CURRENT EVENTS

OBT Global and SAP India conducts Road Show

OBT Global launched OBTPharma and OBTTextile the innovative and cost effective SAP Solution mySAP™ All-in-One in November 2003.

OBT Global and its partners, SAP India and Sun Microsystems, have conducted a series of road-shows across the country to increase the awareness of OBT’s Industry specific SAP products: OBTPharma and OBTTextile with the intent of making these products the top-of-the mind recall solution for the Pharma and Textile industry.

The road-show has moved through Mumbai, Bangalore and to Hyderabad as per following schedule:

1. 17-March-2004    Hotel Leela’s, Mumbai
2. 18-March-2004    Hotel Windsor Manor, Bangalore
3. 19-March-2004    Hotel Taj Krishna, Hyderabad

The response from the Pharma and Textile Industry in all the cities has been very encouraging.

SAP India Announces OBT Global as its Channel Partner for 3 Industry Specifics

SAP India, the leading provider of business software solutions, announced OBT Global as its industry-specific channel partners for small and midsize businesses (SMB) offering customized solutions for three specific industries:

1. Pharmaceuticals
2. Textiles
3. Engineering & Construction

SAP’s superior offering for the SMB market, mySAP™ All-in-One solutions, for these industries will be distributed through OBT, qualified channel partners. With extensive expertise in the SMB market as well as in specific industries, OBT can deliver the rapid implementation and ongoing support, satisfying small and midsize businesses need for a greater return on investment (ROI). Along with OBT, SAP will cover all areas including software, hardware and implementation thereby offering a one-stop solution for the customer.

mySAP™ All-in-One is a prepackaged, industry -specific solution with built-in content, tools and methodologies for a cost effective, turnkey deployment. The solution has been designed to keep the specific needs of the SMB segment in mind – smaller user base and pricing. mySAP™ All-in-One solutions can be deployed for as few as ten users.

OBT announces the launch of its Verticals for SMB sector

OBT announces that it is ready to offer innovative and cost effective SAP Solutions “mySAP™ All-in-One” for the three prominent segments of the industry, namely, Pharmaceuticals, Textiles and Engineering. These solutions are developed for the Small and Medium Businesses (SMBs), in particular, to address the typical business scenarios prevailing in such industrial segments. This has enabled OBT to offer high quality solutions at affordable cost on a fixed time and cost basis. As a one-stop SAP Solution Provider, OBT will now be offering turnkey solutions consisting of SAP Licenses, Computer Hardware, Implementation, and Annual Maintenance contracts to all its clientele. OBT has already started marketing these solutions and the response to these initiatives has been very encouraging.

The powerhouse of this model is the industry-focused Centers of Excellence (CoE). Each CoE focuses on a specific vertical industry and is staffed with top quality Industry Managers and Business Analysts whose main role is to perform continuous industry and technology research in their areas. The knowledge gained from research allows OBT to offer clients, of all sizes, the most current business best practices, processes and technology for their industry.

After having implemented as many as 23 projects under its belt, OBT has launched its pre-configured solution for three verticals addressing the Pharmaceuticals, Textile and Engineering sectors under the SMB category.

Titled, OBTPharma, OBTTextile and OBTEngg respectively, these solutions offer comprehensive business functionalities that would ideally be required in the aforementioned industries with a ready-to-use reporting system, which also complies to regulatory bodies (Ex: FDA, in the case of Pharma industries)

These verticals have been developed based on OBT’s hands-on experience of implementing SAP in these segments along with a team of business process experts, who had gained considerable experience and business know-how of these industries.

The foremost benefits gained by the customer lies in the ready-to-use complete set of functions starting from planning to delivery, covering about 90% of day-to-day business tasks. Adding more to the benefit is the timeframe by which these solutions are implemented – little over 75 days, which means Faster Return on Investment. These verticals have been tried upon at its own implementations and fine-tuned to satisfy all the core business needs, prior to its official launch.

OBT will continue to mould these verticals, by adding more functionalities and expanding the features.

OBT Global participates in SAP Road Show across different cities in India

• OBT Global participated with SAP India in SAP Road Show conducted across 12 cities of India. The idea of this Road Show was to promote SAP in the Small and Medium Business (SMB) sector. This was a joint campaign by SAP India and its partners.
  
  
• The Road Show was attended by over 800 current and prospective customers, all over India.
  
  
• OBT Global demonstrated the features and benefits of implementing its preconfigured solutions for Pharmaceutical, Textile and Engineering industries.