The inexpensive but sophisticated SAAS model is riding the wave for corporate India. From big to medium size to small businesses, all are now looking at adopting CRM, ERP, digital advertising, cross channel marketing strategies for improving decision- making and deploying faster business-friendly operations.
The broader question is: How is the new world of SAAS likely to bring changes within the companies across sectors? Is the trend seen to be shifting - from heavy dependency on IT to SAAS? With lots of ambitious startups entering this space, how uniquely they are able to sell their businesses in the super - competitive world. How can they take their company to the next level? Other then CRM,ERP which together contributes 80% of the market, which other segments are on CIO’s hit-list today? Will current compliance & governance standards confirm cloud computing growth and adhere to safety requirements? What are the challenges in adopting SAAS services? Are investors betting on this space big time or still they are on the cautious move?
To understand the wide range of topics related to SAAS services and its future, Techcircle will hold the third edition of its immensely successful Techcircle SaaS Forum 2014 which will bring together senior SaaS professionals, top and emerging SaaS firms, innovators as well as private equity and venture capital investors to share best business practices impacting Indian SaaS industry.
8:30am - 9:30am
Tea, Networking & Registration
9:30am - 9:45am
Introductory Note
9:45am - 10:30am
Panel I: What does it take to build a world-class SaaS company out of India?
With the IT Industry working on being globally local, how difficult it is to build a world-class SaaS company out of India? How capable are Indian entrepreneurs in understanding the nuances of the global audience? How does one starts - going horizontal focusing on marketing, CRM, storage, IT or vertical focusing on specific industry like healthcare, financial services and others? What target markets to go behind: India, Outside India, developed or developing markets? How does one positions itself vis-a-vis competition? Does the CEO need to relocate to the respective major international market?
Ambarish Gupta - Founder & CEO, Knowlarity Communications Pvt Ltd
Ajay Modani - Co-founder & COO, Capillary Technologies Pvt Ltd
Atul Batra - CTO, Manthan Software Services Pvt. Ltd
Mukul Kumar - Co-founder & Senior Vice President Engineering, PubMatic
Vishal Gupta - MD, Bessemer Venture Partners (Moderator)
10:30am - 11:15am
Panel II: Mapping SaaS footprint on burgeoning Indian SME markets: Opportunities & Challenges?
Is Indian market ready to consume SaaS services in abundance, which is still in its infancy phase? What are the major logjam SaaS providers face in India? Why is product customization an essential tool for small Indian businesses unlike best standard global practices followed by big firms? SME’s run spate of management operations like information management, workflow management, providing customer insights, customer engagement, customer feedback, retention, conversion and much more - Can adoption of SaaS services help in reducing such high management cost? How are SME’s comforted by using SaaS based applications over basic enterprise software?
Aditya Sanghi - Co-founder & CEO, Hotelogix
Bharati Jacob - Founder & Partner, Seedfund
Shivakumar Ganesan - Co-Founder & CEO, Exotel
Alok Goyal - Partner, Helion Advisors Pvt. Ltd (Moderator)
11:15am - 11:45am
Tea & Networking Break
11:45am - 12:30pm
Panel III: Importance of product management in defining an excellent product: Is it imperative?
Simply focusing on coding, features and functions doesn’t seem to be helpful, so what more can be done by product management professionals to get customer lifecycle smoother? What is different about product management and engineering for SaaS solutions? Is there good product management talent in India? Does one need to base this function in US, closer to the customers or offshore can be the better model? At what stage does a startup qualifies that it has 'validated' its model? What do you build vs. use from open-source/ 3rd party? What are the implications in choosing any of the routes? Has the emergence of cloud changed the way for product management?
Peeyush Rai - CTO & Co-Founder, Canvera Digital Technologies Pvt Ltd
Rajat Malhotra - VP Product & Engineering, ZipDial
Harishankaran K - Co-Founder, Hackerrank
Mohan Kumar - Executive Director, Norwest Venture Partner
Suresh Shanmugham - Managing Partner, Saama Capital (Moderator)
12:30pm - 12:45pm
Presentation - “Seize the moment with Cloud”
Sanjay Siboo - Country Manager, Cloud Services, IBM India & South Asia
12:45pm - 1:45pm
Lunch & Networking
1:45pm - 2:30pm
Panel IV: Recognizing right pricing model for SaaS services: Local & Global Customers
With freemium model being most popular among the Indian masses, how can one increase revenues despite offering free trial sessions? What are different pricing models proven globally and suited for Indian companies? For a new entrepreneur, what can be the best pricing model? What are acceptable rates of monthly/quarterly/annual attrition in terms of subscriptions for emerging SaaS companies? What are the ways to overcome the subscription billing challenge for customers in India? How can one get customers to sign long term contracts vis-a-vis subscription model? What kind of (non-payment) ecosystem enablers would help the SaaS industry grow in India?
