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Regards,
Must Read Corner – PG. 92 - 103
Editorial Team Hidden Talent – PG. 104 - 106
Dear All,
All of you have contributed mightily to the success of the Company. Without your
significant contributions, we couldn’t have made it this far.
I am extremely elated to share that we are growing and will be soon be expanding
our facilities at the Gurugram Centre. We will have more team members onboard
and would encourage you to take this opportunity to refer your friends and family to
be a part of this wonderful Organization.
Best wishes,
Rajit Passey
CEO
Intersoft Data Labs, Inc
On Going Projects In Mohali
AMT
Project Details:
AMTdirect market leader for enterprise real estate information and risk management
software. AMTdirect is one solution for all contract types including real estate leases,
vehicle leases, equipment contracts and other agreements. AMT has extensive
experience working with Fortune 500 companies, global real estate firms, accounting and
technology partners in the areas of real estate and contract management.
“AMT offshore team continues on its journey to deliver excellence with new releases every
2 weeks, adding numerous new features to AMT’s existing portfolio of services for its
prestigious clients.
Clients can now use an optimized version of Lease Summary, ability to manage
equipment contracts on top of a robust custom forms framework. With this release, we
also rolled out new FASB features pertaining to options frequency, FASB Lessee - Client
Calendar Integration (13th Period), FASB financial disclosures, FASB Prepayment and FASB
Partial Termination. This release would provide AMT a cutting edge in the industry over its
competitors contributing to its exponential revenue growth and market share.”
Technology Set:
.Net, SQL Server, Boomi, WCF, Exago Report Builder, App Dynamics, Crystal Reports, GIT,
QA Automation & Manual testing.
Next Roadmap:
As we have setup the base and platform to build upon the equipment, we will now be
working towards creating the feature for Phase 2. Along with this, we will be rolling out the
Boomi implementation for FASB/IASB as well.
Remote Buyback
Project Details:
Follett Corporation has been a trusted partner to Pre-K and K-12 schools, districts and
college campuses. Follett serves over half of the students in the United States and works
with 80,000 schools as a leading provider of education technology, services and print and
digital content.
Where we are right now:
“Remote Buy Back project was initiated in order to enhance the performance concerns
being encountered by Remote Buyback store users. Teams have been working
strategically to resolve the latency issues being encountered, by modifying the
fundamental mechanism currently used for data transportation from CourseTrack central
server to remote store registers. This change in architecture will resolve the latency issues
and enable the business to successfully complete the Remote Buyback process”.
Technology Set:
.Net, SQL Server, WCF, TFS & Manual testing.
Next Roadmap:
Once the above process has been stabilized we will approach the analysis of the Export
process for scope of optimization.
Ride On Trucking
Project Details:
Ride on trucking organisation has been in the business of providing trucks to FedEx for
delivery of packages to the consumers. They are using vehicle tracking services from Go
Ground cloud and Verizon to fulfil their business requirements. Intersoft was bought on
board to create a common platform to create multi-tenant based enterprise solution for
the purpose of building features to manage vehicles, drivers, routes, real time vehicle
tracking, voice navigation, reporting on real time device data for parameters of speed,
engine information and drivers driving patterns.
Where we are right now:
“Intersoft has devised an enterprise solution to create a platform that provides features to
manage drivers, manage vehicles, manage routes, vehicle tracking, reporting vehicle
data statistics and drivers driving patterns. We will also be using portable device
capabilities to enable the drivers with voice based route navigation capabilities. It will
also be a cost effective solution reducing the cost manifold for the ROT management”.
Technology Set:
.Net, MVC, Telerik Kendo UI, Bootstrap, SQL Server, Google Maps, MapBox, Xamarin,
Android and iOS, WCF, SVN & Manual testing.
Next Roadmap:
Once this release has been wrapped up, team will be working on further enhancing the
application features for live video streaming, integrations regarding VIN numbers and new
features to enhance the voice navigation features.
ADB
Project Details:
American Data Bank was founded in 1998 with the goal to provide a revolutionary way to
protect organizations, employers and universities from the uncertainties that come with
hiring and school admittance. ADB partnered with Intersoft/ VServ in beginning of 2013
with a vision of building a robust software that would make them an Industry leader in
respective domain. Hence, Complio was created. This software has been ever evolving,
delivering comprehensive releases into production every two weeks, keeping ADB way
ahead of the competition in terms of software richness. ADB has been continuously
expanding business and adding more features to the already rich software. Most recently,
they have partnered with Colorado Bureau of Investigation to aid them with fingerprinting
work.
Where we are right now:
ADB collaborated with Colorado Bureau of Investigation to aid them with fingerprinting
work. Team has successfully completed phase 1 of Fingerprinting requirements, and
proceeded to next phase of development. System has been upgraded to .net framework
4.7.2, SQL Server 2016, VS2017. We are adding "Multilingual" support for fingerprinting
modules, with immediate use on CBI applicant side where Spanish language users are
expected to using the application very soon. To provide the CBI applicants mobile access
to the system, the Complio mobile web app is being enhanced to support registration
and placing Fingerprinting orders. System is being enhanced to provide incident
management capabilities by adding a full-fledged incident management module.
Technology Set:
On .Net framework 4.7.2, ASP.net 4.7, Microsoft SQL Server 2016, deployed on Windows
server 2012 and IIS 8.0. Built initially on VS2012, the application has been upgraded to
VS2017. The project makes intense use of third party tools from Telerik, Rad Pdf, Suatinsoft,
Winnovative etc. The application recently included WEBAPI2, Angular, Google
Authenticator, Shibboleth SSO as well. The application integrates with different partners
for uploading data to their application / sites. The system is hosted on AWS Cloud and
uses various AWS Cloud services like EC2, SNS, S3, Glacier and more.
Next Roadmap:
ADB understand importance of modern day Business intelligence tools for quickly creating
various reports required for business analysis and reporting. We are not far distant from the
day when we will have Tableau reports integrated into Complio. Rotation placement
matching work has reached a level where we can start thinking about adding
intelligence to the system using Microsoft Cognitive services and other advanced AI
platforms.
BTE MCU
Project Details:
The BTE MCU Multi-Cervical Unit is the most effective and complete system for the
assessment and rehabilitation of patients suffering from neck pain, whiplash associated
disorders (WAD), and general cervical spine disorders. The MCU is an unmatched,
research-backed tool that empowers physical therapists and chiropractors alike to
objectively evaluate, strengthen, and restore the ailing neck and cervical spine. This
projects involves hardware interaction altogether from top to bottom.
BTE Multi-Cervical Unit (MCU) project started a year ago. We have almost touched all the
use cases of this project and 75% work is completed. Two most important aspect of the
projects are HL7 protocol and Hardware API integration.
Health Level-7 or HL7 refers to a set of international standards for transfer of clinical and
administrative data between software applications used by various healthcare providers.
These standards focus on the application layer, which is "layer 7" in the OSI mode. In our
context, mainly health related information of clients or patients is transferred from one
clinic to another, this data contains cervical tests results which were being performed by
the clinician to check the cervical strength of the patient on BTE MCU device. While
implementing HL7 we came across many hurdles e.g. there are less documentation and
resources available on internet for HL7 and also lack of C# API available for
implementation. To overcome this problem, we did comprehensive research on this topic
by studding lot of articles over internet and even purchased a book for HL7 to get through
it. After analysing and gaining knowledge from the resources available, development of
HL7 was initialized and an extra feature of SSL certificate was added to make the
application reach the most advance level in field of developing an excellent application.
To read data on server side a HL7 Protocol industry standard tool “MirthConnect” is used,
which came out to be no succeed because the open source of this tool does not
supports SSL certificate authorization and the paid version costs almost around $ 2,100
which was costing a great amount. So, to make this work a utility was being developed
which supported SSL certificate authorization while transmitting data from one source to
another.
