PARTHA MONDAL, ATUL LTD
Can you give an overview of emerging technologies you have deployed? Cloud based Enterprise Mobility ( mobSales Application for retail salesforce) – In today’s age of Digital Transformation, it is utmost crucial to metamorphose the customer satisfaction into customer delights, we as an organization always strive to provide an enhanced customer experience (CX) and endurance to our esteemed customers. A cloud based mobility solution “mobSales”™ integrated with Oracle eBusiness suite R12 and amalgamated with Open Source Data Warehouse and Business Intelligence has brought a sea change in the revenue model and growth to our Polymer and Crop Protection business with enhanced business efficacy. This futuristic ZERO cost solution designed, developed and implemented by in-house IT team to eliminate current business impediments and transform customer satisfaction to delighted customer experience.
Business Analytics with Open Source Data Warehouse – This agile, user friendly Business Intelligence Dashboards portray the data on the real-time through multiple data source, viz. Enterprise Database (Oracle), Financial Consolidation Database (Hyperion MS SQL Server), HR Database (Peoplesoft Oracle), Third party Forecast Engine (Planvisage), Secondary Sales Tracking Application (SFA), Open Source Data Warehouse and unstructured data (excel files) and orchestrated the multiple data-source into single platform which enhance visibility and meaningful representation of the data to senior management to take an apt decision.
Which are the functions/ departments in your organization that is starting first with the emerging technologies?
Retail Business (Polymer and Crop Protection) – Enterprise Mobility Solution Production Floor - Shop-Floor Automation through Industry 4.0 (AI, ML & Machine Integration through IoT, Digital Twins) Commercial & Logistics – Supply Chain Process Automation through Blockchain (Process Automation) Corporate & Division Finance - Collection Process Automation through Virtual Account and Integration with Oracle Application R12 (Financial CashFlow Enhancement)
How will emerging technologies like AI, Machine Learning, IOT, Big Data, Augmented Reality, Analytics etc. will change the fabric of IT organizations?
Conspicuously, the ‘NextGen’ technologies has already started disruption in various industry verticals and enforce a sea change in many sectors to the way we used to do business earlier. Subsequent to the disruptions in financial sector, print media, logistic segment; the changes are inevitable into the core manufacturing industries where the emerging technologies like Artificial Intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), Machine Learning (ML), Business Intelligence & Analytics (BI&A), Open Source Application integrated with Core ERP systems, Enterprise Cloud Mobility solution etc. would create a substantial impact on the existing business processes to bring out the best efficacy of the system and provide a competitive edge to the organization over its peers.
Be Agile, Open and Adaptive to change – Flexibility and adaptability to change is the new normal. Understand business requirement, through analysis on ‘demandresponse’ to address uncertainty, adaptability to change management, choose apt ‘NextGen’ technologies that suits best for the business, agility to eliminate the impediments and enforce the changes and finally delivery excellence.