With an enriching experience of one-and-a-half decade under his belt, Ravindra Saraf started InfraBeat Technologies offering digital transformation solutions.
It’s been an amazing journey that started from a small 2BHK apartment in Sanghavi area of the city. Today, InfraBeat Technologies founded by Ravindra Saraf is a name to reckon with in the field of digital transformation.
THE BEGINNING
On April 1, 2013, Ravindra, fondly called Ravi, started InfraBeat, a SAP consultancy firm after spending more than 15 years in MNCs like SAP India, ITC, Bharat Forge et al. At Sanghavi apartment, Ravi trained four college graduates, who were from the Tier II and III cities, on SAP technologies.
Initially, InfraBeat started getting work especially from four big consulting units, which were related to providing resources for a particular project. However, in no time, due to superior technical skills, InfraBeat started getting work directly from the end-customers and that too from wellknown organisations in automotive and manufacturing sectors.
During this period, SAP had come up with their in-memory database called HANA and in a very short span, InfraBeat gained mastery over these new technologies and started helping large organisations to build their digital transformation foundation stronger by adopting SAP HANA platform.
BIGGER CANVAS
After spending around four years in building the company’s foundation, Ravi decided to expand the business and reach out to a larger market. As part of this process, InfraBeat formally became SAP ‘VAR Partner’ in December 2017 and within a year’s time they achieved ‘Gold Partner’ status of SAP.
”InfraBeat saw a major diversification of its portfolio in 2018, when we had started our SAP Ariba Practice, a cloudbased end-to-end procurement solution from SAP. With strong domain expertise and technology know-how, InfraBeat has become one of the go-to market partner for SAP India when it comes to Ariba solution,” a proud Ravi informs.
In the same year, InfraBeat signed a partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and started helping customers to adopt Cloud Technologies. InfraBeat felt that cloud adoption was the key to any organisation’s digital transformation journey and plays a vital role in bringing flexibility, agility and security of the business applications.
GROWTH STORY
By the end of 2018, InfraBeat expanded its cloud portfolio to Google Cloud Platform as well as Microsoft Cloud Platform. Starting from Mid-2018 till date, InfraBeat has helped over 55 customers to adopt cloud infra, be it AWS or GCP or MS Azure and helped them to be more agile in their digital transformation journey.
Along with cloud adoption, InfraBeat has played a key role in helping customers in embracing ‘Intelligent ERP – SAP S/4HANA’ which was a kind of transformation of its own kind. Lot of reputed customers took help from InfraBeat.
InfraBeat’s journey, which had started with 700 Sqft 2 BHK flat has now reached to a state-of-the-art premise of around 17,000 sq ft which can accommodate 250+ resources.
After almost 8.5 years into the business Ravi feels proud when he sees his family of four people has now reached to the headcount of 340+ and has presence not only in India but also in the Middle East and the USA.
THE USP
InfraBeat has uniquely positioned itself as a single-window-shop for an organisation when it comes to building their foundation strong for its ‘Digital Transformation’ journey.
”We not only provide SAP consultancy services but also help customers to embrace cloud technologies be it Cloud Infra or Cloud Analytics. Having taken care of major business application, our customers can now focus more on the strategic initiatives than focusing on the operational activities,” Ravi adds.
INNOVATIVE APPROACH
For InfraBeat, innovation stands for the ability to deliver new value to a customer.
With this objective in mind, they are proud of the following innovations that they have embarked upon with their partners.
InfraBeat’s SAP Qualified Partner Packaged Solutions – SHIFT.
SHIFT is a powerful migration solution that simplifies the SAP S/4HANA migration path and adoption of SAP S/4HANA with a combination of unique expertise and best practices
Cloud Automation Tool:
Harnessing Cloud Technologies for Accelerating Growth InfraBeat helps businesses and organisations leverage various cloud-based technologies to accelerate their innovation and achieve business goals in a better manner. On top of various solutions and services available in the market today, InfraBeat has developed various packaged solutions to ease adoption for customers RPA — Automation is one of the pillars of both digital and business transformation.
Adoption and investment of RPA is increasing rapidly in multiple industries and is being implemented to streamline various functions in both rule-based and complex processes. We have designed some popular RPA tools and developed innovation ideas that are being put to use in multiple industry functions, be it supply chain and manufacturing, accounting and finance operations, human resources and administration et al.
ACHIEVEMENTS
At InfraBeat, they believe that each successful project going live is an achievement itself. ”It gives us immense pride when we make the project success and customer appreciates the same. This gives a sense of achievement to each and every employee of InfraBeat and boost their confidence in delivering more such successful projects,” says Ravi.
This attitude has also reflected in InfraBeat winning prestigious SAP ACE Awards for Best Project Execution consecutively for the last two years i.e. 2019 and 2020. They are confident to WIN this award in 2021 too and make it a hat-trick!
FUTURE PLANS
InfraBeat has aggressive growth plans for the coming three to four years and they have already embarked on this journey. These plans are on two fronts viz. Geography Expansion and New Technology Adoption.
Geography Expansion: InfraBeat has started the process to expand its presence in the USA & UAE markets.
Technologies: After making strong foundation for Digital Transformation, the next steps are in bringing more automation and insights to the customer organisation.
InfraBeat has recently started ‘Cloud Analytics’ practice which will help their customers to have a single view of their business, which can be consuming data from multiple sources.
The second aspect which they are focusing on is Process Automation with the help of ‘Robotic Process Automation’ tools. Correct usage of RPA tool will help customers in eliminating manual intervention for repetitive and timeconsuming business processes like invoice booking etc.
SALIENT FEATURE
Ravi says, ”We would like to highlight one key aspect which we have learnt over the last eight-and-a-half years and which has become a kind of part of our culture at InfraBeat. We are proud to say that we have more than 200 employees, who come from the Tier II or Tier III cities (in some cases Tier IV cities too). We had given them a chance to thrive in IT industry and they did a fantastic job. It is just someone must believe in them and give them an exposure. We always believe in giving chances to people who have the right attitude.”
WORK CULTURE
InfraBeat embodies a connected environment where each member of InfraBeat feels valued, appreciated, taken care of, and secure about their career.
InfraBeat’s cultural tenets lay the foundation for the work culture. Right from the induction into the company, people of InfraBeat are encouraged to imbibe and practice the values of Leadership, Evolve, Accountability and Passion so that they become a part of InfraBeat way of life.
SOME OF THE EMPLOYEE-CENTRIC KEY PROGRAMMES ARE:
Covid Command and Control Center Programme to help people of InfraBeat with whatever they need amidst COVID-19 Pandemic Rewards and Appreciation Programme to ensure each achievement is duly appreciated and recognised InfraBeat Health Literacy Programme to promote fitness and health among the people of InfraBeat Monthly events help sustain contact and communication amidst employees across the globe At InfraBeat it’s not just an employer – employee relationship. You’ll notice the difference from Day 1.
DID COVID-19 AFFECT INFRABEAT?
InfraBeat has been unfazed by the COVID-19 pandemic. In fact, InfraBeat has been on a steady growth curve while maintaining the lowest attrition rate in the market.
”Our COVID Command and Control Center Programme has helped the people of InfraBeat stay strong amidst the pandemic while ensuring stability in operations,” Ravi concludes.
Ravindra Saraf
Founder, InfraBeat Technologies
