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Three QBurstians—Arun Shanker Prasad, Remya P Vava, and Vijay Dev—were speakers at the Trivandrum chapter of the Google Developer Group meet, GDG DevFest 2016. Several developers from QBurst participated in the meet.

Remya during her session at GDG DevFest 2016.

Arun spoke on FireBase and how it was revolutionizing the mobile cloud. Vijay Dev threw light on Progressive Web Apps and what they can do for the future of the web. Remya shared insights on how to ensure scalability and performance while building applications for the modern web.

The meet was held at Hotel SP Grand Days on 26 November 2016. The community-run GDG DevFest is held year round for developers to learn about Google technologies.

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QBurst released a new version of Quick Picks with support for the slick Lightning Experience user interface. Quick Picks is QBurst’s Salesforce product that packs in a set of useful widgets for business needs. With the latest upgrade, Quick Picks brings the superior performance, user experience, and productivity benefits of Lightning Experience to users.

The Lightning-Ready Quick Picks

The release features new widgets that users can plug into for additional insights on Leads, Accounts, and Opportunities. All the existing components (Weather Updates, US Indices, US Time, Courier Tracking, and Currency Converter) have also been enhanced to work on Lightning Experience.

Creating custom pages with the desired components is now a breeze with the new point-and-click Lightning App Builder tool. The more important or frequently used components can be stored on a single page for quick reference. The components can also be flexibly used to build mobile apps on Salesforce1.

Quick Picks will continue to support Classic UI so that users who are not ready for the new platform can still avail of all the existing features. Users can switch between Lightning Experience and Classic UI with the push of a button.

Futuristic Development

Quick Picks’ migration to Lightning Experience comes at a time when Salesforce is keen on developing the Lightning Experience further, leaving the Classic experience behind. It calls for new capabilities in Lightning Component framework and quick learning on the part of developers to keep pace, and these are what QBurst has achieved with its new release.

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Congratulations to Vikas Krishnan, Muhammed Thamshid, and Vineeth Chekyot for winning Bot2Pot, a virtual carrom tournament for developers organized by QBurst, Calicut. This carrom game was no ordinary one as the contestants had to code their way to success. At each turn, the players set the values for three parameters—position, force, and angle—to get the best shot possible.

Out of the 36 teams that participated in the competition, five teams were chosen and recognized for their performance in the game.

A game instance in Bot2Pot.

The Winner Teams

First place—Kannur Karadies (Vikas Krishnan, Muhammed Thamshid, and Vineeth Chekyot)

Runner up 1—Anonymous (Sakkeer Hussain, Rahul Kookal, and Sanjayan KV)
Runner up 2—ATOM (Gokul Nath, Naveen K P, and Ajmal Roshan)

Special Compliments
Shredder (Sudeep G, Arjun Balakrishnan, and Dheeraj Kumar)
Trio (Fathima Shaibal, Shyamraj, and Sinith Sreenivasan)

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QBurst has been ranked in the Technology Fast 500™ Asia Pacific (APAC) 2016 program organized by Deloitte. The ranking features the fastest-growing technology companies in the Asia Pacific region. This is the fifth consecutive year of recognition for QBurst. The winners were chosen based on their percentage fiscal year revenue growth over three years. QBurst had also been on the winners’ list for Deloitte’s Fast 50 India program last year.

Deloitte Technology Fast 500 technology awards program focuses on technological innovation, entrepreneurship, and rapid growth across different industries. Currently in its 15th year, the program covers nine Asia Pacific regions including Australia, China, India, Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, New Zealand, Singapore, and Taiwan.

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Three teams hacked their way to victory at HackBurst 2016-17, a highly contested internal Hackathon hosted by QBurst for its coders in Trivandrum. They won the top spot overthrowing 21 teams. The dusk-to-dawn coding challenge was held on January 13, 2017.

The HackBurst Challenge

The hackers had to build a prototype of an application blending any of these concepts:

• Internet of Things
• Automation
• Networking
• Games
• Social Media
• Travel

Innovation, code quality, presentation, and completeness were the judging criteria.

Our coders are up to the challenge. Scenes from HackBurst 2016-17.

