Top SMB honchos meet to thrash out relevant IT issues

BANGALORE: With the Indian IT market depicting tremendous growth and information technology becoming more affordable these days, the buying curve has also started rising. Most of the small and medium businesses in India have slowly started adapting the new technology and are looking out for solutions, which would help smoothen their business processes.

These people not only look out for solutions, but also want to be educated on the latest development that takes place in the IT industry. They look for the latest products and also the various solutions that would suit their line of business. After sales support from the vendors is also another area of concern and sometimes they do not know where to look for help. Most of the buyers tend to look for similar solutions, and face similar problems. These are the various issues which will be discussed in the CIOL’s SMB forum at Coimbatore on the 20th Feb’04 at the Residency.

Revolving around the theme ‘Paisa Vasool from IT’, the CEOs from various verticals would mainly discuss on how best the investor can leverage from IT to give his business a competitive edge. The panel members consist of Dr. G. Bakthavathsalam-Chairman of K.G. Hospital and Post Graduate Medical Institute, U.K Ananthapadmanabhan, Senior Vice President-Kovai Medical Centre and Hospital, Jebanesan Croos, Head IT of Elgi Tread India and Balamurugan, Managing Director-Unity Electro systems (P) Ltd. Together, they will analyze the ways in which business efficiency could be increased, ROI factors, and the ways and means by which they can be better than their competitors.

Some of the other participants are S.Mahendra, Asst.General Manager- Systems-Sakthi Sugars Limited, E.Palaniswamy, Managing Director-Armstrong knitting Mills, Mr.Rathnaswamy, MD-Ahill Knit Exports, C N Ashok Autoprint, Technical Director-Machinery Manufacturers Pvt. Ltd.

Experts on SAP and Canon will also be present in order to offer solutions to participants. They will also be speaking on the latest technologies and how the SMBs can obtain the maximum return on investment.