Graebert™ Announces path-breaking ARES™ Commander 2015 - 2D/3DCAD software for Windows, Mac and Linux

- First full featured CAD application for Android tablets

Graebert™ India http://www.graebert.in, a fully owned subsidiary of Graebert GmbH, the pioneer in developing high-performance CAD solutions across desktop and mobile devices – today announced the availability of its acclaimed ARES™ Commander 2015 - 2D/3D CAD software on all three desktop operating systems: Microsoft®Windows®, Apple® Mac® OS X™ and Linux®. 

Graebert has also recently unveiled the next–generation ARES Touch 2015, the world’s first true CAD solution for Google® Android® being shipped in early 2015.Graebert developed ARES CAD technology, available in 14 languages, is being used by millions of design professionals in more than 40 countries.

“ARES Commander 2015 is by far the most feature-rich software solution we’ve ever released,” said Wilfried Graebert, founder and CEO and Graebert GmbH. “We are very excited not only by this announcement, but also ARES Touch 2015 and ARES Mechanical – 2015 will see Graebert further extending its lead as a world-class CAD provider.”

Priced at a Maximum Retail Price (MRP) of INR 55,000/-, a perpetual license of ARES Commander includes one year of Graebert Subscription, with access to upgrades, e-mail support and use of LicenseToGo.

Users have the option to either renew the subscription after one year or they may opt for purchase of an upgrade for a fraction of the price of the full license. New pricing options include an annual plan that is inclusive of a flex license option that allows licenses to be shared across any OS or to be borrowed as needed.

30-day free software downloads for Windows (32- and 64-bit), OS X and Linux 64-bit, as well as videos, social media information and additional documentation may be found at www.graebert.in.

Major new features in this updated - version include:

•  ARES Touch for Android

The first DWG-based full CAD software for Android tablets, include a unique UI/UX specifically adapted for touch-based inputs. Files are easily synchronized via Dropbox® or Google Drive™or shared by email. ARES Touch is being made available complimentary on purchase of a license of ARES Commander.

•  LicenseToGo

LicenseToGo, included with the Graebert subscription offers license to activate your subscription on multiple computers under same different OS (Windows, Mac OS X or Linux)without having to buy a Flex (network). The Graebert LicenseToGo remains active for up to 5 days and can be easily renewed from any PC in use.

•  Dynamic blocks – Grips editing

Edit dynamic blocks inserted in a DWG drawing by other CAD software such as AutoCAD®. Grips enables to dynamically and interactively modify the “intelligent” blocks and eventually reinsert them in the drawing.

•  2D Constraints

Add intelligence to your drawings with the new Constraints Design Solver (CDS) from Spatial Corp. (a Dassault Systèmes company) integrated in ARES Commander. Geometric constraints help you to define selected entities that should remain parallel, perpendicular and tangent. Dimensional constraints allow you to lock a length, define a scale factor between entities or even enter a formula to define a length. After defining such constraints, the CDS solver will dynamically update your drawing when you make any modification by recalculating the incidence on the other elements.

•  Editing Tables

Click inside a Table cell or launch the command EditTableCell and you will get a toolbar with all the options to insert, resize, merge or delete cells, rows and columns.

•  Dimension palette

Create or click on a dimension and you will see a contextual toolbar to easily and quickly change its formatting and properties.

•  Advanced in-place text editing

The Notes (MText) command has been improved with a new Paragraph options dialog to define Advanced formatting just as you do in a word processor but right inside your drawings. The new Stack dialog helps you create fractions and tolerances in your text.

•  PowerTrim

Trim multiple entities by moving your mouse around – just describe a path with your mouse and ARES will trim while you move.

•  QuickModify

Use only one command to perform multiple actions on the same selection of entities: move, rotate, scale and/or copy without leaving the command.

•  Bonus tools

DiscardDuplicates deletes duplicate entities.

ExplodeBlockX explodes blocks or tables and converts attributes in text.

•  CustomPaperSize

Add or remove custom paper sizes for the ARES virtual printers in order to export to PDF, JPG, DWF and other formats.

