Endeavours to impact the lives of the small and medium entrepreneurs at grassroots level by rolling out best financial deals in the quickest possible time

Mumbai, October 30, 2017: In its constant effort to elucidate complex financing processes, reduce the rejection rates among SMEs in India and roll out easily accessible financial services to them, Rubique, India’s leading fintech company, has already disbursed a total credit worth INR 2000 crore to them. Currently present in 27 cities in India, the company is working towards eliminating the struggles faced by SMEs and is assessing need-based capital requirements through its robust technology platform, thereby guiding them with a correct fit of financial institutions. Rubique’s technology solution to digitise the demand and supply chain for SME financing in the existing ecosystem ensures a holistic approach, thereby empowering 1000+ entrepreneurs and individuals in raising finance to fulfill their business goals. From overall loan disbursement of Rs. 2000+ crores, keeping its focus on SMEs intact, Rubique has been able to maintain significant portfolio of over 60% serving these SMEs.

Rubique has been disrupting the traditional lending process by digitizing the financial sector in diverse ways. The advance technologies used on the platform analyze hundreds of data points to assess the creditworthiness of customers and provide them the offers they are eligible for. The company’s unique Online PLUS model comes with paperless-focused features that transform the loan approval and processing – through e-KYC, ranking analysis, and real-time status tracking – into an optimized and efficient system taking up minimal time and greatly increasing accuracy. Rubique also deploys Rubot, an AI decision engine powered bot that eases the transaction experience by using customer data to match the customer’s financial requirements with the products hosted on the platform. SPOT, an internal data platform run by Rubique covers the entire consumer journey from lead generation to disbursement for all types of loans and credit cards. Through the deployment of these tech-driven solutions and the access to the products hosted on the platform, Rubique offers a wide range of loan products and end-to-end loan fulfilment to individuals and SMEs.

Commenting on the expansion drive, Manav Jeet, MD & CEO, Rubique said, “Small businesses and individuals have traditionally been excluded from the financial system, and they are found across India in urban and semi-urban centres. Due to varied risk appetites of financial institutions, there is a lot of subjectivity in the loan process, especially for SMEs. Our expertise in banking and a unique tech-led lending solution is helping them approach the right set of financial institutions for their requirements and getting the best deal in the quickest possible time while lowering the cost of customer acquisition for the financial institution. The digital access to finance is, and will continue to massively impact the SME sector that has been playing a vital role in the Indian economy for the past five decades.”

As the market and the dynamics are changing in favour of SMEs, they are not only getting ready access to finance but also have an option to choose the right product. Rubique is further emphasizing on revolutionizing the lending business by changing the way it works for SMEs in order to aid the entrepreneurial industry in a big way.

About Rubique

Fintech Company Rubique is the leading marketplace lending platform in India. The platform empowers individuals & SMBs with an easy & smoother access to finance through wide range of loan, credit card and insurance products. Built on proprietary matchmaking algorithm, Rubique’s marketplace platform has been integrated with financial institutions’ systems for real time processing & for providing online approvals to the customer. The advance technology solution not only reduces the processing time significantly but the data analytics done on hundreds of data points helps to bring predictability & assess creditworthiness offering best deal to their customer.

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India– October 5^th, 2017 – Gionee India, the smartphone manufacturer has successfully inculcated a culture of ensuring cheers for everyone associated with the brand. Reinforcing the same, Gionee India today announced rewards for two of major country-wide campaigns executed in the month of August to boost morale of GSCs i.e. Gionee Sales Champions (GSC).

One of the two campaigns – #A1Carnival aimed at rewarding Gionee Sales Champions across the country for the maximum sale of A1 series. The campaign rolled across India and secured a successful participation from more than 10,000 GSCs. The criteria was to sell a smartphone from the A Series that earned the GSC points in the proportionate order as per the range of the device. Post validation from a national level distributor, 74 winners across India were rewarded Gionee A1 and A1 Plus phones along with cash and appreciation letters. The campaign not just abetted Gionee in acknowledging the efforts of GSCs but also led to a revived wave of enthusiasm and spark amongst the GSC community for the brand.

