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<strong>The</strong> ‘Big Technology Ride:<br />

What it Means for Business<br />

Transformation and the Shift!<br />

Mr. Paramjit Anand<br />

Acreaty<br />

RFID - <strong>The</strong> Next<br />

Big Thing<br />

Mr. Nishant Kumar Dean,<br />

Mr. Somya Jayaswal<br />

eco tracksys<br />

Social Media Engagements:<br />

Living Up to Customer<br />

Expectations<br />

Chetan Pathak<br />

Tectura India<br />

<strong>10</strong><br />

THE<br />

MOST VALUABLE<br />

OUTSOURCING<br />

COMPANIES <strong>2016</strong><br />

www.insightssuccess.in July <strong>2016</strong><br />

<strong>The</strong> way of business solutions<br />

Interview with<br />

<strong>Insights</strong> <strong>Success</strong><br />

Enterprise Mobility<br />

Challenges - IWORKTECH’s<br />

Experience<br />

Chalk Talk<br />

Will <strong>Outsourcing</strong><br />

Continue to Grow<br />

in the Coming Years?<br />

Futurista<br />

Future <strong>Outsourcing</strong><br />

Trends<br />

Subramanyam S<br />

Founder & CEO<br />

Behind the Scenes<br />

Software <strong>Outsourcing</strong><br />

Issues and Blunders<br />

Ascent Consulting:<br />

Unique HR Delivery Solutions


Editorial<br />

utsourcing has its own influence and no one can flout this<br />

Ofact. Enlarging feet of globalization and technologies have<br />

simplified the business and now no one lingers in<br />

outsourcing their work to others. Cost effectiveness as well as the<br />

workspace is increased due to outsourcing process.<br />

Nevertheless, impacts of outsourcing can be seen on the entire world<br />

as it has become a special benefit for many developing countries.<br />

<strong>The</strong>re are several multinationals that are outsourcing their needs to<br />

various companies located in these countries. Unexpectedly, such<br />

advantages have enhanced the importance of outsourcing in the<br />

business world and consequently, almost each and every business<br />

has its grit in the form of outsourcing.<br />

Increasing<br />

Relevance<br />

of <strong>Outsourcing</strong><br />

Essentially, outsourcing service is an advancement of the tralatitious<br />

style of managing business including varied versions of businesses<br />

contracting out. In the process of outsourcing, an organization works<br />

with pellucid smattering of needs and its proper execution. It helps<br />

an organization in amassing virtuous solutions as well as availing it<br />

on a much reduced cost and this is known as an aggressive mode of<br />

business process.<br />

Outsourced working style has absolutely changed the procedure of<br />

delivery; however contracting out of work has much to handle with<br />

efficiency and accuracy as organizations are now tendering towards<br />

solutions that are done with fidelity. Services of outsourcing also<br />

help in availing skilled and expert services and specifically getting a<br />

facility designed by an expert. For instance, if there is a need for a<br />

solution with an exceptional efficiency then one can outsource the<br />

need to an SME and get the service which they are looking for.<br />

Furthermore, outsourcing helps in relishing the latest trends of<br />

businesses, in order to offer contentment to clients; organizations<br />

keep on adapting the newer form of working style and accordingly<br />

offers the services too. It also helps in complacency a service that is<br />

efficient as well as ahead of time. So outsource your need, if looking<br />

for a much professional service.<br />

Charlie Gupta


Content<br />

Cover Story<br />

6<br />

Futurista<br />

Future<br />

<strong>Outsourcing</strong><br />

Trends<br />

34<br />

Chalk Talk<br />

Will <strong>Outsourcing</strong><br />

Continue to Grow<br />

in the Coming Years?<br />

18<br />

Behind the Scenes<br />

Software <strong>Outsourcing</strong><br />

Issues &<br />

Blunders<br />

Subramanyam S<br />

Founder & CEO<br />

<strong>10</strong><br />

Interview with<br />

<strong>Insights</strong> <strong>Success</strong><br />

CXO Standpoint<br />

40<br />

Atul Gunjal<br />

CEO<br />

IWORKTECH<br />

Mr. Paramjit Anand<br />

Executive Director<br />

Acreaty<br />

32<br />

Chetan Pathak<br />

Executive Vice President<br />

42<br />

Nishant Dean<br />

Founder |<br />

Director & CTO CEO<br />

Tectura India<br />

eco tracksys<br />

22<br />

Somya Jayaswal<br />

Co Founder


<strong>10</strong><br />

THE<br />

MOST VALUABLE<br />

OUTSOURCING<br />

COMPANIES <strong>2016</strong><br />

30 36<br />

Naveen Gulati<br />

Open Mind<br />

Sarbajit Das<br />

Sun Dew Solutions<br />

26<br />

Nitin Khandelwal<br />

Intero Solutions<br />

Siddharth Samel<br />

Web Research Services<br />

38<br />

20 22<br />

Adarsh Prasad J V<br />

Consystent Infotech<br />

28<br />

Mitesh Gandhi<br />

Marconix


Futurista<br />

Future<br />

<strong>Outsourcing</strong><br />

Trends<br />

06<br />

ecently, a lot of businesses<br />

Ropportunities have been<br />

brought up through<br />

outsourcing for various countries. Over<br />

the years, India has created a niche for<br />

itself in IT and ITES outsourcing.<br />

Perhaps, India is the biggest<br />

beneficiary of the outsourcing boom.<br />

When it comes to outsourcing, a large<br />

majority of IT companies prefer to<br />

choose India due to the presence of<br />

multi-talented pool of reliability,<br />

affordable resources, and timeliness.<br />

A Brief Recap of How <strong>Outsourcing</strong><br />

Started<br />

Today, outsourcing has definitely<br />

revolutionized how industries operate.<br />

When it first started, it was confined to<br />

low-risk functions like data entry and<br />

payroll processing. Later on a large<br />

scale, customer service operations<br />

were outsourced.<br />

This led outsourcing cost benefits<br />

spearheaded and organizations have<br />

started taking notice of it. Global<br />

companies started outsourcing highend<br />

functions like healthcare BPO, IT<br />

services, and research services to<br />

reliable companies who previously<br />

wanted to leverage the cost benefits of<br />

outsourcing. Nowadays outsourcing is<br />

no longer seems to be a new word only<br />

for the low cost labor rather it has<br />

become a key business strategy for<br />

both small and large business<br />

enterprises.<br />

Debate - To Outsource or Not<br />

While most organizations across the<br />

industry verticals vow by the pros of<br />

outsourcing, the outsourcing debate<br />

continues over its long-term<br />

sustainability. Many opponents of<br />

outsourcing argue that the flip side of<br />

outsourcing lacks quality control as<br />

well as hold on the project<br />

management, and also it lowers the<br />

innovation prospects. Many<br />

outsourcing critics point out that rise in<br />

salary, outsourcing destinations like<br />

India, is taking the shine away from<br />

outsourcing and thus making it nonprofitable<br />

in the long run.<br />

Despite perceiving such negative<br />

aspects, still outsourcing has only<br />

continued to grow. In fact, it is now<br />

being embraced by companies of all<br />

sizes and domains. From large<br />

enterprises to startups, outsourcing has<br />

become a tool of choice for gaining<br />

competitive advantage in the business<br />

framework. Although businesses are<br />

moving towards multiple platforms<br />

like social, mobile, cloud etc.,<br />

stakeholders are getting distributed<br />

geographically; in such a contrasting<br />

environment, outsourcing has been<br />

able to appropriately adjust with the<br />

rapidly changing business<br />

environments.<br />

Till now only crux business situations<br />

have helped to build the case for<br />

outsourcing further. Testimony to the<br />

fact that businesses not only need to<br />

learn how to survive during a downturn<br />

is due to the recent global economic<br />

crisis, but also there is a need to look at<br />

newer ways of overcoming weak<br />

economic conditions. <strong>The</strong> current<br />

business scenario is all about<br />

“outsource and survive”, and<br />

systematically managing your projects<br />

of outsourcing and always staying<br />

ahead in the competition.<br />

Foreseeing the Future Trends of<br />

<strong>Outsourcing</strong><br />

As outsourcing provides companies the<br />

access to specialized skills and saves<br />

on effort and time, outsourcing will<br />

continue to survive in the future and<br />

can be channeled into the other core<br />

business ventures. Relationships of<br />

outsourcing are now more<br />

standardized, and it is process and<br />

people driven rather than price driven.<br />

Cost pressures will pave the way for<br />

custom outsourcing contracts. A higher<br />

adoption of outsourcing will be<br />

witnessed by small businesses and<br />

startups in order to increase their time<br />

to market and reduce the operational<br />

inefficiencies. Also, R&D outsourcing<br />

in these industries will also tap into the<br />

wider outsourcing potential of India.<br />

Additionally, in the next decade, highend<br />

critical business functions will be<br />

outsourced while low-end services will<br />

be stabilized.<br />

JULY <strong>2016</strong> |


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Cover Story<br />

Subramanyam S<br />

Founder & CEO


Cover Story<br />

Ascent Consulting:<br />

Unique HR<br />

Delivery Solutions<br />

Human Resource Practice has been a very dynamic and ever growing repertoire of knowledge and<br />

keeping oneself updated with that is a daunting task. Likewise, People Management is a key<br />

business function that has direct impact on competitiveness, efficiency of operations, and long-term<br />

profitability of an organization. Which is why, organizations have been investing enormous time<br />

and resources in the HR function, which diverts focus from the organization’s core business.<br />

To keep pace with the ongoing changes and also to refresh oneself on certain fundamental issues, Ascent Consulting<br />

Services provides this information in a simple and lucid way. <strong>The</strong>y are continuously striving to keep this information<br />

updated and useful to every professional engaged in People Practice.<br />

Inception and Growth Story<br />

Headquartered in Bangalore, Ascent Consulting Services precisely addresses this anomaly through its 360 degree HR<br />

Management Solutions that transform the HR service delivery. While these solutions accomplish cost reduction, greater<br />

efficiencies and improved quality, their larger effort is aimed at improving organizational efficiency and not just creating<br />

incremental change.


