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  • Danish retail giant Coop extends SAP S/4HANA ERP tech contract with TCS

    Danish retail giant Coop extends SAP S/4HANA ERP tech contract with TCS

     MUMBAI: Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has bagged a juicy contract extension with Coop Danmark, continuing to power the digital backbone of Denmark’s retail heavyweight across its 900-plus stores.
    The Indian IT behemoth will keep its hands on the technological tiller of Coop’s SAP S/4HANA enterprise resource planning system, a partnership that’s already been cooking for five years. In today’s retail pressure cooker, with penny-pinching shoppers scrutinising every price tag, this digital alliance aims to streamline operations and spruce up customer experiences.

    “We are building the Coop of the future,” declared Coop Danmark CTO Lars Ole. “Our digital transformation must continue if we’re to create a shopping experience that keeps our two million members coming back for more.”

    The collaboration, one of the Nordic region’s most substantial tech implementations, has already standardised business processes throughout Coop’s retail operations. Now the partnership is set to beef up with artificial intelligence and machine learning capabilities while trimming the fat from operating costs.

    TCS retail business head Abhijit Niyogi said: “We are proud to extend our partnership with Coop Danmark and support the critical core function of their retail business.”

    For TCS, this deal is another feather in its Nordic cap, where it currently deploys over 20,000 staff supporting regional heavyweights. The company has clearly not been resting on its laurels, having scooped the #1 spot in customer satisfaction and nabbed a Top Employer award from the Top Employers Institute.

    As supermarket wars intensify across Europe, this technological union seems determined to keep Coop Danmark fighting fit in the battle for increasingly fickle shoppers’ loyalty.

  • PFT launches CLEAR AI to lower cost of operation of media services

    PFT launches CLEAR AI to lower cost of operation of media services

    MUMBAI: Prime Focus Technologies (PFT), the technology subsidiary of Prime Focus, a global leader in media and entertainment services, has unveiled CLEAR AI. It offers transformational AI-led technology and media services powered by the cloud that help streaming platforms, studios, and broadcasters lower their Total Cost of Operations (TCOP) by automating their content supply chain.

    The Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software, CLEAR, has been put in place to streamline the foreign language mastering process and is designed for the media and entertainment industry.

    Multi-platform content fulfillment demand from the library continues to grow exponentially. Fulfillment encompasses activities that include the most appropriate content identification, determination, and creation of missing material, aligning all pieces of content, including video, audio, and text artifacts, and developing ready-to-distribute masters. PFT’s clients find these activities to be highly laborious, time-consuming, and expensive when done at scale as this includes custom work and massive coordination between internal studio teams and global vendors, resulting in an extended timeline, a slower go-to-market, and delayed monetization.

    Introducing CLEAR AI to simplify the Foreign Language Mastering process:

    · Assisting the mastering team in creating international masters with AI tools to help human mastering efforts offering convenience, speed, efficiency, and faster time to monetization.

    · Automatically identifies languages in dubs, subs, and on-screen text

    · Identifies metadata and segments to master from multiple versions

    · Compares versions and determines the best master to conform

    · Helps conform foreign language assets (dubs and subtitles) even across multiple frame rates

    · Automatically creates forced narration files that can be localised

    · Identifies and packages foreign language master in the specified format

    “A powerful combination of identifying languages and content segments, comparing versions, conforming, and packaging masters using AI boosts operational productivity by at least 3X. This makes the process simple and as easy as possible for both businesses and editors,” said PFT senior vice president and head of product management Murali Sridhar. “With an AI-driven approach, foreign language mastering works at an exceptional scale and speed like never before.”

    One can utilise CLEAR AI to create fully localised foreign language file masters for distribution in multiple international territories. It helps experience 60-75 per cent reduction in editorial/conform effort, gain efficiencies, speed, and faster time to market. It is basically mastering made easy.

    PFT works with major media and entertainment companies like Walt Disney-owned Star TV, Hearst Television, Channel 4, Sinclair Broadcast Group, A&E Networks, Warner Media, PBS, CBS Television Studios, 20th Century Fox Television Studios, Lionsgate, Showtime, HBO, NBCU, TERN International, Disney+ Hotstar, Cricket Australia, BCCI, Indian Premier League and more.

  • DigiBoxx onboards Mohua Mitra as chief product officer

    DigiBoxx onboards Mohua Mitra as chief product officer

    Mumbai: India’s leading indigenous digital asset management platform Digiboxx has announced the appointment of Mohua Mitra as the chief product officer. 