Another challenge (or opportunity) in this to perform tests and exercises on the hardware
simulator device and get the data to the MCU software. Although client has provided the
data to the MCU software. Although client has provided the hardware API, but it was not
easy task to integrate it our application. In one interval of time, the simulator returns more
20(or more) records per second. Two of the major problems with Hardware simulator was
missing angle points and single load cell. While performing tests or exercises using this
hardware simulator was that the angle points were not mentioned on the hardware
simulator, so it became very difficult to recognize that which angle is where as it does not
have any marking. To overcome this problem, lot of time was being utilized as it was the
major part of our project and finally after putting great effort and performing various hit
and trials we were able to achieve this. Also, the actual BTE machine works with two load
cells but the simulator being provided by client contains only one port for load cell, so
with time it became strenuous as well as demanding for us. To make the application work
for two load cells on site in spite of having only one with us various conditions were being
applied and tested side by side to fulfil the requirement. At last we were able to deliver
our application perfectly working with two load cells.
Technology Set:
WPF, SQL Server Express 2007, DevExpress, Log4net, HL7 Protocol API (nHAPI), Mirth
Connect
Next Roadmap:
We are working on release 8 currently. Going forward, our roadmap is start the UAT on the
client location in coming month.
PayReel
Project Details:
Intersoft started this project from July, 2017 and has delivered successful releases into
production with many enhancements. Payreel has completed the major enhancement
of OAuth 2.0 security API layer and developed the single login process for multiple
application. Currently Payreel is engaged with “ThinkWare” support team to introduced
the new accounting application to improve the financial management, ACA
Compliance, on boarding, Workflows and Business intelligence. PayReel integrated the
customized feature, where communication in between the multiple application
employees is automatically stored in the system. Beside, admin can login in any
employee to see his dashboard to access employee records, communicate with
employees, create on PRO profiles.
Technology Set:
ASP.NET, Ruby on Rails, MVU UI, SQL Server, Telerik controls and Reporting services, AWS S3
storage and AWS DB instances, Multiple application built on VS2015 with different ASP.NET
framework versions. The project also uses third party tools from Telerik, PDF4NET, iTextSharp,
Log4Net, ASP.NET CORE services etc.
Next Roadmap:
We have plan for future development which include “ThinkWare” accounting application
integration through SmartConnect service. Which combines the core areas of networking,
converged communications, security, storage and contact centre technologies with
complementary capabilities in consulting, integration, support and managed services to
help our clients optimise their IT infrastructures, consolidate their vendor relationships and
achieve their business goals.
SAM
Project Details:
Follett Corporation has been a trusted partner to Pre-K and K-12 schools, districts and
college campuses. Follett serves over half of the students in the United States and works
with 80,000 schools as a leading provider of education technology, services and print and
digital content.
Where we are right now:
DB accounting integration is provided in which SAM system fetches data from CARP and
create invoice automatically by comparing SAM and CARP data. Accounting team and
store users are informed once comparison is completed and results of the invoice are
shared with them. This has fastened the process of invoice creation without waiting for
accounting team to get data for a particular store and term from CARP and SAM and
then comparing data manually and decide the results. This will help accounting team to
charge Stores more accurately and without going through much manual work. Early
invoicing feature is deployed which will provide approximate invoicing details to
Accounting and Admin teams before running actual invoice. This will help them to figure
out invoicing of a term beforehand and provide them approximate amount which will be
charged from campus for that term. Student pay functionality is provided which will help
students to buy the books/Materials directly from eFollett for student pay included
sections and charge students directly on eFollett. eFollett links are provided in emails
which are send to students which are enrolled in student pay section. The links takes
students directly to student pay sections on eFollett and materials can be ordered.
Technology Set:
Visual studio 2017, SQL Server Management Studio 2017, Windows server 2012, Windows
10, Windows 7, TFS 2017, GitHub, HTML 5, jQuery, Telerik 2016, Asp.net, C#.NET, Google
Chrome, IE, Firefox etc.
Next Roadmap
Founded in 1873, Follett Corporation is the world's largest single repository of books,
entertainment products, digital content and multi-media supporting various libraries,
schools, universities and retailers. Centralised Accounts Receivable Reconciliation and
Reporting (CARRR) is a financial application which caters all the transactions happening
in Follett. It manages transactions occurring at various channel stores, buyback books and
the digital vendors. It keeps track of various modules like adjustments, reconciliation and
Payment transfers. Rental Inventory Management (RIM) is used by accounting team to
manage rental items and charge students/ universities against rented stationaries, books
etc. These systems help Follett to charge their end customers and hence play a vital role
in showcasing the true picture of the financials of the company.
Where we are right now:
Intersoft is involved in many important recurring business processes like Month end process
(manual execution of sequence of processes to close current month and start next month
accounts for Follett Accounting) and Virtual License Plate (VLP) process (set of daily jobs
to execute closure of every day accounts). Intersoft is further supporting many critical
production support requirements in CARRR like Error Logging, Customized invoice reports
creation, Store Merge, Payment/Wire Duplicates identification and removal, Invalid
Transactions data correction and in RIM like VLP Error resolution, Tokenization, Included
Follett Rental Changes, Multi Select Approvals functionality for Payments, Delete
Collateral Functionality, Enhanced SSRS reports to show the statistical data as per
accounting team’s needs. ITFinance team has started using Agile and VSTS for managing
tasks and user stories.
Technology Set:
.NET Framework 4.6.1, ASP.NET, VB.NET, Microsoft SQL Server 2017, Crystal Reports, SSRS,
ASP.NET MVC, Web APIs, Web Services, SSIS, VSTS, GIT Hub
Next Roadmap:
Migration towards Azure – ITFinance is planning to use Azure infrastructure and migrate
towards Azure data services. Analysis is going on to move towards Azure. Quarterly
releases – Team is planning to have quarterly releases rather than 1 release every 6
months. We are working towards dividing the production support and business release
work effectively so that we can support quarterly release cycles. Database repository –
Team is planning to create a database repository, which would provide a centralised
versioning of the SQL scripts in order to help production release. Framework Upgradation-
Team is planning to upgrade the existing code to .Net Core in the coming quarter.
Invoice Customization- There is a requirement to create, schedule and customize multiple
invoices for Major and Customer accounts. This functionality is scheduled to be
developed in the fourth quarter.
OTS
Project Details:
Bellco credit union and Bethpage Federal Credit Union formed open technology,
LLC(OTS) and credit union service organizations (CUSO), focussed on providing
collaborative, technological-related services to a few large credit unions on Fiserv
platform. Bellco and bethpage were joined by state employee's credit union (SECU) of
Maryland in 2007. Intersoft partnered with OTS in 2016 to provide testing solutions to their
banking solutions.
Where we are right now:
First two quarters remained vital for us as our focus was completely on Alkami and we
have successfully delivered three releases till now. Team is currently working on Functional
and regression testing on build 2018.07 (Desktop) and 3000.7 (Mobile app) of OTS-Alkami
stream and simultaneously, team is also working on testing of Loan application on various
desktop and mobile browsers. In the third quarter most of our focus has been remained
on Loan application. Enhancements have majorly done in Loan application using which
end user can apply online loans by filling loan application form with required data as per
CU needs. It will reduce paper work and will be helping client for hassle-free loan
approval from credit unions. We have been working in Agile – Scrum methodology
followed by 15 days’ sprints for this project. This is completely new in terms of layouts,
functionality and usability. Due to the dynamic nature of this project we have faced lot
of challenges in the testing as there were random changes being introduced by client
every day. Despite of all the change requests coming frequently from client, Onsite and
Offshore team worked together to keep the test cases updated according to the new
user’s stories coming regularly and maintained the integrity of the application. As a result,
we have done commendable job to achieve the tight deadlines to delivering this project
on time. Currently, Loan application is successfully running in the production, also we
have received appreciation for the same from client. We are now working on the new
changes and regression of the same. We are now working on Account opening module
to be integrated with alkami.