Cover Story<br />

Ascent has achieved this by building the right mix of skills<br />

and knowledge required for an effective Outsourced HR<br />

Management function. <strong>The</strong>ir solutions employ a matrix of<br />

technology, domain expertise, streamlined business<br />

workflow, and highly skilled people to create tangible,<br />

measurable, performance improvements throughout the<br />

client’s organization.<br />

Ascent believes that People Practice is an ongoing voyage<br />

of discovery, learning and development. <strong>The</strong> challenges and<br />

evolutions that confront Human Resource professionals and<br />

organizations are ones that rise and fall with the changing<br />

tides of business and people needs. No single solution can<br />

address all challenges or meet the needs of HR<br />

professionals across different industries.<br />

“<br />

Ascent is recognized as one of the most trusted partners in<br />

this business by clients around the world. <strong>The</strong>y work as an<br />

extension of their client’s business. <strong>The</strong>ir management and<br />

We have a mission to<br />

devise a hybrid<br />

framework of solutions<br />

supported by a<br />

competent set of<br />

professionals rendering<br />

all and any of the<br />

services that may be<br />

needed as an<br />

integrated solution or<br />

utilized<br />

individually based on<br />

business needs<br />

“<br />

delivery teams are passionate about building efficiencies in<br />

their client’s business.<br />

Trailblazer of Ascent Consulting<br />

Ascent Consulting took birth under the eminent leadership<br />

of Subramanyam S, Founder & CEO. Subbu is a<br />

corporate lawyer and a Fellow member of the Institute of<br />

Company Secretaries of India. He had close to two decades<br />

of experience in Finance, Legal, Tax and Business<br />

Management. He has worked in these areas for 14+ years in<br />

various corporates as a passionate professional before<br />

venturing to be an entrepreneur in setting up Ascent<br />

Consulting Services Pvt Ltd in the year 2002.<br />

Subbu moved Ascent up in the value chain, through right<br />

mode of organic growth and some acquisitions, into an<br />

information technology solutions and services company<br />

while enlarging the outsourcing business across India. His<br />

past experience includes exposures in Advani Oerlikon<br />

group, Shonk Technologies in Finance, HR and Corporate<br />

Legal Services.<br />

He has good understanding of Finance, Treasury<br />

management, and Indian Legal framework. Has an<br />

excellent grasp in managing IT / IT enabled services and<br />

covered all critical business areas in terms of Business<br />

Strategy, Sales & Marketing, and Product Development.<br />

Has hands on exposure to domain in HR, Finance, Software<br />

Development and Managing Mergers / Acquisitions.<br />

Peerless Services Propounded<br />

Ascent Consulting is essentially an HR Solutions company<br />

providing 360 degree HR Management Solutions that<br />

addresses growing business demands. <strong>The</strong>ir solutions are<br />

industry agnostic while meeting specific needs of any<br />

vertical. Ascent Consulting works with unmatched zeal and<br />

passion to make their work possible resulting in the<br />

successful interventions handled by them. <strong>The</strong> company<br />

always makes larger efforts aimed at improving<br />

organizational efficiency and not just creating incremental<br />

change.<br />

In addition to Ascent’s HR <strong>Outsourcing</strong> strengths, the<br />

company has an HR Automation suite that is built over a<br />

knowledge base of vast experience and real life scenarios.<br />

Its HR Automation suite comprises of five different<br />

applications:<br />

PowerHR -A fully integrated comprehensive real time HR


Cover Story<br />

‘‘<br />

We provide<br />

360 degree HR<br />

management<br />

solutions<br />

‘‘<br />

PowerHR -A fully integrated comprehensive real time<br />

enterprise HR delivery system covering all aspects from<br />

Hire to Retire.<br />

Stohrm -It is an efficient and easy tool for HR Hygiene<br />

Management for small and medium business enterprises<br />

and includes an interactive Employee / Manager Self<br />

Service.<br />

PowerPay -Payroll processing application which has multi<br />

country, multi-location, multi-currency and multi company<br />

capabilities while addressing regulatory environment of<br />

each location or country.<br />

PowerCMS - A comprehensive Compliance Management<br />

application for India with specific focus on HR<br />

Compliances.<br />

Strength and Ecstasy<br />

Ascent Consulting provides solutions, rounded completely<br />

for all needs of a comprehensive HR service delivery. <strong>The</strong>y<br />

offer several services that are unique and not offered by<br />

many of their competitors. <strong>The</strong>y have a full suite of<br />

products or services for HR Service Delivery which covers<br />

enterprise HR Management System on the cloud supported<br />

by an efficient managed service of Payroll & Benefits<br />

Administration in addition to Compliance Management &<br />

Consulting Support, which are managed services. All of<br />

these tools and services complete the transactional and<br />

strategic part of HR service delivery which makes them a<br />

niche company, setting them apart from others.<br />

Another factor where Ascent Consulting differs is in their<br />

ability to provide a unified and integrated platform not just<br />

for India, but many countries worldwide. It is this unique<br />

platform that they bring to the table, making them relevant<br />

for global mobility which has helped them in establishing<br />

presence in 25 countries around the world.<br />

Tactics That Cracked Challenges<br />

Essentially, Ascent Consulting believes in the 3A’s -<br />

Accuracy, Adaptability and Accountability, thus ensuring<br />

customer delight and proficiency in every task. <strong>The</strong>y<br />

believe that it is necessary to put themselves in the shoes of<br />

the client when they deliver HR services and hence they try<br />

to be accurate, adaptable and accountable in everything<br />

they deliver. Meeting client needs and providing solutions<br />

are in the DNA of all professionals at Ascent Consulting.


Cover Story<br />

Across the globe, HR is a non-standard practice and is quite<br />

unique to each industry or entity. For this reason, it is<br />

necessary to work around and try to see how to reflect the<br />

ambitions and aspirations of that particular entity and its<br />

human resource in an interactive manner, ensuring a path to<br />

excellence. That’s one of the key elements of the issue.<br />

At Ascent Consulting, they believe that by offering their<br />

own solutions they have the advantage of being adaptable,<br />

an option which would be lost to them had used inflexible<br />

third party solutions. <strong>The</strong>refore, flexibility, agility and<br />

adaptability are something that they keenly bring to the<br />

table and this has been something that has helped them<br />

overcome obstacles. It also has the advantage of providing<br />

such solutions in a short span of time.<br />

“<br />

Security<br />

At Ascent Consulting, their inherent approach to assist a<br />

client in any function always provides the best combination<br />

of skills & knowledge resulting in an excellent outsourcing<br />

service or solution<br />

Relation with Clients<br />

Traditionally, Ascent Consulting have been a company that<br />

is into outsourcing which means that they try to take<br />

enterprise clients and manage services which has been the<br />

storyboard of their enterprise so far. In addition to that, they<br />

provide services in the form of staffing and training. <strong>The</strong>y<br />

also have value addition in terms of their new SMB<br />

solution, i.e. Small Business Solutions, which is more like a<br />

software service in the cloud that is thus unique in terms of<br />

its approach.<br />

This has probably been born out of the experience that<br />

Ascent Consulting has dealing with enterprises because of<br />

which they are familiar with the pain points, the challenges<br />

and the tough tasks that lie ahead of the HR Service<br />

Delivery. This has led to a kind of combined expertise<br />

which has been implemented in this. So they believe that by<br />

next year they should be on track for being the fastest<br />

growing company by scaling their worldwide presence. In<br />

their opinion, they should be able to do at least 200 clients<br />

in the current year.<br />

Ascent Consulting have implemented a very large HRO<br />

solution for an enterprise which has more than 65,000<br />

employees ensuring their capability in handling large<br />

companies. This is a unique experience as far as India is<br />

concerned. In short, one can say that they are Industry<br />

agnostic, Size agnostic, Practice agnostic. Ascent<br />

“<br />

Our bespoke technology solutions for HR needs<br />

are unique and backed by the best of industry<br />

practices in Data management, Information<br />

and Data Privacy<br />

Consulting values and nurtures every relationship. <strong>The</strong>y<br />

always meet client needs and provide solutions which is in<br />

the DNA of all Ascentians.<br />

Ascent Consulting’s Future Perspective<br />

Having established their presence in India, Ascent<br />

Consulting has placed their feet in 25 countries around the<br />

world at this point of time. <strong>The</strong> volume of business in these<br />

25 countries is not very high as of now but they believe that<br />

in the next 2-3 years they will be able to scale this as well<br />

as scale the number of countries as they grow. Ascent<br />

Consulting position themselves as an Asian competitor to<br />

major global players today and they are looking forward to<br />

becoming an Asian solution to the Global HR solution<br />

needs.


THE<br />

<strong>10</strong><br />

MOST VALUABLE<br />

OUTSOURCING<br />

COMPANIES <strong>2016</strong><br />

Need of Ramping-Up<br />

<strong>Outsourcing</strong> Services<br />

oday, outsourcing has become an accepted as well as a standard strategy for business leaders, thanks to the notion<br />

Tacceptance of “core competence” as the focal point for a business structure. One major challenge that every<br />

business will face is whether they should outsource their processes or not. And after they have decided on what to<br />

outsource, the decision of how to pick the right outsourcing partner about the process is a huge challenge. Now, many<br />

companies have a mix of relationships with their own supplier partners and internal teams all over the world and are<br />

striving for excellence in core areas while outsourcing the rest is common wisdom.<br />

Using these guidelines for so many years as a rule of thumb, now organizations often resemble a nexus of relationships,<br />

with the internal teams located globally and the head office connected with other companies. Yet, many organizations<br />

have bitter experiences with offshoring, either in terms of goals not being met or disruption to business, or the occasional<br />

need to reverse course and insource processes.<br />

In the <strong>Insights</strong> <strong>Success</strong> magazine, be sure to check out the cover story where ‘Ascent Consulting Services’ throws light on<br />

how traditional outsourcing is becoming significantly unappealing and the entail of organizations to evolve for keeping<br />

pace, while inscribing pointed questions like why most of the developing nations are vying to be seen as the most<br />

attractive outsourcing destination and forgetting that markets are inside their own backyards and regions.<br />

<strong>Insights</strong> <strong>Success</strong> magazine has collated the list of the outsourcing providers of the industry. <strong>The</strong>y proffer great acumen<br />

that will help an organization to comprehend how outsourcing works and how they can use the information to improve<br />

their business.<br />

<strong>Insights</strong> <strong>Success</strong> magazine has covered and presents you ‘<strong>The</strong> <strong>10</strong> <strong>Most</strong> <strong>Valuable</strong> <strong>Outsourcing</strong> <strong>Companies</strong> <strong>2016</strong>’, after<br />

shortlisting a long list of outsourcing providers that will help companies in making decisions while dealing with fresh<br />

wave of outsourcing initiatives.