Considering the importance of social media in driving customer opinions in this age and understanding the need for brands to be present wherever their customers visit the most, the second campaign was conducted in the digital realm, wherein GSCs were encouraged to celebrate the sales of Gionee A1 Plus on Facebook using the hashtag – #MyA1Plus. By managing to secure the maximum number of likes, comments and shares on his picture, Mr. Saurav Arora from Kapurthala District won the Gionee A1 Plus device as a reward.  Alongside him, even the consumer Mr. Arminder Kumar won an A1 Plus. Both the phones awarded were special customized phones, with their respective names engraved at the back.

Commenting on the occasion, Alok Shrivastava, Director – Business Intelligence and Planning, Gionee India said, “At Gionee India, we are dedicated towards creating value for everyone associated with us. We have been delivering this promise with a practical and proactive approach to positively reinforce our Gionee Sales Champions and give them reasons to take pride in their affiliation with

Gionee. With #A1Carnival and #MyA1Plus, we aimed to encourage our Gionee Sales Champions, and provide them with a sense of belonging with the brand.”

Gionee as a brand is focused towards imparting value to all its associations. The company has been known to introduce popular campaigns from time to time to promote stakeholder engagement.

About Gionee India:

Gionee established its operations in India in 2012 and is headquartered in New Delhi. The company has a patron base of 1.25 crore in India and over 6% market share of the Indian smartphone market. Gionee manufactures all devices for the Indian market in India. The company today has a presence in over 42,000 retail outlets across 2200 cities in India. Guaranteeing a turnaround time of 72 hours to its customers, Gionee has invested in 555 exclusive service stations with plans to expand to 600 enhance its after sales relationships with the customers.

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Oracle Marketing Cloud and WeChat integration enables marketers to generate global leads at scale, improve targeting and increase sales

REDWOOD SHORES, Calif., Sept. 27, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — To enable marketers to quickly and efficiently target and engage customers on one of the world’s fastest growing social media platforms, Oracle today announced a new direct integration between Oracle Eloqua, part of the Oracle Marketing Cloud, and WeChat. The new app-based integration enables marketers to deliver connected and personalized experiences in China and other countries across the globe by seamlessly extending the powerful campaign design, delivery and monitoring capabilities within Oracle Eloqua to WeChat.

WeChat is a dominant social media platform in China with over 963 million users, used by brands and businesses alike to better engage with their customers. The new integration enables global organizations and regional businesses to directly engage WeChat users to build their brand presence in the Chinese market and connect with buyers at scale. Marketers can leverage the integration to add WeChat as a delivery channel during campaign design and send relevant, personalized messages to target audiences straight from the campaign canvas within Oracle Eloqua. In addition, marketers are able to measure the success of campaigns on WeChat by leveraging built-in reporting and analytics within Oracle Eloqua. Furthermore, Oracle is also planning to deepen the integration with WeChat, including enterprise-facing solutions such as WeChat@Work, which complements Oracle’s strength in the SaaS arena. This relationship is expected to deliver significant value and innovation to customers so as to empower their efforts to accelerate the modern business.

“Oracle Marketing Cloud has had tremendous success in helping the Enterprise improve their interaction with their customers and bringing that customer relationship to a whole new level,” said Mr. Lu Qingwei, assistant general manager, Guangzhou Research & Development Department, WeChat, Tencent. “With the introduction of WeChat@Work, which is a communications and collaboration platform for the enterprise, we look forward to an even closer working relationship with Oracle Marketing Cloud to deliver more personalized engagements and enhance the customer experience for our users through WeChat and WeChat@Work.”

The direct, native integration between Oracle Marketing Cloud and WeChat enables marketers to:

• Engage Buyers at Scale: Enables global marketing teams to effectively engage buyers across the globe by sending messages to one or more WeChat official accounts, including subscription and service accounts.
• Derive Greater Insight into Buyer Profiles: By leveraging APIs provided by WeChat, marketers can enrich existing buyer profiles and improve targeting, personalization and scoring within Oracle Eloqua.
• Action WeChat Engagement Data: Marketers can leverage WeChat activity data to orchestrate buyer experiences as part of their cross-channel marketing campaigns within Oracle Eloqua.

