InfoBeans – Software Services

If you are one of those businesses that are left in the doldrums of the Satyam fiasco, we are here to help. This is an honest and straightforward offer of help and not an opportunistic try at getting new business.

We understand the pain that you must be going through. We know that some of the projects being handled by Satyam would be mission critical ones. And no, we do not want to take advantage of the situation. All we want to do is to see if we can be of any help to customers of this troubled IT company.

We want to show our value to the world, not only as a service provider but also as a partner in need.

Here is what we will do

* We will work with you to create a smooth transition plan

* We will not force you to abandom Satyam all together if that is not what you want. We will just help navigate these uncertain times with a Plan B

* We will not make a financial pitch unless you are totally convinced yourself that you want to move out of Satyam (or any other company’s) portfolio

Please contact us at partners@infobeans.com if you are interested in knowing more about us and how we can help. You can also visit our website – www.infobeans.com to know more about us and our area of operations.

Some readers have reported problems in the embedding of the presentation at slideshare so posting it again from scribd.com.

This is one presentation I can post any number of times So here you go.

Read about the SalesForce.com outage.

It is outages like these that are detrimental to the SaaS world. Salesforce.com outage resulted in thousands of businesses going offline, many with possible mission critical applications.

Salesforce.com had failover, as mentioned in this article. Ironically, that failover failed. How do you plan for such scenarios?

InfoSignz, a product from InfoBeans is also on a similar model. We would like to understand what we can do so that our software service does not suffer such outages.

What are the things that a SaaS provider can do to minimize such occurrences?

Read some views on Satyam from my linkedin.com network here

We have all ready the Satyam story – India’s Enron. What a tragedy! Satyam was one of the most respected and largest IT services firms in the world. And now after hearing this news, who would you trust?

First of all, my heart goes out to those Satyam associates that really helped build Satyam into a leading IT services organization. It is sad to see the efforts of those hundreds, maybe thousands of people who really put their hearts and souls into building the organization into what it is today.

Second the investors. IT in India has been considered to be a clean and honest industry. They have been the torch bearers of business ethics in India. No other Indian industry can be said to be as clean, honest and transparent as the IT industry. This coming from a company like Satyam puts a black blot on the corporate governance landscape in India.

There has been speculation regarding the fate of the company and its clients. Rightly so. If I were either working with Satyam as a client or an associate or even a vendor, I would really not know what to do next. I am sure one of the larger companies would come forward and try to get whatever is left of Satyam. Not that it is an easy thing to do. The first question (out of so many) is the worth of the company given the gross over reporting of profits, revenues and cash in hand.

This is a lesson for the other participants of the Indian IT revolution, including InfoBeans. We need to have great transparency in corporate governance, create an honest corporate culture and most important – just be honest to ourselves. Without this a a lot of effort of a whole lot of people would go down the drain. Overnight.

To those who might feel surprised by this development in the India IT industry, I have just one thing to say. We are surprised as well. This is not how Indian IT operates and we still have shining examples of conduct par excellence in corporate governance (notably Infosys and TCS). Let us not take this as a rule, this is a glaring exception. Nasscom, India’s premier IT industry body has already moved to delist Satyam as a member and they have been stripped off numerous rewards they received in the past.

Whatever said and done, most likely, the Satyam brand may die an untimely death. This is a sad for the Indian IT industry.

Here is the letter of Satyam Chariman Raju to the board.

When it comes to open source CMS, there are tons of options out there and two of the most popular ones happen to be Drupal and Joomla.

Amit Makhija, our senior project manager and web content management expert put out this document that helps us in making an informed decision. 

We are not recommending one over the other, but just trying to lay out some facts for both platforms so that people can make informed decisions on which implementation would be the best for a given situation.

Read on. Please do post in your comments.

Amit – thanks for putting this together.

This is to wish all our stakeholders – team members, partners, clients, vendors, our readers and their families a great new year!