What is more vital to the employees is not only taking care of their operational issues but also they require a strong support in terms of keeping themselves hale and hearty. An individual’s health and the growth of an organization are connected and an understanding of these interrelationships has been realized by OSSCube.
In an effort to promote well-being of its employees, OSSCube recently scheduled a wellness program at its Noida office which was presented by Mr. Deepak Mendiratta. Mendiratta is Entrepreneur & Chief Driver, Health & Insurance Integrated (HII).
He enlightened the attendees with deadly but true facts about various diseases that might create very nasty effects on our health. He explained what are the various health related issues which we should not ignore at any given time.
He incites how healthy employees tend to experience a better quality of life and higher personal productivity, and those who discover health issues early tend to get well faster and spend less on medical care.
Purposing a healthcare pointing system, he detailed how can we keep an eye on our well being and achieve healthy body by getting exciting rewards. The whole idea behind this healthcare pointing system is you earn points daily for specific behaviors (like eating healthy), and earn points weekly for losing or maintaining weight. If you have earned enough points, you can redeem these points for your reward.
So, imagine how many benefits you would get over a longer period of time if you keep yourself healthy and fit— healthy lifestyle with balance, mindfulness and wellness and reduced healthcare costs. It all adds up to you and your health only!!
A friend of ours was walking down a deserted Mexican beach at sunset. As he walked along, he began to see another man in the distance. As he grew nearer, he noticed that the local native kept leaning down, picking something up and throwing it out into the water. Time and again he kept hurling things out into the ocean.
As our friend approached even closer, he noticed that the man was picking up starfish that had been washed up on the beach and, one at a time, he was throwing them back into the water.
Our friend was puzzled. He approached the man and said, "Good evening, friend. I was wondering what you are doing."
"I'm throwing these starfish back into the ocean. You see, it is low tide right now and all these starfish have been washed up onto the shore. If I don't throw them back into the sea, they'll die up here from lack of oxygen."
"I understand," my friend replied, "but there must be thousands of starfish on this beach. You can't possibly get to all of them. There are simply too many. And don't you realize this is probably happening on hundreds of beaches all up and down this coast. Can't you see that you can't possibly make a difference?"
The local native smiled, bent down and picked up yet another starfish, and as he threw it back into the sea, he replied, "Made a difference to that one!"
YOU made contributions to 100’s on the day of blood donation camp. Thank you for coming forward in large numbers and making this happen. Just to share some stats:
72% of team members came forward and showed willingness to donate.
56% of the members were found eligible to donate and resulting in successful collection.
A number of team members requested to make blood donation camp a regular activity. We are proposing to organize one camp in every 4 months.
Special Thanks to Rotary Club and HII for making this happen!
The client is the leading provider of Web sites, consulting, custom solutions and e-business services for the credit unions in the USA with solid expertise across various channels and mediums including print, Web, mass media, digital, data, programming and more. The company is SAS 70 certified and credit union-owned company that has been serving hundreds of credit unions and credit union organizations nationwide, and their technology needs. The client aims to better serve its customers’ comprehensive technology and marketing needs all in one place.
The Requirement
Multiple Subsidiaries and companies that the client acquired over a period of time were using their own independent systems to manage sales, marketing and customer support processes. With a number of independent “silo” subsystems in place, the client faced an enterprise-wide redundancy of information and lacked business intelligence visibility.
The client was in search of an integrated and comprehensive enterprise-wide MIS that could be configured to fit its business process and effectively handle many stakeholder requirements. Multiple systems and subsystems from various companies required consolidation to provide a 360 degree, holistic view of the business:
Integrated workflows, escalations and notifications
Robust Business Intelligence and Reporting
The Solution
SugarCRM Professional was chosen over many other CRM / collaboration solutions to be the central repository of all information systems in the company. OSSCube performed extensive consulting, process re-engineering and mapped various processes & workflows with SugarCRM’s capabilities.
OSSCube consolidated various internal applications, including Sprint, IMIS and TAFT on a single SugarCRM platform. There were more than 25 customized modules of each application containing massive data inconsistencies (millions of notes, thousands of contacts and hundreds of products). The customizations were extensive and included the additional new modules to add new fields for client's specific data sets which include:
Reporting — Many modules were customized to report on accounts, contacts, users, emails, notes, tasks, calls, and products.
Change log — Developed a change management and record keeping system to maintain a repository of current and past records for various stakeholders.
