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Tamilnadu, Karnataka and Kerala state asso-ciations are coming up with fresh teams. The biggest challenge for any new president would be to check the number of channel partners losing this business.

If my sources are right, across the Southern states, almost 20 percent channel partners had decided to move away from this business. This might be an exaggerated number. However, I have to believe this hard fact as when I cross checked with various channel sources, they predicted the same.

Even though, we all think that e-sale has come to normal and the sale of large brand retails are not to impact us, the strong adop-tion of those e-tailing products n the recent past has brought this.

This issue of Cell IT brings you some of the interviews of the key vendors, national-level IT associations and some exclusive news on vari-

After 45 days of continuous practice and matches BITA completes “2nd BITA CRICKET CUP” successfully in Indira Gandhi Stadium, Vijayawada. On 6th February, the event was inaugurated by Bonda Uma, MLA (Central) Vijayawada. He said, sports can help to relieve stress levels if played regularly and it’s good that BITA is organising such events for the benefit of dealer community. He also expressed that AP is going into a new phase with many developments in IT and infrastructure; also he said that our CM is trying to bring many IT companies to this region which could help to develop more and more business.

The president of Association Md. Khaza wel-comed the MLA and gave a brief about the activ-ities. He said that the association has done many activities for the poor and provided health insur-ance to the members of BITA. He also announced that BITA may plan for a trip to a foreign destina-tion.

Coming to the match side, the fight was between 6 teams namely IT KINGS sponsored by CP PLUS, IT ROYALS sponsored by DIGISOL, IT REBELS sponsored by QUICKHEAL, IT LIONS sponsored by RICOH, DARE DISTIES sponsored by D-LINK, VEN-DOR WARRIORS sponsored by BROTHER. The semi-final was played in between IT KINGS and IT ROYALS and the winners were IT ROYALS, similarly the second semi-final was played in between IT

ous segment. On the budget side, there is some for the retailing sector too. The announcement on allowing the small retailers anytime in a week is supportive move for channels.

Another aspect, I wanted to share is, the good time is still for strategic channel part-ners. In a recent meet conducted by the Gates, we came across many partners across India. Sponsors were also innovative and I am sure channel partners should look on such alter-native and strategic options and introduce to their customers. Might not be in Chennai or Bengaluru, I am sure such type of technology event will thrill the customers in a place like Hubli, Tirupati etc.

Feel free to write to me for the latest trends you see in your market.

Dinesh Shyam SukhaEditor

REBELS and DARE DISTIES and the winners were IT REBELS. The final match was played in between IT REBELS and IT ROYALS and the cup was taken by IT ROYALS under the captaincy of Md. Imthiyaz Raja from Moieen Computers.

There was a special cup “CELL IT CUP” spon-sored by CELL IT and the fight was in between Dare Disties and Vendors which was sponsored by CELL IT, the winners were Dare Disties sponsored by D-Link under the captaincy of Suresh from Ingram. The winner and runner trophies were presented to the winners in the closing ceremony on 13th March in Sai Sadan Hall beside Stella Col-lege. The other awards include Man of the series to Leema Prasad of Sai Services, Best Bowler to Ramakrishna of Sri Lekha Computers, Best Ener-getic Player to Ramu of KK Systems. Cash Awards include Winners Rs.15000, Runners Rs.10,000, Man of the Match Rs.1000 each for 9 matches, Man of the series Rs.5,000, Best Bowler Rs.1000, Best Energetic Player Rs.3,000.

The main sponsors include HP, Dell, Lenovo, Acer, Microsoft and the co-sponsors include D-Link, Digisol, QuickHeal, CP Plus, Logitech, Quantum, AOC, Canon, Ricoh, TP-Link, Enter, Brother, Cisco, Epson, Zebronics, Nook, Asus, Gigabyte, Intex etc. We are thankful to the Sponsors and with their support we have made this event successful, said, Raj Kumar Baid of Baid Electronics.

IS CHANNEL BUSINESS AGAIN IN STEEP FALL?

