Sysfore Announces Education Webinar For Retail: Choose The Right ERP For Your Midsize Retail Operations


Reputed retail technology expert Pinky Gandhi will join Ajith George, Founder & Director at Sysfore on April 4th, 2013 to present a webinar for midsize retailers to choose the right ERP platform to better manage business operations.

Bangalore, India – March 28, 2013 – Midsize retailers face challenges when making decisions on technology choices for their business. Choosing the right fit ERP is one of the most critical among them. Existing systems that were bought earlier and seemed suitable in less challenging times are increasingly looking limited and inflexible. Questions facing midsize retailers include ones around features and functions, technology platforms, system integrations, lifecycle cost of ownership and whether the system will scale effortlessly to handle the increasing loads of a growing business. Smart Midsize Retailers know answers to some of these questions, but are often unable to comfortably identify and mitigate the risk of choosing and using a Retail ERP solution.

The Sysfore Retail Education Webinar Series is designed to provide Midsize Retailers with guidance and tips to choose, manage, and extract maximum value out of their retail technology decisions. Pinky Gandhi, a reputed retail technology expert, will be leading this webinar. She has more than 12 years experience in leading Retail Consulting and Technology firms, having implemented best practices for retail, both on an international and local level. Ajith M George, Co-Founder and Director of Projects at Sysfore Technologies, will be accompanying Pinky Gandhi.

The webinar is scheduled for April 4th 2013 1:30 – 2:30pm IST / 12:00-1:00pm GST.

Interested participants can register for the webinar here :
bit.ly/register4sysforewebinar

A recording of the webinar will be made available on Sysfore’s website.

About Sysfore:

Sysfore is a leading enterprise solutions provider that specializes in web-based and open source technology platforms. Sysfore Retail is a purpose built, comprehensive, retail-ready ERP solution built on the Openbravo platform. Sysfore Retail delivers pragmatic retail processes and expertise on an open-source ERP platform built using open standards. Sysfore Retail's core functions have been developed for customers to manage their retail operations comprehensively and to provide control with real-time visibility into the business. Sysfore Retail will be a strategic asset that evolves with the changing retail environment.

Tune into @sysfore for live updates about the event.

For more information, visit us at: www.sysforeretail.com. We have recently refreshed content to update our product and service offerings for midsize retailers. You can also learn more about Sysfore and its other offerings at: www.sysfore.com.

India Retail Forum 2012 (IRF 2012)
Ajith Mathew George, Founder & Director of Projects, along with his team will be representing Sysfore Technologies at the India Retail Forum 2012 at Renaissance Hotel, Mumbai.

Bangalore, India – October 6, 2012 – India Retail Forum (IRF), one of India's leading retail events, is to be held on 10th and 11th October 2012 at Renaissance Hotel, Mumbai. IRF, the knowledge platform for the retail industry, will see industry leaders, policy-makers, infrastructure developers, business facilitators and academia, making it the flagship industry event in India.

IRF 2012 conference will cover topics such as retail brand building, retail real-estate, reinventing the physical store experience, e-commerce, social media marketing, FDI in retail, the changing decision-making roles of the modern consumer, the next-gen of leaders in family-managed business, and so on. A few interesting sessions to look forward to are "Retail Businesses as Agents of Social Change" stressing on responsible retailing, and "Customer Centric Retailing - A Strategic Choice for Long-Term Growth" highlighting the importance of customer loyalty for retail businesses. The event will kick-start with a power-packed debate on FDI in retail and role of modern retail in driving India's overall growth.

As per Kishore Biyani, Founder and Group CEO, Future Group: “Modern retail has a huge potential to not only benefit from India’s increasing consumption demand but also create demand for value-added products, boost local entrepreneurship, create jobs and raise income levels. At IRF, let us explore how we can collaborate to create consumption demand and offer Indian consumers a better standard of living by providing better products at best prices.”

Adds Ajay Kaul, CEO, Jubilant Foodworks: “IRF over the years has become the premier-most retail event in India. It’s a great congregation of best minds in retail. With a right mix of business and networking sessions, it offers a great opportunity.”

Ajith George and his team (Pinky Gandhi, Head - Retail Practice, and Ajit Israel, Enterprise Sales) will be representing Sysfore Technologies which will have a booth set up during the event. Visit Sysfore's booth A16 to learn about the new Sysfore Retail ERP Solution, specifically designed for retail and built on proven, world leading open source platform Openbravo

Sysfore named Openbravo Partner of the Year!
Leading Openbravo Partner, Sysfore Technologies awarded as the Partner of the Year 2011 – India.

Bangalore, India – January 19, 2012 – Sysfore Technologies, a specialist provider of business web solutions and IT Outsourcing services, has been named Partner of the Year 2011 (India) by Openbravo. Openbravo, the agile ERP company, announced the winners of its “Partner of the Year 2011” awards recognized for technical excellence in their geographic region throughout the year and for helping customers achieve low cost, real business results with Openbravo’s ERP Platform. The awards recognize implementation partners from Openbravo’s world-wide network of more than 100 partners in 40 countries.

