVID-19, it was of paramount importance to reduce the man-to-man interactions. Through digitalization, our processes are more agile to meet the ever-changing needs of the supply chain. It also helped to maintain the social distancing norms and touch-free operations helped us reap benefits in terms of performance improvements and turnaround time reduction of vehicles in the plant.”
Real-time tracking keeps the business associates posted on their shipments and ensures timely delivery of the same, bringing customer delight. AI and ML have improved our predictive and information analyzing capabilities through predicting the ETA (Estimated Time of Arrival), In-transit Performance, Loading and Unloading TAT (Turn-around Time), and our Allocation & Placement delays. It has had a compounded effect that can be scaled up effectively for all locations. This integrated platform through its various modules provides an efficient way to control and monitor our logistics processes and costs.”
Kushal Nahata, CEO & Co-Founder, FarEye says, “Ensuring 100% visibility of in-plant and in-transit transportation is critical to optimizing logistics operations, mitigating risks, eliminating delays, and boosting customer satisfaction. This is where FarEye’s platform makes a difference. Its amalgamation of efficient logistics management with proactive exception management and real-time visibility is empowering Tata Steel BSL to drive new levels of operational excellence and tangible ROI.”
By embracing FarEye’s platform Tata Steel BSL is also driving automated delivery workflows including automatic order allocation. Leveraging ePoD (Electronic Proof of Delivery), Tata Steel BSL is now ensuring quick customer feedback on OTIF deliveries and shrinking paper usage. Achieving these new levels of logistics efficiency is positively impacting Tata Steel BSL’s customer satisfaction scores and empowering them to become more competitive.
About FarEye
FarEye is a leading predictive logistics SaaS platform that is making deliveries efficient for industries across Retail, Manufacturing, and Transport, and Logistics. FarEye’s intelligent logistics platform enables enterprises to orchestrate, track, and optimize their logistics operations. It empowers enterprises to gain real-time visibility, excel in the last mile, and deliver customer delight. With 17 Gartner mentions, DHL, Walmart, Amway, Dominos, Hilti, and 150 plus customers have laid trust in FarEye as their partner of choice across 30 countries. FarEye is empowering global enterprises to shrink delivery time by up to 27%, increase courier productivity by up to 15%, eliminate risks by up to 57%, and ensure operational excellence.
Hyderabad: Leading B-school, Goa Institute of Management (GIM) will be hosting the TEDxGIM 2020-21 conference which promises to have a diverse mix of speakers and performers from the field of science, business and the arts. The virtual event which is being held on 24 January aims to create thought provoking conversations for the student community at large.
Some of the speakers include Samarth Kholkar, CEO & Co- founder, B:Live; Rafina (Siya) Shaikh, Founder of Gowomania Goa; Ratneshwaran Maheshwaran, computer scientist and entrepreneur; Annushka Hardikar, illustrator and visual artist and performer Ankur Dinge.
24 year old Pune based visual artists Annushka Hardikar’s initiative called A Fresh Coat saw the roads of Bohri Ali, one of Pune’s oldest wholesale markets transformed into an art space. A friend’s Instagram posts on the shutter art she’d come across in Spain gave Annushka and her friend Alefiya Kachwalla the idea to give their hometown’s old stores located near the historic Shaniwar Wada Fort, which was once a seat of the Peshwas of the Maratha Empire, a complete makeover.
Annushka got together a team of artists who spoke to shop owners, recorded their stories and converted it into art which was then painted onto the shutters of their store. The initiative saw locals and tourists head to the streets to view the beautiful street art created by the team.
Founded in 2018 by Samarth Kholkar and his partner Sandeep Mukherjee, BLive offers unique, experiential, guided tours on smart electric bikes thus promoting zero carbon tourism in India. The company works closely with the government bodies and hospitality chains to encourage early adoption of electric vehicles across all tourist destinations in India. The company envisions bringing an eco-tourism revolution in the country through curated experiences powered by electric vehicles. Samarth will share his journey on TEDxGIM platform.
Civil engineer Rafina (Siya) Shaikh founded Gowomania’s Goa chapter which is a community for women which encourages the gender to support and grow along with each other. The community works together on community based initiatives.
High school student, Ratneshwaran Maheswaran has been a tech wizard ever since he was a child. While still studying he is presently working on an artificial Intelligence (AI) project which aims to aid in the quick and efficient analysis of healthcare data within the sector.
The event will also feature a performance by Goan mouth harp artists Ankur Dinge. Ponda based Dinge was introduced to the mouth harp when he saw an elderly person play the harp on the banks of the Tungabhadra river in 2012. Since then Ankur has worked on perfecting his art.
