CYBAGETIMES ★★★ The spirit of excellence ★★★

Issue 11 | March 2014 News Magazine of Cybage Software Pvt. Ltd.

Colorful Asha

A congenial alliance Making it large Patrick Bustraen, Transics International Devdatta Rege

Cybage Annual Bash Interviews Contents 6. A congenial alliance Patrick Bustraen, VP (R&D), Transics Editor’s note International, shares his company’s bond with Cybage and his fascination for all things Indian

8. Making it large Events and Devdatta Rege, who helms Large Dear reader, Enterprises, talks about Cybage’s Activities strength and how he balances Managed by We’re back with another exciting, inspiring, and colorful life at work and life after work 16. Cybage Annual Bash Neil Asser, Shruti Parasher, issue of CybageTimes. In every issue, we add something Cybage knows how to rock in style. Gunjan Dawani, and new to make it special. This time, the edition gets its 14. Leaders stand tall Preeti Parwani (Corporate Find out how Cybagians celebrated well-deserved tagline—The spirit of excellence. Seasoned employees associated with Communications team, Pune) their annual extravaganza An apt tagline not just for the current issue, but also Cybage for more than a decade— for brand CybageTimes, isn’t it? Rakesh Ramchandani and Shamshu 22. Happenings 24X7 Hirani—share their success mantra Articles written by Cybagians excel in whatever they do because their Catch a glimpse of the latest activities Durga Godbole and spirit is fired with a passion for excellence. Be it in Features at Cybage Yogesh Sapre; and reviewed client relations, delivery prowess, and career graph to by Amit Durgapal excellence in sports, fine arts, social responsibilities, 10. Talent streak 28. The champs (Documentation team, Pune) and even adventure! CybageTimes celebrates the spirit of excellence and shares it with the readers. Corporate Cybage houses some exceptional Check out the sports highlights. talent that doesn’t recognize Don’t miss out Taru Mateti’s first Designed by Tell us what you think of this issue. 4. From the CEO’s desk the limitations of professional life major marathon achievement Maithili Kulkarni (Visual Please write to us at: [email protected] and carves a distinct identity for itself Communications team, Pune) 5. News & accolades Glance through the latest Cybage news, 26. Looking beyond updates, and achievements Monday Contributors: CSR team - Pune; Mondays can be inspiring! Here’s HR teams - Pune, Hyderabad, an exciting initiative undertaken and Gandhinagar by Cybage HR

27. Homecoming Photo courtesy: Cybage welcomes rejoinees with open Abhijit More (Marketing - Pune), arms. Read about what brought them and Sabyasachi Saha (UI - Pune) back (second series) CSR Cybage Software Pvt. Ltd. 30. Adventure quest Circulation and distribution by An SEI-CMMI Level 5 Ver. 1.3 & ISO 27001 company The hills around Pune are a haven 20. Colorful Asha Administration team - Pune, HQ: Cybage Towers, Survey No 13A/ 1+2+3/1, Vadgaon Sheri, Pune 411014 Tech Talk for trekkers. Follow the Cybage Hyderabad, and Gandhinagar Tel: 91 20 6604 4700 | Fax: 91 20 6604 1701 adventurers on their treks From village upliftment to brining Pune | Hyderabad | Gandhinagar | Seattle | New Jersey | San Francisco | Atlanta | 12. Enterprise Content cheers to the lives of visually Austin | London | Frankfurt | Amsterdam | Sydney | Tokyo impaired, read how CybageAsha Printed at Vyoma Graphics, Pune www.cybage.com Management has transformed lives Contest Pushkar Gokhale, Head – ECM CoE 21. Power of Khushboo writes about how ECM, one of the 31. Tag-it! Cybage CoEs, accelerates business Khushboo resurrects the career processes and improves efficiency Check out the winning tagline dreams of three needy students

2 CYBAGETIMES | March 2014 March 2014 | CYBAGETIMES 3 From the CEO’s desk News & accolades

Zinnov recognition SAP PartnerEdge Welcome Cybage was recognized as a Application ‘Leader in the Consumer Software Development Program aboard and Enterprise Software’ category by Zinnov Management Consulting partnership for 2013 as part of its Global Service With this partnership, Cybage gains Provider Rating (GSPR). access to a wide variety of SAP Cybage has also been recognized offerings including SAP Sybase Unified as an ‘Established Leader in Niche Platform (mobile), SAP HANA Verticals’. The company scored high on (in-memory database), and other SAP Zinnov ratings with well-established portfolio products. This will help the competencies, an excellent breadth company capitalize on next-generation and depth of services, and high mobile, cloud, analytics, and CRM scalability across verticals. capabilities atop the traditional SAP ERP implementations, driving efficiency and visibility along with a higher client engagement. Foray into the Land Two travelling monks reached the bank All of us know the price we pay for not emotional balance, more popularly of the Rising Sun of a river, where they met a young lady of letting go of the baggage from the past. known as EQ. the night. Wary of the current, she asked ‘Not letting go’ is perhaps the most After marking its presence in Germany Featured in GS 100 whether they could carry her across. The common virus in the human DNA. It’s the So, does that mean EQ is more important and Australia, Cybage has continued list for fifth first monk just stood there hesitantly, but simplest yet the deadliest destroyer of than IQ? No. For, the second monk was its global expansion to include Japan. the second one quickly lifted her up onto many relationships. The antibiotic to treat not only emotionally stable; he was also The new office named 'Kabushiki consecutive year his shoulders. Together, the monks waded this disease lies within us, and not in any a very intelligent being. That’s why he Kaisha Cybage Software Japan' in This list features companies through the river until they reached the wise stories from some CEO’s desk. understood the right interpretation of the Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo, will cater to the that define leadership in the global Geetha Sham other side, where the second monk set verses in the scriptures. existing market in Japan and provide services business. It was published the young lady down on the bank. The The stories inked at the CEO’s desk an opportunity to engage new clients. Vice President & Head - Travel and IQ is like ‘fuel’ in the car, EQ is like the by Global Services Media, the leading woman thanked him and continued on are not designed for preaching, they Hospitality, Pune ‘steering wheel’. While a car with no media platform connecting buyers her journey. are merely an honest attempt to share personal observations on alternative steering wheel is directionless, a car with and service providers in the global An engineering graduate (B.E. Over the next several days, the monks outlooks. The above story presents no fuel is meaningless! I believe, in our Award for Excellence in IT outsourcing industry. in Electronics & Communications) continued on their journey. However, the one such opening to analyze things personal as well as our professional lives, from Bangalore University, Geetha first monk became restlessly quiet and differently, an opportunity to illustrate the only those who possess sufficient fuel Mobile Technology comes with more than 17 years more and more preoccupied. Unable to difference between the much-debated and a stable steering wheel are able to of strong global exposure in the Vikas Kumar Verma, Vice President – hold his silence, he finally spoke with IQ vs. EQ. cruise smoothly. Product and IT Services industry. Emerging Technologies, was awarded CSR Award 2013 anger. “The 245th verse in the 4th volume the ‘Best Mobile Industry Professional of our holy book teaches us to avoid No doubt, the first monk has a high IQ— Cybage was felicitated with the She has vast experience in of the Year-2013’ for his dedication any contact with women—let alone that how else can he remember the numeric CSR Award 2013 by Rotary working with multinationals in the and outstanding contribution to the sort of a woman. But you picked that details of the holy verses? However, International at the prestigious ASM areas of Strategy, Sales, Presales, field of mobile technology at the one up on your shoulders and carried besides a high IQ, he also carries a lot Awards for Excellence ceremony. This Consulting, Project and Program Mobbys Awards ceremony. her!” “Brother,” the second monk replied of baggage in his personality: anger, award was presented to CybageAsha Management. Her hobbies include restlessness, obsessive disorder, lack of Sincerely, and Cybage Khushboo for their reading and travelling. calmly, “I set her down on the other side, The ceremony acknowledged various empathy, decision-making hesitancy, outstanding efforts in bettering the while you are still carrying her.” Arun Nathani | CEO & MD industries and was hosted by the etc. All these are signs of an inadequate www.arunnathaniblog.com lives of the less fortunate. World Brand Congress and CMO Asia.

