Populous: Creating Sports Facilities in Style

Populous is an architectural company that specializes in designing sports facilities. Populous plays a major role in designing stadia and arena. Among the most prominent designs of Populous were New York’s Yankee Stadium, London’s Wembley Stadium, Sydney’s Stadium Australia, San Francisco’s AT&T Park, Minneapolis’ Target Field, and Chicago’s United Center.

Before January 2009, Populous was a part of the HOK Group and was operating as HOK Sport Venue Event.  After the management buyout, Populous started to operate independently. Thereafter Populous was known as one of the world’s largest architectural companies.

Populous treats each project as challenge. It discovers new opportunities to amplify the locality’s character by listening, observing and collaborating with its customers. Populous was fortunate to have a team that has international perspective. This team can bring together different ideas that come from other cultures, activities, events, landscapes and building types

For more than 30 years with over 1,000 projects, Populous has grasped an understanding of the industry. However, Populous continues to harness its knowledge to create that design that leaves a great impact on people’s lives.

Authenware: Revolutionizing Cloud Security

At a time when the cloud is the most reliable repository of data, it is great to know that a cybersecurity software company like Authenware Corporation exists to provide its clients with peace of mind. Authenware’r proprietary innovation is a tokenless authentication system that provides strong security by combining environmental and behavioral characteristics and keystroke dynamics to minimize web fraud, identity theft and other online system vulnerabilities.

Authenware’s innovative solution uses a pattern of user-created personal security that automatically recognizes all authorized users thereby keeping hackers out. Millions of Authenware users are kept protected every day in a wide array of industries such as healthcare, telecommunications, financial services, online retailers and government agencies.

In August 2012, Authenware launched its revolutionary MyAuthenWareTM, a solution that was geared toward consumers and enterprise. This end-user solution is cloud-based and biometrically secured authentication portal. It allows the user to remember only one set of login credentials to a number of websites. The user can also use the portal to store files ad notes.

MyAuthenWareTM uses a unique way of identifying and authenticating authorized users. The solution measures the rhythm and cadence of the user’s typing pattern and integrates them with user-specific environment and behavioral characteristics. MyAuthenWareTM delivers the highest level of convenience to its users. Logging in to a number of different sites using its authentication portal using a single username and password is backed by high security behavioral biometrics.

Gartner Group, the world leader in IT research and advisory, cited Authenware’s technology in its “Magic Quadrant for User Authentication” report in February 2012 as “simple to implement, scalable and robust.” It provides good user experience. Gartner’s ow circle of clients have a positive view of Authenware and its technology.

Recent developments at Authenware showed that the company is working on enterprise security that would tackle cybercrime. The new offering is convenient and easy to use but is viewed as the solution that would close the gap between enterprise security and consumer security.

Seegrid: Simple Robotics

Seegrid is the world’s leading producer of robotic industrial trucks and vision-guided flexible automated guided vehicles (AGVs). These robotic industrial trucks and AGVs are commonly used in material handling businesses where material movement is revolutionized. Seegrid also supplies tow tractors, pallet trucks and walkie stackers which help optimize workflow processes, increase productivity and lessen costs.

In the era of technological advancements, the use of robotics in manufacturing increases the return of investment by significantly reducing product and equipment damage through improved facility safety. Seegrid’s technology turns industrial vehicles to unmanned and automated machines that operated without the use of tape, wire, magnet or laser.

Seegrid’s innovation proves that existing industrial trucks like forklifts and pallet movers can be equipped with Seegrid’s proprietary sensors and hardware to create a robotic heavy lifter that can maneuver around a warehouse in a smart way

Seegrid was cited in Fast Company magazine’s World’s Most Innovative Company in 2013. It is also listed among the Top 10 World’s Most Innovative Robotics Company in 2013.

The Center For Counseling and Health Resources - The Business of Hope

It takes a highly innovative institution to bring together the words “hope” and “business”, concepts not usually associated with each other in the typical realm of business activity. But The Center For Counseling and Health Resources, a wholistic treatment facility located in Edmonds, Washington, has been doing just that for nearly 30 years. Founded in 1984 by mental and emotional health expert Dr. Gregory Jantz, The Center might in fact be said to be in the business of hope: cultivating hope, enhancing hope, and restoring hope to individuals who have lost sight of it due to the struggles and challenges of their daily lives.

To achieve this mission, Dr. Jantz has assembled a superior team of medical and health care professionals at The Center and has developed a wide range of treatment programs, all dedicated to helping men, women, and adolescents take back their lives from issues such as depression, addiction, and eating disorders. Working from a whole-person treatment philosophy, The Center seeks to restore an overall balance to health by ministering to an individual’s full range of needs: emotional, medical, psychological, spiritual, physical, fitness, and nutritional. Patients consult with highly-trained, caring staff to develop customized treatment or therapy programs tailored to their particular situations. This highly effective approach, for which The Center For Counseling and Health Resources has become world-renowned, helps to prevent the recurrence of particular issues by identifying and addressing the root causes behind them, and thus allows patients to develop ongoing positive lifestyle patterns and maintain a sense of hope as they embark on healthier futures.

