At Octopus-e we believe that enterprise

wide management systems are not

about technology alone. They are about

understanding the organization’s SWOT

& application of appropriate

technologies.

With this philosophy in mind, Octopus-e

strives to deliver end to end business

consulting services thus defining the

Information Technology road maps for

SME enterprises across the world. In

addition Octopus-e provides advice to its

customers to enable the most effective

use technology in line with the

organisation’s business interests and

systems requirements.

Our expertise combined with a decade of

experience in working with SME’s has

enabled us to gain a better understanding of

your business.

At Octopus-e, we subscribe to the fact that

enterprise systems are about getting into our

customers shoes and thinking in the same

way as them. This has given us an

opportunity to position ourselves in a

manner to define and deliver a balanced

quality solution while keeping the total cost

of ownership low.

Over the years, the Octopus-e’s enterprise

wide management systems have enabled the

growth of more than 150 SME’s and

Corporates across the world.

Octopus-e has partnered with companies including SAP, Sage Software, Magic

Software & other organizations to provide enterprise wide management systems

that are cost effective solutions and works across diverse geography, business &

cultures in North America, Europe, Africa, The Middle East, & South and South East

Asia.

Octopus-e at a Glance

Consulting Approach

Our consulting approach takes your Strategic Business Objectives as the core criteria

in the process or recommending and implementing the most appropriate solution

for your business. During the consulting process, in addition to analysing business

processes and IT requirements we also take current business issues and external

market conditions into consideration and initiate solution and change drivers in

order to provide you with an improved process and control over your business.

Business Process Re-engineering & Change Management Consulting

Often, companies hesitate to restructure business processes based on industry best

practices in order to suit enterprise applications workings, thus following a

conventional working pattern. Instead enterprises should seize this opportunity and

take the necessary steps in order to restructure business process, face competition

and to successfully adapt to enterprise resource planning. As an ERP implementation

decision is a change management process, suitable policies have to be adopted by

the companies to enable smooth change over from legacy systems to ERP

applications by considering the human behavioural aspects. Octopus-e International

thus offers professional consultation in order to facilitate successful business process

re engineering and change management.

Project Management

At Octopus-e, we take a wider approach to IT project management, thus in addition

to delivering a quality IT service within the time frame and budget we also consider it

as a process of delivering a quality service and continuous trust building exercise

with our clientele. A strong domain expertise, clear understanding of goals and the

objectives of the project, structured requirement gathering, and a strict milestone

based project co-ordination and delivery makes the Octopus-e project management

process extremely successful.

The key features of the Octopus-e Project Management Process are:

• Requirement definition, risk assessment and the feasibility study

• Establishment of key structures, budgets, timelines and milestones

• Creation of extensive documentation and deliverables

• Implementation through a collaborative delivery model

The business benefits achieved through the Octopus-e project management process

include predictable process outcomes, discipline across the entire organisation, an

increased focus on the core business activities and on time and in budget results.

Enterprise Management Consulting

In keeping with the philosophy of offering

excellent management systems to small

and midsized enterprises, Octopus-e has

partnered with SAP since the year 2006.

SAP Business One, a product offered by

SAP is the bundled and integrated business

application that has enabled over 25,000

small to mid-market enterprises to achieve

their business objectives.

With more than 100 SAP Business One

clientele, Octopus-e has established as the

trusted sales and implementation partner

of SAP. SAP India has awarded Octopus-e as the best SAP Business One partner for

the year 2010

Octopus-e has built innovative industry specific solutions & templates to enable

small to midsized companies take maximum advantage of SAP Business One.

Chemical, Metal, Engineering, Trading and Distribution segments have been focused

verticals.

The team at Octopus-e is extremely well trained to follow the best practices in the

implementing the solution. We have successfully the implemented the SAP Business

Once in a record time of 6 weeks!

Developed specifically for midsize companies, SAP® Business All-in-One solutions

reduce the effort, cost, time, and complexity associated with implementing a world-

class business management solution. The software lets you deploy core enterprise

resource planning (ERP), customer relationship management (CRM), and business

intelligence functionality. It also allows you to leverage the best practices of industry

leaders – all at an affordable fixed price on a platform your business will not

outgrow.

Octopus-e has partnered with SAP to deliver the solutions with Business All-in-One

product. The extensive and complicated business processes could be very easily

handled with the solution built using SAP All-in-One; hence a preferred product for

the truly mid-size organisation with highly standardised business practices.

Enterprise Solutions

Data Migration

Data Migration

Data Migration from the legacy systems to the Enterprise application demands

extensive resources as a result is a very challenging process for the small and

medium sized companies. With Octopus-e’s Data Migration tools data can be

imported and exported form and to any format.