4 CYBAGETIMES | March 2014 March 2014 | CYBAGETIMES 5 A congenial alliance

Patrick Bustraen Vice President, Research and Development, Transics International

aving completed his Masters in Electronics Engineering Hfrom IHR-BME at Ghent (Belgium), Patrick started his professional career as a Software-Hardware Integration Tester at Siemens. Later, after a stint with the pre-production team at Barco, Patrick joined Transics in February 1993. Since 1997, Patrick with his family

he has been handling the R&D team, first as a manager, and Quattro+, TX-Max Go, and now the Indian food is too spicy for many later as Vice President, R&D. TX-Sky and the TX-Connect desktop Europeans, but I like it. Most Indian platform top the list. restaurants offer a wide choice of food. CybageSpeak My favorites are the Chicken Biryani All the achievements so far have some and among the desserts, the Kulfi. Debasis Ray, Vice President – Transics: Changing with times our requirements ended. Cybage was which is a real value-add and the reason important elements in common—good CRM Excellence and Delivery, Pune, far better than the rest in the race for why the Transics team holds Cybage in teamwork, continuous attention and Most of the time that I spent in India comments, “He was eager to meet Transics started in the nineties as analyzing the case and presenting a high regard. effort, and a keen eye for quality. was in lavish hotels and corporate our technology team to discuss the a local player in fleet management proposition on how to derive best offices located in big cities. I was fluid UI of one of Transics’ flagship in Belgium. Over the years, its client results. The ability demonstrated by the Cybage excels in being able to present fascinated by the busy Indian roads products—that’s how I remember base expanded, first to France and the organization to understand the nitty well-structured teams for our needs. with enormous traffic. Patrick, Vice President, Research and Netherlands, and later on to the rest gritties of our business and the timely We value the interaction between the Values I believe in Development, Transics International. of Europe. The company has now grown availability of a skilled and talented pool team in India and the team in Europe. I was born with an innate passion for Patrick is a product engineering into a professional Europe-wide reference of resources exceeded our expectations. technology. Sincerity, honesty, and and technology professional and it for fleet management. As a result, a successful partnership with Apart from work respect for all were the values I imbibed has been a pleasure to work with Cybage since 2010 allowed Transics to from my father. My professional career I guess I have too many hobbies and him. During my first visit to IPER, Today, Transics is an extend its development capacity Challenges in business at Transics impressed upon me the too less time to pursue them! Above all, Belgium, I spent a lovely evening international player in a fast and flexible manner. in truck, trailer, “The Cybage One of the biggest challenges in our importance of teamwork, dedication, I have a passion for photography, nature with him and his family over dinner. cargo, and order team, comprising business is reducing the time to market and connecting with people for creating macro photography, to be precise. I am a Patrick is an avid photographer who management. senior and junior new products. The development team, fantastic products. bit into running and biking at weekends. loves to see places and capture Our TX-Connect resources along with Adding value to our therefore, has to be on its toes all the When I’m not at work, I long to be in the special moments. I look forward to a back-office architects, has always time to meet the demand of delivering bosom of nature. long partnership, professionally business platform is used been performing in a new products and features in a short and personally.” by more than development schedule. Getting deft Indian experience Sundays are reserved for my family. way that amazes Cybage provides the 1,300 transport developers and ingenious engineers I have twin daughters aged 17. our engineers.” technology stack for our Suresh Mamunuru, Delivery is the key. My visit to India has been a fantastic Sunday afternoons are meant for a clients, and we own Head, Hyderabad, has this to product development. experience. Indians are friendly and walk with them at the sea-side or in more than 80,000 say about Patrick, “He is a very A well-defined client-centric hospitable. The English language is a nature park. connected vehicles. ® straightforward and friendly person; approach refined by the ExcelShore adequately understood wherever passionate about technology and model has been a unique selling point I travelled. for Cybage. The extensive knowledge of Success and I new trends. He does not hesitate to the Cybage architecture team about the In India, family ties seem to be more give the right feedback and is open Why Cybage as a partner? At Transics, I collaborated with my team Message to Cybagians latest in technology offers us a variety of cohesive than those in Belgium. to suggestions from Cybage. He to create and bring several successful wise technology choices for new projects. Indian grandparents live close to their Continue to focus on technology strongly believes in and strives for It was at Cybage that our search for product generations to the market. The architects have a clear view on grandchildren. There are quite a lot expertise. After all, clients search efficient operations.” a service partner that would best suit Our on-board computers such as the various technology differentiators, of family parties! for solutions and not just resources.

