Best SMEs of India

Venkatesha Babu, Deputy Editor, Business Today

Updated : Aug 11, 2015

Can technology help small companies compete better with their bigger counterparts?

The Business Today SME Roundtable in Bangalore - a precursor to the BT Best SME Awards - saw a rousing debate on how cloud and Saas technologies were helping small companies scale their businesses without the attendant high costs, and how this is helping them get on to a more level playing field with bigger companies. Of course, not everyone agreed, which is why this was such an engaging discussion.

Bharat Goenka, Co-Founder & Managing Director, Tally Solutions

Updated : Aug 10, 2015

Connectivity is more important issue than cloud servers: Bharat Goenka of Tally Solutions

Bharat Goenka, Co-Founder & Managing Director, Tally Solutions says cloud or no cloud is not the issue; the issue is whether you have ubiquitous connectivity. Connectivity will become the most important leveller.

Anant R. Koppar, Chairman & CEO, KTwo Technology Solutions

Updated : Aug 10, 2015

SMEs don't do much strategisation on what they need: Anant R. Koppar of KTwo Technology Solutions

Anant R. Koppar, Chairman & CEO, KTwo Technology Solutions says SMEs are usually influenced by friends and relatives on their choice of software and systems, but they should also explore what is available on the cloud.

Aravind Melligeri, Chairman & CEO, Aequs

Updated : Aug 10, 2015

Cloud solutions can help small companies go global: Aravind Melligeri of Aequs

Aravind Melligeri, Chairman & CEO, Aequs elaborates on how cloud solutions can help small companies cut down on their costs of computing, and help them to go global in a cost-effective way.

Rajesh Jagtiani, CEO, Think7 Business Systems

Updated : Aug 10, 2015

Rajesh Jagtiani of Think7 Business Systems on issues in uploading financial documents on cloud servers

Rajesh Jagtiani, CEO, Think7 Business Systems, says that while we have no issues sending financial documents on email, which is on the cloud, we have problems uploading them on cloud servers.

Vivek Kulkarni, Founder & Chairman, Brickwork India

Updated : Aug 10, 2015

Cloud technologies in favour of small companies: Vivek Kulkarni of Brickwork India

Vivek Kulkarni, Founder & Chairman, Brickwork India, explains why he feels small companies can use technologies like cloud and SaaS to compete with their bigger couterparts.

Updated : Sep 12, 2014

SMEs to play critical role in nation's economic growth: Aroon Purie

India Today Editor-in-chief Aroon Purie delivers keynote address in the Best SMEs 2013 award function and tells how small and medium enterprises are going to play a vital role in putting the nation's economic growth on a brighter side.

Updated : Sep 12, 2014

SMEs can help further IT penetration in India: Yes Bank

Pralay Mondal, Senior President, Retail and Business Banking, Yes Bank praises the new government efforts in economic growth and speaks on different economic aspects at the Best SMEs 2013 Award function.

Updated : Sep 12, 2014

Enterprise, entrepreneurship, facilitation make a country: Ravi Shankar Prasad

Ravi Shankar Prasad, union minister of Law and Justice and Communications and Information Technology shares his experience on changing Indian economy, working of new government and much more in his address at Best SMEs 2013 Award ceremony.

Updated : Sep 12, 2014

Josey Puliyenthuruthel, managing editor of Business Today on process through which best SMEs were selected

Josey Puliyenthuruthel, managing editor of Business Today tells about the long drawn process carried out by Yes Bank and Business Today to select the Best SMEs in the country and other organizations who were associated with this survey.

Updated : Sep 12, 2014

SMEs have lot of potential in agriculture sector, says CVC Commissioner JM Garg

J M Garg, Vigilance Commissioner of CVC addresses the gathering at Best SMEs 2013 award function where he throws light on the underutilized sector of the economy and how nation can reach the expected GDP growth rate and generate more employment.

Updated : Sep 12, 2014

India's Best SMEs 2013 award ceremony

India Today Editor-in-Chief Aroon Purie, Union Minister of Law and Justice Ravi Shankar Prasad and Senior President of Retail and Business Banking at Yes Bank Pralay Mondal present awards to the Best SMEs of 2013.

