The 30 most valuable tech titans 2018

CreatingUniqueandPowerfulStatementsofValue
TRIANZ
Editor’s Pick
Fog Computing
On a Surge
Editor’s Choice
The Universality
of IoT Technology
Sri Manchala
CEOPresident
30
2018
MOSTVALUABLE
TITANS
THE
TECH
May 2018
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Redefining the Future
of Technology Distribution
he traditional technology-driven organizations appear to tread on one path whereas the new
Tparticipants take their shot and make their way into the market by using novel ideas,
technologies and approaches. These participants maintain rapid growth by competing with
the existing players using their innovative business models. Eventually, the winner becomes the
leader of a corresponding industry and is proclaimed as a Tech Titan.
In the early 2018, the technology stocks continued to outpace the broader equity markets. According
to the independent researchers, currently the combined global tech titans like Apple, Amazon,
Alphabet, Facebook and Microsoft have a market capitalization value of around $3.7 trillion and a net
cash balance of just over $368bn.
Nowadays, these Tech Titans are leading their industries and embracing the emerging technologies
and helping to redefine the future of technology distribution. They are bringing the best-of-class
global brand names to suit the changing market trends. In order to achieve their business success,
they are focusing on providing endpoint security and managed security solutions to fulfill the needs
of corporate, enterprise and home users. Additionally, these Titans are creating next generation
firewall, advanced threat protection solutions (APT) and data management through cloud, analytics
and with transformative digital technology. Some of these titans essentially possess the kill switches
over vast parts of the computing landscape.
Editor’s Note

Since technology is ceaselessly taking share in our daily lives, these tech titans are aggressively
competing against one another in the race of building infrastructures to become the best players
in the contemporary digital era.
To elucidate some of these Tech Titans who are the best players in their own sectors, Insights
Success has curated a list of “The 30 Most Valuable Tech Titans 2018”, who are witnessing a
growing momentum by providing advanced technology solutions, RD, consulting and
advisory services for clients spanning from small business, enterprises and government globally.
Featuring as our Cover Story is, Trianz which is simply composed at the heart of innovation.
The company chooses to merge its strategic business consulting model with transformative
digital technology. It also helps clients to stay both relevant and competitive, in the global
marketplace.
Through its exponential growth, Trianz continues to maintain a one-firm culture, adhering to a
common set of professional principles, client service standards, and global values. Trianz will
also continue to drive enterprises into the digital transformation. Additionally, the company
deliberates the decision to position itself as both a business and digital technology execution
partner.
Under the leadership of Sri Manchala, the President and CEO of Trianz, the company
continues to be ahead of its time as one of Silicon Valley’s foremost proponents of digital
transformation services. Trianz is also aimed at fomenting leadership and developing forward-
looking perspective, vision and result-oriented strategies.
Asserting upon the company’s core business consulting practice, used to achieve success and
leading the company to greater heights, Manchala breaks it down saying, “Our Motto statement
reflects our commitment to helping businesses and technology leaders drive transformations
through simple, yet effective techniques.”
Also, make sure to flip through the pages of the articles written by our in-house editorial team
and CXO standpoints from some of the leading industry experts to have a brief knowledge of
the sector.
Let’s start reading!
Bhavithiran Murugan

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Editor’s Choice
The Universality
of IoT Technology
32
Articles
Editor’s Pick
Fog Computing
On a Surge
44
Industry Concern
IoT Technologies Contributing
to the Renewable Energy
60
Expert’s Viewpoint:
Entrepreneurs, Brace yourselves
for the Future!
Leader’s Desk:
Being Conﬁdent about your
Future when your Organization
is Designed for Control
Insider’s Insight:
Using Big Data and AI to
Communicate When Seconds Count
Tech Talk:
Are we at the end of our
‘Search and Find’ Habit?
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52
74
24
Interview with Insights Success
Cloudticity:
Making Earth a Healthier
Place to Live in
22

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30 38
36
FACTON:
Efﬁciency and Proﬁt through
Groundbreaking Cost
Management Software
Blue Eagle Consulting:
Bringing Consultants
and Businesses Together
Approyo:
Customer-Centric
SAP Cloud Solutions
Click Prompt:
Providing Actionable
Information in Real-Time
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48 56
50
Patriot Software:
Helping Small Business
Owners in a Simple
and Affordable Manner
Liqid Inc.:
Breaking the Motherboard-
Chassis Paradigm
Kanteron Systems:
Transforming Patient
Care for the Better
Möbius Partners:
Empowering IT Solutions

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64 70
66
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Secured Corporation:
Fortifying Global
Organizational Data
REGO Techno
Solutions:
Leveraging Technology
to Deliver Excellence
Prisma Labs:
Images Meet Cutting-Edge
Deep Learning Technology
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80
UVision:
Deﬁning Next
Generation Technology
Systweak Software:
An Iconic Utility
and Gaming App Developer
®
SynGlyphX
Transforming Data
to Knowledge, Faster
TheMarketsTrust:
Building Trust through Next-generation
Products, Expert Consulting,
and Solutions Integration
A Strong Open Threat Management
Platform for Cyber Security
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TRIANZTRIANZ
THE
30
2018
MOSTVALUABLE
TECH TITANS
We uncover the business
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Cover Story

Trianz was established in the
heart of innovation, Silicon
Valley, in 2001. Its leaders
demonstrated impressive forethought
when they chose to merge their
strategic business consulting model
with transformative digital technology,
thereby helping clients stay both
relevant and competitive in the global
marketplace.
By centering its core business
consulting practice to leverage
advancements in data science,
analytics, and cloud technology,
Trianz’s portfolio today focuses on
achieving business goals through
Cloud, Analytics, Digitalization,
Infrastructure, and Security.
The company continues to be ahead of
its time as one of Silicon Valley’s
foremost proponents of digital
transformation services aimed at
fomenting leadership and developing
forward-looking perspective, vision
and result-oriented strategies.
An Astute Leader
Leading the company to ever greater
heights of success is Trianz’s Founder
and President/CEO, Sri Manchala,
who embodies the motto of the
company: Digital Evolution Simplified.
Manchala breaks it down saying, “That
statement reflects our commitment to
helping businesses and technology
leaders drive transformations through
simple, yet effective techniques.”
Manchala started Trianz in a small
office, and now oversees a global,
1,500-person team of professionals.
The company already boasts a track
record of over 2,500 successful client
partnerships and engagements.
Through this exponential growth,
Trianz continues to maintain a one-firm
culture, adhering to a common set of
professional principles, client service
standards, and global values.
Strategic Approaches that Echo
Success
Enabling clients to coordinate
evolutionary strategies for rapid
transformation is a two-sided coin,
specifically when developing an
effective strategy and achieving
excellence in execution. Manchala
credits this company-wide strategy and
execution paradigm in part to his
service in the elite National Defense
Academy (NDA) of India and his role
as an officer in the Indian Army.
Assimilating this philosophy into an
effective approach for client
engagement, Trianz first works with
client leaders to understand what they
are trying to achieve from a business
perspective before delving into the
specific technologies to help their
business accomplish its goals.
Trianz’s “business-first” strategy serves
to disrupt the status quo and ensure
commitments from the client's
leadership teams and partners who
understand the objectives that are at
stake.
This strategy keeps the focus of
enterprise evolution on business
priorities. These include smarter
decision making support with insights
in real time, better alignment of
financial goals with strategic decisions,
more seamless customer experiences,
customer tracking and digital ad
targeting, more successful product
launches, and amplified digital
presence.
Delivering Superior Value
It’s often the rule rather than the
exception when an enterprise’s
technology infrastructure is simply not
equipped to manage these new
business demands.
Flipping the coin from strategy to the
execution of digital transformation,
Trianz provides game-changing
expertise in following through on its
Our business
theme, 'Digital
Evolution
Simplied’,
reects our
commitment to
helping
businesses and
technology
leaders drive
transformations
through simple,
yet effective
techniques.
“
“

‘Digital Evolution Simplified’ promise.
This allows it to assess, recommend,
and execute the technology solutions
that offer the most direct and most
profitable line to success.
Trianz’s goal is to deliver the most
optimized configuration considering
costs and business size, with
customized solutions that both fit
specific, current needs and are a
function of continued evolution.
The firm serves market leaders and
emerging clients across the technology,
finance, insurance, media,
manufacturing, retail, healthcare, life
science, logistics and public sector
industries. Within these domains,
Trianz brings a holistic understanding
of issues and opportunities, employing
highly-proficient teams that are
powered by innovative, futuristic
methodologies. Its engagements are
delivered in a seamless model
combining business expectations and
technology experience for superior
value.
For example, the fundamental Sales
unit is often the source of the most
frustration for enterprises while also
offering the highest potential for rapid
business growth through digital
transformation. The sales landscape
has never been so complex,
particularly within today’s
e-commerce-driven marketplace.
While consumers are no longer bound
to traditional linear sales cycle, it is
still crucial to maintain consistency
of message, branding, and customer
service in all sales and marketing
channels to grow and retain
customers. Instant access to
information, guidance from
online communities and more
options than ever before mean
that buyers are more likely to
try new products, test options
for agile upstarts, and change
direction during the sales journey.
For sales executives trying to make
sense of these complex, multi-faceted,
and multi-channel cycles, advanced
digital systems and coordinated
support staff are key. Trianz helps sales
and marketing leaders define sales
enablement, productivity strategies,
and organizational structures to better
monitor sales cycles, performance,
forecasts, and adjustments.
These focus areas advance new client
perspectives and objectives while
providing automated processes and
technology integration roadmaps that
drive control and visibility in sales
operations.
Leveraging Digital Evolution
The significant impact that the
digital evolution has already
had on business processes
cannot be overstated. Trianz
anticipates that disruptions
and increased competition
will continue to be pressing
concerns and drive
enterprises to transform
their thinking.
Arguably, no factor has been
more disruptive than the advent
of e-commerce, which is almost
entirely data-driven and where
human interaction is minimal,
if it occurs at all.
Trianz’s deliberate decision to position
itself as both a business and digital
technology execution partner has
guided Fortune 1000 clients and other
enterprises heavily dependent on e-
commerce to better understand their
customers; personalize customer
experiences; launch new products or
services; and facilitate a modern
workplace that fosters an innovative
culture.
Trianz’s leadership believes in the
value of partnerships. This extends to
staff associates, clients, and numerous
leading tech innovators.
Cover Story