The TEDxGIM 2020-21 event will be held virtually from 7.00PM onwards on 24th January.
Due to Covid19 scenario, as people are shifting towards more online shopping and home deliveries, Global robotics and automation company, Addverb has come up with its new automated Micro-Fulfillment Centers specifically dedicated for the e-grocery segment. The company through its innovative in-house solutions and robots is working towards making e-Grocery segment future ready. Micro Fulfillment Centers are the small-scale warehouse facilities, located inside the cities at strategic locations enabling a less than 2-hour delivery from the time; an order is placed till it gets delivered. Being on time every time, MFCs eliminates the complex web of last-mile delivery for the e-grocery retailer through its more efficiency in picking, packing and shipment services.
Making a smart move to higher safety & efficiency, Addverb will help to place an automated center within an urban space which will reduce floor space costs and speeds up the picking process, hence reducing last mile delivery cost. Flexible and scalable micro-fulfilment solutions that can be implemented quickly via Addverb’s automation solutions can meet unpredictable e-commerce demands. MFCs are quicker to set up, helping you to ship goods faster from locations where demand has increased substantially with strategically located inventory, easing the strain on major DCs. The goal would be to stock most & relevant SKUs in the MFC and allow the remainder of inventory to be picked off the store shelves or other nearby pick locations.
Addverb’s MFC offering is powered through Veloce, an 8-level mobile picking vehicle that will facilitate the storage and retrieval of items. This MPV fetches the orders and transfers them to the picking stations, where orders get packed and sent to the outbound area for dispatch. Another important aspect to Addverb’s Micro Fulfillment Center is Dynamo which is ideal for smaller size inventory items with large volumes. It utilizes the height of the warehouse up to 14m and using Quadron, our carton shuttle system and a fleet of Dynamo AMRs it can fetch orders from the picking stations and sent to the outbound area for the dispatch.
Speaking on this new solution, Mr. Sangeet Kumar, CEO & Co-Founder, Addverb said, “At Addverb, we are ready to provide you with the best in class automation solutions to roll out your first MFC! We provide advanced robotics, picking & packing solutions to enable these mini-sized fulfilment centers to churn out 1000s of orders in smaller durations of time for the e-grocery customer using minimal space and manpower. With a robust micro-fulfillment strategy, we prepare you for the future of e-fulfillment trends.”
“2020 has been a challenging year for businesses and customers alike. Earlier this year, customer experience (CX) teams across the globe had to rapidly adapt amid ticket spikes, customer cancellations, market volatility, and increased uncertainty. However, as the world moved forward, one week at a time, the global service requests eventually stabilized and new expectations and trends began to set in.
Customers now expect businesses to be more digital, accessible and empathetic. More than ever, they want and expect to connect with businesses the way they do with friends and family – effortlessly, especially over popular messaging apps like WhatsApp, Instagram or Facebook. Businesses are working on merging values from a pre-COVID era with the ever-changing demands of a post-COVID world. While this may seem to be an overwhelming task, the pandemic has highlighted the importance of the basics, such as keeping your customers and their needs at the center of everything that you do. Businesses are, therefore, re-emphasising the need for a people-first approach and working hard to retain a human connection.
People around the globe are eagerly awaiting 2021 and the many promises that it brings. Looking ahead, we anticipate that CX will continue to remain a catalyst to business success as businesses reorganise their priorities to incorporate a seamless CX journey for customers. On the other hand, digital transformation will definitely take precedence in the coming year to accommodate more omnichannel services, better IT security, agile technology and collaborative tools. Businesses will also take steps to be more people-centric, not just toward their customers, but also toward their employees. Employee experience and engagement will be a major area where we will see a change as businesses rethink their digital workplace.
As the year comes to an end, there is a sense of hope and excitement in the air of what the new year holds and businesses will look to strengthen their customer experience as the year unfolds.”
Shiv Sundar, Co-Founder and COO, Esper
Shiv Sundar, Co-Founder and COO, Esper,
“2020 has proven to be a challenging year. However, it was also a year of new opportunities and avenues for us. One particular trend that we witnessed was the acceleration of digital transformation with traditional companies. Incorporating customer interactivity into their solution became a priority and the execution ranged from standing up self-service kiosks to augmenting the customer experience with innovative digital solutions. Android based devices, in particular, have been deployed at a large scale to meet these demands. This has underscored how important a product like Esper is to fill the large gap to enable enterprises – small and large alike, to deploy devices at scale and have rigorous control over how their applications are deployed and monitored on their devices.
