June 7, 2009 at 12:13 am
· Filed under News & Articles
6th June, 2009: A2Zapps.com, India’s first business software as a service platform (SaaS Platform) company, exhibited for the first time at the recently concluded SiliconIndia’s Startup City event held at Nimhans Convention Center in Bangalore, India.
Mr. Kundu himself was present with his team to demonstrate the platform and its ability to support customers from various industries. He stressed upon the fact that it could offer a single window solution for all the departments within an organization in the most user-friendly fashion, thereby eliminates the need for procuring multiple solutions from multiple vendors. The features and capabilities of this unique platform were amply demonstrated at the event and visitors were given the opportunity to understand its functionality, and the competitive advantages.
Many prospective partners at the booth had a chance to interact directly with Mr. Kundu and discuss partnership opportunities. A2Zapps.com strongly believes in a community with “Get Together, Grow Together” mission. The SaaS platform allows aspiring non-techie entrepreneurs to start their ventures with virtually ZERO risk and ZERO IT headaches.
The innovative On-Demand business platform product was a crowd puller for the event this year. Our ‘NO SAP’ poster also raised many questions among IT attendees, especially SAP employees who came to the event.
About SiliconIndia.com
This networking platform, an outgrowth of Bangalore media company Silicon Media Technologies, and Silicon India magazine in Fremont, Calif., is designed to connect Indians around the world for professional purposes. With nearly 100,000 users, it has an apprentice and mentoring program pairing the young and the old, and organizes career fairs in India and America. Microsoft, America Online, and Cisco have hired through SiliconIndia. Rival sites include San Francisco’s techTribe, which has an audience of 300,000 professionals in India. NEN Online, an offshoot of India’s National Entrepreneurship Network, is another popular homegrown site for the Indian professional set.
About a2zapps.com
a2zapps.com –India’s first on-demand enterprise Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform company founded by SaaS industry veteran from Salesforce.com- enables all businesses, primarily micro, small and medium enterprises achieve the desired success and growth by providing business software (CRM/ERP/others) as a utility service like electricity, mobile phone etc. as opposed to a large packaged traditional or hosted business software, which eliminates the upfront cost, hardware investments, software installation, on-going maintenance, and provides instant access to new features and free upgrades.
For more information on a2zapps.com and its On-Demand business platform, visit our corporate site at www.a2zapps.com and blog site at blogs.a2zapps.com. A2Zapps may also be contacted on phone at +91-9999930130 and on email at sales@a2zapps.com.
For Media enquiries, email at pr@a2zapps.com.
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April 2, 2009 at 2:07 am
· Filed under Education
6th Mar, 2009 by Jeff Kaplan on www.thinkstrategies.com
Among my predictions for 2009, was that the new Obama administration would push legislation and take other initiatives to promote Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and cloud computing as part of its overhaul of the government and economic stimulus efforts.
Sure enough, Obama’s new CIO–Vivek Kundra–made it clear yesterday that he is a big proponent of SaaS and cloud computing. Here’s what he said to the Wall Street Journal,
“I’m a big believer in disruptive technology. If I went to the coffee shop, I would have more computing power than the police department. Consumers had better technology than the government did. I’m all about the cloud computing notion. I look at my lifestyle, and I want access to information wherever I am. I am killing projects that don’t investigate software as a service first.”
Support for SaaS and cloud computing isn’t only coming from the top of the governmental pyramid. Some of the country’s school systems and universities are also making a concerted effort to move to the cloud.
I’ve seen this first hand through the experiences of my three boys who are using Google Apps at the college, high school and middle school levels as a result of ad hoc prompting by a new generation of young teachers who are bringing SaaS tools into the classroom unilaterally to improve their teaching ability.
This ad hoc adoption of SaaS in the classroom is being encouraged by Google with a concerted sales and marketing effort which mirrors the successful campaign which Apple aimed at the classroom a decade ago that has produced a new generation of workers to the business world who prefer Macs instead of PCs.
Abilene Christian University is an example of how the ad hoc adoption process, combined with Google’s new sales and marketing efforts, are succeeding in pushing institutions to migrate to SaaS. I had the privilege of moderating a session regarding SaaS, cloud computing and managed services for NetworkWorld’s IT Roadmap in Dallas where the university’s networking manager, Arthur Brandt, talked about their migration to Google Apps. He also revealed that their move was a part of a larger, nationwide migration of a couple dozen Christian universities.
