Since 1997, Indus Net Technologies has been an online service provider. Our delivery and communication model has always been around internet tools such as FTP, Email, Instant Messangers. This helped us in keeping our costs down and we always passed on the benefit to our customers.  

However we always felt that we could have delivered more value to our discerning customers if we were closer to them. Few advantages we see of face to face meetings are:

1. Better understanding of your business and project
2. Indepth technical and business consultancy to deliver comprehensive know-how and options that you have to get maximum benefit from Internet
3. Assistance in project management
4. Comfort of interactive discussion in real time which can cut down on timeline for a project
5. Comfort of getting in touch with us immediately in case of an urgent requirement
6. Regular update and a better suited website maintenance service

This initiated us to take a decision to go closer to our customers and make bigger positive impact on their businesses.

On March 20th 2007, we formed our first overseas business unit in United Kingdom as Indus Net Technologies Private Limited. This is a 100% owned subsidiary of Indus Net Technologies which is an India based company.

Our company number is 6174001. You can check our incorporation here.

We have already appointed our bankers and accountancy/audit firm. We are in process of setting up a fully operational office at this point, which should be in place by first week of May 2007.

I will keep you informed of the latest developments. Feel free to suggest how you will like our local subsidiary to make things better for you.

Looking forward to serve you and make your business grow.

Abhishek Rungta

We have recently updated the portfolio page of Design2Please.com (the web design and other creative services venture of Indus Net Technologies) and given it a fresh look.

There are several points to note on the refined page:

1. This time we got rid of the multi-column design to give more eye space with white areas.
2. The portfolio thumbnails are bigger and so more visible.
3. The portfolio is spread between 4 pages (more coming soon) for fast loading and to avoid unnecessary clutter.
4. We have removed other modules and elements from the portfolio display section to make it more focussed and to-the-point.

Hope you all will like it. Let us know if you have any suggestions. We are in process to refine other pages as well. Stay tuned!

Kathy Sierra is one of the popular names amongst the bloggers and readers. She writes so well about user experience and management. Above all she is a nice lady. It’s bad to see her getting threats these days.

We all wish the guilty will be punished and Kathy will be back to her normal self soon. We can no way miss her for the viruses of the society!

Indus Net Technologies will be participating in CeBIT as an exhibitor along with the Govt. of West Bengal under the “Advantage Bengal” campaign at CeBIT 2007 in Hannover between 15th March and 21st March 2007.

You can meet me in person on 16th, 17th and 18th March during exhibition hours in Hall No. 8, booth Nos. C-6 & C-7. You can also email me at talash@indusnet.co.in to set up a 1-2-1 meeting during off-exhibition hours.

We will be presenting our capabilities as a premium offshore / nearshore outsourcing partner for Internet services like web design, open source programming (specially PHP programming) and Internet marketing.

More than 1700 small, mid and large sized companies are enjoying the Indus Net advantage. If you want to discuss how our 175+ workforce can make your life easier by taking care of your Internet strategy, drop in for a discussion.

If you are an Indus Net Technologies customer (i.e. have dealt with any of our brand e.g. design2please.com, script2please.com, submit2please.com, templatekingdom.com, clickworkforce.com, etc.) feel free to drop in for a chat.

I look forward to see you all!

Abhishek Rungta
Founder / CEO

People often tend to compare CMMI with ISO 9001. The most common thing that I come to hear is that ISO 9001:2000 is same as CMMI Level 3. I am no expert on this but being an ISO 9001 organization which has started its journey for CMMI, I cannot resist but talk about how different CMMI is from ISO 9001.

First off, CMMI-SW had been designed as a framework for addressing the problem that is faced by organizations that are into development of software intensive systems. ISO on the other hand is applicable for all manufacturing organizations that may or may not be into software development. Thus, both your software organization as well as a road-side bakery can be an ISO 9001 organization but the bakery won’t get a CMMI certification.

Here are the few things there in CMMI which ISO misses or does not mention explicitly:

Institutionalization
Without institutionalization a process breaks under pressure of deadline. CMMI stresses the fact that the process should be ingrained into business so that it becomes the part of corporate culture.

Focus on Organizational Training
For any process to implemented uniformly across organization and to ensure that organization keeps learning and growing it important to identify training needs and impart it properly. It is for this reason that CMMI has a separate practice area in the area of training.

Maintaining Process Asset Library
This library contains process assets that include process related documentation such as policies, defined processes, checklists, lessons-learned documents, templates, standards, procedures, plans, and training materials. These assets are required for the process to interpreted and executed properly.

Discipline of Risk Management
CMMI looks at risk management as an organized and technical discipline to identify things that light cause harm or loss. Once a risk is identified it is quantified and prioritized and the risk is tracked throughout the project life cycle.

Causal Analysis
The causes of variation in achieving the project goals are analyzed formally and the root is identified and addressed so the variation is eliminated or their impact is minimized.

Concept of Stakeholders
CMMI states that a stakeholder is anyone who is affected by or is accountable for the outcome of the project. Thus, a stakeholder can include project team members, suppliers, customers, end users, and others.

I know that being in the business for software services it make better sense to be a CMMI organization.