Looking ahead, we realize that the pandemic has ushered in a new era that will be more digital and virtual, even in remote locations. Industries like education, fitness, restaurants and healthcare will see a flurry of Android based devices and Android will become a dominant choice of OS for Touch based IoT devices. At Esper, we are moving ahead with a sustained hyper focus on our customer service. We have an amazing slate of features in the pipeline that will help our customers deploy and scale their device fleet. We are looking forward to a great new year for our customers, partners and our amazing set of employees.”
Gaurav Burman, APAC President, 75F
Gaurav Burman, APAC President, 75F
“2020 has been a watershed year for most sectors forcing them to transform themselves and adapt while going into the next year. In contrast, the building management and automation sector witnessed considerable traction despite the slowdown. This could be attributed to its potential in helping commercial buildings manage COVID 19 by controlling the spread of the virus through airborne particles. As a result the sector saw new products and services being launched supported by guidelines released by organisations such as WHO, CDC, ASHRAE etc to prevent the transmission of air-borne diseases.
Several business leaders have also leveraged the period of the lockdown and the work from home trend to scale up their commercial offices and workspaces with better technology in preparation for the return to normalcy. This has led to digital transformation in the workplace in creating smart, digitally connected spaces that use less energy, meet sustainability and safety goals, and boost workplace collaboration and productivity. There is also a trend towards optimising work spaces with an eye on long term sustainability. Our offerings in the space that have been popular include 75F’s preset systems to digitally monitor, analyze and control an environment and visibility to customized data analytics at all times from any remote location. As occupant comfort and environmental sustainability are increasingly being given priority in commercial spaces, the potential for smart buildings has grown considerably in 2020. While the commercial and retail sectors are already moving towards building automation, we expect the hospitality and health sector to follow suit in 2021.”
Paddy Viswanathan – Founder and CEO, C3M
Paddy Viswanathan – Founder and CEO, C3M
“COVID-19 has pushed businesses to adopt the public cloud and take a cloud first strategy. With critical workloads deployed in the cloud there is also an immediate need for secure and stable cloud infrastructure. Some of the largest companies in e-commerce, retail, internet and media, and consulting have started using our cloud security platform between May 2020 and today.
Apart from this, remote working has also been working well for us. Our team members are getting to spend quality time with their families, while being just as productive at work. In fact, we are contemplating making working from the office optional once the pandemic eases out. All in all, the year 2020 has been a blessing in disguise for us.”
Abhishek Patil – Co-Founder and CEO, Oliveboard
Abhishek Patil – Co-Founder and CEO, Oliveboard
“This year the ed-tech industry attracted students from schools, universities, businesses and individuals as classroom training was at a standstill due to the virus outbreak. At Oliveboard we saw a steady increase in online test preparation registrations as well. In addition, with both government and banking examinations in the pipeline, the online test preparation industry is about to experience its busiest season in the coming months.
Learning Analytics and Gamification will play inevitable roles in the online test preparation industry, as it will allow educators to assess and report student learning only on the web and will further assist them to better understand and optimize learning. For example, teachers will be able to see what kind of knowledge students most enjoy and use it accordingly (text, photos, infographics, or videos). They will be able to note which portions have not been delivered successfully and strengthen them next time. Besides, learning analytics can also help educators classify learners who may have academic or behavioural problems. Teachers could then build a way to help students achieve their full potential.”
Sharan Sai, Chief Business Relations & Public Relations, Hocomoco
Sharan Sai, Chief Business Relations & Public Relations, Hocomoco
“Despite the effects of the lockdown, India is one of the countries, that has been able to recover faster in terms of businesses being conducted. The construction activity saw a steep decrease immediately after the lockdown was imposed, however, by late May, the activities were back on track. India is witnessing a rapid growth of infrastructure across all the smart cities and metropolitans. With an average commercial space absorption square feet standing at 42 million, India stands tall among world nations. The pandemic has also worked out many realizations for many customers, like, people are now looking forward to independent housing and banks are boosting this through friendly loans for residential purposes. Overall, the construction industry in value terms is estimated at a CAGR of 15.7% and is expected to reach $ 738.5 bn by 2022, which is an immense growth. Fueling this growing market, the technology which is developed for construction is helping in making efficient transactions. Technologies such as blockchain usage for construction workflow is making it more secure and seamless in terms of carrying out the operations. We are confident that 2021 will definitely be the beginning of a new dawn in the construction segment.”