BEZAWADA IT ASSOCIATION COMPLETES “2ND BITA CRICKET CUP” SUCCESSFULLY

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Budget - 2016

“The Government has tried to keep a healthy balance between inclusive growth and fiscal consolidation amidst global volatility and additional burden on account of the 7th pay commission, OROP. With an important focus on digitation, the government has shown good intent in keeping up the momentum of the Make In India and Digital India Mission. The government has shifted its focus from large cities to rural areas showing a clear intent to uplift those who belong to the bottom of the pyramid, especially the agricultural sector and focus on creating skilled labor.

The effort to incentivize the Make In India program by way of domestic value adding in the Electronics Manufacturing Systems segment is a step in the positive direction as is the removing of custom duties. This augurs well for us as majority of the spending in our industry is on imported Electronic System Design & Manufacturing(ESDM) items. From a taxation standpoint, lowering of Corporate IT Tax for companies not exceeding Rs. 5 crore turnover to 25% plus surcharge is a positive move as it offers incentives to SMEs and SMBs in the country to focus on their growth. Another proposal that will benefit the country and stimulate start-ups on the growth trajectory is the amendments to the taxation for new manufacturing companies incorporated after is 1ST March 2016 as they will now have the option to be taxed at 25% plus surcharge and cess provided they do not claim profit linked to investment.”

SUNIL KHANNAPresident & MD, Emerson Network Power in India

ALTAF HALDEManaging Director, South Asia, Kaspersky Lab

“The overall Union Budget 2016-17 is encouraging for the common man, especially the tax relief in HRA. The announcement of Digital literacy scheme to be launched to cover 6 crore additional rural households is a welcome move. This will not only boost the fast adoption of digital technologies across the country but also encourage digital means to reach out to consumers and different markets. Start-ups getting 100% tax exemption for 3 years except MAT is again a good call taken by the government, as this will entice budding entrepreneurs to start their own business and since we are targeting this sector for our software business, it could prove beneficial for us as well. Besides, it will also help in creation of more and more jobs in the country. Overall, it’s a balanced and realistic budget in difficult times.

SANJAY SEHGALV.P. SMB, TP-LINK India Pvt Ltd

“I feel the budget announced on 29th Feb is in the right direction and will benefit overall economy in long run. While there has been focus on providing infrastructure to rural areas in India there also has been focus on expanding the reach for internet connectiv-ity. As the impetus is to Make in India I feel there should have been more support by giving exemptions from BCD, CVD and SAD while importing parts, components and accessories required for manufacturing of IT Hardware such as desktop PC and note-book PC. We are satisfied to a certain extent with this budget, but our expectation was with respect to passage of GST bill which did not happen. And while the idea to work towards a Digital India the budget could have spelt out more steps for the same.”

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SURESH PANSARIDirector, Rashi Peripherals

DEBJANI GHOSHPresident, MAIT

RAHUL AGARWALMD, Lenovo India

“We are happy that the budget establishes a strong emphasis on technology in almost all the development areas highlighted by the Finance Minister. Technology has been recognized as an important enabler across initiatives ranging from agriculture to skill development to PDS to public procurement. Also, the announcements on the Rural Digital Literacy and the Digital Saksharta Abhiyan are positive strides to bolster the ‘Digital India’ vision.‘Make in India’ and ‘Digital India’ remained important items on the agenda in the Budget this year. The changes in the customs and excise duty rates on components & sub-components reaffirm the ‘Make in India’ vision of the government. This will help in building a robust component ecosystem in the country, which is very important for becoming a manufacturing hub.While the government’s focus has remained on giving an impetus to domestic manu-facturing, we were hoping to see the duty differential policy being extended to PC man-ufacturing but could not happen. We will have to engage further with the government in this area.”

“The Union budget is like a spring board that will propel India into the New Era. The budget this time not only looks at providing infrastructure to the Rural areas but also expand the horizon of Internet connectivity. Make in India continued to headline the Budget, no surprise there. With lesser Import Duties on raw materials for Notebook, Tablet and Desktop manufacturers, we are sure to have national players competing in the above mentioned industries.”