•  Customizable Ribbon

Customize the tabs and panels of the Ribbon to group the tools you need and like. You may also create your own workspaces. Of course, you can switch back to traditional menus and toolbars if you prefer.

•  Free plugin – OnlineMaps powered by ESRI

Powered by the acclaimed ArcGIS Online solution from ESRI®, this free plugin lets you download geo-referenced images from any address you enter in the search bar. You can choose satellite images, street maps, topographical maps and more.

•  Free plugin – Cadenas

Get instant access from a panel inside ARES to millions of free parts from hundreds of manufacturers and insert them as blocks in your DWG drawings.

•  Support for Linux 64 bits versions

Now, Support is extended to the 64 bit versions of Linux. ARES Commander is tested for the following distributions: Ubuntu®, Debian™, Suse™ Linux and Fedora®.

Accelerize360 expands in India

 Accelerize 360, a leading provider of cloud services and products today announced it has entered India with a new office set up in Mumbai. As a prominent Salesforce partner, the company is keen on developing new markets in the Western India, by signing up new partners and promoting Salesforce products.

Accelerize 360 is a Codeforce 360 company, a US-based technology consulting and outsourcing firm, with delivery center in Hyderabad. Codeforce 360 was listed on the ‘Forbes Most Promising Companies in North America’ list in 2013. The Mumbai office will primarily serve as Accelerize 360’s sales center and will roll out extended business member programs across markets in West India. The company is also planning to open its offices in Gujarat and Goa.

Commenting on the occasion, Mr. Vijay Proddhutur, Co-founder & CEO, Accelerize 360 said  “We are very excited to start operations in Mumbai as this marks the beginning of our new growth story in the country. We look forward to expanding the reach of our products and services to a wider audience. We also plan to extend our network to other major cities to tap the North as well as South India markets.”

Adding further, Mr. Proddhutur said – “We’re also working on strengthening our product portfolio with better Salesforce.com services, innovative offerings, end-to-end implementations, mobility and cloud solutions. Our mission is to help companies implement, optimize, support and ultimately drive more ROI from their cloud solutions.”

Accelerize 360’s core competencies include Systems Integration & Custom development. It has also built innovative solutions like On-Demand e-commerce offering and mobile solutions for salesforce.com and enterprise customers.  It’s R&D team is rolling out App exchange products that will help customers with their credit card payments, finance users with integrating products with their financials, GPS tracking for field service community, project management applications and dynamic dashboards amongst others.

Clover Infotech Achieves Platinum Partnership with Oracle

Clover Infotech, a leading IT services company, announced today that it has attained Oracle Platinum partner status. Clover Infotech has two decades of experience in serving over 180 clients across the globe. The company has significant expertise in offering a plethora of Oracle solutions from Application Services to Infrastructure management services.

This achievement puts Clover Infotech in an elite list of companies which can undertake specializations across new technologies from Oracle and also work together with Oracle to develop the market for new solutions.
Commenting on the achievement, Shrikant Navelkar, Director –Business Development, Clover Infotech said, “Oracle Platinum partnership status is an important milestone in our journey. It underscores our commitment to Oracle’s business in India and across the world. It comes at a very crucial juncture as Clover Infotech has expanded its presence into international markets such as Europe and the US. The Platinum partnership allows us to attain Oracle Specialized partner status and exhibit our capabilities in niche areas such as Exadata, Endeca, Fusion Applications and ECM.”

Vijay Talele, Director –Delivery, Clover Infotech, added “Oracle Platinum partnership demonstrates our expertise in implementation and support of Oracle products and technologies.  It further endorses our capabilities as we enable our clients to adopt the latest technological advancements with ease”.

Elitecore to Launch Enhanced WiFi SMP at Mobile World Congress to support LTE-Wi-Fi Interworking

Introduces Evolved 3GPP-AAA and provision of Wx interface support for HSS authentication  

Mumbai and Dubai , February 20, 2014

Elitecore Technologies, the global provider of Wi-Fi Service Management Platform (SMP) which enables Mobile Data Offload solution makes a strong bid to the carrier WiFi market by introducing enhanced features in existing modules of its converged Wi-Fi SMP which will help operators deploy customer-centric  next-generation services in a heterogeneous   4G-LTE network while accelerating time-to-market for innovative plans. The solution would be showcased at the forthcoming MWC Show in Barcelona this year.