Prem Kumar, Founder & CEO, Snapbizz
Prem Kumar, Founder & CEO, Snapbizz
“The consumer retail segment has witnessed rapid growth in terms of digitization of MSMEs in 2020. This was fuelled by the current covid era which brought in new opportunities in the retail sector specially for Kiranas. As a result, over a million Kiranas have gone digital in recent months and their stores have gone online by accepting online payments, ordering supplies online, managing inventory, etc. The technology cover now enables them to leverage their strengths like proximity, personal touch, and flexibility further to acquire new customers effortlessly.
This year our SnapBizz team has succesfully helped neighborhood Kiranas gear up efficiently to compete against the larger ecommerce players in this industry. Kiranas have always been facing intense competition from major e-commerce grocery players who are aggressive in their campaigns to capture market share. The entrance of big players in the FMCG sector has been another cause for concern among them. However as it was evident, it was the Kiranas who provided a lifeline to the country when the lockdown struck with the Pandemic. This renewed trust in the neighbourhood kirana by people also prompted them to lembrace digitization to further enhance their relationship with customers. We see this as a positive trend and will only see wider adoption of technology by kiranas at the grass root level in 2021.”
Mangesh Panditrao, CEO & Co-founder, Shoptimize
Mangesh Panditrao, CEO & Co-founder, Shoptimize
“In the past years, online stores typically saw a rush only close to the festival days of Dussehra and Diwali. This year saw a longer shopping period as shoppers started buying earlier. With COVID putting a dampener on travel and socializing plans, shoppers probably anticipated going online to shop and decided to avoid the last-minute rush. Stores also started showcasing their festive offers early on to increase sales and conversions. The 30 day Diwali sales period saw a 484% increase in the online store visitors and sessions. While sales hit their peak on 23 October 2020, the entire three months of September to November saw heightened activity and sales.
At Shoptimize, for our clients, D2C eCommerce has become a critical channel, growing from 10% (previous FY) of overall eCommerce to 40% (current FY). There has been a GMV growth of 250% from festive season sales alone this year. In general, our clients have seen a GMV growth of 400% post covid. The various categories which witnessed this massive growth post-covid are fashion & apparel which saw a GMV growth of 150%, food & beverages a growth of 500%; and appliances & electricals a growth of 400%.”
Shabna Salam, Founder & Director, Maneraa
Shabna Salam, Founder & Director, Maneraa
“Covid-19 has brought about a dramatic and permanent shift in consumer shopping behavior in e-Commerce. The consumer today has become more cost-conscious and is investing increasingly in affordable fashion. We have also observed that customers from tier 2 and tier 3 cities who were previously reluctant to do online shopping now enjoy the perks of digital retail. On Maneraa’s website this year, we have seen consumers opt for pocket-friendly fashion with a willingness to experiment with new and relatively unknown brands. Though we are amongst the new players in the space, the customer response this season has given us great confidence especially with the spike in demand from tier 2 and 3 cities. It’s very likely that these trends are here to stay even after COVID as these are new customers who have joined the fray and they will only increase their usage as per industry norms. Looking ahead into 2021, we expect E-commerce retail to rise to 7% as opposed to the previous 1.6% thanks to the newfound demand and transforming consumer behavior.”
Sandeep Sankhla, Founder & Managing Partner, Glocal Mind
Sandeep Sankhla, Founder & Managing Partner, Glocal Mind
“The COVID-19 outbreak has severely impacted the entire healthcare industry and changed the working structure of its ecosystem. With the pandemic being the biggest healthcare crisis ever faced by man in this generation, the medical community has been working feverishly across the world to identify a vaccine and to understand the short term and long term impact of this on the world. And now with news trickling in that there could be sufficient doses available for more than one-third of the world’s population by the end of 2021, countries are busy working closely with the healthcare community to make sure that the purchase, distribution and storage of the vaccine can be carried out efficiently as per local market demands. Add to this many new trends such as Tele-Health, Electronic Medical Records, a focus on preventive healthcare and continued partnerships between the public and private sector can be seen gaining prominence in the healthcare research space. To understand these emerging trends across geographies, GLocalMind has conducted multiple market research studies including studying the Impact on healthcare practices, Impact on hospital operations, Adoption of tele-medicine, pricing perceptions for Covid Vaccine, healthcare innovation and transformation, etc.
With these changing market dynamics expected in 2021, we are working towards becoming an independent healthcare research facilitator to a larger aggregator model and therein creating a larger ecosystem for healthcare research studies globally.”
Chennai/Pune: SafeStorage®, India’s leading storage solution provider in its efforts to expand its business recently launched operations in Chennai & Pune. The Chennai warehouse, located in Vaanagaram and the Pune warehouse, located in Wagholi are both 10000 square feet facility. The company has over 3.2 lakhs square feet space spread across 30+ warehouses.
