August 2010Times

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sCEO Speak

Hello everyone and welcome to another jubilating edition

of Progressive Times in this festive season.

Technology and business have converged like never before

in the last few years. From enabling small businesses to

compete effectively in a global environment, to generating

new avenues of growth and competitive advantage for

mature organizations, technology has occupied the center

stage in every industry we can think of.

At Progressive, we have helped our customers to use

technology effectively and hence in furthering their

business interests, for over 12 years now. These years have

been filled with extraordinary achievement, growth and

satisfaction at seeing our clients grow their businesses

based on our solutions, and leverage their technology

investments in an ever-changing business landscape. And,

sure, we have grown as well in this time – both in scale as

well as in the quality of work we do.

Attitude, Win, Collaboration, Innovation and Quality

were the pillars on which we founded this company and

these remain our biggest assets even today. We have taken

great care in forging strong relationships with our

customers and partners, building trust one day at a time.

As we move forward, we are continuously looking for ways

to get better at what we do, and how we do it.

At the center of our strategy are our people – brilliant,

innovative and raring to go! Progressive hires, trains and

retains the best of the best in every sphere of its operations,

and this is the competitive advantage that sets us apart. It

gives us the courage to compete effectively with much

larger organizations and makes us the preferred solution

provider for numerous clients in India and abroad.

Wishing a very blissful festive season ahead to all our

readers, let's continue to stretch… deliver… always…

to our valued customers.

Warm regards and best wishes!

Prateek Garg

MD & CEO

Announcements

MS Cloud Accelerator Partner

HP Platinum Partner

Progressive, as Microsoft Cloud Accelerator Partner, will

offer Microsoft Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS)

solutions to its customers. Microsoft's BPOS consists of

software-as-a-service bundles that organizations access

through Microsoft's server farms. BPOS applications are

based on Microsoft Exchange Online, SharePoint Online,

Office Communications Online and Office Live Meeting.

Progressive will add BPOS to its Professional Service Line,

which provides complete cloud computing offerings to

organizations.

Windows Azure™ is Microsoft's cloud services operating

system that serves as the development, service hosting and

service management environment for the Windows

Azure™ platform. Windows Azure™ provides developers

with on-demand compute and storage to host, scale and

manages web applications on the internet through ®Microsoft datacenters.

Microsoft and Progressive are well-positioned to offer

cloud services that will help customers innovate and

differentiate while reducing costs. The two companies

collaborate on various Microsoft technologies as well.

Progressive is proud to be associated with HP as a

“Platinum Business Partner”. Progressive expects much of

the partnership with HP and believes that this agreement

will enhance the professional bonding between HP and

Progressive.

Platinum Business Partner

Key Wins

NIIT Technologies

Securities and Exchange Board

of India (SEBI)

Times

Events

Technology Senate 8.0 – What CIOs Want

Hong Kong

Technology Senate is a 'by-invitation-only' annual forum for

India's leading CIOs and IT decision-makers. It is an

innovative platform for knowledge sharing, peer

networking, celebrating achievements and showcasing

exciting new technologies, at an offshore location. You can

enjoy exciting sessions with prominent researchers,

analysts, CTOs and industry leaders. Sessions include

special keynotes, panel discussions & stimulating case

studies with industry experts.

Progressive participated in this event as a Technology

Partner and Mr. Gulshan Kharbanda, Vice President - Global

Services addressed on the issue of Corporate Performance

Management.

IT Expo, Mumbai

The Asia ITEX 2010 is a milestone event that will assist the IT

and Converging Technology companies, to leapfrog into

the future. It will bring industry leaders, analysts,

government agencies, academia, integrators and decision

makers on this fertile platform. One platform to network,

integrate, promote

a n d e s t a b l i s h a

company's presence.

T h e E x p o a l s o

provides the ideal

p l a t f o r m f o r

upcoming players in

t h i s i ndus t r y t o

establish their presence and spotlight their expertise. In

other words, it showcases the dipstick for future

developments and trends of Indian Converging

Technologies market.

Progressive exhibited in

this 4 day expo held in

Mumbai . Mr. Ratan

Dargan, Vice President -

Enterpr i se So lut ions

addressed the conference

consisting of more than

100+ CXOs on Progressive's Converged Infrastructure

Solutions & Services.

Progressive recently came out with their CSR initiative by

contributing in a unique way towards the under privileged

people & children through Joy of Giving week. Associates

of Progressive spent their whole day meeting

underprivileged at 3 different places in Noida and shared

clothes, utensils, packed food, toys & other household

items which came from associates from all ranks through

an internal collaboration.

The activity started with a small village in Noida called 'Naya

Gaon' with a population of around 100, mostly children.

The second destination was a small locality in Noida -

Sector 50, with a population of around 200 and the

majority being women. The last destination was an

Orphanage in Noida called Sai Kripa, where distribution of

food items like rice, Maggi, noodles, Bournvita and

chocolates was handed over to the Orphanage

Management.

Joy of Giving Week – CSR Activity

Times

Horizontal Solutions # 2

Cloud Computing

Types

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Private Cloud, Public Cloud & Hybrid Cloud

Cloud AssessmentCloud Computing is an Internet-based computing,

Cloud Migrationwhereby shared resources, software, platform and

Cloud Managementinformation are provided to computers and other devices

on demand. Key Benefits

Cloud computing promises more agile, efficient, and cost- Customize IT infrastructure solutionseffective infrastructure solutions for building, scaling and

Pay per Useusing applications and services. Inherent to the Cloud,

however, are the challenges of running applications over a Optimize resource utilization & save cost.

highly unpredictable and unreliable platform - the On-demand ServicesInternet. Cloud-based offerings will need to overcome

these challenges in order to meet enterprise computing

requirements such as speed, scalability, availability and

security.

These requirements must be met

before companies can justify

migrating their business-critical

applications to the Cloud.

Furthermore, while enterprises

have begun to embrace Cloud

c o m p u t i n g , t h e y a r e

approaching it in a modular way,

i n o r d e r t o f a c i l i t a t e

experimentation, reduce risk

and meet specific business requirements. For example, a

company may simultaneously:

Run highly-sensitive legacy functions at an in-house

data center

Use on-demand storage services for their growing

library of rich media assets

Leverage established SaaS modules to enrich

application functionality

Develop new application features and extensions on

top of dedicated

Kwench, Online Library Solution Khojguru, The Discount Master

Kwench is an online library solution where an associate Progressive recently has a tie up with Khojguru, one of

can register himself on their website and order the book India's leading discount coupon player on the Internet.

online. The requested book will be delivered to the Khojguru provides online discount coupon covering top

associate within 24 hours of time span. Progressive brands across categories exclusively for the associates of

associated with Kwench as a part of associate Progressive and that to 'Free' of cost. The main categories

engagement activity and currently covered are travel, health &

implementing this for Noida, HO. beauty, food & beverages, gifts,

music & mobile, electronics,

movies and apparel.

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