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Business World

Mahendra Singh Dhoni & PreEmptive Meds launches unique PreVid – nutraceutical formulation for immunity

Feb 5, 2021 by Neel Achary 0 Comments #Dr. Joe Fenn, #Founder, #Inc., #PMEDS, #PreEmptive Meds

PreEmptive Meds, Inc., (PMEDS), a research-driven Over-The-Counter Therapeutics Company focused on pre-emptive care, has recently unveiled PreVID – a proprietary nutraceutical formulation developed by doctors to power up immunity in individuals who are at risk of Viral Infectious Diseases.

PreVID will be available at select Apollo Pharmacy stores and Noble Plus Pharmacy stores across the country, as well as on online eCommerce platforms. Former Indian cricket team captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni has a stake in PreEmptive Meds, the Indian subsidiary of PMEDS.

PreVID is a uniquely formulated nutraceutical delivering a burst of immuno-nutrients. Available in three different flavours, PreVID is a 100% vegan, sugar-free and gluten-free product. PreVID meets all regulatory requirements and holds the marketing authorization license from FSSAI. This product is completely developed and manufactured in India, suitable for anyone to consume over the age of eight. The fight against COVID-19 has proven that building a stronger immunity was the best response to win the battle against this (or any) virus.

PreVID was developed by doctors based on widely published clinical evidence showing specific immunomodulatory and virucidal properties. PreEmptive Meds Pvt. Ltd has employed advanced sub-micron technology in addition to emulsification of organic curcumin and synthetically sourced Zinc, Vitamin C & D to formulate this product. A combination of precise and advanced food-science technologies ensures maximum potency and accelerated absorption.

As people age, they develop a weaker immune response against newer infectious diseases. The rapid absorption technology of PreVID powers the daily absorption of immuno-nutrients to support an adaptive immune system, especially for people who are at higher risk because of age and those who have more chances of exposure.

Unveiling PreVID in India, Mahendra Singh Dhoni said “I believe in the process. I am associated with PMEDS because of their focus and deliberate processes in bringing a product to the market. My family and I have been using PreVID for the past few months. I am a firm believer that it is our responsibility to empower our bodies, and PMEDS’ range of bioactive products with medicinal foods helps us do that by supporting our body’s innate ability to heal and fight diseases. It is exciting to watch a growing trend in food-based medicine.”

“Indians have long taken to home remedies to fight viruses and build immunity. There is a huge opportunity to create an organized alternative to immunity building. PreVID is a high-science, evidence-based product that stands apart and provides much-needed micro-nutrient nourishment to our body’s first line of defence, i.e., our own immune system”, said Dr. Joe Fenn, Founder, PMEDS.

As per the International Trade Association’s report titled India – Country Commercial Guide, the nutraceuticals market in India is expected to grow from an estimated $4 billion to $18 billion by the end of 2025, especially when preventive health has become the focus for all in the current pandemic. PreEmptive Meds Pvt. Ltd hopes to gain a significant share of this market. PMEDS will also be introducing more products to their portfolio. PreVID will soon be available in international markets as well.

Business World

HCL Technologies and Alteryx announce global strategic alliance

Feb 4, 2021 by Neel Achary 0 Comments #Alteryx, #HCL Technologies, #Inc.

Mumbai, India & IRVINE, Calif.—February 3, 2021 — HCL Technologies (HCL), a leading global technology company and Alteryx, Inc. (NYSE: AYX), a leader in analytic process automation (APA), today announced a global strategic alliance to help companies across the globe succeed in their analytics automation and digital transformation priorities. As part of this strategic engagement, HCL has also been named an Alteryx Elite Alliance Partner.

With HCL’s broad expertise in transforming IT and lines-of-business, the alliance will also accelerate Alteryx usage in Amazon AWS and Microsoft Azure to meet customers’ hybrid cloud modernization needs and strengthen HCL’s portfolio of data science and transformative analytics automation. In addition, HCL’s rapidly growing digital and analytics services will accelerate the digital journey of knowledge workers in the Global 2000 with Alteryx’s unique ease-of-use and unified analytics, data science and process automation capabilities.

HCL and Alteryx’s collaboration on customer transformation priorities began in 2020 and the success of the relationship paved the way to forming an Elite-level strategic alliance, which includes joint go-to-market (GTM) activities globally, a scaled competency on Alteryx within HCL and HCL’s ability to act as a value-added reseller (VAR) of Alteryx solutions.

