Sonata Software to showcase SME Led Technology Solutions with SAP in Maharashtra & Gujarat

                       

Sonata Software, a global IT services company, announced its participation in the Maharashtra and Gujarat leg of SAP Innovation Express.  SAP Innovation Express is a first of its kind pan-India bus roadshow that will help Indian enterprises gain more insights into the power of SAP solutions and services to achieve business excellence.

Speaking on the occasion, Mohan Muthuraj, Associate VP, Technology Infrastructure Group- Sonata Software, said, “We aim to connect with a wide range of SME’s at SAP’s Innovation Express. During its journey in Maharashtra and Gujarat, our teams would be able to demonstrate and showcase the most innovative SAP technologies including cloud, mobility, analytics and big data.”

Transformation and technology have become the key to successful small and midsize companies. Sonata will assist organizations to adopt world class solutions and inspire them to compete on global standards at the SAP Innovation Express.

Sonata aims to support and guide Indian enterprises, on the best technology practices and shall provide hands on experience of SAP Solutions in cloud, mobility, analytics and big data. Various engagements have been planned with SMEs through specific break-out sessions containing live demonstrations of simple, industry-relevant and affordable SAP solutions, customer implementations and testimonials and partner discussions. Customers who board the Innovation Express can witness real time demos of SAP offerings and consult the SAP & the Partners leadership team to learn more about it on the spot.

Elitecore's New Centre of Excellence at ‘Pune

Elitecore Technologies, a leading provider of next generation BSS alongside Packet core solution (Revenue and customer management) announces opening of the next-generation ‘Centre of Excellence’ (CoE) in Hinjewadi, Pune. CoE aims to leverage Pune’s ecosystem to steer company’s growing footprint in the global telecommarket.

Speaking on the occasion, Nikhil Jain, CEO, Elitecore Technologies says “ The Centre of Excellence will work towards our company’s  vision of enabling our customers’  ability to market  its services on time  and bring utmost customer satisfaction and differentiate their services. CoE will play a major role in our global expansion strategy.

Nikhil further added, “Elitecore will strengthen its product delivery, professional services and bring in more expertise continue serving our project management capability as per latest industry standard to bring in operational efficiencies, quick turnaround time (TAT) and reduced TCO.”The Pune Centre of Excellence will tap top Industry professionals from Pune.

12th Rail World Summit 2014

With the support of State Railway of Thailand, Mass Rapid Transit Authority of Thailand (MRTA) and Bangkok Mass Transit Public Co. Ltd (BTS), organizing committee of RailWorld Summit announced to hold its 12^th RailWorld Summit 2014 from October 23-24, 2014 at “Lebua At State Tower” Bangkok, Thailand.

It is forecasted that in coming 20 years the Demand of Rail transportation in Asia and Asia pacific region is expected to double. In order to meet this demand the major stake holders especially rail and metro operators have solve the internal and external challenges, especially improve the financial and operational efficiency so that they can maximize the utilization of available resources for the future expansion.

The south East Asia region will experience the investment of around 146 Billion US Dollar until 2020. Major contributors on this huge investment are supposed to be Thailand (68 billion USD) and Singapore (56 billion USD) where as Malaysia, Laos, Indonesia and Vietnam will share the rest.

Being Asia’s leading rail conference, the 12th Annual RailWorld Summit 2014 (RWS 2014) will continue the saga of providing necessary platform to all rail industry stake holders. RWS 2014 will take you and your business to the next level with most trending topic, innovative networking and various discussions in this event. Featuring with 26+ speakers and panelist this year we are expecting 280+ participants to register for the event.

Hear from the last year’s VIPs:

²  “A good platform to confer on various issues of railway technology” -Soi-Hoi LAM, Technical Consultant, Transportation Infrastructure Office, Macao SAR

²  “A great combination of speakers and participants. I learned a lot and got good insight to make our business growth in Southeast Asia” -Paul DA, General Manager, SANY

²  “The conference is very fruitful and successful. Thank you for giving us the opportunity to be part of this conference” -Simon GIOVANAZZI, Executive Director Asia, DB International GmbH

²  “It provided an excellent conference for networking and developing business. The conference was excellent” -Steven LANGLEY, Global Business Manager, SYDAC Pty Ltd

