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  • 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.
     

  • Satyam Computer Services joins hands with a UK consultancy to focus in M&E space

    Satyam Computer Services joins hands with a UK consultancy to focus in M&E space

    MUMBAI: Hyderabad-based Satyam Computer Services Ltd. has recruited The Publishing Practice, Ltd. (TPP), a specialist UK consultancy in the media and entertainment industry, to spearhead the development of a new Consulting Group for its global Media and Entertainment practice. 

    The move will enable Satyam to combine an in-depth knowledge and understanding of the publishing business with the technical breadth and scale of Satyam’s billion-dollar global services organization. 

    According to an official release, TPP’s experienced consultancy group — including Mike Abell, Sharon Duckworth and Stephen Ryden-Lloyd — will join Satyam’s global Media and Entertainment practice to provide strategic consulting services and project-based delivery work for the publishing, online, broadcast, music and related industries. 

    The new group’s consultancy services will complement Satyam’s existing application delivery-based services to include new digital and online consulting — ranging across content acquisition, publishing, production and supply chain.
    Satyam and TPP have already established a track record working with customers on joint projects, since they formed an alliance in 2005. TPP’s customers include Blackwell, Elsevier, Financial Times, Harcourt Education, LexisNexis, London Business School, Reed Business Information and Sweet & Maxwell. 

    Satyam’s global media and entertainment practice senior VP Kevin English says, “We believe that the in-depth industry
    knowledge that Satyam acquire with the new addition of this senior consulting team will provide a real competitive advantage for us in our media and entertainment business — both here in Europe and in the US. The initial reaction from our customers has been most encouraging.”

    The Publishing Practice co-founder and director of Mike Abell adds, “In an environment in which media companies are challenged to deliver more through ever more diverse and complex channels of communication, the new Satyam Media and Entertainment group will be able to provide a very cost-effective solution in end-to-end programmes of work, from consulting, through delivery to an extensive support and maintenance capability.”