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buzzbuzzAchieversAchievers
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Editor’s Note
Eagle V
HR Team wins awards
DATAMATICS’ Women Leaders on WINNING STREAK
Young Achiever - Ankita Singh
Exploring New Learning Horizons
11th Book authored by CD team
BMC Control- M Admin Test
For the love of music
HDFC Excellence Awards 2013
Skydiving
L&D Workshops
Annual Appraisal Process
Datamatics’ Cricket Wins
Celebrations
Celebrating the Spirit of Womanhood
Traditional Day
It’s Picnic Time
Tech Geek
Baby on board
Marital bliss
TAble of conTenT
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Dear Colleagues,
The last month was truly a remarkable month for me in particular, in terms of the external and internal accolades that I received. Being endorsed by the fellow colleagues for ‘Leadership in Execution’ category and also making it to the ‘Leading Women – Chief Marketing Officer’ amongst my esteemed peers in the industry, has been indeed an humbling experience.
In my sincere attempt to thank all those who played vital role in my achievements, I got struck with self-realization too. I think, for me the starting point for all these accomplishments was nothing but a keen pulsating desire to do something for myself, it wasn’t just a wish or a hope.
My personal-professional journey started with a keen desire to make a place for myself in the burgeoning corporate world. While I was still in my teens, I started managing my father-in-law’s business. But soon, I was wanting to expand my horizons into the corporate world beyond and on my own.
To attain the desired heights, like any one of you I too faced many challenges. But kept moving step by step, with single minded focus and without losing sight of my destination. From my first assignment as PR Manager with Emirates Airlines, I knew where I was headed and ever since haven’t lost track of my destination.
High achievement can take place only in the framework of high expectations from self. Even today, I keep asking more from myself, which transcends to my team members, who are achievers in their own right.
Today, when I look back, I think besides the family & immediate team members support what set me apart in this beautiful journey was, sheer Passion to excel, Perseverance, and Perform what may be the situation.
Any one of you wanting to achieve higher goals, try imbibing these three Ps….. you might reach your ‘Leadership Zen Zone’ sooner than you can imagine.....
Warm Regards,
Varad K. Arora
ediTor's noTe
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Team Eagle comprises of a group of high-potential and high-performance members. They are brought together from diverse functions, nurtured and empowered to bring an improvement in terms of efficiency, quality of the projects and increasing profitability with superior results.
This program involves on-the-job learning, strategic project-based capability building, team bonding, creating leadership skills amongst cross functional teams and executive coaching & mentoring amongst others.
It is considered to be a privilege to be a part of the elite Team Eagle program. Team Eagle is selected through a rigorous process and is further divided into several high performance teams, comprising of cross-function members. To ensure continuity & to leverage on the efforts put-in by the high performance teams, we have introduced an extended 30-60-90 days plan.
Eagle V reached a closure on 2nd April 2013 with each team coming out as a winner! The program generated revenues of around $983,693 and a pipeline approximately worth $8,601,000.
eAgle v Generated revenues of around $983,693 and a pipeline of worth $8,601,000 (approx).
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eAgle v Each Team came out as a Winner!!
The Americans
Tangerine Tango
Crusadors
Angry Birds
GoGetters
Transformers
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At the 21st edition of the WORLD HRD CONGRESS 2013, Dr. C.M. Dwivedi chaired three important sessions and HR Team bagged several prestigious awards in open competitions with several global companies:
DGSL was ranked 14th this year among the most prestigious “dream companies to work for” awards in a tough competition from over 300 applicants in this category
DGSL also won THE FUN AT WORK AWARD. World HRD identified our organization as one such example, where employees love what they do and do it with lots of energy, enthusiasm and fun
World HRD Congress honoured Dr. C.M. Dwivedi by acknowleging him amongst the “50 Most Talented Global HR Leaders in Asia”
Dr. C.M. Dwivedi has also been honoured with the prestigious “The Greatest Corporate Leader of India” award
Ms. Ankita Singh, Head – Employee Relations, OD & Fun @ Work received the prestigious YOUNG HR PROFESSIONAL OF THE YEAR AWARD
hr TeAm wins AwArdsHR Team received several prestigious awards at World HRD Congress- 2013
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dATAmATics' women leAders on winning sTreAKDatamatics had a proud moment at iiGlobal Women Leaders in India Awards function, when two women leaders of our organization were recognized in their respective fields.
Varad Kamini was awarded with the ‘Leading Woman Chief Marketing Officer’ award
‘Leading Woman Owned Innovative Project’ was conferred upon Divya Kumat
Divya Kumat also received the first runner-up award for the Woman General Council of the year
Under Divya’s leadership, the Datamatics Legal team also won the ‘Best-In-House’ award for the technology and innovation at the corporate council leadership summit and awards 2013
Ankita Singh, Head – Employee Relations, OD & Fun @ Work received the prestigious YOUNG HR PROFESSIONAL OF THE YEAR AWARD At the WORLD HRD CONGRESS 2013,
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Young Achiever - AnKiTA singh 1. How does it feel to be recognized for your efforts? I feel lucky and fortunate to get this prestigious award from World HRD Congress. I am thankful to Dr. Dwivedi for preparing me for this forum and team for all their support.
