First SAP CX (SAP Hybris) Implementation in Pakistan! Sadaqat Textile Limited has gone live with the implementation of SAP CX – Commerce Cloud (f.k.a. SAP Hybris). To celebrate this milestone achievement, an event was conducted at Sadaqat Textile Limited, Faisalabad to recognize the efforts of the stakeholders and the teams that were involved and worked hard for this accomplishment. The event was also attended by Amir Shah (Partner Business Director – SAP MENA), Naila Sabahat (Account Director – SAP), Khuram Mukhtar (CEO – Sadaqat Limited), Shoaib Mukhtar (Director – Sadaqat Limited), Abdul Haseeb (Managing Director – TMC), Sardar Naufil Mahmud (Executive Director – TMC). The project was headed by Mr. Imran Kovarivala and Mr. Colin from Sadaqat Global UK. Mr. Abdul Raouf Rai from TMC (TallyMarks Consulting). With the hard work and efforts of both teams, it was made possible to go live. After the implementation of SAP Hybris – Commerce Cloud, Sadaqat Limited will be able to streamline the e-commerce processes of SGL to increase customer satisfaction. Within Cloud for Commerce, the following sub-modules are implemented: Storefront Management Backoffice Management Product Content Management Media Management Catalog Management Flexible Search Personalization Payment Gateway Integration Promotions User Management Integration with ECC External Omni channels Integration Below are some out of the box features that SAP CX (Hybris – Commerce Cloud) provides. E-commerce accelerators Assisted service module Omni commerce connect module Promotion engine Search & Navigation module Smart Edit Personalization TallyMarks Consulting is proud to be the first SAP Partner from Pakistan that implemented SAP CX (SAP Hybris) in Pakistan.
ISO Certified Cloud Solutions Provider
We are now ISO Certified! We are glad to announce that TallyMarks Consulting Cloud – TMC Cloud is now ISO 27001 Certified. What does this mean for your business and more specifically your data? In short, as per global standards, it is assured that your information will be held securely and our Cloud Care team is well trained to stay on top of any risks and regulatory requirements. We have made the security of information a top priority at TMC because of growing cyber and other crimes. You can rest easy knowing that there is no likelihood of any costly breach of security. By aiming to preserve the confidentiality, integrity and availability of sensitive corporate information, be assured that your valuable information is in safe hands. TMC Cloud: humble beginnings We launched TMC Cloud in 2018 to be able to provide a virtualized data center to clients. Our data centers are designed to be dedicated to an organization and handle the company’s workload. It offers the effectiveness, flexibility, security, control and performance of a dedicated environment. We are hosting a good number of 10+ satisfied clients on our tier-3 data center which is located in Arfa Software Technology Park, Lahore. The data center is fully managed 24/7 by our Cloud Care team. Being one of the 1st in Pakistan to introduce Hosted Private Cloud services, TMC offering is a unique solution for clients who wish to have their own Virtual Data Centre (VDC). We ensure that your data center remains remote, firewalled and completely secure. On the other hand, our Managed and Hosted Cloud service allows you to avail virtual machines from a pool of resources and you pay for what you use. TMC strives to deliver outcome and organization specific solutions. We have an optimized and solution-oriented approach in order to guide the design and deployment of your Cloud. Our professionals tackle the implementation expertly by taking into account your existing needs, as well as the projections of your likely future requirements. VIEW: WHICH ARE THE TOP CLOUD DATA CENTRES IN PAKISTAN?
Why having a Cloud Infrastructure located within Pakistan is important?
