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Volume 1 May- July 2015 Quarterly Edition

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FROM THE EDITORS DESK

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THE NEWSMAKERS SECTION
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PROJECT HIGHLIGHTS
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MANAGERS SPACE
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PEOPLES CORNER
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OFFICE HUMOR
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QUOTE OF THE QUARTER
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DID YOU KNOW?
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HEALTH IS WEALTH
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KNOWLEDGE QUEST
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FROM THE EDITORS DESK

Dear Readers,
Welcome to the first quarterly ERP Practice Newsletter!
We intend to use this newsletter in the future to inform you of
all the interesting new developments in the ERP Practice at
ITC Infotech. Along with news from the development team,
the newsletter will include information on forthcoming events,
training and development programs that happened in the
quarter, insights on advanced and innovative technologies
along with recreational content to keep you engaged.
We would be delighted to receive your feedback on this
newsletter. Let us know what more about the ERP Practice
you would be interested in reading about, so that we can
include it in the future editions. Mail us at
erp.newsletter@itcinfotech.com
We hope you enjoy reading this newsletter.
Yours sincerely,
Editorial Team
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Dreema H Baherwani
Shivam Arora
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INFODAY 2015 @ ITC INFOTECH

ITC Infotech, in collaboration with SAP labs, organized
SAP Analytics Partner Infoday 2015 event at ITC
Infotech campus, Bangalore on 3rd July 2015. SAP
shared exciting news around new capabilities,
supported scenarios and new editions of their future
visualization tools - SAP Lumira, Predictive Analytics &
Design Studio.
SAP Product Managers from India, Canada & France
were hosted by the SAP Practice.

ITC Infotech took this opportunity to showcase the product

extensions on SAP Lumira and Design Studio which were
developed as a part of the program.
Key contributors to the event from the SAP BI team
included Suryapratap Singh,Ramesh Pitani,
Madhusudhana Rao, Sreenivasulu Aginati, Viswanadham
Metta, Mahender Anugula, Twitty Skaria, Mahalakshmi
Niranjan & Chandramouli R.
The extensions developed by ITC will be available at SAP
Marketplace soon.
To know more about the developments reach out to
mahalakshmi.niranjan@itcinfotech.com

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ITC INFOTECH PARTICIPATES IN SAPPHIRE

NOW 2015 RUN SIMPLE
SAPPHIRE NOW is a comprehensive business &
technology event organized by SAP and ASUG (American
SAP User Group) in Orlando with Run Simple as the theme
for the current year.
The Conference provided a platform for professionals from
varied industries to come together and share ideas, insights
and perspectives for mutual benefit. SAPPHIRE had
business leaders, domain experts and technology gurus
from different SAP customers, partners & SAP, reflecting on
issues and creating interest for all. A number of discussions
and presentations by industry leaders across three days
enabled the participants and the audience to gain
meaningful insights on latest happenings in the SAP domain. In addition, there was an exclusive Exhibition Zone
in the venue to showcase solutions and services from SAP and its partners.

ITC Infotech had a booth at SAPPHIRE- showcasing the following solutions:

Analytics on SAP HANA & SAP Control Tower, including BPC

Mobility for transforming businesses using SMP and Fiori

RDS on CEI and PA

SAP Supply Chain Management (SAP SCM) including SAP Integrated Business Planning & Demand Network
Our team got a sense of trends & competitive positioning along with an opportunity to network with sponsors
from the ISV, clients and prospects. It also helped raise the visibility of our GTM solutions.

Highlights:

ITC Infotech had focused client meetings, promising leads, interactions with SAP sponsors & info sharing sessions

Meeting with Senior SAP Consulting and Channel Teams on our updates and commitment to work with the
SAP channel

Meeting with the Rapid Deployment Solution group on possible opportunities around our CEI & PA RDSs
and new RDS components that we can co-develop with them

Micro Forum on Supply Chain Planning and Control Tower jointly hosted by SAP (Eric Simonson) & ITC
Infotech (Kumar Abhishek)

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Meeting with Eckhardt Seiss, Global VP of SAPs Industry Business Unit Mill Products & Mining and
responsible for the definition, design and global roll-out of SAP for Mill Products solution, on possible services
opportunities

