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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), plat

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