VARINDIA IT MAGAZINE

Pitney Bowes has selected four start-ups to the summer session of the Pitney Bowes Accelerator Programme which provides mentorship, access to venture funds and networking to innovative start-ups in the areas of customer information management, mobile, data analytics, location-based services, e-commerce management and machine learning. The four inductees are: The Pitney Bowes Accelerator Collaboration Programme has enrolled two start-ups that will work with Pitney Bowes to test and market solutions. Loginext is a location-based analytics platform which uses Internet of Things and Big Data to collect location data from packages, delivery personnel or vehicles, and provides real-time analysis of the delivery network. PrimaSeller is a SaaS-based platform for retailers to manage orders and inventory across multiple online and offline sales channels... Read more

Dr. Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam, better known to the world as APJ Abdul Kalam, dreamt of India to be the Superpower by 2020. He will long be cherished as a great scientist, an able President, an educationist and the many more hats he wore. He was also a reputed writer who wrote with a vision, which he foresaw practically. A forward-looking person, Dr Kalam had an abiding interest for new things and technology and always furthered the curiosity of children whenever he interacted with them. He encouraged them to dream big and transform them into thoughts and then these thoughts into actions. He was popularly known as the People’s President for having touched the hearts of millions of people... Read more

Oracle has announced that a large number of Indian companies are investing in its data integration technologies to derive greater value from their data, while taking advantage of emerging technology trends such as cloud computing and big data. With data volumes growing at unprecedented rates in Indian firms, effective integration, management and use of this information in real time to make strategic business decisions and gain competitive advantage is a priority. Companies like Bank of Baroda, Cosmos Cooperative Bank Ltd, Federal Bank, NIC, PSG Hospitals, Tata Motors and Tata Sky are using Oracle data integration technologies like Oracle GoldenGate 12c to enable continuous access to timely and trusted data across heterogeneous systems. These customers have experienced multi-fold productivity gains, up to 80-per cent reduction in total cost of ownership (TCO), and other business benefits... Read more

The National Association of Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Haryana State Electronic Development Corporation Limited (HARTRON), to set up a start-up warehouse in Gurgaon. The MoU was signed in the presence of Hon’ble Shri Manohar Lal Khattar, Chief Minister, Haryana; R. Chandrashekhar, President, NASSCOM; Shri Devender Singh, IAS, Chairman & Principal Secretary to Government, Haryana, Electronics & Information Technology Department; and Nitin Seth, Managing Director & Country Head, Fidelity. The first-of-its-kind start-up warehouse in Haryana is expected to be functional in the next three months accommodating close-to 85 workstations initially and the occupancy will be expanded in a phased manner. The warehouse will be spread across the 16-acre HARTRON campus and will provide budding entrepreneurs facilities like broadband internet, workstations along with basic facilities like air conditioning to create

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