Technology Set:
We have been involved in Functional, Regression, Performance and Cross Device testing
of Bellco, Bethpage and SECU Online Banking Web & Native applications across various
platforms i.e. Desktop, iOS devices and Android devices.
Next Roadmap:
We are looking forward to test bug fixes and new enhancements implemented in the
Loan and Alkami applications. Also, we are working on Secure forms and Sitecore
projects simultaneously which are still in development phase and their testing is in the
progress.
In 2003, Bellco Credit Union and Bethpage™ Federal Credit Union took advantage of the
opportunities to create a successful alliance. The two credit unions formed Open
Technology Solutions, LLC (OTS), a Credit Union Service Organization (CUSO), focused on
providing collaborative, technology-related services to a few large credit unions on the
Fiserv platform. Bellco and Bethpage were joined by State Employee's Credit Union
(SECU™) of Maryland in 2007, and S3 Shared Service Solutions, LLC in 2011.
Where are we right now:
We have recently started working on Loan App automation project and have almost
completed the Framework development using tool Selenium WebDriver v3.12.0. We have
initiated the creation of Loan App Object repository. We have also implemented the
code to generate test execution reports after each run.
Currently, our aim is to start with automation of Loan App Smoke test suite corresponding
to Bellco Credit Union (CU).
Technology Set:
Next Roadmap:
We foresee a good amount of work in pipeline. Once automation for Bellco Smoke test
suite is accomplished, our plan is to start with automation of Smoke test suite
corresponding to other two CUs, i.e., Bethpage and SECU.
Going forward, we may also focus on automation of Loan App Regression test suite for all
3 CUs (Bellco, Bethpage and SECU) based on project’s priority.
In 2003, Bellco Credit Union and Bethpage™ Federal Credit Union took advantage of the
opportunities to create a successful alliance. The two credit unions formed Open
Technology Solutions, LLC (OTS), Credit Union Service Organization (CUSO), focused on
providing collaborative, technology-related services to a few large credit unions on the
Fiserv platform. Bellco and Bethpage were joined by State Employee's Credit Union
(SECU™) of Maryland in 2007, and S3 Shared Service Solutions, LLC in 2011.
Development and execution of Alkami Regression Test scenarios using test automation
tool Selenium WebDriver v3.4.1 for all CU’s (Business/Retail users) is in progress.
As there had been changes in Alkami Application, we have followed continuous test
review process and updated existing smoke test scripts, keeping our test scripts up-to-
date.
We have created test suites for Smoke Test Scripts and Critical Test Scripts for all 3 CU’s,
including Business/Retail users, to be executed on weekly and daily basis respectively.
These test execution reports are shared with client on regular basis.
Technology Set:
Next Roadmap:
We foresee good amount of work in pipeline for automating remaining Alkami Web
features, part of regression test suite for all 3 CUs (Business/Retail users both). Also, we
provide support for maintaining existing scripts, if there is a change in application object
from Alkami app development side.
OTS Functional Automation: Alkami Mobile Testing
Project Details:
In 2003, Bellco Credit Union and Bethpage™ Federal Credit Union took advantage of the
opportunities to create a successful alliance. The two credit unions formed Open
Technology Solutions, LLC (OTS), Credit Union Service Organization (CUSO), focused on
providing collaborative, technology-related services to a few large credit unions on the
Fiserv platform. Bellco and Bethpage were joined by State Employee's Credit Union
(SECU™) of Maryland in 2007, and S3 Shared Service Solutions, LLC in 2011. Together, they
have achieved the kind of scale none could have achieved on their own - more than
911,000 members and over $15 billion in assets - ranking them together as the one of the
largest credit unions in the country.
We are working on automating Alkami Mobile Banking Application features starting with
Android platform. Alkami provides a new way of Online Mobile Banking experience that
support 3 Credit Unions (CUs) interface – Bellco, BethPage and SECU that can be
accessed by both Business and Retail type of users.
Where are we right now:
Continued with Smoke Test automation script development for CUs: Bethpage and SECU
(Business/Retail users).
Technology Set:
Continued with framework code enhancements for DNA test automation project at
Bellco. Implemented a Hybrid-based (Keyword and Data-driven) Test Automation
framework using UFT v14.01 (VB Script language). Currently, automating some of the
major functional test scenarios based on test priority provided by client. Also, started
automation of critical smoke test scenarios covering different features of DNA
Application. These test scenarios are covered as part of manual testing, carried out
during each of the DNA production release test cycle at Bellco.
Technology Set:
Next Roadmap:
eFollett is the e-commerce platform of Follett which connects all Follett campus stores,
FHEG distribution center and a range of vendors. The website can be accessed on any
device including smart-phones and tablets for purchasing books, reference materials,
digital resources, eBooks, audio-visual materials and pre-owned textbooks. You can
search your book online using the name, author or the unique ISBN code for the book,
alternatively you can also select your book by selecting your relevant program, term,
department, course and your section. FMS, FOC, FVC and IMS are the channel's having
multiple store.
Where we are right now:
Next Roadmap:
Automation framework refactoring and redesign will be in progress as per the latest
Selenium WebDriver 3.14.0. Also, enhancing regression test scripts based on change in
application workflow, if required.
eFollett is the e-commerce platform of Follett which connects all Follett campus stores,
FHEG distribution center and a range of vendors. The website can be accessed on any
device including smart-phones and tablets for purchasing books, reference materials,
digital resources, eBooks, audio-visual materials and pre-owned textbooks. You can
search your book online using the name, author or the unique ISBN code for the book,
alternatively you can also select your book by selecting your relevant program, term,
department, course and your section.
Next Roadmap:
Automation framework refactoring and redesign will be in progress as per the latest
Selenium WebDriver 3.14.0 and Appium 1.9.1. Also, enhancing regression test scripts
based on change in application workflow, if required.
Follett’s SAM
Project Details:
Next Roadmap:
CTWeb
Project Details:
CTWeb application is running successfully on Prod and last two rush (May – Buyback &
August – Adoption) was phenomenal.
Now we are preparing for December Buyback Rush, which is heaviest, rush in a year,
currently we are in sprint 4.11 which will be deployed on Prod 11/15 and we have code
freeze/blackout from 11/20/18 to 01/30/19.
Technology Set:
ASP.Net, Sql, MVC, EF, WCF, jQuery and React.
Next Roadmap:
Continue to work on assigned tickets and improve the system in terms of performance
and user experience. Add new features based on requirement from the business.
EPay
Project Details:
Technology Set:
Asp.net, Web Services, VB.NET, C#, SQL Server 2014.
Next Roadmap:
1. Adding Payment Gateway for PayPal, PayPal Credit, Apple Pay, Google Pay,
Venmo etc. using Brain Tree.
2. Upgrade EPay application server from Window 2003 to 2016.
3. Converting EPay Management Tool application from ASP.NET to new technology
like MVC and ReactJS/AngularJS.
Follett – CourseWorks
Project Details: CourseWorks is a windows-based textbook management system.
Production Support
Change requests
Technology Set: Oralce 10g Database, Oracle Forms and Reports, dotnet.
Next Roadmap: Continue to work on assigned tickets and improve the system in terms of
performance and user experience. Add new features based on requirement from the
business.
ProAdmin (Prometric)
Project Details:
ProAdmin is the next generation platform for administrating the exam delivery from
Prometric Test centers. With ProAdmin, all legacy applications, which are tightly coupled
with specific region or client in specific region, are obsolete and all clients in all regions
can now use the same product called ProAdmin as unified exam delivery platform
supporting portability (can be used with Desktop & Tablet).