Cloud Infrastructure in Pakistan The physical location of infrastructure is one prime factor that enterprises overlook when selecting a cloud hosting provider. The ongoing trend is to simply opt for big names in the market who lure you in with eye-catching facts. Especially in Pakistan, one tends to place blind trust in a western product or service. This blog covers how that can be a big mistake for your company, we are carefully explaining in detail the main factors you should consider when selecting your cloud services provider. Latency: Enterprise Application data could be coming into your server on a daily basis by thousands of users. Not only the size of this data is huge, but in some cases, the system network gets clogged when every user starts sending data and requests at one particular hour. Computation power, network delay and memory size can play a vital role in that hour to keep the system up and running while giving a seamless experience to users and customers. In simple terms, latency is the delay between the user’s and system’s correspondence. Greater the distance, the more the delay. Other aspects can be improved with better or costly infrastructure, but latency is highly dependent on physical distance. Tests performed in Pakistan for latency show that cloud infrastructure located outside the country can have a delay of more than 350% compared to cloud infrastructure located within Pakistan (without any use of VPN). When dealing with colossal amounts of data this is a lot. Data Privacy: This factor isn’t given much importance in Pakistan because as of now the law is not strict regarding this. However, a new bill for data protection is being drafted (https://www.dawn.com/news/1455963). If this goes through, customer-centric companies will need to be diligent about data privacy laws. By having data within the boundaries of Pakistan, such companies can give a sense of control to their customers over their data that it is safeguarded by their countries law. Physical Backup: A cloud service provider has multiple locations where they store copies of their data. Having a cloud infrastructure provider in Pakistan gives the enterprise an edge. They can simply arrange for a hard backup of their data and collect it on disk if needed, while still maintaining multiple soft backups at different locations. Support: 24/7 support is a common phrase that any service provider uses but having support in the same time zone can prove to be a huge relief for your team. When it comes to large scale enterprise applications, support can be provided even by mobilizing a team to the physical location of the cloud infrastructure in case of upgradation or migration. Setup: Setting up cloud hosting initially can be a pain, especially when the company does not want to manage it on their own. Managed cloud service decreases your cost majorly. To have a smooth migration you can opt for a service provider that can guide your team onsite. Local companies allow you to include this in the SLA (Service Level Agreement). This approach is faster and safer because no one wants to do RnD on new systems and they would rather leave it to the experts. Cost: Hosting enterprise applications on the cloud can be cost-effective. But the organizations which have unique requirements for particular types of costly servers, this limits them from opting for cloud hosting. There are companies in Pakistan that can buy these servers and provide a very cost-effective monthly plan for their customers so that they don’t have to spend a large amount of cloud infrastructure in a single go. VIEW: WHICH ARE THE TOP CLOUD DATA CENTRES IN PAKISTAN?
Top Cloud Data Hosting in Pakistan
The demand for Cloud Services and Solutions is rapidly growing in Pakistan. Companies are realizing it is expensive for them to maintain their own IT infrastructure. PTCL, TallyMarks Cloud, Wateen Cloud, and Rapid Compute are some of the renowned Cloud service providers whose data centers are physically present within the boundaries of Pakistan. In order to help you select the best cloud hosting service, we have compiled a list of Top Cloud Data Centres in Pakistan with a comprehensive list of important features that you should consider before making a decision. Sandboxing is a software management strategy that isolates applications from critical system resources and other programs. It provides an extra layer of security that prevents malware or harmful applications from negatively affecting your system. Micro-Segmentation is a method of creating secure zones in data centres and cloud deployments that allows companies to isolate workloads from one another and secure them individually. It’s aimed at making network security more granular. Two-factor authentication is an extra security check where a user has to provide another passcode using the provided key generator or encrypted App on their phone. Generation of random number every time as a second password makes systems impenetrable. Advanced threat protection is a security solution that would defend the data center against sophisticated attacks such as malware, ransomware and hackers. This system is a combination of threat protection systems and agents to correlate alerts and manage defenses. Endpoint detection and response is an emerging technology that addresses the need for continuous monitoring and response to advanced threats. One could