April - 2015 issue

Cover Story

TransSys Solutions: Transformation Begins Here
What Charles Darwin quoted centuries ago holds high value even in business world where change is the only constant variable. The old manual processes are all mechanized today and tomorrow still...

LeaderSpeak

Redefining the Concept of Enterprise Resource Planning to Re-imagine Business with SAP
By Milind Kamat & Satbir Singh Kohli
Digital transformation as a buzzword today, can mean and be interpreted differently by individuals, organizations and companies. In this digital age, where business is changing and transforming at...  more >>

20 Most Promising ERP Companies in IT

20 Most Promising ERP Companies in IT
By ERP Insights Team
Over the past decade, planning has turned into a highly mechanized process following the advent of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP).  more >>

Amshuhu (iSteer): Intelligently Steer Your Business
By Pankaj Kundwani
What is the use of technology that does not simplify things? The users of technology may not always be the tech savvy and educated ones and thus the true power of technology can only be judged by...  more >>

i4 Global Technologies: A Helping Hand in Changing Business Realities
By Deepshikha Singh
The unprecedented rise in consumerization has changed the way businesses operate across the world. Adding up to the pressure, fierce competition in troubling economic times is constantly pushing...  more >>

icanD: Creating Solutions That Address Your Business Challenges
By Pankaj Kundwani
Customer surely has a dominant role in any buying and selling process. Especially in the IT industry, customers not only dominate the bargain but also define what they want. Reasoned to the same,...  more >>

ITFlux: Discover How Technology Delivers Faster, Sharper, Better
By Pankaj Kundwani
The SME sector plays an imperative role in the growth of Indian economy by contributing about 45 percent of the total industrial output every year. As these enterprises witness growth, they...  more >>

nicheBees: Achieving Customer Advocacy through Value Innovation
By Pankaj Kundwani
Nothing can bring quick gains is a philosophy highly challenged today as those days are gone when customers waited endlessly for results from their IT investments. Considering the wide ranging...  more >>

Pansoft: Improving Business Value, Through Better Solutions
By Pankaj Kundwani
Information is the light of the modern day. Those organizations who best utilize this pricy resource can surely make it to the top of the ladder. As simple it sounds, managing an organization's...  more >>

Qualian Technologies: Bringing to You the Benefits of Openbravo ERP
By Pankaj Kundwani
The customized Openbravo ERP software solutions at Qualian are an imperative part of the company's services. The Chennai based organization specializes in catering to small and medium sized...  more >>

Tiara Consulting: Get the Best You Can Expect
By Pankaj Kundwani
The three primary objectives for any business are profit, growth and survival, and companies achieving these goals are fortunate to see their efforts paying off. However, growth brings bigger...  more >>

CIO BizNote

Time to Bring Unison between Aviation Engineering and its External Ecosystem
By Ravinder Pal Singh, Global Chief Information and Technology Officer, Air Works
Aviation IT is laggard in aviation domain overall, more so in India. It is surprising but true. Surprising! As it\\\'s a young domain and uses complex engineering inside aircraft or its mechanical...  more >>

Technology to Heal Inefficiencies in the Healthcare Industry
By Arvind Sivaramakrishnan, CIO, Apollo Hospitals Enterprise Limited
Technology has become an inevitable part of our life today. We have gladly clinched its use in all spheres of our work. The healthcare domain which has been growing as one of the most promising and...  more >>

CXO BizOpinion

Indian Enterprise Software Products - On Accelerated Growth Path
By Ruchika Sharma, Deputy Manager-Research, NASSCOM
Global enterprise applications market continues to grow rapidly with small and medium size businesses now adopting enterprise-class software along with large enterprises upgrading solutions for...  more >>

Industry 4.0 - Where Industry Meets Intelligence
By Balaji R, VP- Manufacturing & Infrastructure, Ramco Systems Limited
Wonder how business was done few decades ago? No communications, no email, no Internet; forget about social media and business integration or big data. Businesses have always been at the forefront...  more >>

Why the Cloud May be the Safest Place to Store Your Sensitive Data
By David Burg
The use of cloud computing is officially mainstream across most industries, yet many executives still worry that provider security practices remain inadequate to protect sensitive data and...  more >>

Five Common Inventory Management Mistakes to Avoid
By Sanjay Panjwani, VP Development, MD, BatchMaster Software Pvt. Ltd.
Inventory is one of the biggest assets of manufacturing organizations which can turn into a huge liability if not managed appropriately. Involving huge investments, mismanagement of inventory leads...  more >>

"We have implemented an Automation System with Single Source for MI & Statistics Computation"
By Chirag Jain
Headquartered in Gurgaon, Canara HSBC Oriental Bank of Commerce Life Insurance Company Limited is a joint Venture between Canara Bank, Oriental Bank of Commerce and HSBC Insurance. The company was...  more >>

Considerations for a Cloud ERP
By Vispi Munshi, Founder, ERP India
Cloud Computing is opening up new possibilities in different areas. It is nothing but an extension of Information Technology enabled services. Software as a Service (SaaS) is providing low initial...  more >>

Business Boundaries are Dead. Long Live the "No Boundaries Business"
By Suresh Batchu, Co-Founder, CTO & SVP Technology and Engineering, Mobilelron
I didn\'t know it then, but the 90\'s were a simpler time for cyber security professionals. The Windows system image was alive and well, and securing corporate data was as simple as building a...  more >>

Big data and Analytics - The Revenue boosters!
By Sheen Chungath, CEO, Sesame Technologies Pvt Ltd.
Sesame Technologies, headquartered in Calicut, Kerala is a provider of Big Data based Solutions. The company specializes in Business Intelligence & Data warehousing Hadoop, Mongo DB, Hive...  more >>

ERP Buzz World

Gartner's 2015 CIO Agenda Survey Underlines that Digitalization Has Moved To Center Stage for CIOs in India
By ERP Insights Team
Digitalization has moved to center stage for CIOs in India, according to Gartner, Inc.'s 2015 CIO Agenda survey results. The 2015 CIO Agenda survey showed that issues experienced by CIOs are far...  more >>

Oracle Learning Cloud Unveiled at Oracle HCM World
By ERP Insights Team
Digital disruption is impacting all aspects of the workforce. Today, employees expect the same capabilities at work that they get in the consumer world. Unveiled recently at Oracle HCM World in...  more >>

Editorial

Imagine an Enterprise without ERP
By Pankaj Kundwani, Managing Editor, ERP Insights
Forget for a moment that the world sees Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) as a software system. I am quite sure that ERP is as old as the first business in the world when IT was a rare...  more >>