Top-tier partnerships with industry-
leading technology providers like IBM,
Amazon and Microsoft continue to
play an important role in Trianz’s
success. These collaborations have
helped it gain in-depth knowledge and
expertise in partner solutions. In
combination with Trianz’s core
competencies, they have enabled the
firm to provide integrated turnkey
solutions to clients around the globe.
Trianz has recently augmented its
analytics capabilities by engaging over
40 professionals comprising data
analysts, data scientists, and several
project executives to lead its in-house
data analytics practice.
Satisfying Customers and Planning
the Future
Like its clients, Trianz recognizes the
importance of client satisfaction.
Therefore, Trianz engages an
independent research firm to conduct
an annual client survey to gain an
accurate picture of its own
performance.
Trianz’s client satisfaction scores in
2017 were:
Ÿ Business impact: Over 70% of
clients rated its focus and business
impact delivery as being superior to
other firms with which they engage.
Ÿ Predictability of execution: Over
78% of clients rated Trianz their #1
partner for predictability of
execution as measured by timely
delivery and minimal surprises.
Ÿ Commitment to client success: 89%
of clients said Trianz brings a level
of commitment to their success,
openness and transparency that is
superior to other firms.
Ÿ Relationship experience: Over 90%
of clients engaged Trianz for repeat
business, and over 80% of them
referred Trianz to other clients.
This is high praise indeed. Trianz
appreciates the regard and trust clients
continue to place in the firm. In
addition to building its in-house data
analytics enterprise, Trianz’s future
plans include strategically expanding
its global presence to serve clients in
emerging markets. The company
currently has offices in Silicon Valley,
Chicago, Boston, Washington DC
Metro, Jersey City, Raleigh, Seattle,
Austin, Denver, Dubai, Bangalore,
Hyderabad and Chennai.
Trianz helps
actualize your
digital
transformation
through a wide
spectrum of
services.
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Adaptive
adaptive.com
Jeff Goins
CEO
Adaptive is a global company and a market leader with a long
history of helping complex organizations adapt to and support
the rapidly changing business and IT environments.
Approyo
approyo.com
Christopher Carter
CEO
Approyo provides full SAP service technology with extensive
capabilities in consulting, solutions architecture, hosting and
managed services.
Appvance
appvance.com
Appvance.ai is the leader in AI-driven test generation, which is
revolutionizing how software testing is performed.
Blue Eagle Consulting
blueeagle-consulting.com
Mark Griffin
Founder President
Blue Eagle Consulting (BEC) excels - in building bridges between
organizations and knowledge experts in delivering success to
Healthcare Clients on a variety of IT projects; providing senior-
level consulting professionals with heavy operational and
software expertise.
Click Prompt is an active behavioral solution provider with
real-time customer insights that enables a business to better
respond to business.
A next-gen managed services provider for the healthcare industry,
Cloudticity helps design, build, migrate, and manage HIPAA-
compliant cloud solutions.
Cloudwords speeds time to market for campaigns and content on a
global scale.
Danlaw is a global leader in connected car and
automotive electronics.
Chromaway
chromaway.com
Henrik Hjelte
CEO Co-founder
ChromaWay is a blockchain technology company which is
developing and refining their industry-defining blockchain
technology platform.
Click Prompt
clickprompt.com
Junior Belardo
Founder
Cloudticity
cloudticity.com
Gerry Miller
Founder
Cloudwords
cloudwords.com
Michael Meinhardt
Founder CEO
Danlaw
danlawinc.com
Raju Dandu
CEO
Kevin Surace
CEO
CoreDial
coredial.com
Alan Rihm
CEO
CoreDial cloud software and services enable companies to quickly
and cost effectively sell, deliver, manage, and invoice for high
quality, private labeled cloud communication products and services
including hosted PBX, VoIP and SIP trunking services.

Databricks
databricks.com
Ali Ghodsi
CEO Co-founder
Databricks provides a Unified Analytics Platform powered by
Apache Spark for data science teams to collaborate with data
engineering and lines of business to build data products.
Extreme Networks
extremenetworks.com
Ed Meyercord
Chairman,President
CEO
Extreme Networks, Inc. (EXTR) delivers software-driven
networking solutions that help IT departments everywhere to
deliver the ultimate business outcome.
FACTON
facton.com
FACTON provides advanced costing solutions that give maximum
product cost transparency throughout every phase of the product
lifecycle for greater efficiency, productivity and profitability.
HID Global Corporation
hidglobal.com
Stefan Widing
Executive Vice President
Head
HID powers the trusted identities of the world’s people,
places and things. They make it possible for people to transact
safely, work productively, learn confidently and travel freely.
Kanteron Systems is a privately held Healthcare IT –
Biomedical Informatics Company that transforms patient care
through the combination of imaging and genomics.
Liqid Composable interconnects disaggregated resource pools of
GPU, CPU, storage and networking to a PCI-Express fabric device
to build bare metal servers on demand and right-sized for
high-value, data-intensive workloads.
Möbius offers strategic services, technical expertise and sales
support to enable organizations to maximize the value of their data
center investment.
Patriot Software provides fast, simple, and affordable
accounting and payroll software.
iDreamsky Technology
idreamsky.com
Jeff Lyndon
President Co-founder
iDreamSky (Nasdaq: DSKY) is the largest independent mobile
game publishing platform in China.
Kanteron Systems
kanteron.com
Jorge Cortell
Founder CEO
Liqid
liqid.com
Sumit Puri
CEO Co-founder
Möbius Partners
mobiuspartners.com
Jay Uribe
Junab Ali
Patriot Software
patriotsoftware.com
Mike Kappel
CEO Founder
Alexander M. Swoboda
CEO Co-owner
NETSHIELD
netshieldcorp.com
Ed Wall
President CEO
NETSHIELD’s portfolio of highly scalable affordable breach
prevention solutions

Prisma Labs
prisma-ai.com
Artem Semyanov
CEO
Prisma Labs is a mobile technology company specializing in
deep learning-related products.
REGO Techno Solutions
regotechnosoltions.com
Sagar V. Pawashe
Director CTO
Rego Techno Solutions provides a wide range of creative and
technical web solutions, including web design, web development,
website hosting, digital marketing, and SEO services.
Seceon
seceon.com
Seceon is focused on empowering organizations of any size to
visualize, proactively detect known and unknown threats and
provide compliance through continuous monitoring, assessment,
policy enforcement and reporting.
Secured² Corporation
secured2.com
Daren Klum
CEO Co-founder
Secured² Corporation is a global leader in beyond encryption
and quantum resilient security married with
cloud applications.
Systweak Software is a leading exporter of IT products and
services. Its utility apps for Android have a wise user-base
across the globe.
TheMarketsTrust is an innovative integrated solutions company,
providing next-generation products for the ﬁnancial industry
together with expert consulting and solutions integration.
Trianz is a leader in cloud analytics services, data
analytics consulting, digital transformation strategies, and
IT security consulting.
Verizon is one of the largest communication technology
companies in the world.
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SynGlyphX
synglyphx.com
Mark E. Sloan
Co-founder, President
CEO
®
SynGlyphX software transforms data into a visual, 3D, immersive
and interactive environment that simpliﬁes and expedites analysis
of vast amounts of data, in context, so that people can discover
insights to change their world.
Systweak Software
systweak.com
Shrishail Rana
Founder
TheMarketsTrust
themarketstrust.com
Evangelos Papadopoulos
CEO
Trianz
trianz.com
Sri Manchala
President, CEO
Founder
Verizon
verizonwireless.com
Lowell C. McAdam
CEO
Chandra Pandey
Founder CEO
UVision
uvision.co
Omar Uddin
Founder CEO
UVision is a technology innovation company that delivers smart,
scalable and secure solutions, managed services consulting
driving results for businesses building custom data, web, mobile,
cloud technology.