The product is currently deployed to Japan Region and it is in production from May 1,
2018 with 40+ test centers. From July onwards, around 200+ test centers are live with
ProAdmin. Right now around 5000 candidates are taking the exams in a day with
ProAdmin from Japan Region.
Currently we are developing the following major enhancements in ProAdmin:
Technology Set:
C# 6.0, ASP.Net Web API, Node JS, CouchDB 2.1.0/2/2.2.0 & CouchDB 1.6.1; TFS 2015
Next Roadmap:
ProAdmin 2.0, which will take care of delivering the exams across all test centers
(approximately 5000 sites) in other 2 regions namely USA & Europe.
PureSale is your one stop app for processing guest orders at a party or on the road! You
can review customer information, check your inventory; review your sales, and more! Pure
Sale will automatically calculate tax and shipping, and it will even send out a
personalized receipt with your business information!
Next Roadmap:
There are multiple enhancements in pipeline. We are planning to build all native pages UI
with Xamarin.Forms. In addition, we are tracking crash report from App Center to fix the
reported bugs.
RBI Project
Project Details:
Restaurant Brand International (RBI) is company own three Restaurant brands:
1. Burger King
2. Tim Hortans
3. Popeyes Luciana Kitchen
On Daily basis all the franchisees of these brands from different regions APAC, EMEA, LAC,
Canada post sales on EOD closure on centralized system from where the sales/Data has
been loaded to different tables structure with the help of ETL tool. Then the report
(Scorecard that has sales numbers) has been generated for all regions for business
purpose to review sales on daily basis.
Our work is to monitor this whole process of fetching and loading data to our system and
then the Scorecard generation and perform some validations on scorecards and then
send it to Business.
We take care of any failures or issues occurs during this whole process.
Technology Set:
ETL Tool: Informatica 9.6.1, Informatica 10.2, Informatica Cloud
Reporting Tool: Tableau, BO
Database: My Sql, SQL Server, Netezza
Others: Putty, FileZilla
Next Roadmap:
As per business requirement, we need to generate report for their analysis purpose; Clint
has started involving us in the development activity of same. We will soon all process is
going to migrate to Informatica Cloud. We will also be actively involved in the migration
activity.
BTL Surpass
Project Details:
Established in 1985, BTL Group Ltd. has grown into a renowned global provider of
assessment technology and services trusted by some of the world’s highest profile
providers of high-stakes summative assessments. It serves the Surpass Community from
offices in the UK (trading as BTL) and in the United States (trading as BTL Surpass Inc.)
Intersoft/VServ engagement was initiated in Dec 2017 with 3 offshore scrum teams. Later
with good understanding of product and on time deliveries, 3 more teams have been
added to maintain/develop and test Surpass application. Intersoft/VServ teams has
supported –
Development and regression support from Release 12.15 onwards to endure high
quality product.
Contributing in HTML Conversion of existing Flash components and HTML Delivery
development.
Development of new LOFT component.
More reusable components are added to UI component library to enable
reusability and consistency across application.
Initiated new BDD/Specflow based automation-testing approach across BTL with
reusable components.
Initiated usage of Client Unit Test to have less load on Automation testing.
Encourage to create smaller components with cleaner APIs and thus gradually
improve the architecture of the application.
Technology Set:
C#, ASP.Net, MVC, WCF, Web API, Web Services, AnjularJS, React JS, Kockout JS, SQL
Server 2016, Visual Studio 2017, VS code, Selenium, Specflow BDD framework, Continuous
Integration and deployment.
Technology Set:
SplashBI
Oracle Discoverer
Next Roadmap: Continue to work on assigned tickets and improve the system in terms of
performance and user experience. Add new features based on requirement from the
business.
B&T – CDMS
CDMS is the data management system which compile the data from SQL data load and
import that data to oracle database, after successful import; scheduler and dispatcher
services start so that order can be scheduled and dispatched as this data is being used
by the other systems like TS360.
Updates: Started with 1 resource working primarily on application bug fixing, UNIX jobs
changes, Oracle procedure changes etc. Recently added 1 more resource who will be
helping on these areas.
Technology – CDMS: SQL server, Oracle, Shell script, VB script, Batch file, C#.Net
B&T – My Lib Bookstore
This is shopping app where user can purchase any book and see any book details.
Updates: Recently a new resource started on this and supporting client on all UI needs of
the app.
Technology – React js, Redux js, axios
B&T – Majors.com
This is an ecommerce web app where user can buy books or do search on ISBNs.
Updates: Recently a new resource started on this who is upgrading JDK version of the
application.
Technology – Java, JDK 8, tomcat, Ubuntu linux, web services
Technology – .NET, C#, SQL server, Kendo UI, JQuery, Bootstrap 3, CSS3 , SASS, HTML5,
MongoDB.
On Going Projects In BBBY
POS (Point-of-Sale)
Project Details:
POS (Point-of-Sale) systems are customer-facing systems at the stores, which enable the
sale of items by creating the cart in-store and processing the payments. With 1500+ stores
across the United States and Canada with some Bed Bath and Beyond stores having as
many as 40 POS registers in a store, the organization faces a stiff challenge to keep all
these machines running efficiently with the latest updates on each and every machine.
These customer-facing systems at the stores are integrated with various back-end systems
like Merchandising Systems, Promotions Engine, Price and Item Masters, Credit Card
Payment Gateways, Gift Card Systems using interfaces. To be in-tune with latest market
trends, BBB introduces new features and enhancements to these POS systems which
include personalization of promotions campaigns, private label credit cards (PLCC),
digital coupons and store cards which need to be incorporated in all the systems across
various concepts. The development of software along-with the support and maintenance
of all these POS machines comes within the purview of the POS Development and
Support Teams.
The Associate and Customer Engagement Support teams are responsible for the
maintenance of more than 60000+ mobile devices across various platforms, which enable
the business teams to use latest mobile device technologies to engage the customers
and use these mobile devices to perform back-end operations in the store. Each of these
devices are managed across the stores across the United States and Canada using
Mobile Device Management tools. The support team ensures that the technology stack of
all these devices is up-to-date and is performing optimally to perform these functions.
The Contact Center Team is responsible for the software systems and the telephony
systems in the call center where the agents resolve customer issues using various channels
like e-mails, chat and calls. The team gives the BBB business teams the enablement to
respond quickly to customer issues by routing the issues to the right agents who resolve
them at the earliest. With heavy customer volumes, the design and development of the
call center software, the administration of the site that the agents use as well as the
diagnostics and proactive monitoring of the systems is the responsibility of the Contact
Center team.
The POS Development team has started with the development of various additional
features like PLCC, Signature Suppression, Co-Branded cards, and Email Receipt features.
The POS support teams have taken over support activities of 10000+ registers and
payment processing modes like pin-pads and ensure the successful running of all the
batch jobs and scripts that are required in the back-end, which enable the POS systems
to perform their tasks efficiently in the stores. The support teams for the Associate and
Customer Engagement have started performing the engineering and support tasks across
all the devices for various projects like TC-51/ET-50 devices, Markvision printers, browser
printing. The Contact Center teams have taken up the tasks of optimizing the design and
enhancing the functionalities of the Contact Center and has started the rollout of these
functionalities to the Layton and Occuee Contact Center.
Technology Set:
Next Roadmap:
Development of the latest features in the POS as per the latest requirements in line with
BBB strategic initiatives. Advanced features will be rolled out in the Contact Center over
the next six months and the performance of the site will be enhanced after the site
upgrade. Advanced features like Call-Back facilities, promotional calling and chatbots
will also be enabled. Since there is a strategic intent of relying heavily on the IDC, the
involvement of the IDC teams figures in major initiatives across all verticals in the Store
Solutions group.
