Karnataka association to conduct executive committee meeting

Federation of IT Dealers’ Association-Karnataka (FITDAK) will conduct its ‘executive committee meeting’ on 18 January 2015. The agenda of the meeting will be to review the happenings since previous EC meet held at Hubli, last year. The Karnataka association will also discuss the conduct of its first AG meeting along with announcing the induction of district associations as its new members. Over 40 people from across the state are expected to attend the meet.

The immediate priority of FITDAK is to induct district associations as its new members. Even though AIT Bengaluru, DDAIT-Hubli, BITA-Belgaum, MITDA-Mangalore and DealIT-Mysore are already FITDAK members, they still have to formalize memberships of the other IT associations from Davangere, Shimoga, Hasan, Chitradurga, Bellary, Gulbarga, Bijapur, Bagalkot etc., which will be a part of this EC meet. In the next phase, Karnataka association looks forward to inducting the other set of district associations.

Also, on agenda, is to restructure the general body of the association where the office bearers are empowered to work on conceptualizing and implementing new initiatives of FITDAK for the benefit of members across the state.

Continuing to address and resolve the challenges the trade is facing B. Ananda Rao, president,  FITDAK said, “The biggest challenge continues to be the predatory pricing practiced by OLS market place that has both direct impact on the channels addressing SOHO/SMB/Home segment and indirect impact on enterprise solution providers. Tier-2 and 3 districts of the state are the worst hit by the diabolic business models of OLS market who are being funded by the FDI companies  VC firms while the discounts are ranging anywhere between 15% to 30%”.

Adding further he said, “Another challenge is to bring in awareness among the affected channels about the need to revisit their business models and redefine their offerings in the market place to score over the OLS market. FITDAK will also be launching sessions and workshops with hands on training on latest and emerging trends in technology offerings to enable them do value additions in their respective businesses”.

Jurmoloya Rava

(jurmoloyar@cybermedia.co.in)