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JKT adds new feather to its cap; is now a Compiere Gold Partner

September 2007

JK Technosoft has been awarded the Gold Partner status by Compiere.

Gold Partnership is the elite designation for Compiere partners with global service delivery capabilities. The Compiere Gold Partner status provides a way for customers to identify companies that have proven their commitment and expertise in one or more specialized areas when delivering Compiere technologies. JKT shall assist in solution design, implementation, extension development and local support of Compiere products globally.

"JKT has a philosophy of being the best in the chosen verticals & technologies. Attaining Compiere Gold Partnership is a reflection of this strategy. We are confident that blend of our rich ERP & CRM experience and robust opensource Compiere solution will bring lot of value to our customers in SME segment" said Rajiv Mittal, Vice-President, Corporate Strategy, JK Technosoft.

“Compiere and JKT are both dedicated to delivering affordable and adaptable ERP solutions, so it was natural for the companies to work together, JKT brings an impressive range of business, technological, and industry expertise to address the substantial market demand for Compiere-based solutions in India and around the globe” said Don Klaiss, President and CEO of Compiere, Inc. “

Compiere, Inc. delivers the most widely used open source enterprise resource planning (ERP) and customer relationship management (CRM) solution with more than 1.2 million software downloads. Compiere offers powerful capabilities to automate all of your financial, distribution, sales and service functions to improve business efficiency and customer satisfaction.  Compiere is privately held and headquartered in Redwood Shores, Calif.

JKT Consulting launches SAP Solution Academy at Gurgaon

August 2007

JKT Consulting Ltd., a subsidiary of JK Technosoft Ltd., today announced the launch of JKT-SAP Solution Academy at Gurgaon. JKT-SAP Solution Academy is a joint initiative of SAP and JKT Consulting to strengthen the SAP Eco-system. The Academy provides SAP Training as per global standards of the SAP curriculum in e-Learning as well as Instructor Lead Training (ILT) modules.

JKT-SAP Solution Academy proves to be the One-Stop destination for your all your SAP Training needs. It is strategically located in Gurgaon, right across the Delhi borders adjacent to the National Highway 8. This is IT nodal city which hosts SAP Labs, Leading MNCs, SAP Partners, SAP Customers, Large IT Service companies, ITES/ BPO conglomerates and various other business houses. It not only provides proximity to resources but also tries to solve customer inconveniences. Keeping today’s competitive world and rocket paced life style in mind, the JKT-SAP Solution Academy appreciates your priorities.

Mr. Purnendra Kishore, CEO, JKT Consulting Ltd., said “We are bullish about SAP services and envisage this to be a growth engine for the organization. We are in the process of expanding our customer base and this partnership will play a pivotal role for traversing such growth trajectory.”

JKT Consulting signs Partnership Alliance with SAP

July 2007

JKT Consulting Ltd., a subsidiary of JK Technosoft Ltd., today announced its partnership alliance with SAP, strengthening its presence in the Indian ERP Market. This partnership will have unique combination of a Global Business Application leader and Indian Leading Business House working closely to leverage the fast growing Indian ERP market.

The partnership alliance with SAP includes three different partnerships i.e. SAP Alliance Partner, SAP Channel Partner for Healthcare & Retail and SAP Education Partner with Authorised Training Center at Gurgaon. JKT will provide end-to-end SAP services across all industry verticals in Large Enterprise and Mid-market. It would also provide pre-packaged mid-market SAP All-in-one Solution for Retail and Healthcare industry verticals.

To cater to the fast growing market requirements and customers need, JKT is setting-up a SAP Center of Excellence (CoE) in Noida to ensure one stop solution for demonstration of varied SAP solutions. “JKT aspires to be a leading service provider and support SAP’s growth in India. We will work closely with SAP to enhance the business value of our customer by engineering unique business proposition on top of a robust platform” says Mr. Purnendra Kishore, CEO, JKT Consulting Ltd.

JKT brings-in unique blend of industry experience and business application expertise required for rapid IT adoption. The partner alliance will cater to the needs of diverse industry verticals viz. Retail, Cement, Tyre, Textile, Agriculture, IT services etc. by offering best of breed implementations coupled with SAP best practices. JKT offerings would include bundled SAP license for its solution focusing on the mid-market.

Mr. Ranjan Das, MD, SAP India, said “JKT Consulting has the expertise in diverse industry verticals and is a fast growing market player in the mid market and the large enterprise space. We are happy to be associated with JKT Consulting and are looking forward to this alliance to get closer to our vision 2010.”

JK Technosoft Opens its Second Development Centre

May 2007

JK Technosoft (JKT) today announced the opening of its second development center in Bangalore. The decision to upscale to a new and bigger office in the city was necessitated with the expanding business of the company that has aggressive plans to achieve 100% growth for FY 2007-08. The new center is spread over 15,000 sq ft and will house 200 developers.

“Expansion in our enterprise services portfolio and active recruitments of resources has prompted us to expand into a bigger premises”, said Mr. Ramesh, Sr. VP – Enterprise Solutions. Being the company’s hub for enterprise services, the Bangalore office would help reinforce the new service offerings in the enterprise space in addition to the consulting and MFG/Pro services and also cater to the newly acquired Fortune 1000 clients.

