My dear friends,
November was packed too heavily not letting me to key down some interesting creations.
Ok now i come back to all of you with a new term called "Human Transplantation". Crazy rite, well i have heard of heart transplant, kidney transplant, eye transplant, but what is this Human Transplant.
Well deep in my heart, a long deep thought nerve keeps running in search of my nativity. I was born in a beautiful place called Viruthunagar. I did my schooling there, then moved to another place called Sivakasi where i did my college. After that i moved in to Chennai to work. With all these 3 places giving me different thoughts and life, i have always been yearning to feel my nativity which was missing. Is it from where i was born or from where i was brought up or is it from where i live now where do i get my nativity. This confusion remains in me every time i keep moving from place to place.
Answer keeps remaining blank, well i think the search is on...Finally i came to a conclusion that i don't have a nativity. So i was transplanted from one place to the other every time for a benefit. This is what i call as HUMAN TRANSPLANTATION.
So i decided then to call myself as a vicitim of Human Transplantation. So that is how the meaning of Human Transplantation evolved.
Very interesting creation to me, i hope the same to you guys.
No stones please.....only tomatoes.
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Monday, October 19, 2009
My Face to Face Interview in Nasscom
1. Could you please tell us about your market presence? Who makes up your overall clientele?
Rising Solutions
key market presence is in USA; but in the near future we will cover potential markets like North America and Middle East markets where the future business potential is the highest. In India we will be launching boutique software solutions that will cater to niche markets which is where our specialization lies. Our business objective have been aligned with the above targets in mind.
2. Why did you choose the stone industry?
India is one of the top 10 key exporter in the stone industry; but from a business perspective the industry suffers from a lack of a customised software solution that can address the peculiar requirements of this industry. We have a rich experience in the stone industry, and going by our years of understanding we could address their exact needs and fill in the crucial gaps that can address the problems faced by the management. Since none of the large and medium players were able to offer a customized ERP solution this created the right slot for us to plug in our customised offering – KUBIX stone. Today we have as our clients some of the top manufacturers in the stone industry using our solutions.
3. How do you see the global recession affecting SME’s like Rising? Do you see this as a period of opportunity for you?
From our company standpoint we see global recession as inevitable periodically; but we definitely see opportunities in adverse times too. Even during this period we have seen some significant achievements and have closed a few deals. We are also looking forward to a few acquisitions which are in the pipeline.
4. How do you see the global competition among the music and entertainment industry solution providers?
Solutions for the music and entertainment industry needs to be customised to meet their specific needs, we pioneered the same as an in-house project for our parent company. We are leveraging this lead to make headway into this domain aggressively. We are not facing any challenges currently and will use our base in India and US to target this lucrative niche market.
5. How do you see Rising Solutions growing forward with your products and offerings?
At Rising Solutions we are focused on innovative engineering and new technology-driven business solutions to meet the demands of our customers. We enhance our offerings to our customers on a regular basis for improving their business performance with operative agile solutions. Our futuristic expansion plans for some of the solutions which are in pipeline will be centered around the models of On Demand (Saas), CRM, BI (Business Intelligence) and Microsoft Dynamic & SAP Integration.
6. Could you elaborate on Kubix and what is its COE? Who do you see as its prospective clients?
Kubix with its Center of Excellence (COE) is our boutique software solution designed to answer the specific requirements of the stone industry. Over half a decade of experience in this domain, combined with our technical knowledge and innovative skills have helped us in developing our CEO around Kubix. The IT potential in this domain is still vastly untapped and only at its nascent stage. Kubix allows the stone manufacturers to attain better visibility into critical business operations through live data integration, facilitates transparency at all levels, reduces wastage, and thereby help in increasing efficiency and improving profits. It includes Back Office Application Development, Enterprise Infrastructure Integration, Business Intelligence and Process Maturity.
Our clients include some of the top stone manufacturers of the country. Along with global players, we also provide business solution to mid-market companies. Our objective is to reach out to clients in the global arena, since Kubix can be useful to exporters, manufactures and owners of quarries.
