progressive times october 2011
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August 2010Times
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sCEO Speak
Hello everyone and welcome to another jubilating edition
of Progressive Times in this festive season.
Technology and business have converged like never before
in the last few years. From enabling small businesses to
compete effectively in a global environment, to generating
new avenues of growth and competitive advantage for
mature organizations, technology has occupied the center
stage in every industry we can think of.
At Progressive, we have helped our customers to use
technology effectively and hence in furthering their
business interests, for over 12 years now. These years have
been filled with extraordinary achievement, growth and
satisfaction at seeing our clients grow their businesses
based on our solutions, and leverage their technology
investments in an ever-changing business landscape. And,
sure, we have grown as well in this time – both in scale as
well as in the quality of work we do.
Attitude, Win, Collaboration, Innovation and Quality
were the pillars on which we founded this company and
these remain our biggest assets even today. We have taken
great care in forging strong relationships with our
customers and partners, building trust one day at a time.
As we move forward, we are continuously looking for ways
to get better at what we do, and how we do it.
At the center of our strategy are our people – brilliant,
innovative and raring to go! Progressive hires, trains and
retains the best of the best in every sphere of its operations,
and this is the competitive advantage that sets us apart. It
gives us the courage to compete effectively with much
larger organizations and makes us the preferred solution
provider for numerous clients in India and abroad.
Wishing a very blissful festive season ahead to all our
readers, let's continue to stretch… deliver… always…
to our valued customers.
Warm regards and best wishes!
Prateek Garg
MD & CEO
Announcements
MS Cloud Accelerator Partner
HP Platinum Partner
Progressive, as Microsoft Cloud Accelerator Partner, will
offer Microsoft Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS)
solutions to its customers. Microsoft's BPOS consists of
software-as-a-service bundles that organizations access
through Microsoft's server farms. BPOS applications are
based on Microsoft Exchange Online, SharePoint Online,
Office Communications Online and Office Live Meeting.
Progressive will add BPOS to its Professional Service Line,
which provides complete cloud computing offerings to
organizations.
Windows Azure™ is Microsoft's cloud services operating
system that serves as the development, service hosting and
service management environment for the Windows
Azure™ platform. Windows Azure™ provides developers
with on-demand compute and storage to host, scale and
manages web applications on the internet through ®Microsoft datacenters.
Microsoft and Progressive are well-positioned to offer
cloud services that will help customers innovate and
differentiate while reducing costs. The two companies
collaborate on various Microsoft technologies as well.
Progressive is proud to be associated with HP as a
“Platinum Business Partner”. Progressive expects much of
the partnership with HP and believes that this agreement
will enhance the professional bonding between HP and
Progressive.
Platinum Business Partner
Key Wins
NIIT Technologies
Securities and Exchange Board
of India (SEBI)
Times
Events
Technology Senate 8.0 – What CIOs Want
Hong Kong
Technology Senate is a 'by-invitation-only' annual forum for
India's leading CIOs and IT decision-makers. It is an
innovative platform for knowledge sharing, peer
networking, celebrating achievements and showcasing
exciting new technologies, at an offshore location. You can
enjoy exciting sessions with prominent researchers,
analysts, CTOs and industry leaders. Sessions include
special keynotes, panel discussions & stimulating case
studies with industry experts.
Progressive participated in this event as a Technology
Partner and Mr. Gulshan Kharbanda, Vice President - Global
Services addressed on the issue of Corporate Performance
Management.
IT Expo, Mumbai
The Asia ITEX 2010 is a milestone event that will assist the IT
and Converging Technology companies, to leapfrog into
the future. It will bring industry leaders, analysts,
government agencies, academia, integrators and decision
makers on this fertile platform. One platform to network,
integrate, promote
a n d e s t a b l i s h a
company's presence.
T h e E x p o a l s o
provides the ideal
p l a t f o r m f o r
upcoming players in
t h i s i ndus t r y t o
establish their presence and spotlight their expertise. In
other words, it showcases the dipstick for future
developments and trends of Indian Converging
Technologies market.
Progressive exhibited in
this 4 day expo held in
Mumbai . Mr. Ratan
Dargan, Vice President -
Enterpr i se So lut ions
addressed the conference
consisting of more than
100+ CXOs on Progressive's Converged Infrastructure
Solutions & Services.
Progressive recently came out with their CSR initiative by
contributing in a unique way towards the under privileged
people & children through Joy of Giving week. Associates
of Progressive spent their whole day meeting
underprivileged at 3 different places in Noida and shared
clothes, utensils, packed food, toys & other household
items which came from associates from all ranks through
an internal collaboration.
The activity started with a small village in Noida called 'Naya
Gaon' with a population of around 100, mostly children.
The second destination was a small locality in Noida -
Sector 50, with a population of around 200 and the
majority being women. The last destination was an
Orphanage in Noida called Sai Kripa, where distribution of
food items like rice, Maggi, noodles, Bournvita and
chocolates was handed over to the Orphanage
Management.
Joy of Giving Week – CSR Activity
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Horizontal Solutions # 2
Cloud Computing
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Private Cloud, Public Cloud & Hybrid Cloud
Cloud AssessmentCloud Computing is an Internet-based computing,
Cloud Migrationwhereby shared resources, software, platform and
Cloud Managementinformation are provided to computers and other devices
on demand. Key Benefits
Cloud computing promises more agile, efficient, and cost- Customize IT infrastructure solutionseffective infrastructure solutions for building, scaling and
Pay per Useusing applications and services. Inherent to the Cloud,
however, are the challenges of running applications over a Optimize resource utilization & save cost.
highly unpredictable and unreliable platform - the On-demand ServicesInternet. Cloud-based offerings will need to overcome
these challenges in order to meet enterprise computing
requirements such as speed, scalability, availability and
security.
These requirements must be met
before companies can justify
migrating their business-critical
applications to the Cloud.
Furthermore, while enterprises
have begun to embrace Cloud
c o m p u t i n g , t h e y a r e
approaching it in a modular way,
i n o r d e r t o f a c i l i t a t e
experimentation, reduce risk
and meet specific business requirements. For example, a
company may simultaneously:
Run highly-sensitive legacy functions at an in-house
data center
Use on-demand storage services for their growing
library of rich media assets
Leverage established SaaS modules to enrich
application functionality
Develop new application features and extensions on
top of dedicated
Kwench, Online Library Solution Khojguru, The Discount Master
Kwench is an online library solution where an associate Progressive recently has a tie up with Khojguru, one of
can register himself on their website and order the book India's leading discount coupon player on the Internet.
online. The requested book will be delivered to the Khojguru provides online discount coupon covering top
associate within 24 hours of time span. Progressive brands across categories exclusively for the associates of
associated with Kwench as a part of associate Progressive and that to 'Free' of cost. The main categories
engagement activity and currently covered are travel, health &
implementing this for Noida, HO. beauty, food & beverages, gifts,
music & mobile, electronics,
movies and apparel.
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Associate Benefit Programs