“We are seeing a strong appetite and adoption of advanced analytics automation capability in enterprises across the globe,” said Anand Birje, senior corporate vice president and head of HCL’s Digital and Analytics division. “The pairing of Alteryx’s intuitive, analytic process automation platform with our strategic digital expertise will serve current and future clients by accelerating their digital adoption and business transformation.”

“Digital transformation is moving at an accelerated pace and we are excited to partner with HCL to drive automation and innovation across Global 2000 organizations,” said Mark Anderson, chief executive officer of Alteryx. “HCL’s blueprint for automation and their deep digital transformation expertise, combined with Alteryx automation and our unprecedented ease-of-use will super-charge the priority initiatives across global enterprises.”

The alliance is driven by the large and growing market opportunity for enterprise-wide data analytics, data science and process automation. Some initial areas of joint solution focus include citizen-led advanced analytics, data science, machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) to drive initial quick wins and pave the way for continuous innovation. Both HCL and Alteryx will focus on data-driven process automation and orchestration across distributed hybrid and multi-cloud environments to help organizations accelerate value from data platform modernization initiatives. In addition, they will complete data and analytics automaton with deep application expertise to deliver insights across business functions and industry sectors.

Business World

Limelight Networks, Inc. Appoints Seasoned Growth Executive Bob Lyons as New CEO

Jan 29, 2021 by Neel Achary 0 Comments #Bob Lyons, #Inc., #Limelight Networks, #previously CEO at Alert Logic

New Delhi: Limelight Networks, Inc. (Nasdaq: LLNW) and its Board of Directors announced today that Bob Lyons, previously CEO at Alert Logic, has been named President and CEO and will join the company and the board of directors effective February 1, 2021. Bob Lento, President, CEO and Director since 2012, is retiring.

Lyons is a proven technology executive with an extraordinary track record of successfully scaling businesses and creating enterprise value through strategic revitalization, improved profitability, and revenue growth. At Alert Logic, he led the company through a multi-year strategic reposition that resulted in becoming a global leader in cybersecurity, specifically in managed threat detection and response. Prior to Alert Logic, Lyons held executive positions at Connexions Loyalty/Affinion Group, Ascend Learning, and Stream Global Services.

“We are excited to welcome Bob Lyons as we believe he is uniquely qualified to lead Limelight into its next phase of accelerated growth, profitability, and innovation. His passion for the customer and demonstrated track record of building high performing, innovative organizations aligns very well with our strategic objective to build on our current strengths and become a leader in delivering edge-based solutions,” said Walt Amaral, Chair of the Limelight Networks Board of Directors. “We are grateful for Bob Lento’s leadership and the many heights reached during his tenure. His success in rebuilding the company, outstanding customer relationships, and creating a dynamic, high-performance culture are some of his most notable accomplishments,” continued Amaral.

“It has been a great privilege to lead Limelight and be a part of this amazing company for eight years. I am enormously proud of what we accomplished and believe Bob Lyons is an excellent choice to lead Limelight in its next phase. He is a seasoned leader with deep experience in scaling technology businesses and creating shareholder value. Most important, his core values strongly align with the Limelight culture to allow for a smooth transition and ability to quickly have an impact,” said Lento.

“I am honored to have the opportunity to join Limelight at a time of unprecedented opportunity. The digital transformation is creating new challenges and big opportunities alike. Limelight’s ability to leverage content, compute, and cybersecurity capabilities at the edge enables us to create a distinctive digital experience and we are uniquely qualified to deliver strategic edge business solutions. I look forward to expanding on Limelight’s strong CDN heritage to build an edge-based solutions company that accelerates growth and profitability,” said Lyons.

Education, News

Indian School of Democracy launches ‘A Good Politician’, a bi-lingual Fellowship programme for aspiring political leaders

Dec 30, 2020 by Rekha Nair 0 Comments #BJP, #Former CEC, #Former Minister, #Former MP, #Hemakshi Meghani Founder ISD, #Inc., #Kamla Bhasin and Rajni Bakshi, #Mr. Sanjay Paswan, #Prakhar Bhartiya, #Prof. Rajiv Gowda, #S Y Queraishi

Mumbai: Indian School of Democracy (ISD) founded by Teach For India Alumni Hemakshi Meghani (2011 Cohort) and Prakhar Bhartiya (2009 Cohort) launched their new programme beginning 15 August 2021.

Applications to the program began on 26 November 2020.  ‘The Good Politician’ is geared to nurture grassroot political leaders who are already involved in the political sphere. Spanning over one year, it is meant for leaders aspiring to be elected as sarpanches and municipal councillors. To ensure access to a range of people, the programme will be taught in Hindi and English.