Project Management — Developed custom features (Automated Product Renewal, Change log, etc.) and well-defined processes covering many aspects of project management such as Sales, Marketing, Workflows, BI & Reports. New modules such as Job, Assignments, Time Sheet, Cost Estimation and Time Estimation, that were specific to the client’s requirements, were also developed.
Case Management — Developed support system to create tasks, client interaction tracking systems (meeting, calls for a specific case), integration of account with specific case, advisory relationship management, weekly time matrix and Bug Tracking system.
Product Management — Built module for pricing, product catalogues, sales volume, and renewable status (automatic renewal feature).
Centralized Migration — Mass data migration from other CRMs like Infowit and three applications - Sprint, IMIS and TAFT, to SugarCRM Professional. Data included millions of notes, thousands of contacts, and hundreds of products of each application system.
Aggregation of different subsystems within SugarCRM — Customizing, Importing, and Optimising all enterprise data within one system.
OSSCube developed above features to help the client easily share critical information and support existing and new business processes. With a centralized reporting system, reduced manual work and more efficient communication, the end solution now streamlines their business and better serves their stakeholders, vendors and members.
Technical Architecture:
PHP 5
SugarCRM Professional
MySQL 5.1
Ajax and Javascript
The Result:
Well defined standard processes to manage client, stakeholders, vendors and businesses of multiple subsidiaries and companies through a central,unified repository.
Improved capabilities in project management, task tracking and status reporting.
Improved case management for customer support processes
Highly scalable system with hundreds of users and vendors with millions of customer records.
Enabled the client to maintain a repository of current and historical records to increase compliance capabilities.
Peregrine Communications is an award-winning financial public relations group providing specialist marketing and communications for alternatives management firms, selected listed investment companies and retail and institutional asset managers.
The Requirement
Peregine Communications rapid customer growth drove a need for a modern, open and flexible CRM platform to improve client account management and provide them with real-time and updated information accessible to the sales and account management team.
The Solution
SugarCRM Professional On-Demand was selected over other CRMs as many of SugarCRM’s default features easily fulfilled most of the Peregrine's requirements. OSSCube rolled-out SugarCRM Professional to 11 users and replaced their manual lead tracking system of spreadsheets with a centralized system. We also:
Configured SugarCRM to meet specific requirements.
Carried out a data migration from Excel spreadsheets to SugarCRM.
Advised on synchronising MS Outlook with SugarCRM to centralise all customer interactions in SugarCRM.
Key Highlight
Replaced manual system with a centralized system
Synchronization of MS Outlook with SugarCRM
Migrated huge data from spread sheets to SugarCRM
Provided tailored training on use of SugarCRM.
Technical Architecture:
SugarCRM Professional – On Demand
Ajax and Javascript
The Result
Replacement of spreadsheets with Sugar Professional improved lead tracking process.
Synchronization of emails with SugarCRM (SugarCRM and MS Outlook) helps Peregrine manage leads from different sources effectively.
Easy to track the status of each lead on a real time basis.
Well defined standard processes for customer management.
Overall improved and effective management of leads with customer data easily accessible from a central place.
As interest in Hadoop continues to grow, we continue to make available training sessions to accommodate. Fresh on the heels of Cloudera Developer Training for Apache Hadoop in Delhi NCR region, OSSCube has also planned another back to back training program for the system administrators. This Cloudera Training for Administrator on Apache Hadoop is scheduled to be held on Mar 5 - Mar 7, 2012 in Bangalore.
In this three days training program, the participants will learn how to operate and manage Hadoop clusters. This course introduces participants to Hadoop and Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) and goes over planning, deploying, maintaining, monitoring, and troubleshooting your Hadoop cluster. It also covers scheduling jobs, populating HDFS from a database using Sqoop, and installing and managing other Hadoop projects.
After Cloudera training session, the participants go through an exam that establishes them as a Cloudera Certified Administrator for Hadoop.
To know about detailed agenda or registration, Click Here
After getting warm response to our first Cloudera Developer training for Apache Hadoop, OSSCube has made available another training program for developers, scheduled to be held from Feb 28- Mar 2, 2012 in Bangalore.
This Cloudera training session is a great opportunity to stay updated with Hadoop technology as the open source community continues to fine tune it with greater functionality and add new features in Hadoop and its surrounding ecosystem to better serve the businesses.
OSSCube organizes Cloudera training sessions tailored towards Developers for Hadoop, HBase, Hive, Pig and Hue. This four days training course includes what is Hadoop, how it can be used, and how to integrate Hadoop with your workflow. The course also gives information on how to write a MapReduce program along with common MapReduce algorithms and debugging MapReduce programs, and how to use Apache Hive and Pig.
