Outsourcing: Arul Murugan, Founder and CEO of Enrich IT (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: I really like the way you have done your positioning. I think you’ve got on the front end of a trend that is developing.  I have talked to enough CIOs at this point to know that the trend is there. Where would you point entrepreneurs? You’ve obviously done a nice positioning of where you

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Outsourcing: Arul Murugan, Founder and CEO of Enrich IT (Part 4)

Arul Murugan: Yes. We are in the early stage, and now that we’ve got three customers, this is an area which I believe will help us to get Enrich IT to the $100 million mark in next three to five years

Outsourcing: Arul Murugan, Founder and CEO of Enrich IT (Part 3)

SM: Yes. So, you are managing the private cloud supply solutions for these enterprises? AM: Exactly. Now our focus is on private cloud to large clients that are already using Oracle EBS. We also provide a public cloud model. But we are seeing more success in private cloud since that fits into the IT policies of mid

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Outsourcing: Arul Murugan, Founder and CEO of Enrich IT (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: You have this business from a financial services client. How does that business roll out from an implementation point of view? Is it that you are providing them with the 30 people that you were talking about, or is it [something else]? Arul Murugan: Those 30 people are aligned for the managed services project

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Outsourcing: Arul Murugan, Founder and CEO of Enrich IT (Part 1)

Enrich IT was founded by Arul Murugan and his wife, Kavitha Palani, with the idea to help companies by providing them with tailored solutions in areas like business process management, technology services, enterprise application management and software licensing. Bootstrapped with $25,000, the company is now a multimillion dollar enterprise that specializes in Oracle supply chain

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Outsourcing: Joe Lawler, Chairman, President And CEO Of ModusLink (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: Got it. The question that I would like to drill down upon is the business you are discussing is the people-intensive business, right? Is that a correct statement, or is the business highly automated? Joe Lawler: No, it is absolutely a correct statement because of the size runs that we typically do there.

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Outsourcing: Joe Lawler, Chairman, President And CEO Of ModusLink (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: I have two questions about the market and its size: What does the rest of the market look like? Who are the players? If it is a $25 billion market, you are $1 billion. Joe Lawler: Well, the biggest chunk is those that are doing these packaging or returns management or fulfillment services

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Outsourcing: Joe Lawler, Chairman, President And CEO Of ModusLink (Part 6)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Aditya Modi Sramana Mitra: But Apple is an extreme case, right? They are very much about vertical integration and very much about an internally controlled kind of philosophy. Joe Lawler: They are an extreme case, but they are certainly not alone; SanDisk has done the same thing over the past

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