Ports and terminals around the world face the challenge of reducing equipment and labour costs, managing growth without large capital
investments in land and berth space and developing new technology.
Business Intelligence (BI) addresses all the challenges, by providing comprehensive terminal solutions for real-time planning, management and control of port and terminal operations and inter-modal facilities, said Sanjay Mehta, CEO, MAIA Intelligence.
Genex Logistics Got Covered in BharatBenz (On page no. 8, 14 & 15 )Genex Logistics
Genex Logistics has been covered in an Industry magazine (BharatBenz). It is a magazine of Mercedes Benz trucks. It is a quarterly magazine and the title for this quarter is Diversify, become a 3PL player.
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Celerity Supply Chain: Logistics MagazineAakash Gala
Dear Readers,
It has been a tough month for everyone. Unprecedented in nature. We all are a part of and witnessing history
in the making. How the history pans out is up to us and our resilience. Easier said than done though.
The consequences of the lockdown have been severe. It has exposed our fragility. In our efforts to balance
lives v/s livelihood, stringent clauses have been enforced which has left MSMEs and manufacturing as a sector
in the lurch. These clauses have made it unviable to open factories.
The need for re-energising the electricity sector is therefore urgent. This can be achieved through a series of steps such as commitment to buy, an acceptable fuel price, operation of stranded capacity, commercial orientation of utilities, domestic fuel availability, creation of an integrated national grid with enhancement of inter-regional transmission capacity and promotion of competitive markets in all elements of the chain. Among other things, the cover story in January 2013 issue of our Business Digest throws light on some of these critical aspects of reform in the Indian electricity sector.
The 10 most recommended logistic companies in 2019Merry D'souza
This edition “The 10 Most Recommended Logistic Companies in 2019” aims to highlight the jewels of the Indian logistics industry. Measuring the diverse capability, this magazine is a platform to celebrate the success stories of these players in the best possible way!
On the cover page, we have showcased LogYcode Tech Solutions. It is an NCR based e-commerce start-up that innovative IT-enabled solutions and services to re-engineer logistics business processes to meet the demands and the desire arising from the digital transformation of the industry.
Customer overview of retail outlets hpcl vs. reliance Supa Buoy
Hi Friends
This is supa bouy
I am a mentor, Friend for all Management Aspirants, Any query related to anything in Management, Do write me @ supabuoy@gmail.com.
I will try to assist the best way I can.
Cheers to lyf…!!!
Supa Bouy
The retail industry is at the forefront of the Big Data revolution, with every point-of-sale transaction, website click, or social media post potentially revealing an insight into the customer’s preferences and buying behaviour. The capability to harness this information effectively to provide optimal pricing and enhanced customer experience can be a game-changer for retailers.
MAIA Intelligence was invited to give a technical session on MS-SQL at Microsoft Dreamspark Yatra 2012 event in which around 300 budding techies learnt about the emerging technologies
Celerity Supply Chain: Logistics MagazineAakash Gala
Dear Readers,
It has been a tough month for everyone. Unprecedented in nature. We all are a part of and witnessing history
in the making. How the history pans out is up to us and our resilience. Easier said than done though.
The consequences of the lockdown have been severe. It has exposed our fragility. In our efforts to balance
lives v/s livelihood, stringent clauses have been enforced which has left MSMEs and manufacturing as a sector
in the lurch. These clauses have made it unviable to open factories.
The need for re-energising the electricity sector is therefore urgent. This can be achieved through a series of steps such as commitment to buy, an acceptable fuel price, operation of stranded capacity, commercial orientation of utilities, domestic fuel availability, creation of an integrated national grid with enhancement of inter-regional transmission capacity and promotion of competitive markets in all elements of the chain. Among other things, the cover story in January 2013 issue of our Business Digest throws light on some of these critical aspects of reform in the Indian electricity sector.
The 10 most recommended logistic companies in 2019Merry D'souza
This edition “The 10 Most Recommended Logistic Companies in 2019” aims to highlight the jewels of the Indian logistics industry. Measuring the diverse capability, this magazine is a platform to celebrate the success stories of these players in the best possible way!
On the cover page, we have showcased LogYcode Tech Solutions. It is an NCR based e-commerce start-up that innovative IT-enabled solutions and services to re-engineer logistics business processes to meet the demands and the desire arising from the digital transformation of the industry.