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ith a vision of helping healthcare
Worganizations design, build, migrate,
manage, and optimize HIPAA-compliant
solutions on Amazon Web Services (AWS), Cloudticity
came into existence back in 2011. In an Interview with
Insights Success, the Founder of Cloudticity, Gerry
Miller shares the journey of the company and its
strategies and approaches that make it stand out from the
crowd of competitors.
What are the products/services/solutions offered by
Cloudticity?
Gerry: Cloudticity offers Professional Services and
Managed Services to the healthcare industry.
Professional Services are focused primarily on
migrations to AWS, application optimization to better
leverage native AWS services, and DevOps automation.
On the other hand, our Managed Services practice is
delivered through the ground-breakingly automated
Cloudticity Oxygen™ platform, which has three primary
pillars:
Ÿ Traditional managed services delivered mostly
through automation, including a 24x7 helpdesk,
incident management and escalation, monitoring of
everything from operating system telemetry to AWS
metrics, and automated daily tasks such as patching
and backups.
Ÿ Continuous compliance, including thousands of
checks running at all times, with each control mapped
back to HIPAA CFRs as well as common regulatory
frameworks such as HITRUST CSF. Most
compliance problems found are auto-remediated by
Cloudticity Oxygen.
Ÿ World-class managed security services via deep
integration with the Armor Anywhere Security-as-a-
Service solution.
How has the technological advancements influenced
the business world? And what role does your
company play in that?
Gerry: The key technology differentiator that
Cloudticity leverages is Amazon Web Services. The
public cloud’s nearly limited storage and processing
power, coupled with its predictable and manageable
OpEx pricing model, enables an unprecedented ability to
tackle world-changing challenges in ways that only a
few years ago were out of reach for all but the largest
multinational corporations and governments. We have
driven the healthcare industry to adopt public cloud as
Cloudticity:
Making Earth a Healthier
Place to Live in
22 May 2018
Gerry Miller
Founder

the most secure place to manage
HIPAA-regulated electronic
protected health information.
Furthermore, because AWS is fully
automatable, Cloudticity has
reimagined data centers as
completely software defined, driving
a new level of agility that allows the
company’s clients to innovate at an
unprecedented rate.
What makes Cloudticity different
from its competitors?
Gerry: In many ways, Cloudticity
has invented automated managed
services for healthcare. We are the
first to focus exclusively on this
mission in the public cloud. Some
things that make Cloudticity unique
amongst its competitors include:
Born in the cloud: Unlike our
competitors, Cloudticity has no
legacy baggage, no outdated data
centers to manage, and no old-school
processes that inhibit agility.
Total focus on healthcare:
Cloudticity speaks healthcare, period.
That means a passionate focus on
security, compliance, availability,
performance, and agility – all in a
fully cost-optimized environment.
Our HITRUST certification backs
this up.
Automation: Our singular focus on
delivering service through
automation has allowed the company
to grow almost 70X since its
inception, while delivering
consistently, securely, and reliably to
its clients.
Relationship with AWS: Cloudticity
also brings-in world-class technical
expertise, with a host of AWS
credentials including:
Ÿ AWS Advanced Partner
Ÿ AWS Audited Managed Services
Provider – there are only 104 of
these in the world, and we are the
only to ever pass the audit with
100% - twice!
Ÿ AWS Healthcare Competency
Ÿ AWS DevOps Competency
Ÿ AWS Public Sector Partner
Ÿ AWS Authorized Commercial and
GovCloud Partner
Ÿ AWS Service Catalog Service
Delivery Partner
Ÿ AWS EC2 Systems Manager
Service Delivery Partner
Kindly explain how Cloudticity
tackled initial struggles?
Gerry: During Cloudticity’s
inception, general industry
perception was that public cloud was
insecure – a great place for
development and testing, but
certainly not for production
workloads. Imagine how the
healthcare industry felt! Initial
struggles, therefore, centered around
convincing compliance and legal
departments that protected health
information was not only safe – but
actually safer – on the public cloud.
To accomplish this, we designed
AWS-based systems that leveraged
ground-breaking encryption, key
management, and compliance-
monitoring solutions. To this day,
these forms the heart of the
company’s Cloudticity Oxygen
managed services platform.
What can be expected from
Cloudticity in the upcoming years?
Gerry: Cloudticity will continue to
lead the industry in the automated
delivery of managed services,
compliance, and security. Expect
more DevOps-oriented solutions,
more self-service capabilities, more
innovation around Big Data,
Machine Learning, Artificial
Intelligence, and IoT. We are also
planning to invest in healthcare
systems outside the United States, so
expect global expansion as well.
About the Leader
Cloudticity’s Founder, Gerry Miller, is a serial entrepreneur
and healthcare fanatic who lives, breathes, and dreams
technology. Since launching Cloudticity in 2011, Gerry has led
8 consecutive years of growth, customer success, and
profitability towards the company.
Gerry’s technology career spans over 30 years, and includes
both start-ups as well as nearly a decade at Microsoft serving as
the US Central Region’s Chief Technology Officer.
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the Author
Ritesh Srivastava
founder CEO
Ritesh Srivastava
founder CEO
Ritesh Srivastava
Founder CEO
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24 May 2018

Hello Joey, can you turn on the lights please!
Many things we got to see only in Hollywood movies are
now becoming reality in our day to day life like talking to a
machine and getting things done, who thought we’d be
doing what voice-based AI assistants like Amazon Alexa,
Google Home and Apple’s Siri allow us to these days!
Artiﬁcial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Big Data, Cloud
technologies with great Computing Power are all helping
humanize machines.
In the past two decades, search engines like Google have
played a very important part in our lives and made it easier
for everyone to have access to information at their
ﬁngertips at any time. Of course, search engines would not
have been possible if we did not have the invention of the
internet, the computer and so on. This phenomenon (search
engines) has impacted and made life easier for people
across all industries and professions by presenting
information, all accessible in one place. Subsequently, this
led to the rise in importance of page rankings and
organizations spend a lot of time and money in
SEO(Optimization) and SEM(Marketing) and it’s a very big
part of the revenue stream for search engine and social
media platform providers.
Over time, as more and more organizations brought their
presence online, the search started becoming more crowded
Ritesh Srivastava is an Innovator and Industry Strategist,
always looking to challenge what many consider is the norm.
He has a knack of foreseeing tech trends with a passion for
driving change. He is also the Founder and CEO of Epictenet, an
Australian Fintech, and the driving force behind Joey – their
Chatbot offering, spearheading change in the Industry.
Are we at the end of our
Search Find Habit?
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and saturated in a way affecting our ability to find the right
information quickly because let’s face it – there are only so
many results the first page of a search engine can fit!
Combine that with the ever-reducing attention span of
people these days (especially the younger generation) and
we have a concoction that combines to limit the
effectiveness on the industry changing ‘search and find’
way of sourcing information.
Technology is also being used to understand consumer
behaviour and predict their needs to present more
optimised, personalised search results, advertisement and
options pro-actively. These trends raise questions about
how private our online activities are but let’s face it, is
anything on the internet private these days? Privacy is soon
becoming a myth in this world with a ferocious appetite for
information on behaviour which makes me wonder – is
there a better way to go about this? Is our compromise for
privacy and overcrowding of search engines pointing us in
the direction of something that is more efficient? Are we at
the end of our ‘Search and Find’ habit?
For a majority of the population, mobile phones
(smartphones) are an all-pervasive, must-have that have
transcended traditional hurdles to technology like age, cost,
relevance to name a few. The past two decades have seen a
mobility tech revolution of sorts, where we have been
successful in harnessing the power of the personal computer
and packaging it in devices that would offer a lot more
convenience than a laptop would. The mobile phone device
has evolved from a humble calling and texting device to
essentially being a computer and camera in your pocket and
they keep getting smarter every year. Other devices like
laptops, tablets and wearables have also matured over that
period but the crucial advantage smartphones have is of
them being small to carry but still are extremely potent
when it comes to presenting power, usefulness and mobility,
the perfect package, Yet.
Our world is now centred around smartphones to the point
that most of us feel incomplete without having them
around. Smartphones have reached the technological
maturity and IoT (Internet of things) have become a reality
- these have led to an era where most of our interactions and
transactions start (and in many cases they get completed)
over the mobile phone. They are everywhere, and they are
here to stay.
As Google also ranks higher the webpages optimized for
mobile and Customer experience over mobile devices is key
to the success of any product and services offered and hence
we see organizations revamping their websites and digital
platforms making it mobile friendly, spending millions of
dollars on UI(Design) and UX(Experience).
But despite making the web pages responsive and providing
a better experience, smartphones have issues of having a
small real estate (screen size) and low attention span of the
user as most of the time usage on the mobile is on the go.
Flicking from one webpage to another and you have already
lost the customer. To overcome some of these challenges on
smartphones, we got Siri on iPhones and subsequently
Google Assistant.
Although still in an infancy stage virtual assistants/chatbots
are gradually becoming part of our life as more and more
use cases are being created across different industries. The
advancement in Artificial Intelligence and Machine
Learning technologies are making it possible to provide
more personalized services to customers and it is playing a
significant role in the adoption of these technologies by
organizations as well as customers.
The whole idea of having one channel for all information
and interactions opens a whole new world of possibilities
with implications to every sphere of customer and user
engagement.
Virtual assistants are fast becoming a ‘gateway to all digital
interactions’ and they are not only going to change the
existing digital channels and platforms but also physical
devices like remote controls and other physical buttons on
various appliances, instruments, devices and vehicles.
The Virtual assistants are going to change our ‘Search and
Find’ habit to ‘Ask and Select’ and will truly provide
personalized services while getting better with every
interaction. We will see more and more services getting
converged in the virtual assistants and in some way they
may be our answer to privacy protections.
Disclaimer: Any names of organisations and products
mentioned in the article are for reference purposes only. No
ill repute intended in any way.
26 May 2018

