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It's my earnest request to all the Indian IT professionals to share this information with local businesses and if possible also spare some time to educate the emerging businesses to manage their operations through a minimal process based ERP.

Refer this link for an interesting debate where I have posted my comments too. IT for the unwashed masses

While Zudha, the company I represent, is busy positioning Samooha as a whole new way of implementing ERP, CRM, SCM integrated in one platform for all levels of the enterpise pyramid in the advanced markets I would be equally aspiring that Indian small and medium businesses although very slow in adopting ERP systems can make the best use of this new offering Samooha-S available as FREE download to position themselves to be visible in the global markets with their product/service offerings.

When we think we are indispensable and hold on to the seat we are ejected by force. I have utmost respect for Dr.Kurien of the Amul Cooperative movement as I am aware of the obstacles he has faced to make it work.

But little did I know a few weeks ago when I wrote this entry Amul, Ajanta and Samooha - 2 that Dr.Kurien would end up this way with the use of force by dissidents. With over 33 years of dedication Dr.Kurien might have had his own reasoning to hold on to the seat which he might have never properly sat on during the early days of establishing the cooperative.

This is neither a routine forecast nor an IT prediction by Gardener, McKingsLie and associates!

However, these are some serious projections by Samooha managers to enable Indian Enterprise transformation to match and eventually exceed global standards so that India could reach out to the world and collaborate for collective growth.

Here go the projections:

1 million businesses and service institutions ranging from educational, health care to NGOs will install, evaluate and adopt the FREE version of Samooha (Samooha-S) for their basic ERP, inventory and accounting needs. They will do so either by downloading the FREE software or by procuring a CD for Rs. 500 from their nearest computer store.

In first part of this 2 part blog, (Click to read Part-1) I wrote more about Ajanta and Samay, the unique technology venture that is rural by nature and its influence on me. In this part I would be drawing reference between Amul Milk Cooperative and Samooha Business Software Cooperative.

While in Ajanta, I had the opportunity to closely observe and understand another movement that was on then in Gujarat which is even today known as Amul. The long journey, Amul went through, the early setbacks faced by the cooperative and its drive for innovation to sustain and thrive in the market are great pointers for any IT entrepreneur in India who would like to make a niche with product or process innovation.