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4. othing could have proven Plato’s quote
NNecessity is the Mother of Invention (our
need will be the real creator) more accurate
than remote working. Although digital disruptions
have been happening for a few decades, no one would
have imagined the transparency and efficiency
technology brought to remote working.
The COVID-19 pandemic redefined the concept of
normal working for many businesses. Work from
home became the new normal, and despite many
offices bouncing back to the old normalcy, a hybrid
working model will persist.
Though work from home is not a new concept, the
ongoing pandemic forced many to practice it rather
than opt for it. They were thrown off their inertia
before one could blink an eye, and remote working
became the new normal. After the teething problems
and overcoming the resistance to change, businesses
realized that remote working was the best way to
work, and employees began enjoying their ‘new
workplace.’
But managing work or office remotely has its
challenges. During the initial days of remote working,
businesses were worried about timely work and output
while employees ended up working long hours. The
Opening Ways for Productive
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5. major hurdles were communication, interaction with
teammates, visibility, etc. Here is where remote working
software came to the rescue. Proper remote working
software saves time and increases productivity while
eliminating work-related fears of employers and managers.
Automation, artificial intelligence, time tracking, team
management software/Apps, Google drive, real-time
communication tools, tracking to-dos, financial monitoring,
cloud, collaboration hubs, video conferencing solutions,
and many more tools are today used to manage businesses.
The office-to-home transition saw a shift in comfort zones.
Earlier, the areas were clearly demarcated – work in the
office and personal life at home, which were our comfort
zones for the respective activities. But as things started to
get streamlined, people began to see the silver lining and
enjoy the new work world.
Though offices are being reopened, the hybrid model
continues and will continue for a long period. As we
oscillate between comfort zones, remote work software
solution providers are busy with innovations to give the
best tools to businesses and make remote working
smoother.
Adapting to the tsunami of changes was difficult. But now
that the metamorphosis has happened and everyone is
comfortable in the skin they had to wear, remote work
software solution providers are the ones to hog the
limelight, and rightly so.
In our latest edition of Insights Success, Most Innovative
Remote Work Software Solution Providers, we have
featured some innovative remote work software solution
providers. Without their contributions, the new normal
would have continued to be daunting. They have provided
us with the best software for shared online workspaces.
They made monumental business management and
development tasks appear easier than one could imagine.
Technological developments have always eased the
functions of businesses and employees, but remote work
software solution providers have shed away myths and fears
of distance working.
Even as these solution providers continue to prove Plato’s
quote true, let us unearth their journey until now through
this edition.
Have an enlightening read!
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9. Featuring Brief
Company Name
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Kintone
kintone.com
ProofHub
proofhub.com
10up
10up.com
InVision
invisionapp.com
FunctionFox
functionfox.com
10up makes the internet better with consultative creative and
engineering services, innovative tools, and dependable products
that take the pain out of content creation and management, in
service of digital experiences that advance business and marketing
objectives.
FunctionFox is an online tool for tracking time and expenses,
keeping to estimate, and managing clients and projects.
FunctionFox streamlines the process with all the right tools,
allowing your creative team to focus on the work and stay
creative.
InVision is the visual collaboration platform powering the
world’s smartest companies. The company exists to make every
kind of work more collaborative, inclusive, and impactful.
Kintone is a global leader in the no-code custom software
revolution. Recognized in Forrester’s Wave and Gartner’s
Magic Quadrant as a leader in the space, Kintone is making
teamwork better with the best software and methods for
improving teamwork.
ProofHub is a saas-based project management software that fits
perfectly in every work culture. It solves the four major
challenges that every team faces in their projects - Planning,
Collaboration, Organization, and Delivering them on time.
Jake Goldman
Founder
Clark Valberg
CEO, Co-founder
Dave Landa,
CEO
Sandeep Kashyap
Founder
Alari Aho
CEO
Ulatus
ulatus.com
X-Team
x-team.com
Toptal
toptal.com
Toggl Track
toggl.com
Toggl Track is a leading online time tracking tool, which is
extremely popular among freelancers, consultants, and small
companies. It allows users to track the time spent on various
projects and analyze productivity.
Toptal is a network of the world's top talent in business, design,
and technology that enables companies to scale their teams, on
demand. With $200+ million in annual revenue and over 40%
year-over-year growth, Toptal is the largest fully distributed
workforce in the world.
Ulatus, a Crimson Interactive Co., offers 'publish-ready'
translation/localization quality and customizable solutions that use the
very best advancements in the marketplace to solidify its clients’
continuous business growth through the conversion of their branded
communications and distinguished by being Global in Spirit, Local at
Heart®.