Barcode Inventory and POS Retail Compatibility

Octopus- e enterprise solutions are capable of managing barcode inventory and POS

retail. Application components could also be deployed on a multi location stores

scenario to enable barcode scanning and billing activities. The solution also makes

use of web interfaces to enable real time data communication between stores and

the server.

Statutory Compliance

With the vast experience of working as an active business partner for the

implementation and support for ERP applications across different industry verticals

across the globe, Octopus-e has gained a good understanding of several statutory

reporting formats and has standardised such reporting requirements in the form of

solution components. These components cover the requirements of VAT, income

tax, service tax and exports.

E Mail & Mobile Phone Integration

Octopus-e ERP can be integrated with several Mobile phones/ E mail devices and

several email clients in addition to integration with SMS to enable remote

monitoring and alerting.

End to end Web Applications

The use of (B2B) e – commerce network is becoming increasingly necessary in order

to optimise and speed up business solutions. This demands the downstream

integration of the e-commerce applications with the ERP system. Octopus-e has the

expertise to develop the end to end e- commerce enabled web applications.

Application Integration and Business Process Management

It is required that the ERP applications have to communicate with different

databases & applications and this consolidation is enabled by integration. Any gaps

in the business processes that are not being handled by ERP and the automation

requirements can be addressed by Business Process Management.

Octopus-e Expertise

Mobile Enterprise solutions

Enterprises around the world understand

the pressing need to mobilize their

workforces. Companies must have the

ability to move business information

quickly and securely between the back

office and the front lines to stay

competitive.

SAP and Sybase, an SAP company – along

with a vibrant ecosystem of partners –

offer a wide range of mobile applications

and underlying infrastructure, with

unmatched integration to SAP systems,

for secure access to business processes

anytime, anywhere, and on any major

device.

Octopus-e has partnered with Sybase to provide the enterprise mobility solutions.

Mobile applications could be easily developed and deployed to be used with the ERP

applications by using Sybase Mobility Solutions.

Some of the ways to mobilize the business processes and users are;

• Sales: Increase sales effectiveness by providing full access to your sales team to

SAP CRM accounts, contacts, leads, opportunities, activities and analytics from

the mobile device of their choice

• Managers: Increase speed of business by allowing managers to approve

workflows like travel request, vacation request and expenses right from their

mobile device.

• Executives: Enable better decision making by giving access to business

information and dashboards from iPads and other tablets.

• Marketing: Empower marketing to execute innovative mobile campaigns and

promotion to reach customers on the move.

• Consumers: Increase your business by letting consumers conduct mobile

commerce and payments

• Field Service: Increase field productivity and customer satisfaction by

empowering your field to reduce service time and get the job done right the

first time.

Beyond ERP

Octopus-e Supply Chain Reporting Solution

The Octopus-e Supply Chain Management

reporting solution is designed for real time

reporting of the supply side activities of

procurement, production, planning,

distribution planning, production allocation,

ware house planning, inventory planning etc

with the demand side activities of incoming

orders & forecasts so that all demands are

met on time with the least cost. In addition

the Supply Chain Management component is

designed to work together with the

Enterprise Resource Planning applications

and extracts the data from associated database to display over a web the necessary

information in the format to facilitate planning and decision making across the

supply chain.

The business benefits of using Supply Chain Reporting are

• Improved supplier performance through a comprehensive supply chain reporting

system.

• First fully web designed engine with access to decision information.

• Increase client satisfaction by establishing and monitoring on-time delivery plan.

• Just in time processing to reduce excess inventory and receive a faster response

to the customer.

• Improve market knowledge and strategic decision-making through

comprehensive real-time sales performance.

• Built in Customer Relationship Management (CRM) to provide customers with an

accurate order processing status.

• Collaborative Vendor Managed Inventory

• Sales and Operations Planning

• Order Management

• Smooth functioning of production lines

• Supplier Collaboration

• Procurement Management

• Network Design and Optimization

• Track and Trace

• Timely Fulfilment

• Cost Effectiveness logistics

• Revenue and profit maximization

• Cost control and cooperation among supply chain partners

Business Intelligence & Dashboards

Business Intelligence integrates data from across

your enterprise and provides self-service reporting

and analysis at everyone’s fingertips, so decision

makers spend less time looking for answers and

more time driving strategic decisions.

A good Business Intelligence technology will mean a

better view of the business. Unprofitable product

lines can be eliminated, resources can be moved to

more profitable areas of the business and reporting

is speeded up

• Octopus-e has partnered with SAP-Business Objects to deliver dashboards based

on Xcelsius Software.

