ISODA elects new committee for 2013-14

Infotech Software Dealers Association (ISODA) recently held its 5th Annual General Body meeting of on 2nd, August 2013 at Hotel orchid, Mumbai. At the AGM, the association announced the formation of new committee.  

As per the new team, Nityanand Shetty, CEO, Essen Vision, Mumbai, was elected as the Chairman, Nitin Aggarwal, MD, Trifin Technologies, Delhi, was elected as Vice Chairman; Devesh Aggarwal, CEO, Compusoft, Mumbai, as President; Amartnath Shetty, MD, LDS Infotech, Mumbai, as Vice President; Manish Tandon, MD, Questa Software Systems, Mumbai, as Secretary General and Manish Sanghrajka, Founder Director, Comprompt Solutions, Mumbai, as Treasurer. 

Additionally, Anand V, CEO & director, Raksha Technologies; Vinay Bansal, CEO, Synapse; Sudhir Kothari, MD, Embee Software and Jiten Mehta, director, Magnamious IT Systems, are the new Regional Secretaries for South, North, East and West, respectively. 

This also is indicative of the wealth of new talent and people available to lead ISODA over the years. the exiting management committee of Biren Shah (Chairman), Vishal Bindra (Vice Chairman), Alok Gupta (President), Sudarsan Ranganathan (Secretary General) and Paresh Shah (Treasurer) were thanked immensely for their yeoman service over the past year. The Regional Secretaries Rakesh Chawla (South), Amarnath Shetty (West) and Kavita Singhal (North) were appreciated for their support and exemplary work over the past year.

Shetty, the new chairman, defined the vision of the new management team for ISODA stating that, "In the 4th year since the incorporation of ISODA, we believe the time has come to take its existence to the next level. To reinvent and reconstruct the ISODA brand value. We would like to revamp our website so that it is a representation of the bigger picture we have envisioned. So that its stakeholders namely the partners, vendors and distributors look up to ISODA not only as a means of solving the existing tax problems that plague our industry but also as a value proposition for stakeholder collaborations at multiple levels."

He also added, "We wish to emphasize and endorse a National outlook that would cut across states and cities to pool resources to the advantage of the stakeholder. We wish to bring about a change in the perception of ISODA by sharing and putting together of resources such as knowledge, data, technology and services across geographical locations. We already have a representation base across the length and breadth of India, when stakeholders see the implementation of the above value proposition we are sure to see a multifold increase in density of membership."

The post lunch session was a session structured to help partners look at their future from a road map perspective with a presentation on "Evolution of Strategy" by Vijay Ramachandran which was received very well. There was a session by Niraj Kaushik of Oracle on "Why Oracle". partners had a view of the entire stack of Oracle and some interesting discussions around partnering with Oracle were discussed.

This was followed by the a panel discussion moderated by Sudarsan Ranganathan on "IT Landscape - Future Roadmap for Partners" with panelists comprising of Dhaval Valia from CRN, Vijay Ramachandran from IDG, Sunil Polani from Avnet, Vineet Sood from Adobe and Niraj Kaushik from Oracle. This was a very interactive, insightful session appreciated by both the panelists and the members.

The day ended with the announcement and presentation on the ISODA TechSummit season 4 to be held at Dubai.