X-Team has provided high-performing, on-demand teams of
software developers for the world's leading brands since 2006.
Taso Du Val
CEO
Shilpa Mittal
CEO
Ryan Chartrand
CEO
Zyte
zyte.com
Zyte is a game-changer in web data extraction, obsessed with
removing barriers so that its customers can access valuable
data. Quickly and easily, whenever and however they need it.
Shane Evans
CEO

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12. For Kintone users, working
remotely is suspiciously easy.
The powerful workplace
platform offers teams a 360-degree
vision of everything they need to stay
up-to-date at work: data, conversations,
status reports. And they can see it from
any internet connected device.
But what sets this platform apart isn’t
just its features--it’s the culture infused
around it.
“Kintone is as much as a philosophy as
it is a product,” says Dave Landa,
CEO of Kintone Corporation.
Kintone Corporation is the U.S. branch
of Cybozu, a Japan-based groupware
company that set records when it
launched.
Founded by three former-Panasonic
software engineers in 1997, Cybozu
went on to become the fastest company
to go public on the Tokyo Stock
Exchange – only three years after its
debut. Kintone is now used by 19,000+
organizations worldwide, and the
business grows an average of 50% a
year.
“Oftentimes, people want software to
solve their problems. To make things
like remote work easier,” says Dave.
“They think, ‘if only I could see
reports from my phone, or access that
document that’s in someone else’s
email.’ They hope new features or
editions will fix the struggles they face
around their job. But having access to
reports on your phone isn’t a fix-all
solution if you’ve got young children
at home who need constant help
logging into their Zoom classes. Being
able to access that spreadsheet in
someone else’s email won’t feel like
much if you’ve just been told your
company expects you back in the office
after you’ve bought a house outside the
commuting zone.”
For Dave, having the right tools is just
the first step. It’s the policies around
them that make or break their ultimate
value.
“Last year, we had a sales member
named Lisa reach out to us. She’s a
mom with a young kid who needs a lot
of help logging into classes and staying
focused throughout the day. She felt
she couldn’t be the mom her son
needed and work within the normal
nine-to-five timeframe. So, she came to
us and had a conversation... She ended
up switching her hours so she would
work mornings—before her son started
his classes—take the afternoon off to
focus on him, and then jump back on
in the evenings to finish up what was
left. Lisa wrote an open note on
Kintone explaining her decision and
situation to the entire rest of the team.
That note did two things: it helped her
team understand her situation and
support her, but it also helped establish
an open line with other parents on our
team who were struggling with the
same thing.”
Rather than turning a difficult situation
into a point of shame or lack of
commitment to the company, it became
an opportunity to explore who else on
the team was struggling and what
adjustments could be made for them.
Kintone’s culture laid the groundwork
to speak up. Then the product came in
to help others raise their voice. For
Kintone users, the platform helps foster
and encourage many of the company’s
core philosophies, including
transparency and accountability.
“Kintone is a database. But it’s also a
collaboration hub; rather than writing
isolated emails back and forth to
internal members of the team, you can
push those conversations through
Kintone itself,” says Dave.
The result is fascinating. Data records
store conversations between team
members right alongside the data being
discussed – even after the conversation
is over. Areas called Spaces allow
teams to create department or team-
centric areas where they can chat and
talk about the specifics of their work.
Customer success has its own Space,
as does marketing and sales. And
within each of these spaces are threads
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14. learn about the marketing initiatives
launching this month, or if the
marketing team wants a better
understanding of what current clients
are saying to the customer success
team, the information is there –
accessible to all.”
This all lends itself to this emerging
semi-permanent remote work world
businesses are dealing with. Right now,
“many companies are struggling to
figure out how to let people stay
remote without risking company
culture,” says Dave. What he feels they
don’t realize is that they can build and
grow a strong company culture even
when no one is in the same room, if
they’ve got the right setup. “Your team
needs tools that allow them access to
the information and conversations they
used to be able to get by walking
across to someone else’s desk.” No
more conversations siloed away in
email. No more spreadsheets trapped
on someone’s desktop – and they’re
not responding on Slack.
Centralization and accessibility are
critical.
But to Dave, the right tools don’t just
help your team get their work done
more effectively. They help foster the
underlying values of your culture even
when your culture committee or HR
team isn’t around.
