WIITF - 2016 Event

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Digital Transformation To Be The Top Priority For VARs

The WIITF is the definitive platform to discuss and evaluate the India opportunity. It addresses the policy framework and guidelines required to attract investors, large corporate and industries and is an ideal platform to explore the intersection of technology, innovation, vision of CIOs, Technology Gurus and investors.

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arking the sixth year of the Western India Information Technology Fair, the 6th WIITF, 2016 provided the foremost multi-stakeholder platform, bringing together international and national speakers in Mumbai who have invested in building a sustainable roadmap for India’s future. The WIITF is the definitive platform to discuss and evaluate the India opportunity. It addresses the policy framework and guidelines required to attract investors, large corporate and industries and is an ideal platform to explore the intersection of technology, innovation, vision of CIOs, Technology Gurus and investors. The summit, besides focussing on the segments where Solution and start-up businesses will reach a new high, highlighted the challenges faced by the CIOs and how the process can be simplified to create business strategies, develop and evaluate solution effectiveness. It also presents a strong medium for Indian businesses to scale a new high.

Making it truly a global platform to connect with the industry leaders in Mumbai, WIITF was inaugurated in the august presence of 250 luminaries and was witnessed by CIOs of corporates and solution partners from across Western India. The Summit was inaugurated by Shri. V.K. Gautam, IAS, Principal Secretary-IT, Govt of Maharastra; Shri Vinit Goenka, Member Task Force-Ministry of Road, Transport, Highways & Shipping-GOI; Shri. Suresh Pansari, CEO- Rashi Peripherals and other distinguished guests joining the inaugural ceremony that included Dr. Sumit D. Chowdhury, Founder & CEO- Gaia Smart Cities; Mr. H.K. Behera, GM (Govt. Business) - Union Bank of India; Mr Kshitij M. Kotak, Chairman, ASIRT; Mr. Vishal Jain, Director- Inspira Enterprise India Pvt. Ltd.; Mr. Suresh A Shan, Head Innovation & Future Technology-Mahindra Finance; Mr. Sanjoy Bhattacharya, Bus. Head, Distribution IT- LG Electronics India; Mr. Champak Raj Gurjar, President-FAIITA; Mr. Rushabh Shah, President-TAIT; Mr. Jiten Mehta, SecretaryISODA; Mr. Chander Purswani, MD - Connect Star Networks Pvt Ltd.; Ms. Sandhya Shetty, Commercial head- Canon India; Mr. Satish Babu, SAP Practice India Head - CTRls Data center; Mr. Vipul Mehta, CEO-Tipping Point

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Inaugural Ceremony( From left to Right): Mr. Jiten Mehta, Secretary-ISODA , Dr. Deepak Kumar Sahu, Publisher & Chief editor,VARINDIA, Mr. Rushabh Shah, President-TAIT, Dr. Sumit D. Chowdhury,Founder & CEO- Gaia Smart Cities, Mr. Champak Raj Gurjar, PresidentFAIITA, Shri. Vinit Goenka, Member Task Force-Ministry of Road, Transport, Highways & Shipping-GOI, Mr. Satish Babu, SAP Practice India Head - CTRls Data center , Shri. Suresh Pansari, CEO,Rashi Peripherals,Ms. Sandhya Shetty, Commercial head- Canon India, Mr. Anil Bhargavan – Head - Certified Partners ( West)-Tally Solutions, Mr. Kshitij M Kotak,Chairman, ASIRT and Mr. Chander Purswami,M.D- Connect Star Networks Pvt. Ltd.

Shri Vinit Goenka Member – Task Force,Ministry of Road, Transport, Highways & Shipping, GoI “The success that we have seen in the Medical field is being tried to get replicated in the Road & Transport area. So there is this company in Hissar that decided to put up an e-health centre under its CSR program. This hospital was connected with Bangalore and patient records used to be assessed here with the help of analytical tools and a robust IT network. The result is that even in the absence of doctors, specialists sitting in Bangalore can treat patients from this town. Such is the advancements that happened in IT.”

and Mr. Anil Bhargavan – Head - Certified Partners ( West)-Tally Solutions.

The event was supported by LG, Canon D-Link, Tally, CtRLS, Inspira and Union bank of India.

The summit gathers the system Integrators, Solution Partners, VARs and CIOs to discuss some of the important aspects of technologies, who are crucial to our continued success by enabling us to deliver the best experiences to our customer by addressing the ‘technology glitches’ inside the organization, key trends and issues & challenges in implementing the technology.

Being a real opportunity for the VARs, WIITF tried to understand on how CIOs are reacting to it and whether any big risks are coming with such digital investments.