The upgraded features include Evolved AAA which addresses authentication challenges of subscribers in LTE supporting DIAMETER-based EAP authentication along with RADIUS based authentication for RADIUS supportive networks like Wi-Fi. Designed with an advanced scripting capability, the Evolved AAA helps efficient communication on LTE network to quickly deliver customization and solve interoperability challenges.

Says Dhaval Vora, VP, Product Management, “In order to roll out services simultaneously across LTE, 3G and Wi-Fi, operators face challenges in maintaining IP session continuity for users when changing the network access mode. Our new features like Evolved AAA and LTE Wi-Fi interworking have been designed for service continuity and efficient data offload.”

Furthermore, the Evolved AAA feature supports LTE Wi-Fi interworking by providing the Wx interface support for HSS authentication over LTE network for additional Authentication parameters based on subscriber profile, authorization information update, ePDG initiated session termination and S2b interface support towards PGW.

About Elitecore

Elitecore Technologies is a Carlyle Group investee global IT product company providing BSS alongside packet core with flexibility of modular as well as pre-integrated offerings. Its Wi-Fi Service Management Platform (SMP) comprising AAA (EAP SIM/AKA, non-EAP SIM), captive portal, rating and charging, voucher management system, roaming and partner settlement, billing, location-aware services, mobile app, subscriber analytics/BI and policy control helps operators leverage Wi-Fi as an integral part of their heterogeneous networks strategy to deliver better subscriber experience, reach, availability and service offerings. Elitecore offerings are compatible to large vendor ecosystem addressing CSP requirement of faster time to market and better TCO. Being a traditional IP solutions player, Elitecore products are highly responsive to next-generation services, fulfilling operator monetization needs across all access networks.For more information visit http://www.elitecore.com.

DMAi’s inaugural Marketer of the Year (MoY) awards gets Nita Kapoor as Chair; Ramesh Iyengar as Chair for second term at DMAi’s Hall of Fame(HoF) Selection Board

Mumbai, January 8, 2014: http://www.dmai.co/ DMAi, an apex not for profit, stands for the collective cause of advancing & protecting responsible data driven marketing & advertising has announced the appointment of Nita Kapoor as the Chairperson of DMAi 2014 Marketer of the Year Awards and Ramesh Iyengar as Chairperson of DMAi Hall of Fame which will take place on the sidelines of the DMAi 2014 Convention at New Delhi from 22^nd  to 24^th  January 2014.

On these appointments Vatsal Asher, CEO, DMAi noted “With such stellar industry participation, the DMAi has leapfrogged from the past into the present and is poised for the future. I welcome the new chairpersons for the MoY & HoF programs to further the collective cause. With such an eminent chair & jury members, we am certain the MoY will serve as the new gold standard for marketers in the days to come. The HoF has been now established as the standard for lifetime achievement & contribution. I also wish good luck to the eligible contenders for the citation & induction”

The Marketer of the Year Award is fashioned closely on the lines of the program at the global DMA. The program however has been re-modeled to serve the needs of the fraternity here. It is a joint citation for an individual & the company.

This program accolade honors the achievement, innovation, and inspiring leadership of an individual & the company whose work represents the very best in data-driven marketing industry. The individual & company being considered will have exhibited corporate and social responsibility through the innovation and implementation of new products, services, processes and growth within the last 12 months.

Those being considered have had a positive impact on the marketing community and excelled at connecting data and the consumer through data-driven marketing.

Speaking at her appointment Nita Kapoor said, “I believe DMAi has a great idea going. I volunteered my time because recognizing and bringing forth visionaries and exhibiting their transformations have a larger impact than we assume. Responsible & sustainable marketing is the call of the times. Sharing the best practices in play can benefit the entire industry.”

