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GESIA Invites you to attend

A Seminar on "ERP for SMEs"

Without any preamble let me put it directly - at the macro level NO ONE Really! In the micro level a few ambitious Small enterprises are adopting IT and in that few, only the minority reap benefits from adopted IT.

This small minority makes a considerable impact on the IT industry’s overall revenue from the domestic market adding excitement to IT firms and media on the growth of enterprise applications market in India.

The Myopia : Growing market size for IT products is a direct result of SMEs adopting IT.

The fact : Growing market size for IT products is a direct result of a microscopic fraction of the small sector adopting IT.

What about the rest - the SME majority. They are far from right IT adoption.

Initial indications from our recently commissioned SME – IT survey proves my above comments.

Why do the majority still stay away from IT adoption? Good question.

This is what I have to say.

• They do not want transparency – Not really an IT problem …
• No one to guide them on IT adoption
• IT salesmen are the wrong ones to guide a small enterprise on IT adoption – at least many are not trained to handle a small enterprise.
• Lack of drive and determination from the management – CEOSMEs fears and feel shy and go into a shell - when IT salesmen use management jargons and technical terms to show up there wisdom ( Remember if you show up you will throw up)
• No plans to grow – let me run my firm as long as I can…..
• We tried – paid through our nose and burnt our hands …
• Confused …which vendor to select – everyone down the road nowadays is an ERP vendor ! Some says 2 lakhs …others 50 lakhs ??????

How should we drive IT awareness among SMEs ?

It was generally a hectic trip to Singapore and I found it to be quite satisfying. Samooha seems to have caught up attention there and a couple of larger implementations that will take off soon will get the platform further acceptance in the higher mid-segment of the enterprise while we continue to build a better "networked Business Operating System" for Small Enterprises.

Samooha is the first business software cooperative that offers best of the both Open Source and Proprietary Software strategies purely in the interest of end users. Samooha is geared to be world's largest business software cooperative beginning its activities at the bottom of the enterprise pyramid.

Samooha is a distributed business connectivity platform that provides an opportunity for SMEs to market products over the interent while they can source suppliers and products from across the Globe. Samooha provides an integrated mini ERP that keeps track of the purchases, sales, inventory, accounts etc. Samooha unifies the advantages of distributed computing, ease of desktop use and the broad band explosion to provide a pure business platform that will bring the world to your desktop.