With products for each requirement, Oracle is a strong competitor in the market to provide the full stack solution to IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS for all level of enterprises. Oracle has a huge portfolio of products in the cloud which seamlessly integrate and collaborate with users and systems. These products are continuously expanding besides technological improvements like autonomous patching, self-performance tuning, and automatic security updates.
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Future of Blockchain & ERP
5 Biggest Challenges In The Implementation
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Upcoming Arrivals In The Cloud Industry
For The Year 2019
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4. EDITOR’S LETTER
Why Oracle Cloud Solutions remain the best buy?
Designed to handle the most demanding workloads, Oracle Cloud packs networking, storage, database,
connectivity, and governance which can create a complete, reliable technology ecosystem in the cloud.
When I keenly observed the key areas where Oracle Cloud takes the big pie, I found that Oracle’s Cloud
Infrastructure bends all advantages of the public cloud with the control, security, and predictability of
on-premise infrastructure. In today’s customer-focused business environment, Oracle offers business
customers with flexible enterprise-IT choices—in the cloud, conventional, or a mix of both, which are
more than any other vendors. The important point is, Oracle solutions have frequently been
misunderstood by their short-term growth. But, they have proved that their longer-term strategic
positioning and potential is always beneficial for enterprises.
Therefore, this time, the team of Mirror Review brings you our latest magazine issue, “The 10 Best
Oracle Solution Providers of 2019”, featuring prominent companies who are employing Oracle
solutions to transform clients’ digital environment for better.
Out of these leading companies, we have featured The DOC B.V. (The Dutch Oracle Company) as the
cover story of this magazine. The company provides its customers with the best fitting solution for their
needs and acts as a part of their organization to improve and grow their business solutions. Started his
journey as an Oracle developer, the CEO, Guido Leduc guides his team at The DOC B.V. in projects
and operations.
Moving ahead, we have covered innovating stories of leading tech-companies leveraging Oracle
technology to enhance their clients’ portfolio.
On the experts viewpoint, we have Tomas López Fernebrand (VP/Amadeus) and Ricky Solorzano,
(CEO/Allevi), explaining their views about advanced technologies.
The team of Mirror Review always strives to introduce our precious readers with astonishing disruptive
technologies. This comprehensive magazine is packed with two articles covering two of the most
popular technologies, cloud and blockchain to refresh your mind and opinion about their impacts and
limitations.
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Unique Solutions
Future of Blockchain & ERP
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Industry For The Year 2019
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Enstoa:
Trempplin:
Supporting Companies To Prepare For A Digital
Future With Flexible Oracle Cloud Services
Transforming Capital Projects By Enhancing
Communication, Streamlining Processes And
Deploying Data For Fact-based Management
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12. With products for each requirement, Oracle is a
strong competitor in the market to provide the
full stack solution to IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS for
all level of enterprises. Oracle has a huge portfolio of
products in the cloud which seamlessly integrate and
collaborate with users and systems. These products are
continuously expanding besides technological
improvements like autonomous patching, self-performance
tuning, and automatic security updates. Many Oracle’s
cloud products are part of the PaaS portfolio where other
cloud providers mostly provide Infrastructure as a Service
(IaaS). Therefore, the gap between IaaS and SaaS is filled
by PaaS that provides the platform with pre-installed
products to develop and run the user’s own applications.
The DOC B.V. (The Dutch Oracle Company) is an
organization that mainly focuses on these abilities of Oracle
technology. The company provides its customers with the
best fitting solution for their needs and acts as part of their
organization to improve and grow their business solutions.
It assists the clients in infrastructure and (custom)
applications including maintenance and 24/7 support. This
dedicated support enables customers to focus on their core
businesses.
Evolving as the Technologies Evolve
Since its establishment in 1999, The DOC evolved from a
technology driven company towards a solutions provider
but still focused on the Oracle technology. In the past year,
the company further extended its offerings from a
technology solution provider to a customer solution
provider. It works with customers’ organizations by
advising and supporting them on business process level
coupled with technical solutions. This results in a
trustworthy partnership with their customers. The prime
goal of The DOC is to help clients grow their businesses
without letting them worry about their IT systems.
Moreover, complete customers’ infrastructures are managed
by The DOC based on trust, loyalty, focus, communication,
quality, and flexibility.
Expanding Services with CEO’s Contribution
The of started hisCEO The DOC B.V., Guido Leduc
journey as an Oracle developer in 1998. Working as the
CEO, Guido’s role changed from pure technical into team
lead, project manager, and operations manager. Today, at
The DOC, he mainly plays a business-oriented role and
focuses on the customers in functional, technical, and
commercial matters. Besides being responsible for
‘running’ the company, Guido is still involved in company
projects as a solution designer, project manager, and
business consultant. In addition, he is always ready to
facilitate his team members who need some form of support
in their challenges at The DOC. Guido also enjoys spending
his time out in the field visiting customers and prospects. As
a trusted solution partner, he advises and supports his
clients in their line of business with their goals. This
approach of maintaining customer trust helped The DOC in
expanding its customer partnerships.
Fulfilling Growing Clients’ Demands with Technology
Improvements
Speaking of today’s business environment, Oracle business
is becoming more difficult and the IT departments must
improve with changing business trends and clients’
requirements. Today, it’s hard for the most IT departments
to follow the changing pattern of businesses because they
are mostly focused on standards and procedures rather
than focusing on dynamically changing environments.
Understanding this varying scenario, the main goal of
The DOC is to keep a balance between business and
IT. It has branch and customer focus teams, who act
on the fine line between business process and IT,
providing a stable solution for the data systems. It
offers solutions like data analysis and
visualization tools which can be used by the
business on their required level and timing.
Learning from clients’ needs, The DOC serves
the following offerings:
We transform
customers’ businesses
with specialized
Oracle Solutions.
13. n The One Stop Shop for Oracle
As a full-service provider, Oracle’s
knowledge and expertise are deeply rooted
in The DOC. The leading Oracle solutions
provider has all the facets to advice clients’
organizations in the entire Oracle spectrum.
Also, it works as an extension of
customers’ organization.
