Founded in 2004, by a team of internet savvy experts and online marketing professionals, Shivaami has created a niche for itself as a lead Google Cloud Premier Partner in India, helping clients to realize the exciting potential of the cloud to increase productivity and efficiency through its creative and innovative solutions.
Punit Thakkar, CEO, Shivaami speaks with Zia Askari from ChannelDrive.in about the company’s core focus areas today and its future plans.
What is Shivaami’s contribution in motivating the SME’s to head towards the cloud?
Cloud computing market is growing faster than ever. In India, companies look for solutions which are cost-effective, provide business agility and deliver scalability in their business and IT operations.
By adopting the cloud service model, CIOs can produce quick results and good ROI. CIOs are using cloud services for more strategic reasons like collaboration solutions, disaster recovery, supply chain management, off-site storage, etc.
We are constantly working on building awareness and demystifying cloud computing myths for small and mid-sized enterprise customers to help our clients realize the true potential of cloud computing.
What are your strategies to spread over the wide market of substantial customers who are willing to move to cloud or adopt cloud technologies?
Normally, we host events, focusing on demystifying cloud computing myths for SMBs. Through these events, we target senior executives, including MDs, CEOs and CIOs to help them understand the benefits of the cloud.
We provide, hands-on demos and live interactive sessions on the latest cloud computing tools and techniques, thereby giving a platform for C-suite to gain insights on cloud computing and how one can leverage it to transform business.
What is the target market for Shivaami and how do you’ll plan to grow your market impression?
Our main target has always been the SME’s because they are the ones who are growing much faster than the large enterprises. As we know cloud computing is known for its efficiency and proficiency, specifically, cloud lessens the upkeep cost, enhances efficiency, gives adaptability, and in particular deals with on-request provisioning of assets.
Hence in India, SMEs are progressively grasping cloud computing for its efficiency and proficiency. We want to reinforce our impression outside metros so as to connect with undiscovered SMB clients, in the future.
Apart from this, we are also planning to strengthen our footprint in the Pharma, FMCG and Retail verticals. To exhibit how associations can utilize cloud to fulfill more with less, we host several kinds of events all over the nation, principally in metro cities.
How is Shivaami planning to help the current Indian customers to move over from traditional IT infrastructure to cloud technology mind-set?
Technology advances have made businesses more efficient. Across the globe, companies are opting latest technology to be one step ahead of their competition.
In India, SMBs is lucrative and is growing at a catching pace. But, one of the loophole is most of them are not in sync with the latest technology.
Today, when we talk about infrastructure, out of 100, almost 50 still stick to traditional infrastructure. But, as a cloud specialist, we at Shivaami strongly feel no company can fight tomorrow’s competitive battles with yesterday’s out-dated resources.
With this vision, we keep conducting webinars, special events, road-show, etc. to bring unprecedented benefits of cloud and busting the myths around it. We help our customers for easy transition to the cloud. We also realize that IT decision makers are confused given the sheer number of solution providers in the marketplace, so we help them with full due diligence process when assessing solutions.
What is the USP of Shivaami that attracts the potential customers towards Shivaami?
Shivaami has over ten years’ involvement in the digital field and has met each test along the way. Today, we are a leader in this particular field and have attained 5000+ clients across the country. We believe in providing unparalleled services keeping customers’ requirements on priority.
Also, we help our clients by providing them the necessary information to be up to date and help them avoid any difficulties or any hurdles about cloud computing.
In addition, our innovation empowered proficient administrations are upheld by a group of specialists. We have SSL affirmation fueled by VeriSign, the biggest on-line security supplier, giving the security confirmation that is a noteworthy wary of organizations today.
How do you plan to expand your roots in India, and do you also have any strategies for localization in regional markets?
We are self-driven company. We don’t rely on partners instead we service our customers in person. To increase our customer base portfolio, we use digital marketing as we are pretty strong in that and that’s how we reach out to new connections. Apart from this, we are also planning to open new branches in metro cities to service our customers locally.