Behind the Scenes<br />

Software<br />

<strong>Outsourcing</strong><br />

Issues and<br />

Blunders<br />

18<br />

ver a short span of time,<br />

Osoftware outsourcing offshore<br />

has become an inseparable<br />

part of the modern IT business.<br />

Perhaps this is the time to look back on<br />

the usual blunders committed during<br />

offshore outsourcing.<br />

While approaching order fulfillment<br />

companies, always keep in mind<br />

initially, not entering into long-term<br />

contracts. One must have an IT<br />

strategy, which has a patrollable<br />

boundary between the outsourcing firm<br />

and your responsibilities. Also, on the<br />

basis of an established objective, get a<br />

contract which spells out performance<br />

measurements. And, it will be the<br />

corner stone of the process.<br />

Once a service or work is outsourced,<br />

leave the service provider to do his<br />

work. Never try to mess up his work<br />

by implementing unnecessary control.<br />

Always outsource your work to a firm<br />

who has an established track record or<br />

else your whole software outsourcing<br />

could end up in a disaster. Also, stay<br />

clear of offshore software outsourcing<br />

blunders as this will save you against<br />

whole lot of problems. <strong>The</strong>re are<br />

several issues with respect to software<br />

services outsourcing.<br />

Starting the Contract: While<br />

considering the umpteen number of<br />

problems that may come across when<br />

an IT service provision is handed over,<br />

it will be wise to have a well-defined<br />

transition period in terms of the<br />

contract and decide the commencement<br />

date as soon as possible.<br />

Ownership: Ownership is another<br />

significant matter about software<br />

services outsourcing. In order to avoid<br />

disputes, the ownership of information<br />

and data should be cleared.<br />

Licensing and Third Party<br />

Suppliers: While involving a 3rd party<br />

software supplier, care must be taken<br />

to get appropriate license. Licenses<br />

currently held by the purchaser must be<br />

extended to include the activities of the<br />

outsourcer. It must be agreed upon as<br />

to which party will administer the<br />

terms of any agreement going on<br />

between the purchaser and 3rd party<br />

supplier. Maintenance contracts also<br />

must be transferred to the outsourcer.<br />

SLA and Management: SLA’s<br />

(service level agreements) is the<br />

minimum level of service that must be<br />

provided; is the basis to measure the<br />

outsourcer’s performance. It may also<br />

be noted that both the parties must be<br />

aware about the flexibility of SLA’s<br />

and review period in the SLA to cover<br />

changing purchaser requirements and<br />

new technology.<br />

System Requirement Specification:<br />

<strong>The</strong> defining of the system as well as<br />

service specifications must be done<br />

well when it comes to software<br />

services outsourcing.<br />

Insurance: <strong>The</strong> outsourcer should<br />

have public liability insurance, in case<br />

of loss or liability through injury or<br />

damage.<br />

Warranties: <strong>The</strong> warranty must<br />

contain service quality and compliance<br />

with specification.<br />

Moreover, effective management<br />

includes reporting and review of the<br />

performance of the outsourcer, through<br />

consultation between both the<br />

outsourcer and the purchaser. So, those<br />

seeking opportunities offshore ought to<br />

be aware of the many aspects of<br />

software services outsourcing.<br />

JULY <strong>2016</strong> |


Company Name<br />

Management<br />

Brief<br />

<strong>10</strong><br />

THE<br />

MOST VALUABLE<br />

OUTSOURCING<br />

COMPANIES <strong>2016</strong><br />

Ascent Consulting Services<br />

Pvt. Ltd.<br />

www.ascent-online.com<br />

Subramanyam S<br />

Founder & CEO<br />

Geeta L<br />

Co-founder & COO<br />

Ascent Consulting Services provides 360 degree management<br />

solutions with services like payroll & benefits, consulting &<br />

compliance and automation tools for an enhanced HR service.<br />

Consystent Infotech<br />

Private Limited<br />

www.consystentinfo.com<br />

Adarsh Prasad J V<br />

President & CEO<br />

Consystent Infotech is a BPO leader with proven expertise in a<br />

wide spectrum of Data Management services and solutions.<br />

Intero Solutions<br />

Private Limited<br />

www.intero.in<br />

Nitin Khandelwal<br />

CEO<br />

A provider of complete Human Resource <strong>Outsourcing</strong> and<br />

Technology Management Solutions with service offering<br />

includes Payroll Management, HR Audits, Labour Compliance<br />

and Manpower <strong>Outsourcing</strong>.<br />

Marconix Sales<br />

and Marketing Pvt. Ltd.<br />

www.marconix.in<br />

Mitesh Gandhi<br />

Founder & CEO<br />

Marconix provides organizations with measurable, high impact<br />

and cost efficient outsourcing solutions and delivers value by<br />

partnering with them as an extended arm of their organization.<br />

Open Mind Services Limited<br />

www.openmind.in<br />

Sun Dew Solutions Pvt. Ltd.<br />

www.sundewsolutions.com<br />

Naveen Gulati<br />

CEO<br />

Sarbajit Das<br />

Founder & CEO<br />

Open Mind is a KPO offering services in Healthcare Helpdesk,<br />

HR Shared Services, Customer Care Helpdesk, Vendor<br />

Management, and Inbound Call Center, including the all<br />

important CRM’s, CC software and Analytical Reports.<br />

Sun Dew Solutions Pvt. Ltd. is a software development and<br />

technology consulting company delivering innovative and<br />

scalable solutions globally. In the process they share their<br />

customer’s objectives and deliver them to the best of their<br />

satisfaction.<br />

Siddharth Samel<br />

Web Research Services<br />

Founder Director &<br />

www.webresearchservices.com<br />

Chief Marketing Strategist<br />

Web Research Services is an online marketing company,<br />

creating winning strategies for online business, built on proven<br />

models and processes.<br />

Hero Management Services<br />

www.herobpo.com<br />

Rajiv Gupta<br />

President<br />

HeroBPO is the global leader in Consulting, Technology,<br />

<strong>Outsourcing</strong>, and Professional services.<br />

Sapphire Info Solutions<br />

(P) Ltd.<br />

www.sapphireinfo.net<br />

Mr. Kawitansh (Kevin)<br />

Khanna<br />

CEO<br />

Sapphire Info Solutions is an accounts outsourcing company<br />

that provides quality professional outsourcing services to small<br />

and medium sized accountancy practices.<br />

Smartshore Services Inc.<br />

www.smartshore.us<br />

Amit Saraff<br />

Director<br />

Smartshore, is a service-based company that strives to offer<br />

<strong>Outsourcing</strong> Services which includes IT Staffing, IT<br />

Application Development, IT Infrastructure Management and<br />

Knowledge Process <strong>Outsourcing</strong>.


<strong>10</strong><br />

THE<br />

MOST VALUABLE<br />

OUTSOURCING<br />

COMPANIES <strong>2016</strong><br />

Consystent Infotech:<br />

Strategically Managed <strong>Outsourcing</strong> Solutions<br />

Based in Bangalore, India,<br />

Consystent Infotech is a<br />

leading Business Process<br />

<strong>Outsourcing</strong> services company,<br />

integrating the best in human<br />

resources and technology expertise<br />

to serve global companies & Indian<br />

corporate giants. Founded in 2004<br />

by three young professionals, the<br />

company’s quest for excellence<br />

started from a small rented house<br />

with just five team-members. Today<br />

their service framework has rapidly<br />

expanded to accommodate 150 fulltime<br />

employees and more than 50<br />

consultants all working towards the<br />

single goal of achieving business<br />

success for their valued clients<br />

across the USA and Europe.<br />

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As the President & CEO of<br />

Consystent Infotech, Mr. Adarsh<br />

Prasad J V has headed the company<br />

since its inception and taken it to<br />

appreciable heights within a short<br />

span. He is responsible for overall<br />

corporate management and strategic<br />

direction, and also takes an active<br />

interest in implementing Total<br />

Quality Management across the<br />

organization. Adarsh holds a BE<br />

degree in Computer Science and he<br />

is an alumni of the prestigious<br />

Indian Institute of Management<br />

Bangalore (IIMB). He has more than<br />

15 years’ experience in the IT industry<br />

and has worked with major IT<br />

companies before starting Consystent.<br />

Adarsh Prasad J V<br />

President & CEO<br />

Adarsh masterminded the success<br />

roadmap so that global corporations<br />

may leverage the competitive<br />

advantage of offshore business and<br />

Knowledge process management<br />

(BPM & KPM).<br />

Today BPO is all about operational<br />

improvements, quality enhancements,<br />

and cost advantages. Team Consystent<br />

take the greatest care to ensure that<br />

their solutions are delivered on time,<br />

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within budget, and tailored to client’s<br />

custom requirements while impeccable<br />

quality standards are maintained and<br />

continuous improvements are targeted<br />

to affect cost savings & sustainable<br />

business growth.<br />

Impeccable Quality<br />

From meticulous process<br />

monitoring/reviews through to<br />

stringent quality checks, strict<br />

compliance with global quality<br />

standards, and continuous<br />

“<br />

improvement, the company abides by<br />

all relevant quality parameters to add<br />

value to client’s businesses through<br />

higher efficiency, greater productivity,<br />

and simultaneously lower costs.<br />

Consystent understands that no two<br />

projects are alike and they will<br />

implement adequate quality measures<br />

to meet client’s custom requirements<br />

and deliver superior services.<br />

Services Consystent Offers<br />

Consystent provides several services<br />

including Ecommerce, Document<br />

Management, Data Enhancement<br />

and Enrichment, Lead Generation,<br />

Data Entry, Customer Support,<br />

Gaming Support &Testing, Software<br />

Testing and Virtual Staffing. <strong>The</strong> core<br />

structure of Consystent is designed<br />

around the company’s position as a<br />

standard leader in providing guidance<br />

in outsourcing services for businesses.<br />

<strong>The</strong> company’s outfit presents<br />

technical expertise and a complete<br />

corporate infrastructure that includes<br />

skilled and quality trained personnel.<br />

Diligent efforts to supply the needs of<br />

global entities and corporate<br />

mainstreams are present at every phase<br />

of management. <strong>The</strong> main goal is to<br />

develop a blueprint of success for all<br />

clients serviced in an attempt to help<br />

Our mission is to lead the global<br />

BPO & KPO markets with the<br />

focus on successful business<br />

process re-engineering and<br />

management<br />

“<br />

them to achieve the maximum in their<br />

return. <strong>The</strong> services provided are all<br />

offered at an affordable rate with<br />

customized plans designed for<br />

individual businesses.<br />

Best Possible Human Resources<br />

Consystent employs only the best<br />

talents available for respective service<br />

domains and work in tandem with their<br />

clients to develop and implement<br />

crucial business strategies. Consystent<br />

Infotech provides in-depth training and<br />

helps develop new skills - so that their<br />

team-members may flourish in a<br />

performance-oriented environment and<br />

ensure total client satisfaction. <strong>The</strong><br />

company nurtures professional<br />

advancement and encourages open<br />

communication between the<br />

management and the employees in<br />

order to ensure enthusiastic team-work<br />

and great value contributions.<br />

Benefit Consystent Provide to<br />

Clients<br />

Once the team Consystent starts<br />

working with any client, they believe<br />

in taking burden off their shoulders.<br />

<strong>The</strong>y enable their clients to focus on<br />

their core business, while they handle<br />

the work delegated to them with all<br />

sincerity and focus. Consystent has<br />

created a highly transparent work<br />

environment and their team members<br />

are highly proactive. Team Consystent<br />

always believes in optimal solutions<br />

rather than a set of instructions to be<br />

followed, so they have the freedom to<br />

suggest improvements which results in<br />

higher efficiency and a better process<br />

for the team.<br />

Consystent has a well-defined, tried<br />

and tested Quality Management<br />

System which enables their Project and<br />

Delivery Management to be highly<br />

efficient. <strong>The</strong>ir clients are very<br />

appreciative of their approach and<br />

delivery process as it creates value for<br />

them and hence they consider them as<br />

their Value-Partners.<br />

Future Perspective<br />

<strong>The</strong>y are a data-driven organization<br />

and as this is a Data-driven economy,<br />

they feel that Consystent Infotech is<br />

heading in the right direction. <strong>The</strong>y<br />

work extensively in the eCommerce<br />

arena and this is a domain with a lot of<br />

opportunities. <strong>The</strong>y also handle a lot of<br />

back-office activities and this is not<br />

limited to any domain as every<br />

industry needs back-office support.<br />

Consystent has a huge requirement to<br />

address and the need for growth is<br />

what excites them.<br />

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CXO Standpoint<br />

RFID -<br />

<strong>The</strong> Next<br />

Big Thing<br />

22<br />

T<br />

he Need and Benefits of RFID<br />

RFID is among the niche technology innovation by<br />

mankind that comes with a bouquet of advantages which<br />

helps in reducing the generic challenges faced by<br />

organization resulting from long time consuming process,<br />

Identified /Unidentified Human Error, Tracking and<br />

Tracing, Pilferage, Counterfeiting, and absence of<br />

transparency. As an Industry, we all work for deadlines and<br />

any discrepancies arising out it is a cost to the organization,<br />

this cost indirectly affects the profits /margins of the<br />

business.<br />

<strong>The</strong> benefits of this technology can be seen in the form of<br />