The Hacker Response

The coders rose to the challenge, unleashing fresh ideas and taming them with their slick coding skills in the true spirit of hackers. The diversity in ideas and implementation did not fail to impress the judges, who had their job cut out for them. The entries that finally made it addressed clear problem statements and satisfied the hackathon criteria.

1. Smart Presentation Box

Finding it hard to be physically present at every meeting? Turn your room into a telepresence studio and join the conversation from anywhere in the world. Team Skier’s Smart Presentation Box is a solution meant for just that. Built on Raspberry Pi and Android Things, Smart Presentation Box allows you to access presentations on all paired devices, make real-time annotations, and transform meetings into meaningful collaborations.

2. Smart City Guide

Who doesn’t feel lost in a new city? Where to stay, park, eat? Even with all the apps at your disposal, figuring out these simple details can be vexing. In a smart city, how do you address these challenges? The quest for the perfect solution led 3E Team to devise a futuristic app that is smart enough to know what you need and guide you through a maze of options. The solution draws on cutting-edge technologies including the industry hot Xamarin and Azure Machine Learning.

3. Parking Lot Locator

Driving around in circles looking for a vacant lot can drive anyone crazy. Team Dry Coders have of course had their fair share of this, which is why they zeroed in on this challenge. The team devised the Public Parking Lot Finder, an IoT- enabled device that sends live status updates of available slots to drivers so they don’t have to second-guess their parking options or get lost in the tangle. Talk of making your city smart, here and now!

Hacker Quotes

“Creating a prototype within 12 hours was a tough challenge,” admits Sreeraj S of Dry Coders. The team accomplished it by ably dividing the tasks. “Ours was an attempt to make something new and learn something new,” says Jithin J R of his team’s Smart Presentation Box. Kannan Karthikeyan of 3E Team feels they clicked as a team. According to him, teamwork was as crucial a component as the idea or technologies they chose.

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QFI, the QBurst app that gives Salesforce users quick access to Facebook Insights, is back with a bang. QFI v2 packs in more Page Insights and a smoother user interface (UI) to help users run more effective campaigns.

Better Access to Page Insights

Using the tabs on QFI, Salesforce users can analyze trends in user growth and demands as well as the consumption and creation of content on their Facebook pages without logging into Facebook multiple times. The newly added tabs on QFI v2 include Visits, Video, and People. The user-friendly interface ensures smooth access and analysis of the data.

Facebook Page analytics that can be viewed in Salesforce using QFI:

• Likes: The number of likes received over a period of time.
• Reach: The number of people who viewed a post.
• Visits: The number of times each tab was viewed.
• Video: The number of views each video received.
• People: Demographic information on fans.
• Overview: A quick glimpse into likes, reach, and engagement

Easy Installation

A one-time configuration is all it takes to get QFI going. Once installed, the app fetches 30 days’ Insights from Facebook and a scheduler updates the data every day. With this real-time and extensive visibility into Facebook Insights on the Salesforce homepage, assessing and planning user engagement is now a breeze for QFI users.

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QBurst Calicut geared up to host Scale It, a competition for developers and testers to build and test scalable apps.

The developers were evaluated for their competence in building highly scalable chat applications whereas the testers were asked to make the perfect testing suite to successfully test highly scalable apps.

Nine teams of developers and three teams of testers were shortlisted to perform in the final round of Scale It. Five teams were chosen as winners—four development teams and a testing team.

Congratulations to the winning teams!

Development
Winner: Muhammed Irshad and Thushar (Team Mayinkutty V)
Runners up: Anees CK, Vignesh Kamath and Ajinas Hamza (Team Jaba Jaba)

Testing
Winner: Rajesh Surya Kumar, Anandu Das and Tonos Manari (Team Velocity)

Special Mention
Nikitha Roy, Abdulshukkoor and Jazeel KT (Team ChitChat)
Vishnu PE, Rajeel KP and Vishnu Chandran (Team NATARAJ)

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Congratulations to Bajaj Allianz for winning the People Matters L&D League Awards 2016. MobiBuZZ, their corporate eLearning application, grabbed the ‘Best in Redefining Technology in Learning’ award.

MobiBuZZ offers a huge repository of content such as news, articles, videos, images, polls, and quizzes to fuel professional and personal development of their employees. This enterprise-grade app, developed by QBurst, is powered by a custom implementation of Microsoft SharePoint.