As technology advances, the SAP ecosystem is
rapidly following suit. The industry is
witnessing a growing momentum towards cloud
adoption, the consumerization of IT, an ever-increasing
demand for agility, and the mobile revolution. The
convergence of these crucial factors on a pivotal
crossroad has led to the emergence of efficient, smart,
and cost-effective SAP cloud solutions.
Solutions providers customize SAP solutions to each
business, making sure that the system reacts according to
the constraints of the requested use case. They are
focused on adopting next-gen intelligent ERP and in-
memory data platforms like SAP HANA and S/4HANA.
The next major leap is SAP Leonardo, which is the
industry’s digital innovation system solution.
One company with years of experience in providing the
right SAP solutions to a diverse field of customers is
Approyo.
Approyo is helping small-scale as well as large-scale
companies implement innovative SAP solutions. This
allows the emerging enterprises with benefits right away
in their initial developing phase associated with the SAP
hosted solutions.
Approyo:
Customer-Centric
SAP Cloud Solutions
“We want to be
the first to
offer the latest
SAP solution
hosted in
the cloud to
our customers
— Christopher Carter
CEO
28 May 2018

The company extends its SAP
service capabilities with consulting,
solutions architecture, hosting, and
managed services to develop the
right solutions for its customers.
Growing Leadership
Christopher Carter is the CEO at
Approyo and has more than two
decades of experience in the big data
and SAP industry.
He works with businesses around the
globe and strives hard to assist them
in their journey to adopt big data
through Hadoop (Cloudera and
Hortonworks) and SAP HANA.
Under his leadership, the Approyo
team monitors and supports ober 300
SAP landscapes.
Christopher has been recognized by
the American SAP Users Group, SAP,
Hadoop World, Cloud Expo, and
other prominent industry leaders for
his contributions to the arena.
From Inspiration to Foundation
The inception of SAP HANA
sparked within Christopher the idea
of establishing Approyo. HANA—a
big data platform inspired the
company to manipulate and design
available data specific to their
business needs and help them gain
better insights into their company’s
functioning.
The company developed custom-
made solutions, with Ignite being one
of its flagship products. This product
captures SAP HANA’s various
components in one neat and easy
package, giving freedom to every
client to use it according to their
specific purposes.
This helped Approyo to form a
network of easy, flexible, and cost-
effective on-boarding SAP solutions
for new and existing customers.
Real-time SAP Services
Approyo works with a vision to
create innovative SAP solutions
which are the first of their kind in the
cloud. It focuses on providing real-
time SAP solutions, regardless of
industry or location. These services
are based on SAP Sandbox, SAP
HANA, SAP S/4HANA, SAP
Leonardo, SAP Hybris, SAP
Consultation and others.
As it oversees over 300 SAP cloud
environments around the globe, the
company’s ideology is to support
each business from production
landscapes to live SAP
environments.
Christopher states, “Our mission is
to enable customers and partners to
unlock the full potential of SAP cloud
technologies to achieve their
business goals”.
Distinguishing Itself
Approyo is proving itself a
formidable competitor by
demonstrating how it has helped
clients grow through its SAP cloud
solutions.
The company is widely regarded as
the most customer-centric SAP
HANA provider in the marketplace.
It is known for being one of the only
SAP partners that can migrate
companies to the cloud, support
those close infrastructures and
provide ongoing managed services
for the cloud.
Approyo believes that clear,
uninterrupted communication with its
clients, supplemented by strong
support, are the keys to its success.
A Bright Future
Approyo is paving the most creative
way possible to fuel its growth and
stay in-front of changing technology
by providing the most effective SAP
technology solutions. It is planning
to quench every single customer need
by offering solutions in the quickest
and most effective way.
Recently, the company launched an
SAP S/4HANA sandbox, a platform
that helps organizations maximize
the benefits of the. This is
revolutionizing the SAP world
because it offers a production-grade
sandbox with a secured network at a
cost lower than any other competitor
- only US$3,000 per month.
This will be a game changer for SAP
customers and will encourage them
to try SAP S/4HANA 1709 and test
for migration to S/4HANA.
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Having worked on the other side of
the business for 25 years, Mark
understands all of the equation
equally. He laughs when he recalls
the disdain with which he regarded
consultants in his years as an
executive, “I just didn’t want to get
into all the stuff that they were
doing!”
An Unexpected Start, and
Unforeseen Success
Blue Eagle Consulting is perhaps the
first company whose founder
downplays its teething struggles to
the extent that Mark does. When we
asked him to elaborate on the
struggles that he faced in gaining
traction in the field, he told us that he
did not really recall any!
“My first client was a health plan
It is said that no man is an island,
and that philosophy holds just as
true for organizations, regardless
of size. A company may be very
accomplished and capable at what it
does, but the need for external
expertise is bound to arise
somewhere along its journey.
It is here that Blue Eagle Consulting
(BEC) excels - in building bridges
between organizations and
knowledge experts. Currently
focused exclusively on the healthcare
sector, BEC is the trusted link
between large service providers who
invest in multimillion dollar software
and individuals who help them
realize the full potential of those
investments.
A Commitment to Consistency
The consultation service that Blue
Eagle Consulting provides is based
on mutual respect between itself, its
clients, and its consultants. The
company’s management takes great
care to emphasize how committed
they are to providing the right
solution to every client, irrespective
of how tight a deadline they may be
given.
“Our clients need really skilled
people. That’s what they’re looking
for and that’s what they expect,” says
Mark Griffin, Founder and
President of Blue Eagle Consulting,
Proven Multidimensional
Leadership
Mark exemplifies that unwavering
commitment to service excellence.
Over a career spanning almost 25
years working for vendors selling
solutions to hospitals and large
physician groups, he built a solid
reputation for being the go-to
executive when a job had to be done
right.
His business acumen, trained
expertise, and penchant for
recognizing opportunities and market
trends saw him rise quickly to the
echelon of CEO. He says that it is
ironic, then, that the same stellar
success that earned him plaudits in
his career stifled the budding
entrepreneur inside.
“I always wanted to run my own
company but that success in the
corporate world is your biggest
deterrent to doing something on your
own. You are reluctant to walk away
from that success and perceived
safety net when you work for
someone,”
he explains.
Blue Eagle Consulting:
Bringing Consultants and Businesses Together
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success that Blue Eagle enjoys is a
direct result of the quality of the
consultants that they engage.
Mark is the epitome of the business
leader who has largely achieved the
ﬁrst stage of the goals he had
envisioned when setting up his
company. When asked about his
future plans for Blue Eagle
Consulting, he says that he would
like for it to continue to grow, while
never losing its focus and obsession
with being at the ‘top of the pyramid,
continuing to specialize in providing
the most experienced and skilled
consultants in the country’.
Considering the spectacular success
that he has led it to already, that goal
seems to be within grasp in the not-
too-distant future.
provider I knew from the hospital
world which had just bought and
created a health plan in 2004. They
needed an expert to help implement a
piece of software they had recently
acquired,” he says, “About two weeks
later, I not only had a project lead -
but four additional resources lined
up for the account and we
implemented that software for them. I
found myself in business for myself.”
Proven Value
Mark understands the value that his
clients expect when they come to
him. Some clients spend as much as
a hundred million dollars on a piece
of software. Ensuring that it performs
as expected and delivers as promised
is crucial not only for the company
and its investors, but also to the
individual executives who have to
answer if such a large investment
fails.
“It’s gratifying that BEC is now well
known by Health Plans and Providers
as the people to call when you
absolutely have to have top tier
contract resources in a JIT model.
Clients know we will deliver BEC’s
commitment to only working with
the best consultants and presenting
them only to Clients with budget and
appropriate need for their skills is
why the leading software experts
who are otherwise not available for
standalone projects prefer to work
through Blue Eagle. They know that
the company is vested as staunchly in
them as it is in its own reputation.”
Realizing Dreams
Despite the company’s
unprecedented track record of a 97%
success rate, Mark is not one to rest
on his laurels. He knows that the
Our biggest win is
creating an ideal
pairing between a
consultant’s skill set
and a client’s
business need.
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– Mark Griffin
Founder President
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The
Universality
of IoT
Technology
The
Universality
of IoT
Technology
The gratifying tool for companies to lead ahead -
IoT Technology. The Internet of things (IoT) is a
revolutionary change for many sectors like
manufacturing, agriculture, retail, electronic, energy and
healthcare which are progressing towards the IoT
phenomenon to connect digitally. It has placed an
opportunity to build unusual results which increases a
company’s compatibility. Enterprises seeking
development are focusing on the use of real-time data
management and IoT analysis. Many of the
companies are adopting this technology to heighten
their power of consumption. Companies are
mainly concentrating on IoT application from
“sensing” instead of “doing” to grow its
competitive advantages. This element empowers
organizations by allowing them to take the IoT
advantage and adopt a more ‘innovative
connected approach’.
Infrastructure Management – Optimization of
Technology
New applications are now enhancing their level of
consumption. Likewise, manufacturing sector is also
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which land is fertile or which one is dry and predict
future fields.
IoT Technology Helps to Optimize Energy
Consumption
Integrated Sensing and Control system helps to optimize
energy consumption. IoT devices are integrated with
energy consumption systems in order to maintain
balance between power generation and energy usage. IoT
devices offer the opportunity to remotely gather
information. It enables advance functions like remote
controlling and changing light conditions. IoT
Technology work for home-based energy system which
provide power related information, energy consumption
and energy usage at homes. IoT devices set goals to
improve efficiency, reliability and sustainability of the
energy system.
Monitoring Environment through IoT Technology
Environment monitoring application has been involved
with sensors to assist information about environment
changes by identifying water quantity, atmosphere, air
pressure etc. It also has focus on monitoring movements
of wildlife and their habitats. Devices connected to the
internet also provide statistics about earthquake or
tsunami - early warning systems, and also used as an
emergency system. IoT device application is used to
collect geographic information and majorly instructive
information. This device also uses standardized approach
to bring wireless sensing technique and gather finest
information.
IoT Technology Helps to Sustain Building and Home
Automation
With certainty, IoT devices are used to monitor and
control the mechanical, electrical and electronic systems.
IoT devices are used in various types of home
automation and building automation systems. Control
and sensory applications offer unified information. The
integration of the internet with building creates an
energy management system which will allow prominent
energy efficiency.
There have been many ways for IoT technology to
expand compatibility in the digital world, and it will be
implemented in each sector to work as an important tool,
to enhance its affinity. After all, the IoT network makes
technology more unified and satisfying, with its tools and
applications and IoT will be a step ahead towards
numerous opportunities.
getting engrossed and achieving excellence through IoT
Techniques. Applications are liable for monitoring and
controlling operations for urban and rural manufactures
like bridges, farms, and railway tracks. It is the key
features of the applications were IoT infrastructure is
also used for monitoring the construction safety and risk
management system and operations. This major feature
represents the mechanism of IoT application which
works under infrastructure management. Benefits of IoT
Technology are cost reducing, time reducing, better in
quality, and increase productivity. It helps to make fast
decisions and save money with real-time analysis. IoT
devices help to give prominent results by monitoring and
controlling operations used in all infrastructure related
area.
Manufacturing Techniques are Growing with IoT
Technology
In the manufacturing sector, networking and controlling
have been used with IoT devices. It provides information
about data and operation stability. Network status and the
information is collected in the system by tracking IoT
device. Manufacturing control process deliver
information about industry application and smart
manufacturing details receiving form IoT device. IoT
intelligent system enables sharing information about
product demands, service management, supply chain
networks, sensors and control systems together. Small
industries can also be integrated with IoT technology
that enables real-time optimization, measurements,
production compatibility and safety management.
However, intelligent systems are determined as the
significant technique that implies user experience and
system security which ultimately saves costs.
IoT Technology brings Innovative Farming Methods
The Agriculture sector is one of the industry to
implement IoT technology for stability and better
performance. IoT technology has become a significant
method of farming. It also offers durability and
functionality to the whole process. The combination of
wireless sensors with agricultural apps and cloud
platforms benefits in gathering definite information
relating to environmental conditions like, rainfall,
temperature, humidity, wind speed etc. Farmers are
getting competent results out of it, and are able to find
real-time information easily. Linked with farmland, it
improves and automates farming techniques like weather
information, taking decision on quality and quantity, and
minimizes risk and waste. With IoT Tech farmers can
find out detailed information of farm and similarly know
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Editor’s Choice