    In her new role, Mohua will focus on strategy, execution, attaining higher efficiency levels, further innovation and automation into the core product offerings at DigiBoxx. She brings over 21 years of experience in SaaS (Software as a Service), PaaS (Platform as a Service) and BI (Business Intelligence).

    Prior to joining DigiBoxx, Mohua Mitra has been associated with Hitachi Consulting (IN, UK & UAE) for eleven years as a technical architect and manager.

    On this new appointment, Digiboxx CEO Arnab Mitra said, “We are excited to have Mohua join DigiBoxx. She brings with her technical prowess and expertise in implementing solutions in international markets, which will help us take our product offerings to the next level.” 

    Mohua has majored in Physics from Jadavpur University, with a post graduate degree in Radio Physics & Electronics from the Institute of Radio Physics and Electronics (INRAPHEL), Calcutta University. She found her calling in IT consulting very early in her career, working for companies like TCS, Oracle, PwC and IBM as a techno-functional consultant before moving to Hitachi Consulting and now DigiBoxx.

    “It has been a long rewarding career, spanning various geographies including the US, UK, and the UAE. I think it was time for me to embark on a new journey where I can lend my experience to a Made in India service and make it a global product. I thank the DigiBoxx leadership for their confidence in me and look forward to working with the vibrant team,” Mohua Mitra said on her appointment.

  • India’s PFT Clear Media ERP suite to help US’ PBS content delivery

    India’s PFT Clear Media ERP suite to help US’ PBS content delivery

    MUMBAI: Prime Focus Technologies (PFT), the technology arm of Prime Focus, announced that its CLEAR™ Media ERP Suite has been selected by Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) to enhance their Network Operations Center (NOC) ecosystem efficiencies and sustainability, with the objective of reducing operational costs for content providers by migrating content delivery, initial QC (quality control) and transcoding operations to the cloud. PBS, with nearly 350 member stations, offers all Americans the opportunity to explore new ideas and new worlds through television and online content.

    PFT will deploy CLEAR’s Broadcast Cloud and Operations Cloud modules for automating PBS’s complete Direct to NOC file delivery process. All short turn external file-based content intended for the NOC will be ingested through CLEAR, thereby streamlining the member station organization’s process of receiving media across their ecosystem of content providers. PBS and PFT worked with member station Maryland Public Television to evaluate and deploy the system. CLEAR will also manage core operations like NOC-based media processing, initial automatic Quality Control (QC), delivery, storage and external file transfers. The deployment will also empower PBS’s team with a unified dashboard to track the status of business processes throughout the NOC in real time.

    “We expect that implementing CLEAR will help us improve operational efficiencies and increase throughput as we move a portion of our content operations to a cloud-based solution,” said PBS Operations VP Renard T. Jenkins.

    “Increasing the speed and accuracy of the NOC daily tasks, while improving access and visibility throughout the NOC delivery process is a step in the right direction for us. We feel it will enable us to focus on the imminent challenges ahead such as a future redesign and overhaul of PBS’ entire Media Supply Chain. We look forward to starting a new chapter in our journey to the cloud.”

    “We are excited to be supporting the team at PBS as they embrace digital transformation. Tailored specially to meet the content management needs of Media & Entertainment (M&E) enterprises with sprawling supply chains, CLEAR is perfectly positioned to help PBS improve efficiencies, lower costs and better serve their member stations,” said Prime Focus Technologies SVP Chris Ziemer.

  • Infor appoints Dass as south Asian subcontinent V-P

    Infor appoints Dass as south Asian subcontinent V-P

    MUMBAI: Infor, a leading provider of business applications specialized by industry and built for the cloud, has appointed Ashish Dass as the vice president and managing director for the south Asian subcontinent. Infor software helps eliminate the need for costly customization through embedded deep industry domain expertise.

    Ashish will be responsible for further scaling Infor’s business operations in the region, driving the next level of innovation, growing a high performance sales team and partner network contributing to the next phase of growth.