better transparency in the system, real time information<br />

updates which helps in quick decision making, Better<br />

accountability, Elimination of Human errors, resulting in<br />

better profit margins and high compliance levels.<br />

<strong>The</strong>se days applications of RF technology can be referred to<br />

in our day to day life like Metro transport smart Card,<br />

automatic pass system at toll gates, wristbands worn by<br />

staff at petrol pumps, windshield tags on new 4 wheelers,<br />

keyless entry in vehicles, cashless cards at food court in<br />

malls etc.<br />

Revolutionizing IoT with RFID<br />

<strong>The</strong> power of RFID is even more evident when we look at<br />

emerging opportunities for RFID in the Internet of Things<br />

(IoT) landscape. <strong>The</strong> number and range of IoT applications<br />

that can be envisioned with RFID devices are tremendous.<br />

<strong>The</strong> inherent value of RFID lies in enabling “things” to<br />

report data in real time for faster, quicker, more interactive<br />

decisions both at the industrial level and increasingly at the<br />

consumer level.<br />

One of such examples in everyday life is automated home,<br />

where people can interact with everyday devices in their<br />

homes. This vision of the future sees appliances such as<br />

refrigerators being aware of their ‘state’, and knowing when<br />

to order and replenish groceries; electronics such as<br />

lighting, music and TV automatically tuning to individual<br />

preferences, which can be managed by presence (proximity<br />

to RF-enabled device), by time or by sensory input; access<br />

solutions, whether logical ones for Wi-Fi user authorization,<br />

or hands-free operation of doors and windows.... the<br />

possibilities are truly endless.<br />

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CXO Standpoint<br />

In the Race to Win<br />

<strong>The</strong> global RFID market is highly<br />

competitive with the presence of<br />

well-established global market<br />

participants. <strong>Companies</strong> like Alien<br />

Technology, CAEN RFID, Impinj,<br />

Invengo, Motorola, Convergence<br />

Systems etc which acts on a macro<br />

level followed by Asian players like<br />

BCIL, Honeywell, Eco Tracksys, 3M<br />

etc dealing in multiple RFID related<br />

domains at micro level.<br />

<strong>The</strong>re is a tremendous demand for<br />

customized solutions like Library<br />

Management, Campus Automation,<br />

Vehicle Tracking, Asset<br />

Management, Industrial Automation<br />

and Laundry Tracking etc and each<br />

vendor aims to provide a unique<br />

package of innovative and cost<br />

effective RFID solutions to its clients<br />

where ‘identification’,<br />

‘authentication’ and ‘automation’ are<br />

of prime concern. <strong>The</strong> deployed<br />

solutions helps the companies realize<br />

their hidden and invisible operational<br />

inefficiencies and thus makes the<br />

system more efficient with reduced<br />

wastage and costs. Data Analytics is<br />

further used to analyze the data<br />

collected through deployment of<br />

RFID solutions which in turn help<br />

the companies to take strategic<br />

decisions at the right time.<br />

Mr. Nishant Kumar Dean<br />

Founder and CTO<br />

Trends and Challenges<br />

One of the biggest challenges in this<br />

Industry is the lack of awareness<br />

amongst its users. RFID components<br />

which are generally exported from<br />

European and Asian markets are a bit<br />

more costly than their traditional<br />

counterparts like Barcode, EM and<br />

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CXO Standpoint<br />

EAS which makes it difficult for<br />

medium and small scale organizations<br />

to adopt and migrate to RFID<br />

technology. However RFID will<br />

continue to grow in its established<br />

niche where barcode and other optical<br />

technologies are not effective. It is<br />

expected that within a time spam of<br />

next 3-5 years the cost of RFID<br />

Readers and tags will fall enough to<br />

allow the market to adapt it at a<br />

massive level and thus give a boost to<br />

the existing and new vendors in the<br />

market.<br />

Government of various countries suck<br />

US, UK and China have mandate use<br />

of RFID for projects related to citizen<br />

identification and counterfeiting. Such<br />

policies have fuelled the growth of<br />

RFID market globally.<br />

<strong>The</strong>re has been a 30-35% increase in<br />

government initiatives towards<br />

adaption of RFID Technology in<br />

e - governance, security enhancements<br />

and industrial automation during the<br />

last 2 years. Domains like education,<br />

power and energy, oil and gas,<br />

Defense, mining and natural resources,<br />

transportation and logistics have<br />

received major adaptions and funding<br />

for automation throughout its value<br />

chain.<br />

Mr. Somya Jayaswal<br />

Co-founder and CEO<br />

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<strong>The</strong> RFID market size in 2015 was $<br />

<strong>10</strong> billion is expected to cross $ 25<br />

billion by 2020. Of this total market<br />

size, the RFID Tags are expected to<br />

contribute to a little more than half of<br />

the value of the total RFID market. <strong>The</strong><br />

tag market will grow at a CAGR of<br />

23% followed by the reader segment<br />

growing at 20.9%.<br />

While US still leads and contributes to<br />

more than half of the RFID Market<br />

size, Asia Pacific and Middle East will<br />

be the next hot spot for the industry on<br />

account of rapid growth and<br />

development initiatives by the private<br />

and the government. With <strong>10</strong>0 smart<br />

cities project announced by<br />

government of India, the scope for<br />

expansion and growth becomes huge in<br />

this domain for Indian players. RFID<br />

shall continue to be a niche market for<br />

its vendors and each will thrive to<br />

make smarter industries with focus on<br />

manufacturing, education, retail,<br />

transport and healthcare.<br />

JULY <strong>2016</strong> |


<strong>10</strong><br />

THE<br />

MOST VALUABLE<br />

OUTSOURCING<br />

COMPANIES <strong>2016</strong><br />

Intero Solutions:<br />

Human Resource Management at Ease<br />

Whatever be the nature of<br />

business, both SMEs<br />

and big players<br />

understand the gravity of<br />

outsourcing payroll system as it<br />

helps in cost saving, less capital<br />

investment, ease, flexibility and<br />

ability to track cost. But these<br />

benefits come with a downside<br />

attached to it, as the companies face<br />

trouble in giving complete control<br />

and passing sensitive company<br />

information. Eliminating this<br />

challenge in 2008, Intero Solutions<br />

Private Limited was born.<br />

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Inception Story of Intero<br />