Addressing the audience, Mr. Deepak Sahu, Publisher spoke about how Technology is the key enabler in this digital transformation and the rise of start-up companies in India and the emerging efforts to put the power of analytics in the hands of CIOs. “Technology has changed the face of VARs and Resellers over the decade and the pace of disruption is now quickening with digital transformation being a top priority for many resellers. But does technology change

really deliver the benefit retailers expect and desire? There are fast track transformation happening, resulting in many organizations experimenting it while others making big investments in it.”

Shri. Vinit Goenka, Member Task ForceMinistry of Road, Transport, Highways & Shipping-GOI spoke in general of where the country is heading, Dr. Sumit D. Chowdhury,

Founder & CEO- Gaia Smart Cities in his speech talked about how Smart City is the way ahead for India and is an opportunity for VARs in the eco-system.

Among the corporates, LG, CtRlS, Tally and Inspira gave presentations, with Mr. Girish Mamtani, Manager- Business Development, OEM & Government Projects- LG Electronics; Mr. Satish Babu, SAP Practice India Head -

Shri Suresh Pansari, CEO - Rashi Peripherals “Start-ups entered India in the late 90’s. In the past, innovation and research took place in countries where govt. provided support in terms of permissions, grants and investments.

In India entrepreneurs have fewer of these choices prior to 90’s. It was thus difficult for common man to start a business back then. However, since last 10-15 years, with the coming of venture capitalists and private equities, the scenario has completely changed.”

Dr Sumit D. Chowdhury Founder & CEO - GAIA Smart Cities “The mission of Smart City is indeed a grand idea. Take 100 of the Smart cities in the country and add measurement, technology, better design, integrated thinking and see how as citizens of that city would live there. It’s not about any council that’s being formed, or any elected representatives but it is solely about how we have to change ourselves to live as a citizen there or change how we think about that city. So the Smart City Mission is one in which the govt. asked everyone involved to go to their drawing board, start thinking of every city in different dimension and bring every element like Power, Water, Transportation together.”

CTRls Data center; Mr. Anil Bhargavan, Head, Certified Partners, (West)-Tally Solutions and Mr. Om Ahuja, Vice President: Information Security at Inspira Enterprise India Pvt. Ltd. from their respective organizations spoke at length about the opportunities that they sense and how these can be translated into real-time scope for growth.

Girish Mamtani Manager, Business Development, OEM & Government Projects, LG Electronics “LG has been into the business of selling IT products for the last 20 years and have been the technology leaders in terms of displays.

We have been growing 20% every year. While the penetration of PC has been just 10%, but we believe opportunities to rise as a result of enablement in different sectors. In terms of PC desktop adoption, rural markets have seen a better growth than the urban markets.”

Awards

Xpress Computers Ltd Receives the Award for Best VAR - Western India

Techlink Infoware Pvt. Ltd. Bags the Award for Best ISV - Western India

Pentagon System and Services Pvt. Ltd. Given the award for Best System Integrator - Western India

Sound Solutions Named the Best Regional Distributor - Western India

Inspira Enterprise India Pvt. Ltd. Takes the award for Best Value Added Distributor - Western India

Magnamious Systems Pvt. Ltd. Bags the award for Best Network Integrator - Western India

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Mr Om Ahuja, Vice-President, Information Security, Inspira Enterprise India Private Ltd “Inspira has been into this industry for last 7-8 years and during this period we have been innovating our offerings and engaging & enabling our VAR community for doing something different. We are typically concentrating on 4 domains today – Cloud Security, Applications (where we have entered the Healthcare ERP scenario), DGS&D Rate Card (where we have empanelled and want our VAR community to exploit) and distribution of top products.”

Satish Babu SAP Practice India Head - CtrlS Data Center

Mr Anil Bhargavan Head, Certified Partners, (West), Tally Solutions

“In line with the vision of PM of India, we at CtrlS believe in hosting and securing the data in India. Earlier we used to opt for hosting data outside India, but now we have our own infrastructure. CtrlS today has tier 4 level data centers in India and has its DCs across 4 major cities – Mumbai, Delhi, Chennai and Kolkata. These data centers have been built with great connectivity and scaling facilities, enabling low latency and our dark fibre across Hyderabad and Mumbai.”

“We have been into this business of offering innovation after innovations for letting businesses to grow for last 28 years.

Our flagship product Tally ERP9 has been conceptualized by Shri Bharat Goenka.

We serve our customers through a robust network of 28,000 partners. We are primarily addressing the growth requirements of the MSMEs. Our relationship with them enables us to understand them, the challenges faced by them and their aspirations.”

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LUCKY DRAW

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