The jury members for the DMAi 2014 – MoY Awards now include Abhsihek Malhotra - Vice President & Partner at Booz & Co; Ambar Chowdhury - Principal at Deloitte; Arvind Wable - CEO & Executive Director at Draftfcb Ulka; Holger E. Metzger - Managing Director at TMRC Impact; Piyush Mathur - President at India for Nielsen; Rajesh Kumar - Head of Marketing, SAP Indian Sub-continent at SAP; Reena Ramachandran - Member Task Force, Performance Division at Cabinet secretariat; Sanjay Sharma - Group Creative Director at FCB Ulka; Sanjay Thapar - CEO, India at Bates and Sanjiv Kapur - Chief Marketing Officer at Citi

The DMAi Hall of Fame, now in its third year, honors Digital & Direct marketing professionals who have made outstanding career contributions to the practice, growth, and stature of the direct marketing process. It celebrates the spirit of direct & interactive marketing with innovation, collaboration, and creativity.

In line with DMAi's continuous efforts to create recognition for marketers who have made a difference in the way brands communicate with customers and raised the standards and level of professionalism in marketing. The DMAi Hall of Fame will recognize scholars, marketers, creatives and entrepreneurs who have impacted the direct & interactive industry.

DMAi's Hall of Fame is modeled along the lines of DMA Hall of Fame, the most prestigious award bestowed in the direct & interactive marketing community. DMAi Hall of Fame will felicitate lifetime achievers in two categories - living & posthumous and as many as four individuals can be inducted every year to serve as an inspiration for future generations and encourage excellence.

In the past the DMAi has inducted Drayton Bird, UK, Winnifred Knight, SA, Late Vivek Basrur, R Sridhar, B S Nagesh & Ramesh Iyengar.

According to Iyengar, “I have the proud distinction of being the first Indian inductee to the DMAi Hall of Fame and I am delighted to serve the DMAi & the fraternity for the second term as the chairperson of the selection board. Like the previous year this year too we have an eminent board of selectors that will bring about rightful recognition to the truly deserving.”

The selection board members including Jodie Sangster, Chairperson of the IFDMA, Winnifred Knight, - Managing Director and Owner, The Marketingsite.com; Ashok Ananthraman, Ex-ITC, Aditya Atri -Loyalty and CRM Consultant; Leena Basrur - Executive Chairman, Direxions Marketing Solutions Pvt Ltd; Raj Bhatia- Managing Director, UCP Loyalty Marketing Pvt Ltd; Nabanita Chaudhri- CRM Consultant, Nespresso SA; Kayzad Hiramanek- Senior Vice president Customer service& operations, ICICI Prudential life insurance; USA; Ramesh Ratan- CEO – Bell & Howells,  Director, Joyanto Mukherjee - SVKM's Harkisan Mehta Foundation Institute of Journalism and Mass Communication; and Shankar Seetaraman.

With the annual DMAi convention having expanded manifold, The DMA International ECHO Awards India edition has been retained back in Mumbai and will happen in June 2014.

The nominations for MoY & HoF are both open till 8 January 2014. The jury for the MoY meets in Delhi on 18 Jan and the selection board for the HoF meets on Jan 10 at Mumbai. The new recipients & inductees will be honored at a glittering ceremony on 23 Jan 2014 at the opulent Radisson blu, Mahipalpur, Delhi on the sidelines the 3^rd Annual DMAi Convention. Apart from the awards program the 3 day convention from 22^nd to 24 Jan will have 100+ speakers, 164 intense sessions, 15 Dynamic Conference streams.

About DMAi

About DMAi - http://www.dmai.co/

As an apex, not for profit DMAi, since 1992, brings about collective action for advancing & protecting responsible Data Driven Marketing and Advertising. As the key to making marketing relevant and provide sustained customer engagement DMAi advocates for creating industry standards for ethical conduct and effective self-regulation of the Data driven, Marketing & Advertising community. DMAi is also co-founder of the International Federation of DMA’s.

