Jan 01 2007 The Hindu
Aiming to bridge the much-talked-about employability gap, Maples ESM Technologies has come out with a range of training modules for everything from remote infrastructure management to enterprise application services to training.
"The motto is to create market-worthy employable graduates, whether they are engineers or not. Apart from consultancy to top notch companies in enterprise services management, we offer public domain training for a range of services, including IBM mainframe," said N. Ram Subramani, founder president.
Maples has so far trained 9,000 freshers and claims a placement success rate of 91 per cent. Graduates with 60 per cent marks are eligible to be trained. ESM training encompasses network/ open source administration/ UNIX administration and Microsoft technical support. Maples also offers training in integrated systems management.
According to Mr. Subramani, the success ratio among those who have enrolled for the six-month diploma programme is 98 per cent. There is also a warranty programme where the success is total. "Our training programmes are mainly for those who do not get selected in campus interviews.
While campus selections focus mostly on communication skills, we offer training in technical skills which also calls for a vast market," Mr. Subramani added. Maples is also offering training for corporate employees, especially freshers who have been recruited by corporates but need to be trained. In the university domain, Maples also trains students of deemed universities in ESM and ESA as part of syllabus requirements. The training is done by Maples at its own premises.
A new centre in Japan, opened in September, will start offering classes from January. About one thousand Japanese engineers will be trained in both Japan and India, to be followed by recruitment by Japanese companies.
Aug 17 2006 The Hindu
Maples ESM Technologies, a Chennai-based IT consulting and training company, plans to set up a centre in Japan to train Japanese engineers in network and systems management. Company Chairman, N. Ram Subramani, says Maples will finalise an exclusive tie-up with the Japanese city of Uchinada in November, when the city's Mayor will visit Chennai.
Japan is the world's second largest economy, but with an aging population, it faces a shortfall of IT engineers to the tune of two lakh, says Yuji Nishio, Director of Uchinada's Community Policy Promotion Department. Having visited Maples' Chennai facility, he hopes the partnership can help bridge that gap.
From the Indian point of view, the potential of the Japanese market has not been fully explored because of the language barrier.
"You cannot do business in Japan without knowing Japanese," says M. R. Ranganathan, advisor to the National Chamber of Nippon India Trade and Industry. Maples, which will open a Japanese branch in the next few weeks, plans to tap this market. The training centre will have infrastructural support from Uchinada's city government. Maples will invest $250,000 initially. The centre will open by April 2007 and train 1,000 Japanese engineers over the next 18 months. It will also act as a feeder for Maples' Japanese operations.
At the same time, the company is training its Indian engineers in the Japanese language.
The company hopes that this "mix-and-match approach" will help it grab enterprise systems management (ESM) and remote infrastructure management deals from small and medium size Japanese firms worth $10 million over the next year, says Mr. Subramani. Maples is also eyeing multinationals - both Japanese multinationals based in the US and US multinationals based in Japan.
Nov 30 The Hindu
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aberdeen.com
1. The mainframe is dead notion should be metaphorically buried. We believe the
mainframe has an important computing role at many Global 5000 enterprises.
2. Java, DB2, Linux, and SOA workloads running on z9 offload engines are competitive
and ought to be considered by existing mainframe customers. The resiliency and security
(i.e., crypto engine) features of the z9 make it a choice for an enterprise SOA hub.
3. Scale-out architecture is not a hammer looking for nails. It has limits. Mainframe
consolidation as part of a five-year SOA infrastructure refresh is an idea that stands on its
own merits.
4. New ventures anticipating rapid and even explosive growth should carefully consider the
higher initial costs for a mainframe versus the higher operational costs later. Consider
Google: would this spectacularly successful computing service start again with racks of
commodity servers knowing that in 2006 they would have to manage and buy electrical
power for 250,000 (no typo) servers?
5. Emerging markets are a special case of new ventures. IBM’s new mainframe customers
are often from China, India, Russia, Eastern Europe, Latin America and other emerging
markets. The mainframe is the mission-critical platform of choice for banking, financial
services, government, and numerous other industries.
6. ISVs are attracted to the growing mainframe market because it represents new business
opportunities.
Read the full article in aberdeen.com
Jun 26 2006, The Hindu
The need for IBM Mainframe Technology is high, according to chairman and chief executive officer of Maples ESM Technologies N. Ram Subramani.
According to him, nearly 90 per cent of world's top 25 retail companies use it extensively. In India, he says, there is a dearth of Mainframe professionals and demand outstrips the supply.
"It is estimated that the top 20 Indian IT majors need more than 25,000-plus Mainframe professionals during this year," says Mr. Subramani. Since no university or educational institution offers to teach the technology, the demand for trained professionals in IBM Mainframe has thrown open multiple avenues for fresh BE/MCA/M.Sc. students for potential employment.
He says that Maples ESM Technologies offers training and consulting in the field.The company, he claims, has already trained and placed more than 7,000 professionals in the last year.
May 17 2006, The Economic Times
CHENNAI: Maples ESM on Wednesday announced the launch of its $12 million facility in Chennai.
The facility set up on 30,000 sq feet containing a data centre, Network Operations Centre and a Security Operations Centre, would include several high-end servers like IBM Mainframe, HP, Sun and networking gears designed to provide remote IT infrastructure management services.
It will provide human resources management services and infrastructure management to medium and large-scale organisations, Maples ESM Managing Director N Ram Subramani told media here.
The firm, providing enterprise systems management (ESM) services, was anticipating a growth of 300 per cent in the next two years, Subramani said.
"With the market for infrastructure management growing in leaps and bounds, we are confident of generating a revenue of $100 million by 2008," he said, adding they would concentrate on strategic partnership for enhanced business opportunities in overseas market and bringing in direct clients for remote infrastructure management.
Maple's training division had a 93 per cent placement record and had trained and placed nearly 7,200 students from second-rung engineering colleges from all over South India in MNC's, Subramani said.
Jun 11 2004, The Hindu
CHENNAI: Maples ESM Technologies, a provider of enterprise systems management services, has signed an agreement with Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT), Bhubaneshwar, to design, implement and manage the IT infrastructure of the institute's campus. Maples will also be conducting short-term and curriculum-based courses on database management, networking administration and mainframe application on programming for students of KIIT, it said in a statement here.
