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Nadhi Technologies, a 2.5yr old Chennai based SaaS startup has developed  lightweight, easy-to-use construction supply chain solutions for real estate and infrastructure construction projects.

Nadhi.in is founded by two civil engineers – Vaidyanathan and Ravi. S. Mundoli from IIT-M; Both have worked in manufacturing SCM at i2 Technologies before founding Nadhi.  Nadhi is incubated out of the IITM Research Park.

Nadhi provides easy-to-use supply chain management (SCM) tools toreal  ensure the synchronous on-site arrival of labour and materials per the updated construction schedule through the life of the project.

Nadhi’s core solution is a project monitoring and control solution with a mobile extension  – nPulse™ that reduces the information latency between various stakeholders in a construction project to zero and transitions business from reactive to proactive. Nadhi has built the industry’s first procurement planning solution that uses inventory management theory to optimize material procurement costs in construction.

In short, Nadhi builds solutions that complement ERP systems. Nadhi offers business process consulting to help transition companies to a managed platform. Nadhi also offers lean construction consulting practice.

Nadhi’s target customers are EPC contractors, infrastructure project owners, real estate developers. The market size for IT in construction is estimated to be about $5 billion and the potential to expand worldwide also exists. Nadhi’s revenue sources are software revenue – both subscription (SaaS model) and enterprise license options are available and consulting services.

-Hitesh, vcBytes.com

Accel India has picked up stake by investing an undisclosed amount in New Delhi-based hospitality software firm HMS Infotech, which provides the Hotelogix software to run hospitality businesses. Hotelogix is a SaaS platform which offers  pay-as-you-go option for hotels of all sizes.

Hotelogix, is an ’Easy to Adapt & Simple to use’ solution that offers all that you might ever need as a Hotel Management Software to run your Hospitality Business smoothly. Hotelogix is targeting small and Mid-sized hotels.

Hotelogix covers the full spectrum of Hoteleiring tasks, both in terms of streamlining the internal operations, and enhancing your business reach to enable higher revenues & growth.

Hotelogix has an impressive feature, prominent ones are -

• Supports working in multiple currencies and in multiple time-zones.
• Unlimited point of Sale terminals to manage Restaurants, Spas, Room Service.
• Comprehensive property management system and frontdesk interface.
• Enterprise level auditing supported
• Robust reporting and revenue management
• Integration with GDS/IDS

Hotelogix is highly affordable platform. They have three pricing plans with plans ranging from $2.99 per room per month to $2000 one-time payment plan. The website is very informative and very intuitive and hotel executives can get started in less than 10 minutes. Hotelogix is gaining traction in the APAC, US & European Hotels.

-Hitesh, vcBytes.com

Have you ever imagined web apps being delivered over voice? Majority of us would have thought its not feasible but a hyderabad based startup KooKoo has done it. KooKoo acts as an interface between your applications and the telephony world, thus creating another form of delivery channel for your web application.

KooKoo is the simplest and easiest way to build telecom applications IVRs, office PBX and outbound campaigns. KooKoo just performs telephony functions. It does not know anything about your application and it does not store your data. KooKoo is an interface between your web application and the caller. It takes phone commands from you and executes them on your behalf to the caller.The best way to think of KooKoo is as just another web page in your application. Only difference is, the web page is accessible from the phone rather than the browser

Kookoo can be a boon to Indian e-commerce space as majority of the customers would prefer telephones to interact with you rather than website.

So how does it work –

1.) Customer will call a specific telephone number and enter a pin.

2.) KooKoo will answer the call and will also make a HTTP call to your application.

3.) Your application will get the request and respond back to the request with an XML. The XML sent back by the server is then parsed by KooKoo.

4.) Based on the XML response, appropriate message is played back by KooKoo for the end user.

KooKoo support multiple languages like Java, PHP etc., allows you to send SMS and also supports payment processing.

KooKoo offers a free trial with a shared port.  As part of the free trial usage account, you will get a default phone number used by all the KooKoo free applications. Also, your application will get a pin number using which you can access your application.

Paid category pricing starts from Rs 2000 per port, KooKoo also offers a shared port model where the pricing is 1/4th of the original price.

-Hitesh, vcBytes.com

Most of the people find it difficult to maintain medical records and doesn’t find them when its needed the most , Healthizen is here to solve this problem This portal allows user  to upload their medical details – from their weight and height, doctor prescriptions, lab tests results, details of surgeries undergone, X-Ray, MRI scan, ECG and other reports.

Details on the portal are accessible anytime, anywhere and user need not carry their files and records of medical history every time they  visit a doctor.

Healthizen is a pune based startup founded by Anand Anupam, an IIT-IIM graduate. Healthizen mission is to have centralized information platform and reduce the information asymmetry in the health care space and develop the system by placing patients at the center of the ecosystem.

Ina addition to providing a ready-to-use platform for online storage, this portal has also a panel having doctors and health experts, who help the users with general health tips as well as second opinion whenever required.

Healthizen has a big shopping section where a user can find health related products like health food, specialized health accessories, portable testing equipments etc.

Lets have a look at the monthly traction at Healthizen:

Its a decent statistics to begin with, check out Healthizen and share your views.

-Hitesh, vcBytes.com

A successful profit-driven organization is one that achieves a good level of profitability. In order to do this, there is a need for an effective supply chain management software. The efficacy level of the said chain relies greatly on the supply chain management software as a services.

Defined as the control of materials, information, finances and other resources as the output moves from the supplier to the manufacturer to the wholesaler to the retailer and finally to the customer. The entire network that involves these different elements is referred to as the supply chain. Each stop gives out an additional value to the product and at the same time, benefits from its passing by.

Management of the chain is focused on making sure that every single party involved in the chain is able to get the optimal level of benefits that can possibly be accessed in the whole process. It is necessary for an individual to understand this basic concept to get a good shot at how an organization’s logistics and operations go.

The product is the most important element in supply chain management. It is essential to consider various factors when determining and manufacturing the product. One of which is the demand. A product is useless if it is not something the customers want. More so, the time it takes for the product to get into the customers’ hands is also something to take note of.

Demand is possible only if the customer has access to the information pertaining to the presence and possibility of the product. Within the supply chain, information involves the different parts of the different processes the product has to go through before it gets to the hands of the consumer.

Last comes financing. It plays a major role in the supply chain since each step of the process entails specific costs. The manufacturers, for instance, gets to deal with the suppliers concerning the possible payment arrangements pertaining to the supplies of raw materials and similar needs.

Certain problems can occur within this management. These can include the distribution strategy as well as the distribution network configuration. The cash flow and inventory management can also be sources of issues within the chain.

For a business end product to be successful, an effective supply chain management is definitely a must-have. It is all about the different operations and processes that take place within an organization. Hence, it is a necessity to maintain its presence and well-being.

-Hitesh, vcBytes.com