The company has also set up a separate subsidiary in the name of JKT Consulting that would help focus on the SAP services and henceforth cater to the demand of the rapidly growing enterprise market worldwide by will bringing high value Consulting, Technology & Education solutions.

JKT gets new corporate identity

April 2007

JK Technosoft (JKT), a leading software and services organization, marks the next financial year with the introduction of a new corporate identity – a new logo, encapsulating its growth from a pioneering start-up to a strong leader in the software industry. 
 

The new logo symbolizes a new era of growth of the company and has been developed to reflect the increasingly global and contemporary position of JKT's business. It will be adopted around the world by all its subsidiaries and newly formed JKT Consulting that was incorporated earlier this year as a separate entity, to drive domain-centric initiatives, e.g.: retail, consumer goods, cement etc.

More than just a logo, the new corporate identity is an outward expression of the holistic growth and transformation, representing a number of initiatives towards becoming the best in innovation, quality, performance, service and support.

Maintaining the tradition JKT has inherited from its parent JK Organization (JKO), the company has infused new dimensions to its business under one umbrella name à JKT. With the backing of last 12 years of rich experience, JKT is reiterating its commitment to all its stakeholders including employees, customers and partners with renewed vigor.

JKT is now a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner

March 2007

JK Technosoft has been awarded the Gold Certified Partner status by Microsoft. This represents the highest level of competence and expertise with Microsoft Technologies. JKT’s Gold Certified Partner status further expands the strong relationship with Microsoft and its ability to provide enhanced development, support services on Microsoft products and technologies.

The Microsoft Gold Certified Partner status provides a way for customers to identify companies that have proven their commitment and expertise in one or more specialized areas when delivering Microsoft technologies. The certification further empowers JKT’s competency in Microsoft technologies.

“Each one of us at JKT feels extremely pleased to have attained Gold Certified Partner status in the Microsoft Partner Program. By this JKT has proven its technical expertise and commitment to be the leader in chosen technology,” said Mr. Satish Gupta, Executive Director of JKT.

JK Technosoft Forays into Retail IT

January 2007

JK Technosoft (JKT) today announced the launch of its Retail Business Solution Initiative. The company shall be providing end-to-end Retail Business Solutions to both Indian as well as Global Clients. JKT shall be addressing the retail sector through a separate subsidiary and will bring high value Consulting, Technology & Education solutions to meet the rapidly changing business needs of this segment. Mr. Purnendra Kishore, who has recently moved from SAP-India will drive this retail initiative of JKT as the CEO of the retail business. Announcing this launch, Mr. Abhishek Singhania, Managing Director of JK Technosoft said, “Retail is a booming sector and is still at a nascent stage. The Retail domain would help JKT address specific needs of the industry and make it a domain specific company from its traditional approach of being a technology centric company as this is a part of our on-going integral business strategy.” Adding to this, Mr. Kishore said “Advent of players in Retail Industry from various quarters has made it imperative to capitalize on various technology adoption formats. Retail Industry's dependence on IT needs a player with right blend of retailing strategy, industry domain knowledge, IT development ,deployment & sustenance experience - We exactly bring this combination and are poised to help retailers or aspirants to set-up, expand, select, deploy & sustain technology part of their retail venture.”

Coinciding with the launch announcement, a seminar on “Multi-Channel Retailing” was organized by JK Business School and sponsored by JK Technosoft, which was anchored by Prof. Nikhilesh Dholakia and Prof. Ruby Roy Dholakia, Management Guru’s from University of Rhode Island, USA. In addition, eminent speakers from the Indian Retail Spectrum including WalMart, Bharti, Future Group, and SAP expressed their views on wide ranging topics like m-commerce, e-commerce and future technology trends that will create and drive other multi-channel opportunities in the retail arena. “The coming years will be exciting for the Indian Retail Sector with the growth that it is poised for not only in terms of industry but also in terms of manpower that would be required to manage the various segments of this business. It would be a challenge for a institution like ours to transform the Human Resources and open up avenues for the aspiring youth to have the right mindset - explore, innovate, unlearn, learn, compete, be customer focused. We thought this One Day Seminar would give us an opportunity to brain storm on various dimensions of Retailing and give inputs for training.  JK Business School would like to bring hands on experience from the floor to the class rooms” said Dr. Reena Ramchandran, Director General, JK Business School.

JKT will offer both strategic consulting application and implementation, and outsourcing support services to its customers. According to Mr. Rajiv Mittal, Vice President-Strategic Initiatives, “This initiative is being backed by significant investments and JKT will form Key Alliances to provide optimized solutions for the Indian Retail sector, which is changing the buying behavior of both urban and rural consumers.” The company is in the process of augmenting the team, which will be responsible to address this new business opportunity.

JKT awarded Microsoft Certified Partner status

November 2006

JKT is pleased to announce that it has been awarded the status of Microsoft Certified Partner after fulfilling the competency requirements. JKT has registered in Microsoft Partner Program Custom Development Solutions Competency.