At The DOC, clients find a culture that
values cooperation and entrepreneurship
which always strives for service and quality
at the highest level. The DOC’s One Stop
Shop is characterized by six collaborating
Business Units, from which it helps customers to
look for the most suitable solution.
n Cloud Services
The cloud is expanding; working in the cloud creates
huge opportunities for organizations as the cloud offers
enormous flexibility, scalability and reliability to
guarantee that crucial systems will always be available
and future ready.
Working in the cloud is transforming the entire
organization’s direction. Collaborating with the right
partner is of crucial interest for achieving one’s cloud
success. From its Cloud Solutions Center, the team of
The DOC advises how to set up and implement the best
fitting cloud solution by offering cloud packages and
Proof of Concepts based on a track record of successful
cloud implementations and migrations.
n Professional Services
At The DOC, Professional Services is about assisting
the customer on a project basis. These services stand for
inventory, advice, development, construction, and
implementation. Clients’ organizations have challenges
and The DOC solves those challenges in-house. It
interviews clients, sparring, and brainstorming with
them. This helps them to come to the right answer and
develop it as a customized solution.
n Managed Services
Initially, the client’s Oracle environment is in the form
of a Service Level Agreement (SLA). Managed Services
is the service where the management of the client’s
Oracle environment is transferred to The DOC. The
leading Oracle solutions provider monitors client’s
Oracle environment 24/7, even in combination with
Application Support.
n Business Intelligence
Business Intelligence is the future. If a customer orders
an article via the internet, then the person gets additional
advice on other products that may be of interest to the
consumer. The factory, or the supplier, continuously
monitors all available data from different angles.
Patterns are recognized and mapped. Different dates are
merged. Business Intelligence and Analytics is
applicable within all organizations and at all levels.
From reports to dashboards to predictive analyzes and
data visualization.
Following the same procedure, The DOC stores the data
and uses it to be predictive and guiding. It examines
data, adds together, discovers patterns, visualizes them,
and comes to advice that is important to clients.
n Product Solutions
Product Solutions are the logical combination of various
activities into one solution. For a large municipality, The
DOC has developed a product from Professional
Services to detect housing frauds by applying Business
Intelligence. That was a great success on several fronts.
In the financial field alone, the municipality saved many
millions. Subsequently, the customer entered into a
management agreement (Managed Services) with The
DOC for the maintenance and management of the
solution. Additionally, in consultation with the
customer, the company developed this program into a
product that detects address-related abuses and can be
used by all municipalities or other government bodies.
Further, it can also be used to track subsidy fraud or
abuse of student finance.
We help our
clients to grow their
businesses while
managing their
entire IT systems.
Best
Solution Providers of 2019
14. Loyalty with Customers as the Key to Success
Following the culture of loyalty, The DOC serves quality solutions according to clients’
requirements. The CEO, Guido believes that this is the key to grow a successful business.
Furthermore, the dedicated team of The DOC is always happy to work for the development of
new products to assist the company in expanding its solutions. The technology specialists at
The DOC work pragmatically and connect seamlessly with the customers. With passion,
craftsmanship, and flexibility, the highly trained specialists of The DOC deliver tailor-made
solutions to the clients. The solutions are fully tried and tested.
The DOC constantly trains its employees and it has a competence development program that
everyone needs to follow. Such programs enable the company to improve its customer support
and advice. The team of The DOC believes in teamwork and its team members are the biggest
assets in the company’s growth. This team is built upon core values like respecting each other
and accepting that no one is perfect in everything. This empowers the team members to work
with their full dedication and strengths.
Building Trust among Clients with Specialized Oracle Services
With continual support and improvements in clients’ services, The DOC has built a reputation
among its customers. Today, customers’ requests for The DOC services are exceeding. To
provide customers with quality solutions, the company has implemented customer focus
teams, who can help them on business process as well as technology level to improve their
businesses.
The market is focusing on organizations, who are specialists in their business instead of
working with companies who just assure to do all possible activities without
knowing the core technology. As a specialist in Oracle technology, The DOC
stands out from other solutions providers. Utilizing The DOC’s Oracle
Cloud, clients’ can create great opportunities for their organizations. The
Cloud offers ample flexibility and reliability to ensure that users’ crucial
systems are always available and their organizations are ready for the
future.
Working in the Cloud transforms the entire business. The right partner
for this transformation is therefore crucial for successful Cloud
implementation. The DOC’s Cloud Solutions Center helps users to make
a framework of the optimal design and do the successful implementation
of their Oracle Cloud. The company offers consultants to look together
with clients for perfect alignment and also provide targeted advice. Such
support enables the client’s organization to take full advantage of the extra
possibilities from the Oracle Cloud.
We have the answer to clients’
development challenges, from
the consultancy phase, through
architecture to realization.
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17. Company InfoCompany Name
Agileum
Sylvain Deslandes
CEO
AGILEUM is a market leader in IT consulting has adopted cloud computing
to offer flexible services and Oracle Cloud solutions that are ingenious and
affordable.
www.agileum.com
Big Bang ERP
Gabriel Tupula
CEO
Big Bang ERP is a boutique consulting firm that helps businesses optimize
and streamline their processes by implementing cloud ERP, CRM, ITSM,
MRP systems, and other cloud applications.
www.bigbangerp.com
CuriousRubik, Inc
Daniel Smith
CEO
Curious Rubik is a multidisciplinary team of consultants and solution design
experts.
www.curiousrubik.com
Echo Media
Paolo Campana
CEO
ECOH MEDIA is a System Integration and Application Management
company specializing in the design and implementation of IT systems and
application solutions for companies and public bodies.
www.ecohmedia.com
ITCabarique is a leading company, providing Oracle services, information
technology support and integrated equipment.
www.itcabarique.com
MASTERTICS was established with a mission to provide high quality solutions
for companies through the use of technology, knowledge.
www.mastertics.com
Technology Xpress Info Solutions, Pvt. Ltd. (T-XIS) is an expert in providing
superior quality Oracle ERP solutions and services to the global market.
www.techxis.com
The DOC B.V. (The Dutch Oracle Company) is an organization that mainly
focuses on these abilities of Oracle technology.
www.thedoc.nl
Trempplin Centre of Excellence (TCoE) consulting is a global leader in
technology consulting and software services domain with a constantly
expanding focus on banking and financial services.
www.trempplin.com
Enstoa
Jordan Cram
Co-Founder & CEO
US-based Enstoa, Inc. supports companies worldwide with advanced Oracle
technologies like Oracle Primavera P6, Primavera Unifier, and Aconex for
capital projects.
www.enstoa.com
ITCabarique
Martín Cabarique
Founder
Mastertics
Hugo Alexander
CEO & Founder
Technology Xpress Info
Solutions Pvt. Ltd.