Customer overview of retail outlets hpcl vs. reliance Supa Buoy
Hi Friends
This is supa bouy
I am a mentor, Friend for all Management Aspirants, Any query related to anything in Management, Do write me @ supabuoy@gmail.com.
I will try to assist the best way I can.
Cheers to lyf…!!!
Supa Bouy
The retail industry is at the forefront of the Big Data revolution, with every point-of-sale transaction, website click, or social media post potentially revealing an insight into the customer’s preferences and buying behaviour. The capability to harness this information effectively to provide optimal pricing and enhanced customer experience can be a game-changer for retailers.
MAIA Intelligence was invited to give a technical session on MS-SQL at Microsoft Dreamspark Yatra 2012 event in which around 300 budding techies learnt about the emerging technologies
MAIA Intelligence profiled on DQ Channel TreeDhiren Gala
MAIA Intelligence: Adding Social Media Benefits
While the concept and activity of partner-to-partner networking, reselling vendor products and adding services are not new; the evolution of social media technology has created new platforms and opportunities
- Hiten Rathod, Head - Strategic Alliances & Channels
Original article published in Cybermedia's DQ Channel, December 2011
postXBRL is an XBRL reporting offering from MAIA Intelligence available on both SaaS and On-Premise model. This presentation gives an glimpse of product on both models.
Sanjay Mehta, CEO of MAIA Intelligence, highlights
the barriers preventing IT managers from adopting business intelligence, while delving into its innovations and capabilities.
This is an excerpts from an interview taken by N. Geetha, Executive Editor, ITNext and published in October 2011 issue by 9Dot9 Media.
Compliance to Compete -
XBRL (eXtensible Business Reporting Language) & Analytics
Recent MCA (Ministry of Corporate Affairs) mandate for certain class of companies to file their balance sheet and profit & loss statements in XBRL format has now made it necessary for the corporates to understand the XBRL and its advantages and the process of converting their financial statements in the required format.
XBRL stands for eXtensible Business Reporting Language - an language for the electronic communication of business and financial data which provides major benefits in the preparation, analysis and communication of business information and offers cost savings, greater efficiency and improved accuracy and reliability to all those involved in supplying or using financial data; now being put to practical use in a number of countries including India
XBRL stands for eXtensible Business Reporting Language. It is one of a family of "XML" languages which is becoming a standard means of communicating information between businesses and on the internet.
eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) is an extended XML, a tagged data (meta-data) which is machine readable and a standard way to communicate business & financial info.
This presentation introduces XBRL & MAIA Intelligence's postXBRL solution with BI for financial reporting.
For the last 20 years, organisations have invested into transformation of the entire financial consolidation process from ERP accounting systems to financial consolidation software in order to improve the way of tackling the challenge of Financial Close & Balance Sheet Consolidation with modern software solutions. Despite these
investments, more than 90 per cent of organisations still rely on spreadsheets to gather information from disparate financial systems and perform variance analysis on financial statements, compiling information from multiple sources. The requirement for transparency in financial statements is non-negotiable, and this starts with the financial close and reporting process. Financial consolidation software solutions have certainly
improved the process, driving organisations towards a more consistent chart of accounts, and supporting the period end processes, such as allocations and inter-company eliminations. However, when looking at the actual activities that finance employees perform each month, it is clear that there are still significant gaps. This article provides a realistic view of the use of technology to improve the financial close and reporting process
and achieve increased quality, accountability, auditability, efficiency and ultimately, regulatory compliance.
Sanjay Mehta, CEO, MAIA Intelligence Pvt. Ltd. authored this article for The Chartered Accountant (CA) Journal, March 2011.
Experiments with Social Media & NetworkingDhiren Gala
Mr. Sanjay Mehta, CEO, MAIA Intelligence was invited for speaking at the Computer Society of India, Nashik Chapter's FutureNet - The Future of Internet conference on February 6, 2011.
Sanjay shares his experience on experimenting with the social media and how social networking helped him leverage the MAIA 1KEY & personal brand.
Best Deployment: Raymond opts for 1KEY FCM - Financial ConsolidationDhiren Gala
The Perfect man becomes more intelligent
Mumbai-based Raymond needed a solution which could satisfy the functionality and ability to get all financial data on a single platform. MAIA Intelligence along with Mondial IT Consultants helped meet their expectations.