At the end of the course, participants will take an exam to become a Cloudera Certified Developer.
To inquire about this training or save your seat, Click Here
OSSCube has now one more Cloudera Certified Developer for Apache Hadoop. Rakesh Kumar has become the Cloudera Certified Developer through the CCDH, the industry's only certification for software developers on Hadoop. He passed the Cloudera Certified Developer for Apache Hadoop exam after going through a rigorous training program.
Rakesh is also a MySQL certified DBA and Cluster DBA and has trained several engineers for Zend Certification Examinations.
Winter is at its peak! Just imagine how hard it is for the people who stay outside in this shivering cold. So, in a bid to help people who are forced to remain outside at night, OSSCube distributed blankets in bulk among many homeless children and adults at different places here in the Delhi- NCR region at midnight last week.
OSSCube and its team members contributed for this noble ‘Blanket Donation’ drive and we procured a good number of blankets to help keep these poor souls warm.
This donation drive gave Team OSSCube a great sense of feeling, as there could not be a better way than this to start a new year, i.e., helping those homeless person or entire family with small children to provide them some warmth.
Being a responsible part of the society, we will keep expanding our wings to nurture support for these humble efforts in the future as well.
OSSCube is proud to announce that Alexander Polev is now Cloudera Certified Developer for Apache Hadoop (CCDH). Alexander Polev is an Enterprise Architect, Consultant at OSSCube UK.
Alexander earned this certification by taking part in rigorous training and passing a certification exam to ensure thorough understanding of the material necessary to configure, run and use Hadoop in the enterprise.
Cloudera Certified Developer for Apache Hadoop (CCDH)
Cloudera delivers the industry's only certification for software developers on Hadoop. Built on the content of our training courses, the program tests your knowledge of Hadoop's operation and use. The Cloudera Certified Professional designation ensures you've mastered the material necessary to configure, run and use Hadoop in the enterprise. Organizations rely on the Cloudera Certification during the hiring process to identify top-quality candidates.
OSSCube also organizes Cloudera training for Apache Hadoop. For detailed information on this, click here.
“The Future is Open Source”, as predicted many times on the Internet, now looks promising as the US government’s affair with Open Source continues to grow. In most recent developments, the US government has begun to open source pieces of data.gov. This is an important milestone not only for the Obama Administration to advance open and transparent government, but also for the open source community.
The open source version [of Data.gov] is being collaboratively developed by the US and Indian governments and its planned to launch the complete open-source code — called Open Government Platform — as early as 2012. As detailed in the report, this will enable governments across the world to create their own open government data sites.
Federal CIO Steven VanRoekel and Federal CTO Aneesh Chopra wrote the following in their jointly penned blog:
“The plan specifically called for an effort under the U.S.-India Strategic Dialogue to produce “Data.gov-in-a-Box” -- an open source version of the United States’ Data.gov data portal and India’s India.gov.in document portal. The U.S. and India are working together to produce an open source version available for implementation by countries globally, encouraging governments around the word to stand up open data sites that promote transparency, improve citizen engagement, and engage application developers in continuously improving these efforts. Technical teams from the U.S. and Indian governments have been working together since August of this year, with a planned launch of the open source product (which is now called the Open Government Platform (OGPL) to reflect its broad scope) in early 2012.”
It also brings good news to Drupal lovers, as Drupal has made inroads into government IT. This open source CMS has been chosen to build the Open Government platform which is a good choice to further strengthen the open source content management system.
Without a doubt, Open Source has already exploded on the enterprise level. The US government and national governments across Europe are also developing a public sector love affair with open source. But what does this initiative really mean for the world of open source?
This also represents a positive challenge for the community as the products/solutions maturity, scalability and security are likely to come under scrutiny like never before. Auditing eyes of analysts and information security experts will also find more face-time now with Open Source solutions.
Hopefully, we can expect to further validate open source in open government and continue to brighten the future for Open Source Innovators and the community.
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OSSCube has now one more Cloudera Certified Developer for Apache Hadoop. Rakesh Kumar has become the Cloudera Certified Developer through the CCDH, the industry's only certification for software developers on Hadoop. He passed the Cloudera Certified Developer for Apache Hadoop exam after going through a rigorous training program.
OSSCube and its team members contributed for this noble ‘Blanket Donation’ drive and we procured a good number of blankets to help keep these poor souls warm.
is an Enterprise Architect, Consultant at OSSCube UK.
chosen to build the Open Government platform which is a good choice to further strengthen the open source content management system.
