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Bhilwara Infotech: The byte of success

E-Tex Staff - Mumbai

Bhilwara Infotech (BIL) is an IT consulting and services company providing high-end solutions in eCRM, eCommerce, ERP and WAP apart from client server application development, software maintenance, quality consultancy, migration and porting. The management team at BIL has strong experience in software delivery and implementation processes for domestic and international customers. Management team comes with the experiences from organisations like IBM, Informix, Tata Steel and Cognizant. The average experience of the top management team is 18 years in the core IT sector.

Quality control

BIL is a SEI-CMM Level-4 compliant company. Quality at BIL is a way of life. Quality processes are embedded through the entire life cycle of a project, from conception to the various stages of execution. These processes conform to the software engineering institute’s capability maturity model level 4. BIL has defined and implemented a quality management system which is based on the guidelines of ISO-9001: 2000 with CMM Level-5 Integration. The quality policy is based on BIL’s mission of keeping its customers satisfied on a constant manner by giving them high quality of services through constantly improving processes and efficient communication channels.

At present, BIL is ISO 9001: 2000 certified start-up software organisation. BIL is planning to go for CMM Level-5 assessment in the first quarter of 2003.

Areas of focus

“All our concepts and beliefs are engineered towards understanding the client’s needs in order to provide cost effective solutions, tailored to meet defined requirements, within stringent deadlines,” said a company official.

The textile and apparel industry has very special needs. Textile companies have different levels of vertical integration and a variety of manufacturing processes and therefore management requirements. BIL with its textile knowledge can understand these requirements and brings its experience over the years to develop a solution catering to the textile customers’ requirements, according to officials.

While the SME/manufacturing sector in India is growing, BIL has a focus on providing cutting edge IT solutions with a special emphasis on automotive ancillary. The dynamics of the automotive industry is forcing the vendors to be more agile in meeting the fluctuating demands of OEMS, keeping their inventory and rejection cost under control. Resources at BIL have over 1000 man years of experience in developing solutions to the manufacturing industry.

Technology focus

The software delivery organization at BIL consists of four distinct practices with focus on specific products, their customisation and implementation. In addition, these teams are also experienced in customised development as well.

• Enterprise solution practice: Focused on building enterprise solutions using eXant, PeopleSoft and Oracle Applications for manufacturing, process based industries, textile and power sector. The team also implements integration solutions using Java/XML technology, J2EE Connector based Adapters and Webmethods integration server.
• Web technology practice: Focused on building customised solutions using J2EE and .NET Frameworks. The team implements B2B and B2C solutions for customers and highly skilled in Java, JTA, JMS, JDBC, Web Logic and Web Sphere, VB.NET, ASP.NET type of development platforms.
• Business intelligence practice: Focused on building data warehousing and data mining solutions for business intelligence. The team implements customised solutions on relational and object-relational databases and also by using products such as Informatica, Acta and Datastage.
• Application management services practice: Focused on supporting BIL customers on their applications management, operations, monitoring and maintenance. The team can provide on-site as well as off-site support for legacy, ERP, CRM and SCM solutions.

BIL developers and consultants are thoroughly trained in their respective skills areas and have a rich functional and technical experience on live projects, in leading technologies. In order to serve customers in different parts of the world efficiently, BIL has designed and patented a software development and service delivery methodology ‘Dual Site’ that greatly eliminates uncertainties of software projects delivery, through well-derived processes for project organization, planning, quality planning, configuration management, risk mitigations organized under formal software engineering.

Strategic tie-ups

Bhilwara Infotech has entered into a strategic partnership for the markets in South East Asia and the Indian sub-continent with Datatex - an international company specialising in the design, development and implementation of IT solutions for the textile and apparel industry.

Founded in 1987, Datatex brought together the expertise of a leading group of textile management consultants and an established software house with extensive experience in developing solutions for the IBM AS/400 environment. The Datatex package TIM - Textile Integrated Manufacturing - is a solution designed for textile and apparel manufacturers of all sizes. The resulting mix of strategic skills, industry knowledge and technological knowhow has led to the company’s current success in world markets. There are 250 implementations of TIM in more than 30 countries throughout the world.

Partnership with eXant Software

eXant Software (India) is a group company of eXant Software, (UK). eXant Software envisages being a worldwide provider of application software to the diverse business enterprises in an evolving business scenario. The designers and architects of the solution have over 30 years of experience in the development, design and providing support to global business applications. The following is the profile of the three eXant products:

• eXant Classic: Back-end application (financials, distribution, HR and payroll, eCommerce and telesales) eXant eXporter - Data extraction tool (any ODBC Database to MS Excel, MS Access, HTML, XML, ASCII text) eXant DistriPlus - secondary sales and channel management solutions (web based and thru PDA/handheld).
• Microsoft: BIL has partnered with Microsoft under ‘.NET induction program’ and have showcased their solution in the .Net seminars at Bangalore and Mumbai hosted by Microsoft. The solution has been engineered to support business development and resource planning functions, by managing the customer contact and resource deployment planning process.
• IBM: BIL has formally launched a new service offering in AS400/iSeries domain. BIL has gained considerable exposure and experience in dealing in AS400platform by servicing the internal needs of LNJ Bhilwara group. AS400/iSeries is a flagship product from IBM. AS400/iSeries team is offering services related to application design and development, application management, web facing & enablement, project management services and disaster management services. The industry has shown good interest in this new service offering. By getting membership of IBM Partner world program for software, BIL has further strengthened its expertise in IBM technologies. BIL will be delivering solutions to small and medium-size enterprises based on these technologies. This will also entitle BIL to be part of IBM’s steady stream of global advertising and co-marketing programs.

BIL partners with Dutel

BIL has tied up with Dutel, a UK-based banking software company. BIL will market and support ioo2, the banking solution of Dutel in India. The software addresses the need of the cooperative banks in India.

About Bhilwara group

BIL is a part of the LNJ Bhilwara group, a professionally-managed conglomerate employing over 17,000 employees and having sales exceeding US $ 360 million. Over its four-decade long existence, the group has consistently been associated with quality and performance. The fact that exports earnings constitute over 40 per cent of the overall sales underlines its high quality standards. The LNJ Bhilwara group owns a number of leading and popular brands like Mayur, BSL, La Italia Fashions, Buddy Davis, Bhilwara Classique and Champs.