• Octopus-e also offers the quarry based simple to configure and use Business

Intelligence Software.

Whether seeking better customer service and operational efficiency, or more timely

and accurate data for forecasting, Business Intelligence systems offer the

opportunity for continued competitiveness, growth and cost savings for business.

Business Integration

Business Integration enables an integrated business

environment with automated processes that

consolidate the disparate data and systems, quickly

and simply. Through integration, your business can

optimise and extract the maximum benefits from your

valuable, but previously dispersed business

information. Octopus-e enables business integration

through the implementation of iBOLT.

iBOLT quickly and cost-effectively integrates a wide

range of IT business applications including SAP R/3,

SAP Business One, Salesforce.com, Oracle JD Edwards,

Lotus Notes, Microsoft Office, IBM i (AS/400), Google

Apps and many more. With greater information

knowledge, your business can react with greater speed and agility to new

opportunities, while squeezing more value from everyday business processes.

Business Process Management

Business Process Management (BPM) delivers a pragmatic approach to process

management. A Business Process Management (BPM) solution to a company’s needs

begins with the alignment of business goals with an eye towards creating value

through process change initiatives. This alignment leads to a thorough understanding

and design of representative processes typically following an industry standard

framework. These models promote inter- and intra-enterprise integration and

collaboration of people, systems, processes, and information across the enterprise,

including business partners and customers.

The business benefits of deploying a BPM solution are

• Maximises cost reductions, provides for growth, manages change, and executes

an integrated business strategy.

• Enables cross-enterprise integration to scale and extend management controls

across the technology.

• Manages change effectively as requirements, laws, processes, and regulations

change.

• Provides a structured but customizable environment to extend to other industry

and process automation requirements to minimize training costs;

• Allows for expansion from department-only processes to even broader BPM for

greater business value.

Octopus-e offers a complete range of outsourced services to handle the back office

requirements of our customers. The requirements could be in the form of data entry

operations during the implementation of the enterprise applications and routine

data entry operations. We deploy suitably skilled manpower either at the client site

or our office location based on the need

Outsourcing

The implementation & the management of traditional business management

systems require:

• One time investments in Servers, operating systems, networking equipment, web

enabling software etc.

• Regular management & maintenance costs that broadly include - Network

management, software upgrades, antivirus, anti intrusion firewall, database

management etc

Costs associated with traditional business systems can be completely eliminated

with the Hosted Model provided by Octopus-e which offers business management

solutions with compete company specific customisation & implementation as well

the hosting & maintenance of the complete system. We also provide our customers

with flexible payments options based on equal monthly instalments for the complete

range of services. We also host third party applications by web enabling them so

that these applications could be accessed from any corner of the globe.

The hosting of the applications provide

• World class servers

• Hosting facilities at a world class IDC ensuring easy access & excellent bandwidth.

• Web enabling software that ensures speedy working using the least bandwidth

at the user’s end.

• System health management & regular maintenance.

• Installation of all upgrades from SAP ERP

• Timely Backups & disaster recovery facilities

• Highest standard of Antivirus and Firewall protection.

The advantages of the hosted applications are

• Integration of Business processes across locations - Corporate office, regional

offices, Ware houses, etc.

• Seamless visibility of information across locations in real time.

• Simpler Work flow & transaction flow within all arms of the organization

instantly.

• Optimized utilization of Human resources across the organization - Functional

experts may have access to data at alternate location there by making decision

making better & easier.

• Direct cost advantages - Reduced capital expenditure on servers or software & IT

infrastructure.

• Better utilisation of communication facilities, Availability of Professional IT

administration service experts at reduced costs.

• Reduced Obsolescence on Operating System/ antivirus/ database software.

Hosted Solutions

It is becoming increasingly important to have a competent IT partner for strategic IT

planning and advice at an early stage. Our services are aimed at achieving a superior

IT infrastructure at lower cost. For such demanding objectives, we offer IT

Infrastructure Consulting across various industries.

Our services cover the IT needs including networking, system integration, security,

enterprise management, asset management etc.

Data Solutions

Octopus-e offers the bundled Internet

service together with the enterprise

solutions offering in association with

BHARATI AIRTEL. Based on the kind of

model being delivered; on premise or

hosted, the IT consulting team of

Octopus-e advises the client with the

proper Internet solution.