6 CYBAGETIMES | March 2014 March 2014 | CYBAGETIMES 7 serene surroundings, and ragging changed me completely. I was no longer Making it large an introvert. I studied hard. I learned to play harmonium and tabla. We went boating, mountaineering, trekking. I participated wholeheartedly in literary Devdatta Rege and cultural events and competitions. I could shun away my stage fear. Vice President, Large Enterprises I feel privileged to have had teachers who instilled in us love for excellence, sense of enquiry, and modesty,” fondly rom IIT to Harvard and then to Cybage, reminisces Devdatta. Fhis journey is an inspiration for budding Our interaction moves on to the techies. The man leading the Large Enterprises next level—a deeper insight into team at Cybage, Devdatta reveals distinctive his professional life. For a moment, we wonder why Devdatta opted for aspects of his personality that help him emerge (L to R) With daughter Apoorva, wife Shilpa, and son Aniket Chemical Engineering. “Well, I think, as a winner in life. it was predestined,” he quips, while It’s an honor to lead such a wonderful posing like a typical fatalist and earns and reliable team of Large Enterprises,” a chuckle from us. He elucidates, a content VP says. “I want the business Rapid Fire “I knew I was born to become an world to look up to Cybage as a trusted We enter a neat and tidy cabin with I would be punished for telling even a character. The school was far from engineer, but Chemical Engineering enterprise partner and not just as a choice collectibles and a white board harmless lie, but would be spared if home. Father made me commute by came to my lot on the basis of my rank service partner,” he says emphatically. Favorite sport that bears the marks of a couple of I had lost money or broken something public transport, which offered me an in IIT entrance. However, computers brainstorming sessions. Organization valuable,” says Devdatta. He believes that opportunity to breathe in the spirit of were also grabbed my attention along How is the private person behind American football and decision-making peacefully co-exist such values can be instilled only through the city that never sleeps,” says Devdatta. with my chosen curriculum.” the public persona? We are keen to Favorite movie in his cabin. Here, we settle and flip a meticulous upbringing. “They cannot know. Dev opens up. “My wife Shilpa through some of the important pages be taught later in life.” “My education up to twelfth happened Devdatta’s vast professional experience and my kids Aniket (18) and Apoorva Back to the Future of Devdatta’s life. in a very protective environment. spans two decades and a half, but (14) form the core of my happiness. Favorite actor We can feel the nostalgia setting in. The journey thereon brought about for him, professional milestones are Shilpa, a Masters in German, is a “Needless to say, my childhood forms “Well, it was tough to juggle between the the metamorphosis. I had always been mere facts. After graduating from the passionate German teacher and a Amitabh Bachchan the base of my later achievements. modern cosmopolitan household and interested in mathematics and science IIT, he started his career in India as a wonderful life-partner.” Dev thinks Favorite singer I was born in a well-to-do family and a traditional school setup of Balmohan more than any other subject. You call it software engineer, working on advanced Shilpa is more focused and disciplined grew up in the cosmopolitan area of Vidyamandir, a well-known school in God’s grace or the upshot of the efforts engineering applications. He was happy than him. Lata Mangeshkar Bandra West, which is the address of Mumbai. I did reasonably well in exams, I had put in, I got into the revered to put his knowledge into practice while Favorite tourist destination many Bollywood celebs. Both my sister was quick on the uptake, and could Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, working on advanced process control, While Aniket takes after his father and and I are thankful to our parents for speak many languages. I was lucky to popularly known as IIT. The cut-throat process simulation, and interactive has shown early interest in engineering, Switzerland giving us a value-based upbringing. get teachers who believed in building competition, expert veteran professors, Apoorva is following mama’s footsteps multimedia applications. He then went to Favorite cuisine the United States and worked with global and is much into linguistics and fine enterprises in the Financial Services arts. Dev says, “We want the kids to Thai domain providing IT consulting. While understand and appreciate every bit of Favorite gadget working, he also completed a Graduate life; our life-experiences will always serve Certification in Business Management as guidance to them.” iPhone from Harvard University. “Making money Favorite Indian brand has never been my aim in life,” An avid trekker, an alert traveler, he expresses. a music lover, a sincere philanthropist, Tata a devout Indian, and an informal student Favorite book “When I started looking for a job here, of Astrophysics… the more we talk Cybage proved to be the best place to Dev, the more we feel, how less A Brief History of Time for me to fully utilize my experience we know of him! Favorite musical instrument and skills. The ExcelShore® philosophy impressed me a lot. It was here that Musical keyboard With core team members I saw values being valued.

8 CYBAGETIMES | March 2014 March 2014 | CYBAGETIMES 9 ybagians pursue their childhood talents to perfection; be it in Indian classical dance, idol making, Talent streak Cwildlife photography, or award-winning vocals. CybageTimes identifies four such Cybagians who have won accolades in Cybage and outside.

