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Driven by the digital technologies, market shift from "mass-media" to "me-media" and increased focus on convergence of telecom, television and the Internet, the Media and Entertainment industry is evolving rapidly. The media and entertainment industries have more options in the new global village sans territories. In the globalized world, they have to be 'glocal'. Be it publishing, broadcasting, advertising, film or new media, the companies have to think global and act local to meet the expectation of its audience.
The enormity of the opportunities brings with it many inherent challenges like sustaining cross-media convergence; reducing production costs and enhancing core business operations without
Compromising on the audience preferences; managing and protecting copyrights and royalties; gaining maximum value from human capital; and of course making the most out of mergers and acquisitions.
To address these challenges, businesses come up with industry-specific solutions/products that need to be developed, tested for their rigour and steadfastness. Apricot is indeed the destination for many a media leaders, quite simply because of our in-depth expertise in Media and Entertainment sector. Our renowned clients who have realized the tangible benefits through our ardous development, testing processes and test centers of excellence would vouch for it.
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Government and public sector organizations are under increasing pressure to deliver improved services to the citizens that they support. Over the last few years, these organizations have been driven to improve all aspects of interactions with the public.
Public organizations need to be run as efficiently as possible, and one of the major enablers of this is the implementation of sophisticated IT solutions to reduce the administration costs and enable them to compete with private organizations that offer similar services.
One such service is the taxation. To chase the race of the tax software industry, with its incessant changes in regulatory compliances and technological advancements, Apricot provides competent end to end application development, testing and application management solutions. Apricot's experience and expertise in the concerned domain offered to its repute clientele makes Apricot a compelled choice.
Apricot’s' approach is both strategic and highly pragmatic in dealing with these issues. We recognize that the ever-changing policy has a major impact on people and processes, and when implemented correctly, will produce significant the results.
Some of the key technological changes are focused on the implementation of: |
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e-government services, whether that be on-line voting or self service tax and administrative functions. |
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Integrated solutions between local, state and countrywide departments to share and utilize information effectively and efficiently |
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Streamlining distribution methods to provide a greater platform to compete with the private organizations |
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Increased security against the global threat of terrorism and illegal immigration to ensure that the public's safety is of utmost importance |
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| Apricot has developed a comprehensive set of services to work with government and the public sector to mitigate the risks of major change programs and provide the level of independence that assures success. |
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Public health, security of employees and the information pertaining to them is at the top of every Life Science and Healthcare organization's agenda. It defines the processes and methods in which you do business and the integrity for which your brand represents.
The high costs of research and development, increased competition, and the ever-changing legislation demands that the industry focuses quality.
One of the key areas within the sector that has been under pressure to deliver is IT solutions and services, whether integrating into the supply chain, merging with another organization, or delivering front end information.
We understand that in this sector, the critical factors are:
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Improved efficiency, lower costs, enhanced productivity through the design of systems that enhance the way you do business |
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Quality and the need for the integrity of information to be 100% accurate |
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Improved business knowledge and enhanced business performance through the provision of better customer contact and relationship building |
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Improved security of information and systems as the delivery methods become more open
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| Apricot's quality management and testing services utilize its many years of working with some of the largest Life Sciences and Healthcare organizations in the world. We understand that most systems have an impact on life critical decisions or products. Our experience across the globe ensures that we build on the experience to deliver high quality services to an industry sector that has no room for error. |
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The success of a retail business is measured on how it reaches its customer, on giving them what they want, when and where they want it. Apricot recognizes that success in this sector is not just about establishing new business but about maintaining market share, loyalty and increasing service offerings.
The retail industry is also witnessing many physical and technological changes leading to consolidations, restructuring and also reorganizing the way in which the business is conducted. The use of leading edge technology to accurately assess the requirements of the business, and efficiently and effectively implementing a solution is a critical part of building competititive advantage.
By combining our industry knowledge, full range of skills and our expertise in the relevant technologies we help clients fulfill business opportunities and maximize their potential through: |
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Understanding and exploiting customer value through Customer Relationship Management solutions |
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Designing and implementing processes to manage and control the quality of systems delivered rapidly on leading edge technology |
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Implementing and operating solutions that test and monitor the satisfactory operation of self-service applications |
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| Apricot has built a comprehensive service portfolio on product development and testing to enable retailers to deliver and maintain responsiveness and reliability of internal and customer facing systems. We recognize that in this period of innovation and rapid change, these systems are becoming business critical and are forging a competitive advantage. |
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The increasing regulatory requirements, raising customer expectations, rapid consolidation and convergence in the banking and finance sector has created the need for sophisticated IT solutions that operate in real time with continuous availability and reliability.
In a drive to give operational excellence, which is of paramount importance, the banking and finance sector is looking for solutions that could address the challenges they are facing:
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Implementing more rigor within risk management and corporate governance from board level downwards |
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Building on opportunities from market concentration and globalization |
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Focusing on the need to gain operational synergies from mergers and acquisitions |
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Responding to regulatory and government changes and leveraging these changes to provide business opportunity |
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Improving customer service and retention of customers |
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Reducing operating costs across both the business and IT |
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Implementing technological changes such as Vista and SOA based solutions |
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The technological advancements, intent to address these challenges, need to be sophisticated, hence the need for a formal quality management and testing approach which will help them deliver enhanced business value with optimized benefits, and above all a defect free solution.
Apricot's quality management and testing services utilize its many years of banking and finance experience across the globe to support clients who view technology as a business enabler and see the importance of getting implementation right first time. Integration of large, widely distributed systems is more and more complex and Apricot’s services are designed to identify and manage these effectively, hence delivering result-oriented and cost-effective services.
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