Manisha Borade
CTO
The DOC BV
Guido Leduc
CEO
Trempplin
Kalmesh Kallur
Co-founder & MD
18. Businesses are witnessing a generational change
with an increasing number of companies
migrating to the cloud. The cloud pools on-
demand resources that are accessible from a wide variety
of devices, serving multiple customers and creating
economies of scale. Moreover, the cloud provides
security, elasticity, flexibility, and speed. Understanding
the potential and convenience of using cloud solutions,
AGILEUM, a market leader in IT consulting has
adopted cloud computing to offer flexible services.
AGILEUM offers Oracle Cloud solutions that are
ingenious and affordable. Additionally, it provides a
range of cloud services and technologies to respond to
organizations’ changing needs. With these solutions, the
leading IT company is helping enterprises towards
cloud-empowered enterprise transformation.
Following Continuous Improvement Strategy
To upgrade the quality of its services, AGILEUM has
adopted a continuous improvement process. It has built
centers of excellence and these centers come up with
new ways of working, new set of in demand skills, and
adjusted delivery methodologies. Focusing on the quality
of process, AGILEUM uses robust and sustainable
technologies. Likewise, the leading cloud service
provider utilizes standard methodologies, metrics, file
structure and process and security audits. Because of
these measures, AGILEUM can create an infrastructure
for engineering, delivery, and execution. AGILEUM is
also certified by the latest international standards that
have introduced new ways of working and new
perspective in its risk management processes.
CEO, Driving the Growth of AGILEUM
With the mission to aid clients prepare for a digital
future, Sylvain Deslandes, the CEO of AGILEUM
creates, plans, and drives strategy for the company. At
AGILEUM, Sylvain strives to create a positive
environment where his teams can accomplish their goals.
Likewise, AGILEUM’s core values assist employees in
nurturing and securing the necessary resources to
enhance their skills and provide the right tools.
Staying relevant to clients’ needs and growing the
interest of his team members are among the key rituals
of Sylvain at AGILEUM. His daily contribution in
balancing his clients and team members helps his
company to go beyond customer expectations. In
addition, he ensures that AGILEUM navigates
successfully into a fast-changing business environment,
where technology is rapidly evolving. Furthermore, to
keep up with today’s speedy improvements, Sylvain
regularly analyzes and rethinks AGILEUM’s offerings
and skills.
Utilizing Social Approach to Generate Sustainable
Solutions
AGILEUM aims to help its customers improve their
operational performance and successfully manage their
digital transformation. While transforming clients’
enterprises, AGILEUM understands that there has been
acceleration in consumerism, technology, and
sustainability. Due to such developments, every industry
can gain benefits from it, but the lack of digital
transformation is the major restriction.
To empower digital transformation in developing
countries like Mauritius, AGILEUM is helping
customers to take a step further and implement advanced
Supporting Companies To Prepare For A Digital
Future With Flexible Oracle Cloud Services
We guide and
support our clients
to master new
technologies and
optimize their
performances.
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infrastructure in their businesses. The leading Oracle
Cloud solutions provider helps companies to stay agile
and make better and faster business decisions. Currently,
AGILEUM is focusing on the adoption of cloud
solutions in the Indian Ocean and African Region. The
company is also helping SMEs with products like
NetSuite and creating open source business solutions and
API factory.
Helping Clients Create Profound Opportunities for
Businesses
With advanced data and analytics solutions from
AGILEUM, clients can discover useful insights that will
allow them to better understand their businesses,
customers, and competitors. These insights will enable
users to formulate tailor-made solutions for their clients.
Further, AGILEUM’s skilled consultants transmute
existing business operations, making them smarter,
faster, and more cost-effective.
The leading IT solutions provider delivered projects
based on SAP, Oracle, Microsoft and IBM cloud
solutions. Here are the key benefits of using
AGILEUM’s advanced data solutions.
· Focus on the core business activities
· Identify bottom-line performance improvements
· Increase efficiency and best-practices
· Improve operational excellence
· Gain better access to technology
Striking Ahead of Competitors with New
Achievements
AGILEUM has a culture of continuously improving its
solutions according to clients’ requirements. This culture
has proactively helped the leading IT company to expand
nation-wide. Today, AGILEUM is one of the few
companies to successfully integrate cloud applications in
Sub-Saharan region.
Recently, AGILEUM conducted the first regional
implementation of best-in-class cloud supply chain
management solution. It assisted in numerous financials
cloud projects and rapidly enhanced its security services
line for major players in private or public sectors.
The rapid growth motivates AGILEUM to offer
improved solutions for its clients. Currently, the leading
cloud solutions provider is scaling up by industrializing
its project delivery and uplifting project outcome to be
highly predictable. AGILEUM’s CEO Sylvain believes
that his team is the backbone of his company. Therefore,
the company also invests in enhancing the skills of its
team members. As a result, these investments
consistently improve AGILEUM’s offerings.
Adding Value to Solutions for Future-proof Projects
In FY19, AGILEUM will be essentially focused on
creating new successes for its clients. It has upcoming
projects around the integration of cloud ERP and
development of interfaces with cloud-based or on-
premises business solutions.
AGILEUM is bringing added value through its strong
expertise, robust solutions, and innovative thinking. The
leading oracle cloud solutions provider is also prepared
for blockchain and AI’s disruptive impacts that are going
to create new opportunities for its clients and team in the
near future.
Sylvain Deslandes
CEO
20. Upcoming arrivals in
for the year 2019
LOUD
OMPUTINGC
In this dynamic and competitive digital age, it
is a second nature for most professionals to
keep abreast of trends and predictions in the
IT applications and IT infrastructure space. The
formation of new technologies with a potential to
alter lifestyles and challenge traditional business
models has made it imperative for business
leaders to study what lies ahead and evaluate to
be ready for it.
