Vedang: Efficient and Transparent Solutions Date:   Wednesday , January 25, 2017 Governments across the world are realizing the positive impact of empowering citizens by leveraging technology to provide more efficient and more transparent services. The key challenge in this endeavor is to deliver integrated services across departments that will move legacy IT deployments from information-storing silos to information-sharing environments. The global proliferation of the Internet, which effectively integrates information and communications technology on the basis of open standards, combined with the movement to reform has generated a new wave of interest in the topic. This is possible if the deployment architecture is flexible enough to gather and deliver information across multiple devices and applications. The deployment would need to be future-proofed and would not just allow for smart governance, but would also scale easily as governments move toward the smart city mode. Product market is big market in India, understanding this, New Delhi headquartered Vedang Consultancy, promoted by Industry professionals has designed a variety of products and services for various Industry Verticals that includes Oil & Gas, Utilities, Power, Water Management & Health, amongst others. Further in Keeping pace with e-Governance initiatives in India and to realize full potential of ICT in Government Sector, Vedang\'s had taken calculated risk for positioning themselves as \"Off the Shelf\" Software company by developing IT solutions and ERP system for complete life cycle of business processes for different government departments to enhance efficiency & transparency. However, since its inception in 2013, it has encountered a variety of challenges like getting a right domain expert or developing trust in people. The company has come a long way and managed to overcome these challenges and has offices across Dehradun, Chennai, Trivandrum, Chandigarh, Ahemdabad, Mumbai, and Lucknow. An Array of Services In the words of Sudhir Bahuguna, CEO, Vedang, \"We are the first company in India to implement & introduced Smart City concept in 2013 and implemented GIS based system in Industrial Estates in Uttrakhand,Further OurE-governance suite is an ERP system for Government Departments covers complete business process of organization and consist of HRMS, Finance & Accounting, Procurement & Asset Management, Construction Monitoring, Citizen Services, File tracking, RTI Management, Chief Minister Petition Management and Document Management etc\". Vedang has grown to be a professional company and what makes Vedang stand out in the crowd is their strong domain knowledge & capability of completing projects not in months but in few weeks. Vedang boasts of giving people the product at the time they are the most excited about the product. \"We are placing ourselves as a IT product company rather than we, going for services since we believe that product market is huge and yet to explore market in India\", asserts Sudhir. Vedang\'s customers in government sectors are State Infrastructure & Industrial development Corporation, Uttrakhand (SIIDCUL), Greater Noida Industrial Development Authority, UP, Tamil Nadu Small Industries Development Corporation Limited (TANSIDCO), Tamil Nadu Energy Development Agency (TEDA),UP RajkiyaNirman Nigam, ONGC and recently bagged UPSIDC in UP. Vedang\'s target customers include Industrial Development Agencies working in India like Gujarat Industrial Development Corporation, Karnataka Industrial Development Corporation, Kerala Industrial Development Corporation etc and all other state & central Government departments. Moving on they are targeting the Smart City Projects in India for online tracking of Citizen Services, Prisons across India for Prison Management, Municipalities and City Development agencies for Automatic approval of Building plan as per building bye laws and Smart Water Grid for efficient delivery and tracking of water losses. The Road Ahead The company has come a long way. Due to Off the Shelf flexible product, easy and fast to implement, today various government departments are inviting Vedang to showcase their products. \"We want to place ourselves as a complete IT solution company in India irrespective of domain. We are already working in various Industry domain and the E-governance. Recently we have started IT Solution for tracking & Managing the Non-Conventional Energy like Solar power. We will be rolling out ERP system soon for Small & Big Enterpriser and shall be game changer in ERP market by selling system below Rs 10 lakh. Our all the systems are in compliance of DIPP guidelines for Ease of Doing Business in India. We should be able to deliver all solution under one umbrella, application, infrastructure through our cloud option and be an end to end solution provider\" concludes Sudhir. Key Management: Sudhir Bahuguna, Promoter & CEO Sudhir has more than three decades of experience in Oil & Gas Industry (Upstream, Midstream, Downstream). He has worked in leadership role with Reliance, ONGC, ONGC Videsh, GNPOC JV of ONGC Videsh, CNPOC (China), PETRONAS (Malaysia),Sudapet (Sudan), Exxon Mobile USA. BP(UK), & Petro (Vietnam). Highlights Promoted by Industry professionals & domain experts from different Industry verticals in Year 2012-2013 Prime Focus: End to End automation for complete business life cycle of Oil & Gas, Power, Energy & Utilities Sector & e-Governance Solutions are developed under the supervision of Industry /domain experts based on the their experience and gap analysis Vedang owned 24 + IPs /Software Tools First company in India to implement Smart City IT Applications for Industrial area