Massive participation of partners at Tech Caravan Mehsana

On 9th May 2014, The DQ Week Tech Caravan reached the city of Mehsana, a city and municipality in Mehsana district, in the Indian state of Gujarat. The channel partner meet was held at The Highness Hotel on outskirts of the city.

The IT market has been prevalent for more than two decades now. The IT trade community in the last two decades have grown, however, in the last two months the market has observed a decline in growth and more or less it has been stagnant.

Tech Caravan was held in association with Microsoft and was strongly supported by Mehsana Computer Merchant Association (MCMA).Channel partners showed in their support by showing in numbers at the partner meet wherein close to 40 partners attended the partner meet.

The event kicked off with an informative presentation by Microsoft representative, Hrushikesh Desai, regional manager, Microsoft. Also present at the event were, Abhijeet Yardi, Head SMB-gujarat, Microsoft and Dheeraj Kureel, MDP, Ingram Micro. Desai took an in depth session on Office 365 highlighting the benefits of the solutions while citing various examples on how partners can utilize these solutions for their overall revenue growth. Also, he explained in detail how to mix match various available options to customers to make a comprehensive and appealing deal. Going ahead, he addressed numerous queries raised by partners.

The evening got even more interesting with the commencement of panel discussion. The esteemed panelist included Rakesh Patel of Prime Infotech, Mehul Shah of Bright light and Mukesh Patel of Simmi Systems. The stalwarts of the local IT market discussed at length topics of subjects like threats from online trade portals, margins and profitability, business sustainability and emerging opportunities. The discussion was interactive wherein the panelist also addressed various queries raised by channel partners.

Following this, was the networking dinner, where partners interacted with others while a few of the channel partners were seen discussing with the vendor representatives.