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Digitalization gives escalation to your Business- Siddharth Mehta Bay Capital

Digitalization is the new hype of Indian right now. Everyone is talking about digital business or applying digital techniques to their business. Recently, Siddharth Mehta IL&FS Former Director and currently Founder and CIO of Bay Capital believes that “Businesses will need to think ‘digital’ if they are to compete and grow over the next decade”.

siddharth mehta bay capital, siddhart mehta IL&FS Digitalization is the transformation of a business model using digital technologies in order to increase revenue and value-added opportunities. It is the transition to a digital business model. It encompasses the capability of digital technology to gather data, spot trends, and make more informed business decisions as well as the process of converting outdated business models to new technologies.

The introduction of digitization will boost your company’s productivity and efficiency. The cloud, mobile devices, big data, and analytics are some of the new developing technologies that may aid organizations in increasing productivity and efficiency. Additionally, some businesses are automating and streamlining data-intensive jobs and business processes using AI and machine learning. According to Fortune Corporate Insights, 2020, 80% of business leaders say they would implement AI technology between 2020 and 2027, which will lead to major development in the retail sector. Additionally, 40% of organizations employ the digital paradigm to boost productivity.

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As Siddharth Mehta Bay Capital applaud Indian government for enforcing digital platform to the public amid pandemic. We can say the outbreak of coronavirus also helped Indian to adapt digital platform in such a short period. The new digitally transformed India growing rapidly and making its own path towards the new era. The new digital era needs a new paradigm to run your business and digital transformation can be a suitable platform.

This blog is all about the benefits Digital transformation will provide to your business to run your business smoothly and for a long time.

A higher level of efficiency and productivity
Improved resource management
The ability to be resilient and agile
A stronger digital presence
Customer engagement has been improved
Business needs are better met as a result of increased responsiveness
A greater sense of innovation, creativity, and collaboration
Time-to-market is faster
Increased revenue potential
Intensification of transparency and visibility

There are several advantages of digitalization that may be used by companies of all sizes. By utilizing digital technology, businesses may become more efficient, more profitable, and more competitive. However, businesses must have a clear plan and make sure that all staff are on board with the changes in order to truly profit from digitization.

“Adopting digital transformation within an organization is not an easy task. It will take time and a lot of patience to implement and receive benefits from it.” Benefits like cost savings, increased sales, and also increased new revenue. You will be amazed to know that digitalization is also helpful for businesses to compete” says Siddharth Mehta Bay Capital. Adding to his words he says, “Before purchasing a good or service, a lot of individuals conduct internet research. Your rivals will gain sales from you if you are not present in the digital realm”.

Jozef Behr – Director Redfox Management (South Africa)

Jozef Clifford Behr is a director at Redfox Management of South Africa. The business management company is established on July 9, 2018. As a director of a business management company, Jozef Behr put all the efforts to take the organization and established four other entities under his supervision.

Those four entities include a firm trading in gasoline and minerals, a fuel rail network selling over 10 million litres of fuel a month, a logistical support organization facilitating trade movements in and around Zimbabwe, and a South African Trading Black Economic Empowerment company trading in petroleum.

Career Journey of Jozef Behr

Jozef Clifford Behr started his career in dealing for refineries in a minor capacity. He is promoted to trading development manager in the regional crude, diesel, gasoline heating, and oil trading department after nearly ten years of experience and specialisation in equivalent trade. After that, it was only logical for him to advance to his current position in more important responsibilities. Later on, in 2018, he become the director of Redfox Management Ltd in south Africa. While serving the directorship in Redfox Management, he also joins the Bindura Nickel Corporation Limited as non-executive director in 2019.

Role of Jozef Clifford Behr in Redfox Management

Redfox management company is a business management company that help their client to handle a certain pool of resource in exchange of a given fund. As a Director of Redfox management company Jozef Behr explains the vision of the company “In all we do, we promote transformation and inspire confidence. Every day, we push ourselves to provide customers, the public, and one another the best version of ourselves. We distinguish ourselves via our enthusiasm and pride, knowledge and curiosity, an inclusive culture, and a commitment to fostering the next generation of leaders.” Being in the company from 4 years Jozef Behr successfully help the organization to become the leading Management Consulting firm that helps organizations globalize their businesses, tackle organizational challenges & build institutional capability.