7. What are your offerings for the Real Estate and Construction Industry?
Our offering for this domain started with a unique solution for the control and management of water, namely KnTrols – Building Automation Solutions (BAS) with the aim of fulfilling the water management requirements for a township. Toady it has been developed to manage water in university campuses, IT parks, malls, as also multiple block apartments, single block apartments and at house levels. KnTrols have been further developed by our skilled resource pool and as a result this solution can be used for the control and management of other malleable resources like oil.
http://www.nasscom.in/Nasscom/templates/NormalPage.aspx?id=56390
Rising Solutions
key market presence is in USA; but in the near future we will cover potential markets like North America and Middle East markets where the future business potential is the highest. In India we will be launching boutique software solutions that will cater to niche markets which is where our specialization lies. Our business objective have been aligned with the above targets in mind.2. Why did you choose the stone industry?
India is one of the top 10 key exporter in the stone industry; but from a business perspective the industry suffers from a lack of a customised software solution that can address the peculiar requirements of this industry. We have a rich experience in the stone industry, and going by our years of understanding we could address their exact needs and fill in the crucial gaps that can address the problems faced by the management. Since none of the large and medium players were able to offer a customized ERP solution this created the right slot for us to plug in our customised offering – KUBIX stone. Today we have as our clients some of the top manufacturers in the stone industry using our solutions.
3. How do you see the global recession affecting SME’s like Rising? Do you see this as a period of opportunity for you?
From our company standpoint we see global recession as inevitable periodically; but we definitely see opportunities in adverse times too. Even during this period we have seen some significant achievements and have closed a few deals. We are also looking forward to a few acquisitions which are in the pipeline.
4. How do you see the global competition among the music and entertainment industry solution providers?
Solutions for the music and entertainment industry needs to be customised to meet their specific needs, we pioneered the same as an in-house project for our parent company. We are leveraging this lead to make headway into this domain aggressively. We are not facing any challenges currently and will use our base in India and US to target this lucrative niche market.
5. How do you see Rising Solutions
growing forward with your products and offerings?At Rising Solutions
we are focused on innovative engineering and new technology-driven business solutions to meet the demands of our customers. We enhance our offerings to our customers on a regular basis for improving their business performance with operative agile solutions. Our futuristic expansion plans for some of the solutions which are in pipeline will be centered around the models of On Demand (Saas), CRM, BI (Business Intelligence) and Microsoft Dynamic & SAP Integration. 6. Could you elaborate on Kubix and what is its COE? Who do you see as its prospective clients?
Kubix with its Center of Excellence (COE) is our boutique software solution designed to answer the specific requirements of the stone industry. Over half a decade of experience in this domain, combined with our technical knowledge and innovative skills have helped us in developing our CEO around Kubix. The IT potential in this domain is still vastly untapped and only at its nascent stage. Kubix allows the stone manufacturers to attain better visibility into critical business operations through live data integration, facilitates transparency at all levels, reduces wastage, and thereby help in increasing efficiency and improving profits. It includes Back Office Application Development, Enterprise Infrastructure Integration, Business Intelligence and Process Maturity.
Our clients include some of the top stone manufacturers of the country. Along with global players, we also provide business solution to mid-market companies. Our objective is to reach out to clients in the global arena, since Kubix can be useful to exporters, manufactures and owners of quarries.
7. What are your offerings for the Real Estate and Construction Industry?
Our offering for this domain started with a unique solution for the control and management of water, namely KnTrols – Building Automation Solutions (BAS) with the aim of fulfilling the water management requirements for a township. Toady it has been developed to manage water in university campuses, IT parks, malls, as also multiple block apartments, single block apartments and at house levels. KnTrols have been further developed by our skilled resource pool and as a result this solution can be used for the control and management of other malleable resources like oil.
http://www.nasscom.in/Nasscom/templates/NormalPage.aspx?id=56390
Interview excerpts of mine with Mr. Murali, Dy Editor, Hindu Business Line.
D. Murali
Here is a statement that can be cut in stone: “SMEs are the backbone of any industry.” Perhaps, Ganesh Kumar Murugan has a plaque to that effect on his table, I wonder, as we meet over lunch on March 6.
