Great British Festival to be held on 11th Dec

The Great British Festival will be taking plae on 11th Dec 2013 at Leela Palace in Chennai. The festival will be inaugurated by Rt Hon Dr Vince Cable, Cabinet Minister for Business, Innovation and Skills and will showcase British food, culture, tourism and performing arts, which will be interwoven throughout the day with a view to developing UK-India partnerships. The event will be held at The Leela Palace, a venue which lends itself well to a creative and high impact event.

A large number of UK companies/organisations are participating in the event, including Jaguar Land Rover, TWI, GSH, Stadco, Converging World, Renold, Cambridge University, BRE Global, Sweet Group.

Shaun Kenworthy, a well-known British chef, will have a live food counter at the venue. Great British Festival also promises a peek into the British culture with British food and music. Celebrating the UK creativity, The Funk Agenda from Chennai will perform and close the Festival.

Participation at the event is FREE of charge, but the British Deputy High Commission encourages you to register in advance. To register and schedule B2B meetings with UK companies, kindly write to Priyanka.Karunan@fco.gov.uk

You can see the flyer for full information on the Great British Festival.

Testhouse gets recognition at Microsoft Visual Studio launch

Testhouse was invited to play an integral role in the recent launch of Microsoft Visual Studio 2013, at Armani Hotel in Burj Khalifa, Dubai. Organised by Microsoft Gulf and MEA (Middle East and Africa), the full day event had over 200 companies from Gulf (UAE, Oman, Qatar, Bahrain), Saudi Arabia and Egypt, being represented by their senior level executives.

During his session on “Agile Testing through Quality Enablement”, Jihad Dannawi from Microsoft invited the CEO of Testhouse Middle East and India – Vijay Kumar and the Vice President for Architecture and Control from Emirates NBD – Divakar Kini, to join him on stage. He then requested BBG Chennai Member, Vijay and Divakar to share their recent engagement experience, with the select audience. Divakar explained the challenge faced by the bank, where it was becoming increasingly unviable to solely pursue manual testing each time there were any updates in their Finacle Core Banking application. The earlier attempts at automation using other tools had not met with the desired result. Giving details of how Testhouse managed the requirement, Vijay explained how they successfully build regression packs for automation using Visual Studio and also shared details of how the same tool was used further to do Performance testing on a Siebel CRM application at the bank. Details of this engagement by Testhouse has been documented by Microsoft in a case study, which can be accessed at http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/Case_Study_Detail.aspx?CaseStudyID=710000003467

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JDS Food Products, our Member won the “Best SME” at first BBG Mumbai National Meet Awards 2013

It gives us great pleasure to advise that JDS Food Products won the “Best SME” Award at 1st BBG Awards Ceremony at the National Meet in Mumbai on 21st September 2013.

Devdas Reddy and Bhuvaneswari Devdas have been in the pappadum and related business for two decades. This Award is testimony to many years of steady hard work and perseverance. For information, in 2012 they won the “Gem of India” Award and in 2013 the “Udyog Gaurov” Award from the Ministry of External Affairs, New Delhi. We commend their achievement and wish them continued success