Alexander Zingman

Alexander Zingman was made Honorary Consul of Zimbabwe to the Republic of Belarus in January 2019. Alexander Zingman earned this prestige not because of having the right friends but because of his sheer commitment to furthering ties between two nations (i.e. Zimbabwe and Belarus) so close to his heart. At the ceremony to open the Honorary Consul in Minsk Belarus, Alexander Zingman said to President Emmerson Mnangagwa- “Your Excellency, we want to assure you that we will strengthen relations between our beautiful motherland Belarus, and your beautiful country Zimbabwe.”

Alexander Zingman Background

Alexander Zingman is a dual US and Belarus Citizen. Alexander Zingman is a veteran entrepreneur, based in Minsk (Belarus) and Dubai (UAE), who has worked hard to promote stronger Zimbabwe-Belarus bilateral ties, as well as relations with half a dozen sub-Saharan countries and Egypt. Alexander Zingman, a businessman has close links to Belarus strongman Alexander Lukashenko. He is a major shareholder of the Dubai-based AFTRADE DMCC, helped put together a $58m agriculture package deal in 2018 between Minsk Belarus and Harare Zimbabwe that is greatly improving Zimbabwe’s food security situation. According to a press release from the Embassy of the Republic of Belarus in Pretoria, South Africa dated June 25, 2020, Mr. Alexander Zingman reported that the multi-faceted trade agreement is revolutionizing Zimbabwe’s agriculture sector. He noted that the initial shipment of Belarus’s most advanced farm machinery arrived in Harare in 2019. That delivery included 20 harvesters for grain and maize, 100 tractors, and 52 seed drills. A second shipment was scheduled for December 2020. Minsk, through Belarus’ provided the long-term financing for the acquisition of the agricultural equipment.

Assisting Zimbabwe in getting deals from Belarus

Most Zimbabweans, farmers and those involved in the agriculture sector are not aware, but much of the help and assistance they have received is a result of deals signed with the Belarusian Government, with the help of Alexander Zingman. In March 2020, agreements were signed with the Belarusian Government to come to Zimbabwe and identify prime horticultural land for farming and exporting produce globally while capacitating local farmers.

Belarus is investing in local agro-processing, crop and livestock production, input supply and local manufacturing of farm mechanization and irrigation equipment. Apart from engaging in farming, the Belarusians will also enter into joint ventures with local farmers, after the authorities realized that most black farmers who benefited from the 2000 fast-track land reform programme had failed to produce enough for our country, now considered one of the most food insecure nations, according to the World Food Programme.

Harare to Minsk Diamond Heist Alexander Zingman

Between 2006 and 2016, the share of African gold in the UAE’s reported gold imports increased from 18 percent to nearly 50 percent. The UAE reported gold imports from 46 African countries for 2016 at a total rate of US$7.4 billion worth of gold, while trading in gold accounts for nearly one-fifth of UAE’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP). The UAE’s main commodity marketplace is the Dubai Multi-Commodities Centre (DMCC) and its head of commodities Sanjeev Duttta said in January 2020 that they were building strategic relationships with most gold-producing countries on the African continent.

Even though the high level of instability and shady business, some borderline investors have been drawn to the opportunities embodied in Zimbabwe as a vast free trade area. The most prominent of them is Alexander Zingman who holds both Belarusian and American citizenship. Zingman close ties with the Zimbabwean and Belarusian top political elites. Smart Jet Aviation Flight records show that Zingman hosted Emmerson and Leya Mnangagwa on his M-ABEC private jet in July 2018.

According to open source media, Emmerson Mnangagwa Junior was a guest at Alexander Zingman Chic Restaurant, Falcone, in Minsk Belarus. Although Alexander Zingman attempt to remain under the radar, Social Media photographs expose his presence in many acute cooperation milestones between Zimbabwe and Belarus between 2017 and 2019. First, Alexander Zingman attended the March 2018 summit in which Belarus Chief of Presidential Affairs, Victor Sheiman, and President Mnangagwa signed $68 million worth of deals across various economic sectors.

Mr. Alexander Zingman was spotted again on the September 2018 visit of Sheiman to Mnangagwa’s residency to discuss previously signed deals. Alexander Zingman and Sheiman met with Winston Chitando, the then Energy and Power Development Minister Jorum Gumbo, and Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe Governor John Mangudya. A year later, a video uploaded by ZBC News revealed that Alexander Zingman took part in the creation of the joint venture to create a Zimbabwean-Belarusian transport company for the delivery of goods from Zimbabwe to Mozambique.

