The Fantastic Five Of Oracle Accelerator Programme

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Getting the right mentoring at the right time can do wonders for any startup just beginning their journey. And imagine what would happen when this mentoring is given by multinational computer technology corporation Oracle.

Announced in April, Oracle Startup Cloud Accelerator will be a platform for startups to help them grow by providing technology, mentoring, go-to-market strategy, investors, working space, and more. Running for three weeks, this program looks at building innovative solutions that solve real-life problems for their customers. It also possess an impressive team of mentors which include Manish Chawla from Paytm,   Sanjay Kharb from InMobi, Mitesh Agarwal from Oracle and Rashmi Mohan from Yahoo Labs to name a few.

This program will be a great boost to India’s startup ecosystem and support to the Digital India initiative. Talking about this growth, Sanket Atal, Group Vice President of Development of Oracle India said, “The entrepreneurial spirit in our country is going through a complete revolution. We see cloud technology playing a crucial role in enabling this change.”

A few perks these startups have earned are mentorship from Oracle and industry experts, 24×7 access to a co-working space within Oracle’s premises, and access to Oracle’s vast ecosystem of customers and partners along with its cloud services.

The first batch of six startups has already been selected. Let’s find out who are Oracle’s fantastic five.

ExpertRec

This startup is a plug-n-play search and recommendation engine that helps users find products more relevant to their personal tastes and needs. To make this search more efficient, the startup uses three features – Recommendation Engine, Smart Search and Predict. With an impressive response time of 0.1 second, the cloud based search works real time as the user types in the search box.

For business, it gives personalized product recommendations, search and machine learning solutions to boost sales and conversion rates on e-commerce and online portals.

What makes this startup unique is its algorithm which is based on Expectation Maximization. It presents the user with choices that maximises the probability (Expectation) of a favorable action (say a buy). Since it takes into account, not only the user behavior, but also the behaviors of the device, widgets, it optimizes the end goal leaving behind traditional algorithms like collaborative filtering and content based filtering.

Niyo Solutions

This FinTech startup founded by Virender Bisht and Vijay Nagri is disrupting the consumer banking experience at a global level with its innovative and market first solutions. The startup aims to provide alternate payment mechanisms.

Keeping the startup in stealth mode, the official launch will be in January next year. Yet, the startup holds great promises with Virender’s former experience of working with MobiQuik and Vijay who was the Business Head at Kotak Mahindra Bank. 

Ray iCare

 Founded in 2014 by Sanchi Poovaya and Ranjana Nair, Ray iCare provides a sleep monitoring device that can diagnose epilepsy, sudden infant death syndrome and heart attacks. The promising team behind Ray iCare has a track record of developing cutting-edge AI systems, especially for traffic surveillance and healthcare monitoring.

Ray iCare can draw from technological solutions that are capable of measuring location, heart rate, ECG data, respiratory data, temperature, accelerometer data and much more. The big data streaming through these devices is then used to power algorithms and generate actionable insights. These insights could be fed to intelligent systems that could diagnose, forewarn and predict future medical events. We could then deliver information to the emergency response teams and medical services.

Tydy

Tydy was founded to bring HR teams the power of automation and ease of use. Launched in 2015, Tydy has quickly become an HR darling and is on its way to helping organizations – large & small – with the power of a great employee onboarding and engagement platform.

Tydy is a combination of tools for paperless processes, document management, content management, real-time analytics & a personalization engine that sits on top of it all.

What makes Tydy special is that it provides both automated employee on boarding and employee engagement platform. Where the former makes sure that new hires understand the company culture and appreciate the organization, the latter helps to retain talent by making their experience better.

Vear

An Augmented Reality and Virtual reality app, Vear was founded in 2014 by Nadeem Mohammed. On the platform, you will find high quality digital content curated by brands. In simple words, it helps these brands distribute their content and deploy their campaigns by directly engaging with the customer.

Vear can be used across smartphones, tablets and even wearables.

This global startup accelerator initiative by Oracle will prove to be very fruitful for these budding startups. These initiatives are a great boost to the already growing startup culture in India providing them the correct direction and mentorship they require. Other than Oracle, other prominent accelerators include .Kyron Global Accelerator, Microsoft, Khosla Labs, Target, Google’s ‘Launchpad Accelerator’ and NUMA Accelerator.