“When the lockdowns occurred in
March of last year, we like to say we
went remote in 24 hours without a
hitch,” he laughs. “That’s because we
did. A team of 50 people in San
Francisco and around the U.S. went
completely remote in less than a day
with no major hiccups, minus
collecting the office mail. And while
certain parts of our culture have
changed, such as no more in-person
happy hours – other parts have thrived.
We haven’t lost anything.”
are conversation topics sorted by
subject.
That’s where Lisa’s message to the
team was posted.
At a typical business, her message
might have never left the conference
room. Or if it were announced, it might
have been done through HR and
accompanied by a politely worded
email from Lisa to only her closest
colleagues.
But on Kintone it was visible to
everyone in the company. “Just
because it lives in the Sales Space
doesn’t mean only sales can see it.
Anyone can go over and look and read
and benefit from it,” says Dave. “The
Kintone platform gave her a voice, and
in turn it gives others in the company a
chance to speak for themselves as
well.”
For Dave, this is what Kintone is truly
about: creating an ultra-transparent
workplace where people feel truly
comfortable to raise and discuss the
issues facing them--both at home and
in work. “If someone in sales wants to

16. A Leading Software Choice for Creative Professionals
It is proven science that most creative professionals
operate with a right-brained style of working. What
they need to work efficiently is a creative space that
will enable them to do what they do the best: create.
Sometimes the factor that acts as a hurdle in their creative
process is the management of their business.
Things like deadlines and due dates can be hard to keep a
track of for these professionals and feel like a hassle
oftentimes. To assist creative professionals and firms in
keeping track of all of their timelines and project
management concerns FunctionFox came into existence.
In an exclusive interview with Insights Success, Corina
Ludwig, the President of FunctionFox talks in detail about
the offerings of the company that helps firms streamline,
optimize, and manage team resources in a central location.
Following are the highlights of the interview:
Enlighten us with the journey of your company so far.
FunctionFox was created from a need to have a better tool
to manage an advertising agency. There were no good tools
available, so we created something that quickly proved to
streamline our business, improve efficiencies, and
contribute to increasing profitability. We decided our tool
could be of value to all creative teams, so we built the
software as a service business back in 2000.
Kindly talk about the exclusive products or services
offered by your company.
FunctionFox offers time and project management software
designed for creative teams. We offer Classic, which is
focused on time and expense tracking and reporting;
Premier, which adds in Project Management functionality
and features; and In-House, which was designed
specifically for In-House creative teams to assist with
project intake and project management. We also offer a free
product, ideal for a small team.
What is the vision and mission of the company?
Our vision is to be the leading time and project tracking
software for creative teams in the world. Our mission is to
help creative teams succeed and improve their business.
What kind of challenges has the company and its team
faced industry-wise?
In the Early days, we faced lots of hurdles – lack of high-
speed internet, lack of understanding about how we could
safely host mission-critical data. We were also challenged
to develop a sales system that we could measure and track
that was effective and efficient.
More recently, our challenges have been to remain focused
on our niche when we see other opportunities for things we
could do. Currently, the industry has many, many players,
and our challenge is visibility in a sea of competitors that
have raised hundreds of millions and spent it on marketing.
Our vision is to be the
leading time and project
tracking software for
creative teams in the
world.
,
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President
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18. How have technological advancements and innovation
in the industry impacted/enhanced the business of the
company?
Continuous improvement in speed and technology increases
the value we bring to our clients. Data on demand helps our
customers see their business on both a macro and micro
level and enables them to fine-tune and become more
effective and profitable.
What are your strategically driven plans to
be implemented in order to scale the
business in the upcoming year?
We are completing a full back-end upgrade,
looking at some exciting integration
opportunities, and refreshing our brand and
marketing programs.
What does the future look like for the
company in terms of growth and
expansion?
FunctionFox has a spectacular future.
More companies working from home,
more companies needing to better
manage their work all add up to
opportunity for FunctionFox, and our
deep expertise in the creative community
put us at an advantage for any creative
business wanting to up their game.
About the Leaders
Corina Ludwig - Corina Ludwig is an accomplished Senior Executive, Advisor, and Board Member with more than 30 years of
success in Business Tech and advertising. For the past 21 years, she’s led FunctionFox –a global leader in time-tracking and project
management. She also sits on the board for Women in Science and Tech and the Innovation, Advanced Technology, and
Entrepreneurship Council.
Mary-Lynn Bellamy - FunctionFox founder Mary-Lynn Bellamy-Willms had started her advertising agency with her husband from
their home back in 1988, so working from home was a simple concept to embrace. Through the growth of their agency, they built a
building and moved in, and ‘gave birth’ to FunctionFox.