Article source- http://www.thinkstrategies.com/blog/2009/03/us-schools-and-government-promoting-saas-and-cloud-computing.html?goback=%2Ehom
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March 21, 2009 at 11:47 pm
· Filed under General, Information Technology, SS's Thoughts
21 Mar, 09 by Suraj Sinha (SS), a2zapps.com
Initially, installation-installation-installation from a CD, then download-download-download from internet. We had been doing this for a while. This increases our junk in the room or in the computer. Neither of them is exciting any more. Now it is the time to access an application only when you need. It is not necessary to download or install any application software product.
I am running out of CD rack space and computer hard disk space. Every time I go to Fry’s Electronics and see any new business software or, even computer games, I ask the attendant, ‘Are you sure that this does not have an internet version?’ I hate to install every time. And, after installation of the software, I see that my rack space is shrinking. Or, even using a download version also, my disk space is shrinking. Therefore, I wish all these utilities become available on demand over a ‘compute cloud’.
At least, I am happy to find a smart product like a2zapps.com that is truly a generic on-demand service platform. Today, if I need to access my diverse sets of information and status of several events happened in last three years, I can just login to my a2zapps.com account over the internet without worrying about copying MS Outlook mail/data, contact manager/data from one older laptop to a new laptop. Even if I use Gmail or, Google docs; they may not be well-integrated and customizable satisfying my organizational needs. A2zapps is definitely one-of-a-kind integrated platform to be customized based on my need.
The future home and business applications, games, puzzles and whatever applications you can imagine will be on ‘compute cloud’ accessible over the high-speed internet.
Therefore, forget installing, downloading or, buying unnecessary application bundles many of those you will never use. Only subscribe the ones you need over the internet.
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March 20, 2009 at 8:27 pm
· Filed under Announcements
20 Mar, 09 by a2zapps.com
After several months, based on our customers’ feedback, we have finally changed our User Interfaces (UIs) to make the business platform more user-friendly and less click-able. It has improved interfaces into a better and colorful look. We have added expandable-collapsible sections vertically and horizontally to provide users a single window for multiple actions such as recent item viewing, quick record/multi-record creation, upcoming meetings and due tasks etc. This change in layout makes user navigations much easier.
Also, we have enhanced the look-and-feel of row display patterns with variations of light and shade. Users can change easily the skin color of the interfaces on their choice.
We thank all our customers for their valuable feedback and contributing to our product roadmap.
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March 15, 2009 at 1:53 am
· Filed under General, SS's Thoughts
15 Mar, 09 by Suraj Sinha (SS), Chief Customer & Product Strategy Officer, a2zapps.com
This is more complex than a transitive relationship. Especially, when we live in these turbulent economic times, we go through this desperation between passion for product improvement and search for monetary support. We all know that eventually customers will rule and guide everything and everyone irrespective of any external parameters. And, that is the only guiding force we have to live with.
We gave away all our energy, time and money to come up with such a beautiful and most importantly, useful product (not a research project or, experiment). And, we are 200% confident in our growth potential as our only direct competition is the new ‘force.com’ by Salesforce.com as of today. So, why don’t we work 24/7 to make our first 25 customers successful? May be, then we chase VC’s or, they will chase us. Who knows?
Just to give a highlight once more, this product is recession-proof. As a matter of fact, in recession, this product helps emerging business owners to save money. (http://corporate.a2zapplications.com/corp/benefits)
It is a fight between skepticism on not-so-long-proven concept and confidence on traditionally proven concept. Apparently, Salesforce.com and few others showed the business community the power of CRM software over the internet (SaaS ) since 1999 with phenomenal success. And, in developing countries like India or South Asia, this product can save so much time, energy and money for SME’s (Small, Medium Enterprises). Let’s first perceive it with our current customers and prospective customers.
Therefore, ‘chase customers, customers and customers’ is our current ‘mool-mantra’. (Main motto) This will take the business community along with the VC community to a proven world of perception.
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March 13, 2009 at 1:36 am
· Filed under SMEs, SS's Thoughts, SaaS/PaaS
13 Mar, 09 by Suraj Sinha (SS), Chief Customer & Product Strategy Officer, a2zapps.com
“Need to buy and maintain a local generator for electricity or, connect to existing power supply line” – which one is more convenient?
Of course your next question will be how reliable and stable your power supply line is!! Assuming the power supply line is reliable and stable; everyone must admit that they will go for the second option as they had been doing it for a while in most of the developed and developing countries.