The People Matters L&D League Awards 2016 reviewed 270 applications from around 180 organizations competing against each other in five categories. After a four-month long selection process, top five finalists were declared from all categories. Bajaj Allianz, along with the other finalists were honored at The Leela, Gurgaon, on 20 October 2016.

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QBurst unveiled three of its latest applications at the GITEX Tech Week in Dubai. This included Omnia, an Industrial IoT platform, a voice recognition system for Amazon Echo, and a virtual reality application for Oculus Rift.

Omnia is an Industrial IoT platform developed by QBurst that enables plant managers to monitor and manage industrial machinery remotely and in near real time. QBurst’s voice recognition software, customized for Echo, was developed by applying data science and machine learning. The scenario demonstrated at the event was for implementation in hotel rooms to provide a no UI communication experience.

Another application that captured the attention of visitors was the virtual reality experience created for a car showroom. It was customized for Oculus Rift and simulated a virtual environment to enable car buyers to tour the vehicle and see it in varying styles and colors.

The QBurst team at GITEX

Gulf Information Technology Exhibition or GITEX is an annual trade show, exhibition, and conference on technology that takes place at Dubai. GITEX 2016 was held at the Dubai World Trade Centre from 16-20 October. As expected, the event drew in technology enthusiasts from across the world, predominantly from the GCC countries. A huge platform for companies from different fields of technology and electronics to exhibit, interact and discover, GITEX 2016 focused on the latest developments in technology, mainly Robotics.

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A team of young techies from QBurst bagged the second prize for their product, notJusNews, at Techspectations, the first media hackathon organized by ManoramaOnline. Congratulations to Aravind Ajith, Eldhose Shibu, Kiran Balakrishnan, Kiran Jose, and Athul Jayson. They were one of the 35 teams shortlisted to participate in the event.

QBurst team with Mariam Mammen Mathew, COO of ManoramaOnline

The challenge was to build an innovative media-related application. The team scored with notJusNews, a viral news prediction system that is powered by deep neural network and machine learning. The system identifies words that are semantically similar to words in a viral news and helps predict the virality of a particular news story. The product envisioned as a Freemium model comes with a mobile app and a dashboard—Go Viral—that pushes the viral content to the app. The concept fetched the team a cash prize of Rs 1.5 lakh.

Techspectations, which was conducted at Kochi on 19 November 2016, brought together the cream of the IT industry from around the world.

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Three QBurstians—Arun Shanker Prasad, Remya P Vava, and Vijay Dev—were speakers at the Trivandrum chapter of the Google Developer Group meet, GDG DevFest 2016. Several developers from QBurst participated in the meet.

Remya during her session at GDG DevFest 2016.

Arun spoke on FireBase and how it was revolutionizing the mobile cloud. Vijay Dev threw light on Progressive Web Apps and what they can do for the future of the web. Remya shared insights on how to ensure scalability and performance while building applications for the modern web.

The meet was held at Hotel SP Grand Days on 26 November 2016. The community-run GDG DevFest is held year round for developers to learn about Google technologies.

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QBurst released a new version of Quick Picks with support for the slick Lightning Experience user interface. Quick Picks is QBurst’s Salesforce product that packs in a set of useful widgets for business needs. With the latest upgrade, Quick Picks brings the superior performance, user experience, and productivity benefits of Lightning Experience to users.

The Lightning-Ready Quick Picks

The release features new widgets that users can plug into for additional insights on Leads, Accounts, and Opportunities. All the existing components (Weather Updates, US Indices, US Time, Courier Tracking, and Currency Converter) have also been enhanced to work on Lightning Experience.

Creating custom pages with the desired components is now a breeze with the new point-and-click Lightning App Builder tool. The more important or frequently used components can be stored on a single page for quick reference. The components can also be flexibly used to build mobile apps on Salesforce1.

Quick Picks will continue to support Classic UI so that users who are not ready for the new platform can still avail of all the existing features. Users can switch between Lightning Experience and Classic UI with the push of a button.

Futuristic Development

Quick Picks’ migration to Lightning Experience comes at a time when Salesforce is keen on developing the Lightning Experience further, leaving the Classic experience behind. It calls for new capabilities in Lightning Component framework and quick learning on the part of developers to keep pace, and these are what QBurst has achieved with its new release.