“For global and regional businesses serving the Chinese market, WeChat is the key digital channel. This integration enables Oracle Eloqua customers to take full advantage of WeChat to build brand awareness and strengthen customer relationships,” said Steve Krause, group vice president, Product Management, Oracle Marketing Cloud.

Customers can visit the WeChat listing in the Oracle Cloud Marketplace to install the application and begin implementing WeChat in Oracle Marketing Cloud. For more information on the news, please visit the Oracle Marketing Cloud blog.

Oracle Marketing Cloud is part of Oracle CX Cloud Suite. Oracle CX Cloud Suite empowers organizations to take a smarter approach to customer experience management and business transformation initiatives. By providing a trusted business platform that connects data, experiences and outcomes, Oracle CX Cloud Suite helps customers reduce IT complexity, deliver innovative customer experiences and achieve predictable and tangible business results. The Oracle CX Cloud Suite includes Oracle Commerce Cloud, Oracle Marketing Cloud, Oracle Sales Cloud and Oracle Service Cloud.

About Oracle
The Oracle Cloud offers complete SaaS application suites for ERP, HCM and CX, plus best-in-class database Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) from data centers throughout the Americas, Europe and Asia. For more information about Oracle (NYSE:ORCL), please visit us at www.oracle.com.

About WeChat
Since 2011, WeChat has brought about a new way for people to communicate by integrating real-time communication, entertainment, social and everyday offline services into a single mobile application. For more information, please visit www.wechat.com/en.

About WeChat@Work
WeChat@Work is the communications and collaboration platform which aims to elevate the work efficiency for the Enterprise. For more information, please visit work.weixin.qq.com.

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Leading Indian private sector bank adopts Cloudera Enterprise Data Hub to enhance customer campaigns through secure, real-time big data analytics

New Delhi, India, 6 July, 2017 – Cloudera, Inc. (NYSE: CLDR), the leading provider of the modern platform for machine learning and advanced analytics, announced that YES BANK, one of India’s largest private sector banks, has adopted Cloudera Enterprise Data Hub to develop customized campaigns for consumers throughout their customer journeys. Cloudera Enterprise empowers YES BANK to transform their growing volumes of transactional and customer data from their digital services into clear and actionable insights by using real-time analytics and machine learning.

Banking, Financial Service and Insurance (BFSIs) across the region are struggling to keep pace with the vast amount of customer data that they collect in today’s consumer-centric mobile economy.^[1] With Cloudera Enterprise, BFSIs like YES BANK can now mine large volumes of data from financial transactions and create machine learning algorithms to support information-driven business decisions and revenue growth.

Commenting on the development, Anup Purohit, Chief Information Officer at YES BANK, said, “Cloudera Enterprise is now the bedrock of our company’s digital strategy. With its successful track record of working with several other leading BFSIs across the globe, YES BANK decided to deploy a modern platform to provide a differentiated digital experience for our customers through intelligent, real time analytics.”

Today, YES BANK is using big data and analytics to cross-sell and up-sell opportunities for the business, while providing a customized experience for consumers across the bank’s digital channels and identifying and rectifying any inconveniences during the customer journey.

With the growing risk of cyberattacks,^[2] BFSIs also recognize the importance of a safe and secure data management platform that is compliant with the latest industry regulations. Cloudera Enterprise enables YES BANK to reduce the cost of compliance in today’s digital age and transform existing processes through machine learning and predictive modelling, eliminating risk and detecting fraud faster and smarter by utilizing massive amounts of data to effectively train their systems.

“BFSIs today are competing to create enhanced products in a world where consumers are demanding the most convenient and customized journeys. As such, business leaders are pressured to keep up with the latest technology solutions to deliver unparalleled experiences for their customers,” said Mark Micallef, vice president, Asia Pacific and Japan at Cloudera. “Cloudera empowers BFSIs like YES BANK with a scalable and secure data analytics and machine learning platform to use data in ways not possible before and enables organizations to derive business insights for revenue growth, all while maintaining a high standard of security and ensuring compliance to industry regulations.”

About Cloudera

Cloudera delivers the modern platform for machine learning and advanced analytics built on the latest open source technologies. The world’s leading organizations trust Cloudera to help solve their most challenging business problems with Cloudera Enterprise, the fastest, easiest and most secure data platform available for the modern world. Our customers efficiently capture, store, process and analyze vast amounts of data, empowering them to use advanced analytics and machine learning to drive business decisions quickly, flexibly and at lower cost than has been possible before. To ensure our customers are successful, we offer comprehensive support, training and professional services. Learn more at cloudera.com.