As an analogy, just replace ‘electricity’ by a useful business software application and ‘power supply line’ by internet connection (or, say information/data communication line). Assume that, reliability and stability come from a super-secure and reliable data or, information center maintained by a group of technical experts. Won’t you like to enjoy the convenience of using this business application over a secure internet connection irrespective of wherever you are or, whenever you want? Or, you want to take the pain of local purchase of hardware, the software, hire people to maintain all these IT (Information Technology) –related activities!!
“SaaS-Software-as-a-Service” enables us to live that convenient life using the former option. It brings simplicity and transparency in the usage model of a business application. The information platform is so integrated that you can have a spreadsheet data, email/phone discussion thread and different visual presentations all within single integrated database.
If you have a choice of ‘redefining convenience’ of the usage model of a business application as either an IT-savvy or, non-IT-savvy business owner; won’t you want to forget traditional software usage model and embrace the next-generation software as a service model?
And, a2zapps.com is the FIRST ASIAN SaaS platform in true sense to provide this convenience to you over the internet.
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March 11, 2009 at 11:35 pm
· Filed under General, SS's Thoughts
11 Mar, 09 by Suraj Sinha (SS), Chief Customer & Product Strategy Officer, a2zapps.com
Of course, we have 192 out of first 400 billionaires from these Ivy leagues. Their ideas, implementations and job and wealth creation directly (and indirectly) shaped our economies, lives and etc. etc. Their outstanding contributions have had enormous impact in creating many start-ups, Venture Capital ecosystem.
(Also, there are many others from similar ecosystem and outside the ecosystem those changed our economy, but purpose of this blog is to highlight on a recent example I read that has some impact on me)
There are some other people around us like Jack Ma (http://www.inc.com/magazine/20080101/how-i-did-it-jack-ma-alibaba.html). In my opinion; his tenacity, determination and business aptitude outside the ‘innovation-investment-ivy-league’ –centric ecosystem created an exemplary role. Many of us those want to be future entrepreneurs in a country like India or other Asian countries should read his life. He showed his great contentment and calmness without resisting outside hurdles and obstacles those are very predominant in developing countries. His submissive approach in handling adverse circumstances without losing business focus may be very effective in our culture of many religions, convictions and prejudices. His super-confidence in himself and customer-centric focus supersedes all obstacles and made him uniquely powerful and an ideal business leader.
Our business schools and elite institutions should include and share some of his experiences in regular class of entrepreneurship. Our scholars, professors and teachers sometime get out of the library full of books and embrace little bit of empiricism and reality.
It is more of ‘Intrapreneurship’ as Guy Kawasaki says before entrepreneurship. How to face the reality within a company or school premises is the first sign of entrepreneurship – or, “intrapreneurship”. We definitely need to look at ourselves, our attitudes and reboot our brains for a change.
Once George Bernard Shaw said, “The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can’t find them, make them.” In a different (a bit cynical) tone, “The reasonable man adapts himself to this world; the unreasonable one is trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man”.
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March 5, 2009 at 11:39 pm
· Filed under News & Articles
Mar 5, 2009 by Vandana Sharma
Here’s a Web application that claims to offer multiple enterprise management tools on a single platform. We take a close look at the product and explore the technology that drives it!
As the market talks about ‘recession proofing’, here is a tool that offers an integrated, customised and hassle-free IT environment to enterprises, and that too on a subscription basis.
For full article, click here
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February 27, 2009 at 2:00 am
· Filed under Information Technology, News & Articles, SMEs, SaaS/PaaS
Feb 27,2009 by Samar Srivastava
New Delhi: For small businesses the world over, the costs of buying and installing software can often be prohibitive. Many simply do without it. Kantanu Kundu, founder and chief executive of a2Zapps.com, says he’s seen companies in India managing their accounts on complicated excel sheets that can number as many as 50 pages.
Kundu believes they’d be willing to invest in software if it comes at the right price. Small businesses find it easier to pay a subscription-based fee, under a model called software as a service, or SAAS, rather than a hefty purchase price.
Click here for complete news
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February 26, 2009 at 1:40 am
· Filed under News & Articles
Feb,2009 by The Franchising World Team
In an endeavour to deliver software as a service just like electricity, water or mobile connections, a2zapps.com was launched in May2008. a2zapps.com has developed a software to provide a platform to deliver a2z software needs of the SMEs across a2z sectors over the internet.