Call of the wild Ganesha and I Umang has travelled to magazine, Saevus Natural sanctuaries all over India and History & Wildlife Creating idols using regular Time is of little consequence abroad to experience wildlife Photography magazine, household items such as when it comes to his art. in its natural habitat. among others. lamps, utensils, and vehicle He has even made some auto parts (shown in the idols in a single, night-long Because of his association with A few years ago, Umang picture) is Prashant’s way of sitting. His dream is to create the Bombay Natural History decided that just watching expressing that Lord Ganesha an idol of a stature (and Society and the Gujarat State animals and studying their is omnipresent. using items) that nobody Lion Conservation Society, eco-system was not enough; has ever attempted. he has been able to create capturing their photos would He started making idols in awareness about responsible be helpful for the conservation 1998, after completing a Prashant’s list of awards and wildlife tourism. He has also of wildlife. In 2010, he Diploma in Art from Abhinav accolades is endless. These attended census activities purchased his first DSLR. Kala Mahavidyalaya. He first include first position in conducted by the Gujarat Now, his trusted companion made an eight-feet-tall idol Eco-friendly Ganesha 2013 forest department for lions, is a Nikon D90 camera with using leaf bowls (dron) for a by Maharashtra Times, second leopards, and sloth bears. Nikon 80-200 mm f2.8 lens. Ganesh Mandal in Pune. The position in Eco-friendly response egged him on to Ganesha 2013 by Lokmat, His photographs have One of his best photographs create an idol using 22,000 first runner-up in Times Umang Dave featured in Gujarat (as shown here) was of a coins. Eventually, a local Green Ganesha 2013 by The Senior Project Manager, Gandhinagar government publications, pride of lions at an artificial supermarket approached him Times of India, Mumbai, and National Geographic waterhole in Gir National Park. to make an idol from Parle G first position in Times Green Prashant Salunke biscuits. He has not looked Ganesha 2012 by The Times Senior UI Designer, Pune back since then. of India, Mumbai. As easy as Odissi Aparna Gandhi For Aparna, dance comes as She is currently a visiting Design Analyst, Pune easily as breathing, for she scholar at Bedi’s prestigious Musical star at Cybage has been dancing since she Nrityagram, in Bangalore, run Parth Umrani was four. by her dance idols, Surupa Parth gained stardom when music under the guidance Web Developer, Pune Sen and Bijayini Satpathy. he won the Inter-IT Karaoke of Guru Hemant Pendse. Aparna’s love of dance competition in November started with Bharatnatyam Aparna has performed at And the accolades started 2013. For Parth, music has under the able guidance of prestigious events and venues pouring in, with the first been a childhood passion. Acharya Guru Parvati Kumar. such as Konark Festival runner-up position at Sakal He received encouragement She learnt from him for 13 of Dance, Bhubhaneswar; Times Super Singer and from his family, especially years till Odissi enamored ISKCON Mumbai; Ballet DSK Toyota’s Corporate from his father who plays her. Inspiration for dance also Lilavati by Guru Jhelum Super Singer. the flute and the violin. came from her mother, Paranjape and Odissi Kala He is also passionate about Parth’s musical journey started a Bharatnatyam dancer. Kendra in Mumbai; Kirloskar singing in the in-house band Corporate Awards Nite at with school- and college- She was mesmerized by the MNC, which, he says, is a Pune, among others. level singing competitions. lyrical grace, beauty, and stress-buster for him. Alongside he also completed form of Odissi after watching Her goal is to promote Indian his Masters in Computer Apart from singing, the late Protima Bedi perform classical dance, help people Science. After making it to Parth has composed music on Doordarshan. She grew connect with it, and innovate top 11 in the popular Marathi for Marathi films such as fond of this dance form. She and explore new concepts musical show Sa Re Ga Ma Nital and Devrai. He also was fortunate to learn Odissi based on ancient Indian Pa in the year 2011, Parth plays the African percussion under many renowned gurus. treatises on dance. decided to learn classical instrument, Djembe.

10 CYBAGETIMES | March 2014 March 2014 | CYBAGETIMES 11 Governance and compliance exposure of Indian enterprises to global ECM CoE Enterprise Content Management trends, large Indian enterprises too have In the business context, governance recognized the value of investing in The ECM CoE at Cybage enables relates to consistent management and ECM solutions for managing business clients to capitalize on their close-knit policies and processes. ECM processes, improving productivity, organizational data and transform implementations assist in normalizing facilitating collaboration, ensuring it into meaningful information for these strategies across the enterprise, governance, and regulatory compliance making effective business decisions and Pushkar Jayant Gokhale resulting in a clear ownership and needs. A research by Gartner says that strategies for optimizing operations. improved content quality. Implementing Head, CoE – Enterprise Content Management the Indian enterprise market will reach compliance is confirming adherence to $5.4 billion in 2016. these strategies and policies. Pushkar is a PMI-certified project management professional with nearly ECM CoE offers 12 years of experience in the IT industry, eight of which he has invested • Consulting, reviewing, and with Cybage. He holds a Master’s degree in Computer Science from General and focused employee strategy development University of Pune. A talented percussionist, he was instrumental engagement in establishing Musical Nights @ Cybage (MNC). What’s in it for Cybage? • Comprehensive implementations Employee engagement ensures employee and maintenance services commitment to the goals and values This global ECM revenue market is of their organization and their motivation dominated by five top vendors— • Enterprise integrations with HRMS, to contribute to the organization’s EMC, Oracle, Microsoft, IBM, CRM, ERP, and BI platforms success while enhancing their own sense and OpenText. As of 2012, they • Specialized technical support What is it? unorganized data that does not follow a Accessing a particular document can of well-being. ECM enables easy and accounted for more than 60 percent pre-defined model. Accessing such data be challenging because searching for efficient implementation of the Enterprise of the ECM market revenues. Enterprise Content Management (ECM) can be cumbersome. it in a large physical storage takes up Cybage, with a very strong presence 2.0 approaches, which enable better Quick facts about the CoE is a set of strategies, procedures, and a lot of time. possibilities of employee engagement. in Microsoft platforms in general tools used to capture, store, manage, and SharePoint in particular, plans • 164 specialized resources Enterprise Content Management preserve, and distribute content. Benefits of adopting ECM to sharpen its expertise in some of solutions enable paperless storage the other platforms, primarily, Oracle • Microsoft Gold competency in Every enterprise owns content in the solutions and an efficient search and discovery and IBM. Cybage has successfully collaborations and portals form of structured and unstructured mechanism for documents. Business ECM globally & locally Accelerating business processes and established engagements with some data. Structured content refers to pre- workflows can be applied to this data • Skills in three large enterprise improving efficiency ECM has always had a major global large Indian enterprises. The sheer designed data that has been classified to ensure accuracy, governance, platforms and 26 WCM systems market. Renowned analyst firms predict size of the enterprise market and using metadata, which can be accessed in Imagine an insurance company with all and mitigation of risks, thus effecting that the global ECM revenue will grow increased focus on ECM, makes the • Executed 96 projects, 55 case studies, a formal manner. Unstructured content, its applications, policies, and contract improved efficiency. from $3,020 million in 2012 to around road ahead look promising. and 50 live reference links on the other hand, refers to raw and documents stored as hard copies. $7,919.5 million in 2017 (source: The Radicati Group Inc.). With the increasing

Key modules of ECM Challenges and plans

Challenges Plans Digital Asset Document Web Content Management (DAM) Business Process Implementation across domains Management System Collaboration Management (WCM) and Digital Rights Management (BPM) (DMS) Management (DRM) When employing ECM solutions in a particular To work with the existing verticals at Cybage to understand the business

domain or vertical, it is sometimes challenging in respective verticals, capture and retain this knowledge for future use. WCM is a combination of DMS is used to Collaboration is a set DAM: Management BPM is an approach to acquaint oneself with the business, workflows, framework and strategies capture, store, track, of methodologies that of tasks and decisions that understands, that provide web content and manage electronic help users to develop around the ingestion, optimizes, automates, and and regulatory compliance requirements. authoring, review, documents. Versioning, and process content. commenting, classifying, controls processes in an publishing, and archiving archiving, retention, and Collaboration can be storing, access, and organization for efficient Availability of multiple tools and platforms tools. It organizes and configuring rules within a platform or distribution of digital and cost-effective maintains content for of content are some between various assets in various business operations. Coverage of a long list of platforms and tools We ensure that the aforementioned platforms are chosen on the basis easy accessibility and of the key features of focused platforms. supported formats. in ECM. We do face situations wherein the of their reputation, worldwide accepted rankings, and usage reports. effective broadcasting this system. DRM: Strategy of defining or distribution. and tracking how and implementation requires a platform outside We plan to strengthen our knowledge of ECM concepts and the required how many times a user the aforementioned list. basic technical skills to tackle such issues. can access a digital asset.