Connect with Cloudera

About Cloudera: cloudera.com/more/about.html

^[1] Exploring Next Generation Financial Services: The Big Data Revolution, Accenture, 2016

^[2] Kaspersky Lab Report 2017: New Technologies, New Cyberthreats, Kaspersky, 2017

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Joint initiative of Genpact and Ashoka University helps women resume careers and balance work-home priorities

15th May, 2017, Gurugram: The Genpact Centre for Women’s Leadership (GCWL), a partnership between Ashoka University in Haryana, India and Genpact, awarded graduation certificates to 18 women from five companies, who participated in “Breakthrough,” the organization’s unique seven-month training program for mothers returning to the workplace.

Helping them to adapt to the changing working environment and resume their careers, the first session of Breakthrough unfolded over three modules spread over six days through a residential retreat format. Participants in the program had returned to their jobs at companies such as Ernst & Young, Genpact, IndiGo, MakeMyTrip, and NIIT-Tech. Designed to retain talented women post-motherhood, Breakthrough aims to build a pipeline of female leaders who can catapult each other, and their organization, to a different and inclusive growth trajectory.

According to a research study, “On-Ramps and Up-Ramps India,” by the Center for Talent Innovation, nine out of ten women who take a career break in India want to return to work, yet only 58% are able to rejoin full-time work. The “double burden syndrome” of balancing work and motherhood is a key factor that dissuades women from re-entering the workforce. Companies over time have introduced policy measures and interventions to tackle the mid-career dropout of women like flexible work hours and work from home policies, yet research indicates that 54% of women fear that taking flex options will hamper their advancement. Almost 62% of women who chose part-time or flexi-work feel stalled in their career, versus 48% of those who followed a conventional career path.

With these prominent gaps in mind, the curriculum of Breakthrough focuses on strength awareness, emotional as well as physical resilience, and career growth planning. Action Learning Projects (ALP) are designed to build networks, create visibility for women, their teams and organizations, and help create long-term impact. The participants sharpen their leadership skills through assessments that measure emotional intelligence and interpersonal relationship orientation, with follow-on executive coaching.

“Organizations are finding innovative ways to create a supportive ecosystem for women who are returning to the workforce after a pause in their careers. GCWL’s Breakthrough program goes a step ahead in bringing together women from different organizations – it’s a wonderful network that motivates women to achieve more. Helping women to seamlessly integrate their personal and professional lives, this action learning program has boosted the ambitions of returning mothers – they have taken up challenging projects, are making a difference in their organizations and building their leadership skills for a sustainable career. It’s a proud moment for all of us to see these 18 women graduating from the program,” said Sasha Sanyal, SVP and Business Leader, Insurance, Diversity and CSR, Genpact.

Commenting on the relevance of the initiative, Meena Wilson, Director, GCWL said, “Indian businesses lose 48% of working women between junior and senior management positions. This alarming statistic is driven by push factors such as company culture and policies and pull factors such as family and social norms. Breakthrough’s one-of-a-kind curriculum counteracts this sad state of affairs. The program’s experiential, holistic, and paradoxically serious and fun approach helps returning mothers rise above the unsettling challenges they confront. The success and impact of Breakthrough is ultimately driven by real-time back-at-work projects undertaken by ambitious women and the magical, inspirational bonds they create with each other.”

“Breakthrough has been a fantastic program. Right from the spiritual sessions to Emotional Intelligence Assessment to interactions with business leaders, my experience at the Breakthrough program has been phenomenal. The program is truly a breakthrough. Thank you GCWL for this opportunity,” said Khushboo Tak, a Breakthrough participant from IndiGo.

Breakthrough is a unique opportunity for growth-oriented companies who wish to invest in talented women and fix their talent pipeline at its leakiest point. For the second session of the program that begins in October 2017, GWCL is looking to partner with an increasing number of interested companies. The success of this program will help to build a strong community of returning mothers who can share insights and experiences with each other.

