Simplifying Business Transformation with Innovative IT Solutions: VisionSoft

VisionSoft, a company with over a decade of legacy, has emerged to tackle the intricate challenges of the industry, with a focus on Big Data complexity, HANA Solutions, Cloud Managed Services, and Digitization. Their mission is to streamline the landscape of transformation and provide comprehensive IT services, ensuring risk-free execution and high performance, allowing clients to concentrate on their core business while entrusting their IT and transformation needs to VisionSoft.

Specializing in optimizing systems, processes, and workflows, VisionSoft aims to unlock the full potential of businesses of all sizes. Leveraging a diverse team of highly qualified subject matter experts and industry leaders, they meticulously assess and analyze organizations before implementing tailored strategies. This approach not only enhances overall productivity but also significantly optimizes costs while predicting future market trends to drive business growth.

As a leading provider of S/4 HANA Solutions, GRC, Application Consulting, Outsourcing Services, and IT Infrastructure Management Services, VisionSoft has a proven track record of delivering business functionality and technical problem-solving across various industry verticals in the Americas, Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australia.

Anji G Reddy, the CEO of VisionSoft, exclusively spoke to CIO Bulletin about how his company is aiding IT resources in optimizing their data and simplifying their work using SAP solutions.

Interview Highlights

Q. Can you share the founding story of VisionSoft and the inspiration behind establishing the company?

VisionSoft was founded with a clear vision: to simplify the complex landscape of business transformation by offering disruptive software innovations in enterprise transformation and data science. Recognizing the challenges faced by organizations dealing with big data, S/4 HANA migrations, Salesforce, e-commerce, and digitization, the founders set out to offer end-to-end IT services that prioritize risk-free execution and high performance. The inspiration was to empower businesses to focus on their core operations while entrusting VisionSoft with their IT and transformational needs. Stemming from the 12-year history of our legacy company, VisionSoft Consulting Inc., we have evolved to meet the dynamic demands of the digital era and the world of automation.

Q. What are the flagship products and services offered by VisionSoft, and how do they cater to the unique needs of your clients?

VisionSoft offers a diverse range of flagship products and services tailored to address industry challenges:

• SAP S/4 HANA Implementation Services: VisionSoft provides streamlined solutions for efficient SAP S/4 HANA implementations and Business Process transformation, ensuring a smooth transition to the new platform.
  
  
• HANEYA^® for Robotic SAP S/4 HANA Migrations: This innovative product automates seamless SAP enterprise migrations and upgrades with Zero Down Time conversion, ensuring a hassle-free transition process.
  
  
• DMAG™: VisionSoft’s comprehensive tools cater to Enterprise Data Cleansing, Data Migration, Data Archiving, Data Carveouts, System Refresh, Data Masking, and Master Data Governance, ensuring data quality and integrity throughout various operations.
  
  
• HANELYTICS^® for Big Data: This product empowers clients with advanced Big Data analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, comprehensive consulting services, delivering predictive business insights and Data Science to optimize decision-making processes and enhance business efficiency.
  
  
• Salesforce solutions: Transform enterprises to be customer and service centric using Salesforce solutions.
  
  
• VSoft Hybris: A rapid eCommerce solution with Omni Channeling, transforming how businesses reach and serve customers in today’s mobile-driven market.
  
  
• CURATUM Software: A pre-packaged solution for SAP GRC, ensuring global compliance and smooth migration to GRC 10.1 with enhanced features and streamlined internal control evaluations.

Additionally, VisionSoft provides managed services in Salesforce, Hybris, SuccessFactors, and Microsoft Digital Solutions, emphasizing a commitment to “Speed to delivery @1/3 cost and high quality.”

Q. VisionSoft has a focus on GRC, Security, Master Data Services, and S/4 HANA migration. Can you elaborate on the specific challenges in these areas that your solutions address for clients?

In the domain of Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC), Security, Master Data Services, and S/4 HANA migration, VisionSoft is committed to tackling multifaceted challenges. This includes addressing issues related to data governance, data management, implementing robust security protocols, process controls, system access controls, and Enterprise Segregation of Duty (SOD) violations, ensuring data integrity, and orchestrating smooth transitions during S/4 HANA migrations and upgrades.

During SAP S/4 HANA upgrades and migrations, enterprises face multifaceted challenges including custom code remediation, data model updates, process transformation, and security role changes, all of which our solutions seamlessly address. Our clients also encounter challenges with their data - structured and unstructured - and how to derive predictive insights from the data to run business operations. Our solution, Hanelytics, provides data science models to handle these challenges.

Furthermore, clients have demands for data archiving, data carve-outs, data refreshes, and data masking, all of which are handled by our DMAG Solution. Leveraging a global team operating across various time zones, VisionSoft delivers comprehensive solutions aimed at establishing resilient frameworks for the effective management and security of data, streamlining master data processes to enhance efficiency, and ensuring seamless transitions to S/4 HANA. Through these initiatives, VisionSoft works to minimize potential disruptions for our clients, providing them with a solid foundation for navigating complex landscapes in SAP, Salesforce, GRC, security, and data management.

Q. How does VisionSoft make the migration process seamless for clients, and what steps are taken to ensure a smooth transition during implementations?

