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buzzMay 2013
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Editors note .....................................................................................................................................................03
Annual Awards Function ..............................................................................................................................04
Holi Photo Contest 2013 Winners .............................................................................................................08
Dr. Kanodia’s Speech - Annual Awards ....................................................................................................09
Advanced Certifications ...............................................................................................................................11
Datamatics Filmmaker Award winner ......................................................................................................12
CCD - Funorama @ Australia .....................................................................................................................13
Spirit of Sportsmanship Soars High .........................................................................................................15
Techgeek ...........................................................................................................................................................16
L&D .....................................................................................................................................................................17
Go Twins ............................................................................................................................................................22
Baby Alert .........................................................................................................................................................24
Table of ConTenT
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Dear Colleagues,
Prestige, victory, excellence and fame – these words are a beautiful melody, especially when an individual has worked very hard to achieve success. And when one has achieved it, the fruit is either an award or a blessing.
But who knew that an award could have a secret ally to introduce? Surprisingly, for the Corporate Communications Department (CCD) the ally turned out to be an explosion of fun by way of incentivized trip to Australia. Earlier this month, the team was invited by the Queensland Tourism to recognize CCD team’s brilliant work for making it to the Top-20 Million Dollar Memo (MDM) amateur video competition. The team was fortunate enough to witness the amalgamation of the two coveted terms- Fun and Awards. This revelation and sweet serendipity was not only blissful but it also helped team pack some beautiful memories that would be cherished for a lifetime.
My heart is filled with immense gratitude to all those who supported and encouraged the team, to turn our participation into victory.
Whilst the CCD savored these beautiful moments, many fellow Datamaticians got recognized for their excellent performance at the Datamatics Annual Awards function across various offices.
An award possesses an incredible power that can raise the spirits of the individual who receives it and also of the team that provides support and encouragement to the winners.
Hence, Keep the spirits high & keep winning!
Warm Regards,
Varad K. Arora
ediTor's noTe
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Holi PHoTo ConTesT 2013 winners
1 3Dalbir Virdi - Sales & Marketing
Richa Shetty
- L & D
Congrats to all the winners!!!
Prachi Rane - Legal & Secretarial
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dr. Kanodia’s sPeeCH - annual awardsAt the Annual Awards function Dr. Kanodia gave an invigorating speech, congratulating all the award-winners and praising their contribution to the Company’s growth. He briefed the audience about the recent milestones and achievements of the Company and also outlined his vision for the Company.
Dr. Kanodia also spoke about NASSCOM’s prediction about the expected growth rate of Indian IT industry, which is twice the proposed rate of GDP. A related good news as pointed out by him was the fact that the revenue per employee was also on the increase.
He also mentioned about the economic turbulences in other parts of the worlds that had ripple effects on the Indian markets. However, he quickly reassured the audience by pointing out that the economic pendulum was swinging towards Asia and that India had several achievements to be proud of even on the back of the recent economic crises. These include being the world’s largest producer of several food grains, having the world’s largest cardiac hospital for children and institutions like the IITs and the IIMs. India is also among the top in the world in mobile phone and internet usage.
However, this observation was tempered by the several teething problems that India faces currently. Dr. Kanodia pointed out the numerous fiscal scams and endemic poverty as the chief among them. He urged everyone to raise their voices against these vices. He iterated that a progressively younger demographic was a saving grace for India’s future as was the IT industry to its GDP.
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dr. Kanodia’s sPeeCH - annual awardsDr. Kanodia moved on to DGSL and its achievements in the past financial year about which there were several heartening stories to tell. He reminded the audience that for the financial year, 2011-12, Dataquest had listed Datamatics as the fastest growing software Company listed in India. Also, CSRIL has rated Datamatics at A1+, the highest rating available for Indian companies. Dr. Kanodia expects the Company to continue the growth momentum and grow at 22-25% in the current fiscal without taking mergers and acquisitions into account as contrasted to the average IT industry growth of 10.2%. He stressed that the Company would continue to grow at a rapid pace in the coming fiscal as well and stated that in line with most of the top firms of the day, this will be achieved in a large part through mergers and acquisitions. Dr. Kanodia also spoke about the future of the industry in general and pointed out Cloud Computing, Big Data, Analytics, Open Source, Mobility and e-Publishing as being the next big movers of the market.