Minakshi Shetty of DQ Channels (Cybermedia) speaks to Sanjay Mehta, CEO, MAIA Intelligence, Vivek Kale, CIO, Raymond Limited and Sharad Kumar Agarwal, Director, Mondial IT Consultants
The spurt in logistics management organisations is affecting the bottom line of companies. In order to have a competitive edge over others, many logistics service providers are adopting business intelligence (BI) to improve their performance and meet the needs of their growing client base.
An article by Dhiren Gala in Smart Logistics, December 2010 issue.
Business Intelligence (BI) in Pharmaceuticals - An aid in informed decision making
Currently, the demand for BI solutions is largely driven by MNCs & large enterprises. BI solutions seem to have gained more acceptance and significance in pharma industry where time plays a pivotal role in the future of the company. The article from Modern Pharmaceuticals, reviews the importance of BI solutions to the
Indian pharma industry.
- Sanjay Mehta, CEO, MAIA Intelligence Pvt. Ltd.
Business Intelligence addresses the challenges
faced by ports and terminals by providing comprehensive solutions for real-time planning,
management and control of operations.
Confluent - Monthly magazine by Symbiosis Centre for IT - September 2010Dhiren Gala
What the next generation will expect of BI applications? How generational shift will drive changes in BI tools and technology? How the roles of BI professionals will be transformed? How the uses of BI systems will grow and change?
Data Visualization with Dashboard & KPI
India's first Business Intelligence (BI)Dhiren Gala
India's first Business Intelligence (BI) Reporting Analytics Software for MIS, KPI, Dashboard.
1KEY Dashboard and 1KEY KPI are some of the many modules of 1KEY Business Intelligence (BI) Reporting Analytics Software which connects to multiple applications, multiple database to give a comprehensive data analysis, data mining, and multi-dimensional visual reporting solution, able to slice and dice information efficiently providing an extremely intuitive experience. 1KEY BI is powerful enough & conceived to help the business user to understand their data, to compare and contrast scenarios, and to deliver this information inside and outside of their organization which helps make informed decisions at all levels in an organization.
Business Intelligence (BI) for ManufacturingDhiren Gala
Business Intelligence (BI) for Manufacturing - Plastics are no different
BI is very effective for all types of manufacturing, be it process, discrete or automatic. BI can close the ‘fact gap’ by improving the availability and delivery of actionable data with minimal IT
involvement.
Encryption in Microsoft 365 - ExpertsLive Netherlands 2024Albert Hoitingh
In this session I delve into the encryption technology used in Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Purview. Including the concepts of Customer Key and Double Key Encryption.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
In his public lecture, Christian Timmerer provides insights into the fascinating history of video streaming, starting from its humble beginnings before YouTube to the groundbreaking technologies that now dominate platforms like Netflix and ORF ON. Timmerer also presents provocative contributions of his own that have significantly influenced the industry. He concludes by looking at future challenges and invites the audience to join in a discussion.
GraphSummit Singapore | The Art of the Possible with Graph - Q2 2024Neo4j
Neha Bajwa, Vice President of Product Marketing, Neo4j
Join us as we explore breakthrough innovations enabled by interconnected data and AI. Discover firsthand how organizations use relationships in data to uncover contextual insights and solve our most pressing challenges – from optimizing supply chains, detecting fraud, and improving customer experiences to accelerating drug discoveries.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 5DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 5. In this session, we will cover CI/CD with devops.
Topics covered:
CI/CD with in UiPath
End-to-end overview of CI/CD pipeline with Azure devops
Speaker:
Lyndsey Byblow, Test Suite Sales Engineer @ UiPath, Inc.
Alt. GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using ...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
Generative AI Deep Dive: Advancing from Proof of Concept to ProductionAggregage
Join Maher Hanafi, VP of Engineering at Betterworks, in this new session where he'll share a practical framework to transform Gen AI prototypes into impactful products! He'll delve into the complexities of data collection and management, model selection and optimization, and ensuring security, scalability, and responsible use.