Solutions<br />

What started as a four people<br />

company has grown profoundly in 8<br />

years and today boasts of having a<br />

strong team of over <strong>10</strong>0<br />

professionals and specialist<br />

compliance officers across India<br />

who are experts in dealing legal<br />

issues associated with different<br />

companies and their employees. Key<br />

values that helped Intero Solutions<br />

to overcome the roadblocks during<br />

the establishment were<br />

Perseverance, Knowledge,<br />

Dedication and Transparency to<br />

their clients.<br />

Headquartered in New Delhi, the<br />

company has spread their wings in<br />

more than 15 cities with regional<br />

offices in Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata,<br />

Ahmedabad, and Bangalore. Recently,<br />

the company has opened its associate<br />

Nitin Khandelwal<br />

CEO<br />

office in Dubai (UAE).<br />

Intero Solutions’ Services<br />

Intero Solutions provides end-to-end<br />

outsourcing solutions and technology<br />

management with services extending<br />

from Payroll and HR Compliance<br />

services to handling complete Human<br />

Resource services and Human<br />

Resource Information System for<br />

companies operational in different<br />

fields. Apart from these, Intero<br />

Solutions offers customized Third<br />

Party (Off-roll) payroll solutions,<br />

salary disbursement support and labour<br />

law expertise amongst others. <strong>The</strong>y are<br />

capable to take operations and<br />

management of Payroll Services, HR<br />

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OUTSOURCING<br />

COMPANIES <strong>2016</strong><br />

with Statutory Compliance for<br />

companies and organizations operating<br />

in different fields.<br />

Artisan behind Intero Solutions<br />

Nitin Khandelwal, CEO at Intero<br />

Solutions Private Limited has more<br />

than <strong>10</strong> years of experience with<br />

leading companies like Apollo, Era<br />

and Aurum. He has specialization in<br />

Human Resource functions, Taxation<br />

and other statutory compliances of the<br />

“<br />

committed service offerings tailored<br />

for diverse business needs as per the<br />

demand of industries. Intero Solutions<br />

provides integrated solutions for all<br />

manpower and management<br />

interrelated departments of an<br />

organization with separate reporting<br />

system for each division along with<br />

other required details as per the need of<br />

the clients.<br />

Straightway, they provide 50%<br />

We offer 50% reduction<br />

in HR and Accounting<br />

costs to clients<br />

employees. Nitin heads the payroll<br />

outsourcing vertical of the company.<br />

According to Nitin, “Our know-how<br />

basically lies in understanding HR<br />

functions for industries operating in<br />

Start-ups, Hotels, Infrastructure, IT,<br />

ITES, Construction, Manufacturing,<br />

Automobile and Retail sector. We<br />

understand the fundamentals of<br />

operating HR activities and focus that<br />

our services become an extension to<br />

our clients existing business functions.<br />

Our offerings are tailored for the<br />

industry needs and we provide cost<br />

effective services with state-of-the-artfacilities<br />

with best IT and security<br />

infrastructure.”<br />

Intero Solutions’ Uniqueness<br />

With the expertise and experience in<br />

Payroll and other outsourcing<br />

management, they have successfully<br />

created a unique space in the<br />

outsourcing industry to provide a<br />

“<br />

reduction of corporates cost of<br />

handling HR functions. Intero<br />

Solutions claim <strong>10</strong>0% employee<br />

satisfaction ratio of their clients and<br />

strive to build their infrastructure to<br />

compare with the best in the world.<br />

Intero Solutions has a team of expertise<br />

and specialist compliance officers who<br />

are experienced to deal with the legal<br />

issues associated with different<br />

companies. <strong>The</strong>ir mission is to provide<br />

a smooth business process outsourcing<br />

services delivered with a competitive<br />

advantage to facilitate the manpower<br />

and accounting management with the<br />

improved efficiency and productivity<br />

of each client.<br />

Intero Solutions & their Clients<br />

Being open and flexible to all kinds of<br />

reporting, which the clients need in a<br />

regular and irregular manner, the<br />

company works on a sole mission of<br />

providing smooth outsourcing services<br />

with focus on offering cost effective<br />

and time efficient HR solutions. <strong>The</strong>y<br />

understand the client’s requirement to<br />

work in their payroll schedule and help<br />

them in reduction of HR cost along<br />

with other statutory challenges. Intero<br />

Solutions provides consistency in HR<br />

data flow as well as promptness.<br />

While many don’t outsource their HR<br />

functionality due to fear for their data<br />

security, Intero Solutions nullifies this<br />

fact by following strict policies to deal<br />

with data management and follow the<br />

highest standards of data<br />

confidentiality and integrity. <strong>The</strong><br />

company has positioned themselves as<br />

a guardian angel of their clients, so that<br />

even in their absence the clients can<br />

feel their presence.<br />

Also, being a part and parcel of their<br />

clients HR department, the<br />

management without fail interacts with<br />

their clients on a day to day basis. As<br />

having the right partner to implement<br />

the correct Human Resource solutions<br />

to businesses is crucial to run day-today<br />

business, Intero Solutions provide<br />

customized solutions specifically<br />

tailored to meet the needs of the clients<br />

by stepping into their shoes.<br />

Future Perspective of Intero<br />

Solutions<br />

<strong>The</strong> company and its subsidiaries takes<br />

pride in their clients such as operating<br />

in service and manufacturing sectors<br />

and also have an international alliance<br />

with Procorre Consulting SA,<br />

Switzerland. With a mission to provide<br />

a smooth business process outsourcing<br />

services, the company aspires to have<br />

alliance with other companies in India<br />

and abroad so that they can increase<br />

their resources and grow in multiple<br />

manners.<br />

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THE<br />

MOST VALUABLE<br />

OUTSOURCING<br />

COMPANIES <strong>2016</strong><br />

Marconix Sales and Marketing:<br />

Mapping Your Outsourced Marketing<br />

and Sales Journey<br />

Marketing Process<br />

<strong>Outsourcing</strong> (MPO) is<br />

generating quite a lot of<br />

buzz these days. For any business,<br />

the sales and marketing factor of<br />

their product or services remains as<br />

the key to success. So how dynamic<br />

is your current marketing team?<br />

Today many companies are learning<br />

that outsourcing sales and marketing<br />

responsibilities can be a good idea.<br />

If an enterprise is great at creating<br />

products, then the focus should be<br />

on that and let experts in their<br />

respective fields come in and<br />

execute other business functions.<br />

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With a vision of providing a range<br />

of highly customized solutions for<br />

businesses, Marconix Sales and<br />

Marketing Pvt. Ltd. is one such<br />

organization that believes in the<br />

need for exponential evolution as a<br />

means to survive and grow. “Often<br />

start-ups or brands suffer in the<br />

market due to lack of sales<br />

experience, knowledge and latest<br />

market updates. To bridge the gap,<br />

we cater their complete sales and<br />

marketing needs i.e. we act as their<br />

extended sales department,” Mitesh<br />

Gandhi, CEO, Marconix Sales and<br />

Marketing.<br />

Mitesh Gandhi<br />

Founder & CEO<br />

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OUTSOURCING<br />

COMPANIES <strong>2016</strong><br />

<strong>The</strong> company help clients to deliver<br />

their sales messages to customers using<br />

well tested promotional channels that<br />

work better and cost less than ads.<br />

“We do this by sending sales message<br />

through promotional channels that are<br />

more in line with the way customers<br />

absorb information,” he adds.<br />

One Team - One Goal: Teaching<br />

Customers to Buy Your Products<br />

“<br />

highlights. He further adds brand<br />

credibility building and talent retention<br />

as the other key points.<br />

Marconix’s uniqueness stands in its<br />

ability to provide strategic multichannel<br />

marketing and sales model to<br />

fit unique business needs. “Having real<br />

marketing professionals working for<br />

your company allows you to see for<br />

yourself what can truly be<br />

Ready to stop wasting<br />

money on “great ads”<br />

and start building<br />

great experiences<br />

Marconix believes in offering end-toend<br />

integrated marketing services to<br />

deliver the actual results.<br />

“We start from a strategic planning,<br />

idea generation, market identification,<br />

and strategy building. We develop and<br />

deploy an expert team to take care of<br />

the entire process. Finally, based on the<br />

market condition and client’s target<br />

revenue, we fix up the sales structure,”<br />

states Mitesh.<br />

<strong>The</strong>ir clientele list includes name from<br />

well settled start ups to big brands such<br />

as Mahindra Comviva, Kurlon, Carrier<br />

Midea, Godrej, GOIBIBO, Flipkart,<br />

Sobha Developers, Camlin Kokuyo,<br />

Daawat Basmati, Hitachi, Soyfresh and<br />

Tanishq. Creating awareness among<br />

start-ups and brands to open its door<br />

for sales and marketing outsourcing is<br />

the biggest challenge that Mitesh<br />

“<br />

accomplished. In addition, we work<br />

towards our client’s target numbers on<br />

retention model with <strong>10</strong>0 percent<br />

commitment towards growth and sales<br />

outcome,” asserts Mitesh.<br />

Five Reasons to Choose Marconix<br />

1.End-to end sales services to achieve<br />

the actual results<br />

2.Marketing as a service<br />

3.Competitive data reporting system<br />

to maximize sales and campaign<br />

potential<br />

4.Integration of field-, phone- and<br />

digital- based marketing & sales<br />

campaigns in many industry<br />

verticals.<br />

5.Scalability and Flexibility<br />

If you’re a start-up, small business, or<br />

an organization focused on other<br />

growth initiatives such as product or<br />

service, bringing your marketing<br />

efforts to Marconix Sales and<br />

Marketing, which can effectively<br />

strategize and execute across multiple<br />

marketing channels could be the key to<br />

success.<br />

On Marconix’s future vision, Mitesh<br />

adds, “We have our presence in all<br />

over India. We are planning to have an<br />

incubator kind of service where we<br />

will provide end-to-end guidance-from<br />

seeding to development and funding to<br />

market growth. In other words, turning<br />

visions into realities.”<br />

After successfully venturing into<br />

offline sales and marketing space now<br />

company is also started its digital arm,<br />

and focusing to provide the same high<br />

standard of service and commitment to<br />

its clients, which Marconix has<br />

benchmarked in last 6 years.<br />

With headquarter in Bangalore and<br />

other 5 branches in Pune, Mumbai,<br />

Delhi, Ranchi and Guwahati Marconix<br />

Sales and Marketing Pvt. Ltd. built a<br />

vast capacity to support the business of<br />

any nature and of any magnitude.<br />

Under its further expansion plan<br />

Marconix Sales and Marketing Pvt.<br />

Ltd. will be entering into international<br />

market and planning to open its first<br />

oversees office in Singapore by end of<br />

current fiscal year.<br />

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THE<br />

MOST VALUABLE<br />

OUTSOURCING<br />

COMPANIES <strong>2016</strong><br />

Open Mind:<br />

<strong>Outsourcing</strong> Solution to All Knowledge Processing Needs<br />

As the knowledge powered<br />

economy is taking over the<br />

old-world businesses, there<br />

is an acute shortage of people who<br />

can understand brand new models<br />

and business ideas, and provide<br />

support in explaining them to users<br />

and prospects. This is the precise<br />

space Open Mind Services Limited<br />

fits in like a T. Open Mind delivers<br />

excellence in outsourcing services<br />

like Remote Patient Monitoring as<br />

part of Tele Health, Appointment<br />

Management Services, HR Help<br />

Desk, HR Shared Services and<br />

Customer and Vendor Helplines<br />

for consumer-centric businesses.<br />

Artisan behind Open Mind<br />

<strong>The</strong> dynamic and self-motivated<br />

entrepreneur Naveen Gulati, CEO<br />

of Open Mind Services Limited is<br />

the force behind inspiring the Open<br />

Mind team to challenge themselves<br />

and exceed their potential. Rising<br />

from the very bottom, he is well<br />

aware of the pitfalls and regularly<br />

injects his experienced advice that is<br />

helping the company to succeed<br />

since 2003.<br />

Naveen Gulati<br />

CEO<br />

30<br />

Naveen’s experience and knowledge<br />

of BPO/Call center technology and<br />

Process development techniques have<br />

seen him successfully installing and<br />

operating many BPO/KPO’s from<br />

scratch to seamless functioning.<br />

Naveen is a quick thinker, but<br />

measured decision taker. His dexterity<br />

in combining resources, technology<br />

and service offerings has seen a small<br />

BPO, Silver Lining, established in<br />

2003, flourish into a strong Public<br />

Limited Firm, Open Mind Services<br />

Limited, with a well-established<br />

reputation in the fields of Help Desk<br />

Services, Patient Relationship<br />

Management, Healthcare Helpdesks,<br />

HR Shared Services related KPO’s and<br />

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THE<br />

MOST VALUABLE<br />

OUTSOURCING<br />

COMPANIES <strong>2016</strong><br />

BPO Consultancy.<br />

Naveen Gulati was awarded with<br />

several awards including 30 <strong>Most</strong><br />

Talented Leaders in <strong>Outsourcing</strong><br />

Industry 2014, 20 <strong>Most</strong> promising HR<br />

<strong>Outsourcing</strong> <strong>Companies</strong> 2015, 20<br />

most promising Call Center Solutions<br />

provider <strong>2016</strong> and was also felicitated<br />

by XLRI Jamshedpur for being<br />

<strong>Success</strong>ful Entrepreneur 2015.<br />

“<br />

Key Values to Overcome the<br />

Roadblocks<br />

Challenges are the milestones on the<br />

road to success. Being an outsourcing<br />

company, the horizon ahead will<br />

always remain crystal clear: Open<br />

Mind has to put customers first. Team<br />

at Open Mind believes in the<br />

philosophy of working for their clients,<br />

looking out for their pain areas and<br />

working out an appropriate solution for<br />

them.<br />

Services Open Mind Offers<br />

Open Mind offer core services to help<br />

organizations work better and profit<br />

more. <strong>The</strong>y offer Tele Health<br />

Services, which are designed to make<br />

certain that patients (customers) stay<br />

happy with the medical institution. A<br />

happy customer is better than a<br />

neglected one! <strong>The</strong> health care KPO<br />

takes care of patients on specific<br />

therapies, appointment management,<br />

helping patients connect with the<br />

doctors and much more. <strong>The</strong> patient<br />

relationship helpdesk is a boon for<br />

any Healthcare Service Provider. Open<br />

Mind’s trained resources with an<br />

empathetic approach connects with the<br />

patients to help them and enhance the<br />

brand value of the Healthcare Provider.<br />

Intuitive, proactive<br />

outsourcing services that<br />

set the benchmark for<br />

other companies!<br />

“<br />

On the other spectrum, their HR<br />

services, HR Bridge is engaged in<br />

helping companies in building long<br />

term relations with its employees, the<br />

most valuable of all investments. HR<br />

Bridge connects employee with the<br />

company, dissipating all the HR related<br />

information and furthermore adds<br />

value by transferring the transactional<br />

workload of the HR managers to their<br />

trained resources.<br />

As a part of their HR services, they<br />

also offer HR Shared Services for<br />

companies who have their offices<br />

spread across various locations in<br />

India. Outsourced HR shared services<br />

from Open Mind have seen a major<br />

retail company, saves their core<br />

process areas costs in the range of 50-<br />

60%.<br />

Strategies of Open Mind<br />

At Open Mind, they have kept<br />

transparent communication and<br />

empathy in transactions first before<br />

anything else. Since their business is<br />

built to deliver values to customers and<br />

employees, nothing is better than<br />

building their culture around the same<br />

values they sell.<br />

Client’s Benefit<br />

Open Mind’s services comes with the<br />

sublime premise of bringing in savings<br />

in time and cost, and enhancing in<br />

reputation. <strong>The</strong> major benefits clients<br />

can expect while working with them is<br />

their transparent dealings without any<br />

deviled details; open solutions for open<br />

acceptance, new perspectives from<br />

their constantly learning team,<br />

significant cost and resources savings<br />

and flexibility in hiring process.<br />

Future Outlook<br />

Both, the Tele Health Sector and the<br />

HR Shared Services Sector, are still<br />

in a growing stage in India. That is<br />

what excites Open Mind the most!<br />

<strong>The</strong>y are making a positive impact on<br />

the lives of so many people that the<br />

team is excited every morning by the<br />

prospect of making a few more souls<br />

happy today. <strong>The</strong>ir excitement for the<br />

future stems from their resolve to make<br />

a perceptible impact in the HR and<br />

Healthcare Industry by bringing in<br />

more humane touch between service<br />

providers and patients.<br />

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CXO Standpoint<br />

<strong>The</strong> ‘Big’ Technology Ride:<br />

What it Means for Business<br />

Transformation and the Shift!<br />

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Many times you might have<br />