Murugan is passionate about SMEs (small and medium enterprises); and, as Vice-President, Customer Services, Operations and Technology, Rising Solutions, Chennai ( www.risingsolutions.com), he has a team d eveloping software for some of the ‘hardest’ SME customers — in the stone industry.
Rising is an example of the thousands of SMEs in the IT (information technology) sector, providing both global and domestic solutions to customers. Since the revenues are very low from Indian customers, these enterprises face a big challenge in managing their costs, rues Ganesh. “If the Government can take steps in improving and supporting the mid-market players it will be of great help to provide more affordable solutions to customers.”
While any possibility of such sops remains tentative, what is, however, certain, like taxes, is death, which to the stone industry translates as demand for monuments. “An industry unaffected by recession or slowdown,” sombrely observes Ganesh. And we keep our conversation alive over e-mail.
Excerpts from the interview.
As an IT (information technology) product company, how do you see the global economic crisis impacting your operations?
We do see an impact in terms of deferring delivery commitments of our solutions at the customer-end.
On the other hand, we also see this as an opportunity to learn and build, in functional areas such as optimal customer delivery, just-in-time recruitment, and process endurance at shorter delivery cycles.
As a product company, we see in the current phase scope for stability in building our internal processes that will add value to customers and our products.
Towards that end, we are working closely with our customers in terms of prioritising their requirements and delivery cycles by reducing overheads.
Can you walk us through the reasons why you chose stone industry as a niche area for developing IT solutions? What are the industry trends that make the market attractive?
Stone industry is a prestigious industry with a sales turnover of Rs 15,000 crore and with an export growth rate of 20 per cent every year.It employs around 1.5 million people across India, with a concentration in Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Rajasthan.
Despite being the second-largest exporter in India, this industry doesn’t have an enterprise software solution that can meet its end-to-end requirements. With unique process areas, this industry poses a big challenge to the leading software products for customisation.
Stone industry encompasses granites, marbles, limestone and natural stones. The scope of IT work spans from managing their back-office data to the management decision-making process for the senior management.
Today these industries operate with disparate and legacy applications to manage their back-office data; these solutions cannot meet the scalability of the business that this industry looks at. We, therefore, developed Kubix as an integrated enterprise solution for the stone industry to manage the back-office applications, and also provide intelligence and data to the management for taking quicker decisions.
Do you see a ‘long tail’ in terms of market potential for more such areas, where bigger IT players have not focused?
We are getting traces of requirements from verticals that exhibit similar needs and demand that the stone industry exhibited.The advantage for a smaller IT company, compared to the bigger IT players, is the experience in meeting and managing customer expectations and commitments at micro level that keep changing continuously.
What are the challenges in SMEs, as IT customers?
Some key challenges when working with SMEs are:
The major differences, however, are in the awareness and also the exposure of end-users to processes and procedures. This becomes a challenge for IT players when providing solutions to Indian businesses.
But this situation has been changing over time, with the traditional family businesses being taken over by the newer generation that thirsts for the latest technology and solutions for business.
The new age business people see the difference that IT can bring into their operations, so this will be a great breakthrough for IT business in India.
Even the IT leaders have begun understanding this situation, and are therefore offering solutions that will meet the needs of the Indian customer base.
Would you like to comment about improvements needed in our engineering education? Also, about the industry-academia interaction.
Today students get more time to think out of the box, which gives them a bigger platform to innovate.
Educational institutions should take an active part in working on the curriculum to leverage this competency. Application-driven thought processes and innovations should be the core agenda of educational institutions.
The industry should both welcome these thought processes and be an enabler. Big IT companies work with the top engineering institutions and B-schools. Likewise, the SMEs should begin collaborating with the smaller institutions where still lots of skills and resources remain untapped.
How can innovation be fostered in IT product companies?
I think innovation is the core value across the country which will enable us to face the competition that we will run into, post recession.
To meet this challenge every organisation should start focusing on consolidating innovative thoughts together for the growth of the company.