Personalization Mall (PMall)
Project Details:
1. QA Project
QA team is working on PMall website for verification of UI, UX and Functional aspects of
PMall Web application as part of ongoing enhancement – Product Page Redesign. Also,
QA team is parallelly working on setting up efficient testing processes at PMall that may
serve as a center of excellence going forward to guide other testing teams in other
projects at PMall.
2. Development Project
1. QA Project
Currently involved in UI, UX and Functional testing of Product Page Redesign -
Phase 1A and 1B.
Preformed multiple cycles of Failover Testing in production.
Performed Test Case creation of enhancement - Mobile Refresh.
2. Development Project
Technology Set:
C#, .Net, SQL Server and 3rd party tools which is used for Design Your Own (DYO) features
if customer wants to design by themselves instead of readymade designs.
Next Roadmap:
1. QA Project
Will Perform Testing of Phase 2, 3 and 4 of the planned enhancements on PMall Website.
Identify appropriate online tools for automation testing on PMall application.
2. Development Project
Will continue with code level documentation for Auto Designer application. Then Gift
Wrap application’s code level documentation. Then after miscellaneous applications
related to Pick/Batch Management, Manufacturing, Production and Packaging modules
for code level documentation.
eCommerce
Project Details:
E-commerce development team handles new features, enhancements and bug fixes for
all three concepts US, Baby and CA for Bed Bath & Beyond online presence.
The Objective of IDC Ecommerce team is to work closely with Bed Bath and Beyond
Union team to identify and implement new features for identified workstreams.
The transition from current vendor on MyAccount work stream has been completed and
our team is actively involved in feature implementation and production bug fixes.
We have also been involved in Search work stream where team is identified and aligned
for future feature implementation and enhancements.
Technology Set:
ATG, APIGEE, Oracle DBA, ReactJS, Drupal CMS.
Next Roadmap:
Equip the team to handle feature development and enhancements for other work
streams, which will be transitioned from Current vendor to IDC and further setup L1 and L2
production support team for initial triaging of production issues and 24x7 monitoring.
Decorist
Project Details:
Decorist is an online interior decorating service that matches you with a friendly designer
to work with you to pull your room together in your style and budget, based out in San
Francisco. Bed Bath & Beyond recently welcomed Decorist into its family of brands, giving
its customers affordable access to online interior design services. With Decorist’s talented
designers and Bed Bath & Beyond’s vast selection of quality furniture online, customers
can easily achieve a beautifully decorated home in their style and budget. A winner in
the Architectural Digest 2016 Innovators Awards by bringing in an online interior design
process. Over 400 interior designers on platform to work across all interior design styles,
from modern to traditional, eclectic to global, mid-century to minimalist. 3 tiers of online
interior designers, all of which are experienced at working with a range of budgets and
rooms. With online interior design platform, the project is on schedule, at convenience,
any time of day by allowing exchanging messages, ideas, pictures and feedback at any
time.
The Decorist IDC team cater the technology needs of the Platforms working closely with
business as Engineering.
Decorist IDC team with 2 set of platforms “Legacy” & “DSP” is currently in phase of
transitioning monolithic manual processes to automation and Integration with new Tenant
partners like Bed Bath & Beyond, Buy Buy Baby & Cost Plus World Market over “Legacy”.
Modulating “DSP” the new micro services based platform loosely coupling Decorist
Design Services catering Cross Platform Integrations needs for the tenant partner “One
Kings Lane”.
Technology Set:
Python, Django, Angular, React, HTML, CSS, Docker, AWS, Git, Analytical Tools.
Next Roadmap:
Migration of Decorist Legacy platform over DSP with enhancement of angular based
python django projects to micro services platform based React Single Page Apps. This
would bring in a capability over DSP for generalized micro services catering needs of
multiple Tenants.
Data Warehouse
Project Details:
With 40000+ ETL job and real time reporting, Bed Bath and Beyond Data warehouse
comprise of Operational Data Store, Business Intelligence and Data Analytics functions.
The Objective of IDC data warehouse team is to work closely with Bed Bath and Beyond
Data warehouse group to provide reliable data and data insight to business team for
data driven decision-making.
As a first step, DWH-IDC team has taken over the production support for approx. 40000+
ETL jobs that are running daily basis.
Technology Set:
Teradata, Ab-Initio, Kognitio, Netezza, Hadoop.
Next Roadmap:
Setup of ETL development team that will enhance existing ETL jobs and integrate new
data sources per business requirements. IDC team will also contribute to Bed Bath and
Beyond’s roadmap to move to Cloud Technologies.
Product Onboarding
Project Details:
Product Onboarding is the process for an enterprise hub (PDM) for Bed Bath and Beyond
where integration of different products takes place so that they can display it on their E-
Commerce platform. Bed Bath and Beyond recently welcomed Buy Buy Baby,Chritmas
Tree Shop, Harmon etc. into its family of brands and it is in the process of integrating
product related information from all brands into its core process. Bed Bath and Beyond
will establish the framework for an enterprise hub for product images which will
orchestrate all aspects of managing image assets and related meta data (requesting,
importing, reviewing, categorizing, manipulating, approving, storing, retrieving, exporting
and distributing of assets). This will provide visibility, efficiency, speed, and reuse, and will
enable all departments within Bed Bath & Beyond that need rich product information to
leverage it quickly and consistently.
The Product Onboarding IDC team cater the technology needs of the Platforms working
closely with business.
Where we are right now:
Ownership Change implementation will ensure that any Product which is sold by Beyond
(either via store &/or web), regardless of ‘Owner’, also exists within PDM and reflects the
correct information.
Currently ownership changes are done and communicated across the individual JDA
systems and PDM has no visibility to them. Therefore, going forward PDM will
reflect/update ALL Product from the Beyond box (includes product owned by Beyond &
SWS product which are owned by Harmon/CTS and sold by Beyond), via a nightly feed
from JDA. This will also enable other systems (i.e. Enterprise Order Management,
Warehousing, etc.), to receive the necessary data updates via PDM. This replaces the
existing mini conversion process.
What is Drupal?
Drupal is a free and open source Content Management System (CMS) that allows
organizing, managing and publishing of content. More specifically, Drupal is a web
application that allows one or more users to create, edit, publish, and control access to a
website using a graphical user interface (GUI). Many modern content management
systems use a database to store the content and a scripting language (in Drupal's case,
PHP) to dynamically build the HTML needed to present the content to a web browser.
Drupal is released under the GNU General Public License, which means that the software
itself is free to download. There are no license fees, as are often found with proprietary
software, e.g. Sitecore or SharePoint. Due to the large community of contributors who can
easily extend the functionality of Drupal, there is also a huge free community library of
extensions, called modules, and themes that can change how the website looks.
How it’s used
In the enterprise space, one of Drupal’s architectural strengths is its support for multi-site
and virtual site environments – where different web properties appear to be separate sites
but share common Drupal components. Organizations with different business units and
product lines might deploy as a multi-site installation, so that each business unit can tailor
its own theme, content, and functionality. For e.g. Organizations such as car franchises
might deploy as a virtual site installation so that each dealership can localize information
such as inventory, events, and promotions while adhering to franchise-managed
branding and content.
Under the Hood
Underneath the powerful UI,
there is a very flexible object-
oriented framework, which
has been built from the start to
be modified and extended.
This allows developers to finely
tune a Drupal site to have the
features and functionality you
need. There is also a robust
template layer using the Twig
templating language, which
lets you precisely customize
the look of the site.
Drupal’s architecture is more
of an interlinked set of
components than a structured
hierarchy. There’s general
agreement that Drupal
consists of core APIs, modules,
and themes but since it’s so
scalable and flexible it’s hard
to present a standardized
Drupal APIS: At the heart of Drupal is a representation.
set of API services (in blue) that modules
use to interact with content and with
other modules. Drupal’s modules sit on
top of these API services.
2) Drupal reads the (Apache) configuration file .htaccess; .htaccess tells Drupal to
execute index.php, a script file.