“The budget is strongly focused on bridging the divide between the ‘haves’ and ‘have not’s’, and good work by the Government in identifying the right priorities for focus un-der the 9 pillars called out by the FM. This budget, unlike any other, has not treated tech-nology in isolation but integrated the effective use of technology across all the strategic imperatives in keeping with the intent of a Digital India. This budget has laid emphasis on governance reforms and ease of doing business, while highlighting the need for en-hancing educational skills in order to make India a knowledge based economy. We are disappointed with announcement of the R&D incentives reducing because we believe that it is critical for India to be one of the most innovative countries in the world and this move could be detrimental in building India as an innovation hub. I strongly urge the government to re-consider this move, as any restrictions on the R&D ecosystem are likely to decelerate innovation in the country and restrain the ambitious Make in India and Digital India vision.”

Budget - 2016

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INTERVIEWSIS

It might be hard to believe, Tushar Parekh and Jiten Mehta, two from the ISODA summit organiz-ing team have extreme opposite views on many aspects. However, they both claim they spent more time with each other than their respective families from the day it started.Cell IT brought together for a Focus Group Discus-sion on the lessons learnt from the sixth version of the association’s flagship event.Tushar says that the idea started in June 2015, the team valuated shortlisted quotations from 6 event agencies and 8 locations including Europe. “Con-sidering the budget, flight time and aesthetics of the location, we zeroed to Langkawi and we were particular about the resort . In the month of July, we had the entire event-flow in hand” says Tushar.Jiten joins, “There were many summits. However, the challenge was to make this the best amongst the previous versions and set high-standards. Not just on the location and outing, we decided to go more on content. We tried our level best in making the interactive.” Jiten also wonders that without

HOW MANY VENDORS ARE 100% CHANNEL AS THEY CLAIM?

follow-ups they got registrations closing up. Both say that the digi-tal marketing had paid well.On the sponsor-ships part, Tushar expresses concern over the expec-tations of the sponsors and how

maximum vendors are trying to move away from the channels. “I had approached to 150 OEMs. In spite of having 80% of the industry, the vendors are not willing to spend to an ISODA member who again giving lion’s share to their business”, Tushar says further expressing concerns over the diminishing margins are the key concern of every partner today. Jiten differs his views. “It is not the margins the biggest problem but the approach of the OEMs. Many vendors use us as a financial transactional point and never allow us to use our expertise. Are we here just to fulfill their accounts and get the peanuts they throw?”, questions Jiten.Tushar puts forward a question what to do if the customer has preference? “I have many customers who are adamant and say they will stick only to one particular brand” Jiten responds, “It might be on some cases. However, in most cases, the chan-nel should take the front seat and should be the deciding authority in which solution to deploy at what level.”Both Tushar and Jiten says that the vendors are

spending more on the direct end-customers. The duo says that marketing directly to the end-cus-tomers is good. However, the OEMs should bring a channel angle there. Jiten pinpoints, “Earlier, the vendors were dependant on the channels for their products. Today the other way round for the sur-vival of the channel partners.”Tushar says that the core of the event was to col-laborate with channels, OEMs and distributors which happen actually post-event. “We need to understand that a vendor’s expectations of an event-outcome have changed and the channels and channel-associations should exceed the expec-tations.” Tushar says that their team had our own Rajeev Mamidanna only for ensuring the delivera-bles of the sponsors who did the groundwork for ensuring the vendors meet the right partners.Jiten also points out a trend that only new com-panies want channel while the established are not thrilled to spend for the channels. “50% of the sponsors were new and where are the vendors who are claiming they are 100% channel driven in every interview?.”On a closing note, both Tushar and Jiten feel that the outcome of the event, channel need to adopt to the changing dynamics of the industry and they think they exceeded the expectations of the spon-sors and participants in terms of the event deliv-erables. “Not just we both, but the entire team of the organizing committee put their fullest efforts. Right from the food menu, buses for transit, tour-ing, shopping, show anchor, we had minimum 6 choices before selecting one. Thankfully, we think, we had done our duty well” signs off a relaxed Tushar.