About GCWL:

The Genpact Centre for Women’s Leadership is a unique partnership between Ashoka University and global firm Genpact. The Centre aims to advance women and Indian society through path-breaking research, pioneering programs and an ecosystem which champions gender equitable practices and policies.

About Genpact:

Genpact (NYSE: G) is a global professional services firm focused on delivering digital transformation for our clients, putting digital and data to work to create competitive advantage. We do this by integrating lean principles, design thinking, analytics, and digital technologies with domain and industry expertise to deliver disruptive business outcomes – an approach called Lean Digital^SM. We deliver value to our clients through digital-led, domain-enabled solutions that drive innovation, and digital-enabled intelligent operations that design, transform, and run clients’ operations. For two decades we have been generating impact for clients including the Fortune Global 500, employing 77,000+ people in 20+ countries, with key offices in New York City, Palo Alto, London, and Delhi.

About Ashoka University:

Ashoka University is India’s first non-profit liberal arts university built on the model of collective public philanthropy. With a strong emphasis on multidisciplinary learning, development of 21st-century skills and leadership attributes, Ashoka is preparing students to be critical thinkers and ethical leaders in an increasingly complex world.  For more information visit www.ashoka.edu.in.

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Aiming at expanding presence in South India, the company has already disbursed loans worth 10 crore in Tamil Nadu and Karnataka

New Delhi, April 25, 2017: In the age of rapid digitalization and foreign giants setting up their base in India, the growth and longevity of the MSME sector has been challenged.  In order for Indian MSMEs to further expand and prosper, robust financial assistance is of paramount significance.  As one of the fast growing new-age finance companies in India, Aye Finance is delivering business loans against mortgage or simple hypothecation accessible to India’s thriving and underserved MSME sector.

Founded in the year 2014 by bankers Sanjay Sharma and Vikram Jetley, Aye Finance has rapidly grown its footprint through 33 branches spread across India. Recognizing the states of Tamil Nadu and Karnataka as the centres for manufacturing, handloom, and a variety of small-scale industries, Aye Finance has already disbursed loans worth INR 10 crore to the Micro & Small Entrepreneurs in these states.

 Aye Finance is driven with a vision to leverage technology and bring about financial inclusion in India.

Aye Finance differentiates itself through a customer selection process that uses technology to enhance efficiency of loan origination and builds a high quality loan portfolio by using data sciences to analyse business and behavioural data.  This approach has enabled Aye Finance to offer business loans to deserving micro enterprises who do not have prior credit bureau history.  This effective credit appraisal coupled with the use of modern workflow automation and an engaged workforce is helping bridge the gap between the MSMEs and organized lending.

Micro and Small businesses financed by Aye Finance in turn help sustain employment at the bottom of the pyramid.  Aye Finance has already impacted an ecosystem of over 100,000 families through its business enterprise loans and it is driven by a vision to impact over 10 million households by 2020 and become an admired player in its space.

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Lencore takes advantage of remote connectivity to improve occupant comfort, productivity, and safety

MILPITAS, Calif., Jan. 27, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Sierra Monitor Corporation (OTCQB:SRMC), a provider of Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) solutions that connect and protect high-value infrastructure assets, today announced that Lencore, an innovative provider of comfort and safety solutions to modern commercial workplaces will use the FieldPoP device cloud as a foundation for its cloud strategy.

Modern workspaces are moving towards open and flexible environments, but the need for collaboration must be balanced with the employees’ need to focus on individual tasks. Additionally, shared and open workspaces must not compromise safety. Lencore, based out of Woodbury, New York, offers sound masking along with emergency notification solutions to modern workplaces as to make them more productive and safe. Each installation consists of a head-end controller that networks with input sources like microphones, telephones, music systems, fire alarm systems and public emergency notification systems, and output devices such as speakers, visual indicators, and paging horns distributed across the facility.

Typically, the head-end controller is accessed, managed, and supported by the installer and the facility manager locally within the facility. However, Lencore is introducing a “FieldPoP-Enabled” connector in their next-generation head-end controller that will automatically and securely register and connect the controller to the FieldPoP device cloud over the facility’s Internet connection, thereby creating a virtual instance of the physical controller. Facility managers, installers, and Lencore support professionals will be able to remotely interact with their assigned systems through the FieldPoP device cloud.

