Cmc'S Strategic Business Units

Curent Status :55 franchisees the country over

Courses for both corporates and graduates in hardware and software

Courses are applications-oriented (like IT in banking) and are priced lower than that of market leaders

Strategy :Increase business through franchising Use this avenue as a manpower source for CMC

INTERNATIONAL

Current status :Market CMC's products and services overseas

Execute onshore software projects for customers overseas to get high margin dollar revenues

Get off-shore software contracts which are again dollar revenues

SYSTEMS INTEGRATION

Curent status:Presence in niche areas: Banking / Finance, Finger prints identification system, Mining application, Ports and Cargo, Supervisory control and data acquisition, Stock Exchanges and Security industry, Insurance.

 

Executed large government orders out of social obligation despite low profits

Strategy:Emphasis on developing and re-selling products and implementing them with changes at multiple customer locations.

RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT

Current status: Spends 6 per cent of turnover on research, has staff of 200 at Hyderabad

Develops products that are building blocks for implementing turnkey projects

Research on pervasive technologies (net enabling) for all CMC products and services

Expertise in image processing, real time systems, OLTP, parallel architectures, networking and object-oriented methodologies

Strategy :Tie-up with companies for focus on application-oriented research

CUSTOMER SERVICES

Current status: Ceased to be a hardware maintenance monopoly in 1992

Tie-ups with international vendors for third party maintenanceExtensive network of support offices Has network and systems management contracts in several countries

Strategy: Offer complete solutions support service for mission critical applications.

Tie-up with hardware distributors/re-sellers globally for services

INDONET

Current status :Links 10 cities. Being upgraded to 64 KBPS and a VSAT back-up

Offers e-mail & file transfer services and hosts user applications

Broke-even in FY 1996-97

Strategy :Host users' networked applications like reservation systems, payments to utilities and credit card authorisation services

Applications will be developed and maintained by CMC.Exploring the possibility of offering Web-based services