INNOVAL DIGITAL SOLUTIONS PVT. LTD Value Delivered through Innovation
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he industry has changed a lot with time and technology. Technology has taken over the traditional way of business processing with a resulted boost in productivity. In all these years the only constant thing is SAP. SAP-based applications are making business processes smooth since long. Innoval Digital Solutions Pvt. Ltd is a leading name in the SAP solutions landscape. Innoval Digital Solutions Pvt. Ltd is empowering businesses with their cutting edge and comprehensive technology offerings. In an interview with Mr. Sunil Gupta, CEO, and Director of the company let’s discover their journey since inception and more about their quality offerings
was involved in several key technology initiatives of IT strategy, standardization of technology, applications, and infrastructure across various factories, businesses, and offices of the company. SAP was also one of my major activities. Way back in 1995, some of the Germans approached me to start up an offshore company focused on SAP for serving the European market. This was the beginning and I took the risk. TechnoPark based in Trivandrum was selected to be the location for setting up the company. Even though language, culture, and familiarity of Kerala were a challenge, I was extremely impressed with the world-class infrastructure, talent availability, costs of operations, and quality of life.
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Within, a short span of time, we were able to recruit, train, expand, and started delivering cutting edge solutions to the customers in Germany.
The business from Germany was constant and didn’t grow; hence I started looking for other geographies. India was a logical choice, and SAP ERP was being implemented in a few large companies in 1997. Being already present, we worked on several SAP implementations in India. This also gave us a good understanding of the functionality gap that was existing in SAP for Indian customers, especially in the areas of statutory compliance, taxation, and international trade areas. I always wanted to develop products and saw the opportunity to develop Add-on for SAP for this functional gap, to address the pain points of India enterprises. The product was named OptiSuite, certified by SAP, and became a huge success and implemented in a large number of companies in India. Around 1998, SAP India was formed and we participated in developing the India version for SAP. We also worked on extensive consulting opportunities with SAP
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