The benefits of secure remote connectivity are manifold. Individual employees can make changes to their personal spaces, security personnel can use it to send critical messages, and facility managers can make configuration changes and perform preventive maintenance upgrades remotely.

“Commercial office spaces are being redesigned due to generational and attitudinal shifts in work culture,” said Jonathan Leonard, President of Lencore. “Our products are enabling this transition, and cloud-enabling our system using FieldPoP is a key step in our innovation roadmap.”

“We are working with more than 20 OEMs in our beta and proof-of-concept program to understand customer use cases and to prepare FieldPoP for commercial deployment,” said Varun Nagaraj, CEO of Sierra Monitor. “I am pleased to see our program starting to bear fruit, with several customers including Lencore deciding to IIoT-Empower their solutions with our FieldServer gateway and FieldPoP device cloud.”

To learn more about how OEMs use the FieldServer IIoT gateway and the FieldPoP device cloud, please visit www.sierramonitor.com/iiot-empower/fieldpop-fieldserver.

About Sierra Monitor Corporation
Sierra Monitor Corporation addresses the industrial and commercial facilities management market with Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) solutions that connect and protect high-value infrastructure assets.

The company’s FieldServer brand of protocol gateways is used by system integrators and OEMs to enable local and remote monitoring and control of assets and facilities. With more than 200,000 units, supporting over 140 protocols, installed in commercial and industrial facilities, FieldServer is the industry’s leading multi-protocol gateway.

Sierra Monitor’s Sentry IT fire and gas detection solutions are used by industrial and commercial facilities managers to protect their personnel and assets. Sentry IT branded controllers, sensor modules, and software are installed at thousands of facilities such as natural gas vehicle fueling and maintenance stations, wastewater treatment plants, oil and gas refineries and pipelines, parking garages, US Navy ships, and underground telephone vaults.

Headquartered in the heart of Silicon Valley in Milpitas, California, Sierra Monitor was founded in 1979 and has been a public company since 1989. By combining its distinguished track record in industrial sensing and automation with emerging IoT technologies such as cloud connectivity, big data, and analytics, Sierra Monitor is at the forefront of the emerging IIoT trend.

For more information visit:  http://www.sierramonitor.com/

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Invites celebrities & investors for the Grand Gala, to pick the Social Entrepreneur for the Investor Choice Award for

New Delhi, April 30, 2016: Launched as a social video platform, Indi.com is the driving force behind The Real Deal, a reality TV show premiering on NDTV Prime and NDTV 24×7 that aims to mainstream and empower social entrepreneurship with impact investment. Created and executively produced by Indi.com India’s co-founder, the former top-100 WTA tennis player Shikha Uberoi, The Real Deal showcases 12 of India’s most assorted social enterprises vying for investments from the renowned figures like Jayesh Parekh, Co-Founder Sony Entertainment Television, Kartik Desai, Principal Asha Impact, Audrey Selian Director of Artha Initiatives, Radha Kapoor, Director of Indian School of Design & Innovation and Amar Singh, CEO of Clove Dental.

The show recently aired its key networking challenge, the glamorous Grand Gala presented by Manoj Bhargava’s The Hans Foundation, giving an opportunity for the social entrepreneurs to pitch their for-profit organizations to a scintillating mix of corporates, VCs, angel investors and celebrities. The winner will win the Investor Choice Award presented by The Hans Foundation and other awards from the internationally acclaimed organizations, such as The Canopus Foundation, Upaya Social Ventrues and Peace Nexus Foundations. Held at the St. Regis, the Grand Gala was a star-studded affair, marking the presence of Bollywood celebrity, Vivek Oberoi and Raj Naik, CEO, Colors.

Several shows like Satyamev Jayate have already created awareness amongst the masses regarding various social causes. Indi.com’s co-founder Shikha Uberoi wanted The Real Deal to take the ball game further ahead by giving social enterprises the push they needed to achieve the change they have been striving for. After an open call on Ketto.org, the show’s crowdfunding partner, the enterprises were diligently selected by Intellecap, the show’s Enterprise Development Partner. They contemplated several factors like the quality of the team, addressing a consequential challenge and scalability and longevity of the business.  The selected entrepreneurs were screened thoroughly by ASCo, the show’s Due Diligence partner. Featuring an extremely intriguing mix of companies, the show has a large skill development enterprise pitched against an early age startup envisioning a business opportunity whilst promoting sex education.

