Clouds-The bearer of rains and pakoda or more?

Ask a kid about huge incoming dark clouds and the answer would always be rains were around the corner. Even the adults would have bet on seeing huge dark clouds that rain was around the corner but seeing the erratic behavior of the rains for the past few years the adults won’t bet on the clouds anymore. Keeping aside the possibility of rains associated with the dark clouds, what they surely bring is the aroma of hot and freshly made pakodas into the homes of thousands.

Have you ever wondered how such light-weighted gravity defying clouds can carry such a huge volume of water enough for the 7 billion strong world? Clouds can carry huge amounts of water because of the air present in the clouds rises and the rising air keeps pushing the water droplets upwards. Similarly, clouds can carry our data (Not literally). Yes, you heard that right! Storing data on cloud (read Internet) has been a technological revolution. Not only data but many computing services such as servers, databases, networking and analytics can be delivered on the Internet (‘The Cloud’). Storing data and availing these services over the Internet has a term – Cloud Computing.

What is Cloud Computing?

Cloud computing is delivering of computing power, database storage, servers, analytics and other IT resources through a cloud services platform via the internet. Cloud computing is basically a simple way to access servers and databases and other application services over the internet.

How does cloud computing work?

A cloud services platform will own and maintain the system associated equipment required for the application services while you arrange and utilize what you require through a web application.

Is it safe?

Cloud computing makes it easier to access your files wherever you are. All files can be documented and be uploaded to an appropriate place. These files can only be accessible by those who have been granted permission. Moreover, accidental deleting of files is almost impossible since completely deleting cloud content is not so easy. In addition, cloud computing ensures your ideas are not just confined to one piece of hardware. If the hardware gets stolen the valuable contents are still accessible via the cloud. Some advanced encryption algorithms have also been applied to cloud computing to increase the protection of privacy. Don’t worry your data is safe!

Benefits of using Cloud Services

• Increased Speed and Agility
• No need to maintain data-centers
• Achieve a lower variable cost
• Reliability

Our Product ZipERP makes use of these benefits and gives you an easier and convenient way to manage your enterprise and lets you enjoy those mouth-watering pakodas!

Mom – The best Resource Planner?

‘Where are my clothes?’

‘When will it rain?’

These questions of a kid are always asked to their mother. Be it to find something or predict something. Mothers have the answers to everything. Is it safe to say Mothers are the best Enterprise (read home) resource planners? A household has always been successfully run by a mother ever since anybody can imagine. From resource planning and consumption to future requirements, a mother does it all. The mother even has the answers to all the questions asked by the curious kid. So back to the fundamental question – Is a mother the best resource planner? Let’s have a look at the concept of an Enterprise Resource Planning.

Enterprise resource planning (ERP) is an industry term for the broad set of activities that help an organization manage its business. Like a mother integrates all the tasks to successfully run a household, ERP integrates back office business processes and eases the flow within an organization so data-driven decisions can be taken.

What does an ERP Software do?

An ERP software is built to collect and organize data from various levels of an organization and connect business activities across departments. An ERP software can help automate and standardize an organization’s business processes. The key function of an ERP is to improve the efficiency of operations. In addition to saving time and money, an ERP software also provides reports for analyzing various business processes in an organization. An ERP Software can either be run on premises or on cloud.

Key ERP Software modules

For an ERP software to be useful, software modules need to integrate easily with other software systems the organization uses. Core modules included in ERP software products include:

Ø  Finance

Ø  Human Resource Management

Ø  Inventory Management

Ø  Supply chain Management

Back to our fundamental question – Is a mother the best Enterprise Resource Planner? Yes, a mother is unquestionably the best resource planner since she can do all the above and much more.

Well our ZipERP can be a mother to your Enterprise and make sure you run your operations in the smoothest and most efficient way possible.

Now Overcome Bottlenecks in ERP Implementation with ZipERP

With this fast paced growth and economy, it is imperative for SMEs to go for ERP Solutions that are scalable and can accommodate the aggressive needs of their businesses. 

Organizations after putting up their investments can’t afford hiccups and setbacks during or after the ERP implementations. Awareness programs and active involvement of the organizations finding ERP Solutions is the key to successful implementation.         

ZipERP provides customized ERP Solutions as per the needs of organization and helps avoid unnecessary expenditure by prioritizing the features that are needed in a current situation keeping in view the complete scalability for the organizations’ needs in a near future.    

   

As ERP is never a quick fix solution for business issues.  The most common  perception among  Small and Medium (SMEs) is that it can provide total solution to their strategic and operational issues. At ZipERP, we eliminate the doubts and help our clients understand that it is an application for optimal management of organizational resources, encompassing men, material, plant and finance.

We transform the thinking of SMEs implementing ERP and help them visualize how the system overall works. Our implementation aims at achieving operational efficiency by streamlining business processes, boosting productivity, and reducing operational cost. In Today’s Business World, SMEs play a significant role in making economic backbone of a nation. In many economies, SMEs can drive innovation and competition with the change in market trends, stiff competition faced from the global players and numerous challenges that do not provide congenial atmosphere for successful implementation. Thus, understanding the bottlenecks in ERP implementation becomes as important as contextual knowledge of business. 

We will discuss the most common hurdles one may come across when think of ERP implementations and its solutions:

· Less Awareness: There is a limited awareness among SMEs regarding capabilities of an ERP system and the Vendors approach for their needs. There is lack of clarity regarding the benefits that can be gained by implementing ERP and its Cost of Ownership. At ZipERP, we conduct awareness programs for our clients.      

· Misconception: It is a common misconception among organizations that ERP is best suited for Large Scale Industries due to high cost of ownership, complexities involved in implementations, and subsequent maintenance cost. At ZipERP, we eliminate that.   

· Limited Resources: Most organizations have limited resources and do not even have skilled in-house IT people who can provide suitable inputs and proper guidance to the implementation team. It may necessitate hiring external ERP consultants leading to added overhead in terms of cost and time of implementation. At ZipERP, we help our clients understand how Cloud hosted ERP Solutions can reduce the overheads and provides technical assistance. 

· Cost Issues: We provide solutions tailored to the needs of our clients. SMEs will never have budget constraints that inhibit them to fully realize the benefits of ERP implementations.

· Need of Change Management: The first-step  factor that plays  an important role in  implementing ERP is the willingness of organization to see the need of Change Management. Our training programs let the End Users familiarize and understand the concept how system will function. 

· Project Scope and Strategy: We help organizations understand and evaluate what they need from ERP system and accordingly decide on the implementation approach of whether all the ERP Modules are required at-a-go or gradually needed with the demand of time.   

· Customization: We plan thorough understanding of the project and remove hindrance for successful implementation of the ERP Solutions. As most of the SMEs have specific business processes adopted for years based on their experiences and understanding and it demands customizations of the software as per their needs, and we believe in doing so.