Tavant Customer Appreciation Week 2012

 Hi Everyone,

This is my attempt at representing the Tavant Customer Appreciation week that happened in Nov 2012. I tried to capture the color and the taste of everything that happened and I hope that you all enjoy it to the fullest. 

I also hope that this blog post does its job - of making you remember that week with fondness! :D

Keep scrolling for more! 

 

Aarti is said to have descended from the Vedic concept of fire rituals, or homa.

The tilaka, tilak or tika  is a mark made with turmeric or kumkum on the forehead for honoring guests.

Did You Know? 

Namaskar:
Namaste or Namaskar is a known form of salutation in India. Palms of both the hands when joined together forms the perfect namaskar pose. It is used for welcoming as well as bidding a guest farewell.

At Tavant we afforded only the most special of welcomes to all the guests who enter! 

  

Exhibit 1: The Consumer Lending Practice Team

Tavant’s Consumer Lending Practice Team represented two account and highlighted the ability to provide core competency solutions in the financial sector. The team presented the technical challenges faced by them, the solutions they provided and how each of the applications helped achieve business goals & save costs. A game was developed which showcased the various financial solutions that Tavant offers and the corresponding applications developed by them. This game was a huge success with more than 50 participants.

The team showcased a variety of products like OPEN Credit Card, Home Connect (mortgage point-of-sale system), Collections Web Portal (mortgage application streamlining), Suttons & Robertsons (pawn broking application), etc. These were showcased by members of the team namely Sendil, Aruna, Sandhya, Mohan, Vishwanath, Harish, Yogesh and Mary.

Exhibit 2: Big Data

Clockwise: The team picture with their custom navy blue and white T-shirts;  Explaining Big Data trends to Manish Arya, Demo time with Vikas Khosla, Ravi Peravali, Tavant Technologies; Siddharth Gupta, and Rachael Savage; Talking to Mervyn Lally.

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Clockwise from top: Chaitanya and Bandhavi speaking to Mervyn Lally; Dutta and Chaitanya speaking with Mick Johnson; Praveen speaking to Bruce Cumming and Scott Hannah; Team Picture with Dany, Gautham, Siva, Vipul, Nasif, Praveen, Chaitanya, Shruti, Rakesh, AND Bandhavi.

Praveen in a discussion with Bhupinder Kunwar, Ron Yeo and Lewis Wu.

Exhibit 3: Mobile Centre of Excellence (COE)

This team showcased applications for various domains, platforms & devices like Apple iOS devices, Android devices, BlackBerry and Microsoft Surface. Trading, Media, Warranty Management, Manufacturing and Entertainment were some of the applications that were presented. They were greatly appreciated by the customers.

The main attraction of the exhibit was “Cross-platform Technology” using frameworks like Appcelerator Titanium, SenchaTouch and PhoneGap.

 

Clockwise from the top:

Team Picture with Anju, Sanuykta, Sarita, Sneha and Ramesh; Speaking to Mick Johnson; Intent discussions with Ravi Peravali; Explaining the Tavant Open Kitchen to Rachael Savage.

Exhibit 4:  PMO – Tavant’s Project Management Office

The PMO Team exhibited their key tools namely Tavant Open Kitchen and Microsoft Project Server 2010.

Tavant Open Kitchen is a one stop shop for the top management to know the complete information on the status of the projects running in Tavant. It includes a Project Dashboard as well a useful routine updates like weekly status of the project, milestones achieved, feedback from clients, etc. It is developed using Microsoft SharePoint and Microsoft Infopath. The customers were delighted to learn the importance & the role the tool plays in project management.

Microsoft Project Server 2010 was presented to show how projects are administered in the company. A variety of reports were also generated to show the versatility of the tool and the insight the data would provide to the management.

 

On the left: Ankit and Vikas Khosla in discussion with Mervyn Lally; In discussion with Krishnan PP.

The Team in red on the right: Durgesh, Ankit, Prashant, Kishora, Vikram Vipul, Praveen, Sandip and Anoop.

Exhibit 5 : Interactive Entertainment

This team demonstrated the Faro Blitz game. The visitors got a first-hand experience of playing this 19th century  game that combines elements of Poker, Roulette, and other table-top casino games where the player would bet against a dealer using a single deck of cards.

They also showed the SDK – which is a standalone framework for capturing data on a mobile device and posting the data on to a server. The SDK is developed for Mobile platforms (iOS and Android), XBOX, PS3 and PC.

 

Exhibit 6: Media and Enterprise Content Management

The Media team showcased the projects carried out for some of our key media clients while the ECM team presented the CQ implementation work done and other capabilities. Customers showed a lot of interest in CQ and Datamart.  

The team involved in the exhibit comprised of 14 members namely Navin, Prince, Mukesh, Nitin, Sachin, Sarvesh, Shipra, Omit, Surendra, Moneesh, Sandeep, Kapil, Surender and Shishir.

 

 

Exhibit 8: Front-end Engineering Team / FEET: 

They had presented their ‘Web UI Design Portfolio’ and the ‘User Experience Model’. The portfolio expressed their expertise in web development and the innovative UI designs of various projects they had worked on in User Experience, Web, and Mobile divisions. The model that they displayed had the detailed process they follow at Tavant, from the start of the UI projects until deployment.  