even make the argument that endpoint detection and response is a form of advanced threat protection. SOC or Security operations centers is a facility that houses an information security team responsible for monitoring and analyzing a data center’s security position on an ongoing basis. The SOC team’s goal is to detect, analyze, and respond to cyber-security incidents using a combination of technology solutions and a strong set of processes. Web applications firewall filter and monitor HTTP request between your web application and public internet. For companies hosting their cloud application for customers, this is a very integral security check. It typically protects web applications from attacks such as cross-site forgery, cross-site-scripting (XSS), file inclusion, and SQL injection, among others. Blockchain uses the data centre in a different manner. It does not use a central server, it is distributed among decentralized servers instead (hundreds, thousands or even hundreds of thousands of servers or computers). These are often referred to as nodes and master nodes. Every full node contains a full copy of the entire blockchain history. SIEM or Security Information and Event Management is a solution that aggregates and analyzes activity from many different resources across your entire IT infrastructure in a data center. Top Cloud Hosting Service Providers in Pakistan PTCL A semi-government body PTCL (Pakistan Telecom Company Limited) has one of the largest data centers in Pakistan in terms of size. They host data of government organizations and their own mostly. The size and multiple locations of the data center are where PTCL data centers excel. However, as with any government organization, bureaucracy and red tape is the norm which means that working with PTCL can be hectic due to unnecessary paperwork and slow human processing of requests. TallyMarks Cloud (TMC Cloud) A private organization that is an ISO 27001 Certified Cloud Solutions provider having its data center in Pakistan. They provide IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) for Enterprise Cloud application with complete Managed Services and Disaster Recovery Services (DRaaS). Their vast experience in the implementation of enterprise applications in SAP, Qlik and Oracle gives them an edge in Initial Setups, Migrations and Support services. As a private company, you can sign a Service Level Agreement with them which opens doors to negotiations and saves the client a lot while not compromising on costing. Wateen Wateen private company have launched their data center after years of experience as one of the leading internet providers. They have experience in the Implementation and managing ERP system of telecommunication of their own company. However, Wateen support team has recently conveyed that they do not provide data center services even though they have an operating webpage. Rapid Compute Rapid Compute is a company by Cybernet. Cybernet is an ISP provider in Pakistan with years of experience in the management of ISP servers. Some solutions provided by RapidCompute such as Call Center, VoIP and others are outstanding. They also offer an Enterprise Class public cloud computing platform. Dated: September 2nd, 2019 Original Link: http://old.tmcltd.com/top-cloud-data-centers-in-pakistan/ View: WHY HAVING A CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURE LOCATED WITHIN PAKISTAN IS IMPORTANT?
A Smarter Analytics Platform with Qlik Alerting
Information Technology (IT) was already at the forefront of business globally but due to the unfortunate emergence of the “COVID-19” pandemic and the resulting “Work from Home” (WFH) phenomenon, technology is now at the center-stage, backstage, front row you name it! Being in the technology sales profession long enough, one starts to pick up patterns of perception and behavior exhibited by enterprise customers regarding certain technologies (“IT Buzzwords”). I can tell you a thing or two about what I have observed in the Pakistani market about how one of the holy grails of IT buzzwords “Analytics” is perceived by the majority. In this blog, I will highlight some major misconceptions and expectations that are running rampant in the market and how Qlik Alerting has the potential to change all of it. I have lost count of the number of times I have been in customer meetings talking about analytics and it all boils down to one question. It goes a little like this, “Will your Analytics Tool be able to send reports to the senior management?”. Well yeah it can but it can do so much more! Its true utility lies in actually helping you uncover the story that your data is telling you. How it allows business users to explore their data with minimal to no training. It’s like buying a high-performance sports car and then getting it to do the daily school pick-ups and drop offs rather than taking it to a racing track. Customers are asking for ‘Business Intelligence’ but are still thinking in the confines of soon to be antiquated ‘Reporting’. Qlik just came out with a brand-new offering called “Qlik Alerting” and it has the potential to be a game changer (or a mindset changer even). It offers you the ability to be automatically notified immediately if you hit or miss a certain KPI or target exactly the same way you get alerted when somebody comments on your post on social media. No more waiting for a report that you will get via email which you will then open losing valuable hours or even days. Nobody can return all that time which was lost but with ‘Qlik Alerting’ you can make sure it never happens again. Learn about Qlik Business Intelligence: An end to end Data Analytics & Data Integration Platform
