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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