SafeStorage® is a one-stop destination for all self-storage needs. If one is traveling, renovating the house, running out of space or looking for self-storage space on rental forhouseholds and automobiles, SafeStorage® is the place to go. The items are packed at the customer’s house, picked up from doorstep, stored in warehouse with an extremely diligent tagging process and delivered back to the customer when required. All the warehouses are secure with stringent security processes and CCTV cameras to ensure safety of goods.
Owing to the lockdown and ‘Work from Home’ scenario for a foreseeable future, self-storage facilities have seen a significant rise in demand; as people have moved out of their rented apartments back to their native places. The numbers enquiries have also seen a big surge.
Sharing his thoughts, Mr Ramesh Babu M, CEO & Co-Founder, SafeStorage®, said, “I’m really excited to take our brand SafeStorage® to Chennai & Pune. We started in Bengaluru and Hyderabad, with IT Professionals being our main target audience. After we received great response, our research indicated that in Chennai & Pune are the other top two markets where there is demand for self-storage facilities. SafeStorage® is one of the pioneers in the storage facility sector in the country and we are committed to offer our services to our patrons through the nation. Our aim is to be present across nine cities in India by end of 2021. As a part of our growth strategy, we will also be venturing into the packers and movers business by early next year.”
SafeStorage® strives to provide a safe, secured and insured space, making self-storage experience easy with all the necessary care, using fire extinguishers, smoke detectors and periodical pest control. The company provides short term, long term and temporary storage space that are designed to offer economical and easily accessible.
The pandemic has led to a surge in demand for home-cooked food and a consequent rise in demand for food prepared by local home cooks/bakers. Dineout’s B2B arm, ‘inresto’ will allow Home cooks to share the digital menu link with their customers via the Order Food button on Instagram and Facebook profiles, Whatsapp and SMS allowing them to place orders in a few clicks. Customers can make the payment online and can also get food delivered at their doorstep using the link making the entire journey seamless for both, the Home baker and the customer.
Once the customer places an order through the link provided by the home chef, the order confirmation is sent to respective Home cooks on immediate basis and to the delivery executive to fulfill the order. Customers receive the notifications via SMS and can track the delivery in real-time. For delivery, ‘inresto’ is integrated with logistics partners such as Dunzo and Shadowfax making Home Cooks self-sufficient and independent of aggregators.
Along with enabling delivery logistics for Home Cooks, order widget solutions from inresto also promotes ordering through Instagram and Facebook. By adding a button on Instagram profile and stickers on stories, the widget allows Home Cooks and restaurants to get direct orders from Instagram and Facebook. The widget gives Home Bakers the opportunity to retarget their customer base through the data collected and helps them manage their economies better by saving on commissions. The order widget provides payment integration for Home Chefs by making the entire payment experience digital and hassle-free.
Ankit Mehrotra, CEO & Co-founder, Dineout, said, “We’re excited to serve diners with home-cooked meals with the convenience of doorstep deliveries through our order widget solution for Home Cooks/Bakers. Our White Labelled solution will help Home Cooks connect with more customers without worrying about the logistics of delivery and payments.”
9Stacks, India’s fastest growing poker platform conducted a 30 days long Leaderboard promotion asGodzilla contest from 1st July till 31st July 2020. The players won the leaderboard prizes just by playing 50/100 and 100/200 stakes (Holdem and Omaha).
The players got a chance to win from Multiple rewards from cash leaderboard along with daily and weekly rewards. Players won from Mega Leaderboard and Mini Leaderboard. The individual winner of Mega Leaderboard won 6 Lacs while the winners of Four Mini Leaderboards won 2 Lacs each.
Sudhir Kamath, CEO & Co-Founder, 9Stacks says, “This has been the first time when we conducted the giveaways of such a large amount in a single month, and probably the highest in the overall gaming industry. The promotion was a big hit and has seen overwhelming response amongst the players. July promotion increased the engagement levels on the platform and we plan to bring similar promotions in the future as well. Our aim is to ensure that the players enjoy their time while they are on the platform and winning huge amounts of money is like an added bonus.”
9Stacks is an online poker platform where users can learn and play the game online and also earn money. It currently offers its online poker gaming services in 24 Indian states. Apart from poker, it also offers fantasy league and quiz contests under the brand name Faboom. With creativity and innovative technologies, 9Stacks leverages many positive trends in the gaming industry and consistently focuses on delivering engaging and entertaining opportunities for its audience over the long-term.
The platform currently has more than 3.25L users across India and has witnessed a 350% increase in user-base in 2019. The platform currently offers Texas and Omaha variants of poker that engage both experienced players and learners.