Further elucidating upon the concept and the vision of the show, Shikha Uberoi, Co-Founder, Indi.com said, “From thought to slot, it took me six years to manifest The Real Deal. My efforts to mainstream social change are validated by the tremendous support each of my partners and especially NDTV gave to The Real Deal. I am forever grateful for their belief in me.  All of us at Indi are deeply motivated by the vision to mainstream social change and are enabling the real heroes of the country. Platforms to showcase their efforts and enable them will truly bring about the inclusive growth we all want for India. With The Real Deal, it is our first and foremost objective to empower the army of energetic and visionary entrepreneurs, who have taken it upon themselves to make the world a better place. It is also part of our agenda to further promote the social causes, create awareness and sensitize people regarding the perils surrounding our environment. I know in my heart that Indi with The Real Deal will not only reveal a set of future innovators and leaders, but will also inspire all Indians to challenge the status quo and create solutions to progress the country.”

The Real Deal’s Grand Gala played host to a mystery investor scrutinizing the networking skills and vision of the 12 competing social enterprises, ready to invest an early 25 lakhs. The Grand Gala resulted in social entrepreneurs bagging coveted grants and investments from the global leaders. Deep Bajaj, founder of Peebuddy, emerged as the leader for the evening, winning the prestigious Hans Foundation Investor’s Choice Award worth 5 lakhs. The guests, flaunting an illustrious combination of celebrities, investors and corporates, used the Indi touch screens installed at the walls and iPads available at the table to cast their vote.

However, the winning stream didn’t end just there! Akash Aggarwal won a grant of 5,000 euros from Julia Heller Canopus, the project manager, and Dr. Peter W. Heller, the co-founder and executive director of The Canopus Foundation of Germany. The show also had Catrin Froelich, the Program Manager of PeaceNexus, flying all the way from Switzerland to honor the relentless efforts of the enterprises created by Wilma Rodrigues, Gayathri Vasudevan and Nilima Achwal, contributing towards peace and social cohesion. Each of these social entrepreneurs took 2 lakhs, as a boost to continue their work. Furthermore, Siddi Karnani received a loan of 5 lakhs from Sreejith Nedumpully of Updaya Social Ventures, aiding in continuing the work in Sikkim.

Clearly, the entrepreneurs had a line-up of surprises, one after the other, waiting for them. Allowing social entrepreneurs to carve a niche for themselves in a sector that hasn’t received much mainstream media attention, the show will continue to further challenges and mentor social entrepreneurs into becoming leaders of tomorrow.

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SKF India in association with BITS Pilani offers work integrated learning programs to selected employees

13^th April, 2016: SKF India associates with Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS) Pilani, to offer WILP (Work integrated learning programmes) to their employees. Today, the first batch of WILP candidates from SKFwas awarded the Master of Science (M.S.) Degree in Design Engineering by BITS Pilani.

WILP offers a unique opportunity to develop employees andbuild capability as an organization. SKF’s strength lies in being a solution provider anchored by the Knowledge of its talent.WILP offers a unique opportunity to SKF employed professionals to enhance their academic and technical qualification in various Engineering domainswhile empowering them to gain significant professional experience at SKF India. The curriculum is spread across 3 semesters of coursework through a set of 12 courses followed by a dissertation in the final semester. The instructions were given through online lectures and contact sessions at the industry premises.

Anjali Byce, Director-Human Resources, highlights the importance of individual development and growth, “Our Employees are our competitive advantage. We value their talent and strive to tap every avenue that enables their continual development. In the current VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous) environment, it is agility of thought and action that provides the much needed stability and innovation to grow ahead of the market. Programs like WILP empower our employees to equip themselves to operate at their best potential. Growth (both of the business and individual) is but a natural outcome”

SKF India believes in building strategic and long term partnerships with academia like BITS Pilani.They provide meaningful and exciting careers, a caring work environment and flexibility to their employees to simultaneously gain technical knowledge on the job.