”2011 was Openbravo’s most successful year in company history, and this success is a direct reflection of the dedication and commitment to customer success from our global partner network”, said Bartolí, VP Channels at Openbravo. “With so many satisfied customers and excellent partners, selecting the ‘Partner of the Year’ was more challenging than ever. We congratulate all the award winners for their contributions and the shared success of our companies and look forward to an exciting 2012.”

Sysfore a specialist Openbravo partner, offers both enterprise and SaaS variants of Openbravo ERP, bringing to market a serious, viable and cost effective alternative to mainstream commercial ERPs. In 2011, Sysfore continued to improve its Openbravo offerings and service infrastructure to serve its customers across different industries and regions. In 2012, Sysfore launched its first solution on Openbravo - for Human Resource and Payroll Management on the Openbravo Exchange. For manufacturing industry clusters in South India, Sysfore now offers customizable SaaS variant of Openbravo ERP, raising the benchmark for the industry. Sysfore also embarked on a journey towards Retail industry vertical specialization with the launch of its Integrated Retail Solutions that include core components to manage Store, Merchandise and eCommerce operations, easily extendable to components to automate Financial Management & Accounting and Human Resources & Payroll.

Finally, Sysfore launched its Middle East office in Abu Dhabi in 2011 offering open source Openbravo ERP Implementation services for Retail, Distribution and Discrete Manufacturing for Small and Medium Businesses.

Ajith George, Director-Projects of Sysfore says, “It’s heartening to receive recognition for our efforts in pushing forward Openbravo ERP as a serious alternative for enterprise software in our regional markets of India and the Middle East. Working with Openbravo has been a pleasure, and their partner friendly approach and support ecosystem has helped us deliver value in the highly competitive ERP space. With the new Openbravo 3 release in early 2011, its rich functional footprint, appealing user interface and compelling advantages in terms of cost-benefit value, we see a rich world of opportunities especially with the small and medium sized enterprises in our markets.”

Sysfore launches Human Resources & Payroll Module on the Openbravo Exchange
Leading Openbravo Partner, Sysfore Technologies launches its Human Resources and Payroll Module on the Openbravo Exchange. Sysfore Technologies offers open source Openbravo ERP Implementation services for Retail, Distribution and Discrete Manufacturing for Small and Medium Businesses.

Bangalore, India – November 29, 2011 – Sysfore, a leading India based Openbravo Partner, launched its first commercial product offering - the Human Resource and Payroll Management Module on the Openbravo Exchange. The Openbravo Exchange is the official marketplace to find solutions for the leading open source Openbravo ERP Platform. The Exchange lists production-grade applications/modules and services that extend the use of Openbravo Professional Edition. These modules are available as a commercial offering for anybody implementing an ERP solution based on Openbravo.

Sysfore’s Human Resource and Payroll Management Module is an add-on solution to Openbravo. Extremely user-friendly with as many as 50 additional user interface screens, the Module helps in managing employee information and assists in processing payroll. Monthly attendance and payroll can be processed and necessary accounting entries can be automatically processed according to pre-set rules. Employee reports can be generated for specified parameters. An employee user interface is also available as part of the Module. Functionality includes detailed employee records, leave management, time & attendance management, payroll management, extensive configuration options, including provisions to import employee information and attendance in bulk from third party systems. The Module is Openbravo certified as production-ready and works on Openbravo Professional version 3.0. Pricing for the HR & Payroll Module starts at US$ 1500 for a 25 concurrent user license, and US$2900 for an unlimited concurrent user license. More information is listed on the Openbravo Exchange.

Openbravo is the world’s leading open source ERP platform and is fourth time winner of InfoWorld 2011 Best of Open Source Application, “Bossie” Award. Barcelona based Openbravo is an agile ERP company, whose ERP software has implementations across the globe and is considered as a credible, cost effective alternate to existing mainstream ERPs.

"The launch of Sysfore Human Resource and Payroll Module on the Openbravo Exchange is further validation of Sysfore's capabilities in customizing the Openbravo platform to deliver additional value to our customers and the larger Openbravo community. With a set of well defined features for the Human Resource function in any organization, the Module helps fill an important gap in the Openbravo Professional Edition feature set. Sysfore will continue to enhance the functionality and provide support to all users of the Module. Customers will also benefit greatly, as the Module significantly reduces costs and time to implementation on the Openbravo platform, “said Ajith George, Director of Projects at Sysfore.

Sysfore serves Small and Medium sized businesses in the region looking to implement ERP. The main focus is on offering Openbravo ERP for Retail, Distribution, Discrete Manufacturing and Services companies in the region.

Sysfore has several Openbravo implementations under its belt, having successfully delivered implementations in Manufacturing, Retail, Hospitality, Distribution, Construction and Services sectors. With a large team of functional, technical and project management experts based out of Bangalore, India, and many years experience implementing Openbravo, Sysfore delivers a high degree of local customer engagement at low cost using the offshore development model.

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