Volume: 10  |  Issue: 3  |  September 2023

The Q

Leadership Message

Dear QBurstians,

QBurst has been serving clients on their digital transformation journey for nearly 20 years. We stand out among IT companies due to our longstanding relationships with clients and our commitment to customer satisfaction. Customer growth is essential for us to grow as an organization.

As we step into an era of generative models that power a multitude of applications and use cases, organizations are now focusing on navigating to the “Next”- the next innovation, the next business model, the next change. As QBurstians, we need to bring in a certain uniqueness that inspires creativity and innovation through intrinsic motivation and passion to deliver value. Create self managing teams, attain a good understanding of the system, identify problem areas, ideate, innovate, validate, and develop.

We have a strong leadership team for guidance, best-in-class technology leaders, and an array of tools that can help us on our growth journey. As QBurtians, let us tap into these resources and amplify our potential as we embark on this journey of continuous improvement.

Thanks,

Varun George
Associate Director, Projects

New Wins

This quarter, we added 11 new clients to our client base. They are Digital Biz Solutions Pvt. Ltd., Insight Global LLC, DealStreamAI Inc., Gotoshi, Moonrock.AI, Caresoft Global Technologies Inc., Root On Immigration Consultants Pvt. Ltd., Hunt Companies Inc., Insurance News Net, Rand Mutual Assurance Company Ltd., Steinweg Logistics.

 

Digital Biz Solutions Pvt. Ltd.

Digital Biz Solutions is a high-performance technology consultancy. QBurst is partnering with Digital Biz to provide expertise in various domains for multiple clients in Australia.

 

Insight Global LLC

Insight Global is a national staffing and services company. As partners, QBurst will work with United Airlines in developing cutting edge mobile solutions for their mobile tool. QBurst will also provide expertise to Evergreen in recruitment. Features include managing day-to-day activities related to recruitment and maintaining their applicant tracking system.

 

DealStreamAI Inc.

DealStream is a global B2B marketplace where people buy, sell, and trade assets. QBurst will deliver an AI sales enablement tool, designed for enterprise customers.

 

Gotoshi

Gotoshi is a multi-vendor marketplace for trading in Bitcoin. The client has engaged QBurst in customizations. This will include support for multiple vendors with various shipping rates in a single order, showing and hiding products based on the location of users, and ensuring seamless integration with Opennode.com for customer payments in Bitcoin.

 

Moonrock.ai

Moonrock.ai develops AI workers that can automate specific tasks, such as responding to frequently asked questions and providing personalized product recommendations that help businesses streamline their operations. Businesses can scale their existing teams and optimize their employees’ work. QBurst will assist in building a SaaS model for the client.

 

Caresoft Global Technologies Inc.

Caresoft is an award-winning technology-driven engineering solutions company. QBurst is partnering with Caresoft in developing the Superset Dashboard.

 

Root On Immigration Consultants Private Limited

QBurst will lend expertise in developing a corporate website detailing the various services the client provides to the user. The scope includes creation of a mobile-friendly website, an admin CMS application, QA, SEO, and UI/UX design.

 

Hunt Companies Inc.

Hunt, based in El Paso, Texas, is a diversified, family-owned holding company that invests in operating businesses, real estate assets, and infrastructure assets. QBurst will develop a Talend dashboard to know what steps in the business process are taking the longest so that site leaders can take remedial action.

 

Insurance News Net

Insurance News Net delivers the industry's most comprehensive news to keep insurance and financial professionals informed on the most important issues of the day. QBurst will take over the development of their portal, INN.

 

Rand Mutual Assurance Company Ltd.

RMA, a non-profit mutual assurance company offers workmen’s compensation benefits to the mining, iron, metal, steel, and related industries. QBurst will help with Performance testing across all their applications.

 

Steinweg Logistics

Steinweg is a globally operating independent service provider in the fields of storage, handling, forwarding, chartering, and other commodity related logistics services. QBurst will partner with the client to assist in automating the QA testing process for an internal operations system.

Bulletin

Patent Achievement

Our client Freedom Scientific Inc. has secured a patent for their Screen Reader System. The team is proud of the contributions made by Vimal Sojan and Prafuldev Raveendran from QBurst to the success of the project.

Patent

Mediaocean Client Meeting

Mediaocean clients met with QBurst in New Jersey on June 5, 2023.

