Chance Writeups

In childhood all of us heard of the story when young Alibaba sets out on a trail to find out the treasure trove hidden in a cave. The recent event of 59 Chinese apps banned in India brought forth a lot of similarities and also the name Alibaba, although in a different context. But the names, actors, actions are unimportant..treasure troves are what drive the explorers..the people who love and thrive on challenges.. (Image Source: Shutterstock(dot)com) As I am not an addicted mobile app user specially when it comes to online shopping, selfies, social messaging, multi-player gaming or creating my own videos, neither I share much files through mobile..I was curious as to what those apps were all about and why they must have been banned. My first motive was to see how much of those Chinese apps I was using? Surprisingly cam scanner turned out to be the app from that list of banned apps I was using. As the apps were 59 in number, I started looking for information on the...

In this lock down period, there are quite a few thinkers talking loud about the problems faced by Indian MSMEs (Medium Small and Micro Enterprise). Indian MSMEs, specially the non-IT companies are a major employment provider for maximum of the working population, skilled, semi-skilled or otherwise. They are suffering the maximum hit and will continue to do so. On the other hand, companies in software sector, irrespective of the size or turnover, are facing the heat due to the broken global economies and apprehensions thereof. These two sectors, MSMEs and Software, can be the brothers in arms who never really thought of working together in the past. This article talks about how MSMEs can leverage inherent benefits of software like tailor-made ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning), LIMS (Laboratory Information Management System) to gain competitive advantage in the new world. MSMEs in the Corona time It is indeed now fashionable to denote everything with the name of this virus. But that...