Abinash Tripathy - Founder & CEO, Helpshift
Tanuj Mendiratta - Co-founder & CEO, Appiterate
Gurpreet Singh - Co-founder & CEO, Browntape.com
Deepesh Agarwal - Co-founder, CEO, MoveInSync
Sanjay Nath - Co-founder & MD, Blume Ventures (Moderator)
2:30pm - 3:00pm
Techcircle Showcase - Powered by Nasscom 10,000 Startups
A curated platform featuring five innovative companies in the SaaS space who will come on the stage and make presentations on their path-breaking ideas, business models and niche opportunities. If you think you are one of these five companies.
Techcirce Showcase Jury
Dr. Srikanth Sundarrajan - Venture Partner, Helion Advisors Pvt. Ltd
Krishna Jha - Angel Investor, Indian Angel Network
3:00pm - 3:30pm
Tea & Networking
3:30pm - 3:45pm
Presentation - “Building Scalability in Technology and Businesses”
Prashant Jain, Director, CtrlS Datacenters Ltd
3:45pm - 4:30pm
Panel V: Latent shift in IT budgets driving SaaS adoption across industries: Opportunities & Implications
With shrinking IT budgets, limited technical service staffs, costly legacy systems, time management issues, growing need of business analytics, SaaS stands out to be the most viable option however how do companies tackle with critical data security issues that inhibits privacy at large? Why SaaS model makes sense to most of the companies? Can Indian companies trust to take the entire tech infrastructure on the cloud? CRM, ERP, emails which together contributes 80% of the market, which other programs are on the CIO’s hit-list today to integrate with business information systems in proven cost effective models? What are the advantages of adopting SaaS to COO’s, CTO’s & CMO’s of the organizations when taking their respective operations data on the cloud? Which sectors are rapidly adopting & which sectors are still seen to be laggard and why? What are the challenges that crop up while bringing in SaaS?
Girish Rowjee - Co-Founder & CEO, Greytip Software
Sriram Kannan - Founder & CEO, Nivaata Systems
Ashish Agarwal - Founder & CTO, Solutions Infini
Vinod Krishnan - Head - Business Development (South India and Sri Lanka), Amazon Internet Services Pvt. Ltd
Rehan Yar Khan - General Partner & Founder, Orios Venture Partners (Moderator)
Headquartered in Hyderabad (India), CtrlS Datacenters Pvt Ltd. was founded in 2008 by the Rs. 750 crore (US $125million approximately) (EV) Pioneer Group, which is primarily involved in IT - services, consulting and infrastructure. The Group has been growing at more than 100 percent compound annual growth rate of over the past 15 years.
CtrlS has datacenters in Hyderabad and Mumbai with an upcoming facility in Delhi. The company has developed the capabilities to provide platform level services which includes data center infrastructure, storage, backup, hardware, OS layers, network and security layers.It offers a host of outsourced business solutions and services such as Disaster Recovery on demand, Managed services, Private cloud-on-demand to enable clients to make the paradigm shift from the captive datacenter model to the outsourced one.
The CtrlS datacenteris Tier 4 certified and provides 99.995% uptime guarantee, less than 22 minutes of downtime in a year and N+N redundancy. With 1.42 PUE, it is the most power efficient datacenter in India. Dual power sources and an additional captive power plant ensure uninterrupted power and cooling systems. It also provides high bandwidth availability and a choice from India’s leading TELCOs.
It is also the only one of its kind in India to provide 8-zone security, scalability for up to 10 years, guaranteeing the highest availability and least energy consumption.Armed with top-of-the-line features and the very best of infrastructure and technology, it offers clients an array of benefits which can drive a saving of upto 40 percent on total cost of ownership.
The facility sets the benchmark in the data centre space with 8-zone security, making it the most secure datacentre in India. It has ISO-20000-1, ISO-27000-1 and ISO 22301 certifications.
Helion Ventures Partners is a $605 Million India-focused, early to mid-stage venture fund, investing in technology-powered and consumer service businesses in sectors like Outsourcing, Internet, Mobile, Technology Products, Retail Services, Healthcare, Education and Financial Services.
Our mission is “Partnering with entrepreneurs to build world-class companies”.
We believe that companies are fundamentally built from inside, but as Board members we play an active role. Typically we help companies in making strategic choices and in building an organization that can execute on strategy. We have access to world-class executives that we can bring to our portfolio companies. We also help in building a high quality Board of Directors / Advisors.
We also team with the management and provide operational value add in the area of finance, HR, technology, marketing and operations.