Dr. Gregory Jantz’s vision of hope which led to the founding of The Center came about during his time working as a licensed mental health counselor and certified eating disorder specialist, when he realized that a sense of unity and coordination in care was missing from the available treatment options of the time, and was leading to a feeling of despair rather than one of hope amongst his patients. Since establishing the Center, Dr. Jantz has also worked to spread his message of hope to individuals in need through a number of bestselling books, speaking engagements, and radio and television appearances.

Moment Factory: Creating Defining Moments

Moment Factory is a media and entertainment studio established to conceptualize and create specialized multimedia materials by integrating video, sound, lights, architecture and special effects to produce a remarkable multimedia experience. Founded in the fall of 2001, Moment Factory has facilitated over 300 shows, events and installations worldwide for its most satisfied clients like Disney, Microsoft, Cirque du Soleil, Celine Dion, Madonna, Nine Inch Nails, and Montreal’s Quartier des Spectacles.

Through the years, Moment Factory has earned the reputation as the leading choice for the development, design and production of interactive and groundbreaking media installations. Its team of over 100 talented and highly skilled staff is building mockups and testing prototypes to ensure that the execution of the projects is according to the company’s vision.

Moment Factory has been successful in instilling the culture of surpassing expectation within the organization. Its people continue to hone their crafts to remain personable and culturally literate media specialists who technically execute their installations.

At Moment Factory, projects are implemented through three levels of multimedia environment. At each level, Moment Factory wants spectator experience to reach a higher level of reality.

1.       The ambient environment supports performance and events.

2.       The immersive environment immerses the audience in a good combination of image, lights and sounds.

3.       The interactive environment invites spectators to make direct engage with space via diverse interactive components.

The trio of Moment Factory founders Jason Rodi, Dominic Audet and Sakchin Bassette continue to develop notoriety in the creation of new visual environments permanent installations and mixed media entertainment. The company is influenced by new innovations and technologies and inspired by the launching of “Moments,” the company’s online art gallery for its audience, Moment Factory is on the track to raise the bar even higher and explore new ideas in content creation, technology application and entertainment.

Perka: Loyal Marketing Platform Gone Interactive

In April 2011, a new digital loyalty marketing platform was established to provide an engaging alternative to plastic card or paper-based incentive programs. This company, called Perka, is an interactive solution. Its technology is compatible with mobile phones through apps and SMS.

Aside from being a loyalty marketing platform, Perka is also functioning as a direct marketing platform or an analytics tool. Perka’s features complement all kinds of mobile loyalty categories. It fact, it is a modern version of a loyalty program.

Perka is different from the traditional loyalty platform that rewards customers for visiting stores even without making a purchase. At Perka, a customer earns rewards as the point-of-sale validates a purchase. At its early goings, Perka’s design was primarily for coffee shops, giving away one free cup for every ten cups purchased. But Perka has already diversified to include other types of businesses.

Perka is headquartered in Portland, Oregon. Its founder was former Zenbe CEO Alan Chung. Joe Stelmach, Jay Harlow, Rob Coury and Robert Bethge were his co-founders.

Micromax: India’s Worldwide Influence

Micromax is an electronics company headquartered in Gurgaon, Haryana, India. It manufacturers consumer electronic devices such as computers, tablets, mobile phones, LED TVs and 3GDatacards. The company operates 23 offices in India and employs more than 650 employees.

Micromax was established in 2000 as an IT software company to work pm embedded platforms. It first ventured into the business of mobile phones in 2008. By the end of 2010, Micromax is one of India’s largest low-cost mobile phone producers. Micromax accounts for 22% of the smartphone market in India.

In such a short time, Micromax was able to penetrate the mobile phone market of India through its wide array of product portfolio. As of the first quarter of 2013, Micromax offers over 60 different models of mobile phones that feature 3G Android Smartphones, dual SIM phones, 3Gdata cards, Tablets and PCs and LED TVs. Micromax was also to be credited with many firsts: dual SIM, 30-day battery backup, Universal Remote Contro Mobile Phone and QWERTY Keypad.

When Micromax decided to enter the mobile phone production business which was dominated by multinational companies at that time, the company had to emphasis its primary selling point – price. For Micromax, technology and innovation need not increase the price too much, that more people can’t access the gadgets. The company forecasts that by 2014, Micromax would account for a double digit mobile phone market share.

It looks like Micromax is on its way to achieve its goals. The Global Handset Vendor Market share report from Strategy Analytics indicated that Micromax is now the 12th largest mobile phone manufacturer in the world. as Micromax continues to put emphasis on innovation, technology and research and development, Micromax would do well in differentiating itself from other industry players through its new designs at lesser price.

Micromax’s success in the handset industry was steered by four people who shared the responsibility of running the business along functional lines: Managing Director Rajesh Agarwal, Executive Director Rahul Sharma, Business Director Vikas Jain and Chief Technology Officer Sumeet Arora. Since 2008 when Micromax entered the mobile phone market, the emphasis on dynamic adaptation to the changing market trends has not changed at Micromax.