After the COVID-19 pandemic and its subsequent lockdowns, we have seen how it is essential to cultivate principled leaders to build the nation. This is especially true for understanding rural and urban scenarios in different contexts.

Indian School of Democracy was founded with the basic principle of sarvodaya – upliftment of all. One of the biggest barriers to attaining sarvodaya is a dearth of principled leadership in public service.

‘The Good Politician’ will comprise 30% residential training and 70% field application. The faculty is a range of political leaders, political practitioners, and academicians. The curriculum involves visiting different parts of Maharashtra, Delhi, and South India; travel is an important part of immersing the cohort in the realities of India which facilitates deeper understanding of the needs of the people. The one-year long course has rigorous in-person training with expert practitioners and academic faculty. Several panel discussions with guest speakers and active politicians across different parties are conducted, to enable working individually as well as in groups to cultivate learning.

The fees of the course are Rs 2,00,000 and Indian School of Democracy offers generous full scholarships too. Nobody will be denied the course, on financial grounds.

Unlike other courses, The Good Politician is based on hands-on immersion of the cohorts in scenarios, and through travel which enables conversations at the grassroot level. The Good Politician prepares leaders to mobilise lobbies and corporates and builds skills to set up reliable financial sustenance for candidates’ pre-election.The students go on to become politicians at village, district and city level to make democracy come alive for disadvantaged Indians.

Hemakshi Meghani Founder ISD on the course “The Good Politician, is a political journey which invites aspiring grassroots political leaders who want to contest elections, to come and learn the hard skills to be a principled leader and also find a community of people who will walk with you towards sarvodaya – the upliftment of all”

Some of the noteworthy faculty at ISD are Prof. Rajiv Gowda, Former MP, INC, Mr. Sanjay Paswan, Former Minister, BJP, Former CEC, S Y Queraishi, Kamla Bhasin and Rajni Bakshi.

Indian School of Democracy is mentored by Paresh Sukthankar, Tara Krishnaswamy, Venkat Krishnan, Ujwal Thakar, Preeta Bansal and Arun Maira.

 

 

News

Cigniti positioned as a ‘Niche player’ in Gartner 2020 Magic Quadrant for Application Testing Services, Worldwide

Dec 15, 2020 by Rekha Nair 0 Comments #CEO, #Cigniti, #Cigniti Technologies, #Gartner, #Inc., #Srikanth Chakkilam

Mumbai: Cigniti Technologies, a global leader in independent quality engineering and software testing services, today announced that it has been as positioned as a ‘Niche Player’ in the December 2020 Gartner, Inc. Magic Quadrant for Application Testing Services, Worldwide. This is the 6th consecutive year Cigniti has been positioned in this Magic Quadrant.

Gartner is aware of about 300 providers offering application testing services globally, but these providers are not the complete marketplace. The Magic Quadrant assesses 20 of the service providers offering testing services including consulting services, implementation, integration and managed services, based on specified inclusion criteria.

According to Gartner, “The demand for intelligent and highly automated testing services is driven by the need for continuous quality excellence at a lower cost. This report guides sourcing, procurement and vendor management leaders in making better sourcing decisions when selecting application testing service providers.”

Many of the world’s largest and most innovative companies turn to Cigniti to get assistance on accelerating their digital transformation efforts and obtaining higher returns on their investments into Quality Engineering initiatives. Cigniti has a strong application testing expertise and uses its portfolio of testing IP, including its core testing platform, BlueSwan. Cigniti leverages its test automation accelerators, industry accelerators and testing labs within mobile, IoT, medical devices and robotics, as well as its COEs in enterprise application platforms (such as Oracle, SAP and Salesforce), RPA, cybersecurity, and specialized testing areas like performance, mobile and test data management for delivering customer-centric quality assurance services.

This year, Cigniti also received 5-star  reviews and has been rated by its enterprise customers a 4.8 out of 5 on Gartner Peer Insights for Application Testing Services, Worldwide based on 43 ratings in the last 12 months. Cigniti received the highest number of ratings across all providers in the application testing services category.

Speaking on the occasion, Srikanth Chakkilam, CEO, Cigniti, said “To us, getting consistently positioned in the Magic Quadrant and great feedback on Gartner Peer Insights stands testament to the faith large enterprise clients have placed on us in driving quality engineering initiatives for them. Our focus on delivering value through proprietary IP and client centricity has helped us gain this trust and recommendations from our clients.”