heard people saying that<br />

‘Change is the ultimate law<br />

of nature, and every single thing in this<br />

world is inherently subjected to<br />

change.’ We all have to agree that<br />

technology and evolution have similar<br />

story as ‘change’, and over the period<br />

of time, technological development has<br />

mastered our human race in the most<br />

spectacular way. <strong>The</strong> scale, scope, and<br />

complexity of this change are vastsomething<br />

that is beyond and above<br />

our limitations and experience. Neither<br />

have we had a complete idea that how<br />

this change took place nor we are<br />

absolutely confident about the future<br />

progression. But one thing that is sure<br />

is its dynamic effect on the socioeconomic,<br />

cultural and industrial<br />

sphere of our society.<br />

<strong>The</strong> BIG Impact- 200 Years of<br />

Industrial Revolution:<br />

Ever since the dawn of the industrial<br />

revolution, the socio-technological<br />

paradigm in industrial structure has<br />

seen a visible shift. With each passing<br />

day, technology is becoming more and<br />

more scientific. And not just the origin<br />

is scientific in nature, but also the<br />

entire development process and<br />

fundamental idea and knowledge<br />

behind the technology has an<br />

experimental touch. So whether it is<br />

about the discovery of artificial<br />

intelligence or the advent of<br />

superconducting material, every story<br />

has similar components like<br />

technological invention, extraordinary<br />

application, super material and<br />

advanced economy.<br />

Three factors that have<br />

extraordinarily supported the<br />

technological shift:<br />

•Speed: <strong>The</strong> pace with which the<br />

technology is advancing is<br />

phenomenal. In comparison to the<br />

previous stages, the latest evolution is<br />

at an exponential pace.<br />

•Scope: As technology is connecting<br />

billions of people through smart<br />

devices at unprecedented power and<br />

storage options, the scope is unlimited.<br />

•System and its impact: <strong>The</strong> emerging<br />

technology thrives on innovation<br />

system, and the impact is ever<br />

promising.<br />

Emerging Technologies in Recent<br />

Times:<br />

<strong>The</strong> technological breakthrough in<br />

domains like artificial intelligence,<br />

robotics, IoT (internet of things), 3-D<br />

printing, nanotechnology,<br />

biotechnology, quantum computing,<br />

etc. is magnificent. As we find<br />

ourselves surrounded amidst artificial<br />

intelligence (such as in automobiles<br />

and virtual assistance), we are simply<br />

blown away by the way computing is<br />

riding the technology drive. It is the<br />

power of computing that makes the<br />

vast amount of data available to the<br />

user over the cloud- from the use of<br />

new software to the discovery of drugs;<br />

the advancement of technology drives<br />

every single sphere. We can see how<br />

the digital technology is interacting<br />

with the biological domain every day<br />

to give rise to some new heights of<br />

innovation. <strong>The</strong> professional domains<br />

are combined as the roles of engineers,<br />

designers, architects and conceptual<br />

thinkers are collective.<br />

Perks of Technological<br />

Advancement:<br />

•Technological advancement has<br />

paved way to higher income levels.<br />

With the rise in global revenue, the<br />

GDP of nations are improving, and as<br />

people are able to earn more, it is<br />

developing their buying behavior and<br />

socio-economic culture.<br />

•Technology is becoming a synonym to<br />

comfort. It has raised the ‘Quality of<br />

Living’ As people are able to live a<br />

comfortable life, there is higher<br />

contentment and satisfaction. <strong>The</strong><br />

world is becoming a happier place.<br />

•Technology is improving our<br />

efficiency levels. It is making the<br />

world a ‘preferable’ space to live and<br />

more than that; it is developing our cult<br />

zeal for competition.<br />

•With integrated technologies, we now<br />

understand the power of collective<br />

comfort. For instance, if you have a<br />

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CXO Standpoint<br />

Mr. Paramjit Anand<br />

Executive Director<br />

Acreaty<br />

smartphone, then you can use it for multiple purposes like<br />

calling, messaging, browsing, filming, booking a cab,<br />

watching a movie, listening music, making quick payments,<br />

etc.<br />

•Technology has rationally dropped the cost of<br />

transportation and communication. <strong>The</strong> global supply chain<br />

is as lucrative as ever. Economic growth is ever rising, and<br />

the cost of the trade is diminishing.<br />

How IT Businesses/ Start-ups can take benefits<br />

•Don’t scrimp on technology- it is a tool to improve the<br />

productivity and communication channels of your<br />

business.<br />

•Manage and know your online data with the help of<br />

analytics. It’s insightful.<br />

•Embrace cloud technology to modify your data space and<br />

utility.<br />

•Make your business contactable through mobile<br />

friendliness.<br />

•If you are planning to go online with your business, make<br />

network security a major concern.<br />

•Research for the best Social Media options for a winning<br />

digital presence.<br />

•Introduce innovation through BYOD (bring your own<br />

device) concept to employees.<br />

About Mr. Paramjit Anand<br />

Mr. Paramjit Anand is the Executive Director at Acreaty<br />

since 2001, a leading global management consulting firm<br />

with the core set of offerings including Business Strategies,<br />

Process and People <strong>Outsourcing</strong>, complete HR solutions,<br />

Training & ITES. Acreaty emerged as a key market player<br />

in the past decade and has strongly positioned worldwide<br />

with an extensive geographical footprint across India, USA,<br />

UAE & Ghana. Mr. Anand is a professional & an<br />

entrepreneur with over 20 years of experience, including<br />

general management of small to large size organizations;<br />

corporate development, business operations, complete HR<br />

operations, product marketing, and strategy across the<br />

globe.<br />

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Chalk Talk<br />

Will <strong>Outsourcing</strong> Continue to Grow<br />

in the Coming Years?<br />

In the early 90s, outsourcing<br />

started as a revolutionary<br />

phenomenon of propelling<br />

unskilled work from developed<br />

countries to developing countries, has<br />

adept prodigious growth over the past<br />

<strong>10</strong> years.<br />

Today, after more than a decade of<br />

outsourcing, the triumph of<br />

outsourcing is being catechized. Now,<br />

the question arises will outsourcing<br />

continue to flourish or be curtailed by<br />

force in the coming years? Also, will<br />

the advantages of outsourcing become<br />

overshadowed by governmental<br />

pressures and rising offshore<br />

outsourcing costs?<br />

Industry specialists, who have been<br />

scrutinizing the pros and cons of<br />

outsourcing, perceive that the future of<br />

outsourcing will perpetuate to remain<br />

secure particularly due to several<br />

benefits that outsourcing brings both to<br />

the offshore provider and the buyer.<br />

<strong>The</strong> benefits of outsourcing are<br />

manifold - the most important being<br />

cost-effectiveness and better<br />

infrastructure and this has led to its<br />

sustained growth.<br />

Cost Savings Will Continue To Be an<br />

Advantage<br />

In the early years, one of the major<br />

advantages of outsourcing was the<br />

mammoth difference in cost.<br />

Organizations were able to curtail their<br />

overall outlay considerably by paying<br />

less than half the wonted amount in<br />

salaries to their offshore outsourcing<br />

partners.<br />

Few years back several outsourcing<br />

specialists prognosticated that cost<br />

savings would no longer be the major<br />

advantage of outsourcing due to the<br />

increasing cost of living and<br />

technological advances. But the<br />

monetary woe brought on by the year<br />

2008 to 2009 pecuniary crises has<br />

made the whole notion of cost saving<br />

even more important. With the<br />

economic recovery still unsure cost<br />

saving remains the prime reason for<br />

outsourcing to India?<br />

Core Business Activities Will Be<br />

More Focused<br />

Upcoming trends in outsourcing points<br />

to the vital change of focus from the<br />

outsourcing of non-core services to the<br />

core business functions. <strong>Most</strong><br />

businesses, with a remarkable number<br />

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Chalk Talk<br />

of SMEs, consider fully outsourcing their IT department,<br />

not only to save money, but also to gain better qualified and<br />

skilled experts to generate high quality solutions.<br />

In India, especially IT outsourcing, is on the mount due to<br />

the profusion of experienced professionals who have the<br />

methodologies, resources and skills taking to create highgrade<br />

results.<br />

Benefits of <strong>Outsourcing</strong> Smaller Projects<br />

<strong>The</strong> future of outsourcing will be observing rise in the<br />

outsourcing of smaller projects. Although bigger<br />

organizations will continue to outsource huge projects to<br />

prime service providers, there will be an expansion in<br />

smaller buyers, looking for pliable and specialized smaller<br />

providers to support them in realizing newer business ideas.<br />

This advantage of outsourcing will be more relevant to<br />

entrepreneurs, who spent several years observing from the<br />

sidelines and those who want to benefit from the<br />

outsourcing action.<br />

<strong>Outsourcing</strong> of smaller projects will succor companies,<br />

specifically those looking outsourcing as a way to resurrect<br />

their businesses as the economy rebounds. <strong>Outsourcing</strong> to<br />

India will also continue to grow due to a gush in smaller IT<br />

service deals from initial buyers.<br />

Exponentially <strong>Outsourcing</strong> and Cloud Sourcing Will<br />

Grow and Merge<br />

Industry specialists who have been noticing the advantages<br />

of outsourcing and cloud sourcing prognosticating that<br />

cloud sourcing will shortly merge with the existing<br />

outsourcing market and give better opportunities for the<br />

whole outsourcing industry. In general, businesses are<br />

pushing towards cloud solutions for various reasons like,<br />

scalability, pliability and cost savings, outsourced IT<br />

services will necessitate for exodus of existing<br />

infrastructure and services for making them cloud enabled.<br />

This prime advantage of outsourcing will be convenient for<br />

infrastructures supported by cloud resources as well as<br />

other small outsourcing providers.<br />

Furthermore, outsourcing is awaited to increase drastically<br />

in the coming years. It is just because globalization which<br />

inevitably links the world’s economies leaving no room for<br />

individualism. Organizations will not be able to meet<br />

several challenges; they come-up with relying<br />

independently on their own internal resources but will have<br />

to look further for more cost-competitive and reliable<br />

sources. And this is where outsourcing and various profits it<br />

brings with plays an extremely valuable role.<br />

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<strong>10</strong><br />

THE<br />

MOST VALUABLE<br />

OUTSOURCING<br />

COMPANIES <strong>2016</strong><br />

Sun Dew Solutions:<br />

Driving Innovation in Business!<br />

Agood way to avoid any<br />

out-of-control business<br />

situations or to entrust<br />

business processes for efficient<br />

outcomes, one can focus on<br />

Business <strong>Outsourcing</strong>. Whether it is<br />

managing your accounting process,<br />

setting up marketing strategies,<br />

transaction processing, IT<br />

management or inventory<br />

management, it is always better to<br />

hire a professional third-party<br />

company to get better business<br />

output.<br />

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Inception Story of Sun Dew<br />