Dr. Kanodia also highlighted the two problems that according to him have been plaguing Datamatics. The first among them is the amount of money being spent on personnel. He laid out a plan for reducing the amount which included moving out to tier 2 cities, correcting the pyramid structure of the Company and having a smaller bench. The second problem was a need for greater organic growth for which he stressed on better lead generation, better account management and greater focus on techniques such as direct marketing to win customers.
The performance of the support departments was praised highly for its contribution towards smooth running of the Company. Praise was also showered on the company as a whole for being ranked 14th in the category “Dream Company to Work in” at the World HRD Congress and on several other individual award winners at the same event. Also, Dr. C.M. Dwivedi, Divya Kumat and Varad Kamini won individual awards from several prestigious institutions and forums. Vidur Bhogilal was adjudged the runner-up for the “Excellence in Mergers and Acquisitions” award at the 9th India CFO Awards.
Dr. Kanodia ended his speech by stating that ‘he has a dream’ for this Company as Martin Luther King, Jr. had for his society. He would like to make this Company reach revenues of $1 billion in about 5 years from now. He urged everyone in the Company to help him along in his dream in the line of John F. Kennedy, “Ask not what your Company can do for you. Ask what you can do for your Company”!!
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advanCed CerTifiCaTionsCongratulations Sangeetha Prithviraj (Project Management) for securing PMP certification!
Muniraj Sarvanan (Liferay) has attained the certification of Scrum Master. Congratulations!
Sangeetha Prithviraj
Muniraj Sarvanan
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daTaMaTiCs filMMaKer award winner
Archana Skariah
Harisankar
Ragunath M
Sugumar Selvaraj
Arivazhagan
Hussain Challawala
Saravanan
Sunil Shinde
Amar Poojary
Gulab Nikam
Parth Ghaswala
Sudhir Ghosalkar
Akash Das
Ashraf Shaikh
Kunal Ghotekar
Shrikanth G
Arun V. Kumar
Kailas Patil
Senthil M
Vaibhav Gharat
Shubham
JaiSwal
winS
miniiPadPlease click on the participant photos to
watch their respective video entries
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sPiriT of sPorTsMansHiP soars HigH It was a proud moment for CIGNEX Datamatics when they were announced TT champions at a recently held corporate tournament for Badminton and Table Tennis at the Ahmedabad ‘Corporate Indoors Arena’ organized by Wolfpack Sportz at YMCA early last month.
Surbhi and Pallika won the gold and silver medals respectively for Women’s Single Table Tennis while Angana was awarded silver in Women’s Badminton Singles. Parth, Rameez, Safvan, Nandan, Jinish, Bhavik Shah and Hardik played their best shots to accumulate a high score and emerge as TT champions!
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l&dAhmedabadA day-long workshop was held at Ahmedabad with an endeavor to improve communication skills. Aloka Deane from Pune was invited as trainer for the session. Activities included listening and comprehension exercises of various regional accents of US. Recognizing emotions through different tones, reiterating syllable stress and how all this changes the meaning of a word.
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l&dMumbaiBusiness Etiquette - 15th April 2013 Qlik View - 15th to 25th April 2013
SMART Goals - 22nd April 2013
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l&dMumbaiInformatica - 27th April 2013
Attitude @Work - 29th April 2013
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go Twins!!!
SDF IV 117-120SDF IV 110KC
“There are two things in life for which we are never truly prepared: twins”,Rightly said by Josh Billings , an American comedian.
Datamatics celebrated Twins’ Day on 10th May 2013.
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go Twins!!!
SDF IV 117-120
SEEPZ ++
SDF VI 189-190
SDF V-155
SDF VI 172
Puducherry
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baby alerT‘Every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last’ ~ Charles Dickens
Shrikant Patil from AMS team was blessed with a son, Vyom on 15th April 2013.
Aayush, son of Yashoda Patil from IMP on 4th Oct 2012
Mr Gokulavan (Corporate Quality) got blessed with a daughter “Sachkriya” made her way on 08th April 2013.
Ravindra Shinde’s (IMP) son Aarav was born on Mother’s Day i.e. 12th May’13