Cloud computing has become a scalable services
consumption and delivery platform in the field of
Services Computing. The technical foundations of
cloud computing include Service-Oriented
Architecture and Virtualizations of hardware and
software. The goal of Cloud computing is to share
resources among the cloud service consumers,
cloud partners, and cloud vendors in the cloud
value chain. The resource sharing at various
levels results in various cloud offerings such as
infrastructure cloud, software cloud, application
cloud, and business cloud.
As the cloud computing market grows, there
would be more expectations and pressure on the
CIOs. Higher customer expectations and the
competence will be a building stone for CIOs in
the upcoming years. It is estimated that the entire
range of IT enterprises would be cloud-based by
2020.
So what will be the development in the
upcoming years?
Ÿ Multi-cloud: Over the recent years, multi-cloud
has been creating a major buzz in the
information technology industry. However, it
has often been confused with hybrid cloud
because of certain similarities specific
distinctions. While hybrid cloud is an
amalgamation of on-premises private cloud and
third party public cloud, multi-cloud is a mix
and match combination of cloud services from
different service providers catering to specific
workload requirements. In other words, multi-
cloud is one form of hybrid cloud running in
multiple public cloud environments.
A multi-cloud strategy enables several strategic
benefits. Companies relying on a single cloud
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Cloud Trends
21. service provider might encounter problems such
as cloud data center bandwidth issues that could
potentially hamper their business and even result
in possible loss of customers, especially when
some of their critical applications are involved.
Usage of multiple cloud services ensures that the
risks of downtime and data loss are averted even
if there is a failure with respect to any
components in the software, hardware, network,
etc.
Additionally, a multi-cloud strategy provides
companies the flexibility to specifically cater to
the divergent requirements of their different
business functions, teams, and departments.
These include security, privacy, performance or
geographic reach of their cloud.
Companies need to involve their IT and business
units and work with the right partner in setting up
an ideal multi-cloud solution. This can shift their
focus from managing technology infrastructure to
investing in business transformation, thereby
depriving the maximum competitive advantage.
Ÿ Serverless Computing: Serverless computing
refers to a new way of creating cloud-
basedapplications that shifts the burden of
heavy infrastructure to the cloud service
providers such as Amazon, Microsoft and
Google. This means that the developers can just
focus oncreating applications without needing
to worry about the server provisioning or
storage allocations.The term ’Serverless’ is a bit
of misnomer.There are still servers involved,
but their management and provisioning is
hidden from the developers. It is a complex
concept and is commonly referred to as
Function as a Service (FaaS). Each function
lives as an independent module, which is
brought to life when triggered with an internal
or external event. The server hosting the
Ÿ function is ‘spun down’ when the processing is
complete. It is conceptually similar to
Microservice Architecture, wherein every
service in an architecture lives as an
independent module.
Amazon was the first to introduce the serverless
computing concept with its product named
Lambda. This was inspired by Simple Storage
Service (S3) one of their highly popular products
and is concerned with storing objects.
How Serverless computing will function in
future?
Ÿ On-demand Execution of Tasks: The
serverless system executes the function when an
event triggering it occurs.
Ÿ Specific Function Coding: People can write
code so that whenever they load some data into
a database, it is instantly stored in a data
warehouse.
Ÿ Applications with IoT: In an IoT system, real-
time responses are required on a massive scale -
making serverless computing an ideal platform.
It is especially helpful in areas of poor
connectivity, so that routing through a data
center can be avoided.
Ÿ Cost and Time Saving: Serverless computing
can be thought as outsourcing – people need to
pay only for managing stuff like application
logic, databases, and servers, which was
managed by companies earlier.
Ÿ Kubernetes: Kubernetes is fast becoming the
operating system for the cloud. It has the
potential to offer massive benefits for tech-firms
and developers. However, the future
advancements in kubernates are as follows:
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22. Ÿ Simpler microservices API: From a
programmer’s perspective, microservices
architectures are challenging to implement,
because user requires complex APIs to enable
communication between microservices.
Ÿ Unikernels: The concept behind the unikernel
is simple: provide just enough software to
power the desired application. The unikernel is
software minimalism in practice. Unikernels
depend on specialized compiler systems to
combine application software and operating
system support functions at compile time
instead of runtime. The result is a single
application image that contains everything the
application needs to run. All drivers, I/O
routines, and support library functions normally
provided by an operating system are included in
the executable. None of the thousands of
utilities, unneeded drivers, unnecessary I/O
routines, or unused support libraries is included.
Ÿ GUI-friendly containers: People can run
applications with graphical user interfaces
Ÿ (GUIs) inside containers, but existing solutions
for doing so are clunky. As a result, most of the
container cases focus on applications that do not
require a GUI to run, or whose GUI can be
accessed via the web. If a technology can make
it easier to deploy traditional GUI apps inside
containers, it would open up vast new
opportunities for deploying containerized
applications.
Conclusion
Cloud technology is still growing as it continues
to be more mainstream than on-premise
deployments. Organizations must look to simplify
their environments as they move more and more
workloads into the cloud, especially if
organizations are working with multiple cloud
providers. To better utilize cloud technologies, a
proper management of resources is important and
automation backed by cloud technology will play
a prime role in helping business succeed.
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24. Oracle PaaS enables companies to leverage
important emerging technologies like AI,
machine learning and IoT. Such innovations
are attracting forward-thinking organizations, many of
which already have a huge amount of Oracle tech and
applications. US-based supportsEnstoa, Inc.
companies worldwide with advanced Oracle
technologies like Oracle PrimaveraP6, Primavera
Unifier, and Aconex for capital projects. Enstoa is a
gold partner with Oracle’s Construction and
Engineering Global Business Unit (CEGBU) to
advance capital projects building.
Co-founder and CEO Jordan Cram established
Enstoa with a vision of bringing evidence-based
decision making to organizations in capital projects
and construction. The company is built on the core
foundation of helping organizations use advanced
technologies to reduce risks, speed up performance
and deliver on strategic objectives.
Driving Clients’ Capital Projects with Technology
Great projects are built on a solid foundation of
evidence and data. It’s common to hear about
ambitious and well-resourced projects that fail due to
a lack of comprehensive and reliable data. Enstoa fills
this gap and offers an evidence-based approach, with
high quality industry expertise in capital projects and
a proven, repeatable way to improve project portfolio
performance. Enstoa also provide clients with the
insights and best practices needed to move forward
confidently.