Click here for the full article
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February 24, 2009 at 11:41 pm
· Filed under A TO Z DEMO VIDEOS, Financial Services, Logistics, Manufacturing, Professional Services
a2zapps.com Invoicing app is an ideal application if you are looking to track all invoices in one central location. This app will be integrated closely with Sales app where billing department can view all sales orders, generate and mail invoices to customers. The layout and look-and-feel of Invoice can be created as per your needs from scratch in few hours. Invoice delivery tasks can also be scheduled using its calendaring feature.
As you aim to grow, this model/platform enables you to add other modules/apps such as HR, Payroll, Operations, Expense tracking, Vendor management etc. to the platform at ZERO additional cost. At the end, you need to deal with a single vendor and a single platform for all your business solutions. This is just a sample demo. This can be partially or completely changed to suit your unique needs very quickly.
We are looking forward to having an opportunity to serve you and help you become the next-generation enterprise. Just drop us an email at sales@a2zapps.com, if interested. We will get back to you promptly.
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February 24, 2009 at 8:41 pm
· Filed under A TO Z DEMO VIDEOS, Education, FMCG, Financial Services, Healthcare, Information Technology, Insurance, Logistics, Manufacturing, Non-Profit, Professional Services, Real-estate, Travel & Hospitality
a2zapps.com HR & Payroll application helps your organization in streamlining various HR and payroll related activities and organize all of your personnel data in one centralized location. It empowers you to increase productivity, improve employee communications, hire the best candidates and retain them. Using this app, you can track everything related to your employees such as employe master data, payroll data, various types of leaves, promotions, loans etc. With this app, you will also be able to generate monthly salary slips and print in one click. It provides a comprehensive view and real time visibility into the overall HR/Payroll data of the organization through various reports and dashboards and eliminates HR headaches.
As you aim to grow, this model/platform enables you to add other modules/apps such as Sales, Marketing, Invoicing, Expense tracking, Vendor management etc. to the platform at ZERO additional cost. At the end, you need to deal with a single vendor and a single platform for all your business solutions. This is just a sample demo. This can be partially or completely changed to suit your unique needs very quickly.
We are looking forward to having an opportunity to serve you and help you become the next-generation enterprise. Just drop us an email at sales@a2zapps.com, if interested. We will get back to you promptly.
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February 24, 2009 at 8:22 pm
· Filed under A TO Z DEMO VIDEOS, Education
If you are running a management college, you have an opportunity to take your institute to the next level. Increasing activities and decreasing number of staff, today, are overwhelming business schools like yours. This heavy burden can be conveniently eased off the back, through our on-demand business software platform that provides a comprehensive view and real time visibility into the overall data of the institute and integrate the activities from admission to student administration to corporate relationship to placement. This platform allows your institute to be paperless. As you aim to grow, this model/platform enables you to add other modules/apps such as HR, Payroll, Transport Management, Event management etc. off the same data at ZERO additional cost. At the end, you need to deal with a single vendor and a single platform for all your business solutions. This is just a sample demo. This can be partially or completely changed to suit your unique needs very quickly.
We are looking forward to having an opportunity to serve you and help you become the next-generation business school. Just drop us an email at sales@a2zapps.com, if interested. We will get back to you promptly.
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February 24, 2009 at 7:50 pm
· Filed under A TO Z DEMO VIDEOS, Education
If you are running a school, you have an opportunity to take your institute to the next level. Increasing activities and decreasing number of staff, today, are overwhelming schools like yours. This heavy burden can be conveniently eased off the back, through our on-demand business software platform that provides a comprehensive view and real time visibility into the overall data of the institute and integrate the activities across all departments. This platform allows your institute to be paperless. As you aim to grow, this model/platform enables you to add other modules/apps such as HR, Payroll, Transport Management etc. off the same data at ZERO additional cost. At the end, you need to deal with a single vendor and a single platform for all your business solutions. This is just a sample demo. This can be partially or completely changed to suit your unique needs very quickly.
We are looking forward to having an opportunity to serve you and help you become the next-generation school. Just drop us an email at sales@a2zapps.com, if interested. We will get back to you promptly.
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February 24, 2009 at 7:26 pm
· Filed under A TO Z DEMO VIDEOS, Healthcare
If you are running a hospital or nursing home or clinic, you have come to the right place. This is just a sample Hospital Management system. This can be partially or completely changed to suit your unique needs very quickly. In the current economic crisis, you can not only focus on revenues but also need to streamline your operational activities for better operating margin. By subscribing to a2zapps.com platform, you can integrate various activities across various departments such as OPD, IPD, Lab, X-Ray etc. As you aim to grow, this model/platform enables you to add other modules/apps such as HR, Payroll etc. off the same data at ZERO additional cost. At the end, you need to deal with a single vendor and a single platform for all your business solutions.