Display of ITC Infotechs solutions around BPC, Integrated Business Planning and HANA

Enquiries at our booth were around HANA, Business Objects, HANA S/4, Analytics, SAP AMS services

Meetings with current clients: - Mitsubishi (VP, Finance & IT), Federal Mogul (CIO), NRG Energy (IT Director),
Olam (CTO, VP-IT). Upside potential was discussed for each of the clients

Qualified opportunities likely to develop immediately include Freudenberg IT, Neilsen and DuPont

Key Takeaways:
Customers appreciated ITC Infotechs work towards HANA Enterprise Cloud migration and inquired about it
leading to possible PoCs and migration engagements
Possible opportunities in the area of Extended Warehouse Management and Hybris to come from our SAP
Partnership
Possibility of Customer Engagement Intelligence (Hybris) opportunities in Middle East and Africa in the Retail,
Airline and Banking industries the RDS team got a lot of enquiries
Joint work with SAPs RDS team in the area of BW RDS and Big Data integration with SAP HANA. We are
scheduled to participate in RDS partner meets
With SAP Consulting, the next step would be to showcase our specific solutions and capabilities to the SAP
Account Executives and Client Partners so that they could position us with future potential clients
LN Balaji, Anand Sivaraman, Shankar Ramamurthy, Ameet Bhide, Chandramouli R, Manish Paliwal, Kumar
Abhishek, Deepanjan Roy and H Rao participated in the event from the Marketing, Inside Sales and Sales
teams.

ITC INFOTECHS FIRST TIME IN SAP BEST PRACTICES COUNCIL

ITC Infotech for the first time was invited by SAP to be a part of the SAP Best Practices event held on
9th and 10th of July 2015. This event is a platform provided by SAP for select SAP Partners to discuss on the Best
Practices developments by SAP and engage partners in this.
This event was attended by Shankar Ramamurthy, Christy Magesh, Nitika Bali, Nagabharath Reddy Chintala,
Rajeshkumar R, Chandramouli R and Mahalakshmi Niranjan from our practice. In this event SAP presented the
roadmap for S/4 HANA and sought feedback from the partners. SAP also created a show floor to showcase the
products to all the partners involved.
SAP also presented the solution packaging to the partners thus reducing the entry barriers to partners compared
to RDS enablement. They requested the partners to actively participate in the solution packaging and will now
make their tools available to partners for the same.
To know more about this event reach out to Nitika.Tyagi@itcinfotech.com

ITC INFOTECH IN PARTNERSHIP WITH RAMCO

ITC Infotech entered into 'Seed Partnership' with RAMCO in the HCM and MRO spaces. Teams formed for the two
streams are undergoing product training. RAMCO specializes in providing enterprise solutions on Cloud and for
Human Capital Management and the Aviation industry.

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MBA CAMPUS BATCH JOINS THE ERP PRACTICE

In order to build capability in various niche areas, eight MBA Campus resources have been recruited in the
month of May. These recruits are being exposed to various departments in the ERP space as below:

Neeraj Saini is currently undergoing training in the SAP FICO domain.

Hemant Gharde has been handed over the responsibility of Delivery Management.

Nitish Bajaj has been given the responsibility of Project Management.

Bimal Rebba and Manish Sarkar have been deployed in the SAP SCM-APO capability.

Abhishek Jain, Shivam Arora & Dreema H Baherwani are a part of the ERP Presales team.

We welcome the new joiners to the ERP family and wish them a promising and fruitful career with us.