One CEO, Many Facets
As CEO, Cram prides himself on not having a static
role, instead being where he is needed most to drive
value to clients and support the Enstoa team. For
example, this quarter Cram is working with the
product innovation team to help the company launch
new AI-based products in 2019.
He was honored with the 2017 Smart CEO NYC
award, and Enstoa has been on the Inc. 5000 list of
fastest-growing private companies for seven years.
Prior to Enstoa, Cram was co-founder and principal of
the Cram Group.
Cram emphasizes the booming potential of
technology and the changes it will bring in the
future. He believes that technology is an
essential enabler for organizations to
continuously innovate and optimize
performance. For more than 20 years, Cram
has used strategic business consulting and
smart technology solutions to assist leading
organizations navigate the digital journey
Transforming Capital Projects By Enhancing
Communication, Streamlining Processes And
Deploying Data For Fact-Based Management
We see a world in which
all capital projects achieve
maximum return on
investment. In which data and
analytics inform crucial decisions
about where and how to spend
capital dollars. In which the risks
and challenges inherent to projects
are reduced through an
evidence-based approach.
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successfully. His advice has helped clients to spend
more strategically on improving their operations in
leading markets like China, the Middle East, India,
Europe, North America, and Australia.
Recently, Cram announced that he and his colleagues
have implemented a new model to help engineer
culture and team performance. He calls it the science
and technology of Evidence-based Team Design
(EBTD), which uses individual and team data to
optimize project teams for their given tasks.
EBTDis enabling a unique business strategy at Enstoa,
taking the science-based approach to capital project
improvements to a new level. The energetic CEO
asserted, “We’re going to do big things.”Cram hinted
Enstoa is on the verge of introducing new innovations
into their product lineup.
Topping the Market and Leading Capital Projects
Worldwide
In the current industry environment, an organization’s
efficiency is determined by its adaptability and
effective use of digital solutions. With capital projects,
their scale and resourcing levels require nimble
integration and a cloud-centric approach. Enstoa’s
technical know-how and agile implementation
approach, the “90-day Sprint™,” ensures even the
most complex systems integration. It also helps
companies achieve true process transformation and
360° project visibility.
With thousands of configured business processes from
Enstoa’s best practices database, its digital team
brings relevant data to all its engagements. Likewise,
the configured business processes serve as an
invaluable resource for benchmarking and
configuration.
Enstoa’s team of experts provides both industry
acumen and technology-enabled accelerators. This
helps clients to realize measurable value in as little as
90 days. The company offers unlimited support to its
clients, which includes quick access to its experts,
proactive support, reliable performance, and peace of
mind. Clients can streamline data gathering, identify
trends, and quickly communicate KPI-level
performance with Enstoa’s suite of battle-tested
capital projects and facilities management reporting
dashboards.
Growing with Specialized Capital Projects
Improvements
Today, Enstoa has become a key player in the capital
projects market and is the leading systems integrator
for capital projects worldwide. The New York-based
tech company is expanding worldwide, with a
radically growing client roster across a range of
industries, including manufacturing, energy,
construction, and public infrastructure.
Enstoa has a history of collaborating with world-class
clients, teammates, and partners. The company grew
35% in 2018 and aims to go even higher in the coming
years. Such dedication, passion and commitment to
quality drives Enstoa as they realize a better way to
build.
Jordan Cram
Co-founder & CEO
26. EMPOWERING OTHER’S TO BUILD WITH LIFE
A
llevi is building tools to design and engineer
with life. Our 3D bioprinters and bioinks are
used by leading researchers all around the
world to find solutions to humanity’s most difficult
problems – to cure disease, to test novel drugs, to
eliminate the organ waiting list, to build with life.
Founded in 2014, our mission is to make it easy to
design and engineer 3D tissues. We created our
desktop 3D bioprinter to be the most versatile,
powerful and easy-to-use bio printer on the market.
Since our humble beginnings, we have grown to serve
hundreds of labs in all corners of the world and have
become leaders in the bio fabrication revolution.
At , the biggest challenge is definitely theAllevi
symphony of things that need to work together to
make the overall solution work. 3D printing is a
mixture of robotics, software, and material science.
For us we still use robotics, software, and material
science, but our added layer of complexity is that we
print cells. This is truly where we derive our specialty.
We’ve learned a lot in the past to be able to print and
pattern cells. The next step is really to get the biology
to perform. The way we look to accomplish this is
working with biologist around the world and are
excited for this next step.
In terms of the 3D printing industry, the globe is
moving towards demands of more regional
personalized products as well as thoughts around
sustainability. In an era where mass manufacturing has
become mainstream, new generations are more
conscious of where products are bought, who makes
them, and how do they benefit not only themselves but
their community. I believe we will see 3D printing
continue to take a greater and greater role in providing
these more regionalized sustainable products for new
market demands.
In terms of Allevi, medicine is also driving in a more
personalized direction. Informed patients are
understanding that tailored medication will drive more
efficient and effective results for their treatments. This
is particularly true when it comes to either more
chronic or cancerous diseases. Therefore, 3D
bioprinting will allow physicians to be able to print
out patient’s disease tissue to study drugs to
understand the personalized prognosis for the patient
in a quick fashion. Likewise, physicians will also be
able to in the future print personalized medical
devices. The future of medicine is personalized and
Allevi is excited to be catalyzing this new era.
Experts Opinions
Best
Solution Providers of 2019
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27. ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Ricky Solorzano as the CEO of
Allevi guides the vision, strategy,
and day to day operation. He has
been obsessed with tissue
engineering for 8 years, created
the first desktop 3D bioprinter out
of his dorm room, and has been a
Forbes 30 under 30, Inc 30 under
30, and Business Insider 100: The
Creators #65.
Ricky Solorzano
CEO | Allevi
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28. In the world of transformation where every business
is getting modernised by adapting new
technologies, it becomes very important to keep up
the pace and stay a step or two ahead than the rest.
Therefore, the reinvention of the business model and
clinch to new age tools & technologies is essential to get
success. Besides, one of the largest software makers,
Oracle has made numerous revolutions in the IT field. It
has vast expertise in developing database software and
technology cloud engineered systems and enterprise
software products.
