Interview with Bijith Ahmed - CEO Aufait Technologies
Aufait, a unique name, neither a dictionary word not a proper noun has its roots in the Arabic word “Ufeth”. That means “fulfilling commitments”. And that is what Aufait Technologies stands for.
Aufait Technologies is a software services provider that offer to Business Process Management Solutions to various Industry Verticals. While during recession companies fired employees, Aufait took the opportunity to hire the quality professionals. It hired two IIM-K graduates into its management team, which shows the high aspirations of this 40 employees company.It is not only in strategic hiring mode in recession, its also developing strategic partnerships with key companies in its domain. Aufait has recently partnered with Intalio, an open-source Business Process Platform company and one of the Gartner’s visionary companies.
Readit India’s Senior Editor Kumar GS had a chance to interview Aufait Technologies CEO Mr. Bijith Ahmed, and explored the many facets of this IT company.
Kumar GS: What made you co-found Aufait Technologies? How old is Aufait as a company?
Bijith Ahmed: The idea of setting up own business was
there in mind since college time and we had tried couple of attempts
before Aufait goes on track. Initially it was planned as a web
multimedia company based in Bangalore. We started as as informal setup
in Bangalore and later we moved to Calicut, Kerala and established
Aufait as a private limited company in 2003.
Bijith Ahmed
Kumar GS:What services do you offer and what specific “Customer Pains” do they cater to?
Bijith Ahmed: Once we came out of the initial startup
glitches, we decided to fine tune our target segment and the
applications area on which Aufait should have its focus. Then we
decided to offer solutions like BPM, Portals and GIS.
Let us talk about the “Customer Pains” that BPM solutions will alleviate. In the current turbulent economic scenario, companies are struggling to reduce their IT cost and make most out of their current IT infrastructure. Hence they need an agile IT system which will allow them to have a firm control over their business processes which need to evolve constantly. BPM will allow the customers to have process governance, agile IT systems, real-time monitoring and modification of their business processes. Most of all, it will help in better alignment of IT with business.
Aufait, being a silver partner of Intalio- the open source leader in BPM, will provide cost-effective and innovative BPM solutions to the customers.
Kumar GS:Are you catering to all verticals or focusing on some specific Industry verticals? What specific Industry verticals?Answer: Read this answer on my blog...
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