Media Ocean

Enable Consulting - Office Visit

QBurst team visited the office of Enable Consulting in Pennsylvania on June 5, 2023.

Enable

Evergreen Client Visit

Evergreen client met up with QBurst team members on August 17, 2023 at our Bangalore office.

Evergreen

Alpha Ori Visit

Alpha Ori’s Garrett Souders met with team members from across all offices who gathered at QBurst Cochin from July 17 to 18, 2023.

Alpha Ori

A Tree of Books

QBurst Calicut has installed a bookshelf that looks like a tree. We hope the initiative will cultivate a shared love of reading among QBurstians.

Books

Bangalore Office Visit

Ameena Iqbal - Associate Director, Projects and Remya Vava - Senior Architect met with team members in Bangalore. The meeting touched key areas on skill enhancement, individual ownership, and effective communication.

BLR Visit

Events

Evalgator at People Matters TechHR India 2023

Evalgator was a partner at Asia's largest HR tech event, People Matters TechHR India 2023 held at Ambience Mall, Gurgaon from August 3 to 4, 2023. Vivekanand Vidyadharan - Product Head, Ashith K V - Sales Head, and Sheena Sanjay - Customer Success Manager, represented Evalgator at the event. The team interacted with hundreds of delegates, including top executives of leading companies, who dropped in at our booth to learn more about Evalgator.

TechHR

Tech Conclave

Trivandrum office hosted Tech Conclave which was held at the Hycinth Hotels on August 12, 2023. Sessions were conducted primarily on AI, ISO implementation, and also included other tech topics.

Tech Convlave

Architects’ Meet - 2023

Architects and senior professionals across all QBurst locations gathered for the Architects’ Meet in Kochi from June 16 to 17, 2023 to exchange ideas and explore new ways of expansion. The event took place at Ramada Resort, Kochi.

Arch Meet

Calicut Architects’ Meet

QBurst Calicut Architects Meet was organized at Taj Wayanad Resort on May 27, 2023. Interactive sessions were held on various topics including Microfrontend, Social Engineering, AI for Code Assistance, and Salesforce.

CLT Arch Meet

QA Leadership Summit

The QA Leadership Summit took place at Kochi on July 1, 2023. The summit entailed discussions ranging from Test Automation, Agile methodologies, AI-powered testing, and continuous quality improvement. Joby Raj - Associate Vice President, QA and Jimmy Kappen - Vice President, Service Delivery shared their insights with the audience.

QA Summit

London Tech Week

Visakh Padmanabhan - Architect attended the London Tech Week 2023 at Queen Elizabeth II Centre, London. The event brought industry leaders, policy makers, and technology enthusiasts from across the globe together.

Tech Week

HackNight @ Calicut

The 12-hour dusk-to-dawn hackathon that took place from July 28 to 29, 2023 gave an opportunity to QBurstians to showcase innovative solutions. Congratulations to “Team K” and “405 Found” on bagging the first prize. Teams “Always Reboot” and “Django” came in second with “LOLgicians” coming in third.

Hack Night

FOSS Meet-up

The meet, organized by FOSS United Foundation had over 70 students and professionals who gathered at Lulu Cyber Tower. The event took place on July 22, 2023 and revolved around various free software projects. Ajmal Abdullah - Associate Architect, Vishnuprasad Kammath - Associate Architect, and Shanith Shaji - Data Scientist delivered insightful presentations at the meet-up.

FOSS

L&D Corner

L&D launched the CV Verifier App on November 04, 2022. CVs shared with clients need to go through the automated review process before the final verification by L&D. Please do not parse your appraisal CVs through the app.

L&D is conducting ‘Communication Builder’ sessions every week. This is an interactive session which will improve the quality of your communication. Interested QBurstians can send your interest to trainer@qburst.com to be included for these sessions.

Sports Round Up

Victory at the Corporate Cricket Tournament

QBurst cricket team from Trivandrum won the corporate cricket tournament held on August 5, 2023, at Rooftop Turf, Trivandrum against RR Donnely. This is their first-ever corporate cricket tournament championship.