With product development getting expensive, innovation at all levels of an organisation can be a great source of ideas for the management to look at.
For instance, at Rising, we have an ‘innovation forum’ wherein every employee can post his innovation with a plan of implementation.
This gives the management visibility to a broader spectrum of ideas that would have been unexplored in the product development.
dmurali@thehindu.co.in
http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/ew/2009/05/04/stories/2009050450120400.htm
Here is a statement that can be cut in stone: “SMEs are the backbone of any industry.” Perhaps, Ganesh Kumar Murugan has a plaque to that effect on his table, I wonder, as we meet over lunch on March 6.
Murugan is passionate about SMEs (small and medium enterprises); and, as Vice-President, Customer Services, Operations and Technology, Rising Solutions, Chennai ( www.risingsolutions.com), he has a team d eveloping software for some of the ‘hardest’ SME customers — in the stone industry.
Rising is an example of the thousands of SMEs in the IT (information technology) sector, providing both global and domestic solutions to customers. Since the revenues are very low from Indian customers, these enterprises face a big challenge in managing their costs, rues Ganesh. “If the Government can take steps in improving and supporting the mid-market players it will be of great help to provide more affordable solutions to customers.”
While any possibility of such sops remains tentative, what is, however, certain, like taxes, is death, which to the stone industry translates as demand for monuments. “An industry unaffected by recession or slowdown,” sombrely observes Ganesh. And we keep our conversation alive over e-mail.
Excerpts from the interview.
As an IT (information technology) product company, how do you see the global economic crisis impacting your operations?
We do see an impact in terms of deferring delivery commitments of our solutions at the customer-end.
On the other hand, we also see this as an opportunity to learn and build, in functional areas such as optimal customer delivery, just-in-time recruitment, and process endurance at shorter delivery cycles.
As a product company, we see in the current phase scope for stability in building our internal processes that will add value to customers and our products.
Towards that end, we are working closely with our customers in terms of prioritising their requirements and delivery cycles by reducing overheads.
Can you walk us through the reasons why you chose stone industry as a niche area for developing IT solutions? What are the industry trends that make the market attractive?
Stone industry is a prestigious industry with a sales turnover of Rs 15,000 crore and with an export growth rate of 20 per cent every year.It employs around 1.5 million people across India, with a concentration in Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Rajasthan.
Despite being the second-largest exporter in India, this industry doesn’t have an enterprise software solution that can meet its end-to-end requirements. With unique process areas, this industry poses a big challenge to the leading software products for customisation.
Stone industry encompasses granites, marbles, limestone and natural stones. The scope of IT work spans from managing their back-office data to the management decision-making process for the senior management.
Today these industries operate with disparate and legacy applications to manage their back-office data; these solutions cannot meet the scalability of the business that this industry looks at. We, therefore, developed Kubix as an integrated enterprise solution for the stone industry to manage the back-office applications, and also provide intelligence and data to the management for taking quicker decisions.
Do you see a ‘long tail’ in terms of market potential for more such areas, where bigger IT players have not focused?
We are getting traces of requirements from verticals that exhibit similar needs and demand that the stone industry exhibited.The advantage for a smaller IT company, compared to the bigger IT players, is the experience in meeting and managing customer expectations and commitments at micro level that keep changing continuously.
What are the challenges in SMEs, as IT customers?
Some key challenges when working with SMEs are:
- Competition from the big IT players who also want to play in the SME market.
- Awareness and exposure of end-users who use IT at the enterprise level.
- Brand awareness and brand identity for acquiring the best skills and competencies in the market.
- Price vs cost, that is, while the price of the products being sold out of SMEs is competitive in the Indian market, the cost is always higher compared to that of the IT majors.
The major differences, however, are in the awareness and also the exposure of end-users to processes and procedures. This becomes a challenge for IT players when providing solutions to Indian businesses.
But this situation has been changing over time, with the traditional family businesses being taken over by the newer generation that thirsts for the latest technology and solutions for business.
The new age business people see the difference that IT can bring into their operations, so this will be a great breakthrough for IT business in India.
Even the IT leaders have begun understanding this situation, and are therefore offering solutions that will meet the needs of the Indian customer base.
