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1998-2001 The information-sharing process began with the finance and sales and purchase
division
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In this
phase, an amount of around 7 "The Indian Pharmaceutical Industry: Collaboration for Growth,"
KPMG, INR 80,000 to 100,000 was spent on IT
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In
the words of the company's IT manager, Manoj Kashyap, "After the implementation of an IT-based
solution, the workforce requirement fell from 400 to 100 and operational efficiency increased
from 25 percent to 100 percent
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2002-2004 In
2002, the manual system of order-taking was replaced by a telephone system, wherein an
operator took the orders from the retailers and immediately transferred the data into the system
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In 2004, with the expansion in business, an excess
of standalone terminals with separate data repositories was creating data redundancy and
inconsistency, so the management team decided to integrate the modules and centralize the
databases
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(EasySol is an
off-the-shelf software for the pharmacy industry
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2005-2006 Parent companies — namely, the manufacturers — started
electronically interacting with NDPL
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The same operation had
previously taken eight hours, but the introduction of a computerized system reduced the time
required to 30 minutes, which clearly represented a significant improvement in time
management
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Data and applications had previously resided on the same server, which slowed
the performance of the system, and therefore the application servers were separated from the
data server
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Thin clients9 were introduced, as were wireless local area networks
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In addition to the
introduction of computerization in the internal systems, electronic interaction also extended to
the external entities
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8 EasySol is a pharmaceutical sales force automation software
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This software was developed by Excelsior Software Pvt
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, a leading company that
specializes in providing software solutions and services to small- and medium-sized companies
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2010-2011 Since the company had incurred huge capital and operational IT expenditures, the
decision was made to explore the possibility of cloud computing, which the management believed
would reduce the capital IT expenditure
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Therefore, after much deliberation, the decision was
made to adopt cloud computing technology
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It basically offered computing resources as a service that could be accessed by
the Internet using the concept of pay-per-usage
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The cloud vendors offered various types of
cloud models, such as infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), software as a

service (SaaS), and network as a service (NaaS)
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The IT capabilities could be sourced through
public cloud, private cloud, and hybrid cloud
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They decided to first source the software applications (SaaS) and NaaS through the cloud, while
they had planned to also shift the hardware to the cloud in the next phase
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NDPL chose
another vendor to provide NaaS
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The utilization of IS helped NDPL in
various viewpoints
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To start with, in 2005, the organization introduced a better approach
to enroll the bills: a programmed charge process
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● Then, at that point, another benefit is the robotized interaction
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We can think about this as an
increase in the executives, and a superior administration of stock, since the data
framework assists with the following stock and along these lines to diminish the issue of
lapsed medication
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● Eventually, NDPL is completely robotized with an information system (IS) that has assisted
the organization with decreasing expenses, saving time and being more planned with
different divisions, being more compelling (decrease of time), and permitting the
development of the organization
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So information system assists
the organization to have a more productive action with an expansion of computerization
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The organization had exhausted gigantic sums on the establishment of cloud innovation to
control their inside hierarchical offices and the abilities of its retail outlets
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Through cloud innovation, the organization would just buy administrations in light of the
idea of pay-per-use, which would be controlled and kept up with by the cloud engineer
through internet technology
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From the absolute first day of the
execution of this new innovation, the organization had begun confronting various issues,
for example, the new program couldn't peruse some standardized tags and neglected to
produce solicitations, which had made the clients irritated and harms the organization's
image picture
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The organization would not help the store processes
and completely crash down, which had let the supervisors and other store staff record the
solicitations and bills physically
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Close to the weighty monetary misfortunes related to the trial
and error of cloud innovation, the organization had likewise lost an enormous client base
and its image picture was adversely impacted on the lookout
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Hence, it has been seen that on the off chance that a
mistake happened even at some disengaged point, even it could upset the usefulness of
the entire inventory network of the organization and could cause gigantic misfortunes
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In this way, an undeniable degree of
manual intercessions in the worth chain could likewise cause various blunders, which could
likewise influence the organization's main concern

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