October 12th, 2019 was a red-letter day for every athletics fan. That day, for the first time in history a human completed the marathon in under two hours! Eliud Kipchoge the current world record holder did the unbelievable and shaved off a good 2 minutes from his best time. It wasn’t just a triumph of … Read More
As the year entered its final quarter, I was revisiting some predictions pundits had made for 2019. It’s an interesting exercise I go through every year. Estimating soothsayer accuracy is not the objective. Some predictions will be right, a few wrong and in majority of the cases it will be difficult to say – either … Read More
“… You find out that life is just a game of inches. So is football. Because, in either game – life or football – the margin for error is so small. …The inches we need are everywhere around us. They are in every break of the game every minute, every second. On this team, we … Read More
It was early 2004 and I was catching up with a friend from my college days. He was the regional head for a Consumer Goods major in India, and told me about changes they were making to streamline operations. That included consolidating the number of stockists and wholesalers. I was puzzled because the company was known … Read More
Since the advent of BI, organizations of all sizes have pushed to broaden their spectrum of analytical insights. Of course, a key motivator for this effort was to improve operational efficiency. In many organizations, these efforts did not deliver to the management’s expectation. The root causes for the failure in most cases are information latency … Read More
ANOTHER GREAT EVENT – SAPPHIRENOW 2015!! We are excited to be at SAPPHIRENOW and ASUG again this year! We have great activities and product presentation sessions planned. In addition, we are celebrating the success of being selected as a finalist in at least two different categories for the SAP HANA Innovation Awards 2015. When: … Read More
Few weeks back, Sanjiv & I were at a meeting with a major apparel brand manufacturer to present OpsVeda solutions to their team. The operations team suggested we pick an issue that couldn’t be resolved earlier, and explain how OpsVeda will make a difference in the process. One of the experienced operations’ team member suggested … Read More