Would you like to comment about improvements needed in our engineering education? Also, about the industry-academia interaction.
Today students get more time to think out of the box, which gives them a bigger platform to innovate.
Educational institutions should take an active part in working on the curriculum to leverage this competency. Application-driven thought processes and innovations should be the core agenda of educational institutions.
The industry should both welcome these thought processes and be an enabler. Big IT companies work with the top engineering institutions and B-schools. Likewise, the SMEs should begin collaborating with the smaller institutions where still lots of skills and resources remain untapped.
How can innovation be fostered in IT product companies?
I think innovation is the core value across the country which will enable us to face the competition that we will run into, post recession.
To meet this challenge every organisation should start focusing on consolidating innovative thoughts together for the growth of the company.
With product development getting expensive, innovation at all levels of an organisation can be a great source of ideas for the management to look at.
For instance, at Rising, we have an ‘innovation forum’ wherein every employee can post his innovation with a plan of implementation.
This gives the management visibility to a broader spectrum of ideas that would have been unexplored in the product development.
dmurali@thehindu.co.in
http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/ew/2009/05/04/stories/2009050450120400.htm
Friday, October 16, 2009
"Deepavali" - a light in our self
Dear Friends, Deepavali is a great festival of Lights in India. This festival is of great importance in the hindu mythology and in the hindu tradition. Hindus believe that this festival brings new joy and prosperity to their lives and to their family. History gives us the reason for celebrating this festival as the death of "Naragashura". A festival to rejoice the birth of happiness in everyone.
Celebration starts with new dress, bursting crackers, eating sweets, meeting friends and family. It is always a great day to share happy moments with family and friends. Evening people light their houses with lamps making it so bright. The big question is do the day gets completed by this, is there something more to do in deepavali to make it complete?
Even i dont know if i know an answer for this question, but i have tried understanding what does that mean, what does this festival mean. Well this festival is definitely a festival of lights. But i would say it is a festival of lights within our self than outside.
What does this mean is, it is a day of bringing light in our souls by removing the darkness, so let us try and light lamps inside our body to make it bright by getting rid of the darkness created by the bad things of our life. It is a day to understand the darkness that has been created inside every body. And how this darkness leads us to an unknown destination.
Deepavali, is a great day to cherish ourselves in making a sincere effort in removing the darkness in our souls and make it bright, light it with lamps, wear new dresses inside, burst the crackers of sorrows.
Let us make a sincere effort this deepavali to make ourselves happy and our neared ones happy. Light yourselves with lights of happiness and make this deepavali a great day.
Wishing you all a great and a happy deepavali.
Celebration starts with new dress, bursting crackers, eating sweets, meeting friends and family. It is always a great day to share happy moments with family and friends. Evening people light their houses with lamps making it so bright. The big question is do the day gets completed by this, is there something more to do in deepavali to make it complete?
Even i dont know if i know an answer for this question, but i have tried understanding what does that mean, what does this festival mean. Well this festival is definitely a festival of lights. But i would say it is a festival of lights within our self than outside.
What does this mean is, it is a day of bringing light in our souls by removing the darkness, so let us try and light lamps inside our body to make it bright by getting rid of the darkness created by the bad things of our life. It is a day to understand the darkness that has been created inside every body. And how this darkness leads us to an unknown destination.
Deepavali, is a great day to cherish ourselves in making a sincere effort in removing the darkness in our souls and make it bright, light it with lamps, wear new dresses inside, burst the crackers of sorrows.
Let us make a sincere effort this deepavali to make ourselves happy and our neared ones happy. Light yourselves with lights of happiness and make this deepavali a great day.
Wishing you all a great and a happy deepavali.
Thursday, October 8, 2009
"Office Politics" a great challenge to manage
"Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage" - Ambrose Bierce
Politics in simple terms is a behavior observed in human group interactions. But today the way it is perceived is totally different. Politics has become so common in every facets of life today starting from your schools, colleges, offices, home, anywhere and everywhere.