Dr. Sean Tan, Head of Data Science, Changi Airport Group
Discover how Changi Airport Group (CAG) leverages graph technologies and generative AI to revolutionize their search capabilities. This session delves into the unique search needs of CAG’s diverse passengers and customers, showcasing how graph data structures enhance the accuracy and relevance of AI-generated search results, mitigating the risk of “hallucinations” and improving the overall customer journey.
Pushing the limits of ePRTC: 100ns holdover for 100 daysAdtran
At WSTS 2024, Alon Stern explored the topic of parametric holdover and explained how recent research findings can be implemented in real-world PNT networks to achieve 100 nanoseconds of accuracy for up to 100 days.
Unlocking Productivity: Leveraging the Potential of Copilot in Microsoft 365, a presentation by Christoforos Vlachos, Senior Solutions Manager – Modern Workplace, Uni Systems
A tale of scale & speed: How the US Navy is enabling software delivery from l...sonjaschweigert1
Rapid and secure feature delivery is a goal across every application team and every branch of the DoD. The Navy’s DevSecOps platform, Party Barge, has achieved:
- Reduction in onboarding time from 5 weeks to 1 day
- Improved developer experience and productivity through actionable findings and reduction of false positives
- Maintenance of superior security standards and inherent policy enforcement with Authorization to Operate (ATO)
Development teams can ship efficiently and ensure applications are cyber ready for Navy Authorizing Officials (AOs). In this webinar, Sigma Defense and Anchore will give attendees a look behind the scenes and demo secure pipeline automation and security artifacts that speed up application ATO and time to production.
We will cover:
- How to remove silos in DevSecOps
- How to build efficient development pipeline roles and component templates
- How to deliver security artifacts that matter for ATO’s (SBOMs, vulnerability reports, and policy evidence)
- How to streamline operations with automated policy checks on container images
Removing Uninteresting Bytes in Software FuzzingAftab Hussain
Imagine a world where software fuzzing, the process of mutating bytes in test seeds to uncover hidden and erroneous program behaviors, becomes faster and more effective. A lot depends on the initial seeds, which can significantly dictate the trajectory of a fuzzing campaign, particularly in terms of how long it takes to uncover interesting behaviour in your code. We introduce DIAR, a technique designed to speedup fuzzing campaigns by pinpointing and eliminating those uninteresting bytes in the seeds. Picture this: instead of wasting valuable resources on meaningless mutations in large, bloated seeds, DIAR removes the unnecessary bytes, streamlining the entire process.
In this work, we equipped AFL, a popular fuzzer, with DIAR and examined two critical Linux libraries -- Libxml's xmllint, a tool for parsing xml documents, and Binutil's readelf, an essential debugging and security analysis command-line tool used to display detailed information about ELF (Executable and Linkable Format). Our preliminary results show that AFL+DIAR does not only discover new paths more quickly but also achieves higher coverage overall. This work thus showcases how starting with lean and optimized seeds can lead to faster, more comprehensive fuzzing campaigns -- and DIAR helps you find such seeds.
- These are slides of the talk given at IEEE International Conference on Software Testing Verification and Validation Workshop, ICSTW 2022.
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Leonard Jayamohan, Partner & Generative AI Lead, Deloitte
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BI for Cargo Terminal Port
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3. Emerging Technology
Port Terminal Management
Business Intelligence Sanjay Mehta
for Cargo Terminal Port
Ports and terminals around the world face the challenge of reducing
equipment and labour costs, managing growth without large capital
investments in land and berth space and developing new technology.
Business Intelligence (BI) addresses all the challenges, by providing
comprehensive terminal solutions for real-time planning,
management and control of port and terminal operations and inter-
modal facilities, said Sanjay Mehta, CEO, MAIA Intelligence. CT Bureau
T
here is a pressure from owners and customers to augment BI can optimise a terminal’s performance by utilising its port
profitability and increase throughput, to exceed customer resources more efficiently. BI Reporting Analytics, combined with
service goals and prove a return on their information KPIs & Dashboards, helps executives at terminals to get the right
technology investment. information at the right time and make strategic decisions faster
through alerting, scheduling, reporting, forecasting, auditing and
making predictive analysis.
