Kuwait Info.

ITQ8 Forum will hold its third meet on May 31 in Kuwait with the theme of “Planning for a successful ERP System Implementation”. The forum is convened by Chandrashekhar Nene, CIO of Wataniya Airways under the initiative of United Business Group, organizers of the forum said yesterday.

Nene will deliver an introductory talk on the “Need for ERP and extracting value from the system.” Nene as he is known in Kuwait IT fraternity has an extensive experience of over 31 years. He has successfully concluded complex ERP projects, for 4 major corporations in Asia, Africa and Middle East regions.

In the recent past the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems have been an important building block within the IT architecture of majority of corporations at Kuwait. This has primarily been the result of the immense pressures put in by the recessionary trends in the global market.

ERP systems are, if used judiciously, an excellent tool to manage the corporate expenditure and improve the financial performance. Therefore, a presentation on this subject, by a senior IT practitioner would very useful for all our members of the IT fraternity, the organizers added.

This talk would be followed by a detailed presentation by Sriram Papani, Senior Vice President, at Satyam Computer Services Ltd. He will present on the “Successful Implementation of the ERP system in an Organization”. Papani has an extensive experience of over 22 years, in the field of Enterprise Applications, who heads Satyam’s Enterprise Application Practice globally.

This will be followed by a presentation on HP Procurve Solutions by a Technical Expert from the Hewlett Packard, Systems, (HP) team. The United Business Group, along with some prominent IT professionals in Kuwait has launched the ITQ8 forum on November 13, 2008. The inaugural event, sponsored by IBM and Lenovo, happened to be a tremendous success with over 100 enthusiastic participants from the IT space.

According to the organizers, UBG has partnered with industry giants like IBM, Lenovo and HP and also works closely with the likes of Satyam, Kale Consultants, Nalsoft etc on various projects. United Business Group has been phenomenal in bringing together the IT Fraternity under one umbrella, the ITQ8 Forum, in a very short time.

The second meet of the ITQ8 Forum, held on January 29, 2009, was attended by over 100 decision makers from the IT domain with experts like Dr Fadi Chehayeb, CIO, National Bank of Kuwait. The ITQ8 Forum will be held at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, Farwaniya at 6.30 pm.

Kuwait Times