The first such conclave in the series was held today at Hyderabad, with around 100 retailers attending the session. The initiative is the brain child of India’s leading retail and technology enablers - Tally, MartJack, Windows Azure and ICICI Merchant Services (Firstdata). Going forward, the initiative plans to conduct education conclaves across India where retail experts and senior retail executives discuss, debate and mentor retailers about the way forward in multi-channel retailing.
Speaking on the initiative, Mr. Shoaib Ahmed, President, Tally Solutions said, “The retail industry in India is facing new challenges with the advent of multichannel retail; we continue to be the provider of relevant biz solutions to our customers and address their evolving needs. The current engagement with Martjack is an important milestone in our journey.”
Elaborating on the association, Mr. Abhay Deshpande, CEO, MartJack said, “We have been providing solutions to retailers in India to help them leverage the benefit of eCommerce for a while now. By partnering with Tally, we have expanded our reach and our association will ensure customers gets the best of both “brick and mortar and eCommerce” solution out of the box!”
Conducted by industry stalwarts like Mr. Shoaib Ahmed, President, Tally Solutions, Mr. Jeetendra Joshi, Director-Sales & Marketing, MartJack, Mr. Srikanth Karnakota, Country Head for Server and Cloud Business, Microsoft India and Mr. Kunal Gothivarekar, Director - Sales, ICICI, Merchant Service, the Hyderabad session received an overwhelming response from retailers who gained valuable insights on retail technology and multi-channel retailing.
India’s retail market is expected to cross 1.3 trillion USD by 2020 from the current market size of 500 billion USD. Further, modern retail is expected to grow about six times from the current 27 billion USD to 220 billion USD, across all categories and segments calling for greater synergy between traditional brick and mortar and Multichannel models. Multi channel retailing involves not only early adoption of the various mediums but also creating an effective and enhanced customer experience across the various channels.
About Tally Solutions:
Tally Solutions Pvt. Ltd. has been a pioneer in the business software products arena and has witnessed immense growth since its inception in 1986. Today, Tally’s products cater to millions of users across industries in nearly 100 countries. Robust and award-winning networks of over 25,000 experienced Tally Partners deliver unmatched customer experience in sales, support and services including customization and integration. With a 400+ strong research and development team future proofing its products, Tally strives to deliver unmatched innovations and continues unchallenged as the industry leader in enterprise resource planning software for medium and small businesses.
About MartJack
MartJack is a digital commerce solution provided by Reasoning Global eApplications Pvt Ltd (Reasoning). Reasoning was established in 2007 with a vision to enable E-Commerce ecosystem by providing world class digital commerce solutions to retail businesses across India and other emerging markets. Today Reasoning is a leading provider of digital commerce solutions and services in India and Middle East.