The team consists of UI professionals who take care of all the stages from the beginning of web or  mobile projects like requirement gathering, UI wireframes/ Design creation and HTML/CSS conversion of design, and later coordinating with backend developers in the integration. They extend their support across multiple projects across the company.

Exhibit 9: Integrated SOPS in Manufacturing

This exhibit covered two topics viz. Predictive Analytics in Warranty and Warranty on the Fly.

Predictive Analytics in Warranty included Warranty Reserves Provisioning and Maintenance Contract Profitability Management. The team demonstrated the use of the regression statistical analytic algorithm to analyze the trend and predict the upcoming warranty costs while including a number of factors. They also showed 'What-if-Analysis' on how the maintenance contract profitability and other KPIs will be affected based on the current costs & contract performance. The team also presented the key tasks in warranty and its peripheral aftermarket processes that are managed quickly and on the fly using light-weight mobility solutions on smartphones and tablets.

The demonstrations drew a lot of attention from the customers.

The team consists of Aswin S, Chida, Petchi, Shri Dutta, Dev, Sridhar, and Tanveer.

 

Exhibit 10: Capital Markets

Trading made easy was the motto for the Capital Markets exhibit in this year’s TechConnect.

The theme showcased by the Capital Markets team was 'Trading Made Easy'. A trading game was built where Tavant employees could trade ideas instead of a specific stock. It started with the release of an IPO of ideas to the employees and was played across 3 days. The users had to choose & invest in an idea instead of following the time-consuming conventional methods. The trading team, at the back-end, then analyzed the stocks (based on social media interaction & sentiment analysis) that formed the basket for each of the ideas and picked the ones that made the most amount of money. A total of 8 ideas were put on offer, each idea consisting of 2-3 stocks. Gamification was also included, where bets were placed.

The trading game was extremely successful as 300+ employees registered for it and customers showed interest in trying it as a live product.

The team consists of Belliraj, Arun, Devesh, Mittal, Rajesh, Vishal, Asheesh, Ramalakshmi, Geeta, Sudhish, Anju, Preethi, Madhavan, Goutam, Mohneesh & Shanur.

 

Exhibit 11: Testing Automation

This team showcased a wide-variety of projects including the work done on Quantum & One-Click Automation as part of BI and Mobile Load Testing, Streaming Media Load Testing & Localization as part of NFR.

Functional Automation and Mobile areas of expertise included FIRE Framework (keyword and non-keyword approach), Hudson/Jenkin Integration and Robotium framework with Andriod units.

The team consists of Anil, Shriniwas, Roshni, Meera, Sarat, Sreeja, Somsekhar, Srinivas, Roshan, Keshava, Chidananda, Gajinder, Bhabani, Karikalan, Somesh, Naveen, Bijesh, Manoj, Debasish, Rahul, Deepika, Ramesh, Namit, Rajeev, Vamsi, and Deepa. 

Tavant Tech Week 2011 - A Visual Tour!

Clockwise from left: Rohit Jain, VP, Delivery Team and Sunil V, Director, Facilities, Tavant Technologies, welcoming Derek Argobright of Tickets.com; Performing aarti for Dan Phillips, TiVo; Sunil V welcoming Dan Phillips, Prem Kumar and Sethu Balasubramanian into the building!
Joel Tablante of Electronic Arts being garlanded by Johnson, Facilities Manager at Tavant Technologies.

Clockwise from Top Left : Terry Wilson (Electronic Arts), Laura Tegtmeyer (TiVo), Joel Tablante (Electronic Arts), Derek Argobright (Tickets.com), take their turns to light the lamp with Sarvesh Mahesh, CEO, Tavant Technologies.(Second from Left)

Visitors thronged the booths following the huge interest that the event generated ahead of its launch in the form of quizzes, games etc. Evidently, a lot of effort had gone into making the event a huge success at all levels.

From top: Sarvesh Mahesh, CEO, Tavant Technologies, posing for a cartoonist in the TiVo booth; Krishnan PP, VP - Delivery and Rohit Jain, VP - Delivery Team Noida, are all ears at the mobile team booth; Vikas Agrawal, VP - Engineering, Tavant Technologies talking to Ratheesh Kannan from the UI booth.

Left: Vikas Agrawal, VP - Engineering, Tavant Technologies talking to Ganesh Parthasarathy at the Business Intelligence booth; Top right: Sanjib Ghosh, AnTechnical Architect having a few relevant questions for the UXtreme team on HTML5; Below right: Devendra Malekar of Field Service Mobility Booth explaining a point to judge Derek Argobright.

Booth 1 – Field Service Mobility

The team talks about sales and service forces of Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEM) who work in the field and how it is essential for them to manage the demanding work pressures related to sales and services of products. Most of the transactions done in the field are manual and paper-based which increases the cycle time and reduces productivity. Tavant’s integrated mobility solution was displayed at the booth and the team members explained cohesion of an end-to-end workflow of field sales and service management on a single mobile platform.