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Yiping Gong, Regional Manager, Alibaba Cloud, On Cloud Computing And Entrepreneurship In The Middle East

the cloud computing arm of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba, hosted the Dubai edition of Create@Alibaba Cloud Startup Contest (CACSC) –a global entrepreneurship challenge- on September 21, 2016 in partnership with Dubai Silicon Oasis Authority (DSOA). Established in 2009, Alibaba Cloud develops cloud computing and data management platforms, and provides an array of to Alibaba Group’s e-commerce ecosystem, and to third-party businesses.

As part of its growth strategy, the Chinese heavyweight has already set up data centers outside the China in the US, Hong Kong and Singapore. Sensing a potential in the Middle East cloud market and seeing global providers marking their footprint in the region, Alibaba Cloud entered the region in a joint venture with Meraas Holding in 2015 with an entity called  Here in Dubai for Alibaba Cloud’s CACSC Dubai edition, Yipin Gong, Regional Manager, Alibaba Cloud International – MEA & India, says that the joint entity is working together to build a data center in Dubai, which will likely open by the end of this year.

What were Alibaba Cloud’s reasons to launch CACSC in the Middle East?

“We are looking for innovations in all kinds of businesses. We are a platform, and startups can use our platform to reduce their costs, and to improve their efficiency. So, we are here to host and support this kind of a challenge. Our target is purely to support since we understand their need. We wanted to see if the entrepreneurs have the market understanding, if their product has the market potential- regional or international, the kind of technology they are using, whether they have a clear go-to market strategy. All these are of importance to us.”

What kind of support can startups in the region expect from Alibaba Cloud?

“Different startups have different needs for cloud, based on their industry. At Alibaba, we can take care of all their needs, which can save time and cost. We have an office and a local team based here in Dubai, and we can provide onsite supports to the startups in the region, giving them the best of cloud infrastructure and service. The winning startup today [in the CACSC challenge] gets US$50,000 in cloud credits from us, and all the other competing startups too will each get $10,000 [in] credits. Further, all the startups will also receive and guidance from the judges panel and from Alibaba on a continuous basis. This is one of Alibaba Cloud’s first initiatives for entrepreneurship, and we look forward to more.”

How is the adoption of cloud-computing technology by businesses in the region?

“Though there are no trends specific to the Middle East market, we believe that the market is well placed to leverage the global trend towards cloud adoption. Yes, people need to understand cloud first. For example, the US market is several years ahead, and in the beginning companies there too hesitated to move on to cloud, but now more and more people think moving on to cloud is the correct way. In this market, it will indeed take some time. We need to educate the market and the customer, but we are confident that it is the future. With regards to the security and privacy, yes, we definitely ensure we align with regulations, but we see it as a potential opportunity for us to grow.”

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My Fieldtrip

My Visit to Muir’s Chapel On February 28, 2010, I went on a fieldtrip to a Methodist church called Muir’s Chapel United Methodist Church (UMC). The church was founded in 1822 when Jeremiah Dodson, a local preacher from the west, held services under brush arbors and the shade of oak trees on the grounds. The church grounds were located behind where the current building is located at 314 Muir’s Chapel Road Greensboro, NC 27410. After his services and charge began, the charge was organized and passed on to the Reverend Thacker Muir.

Reverend Muir cut the first log for the first structure known as the “Log Meeting House. ” In Reverend Muir’s honor the name was changed to Muir’s Chapel. After the deterioration of the log structure, it was replaced in 1875 by a one-room weatherboard building. Weatherboard is the cladding or ‘siding’ of a house consisting of long thin timber boards that overlap one another, either vertically or horizontally on the outside of the wall, thus making the building waterproof.

This building was eventually moved across the street to the cemetery when the present sanctuary was constructed in 1903. During the years of 1929 thru 1932 the Log Meeting House was enlarged, remodeled and brick-veneered, along with the first landscaping of the grounds. There is a replica of the Log Meeting House remaining on the grounds today. In the honor of Reverend Thacker Muir, the current building is still known as Muir’s Chapel. In 1940, the first educational building, called the Smoak Building, was built and the following year the church received its first full-time pastor, W.

