This document provides information about Zazmic, a software development company, and their team productivity tool called Z-Stream that was built on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). It discusses Zazmic's motivation for building their own product, some of their clients and projects, their core engineering competencies including cloud, AI and mobile, and their Google Cloud skills and partnership. It also briefly touches on incubators within large service companies and foreign investment in Ukraine.
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Zazmic Intro
August 2018
Meet Z-Stream: Zazmic’s Team Productivity Tool for
program and product management. Built on GCP. .
Contact:
Paul Sinclair
Business Development / CCO
Zazmic Inc. | Silicon Valley CA
+1 831 588 7285
paul.sinclair@zazmic.com
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Foreign investment attraction by outsource/service companies.
Product as a marketing tool: is it possible to attract customers with the
help of product? Will it be profitable?
Incubators and programs for startups development inside giants of
service industry.
Do they have success stories or is it just marketing ?
Agenda
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Foreign Investment in Ukraine and UA
Companies
Top 5 investments in Ukraine
ArcelorMittal — $400 million upgrade of its
Kryvyi Rih metallurgical plant
• European Bank of Reconstruction and
Development — $322 million in investments
across the country
• Bunge — $180 million grain terminal in
Mykolaiv
• Fairfax Financial Holdings — $100 million
investment into Astarta agroholding
• Procter and Gamble — $100 million upgrade
of its Boryspil factory
Total Foreign Direct Investment: $2.1B / Year
• Banking & Manufacturing account for more
than 60% of it
Top 5 startup by fundraising
• $110 million investment in Grammarly,
• $30 million in BitFury,
• $10 million in Petcube,
• $7 million in People.ai
“Engineered / Started in Ukraine, Everything
else is done elsewhere”
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Why everybody come to Ukraine ?
Entrepreneurs, Start ups
Create an R&D Center for new technology Fortune 500 Companies
Starting a new venture with Low risk and
great Talent pool
Focus on core business & Optimize cost Mid-Size companies
Large Investments have been made in big outsourcing companies like Ciklum and Global
Logic in the Past few year. Note that services companie have the lowest valuation 1 to 2
times revenues.
But this this still a great idea to build at IT Service company and Investors are eager to
invest in it.
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Is building your own product a good idea ?
Why can we talk about it ?
Zazmic launched it’s own Product Management platform (think Jira + Roadmunk) on GCP.
There is no guarantee of Revenue and Profitability. So far we have 47 clients and we have not
recovered our investment.
Hidden Advantages:
• We have our own SaaS Product that we market ourselves.
• It gives you a platform to demonstrate your capabilities
• Develop our own center of excellence for Product & Project management within Zazmic
• Develop a highly capable Marketing team SEO / SEM
• Established a Partnership with Google (Premier Partner)
• From a Sales point of view it’s way easier to close deals
YES - It makes your company different and change the conversation when it comes to sales.
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Productivity Management is at Zazmic’s Core
Our work in development helped us become experts in teams,
workflows, and productivity management.
CRM based products like Salesforce did not let us track key program
activities in a useful way. And, they could expensive, hard to customize,
and built for a different purpose than what we needed.
Program Management requirements proved to be far beyond the
capabilities of applications such as Excel or Sheets.
We built Z-Stream because we needed a powerful, connected team
productivity tool usable in “real world” scenarios.
Zazmic uses Z-Stream as our central Productivity Tool to help deliver on
our services offerings.
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Incubators within Giant Services company
• Zazmic Recently worked with the business Innovation group of Ericsson and other companies like
IBM, Amazon and Google. We also watch carefully companies Like Ciklum, Global Logic to
understand how we can grow faster and do things Better.
• Ericsson (big hardware & Services company) spends a lot of money in M&A, R&D)
Incubation. Yet most of these companies struggle to make money and flourish.
• Watson (IBM) (AI/ ML) is a good example of innovation, yet it has not been a commercial success.
• Google and Amazon choose to invest via their venture arms in Start ups (Nest)
Few successes, these companies are too big and their focus on sales and earning prevent them to
focus on true innovation. Most of successful innovation comes from startups & Investment in
startups.
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Zazmic Core Engineering Competencies:
Cloud, Big Data, AI, Mobile, ML, IoT, Migration
230
Employees globally
Zazmic Projects Completed
since 2012:
200+
Current projects:
40
• San Francisco Headquarters
• Three Global Development Centers
• Founded 2012
About Zazmic
Google Cloud Platform Premier Partner
Zazmic’s Team Productivity Tool helps
program and product management.
Built on GCP for Zazmic’s GCP Clients.
Contractual Relationships:
• Supplier - Billing / Banking
• Google Cloud Reseller
• GCP new / growth incentives
• Specialist / Premier Partner
• Engineering Certifications / Test
10 Zazmic current number of projects
built and managed on Google Cloud.
Zazmic Partner Program Participation:
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About Zazmic: Clients and Projects
Zazmic built an Advertising Technology and
AI platform to process operator data.
Client Marketing provides integrated
marketing solutions that enable marketers to
achieve the full potential of digital marketing.
Zazmic built a Advertising Technology platform
with iOS, Android, and web integration.
Ericsson delivers more than 40% of the world’s
mobile traffic. Ericsson created game-changing
connectivity technology and services.
Valassis provides data-driven media solutions
that engage and influence consumers to
create the future of intelligent media delivery.
Zazmic built an Advertising Technology platform
and AI solution for intelligent target marketing.
Boostr is the only CRM solution built
specifically for media and ad sales teams
by ad sales experts.
Zazmic built a Media Enterprise Platform that
delivers the boostr solution to Media clients.
Sounding Board helps growing companies
develop their leaders through tech-
enabled leadership coaching.
Zazmic built a leadership coaching platform
for delivering specialized training content.
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API Platform/Ecosystem
Cloud endpoints
Developer Portal
API Analytics
Big Data
Managed Hadoop and Spark
Batch and Stream Data Processing
Analytics Data Warehouse / BigQuery
Cloud ML
Vision API
Cloud Natural Language
Cloud Speech API
Cloud Migration
Storage Lift and Shift
AWS to GCP
MSFT to GCP
Zazmic Development Team
Google Platform Engineering Skill Sets:
Front End
Node.js, Angular.js, JavaScript, Java, Ruby,
Python, Cloud Services
Cloud Services
Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Amazon Web
Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure
Mobile
Android, iOS, Tablet, Apple TV app
Big Data
Databricks, Hadoop, Spark, Storm, Vertica,
MapReduce, YARN, Ambari, Avro, Hbase,
Mahout, Pig, Tez
AI
Google Cloud ML, TensorFlow
Blended Rate: $6,600/Month
Zazmic Team GCP Skills: