THE CIO’s DILEMMASTRAGURE TIMES - AUG 2012

Inside this issue - CIO’s Dilemma One CIO’s Story Why it makes sense to talk to us if you are a CIO looking for answers About Us Our Contact Information

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CIO’s Dilemma, Root Cause & Solution• Dilemma -

~ IT spending considered as an operational overhead these days.~ It is no more perceived as a warranted move to score winning advantage for enabling business strategies.~ Board’s confidence is shaken up because of cost involved, missed deadlines in past and obscure results.~ Everyone is overwhelmed by new age mantras. For instance power of social networks & personal portable devices adoption at workplace among employees. Today things like these can directly increase enterprise revenues.~ Business leaders in organizations are loosing faith on IT and look at it as mere necessary infrastructure and software. ~ You are the one who needs to change this perception. You are the one who is under pressure. You are the CIO.

• Root Cause - ~ In recent years technology has changed drastically and business is catching up but does not necessarily understand the change much.~ IT leaders are too entangled with daily chores and have lost their focus to enable IT for developing a strategic edge over competitors.~ Everything is questioned unless someone is blowing a trumpet which clearly tells a story of improving business processes which leads to either cost savings or improved sales.~ Gartner, Forrester and Mckenzies of the world publish regular content which reaches the business leadership rather fast. Unfortunately these published reports most of the times don’t come with effective working solutions for an identified scenario.

• Solution -~ Today’s CIO needs to come up with an affiliation plan which can build strong relationship between the business and technology.~ The above is only possible if CIO’s recommended investments demonstrates direct positive impact on critical business goals of an organization.~ It’s a daunting task. Let’s have a look at one such CIO’s case study who have done something similar by hiring Stragure as their IT partner and how.

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Story of One CIO• Some Facts -

~ CIO in Spotlight - Head IT/CIO belonging to a unit of India’s leading infrastructure development and financial company backed and promoted by central bank of India, HDFC and UTI with shareholders including SBI, LIC, ORIX corporation - Japan and Abu Dhabi Investment Authority.~ CIO’s Challenge - (a) To monitor PAN India based government programs and make critical dashboards available to ministers in various positions serving in government of India. These programs were setup with an objective to provide commercially sustainable integrated solutions for development of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs), through a cluster based Public Private Partnership (PPP) approach that would enable them to become globally competitive.(b) CIO asked to investigate and come up with a implementation plan, technology roadmap and budget for the same.(c) CIO busy in running the day today operations of this fairly large group with no time left to come up with clean and crisp answers.(d) CIO was asked to monitor fraud by implementing technology and finally take steps to reduce the same.

• Our Solution -~ Stragure was hired as a partner to work closely with CIO’s office as technology had become complex to understand and with ecosystem so full of variables did not make life easier for them. ~ Running day today tasks and making sure existing systems are not breaking by itself was consuming more than 95% of CIO’s and his team’s effort.~ We spent some time in understanding the overall objectives and business goals of the client. This is our core strength, mapping business needs to latest and greatest of the technologies without being massively expensive.~ We recommended and developed innovative portable widgets, white label software platform, technically rich searches, fraud detection mechanisms, comprehensive dashboards, automated daily reports, super efficient alert systems, workflows and many integration layers to make sure that business gets what they actually needed.~ We helped them to squeeze out inefficiency out of their existing systems and helped them drive insights across many of their business functions.~ Our team helped this CIO to effectively communicate IT cost to the business, describe the benefits in clear business terms and focused on ROI.~ IT now is very strategic in this organization and we continue to work with them in rolling out next generation systems to meet their ever increasing business needs. We support & enhance all that we have developed for them, 24/7.

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CIO &Business

Fraud Prone Line of Business !!

CIO &Business

Government of India

Training Center Ownerdifferent pricing strategies for every training center

Student

Factories - Placement Hubs

Training Centers

Stragure’s innovative solutions run here and make sure that fraud is detected early, data is gathered, arranged in appropriate manner and help the concerned to take corrective measure

PAN

INDIA

Our workflows make sure that the CFO/CEO gets enough visibility into the total ROI

mobile widgets, dashboards, analytics

stronger relationshipbetween business andtechnology were achieved!

stronger relationshipbetween business andtechnology were achieved!!

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Are You a CIO or Someone in a Similar Role Looking for Answers ? - Talk to Us !!

But Why ? Because -

(1) We have worked with at least four CIO’s/head IT of large to medium companies from different domains in last few years and their business has directly gained from our services. (2) These businesses are anything between couple of millions to five billion US dollar.(2) We know what it takes to understand CIO’s pain areas. We have learnt that from our experience.(3) Out technology recommendation is always greatest and the latest based on a specific scenario.(4) We can help you in more informed and contextual decision making and hence increasing your chances of meeting expectations your business has from you.(5) We understand new trends like cloud computing, portable devices based enterprise software, BYOD strategies, etc. very well. (6) Our team is highly experienced having worked with global and local clients in different domains.

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About Us

• We are a juvenile, innovative, intense bespoke software development shop based out of Bangalore, India since 2007.

• We have expertise in building enterprise level B2B solutions for businesses to streamline their processes and to realize their business needs.

• We believe we can help CIO’s of today as we have skills which can understand business and technology well.

• We are true authorities in agile based software development and follow this subject remarkably well.

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Contact us

• Call us at 91-080-40849494 Extn 108

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