3) Index.php bootstraps the process by loading up the APIs in the include folder,
initializing the database; then it initializes session handling, loads the libraries, and
prepares to handle the request.
4) The Menu API, one of the APIs loaded up, now checks for the module responsible
for getting content from the database for that URL. Modules are event-driven and
listen to the Menu API for requests. At this point, Drupal gets to skip steps 5 – 8 if:
page caching is turned on /the page has already been rendered once during the
caching interval /the user is public (‘anonymous’)
Caching stores pages in memory in their rendered form so that Drupal can just
serve up the page without having to assemble it again. This means that ‘static’
pages that don’t interact with users are good candidates for being cached. On a
website with lots of static pages, this can represent a significant performance boost.
5) When the module gets the request, it goes to the database and loads up content
from the appropriate node, but it also fires up hooks to allow other modules to
interact. These other modules might add business logic, extra functionality, make
changes to the content, bring in more content, and/or hand off to other modules
by firing up other hooks. This handing-off and delegation is what makes Drupal
event-driven. Modules build the content and respond to events.
6) Assuming there are no errors, when all the content is available the module(s) hand
back control to the Menu API, which determines which theme should be used and
hands the raw, unformatted data to the Theme layer.
7) The Theme styles the content and may also call more hooks, or change the
content. Then it hands a fully-formed HTML page back to Menu API, which hands
the page to the user’s browser for rendering.
8) The browser renders the page for the user, the user clicks on another link, and the
entire process starts all over again.
What is Blockchain?
Blockchain is "an open, distributed ledger that can record transactions between two
parties efficiently and in a verifiable and permanent way". It is a growing list of records,
called blocks, which are linked using cryptography. Each block contains a cryptographic
hash of the previous block, a timestamp, and transaction data. By design, a blockchain is
resistant to modification of the data. For use as a distributed ledger, a blockchain is
typically managed by a peer-to-peer network collectively adhering to a protocol for
inter-node communication and validating new blocks. Once recorded, the data in any
given block cannot be altered retroactively without alteration of all subsequent blocks,
which requires consensus of the network majority. Although blockchain records are not
unalterable, blockchains may be considered secure by design and exemplify a
distributed computing system with high byzantine fault tolerance. Decentralized
consensus has therefore been claimed with a blockchain.
History
Blockchain was invented by Satoshi Nakamoto in 2008 to serve as the public transaction
ledger of the cryptocurrency bitcoin. Shortly after Nakamoto’s whitepaper was released,
Bitcoin was offered up to the open source community in 2009. Blockchain provided the
answer to digital trust because it records important information in a public space and
doesn’t allow anyone to remove it. It’s transparent, time-stamped and decentralized.
Even though blockchain technology was invented in 2008, it took 10 whole years for
blockchain technology to take over the internet and even banking!
Even today, there are many who believe Bitcoin and blockchain are one and the same,
even though they are not. Those who started to realize around 2014 that blockchain
could be used for more than cryptocurrency started to invest in and explore how
blockchain could alter many different kinds of operations. The biggest key to turning
blockchain’s potential into a reality for industry today is the amount of collaborative effort
needed to create a network to support blockchain services.
A blockchain is the structure of data that represents a financial ledger entry, or a record
of a transaction. Each transaction is digitally signed to ensure its authenticity and that no
one tampers with it. Ledger entries being distributed among a deployment or
infrastructure.
These additional nodes and layers in the infrastructure serve the purpose of providing a
consensus about the state of a transaction at any given second; they all have copies of
the existing authenticated ledger distributed amongst them. When a lot of people have a
copy of the same ledger, it becomes more difficult to cheat. If anyone wanted to falsify a
transaction, they would have to compromise the majority of participants, which is much
harder than compromising a single participant.
When a new transaction or an edit to an existing transaction comes in to a blockchain,
generally most of the nodes within a blockchain implementation must execute algorithms
to evaluate and verify the history of the individual blockchain block that is proposed. If a
majority of the nodes come to a consensus that the history and signature is valid, the new
block of transactions is accepted into the ledger and a new block is added to the chain
of transactions. If a majority does not concede to the addition or modification of the
ledger entry, it is denied and not added to the chain. This distributed consensus model is
what allows blockchain to run as a distributed ledger without the need for some central,
unifying authority saying what transactions are valid or invalid.
Types of Blockchains
Currently, there are three types of blockchain networks - public blockchains, private
blockchains and consortium blockchains.
Public Blockchains
A public blockchain has absolutely no access restrictions. Anyone with an internet
connection can send transactions to it as well as become a validator. Usually, such
networks offer economic incentives for those who secure them and utilize some type of a
Proof of Stake or Proof of Work algorithm. Some of the largest, most known public
blockchains are Bitcoin and Ethereum.
Private Blockchains
A private blockchain is permissioned. One cannot join it unless invited by the network
administrators. Participant and validator access is restricted. This type of blockchains can
be considered a middle-ground for companies that are interested in the blockchain
technology in general but are not comfortable with a level of control offered by public
networks. Typically, they seek to incorporate blockchain into their accounting and
record-keeping procedures without sacrificing autonomy and running the risk of exposing
sensitive data to the public internet.
Consortium Blockchains
A consortium blockchain is often said to be semi-decentralized. It, too, is permissioned but
instead of a single organization controlling it, several companies might each operate a
node on such a network. The administrators of a consortium chain restrict users' reading
rights as they see fit and only allow a limited set of trusted nodes to execute a consensus
protocol.
Blockchain Platforms
Ethereum
Ethereum is a platform based on blockchain technology. Using this platform developer
can build decentralized applications. It is distributed public blockchain network. We can
consider it equal to Bitcoin but there is a major difference like, Bitcoin offers one
application of blockchain technology that enables online Bitcoin payments while the
Ethereum blockchain focuses on running the programming code of any decentralized
application. Ethereum applications are built with the use of smart contracts. A smart
contract is computer algorithms which execute themselves, based on incoming data
from the network. The self-fulfilling nature of such applications allows them to run without
reliability issues associated with human operators. For example, a smart contract could
technically say, “pay Fred $1 if he clears the exam by Dec 18” and it would pay Fred
once the conditions are met. These smart contracts are executed by Ethereum Virtual
Machine (EVM), run by an international public network of nodes.
RChain
RChain is the latest addition of blockchain platforms. RChain’s concurrent execution
throughout the network unlocks blockchain's potential for transactions of every type and
scale. Current platforms are constrained by the single chain problem, sequential
computing inevitably limits scalability and speed, while increasing transaction costs.
Massive energy and computational requirements are major obstacles to mass adoption
of decentralized systems. Unlike other chains, RChain's concurrent computing capabilities
exist natively in the architecture, innovations in consensus and concurrent processing
increase transaction velocity, security, scalability, and sustainability. RChain offers
following advantage over other platforms
Speed- RChain’s architecture should allow it to easily accommodate tens of
thousands of transactions per second. RChain plans to launch with the capacity to
handle 40,000 transactions per second eventually improving towards its goal of
100,000 transactions per second.
Tools- The developer tools that will come along with the RChain platform are
unmatchable by current market offerings. RChain plans to offer a platform that
easily allows developers of different backgrounds and coding languages to easily
connect their apps and products to its blockchain.
RChain Cooperative- The co-op is a public group made up of RChain’s developers,
investors, and users. It allows its members to develop and access RChain’s open
source blockchain. Creating a community atmosphere, the co-op gives every
member the ability to influence the future of the platform.
Trust- RChain will enable developers worldwide to create safe and tamper proof
decentralized solutions that are both scalable and fast.
Future
Harvard Business Review claims that blockchain will do to banks what the internet did to
media. And 60% of financial organizations plan on using blockchain for international
money transfers, 23% for security clearing and settlement, and 20% for Know Your
Customer (KYC) regulations and anti-money laundering services. Blockchain will likely to
disrupt many industries in the coming 5 to 10 years. These are some of the industries it’s
already disrupting.
