Adit Jaiswal, an intern working with the SME team, was part of the winning team at the Euromoney Hackathon, and was also awarded an idividual prize for his efforts.

The Hackathon, which was held on 4^th and 5^th October, was organised by Euromoney PLC at CCT Venues, London, for which MarkLogic was the main sponsor. Teams had 36 hours to come up with a software tool, for which the winning team would be awarded a cash prize of £4,000..

Every team comprised of four members, each of whom fulfilled the role of either a back-end developer, front-end developer, tester, or a business analyst. Additionally, each team had an employee from Euromoney appointed as the team mentor.

Adit says: "During my discussion with our mentor, I identified two ongoing areas of concern in the company; realising full potential of their API’s, and identifying potential customers. I used both these issues to come up with a web tool which identifies potential customers using social media profiles. Moreover, this enables tremendous opportunities for cross segment and cross market selling.

The application not only won my team the Hackathon competition, but I was also awarded an additional title for the individual displaying “Best Efforts” along with a cash prize of £1000."