Date:02/03/2006 URL: http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2006/03/02/stories/2006030200021900.htm

Back Survey to assess tech adoption in small industrial units

Our Bureau

Hyderabad , March 1

The services of a leading market research agency have been enlisted to take on the task of conducting a survey to test and assess technology adoption in the small and medium enterprise (SME) segment.

As a part of this exercise, a three-day event on IT adoption among SMEs is to be hosted by VINmedia here during April 21-23 to educate SMEs in the manufacturing sector on the advantages of technology adoption and how this can help streamline business processes and cut down on overall costs.

The event has garnered user group support from industry associations such as Federation of Andhra Pradesh Small Industries Association and Electronic Industries Association of Andhra Pradesh and over 10 industrial area associations in and around Hyderabad.

The event seeks to bring together companies providing enterprise resource planning, customer relationship management, hardware, data, broadband and e-business and explain it through case studies.