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SSA
goes after SMBs
A flurry of acquisitions left SSA Baan 4 customers a bit shaky
as they did not know how SSA Global would take the Baan product
forward. Naturally when SSA Global announced the availability
of its next release, SSA ERPLN 6.1, in November 2004 it didn’t
expect to snap up customers straight off the bat. Despite
that two deals have already materialised with Bry-Air Asia
Pvt Ltd becoming the company’s first customer in India.
UPFRONT
Are
Indian enterprises ready for BI?
In an era where storage requirements are shooting through
the roof, organisations have to look beyond effective data
storage and extract intelligence from stored data. Information
overload is becoming a huge concern for businesses. In such
a scenario, Business Intelligence (BI) looks like a logical
saviour. But is BI an effective concept and are Indian organisations
ready for it? These were some of the concerns raised by CIOs
at an interactive event “Enterprise Intelligence Platform-The
backbone for BI” held by Express Computer and SAS India
on December 8, 2004.
“Business
Intelligence is no longer a backroom operation”
The BI market in India is growing at 30 percent CAGR, which
is huge considering that even the Indian software services
market is growing at around 18 percent annually
Outsource
that printer
There was a time when UTI Bank used to print its chequebooks
on internal security printers, a process that normally took
about ten days to execute. Chequebooks could not be personalised
and a large quantity of blank stationery had to be stocked
in UTI Bank’s 300 branches. By outsourcing its printing
requirement for chequebooks to Xerox Modicorp, the bank has
been able to offer personalised chequebooks to its depositors
within 24 hours.
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