The Caring fortnight in Bramasol India started with the Women's Committee team visiting “Saraswati Ashram”, an Orphanage catering to an age group of 3-15 years.

In its quest for continuous development of partner skills, SAP introduced yet another training program for Sales. The training program commenced in SAP Mumbai’s office on 10^th June.  The training was conducted by Rahul Bhave, PAM for SAP India attempts to impart knowledge on key aspects of doing business with SAP, steps for qualifying an opportunity and leadership skills substantially. Those who attended training were Rahul Bhave, Mayur Shah, Munaf Khan, Vijit Ghatge, Neha Kaul and Prabhash Kumar.

This highly informative article, written by researchers at the W. P. Carey School of Business, gives insight into the changing attitude and environment surrounding cloud adoption, as well as what incredible changes it will bring to organizations: "rapid business-process calibration, increased use of analytics, as well as possible issues around the tax implications of cloud-based IT spending."

Bramasol had the opportunity to participate in the Stadium and Arena one2one Summit held in Lake Las Vegas at the Revella this past week. The three day summit provided stadium and venue executives the opportunity to hear from key thought leaders on current industry challenges and from service providers on new market offerings.

Kevin Cope, President & CEO of Acumen Learning kicked off day 1 of the summit with a keynote address detailing how stadium and venue executives could build a smarter, faster, and more valuable organization.  He provided many case studies and organizational best practices on how best to manage and deal with the five most fundamental elements in a business: cash, profit, assets, growth, and people.  His Socratic presentation style leant many opportunities for the audience to engage and learn from his many case studies.

Pat Christenson, President of Las Vegas Events, and Brian Mirakian, Director of Populous Activate headlined day 2 of the summit.  Pat spent most of his keynote time discussing the transformation that has taken place in Las Vegas and how the city is building (or renovating) a number of venues across the city to satisfy the growth demands being placed on it.  Brian truly wooed the audience with a forward thinking presentation on how emerging technology is positively effecting stadium design and the fan experience.  Being a technology guy myself, I was extremely impressed with Brian’s presentation and how technology is being used to build a smarter, more engaging facility for fans.  The foundation of Brian’s vision is based on bringing brands to life by identifying strategic opportunities for engaging fans at all levels.  From the time fans steps onto the property until they depart, they will have an experience that is executed at every single footstep across a number of media formats.

Lou Marciani, Director of the National Center of Spectator Sports Safety and Security and Sandy Keehn of GEO (Guest Experience) Advisors concluded the event with great keynote messages.  I personally know Lou from his current days at Southern Miss and was impressed with his continued knowledge of how to best deal with the ongoing security threats and risks to fans. Lou brought forth deep expertise in this area leveraging both domestic and international situations.  Sandy probably impressed me most with her message around customer service.  Many, many businesses (included those in the stadium and venue management) invest millions of dollars in their brands; however, those brands are constantly being tested and torn down through poor customer service.  Sandy discussed the extreme importance of how organizations support and even advance their brand through amazing customer service, and she demonstrated how organizations should link their service strategy to their brand.

Finally, I would be remiss if I didn’t touch upon Bramasol’s engagement in the summit.  John Froelich and I had the opportunity to conduct two boardroom presentations to key stadium and venue executives where we discussed Bramasol’s (and SAP’s) strategy for engaging the sports and venue management industry.  We showcased our offerings that were focused on three major areas: maximizing performance and revenue, increasing fan experience and loyalty, and maintaining event security.

The Sports and Venue Management industry are facing serious challenges in terms of maximizing performance and revenues.  Organizations:

If I had a dollar for each time that I’ve heard the words, “paperless society”, I’d be drinking a Mai-Tai, watching the waves roll-in from my private Hawaiian beach-front property.  Well maybe that’s an exaggeration, but the reality is that after 40 years of talking about it, technology is now here to support the concept.
 
In March 2013, Aberdeen Group published a document titled, Mobility Making Waves in Manufacturing, I couldn’t agree more but would like to add two words and change the title to, SAP and Mobility Making Waves in Manufacturing, and these aren’t the Mai-Tai watching kind of waves.  In 2005 SAP purchased Lighthammer, in 2006 they acquired FactoryLogic, in 2008 Visiprise, in 2009 Business Objects and then in 2010 they added Sybase, today I understand the vision which drove these acquisitions.
 
Now when I meet with prospective and current customers and they say we want a paperless shop-floor with full security, we want our operators, from their mobile devises and without leaving their workstations, to have the ability to clock-in and out for the day and to log-in and out of an operation, and we want them to have the latest work instructions and 3-D documents and they should be alerted, also via mobile devise, when their equipment is starting to trend out of tolerance, I can look them in the eye and say no problem.
 
Just in time, a concept has become a reality.  I say just in time because, from what I’ve observed, the next-generation workforce is all about “swipe and tap”, a fact that none of us can deny.

Packsize Taps Into Global Manufacturing and Demand and Grows 40% with SAP and Bramasol

Chosen as one of Forbes America’s Most Promising Companies, the Packsize story is one manufacturing companies need to watch. Join this webcast to learn how Packsize partnered with SAP and Bramasol to establish a solid foundation to support a yearly growth rate of 40%. After implementation of the SAP Business-All-In-One solution, Packsize has achieved global visibility into manufacturing demand and status, procurement needs and sales activity. With that result Packsize continues to attract marquee companies across the globe and recently just established a relationship with Staples as their sole supplier for On Demand Packaging®.

On June 25 - 26, 2013, SAP will host a large, national Customer Value Network (CVN) event focused on manufacturing, with Bramasol as a sponsor. Join the manufacturing industry's thought leadership community for this educational forum. Network and learn about the transformational opportunities in manufacturing today and what is working and successful for other companies in managing their business, growth and profitability on industry best practices and technology solutions.