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PROJECT HIGHLIGHTS
NEW WINS IN THE PRACTICE
Altegrity AMS
The Altegrity portfolio of companies comprises an
array of market-leading brands specializing in risk
solutions, security, e-discovery, data recovery and
employment screening. This project is a KT and AMS
support project for a duration of three years.
PROJECTS INITIATED IN THE QUARTER
Virtustream
This is a one year long SAP Basis support project.
Virtustream is a provider of cloud computing
management software, infrastructure as a service
and managed services to enterprises, governments
and service providers.
TRAINING PROGRAMS
RAMCO HCM
An extensive 10 day training was conducted by
RAMCO Systems at their Chennai Head Office
facility from 8th to 19th June, 2015. This training was
attended by six consultants from our practice and
they are currently preparing for the post training
assessment, three of which have cleared the
certification. Three prospective proposals have been
submitted and we are awaiting confirmation for the
same.
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ArcelorMittal - Batch Management
ArcelorMittal, a global metals and mining company
has embarked on automating its processes related
to its production and warehouse operations at
ArcelorMittal - Zenica in Bosnia. ITC Infotech is
helping ArcelorMittal with Batch Management
implementation along with Native windows
application solution for HHT device.
Qatar Chemicals
Qatar Chemical Company Ltd. is a joint venture
between Qatar Petroleum Corporation and Chevron
Phillips Chemical Company LLC with a world-class
petrochemical plant producing high-density and
medium-density polyethylene and 1-hexene. This
project is an SAP Basis support and upgrade project
along with functional and technical consulting for
various SAP modules for a duration of one year.
RAMCO MRO
About 11 consultants identified from the ERP
practice participated in the training program on
RAMCO Cloud Aviation Suite which is specifically
designed for the Aviation and Defense Industry. They
successfully completed the L1 Eligibility Assessment
and were then inducted in the training. It was
conducted at ITC Infotech Bangalore Campus from
22nd June to 3rd July 2015.
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CAMPUS BATCH TRAINING SAP OVERVIEW

Adhering to the principles of employee development, a training program was conducted to give an
overview of SAP and its modules to the campus recruits. It was held from 18th May to 5th of June 2015
at ITC Infotech, Bangalore Campus. This training program enlightened the batch with deep insights on
the SAP ERP practice at ITC Infotech, thus making their induction seamless.

CUSTOMER VISITS
Freudenburg IT
Mr. Sunil, Account Head from FIT visited our campus
on 9th June 2015. The agenda of the visit was to
meet the ERP Delivery Team and Senior Leadership
before getting into contractual agreements. The visit
was very informative in terms of understanding FIT
as an organization and partner. Post this visit, FIT
finalized the partner contract with ITC Infotech and
we signed our first AMS deal for one of FITs
customer - Altegrity.
Sab Miller
Mr. Anders Goransson, Director Global Service
Delivery along with Mr. Mark Raphael, Jim Lane,
German Zambrano, and Andy Hargreaves of SAB
MILLER visited our campus from 13th July, 2015 -
15th July, 2015 for the Quarterly Service Review.
Their agenda included meeting with the Basis
Delivery team represented by Jitendra Singh. The
meetings included feedbacks, current issues,
challenges ahead, visibility for the next quarter,
highlights and achievements of the current
quarter.
The visit proved to be a great success and helped
in strengthening our bonds further with SAB
MILLER.

NEW DELIVERY INITIATIVES

The ERP Practice at ITC Infotech is building capability and the following are some of the key initiatives as
a part of this change:
Creation of KM portal covering all the major technologies like SAP, RAMCO, Dynamics-Ax, Ariba,
Success factors and Oracle
Development of a Training Policy and Plan wherein we would be engaging internal resources to
conduct trainings. The trainings could also be outsourced. KRAs and career planning shall be made for
the resources identified to conduct trainings
Identification of Project Artefacts and creation of project templates to be utilized across implementation
and support projects
Focus on Project Case Studies to be created by Project Manager in consultation with the Delivery
Manager after Project Go-Live
Creation of artefacts highlighting the SAP Best Practices adopted across business processes
implemented in a project. Onus will be on the Leads and Project Manager to develop such artefacts
after Project Go-Live
34 members added in this quarter to the 300+ strong ERP family.

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MANAGERS SPACE

SCM UPDATE AT ITC INFOTECH

Heres a brief overview of our ERP SCM Capability as of this quarter.