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Congratulations to Vikas Krishnan, Muhammed Thamshid, and Vineeth Chekyot for winning Bot2Pot, a virtual carrom tournament for developers organized by QBurst, Calicut. This carrom game was no ordinary one as the contestants had to code their way to success. At each turn, the players set the values for three parameters—position, force, and angle—to get the best shot possible.

Out of the 36 teams that participated in the competition, five teams were chosen and recognized for their performance in the game.

A game instance in Bot2Pot.

The Winner Teams

First place—Kannur Karadies (Vikas Krishnan, Muhammed Thamshid, and Vineeth Chekyot)

Runner up 1—Anonymous (Sakkeer Hussain, Rahul Kookal, and Sanjayan KV)
Runner up 2—ATOM (Gokul Nath, Naveen K P, and Ajmal Roshan)

Special Compliments
Shredder (Sudeep G, Arjun Balakrishnan, and Dheeraj Kumar)
Trio (Fathima Shaibal, Shyamraj, and Sinith Sreenivasan)

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QBurst has been ranked in the Technology Fast 500™ Asia Pacific (APAC) 2016 program organized by Deloitte. The ranking features the fastest-growing technology companies in the Asia Pacific region. This is the fifth consecutive year of recognition for QBurst. The winners were chosen based on their percentage fiscal year revenue growth over three years. QBurst had also been on the winners’ list for Deloitte’s Fast 50 India program last year.

Deloitte Technology Fast 500 technology awards program focuses on technological innovation, entrepreneurship, and rapid growth across different industries. Currently in its 15th year, the program covers nine Asia Pacific regions including Australia, China, India, Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, New Zealand, Singapore, and Taiwan.

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Three teams hacked their way to victory at HackBurst 2016-17, a highly contested internal Hackathon hosted by QBurst for its coders in Trivandrum. They won the top spot overthrowing 21 teams. The dusk-to-dawn coding challenge was held on January 13, 2017.

The HackBurst Challenge

The hackers had to build a prototype of an application blending any of these concepts:

• Internet of Things
• Automation
• Networking
• Games
• Social Media
• Travel

Innovation, code quality, presentation, and completeness were the judging criteria.

Our coders are up to the challenge. Scenes from HackBurst 2016-17.

The Hacker Response

The coders rose to the challenge, unleashing fresh ideas and taming them with their slick coding skills in the true spirit of hackers. The diversity in ideas and implementation did not fail to impress the judges, who had their job cut out for them. The entries that finally made it addressed clear problem statements and satisfied the hackathon criteria.

1. Smart Presentation Box

Finding it hard to be physically present at every meeting? Turn your room into a telepresence studio and join the conversation from anywhere in the world. Team Skier’s Smart Presentation Box is a solution meant for just that. Built on Raspberry Pi and Android Things, Smart Presentation Box allows you to access presentations on all paired devices, make real-time annotations, and transform meetings into meaningful collaborations.

2. Smart City Guide

Who doesn’t feel lost in a new city? Where to stay, park, eat? Even with all the apps at your disposal, figuring out these simple details can be vexing. In a smart city, how do you address these challenges? The quest for the perfect solution led 3E Team to devise a futuristic app that is smart enough to know what you need and guide you through a maze of options. The solution draws on cutting-edge technologies including the industry hot Xamarin and Azure Machine Learning.

3. Parking Lot Locator

Driving around in circles looking for a vacant lot can drive anyone crazy. Team Dry Coders have of course had their fair share of this, which is why they zeroed in on this challenge. The team devised the Public Parking Lot Finder, an IoT- enabled device that sends live status updates of available slots to drivers so they don’t have to second-guess their parking options or get lost in the tangle. Talk of making your city smart, here and now!

Hacker Quotes

“Creating a prototype within 12 hours was a tough challenge,” admits Sreeraj S of Dry Coders. The team accomplished it by ably dividing the tasks. “Ours was an attempt to make something new and learn something new,” says Jithin J R of his team’s Smart Presentation Box. Kannan Karthikeyan of 3E Team feels they clicked as a team. According to him, teamwork was as crucial a component as the idea or technologies they chose.

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QFI, the QBurst app that gives Salesforce users quick access to Facebook Insights, is back with a bang. QFI v2 packs in more Page Insights and a smoother user interface (UI) to help users run more effective campaigns.