We are looking forward to having an opportunity to serve you and help you become the next-generation hospital or nursing home. Just drop us an email at sales@a2zapps.com, if interested. We will get back to you promptly.
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February 24, 2009 at 7:26 pm
· Filed under A TO Z DEMO VIDEOS, Education, FMCG, Financial Services, Healthcare, Information Technology, Insurance, Logistics, Manufacturing, Non-Profit, Professional Services, Real-estate, Travel & Hospitality
Vendor & Expense management app can be used to streamline purchasing process in your organization. It helps tracking vendor master data, all expenses category/head wise and issuing purchase orders to vendors. All important interactions with vendors are tracked in one place to provide you full insight into Vendor management process. With this app, you can easily create and print purchase orders. This improves your procurement process and provides a comprehensive view and real time visibility into the overall purchasing process of your organization through various reports and dashboards. Its ease of use and simple navigation is helping users in purchasing department to adopt it quickly.
As you aim to grow, this model/platform enables you to add other modules/apps such as Sales, Marketing, Invoicing, HR/Payroll etc. to the platform at ZERO additional cost. At the end, you need to deal with a single vendor and a single platform for all your business solutions. This is just a sample demo. This can be partially or completely changed to suit your unique needs very quickly.
We are looking forward to having an opportunity to serve you and help you become the next-generation enterprise. Just drop us an email at sales@a2zapps.com, if interested. We will get back to you promptly.
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February 24, 2009 at 6:53 pm
· Filed under A TO Z DEMO VIDEOS, Education
If you are running a training institute, you have an opportunity to take your institute to the next level. Increasing activities and decreasing number of staff, today, are overwhelming institutes like yours. This heavy burden can be conveniently eased off the back, through our on-demand business software platform that provides a comprehensive view and real time visibility into the overall data of the institute and integrate all possible activities across all centers and franchises. This platform allows your institute to be paperless.
As you aim to grow, this model/platform enables you to add other modules/apps such as HR, Payroll, Event management etc. off the same data at ZERO additional cost. At the end, you need to deal with a single vendor and a single platform for all your business solutions. This is just a sample demo. This can be partially or completely changed to suit your unique needs very quickly.
We are looking forward to having an opportunity to serve you and help you become the next-generation training institute. Just drop us an email at sales@a2zapps.com, if interested. We will get back to you promptly.
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February 24, 2009 at 6:50 pm
· Filed under A TO Z DEMO VIDEOS, Professional Services
If you are running a recruiting firm, you have come to the right place. This is just a sample recruiting automation app. This can be partially or completely changed based on your needs very quickly. In the current economic crisis, you can not only focus on revenues but also need to streamline your operational activities for better operating margin. By subscribing to a2zapps.com platform, you can integrate various activities. As you aim to grow, this model/platform enables you to add other modules/apps such as HR, Payroll etc. off the same data at ZERO additional cost. At the end, you need to deal with a single vendor and a single platform for all your business solutions.
We are looking forward to having an opportunity to serve you and help you become the next-generation enterprise. Just drop us an email at sales@a2zapps.com, if interested. We will get back to you promptly.
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February 24, 2009 at 6:43 pm
· Filed under A TO Z DEMO VIDEOS, Education, FMCG, Financial Services, Healthcare, Information Technology, Insurance, Logistics, Manufacturing, Non-Profit, Professional Services, Real-estate, Travel & Hospitality
This is an ideal cost-effective online solution if your organization is looking to create the best possible collaborative environment. This application/module is tightly integrated within other apps/modules which you might like to deploy. In the current economic crisis, you can not only focus on revenues but also need to streamline all your activities around projects for better operating margin.
As you aim to grow, this model/platform enables you to add other modules/apps such as Sales, Marketing, Invoicing, HR/Payroll etc. to the platform at ZERO additional cost. At the end, you need to deal with a single vendor and a single platform for all your business solutions. This is just a sample demo. This can be partially or completely changed to suit your unique needs very quickly.
We are looking forward to having an opportunity to serve you and help you become the next-generation enterprise. Just drop us an email at sales@a2zapps.com, if interested. We will get back to you promptly.
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