Octopus-e offers the following services ;

• Enterprise Internet

• Leased Lines (IPL, ILL)

• Point to Point

• MPLS

• VPN in a Box

• VSAT

• IPLC

• Data Center

• Hosting Mail

• Audio Conferencing

• Video Conferencing

Thin Client Application Servers

Octopus-e provides consulting services for the

application server and load balancer, virtual

desktop server and thin client servers. We are also

partners of 2X Software Ltd for their range of

products.

The 2X application server handles complete range

of Load Balancer Scenarios and Thin Client Server

scenarios.

IT Infrastructure Consulting

Airtel comes to you from Bharti Airtel

Limited, one of Asia’s leading integrated

telecom services providers with

operations in India, Sri Lanka and

Bangladesh. Bharti Airtel since its

inception has been at the forefront of

technology and has pioneered several

innovations in the telecom sector.

Octopus-e International has been successfully implementing and supporting home

grown ERP products globally for well over a decade.

Over the time the customer support activities have been standardised in order to

provide for timely support and an excellent service. In addition, Octopus-e now has a

dedicated customer support cell of highly trained professional to provide support

services to its customers.

All support requests from customers across the globe are managed with the help of

a web based service request tracking system. In addition we offer support through

over the telephone, internet, remote connectivity and personal visits to customer

locations based on the complexity of calls. Our support packages are designed to suit

specific needs of our valued customers.

With a wide exposure across industry verticals & geographic locations the Octopus-e

team today is well experienced in designing enterprise wide management systems

such as ERP, SCM, and CRM systems across the following industry verticals.

Chemicals

Paints, Inks, Varnishes Epoxy

and Glue

Lubricant additives, plasticizers

and coolants

Water colours and crayons

Oil Blending

Specialty Chemicals and

Fragrances

Construction chemicals and

Bitumen products

Textile and industrial resins,

adhesives and sealants

Agro Chemicals

Other Industry Verticals

Flexible Packaging

Supply Chain management

Transportation & Logistics

Packaged Foods, Beverages and

Dairy

Micro Financing and Banking

Paper and Pulp

Glass Cutting

Infrastructure equipments and

projects

Garments and retail sales

Handicrafts

Metal Processing

Cold Rolling mills

Extrusion Plants

Profile manufacturing

Colour coating & Galvanizing

Roofing sheet and hollowware

Cookware manufacturing

Engineering

Discreet manufacturing

Electronics assembly & parts

distribution

Industry Verticals

Octopus-e Support

• A Decade of ERP Implementation experience in the SME market

• Consulting approach

• Application Development background

• Over 100 successful ERP installations across the globe

• 100 % Implementation success ratio

• Referable clientele

• 10 Years of application hosting experience

• Varied industry verticals expertise

• Highly competent & experienced team of functional and Support Consultants.

• Unrivalled post implementation support

• Experience in implementing systems across multi country/language scenario

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What Makes Octopus-e International Unique?

Keen Vision!

The Keen Vision of an Octopus

sights every opportunity and

scrutinises aspect of its

surrounding environment.

This empowers Octopus-e to

look beyond the traditional

way and think out of the box

to explore opportunities.

Flexibility!

An Octopus conveniently moulds itself according

to its surroundings due to its flexible nature.

Octopus-e is structured in a way that it can easily

adapt to every circumstantial need and package

its services according to the needs to its

customers

Co-ordination

Octopus is a dynamic creature that performs

multiple tasks.

Only a Organisation like Octopus-e with its multi-

dimensional personality with a distinct vision can

perform multiple tasks efficiently and effectively

with great vigour, thereby helping organisations

save on time, money and cost.

Versatility!

Its versatility is the result of the unique

intelligence of the brain

Octopus-e today, stands as a business

ancillary that offers a wide spectrum of

services that reflect its expertise,

performance, excellence etc.

Reach!

An Octopus’s strong network of eight long

arms reaches out extensively to cover the

depth of every area

Octopus-e, with its diverse network reaches

out to its every customer on time to support

them in every possible way to keep them

performing

Creativity!

An Octopus thinks out of the box. If finds no rocks to

crawl under, it builds a shelter by using the available

resources under water.

Octopus-e believes in the out of the box approach in

designing and delivering the solutions with optimal

use of technology and resources.

Power!

If an Octopus loses one of its tentacles

it will soon grow another one in its

place

If our customers face any problems,

Octopus-e with its unique powers of

scrutiny, analysis and strategy,

instantly analyses the problem and

curbs it with reliable solutions.

Grip!

Eight arms help an Octopus to have a

firm grip on anything.

Octopus-e, with its powerful and well-

maintained network successfully takes

every situation within its clutches and

exercises a tight control over the

business processes.