The Increasing Presence of OpenERP in India

In the past few years the wave of open source has been able to reach the urban and the rural parts of the sub-continental country equally. The awareness of open source has been tremendous and moreover with schools and other non-profit institutions moving the open source way we can only presume the future world will go “OPEN”.

And the positive about this change is it not a sector specific, but on a holistic level. Today we at OpenERP can feel the same winds of change, as there are a number of inquiries from various sectors, without a distinction of big or small, private or public, profit or non-profit about OpenERP. Today a lot of organizations consider OpenERP as - worthwhile and economic alternative while making a business decision on their Enterprise solution. With the ever increasing penetration of open source we believe that OpenERP would also be among the optimum open source products. The conundrum we wish not fall into is “The Problem of Plenty”. Sufficiently over the past few months we have had an increase in channel partners with more organizations actively deciding OpenERP as the mode of business decision and who believe that our solution is capable for a turnaround in the Indian Market. Currently India stands third along with Switzerland in the number of channel members after Belgium and France again reinforcing the fact.

About our Partners:

Tekmindz Technology Solutions: This Noida based company is our Silver Partner who have specialized in sectors like Healthcare, Retail, Manufacturing,FMCG etc. Over the past year they have provided functional solutions in Product life-cycle management, CRM,supply chain management, warehouse management etc.

Itara Solutions: Is our new Silver partner who are stationed at Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu, with a strong support of Audit professionals for the past 15 years. They offer OpenERP implementation and consulting in Manufacturing,Services,Trading,Retail etc.

4Colordesign: Founded in 1999, the Rajkot based company has been in our family for more than a year now. Their core strength in the form of design and customizations have added value to a large OpenERP customer base. They have implemented a significant number of projects using OpenERP.

Pragmatic Technology Solutions: Our partners from 2009, Pragmatic Technology participated in the 2010 Belgium OpenERP conference. They have successfully delivered OpenERP in US, UAE,UK and Australia. They are headquartered at Pune and hold a reputation of executing several projects in OpenERP.

Value Matrix Consulting Ltd: A unit of MilleniumSoft Solutions (the US based ERP and CRM solution provider), they play a huge role in OpenERP's presence in India's IT hub i.e. Hyderabad. They also hold offices for OpenERP implementation is US and very soon in Dubai

E-nova Technology Pvt Ltd: This French-Indian IT company has an International team composed of functional and technical consultants, developers, user interface specialists,graphic designers and project managers. Based in Delhi they have carried out few OpenERP projects for French companies and in July they successfully completed training young candidates in OpenERP.

Bista Solutions: The Mumbai based company has completed many projects in OpenERP and in August they joined our family to better serve our customers. Their strong on-line presence along with business acumen is their differentiating factor.

Over the next few months our plans are focussed on channel development and maintanence. And the open source movement in India is only suggesting us that we are moving in the right direction.