Konnect Solutions: Driving Enhanced Business Performance with Cloud-based ERP
Cloud based ERP is revolutionizing the way organizations do business. This market is experiencing a further growth spurt owing to the increasing demand from professional services firms (SMEs) who want to improve their transparency, efficiency and profitability. The intense competition and globalization act as key motivators for SMEs to implement ERP on the cloud, in order to cut down on infrastructural costs. Added factors such as low IT manpower, data backup and recovery, reduced operational costs and ubiquitous access to information are further propelling growth in this sector. While the myriad of advantages cause a significant market growth, the Indian cloud ERP market is comparatively at a lesser mature stage than other markets across the globe. This mandates an experienced solution provider like Konnect Solutions who has demonstrated proven solutions to help bolster the anticipated market positioning.Bangalore headquartered Konnect Solutions with its robust and innovative ERP solution, Konnect, helps attain real-time visibility of the business and its processes in a holistic manner. It provides an enterprise-wide information management system that is designed to ensure the seamless flow of information while simultaneously managing all resources and activities efficiently and productively within the business organization. The tool can be leveraged to improve process efficiencies, resource utilization, profitability tracking and performance appraisals.
In conjunction with these features, the tool also provides improved efficiency on tracking client’s billing and invoicing, optimized overall communications between both internal and external stakeholders of the project, alignment of workforce to the firm’s process, eliminationof information silos with detailed reports, better cash flows and the ability to track and monitor all project deliverables including documents. The Konnect Workflow engine keeps processes on track, automates time-consuming manual tasks, and keeps the stakeholders informed and involved. This enables the stakeholder to achieve lower operational costs, greater agility and quicker response to client’s needs. Further driving down capex and operation costs, the solution can run on freeware software without the need to invest in expensive licensed software. It just requires a
server or a paid and managed hosting space. In essence, it is a single application with flexible modules like Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Timesheet, Human Resources Management, Management Information System (MIS), Projects, Project Accounting and Office Administration.
The Journey
Konnect (www.konnectaec.com) was born into existence by a team of experts led by Jagan Venkataramanan who envisioned creating complete visibility into the client’s projects, the people and business from anywhere at any time and on demand. Jagan was a senior partner at Venkataramanan Associates (A/E practice - www.vagroup. com) for 21 years with deep expertise in the AEC consulting business. He is also the Managing partner of V+S Design Partners (www.vs-dp.com) - a BIM/VDC services and technology firm based in Bangalore. The entire conceptualization and framework for Konnect ERP has been done over a span of close to a decade by Newton Soibam, the Chief Software Architect for Konnect, and has been extensively tested in large A/E firms for close to a decade.
Striving to continue to cater to customer’s every unique need, Konnect Solutions takes potential feedback and constantly adds new features and modules to keep up with new software, workflows and collaboration and specific requirements of A/E and other professional services firms. The firm is also open to providing customization and specific modules and dashboards, as per their client’s needs. With a little customization, this versatile ERP software can be used by non A/E firms like software development firms, BPOs, engineering consultancy firms, legal and accounting firms etc.
The Journey
Konnect (www.konnectaec.com) was born into existence by a team of experts led by Jagan Venkataramanan who envisioned creating complete visibility into the client’s projects, the people and business from anywhere at any time and on demand. Jagan was a senior partner at Venkataramanan Associates (A/E practice - www.vagroup. com) for 21 years with deep expertise in the AEC consulting business. He is also the Managing partner of V+S Design Partners (www.vs-dp.com) - a BIM/VDC services and technology firm based in Bangalore. The entire conceptualization and framework for Konnect ERP has been done over a span of close to a decade by Newton Soibam, the Chief Software Architect for Konnect, and has been extensively tested in large A/E firms for close to a decade.
It provides an enterprise-wide information management system that is designed to ensure the seamless flow of information while simultaneously managing all resources and activities efficiently and productively within the business organization
Striving to continue to cater to customer’s every unique need, Konnect Solutions takes potential feedback and constantly adds new features and modules to keep up with new software, workflows and collaboration and specific requirements of A/E and other professional services firms. The firm is also open to providing customization and specific modules and dashboards, as per their client’s needs. With a little customization, this versatile ERP software can be used by non A/E firms like software development firms, BPOs, engineering consultancy firms, legal and accounting firms etc.