12 CYBAGETIMES | March 2014 March 2014 | CYBAGETIMES 13 Leaders stand tall Q: A few words about the competitive world and your survival strategies.

tarting from the entry level positions more than a decade ago, they are now at the helm of SH: The two key elements for tackling competition are ability to innovate and hard work. I am fortunate to work in an flourishing verticals at Cybage. CybageTimes talks to Shamshu Hirani, Delivery Head, Travel & S environment that is conducive to new ideas and bringing Hospitality and Rakesh Ramchandani, Presales Head, Media & Entertainment about what keeps them to life. them going. RR: My school sports teacher would tell us, “You will perform better in a race when you compete against someone faster than you.” And I can say from personal experience that RR: I joined Cybage in April 2001. Have worn multiple hats competition brings out the best in us. We should always look and worked on many technologies and platforms. I started as up to our seniors and peers and emulate the good in them. a Software Engineer, and later led and managed projects and Rakesh Ramchandani with son Aditya client accounts. I have had the opportunity of working with seasoned leaders at Cybage and learnt a lot from their varied

approaches. I believe this has helped me mature as a well- Q: How do you balance your work and your written an LSP (Layered Service Provider) component that was rounded professional. hobbies? failing in one particular scenario. After a few days of struggle, Amit Mulay was roped in to help us out. We worked over the SH: I am an avid reader; always have a book at my bedside. weekend and had a working solution ready by Monday morning. I also enjoy spending time with my family. Weekends are for Jagat, who was the project manager at that time, was with us Q: About your Presales experience. a close group of friends, fondly called ‘The Gang’! throughout and even brought homemade food for us.

SH: Presales presents an opportunity to learn more about your industry, travel to various places, and interact with a range of Though Cybage has grown from a small company operating Shamshu Hirani people. The best thing about my job is that it requires you to be from a bungalow to a large corporate, this camaraderie has hands-on. Extensive traveling and staying away from your family remained intact. There is no room in Cybage for office politics. are some of the challenges, but the key is to enjoy the positive RR: Cybage has been an extended family for years. We had Brief us about yourself. aspects to the fullest. Q: offices in a conclave of bungalows and used to have lunch, and often, dinner, in the central gardens. Projects such as Denali Shamshu Hirani (SH): I hail from a small town called Gondia RR: The Presales role is relatively new at Cybage. It requires and Epicor would keep us busy on weekends and late nights, in Maharashtra. After completing my graduation in Production us to interact with multiple clients and prospects, understand but those are some of the most cherished years. Engineering from Nagpur University, I came to Pune to do the business needs of the industry, and help with IT solutions. my Master's from COE (College of Engineering). During my It requires being in touch with trends and happenings in the post-graduation, I took a liking to C programming and decided industry and hence provides great learning opportunities too. to join CDAC for a diploma course. Cybage recruited me from Q: Something special about your vertical, its growth, ACTS Pune campus in July 2000. and future prospects.

Rakesh Ramchandani (RR): I grew up in Gandhidham, Gujarat. Shamshu Hirani with ‘The Gang’ SH: Travel industry accounts for 10 percent of the world’s I’m a science graduate and a qualified cost accountant. I was GDP and one out of every nine jobs. Being a part of it from its briefly into corporate finance before pursuing post-graduation inception to where it is today, I have a natural affinity for the in advanced computing. I graduated from CDAC ACTS in RR: I start my weekdays with Yoga and end them by reading T&H practice. I am sure it will continue being Cybage’s niche January 2001, joined Cybage soon after, and will complete a story to my little boy, Aditya, during bedtime. I love bicycling verticals for years to come. 13 years this April. and take my bike out for quick errands or just a morning spin, and occasionally to work. RR: The Media & Advertising industry is in its most exciting phase today given the explosion of the Web, Social, and Mobile segments. It is undergoing a churn like no other. We are Q: About your journey as a Cybagian. uniquely positioned to make the most of this transformation to Q: Any memorable Cybage incident so far. digital, given our expertise in the relevant digital segments. SH: I still remember my first day at Cybage in the sprawling bungalow and the induction that was conducted by Arun SH: In the good old days of systems programming using and Deepak. My journey at Cybage—from a fresher to the Windows SDK, I was leading a project in the Internet security head of Pre-sales in the Travel & Hospitality practice—has been domain. To intercept outbound traffic for filtering, we had Rakesh Ramchandani a natural progression.

14 CYBAGETIMES | March 2014 March 2014 | CYBAGETIMES 15 Cybage Amusement zone for children Annual Bash: Felicitation of Cybagians who have completed 10 years Four times the fun! estive fervor marked the celebrations F of the most awaited event at Cybage. The Cybage Annual Bash is held at each of its three Indian centers— Pune, Gandhinagar, Hyderabad— and at Inc.

Client team CentralLogic Inc. having a gala time Dancers swaying to Sonu’s melodious tunes Sonu Nigam regaling the crowd

Pune Congratulations on completing 10 years!