    Ashish brings with him 20 years of international experience in P&L and Sales & Operations management, across both start-ups and established multinational organizations in the Enterprise Software Applications space across Europe, South Asia, Middle East & Africa. His previous roles called for diverse leadership, sales and business experience in the areas of ERP (Manufacturing, Retail & Distribution), BFSI (Core Banking, Treasury, lending, Investment Banking, AML & ALM, Analytics, CRM & BI), and professional & managed services. He has played major roles in directing organizations towards their growth paths, increasing sales and bottom line by establishing new growth markets and improving operational efficiencies. Prior to this appointment, Ashish has held senior management roles in 3i Infotech Ltd and Misys International Banking.

    Tarik Taman, general manager, India, Middle East and Africa (IMEA), Infor, said, “With a strong footprint in the region, India – which is leading the digital transformation wave and emerging as the fastest-growing major economy in the world – is a strategic market for Infor. At our ‘Inforum’ event in New York City recently, we announced plan to quintuple market share in the region by 2020, for which India will play an instrumental role. Ashish’s appointment is timely.”

    Dass, listed in the top 50 Indian influential leaders (2015) by Forbes Middle East in the Arab World, said, “I am certain that I will be able to further shape the success of Infor in the competitive Indian enterprise software market.”

    Infor automates critical processes for industries including healthcare, manufacturing, fashion, wholesale distribution, hospitality, retail, and public sector.

  • Infor appoints Dass as south Asian subcontinent V-P

    Infor appoints Dass as south Asian subcontinent V-P

    MUMBAI: Infor, a leading provider of business applications specialized by industry and built for the cloud, has appointed Ashish Dass as the vice president and managing director for the south Asian subcontinent. Infor software helps eliminate the need for costly customization through embedded deep industry domain expertise.

    Ashish will be responsible for further scaling Infor’s business operations in the region, driving the next level of innovation, growing a high performance sales team and partner network contributing to the next phase of growth.

    Ashish brings with him 20 years of international experience in P&L and Sales & Operations management, across both start-ups and established multinational organizations in the Enterprise Software Applications space across Europe, South Asia, Middle East & Africa. His previous roles called for diverse leadership, sales and business experience in the areas of ERP (Manufacturing, Retail & Distribution), BFSI (Core Banking, Treasury, lending, Investment Banking, AML & ALM, Analytics, CRM & BI), and professional & managed services. He has played major roles in directing organizations towards their growth paths, increasing sales and bottom line by establishing new growth markets and improving operational efficiencies. Prior to this appointment, Ashish has held senior management roles in 3i Infotech Ltd and Misys International Banking.

    Tarik Taman, general manager, India, Middle East and Africa (IMEA), Infor, said, “With a strong footprint in the region, India – which is leading the digital transformation wave and emerging as the fastest-growing major economy in the world – is a strategic market for Infor. At our ‘Inforum’ event in New York City recently, we announced plan to quintuple market share in the region by 2020, for which India will play an instrumental role. Ashish’s appointment is timely.”

    Dass, listed in the top 50 Indian influential leaders (2015) by Forbes Middle East in the Arab World, said, “I am certain that I will be able to further shape the success of Infor in the competitive Indian enterprise software market.”

    Infor automates critical processes for industries including healthcare, manufacturing, fashion, wholesale distribution, hospitality, retail, and public sector.

  • Hathway implements Oracle E-Business Suite

    Hathway implements Oracle E-Business Suite

    MUMBAI: Hathway Cable & Datacom has implemented Oracle 11i E-Business Suit as its ERP applications in order to manage data of different lines of its businesses. The multi-system operate offers services in areas of cable TV, broadband and cable channels.

    Covered in the first phase were the purchase, stores and inventory, accounts and finance functions. This went live from 18 January. In the next phase, which will start shortly, the ERP solutions will involve the human resources, marketing and sales functions.

    Hathway has engaged the services of Satyam Computer Services for the implementation of this project.

    “Our business processes are ready and in line with Oracle’s integrated solutions which will tightly integrate the various functions, business processes, key stakeholders and employees across the organisation through this ERP solution,” said Hathway Cable & Datacom MD and CEO K Jayaraman.

    In April 2006, Hathway decided to implement Oracle Applications 11i E-Business Suite This was to run on HP servers using Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0 Advanced Server and Oracle 10g database on the Sun server platform.

    “The implementation of this ERP solution is expected to provide better visibility on our transactions and inventory. This will improve our customer delivery performance, reduce inventory and process cycle while bringing down operating costs. The solution is also expected to better cost of compliance and resource utilization through standardized processes, and improve customer service with better controls,” said Jayaraman.