The customer is king is one of the most commonly
heard phrases in marketing, and one with which
few smart businesses will disagree. It is also
acknowledged that the level of success enjoyed by any
organization depends largely on the customer experience
it creates for its clientele. Global businesses today are
more concerned than ever about the quality of service
they provide.
Society has largely accepted that there is nothing that
cannot be done with the help of technology. In turn,
marketers have to constantly adapt to stay connected
with customers while social media has opened up an
entirely new dimension for them to reach their audience.
Click Prompt Technology is not your regular
technology company - it is the marketing revolution that
every company needs. Click Prompt’s strength is its
ability to collate and present information from
customers, products and campaigns in real-time.
Taking the Market by Storm
Click Prompt leverages technology to come up with
innovative ideas that can transform the market for any
type of business. Its team of technicians has developed a
platform that allows them to understand customer
behavior in real-time.
It then uses that data to translate customer patterns into
actionable insight so its clients can maximize their
business potential. Speciﬁcally, Click Prompt uses QR
Codes to study customer concerns and behavior patterns,
and translates the data using predictive analytics and
real-time responses to issues.
Click
Prompt:
Providing Ac onable
Informa on in Real-Time We are an opera onal
behavior solu on provider
with real- me customer
insights agents.
Junior Belardo
Founder
36 May 2018
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Click Prompt focuses primarily on
eliminating issues that influence
‘Repeat Business’ with which it
succeeds in maintaining a customer
base and improving ‘Referral
Business’. It also helps clients
understand the impact of negative
reviews of their business and
provides solutions to counter any
adverse repercussions that they
cause.
Click Prompt entered the niche after
recognizing how widespread poor
customer service was across various
industries, and realizing that there
was a desire in both business and
customers for change. The company
was started by Junior Belardo,
Founder of Click Prompt.
Belardo is a tech enthusiast who sees
himself first as a customer who
appreciates quality service. He
noticed that big data was a crucial
element in the development of bigger
corporations for its ability to identify
hidden or unaddressed shortcomings.
He took the initiative to combine big
data with real-time analytics to help
companies shape their own paths to
success.
Market Omnipresence
The company’s prime product is QR
Codes, which can be employed in
various forms for numerous
purposes. The significance of Click
Prompt is that it is giving its whole
attention to the ‘Service Industry’.
Amazon is one prime example,
which stepped-up and transformed
the market ownership through its
services; Click Prompt too has
targeted itself to improve customer
satisfaction. Belardo says, “I think
Click Prompt follows the same
category because we have a product
that can partner with these
organizations to better help customer
satisfaction and help an organization
understand how to dynamically
adjust to the competing retail
demand.”
Click Prompt also believes that the
service sector needs to be reformed
because ineffectual customer support,
reduced customer satisfaction and
unmet client needs are causing
organizations to lose business.
Belardo explains, “This is where
Click Prompt steps in. The sole aim
of Click Prompt is to improve the
customer experience its clients
offer.”
Click Prompt has seen that there has
been a shift within the service
industry as customer services move
towards self-service rather than
personalized service. This change has
led to reduced face-to-face
interaction between retailers and
their customers.
Click Prompt’s versatility and power
as a marketing platform are on full
display in situations where it acts as a
real-time tool to filter information
and empower its customers to
address the concerns of their own
clientele.
As a self-service platform, QR Codes
allows users to determine what alerts
they receive, and which individuals
within their companies receive that
and other data. The platform is
updated regularly and the data which
is generated is displayed on a modern
dashboard. Alerts can even be sent
via email.
Another feature of Click Prompt
which sets it apart is its in-depth
knowledge of the market. Despite
having a tool that assesses the
customer base and their concerns, the
implementations of this contrivance
is easily adaptable.
Belardo says, “We strongly believe
that apart from owning a product
that is well-equipped to meet the
demands of modern businesses, this
product is developed in such a
manner that it can be easily
implemented.”
Future Forecasts
Click Prompt proposes to expand its
range of services to include
consultation based on the data and
analytics received from QR Codes. It
also has plans to deliver end-to-end
implementation services with the
help of APIs (Application
Programming Interfaces).
Belardo adds, “As we continue to
expand our reach, we want to
establish partnerships with different
ventures and investors to help
develop a solid ‘go to market’
strategy.”
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Product costing is a vital facet of any business. It lets
manufacturers calculate product cost needed to
produce and buy inventory so the manufacturer
remains profitable over the lifecycle of the product.
Effective product costing solutions empower companies to
make better decisions, track projects efficiently, and manage
dynamic project cost development.
FACTON is gaining prominence across the globe for its
cutting-edge product costing solutions. Established in 1998,
it aims to revolutionize the world through adept product
costing solutions. The company has experienced impressive
growth and has a global presence with office locations in
Potsdam, Dresden and Stuttgart, Germany and Detroit,
Michigan USA.
FACTON’s Enterprise Product Costing (EPC) software is
its leading product. It standardizes costing across the
enterprise and delivers maximum product cost transparency
at every phase of the product lifecycle. Its ability to
accelerate costing, achieve pinpoint accuracy, and increase
profit has made it very popular among manufacturers.
Fascinating Capabilities
Do you need to send a transparent business proposal,
evaluate product cost in the early stage of project
development or know how to cost-optimize purchased
modules and components?
Every manufacturing firm needs the answers to these vital
questions. FACTON’s EPC software suite assists
manufacturers in addressing them quickly, securely, and at
the lowest cost. It provides specific solutions that offer
robust answers to satisfy the requirements of executive
management and individual departments within an
enterprise.
FACTON EPC Cost Management helps manufacturing
companies of all sizes perform consistent and reliable
costing. The software employs standardized methods that
enable enterprises to perform all of their basic costing tasks
quickly and securely using one central costing tool.
Companies that develop products via complex processes
and which require both technical and financial finesse
benefit most from this comprehensive EPC solution.
Proactive product costing with full transparency over the
cost structure of complex products assists manufacturers in
making better business decisions.
This is the unique selling proposition of the FACTON EPC
Software suite which makes it popular, not only in the
automotive, aerospace and mechanical engineering sectors
but also in the consumer goods, high-tech, and electronics
industries.
Total Client Satisfaction
FACTON has built a robust relationship with clients based
on its superior and effective products. The organization’s
focal point has always been to provide a leading-edge
costing solution for global enterprises. FACTON works in
tandem with its clients to integrate solutions with the
costing community by hosting user group conferences led
by the company’s user advisory board.
Efficiency and Profit through
Groundbreaking Cost Management Software
FACTON:
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FACTON’s active participation in the global costing market
in the role of board members of industry and trade
associations makes it an indispensable force in the industry.
The company always strives for client satisfaction. Even in
its early years, FACTON did not compromise on quality
despite the pressure of increased operating costs. Now, with
decades of experience, FACTON has perfected its delivery
model and developed a standard approach to project
delivery based on industry best practices.
“Industrial enterprises need FACTON EPC to make the
right decisions in global competition,” says Dr. Bernd
Gottschalk, CEO, AutoValue GmbH, Former President of
the German Automotive Association and Daimler Board
Member.
Ford Motor Company, Henniges Automotive, DURA
Automotive Systems, Airbus, Mahle Behr,
MANN+HUMMEL, Porsche and more are just a few of the
eminent clients which have shown their tremendous faith in
FACTON’s services and are happy to continue their
collaboration with the company.
The Trailblazer
A graduate from Vienna University in Business and
Economics, Alexander M. Swoboda, is the CEO and Co-
owner of FACTON. Having worked with many
international conglomerates, he has gained over 15 years of
invaluable corporate experience in the financial and energy
sectors. Among his prominent previous employers are
Siemens AG and McKinsey Company.
Alexander is known in the industry for his expertise in
finance, venture capital, private equity, and product costing.
Alexander joined FACTON in October 2009 as CFO, later
took over the role of COO and, in 2015, was appointed its
Chief Executive Officer.
FACTON has gained immensely from his expertise and
management skills. He is the key player in the development
of its Enterprise Product Costing pyramid, which now
allows FACTON to provide specific solutions covering the
needs of different users with different use cases in design
costing, should costing, and quoting.
Future Endeavors
FACTON aspires to make its Enterprise Product Costing
solution a global gold standard in cost management on par
with PLM and ERP.
In the near future, the company wants to build a global
costing community to facilitate the exchange of best
practices and develop standards which allow collaboration
between humans and machines for the betterment of the
business community.
Calculate your product
costs with FACTON EPC
to enhance your
profitability, flexibility, and
competitiveness.
Alexander M. Swoboda
CEO and Co-owner
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Kanteron
Systems:
Transforming Patient
Care for the Better
Efficient communication strategies and strategic
development planning can create a thriving culture of
positivity and innovation, all of which contribute to
higher company profits. Healthcare IT firm Kanteron
Systems is a testament to this philosophy. Much of the credit
goes to its CEO and Founder, Jorge Cortell.
Jorge has overcome challenges through sheer determination,
the courage to take strategic risks, and a fantastic team behind
him. Kanteron has quickly become a large company with two
offices in Spain as well as subsidiaries in the UK, and USA.
Inspiration to Innovate Tech
Jorge Cortell risked his company, one which was his
livelihood, to save the love of his life from breast cancer.
Because of his efforts, people can now be treated faster and
more effectively, potentially saving the British National
Health Service (NHS) millions of pounds a year.
Cortell used his computer to tackle cancer. He created
programs and used the cloud, like Google Cloud Platform,
Microsoft Azure and Amazon’s AWS to allow doctors to
easily share images of tumors, check patients’ medical
history and ascertain which medications worked best, all
with just a few clicks of a mouse.
This approach solved a major problem endemic in the
often cash-strapped medical world – computer systems
Jorge Cortell
CEO Founder
42 May 2018