Today, Oracle’s database technology is widespread in
developers as its wide-ranging software array and
supreme domain proficiency is being acclaimed for its
flexibility and cost savings. Similarly, it has proved its
importance in some of the most vital applications in
business such as Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP),
Customer Relationship Management (CRM), and
Supply-Chain Management (SCM). ERP is the
incorporated management software of core business
processes and is facilitated by software and technology.
Focused on the capabilities of Oracle, Technology
Xpress Info Solutions, Pvt. Ltd. (T-XIS) is an expert in
providing superior quality Oracle ERP solutions and
services to the global market. Primarily, T-XIS was
established to provide customers with the best-in-class
services in the ERP domain.
Empowering Businesses with High Class Solutions
Headquartered in Pune, T-XIS has an expertise in
delivering high quality business solutions & consulting.
It is known that integration of data is the crucial
objective to be achieved in any ERP system and
therefore, this start-up was initiated with the idea of
providing data in integrated models. The leading
organization is an Oracle Gold Partner, assisting clients
to get the most out of their businesses. The company also
has proficiencies in supporting technology related
products related to Application, Database, Middleware,
and infrastructure.
Presently, T-XIS has developed a vast experience in
developing, modifying, and improving medium to large
scale ERP and offers unmatched ERP solutions and
services to prominent clients comprising of medium and
large companies. Impressively, the significant assets of
T-XIS are unique merger of onsite and offshore
implementations, and advanced project management
practices.
New Type of Cloud with Abundant Added Features
T-XIS utilizes the power of Oracle PaaS to assist
customers to develop, run, and manage web applications
with simplified building. It also helps them to maintain
the infrastructure that is characteristically associated
with developing and launching an app. Today, it has
replaced the traditional way and is now helping
enterprises in making better use of cloud such as
securing, mobilizing, integrating, and proving analytics
on the data in much simplified way. Moreover, PaaS
comes with many advantages such as IT efficiency,
business upgrading, and risk reduction. Besides, it
increases automation, improves scalability, and increases
The Maven in Offering Oracle ERP Solutions
We help our
clients to achieve
their vision
through quality
technology,
delivered by our
finest experts.
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IT focus on business results rather than platform
management.
Leader Contributing to Mission and Vision of the
Firm
A leader is the one who guides the team towards the goal
and walks with the team. One such leader for T-XIS is
Manisha Borade, Chief Technical Officer at T-XIS. As
the CTO, Manisha has many responsibilities and she
handles them with great pleasure. Her technical
responsibilities are product development, innovative
models which are built as per the market trend and
customer feedback. Manisha and her team enjoy
developing products and solutions that are completely
workflow driven, analytical, and dashboard ready as this
is what the modern customers demand nowadays.
Furthermore, Manisha likes to contribute to the mission
and vision of the firm. The mission of T-XIS is to
accomplish the objectives with due consideration to
humanity, honesty, and transparency towards the clients,
employees, strategic partners, and society at large.
Vision and Values of the Company
T-XIS is envisioned to be a global, pioneering
organization by providing customized niche business
resolutions, helping organizations to attain their vision
through quality technology, delivered by experts. The
company’s core values have helped it in the journey, and
given unique character and reputation that defines it. The
team of T-XIS is concentrated on important values like
customer focus, knowledge worship, respect,
empowering individuals, entrepreneurship & innovation,
integrity, community contribution, teamwork, long-term
relationships based on trust, and focus on profitable
growth.
Technology Driven Team Empowering the Growth of
T-XIS
Teamwork is very important for any organization to get
success and with collaborative efforts comes the great
accomplishments. T-XIS is a team of expert IT
professionals with strong domain knowledge and high
calibre, comprising of talented experts with approach
engrossed on implementing unified solutions for the
customers. T-XIS has produced a productive and
collaborative work environment greatly influenced by
open communication, safety & trust, synergy, and
knowledge sharing as these are the fundamental things
needed to produce a constructive work culture. T-XIS
team is very passionate about technology and the firm
follows an open work culture to inspire each other along
with sharing and participation amid the team members at
all levels. Here, multiple teams work together in
managing sales, marketing, finance, administrations, etc.
Roadmap for the Future
Presently, T-XIS emphasises on building an ERP model
for customers which is completely integrated and
intelligent to analyse the critical business extents and
generate informative data for the management. It is also
intended to create mobile applications necessary for
crucial decision making. The firm is also planning to
solidify its existence in Automation, Analytics, and
mobile applications. Today, T-XIS is focused on the
market needs and is aiming to magnify its horizon in
Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS).
Manisha Borade
Chief Technical Officer
30. Blockchain-based ERP systems
Blockchain technology is being implemented in
a large number of industries from supply
chain, IT services to financial services. Today,
blockchain’s distributed ledger technology is one of
the greatest innovations. It is likely to take a
substantial amount of time before global adoption.
Nonetheless, technologists and leading businesses
have realized that the blockchain technology can play
a big role in areas like logistics, supply chain, and
production that typically falls under the ERP systems
domain.
It is foreseen that the blockchain application in ERP
will help businesses in reducing the recall
requirements. It has the ability to share the production
diary among all original equipment manufacturers
(OEM). Therefore, it is possible to accurately and
promptly recall the affected products. All
manufacturers in the ecosystem can strictly control the
flow of goods and payment transactions. In this
manner, it helps in improving transaction-processing
speed and minimizes risks.
In financial companies, blockchain with ERP
minimizes recording errors like duplicate financial
transactions and make payments quicker.
Transparency and reliability in transactions are the
major benefits of using blockchain with ERP.
However, there are several challenges associated with
blockchain adoption that must be mitigated before its
widespread integration can happen.
Like many futuristic business leaders, if you too aspire
to implement blockchain in ERP systems for seamless
results, you must overcome these top 5 challenges
beforehand.
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Future of Blockchain & ERP
31. 1. Managing growing number of users
Currently, blockchain technology is facing problems
in effectively supporting a large number of users on a
network. Therefore, to match the high user base,
blockchain will need to have better scalability. The
leading blockchain technology-based networks
Bitcoin and Ethereum get slower in transaction
processes. Moreover, higher fees are charged per
transaction because of a substantial rise in users.
There should be in-depth research about how to
upgrade blockchain to improve its user management
capability. It will take a significant amount of time to
develop such capacity to handle the increasing growth
in users. Further, thoroughly vetted and verified
scaling methods are important before implementation
into the ledgers. Thus, one should consider the
scalability before connecting blockchain with ERP
systems on a wide scale.