In helping manage rapid growth, we participate in future rounds of financing in syndication with other venture partners. Our prior experience in M&A is also available to entrepreneurs in driving inorganic growth.
Most of all, we act as a sounding board to the CEOs as they navigate challenges of building world-class organizations.
Dialstreet works on churning out cloud-based business telephony systems that work towards simplifying business communications for SMEs and SMBs. Dialstreet brings you the best of voice enabled solutions such us MissCall services, TollFree numbers and business hotline services that helps you setup an engaging, interactive and economical business telephone system for your business. We use the latest in VoIP and cloud technology to replace existing telecommunication channels that are easier on the pockets and faster, simpler and more reliable to use.
Dialstreet comes with intelligent call routing, call recording, IVR-based call control, call forwarding and many other brilliant features that adds a whole lot of class and professionalism to your business communications.
Dialstreet works on churning out cloud-based business telephony systems that work towards simplifying business communications for SMEs and SMBs. Dialstreet brings you the best of voice enabled solutions such us MissCall services, TollFree numbers and business hotline services that helps you setup an engaging, interactive and economical business telephone system for your business. We use the latest in VoIP and cloud technology to replace existing telecommunication channels that are easier on the pockets and faster, simpler and more reliable to use.
Dialstreet comes with intelligent call routing, call recording, IVR-based call control, call forwarding and many other brilliant features that adds a whole lot of class and professionalism to your business communications.
IBM has been present in India since 1951. Since inception, IBM in India has expanded its operations considerably with regional headquarters in Bangalore and offices in over 22 cities including regional offices in New Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata and Chennai. Today, the company has established itself as one of the leaders in the Indian Information Technology (IT) Industry.
Our offerings: IBM is the only IT company in the world and also in India that offers end-to-end solutions to customers from hardware to software, services and consulting.
IBM helps clients solve complex business and technical issues. IBM helps integrate the strategy, business process, industry knowledge and the technology, integration and outsourcing skills to bring a new level of services to the business community. We deliver innovative business consulting, process design, systems integration, application management and design. Our core competencies include deep business process and industry expertise, advanced analytics and research capabilities, comprehensive IT infrastructure knowledge, and the proven ability to implement enterprise solutions that deliver bottom-line business value.
For more information on IBM India log on to: www.ibm.com/in
IBM has been present in India since 1951. Since inception, IBM in India has expanded its operations considerably with regional headquarters in Bangalore and offices in over 22 cities including regional offices in New Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata and Chennai. Today, the company has established itself as one of the leaders in the Indian Information Technology (IT) Industry.
Our offerings: IBM is the only IT company in the world and also in India that offers end-to-end solutions to customers from hardware to software, services and consulting.
IBM helps clients solve complex business and technical issues. IBM helps integrate the strategy, business process, industry knowledge and the technology, integration and outsourcing skills to bring a new level of services to the business community. We deliver innovative business consulting, process design, systems integration, application management and design. Our core competencies include deep business process and industry expertise, advanced analytics and research capabilities, comprehensive IT infrastructure knowledge, and the proven ability to implement enterprise solutions that deliver bottom-line business value.
For more information on IBM India log on to: www.ibm.com/in
10,000 Startups is an ambitious attempt by NASSCOM to scale up the startup ecosystem in India by 10x. 10,000 Startups aims to enable incubation, funding and support for 10,000 technology startups in India over the next ten years.
The program’s vision is to:
• Foster entrepreneurship
• Build entrepreneurial capabilities at scale and
• Strengthen early stage support for tech startups
To meet these objective the program aims to bring together key stakeholders of the ecosystem including startup incubators / accelerators, angel investors, venture capitalists, startup support groups, mentors and technology corporations.
With 10,000 Start-ups NASSCOM aims to build a vibrant ecosystem for technology entrepreneurship in India.
Vizdesk is the latest SaaS-based visitor management software that aims at eliminating the use of visitor log books and registers everywhere. Vizdesk lets you manage your visitors effortlessly by logging in your visitors, verifying them via SMS or a missed call and welcoming them with a personalized custom SMS. Vizdesk also instantly notifies the people who visitors are here to meet through an SMS and an email so that your visitors would never have to wait endlessly in your reception or lobby.
Vizdesk also helps you schedule appointments and meetings right from the dashboard and instantly block the calendars of those who are part of the meeting. You also get a bunch of insights and analytics pertaining to your visitors and their visits. Use Vizdesk and revolutionize the way you welcome and manage your visitors. Vizdesk - Know Thy Visitor.
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Vivanta by Taj - M G Road, Bangalore
Date: 9th Oct 2014
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Bangalore 560 001 Karnataka, India
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