which handle scans such as X-rays
and MRIs are used alongside ones
handling genomic data, but none of
them work with each other.
Kanteron focuses on three main areas,
namely medical imaging, digital
pathology, and genomics. Cortell
realized that there were many
inefficiencies - data wasn’t connected,
while crucial steps and procedures
were overlooked. He wanted to put
together the ‘missing pieces’ to solve
the puzzle to help his special
someone, and millions of other
patients like her.
Firstly, he set out to standardize
digital pathology slides so
pathologists could view them, no
matter what system they used.
Next, he turned to genomics. Most
medications are prescribed on a trial
and error basis – a patient is given a
drug; if it doesn’t work, they go back
to the doctor and the process is
repeated. Kanteron provides a unified
genomic profile database that allows
doctors to easily and efficiently tailor
medications to patients based on their
genes.
Lastly, Cortell created a program that
allows medical professionals to access
all of a patient’s medical images,
pathology slides, and genomic tests,
on one screen.
Experts in Healthcare IT
Headquartered in Spain, Kanteron
Systems is a privately-held healthcare
IT – Biomedical Informatics company
founded in 2005. It helps healthcare
providers manage imaging and
genomic data effectively to deliver
precision medicine at the point of
care.
Kanteron Systems’ solution has
already been deployed over 500 times
in 12 countries, at some of the world’s
largest healthcare institutions like the
American College of Radiology in the
USA, the NHS in the UK, Seguridad
Social in Spain, ISSSTE in Mexico,
and EsSalud in Peru.
Services Offered by Kanteron
Systems
Kanteron Systems provides a single
platform composed of several
modules to process, manage, store,
visualize, integrate, analyze and share
data that may be in the form of
medical imaging, digital pathology,
clinical genomics, pharmacogenomics
and biosensors.
Consisting of a very robust PACS-
VNA, work list server, DICOMIZER,
visualizer, and RIS, it is the perfect
workflow and image management and
storage solution for large institutions
and healthcare networks.
Kanteron’s platform was developed
using feedback from customers as
well as the guidelines and
requirements of experts. It streamlines
the collection, inter-correlation, and
consolidation of information from
individual databases (in standard
languages). All this is done through a
homogeneous interface and intuitive
workflow which simplifies the
learning process.
Making a Global Mark
Technological advances have
transformed almost every aspect of
the business world, in almost every
corner of the Earth. However, there is
not a single comprehensive precision
medicine platform like Kanteron
Systems’ in the world.
Additionally, their solution is open
source, which is very important to
guarantee interoperability, a key issue
in healthcare. Laser focus and
unwavering determination, cliché as it
sounds, have been a constant in their
journey from start-up to scale-up to an
international company.
Competing in an ultra-conservative,
slow-moving industry dominated by
large multinational oligopolies
presents frequent challenges, from
regulatory to brand recognition.
Kanteron’s ace is its excellent and,
literally, peerless product. It allows
the company to addresses big
challenges in a very scalable and agile
way.
Dreaming Big to Achieve Bigger
Exciting changes are coming.
Kanteron Systems is finalizing several
large distribution agreements, and
also working very closely with
Google Cloud towards a very
interesting technology offering. Along
with partners like Google Cloud, the
company is playing a significant role
in the Healthcare Technology space
by placing emphasis on
interoperability, standards and, most
importantly, a pragmatic and
integrated solution to precision
medicine, which will accelerate its
adoption worldwide.
We organize
clinical imaging
and information,
and make it
accessible and
useful to
clinicians at the
point of care so
they can deliver
on the promise of
Precision
Medicine.
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orld is growing at a fast pace and so is data.
WAgility and flexibility of big data applications
are gradually taking the form of the Internet of
Things (IoT). Internet of Things brings more than an
explosive escalation of endpoints. It is unconventional in
several ways. The surge and escalation of IoT gave rise to a
colossal increase in the volume of digitally generated data.
The limitations of current cloud computing is a subject of
broader discussion. To the answer to these emerging
challenges new computing technologies have arrived.
Introduction to Fog Computing
A simple definition of fog is ‘cloud closer to the ground,’
which gives us an idea of functioning of fog computing.
Fog computing is now positioned as a layer to reduce the
latency in hybrid cloud scenarios. The terminology refers to
a new breed of applications and services, particularly when
it comes to data management and analytics. It is a layer in
the middle of cloud and the hardware. In cloud computing
data needs to be accessed to the central mainframe. Fog
Computing offers local and faster accessibility to edge
devices.
There are two planes in a fog computing network. The
‘Data Plane,’ also referred as forwarding plane, and the
‘Control Plane.’
If anything happens to the data packets, it is determined by
the data plane. The computing resources can be placed
anywhere in the network with the help of data plane. The
distribution can be done on the edge of the network.
A critique of the network is provided by the control plane,
functioning with the routing protocols which run in the
architectural control element. IoT data can be undertaken in
a data hub or smart device which are closer to the sensor
with the help of fog computing.
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Fog Computing
On a Surge
The data in fog computing can be accessed in between
devices locally without any help of the cloud repository.
This will help to boost accessibility, and collaboration
among devices and data centers.
Fog Computing Under IoT
Fog computing is an archetype that extends cloud
computing and services to the edge of the network. The
distinguishing fog characteristics are its proximity to the
end users. Fog infrastructure redistributes the data and
compute, so that much of the action takes place on the edge
devices right on your ﬁnger tips. The application services
are hosted on the network edges.
The data from the things where sensors are attached on the
object of interest is transported to the services to the edge of
network (a fog network). From the fog network the data is
transported to the remote services hosted on the internet to
store, manage and process data (cloud network).
The goal of fog computing is to improve the eﬃciency and
reduce the amount of data that needs to be transported to
the cloud for analysis or processing or storage.
Emergence of Fog Computing
The world is marking a colossal rise in terms of digitally
generated data from IoT and connected devices. The growth
of smartphones and applications is enabling more users to
access data, computation power as well as control and
manage their end devices in real-time. A littlest data is
required by conventional cloud architectures to send to the
central cloud through edge fork devices for computation
and analysis, which eventually adds latency. Fog computing
allows the edge node devices to carry out some local data
processing, cache data management, local resource pooling,
local device management, dense geographical distribution,
load balancing, latency reduction for better quality of
service and edge node analytics. It results in enhancing
overall user experiences.
Functioning of Fog Computing
The cloud is becoming congested due to more and more
devices connecting to the internet. In fog computing, most
of the processing takes place in data hub or on the edge of
the network. The implementation of fog computing
separates the data obtained from the closest IoT devices on
the most biting aspect which is time.
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Fog-empowered edge node devices locally analyzes the most time-critical data. It results in the lowest latency and
prevention of major damage before it may even occur. Time-critical data can consist of alarm status, device status,
fault warnings and much more.
For a persistent or periodically storage less time-critical data is sent to the central mainframe. It can be retrieved as and
when required. Less time-critical data includes files, device logs, reports for analysis and much more.
How it is Beneficial for Business
The bottom-line impact adds instant value to business. Fog computing makes the production of revenue-generating
products and services more efficient and therefore is more cost-effective. It helps in acceleration of rollout cycles,
reducing costs and broadens revenue bases.
The new revenue streams creates value for IoT. The streams will come from both IoT and Embedded AI and 5G. It
will foster the development of long-awaited revenue-generating applications and services.
With the help of shred-and-spread nature of the fog architecture, the business will run more efficiently and cost-
effectively. Fog provides highly functioning internal business services.
It also provides a common framework for collaboration and communication. It helps IT and OT business teams to
enable work together and bring in cloud capabilities closer.
Advantages of Fog Computing
Fog computing have several advantages over its ancestor, cloud computing. Basic cloud computing technology is
utilized by fog computing at its core. It helps to boost usability and accessibility in different computing environments.
The advantages that fog computing offers are as follows:
• Globally distributed network helps minimal downtime
• Place data close to the end-user
• Load balancing
• Create dense geographical distribution
• Maximize network bandwidth utilization
• Adopt numerous verticals
• Optimal operational expense
• Business Agility
• Support mobility and IoT
• Better Interconnectivity
• Enhanced Quality of Service (QoS)
• Latency Reduction
Cloud computing is going out-of-date and is relevant when it comes to Internet of Things. In the near future, fog
computing will take over and cloud will be pushed to the side lines. Fog computing will be handling all critical work.
The way the IoT is growing, it needs a special infrastructure base that can handle all its requirements. At present, fog
computing is on a surge and it seems to be the most feasible option available.
46 May 2018