Solutions<br />

Sun Dew Solutions formally kick<br />

started its journey with a small team<br />

of 3 people in 2007 to establish their<br />

existence in this global marketplace.<br />

Although the initial years were<br />

extremely tough, it taught hard<br />

lessons of entrepreneurship that<br />

slowly made the dreams of Sarbajit<br />

Das, Founder & CEO become<br />

stronger than ever. <strong>The</strong> more the<br />

failures came, more the<br />

determination got set in him. <strong>The</strong><br />

challenge was ultimately to<br />

overcome all the difficulties and<br />

spread the wings someday. It was<br />

definitely not an easy path, but the<br />

journey gave a lot of learning<br />

experiences throughout and made<br />

Sarbajit stronger as a person and as an<br />

entrepreneur.<br />

6 years later in June 2013, Sun Dew<br />

Solutions was incorporated as a Pvt.<br />

Ltd. company and the organization<br />

Sarbajit Das<br />

Founder & CEO<br />

began a new journey all together.<br />

Riding on a huge market experience of<br />

last few years, the organization was reenergized<br />

with renewed passion,<br />

ambition and new horizons to grow.<br />

As on date, Sun Dew Solutions Pvt.<br />

Ltd. feels proud to have worked with<br />

160+ clients across 18+ countries,<br />

delivered more than 650+ projects<br />

comprising Websites, E-Commerce<br />

Portals, Business Process Automation<br />

Applications, Mobile Applications, BI<br />

& Predictive Analytics solutions and<br />

various product developments.<br />

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<strong>10</strong><br />

THE<br />

MOST VALUABLE<br />

OUTSOURCING<br />

COMPANIES <strong>2016</strong><br />

Services Sun Dew Solutions Offers<br />

Sun Dew Solutions Pvt. Ltd. is<br />

primarily software development and<br />

technology consulting company,<br />

offering the following services<br />

categorized under two broad sections:<br />

Business Services Vertical:<br />

1. Custom Application Development<br />

2. Enterprise E-commerce<br />

3. Enterprise SMAC (Social Mobile<br />

“<br />

innovation, creativity, passion and<br />

precision which helps them to achieve<br />

excellence all the time.<br />

<strong>The</strong> big differentiator against the<br />

competitors over the years has been the<br />

Value Add that Sun Dew Solutions<br />

have provided in every engagement till<br />

date. Sun Dew Solutions owns their<br />

customer’s objective of any initiative<br />

that they might take and strive to<br />

achieve the same through thick and<br />

Our DNA stands for Lean<br />

Methodology, Quality Assurance,<br />

Process Driven Approach,<br />

High Customer Satisfaction<br />

and step by step growth<br />

Analytics Cloud) Solutions<br />

4. Mobile Application Development in<br />

Android and iOS Platforms<br />

5. Business Intelligence and Predictive<br />

Analytics<br />

6. Enterprise Web Development<br />

7. Bespoke Product Development<br />

Consulting Services Vertical:<br />

1. Staff Augmentation<br />

2. Business Process Consulting<br />

Drivers of Sun Dew Solutions<br />

As an organization, they DREAM BIG<br />

to ACHIEVE BIG! <strong>The</strong> DNA of Sun<br />

Dew Solutions gets reflected in every<br />

sphere of their organization, be that in<br />

the work they produce, the quality of<br />

people they have in the team, the types<br />

of projects they commit and engage<br />

with and also the work atmosphere<br />

within their organization - it inspires<br />

“<br />

thin with them. <strong>The</strong>y always follow the<br />

path of being a “Partner” to their<br />

customers rather than being just<br />

another “Vendor”.<br />

Key Values to Overcome Roadblocks<br />

<strong>The</strong> key values of Sun Dew Solutions<br />

are Honesty, Passion, Dedication and<br />

Determination to succeed against all<br />

adversities. <strong>The</strong>y have been successful<br />

in sowing the seeds of their Company<br />

Culture and DNA within each and<br />

every team member and the same gets<br />

reflected in their internal recruitment<br />

policies as well.<br />

<strong>The</strong> dreams were and will always<br />

remain BIG at Sun Dew Solutions. <strong>The</strong><br />

initial steps were indeed difficult, but<br />

unless they have faced those<br />

challenges Sun Dew Solutions could<br />

not have learned the art of combating<br />

those and reach where they are today.<br />

Relationship with Clients<br />

Sun Dew Solutions over the years have<br />

earned the faith and trust of each and<br />

every client they have worked with and<br />

thus have 95% client retention till<br />

date amidst this highly global<br />

competitive marketplace. <strong>The</strong> main<br />

USP of Sun Dew Solutions is<br />

“Customer First”. <strong>The</strong>y create<br />

relationships, nurture it and sustain<br />

them on a long term basis.<br />

Sun Dew Solutions’ Prospective<br />

Currently, Sun Dew Solutions is<br />

emerging as a promising player in the<br />

Travel Retail & the Duty Free<br />

Business Sector and is working with<br />

global brands to help them empower<br />

their IT and online presence. <strong>The</strong>y are<br />

also deeply involved with multiple<br />

diversified projects which are both<br />

technology intensive as well as<br />

business critical from other sectors<br />

involving global locations.<br />

Sun Dew Solutions has bootstrapped<br />

themselves from Zero to cross 1Cr in<br />

2015-<strong>2016</strong> and is striving to maintain a<br />

sustainable growth to reach their goal<br />

of 2 Million Dollars by 2019.<br />

Furthermore, Sun Dew Solutions are<br />

seeing areas of Africa, East Asia and<br />

the Middle East growing from strength<br />

to strength and having a huge demand<br />

in the type of services they provide.<br />

<strong>The</strong>y also see a massive opportunity as<br />

a company in the vertical of Business<br />

Intelligence and Analytics in the<br />

coming years. Additionally, IoT is<br />

another vertical that excites them to<br />

work in, especially technology that<br />

involves wearable devices.<br />

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<strong>10</strong><br />

THE<br />

MOST VALUABLE<br />

OUTSOURCING<br />

COMPANIES <strong>2016</strong><br />

Web Research Services:<br />

Online Marketing Experts<br />

This company is certainly the<br />

answer when thinking about<br />

comprehensively marketing<br />

your business online that will ensure<br />

increased traffic, increased site<br />

conversion, pre-selling your<br />

products or services and managing<br />

online relations. Web Research<br />

Services has proven online<br />

marketing strategies that guarantee<br />

to give these desired results as they<br />

specialize in digital marketing<br />

services that will help you relax<br />

while you watch your online sales<br />

soar.<br />

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Pioneer behind Web Research<br />

Services<br />

Siddharth Samel, Founder<br />

Director & Chief Marketing<br />

Strategist is a serial entrepreneur.<br />

He is qualified in PGDBA and<br />

Masters in Marketing Management<br />

from Pune University. Siddharth is<br />

certified as ‘Marketing Strategist’<br />

from United Kingdom. He started<br />

his venture in 2004 with Web<br />

Research Services and then later<br />

diversified into other streams. He is<br />

also a guide, consultant, business<br />

trainer, and mentor to over 35,000<br />

people globally. Siddharth started<br />

doing business at a young age and<br />

now has an experience of over 15<br />

years having built many profitable<br />

ventures.<br />

Web Research Services is a winner of<br />

‘Business & Service Excellence<br />

Awards’ in 2012 for the Best Internet<br />

Siddharth Samel<br />

Founder Director &<br />

Chief Marketing Strategist<br />

Business Marketing Company,<br />

Siddharth was awarded the title of<br />

‘Excellence Guru’ in 20<strong>10</strong> and now<br />

once again his company has earned the<br />

Title of ‘<strong>10</strong> <strong>Most</strong> <strong>Valuable</strong><br />

<strong>Outsourcing</strong> <strong>Companies</strong> <strong>2016</strong>.’<br />

Services Web Research Services<br />

Provides<br />

Web Research Services operates<br />

majorly in the US and European<br />

markets. It takes the credit of providing<br />

‘Online Business Consultancy’ to<br />

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<strong>10</strong><br />

THE<br />

MOST VALUABLE<br />

OUTSOURCING<br />

COMPANIES <strong>2016</strong><br />

more than 400 companies across the<br />

globe. <strong>The</strong> expertise of the company is<br />

in the areas of business consulting,<br />

digital marketing, online brand<br />

reputation management, affiliate<br />

program marketing & management,<br />

social media marketing, search engine<br />

marketing, viral marketing, digital<br />

advertising and much more.<br />

Not many Indian companies are able to<br />

retain their clients for long term<br />

without any contracts but Web<br />

“<br />

Video Streaming’. <strong>Companies</strong> in India<br />

and abroad outsource their healthcare<br />

software development requirements to<br />

DHPL.<br />

Strategies of Web Research Services<br />

Siddharth adds that there can be no<br />

better competitive strategy than<br />

winning the hearts and developing<br />

trusted relationship with the clients.<br />

WRS has gained that winning edge by<br />

delivering performance and results that<br />

We provide end-to end internet<br />

marketing services and solution<br />

giving our clients the “edge” to<br />

attain their buisness objectives<br />

Research Services boasts of retaining<br />

their overseas clients for several years<br />

together. WRS not only provide<br />

services to its clients but also trains<br />

local candidates in new age online<br />

business promotion techniques.<br />

Company’s businesses come from<br />

varied industries like Web Research<br />

Services into online business<br />

consulting, Siddharth Samel Institute<br />

of Entrepreneurship Development<br />

dedicated to creating and supporting<br />

new age entrepreneurs, Vive Institute<br />

which helps in providing education to<br />

the unqualified professionals and<br />

Doctorlogy Healthcare Pvt. Ltd.<br />

(DHPL) which is into healthcare<br />

software and mobile app development.<br />

<strong>The</strong>ir Healthcare Software<br />

development company is the first one<br />

to offer a solution of ‘Online Instant<br />

Doctor Consultation Service via Live<br />

“<br />

not only wins the customer’s trust but<br />

also develops strategic business<br />

relationship.<br />

To ensure that you are in the fast paced<br />

environment, it is important to be<br />

proactive. By habit, Web Research<br />

Services team work on a proactive<br />

basis than being reactive. This is<br />

another important aspect which helps<br />

them edge over competitors. <strong>The</strong><br />

company is proved that in the end, it is<br />

important to be really good at work<br />

and performance that no competitor<br />

can beat.<br />

Key Values to Overcome the<br />

Roadblocks<br />

Online business and digital marketing<br />

are dynamic channels. WRS has<br />

always believed in continuous learning<br />

and enhancing the customer experience<br />

to overcome the business challenges.<br />

<strong>The</strong>re were downtimes faced by WRS<br />

but their determination to give a great<br />

customer experience got them back to<br />

the upstream and also earned<br />

accolades.<br />

Siddharth says, “Regular<br />

communication with the customers is<br />

very important, especially, when the<br />

customers who outsourced the work to<br />

you, have never seen you. WRS has a<br />

policy of answering all emails in less<br />

than 24 hours and that has helped them<br />

a great deal. It really keeps the clients<br />

happy.”<br />

Commitment with Clients<br />

Clients say that WRS does not believe<br />

in sustaining the competition but they<br />

create business plans to beat the<br />

competition right in the face to create a<br />

winning edge. Web Research Service’s<br />

clients are most fascinated by their 5<br />

services which include reliable service,<br />

radiant team energy, rewarding<br />

business strategies, reporting and result<br />

generating ability.<br />

Prospective of Web Research<br />

Services<br />

Internet is an ever changing<br />

technology. On top of that, the way<br />

people do business has changed from<br />

time to time. Clubbing both, business<br />

on the internet adds to the dynamism.<br />

<strong>The</strong> team at Web Research Services<br />

loves this dynamic environment.<br />

Siddharth adds, “What is most exciting<br />

is that you are responsible for creating<br />

brands and ensuring business growth<br />

using internet media that changes<br />

every day. Internet will see many<br />

changes in the future and will even<br />

change its form. All this is so<br />

exciting!”<br />

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Enterprise Mobility Challenges - IWORKTECH’s<br />