2. What do you think your greatest challenge was and how did you overcome it? There were more opportunities and support from everyone than challenges.
3. Would you say that gender is no more a factor at least in the corporate workplace? Yes, I completely agree with that. No matter what gender, if you are ready to take up the challenges and prove yourself, you will find all possible opportunities coming your way. It’s no more about gender but merit.
4. What role did Datamatics play in your success? I have been with Datamatics for over 6 years. I would say whatever i have achieved it’s only because of the opportunities and exposure I received at Datamatics. Dr. Dwivedi has been a great mentor, leader and coach. Journey from a team member to a Function Head has been full of learning. To sum it up, i would say that whatever i have learnt or achieved is all because of my team, Datamatics and Datamaticians. It is a family!
5. What would your advice be for your colleagues who are striving for similar success? Passion is the most important ingredient of any success story. Love what you do, once we start doing that....we are already there!!
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Magento Certified Developers
Congratulations: Naincy Patel & Dayana Patel from Cignex Datamatics who have joined the wagon of Magento Certified Developers.
PMP Certification
Congratulations: Farida Rahman for clearing PMP Certification!
exploring new leArning horizons
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Recently, a new book ‘Instant Liferay Portal 6 Starter’ by Sandeep Nair- Senior Consultant @ CD got published.
This is second book by Sandeep and 11th book by CD team.
Focused and concerted efforts by the CD team members have led us to gain thought leadership position in the Open Source space.
Kudos to all authors @CD for their briliiant efforts!
11Th booK AuThored bY cd TeAm
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Avinash Pai from AMS-BUPA team has cleared the BMC Control-M Admin test.
BMC Control-M is a monitoring and management tool for the enterprise batch scheduling environment.
It allows users to manage job processing across all platforms supported by instances of Control-M/Server and Control-M/Agent.
The Control-M Administering Certification certifies a person to work on the setup, administration and customization options of the Control-M tool along with creation of job processing definitions and also support administrative functions.
bmc conTrol - m Admin TesT
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A teenage girl would hear classical Ragas from a music class on her way to the temple. The music intrigued her but the word ‘classical’ had connotations of ‘boring’ and ‘difficult’. Her mother (singer); however, was of a different opinion. Enthused by her, she stepped inside the class one day. A man close to her father’s age sat behind a harmonium singing difficult yet wonderful songs in an awe-inspiring voice. She was impressed. Later, when he spoke to her, she knew she would not leave.
Amruta Bhagwat, a legal associate from Lexis Nexis team, had found her ‘guru’ (teacher). “I still remember that day. His voice, his manner of speaking were so soothing and reassuring, I just wanted to sit and keep listening to him. I couldn’t help trusting him. He told me to join his classes and try and I knew I would,” says Amruta reminiscing. It’s been 10 years since she has been under the tutelage of Guru Pradeep Chitnis, learning a litle known ‘gharana’ (lineage) of music called the Gusai Gharana. Swami Haridas, teacher of the world renowned artist Tansen from the Akbar regime was one of the pioneers of the Gusai Gharana.
Amruta shares her feelings about classical music with a sense of deep respect, “After 10 years I can say I understand it superficially only. The depth of our classical music needs years and years of ‘sadhna’. The peace and relaxation that one feels in the vibrations of this music is quite spiritual and heavenly”.
Learning music has also taught her to be a dedicated, hard working and a disciplined professional. It has given her the confidence to lead and articulate herself better in front of people. From her Guru, she has learned how to help people and be kind. “There was a period when the financial condition of my family was not good. My guru taught me for six months without charging any fees. His actions have taught me much more about kindness and helping others than any book ever could,” she says proudly.
for The love of music
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When asked about her future plans with music and she replies with enthusiasm, “A couple of friends and I have started a band called the musical meet. We are composing classical based music for the same. Hopefully we will be able to stage a performance soon”. We wish all the very best towards a fruitful musical career.
for The love of music
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The Document Management Solutions (DMS) team is on a roll.
Three of DMS staff members have been adjudged winners in the contest conducted by HDFC Life for the month of February. The contest was held across multiple vendors and the field included major players like IBM.
This is on exemplary performance and we have bagged all three positions.
Congratulations to below mentioned winners:
1st Prize - Laxman Gorkha
2nd Prize - Siddharth Khairnar
3rd Prize - Rohit Tupe
hdfc excellence AwArds 2013
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Nitin Kadam, PreSales Engineer and Instructor at CD, is an exponent of skydiving. We caught up with him recently and asked him about his association with this wonderful adventure sport. Here are excerpts from that interview.
1. What inspired you to take up skydiving? It was my Mom’s 50th Birthday and I just wanted to wish her in some special way. I went through an AFF course and then jumped out of a plane with a board in my hands saying ‘Happy Birthday Mom’. I never knew how fulfilling or empowering skydiving would be for me until I went for my first skydive. Skydiving has changed my life, changed me and made my world very large.