The cloud era has brought significant advances to
data center architecture but it remains shackled by
the motherboard-chassis paradigm which locks
resource allocation to the point of purchase.
It is here that Liqid Inc. is making its mark, interconnecting
disaggregated resource pools to a fabric, and freeing users
from the restrictions of the motherboard-chassis
configuration that remains one of the final physical
limitations of the digital world.
Through innovations in low-latency fabrics and intelligent
software, Liqid’s Composable platform addresses the
painful and costly limitations associated with static
architectures. It achieves this by interconnecting compute,
network, data storage, and graphics processing devices with
a PCI-Express (PCIe) fabric to deliver transformative
results.
An Industry Veteran
Sumit Puri is the CEO and one of Liqid’s Co-founders.
He is a storage industry veteran with more than 20 years of
experience. Sumit has helped define technology roadmaps
for key industry leaders, including SandForce, LSI and
Toshiba.
He has a long history of bringing successful products to
market for large organizations. Before Liqid, Sumit served
as Senior Engineer at JTS and at Iomega, as Director of
Advanced Development at Fujitsu, and was an Engineering
Fellow at Toshiba. He has also served as the Senior
Director, Strategic Marketing at SandForce.
Liqid was founded by Sumit and others to solve
problems associated with high-value industries like
AI, IoT, and edge computing that were still nascent
at the time. The company took a creative approach,
marked by its appreciation for past innovations
while understanding that they were not
sacrosanct.
This sensibility is built into the company’s ethos
and drives how the entire Liqid team addresses
and overcomes every challenge faced by the
company.
Unique Products
Liqid Composable is available directly from
Liqid, or through resellers and OEM partners
like Inspur Systems and One Stop Systems.
Liqid has partnered with both these firms to
offer rack-level, GPU accelerator appliances.
Liqid Inc.Breaking the Motherboard-Chassis Paradigm
THE
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TECH TITANS
Sumit Puri
CEO Co-founder
48 May 2018

Liqid offers:
Ÿ Liqid Grid with Liqid Command Center Full Stack:
Delivers complete and dynamic control of system
resources, enabling true hardware disaggregation and
bare-metal server orchestration. It comes bundled with a
full, industry-standard stack, including GPU, CPU,
NVMe SSD, and networking resources for the complete
integration of composability into a client’s
infrastructure.
Ÿ Developer’s Kit: For customers looking to experience
Composable infrastructure solutions from Liqid to
immediately improve datacenter resource utilization
with a turn-key solution. A complete developer’s kit is
also available with compute, network, storage and
graphics processing devices included with which users
are able to develop applications using Liqid Grid and
Command Center within a fully integrated, rack-
mountable enclosure.
Entering the Vertical
Around four years ago, Liqid’s cofounders realized the
industry was moving from a cloud-based model for
addressing rapidly increasing data demand to one driven by
artificial intelligence across traditional on-premises data
center environments, the cloud, and the edge, incorporating
previously unimagined amounts of Intenet of Things (IoT)
sensor data from internet-connected devices .
The team recognized that a new approach to data center
infrastructure was required to meet the demands of these
highly data-intensive applications. This would allow IT
users to scale and automate to meet the demands of
advanced solutions such as hyperconverged systems.
Liqid was created to address these problems with
infrastructure solutions, and Composable has become the
industry’s most complete end-to-end adaptive solution to
address them.
When the Tough Get Going
According to Liqid, even today’s most advanced
hyperconverged infrastructure solutions remain static,
locked behind traditional motherboard architectures. They
are unable to fully deliver resource flexibility because of
this final physical restraint on the digital data pipeline.
Without the ability to effectively scale powerful hardware
resources such as the GPU to meet the real time
performance demands of next-gen applications, over-
provisioned resources remain fixed at the point of interface,
silo-ed and underutilized.
As a result, trillions of dollars in data center resources sit
idle, consuming massive amounts of energy. Meanwhile the
data center footprint expands as legacy vendors force 20th
century infrastructure strategies to address the demands of
st
the artificial intelligence (AI)-driven 21 century digital
economy.
Liqid Composable breaks with final physical constraints
associated with the motherboard paradigm, evolving past
hyperconverged systems to deliver unprecedented adaptive,
bare-metal resource orchestration for the Age of AI.
Future Roadmap
Gartner predicts that 90 percent of all electronic products
will contain IoT sensors for a total of 8.4 billion connected
things by 2020, creating far more data than the internet of
people ever could.
DevOps teams will increasingly use machine learning
algorithms to automate data management and interpretation
in edge computing facilities. Edge computing will become
the new norm, morphing with cloud and on-prem
environments to create an increasingly seamless, constant
data flow that will radically transform how the material
world is interpreted and engaged.
From these raw materials of the 21st Century economy, the
world will transform and advance at an unprecedented pace
and in unimagined directions.
Liqid’s advancements in Composable infrastructure
eliminate the final physical constraints in our digital world,
supercharging technological advancements already
underway.
With Liqid Composable products and solutions now
generally available to the IT community, and several key
industry partnerships, the company is just getting started. It
plans to drive further innovation, automation, and
disruption in data center architecture, while laying the
groundwork for discoveries yet to be imagined.
We are
delivering adaptive
computing with
bare-metal composable
infrastructure.
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MÖBIUS PARTNERS:
Empowering
IT Solutions
Technology is a disruptive
force. Information
Technology (IT) is so
dynamic and transformative that
ignoring technology trends can be
detrimental to an enterprise.
Successful companies are those that
implement the right technology to
align with and propel their business.
In the current market, many
companies are chasing and investing
in digital transformation. The key to
a growth-generating outcome is a
sound and strategic approach to
digital transformation. In order to
accelerate business processes and
competencies, companies need a
partner that has a pulse on the latest
technology and uses their expertise to
develop a transformation strategy.
order to maximize the impact of their
technology expertise. The team’s
sole commitment is to provide
constant, responsive,
transformational support.
Partners In Excellence
Junab Ali and Jay Uribe co-
founded Möbius Partners in 2000.
These two high school friends
recognized that their unique strengths
and backgrounds were
complimentary and that they could
leverage their expertise to help
enterprise businesses implement the
right technology. Nearly 18 years
after starting Möbius Partners, Jay
and Junab stay true to the tenets on
which they established the company.
Jay and Junab believe if they get it
right with their employees, the
employees will get it right with their
customers. With a strong belief in a
shared vision, the Möbius Partners
team is known for finding that hard-
to-find groove of expertise,
innovation and collaboration. That
unique ability is the origin of their
nickname: Groovers.
Möbius Partners
recognizes that
every journey
toward digital
transformation is
different. As a
leading IT
solutions provider
that serves corporate and public
sector customers throughout Texas
and the central US, the company’s
success is closely tied to their
customers’ success. Möbius Partners
is based in San Antonio, TX with
offices in Dallas and Houston. With a
highly skilled team of certified
engineers and service delivery
managers, they make it a priority to
stay ahead of technical trends
through continuous learning,
certifications, and training. The
company has a unique ‘work
hard/play hard’ culture and believes
in working together with their clients
in order to get the job done right.
Like their customers, Möbius
Partners is driven by business
outcomes. They invest in long-term
relationships with their customers in
Jay Uribe
Junab Ali
50 May 2018