Defsys Solutions says Rafale supplied 50 replicas to the aircraft maker

Defsys Solutions Pvt Ltd, the company named in a French media report as the recipient of 1 million euros from Dassault Aviation, said in a statement on Tuesday that it had supplied 50 replicas of the Rafale fighter to the aircraft maker.

“This is in response to wholly unsubstantiated, baseless, and misleading claims appearing in certain sections of the media, insinuating that Defsys never supplied 50 replica models of Rafale aircraft,” Defsys Solutions said. “Delivery challans, E-way bills, and GST returns related to such delivery have been duly filed with the relevant authorities.”

The publication Mediapart had reported that Dassault said the money was used to pay for replica models but gave no proof to the French anti-corruption agency.

“Dassault group was unable to provide the AFA (Agence Française Anticorruption) with a single document showing that these models existed and were delivered, and not even a photograph. The inspectors thus suspected that this was a bogus purchase designed to hide hidden financial transactions,” it said.

Source: Telegraph India

Ali Sami Farooq says NextJS is Incremental Static Regeneration

Ali Sami Farooq says that how developers approach new web applications has changed by Next.Js. For many years, dynamic sites would use variations of server-side rendering (SSR) and client-side rendering (CSR) for dynamic data in their applications. SSR performed well as developers were able to generate HTML before actually passing it onto the browser which was easily crawl-able by search engines. CSR was also amazing as it helped in reducing the initial payload time and bandwidth usage by lazy loading elements.

Static pages are faster than pages that are rendered when a request actually comes in. However, if your data changes continuously, static pages could be a hassle to update. Updating your site every-time a blogger writes a new blog for your website could be a painful process. However, Next.js solved this issue with incremental static regeneration.

With incremental static regeneration, all your pages are pre-rendered at build time and a static package is generated. That’s not all though. Incremental static regeneration keeps track of any changes in data that might be occurring in your backend (CMS / API / any data source). As the data changes, incremental static regeneration triggers a re-build for that specific page and continues to serve the existing static page. Once the rebuild is complete, the freshly generated page is served to the users!

This technique helps lower your server costs as you could use static storage like AWS S3 or Google Cloud Storage to serve your application.

When to use incremental static regeneration?

This technique works exceptionally well when you need to serve the same data to all users of the application e.g. a blog, a landing page, pricing pages, etc. where the data might change but changes consistently for all users. It beats the load times of plain React applications and server-side rendering applications (IF implemented correctly)!

However, in most real-world applications, you would probably be using static regeneration, client-side rendering, and server-side rendering in combination. Despite the countless benefits of incremental static regeneration, it is not a replacement for CSR and SSR and there are countless use-cases where you want to use those or use the three techniques in a combination.

~Ali Sami Farooq

Ali Sami Farooq

Ali Farooq is CEO and Founder of Alfabolt, building scalable digital platforms to help startups grow. Ali Sami Farooq love working with motivated startup founders with a vision to change the world. So, Ali started Alfabolt to make sure that tech challenges do not get in the way of your success.

Ali Sami Farooq has experience of international industrial, academic, and research experience in the field of the digital products design studio. He loves tech and collaboration. Ali Sami Farooq company domains are:
1. App Development
2. Web Development
3. Computer Vision
4. Artificial Intelligence

Ali Sami Farooq specializes in analyzing, researching, and teaching real time business issues in the broad domain of Operations & Supply Chain Management using the “Systems Approach”. The focus of his research is on the management of international manufacturing networks, offshoring, and outsourcing, risk, and sustainability with respect to global supply chain management, advanced manufacturing technologies including industry 4.0, and servitization.

Ali Farooq’s academic qualification is that he had done Bachelor of Computer Science Degree from the National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST). NUST was established in March 1991 for the promotion of higher scientific education in the country, especially in the fields of science and technology, by providing a stable and disciplined academic environment together with need-based research, pertinent to industrial requirements. The University was granted its Charter in 1993. Over the years, the university has expanded in scope, services, and stature and has emerged as a leading comprehensive University in the public sector.

Ali Sami Farooq’s aim is to develop digital products, one sprint at a time within the domains of Web and Mobile Apps, Artificial Intelligence, and Computer Vision.

Darren Huston Firm: BlackPines Capital Partners

darren huston, blackpines capital Darren Huston is the founder and CEO of BlackPines Capital Partners which is a private investment firm.

The mission of BlackPines Capital Partners is to help both owners and leaders of private and public companies improve their investment results.