Better Access to Page Insights

Using the tabs on QFI, Salesforce users can analyze trends in user growth and demands as well as the consumption and creation of content on their Facebook pages without logging into Facebook multiple times. The newly added tabs on QFI v2 include Visits, Video, and People. The user-friendly interface ensures smooth access and analysis of the data.

Facebook Page analytics that can be viewed in Salesforce using QFI:

• Likes: The number of likes received over a period of time.
• Reach: The number of people who viewed a post.
• Visits: The number of times each tab was viewed.
• Video: The number of views each video received.
• People: Demographic information on fans.
• Overview: A quick glimpse into likes, reach, and engagement

Easy Installation

A one-time configuration is all it takes to get QFI going. Once installed, the app fetches 30 days’ Insights from Facebook and a scheduler updates the data every day. With this real-time and extensive visibility into Facebook Insights on the Salesforce homepage, assessing and planning user engagement is now a breeze for QFI users.

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QBurst Calicut geared up to host Scale It, a competition for developers and testers to build and test scalable apps.

The developers were evaluated for their competence in building highly scalable chat applications whereas the testers were asked to make the perfect testing suite to successfully test highly scalable apps.

Nine teams of developers and three teams of testers were shortlisted to perform in the final round of Scale It. Five teams were chosen as winners—four development teams and a testing team.

Congratulations to the winning teams!

Development
Winner: Muhammed Irshad and Thushar (Team Mayinkutty V)
Runners up: Anees CK, Vignesh Kamath and Ajinas Hamza (Team Jaba Jaba)

Testing
Winner: Rajesh Surya Kumar, Anandu Das and Tonos Manari (Team Velocity)

Special Mention
Nikitha Roy, Abdulshukkoor and Jazeel KT (Team ChitChat)
Vishnu PE, Rajeel KP and Vishnu Chandran (Team NATARAJ)

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QBurst has rolled out a custom survey builder for SharePoint users.

SurveyBuz is a convenient business tool for conducting online surveys. Developed as a SharePoint-hosted add-in, the app lets users quickly launch new surveys and collect feedback from within the SharePoint site.

According to the SharePoint team at QBurst, SurveyBuz offers a unique set of features that make it especially useful to business teams. Surveyors can create a survey, add participants, and view the results of any closed survey in a few button clicks. Additionally, they can assign weightages to participants and view responses based on those weightages. They can also monitor the response trend as the survey progresses. The results of surveys in SurveyBuz, which are visualized as charts and graphs for easy comprehension, are accessible to all users.

Apart from these attributes, the QBurst app allows surveyors to schedule surveys for a later date. An executable program, which can be configured in the Windows Task Scheduler, will automatically start the survey and deactivate it when the time period ends.

SurveyBuz is free and available at the Microsoft AppSource. Compatible with Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, and IE browsers, SurveyBuz can be integrated with SharePoint Online and SharePoint 2013+ versions. For more details or to get the executable file, write to us at info@qburst.com.

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QBurst’s first Oracle tool, DoQ Integrator, has been published in Oracle Cloud Marketplace under Global Human Resources Cloud.

DoQ Integrator is a tool for painless document uploads to the Oracle Fusion Human Capital Management (HCM) Cloud. The tool, which automates bulk-loading of documents, eases the burden of Oracle HCM Cloud users especially during large-scale migrations and integrations with third-party systems.

Although Oracle’s own HCM Data Loader facilitates bulk-uploads, it requires technically skilled personnel to process the documents, and the entire process is cumbersome. With DoQ, the task is reduced to creating a source folder and an Excel sheet—an all-too-familiar tool for business users. DoQ takes care of generating DAT files, validating them, and uploading them to the cloud.

For more details, visit the DoQ Integrator page.

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QBurst has been accepted by Oracle into its network of Cloud Standard Partners. The distinction is in recognition of the skills and expertise we developed in Oracle Cloud services.

Over the years, QBurst has helped numerous clients transition to robust cloud platforms. Oracle HCM Cloud is a specific solution that we have focused on. More recently, QBurst also developed a tool for the Oracle HCM Cloud enabling users to bulk-upload documents with ease. According to Oracle, we have demonstrated our commitment to doing business with Oracle in the Cloud.

For more details on QBurst Oracle practice, contact us at info@qburst.com.

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