Ways to constantly improve your Business Intelligence in times of Pandemic
Business Intelligence in Recent Times. The pandemic of COVID-19 and its impact around the globe has altered the way businesses think about their bottom line. Many “Fortune 500” companies are announcing remote working for the rest of the year and beyond. The changeover seems to be an easy sell for the services sector as compared to manufacturing. Regardless the success of the approach is dependent upon the way businesses are run. Traditional physical store sales could face a drop but these will have to be compensated with the exploitation of online avenues. The top-level executives will have to build checkpoints against key parameters to stay on top of the sales targets and customer satisfaction indices. Plus, with restrictions on travel, businesses with a presence in multiple countries will find it difficult to keep a close check on standard guidelines and procedures to run business operations. Customer engagement will have to be kept at the center by using innovative technology driven solutions. How about an off the shelf world class product that has interface to consolidate multiple data sources, present analytics and generates alerts based on configurable benchmarks. Qlik has been declared a leader for the 10th year in a row by Gartner Magic Quadrant for Analytics and Business Intelligence Platforms. The robustness of Qlik Sense and BI platforms now leverages businesses via intelligent alerting all available in the palm of executives. The platform lets businesses define KPIs for operational, tactical and strategic management. Which means you get real-time business intelligence. The use cases which benefit from an alerting platform could be endless, presenting just a few of the examples being used by businesses below: Alert Industry Reorder level of life saving drugs, Next appointment intimation and self-triaging Hospital Administration Customers typically buying in end of season sale Apparel Stores Drop in stock levels Grocery Stores Drop in customer satisfaction indices Transport Services Drop in sales, Delays in delivery of raw materials Manufacturing Business Drop in Attendance Branch Offices Delays in day close out Banking Learn why do you need A Smart Analytics BI Platform now more than ever?[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]
This Year Will Be The Year of Learning Management System! You Should Know Why
Technology has come a long way in solving the inevitability of time, but Covid-19 Pandemic pushed the global lifestyle towards digitization within days which now relies heavily on Internet access, digital infrastructures, and learning programs. Be it a student, employee, or enterprise of any kind, are now embracing innovative solutions to continue their efforts to realize the set goals. And today’s learning and development strategies require smart solutions that go beyond the capabilities of conventional tools. SAP SuccessFactors Learning Management System is that solution that has been a proven tool for providing a holistic answer to Improve business results, boost productivity, and increase organizational competitiveness that allows to develop leaders, assure compliance, and train the external audiences. Key features of SuccessFactors – Learning Blended Learning Capabilities Extended Enterprise Environments Automated Assignment Profiles Significant benefits of SAP SuccessFactors – LMS Saves time – Learners can access and learn on the go hence saving time to complete other essential tasks. Cost reduction – business can significantly cut costs on massive hardware investment and administrative work related to arranging and delivery of training. Adaption and reusing training materials – this can help in reusing pre-existing material and modifying new tools that can speed up the learning process by embedding video content or using files like Pdf/imp/doc. It can also increase training efficiency, and improve the user experience. Automation – this can relieve you from micro-management where one can automatically add learners, enroll them in the appropriate courses, roll out exams, issue certificates, and access reports. Reporting – One of the meaningful benefits of the LMS is the invaluable data you get, and the reports generated will present impactful insights that can be translated into decision making. Centralized access point – LMS provides a centralized way of managing eLearning materials within an organization. Having your content stored and controlled from the integrated platform allows you to create courses with ease and access information on a need basis, on the go. It also reduces the risk of losing invaluable data and sensitive documents. Regulatory Compliance – For learning professionals at organizations that need to regulate, qualify, and certify their employees, LMS allows you to automate and assure compliance training. Also, compliance laws are always changing, and LMS keeps you updated so the organization won’t suffer avoidable penalties by meeting compliance regulations. Have more questions? Please get in touch with us.