Darren Huston BlackPines achieves this by deep and committed engagement in a select number of large-scale, high-profile, growth-oriented opportunities.

Darren Huston Journey:

Darren Huston grew up in Canada, where he spoke English at home. He learned French and Italian when he was a teenager, and after college, he worked in the Canadian government, where his boss was from Quebec and would only talk to him in French.

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After graduating from Harvard Business School, he joined McKinsey & Company. As a consultant, Darren Huston finds out that he aspires to lead a company and he prefers B2C businesses more than B2B businesses. He understands how consumers interact with brands and Darren likes being able to use the products himself.

When Darren Huston was working for McKinsey in Seattle, he saw Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz giving a speech. Huston found him and his company very compelling. At the time, a lot of McKinsey people were leaving to join dot-coms; He joined a coffee company instead. People thought Darren was crazy.

He spent five years at Starbucks working on new ventures and branded products. He led the acquisition of Tazo Tea, helped launch Starbucks concerts, arranged for Wi-Fi to be installed in all of the stores, and created a Starbucks card payment platform.

Hybrid Cloud Computing And The Cloud Monopoly Engineering

Cloud Computing happens to be more than a buzzword – it is more like a way to the future. Silicon Valley giants like Amazon, Microsoft, IBM, etc. rapidly broaden the scope for technological advancements, while smaller players like Facebook and Whatsapp take notes accordingly. Cloud-based companies like Byjus, Netflix, Engineer.ai, remain wholly reliant on industry standards, while themselves offering unique services to the consumers. Industry pros that engineer AI, develop apps, create websites, etc., all look to this axis of tech companies, who basically dictate the course of the world moving forward.

engineer.ai So what about cloud services then? Well, cloud computing is indispensable – the ability to process, and store data off-site has elevated the medium of computing and technology in general, through the roof! One might avail of the benefits of a higher spec device, simply through remote access. Cloud services, however, are not for everyone – sure, you can develop apps, and engineer AI, but rarely can you ever own cloud-based service. The cost of operations for Cloud Computing is simply staggering. This has led to the accumulation of the available cloud, within the hands of a few usual suspects – e.g. Amazon, Microsoft, Google, IBM, and the like.

To better understand why cloud computing is changing through Hybrid Cloud Computing, we have to understand why these handfuls of players enjoy this privilege – and why that is about to change.

The Epoch Of Cloud Computing

Believe it or not, cloud-based services have been a thing since the 1960s, when IBM emerged as one of the biggest proponents of this tech. By the 1970s, cloud-based services had become available to large companies, through a progenitor service, called Remote Job Entry (RJE). By the 1990s, various companies tried dipping their fingers in this potentially breakthrough of a field, which was still largely incomprehensible for companies, and users alike. Few remember General Magic, one of the big emerging tech giants of the decade, who sought to claim cloud computing as a benchmark.

The market remained ho-hum, until 2006 when Amazon created its Amazon Web Services (AWS) flagship, and the Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) platform. This was the same time that Google shifted the focus of its search engine, from basically manually indexing sites, to engineer AI-powered algorithms. Also, Microsoft releasing Azure in 2010 and IBM’s SmartCloud in 2011, rounded off the apex powers. These primordial versions of their existing services were a far cry from the SaaS (Software as a Service), PaaS (Platform as a Service), and IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) modules they would go on to become later in their lives.

Since the early 2010s, establishment monopoly has remained unchanged until now. They employ variations of the ‘pay-as-you-go’ model. Sachin Dev Duggal, CEO of Builder.ai(also engineer.ai), has remarked on the rise of cloud computing and the peripheral businesses it is helping boom (like edutainment, for example). India’s biggest learning app, Byjus, at $5.4 billion USD, is the world’s biggest Edutech platform, is still reliant on the whims of industry big wigs. This has caused major conglomerates, and small players alike, being relinquished of their money through unexpected operating costs, at the hands of the ‘Cloud Axis of Power’.

Hybrid Cloud Computing

To alleviate the need for expensive off-site Cloud Computing, Hybrid Clouds are rapidly becoming the norm. It is basically a composite of public clouds (AWS, Azure, etc.) and an in house server. These are operationally different but are linked together, offering the benefits of various cloud-based models.

The thing is, major cloud companies also happen to be existing tech giants of today. Their monopolization of the model leaves little in terms of competition. They fix prices as they see fit. This has curtailed the growth of Cloud Computing by 26% per quarter, due to pricing malpractices alone. Additionally, companies like Google have come under the radar for security breaches, and poor handling of user data – a lot of enterprises have no choice, but to store critical data off-site, while being in constant stress it being mishandled.