The DMAi, in recent times, has successfully conducted two annual global conventions drawing participation from over 125 corporations from India & afar. DMAi also sets stage for learning opportunities & intra vertical networking forums like-Day Learning Events called Master classes, peer to peer networking forums like the UNWIND, the CxO Roundtable. As a platform for motivation, the DMAi has established a credible Awards & Recognition program with industry participation. The DMAi Awards instituted in alliance with the DMA International ECHO Awards aim at providing global recognition for response driven and result oriented marketing. The Hall of Fame awards felicitates individuals with lifetime awards for their noteworthy contribution.

SMERA Ratings Ltd. completes 25,000 MSME ratings

Mumbai: January 08, 2014: India’s leading credit rating agency SMERARatings Ltd (SMERA) has recently completed 25,000Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises – (MSME) ratings in India.This milestone was achieved by SMERA in 8 years of its operations.SMERA Ratings Ltd., formerly known as SME Rating Agency of India Ltd., is a pioneer in MSME ratings and is also an accredited rating agency by Reserve Bank of India – (RBI)and Securities and Exchange Board of India – (SEBI). Within a short span, SMERA ratings have established a credible track record within the lending fraternity with Memorandum of Understanding – (MOU) with 36 Banks in the country.The popularity of credit ratings within the MSME sector was possible due to affordable cost of rating facilitated by the subsidy provided by the Ministry of MSME, Government of India and efficient execution of the scheme by National Small Industries Corporation – (NSIC).

Mr. Parag Patki,CEO, SMERA RatingsLtd, said “The MSME sector is the backbone of any economy, and the heath of the MSME sector is critical to ride the forthcoming wave of economic revival for the country. We expect increasing opportunities for the MSME sectorwith the Indian Governmenttaking measures to improve investment climate along with initial signs ofeconomic revival in the developed economies.SMERA believes that better managed, efficient and SMERA rated units are eminently positioned to harness these opportunities.

He further added,” SMERA remains committed to facilitating the growth of the MSME sector in India through its Credit Ratings Services and is looking forward to participate in the orderly growth of the sector”

Mr.Virendra Goyal-Vice President- SME (Sales),said “The MSME sector has a huge growth potential in India and the penetration of credit rating culture in the MSME sector is yet low. SMERA,in association with MSME development institutions, Ministry of MSMEand the Lender fraternity will continueto worktowards improving the adoption and thus penetration of credit ratings within the MSME sector.”

Mr.Ashutosh Satsangi-Vice President – Operationssaid, “SMERA has rated the companies diversified across sectors including Metal and Metal products, Electrical and Engineering Goods, Capital Goods, Textile, Plastic, and Food & Agro along with the companies in to Trading and Auto Ancillary business. The portfolio is geographically diversified with the Western region contributing the most to the total rated universe of SMERA with 42% followed by Northern region contributing to the tune of 28%. Contributionfrom Southern region and Eastern region stands at 24% and 6% respectively.

MSME’s derivepotential monetary and non-monetary benefits by availing SMERA’s Credit Rating services, besides building confidence in their lenders, customers, employees as well as suppliers.

About SMERA – http://www.smera.in

SMERA Ratings Limited (formerly SME Rating Agency of India Ltd.) is a joint initiative of Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI), Dun & Bradstreet Information Services India Private Limited (D&B) and leading public and private sector banks in India. SMERA commenced its operations in 2005 as an exclusive credit rating agency for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) sector in the country.

SMERA is registered with the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) as a Credit Rating Agency (6th in India). More recently, the Company has received accreditation from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) as an External Credit Assessment Institution (ECAI) under BASEL - II norms for undertaking bank loan ratings. SMERA is also empanelled as an approved rating agency by the National Small Industries Corporation Ltd. (NSIC) under the "Performance & Credit Rating Scheme for Small Industries", approved by the Ministry of Small Scale Industries, Government of India.

Today, SMERA has achieved the reputation of providing comprehensive, transparent and reliable ratings, thus providing comfort and confidence to lenders and investors alike in decision making. SMERA Ratings have gained wide acceptability and are now an integral part of the risk assessment process within the lending and investing community.

SMERA, which has its Registered and Head Office in Mumbai, currently operates from 14 locations spread across the country.