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It cant be just a more coincidence that 80% of nasscom's members are SME's; bears testimony to the growth and of this sector.

SME Landscape

Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) play a major role in most economies and contribute up to 60% of total employment and up to 40% of national income (GDP) in emerging economies. For the IT-BPM Sector, SMEs are the hotbed for innovation.

SMEs account for 80% of nasscom's 2500-odd member base and a similar composition is believed to be applicable for the Indian IT BPM industry. SMEs in India are spread across all the key industry sub sectors - IT Services, BPM, Products & Engineering R&D.

The SME council has been created in 2017 as a platform to enable these companies to grow to the next level and collectively derive value from the nasscom platform – knowledge dissemination & best practices, Networking & Connects, Policy Advocacy and Brand Building.

Key Segment Trends
  • It Services

    Transformation of legacy IT services to Digital

  • Product

    Productization of Services

  • Companies

    Automation rendering many jobs and companies redundant

  • Task

    M&A / collaboration / out-tasking

  • Competition

    Competition getting intensified due to larger player competing in white space

  • Skilled

    SMEs revenues are likely to get impacted due to shortage of skilled / domain expertise

  • Delivery

    Outcome based delivery model (pay as you use, etc)

  • SME Sourcing

    Freelancing / flexi working / crowd sourcing – changing SME landscape

SME Council Vision

Enabling SME members across regions, to derive value and arrive at pivotal focus through robust engagement models.

Mission

Create an ecosystem of excellence – where companies compete and complement each other.

Grow Business

Facilitate the SME companies to grow their business by

  • Leveraging business synergies with other SMEs
  • Leveraging support from various government agencies – MSME, STPI etc
  • By teaming up to foray into new markets
World - Class Business

Enable the SMEs to be world-class businesses by

  • Learning from each other
  • Preparing for the future by adopting and inventing leading-edge technologies.

The ecosystem, by its very nature would be only as rich as the diversity of its members. Therefore, while creating a supportive environment for ecosystem members, we would also enrich the ecosystem by attracting more and more companies to join.

Priorities

Nasscom SME Council will prioritize on delivering value-add sought by existing and new members. Broadly these are: Knowledge dissemination which can be delivered through Round Tables; Identify & Deploy Shared Resources for the benefit of members; Facilitate Policy Advocacy; Assist in customer connects.

  • Nasscom sme roundtable
    Nasscom sme round table (SME - RT)

    Each regional SME group will host round tables on key themes. These are opportunities for member to come together and deliberate on specific topics and share best practices.

  • shared resource
    Shared
    Resources

    Enable access at affordable costs for key SME priorities - for instance, Statutory Compliance, Skilling, health insurance, government incentives etc.

  • policy advocacy
    Policy
    Advocacy

    SMEs face policy related challenges which have to be suitably addressed and put forward to the government. The growth of any sector is strongly dependent on policies and it’s no different for SMEs.

  • Customer Connect
    Customer
    Connect

    Bridging connects with end customers, CIOs etc. both internationally and the domestic market. Outreach programs designed to provide member visibility.

The Council
  • CHAIR
    Sriram Subramanya Founder, MD & CEO, Integra Software
  • Vice-Chair
    Maulik Bhansali Executive Director, CEO, Netweb Software Pvt Ltd
  • Sameer Jain CEO, Net Solutions
  • Hrishikesh Nandedkar Managing Director , Fusion Global Business Solutions
  • Parijat Agarwal Co Founder & COO, Metacube Software
  • Rajesh Raju CEO, Achala IT Solutions Pvt.Ltd
  • Vijay Kumar CEO & Co-Founder, In App Information Technologies (India) Pvt Ltd
  • Ganna Vadlamaani President & CEO, Amzur Technologies Pvt Ltd
  • Atreyee Thekedath Founder & CEO, Web.Com (India) Pvt Ltd
  • Arun Patnaik Director, AABSyS Information Technology Pvt Ltd
  • Ashfaq Shilliwala Founder & CEO, TransForm Solutions (P) Limited.
  • Arunabha Ghosh Founder & CEO, Blue Copper Technologies Pvt. Ltd
  • Partap Aggarwal Founder & CEO, IDS Infotech Limited
  • Priyankar Baid Founder & CEO, P B Tech Impact Solutions  Pvt Ltd
  • Vidushi Kapoor Co Founder & CEO, Process Nine Technologies (Process9)
  • Uma Venkatraman CEO, Ixsight
  • Dipti Agrawal Co-founder & CEO, Tudip Technologies
  • Ramesh Krishnamurthy President - Gaming & HR, Indium Software
  • Kumar Mallampalli Co-founder & Partner, RheinBrücke IT Consulting Private Limited
  • Vivek Kalagara Founder & CEO, DataFoundry Private Limited
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Initiatives
  • sme
    Customer Connect

    a.Support connect opportunities with other Merchant Chambers and explore opportunities for SME members to participate in their industry specific events.

    b.Organize Regional SME CIO connect program.

    c.Explore opportunities for SME Specific Delegation to International Markets.

    d.Highlight achievements of SME members and provide visibility to their innovative contributions

  • sme
    Nasscom SME Conclave

    a.Organizing Annual nasscom SME Conclave at a large scale which will also include South East Asian Countries.

    b.Bringing existing members and prospects together under one large event to set the tone for coming years

  • Workshop for SMB
    Workshop for SMB clusters in the country - 50 Locations

    The session will educate on the approach for IT adoption for SMBs and help them to become 'Informed Buyers'. It will paint the future of connected businesses enabled by technology along with the roadmap to get there. It will draw up an actionable agenda for various stakeholders of the ecosystem - buyer and seller organizations, industry experts/advisors, policy makers - and identify best practices required to build a successful ecosystem.