ERP SCM Newsletter.pdf

Click here to view

Ansell AMS delivery

Ansell EMEA implemented SAP in 2014. ITC Infotech took over the Ansell SAP Industrial business support
from a French implementing partner with effect from January 2015 with a small team of 5 consultants
comprising of FI, MM, SD, PI and ABAP experts. We also had a number of knowledge transition sessions at
Brussels for 45 days.
The support project has been steady with the management being satisfied with the teams performance.
We handle L2, L3, L4 tickets, change requests and enhancements.
Future plans for the team and ITC involve takeover of the medical business unit support in September
followed by implementation of Ansell Industrial and Medical solutions for Ansell Australia and New Zealand
starting from November 2015 with an extended team.
-By Giri Bhuvanendiran,
Project Manager, Ansell AMS Delivery

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PEOPLES CORNER

Sudip Saha
Lead Consultant - SAP BASIS

Appreciation from CMS for Sudip Saha

Sudip Saha is a fast learner and known for his capability for performing challenging
tasks in BASIS. He has played a key role in implementing projects. He is very
proactive and always willing to help.
Sudip Saha did an outstanding job in ensuring on-time completion of two critical
activities:
Smooth movement of all the changes in production environment as part of
September release
Seamless upgrade of CRM7.0 from EHP1 to EHP3

Suryapratap Singh
Java Consultant

Suryapratap Singh has played an important role in developing the extensions for
SAP Lumira & Design Studio along with SAP BI Team. The extensions were
demonstrated at SAP Analytics Partners Infoday 2015, organized by SAP, in
collaboration with ITC Infotech, at our Bangalore campus on 3rd July 2015.
SAP commended the work done by ITC Infotech and specifically appreciated Surya's
effort & technical skills. Surya not only picked up quickly on SAP environment but also
delivered on-time, enabling us to go ahead with the Infoday event.

Paulami Raut
AX Technical Consultant

Appreciation for Paulami from Crystal Martin

Paulami Raut is a Microsoft Dynamics AX Technical Consultant. She was seconded to
UK for the CMI Project to provide user training to the client and help them understand
the process and resolve issues. The client has appreciated her professionalism,
dedication and the system knowledge and commended her contribution towards the
project.

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Dreema Baherwani
Presales Consultant

Congratulations to Dreema Gold Medal Winner

Dreema Baherwani is an MBA campus recruit who has joined the ERP LoB. She is a Gold Medal winner and is
seen being felicitated by Sir Ratan N Tata in the convocation ceremony at Great Lakes Institute of Management,
Chennai.

Mushtak Alibaig T L
SAP Basis Consultant

Kudos Award from Virtustream for Mushtaq Baig

Mushtak is an SAP Basis Consultant and has been felicitated with the CCS Award and
has also been appreciated by the client. He has been recognized for his expertise on
HANA, BODS, SOLMAN and SNC. He is a team player and is always willing to go the
extra mile to get the job done.

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OFFICE HUMOR
Two factory workers are talking. The woman says, "I can make the boss give me the day off." The man
replies, "And how would you do that?" The woman says, "Just wait and see." She then hangs upside down
from the ceiling. The boss comes in and says, "What are you doing?" The woman replies, "I'm a light bulb."
The boss then says, "You've been working so much that you've gone crazy. I think you need to take the day
off." The man starts to follow her and the boss says, "Where are you going?" The man says, "I'm going home,
too. I can't work in the dark.

QUOTE OF THE QUARTER

No man goes before his time - unless the boss leaves early.
- Groucho Marx

DID YOU KNOW?

ITCs e-Choupal is the worlds largest rural digital infrastructure supporting over 4 million
farmers in nearly 40,000 villages

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KNOWLEDGE QUEST
ERP QUIZ
1. What does SAP HANA stand for?
a. High-Performance Analytic Accelerator
b. High accelerator Numeric Analytics
c. High-Performance Analytic Appliance
d. High-Performance Analytic Application

2. What is FIORI?
a. New user experience UX for SAP Software
b. Database
c. Scripting language
d. Database language

3. What is the name of the product released by Microsoft based on technology acquired from
Navision Software in 2002?
a. Microsoft Dynamics CRM
b. Microsoft Dynamics ERP
c. Microsoft Dynamics AX
d. Microsoft Dynamics GP

4. Though traditionally ERP packages have been On-premise installations, ERP systems are now
also available as ________.
a. Cloud computing
b. Software as a service
c. Everything as a service
d. Service-oriented architecture

5. What is BIG data?

a. Data that deals with 16 digit numbers and beyond
b. Dataset whose size is beyond the ability of typical database to capture, store, manage and analyze
c. New database launched by Microsoft
d. Data of big companies having valuation of $10 billion

Answers: 1. c, 2.a, 3.c, 4.d, 5.b

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