VisionSoft ensures a smooth and efficient migration process for our clients through the deployment of HANEYA^® for Robotic S/4 HANA Migrations. HANEYA^® conducts meticulous assessments of existing systems, identifies potential challenges, and assesses the environment’s readiness for migration, remediating incompatibilities and errors for a transparent and smooth migration process. It automates Custom Code Remediations, Security Roles updates, Data model changes, Process transformations, and Fiori application updates, with automated testing to validate and assure changes don’t disrupt business processes. Leveraging Zero Downtime conversion strategies, HANEYA^® minimizes disruptions during migrations, ensuring continuous business operations.

For Greenfield migrations, our innovation, DMAG, ensures the legacy enterprise Data is cleansed, mapped, transformed, and migrated into SAP S/4 HANA along with Data audits, carveouts, and Archiving. Our Transformation Simplified ^® tool enables process transformation and conducts process re-engineering to develop the enterprise model to match SAP Best Practices. Automation technologies, including robotic process automation (RPA), streamline tasks, accelerate the migration process, and enhance overall accuracy. Our expert teams collaborate closely with clients, customizing HANEYA^® to address unique needs and specific requirements. This collaborative approach ensures tailored solutions that align precisely with client expectations. HANEYA^® not only serves as a technological solution but also fosters effective collaboration, providing real-time insights and progress updates to create a seamless and optimized S/4 HANA migration experience for our clients.

Q. Being a Premier SAP and Oracle certified Application Development and Services Partner is a significant achievement. How does this certification contribute to VisionSoft’s credibility, and the quality of services provided?

Achieving the status of a Premier SAP and Oracle Certified Application Development and Services Partner is a strong testament to VisionSoft’s unwavering commitment to excellence and adherence to industry standards. These certifications signify our proven technical proficiency and validate our ability to consistently meet and exceed the highest quality benchmarks in enterprise application development and services. This esteemed recognition not only highlights our dedication to delivering top-notch solutions but also substantially boosts our credibility in the market. Clients can place confidence in the reliability and excellence of our services, knowing that we’ve undergone rigorous evaluations to attain and maintain these industry-leading certifications.

Furthermore, the above certifications provide an entry point to many clients, also known as a ‘Foot in the door’, and guarantee high-quality delivery. It is important to note that the certifications are only as good as the quality of service we offer; should the quality falter, the certifications will be recalled. Hence, the certifications keep us always on our toes and ensure we provide the best quality service to our clients to retain the certifications.

Q. How does VisionSoft leverage its Big (4) Management Consulting experience to bring value to clients in the areas of Finance, Supply Chain automation, Digitization, Big Data, and Cloud Computing?

Utilizing Big (4) experience, VisionSoft adds significant value to clients across critical domains such as Finance, Supply Chain automation, Digitization, Big Data, and Cloud Computing, leveraging the methodology, tools, and approach experience of Big (4) companies. Business consulting experience is handy for studying business scenarios, challenges, and problems, allowing us to approach business problems the Big (4) way – more strategic, creative, and practical. The best practices, KPIs, and value realization tactics learned at Big (4) are of immense help in addressing VisionSoft’s client challenges and in forging partnerships and leveraging equity relationships with our clients. We serve clients we met back at Big (4), either directly or indirectly, offering services in our sweet spot – S/4 HANA Migrations, Transformations, and Data Science. We also work through Big (4) companies as part of their team to serve our combined clients. Our services and software are available on Big (4) platforms to be consumed by end clients, providing compelling value to our combined clients. This wealth of consulting experience positions us to navigate clients through intricate challenges, enabling them to harness the complete potential of transformative technologies and gain a competitive edge in their respective industries.

Q. Could you share a notable success story where VisionSoft’s products or services had a significant positive impact on a client’s business?

Our success stories occur daily with our clients, where our consultants perform stellar jobs solving client business problems or our products save immense value to our clients. For instance, with a global conglomerate, our product Haneya^® had a significant positive impact by eliminating 27 hours of downtime for our client’s business with a zero downtime solution for SAP S/4 HANA Migration. For this client, every hour is revenue, costing $100,000 per hour, and our product Haneya saved $2.7 million.

For another client, the challenge was a classical business transformation problem. Our consultants used our software, DMAG, to transform aged manual business processes to a world-class SAP system, from no ERP system in the areas of Finance, Supply chain, Mining Operations, and Commodity Management. This transformation enhanced revenue by 15% ($10 million in margin), cut down procurement cost by 30% ($9 million), and saved the Total Cost of SAP S/4 HANA Implementation by 40% ($1 million) via enterprise transformation and sheer digitization of the business processes.

Anji G Reddy | CEO

Anji G Reddy has over 27 years of expertise in business and technology solutions, with a focus on SAP HANA^®, Data Management, and Salesforce. He started as a Product Manager at ITW (Illinois Tool Works) and later transitioned into consulting roles at PwC, Deloitte, and IBM. His career also includes successful stints in manufacturing at Johnson & Johnson and New York Times. Anji’s association with VisionSoft began during his studies at Harvard University, where his passion for entrepreneurship took root.

As the driving force behind VisionSoft’s Product Innovations, Project Delivery, Consulting, and Managed Services strategy, Anji actively fosters innovation and disruptive technologies, ensuring the organization’s continuous advancement. His commitment to designing solutions precisely tailored to meet clients’ needs positions VisionSoft at the forefront of technological progress, significantly contributing to the company’s ongoing success and growth.

“Our mission is to streamline the landscape of business transformation and provide comprehensive IT services, ensuring risk-free execution and high performance, allowing clients to concentrate on their core business while entrusting their IT and transformation needs to VisionSoft.”