Corporate Match

QBurst Reds Bag Fair-play Award

Trivandrum football team, QBurst Reds, made it to the quarterfinals of the Raviz Prathidhwani 7s tournament organized at Technopark from May 03, 2023 to July 27, 2023. The team won 6 out of 8 matches and received the Fair-play award from Jo Paul Ancheri, former Indian football team captain.

Fair Play

Box Cricket League

QBurst Bangalore team members participated in the Box Cricket League tournament held at Prestige Shantiniketan, Whitefield from June 06 to 08, 2023.

Box

Athletic Ascent

QBurst Calicut’s sporting event kicked off at Cyberpark. Jerseys were unveiled and games were organized as part of the event.

Ascent

Chennai Cricket Team

Chennai cricket team won a match against Warcraft (a local corporate team) by 40 runs.

Chennai Cricket Team

Certifications

Congratulations to QBurstians who have taken time to earn certifications in various courses/programs.

Salesforce Sharing and Visibility Architect

Mathew

Mathew Adithya

Trivandrum

Salesforce Service Cloud Consultant

Manasa

Manasa Dhandapani

Chennai

Salesforce Platform Developer - I

Safvan

Safvan Moossa

Cochin

Safal

Safal Raj

Cochin

Salesforce Associate Certification

Feneeshya

Feneeshya Elizabeth

Cochin

Sundar

Sundaraprakash Arunachalam

Chennai

AWS Solutions Architect

Arjun

Arjun Peedikayil

Cochin

Amalvas

Amalvas Krithyavasan

Cochin

AWS Solutions Architect

Sumayya

Sumayya Abdul

Cochin

Kubernetes Administrator

Jithin

Jithin Raju

Cochin

Certified Scrum Master

Satish

Satish Kumar

Bangalore

Madhukar

Madhukar Kumar

Bangalore

ISTQB Certified

Amrita

Amrita John

Canada

Prasobh

Prasobh Chandran

Cochin

Microsoft Azure Administration Associate

Jomy

Jomy George

Cochin

PSM Certified

Kelvin

Kelvin Victor

Cochin

AWS Cloud Practitioner

Anoob

Anoob Bava

Cochin

Hashicorp Terraform Associate

Rithun

Rithun Valappil

Trivandrum

LINE Certified

Aya

Aya Yoshimura

Japan

Chisato

Chisato Sugiyama

Japan

LINE Certified

Naoaki

Naoaki Yokomori

Japan

Takuma

Takuma Tanabe

Japan

LINE Certified

Tomoyo

Tomoyo Hirai

Japan

Microsoft Azure Developer Associate

Akshay

Akshay Savalagi

Noida

Google Cloud Associate Cloud Engineer

Miho

Miho Funayama

Japan

Krishnan

Krishnan Hariharasubramoniam

Trivandrum

Google Professional Cloud Architect

Azure Solutions Architect

EC-Council CEH Certified

Gaurav

Gaurav Tewari

Bangalore

CSR

House for Former Student

QBurst and Government M.T High School, Ooruttukala, constructed a house for a former student who achieved all A+ grades for the SSLC examination.

House

CSR @ Schools

QBurst installed CCTV cameras for Government UP School, Venjaramood. Benches and desks were gifted to the students of Government UP School, Karumom. QBurst helped the students of Government LP School, Thurumbi with a fresh coat of paint and assistance in setting up a computer lab. QBurst also did some roof work and painting for the toddlers of Maria Gardens Nursery School, Trivandrum.

Schools

Work Anniversaries

Thank you for your invaluable contributions. We look forward to your support in the glorious years ahead.