Arun and wife Ritu, along with Deepak and wife Sheena Nathani played perfect hosts Pune Hyderabad to more than 4,500 Cybagians and their families. Taru Mateti Mohan Nayak Rambabu Nimmala Onkar Khatavkar Nitin Gawade Gandhinagar The event started with the popular in-house band, Musical Nights @ Cybage (MNC) Sandeep Kulkarni Rajesh Mishra Pranav Joshi belting out Hindi, English, and Marathi songs. This was followed by an inspiring speech Ramkrishna Pawar Abhijit Kadam by Arun. Cybagians completing a decade at Cybage were also felicitated. Tapas Ranjan Lenka Ravindran Malur Inc. Vivek Kulkarni Varsha Gadre Deepak Gyanani The management dance saw the top bosses swaying to Tu mere agal bagal hai, Ashutosh Gopal Bhavik Panchmatia Indraneel Adnaik Tattad tattad, Battameez dil, and Lungi dance. Thaokar Rohit Parasharami Bhavin Bhavsar John Joseph The highlight of the evening was the performance by famous Bollywood singer Arun Pandey Yogesh Raut Amit Bhatnagar Sonu Nigam, who regaled the crowd with his power-packed performance. Mukhtar Sayed Vaibhav Jain Abhijit Lale Rajesh Dubey Harish Supe An amusement zone was specially created for children. The event was streamed live Dilip Ochani Sanjay Kulkarni MNC at its best on the intranet for employees at other centers.

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Around 248 employees and their A spirited bunch of Cybagians wearing the mantle of Cybage far away from India also celebrated the Bash with gusto. family members had a gala time at the Trident, Hi-tech City. The event took off The Redmond team was treated to dinner at Cactus that serves Southwestern and Mexican cuisine in Bellevue. They were with the traditional lighting of the lamp by accompanied by visiting team members from the E-commerce CoE group in Pune—Tapas Lenka, Head and Sanjeev Burge, Arun and Ritu Nathani, client Greg Wiggins, Senior Solution Architect. Director - Software Engineering, CentralLogic Inc., Suresh Mamunuru, Delivery Head, and Rajesh Madhavan, Delivery Manager.

The first event was a fusion and classical dance performance on Bollywood and Tollywood songs by an external dance troupe. This was followed by an Employee Management dance performance Dance performance on Tollywood songs and old TV advertisement jingles—Washing Powder Nirma and Hamara Bajaj.

The Cybage Management swayed to the The Redmond team tunes of Lungi Dance, Tu mere agal bagal hai, and an instrumental composition from the movie Goliyon Ki Raasleela - Ram Leela. Cybagians from New York and neighboring states gathered at an upscale Indian restaurant, Junoon, in the heart of Manhattan A fashion show, which was a mix of the for fun-filled games and pleasant conversations. western cowboy look and South Indian appearance, set the stage on fire. A fusion dance of Tollywood songs and old TV jingles by Cybagians

Gandhinagar At Courtyard by Marriott, Ahmedabad, numbers such as Tu mere agal bagal hai Employees completing five and 10 years around 450 Cybagians and their loved and Lungi dance. at Cybage were felicitated for their ones rocked the night when they all came invaluable contribution to the company. An equally glittering part of the event together to celebrate their annual event. was the employee dance performances. Cybagians participated spiritedly in the The New York team The highlight of the evening similar to the While some employees swung to a annual event that was buoyed up by bashes at other Cybage locations—was Bollywood song, some presented the presence of Arun and Ritu Nathani, Gujarati Rap and Bollywood fusion Rajesh Kurup, Sr. Vice President, Media the management dance, during which the Onsite team members at other locations celebrated with their families and friends. management members grooved to song act. & Entertainment and Vikas Kumar Verma, Vice President, Emerging Technologies.

Ashita Shah and her husband enjoying lunch at a local Indian Khushru Doctor relishing a splendid platter with an ex-Cybagian Employees dancing on desi beats Cheering for their fellow Cybagians restaurant in Austin, Texas on Circular Quay, Sydney, Australia

18 CYBAGETIMES | March 2014 March 2014 | CYBAGETIMES 19 ybageAsha continues to make inroads Colorful Asha Cin improving the quality of life of the The Power of Khushboo economically marginalized sections of the o matter what their backgrounds are—staying in shanties, studying under streetlights, being Braille book for the visually impaired society. Read on to find out more… Na part of a family that can barely make both ends meet—these students have one common goal of realizing their educational aspirations. CybageTimes focuses on students from Pune who, with their A ‘special’ Diwali grit and determination and the financial support of Cybage Khushboo, are pursuing their academic dreams to fulfillment. CybageAsha contributed ` 15 lakh to six Pune- based charitable organizations as part of its Diwali celebrations. Through a funfair organized at the This year, the Trust’s scholarship program saw a total of 83 students being sponsored, including 6 from BBA, 7 from BCA, Cybage HQ, CybageAsha raised and donated ` 5 lakh 1 from B.Sc. (Computers), 55 from Engineering, 6 from Diploma, 3 from GNM, 1 from IIT, 1 from BAMS, 1 from MBBS, to Inlaks Budhrani Hospital and ` 2 lakh each to five and 2 from B.Sc. (Nursing). NGOs—Surajya Sarvangin Vikas Prakalpa, Punaruththan Samarasata Gurukulam, Chaitanya Mahila Mandal, Swatantryaveer Sawarkar Vasatigruh, and My Home India. Chaitali Gaikwad 2nd year - Electronics & Telecommunications Engineering, Sixteen CybageAsha volunteers presented a Braille K J College of Engineering and Management Research version of the Class X English Digest to the Jagriti School Rajewadi village handover for Blind Girls in the presence of Ritu Nathani. As part of Chaitali completed her Diploma with 80.06 percent marks. the ambitious, four-month-long venture, the volunteers— The only person in a family of farmers to pursue higher Parag Shinde, Pratik Adhav, Neha Wane, Medha Gulve, education, she paid her Diploma fees by taking a loan from Mandar Kadam, Foram Parsana, Arockiaraj Martin, Almas relatives. Her family stays in a two-room kuchcha house in Kanjiyani, Radhika Bansal, Ankita Chopra, Reshma Patil, a village. She says her father is barely educated, but encourages Trupti Jangam, Divya Nair, Anahita Bhesania, Vinay Kumar her to study. The Trust has supported her dream with a Hampanna, and Suhas Kasture—worked on converting ` 30,000 scholarship. the 256-page book into soft copy. Later, the school authorities converted the soft copy into a Braille version. Kalyani Dhaiber 2nd year - Computer Engineering, RMD Sinhagad School of Engineering Teaching sessions for students After adopting Rajewadi village three years ago, CybageAsha completed its infrastructure development Kalyani secured 81 percent in HSC examination. She wants to and handed it over to the villagers. This ceremony was pursue higher education to support her family, which currently graced by Deepak and Sheena Nathani. Work done stays in a two-room house in a chawl. Her father is bedridden includes construction of lavatories, underground drainage and she has to eke out a living and pursue her dreams by giving lines, and library donation. The Trust also actively tuitions, not willing to depend on charity. Khushboo supported supported the Zilla Parishad School in partnership with her with a full scholarship of ` 75, 600. the village Gram Panchayat by constructing a kitchen, cement water tank, school library, and compound wall. In addition, CybageAsha conducted many health camps, Vishal Gaikwad surveys, cleanliness drives, and educated villagers on 2nd year - Civil Engineering, maintaining proper sanitation. Akhil Bharatiya Maratha Shikshan Parishad’s College CybageAsha successfully completed its ‘reading and of Engineering and Research writing skills’ activity at Sant Gadge Baba School, a Infrastructure for Kiwale School Marathi school run by the Zilla Parishad in Pune. This Vishal completed his Diploma in Civil Engineering with two-month-long activity witnessed a training session 62.14 percent. Poverty forced his family to live in a slum, CybageAsha helped construct a computer classroom, a for volunteers by an expert, screening of students, while he studied under streetlights for his SSC exams. science laboratory, and an assembly hall for a school in sessions for teaching Marathi and English, exhibition on His father is a carpenter and mother is a maid. He works as Kiwale village near Pune. After a thorough survey, the general knowledge, a session for school teachers, and a an office boy where his mother is employed. Khushboo granted CybageAsha volunteers identified school renovation and motivational session for students from Class V to VIII. him a 100 per cent scholarship (` 7,600 per year for three years construction as the most pressing need of the villagers. of Civil Engineering).