2. Illegal usage and exposure
Blockchain technology is mostly used in bitcoin,
altcoins, etc that are illegal in some countries. In a
paper titled “A Survey on the Security of Blockchain
Systems” published through the Cornell University
Library, a team of researchers found that criminals use
cryptocurrencies to purchase restricted materials on
online marketplaces. Likewise, they use it as a tool for
money laundering and payment methods for
ransomware.
Nevertheless, these illegal activities are a result of
people’s applications of digital currencies in global
trade and can be carried out with approved currency
too. However, for blockchain technology to be
accepted by the public, it must restrict its usage in
such scenarios.
3. Security and privacy
In their initial design, developers made blockchains to
be publicly visible. The Bitcoin blockchain is
designed to be accessible to all those who have made
a transaction on the network. In such cases of bitcoin
and other cryptocurrencies, public visibility is an
important feature.
However, for governments and companies, this
exposure creates a number of concerns. Most of the
ERP systems in companies need to protect and restrict
access to their data for a myriad of reasons. Therefore,
blockchain technology cannot work in spaces with
sensitive data until developers find out the resolution
for this challenge.
As a solution to public visibility, one can customize
blockchain to meet the needs and specifications of the
specific ERP system. A blockchain can be made
restricted to others. This means that people can only
access parts of the blockchain which are relevant to
their tasks.
Creating such custom blockchains takes a sizable
amount of expertise and planning. Today, security and
privacy is the prime concern of ERP systems.
Therefore, a clear and secure blockchain-based ERP
model with limited and customizable data access
should be developed to tackle such issues.
4. Unsustainable energy consumption
The Bitcoin network and Ethereum network both use
the proof-of-work (PoW) algorithm to validate
transactions made on the blockchains. It is most
popular mechanism for blockchain. It requires the
computation of ultra-complex mathematical problems
to verify and process transactions and to secure the
network.
Therefore, combined with ERP, blockchain systems
will consume extra power to run the computers and a
considerable amount of infrastructure will be required
for cooling and maintaining the systems. According to
a recent finding, the miners who work to validate
transactions in the Bitcoin blockchain consume about
0.2 percent of the global electricity total per year.
The solution over the high-energy consumption
problem is to use Proof-of-stake algorithm instead of
Proof-of-work (PoW). This will also help the
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32. implementation of blockchain in ERP to operate with
sustainable energy consumption. Still, the shift from
PoW to PoS has to be compatible with current systems
and run as per the output requirements.
5. The need for industry standards
Designing a standard blockchain-ERP system that is
confidential and secure is a big task. Thus, companies
need to agree on standards and practices for seamless
connectivity through such blockchain-based ERP
models. Moreover, the user must overcome the slower
processing rate to avoid interaction failure between
IoT devices and other systems.
With some proof of concepts, global industries should
adopt a common standard and give it the time to
convert and become compatible. These standards will
play an important role in ensuring scalability and
interoperability between multiple blockchain
implementations.
It will also help in reducing the risk of a fragmented
ecosystem. Further, standards could improve
understanding of this complex technology and help
progress the market. Moreover, there are potential
opportunities for standards to play a role in sectors
where provenance tracking is important.
Conclusion:
In the heart of today’s business world, where people’s
lives are enmeshed with digital technologies, the
blockchain powered ERP system can be a
breakthrough product. ERP providers are slowly
realizing the positive impact blockchain technology
could make. But, it needs to tackle the above
challenges effectively in order to emerge as prime
support for ERP systems.
Blockchain enables frictionless functioning of
businesses in a unified ecosystem and allows them to
control their resources and growth far better. Experts
say that blockchain could potentially transform how
modern businesses operate. Currently, ERP softwares
are focused on individual enterprises, while
blockchain integration adds more flexibility, but the
security and privacy should not be compromised.
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33.
34. The ever-evolving nature of technologies has made
the world unpredictable; a major breakthrough can
change the way business world functions.
Moreover, the advantages of continuously changing
technologies have opened several doors for improvement in
each sector resulting in enhanced outcomes and numerous
growth possibilities. The significant overlap of ever-shifting
technology and its benefits for banking products and
services has been the prime motivator for toTrempplin
create possibilities for its clients and their end customers.
Trempplin Centre of Excellence (TCoE) consulting is a
global leader in technology consulting and software
services domain with a constantly expanding focus on
banking and financial services.
Incepted in 2016, TCoE is an Oracle Silver Partner that has
made its own position in the market with its software
development, training, and consulting services. Considering
“creating possibilities” as an integral part of its culture,
TCoE has been exactly doing that in more than 10 countries
globally. Kalmesh Kallur, Co-founder and Managing
Director of TCoE, is an expert in core processing areas of
banking and finance domain with a major work experience
in Oracle SQL and PL/SQL. Kalmesh with his team of
technical talents strive to deliver services and build long-
lasting relationships with customers and partners
consistently.
A Colossal Range of Deliverables
The Bangalore, India based organization leverages its
cutting-edge infrastructure and highly skilled team
members to deliver quality software products for the
businesses. In addition, TCoE also trains students aspiring
to build a career in the Information Technology arena.
1) Services
TCoE’s services help its clients in banking, implementation,
digital banking, optimization, version upgrade, business
intelligence, and anti-money laundering.
Ÿ FlexCube: The IT solution provider’s major offering is
a core banking application and financial IT solution
dubbed as FlexCube. FlexCube is a group of networking
bank branches. TCoE’s team facilitates FlexCube
implementation, optimization, and version upgrade.
Moreover, FlexCube is designed to serve as a
technology enabler to meet the ever-growing needs of
Financial Inclusion in banks and Financial Institutions
(FIs) in emerging market economies.
Ÿ Consulting: Under its consulting solutions, TCoE
provides specialized banking advisory services that
aid banks in making a strategic and thought driven
decision. Its team does this by a thorough analysis
and computation of various requirements of the
organization.
Ÿ Other additional offerings: Apart from its
major offerings, TCoE is also involved in ERP
development, website development, HRMS
Application, Leave/Attendance Management
System, School/College management system,
technical training etc.
