CIO Magazine September CIO 100 Special Issue by Sreekanth Sastry

CIO Magazine September CIO 100 Special Issue

2012

Vijay K. Anand, Malwa Cotton Spinning Mills (5,000 EMPLOYEES)

FINALIST

Traditionally, Malwa Cotton Spinning Mills relied on antiquated technology. Its highly-integrated legacy systems ran on SCO UNIX servers using Ingres 6.4 on Intel-based platforms from IBM, Dell and HCL. However, in 2009, the organization faced a grave challenge. It found that SCO UNIX and Ingres RDBMS were not portable to any of the new Intelbased servers from its hardware manufacturers. This meant that if any of its servers broke down, business would come to a halt. Upgrading to newer technologies was the need of the hour. Vijay K. Anand, SVP-IT and management services, Malwa Cotton Spinning Mills, undertook a project to design and develop an in-house ERP. The organization opted for modulewise development, testing and implementation. It created a two-way bridge between MS SQL and Ingres database, to replicate data at the click of a key. This ensured that the older database system could work seamlessly with the modules of the new ERP system. This integrated business application is suitable for the textile manufacturer. The enterprise has plans to package this in-house ERP and market it to the textile industry vertical.

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