Banking and Payments
Cyber Security
Supply Chain Management
Forecasting
Networking and the Internet of Things
Insurance
Retail
Private Transport and Ride Sharing
Cloud Storage
Charity
Voting
Government
Public Benefits
Healthcare
Energy Management
Online Music
Real Estate
Crowdfunding
Development Considerations
NBitcoin
NBitcoin is a C# library for creating blockchain using Visual Studio for Bitcoin currency
transactions only. NBitcoin is the first software created for Bitcoin and Blockchain. Bitcoin is
a cryptocurrency, a decentralized digital currency without a central bank or single
administrator that can be sent from user-to-user on the peer-to-peer bitcoin network
without the need for intermediaries. The client can connect to Bitcoin MainNet and
TestNet. The TestNet is a testing blockchain network. TestNet coins are separate and
distinct from actual bitcoins and are never supposed to have any value. This allows
application developers or bitcoin testers to experiment, without having to use real bitcoins
or worrying about breaking the main bitcoin chain. MainNet is the actual network for
Bitcoin transactions for real economic value. It is the bitcoin network everybody uses.
Ethereum
While NBitcoin is limited to bitcoin currency transactions only, Ethereum is applicable to
maintain any kind data with logic written in smart contracts. Ethereum application can be
developed in solidity language by using VSCode or Remix Solidity IDE. Smart contracts
can be written in solidity, which trigger events to execute the code. Ganache (truffle
framework) can be used to create the test account on local machine. Ganache test
account used by Meta Mask simulator that allows developers to test smart contract and
transactions using ether(ETH). It allows you to run Ethereum distributed applications right in
your browser without running a full Ethereum node.
Conclusion
The most important steps IT companies can take today is to stay updated with
blockchain. This includes the process of making sure developers are not only aware of the
technology but begin to become conversant in the technology and truly understand it.
This includes understanding what blockchain technology can realistically do and what is
not feasible. As with any new technology, it can often be difficult to differentiate
between legitimate capabilities versus pie in the sky claims. Again, education is the key to
staying informed about realistic capabilities.
It is also useful to understand blockchains in the context of bitcoin. Bitcoin is
implementation of blockchain and you should not assume that all blockchain ecosystems
need bitcoin mechanisms such as proof of work, longest chain rule, etc. Bitcoin is the first
attempt at maintaining a decentralised, public ledger with no formal control or
governance. Blockchains can be deployed to solve other sets of problems and industries.
As ever, there are trade-offs and pros and cons to each solution, and you need to
consider these individually for each individual use case.
Monthly Celebrations
Employees had ample fun in the month end celebration. The event includes cake cutting
ceremony by birthday and anniversary buddies, various fun games along with spotlight
awards.
Employees actively participated which brought cheerfulness all around.
We have organized a painting competition and theme was off course ‘Independence.’
Everyone participated bay wise. All the participants were very excited and enjoyed a lot.
The winners got the prize for their enthusiastic participation and creativity.
The Motivational Videos acknowledging sacrifices made by the armed forces were –Played
in cafeteria. Some of the most compelling stories and videos that featured on The Better
India to Relive the most amazing moments and revisit the sacrifice made by Team. There
were many Inter and Intra team activities namely Team Selfie Contest and Team slogan
contest. Each team had to give a slogan and Group Selfie. Winners were decided based
on creative slogan and photos shared. The winners of the events were:
Diwali Celebration at Gurugram
Diwali Celebration at Mohali
Christmas Celebration
At Gurugram
Christmas Celebration
At Mohali
Eye Check-up Camp (Mohali)
On 12th July, 2018 eye check-up camp was conducted for our employees
at Mohali Office. A team of Senior Eye Surgeon, two councillors and two
opticians from Grewal Eye Institute had carried out a comprehensive eye
check-up on employees.
Through our work in this area, we have become aware of the importance for early
intervention and education in the workplace. The session is a cost effective solution
that will ensure staff are performing at their optimum.
It takes courage to unleash your potentials and without bold moves you may be just spinning in
circles.
5. Set Challenging, but Achievable Goals: Settings goals is a great way to trigger action and
motivate. It sets the direction, next steps, unclutter your mind. Challenging goals stimulate the
flow experience that so many people want. As some people say “a life without challenge and
risk is not worth living.” The key to unleash potentials is to set stimulating, challenging goals that
are achievable and not overwhelming.
You may write down the goal and read it aloud. If it didn’t move or empower you, you didn’t
want to take an action or didn’t know what to do, you need a different goal!
6. Everyday make a Small Step: As Lao-Tzu said “a journey of a thousand miles begins with a
single step.” You may travel from East to West Coast with a car by seeing just a few miles ahead
at any specific moment. This is also true to unleash your potentials. Don’t think for too long –
discover your strengths and weaknesses, find the world hunger you may feed, set challenging
goals for them, but at the end, use every day to make just a small step towards it.
7. Work on your Habits: Every day we make hundreds and thousands decisions, but most of
them subconsciously. All these small and big decisions sum up to your life. This is why working on
habits is so important. You may turn negative patterns into positive, and learn how to be
thankful, how to deal with stress, have healthy and inspiring relationships.
They won’t change overnight, but once formed they will positively impact hundreds of your
decisions later on.
8. Let go of Bitterness: One of the biggest contributors to not unleashing your potentials is
resentment. As Malachy McCourt stated “Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the
other person to die.” Do not let others steer your life into negative thinking. Past already
happened, future is unsure, so focus on here and now. Don’t let the past define your future.
9. Be Thankful: Our sensitivity increases in direct proportion to the positive responses we give to
our impressions. If you are thankful, your sensitivity to positive aspects of your life will grow. You
will see more opportunities, you will relax and your relationships will flourish.
You are living the only life you have, I hope you will unleash your potentials completely! I
believe if you realize what you have, recognize how you can use it, let go the negative past
and build positive habits over the steps you are making every day, you can achieve great
things.
Developing Real Life Skills for
Real World Situation
On 14 August 2018 a session on Developing Real Life Skills for Real World Situation by -
Captain Jaipreet Josh at BBBY office .
The session was reality based self-defence system for individuals & organisations.
Lead Trainer : KAPAP (Israel)/ Krav Maga (Israel) / Jim Wagner Reality Based Self Defence
(Germany)/ Tactical Knife Instructor (Germany)/ Underwater Knife Fighting (Singapore)/ Law
Enforcement (Israel)/ Commando Combat System (UCCA, Mumbai)/ Emergency Response
& Survival Tactics (Based on American Fire Life Safety & IDF.
Life Skills
Sankalp Sen
Mukul Aggarwal
(Associate Technical
(Sr. Software Engineer)
Lead)
Shahnaaz Anand
Shaifali Rana
(Assistant General
(Software Trainee)
Manager)
What is meditation?
With meditation, the physiology undergoes a change and every cell in the body is filled with
more prana (energy). This results in joy, peace, enthusiasm as the level of prana in the body
increases.
On a physical level meditation:
Meditation doesn’t have a religion and can be practiced by anybody regardless of the
faith they follow.
Effortless transition from being something to merging with the infinite and recognizing
yourself as an inseparable part of the whole cosmos
In a meditative state, you are in a space of vastness, calmness and joy and this is what
you emit into the environment, bringing harmony to the Creation/planet.
Meditation can bring about a true personal transformation. As you learn more about
yourself, you’ll naturally start discovering more about yourself and love yourself.
To experience the benefits of meditation, regular practice is necessary. It takes only a few
minutes every day. Once imbibed into the daily routine, meditation becomes the best part
of your day!
Meditation is like a seed. When you cultivate a seed with love, the more it blossoms.