Kenneth Goodson. There were annual Camp meetings at harvest time held in the Smoak Building until they were replaced by revivals, which were replaced at the turn of the century by Pre-Easter services. In the fifties, The Smoak Building was attached to the church, although it was then and currently still considered the educational wing of the church, it still carries the name “The Smoak Building,” which now houses the church offices. Year 1960, there was another addition added to the church called the Boren Building.

This building was also dedicated to Reverend Thacker Muir in 1960. Since 1960 the Church has been rebuilt and remodeled several times, with the present sanctuary being completed in 1980. The latest addition to Muir’s Chapel is the Kale Christian Center which houses the Playschool, classrooms, and the contemporary worship auditorium. After doing careful research, I am still which I not sure when this addition began and when it was completed.

Now that my readers have learned a little history of the church I visited for my field trip, I am now going to talk a little about what I experienced at Muir’s Chapel, which was a great experience I might add. As I was on the way to the church I made sure I did not have any pre-conceptions of my visit to this church. I wanted to be open-minded so that I could take in my experience and learn from it no matter if was good or bad. When I pulled into the parking lot I noticed there were not many “luxury” cars.

In my opinion, this was the first sign of the members being non-materialistic. Then the church itself looked to be old with quite a few new additions, yet it is really appealing on the outside. But, when I got out of my car there was a white lady walking through the walkway across the lawn that immediately stopped and asked me how I was doing, and if I needed help. I immediately felt welcomed and I had only met one of the members of this church. She told me how to get to the sanctuary for the “Traditional Service” which started at 8:45 A. M.

Once in the sanctuary and sitting down, a senior gentleman who looked to be around fifty or sixty years of age, as most of the congregation seemed to be, tapped on my shoulder and said it is good to have you here this morning, and if you do not already have a church home please come back here with us. As readers can see this was the beginning of a very warming experience for me. The service began a little different from what I am used to. For starters there were only about 25 people at this service and they were all Caucasian, as I am used to an all African-American congregation.

Nevertheless, the service began with the welcoming of the congregation and congregational concerns as I had never seen this in a Sunday morning service before. At my church I am used to praise and worship team singing songs of praise to open the service. There were no concerns, so immediately they went into song. The choir director stood in the pulpit directing the congregation to sing, not an actual choir, but the congregation. Still, I could not believe the choir director was directing from the pulpit. Later I was told congregation is the choir as there is no choir for this service.

As I listened to the song and tried to take part in the singing of the song, I found it difficult to follow as it was sung like an opera song; very high-pitched. But once the preacher began to preach, by the way he preached on the strength to forgive, which by the way was the title of his message. Everyone became extremely quiet and sat still as possible. Me being Black, I was definitely not used to this. I am used people talking back to the preacher, saying for example: “You better preach preacher, tell them what the word says! At Muir’s Chapel it was a quiet as could be. Needless to say I did not say anything back to the preacher while he was preaching. In case some of my readers are wondering how I managed to choose this church being African-American and this church being predominately white, I was invited by my classmate Lisa Tanico who is one of the ministers of this great church. Anyway, once the service was over I met with Lisa and she began to take me on a tour of Muir’s Chapel. What I saw was amazing.

Lisa and I had to pass through the fellowship hall where there were refreshments offered such as coffee, juice, and biscuits with a side of bacon or sausage. This very rarely happens at my church unless it is a special occasion of some sort. I was astonished to find out there were several different refreshments served after each service. Lisa then took on a quick tour of the rest of the church as she needed to readily available to the members if one needed to talk or maybe ask for prayer. So we scurried on to the Contemporary service that was going on in one of the newer parts of the church.

I was in this service for only about 15 minutes as this service started at 9:00 A. M. , and the Traditional service I attended started at 8:45 A. M. What little I saw was interesting. There was an actual choir at this service, and the choir had a Pop sound, which is closer to what I am used to hearing. At the end of this service Lisa had to leave to attend to some of the members of the church and I had to go to a dedication at my church. But before my departure, Lisa did tell me that Muir’s Chapel was very involved in the community.

This church is part of the Urban Ministry, inviting homeless and the less fortunate to come in and eat on certain days of the week. Muir’s Chapel also has several educational, sporting and biblical programs for the community, or just any one who may want to take part in participating. I am not sure which days, but either way just to know this church extends its arms out to the community in such away as this, if for no other reason at all makes me feel welcomed and privileged to have had the chance to visit this great Methodist church known as Muir’s Chapel.

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