Sanjay Zadoo, Country Manager Channel at Emer-son Network Power (India) chats with Cell IT explaining their channel activities. Explain your channel distribution model?Channel forms a very important part of Emerson Network Power’s business. We consistently collab-orate with our partners closely and reach out to our customers. In India we work with two national distributors: Ingram Micro and Neoteric Informa-tique who then help us reach out to the larger market of NSPs and VARs.What are the top 5 channel plans you have for India?

STAY CLOSE, AVAILABLE TO CUSTOMER 24×7 : EMERSON NETWORK POWER

The IT Infrastructure market is growing and coun-tries like India and China are seeing a huge surge in demand for state of the art network infrastruc-ture. Initiatives like Digital India and Make in India has opened up new market opportunities for us, especially for our datacenter infrastructure man-agement solutions portfolio.Here are our channel plans for FY’16:Collaborate and strengthen relationship with all our partners, Encouraging our partners to sell solutions, integrating various products from the portfolio of Emerson Network Power as part of a complete solution, Expand our partner network for having good customer reach across the countryAdequately motivate our partners by way of rewards, Extend our post sales service as well as our technical support to our channel partnersWhat are the top challenges that channel part-ners face in the power solutions segment and how is your company working around it?With technology and business trends evolving on a day to day basis, organizations have to constantly adapt to the changing scenario. Similarly, indus-tries, too are under constant pressure to store,

and have data on hand at any given point. This demand has resulted in an uptake in the adoption of Datacenter infrastructure management (DCIM) solutions as well as reliable and efficient back up power sources, like UPS systems.Considering the growing demand from SMEs and SMBs, located in Tier 2 and Tier 3 cities for backup power solutions, the only way to reach out to them is via the channel. Speaking of our back up power solutions category, there are lot of players in the small and micro UPS category. Customers have a wide variety of brands they can choose from, making it one of the crucial challenges that partners face.Another major challenge that our channel partners face is difficulty in retaining and getting qualified manpower to service customers. Even though ample manpower is available in the industry, chan-nel partners see a dearth of qualified professionals available to do the job.We are working around these challenges, by offer-ing good training and technical skills around our portfolio of products, so that our partners come across as trusted consultants, thereby leveraging

Sanjay Zadoo, Country Manager - Channel, Emerson Network Power (India)

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In a quick chat for Cell IT, Alok Garodia, Managing Director of Jupiter International shares the com-

pany’s new entry in the Solar and other segments.You being an Indian product, what are the top 3 challenges you are facing?Being an Indian product there are several challenges which we have been facing: Firstly,

India’s make in India campaign will be constantly compared with China’s ‘Made in China’ campaign. The dragon launched the campaign at the same day as India seeking to retain its manufacturing prowess. Also, India should constantly keep up its strength so as to outpace China’s supremacy in the manufacturing sector.Secondly, India should also be ready to tackle ele-ments that adversely affect competitiveness of manufacturing. To make the country a manufactur-ing hub the unfavourable factors must be removed. India should also be ready to give tax and other duty concessions to the companies who can come and set up manufacturing unit in the country.Also India’s small and medium-sized industries can play a big role in making the country take the next big leap in manufacturing. India should be more focused towards novelty and innovation for these sectors. The government has to chart out plans to give special sops and privileges to these sectors.What are the new products you are planning to add?

