Small Indian enterprises have always complained that global
software vendors do not understand the economics or the
customization that is required in the Indian context. While the
opportunity is huge – few software vendors have succeeded in
adequately tapping the market that is made of over 6 million Indian
enterprises, contributing to 42 percent of India’s total
exports.
Now, a new breed of aggressive Indian companies is taking aim at
cracking this market with their indigenously built
Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) platforms. Armed with the new
platforms from the Indian vendors, small Indian enterprises are
using the power of PaaS to quickly create their own customized SaaS
applications. A case in point is SEDS, a NGO based in Anantapur
District in Andhra Pradesh, which is also India’s second most
drought-prone area. The NGO has used the PaaS platform of
Bangalore-based Wolf Frameworks, to build a cloud-based Census
Information Management System (CIMS) that has the potential to
transform the lives of more than 40,000 members living below the
poverty line.
What is unique about this project is the fact that SEDS does not
have a full fledged IT or programming team to write code for
developing this application.
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"There is a larger world beyond software developers and this
includes users with rich domain expertise but with no experience of
coding. We want to bring these users into the
mainstream by democratizing the process of software
development”
- Sunny Ghosh, MD, Wolf Frameworks
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SEDS only had a person who was skilled in database design and
database modeling. This did not hamper SEDS in any way, and
the team built a custom application without writing a single piece
of code. More importantly, it took SEDS and Wolf Frameworks just
120 hours to design, develop and deploy India’s first CIMS
serving bottom-of-the-pyramid customers. DFC, a Bangalore-based
mid-sized transportation company used the Wolf PaaS platform to
create a fleet solution for hundred trucks with no coding at
all.
Similarly, eCounting Corporate Management Services (CMS), a firm
of Chartered Accountants used the PaaS platform to create
accounting software based on a SaaS model in just 15 days.
- Using Wolf Frameworks’ PaaS, it took NGO SEDS just 120
hours to design, develop and deploy India’s first CIMS
serving bottom-of-the-pyramid customers
- Wipro used OrangeScape’s PaaS platform to build a
complete custom ERP system for a large government organization. The
project which was estimated to be around 600 man months of
development was done in just 200 man months
- DFC, a Bangalore-based mid-sized transportation company used a
PaaS platform from Wolf Frameworks to create a fleet solution for
hundred trucks with no coding at all
- National Stock Exchange used AppPoint's software BizApp Studio,
to develop a compliancy management solution. The compliancy
management helps the client manage, monitor, report and audit
people as well as process performance as per Six Sigma
standards
- eCounting Corporate Management Services (CMS), a firm of
Chartered Accountants used Wolf's PaaS platform to create
accounting software based on a SaaS model in just 15 days
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