Business The terminal business is highly mission critical and a 24/7
Intelligence (BI) Features operation, involving varied applications across the domains
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4. of operations, services and engineering. can deliver on this promise if deployed
Since each department is putting data into successfully because it can improve BI can help…
different systems, consolidation of reports decision making and operational efficiency,
OPERATIONS
is a huge task and so is determining its which in turn drives the top line and the Railway movement
accuracy. These and text based applications bottom line. Internal & outside truck movement
make the “timely” data analysis critical RTG movement
QC (Quac Crane) movement
and challenging. With BI, companies can As per NASSCOM ZINNOV INDIA Software Berth productivity
analyse data that was not attemptable Product Business Study report, BI is on 3rd Ship production
earlier. The savings from BI are therefore opportunity priority list for Indian software Shift production
myriad- less time required to make reports, product companies. COMMERCIAL
analyse information and therefore make Revenue in terms of service
faster decisions. Some of the Analysis which can be Productivity in terms of service, line and
voyage
done with BI:
Importance in CLAIMS & CONTRACTS
1 Y a r d Inve n t o r y P e r f o r m a n c e Vendor Data Analysis and comparison
India Analysis, which is an interactive
Claims for accidents and near misses
Third party as well as one’s own claim
visual model, allows executives to tracking
According to Mehta, BI technology adoption understand the Container Movement Impact
FINANCE
and recognition of its importance in India, analysis by container size. Executives can P&L analysis
are definitely on the rise. The maturity of further analyze on the basis of commodity Outstanding receivables / payables
BI adoption can best be seen with the new and size. Customer / vendor ageing
B/S comparisons and analysis
economy companies, including those in the Budget v/s actuals and monitoring
marine cargo terminal sector. Currently,
many marine cargo terminal companies
have deployed and stabilised ERP/CRM/
SCM/HRM or core business (transactional)
applications and are thus looking for a
2 QC (Cranes) Analysis a l l o w s
executives to understand about QC
productivity i.e. information on
load, unload and total performance ratio of
QC in last one hour, in last 24 hours, which
HR – Head count reports
Attrition rate
Blue/white collar analysis
Yard production of container stacks
tool that can leverage the IT investment in type of container has been moved in the last Container parking and rail cars and gate
these packaged applications. “We are seeing one hour (20 footer, 40 footer, empty, full operations involving entry and departure
great interest from verticals, such as Marine containers) and movement analysis (load, into the terminal
Terminal Cargo companies for adopting BI unload and total movement).
for increasing their competitiveness and These dashboards help the operational
transparency, respectively,” he said.
In India, there is a general awareness on
the theory and concept of BI. They are
spearheading BI adoption by going in for
3 Truck Turn Around Time Analysis,
visual model allows executives
to understand the collective
turnaround time of trucks by Gate, by
Truck, by container and container size.
users to avoid confusion at the ports in
terms of long queues of trucks awaiting
access to terminals.
With BI it is possible to get single unified
separate BI units within the organisation to Executives can further compare per truck data view of an enterprise and get benefits
provide the `right’ product to the `right’ performance (for twelve months) according like saving time, accuracy, authenticity of
customer at the `right’ time and price. to the container type and size. report, manpower saving and much more.
This industry is one of the early adopters BI turns data into actionable information.
of BI in India. Presently, the demand for
BI solutions is largely being driven by
MNCs and large enterprises. BI solutions
seem to have gained more acceptance
4 Vessel Productivity Analysis
allows executives to understand
about Vessel Productivity, including
hourly comparison of container movement
including loading and unloading and also
It helps monitor, measure and analyze the
health and performance of a terminal’s
operations.
and significance in cargo industry where
time plays a pivotal role in the future give information on how many containers
of the company. have entered in last one hour. USERS OF
BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE
COULD BE…
Gartner Report “Hype Cycle for ICT in The purpose of a marine terminal operation’s
India 2008,” expects BI market in India to dashboard is to allow the marine terminal Shift Managers
reach U.S.$ 46.8 million by 2012. India is a management to monitor yard operations in real Gate Manager
huge market for Business Intelligence and is time and to alert them on unforeseen problems. Maintenance Head
fast growing with double digit figures even Marine terminal operations fall into three main Finance Users
in this slowdown. The overall BI market areas in terms of production management: Commercials Managers
in India is at a nascent stage, with a huge Crane operations from/to vessel and Heads of Departments
opportunity for vendors to capture. BI train/truck
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