Top 10 Reasons to Migrate your Infrastructure & Applications to the Cloud

Over the years we have seen the cloud debate moving from Infrastructure to Services and Applications.

More and more CIO’s and CFO’s have started looking at the cloud as a medium to transform the way existing applications are running and experienced by the user or a way to innovate and support new activities. Today, they are more open to assess the added value of migrating their existing applications to the cloud.

For instance, there are a lot of questions companies need to ask themselves prior to embarking on such a journey. For example

  1. What is the added value of moving it to the cloud?
  2. Will it reduce costs?
  3. Will it improve the agility and responsiveness of the company?
  4. Will the benefits be enough to justify the cost of that migration?
  5. What cloud model is ideal for your business? Etc

Today, majority of companies have adopted the hybrid cloud model, with the core agenda being security, governance and to keep a tab on the cost.

A lot of companies across the globe use the cloud for:

  • Web Hosting
  • Email Hosting
  • Disaster recovery and Backup
  • Security and Monitoring
  • Application Hosting
  • Content Management
  • Data Management & Archiving etc

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Sysfore Announces Education Webinar For Retail: Choose The Right ERP For Your Midsize Retail Operations

Reputed retail technology expert Pinky Gandhi will join Ajith George, Founder & Director at Sysfore on April 4th, 2013 to present a webinar for midsize retailers to choose the right ERP platform to better manage business operations. 

Midsize retailers face challenges when making decisions on technology choices for their business. Choosing the right fit ERP is one of the most critical among them. Existing systems that were bought earlier and seemed suitable in less challenging times are increasingly looking limited and inflexible. Questions facing midsize retailers include ones around features and functions, technology platforms, system integrations, lifecycle cost of ownership and whether the system will scale effortlessly to handle the increasing loads of a growing business. Smart Midsize Retailers know answers to some of these questions, but are often unable to comfortably identify and mitigate the risk of choosing and using a Retail ERP solution.

The Sysfore Retail Education Webinar Series is designed to provide Midsize Retailers with guidance and tips to choose, manage, and extract maximum value out of their retail technology decisions. Pinky Gandhi, a reputed retail technology expert, will be leading this webinar. She has more than 12 years experience in leading Retail Consulting and Technology firms, having implemented best practices for retail, both on an international and local level. Ajith M George, Co-Founder and Director of Projects at Sysfore Technologies, will be accompanying Pinky Gandhi. Read more

India Retail Forum 2012 (IRF 2012)

Pinky Gandhi, Head-Retail Practice, Sysfore at IRF 2012

Ajith Mathew George, Founder & Director of Projects, along with his team will be representing Sysfore Technologies at the India Retail Forum 2012 at Renaissance Hotel, Mumbai. 

India Retail Forum (IRF), one of India’s leading retail events, is to be held on 10th and 11th October 2012 at Renaissance Hotel, Mumbai. IRF, the knowledge platform for the retail industry, will see industry leaders, policy-makers, infrastructure developers, business facilitators and academia, making it the flagship industry event in India.

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