Politics have also become an area to focus, manage and improve in today's fast packed competitive environment as a factor of sustainability. Being said this now the big challenge is today how people handle POLITICS as an attribute of their growth.
POLITICS not handled properly can create big impacts in you and to your surroundings. Positive Politics are always very healthy in a growing environment.
Let me give you some thoughts of how do you need to handle this,
Step 1: All of you have heard this old saying "Patience is a Virtue". yes this is what you need to do when you sense some politics going around. The moment you start reacting to things then everything goes haywire. So the best thing is to keep yourself calm. Silence is a better meal for you than the others at this time.
Step 2: "You are Monitored", the moment you know that you are in to a game of politics all you need to know is that you are being continuously monitored by your seniors and also your associates. So a 360 degree monitoring happens to you. Always know what you are doing and talking. You should have control over your speech and action. Keep your senses under your control.
Step3: "Make yourself Comfortable", generally more than the others around you it is you who make the whole problem. So whenever you feel that things are not on your way you should know how to make yourself comfortable. Make your thoughts clear, keep your esteem high. You should feel comfortable of the situation and make things harder for the others to disturb you.
Step4: "Keep doing what you should do", the biggest success of any person in trapping you in politics is to divert you from what you are doing now. So the big thing is don't worry about others and just keep doing what you should do.
Step4: "No Tit for Tat", generally it has been an attitude to most of us in giving a tit for tat for people who have done it to us. But this is a big mistake that everybody should realize, the moment you think of giving a tit for tat then the whole purpose of you managing the situation is lost. You are doing the same mistake,
I think generally if you start following some of the above you can start managing the situation and i swear you don't need to do anything different. The situation becomes your favor.
Sometimes it may fail, but don't worry the moment the situation is not manageable and things go worsen my best thought or advice would be " MOVE AWAY FROM THAT PLACE".
Let me give you some thoughts of how do you need to handle this,
Step 1: All of you have heard this old saying "Patience is a Virtue". yes this is what you need to do when you sense some politics going around. The moment you start reacting to things then everything goes haywire. So the best thing is to keep yourself calm. Silence is a better meal for you than the others at this time.
Step 2: "You are Monitored", the moment you know that you are in to a game of politics all you need to know is that you are being continuously monitored by your seniors and also your associates. So a 360 degree monitoring happens to you. Always know what you are doing and talking. You should have control over your speech and action. Keep your senses under your control.
Step3: "Make yourself Comfortable", generally more than the others around you it is you who make the whole problem. So whenever you feel that things are not on your way you should know how to make yourself comfortable. Make your thoughts clear, keep your esteem high. You should feel comfortable of the situation and make things harder for the others to disturb you.
Step4: "Keep doing what you should do", the biggest success of any person in trapping you in politics is to divert you from what you are doing now. So the big thing is don't worry about others and just keep doing what you should do.
Step4: "No Tit for Tat", generally it has been an attitude to most of us in giving a tit for tat for people who have done it to us. But this is a big mistake that everybody should realize, the moment you think of giving a tit for tat then the whole purpose of you managing the situation is lost. You are doing the same mistake,
I think generally if you start following some of the above you can start managing the situation and i swear you don't need to do anything different. The situation becomes your favor.
Sometimes it may fail, but don't worry the moment the situation is not manageable and things go worsen my best thought or advice would be " MOVE AWAY FROM THAT PLACE".
Thursday, October 1, 2009
My First Night Blogging...
I think the title interests a lots to many, but nothing to spice up. This is my first blog experience after my 11 years of IT experience. :-)
All in my past 11 years, I have never had the interest or energy to sit and write about what i liked and wanted to. But as you know every rope has an end, this first night of my blogging experience means a lot to me.
In recent times, one good habit I worked on is to read lots of books as daily basic element. Fulfillment of my reading comes only through sharing and i have taken this way of sharing my knowledge and experiences in writing through these blogs.
This blog may carry some articles on self development, technical stuff, management philosophies that i work on and sometimes even very interesting hypothesis that i like. Please bear with me as a "Trainee - blogger" a new role in my life.
Thanks once again for your time,
GaneshKumar Murugan
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