For the healthcare industry, SISL offers IT and management consultancy services, package implementation services and system integration services. These ensure state-of-the-art healthcare solutions that help our healthcare industry customers with efficient management of care. In 2003, we received the Frost & Sullivan award for Market Leadership in Hospital Information Systems, underlining our dominance in the domestic market.
I. Media business needs
Over the past decade, the Media industry has witnessed an exponential growth in business. While print media continues to be a steady player in the market, broadcasting has grown by leaps and bounds over the years.
This remarkable growth has been driven by several factors, which include:
- Competition in the FMCG sector, which has driven a need for
increased visibility in the eyes of the consumer
- Significant improvement in media-related technologies
- Increasing demands from customers, for complete solutions
This has resulted in the industry’s increased expectations from IT solutions providers. These include:
- Efficient coordination of media processes
- Optimized production planning
- Enhanced contract management for acquisition
- Integration between various applications/systems
- Enterprise-wide transparency and efficiency
- Real-time information, to enable strategic decision-making
II. Offerings
The offerings of SISL’s Media group encompass the following areas:
- Advertising processes
o Quotes
o Booking advertisements
o Subscription and distribution
o Customer relationship
- Production-related processes
o Space availability
o Reservations
o Transfer of advertisement materials
- Broadcasting processes
o Promotions management
o Program management
o Air-time sales
- Logistics processes
o Sales and distribution (e.g. orders, shipment and billing)
o Materials management(e.g.Procurement and Inventory
control)
- Financial processes
o Invoicing and collections
o Accounting
- MIS reporting
o Cost center reports
o Profit center reports
The solution architecture comprises SAP R/3 (including IS-Media), and industry-specific solutions from partner organizations (e.g. PPI, OnAir)
III. Benefits to customers
- Short order cycle through full ERP integration
- Integrated Ad and pre-press process resulting in significant
reduction in time
- ABC (Audit Bureau of Circulations) reporting
- Efficient Circulation management and subscription
- Competitive advantage through up-to-date sales channel
IV. Strengths
- Complete end-to-end solutions
- Strong domain expertise
- Experienced consultants
- Strong referrals (from customers and SAP AG)
- Total dominance in the Indian Market
- Partnering with technical solution providers to broadcaster in
order to provide end-to-end workflow