JUPITER INTERNATIONAL TO FORAY INTO SOLAR, OPTICAL MEDIA SEGMENTS

We have always been into manufacturing of Solar, Optical media and power products. However, we extended our product line to IT products as well. Our new year plan includes coming up with some amazing innovations that can stand out in the industry not just in IT sector but in Power sector too. Solar panels, Solar customized solutions, LED lights are the new targeted products. Green energy is the need of today and move in right time with right products will be the key to success. Whereas, IT products is concerned we plan to come up with some new categories of Consumer products like Power Banks and USB DonglesWhat is the human resource you have in India?Frontech is a team of around 400 employees We believe in the strength of people and competencies coming together to achieve something great! Each Frontech team member dedicates oneself to the core values of commitment, ethics and relationship in its mission to be the most preferred brand in the IT Space.Explain 3 factors, your products are different from rest of the players?Quality products, Trust & Value for money are the three pillars of strength which has built the success story for Frontech – Well its not just for the com-pany alone but all associated with it.Moreover one of the strong points we believe that our organisation possesses would be that maxi-mum of our products are manufactured in India. Our aim is to offer best technology and innovations to our customers and to the country. Nowadays where most of the company focuses on imported products and providing products for foreign mar-kets we consider our Indian market as our target audience. This can be clearly visible by the geo-

graphical expansions.We are very strong with the East and North-East-ern states, some of the key states being Kolkata, Orissa, Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Mizoram, Mani-pur and Jharkhand etc. Hence, for the new financial year our major plan of focus would be on untapped markets of these regions to gain access.Also, we have plans during 2016 to reach out to those untapped Tier II and Tier III cities in the country and thus expand on our existing market especially in West and North regions. New prod-uct development along with the expansion into new geographic markets shall bring our increased audience share. Our geographical expansion shall further strengthen our product portfolio with the best in class products at affordable prices.What is your distribution structure in India?With regards to our distribution structure in India, we have presence in more than 26 cities and are associated with more than 45000 dealers, distribu-tors and re-sellers with its availability across lead-ing Retail stores and ecommerce portals. We also have products available through the Large Format Retailers and they are also available on various ecommerce portals namely flipkart.com, ebay.com, snapdeal.com and more.What are the top 4 plans you have for your chan-nel partners?We believe in strengthening and supporting our partners by introducing exciting creative marketing promotion for the channel partners and end users. With presence in more than 26 cities Frontech is associated with more than 45000 dealers, distribu-tors and re-sellers with its availability across lead-ing Retail stores and ecommerce portals.

Alok Garodia, Managing Director, Jupiter International

INTERVIEWSISour product offering. This will further enable our partners to up sell our offerings better and then help our customers have an extra edge over other their competitors and also help with managing profit margins.What will be your spend for the channel frater-nity this financial year?While, we cannot share the specific amount allo-cated for the channel training and incentive pro-grams, we maintain that our go-to-market strategy will still be driven through the channel, so we allo-cate a significant amount of our marketing spend towards this activity. We will allocate our budget accordingly towards Marketing Development plans, Promotion of our products via our channel schemes as well as Marketing development sup-port.Suggest us the key trends that will dominate the power solutions segment in the coming days?Technology today is advancing at a rate faster than we thought. The power solutions sector is no dif-ferent. With the Digital India and Start-up India movement gaining momentum, we are now wit-nessing a trend wherein lot of new SMBs, SMEs and start-ups are come up, which has opened up opportunities for companies like Emerson Net-work Power, to play a huge in the day to day oper-

ations of their business.Our Smart Solutions portfolio has been seeing huge demand from customers as the solutions have enabled quite a few of these SMEs and SMBs to digitize and modernize their business processes with application of modular/ smart datacenters.How sure are you that your channel partners are ready to adopt to the changing dynamics in the power solutions segment?With advancing technology, channel partners have to adapt to the changing dynamics of the market as well as demands from customers. With the dig-ital age upon us, the customers are well informed and educated about the products and services, they want to purchase. They end up making buy-ing decisions even before sales representatives can approach them, making marketing a very criti-cal aspect of business strategy.Today traditional marketing platforms are giving way to digital, mobile and social media based plat-forms via which we can reach out to customers. This is why channel partners must always be up to date with the products and solutions as this will enable them to gravitate towards becoming con-sultants to customers.Emerson Network Power is aware of the prevailing environment and this has seen us move towards a

