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Bappaditya Sinha Group Head of COE
Ather Akhlaw Group Head of COE Delivery ( Bangladesh )
systems . Data is further sent to SAP , which has become the company ’ s primary system of records .
“ The dynamic process change , like purchase order alterations , production plan changes at the last minute , diversions of order quantities , etc ., were not so flexible in SAP ,” Sinha says .
No discussion of modern corporate IT can take place without mention of cloud computing . Epic is exploring options like disaster recovery and a licensing on subscription model over the cloud , and its new geographical ventures will also find a home online .
“ Most of the solutions which are there as an installed base will be continued to be hosted internally as private cloud ,” Sinha says . “ Hence , only the new country ventures which are in the pipeline will be seen on the cloud , with some of the shared service applications also hosted on the cloud .”
With the comprehensive scale of the IT shakeup at Epic , Sinha has wisely opted to forego long-term goal setting , instead focussing on planning and implementing EPICOMS over the coming years .
“ We don ’ t have a five-year strategy , as this is the first year of
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