²  “Very good experience at the event, the networking is very good. I got contacts of people my company may do business with” -Bancha CHANTRATHAI, CEO, EA Mechanics Co., Ltd

Confirmed speakers of RWS2014:

Ø  Chula SUKMANOP, Director -General, Office of Transport and Traffic Policy and Planning, Ministry of Transport, Thailand

Ø  Voravuth MALA, Marketing Director, State Railway of Thailand (SRT)

Ø  Yongsit ROJSRIKUL, Governor, Mass Rapid Transit Authority of Thailand (MRTA)

Ø  Chamroon TANGPAISALKIT, Chairman, State Railway of Thailand Electrical Train (SRTET)

Ø  Sermanto DWIATMOKO, Directorate General of Railways, Ministry of Transportation, Indonesia

Ø  Tonny YEAP, Head of Special Projects & Technology Division, Land Public Transport Commission (SPAD)

Ø  Tommy JEN, Assistant Director, Deputy Head of Operation Control Center, Taiwan High Speed Railway Corporation, Taiwan

Ø  Phuritath PHANITPHOTJAMARN, Senior Chief Engineer, Bangkok Metro Public Company Limited (BMCL)

Ø  G.J.C. GUNATHILAKE, Additional Secretary (Engineering), Ministry of Ports and Highways, Sri Lanka

Ø  Hernando T. CABRERA, Spokesperson & Board Secretary, Light Rail Transit Authority (LRTA), Philippines

Ø  Speaker TBC, CSR Sifang Co. Ltd

Ø  Dave ONG, Deputy Director Passenger Service Quality Management, SMRT, Singapore

Ø  Thomas GODFREY, Head of Engineering (Asia Pacific), Bombardier Transportation

Ø  Daniel DUNOYE, Director Business Development, Asia Pacific, Alstom Transport

Ø  Suhaimi YAACOB, President – Rail, Scomi Engineering

For more information on the RWS2014 including the latest list of speakers, participants and sponsors visit the event website http://www.cdmc.org.cn/2014/rwsa/

DreamTrips Vacation Club Named “Africa’s Leading Travel Club” at 2014 WorldTravel Awards Ceremony in Nigeria

Industry Elite also Crowned DreamTrips as “Europe’s Leading Travel Club for 2014” in August

Plano, TX – DreamTrips™ Vacation Club, one of the world’s leading travel and vacation club membership organizations, was recognized as “Africa’s Leading Travel Club” for 2014 as part of the World Travel Awards (WTA)—thesecond WTA regional award for the travel club this year. The World Travel Awards Africa& Indian Ocean Gala Ceremony was held at Transcorp Hilton Abuja in Abuja, Nigeria on Friday, Sept. 5, with hundreds of tourismprofessionals in attendance.

The award acknowledges DreamTrips’ distinguished travel club excellence in the Africa and Indian Ocean regions within the last year. Industry leaders from across both regionsidentified DreamTrips forexceptionalservice and product offerings. Nominees in other Africa and Indian Ocean travel categories include Four Seasons Hotels, Hilton, Marriott, Kenya Airways and Royal Air Maroc.

“We are grateful to be recognized as Africa’s best travel club a month after DreamTrips was named Europe’s Leading Travel Club,” WorldVentures Co-Founder and CEO Mike Azcue said. “Together with Rovia, our travel agency partner, the team composes unforgettable travel experiences, whichinclude a unique product offering and exceptional customer service for our worldwide membership. This is a warm handshake from the tourism industry’s leadership.”

Since 1993, WTAhas acknowledged and celebrated excellence across all sectors of the global tourism industry. Last year,DreamTrips was named “World’s Leading Travel Club” at the 2013 WTA Grand Finals. The Africa & Indian Ocean Gala Ceremony is the fourth stop on the annual Grand Tour which visited Dubai, Greece and Ecuador earlier this year, and will include stops in India and Anguilla before arriving in Morocco for the Grand Finals in November.

About DreamTrips
DreamTrips delivers high-quality, one-of-a-kind curated travel and vacation experiences to its vacation club members. More information can be found at
www.dreamtrips.com/experience-more.

About World Travel Awards
The World Travel Awards was launched in 1993 to acknowledge and recognize excellence in the global travel and tourism industry. Now celebrating its 21^st anniversary, it is regarded as the highest achievement a travel product or service could hope to receive. More information can be found at www.worldtravelawards.com.