Even from 2001, FunctionFox had a key management team member working
from home, while the rest of the team worked from a centralized office.
Through the years up to ‘COVID’ time, FunctionFox had many team
members (25%) working from home full-time and/or part-time from
home. In March 2020, we were quickly able to shift, and the company
has been operating 100% remotely since
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Before the COVID-19 pandemic, people had a
dystopian POV about their desired job conditions–
how the office should be near their homes, how
there should be no longer traveling in boring traffic, no boss
hovering around the table, and the freedom from time-
bounded life; simply sit at home, complete your work, and
get paid accordingly. But who would have thought that this
dream would become a reality? The epidemic changed all
the traditional ways of working and forced the world to
look after new ways of working.
Due to the imposed lockdowns and later applied norms of
social distancing, the traditional approach of offline
working shifted towards online working, which gave rise to
the new normal – work from home. Various studies show
that remote workers are more productive than office
workers, which provides an advantage of increased working
efficiency.
However, despite all the advantages, it is challenging for
management and hiring authorities to hire new employees
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22. for remote work. In some instances, employees who are
very efficient with working in the office find it difficult to
manage the remote working module and lower their graph.
This proves that everyone is not molded for remote
working. So, before hiring an employee, it is essential to
consider some key points to avoid failures. What are they?
Let's see:
The Outreach of the Company
The first and foremost thing is the company's outreach and
its brand. Many people will think it is quite unrelated to
hiring remote workers, but it is important to have a better
reach because in many cases, it has been seen that
companies miss out on hiring better people than they can
get with the extra reach. For companies, recruiting people
for remote teams is often more difficult than they anticipate.
It can be difficult to get the word out about the company
and the positions if a company doesn't have worldwide
connections or is a small brand, and local ties can be
difficult to come by. Hence, making use of every available
channel to spread the news and keep track of where the best
prospects come from is essential for companies. There are
many things that help spread a firm's reach for recruitment,
such as advertisement, social media posts, business
platforms such as LinkedIn, and many more. Making
effective use of reach can provide great assistance.
Value-added Recruitment Process
The term 'value-added recruitment process' refers to a
strategy that strives to guarantee that recruiters hire the
right people with the correct skills and beliefs. It is a
strategy that prioritizes certain beliefs and values in order to
recruit skilled workers. Companies develop some essential
ideas to form a competent team with the correct people and
talent.
Values are the guiding principles that significantly impact a
person's conduct, judgments, and, most importantly, ability
to make decisions. In simple words, concentrating on core
values during the recruitment process is quite beneficial
when it comes to selecting the appropriate individual. If an
employee's thought process is similar to that of a company,
it becomes easy to work for him.
Selection of Strongest Candidates
Possibly in each round of the selection criteria, weaker
candidates almost get eliminated in the process. But it
doesn't mean that the selected candidates are appropriate for
the job. Especially in remote interviews, it is tough to
predict if the candidate is speaking the truth or not. In many
cases, candidates show false experience, which is hard to
cross-check. Hence, companies get fooled by such
candidates and end up with a loss of money as well as
precious time.
Some candidates who get shortlisted are not really
experienced, but they are still selected for further
procedures. This happens only if they are really talented or
if the company believes that they are talented. The former
case is good for the company, while the latter causes a loss
of time and money. This happens because some people
don't have core knowledge of the work, but they may have
practiced the interviews, and accordingly, they portray their
candidatures as having a core knowledge about the work.
Hence, these nuances must be considered while selecting a
candidate.
Final Thoughts
Hiring the right candidate is the key for any successful
company, and it is a challenging task considering the
consequences of remote working. Managing a remote
working team requires a high level of trust and worthy team
members to get the work done. Remote working brings
many advantages, but it also puts some barriers in co-
ordination. Countering these barriers needs a great team
that can solve these problems, and hiring the right people is
the foundation of any successful virtual team.
-Vinayak Ghorpade
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24. ProofHub
A Progressive All-inclusive Software Solution Provider
Every business owner wishes to
boost their productivity. Profits
rise and waste falls when a
business runs efficiently, resulting in a
healthy bottom line. When it comes to
managing multiple tasks all at once, it
often consumes a lot of time and
energy. Business organizations have a
lot of activities to manage, like
projects, files, and teams, which can
seem like an arduous task sometimes.
Every entity must manage all the
activities successfully for a seamless
performance.