Largest SAP Partner in Pakistan for the year 2020
The Largest SAP Partner in Pakistan for the year 2020 2020 has been a testing year on all fronts, but it was also an interesting and opportunistic year for TallyMarks Consulting. In the face of utter lockdown conditions due to the pandemic, we still managed to remain steady and continue to attain our goals. It so happened, that while hustling extra hard, we ended up hitting a jackpot! As SAP Gold Partners, we are elated to say that we managed to beat all the competition in the SAP market. We are proud to announce that TallyMarks Consulting has been declared the largest SAP Partner in Pakistan in terms of revenue for the year 2020! By signing on notable clients like Habib Bank, Puma Energy, University of Agriculture Faisalabad, and Auditor General of Pakistan, we are starting 2021 high on renewed resolve and unbeatable energy. The journey from achieving partnership to Gold level We started our journey with SAP in the year 2011 and became an SAP Partner in Pakistan. We slowly but steadily found our way into the market. Our team of young individuals was driven but there were few who wanted to trust us to be able to execute the projects successfully. However, we remained resilient. After overcoming many obstacles, we were awarded the SAP Silver Level Partnership in 2016. There was no stopping after that. We went on to win the Gold Partner status just 2 years after that in 2018. While side by side going beyond borders and forming strong partnerships in Saudi Arabia and Afghanistan. And just 2 years later in 2020, now we have been declared the largest SAP partner in Pakistan and Afghanistan in terms of the revenue! Our SAP services include SAP Greenfield Implementation, SAP S/4HANA, SuccessFactors, SAP Business Planning and Consolidation (BPC), SAP Ariba, SAP Hybris, and many other solutions including our dedicated SAP Support Services. We mainly deal in greenfield implementations and our industry forte includes Higher Education, Healthcare, Oil and Energy as well as FMCG and e-commerce. We have numerous success stories in our portfolio. The positive feedback of clients and our extensive experience give us the confidence to execute and implement the solutions in a timely manner. In order to assist our clients with storage solutions for SAP S/4HANA implementation, we launched TallyMarks Cloud in 2018. We are hosting a good number of 10 satisfied clients on our tier-3 data center which is located in Arfa Software Technology Park, Lahore. The data center is fully managed 24/7 by our Cloud Care team. We feel blessed and optimistic to have been able to achieve such a grand milestone in such a few years. In the ongoing digital transformation drive, we are glad that we have made a mark and established ourselves as one of the top players in the SAP market. The future is bright and we are eager to go even higher! Read how TMC became the Top SAP Partner in the MENA region for ‘NNN’ 2020 Know about our Managed Cloud Solutions for SAP S/4HANA Click to view our SAP Services and Solutions
How Post COVID-19 Is Going To Change Your Business Strategies
Coronavirus pandemic hit the world without a warning, leaving people and businesses in chaos. Few months down the line things are still deliberated for a permanent solution but for now, we must understand the fact that one must survive and achieve alongside the pandemic. This pandemic reinforced the necessity for digital overhaul at every level of our existence and business is no different. After enduring the first half of 2020 under pandemic, the majority of the businesses have now realized the significance of digital transformation to get ahead in the technological era. Top organizations around the world have already streamlined their strategies according to the new norms of remote work with the help of the technologies and through policies to rebuild both in the short and long-term targeted stimulus measures to help reignite growth. Here Are A Few Post Covid-19 Insights That You Should Know To Avoid Any Further Damage And To Jump-Start Your Business Currently, a rapid shift in behaviors cemented the fact that Remote work is here to stay. Gartner, a global research company, conducted a recent survey with 317 CFOs and discovered that 74% of them are planning to move their on-site employees to permanently remote positions post COVID-19. This is the high time for front-runners to rise above all and steer the organization in the right direction. The role of Technology has now gone from just supporting tools to the ultimate requirement of the organization to thrive in the future, so invest in digital transformation. Many of the organizations are contemplating the encouraging impacts in efficiency, convenience, and transparency that came from taking work online. Along with the added benefit of savings on location costs. Organizational policies need to be reevaluated and strengthened to handle the new challenges effectively. Presently, organizations are in transition, experimenting with a hybrid approach of teams working remotely and some on-site which can be daunting. It has the potential to create a disparity in the organization’s culture by two fundamentally different experiences to manage. Organizations need to come up with innovative processes to lessen the gap between the remote and onsite employee engagement to ensure a strong workplace culture and efficient operations. Initially many organizations thought of the post-COVID return as if they would turn the lights on and go back to how things were. Instead, it is becoming gradually clear, however, that for many, returning to work will be a progression that could take indefinite time. There are also many factors at play that will determine the timeline of transformation according to the nature of the business, cost-effectiveness, operational competence, etc. But the time for speed transformation is now to determine your potential sustainability. Choose wisely. – KNOW HOW AND WHY THIS YEAR WILL BE THE YEAR OF LEARNING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM – WHAT ARE THE CLOUD ADOPTION AND OPPORTUNITIES IN PAKISTAN?
MiTracs – Van Sales Solution
Check out the info-graphic and know how the Direct Van Sales Solution works. Want to learn more about MiTracs? Please visit: http://mitracs.com