RAMCO SYSTEMS ERP To E-Apps 

or and exporter
web-enabled key enterprise products and built up its alliances, achieving 78%
growth.

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Chennai-based Ramco Systems recorded a
turnover of Rs 170 crore for the fiscal 1999-00, a growth of 79% over the
previous year. Established in 1989 as part of the Chennai-based Ramco
Industries, Ramco Systems was hived off last year as an independent company.
This was the most significant happening for the company during the fiscal. Yet
another development was the revamping and renaming of the company’s flagship
ERP product Ramco Marshal as Ramco e.Applications. This marked the transition of
the company’s positioning as an ERP vendor to a complete content-based service
provider for the enterprise.

During
the last year, the company added more products to its portfolio. It now boasts
of e.Applications, Ramco Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) and Ramco Virtual
Works as its key offerings. The company also added two new products–on web
sales office and web maintenance–to its internet gateway applications suite.
The applications suite integrates a company’s web server with the back-end ERP
server, and can work with products of other ERP companies.

The
company, which has offices in the US, Switzerland, Malaysia and Singapore,
earned Rs 79 crore from exports. Segment wise, Rs 21 crore accrued from packaged
software and Rs 81 crore from services. Agency operations contributed Rs 67
crore in the networking segment and Rs 93 lakh in the peripherals segment.

The
company tied up with PricewaterhouseCoopers in Thailand to develop and sell
products based on its ERP product. It is also planning to increase its focus in
Australia and New Zealand. Besides continuing to offer its e-application family
of enterprise solutions, the company will also provide a pre-packaged software
component for various vertical industry segments such as manufacturing, finance
and insurance in the fiscal 2000-01. The company is also looking at investments
to fuel its marketing drive in the US and Europe. DQ

Fact Sheet

START-UP YEAR: 1993 PRODUCTS AND SERVICES: Ramco e.Applications, Ramco
Virtual Works & Projects based IS services BRANCHES: 18 ADDRESS: No. 3-5
Sardar Patel Road, Taramani, Chennai 600 113 TEL: 235 4510 FAX: 235 2884
WEBSITE: www.ramco.com