Busy people from all backgrounds are grateful to pause and enjoy a refreshing few minutes
of meditation each day. Dive deep into yourself and enrich your life.
5 Benefits of meditation for students
Greater confidence
More focus and clarity
Better health
More mental strength and energy
Greater dynamism!
SHIV KHERA’S FORMULA FOR SUCCESS
With positive thinking, commitment to values, and a vision, you can reach great heights.
Your attitude, your values and your vision form the blue print of your success. Anything is
possible to achieve by psyching oneself with positive thinking. — These were the words of
wisdom by motivational speaker and author Shiv Khera who was in Chennai recently.
Positive thinking alone cannot guarantee success. “It is a supplement, not a substitute for
your action plan. Your positive action combined with positive thinking results in success.”
Character
For most of us negative thinking has become habitual. Positive behaviour has to be a
reflex action. Develop good habits, for it greatly contributes to positive habits and
attitudes. Give importance to your reputation and most importantly your character.
Keep up your self-esteem.
Tips for Class XII students Khera says:
Do not give too much of importance to Avoid miscommunication. The
your grades/scores in this one exam price you pay for it is horrendous.
alone. Do not confuse failure in exam Ego can destroy team work/effort.
to failure in life itself. Youngsters Set your goal. It helps you know
perceive the world to be highly where you are heading.
competitive. But give it a thought, Have a vision. It is the ability to see
success is easier today and the invisible. If you can see the
opportunities aplenty. Just be willing to invisible, you can achieve the
work hard and all will be well. impossible.
Reservation is depriving students of Credibility and integrity are vital.
many a good opportunity. Reservation Organisations with credibility
is a tool in the hands of the politicians, it make higher profits.
is destructive and not at all good for It is better to be honourable than
nation development. be honoured.
Don’t quit. Don’t give up.
TRIUMPH OVER ADVERSITY
This past Sunday my curiosity got the best of me, so I stopped jogging and walked over to her.
As I got closer, I realized that the metal cage was in fact a small trap. There were three turtles,
unharmed, slowly walking around the base of the trap. She had a fourth turtle in her lap that
she was carefully scrubbing with a spongy brush.
“Hello,” I said. “I see you here every Sunday morning. If you don’t mind my nosiness, I’d love to
know what you’re doing with these turtles.”
She smiled. “I’m cleaning off their shells,” she replied. “Anything on a turtle’s shell, like algae or
scum, reduces the turtle’s ability to absorb heat and impedes its ability to swim. It can also
corrode and weaken the shell over time.”
“Wow! That’s really nice of you!” I exclaimed.
She went on: “I spend a couple of hours each Sunday morning, relaxing by this lake and
helping these little guys out. It’s my own strange way of making a difference.”
“But don’t most freshwater turtles live their whole lives with algae and scum hanging from their
shells?” I asked.
“Yep, sadly, they do,” she replied.
I scratched my head. “Well then, don’t you think your time could be better spent? I mean, I
think your efforts are kind and all, but there are fresh water turtles living in lakes all around the
world. And 99% of these turtles don’t have kind people like you to help them clean off their
shells. So, no offense… but how exactly are your localized efforts here truly making a
difference?”
The woman giggled aloud. She then looked down at the turtle in her lap, scrubbed off the last
piece of algae from its shell, and said, “Sweetie, if this little guy could talk, he’d tell you I just
made all the difference in the world.”
Key Learnings: You can change the world - maybe not all at once but one person, one animal
and one good deed at a time. Wake up every morning and pretend like what you do makes a
difference. It does.
The Weight of the Glass
Once upon a time a psychology professor walked around on a stage while teaching stress
management principles to an auditorium filled with students. As she raised a glass of water,
everyone expected they’d be asked the typical “glass half empty or glass half full” question.
Instead, with a smile on her face, the professor asked, “How heavy is this glass of water I’m
holding?”
Students shouted out answers ranging from eight ounces to a couple pounds.
She replied, “From my perspective, the absolute weight of this glass doesn’t matter. It all
depends on how long I hold it. If I hold it for a minute or two, it’s fairly light. If I hold it for an
hour straight, its weight might make my arm ache a little. If I hold it for a day straight, my arm
will likely cramp up and feel completely numb and paralyzed, forcing me to drop the glass to
the floor. In each case, the weight of the glass doesn’t change, but the longer I hold it, the
heavier it feels to me.”
As the class shook their heads in agreement, she continued, “Your stresses and worries in life
are very much like this glass of water. Think about them for a while and nothing happens.
Think about them a bit longer and you begin to ache a little. Think about them all day long,
and you will feel completely numb and paralyzed – incapable of doing anything else until you
drop them.”
Key Learnings: It’s important to remember to let go of your stresses and worries. No
matter what happens during the day, as early in the evening as you can, put all your
burdens down. Don’t carry them through the night and into the next day with you. If
you still feel the weight of yesterday’s stress, it’s a strong sign that it’s time to put the
glass down.
8 SLICES OF PIZZA
Wife: Oh no dear. She is poor. Going to meet her daughter and granddaughter, so she will
also feel nice. Moreover, everything has become so expensive these days. How will she
able to celebrate festival?
Husband: You! I don’t know why you become emotional so easily.
Wife: Oh dear, don’t worry. I am going to cancel today’s program of ordering Pizza. Why
unnecessarily blow away Rs.500 on eight pieces of stale bread.
Husband: Wow. Great. Snatching Pizza from us and giving to the maid!
Maid returned after three days and got busy in mopping and dusting.
Husband asked her “So, how was the vacation?”
Maid: Very nice sahib. Didi had given Rs.500 festival bonus.
Husband: So you went and met your daughter? And also met your granddaughter?
Maid: yes sahib. Enjoyed a lot and spent Rs.500 in two days’ time.
Husband: Really? Ok so what did you do with Rs.500?
Maid: Rs.150 for dress for granddaughter, Rs.40 for a doll, bought sweets worth Rs.50 for
daughter, Rs.50 as offering to Deity in temple, Rs.60 towards bus fare, Rs.25 for bangles for
for daughter, bought a nice belt worth Rs.50 for son-in-law, balance Rs.75 gave to
daughter to buy copy and pencil for grand-daughter. Maid gave a full account of the
expenses incurred.
Husband: So much in Rs 500?
With surprise, he started thinking. The eight pieces of Pizza appeared in front of his eyes
and each one of them acted as a hammer started pricking his consciousness. For the
price of one Pizza, he started comparing the expenses his maid had incurred during her
visit to her daughter.
So far he had observed pizza only from one angle. He turned it upside down and observe
how it looks like from the other side but today his maid showed him the other side of the
pizza. The eight pieces of pizza showed him the real meaning of life and the meaning of
“Spending for life” or “Life for spending”.
India has the largest postal The 2011 Kumbh Mela was the
1 network in the world with over 1, 2 largest gathering of people with
55,015 post offices. A single post over 75 million pilgrims. The
1
office on an average serves a gathering was so huge that the
population of 7,175 people. The crowd was visible from space.
floating post office in Dal Lake,
Srinagar, was inaugurated in
August 2011.
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In the morning they thought of a plan. They made themselves look as dirty with grease and
dirt. They then went up to the Dean and said that they had gone out to a wedding last night
and on their return the tyre of their car burst and they had to push the car all the way back
and that they were in no condition to appear for the test.
So the Dean said they could have the re-test after 3 days. They thanked him and said they
would be ready by that time.
On the third day they appeared before the Dean. The Dean said that as this was a Special
Condition Test, all four were required to sit in separate classrooms for the test. They all agreed
as they had prepared well in the last 3 days.
The Test consisted of 2 questions with a total of 100 Marks.
See Below for the question Paper
Q.1. Your Name........ (2 MARKS)
Q.2. Which tyre burst? (98 MARKS)
a) Front Left b) Front Right c) Back Left d) Back Right
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