campaign which is ROI focused, aiding us in keep-ing the business healthy. Since we see the channel as equally responsible partners, we are quite confi-dent of them being ready to adapt to the changing dynamics in the power solutions segment.Top 3 suggestions for your channel partners this year?Stay close to customer – Channel Partners must constantly engage with the customer and try to understand their requirements from time to time. My suggestion to channel partners is to continu-ously update themselves with the products and solutions and make the transition to becoming a solution provider rather than being just product supplier.Maintain Long Term Working Relationships with customers– Our partners need to ensure that they provide our customer’s efficient and professional services by suggesting them products and solu-tions basis their needs and requirements.Ensure customer support – 24×7 efficient cus-tomer support is a must. Our partners need to offer good service and be available to our custom-ers, so as to ensure no downtime and efficient ser-vice and consultancy, as a lapse in both these areas may result in loss of customers.

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1ST AKITDA IT BRAND AWARDS 2016All Kerala IT Dealers Association (AKITDA) orga-nized an award ceremony recognizing the top performing vendors in Kerala. The association conducted a survey through a questionarrie and based on various parameters around 2000 channel partner/members across Kerala voted. Based on that the winners were selected and were recog-nized in a private evening event.

ASSOCIATIONSAS

Following were the Awards:

FITDAK CONDUCTS AGM AND ELECTS THE NEW TEAM ON BOARD

Federation of IT Dealers Associations – Karnataka (FITDAK) conducted its 2nd AGM on 6th March, 2016 at ‘Caciita Resorts’ in Kushalnagar, Coorg District with 90 delegates from 12 districts of Kar-nataka. Installation ceremony of Coorg IT Associ-ation (CITA) was done on the same day. Also, new office bearers and EC members were elected for the Federation.Addressing the delegates, the President FITDAK appreciated the efforts of the committee of CITA and the host association for organizing the event with enthusiasm. Later, FITDAK office bearers installed the executive body of CITA in the pres-

ence of state delegates and local members of Coorg District Association.Sridhar in Secretary’s report addressed the events that took place during the year 2014-15. He also called for a better bonding among the members to stay united.In the President’s report, Ananda Rao addressed the ideology of the federation and the various initiatives which were done for the interest and benefits of its members. He highlighted that association’s strength increased from 4 district associations to 14 in 2 years; he thanked the dis-trict associations for responding to kick-start the associations under state associations guidance

and leadership. The major achievements were strengthening the federation to 14 member dis-trict associations, providing financial assistance to them at the time of installation, supporting them with sponsorships for their meets, conducting technical hands-on sessions on crucial technolo-gies, supporting them to get an exposure in CeBIT, hosted the formation of FAIITA, efforts in com-bating the OLS menace, signed an MOU with TCA (Taiwan Computer Association) for helping those who want to set up manufacturing in India with the know-how of the OEMs from Taiwan etc”

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TIRUPUR ASSOCIATION IS UNDISPUTED CRICKET

CHAMPIONConfed-ITA recently conducted a cricket tournament for their members. The match was conducted in 2 stages and in this 13 parent associations under Confed-ITA had participated in the event. The first stage happened in Trichy.

The Group Winners of the Stage -1 were EDITA (Erode), TVMITA (Tiru-vannamalai), TITA (Tir-upur) and CITA (Coim-batore). The final was organized in Chennai and Epson India was the proprietary sponsor for the whole event. The League champions were played one knock out

method. TITA (Tirupur) and TVMITA (Tiruvannamalai) won the first matches and reached in to finals. In the finals, Tiruvannamalai set a target of 76 runs in the allotted over’s. Tirupur team reached the target in the last ball of the match with only one wicket in hand. Mohammed Ibrahim, Tirupur bagged the man of the match with the stunning innings in the finals and Tirupur team declared as champions. The other awards include Fair Play Award to VAIT (Vel-lore), Best Batsman to Gopal of EDITA (Erode), Best Bowler to Gowrishankar of TITA (Tirupur), Man of the Series to Gopal of EDITA (Erode). The sponsors of the events were Premium Sponsors- LG and HP, Platinum Sponsor- Acer, Event Sponsors- Lenovo and Dell, Refreshment Sponsor- Softech India Com-puter Systems.

RNI NO-APENG/2006/19824

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