SKF India provided the necessary infrastructural facilities and logistical support required for the smooth and effective conduct of the educational programme.

SKF is a leading global supplier of bearings, seals, mechatronics, lubrication systems, and services which include technical support, maintenance and reliability services, engineering consulting and training. SKF is represented in more than 130 countries and has around 15,000 distributor locations worldwide. Annual sales in 2014 were SEK 70 975 million and the number of employees was 48 593. www.skf.com

SKF Group started trading operations in India in Kolkata in 1923 and since then the Group’s operations have been consolidated into SKF India Limited. SKF India also has an associate company called SKF Technologies (India) Pvt. Ltd providing Sealing Solutions and Industrial Bearings. The company has a total of 6 manufacturing plants in Pune, Bangalore, Mysore, Ahmedabad and Haridwar.

®SKFisaregisteredtrademark of the SKF Group.BeyondZero is a trademark of the SKF Group.

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Bill McDermott, CEO, SAP SE addresses students

Announces Innovation and Entrepreneurship center to support 30 Indian start-ups and upskill 2,000** teachers at IIT Bombay

Mumbai, 18^th March 2016: SAP SE (NYSE: SAP) today announced an initiative to support start-ups in India and train teachers in collaboration with The  Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT Bombay), India’s leading university. SAP will partner with two different programs: the Entrepreneurship Development Initiative* and The ‘Train 10,000 Teachers’ Programme (T10KT)** – a STEM education initiative.

In conjunction with the incubator center at IIT Bombay, SAP aims to strengthen the entrepreneurship ecosystem and fosterscalable high growth social enterprises. This collaboration will augment a knowledge and innovation driven culture across India, while further strengthening the entrepreneurship ecosystem and facilitating networking with professional resources, mentors and funders.

“I’m always inspired by the ambition and determination of this young generation in India,” said Bill McDermott, CEO of SAP. “I’m especially pleased that SAP is partnering with IIT Bombay to help students build sustainable career paths in this global economy. Initiatives like this one are critical to help students realize their bold dreams by bridging the classroom to the workplace.”

SAP also announced a STEM education initiative that will support the training of around 2,000 teachers across India.  The teachers will be trained in science, technology, engineering subjects, and information and communication technologies. SAP has teamed up with T10KT** to work with engineering colleges in the country to enhance teaching skills in core engineering and Science subjects.

Prof. Subhasis Chaudhuri, Acting Director, IIT-Bombay stated that “IIT Bombay is committed to help improve college education in India. Our partnership with SAP will enable us to scale up this initiative and address critical unmet needs. In association with SAP, we also look forward to further enrich our entrepreneurial ecosystem. I am confident that working together, SAP and IIT Bombay can make a long-term difference.”

For SAP, which has operated for 20 years in India, this initiative is in tune with its goal of accelerating growth and tapping into the enormous potential of India’s entrepreneurial culture. This initiative also fits well with the Indian government’s vision of developing local skills.

*Society for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (SINE) at IIT-B manages a technology business incubator to Promote and foster the spirit of entrepreneurship. SAP’s collaboration will involve SINE to help pre-incubate, incubate and virtually incubate early stage entrepreneurial technology-based ventures and create infrastructure support systems necessary for business incubation.

** The ‘Train 10,000 Teachers’ (T10KT), an initiative under MHRD, Government of India, is an interactive social environment communicated through the internet, for e-learning and to deliver and transmit live lectures given by the IIT faculty across all remote centers. Through this partnership, SAP has committed to upskill 2,000 teachers across the country.

About SAP

As market leader in enterprise application software, SAP (NYSE: SAP) helps companies of all sizes and industries run better. From back office to boardroom, warehouse to storefront, desktop to mobile device – SAP empowers people and organizations to work together more efficiently and use business insight more effectively to stay ahead of the competition. SAP applications and services enable approximately 300,000 customers to operate profitably, adapt continuously, and grow sustainably. For more information, visit www.sap.com

About IIT-B

Founded in 1958, IIT Bombay is an Institute of National Importance in India providing instruction and research in various branches of engineering, technology, sciences and arts for the advancement of learning and dissemination of knowledge in such branches. IIT Bombay has nearly 600 full-time faculty members and over 10,000 students.

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