The move by Microsoft to award the certification comes in recognition of the quality and competencies that JKT has achieved in Microsoft platform, through the experience of its professionals and the value it has delivered to its customers.

Our customers will benefit from the elevated partner status since JKT has the ability to provide enhanced development and support services on Microsoft products and technologies. This partnership also gives us access to resources and support that will aid in rapid product development allowing us to take advantage of all Competency benefits and resources of the proven competency in providing custom-developed solutions.

"We are extremely elated to have earned certified status in the Microsoft Partner Program. The certified status allows us to clearly promote our expertise and relationship with Microsoft to our customers and continue to enhance the offerings that we provide in this space," said Rajiv Mittal, Vice-President.

JKT's participation in "Progress Technology World - 2006"

September 2006

JKT participated in the three-day “Progress Technology World 2006” technical conference, which was organized by the highly-esteemed Progress Software Corporation, USA. PSC is specialized in providing application infrastructure software for the development, deployment, integration and management of business applications based on Progress technology. The conference was held in Athens, Greece.

With the foundation of our decade long association with PSC; we were involved in exhibiting our capabilities in Progress and other services to participants - both end-user organizations and software companies from around the world.

Among the subjects that were conferred in the conference were the global technological developments and industry trends in the field of Service-Oriented Business Applications (SOBA), Web Services, Security, XML and more. Moreover the program of the conference included talks on emerging technologies and understanding which are relevant to Progress developers and partners.

It was a platform for JKT to explore new avenues in the area of Progress and other technologies; where JKT successfully generated business leads with prospects around the world.

JKT partners with Strata Software, UK for joint business & delivery

July 2006

Eyeing for that impressive growth in the UK market, JKT has grown into becoming a privileged technology partner of Strata Software, UK for the purpose of developing business opportunities and delivering solutions and services jointly.

Strata Software is a UK-based company focused on removing the barrier between business and IT. The company specializes in business analysis, service specification and application architecture, delivering products and services to help customers standardize best practice in these areas.

Our partnership combines Strata's analysis and specification expertise with JKT's track record in Agile development to create an “Enterprise Agile” approach - enabling projects to scale to an enterprise level, accommodating distributed development and mixed mode onsite/off-shore working, while retaining the underlying principles of Agile development.

JKT spreads out with a new office in Ireland

June 2006

The next step after winning a strong position in UK market and advancing our geographical presence in European market, JKT is all set to start its operations in the country of Ireland.

With increasing business opportunities and a purpose to serve global and local customers, JKT is focusing on further expansion in Europe in the coming months through its new sales office in the Republic of Ireland.

The initiative is an upshot of our increasing top and bottom lines in the European market that further strengthens JKT’s position as a global player.

JKT partners with Greycell Solutions, Japan

May 2006

Gearing up to expand operations globally, JKT has signed a new business partner in form of Greycell Solutions, Japan. Greycell is a technology solutions company with decades of experience in operating in the Japanese market with its strengths in the area of financial domain. Their service portfolio includes Business & Technology Consulting, E-learning Solutions and Project Implementation service.

Their strategic relationship with us brings the benefits of global service delivery to our Japanese clients. Conferring on the new partnership, Mr. Rajiv Mittal, (Vice President - Software Services & Strategic Initiatives) said, “We intend to explore new opportunities that can help us to grow mutually. We would be pleased to bring together a fruitful long-term association with Greycell”.

JKT appoints Mr. Yuvraj Bahadur as Non-Executive Director

March 2006

JKT is pleased to announce the appointment Mr. Yuvraj Bahadur to the company’s board. With perpetual corporate progression, JKT has taken a yet another initiative for its ongoing development.

Mr. Bahadur, bringing along over 35 years of experience in the IT industry with giants like IBM India, and as the former Executive Vice-President of HCL Infosystems India, will be responsible for advising the Management Council. He will be engaged in developing key global strategies for the company and monitor performance in areas of sales & delivery.

"I am very pleased to welcome Yuvraj and I am confident that his rich experience and talent will add that extra value to JKT”, said co-founder and Managing Director of JKT.

JKT expands operations with a new facility

March 2006

Increasing demand for JKT products and services has led to the company's expansion and the opening of its second facility in Noida.

“Expansion of its services portfolio has prompted an expansion to new premises”. The company has recently introduced additional services to its portfolio and has been actively recruiting to meet the demand. JK Technosoft, established over 14 years ago, is expanding its business by providing the major IT services to different industries and is supporting this expansion with the new premises. 

JKT secures sizable HMS orders from prominent hospitals

February 2006

JKT has secured 5 new orders for its flagship product HMS (Hospital Management System) implementations in India. The product has been developed as a fully functional Hospital Management System, which caters all the requirements of a modern health care institution.

As per one of the existing clients of HMS, “I must admit to having the distinct advantages of (a) designing & using less comprehensive database management programs of a similar nature using MS-Access and Oracle engines (b) participating in training aimed at providing skills in computer usage for several EHA co-workers (c) possessing more than working knowledge in databases, medicine and hospital administration and (d) having reviewed the software (in the single-user mode) on my laptop for several months prior to the evaluation.”