It was just a month back that we celebrated the 1st Corporate Connect Meet of Opteamize at the IIT Madras Research Park, Chennai. Opteamize Cloud Solutions Pvt Ltd, an IBM Business Partner offers solutions that optimize academic (project), business (prospect) and recruitment (placement) processes on a SaaS model. The interesting part was that the partners came on board less than a month back and within days of product launch!
Opteamize is a member of the IBM Global Entrepreneur Program and in recent days we have been prominently featured in leading magazines like Dataquest, Voice & Data, BISInfotech , eWeek and in ‘The New Indian Express’.
I joined them recently as Head Business Success and am enabling the branding and positioning of the various solutions, expanding the Partner Services ecosystem, representing them at conferences/meetups and providing support to marketing through developing and reviewing offline & online content.
Opteamize Corporate Connect is a solution that addresses the employability issues for final year students of professional courses and job aspirants. A staggering 80% of the 60 lakh aspirants for jobs in IT companies have been deemed as unemployable. Over the last few years, the Indian Government, NASSCOM, National Skills Development Council (NSDC), Universities/Colleges and several well meaning institutions like ICTACT & Training/Assessment companies have been working hard to bring down this number.
Corporate Connect is an humble attempt to join hands with the above group and help solve the employability problem in our own unique way via a student friendly, technology driven, disruptive business model driven by our IBM Partnership.
Subscription to ‘Corporate Connect’ gives an opportunity to students and job aspirants to hone their technical skills, build simple mobile and web applications, get a professional CV, understand latest technology trends and receive push notifications about potential opportunities in the industry whilst also receiving a certificate from IBM upon fulfillment of the certification criteria. We then help connect them to IT companies for suitable jobs and internships.
Subsequent to the release of the Opteamize product beta on June 15th, The Opteamize team traveled to various cities in Tamil Nadu (our initial focus State) and assessed the infrastructure, capability and competence of various Project Centers and Training Institutes. This was a 3 stage process. Our team first shortlisted over 100 of them through online search and further pruned them after validating their suitability and checking their antecedents on various social media sites including complaint forums. We then met over 20 of them personally for discussions with their management and for demoing our product. We then finalised 6 partners who would join hands with us in taking the Opteamize Product to the academic institutions and students. These 6 partners were invited to Chennai and take part in the 1st Corporate Connect Partner Meet.
The agenda was as follows:
Our heartfelt thanks to Mani Madhukar who flew in from Bengaluru and Gomathi Nayagam for their participation in the partner meet. To Lawrence Mohanraj, Radhesh Kanumury, Nilkanth Iyer, Rajesh Jeyapaul and Karthik Padmanabhan and to the entire IBM Partner Ecosystem team who have always been supportive of our efforts, a big thank you!
Thanks also to the partners who participated and made the event a grand success. We hope the partners went back with a better understanding of Bluemix and will put the marketing collaterals like standee, brochures, and mementos to good use.
Our Service Partners:
Coimbatore: Propulsion Technologies. They are powered by skill professionals and driven by its mission to create values to all its clients.
Madurai: PASS IT Services is the core business domain of Pandian Systems and Solutions Pvt Ltd. They have good expertise in Networking and Telecommunications.
Trichy: Gateway Finishing School Their training programs are designed and developed in the manner to focus on the overall development of the candidates by enhancing their behavioral and technical skills, thereby making them competent for this field.
Erode: Maxpro Infotech. They believe in Innovations through Imaginations.
Salem: Softrix Solutions. They are a professional Training Institute in Chennai, Madurai and Salem. The Company provides coaching labs for all trainees.
Chennai: Sciflare Technologies is an Enterprise application development company with specialization in Digital Marketing.
We are confident that the next Partner meet will be a bigger venue with more Services Partners to jointly celebrate our success.
Thank you partners for your unstinting cooperation and looking to meet all of you soon during our next training sessions!