Updated : Sep 2, 2014

Tuareg Marketing aims at Rs 100 cr turnover by December

Tuareg Marketing CEO Jitendra Chauhan says the company uses technology and R&D facilities of Spanish company Taurus. The firm expects to clock turnover of Rs 100 crore in December 2014.

Ajay Kumar Kalavaia, Managing Director of iConcept Software Services

Updated : Aug 26, 2014

How iConcept software services aims to increase understanding of agri-businesses

With its focus on agriculture, iConcept Software Services, says Managing Director Ajay Kumar Kalavaia, aims to create an enterprise level market in intelligent solutions and provide tailor-made solutions to agriculture enterprises.

Maharani Paints Chairman Baldev Raj Bhatia

Updated : Aug 26, 2014

Why Maharani Paints is the most innovative enterprise

The first company in world to convert paint sludge into usable paints and primers, Maharani Paints, says Chairman Baldev Raj Bhatia, aims to take the company's turnover in the range of Rs 225-250 crore over the next 3 years.

Krishnan Muthukumar, Director of Monarch Catalyst

Updated : Aug 26, 2014

How Monarch Catalyst fulfills its environmental responsibility

One of the foremost companies to turn waste into resourceful raw materials, Monarch Catalyst's most recent effort is that of environmental effectiveness. The company plans to optimise its electricity usage by bringign it down by at least 25 per cent, says Director Krishnan Muthukumar.

Updated : Aug 26, 2014

How New Delhi Centre for Sight is growing pan-India

The New Delhi Centre for Sight, which became a specialised eye care centre in 2001-02, aims to become the largest opthalmology centre in India and abroad by 2020. Chairman and Medical Director Dr Mahipal S Sachdev says the super-speciality eye care centre has close to 50 outlets in the country.

Updated : Aug 26, 2014

What makes Eskay Speciality Chemicals stand out

With its customer-centric approach, Eskay Speciality Chemicals, the family-run business of four generations has reached new heights. Ketan L Shah, the company's director aims to keep the legacy going with product innovation and focus on customers.

Updated : Aug 26, 2014

Quattro CMD Raman Roy on leveraging offshore investments

One of the major contributors in making Quattro Global Services' business worth $20 billion, CMD Raman Roy says Quattro wants to be the company which brings offshore capabilities, manage services alongwith platforms to the mid-market, which lacks the technology needed to leverage offshore components.

Updated : Aug 26, 2014

Have focused on welfare of girl child: SEE Linkages' MD

SEE Linkages' MD Sameer Khera says their focus has been on the education and health care of the girl child. The movement towards environment responsibility has come from the customers.

Updated : Aug 26, 2014

'Sundev Appliances has grown at 100 per cent year-on-year'

Sundev Appliances MD and CEO Devanand Balasubramanian says during the last four years, the company has been growing at 100 per cent year-on-year.

Best SMEs of India

Can technology help small companies compete better with their bigger counterparts?

Connectivity is more important issue than cloud servers: Bharat Goenka of Tally Solutions

SMEs don't do much strategisation on what they need: Anant R. Koppar of KTwo Technology Solutions

Cloud solutions can help small companies go global: Aravind Melligeri of Aequs

Rajesh Jagtiani of Think7 Business Systems on issues in uploading financial documents on cloud servers

Cloud technologies in favour of small companies: Vivek Kulkarni of Brickwork India

SMEs to play critical role in nation's economic growth: Aroon Purie

SMEs can help further IT penetration in India: Yes Bank

Enterprise, entrepreneurship, facilitation make a country: Ravi Shankar Prasad

Josey Puliyenthuruthel, managing editor of Business Today on process through which best SMEs were selected

SMEs have lot of potential in agriculture sector, says CVC Commissioner JM Garg

India's Best SMEs 2013 award ceremony

Tuareg Marketing aims at Rs 100 cr turnover by December

How iConcept software services aims to increase understanding of agri-businesses

Why Maharani Paints is the most innovative enterprise

How Monarch Catalyst fulfills its environmental responsibility

How New Delhi Centre for Sight is growing pan-India

What makes Eskay Speciality Chemicals stand out

Quattro CMD Raman Roy on leveraging offshore investments

Have focused on welfare of girl child: SEE Linkages' MD

'Sundev Appliances has grown at 100 per cent year-on-year'

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