Strategic Technology Solutions
Möbius Partners provides the most
advanced and strategic technology
solutions to deliver positive and
growth-generating outcomes. Cost-
effective solutions are structured
around a variety of technology
services focusing on Cloud Adoption,
IT Task Automation, Monitoring, IT
Service Management, Data Center
Optimization, Application Delivery,
DevOps, Security Compliance,
Analytics, and more.
Möbius Partners offers a dedicated
support management team to help
maximize performance, minimize
risk and identify cost-saving
opportunities across customer
environments. MP SupportLink is a
multi-vendor Support Contract
Management solution, that provides
the much-needed visibility to
proactively, effectively, and
efficiently manage all service and
support contracts.
Ÿ Best Places to Work in Texas:
2009, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014,
2015, 2016, 2017, 2018
Ÿ Best Places to Work in San
Antonio: 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011,
2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016,
2017, 2018
Ÿ CRN Magazine’s Tech Elite 250:
2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015,
2016, 2017
Ÿ CRN Magazine’s Solution
Provider 500 (Sp500): 2013,
2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018
Ÿ Top 10 Data Center Networking
Solution Providers by Enterprise
Networking Magazine: 2016,
2017
Digital Transformation is Key
Many companies are investing in
digital transformation. The key to
future success, however, is a sound
and strategic approach to digital
transformation. In order to accelerate
business processes and
competencies, companies need a
partner to provide comprehensive IT
solutions. Möbius Partners has a
pulse on the latest technology and
uses its expertise to develop a
transformation strategy. Looking
ahead, the company will continue to
grow the services they provide to
customers and deliver new managed
services to accelerate business and
support digital transformation.
Partnering for Success
Möbius Partners collaborates with
the world’s leading enterprise
technology companies to stay ahead
of digital transformation trends.
Some of our top partners include
Aruba, Cisco, CloudPhysics,
Cohesity, Dell EMC, Docker, F5,
Fortinet, Hewlett Packard Enterprise,
Micro Focus, New Relic, Red Hat,
Splunk, Turbonomic, VMware.
These partnerships and certifications
make Möbius Partners a trusted
advisor within their customer base.
The Möbius Partners team is often
considered an extension of their
customer’s workforce because of
their strong relationships and
commitment to the success of their
customers businesses.
Awards and Achievements
Möbius Partners has been recognized
many times over as a top solutions
provider.
We provide our clients with the most
advanced and strategic technologies
available to help them innovate,
transform, and deliver positive
business outcomes.
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May 2018 51

Due to several incidents within the financial sector
related to their integrity, people and society in
general have lost their trust in banks and insurance
firms. Most of the banks and insurance firms know this
better than anybody else. Regulators and supervisors are
almost furiously trying to restore this trust by imposing
strict rules upon them that focus on preventing the previous
incidents from happening again. Even though this might
win them some battles, I will definitely not win them the
war, as the issues they are struggling with are far more
complex:
Ÿ Trying to manage their data: Volume, privacy,
complexity, security, availability etc. Especially in a
context of finance and risk, additional requirements
apply to the confidentiality, origination and audit trail of
data;
Ÿ Reducing their IT expenses: keeping old aged systems
up-and-running is difficult and expensive, resources
understanding these systems are growing scarce, and
such a situation is definitely stalling IT innovations,
where they seem to be required to adopt new
technology;
Ÿ Responding to findings from regulators and
supervisors, which need to be resolved imminently at
the risk of large fines, negative career implications or
even license consequences;
Ÿ Replacing current solutions being ‘end-of-life cycle’
for which safeguarding the history as built up in their
current system may be a specific issue, in addition to a
potential operational risk when solutions cease to
function.
Ÿ Processing too many operational risk issues,
imposing a reputational risk for both the bank and its
leaders, is troubled by a large number of false positive
alerts, taking up valuable time and resources. These is
only an example of reasons for a growing back log.
BusinessForensics also aims for banks and insurance
companies to rebuild trust. Yet we realize that to win the
war, it takes a different approach. We believe that banks and
insurance companies need to reorganize themselves in order
to improve their operating models and to safeguard the
integrity of their employees and clients. Yes, this involves
new rules regulations. But that is not enough.
Sustainability requires banks and insurances firms to
embrace their future with confidence. This also involves
new technologies and new data, which in turn will bring
them new risks. It even involves new competition.
We believe that truly good-natured banks and insurance
firms can be compliant with new rules and regulations.
Embrace new technologies and new data. Timely identify
new risks. Face their new competition with confidence. To
create an organization that is in control. By design. Only
then will they be able to avoid crime, coincidence and
prejudice. And that is where BusinessForensics comes in.
We achieve that level of control for our customers by
continuously monitoring their compliance- and integrity
risks, from multiple angles. The result: a transparent and
truthful view on ‘what is happening, here and now’ in their
organization. Our focus on risk allows them to respond
effectively to emerging challenges, in order to keep the bad
guys out (in terms of clients and employees). By learning
from our customer’s experience, our system continuously
improves their responsiveness and resilience. Improves
their level of control. Control brings confidence, and only
with confidence can you build a bright future.
BusinessForensics aims to be the trusted partner of choice
for banks and insurance companies aiming to rebuild trust.
To us, partnership means cooperating to reduce all relevant
compliance- and integrity risks to levels that are acceptable
Being confident about your
future when your organization
is designed for control
52 May 2018

Tames Rietdijk
COO
Business Forensics
May 2018 53
Leader's Desk
Tames Rietdijk (1966) started his career in 1987 at KPMG as accountant (division financial
institutions) and has been working mostly for software companies since 1994 in different positions
from Product Manager to CTO. Since 2005 Tames has been certified as Anti Money Laundering
Specialist by the Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists (ACAMS) and he is a
tutor at the Radboud Management Academy.
Tames is Chief Operations Officer at BusinessForensics and for the clients in the financial industry
(banks and insurance companies) he is a trusted advisor for CFO's, CRO's and Fraud Departments
because of his Risk management background combined with a thorough knowledge of software
and technology.
In his vision on Risk management Tames calls for Risk based supervision instead of traditional Rule
based supervision. Risk based supervision requires trend analyses with a total view instead of a
snapshot of a specific event. For Risk management to be effective, more is needed than just
detection of risks and that is the reason why the BusinessForensics platform offers a total solution in
data mining, big data processing up until case management and sanctioning.
About the Author

for banks and insurance firms, for their clients and for
society as a whole. Our approach follows 7 standard steps:
Ÿ An experienced team that understands and is
passionate about (big) data analysis, machine learning
and (cyber) security, bringing sustainable fintech
innovation to your company.
Ÿ We structure your data in such a way that you are
prepared for every possible outcome, as it is impossible
to predict what you will come across during your
analyses.
Ÿ We deliver a fine grained, adaptable configuration
because every organization is unique and the system
must resemble your specific situation as much as
possible.
Ÿ The results or our joint analysis must result in an
increased awareness and understanding of what is
happening here and now within your organization, with
a focus on (integrity) risk.
Ÿ This improved insight in the identified risks will allow
you to decide how to best respond to them, in order to
reduce potential damages as much and as soon as
possible.
Ÿ Our collaborative learning approach allows your
organization to continuously improve its resilience and
pro-actively reduce its risk profile through automated
feedback loops.
Ÿ As a result, your organization feels as if it is ‘Designed
for Control’, having protected both the privacy of
individuals and value of your assets.
In this complex financial world, BusinessForensics provides
a coherent package of future-proof solutions to the major
challenges facing all financial institutions in the coming
decades:
Ÿ Implementing new laws and regulations,
Ÿ Becoming more responsive to new emerging risks,
Ÿ The increasing volume, complexity and velocity of
(new) data,
Ÿ Embracing new technologies, being able to drive
business innovation,
Ÿ Preparing for the new competition: technology
platforms, crypto currencies, fintech etc.
BusinessForensics provides a structured approach to
reducing a bank or insurer’s risk profiles while reducing
their cost of compliance, and at the same time improving
their damage recovery rates.
Trust accelerates performance. Between banks and their
clients, man and machine, old and young.
54 May 2018
About the Company
The team at BusinessForensics consists of consultants, architects and developers with offices in
The Hague and Singapore, and has been offering software and know-how for monitoring and
managing compliance and integrity risks since 1998, amongst which are financial and economic
crime risks. Preferred customers are those banks and insurcance firms that take pride in maintaining
or (when necessary) rebuilding the trust of their clients, who do not view compliance as a burden
but feel the inherent need to 'do the right thing'. So as partners, we can keep crime, abuse and
coincidence away from their clients.
The forensic platform (the HQ products) provides real-time (big) data analysis of network,
transactions and signal of evolving risks and threat. These are presented users in an accessible and
understandable way, providing context and situational awareness. As a result, companies and
institutions can discover these risks early and immediately take measures aimed at limiting possible
damage as much as possible and optimizing chances for recovery.
Compliance is also demonstrated by measuring good behavior Confidence in our system increases
by minimizing the number of false positive alerts. In addition, unnecessary (reputational) damage is
reduced and corporate agility is greatly improved. Trust improves performance; between man and
machine, young and old, customer and supplier.

Patriot
Software:
Helping Small Business
Owners in a Simple
and Affordable Manner
With a mission to make accounting and
payroll fast, simple, and affordable for
American Small Businesses, Patriot
Software Company began in the sometimes-
heated basement of a factory in Canton, Ohio in
1986. Back then, the company had an unusual
list of visitors in its office premise, including
rats, birds, flies, and snakes! Office walls
were complemented by worn out blankets
and maxed out credit cards left the
company in a state of financial crisis.
“The early years in that basement were
very rough, giving me a deep respect
for small business owners. I learned
first-hand how incredibly difficult it is
to start a business from scratch and
keep the business running,” recalls
Mike Kappel, CEO, and Founder
of Patriot Software. After barely
surviving past those days filled
with bitter experiences, Mike
realized his new-found passion to
help small business owners.
Delivering Solutions that make
the Company Stand Out
Patriot Software offers Accounting
and Payroll software that is both
simple and affordable. It also provides
Time Attendance and HR software
that customers can turn on if desired.
“All of our products are fully integrated
together and accessible with just one
login” mentions Mike.
THE
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Mike Kappel
CEO Founder
56 May 2018

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