With advanced technology and
management services, there are certain
softwares that can perform time-
consuming tasks in a matter of
seconds. One such company that is
providing these cutting-edge software
solutions is ProofHub, based out of
Walnut, California; it is an all-in-one
simplified project planning software
for managing activities carried out in
an organization.
In an exclusive interview with Insights
Success, Sandeep Kashyap, the
Founder of ProofHub, elaborates more
on the distinct software services that
the company provides to its clients.
Below are the highlights of the
interview.
Enlighten us with the journey of
ProofHub so far.
The story of our company has been a
simple one. I built a software platform
from scratch, and since then, all we’ve
done is improve the product and
market it to the best of our abilities.
The journey started when I created
ProofHub to end the mismanagement
of files, projects, and, most
importantly, teams. And, I know it had
potential since early on, we got a flush
of notable customers who wanted to
use our platform to simplify their tasks
and streamline the work processes.
After that, I aimed to find a group of
like-minded people who shared this
bigger vision with me and were ready
to create something that would aid
people with project management and
team collaboration as a whole. As a
close-knit team, we work hard to
understand the highly competitive
nature of the market, and of course, the
needs of our customers. We believe
that the customer is the boss of us, and
what they need, we provide.
So, all in all, we have four things going
on for us- (1) extensive customer
service, (2) improving the look and
feel of the product, (3) adding more
and more bells and whistles to the
feature-set of ProofHub, (4) making it
easier for our potential customers to
find us and sign up for our product
through successful marketing as well
as branding efforts.
Kindly talk about the exclusive
products or services offered by
ProofHub.
In the new normal, that
is the era of remote work; we
believe tools like ProofHub have
become and continue to become the
basic necessity for teams to effectively
collaborate, track work assignments,
communicate, and more.
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25. Sandeep Kashyap, Founder of ProofHub
Project management tools have always been a sort of a helping hand to teams of all sizes and of any
industry. However, when the era of remote work took over, tools like ProofHub went from being a
helpful suggestion to an absolute necessity.
Teams needed a place where they could come together to collaborate and work together more
efficiently and effectively, and with tools like ours, they can have exactly that. ProofHub helps teams
centralize all project-related information (with Kanban boards, notes, and Gantt charts) and coordinate
with each other (using discussions and chats).
As a remote work software solution, ProofHub is providing the world with a secure platform where
distributed teams can come together to plan, schedule, store, and execute projects without any hassle.
About the Leader
Sandeep Kashyap
Founder
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26. ProofHub is an all-in-one tool that
helps teams replace 6-7 tools they
would be using before this one. Some
things that make ProofHub one of a
kind within its kind are:
In-house features: Even though
ProofHub comes with a plethora of
integrations that sit seamlessly inside
the application, it comes with several
in-built features that eliminate the need
for other software programs.
Ease of use: ProofHub is an easily
scalable tool, it is easy to use, and
overall, it just makes everything -
every information, task, and teammate
more accessible. Not only does it allow
ease of use to the users, but it also
gives them a platform where it is easy
for the team to onboard new members
and keep information on the front and
center.
Flat Pricing: Another thing that sets us
apart in the market is that we offer a
flat-pricing model to our customers
where there is no in-app pricing and
also no per-user charge.
What is the vision and mission of
ProofHub?
Both our vision and our mission are
and always have been to help people
achieve the highest rates of efficiency
with all the innovative features that we
can provide to them. Our organization
has the vision to improve the quality of
work and the productivity of the
workforce by providing a solution that
can help them carry the workload for
them. Therefore, we work on the
customer satisfaction part of the job
effectively.
What kind of challenges has
ProofHub, and its team faced
industry-wise?
The market for project management,
collaboration, and communication
tools is a relatively tough one to
breach. It is undoubtedly a highly
competitive market that is hard to
navigate at times.
There are two ongoing challenges that
I would like to talk about. The first one
is the competition. We always had
competition, but the era of remote
work has pushed some tools to jump
this bandwagon of facilitating
efficiency with remote work. Now even
though these software platforms have
not taken us out of the race, they have
muddied the water for the big players
like us who are trying to make a stance
in the market.
Another challenge that has been
coming in our way is one where we are
trying to keep up with the innovation
steps being taken up by our
competitors and balancing all of that
with all the requirements that our users
and potential customers have.
While our competitors find ways to add
more bells and whistles to their
products, users are simply searching
for a solution to help them manage
their workload and collaborate with
their teams in real-time in this
particularly taxing era of remote work.
How have technological
advancements and innovation in the
industry impacted/enhanced the
business of ProofHub?