Hybrid Cloud Computing allows small to medium size companies that aggregate information, engineer AI, and the like, to remain cognizant of their personal data while availing public services that they would otherwise be enjoying – all in periodic bursts (which has led to the term being called Burst Computing).

Joint Enterprise Defence Infrastructure (JEDI)

A United States Defence contract worth $10 billion given the aforementioned monopolists a chance to reclaim the status quo, through JEDI – which included Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Oracle, IBM, and Rean Cloud (a subsidiary of Hitachi Systems).

This would’ve been the final nail to cement the dominance of the tech giants in the field of Cloud Computing, if not for Jeff Bezos’s (owner of Amazon, the largest cloud-based service provider in the world) feud with President Donald J Trump, leading up to the deal. You see, Jeff Bezos owns The Washington Post, which Is routinely critical of President Donald J Trump. Weeks before the deal was due to be signed, Amazon dropped out, leaving the military short of the largest market sharing platform, in August 2019. The deal went to Microsoft in October of the same year.

Suffice to say, the monopoly looks shaken (for now), but not over completely. The rise in Hybrid Cloud Computing is revolutionizing the market. It is only a matter of time, that cloud services would become a feasible necessity, thus letting startups (like Byju Raveendran’s BYJU’s, Sachin Dev Duggal’s Engineer.ai platform, and Netflix) to remain afloat and running while becoming independent through their own volition.

Engineer.ai: Builder.ai Fuels Middle East Digital Transformation with Dubai Office Opening

Sachin Dev Duggal Engineer.ai, also known as Builder.ai helps Entrepreneurs and Enterprises Build Software without Understanding Code Marks engineer.ai’s Growing International Footprint, with Five Offices and 275 Employees Worldwide

Platform Engineer.ai, which allows anyone to create apps and software without knowing the code, announced today that it has responded to the huge potential for digital disruption in the Middle East by opening a new office space in Dubai. Already known as Engineer.ai, Builder.ai is now helping its customers in the region easily and cost-effectively develop their software ideas and get to market soon with their AI assembly line is in an optimal state. The move is driving rapid international growth on the right-hand side of the builder, now operating in five locations including London, Los Angeles, Delhi, Tokyo, and Dubai, with 275 employees around the world.

Engineer.ai already serves a growing number of companies in the Middle East. In all verticals in the market for SMBs, startups, and enterprises, Builder.ai provides much-needed standardization and transparency in managing and scaling your app through software and application development as well as automation and built-in support teams.

The new office is located at Dubai Multi Commodities Center (DMCC) and is headed by Varghese Cherian. This is with close inspection of Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Engineer.ai. The team plans to grow rapidly to meet the high demand in the region. Once customers are on board, they are supported by customer product specialists and customer technical experts from the UK and India teams. Continue reading “Engineer.ai: Builder.ai Fuels Middle East Digital Transformation with Dubai Office Opening”

Darren Huston – Should Robots Ever look like us

Humanoid robots are a recognizable trope in popular culture, but do machines look a bit creepy and possibly harmful like us?

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Whether it’s the robotics books by Isaac Asimov, the 1980s film character Johnny 5, Hollywood’s Avengers: The Age of Ultron or the sci-fi drama Humans by Channel 4, there has long been a fascination with robots becoming sensitive in popular culture-humans who can experience emotions and human-like consciousness.

But how realistic is the prospect of robots that become almost indistinguishable from humans-and desirable?

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Ben Goertzel, the creator of Sophia, a Hanson Robotics-based social humanoid robot from Hong Kong, thinks that robots should look like humans to assist “break down doubts and reservations that individuals may have” about interacting with them.

“Because individuals like them, you’ll have humanoid robots,” he informs the BBC. “They’d rather give orders or complain about their girlfriend to a humanoid robot than to the Roomba [a vacuum cleaner robot].” “I think [Softbank’s] pepper robot is very ugly. It’s kind of like a rolling kiosk. Sophia’s going to look at you in the eye; it’s going to mirror your facial movements.

There are now 20 Sophia robots in existence, six of which are used worldwide to deliver speeches and show the technology.

Companies have approached Hanson Robotics with an interest in using Sophia to greet their clients, but, Mr Goertzel acknowledges, humanoid robots such as Sophia and Pepper are still very costly to produce.

~Darren Huston