Ramco strengthens its hold in the MEA HCM market

DUBAI, UAE: Since the global launch of Ramco Human Capital Management(HCM) on Cloud in June this year, Ramco has added some of the largest business conglomerates as its customer. In the last five weeks, Ramco added six new customers in the MEA(Middle East and Africa) region for its ERP/ HCM on Cloud offering.

This includes, Sharaf DG (retail chain covering 13 countries in UAE, GCC, Middle East and Far East), Engsol (Engineering Solutions company in Abu Dhabi), DaarYaas Group (retail group with presence in UAE, N.Africa and Egypt), Al Shabab Club (sports club in UAE), Blue Nile Mashreq Bank (bank in N.Africa) and Nesma (a diversified business conglomerate in Saudi). The six new customers will together add around 30,000+ users for Ramco HCM. The company also announced go-live of 5 HCM customers which added 15000+ users in the region on Ramco HCM.

Since the launch of its cloud based solutions in 2011 in the Middle East, the market uptake for Ramco's offerings (ERP, HCM and Aviation) has been growing significantly resulting in the number of new customers being added, doubling in 2012-13.

Sunil Padmanabh, research director, Gartner Inc., said: "There is a sizeable market opportunity worldwide for HCM solutions on the Cloud, notably Talent Management. Many large and mid-sized organisations are looking to experiment with cloud and HR applications are emerging as the first choice."

"Ramco's cloud solutions can be easily extended on mobile devices and can run in-memory based Payroll and Analytics. Ramco is also well positioned to take on the competition by embedding country specific localization and statutory needs in the base product."

P R Venketrama Raja, vice chairman and MD, Ramco Systems, said: "We offer solutions that are multi-tenanted, SOA-compliant and modular in nature. The architecture allows us launch features such as Mobility, Social media integration, location-awareness through Google maps, etc. ahead of others. Our uber-cool user interface with alerts, notifications, portlets on transaction screens, role-specific WorkSpaces, and accessibility on mobile devices have been a great value-add and differentiator for us."

Ramco HCM on Cloud is a comprehensive solution that covers every aspect of an employee lifecycle: Workforce Management, Recruitment, Talent Management, Employee Development, Workforce Planning and Payroll & Benefits. Ramco has been offering its on-premise HCM software globally, and has customers with employee size of 100,000+. The company also offers an integrated Payroll on Cloud solution for all GCC countries and most of Africa.