As we steadily moved to an era of
remote work, our needs changed, our
requirements, habits, and activities
changed, there was a need for a robust
solution that could help hold things
together. Since our product and our
team, in general, have always offered
the best, most useful collaborative
features to our customers over the
years, time and technology have only
enhanced and improved our sales and
market prospects.
As time moves on, people expect to see
clarity with the UX, faster functioning,
and heightened levels of software
performance. All of this impact us in
the way that we have to keep working
on the demands of the masses and cater
to the needs and requirements of the
public.
Therefore, over the years, we have
worked on updating our tech,
enhancing the user experience, and
increasing the security measures so
that people can find our product as
reliable as it is useful.
What are your strategically driven
plans to be implemented to scale the
business in the upcoming year?
In the upcoming year, we are looking
to improve our product performance.
We are looking to add feature sets that
help us cater to enterprise teams in
particular. We are coming up with a
cleaner interface and a holistic range of
features for distributed teams with
distributed needs.
What does the future look like for
ProofHub in terms of growth and
expansion?
In the new normal, that is the era of
remote work; we believe tools like
ProofHub have become and continue
to become the basic necessity for teams
to effectively collaborate, track work
assignments, communicate, and more.
Hence, in terms of growth and
expansion, we are looking to penetrate
across more and more industries and
take advantage of all the open space of
opportunities this pandemic has left in
the market.
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28. anguage shapes the way we
Lthink and determines what we
can think about.” American
Linguistic and Fire Prevention
Engineer Benjamin Lee Whorf
correctly highlighted the importance of
language learning in education.
And it stands true for businesses as
well. Today, the digital revolution and
social media have blurred geographical
boundaries. However, lack of quality
and trusted translation services in the
market have been limiting companies
to communicate with their audience
limiting their success in the global
market.
Ulatus was founded to provide quality
translation services considering this
market gap. Since its inception, the
company has been working on a
mission to lessening language barriers
for academic and corporate purposes
by hiring expert translators in several
countries.
“We firmly believe that language
should not be a barrier for businesses
aiming to capture local markets to
expand their geographical presence,”
says Shilpa Sanghai Mittal, the CEO
of Ulatus. With this guiding philosophy
and visionary leadership, Ulatus has
been empowering companies to
communicate with their audiences in
global markets in their native language.
And now working on its motto
‘Localize to Globalize’ Ulatus strives
to go beyond language translation to
support brands to build a strong local
presence.
Read the following interview to know
how Ulatus was established, how the
company’s services are making
difference for its clients, and its
technological approach to thrive in the
future.
Enlighten us with the journey of
Ulatus so far.
I started Ulatus when I was 27 years
old after I noticed that there was a lack
of translation services for academic
purposes. We started by hiring
translators from Japan and bridging the
gap between clients and translators.
After this model proved to be a
success, we expanded into several
other countries and diversified our
offerings in the translation industry.
Today, Ulatus is present in over 125
countries and provides translations to
most of these countries. We have a
team of around 100 people in Mumbai,
15 people in the Japan office, 4 in the
US office, 6 in the Korea office, and 6
in China. Apart from this, we have
over 2,000 translators who work for us
remotely from across the globe.
Share with the exclusive products or
services Ulatus offers.
Ulatus primarily offers 50+ language
translation solutions to academic
researchers and authors to get their
research published in international
peer-reviewed journals. We also help
corporate firms appeal to different
global audiences in the languages they
understand. The company offers
Chinese, Indic, Korean, Japanese,
Spanish, and Portuguese language
services amongst other languages.
Additionally, we also deliver solutions
like interpretation, book translation,
pharmaceutical and medical
localization, website, game, app, and
finance localization amongst others.
Under our life science localization
offerings, we offer services such as
regulatory submission translation,
linguistic validation for pharmaceutical
companies, medical device translation,
and work with well-known biotech
companies as well as CROs for their
requirements.
What kind of challenges the
company and its team faced when
entering the niche industry?
The translation industry is huge and to
even be recognized as a brand here
requires immense effort. With a $47
billion+ industry, there is loads of
competition here. So, entering and
surviving this competition requires one
to be different and specialized, and
hence our start was to be experts at
providing language solutions in Asian
languages specifically.
Another challenge is that this industry
is continuously evolving from one
language and service to another
(translation, localization, technological
solutions, etc.). Technology is getting
better day by day. Thus, we also need
to keep evolving in what we offer to
clients. This requires constant market
intelligence and innovation. Building a
team competent to handle varied and
unique client requests is a challenge we
accepted and successfully achieved
early in the business. The success of
Ulatus today should be attributed to its
hardworking and intelligent team.