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7. Shopping spree at flea market, Pune

8. Designer lanterns, Pune

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13. Provenir team outing at YMCA 18. Christmas celebrations with Santa, Gandhinagar International Center, Pune 19. Talent Mania, Hyderabad 14. iCrossing team in Panshet, Pune 20. Winners of ballroom dance competition, Pune 15. TravelClick team performing the Lungi dance, Pune

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24 CYBAGETIMES | March 2014 March 2014 | CYBAGETIMES 25 Looking beyond Monday

Homecoming ybageTimes brings you the second series evised to combat the dreaded Monday Blues and the accompanying refrain ‘I can’t’, Cof homecoming and finds out what makes DMonday & Beyond (M&B) is the largest membership group in Cybage, and growing. ex-Cybagians rejoin.

Readers’ speak M&B readers across Cybage share their thoughts on this initiative:

Daya Golwala Deepali Jain Project Manager, Pune QA Engineer, Pune

M&B offers you new learning through Starting the week with an M&B article an inspirational article every Monday! helps us connect with various kinds of It certainly acts as a trigger to get you people and their experiences. going for the entire week.

M&B is a project that evolved out of a discussion among a few trainers. Every Monday, the question doing Sameer Asare Roshan Desarda Pallavi Nerkar Dhaval Sanghvi the rounds would be: “So, how was the weekend?” Sr. Software Engineer, Pune QA Engineer, Pune Software Engineer, Pune Software Engineer And invariably, everybody would talk about their Gandhinagar experiences. What started as a mere question-answer session, transformed into an enriching venture. I had joined Cybage as I had left Cybage after a I had to move out of I had never shut doors a fresher. The work culture two-year stint to work on my Cybage to join my husband on the possibility that I Irfana Kadri Aniruddha Acharya here shaped me into a own e-commerce venture. in the United States. The would be back at Cybage. Software Engineer Technical Support Engineer true professional and a Life was tough at the new I have worked with a few Gandhinagar Changing the ‘can’ts’ into ‘cans’ Pune decision to take a break team player. I also learnt a venture with no weekly-offs, from my career, and companies including To give the necessary push to the employees’ spirits and M&B has been a great Each M&B article lot on the technical front. no holidays, no family time, more importantly from Cybage during my career, sustain them through the rest of the week, the M&B team source of learning makes me forget my I left Cybage to pursue and a 16-hours-a-day work Cybage, was tough. But, I and I can say with absolute thought of making Cybagians recall and share incidents right from the first worries and puts me a postgraduate Diploma routine. When things didn’t was hoping I could rejoin confidence that Cybage is that motivated or demotivated them, brought them story. It teaches us to back on track from the in Management (IT & go as per the plan, I decided Cybage as soon as I return a league above the rest. to their feet, and made them feel humane. Each excel in the journey negativity that creeps Marketing). However, the to shut my business and to India. I’m really happy The main reason for coming narrative ends with the ‘learning’ it brought, called ‘life’. into the mind. yearning to come back rejoin Cybage. My life is now that I have resumed work back is the work culture and and the dispelling of the ‘blues’. never lessened, and here on track. At Cybage, nothing here because Cybage will the time I shared with my I am. Cybage is a process- changed for me—the same always remain my dream seniors and colleagues. oriented company and has team, the same floor, the company. I’m grateful to proper channels in place same cubicle. It was like Cybage for my first career Sunil Bharti Anupama Machavolu to express your views. My being home after a vacation; break and my second Software Engineer, Pune Sr. Instructional Designer, Hyderabad future plans: I want to be a except for a change in the innings here. Business Analyst at Cybage. employee ID! M&B gives us the message of hope, It is truly fascinating to read about liberty, winning, struggling, surviving, the real-life experiences and lessons and a message of being different. learnt by others, which, can be applied to our lives.

26 CYBAGETIMES | March 2014 March 2014 | CYBAGETIMES 27 The champs On the run This year’s Standard Chartered running the full marathon, Taru has run Mumbai Marathon saw a petite many half marathons in and outside Pune participant in a Cybagian who Pune with podium finishes. took all others by surprise. Taru Mateti, Head – Documentation Besides running, Taru enjoys badminton, & eLearning, Pune finished the aerobics, brisk walks on weekends, and Winners take it all! 42.195-km run with gusto. an occasional yoga session. She has won inter-corporate badminton events. Successfully taking off in 2012 as a Pune inter-IT corporate event, Cybage TT Clash was hosted again with much vigor at the Running for such a long duration, At Cybage, she has been winning the Pune HQ. Sixty players from 20 companies competed for the Championship Trophy. The event had many attractive cash prizes and that too for the first time, women’s singles, doubles, and mixed amounting to ` 50,000 and trophies to win. Elston Pimenta, Head HR, gave away the prizes to the winners. is definitely a formidable task. doubles badminton along with a few Winners: However, Taru was confident of table tennis tournaments for the last Men’s singles: Santosh R Wakradkar her training and determined to six years. (Fujitsu) complete the run even if it meant Men’s doubles: Ajinkya Gaikwad and crawling to the finish line. Taru believes in a flexible exercise Omkar Gote (Cognizant) regimen—doing some form of exercise Mixed doubles: Santosh R Wakradkar She was introduced to Pune a day. According to her, women should (Fujitsu) and Priyanka Joshi (Network Running and The Pune steer clear of the typical married-kids- Components Pvt. Ltd.) Marathoners Club in 2013. They job-sacrificial mode and devote some would do sprint practice, hill time to stay fit and healthy. Women’s singles: Neha Puri (Maersk repeats, and long runs. Before Global Services) Women’s doubles: Shweta Bhoyar and Pradnya Sambhaji (Wipro) Championship trophy: Wipro Technologies Gandhinagar

