IT Companies are faced with challenges of different dimensions arising out of the appreciation of the rupee, levy of service tax on Information Technology Software Services effective May 16, 2008, stricter regime of transfer pricing provisions and the possible withdrawal of the tax holiday under the Income tax Act as of March 31, 2010. The need for a stricter control on expenses and to follow the budgetary system is being felt by most IT Companies.

Eris provides structured solutions to help IT Companies to cut down their wasteful expenditure, manage costs and thereby achieve higher margin and improve the bottom line. We have a proven expertise of having handled IT Companies in the CFO level and our clientele includes more than twenty IT clients. We can completely handle the Finance & Accounting function for IT Companies on an outsourced model or work with the existing infrastructure. Our clients have been able to derive considerable mileage out of our proven expertise in introduction of profit monitoring systems and cost cutting programs.

Some of the specific solutions that we offer to IT Companies include:

• Business Process Definition, Implementation and Management
• IT Product Portfolio Management
• Introduction of budgetary and profit monitoring systems to plan, monitor and correct performance to achieve pre-set goals
• Implementation of project management methodologies
• Complete statutory compliance including those related to STPI, RBI and FEMA
• Obtaining refund of VAT and Service Tax
• Assistance in handling income tax issues related to transfer pricing, ESOPs, etc.
• Deciding on the right corporate structure for the Indian Operations of MNCs, vis-à-vis Indian Branches, Subsidiaries, etc.
• Assistance in taking forward covers for foreign receivables and payables
• Tax planning for the Company and the Executives including ESOP related planning

Content Management is a challenge. When it comes to web content management, it is even more. Soon you have a new product to launch or a news item to be published, you start calling your website developer and by the time he does the job, the news are no longer news.

CMS Implementation:

We implement content management systems to enhance:

1.     Information creation

2.     Information distribution

3.     Information publishing

4.     Information archiving (and re-usability)

Our services include:

• Need assessment and strategic analysis
• Content writing, content styling, content proof reading, periodical content assignment Management
• Installation and configuration
• User and user rights setup
• Site structure setup
• Training
• Launch support
• Ongoing maintenance

Why Implement a CMS?

• CMS helps create a desired look and feel through WYSIWYG – What You See Is What You Get interface: colour selection, font selection, text alignment, image uploading, video embedding and linking of sub pages and documents
• Supports Content addition, edition and deletion for numerous webpages, news and announcements
• Newsletter – send a periodically published work containing news and announcements to all registered users
• Add/remove additional CMS users with different rights
• Built-in website search engine
• News, announcements, events and forums
• Banner advertisement and mass mailing
• Media galleries
• Search engine optimization
• Google analytics, Web Masters Tools
• Engage your site visitors, make available interactive web2.0 features like RSS feeds and multimedia

We rely upon open source Content Management Systems and excel at deploying

• Joomla
• Drupal
• Mambo
• DotNetNuke

• Web Content
• Blog
• Newsletters
• Brochures
• Company Profile
• User Manuals/User Guide/Help Document
• Presentations
• Technical Writing

Our strength lies in understanding your business and converting it into effective content that leaves a lasting impression on the user psychology.

Implementation Review: High Level and essential practice that validates whether the implementation has been carried out in an optimal manner that supports business needs.

Business Features Mapping: Review of features configured in the modules and identification of the missing features and functions of module and components.

ERP System Security Review: Ensures the system administrative component is properly configured and the system is secured. To get the ERP product go-live just completes the half-point of the race. With that we are initiating a new way of handling operations and delineating the flow of information. We ought to monitor the performance of this system and check whether or not it is yielding the desired results, Such an effect will throw light into non-performing or under performing areas and possible way of redemption.

Benefits:

• Ensures the accuracy and reliability of data processed in the ERP.
• Ensures the integrity, confidentially and availability of information generated the ERP system.
• Constructing simple and effective ERP organizational structures tailored to the organization.
• Identifies ERP system capabilities, resulting in effective utilization of features and proper integration of modules.
• Clear identification of bottlenecks and pain areas in ERP which the management has to pay attention to.

Eris’s implementation process covers all the basics by following a sound methodology which greatly increases the likelihood of success by enabling all the features, minimize customization, getting user acceptance, rendering support till the system goes live without cost and project time escalation.

With an insight to business needs options available are assessed. The selection process weights factors like functional capabilities, user friendliness of the product are likely accrue by opting the ERP way. Eris helps the implementation of a scalable ERP that accommodates rapidly changing business conditions and the increased traffic of information that runs across the supply chain.

1.    Fast and uncontrolled growth

2.    The Company’s exact financial performance is unknown

3.    Unknown or inaccurate job costs

4.    Inventories that do not meet or far exceed production requirement on a consistent basis

5.    Duplication of efforts in order to capture vital data that impacts employee efficiency

6.    Commonly setting inaccurate customer expectations

7.    Promised delivery dates are regularly missed

8.    Unknown operations performance

9.    The current system is negatively impacting the organization’s ability to grow

10.    Little or no ability to forecast and plan production requirement within any degree of accuracy

The process begins with defining the scope that details the need for an ERP system implementation and the means to its successful integration into an organization.An in-depth and extensive study is carried out on the existing business processes of the organisation. Further the results of the study are mapped with the best practices in the industry for process excellence.