“
Most Innovative Remote Work Software Solution Providers 2021
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29. How have technological advancements and
innovation in the industry impacted/enhanced the
business of the company?
Like most other industries, technology plays a large
part in translation as well. As automated translation
slowly comes to the forefront, we have had to also
adapt to ensure that clients get what they are looking
for. In recent times, automated translation has become
popular and is being used for many reasons which
have made it more important.
We have used our years of experience and super-
efficient linguists to make our own proprietary
AI-based machine translation with the highest quality
and value available in the market today. We have also
used technology to speed up our processes, shorten
turnaround times, and improve the accuracy of human
translation.
What are your strategically driven plans to be
implemented to scale the business in the upcoming
year?
This year we want to focus on upcoming markets
related to cybersecurity, interpretation, game
localization, and e-learning. Considering how the
world has evolved to be more online, we feel that these
markets have improved in potential and can be an
opportunity for growth.
Our focus, however, has always been client
satisfaction and top-notch quality of service. We have
always treated retaining our current business as the
best foundation for growth and will continue to do so
in the future as well.
What does the future look like for the company in
terms of growth and expansion?
We aim to be one of the most recognized and trusted
language solutions company for many language pairs.
Globally we want Ulatus (www.ulatus.jp) to be the
first choice for clients seeking translation service
across industries.
Achieving this will take a lot of work and patience but
we are currently focused on quality and our dedication
to client satisfaction. We’ve been growing steadily
over the last couple of years, and we expect to do even
better in the years to come. Blending technology with
quality has worked for us so far and we will continue
to do that more efficiently, in times to come.
We aim to be one
of the most
recognized and
trusted language
solutions company
for many language
pairs.
“
“
Shilpa Sanghai Mittal | CEO
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31. The
Increasing
Importance of
RemoteWorking
Culture
If anyone asks, what is the most drastic outcome of the
COVID-19 pandemic, the obvious answer is an
unprecedented social and economic disruption.
However, in addition to this, it bisected the timeline of
human history. This timeline was previously divided based
on the birth of Jesus Christ (AD and BC) and then after the
second world war. But the global disruption caused by the
pandemic simply added a new spot on the axis of time.
From now on, whenever the history books will be written in
the future, the references will be divided into pre-pandemic
and post-pandemic. Such is the impact it caused on a global
level. Though the pandemic has changed global dynamics,
it also led to some technological revolutions. Worldwide
lockdowns led to a sudden shift in traditional working and
gave birth to a new normal – 'Work-from-home.'
Believed to be a blessing in disguise, the work-from-home
or simply remote working process has become popular in
Home = Office
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32. the working culture of many companies. It is one of the
positives that emerged from the negative effects of the
pandemic. When millions of enterprises faced an existential
threat during unprecedented times, remote working was the
only option that saved them.
Early Influences of Remote Working Culture
Remote working was not initiated by the pandemic. It was
already in practice even before the emergence of the
internet. Jack Nilles, A NASA engineer, coined the term
'telecommuting' in 1973 and laid the foundation of modern
remote working culture. Further, with the arrival of garage
start-ups, a new generation was born that was associated
with entrepreneurs and their ideas. These entrepreneurs
worked from their homes, small office rooms, or even from
sheds to run their businesses.
On the other hand, employees started to prefer companies
that were flexible, allowing them to continue working from
their preferred locations or as suitable to their premises. The
technological revolution provided essential flexibility in the
working module and ensured the smooth running of a
business. The journey that started from heavy computers
reached the portable laptops and further to smartphones and
tablets.
Machines that used to take up entire rooms are now small
enough to fit in the bags or even in your pockets. These
portable devices eliminated the necessity of working at a
particular location. The invention of Wireless Fidelity (Wi-
Fi) was the icing on the cake, which provided wireless
access to the internet. The amalgamation of these advanced
gadgets allowed companies and their employees to work
according to their preferred locations.
The Pandemic Boost
Though the pandemic has not invented remote working, it
really accelerated the use of this module. The sudden shift
in the working culture toppled the operations of companies
and forced them to provide their workers the access to work
remotely. Soon, the awareness about remote working
widespread throughout the world, and companies adapted to
work from home looking at the need of an hour. Once
considered a fad, remote working has now become a trend
in every sector.