Booth 2 – Uxtreme

The UI booth, called Uxtreme, showcased innovativeness with word clouds and attractive posters adorning its walls. They mainly spoke about HTML5, J Query and CSS3 in their booth and how they used to build a trading application with a wide range of features that included form controls, API, multimedia etc. This stall were adjudged winners of the “best booth” at TechConnect 2011.

Booth 3 – SEPG and PMO

The PMO and SEPG team showcased the project process and methodologies followed at Tavant in the Tech Connect 2011. This time they had evaluated a new project management tool which could help project managers to create and execute project plans.
SEPG : The Software Engineering Process Group (SEPG) had been established to facilitate the development and adoption of standardized processes in areas such as project management, software engineering and support areas in Tavant to ensure disciplined implementation across all software projects undertaken by Tavant. 
PMO: Tavant’s purpose in establishing the PMO is to provide a means for eliminating problems that arise due to inadequate or poorly applied Project Management practices.

They highlighted the practices on the Project Office platform and Project Management Standardization.

Booth 4 – Interactive Entertainment

The Interactive Entertainment Booth, informally called the green team, due to their bright green attire, were rooting for fun and frolic at their booth with a lot of exciting activities and fun games. Their main focus was an application that is web based and an API service that provides for a fast, reliable and a secure way to generate and distribute gaming codes.
Everyone could come into their booth, sit on bean bags and play fast paced car games that upped the excitement levels of the whole event.

Booth 5 - $Consumer

$Consumer represented two accounts in which the theme was to highlight the ability to provide core competency solutions in the financial sector. At TechConnect 2011 the team presented various technical challenges faced and solutions for the same. They highlighted how each of the applications helped achieve business goals with statistics and the savings in cost. A game was developed which showcased the various financial solutions that Tavant offers and the corresponding applications developed by them. This game was a huge success with more than 50 participants.

Booth 6 : Business Intelligence

Tavant’s BI team showcased three important areas of advancements in Business Intelligence.
Balanced Scorecard: A balanced scorecard evaluates the performance of a company on a weighted score.
BI on Mobiles / PDA’s / Smart Devices: The company executives and sales team, who are always on the move, would want to have important KPIs of the organization handy. The smart devices developed by the team helps keep the records up to date.
Spatial Reporting: This tool helps in colour coding the various countries to help analyze country based sales. It is also possible to overlay pie charts, bar charts in the maps thereby providing an extensive visual analysis with detailed street level information.

Booth 7 – Trading

The theme of the trading booth in TechConnect 2011 was Gamification. They successfully spoke about merging the effects of social networking sites like Twitter, Facebook etc. on a trading platform, which managed to impress jury and visitors alike.
A mock stock exchange called Tavant Stock Exchange was set up that provided opportunities to Tavantians to trade in stocks and shares. Traders were updated about the goings-on regularly on Twitter to allow buying and selling of shares.
Most judges were impressed with the concept. On the whole TechConnect offered a great platform to test their hypothesis.

Booth 8 – Mobile Centre of Excellence (COE)

The Mobile Booth showcased a variety of applications covering a wide range of domains as well as a number of platforms and devices. Trading, Media, Warranty Management, Manufacturing and Entertainment were a few of the domains to name. Whether it was the “Trade Track” application for trading and market analysis or the “Delivery Report” application for the Delivery Management, Mobile COE received good feedback.
The showcase had something innovative for every device holder namely, the iPhone, iPad, Android device or BlackBerry. Apart from the technical front the booth had exciting competitions for which loads of prizes like pen drives and webcams were doled out. The exhibit was a nice blend of information and entertainment subtly showcasing the capabilities and strengths of the COE in such a competitive domain.

Booth 9/10 : ZERO D

Booth Zero D focused its energies on functionalities portrayed by an in-house tool used to generate automation scripts and another which was an exclusive framework for web application testing & RIA which can run different types of execution scripts and QTP framework.

Their presentation which included Non Functional requirement Testing captivated the audience. They delved extensively into improving Performance, Security, Localization, BI & DW Testing, API Testing and Mobile Testing.
Promotion!! The Zero D booth also had a unique way to promote themselves. A cartoonist was employed to draw large crowds to their stall who sketched caricatures on mugs to all visitors who came to the booth.

Booth 11: TiVo

This booth showcased the TiVo-Ad Analytics reports which give a lowdown on the performance of the customer campaigns. The judges were impressed with the Targeted Ad campaign and how the panels could be used for the campaigns. The judges were also very interested in the predictive analytics/benchmarking of the customers campaigns and second-by- second tracking of the campaign clips.

The participants included Sriram K as the main presenter and Nikhil Chadha as the co-presenter while Ashwini Kalburgi explained the QA processes. Annapurna Nayak and Munish Kesharwani prepared the demo materials for the stall.

Clockwise from top, Krishnan PP-VP, Delivery; Sesha Devana - VP, Finance; Tina Vas - Senior Director, Global Head, Human Resources; Hassan Rashid - EVP, Global Sales and Marketing; Vikas Agrawal - VP, Practice Strategy; Manish Arya - CTO, Tavant Technologies.