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Clocks highest ever booking in last 5 weeks in MEA Announces 6 New Wins and 5 Go-lives
MUMBAI: Ramco Systems, an enterprise software product company focused on delivering ERP on Cloud, Tablets and Smart phones today showcased its all new HR & Talent Management solution, Ramco HCM on Cloud (Human Capital Management). Since the global launch of Ramco HCM on Cloud in June this year, Ramco has added some of the largest business conglomerates in the region as its customer. In the last five weeks, Ramco added 6 new customers for its ERP/ HCM on Cloud offering. This includes, Sharaf DG (leading retail chain with 8000+ employees across 13 countries covering UAE, GCC, Middle East & Far East), Engsol (Engineering Solutions company headquartered in Abu Dhabi), DaarYaas Group (retail group with presence spread across UAE, N.Africa and Egypt), Al Shabab Club (leading sports club in UAE), Blue Nile Mashreq Bank (a leading bank in N.Africa) and Nesma (a diversified business conglomerate in Saudi with a portfolio of 40+ companies and 25000+ employees). The six new customers will together add around 30,000+ users for Ramco HCM.
The company also announced go-live of 5 HCM customers which added 15000+ users in the region on Ramco HCM.
Ramco set up its operations in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) in 2006. Since the launch of its cloud based solutions in 2011 in the Middle East, the market uptake for Ramco’s offerings (ERP, HCM and Aviation) has been growing significantly resulting in the number of new customers being added, doubling in 2012-13.
Commenting on Ramco’s cloud offerings, Mr. Sunil Padmanabh, Research Director, Gartner Inc., said, “There is a sizeable market opportunity worldwide for HCM solutions on the Cloud, notably Talent Management. Many large and mid-sized organisations are looking to experiment with cloud and HR applications are emerging as the first choice. Ramco’s cloud solutions can be easily extended on mobile devices and can run In-memory based Payroll and Analytics. Ramco is also well positioned to take on the competition by embedding country specific localization and statutory needs in the base product. Ramco’s HCM solutions have interchangeable cloud and On-Premise deployment modeled. This has created a competitive advantage for Ramco and helped them take on mega vendors in the HCM marketplace.”
Addressing the media, Mr. P R Venketrama Raja, Vice Chairman and Managing Director, Ramco Systems, said “Our years of investment in developing a platform that is model-based has helped us offer solutions that are multi-tenanted, SOA-compliant and modular in nature. It is this architecture which has allowed us to easily adapt to new technologies and launch features such as Mobility, Social media integration, location-awareness through Google maps and others ahead of others. Our uber-cool user interface with alerts, notifications, portlets on transaction screens, role-specific WorkSpaces, and accessibility on mobile devices have been a great value-add and differentiator for us. We are happy that Ramco today has gained its rightful place in the global cloud market.”
Mr. Virender Aggarwal, CEO, Ramco Systems, commented, “After launching Ramco HCM on Cloud we have been witnessing good traction globally. Having serviced multiple customers on home ground, we are now aggressively building our network and product features to compete in global markets. The success of the recently launched HCM on Cloud in the Middle East region is a testimony to the fact that the product brings a good mix of global standards with local requirements.”
Mr. Ernest Hosking, CEO, RedTag, said “We chose Ramco HCM on Cloud as it offered us a suitable Model; a global solution which also addresses the unique statutory needs of the regions we operate in. We expect the scalability of the solution and the flexibility of a cloud model to ensure that our IT investments remain future-relevant. We have gone-live on Ramco HCM for our Retail business with over 5500+ employees across UAE, Oman, Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar and Saudi Arabia. The initial user feedback has been positive and encouraging.”
“Automating HCM Processes, generating reports and accessing real time information today is indeed a difficult task in any organization. Ramco’s HCM Solution with multi-country payroll on the Cloud will help us manage our workforce across locations in a streamlined manner”, added, Mr. Chandra Shekhar Jajware, CIO, Khimji Ramdas.
Ramco HCM on Cloud is a comprehensive solution that covers every aspect of an employee lifecycle: Workforce Management, Recruitment, Talent Management, Employee Development, Workforce Planning and Payroll & Benefits. Ramco has been offering its on-premise HCM software globally, and has customers with employee size of 100,000+. The company also offers an integrated Payroll on Cloud solution for all GCC countries and most of Africa.
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News TV viewership jumps 33 per cent as West Asia war draws audiences
BARC Week 8 data shows news share rising to 8 per cent despite T20 World Cup
NEW DELHI: Even as individual television news channel ratings remain under a temporary pause, the genre itself is seeing a clear surge in audience attention.
According to the latest data from Broadcast Audience Research Council India, television news recorded a 33 per cent jump in genre share in Week 8 of 2026, covering February 28 to March 6.
The news genre accounted for 8 per cent of total television viewership during the week, up from 6 per cent the previous week. The spike in attention coincided with escalating geopolitical tensions involving the United States, Israel and Iran, which have kept global headlines firmly fixed on West Asia.
The rise is notable because it came at a time when cricket was dominating television screens. The high-stakes stages of the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup, including the Super 8 fixtures and semi-finals, were being broadcast during the same period.
Despite the cricket frenzy, viewers appeared to be toggling between sport and global affairs, boosting the overall share of news programming.
The surge in genre share comes even as the government has enforced a one-month pause on publishing ratings for individual news channels. The move followed regulatory scrutiny of the television ratings ecosystem.
While channel-level rankings remain temporarily out of sight, the genre-level data suggests that when global tensions escalate, audiences continue to turn to television news for real-time updates.