The change in the policy pushed many companies to
implement a techno-savvy approach to survive in the
market. Previously there was a traditional mindset of people
that employees can't work efficiently when they are not in
the office, and hence, they must be working under the same
roof. But the pandemic overturned this approach, and due to
the many advantages, that remote working provided, it just
shifted the winds towards new horizons.
What Next?
Technological advancement is on its verge leading to the
digitization of everything. The new
age is a digital age, and remote working is the most obvious
thing to implement. To date, 'Cloud-based Computing' has
become a buzzword, and it is hastening the use of the
remote working module. Companies who had seen this
module as just a passing fad previously are now realizing its
importance.
As work-from-home is becoming a new norm, companies
need to be equipped with upgraded gadgets and tools to
survive in the future market race. It is likely that companies
will choose a hybrid and flexible working policy for
employees. The hybrid approach provides employees the
autonomy of choosing the work location that increases their
efficiency and suits them best.
On the flip side, allowing teams to work remotely helps
companies increase employee retention. They no longer
have to be concerned about the inconvenient, costly, and
disruptive consequences of team members leaving for
brighter pastures. With the advantages greatly
outnumbering the downsides, it's time to think about the
future of work and how remote working will fit into it. After
all, change has been the constant, and those who accepted it
aced the race.
-Vinayak Ghorpade
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34. In a world where the internet reigns supreme, content
creation has gained a strong foothold. For a business to
prosper in this hyperspace, it should have a robust
online presence. Websites act as a cover of the book that
describes the features of the company. Impressive content
and a user-friendly interface are certain hallmarks that
attract audiences and present the possibility of transforming
them into future customers.
Web services play a vital role in making websites look
attractive, impressive, and interactive. Therefore, a web
development partner is an essential investment so that a
business can drive the respective market with excellence.
10up, based in Roseville, California, is one such company,
which makes cyberspace better with consultative innovative
and engineering services, creative tools, and reliable
products that take the hassle out of content creation and
management in service of digital experiences that further
business and marketing objectives.
In the following interview, Jake Goldman, the Founder of
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Crafting Distinctive Websites for Content Creators

35. 10UP, whose dedication and contribution to the WordPress
community has made him achieve his dreams, shares with
us the success story of his company.
Enlighten us with the journey of 10up so far.
10up was founded by Jake Goldman in 2011. Jake initially
embraced WordPress in his prior role around 2008 and
contributed heavily to the WordPress community over the
years that followed. In 2011, Jake saw an opportunity to
start an agency that could position itself as the leading
design and engineering expert specializing in WordPress.
Taking a cue from the distributed nature of the WordPress
community itself and not wanting to tether himself – or his
talent search – to a singular location, 10up was 100%
distributed from the start.
In the decade since, 10up has grown from 1 employee to
over 250 – spanning dozens of states and countries around
the globe – and has worked with clients ranging from ESPN
and The New York Times to Heap.io and Credit Karma to
Microsoft and Salesforce.
Kindly talk about the exclusive products or services
offered by 10up.
We make finely crafted websites and digital tools for clients
ranging from Microsoft and Salesforce to ESPN and
Politico. We offer a full suite of digital expertise, spanning
web strategy, experience design, engineering, audience, and
revenue optimization, and more.
We also contribute extensively to the open-source projects
behind our success, like WordPress, and share our solutions
with the community, like DistributorPlugin.com and
ElasticPress.io.
What is the vision and mission of 10up?
We believe building finely crafted digital experiences
should transcend singular industries or trends and strive to
ensure that our team is ready and able to solve any sort of
digital challenge: whether a complicated revenue challenge
for a traditional publisher or a novel technical idea from a
rapidly growing start-up.
What kind of challenges has 10up and its team faced
industry-wise?
Perhaps unsurprisingly, the technology landscape – within
the WordPress community and at large – has changed
significantly in our decade-long history. What were once
simple websites have grown up into complicated platforms
built from multiple technologies?
Building and maintaining the flexibility that these shifts
necessitate has required careful effort on our part, though
our remote working model has made it considerably easier.
How have technological advancements and innovation
in the industry impacted/enhanced the business of
10up?
A remote company’s success comes down to one thing:
communication. Over the last decade, several new tools –
Slack, Zoom – have re-invented the way we communicate
online. They’re as good, and sometimes better, as
traditional face-to-face, in-office communication.
What are your strategically driven plans to be
implemented to scale the business in the upcoming year?
We’re continuing to take advantage of the hiring flexibility
that our remote working model empowers, bringing the best
talent onto the team no matter where they live.
What does the future look like for the company in terms
of growth and expansion?
We plan to continue growing our team.
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