Infinite Datatex launches apparel and textile initiative

Sri Lanka and Bangladesh will be be the new emerging markets for Information Technology (IT) after India said Head Enterprise Solutions Group, Infinite Computer Solutions, India, Guruprasad S Rao, who was in Colombo last Friday.

S Rao in Colombo. Picture by Saliya Rupasinghe

Announcing the Infinite Computer Solutions, a global service provider of Infrastructure Management, Intellectual Property (IP) leveraged solutions and IT services, their plans of launching their Enterprise Solutions Group initiative for the textile and apparel industry he said Sri Lanka is no small market.

“Infinite is launching its business transformation services for the apparel Industry, and we envisage that this Information Technology and Business Consulting initiative will add huge value to the Sri Lanka based apparel industry to have better EBITDA margins from their business operations,” he said.

He said since the apparel industry has a huge amount of human manpower involved in its ambit, Infinite’s initiative is likely to have a major socio-economic impact in the country.

Guruprasad also announced a special “Safe passage programme” for different apparel and textile companies which are using certain generic ERP solutions and have mixed results from them as an incentive for them to switch over to the Datatex ERP platform.

Infinite is the Business and Implementation partner for Datatex Textile ERP in India, South Asia and Australia. Datatex is a global leader in the Apparel and Textile ERP space with broad range of customers that have annual revenues ranging from a couple of million dollars to over US$ 10 billion.

Enterprise Solutions Group (ESG) is the group within Infinite, which is responsible for services built around the packaged solutions, typically the likes of SAP, Oracle and Datatex.

Infinite has built up expertise in the apparel and textile space in the last four years with fourteen implementations in India, China, Bangladesh and Italy.

(SS)