Experience While Developing Its Mobile Platform<br />

Development for Lifestyle Segment<br />

Interview with<br />

<strong>Insights</strong> <strong>Success</strong><br />

Q. How IWORKTECH has contributed for innovative<br />

technology in a current IT space?<br />

<strong>The</strong> fast pace of today’s world brings with it many<br />

distractions and less time to relax. It’s easy to forget what<br />

your body needs. Luckily, the very mobile device that<br />

sometimes acts as distractions can also be used to promote<br />

healthy living.<br />

<strong>The</strong>se mobile apps can help you track and improve your<br />

personal health metrics. <strong>The</strong> best part is that most of these<br />

can be used on the go-even when you are sleeping.<br />

IWORKTECH has developed a platform which allows one<br />

to build app on Andorid and iOS easily. <strong>The</strong> platform is<br />

developed using Xamarin.<br />

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Atul Gunjal<br />

CEO<br />

IWORKTECH<br />

Recently using this platform IWORKTECH has released an<br />

application for a lifestyle company based out of S. E. Asia.<br />

Q. What were the main considerations you kept in mind<br />

while introducing Xamarin?<br />

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While developing the platform IWORKTECH the major<br />

considerations were Enterprise Mobile Application, Mobile<br />

Software Development Life Cycle, Mobile testing.<br />

After a lot of research on various tools, platforms and<br />

environments available in the market, Xamarin was<br />

selected. Developing a common platform, and also<br />

releasing apps in the different domains, has helped<br />

IWORKTECH to build a mature Xamarin development<br />

unit.<br />

According to you, what are the challenges of Enterprise<br />

Mobile Application?<br />

Since the last decade Enterprise Mobile Solutions are<br />

experiencing increase in: Maturity, Security, development<br />

and testing complexity, scalability of the solution itself,<br />

Mobile Software Development Life Cycle<br />

A lot comes into play, even when you develop a small<br />

single app. In this you need to develop the application,<br />

release it in the market place, and gather users experience<br />

and response. Additionally, you need to keep on adding new<br />

features, new capabilities so that the user’s interest is<br />

maintained and you can continue to have market leadership<br />

and remain ahead of your competitors. Also there is a<br />

challenge of supporting various devices that keep on<br />

coming in the market.<br />

This life cycle needs to be supported in the mobile<br />

application. We found that Xamarin provides us an<br />

environment which is secured and can integrate with the<br />

backend system easily.<br />

Xamarin’s cross-platform development environment allows<br />

us to create rich native applications by keeping large<br />

percentage of code common. It allows us to achieve the<br />

following:<br />

Support various types of devices, Maintenance of<br />

application, Support of new release of the Oss, Response<br />

time.<br />

Mobile Enterprise Application - Requirements<br />

Q. What challenges you faced in Mobile Testing and<br />

how do you address those?<br />

With mobile quality challenges such as device<br />

fragmentation, app complexity, fast release cycles, and high<br />

mobile user expectations, it becomes very difficult to<br />

monitor the user experience and quality of a mobile app.<br />

Embracing new innovations in apps and quickly evaluating<br />

compatibility and quality requires adopting a mobile testing<br />

solution with access to the latest hardware and software<br />

from a variety of vendors. With the help of Xamarin Test<br />

Cloud we are able to address these challenges.<br />

About Atul Gunjal<br />

Atul Gunjal, CEO of IWORKTECH, Pune, India, is an<br />

alumnus from College of Engineering, Pune. Atul is a serial<br />

Entrepreneur having over two decades of rich experience in<br />

IT Industry.<br />

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CXO Standpoint<br />

SOCIAL MEDIA<br />

ENGAGEMENTS:<br />

Living Up to<br />

Customer<br />

Expectations<br />

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ith 2.3 Billion active social media users across<br />

Wthe globe - according to <strong>2016</strong> social network<br />

usage report by Global Web Index - it is no<br />

surprise that social media marketing strategy has become an<br />

integral part of every organization’s marketing plan.<br />

Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, LinkedIn, Pinterest,<br />

Instagram, Tumblr, Myspace, Blogs… you name any social<br />

media channel and you will find organizations trying hard<br />

to engage with their target audience to promote their<br />

brands. Almost every day, we witness organizations’<br />

coming up with innovative marketing campaigns to engage<br />

with their target audience in order to build a strong brand<br />

presence and drive higher sales.<br />

In this age of digital connectivity, customers welcome these<br />

engagements with open arms and to some extent even with<br />

open pockets to interact with brands and drive higher sales.<br />

Hence, organizations are witnessing fair amount of success<br />

from these campaigns. However, customers’ expectations<br />

from these social media interactions are not just limited to<br />

purchase transactions. <strong>The</strong>y turn to social media channels as<br />

a means for instant resolution for the product or service<br />

problems they are facing. Customers view these social<br />

media channels in a far greater role of an instant and<br />

transparent customer service desk.<br />

Today’s generation believes in instant gratification and they<br />

expect resolution to their product/service related issues<br />

immediately. No longer are they content with the traditional<br />

channels of resolution like helplines, FAQs, or support<br />

emails. <strong>The</strong>y are not ready to put up with automated and<br />

delayed responses. Consumers are looking for immediate<br />

connect with their product/service providers and expect a<br />

more personalised resolution of their issues. Failure to<br />

respond to the customer in a TIMELY and PERSONILISED<br />

manner can be devastating for your brand and can lead to<br />

huge customer drop off.<br />

It is one thing to use social media for creating brand<br />

presence but it is altogether a different thing to use social<br />

media for customer care. Achieving this balance between<br />

Social Media Brand Awareness Engagements and Social<br />

Media Customer Care Engagements is no easy task. It<br />

requires a sound IT infrastructure in place that can share<br />

information in real-time across business units and various<br />

hierarchies in order to make quick customer facing<br />

decisions. It is this need that has led to the advent of<br />

SOCIAL ENGAGEMENT CRM.<br />

Social Engagement CRM is a powerful CRM technology<br />

that equips sales, marketing and services teams of<br />

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CXO Standpoint<br />

organizations were only able to<br />

get demographic insights about<br />

their customers like age,<br />

gender, geography, marital<br />

status etc. but with social<br />

analytics tool, you are exposed<br />

to a plethora of personal<br />

insights on social media. You<br />

can now get to know about<br />

your customers likes, dislikes,<br />

sentiments towards your brand.<br />

Using this information you can<br />

now customize your products<br />

and offerings as per customers’<br />

expectations and further do a<br />

personalized service delivery to<br />

convert negative sentiment to a<br />

positive one.<br />

organizations with cutting edge social tools to connect with<br />

customers as well as critics and gain insight how they really<br />

feel about your product and services. <strong>The</strong> popular tools<br />

covered within Social Engagement CRM are:<br />

• Social Listening: Social Engagement CRM allows<br />

you to harness the power of social media to identify and<br />

assess what is being said about your brand, product and/or<br />

services on the social media channels. Social Listening will<br />

enable you to spot trends, identify key influencers and<br />

receive alerts on how people feel about your business.<br />

Accordingly, one can make informed decisions and drive<br />

sales and service conversations more effectively.<br />

• Social Analytics: With Social Engagement CRM, you<br />

can gain valuable insights about your customers and target<br />

audience previously not available. Traditionally<br />

• Social Engagement: With<br />

social engagement tools,<br />

engage and interact with your<br />

customers, brand advocates and<br />

brand detractors on social<br />

media. Improve your social<br />

media presence by engaging<br />

with social communities with<br />

rich multimedia and drive endto-end<br />

customer experience by<br />

creating CRM actions from social posts. Build deeper<br />

relationships with customers by engaging with social<br />

communities on Twitter or Facebook and other popular<br />

social media channels using your corporate or personal<br />

profiles.<br />

Key Takeaway - Make sure to create the right balance<br />

between your Social Media Brand Awareness Engagements<br />

and Social Media Customer Care Engagements. This is no<br />

easy task and do not think twice before seeking external<br />

professional help to achieve this balance. At Tectura, we<br />

help organizations to build a strong Social Engagement IT<br />

infrastructure, powered by Microsoft Dynamics CRM, to<br />

create the perfect balance but at the end of the day it’s the<br />

culture within an organization which maintains this balance<br />

for the years to come.<br />

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JULY <strong>2016</strong> |


CXO Standpoint<br />

44<br />

Chetan is committed to Tectura’s<br />

drive to deliver exceptional and<br />

sustained value to the clients.<br />

Chetan joined Tectura India as<br />

Corporate Operations Director in<br />

April 2009. With an extensive and<br />

diverse experience of over 26 years<br />

in the areas of technology and<br />

consulting business, Chetan crafts<br />

Tectura’s strategy for business in<br />

India, and is the primary decision<br />

and policy-maker, setting the tone<br />

for company’s values, ethics, and<br />

culture.<br />

In this capacity, Chetan provides<br />

complete leadership on strategic<br />

and operational issues. A proven<br />

leader with deep expertise in<br />

executing on strategic global,<br />

regional, and local initiatives and<br />

goals, Chetan manages growth of<br />

Tectura India’s business,<br />

profitability, and customer<br />

satisfaction. With a passion for<br />

mentoring and coaching, Chetan<br />

builds up the path for enterprise<br />

leadership team. Chetan leads<br />

relationship management with<br />

Microsoft and various channel<br />

partners. His focus for business<br />

excellence has helped Tectura India<br />

achieve many awards from<br />

Microsoft locally and globally.<br />

Chetan holds a BE degree in<br />

Mechanical Engineering and MBA<br />

in Marketing Management from<br />

Gujrat University.<br />

Chetan Pathak<br />

Executive Vice President,<br />

Tectura India<br />

JULY <strong>2016</strong> |

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