Maples ESM Technologies Ltd., a Chennai-based consulting company focussed on Enterprise Systems Management (ESM), launched its Consortium Consulting Model (CCM) in Chennai on October 15, 2003.

Maples ESM Technologies commenced its operations in consulting and training in January 2003 with an investment of US $ 1 million and set up a world-class ESM Competency centre in Chennai. In Application Consulting Services, the company concentrates on IBM Mainframe application development and training.

 

Its chairman and CEO, N Ram Subramani, said in Chennai that the company had achieved remarkable success in consulting services within six months of operations. Maples' core strengths lay in Enterprise Systems Management (ESM) and Enterprise Application Development. The current staff strength was 107 and the company had plans to touch 200 by April 2004. The company was confident of reaching a turnover of more than Rs.10 crore in the first full year of operations, by March 2004, he said.

Some of the prestigious clients who had benefited by Maples ESM include P & O Neddlloyd (2nd largest shipping company in the world), PCA Life Japan, Crompton Greaves, Wheels India, Central Bank of India, ING Vysya Bank, Xansa and Covansys.

Maples has branches in Pune, Hyderabad and Bangalore. The company operates through Business Associate Model in Kochi and Vijayawada. The company's immediate plans are to commence operations in Australia, Middle-East and the Far-East.

The company planned an investment of nearly 4 million USD. Private educational institutions and universities in Tamil Nadu were now keen on including ESM in the course syllabi in view of its growing importance, Ram Subramani said.

Enterprise Systems Management (ESM)

Maples ESM consulting practice advocates centralized IT Infrastructure management for Medium and large organisations targeting the Non-IT and IT sectors.

Maples new Service Model focuses on:

Reducing the total cost of ownership (TCO) by over 30% 

Achieving better return on their IT investments (ROI) - with guaranteed Service Level agreements 

Reducing the Cap-ex and Op-ex budgets 

Integrating organisation as a single entity instead of multiple islands. 

Service Model:

Maples Consortium Consulting Model (CCM) is based on central pool versus on-site pool of shared resources to manage multiple Operating Systems, Databases and Networks for medium and large organisations.

Its core strength and uniqueness were in managing heterogeneous complex IT environment comprising of Win-NT / 2000, Linux, Unix-HP-UX, Solaris, AIX, IBM range of high-end servers that included Mainframe, AS/400 and RS/6000.

Maples also specialised in IT infrastructure Audit, Security Implementation, Validation and Verification for IT and IS Security, Storage Management Solutions, Server Consolidation, Systems Integration, Network Management, Capacity Planning, Problem Management and Performance Tuning.

"Our expertise in conducting a Comprehensive IT Audit to assess IT infrastructure is similar to conducting an MRI scan on human bodies. The audit highlights the problems in IT Infrastructure that will lead to corrective measures for achieving enhanced performance", the company's COO, Rangarajan Sriraman said.

The Comprehensive IT Audit reveals and maps the current problems and issues in IT Infrastructure wherein many assignments Maples was able to change the infrastructure so as to achieve upto 150% performance enhancement.

The Audit findings are followed up by a recommendation phase for restructuring the IT infrastructure for optimal performance which is offered as an optional service and if necessary the company recommends additional purchases of H/W, S/W, tools etc.

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