Intra-Cybage Chess Tournament This month-long tournament saw 38 Cybagians competing Inter-IT Badminton Championship Intra-Cybage Table-Tennis tournament with each other in this much-awaited tournament. Cybage had a fantastic run in the Badminton Championship The TT tournament saw 148 entries for men’s singles, 79 teams Results: organized by FRONTFOOT. Eighteen corporate teams from Pune for men’s doubles, 31 teams for mixed doubles, 15 entries for Winner: Mandeep Shah participated in this thrilling tournament. women’s singles, and 10 teams for women’s doubles. Runner-up: Ravindra Rao Results: Results: Men’s team event winners: Ashish Doke, Ashish Kulkarni, Men’s singles winner: Pratul Bhonsle Shreerang Patwardhan, Shreyas Gade, and Sudeep Tupakul Men’s doubles winners: Pratul Bhonsle and Hiren Bhatt Women’s singles winner: Preeti Pujari Open events - Quarterfinals: Hyderabad Women’s doubles winners: Prudvitha G and Richa Saxena Men’s doubles: Ashish Doke and Shreerang Patwardhan Mixed doubles winners: Hiren Bhatt and Richa Saxena Men’s singles: Shreyas Gade and Sudeep Tupakul Cybage Badminton League Mixed doubles: Sudeep Tupakul and Taru Mateti Twenty participants and six pairs participated in this year’s MKM Inter-IT Football Tournament Badminton League. Inter-corporate Lawn Tennis tournament This was the first time Cybage made it to the finals of this Results: tournament. The football teams drove the game to the penalty Men’s singles Cybage Lawn Tennis team comprising Ratish Mohan, Hiren shoot-outs at the end. Team Cybage secured the runner-up Winner: Ravikanth Devalapalli Bhatt, and Bhushan Joshi participated in the inter-corporate position. In this tournament, Cybage played 27 matches, out of tournament organized by Corporate Athletic Club. They made it Runner-up: Rajesh Madhavan which they won 17, lost one, and seven resulted in a draw. to top 8 in men’s singles. Men’s doubles Achievements: Results: Winners: Rajesh Madhavan and Ravikanth Devalapalli Best Forward of the tournament: Pankaj Rode Men’s singles runner-up: Hiren Bhatt Runners-up: Varun Thadaka and Ravindranath Garlapati Player of the tournament: Arif Chittewan (nominated) Men’s doubles runners-up: Hiren Bhatt and Ratish Mohan

28 CYBAGETIMES | March 2014 March 2014 | CYBAGETIMES 29 Big applause for Tag-It! winners Adventure Quest fter an overwhelming response to the tagline contest for CybageTimes in the October 2013 issue, rek Unlimited at Cybage is an invitation to adventurers who love to conquer heights and explore we proudly present to you the winners. Tthe unexplored. Each trek is an encounter with extraordinary situations and an excellent opportunity A to forge friendships. These treks prove to be lessons in safety, managerial skills, and team bonding. CybageTimes brings to you the highlights of the recent expeditions. Winning tagline

National Education Foundation’s Enduro The spirit of excellence! 3-K2S Adventure race—a monsoon night adventure race from the old Katraj tunnel to Sinhagad fort. K2S is a 1st runner-up 2nd runner-up popular monsoon trek race for professional trekkers, amateurs, and newbies. Enroute falls a hilly terrain that tests your physical Adding color in every byte! Cybage beyond cubicles! and mental endurance as a team (for details, visit http://enduro3.com/k2s2013). Parvez Nayeem Shaikh, Gaurav Agrawal, Team Leader - Technical Support, Pune System Analyst, Pune

wins a gift voucher worth wins a gift voucher worth ` 1,000! ` 1,000! Ajay A. Thomas, Manager - Technical Support, Pune

that such treks pose include finding the right routes, exploring wins a Marriott dinner the right time and season for the trek, and managing resources efficiently. voucher for two!

Kudos to the brains and brawn behind these events: Keyur Raj, Pankaj Gupta, Yogeshwar Chaudhari, Dilip Ochani, Abhijit More, and Sagar Yewale.

Look out for the winning Conquering Kalsubai, the highest peak in the tagline on the cover page Sahyadris in Maharashtra (about 5,400 feet above sea level) of this issue! was a daunting task, but our trekkers accomplished it successfully. An overnight winter camp at the picturesque • Journey of vision towards reality - Preeti V. Tale, Software Engineer, Pune Salher fort, the highest fort in Maharashtra (about 5412 feet We thank all participants above sea level) was another memorable adventure. The for taking part in this • Our family chronicle! - Riya Reben John, QA Analyst, Hyderabad camping expedition involved finding drinking water and contest. Keeping in mind • Ceaseless fervor of Cybagians…! - Amit Jain, QA Engineer, Pune suitable shelter for the night halt. In this season, the trekkers the guidelines of the Together towards tomorrow - Aniruddha Acharya, Technical Support Engineer, Pune also visited Mulher, Salota, Mora, Chanderi, Ghangad, Koraigad, contest, our Cybagians • Tung, Tikona, Chandan, and Vandan forts. came up with innovative • A real page-turner!!! - Suresh Dasari, Software Engineer, Hyderabad taglines. Here are the • It’s more than just work - Ritika Chauhan, Software Developer, Pune One of the highlights of this trekking season were pilot nominated taglines: treks—visits to places hitherto unexplored. The challenges If you like adventure, become a part of Trek Unlimited by • Cybagian’s life, Cybagian’s voice - Mohammed Arif Doni, QA Analyst, Pune dropping a mail at [email protected]

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