Supporting Clients to Achieve their Goals
with Advanced Tech Offerings
At Trempplin,
we believe in O3
delivery (On Budget –
On Time – On Scope)
across our enterprise
portfolio
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2) Courses
Besides the above array of services, the continuously
growing organization also offers different courses in Oracle,
JAVA, software testing, HADOOP, SAP, web development,
banking, and Six Sigma Green Belt. All these courses are
upgraded with time and are comprised of basic to advanced
contents. Moreover, its team of experts with deep domain
knowledge makes the training impeccable.
3) Product
Ÿ MicroFlex: This simple and reliable core banking
system for Microfinance institutions and banks enables
their customers to operate accounts and avail
Microfinancing services from any branch of the
Microfinance. In this way, customer convenience is
enhanced, thus making them a part of Microfinance’s
customers list instead of the branch.
Notably, MicroFlex comes with two major features; first
is customer loan online, which allows customers to
make loan payments online. Using this time saving and
user-friendly feature, customers can be benefited in
many ways like expenses control, reduced risk of loss
and theft, low commission etc. Secondly, the SMS
Alerts for Customers function allows users to keep track
of their accounts. SMS alert service comes with
multiple functionalities like loan reminder alert, loan
repayment/disbursement alert, and deposit or
withdrawal alerts.
Collaborative Culture Strengthening Trempplin
Knowing the fact that collaboration can invigorate
organizations by fully engaging employees, improving
retention, and increasing innovation, TCoE believes in
creating a team-oriented workforce that not only helps it to
promote great work environment but also ensures
employees job satisfaction. Moreover, having such an
environment within, which focuses on the success of the
team as a whole and not on individual accomplishments, the
strength of an individual member of a team working
together is leading TCoE towards continued success.
A Far-Sighted Personality Leading Trempplin
Being the Managing Director of TCoE, Kalmesh is
responsible for making major corporate decisions, and
managing overall operations and resources of the company.
Moreover, being its public face; he also acts as the main
point of communication between the board of directors and
corporate operations. Furthermore, Kalmesh likes to be
indulged in social responsibilities, as it helps to maintain
awareness of the competitive market landscape, expansion
opportunities, industries, and development.
Moving ahead with a Unique Approach to Measure
Success
Presently, the team of TCoE is striving to push boundaries
in the technology product space with a path-breaking
mobile based application—FlexCube. Further, as the
proficient leader, Kalmesh believes that physical expansion
is no longer necessary to grow a profitable business.
Moreover, in the near future, TCoE looks ahead to offer
online transactions like instant payment to its users. As the
company is in the boom stage of its journey, Kalmesh
reports that they are hiring new people, launching new
campaigns, and also building new partnerships actively.
Co-founder & Managing Director
Kalmesh Kallur
36. Do you believe in the importance of a
sustainable travel industry? The travel and
tourism sector is expected to grow at an
annual rate of 3.9% over the next decade. That is
positive, but it also reminds us that we need to put in
place measures to guarantee the sustainability of the
sector in the long term. Amadeus takes this very
seriously. Let me tell you why.
We consider that a company’s responsibility goes
beyond securing the growth of its results. At Amadeus
we have a record for many years of limiting the
environmental impact and optimizing the social reach
of our commercial operations. We believe that
environmental efficiency has to start with our internal
operations. That is why we measure our
environmental impact in order to identify
improvements and implement solutions. Since 2009,
we have been using the Amadeus Environmental
Management System (EMS) as a solid methodology to
analyze all our environmental data and help us
identify and take measures to improve environmental
performance.
As a technology provider for the travel and tourism
sector, Amadeus develops technology solutions that
help our customers improve their environmental and
economic efficiency. One of our technology solutions,
Amadeus Altéa Departure Control-Flight
Management, allows airlines to accurately calculate
the fuel they need for a given flight, allowing them
significant savings in CO2 emissions, fuel and
economic costs.
To achieve greater long-term results, we collaborate
with other interest groups in the travel industry and
participate in projects to improve environmental
sustainability. For example, in order to help achieve
the 2-degree objective set by the Paris Agreement and
reach the carbon neutral level, Amadeus joined the
United Nations’ Climate Neutral Now commitment.
We have also established a long-term agreement with
the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO)
to contribute to a greater awareness of carbon
emissions in aviation. Amadeus uses the ICAO carbon
emissions calculator on its distribution platforms to
provide travelers with information on the greenhouse
gas emissions produced during their trips.
Why
TECHNOLOGYis
Crucial to Achieving a Sustainable
TRAVEL INDUSTRY?
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Solution Providers of 2019
37. Amadeus’ environmental commitment is reflected in
our inclusion in several global sustainability indices.
Among others, Amadeus has been chosen as one of
the most sustainable companies in the world, ranking
16 in the 100 global companies chosen by Corporate
Knights in 2018. In addition, our efforts in this regard
have been recognized by the Dow Jones Sustainability
Index for seven consecutive years.
Looking at the social level, we believe that travel can
play a key role in global economic development and
can be a determining force for positive change.
We seek to actively contribute to the communities in
which we work, through investment, participation in
local projects and partnerships with non-profit
organizations around the world. To do so, during 2017
we developed 138 community support and social
assistance projects and 69 training projects, providing
young people with the qualifications required by the
digitized sector of travel and tourism.
In 2013, Amadeus launched Click for Change, a
program that, thanks to the donation engine developed
by Amadeus, allows donations from people who buy
their trips online. So far, travelers have donated almost
3 million dollars on the websites of Iberia, Finnair,
Norwegian, Almundo and Avianca for programs to
educate and vaccinate of children, and other
development projects run by the United Nations Fund
for Children (UNICEF).
We also contribute our knowledge in travel
intelligence for initiatives that benefit society. In this
sense, Amadeus is part of a UNICEF global
innovation program that collects and analyzes
complex data sources from different sectors. In part,
thanks to the data provided by Amadeus, they can
better understand the patterns of the spread of
epidemics, which helps them to control possible
outbreaks in other areas.
Our purpose to shape the future of travel and tourism
is based on internal, external and collaborative actions
with other entities in the sector. We are committed and
proud to be able to use Amadeus’ technology,
experience and global network to ensure the
sustainability of the travel industry in the long-term
and build a better future for all.
Senior Vice President, General
Counsel & Corporate Secretary,
Amadeus
Tomas López Fernebrand
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