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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Enterprise 3.0 In The Supply Chain: GT Nexus Cofounder Greg Johnsen (Part 7)

Sramana: Many years ago I wrote about the notion of the extended enterprise. What you are doing is facilitating the extended enterprise. I have a model for enterprise 3.0 which includes much of what you have described. Greg Johnsen: It is funny that you used that term. When we won Hewlett-Packard in 2000, even though

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Enterprise 3.0 In The Supply Chain: GT Nexus Cofounder Greg Johnsen (Part 6)

Sramana: How do you message around building a centralized platform that shares supply chain business objects among multiple parties? How do you communicate security and collaboration concurrently? Greg Johnsen: This past year we have had a shift in how we talk about the company during our second or third meeting. You can’t do this in

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Enterprise 3.0 In The Supply Chain: GT Nexus Cofounder Greg Johnsen (Part 4)

Sramana: How much add on revenue does a major enterprise customer provide when they bring along all of the additional suppliers? Greg Johnsen: When you win big customers, say five or six, and a single third party logistics provider such as DHL services for each one of them, the impact is that their commercial organization

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