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ABITA–A brief profile

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Ankleshwar Bharuch IT Association was established on May 2003, with a vision
to provide level playing field to all the IT vendors, suppliers and service
provider of Bharuch and Ankleshwar district. The uniqueness of this association
is, it is a twin city association, with like-minded people working for common
objectives of propagating and propelling IT and its growth in the region,
customer-oriented rules and regulation to be followed by the vendors, to become
the preferred customer choice, to make Bharuch and Ankleshwar district as
preferred IT destination for investors and suppliers, keep a strict vigil on
fraudulent practices by circulating warning letters to customers, suppliers,
dealers and to maintain fellowship among all ABITA members.

The vision of ABITA is to harness all round development of IT and provide
with best services to the customers of Bharuch—Ankleshwar region. Mission of
ABITA is to propel growth of IT sector and its services by developing Win-Win
relationship with customers, suppliers, dealers and manufacturers.

ABITA has carried out varied activity for its members like the NARC meeting,
printing solution by WeP Peripherals and Canon-Dax meet sponsored at Daman. Now
for the first time in the history of Bharuch—Ankleshwar region, a mega
exhibition has been planned by ABITA IT Forum (Bharuch District Management
Association) and SVEM Eng College at SVEM Engineering College Campus on 27, 28
and 29 of December 2003. Neighboring cities like Vali, Jagadia, Panoli, Jambusar,
Palej, Dahej and various other villages of the district are also participating.

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ABITA has also planned series of seminars to be conducted by the faculty of
IIT and IIM on varied subject in IT. GNFC has provided ABITA with unparalled
support for the exhibition and seminar arrangements and the video conferencing
equipment for the virtual inauguration of the event.

Intel has also agreed to display the latest HT technology and conducted
various pre-sentations on effective use of PCs, which in turn would help the
end-users of Bharuch and Ankleshwar to effectively and efficiently use their PC
res-ources. Canon has also actively participated in ABITA IT Expo 2003 and is
Co-Sponsor of ABITA IT EXPO 2003. Canon is to display its latest office
automation products, digital products, printers scanner etc.

According to the President, "People want to do business with people, not
companies. And ABITA as an association has proved this by providing win-win
platform to customers and suppliers. ABITA is continuously striving for
achieving newer heights by virtue of association, unity and commitment for
customers."

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ABITA was formed on May 24, 2003 and within short span of time has become the
name synonymous to unity, commitment and enthusiasm, all the members are young
and enthusiastic and as the field of IT demands: adaptable to any changes and
conditions but still committed to achieve.

ABITA promises to continually work to educate the IT users of
Bharuch-Ankleshwar by innovative programs and awareness camps giving information
about new products and technologies. However, taking into consideration the
immediate objective of propagating and propelling IT products and services.
ABITA IT EXPO will also serve as a major platform in allowing end users and
industries to evaluate product, price and services of Bharuch-Ankleshwar IT
vendors and service providers.

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'Unity is required in any association'

DQ Week traveled all the way to Ankleshwar and Bharuch this weekend to attend
the first IT exhibition of the baby of all associations in Gujarat ‘ABITA’.
Nancy Sudheer met up with Manish Shroff, President, ABITA, to understand his
point of view on Ankleshwar and Bharuch channels and his plans for the coming
year.

ABITA has been formed only since a year, while there are a
lot of other active associations in Gujarat. Do you think you have missed out on
time and opportunities?

A lot of business does happen here at Ankleshwar because of the large amount
of corporates based here. There was definitely a need for an association but it
did not happen, as dealers did not realize the advantages of having one. Infact
two years back there was an attempt to form one but because of the lack of
interest of the members it did not work out. We did miss out on opportunities as
we could see associations like BITA and SITA achieve a lot of success from their
activities.

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What are the major activities you have planned for the
coming year 2004?

My term as President would end in May 2004; the main concern for the
association would be in increasing consumer awareness on IT. The association
would look at organizing consumer awareness schemes, give out information on
fake products, get the vendors involved in such activities and also conduct
consumer awareness programs on local TV channels. We would also like to support
distributors and vendors in their business, which would in turn, enhance
channels.