Awards

15 Years

  • Santhosh Kumar

Awards

10 Years

  • Raichel Oommen
  • Kiran Rajan
  • Rohit Nayar
  • Renty Rajendran

Awards

5 Years

  • Nithya Alfred
  • Abhijith Prabhakaran
  • Sholly Paulose
  • Rahul Chitharanjan
  • Sumesh Jayakumar
  • Abin Jacob
  • Jithu Varghese
  • Hafnas Babu
  • Joseph Davis
  • Krishna Raj
  • Maheswari S
  • Dheeraj Suresan
  • Anoop Kuttikkattu
  • Alan Babu
  • Maalu Pascal
  • Lida Jacob
  • Blaise Antony
  • Adharsh S
  • Bibin Babu
  • Moncy Kuriakose
  • Sandeep Girish
  • Varun Nair
  • Christopher Vincent
  • Ranjith Rajendran
  • Sanjo Joy
  • Neeraj Dixon
  • Alisha Davy
  • Niya Varghese
  • Rohan George
  • Benjamin Thomas
  • Ciciya Antony
  • Aiswarya Pavithran
  • Sooraj Surendran
  • Abishek Das
  • Abhilash Sivan
  • Adarsh Satheesan
  • Akash Thaliyil
  • Nirmal Hariharan
  • Arjun Sathya
  • Lanos T
  • Reshma Nair
  • Neeraj Babu
  • Gopika Jain
  • Mable Mathew
  • Benny Vincent
  • Gisha Gireesh
  • Mohamed Siyas
  • Sreedev Remadevi
  • Alan Shaji
  • Roshan Muhammed
  • Reo Thomson
  • Vishnu K
  • Athira Pulikkal
  • Athira Peedikayil
  • Manu Sreedharan

Employee Engagement Activities

SalesTracker Team Outing

The SalesTracker team went to Wild Planet Bana Heights, Wayanad on April 29 and 30 to take some time-out from work.

SalesTracker

Onam Celebrations

QBurstians had an excellent Onam celebrated with everyone coming in traditional attire. The celebrations included stage performances showcasing a variety of talent and competitions amongst teams.

Onam

FR Outing

QBurstians from Kochi, Trivandrum, and Calicut offices had a fun outing in Alappuzha on June 4, 2023.

FR Outing

Lashic Team Lunch

QBurstians from the Lashic team had a team lunch on June 5, 2023 when project coordinators Mai Taniguchi and Taiki Jo from our Tokyo office visited QBurst Calicut.

Lashic

PFS Team Lunch

PFS team from Calicut, Kochi, Koratty, and Trivandrum offices gathered at Kochi Marriott for a team lunch on June 16, 2023.

PFS

Calicut - Trivandrum VT Team Lunch

A group from our Calicut - Trivandrum VT went for an outing at Vyna Resort, Wayanad on June 24, 2023.

VT Team Lunch

HCA/Parallon, OUTCO, ADICA, CyberLucent, and Vistage Team Outing

Team members from across all offices in Kerala got together at Ramada Resorts, Cochin on July 22, 2023.

HCA/Parallon

Web Development and Content Team Outing

QBurst website development and content teams had a great time at Green Tsavorite, Varkala on July 29, 2023.

Outing

Flagships

Showcasing key projects we took on across various centers this quarter.

  • USA
  • NCR Portal
  • Insight Global

The project involves creation of a web application to replace the existing NCR developer portal. The new website will have an updated design and offer a fresh user experience. The major features will include KnowledgeHub of SDKs, API Documentation, and Marketplace to sell NCR products.

  • Calicut
  • NoRedink AI Grading
  • NoRedInk

NoRedInk provides a platform for online learning. QBurst is partnering with NoRedink to implement an automated grading platform that reduces the workload of their curriculum experts. The project uses LLMs to understand student responses and assign grades to them based on predefined criteria.

  • Trivandrum
  • Tiffany Survey
  • Tiffany & Co. Japan Inc.

Tiffany is collaborating with QBurst to develop an app linked to LINE Official Account. It aims to utilize LINE's features that are not supported by Salesforce Marketing Cloud (SFMC). The plan is to integrate a survey form accessible only through LINE. The form will collect user data for SFMC's contact storage.

  • Koratty
  • 2Play Ecomm
  • Ricardo Maalouf

QBurst will develop an innovative online gaming platform. The platform aims at providing gamers with a user-friendly and interactive environment for discovering, purchasing, and playing various games. This platform will serve as a hub for users to browse, search, and acquire digital products.

  • Cochin
  • Emerson PKM
  • Emerson

Emerson is a Fortune 500 company that offers products and engineering services. Emerson PKM is a Pharma product that provides process knowledge throughout the drug development lifecycle. It provides a structured repository and collaboration model to facilitate drug development. QBurst is partnering with Emerson to build new features for this product.

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“It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.”

- Albert Einstein

Quiz

The Quiz

Those who get all the answers right stand a chance to win a ₹1000 or $20 gift card.* The deadline is September 04, 2023. Hurry! Go ahead and attempt.

*A lucky winner will be drawn from each center.

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