2. How often do you do it? What are the places where you have sky dived? Almost every weekend. Home dropzone: Byron, CA Hollister, CA The Palm, Skydive dubai Nzone skydive, Rotorua, NZ
3. How does it feel when you skydive? I feel full of peace and free. It’s also a big adrenaline rush; it’s just a part of my life. It’s one of rare moments where you have to be 100% on that moment and you will not think about anything else.
4. Are there any specific locations you would like to sky dive from? Why? The Palm, Skydive Dubai; because it’s is the best dropzone ever
sKYdiving
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5. What are your future skydiving goals?
Learn from my skydiving buddies as much as possible, stay competitive and grow every day as a skydiver and as a person. I’m concentrating on canopy piloting, 4-way formation and to become a pro video-flyer.
His Jumping Philosophy: Open your mind; no matter how experienced you may be, you’ll always find someone you can learn from. Have all your senses focused on it at all times so you can learn from every situation, good or bad.
6. What do you consider your most significant life achievement? So far, being able to live by the Life of SkyGod -- I love free flying the most.
Quote :
“If you don’t do it now, you’ll be one year older when you do...”
sKYdiving
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l&d worKshops
Advanced Excel 2007
Visual Basic in Application (VBA)
Communicate to Win
Mumbai
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l&d worKshops
People Management
Communication Skills
Communication Skills for (Night Shifts)
Chennai
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l&d worKshops
An intensive training on manual Testing was conducted for PHP team-members by Manoranjan Das.
Aon Hewitt members participated in a one day workshop on ‘Culture as a Barrier’
Ahmedabad
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dATAmATics' cricKeT wins
Datamatics wins the inaugural UYCC T10 Cricket Tournament at Air India, Kalina on 30th March 2013. This is the Second cup in this year. The team was led by tournament captain Sudhir Kumbhar and Malang Aras as Cricket team captain. The team beat a strong IndusInd Bank team in a thrilling high-scoring final to lift the cup. The success of the tournament was based on an all round performance by the team and valuable contributions from all players.
We managed to get Blue Star all out in 92 runs and chased the total in 14.3 overs keeping 8 wicket in hand
Match highlights: Prasad Narkar (Match of the Match): 3 main wickets of Bluestar and 1 run out.
Sameer Rane: 31 runs in 22 balls (5 Fours).
Mahesh Kesarkar: 23 runs in 14 balls (5 Fours)
Datamatics Wins the UYCC T10 Cricket Tournament
Datamatics wins against Bluestar
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dATAmATics' cricKeT wins
Datamatics wins CCD T15 Cricket Tournament . The team was led by Shakti Kapoor as the tournament team captain and Malang Aras as the cricket team captain. The outstanding player of the tournament was Sudhir Kumbhar who scored heavily with an average of 40+, his best being 67runs in 41 balls. He won the man of the match on one occasion and bowled well to restrict the opposition to ensure smooth victories. Other key players who contributed in this win were Mahesh Kesarkar and Kaushik Chaudhari.
Datamatics wins CCD T15 Cricket Tournament
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celebrATing The spiriT of womAnhoodTo make the day special for all the women at Bangalore office, Munwar Shariff (CTO- CD) took the opportunity to greet them personally with rose and chocolates. Fun contests such as Draping-the-Saree & Tying-the-rubber band games were organized for them. To add a twist to these games, all these had to be performed on male volunteers. Sportingly, male colleague volunteered for the same. Everyone had a gala time trying these quick-bits.
Dr. Dwivedi sent across personalized notes wishing Women’s day to all women at CD.
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TrAdiTionAl dAYOn the occasion of Gudi Padwa/Baisakhi, our Datamaticans were beaming in their traditional attire.
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iT's picnic TimeWhat is fun, relaxing and a great way to boost team spirit? A picnic! AMS Team went to Palm Beach Resort o to enjoy the spirit of being a team. It was a pleasurable experience indeed!
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Tech geeK
In the mystic world of words, it descended with its super powers! Not one, not two but five super powers to make our office life lighter and brighter. Yes, it is none other than our very own, the magnificent, and the Ultimate 5-in-1 Geek pen. This geek pen is a have it all, does it all gadget that will make all of you grin in sheer delight! Twist the shaft one way and you get a ballpoint pen, twist it the other way and you get a stylus tip for stylusing stuff. Press the top button to turn on the laser pointer, press the bottom button to cycle through the flashlight and UV light. The flashlight even comes on a flexible shaft for precision aiming. Now if this isn’t amazing, we don’t know what is. So, grab your pen and write your story!!!
For further information please refer to: http://www.thinkgeek.com/product/b23c/
One for All and All for One:
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bAbY on boArd
On 12th March, Jothi Ravikumar was blessed with a baby boy, Anish Shreevan.
Mrs Pandiyarasi and Vetrivel was blessed with baby boy Sunil on 23rd Dec 2013
Juzer Vhora was blessed with Baby boy (Ammar Juzer Vhora) on 23rd March 2013
Jhansi V was blessed with a daughter, Varsha on 18th March 2013.
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mAriTAl bliss
Congratulations :Ms. P Divya (from Puducherry
Team) and Anand said vows of holy matrimony on 1st Feb 2013
May this bond last forever!
Have a happy wedding
life!