According to you, how can IT penetration increase in
Ankleshwar and Bharuch districts?

IT penetration helps vendors, distributors and channels and this can only
take place by increase in number of IT activities at Ankleshwar and Bharuch. The
IT Expo taking place next weed would be one good example.

According to you, what are the main concerns of the
Ankleshwar and Bharuch channels?

Servicing is always taken for granted in small cities by vendors. Therefore
ABITA is taking tremendous efforts by conducting talks with vendors like HP and
Samsung. These vendors are important as their product move fast here and we
haven’t had problems.

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What is your message to the other channel partners in
smaller cities especially those who have still not formed an association?

Unity is required in any association, no vendor or distributor will listen
to you individually but when there is a platform it makes a lot of difference.

Manish Shroff

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'Associations can do the job of informing channel members'

ABITA’s IT Expo 2003 was possible only because of the unity among all the
team members. This was visible from all the members, even in the second meeting
with Harish Joshi, Chairman, ABITA. Both the Chairman and President shared
common goals and had a similar list of demands from both distis and vendors.
Here below Joshi gives us an insight into ABITA’s activities since its
inception.

What are the major achievements of ABITA in the past
one-year?

There are basically two active forums at Ankleshwar and Bha-ruch, one
represents corporates and the other the channels which is ABITA. And therefore,
now there is perfect co-ordination bet-ween both the forums thereby, helping
each other especially the channels. It was important to come on one platform, as
the local channel partners must benefit from so many corporates present in the
district. Customer satisfaction has increased, as we have set policies for
channels on matters like pricing. Therefore, ABITA is known by masses.

How do IT expos help channel partners especially in small
towns?

There are corporates present here with turnover more than Rs 30 crore like
the Birlas, GCL, GACL and MNCs like Landmark, Ahlot and Hoescht. Therefore, such
expos bring them together and help these corporates get to know the channel
partners better. A lot of business goes to other states from corporates, which
is not required because there are a lot of channel partners based here. In
Ankleshwar and Bharuch itself, there is four percent Internet penetration and
only .5 percent nationally.

With margins falling in IT business, how do you think
associations can intervene?

Associations can do the job of informing channel members, but its an open
market therefore, its impossible to control any player. We constantly tell
channel partners not to compete with each other but finally its upto them.

Can associations play a role in upgrading channel partners
business?

ABITA regularly conducts seminars for channel partners, and want to do more
of such activities. With the formation of the association, a lot of
communication has happened between vendors, distributors and channel partners
which itself enhances business.

Harish Joshi

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The motherboard can easily be called the most important part of the computer.
Although there are many components a PC cannot function without, the motherboard
ties them all together and allows them to become a personal computer.

The motherboard is a large printed circuit board that is home to many of the
most essential parts of the computer:

  • Microprocessor

  • Chipset

  • Memory sockets and RAM (Random access memory) modules

  • Cache memory

  • IDE (integrated drive electronics), EIDE (Enhanced IDE or
    SCSI (small computer system interface) controllers

  • Expansion bus

  • Parallel and serial ports

  • Mouse and keyboard connectors

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Motherboard manufacturers attempt to differentiate their
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Motherboard designs

There are two design approaches for mainboards in a PC: the true motherboard
design and the backplane design.

A motherboard, which is also known as a system board or a
planar, contains all of the computer’s primary system components on one
circuit board. A motherboard contains most of the circuitry of a PC and is the
conduit through which all operations flow. On a typical motherboard you will
find the microprocessor, the ROM BIOS (read-only memory basic input/output
system), the chipset, ram, expansion cards, perhaps some serial and parallel
ports, disk controllers, and connectors for the mouse and the keyboard, among
other components. It is safe to say that, if your computer is designed around a
motherboard, without it, your PC will not function.

Identities each of the following major parts of the
motherboard:

1. Ports

2. Expansion slots

3. AGP 9accelerated graphics port) slot

4. CPU (central processing unit) slot and socket

5. Chipset

6. Power connector

7. Memory sockets

8. I/O connectors

9. Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor battery

10. ROM BIOS


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