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‘Nepal Has The Capacity To Emerge As An Outsourcing Base Camp
5 min 28 sec to read
Khem Raj Bhattarai is the founder and CEO of KRB Software Pvt Ltd. As an emerging software developer, the company is focused on producing management system products along with other services. Bhattarai talked to Sanjeev Sharma of The Corporate about the company's plans and his views on the Nepali software industry. Excerpts:
What products and services does KRB Software offer?
We are basically offering 16 software products. We are producing management system software products under the Kohinoor brand which are targeted to clients such as educational institutions, hotels/restaurants, hospitals/ clinics/ pharmacy, co-operative financial institutions, shopping malls, manpower, educational consultancies etc. We are also producing products for accounting, inventory control, point of sale (POS), human resource management and customer relation management. Besides these, we provide tailor-made software according to the need and demand of clients, tech consulting and software prototyping.
Besides these, what other projects are currently being worked on?
Currently we are focused on management system products. We plan to launch other service related products in the near future. KRB Software is planning to expand the hotel management system. We are also designing portals that will help individuals and companies manage their day-to-day work. Similarly, we are also looking to introduce some services based on business-to-consumer (B2C) and business-to-business (B2B) concepts.
The majority of KRB's software is built using a web-based platform that can be accessed through mobile devices. Do you have any plan to enter the mobile application market?
Mobile devices are making computing tasks a lot easier. Regarding this, we are developing software using web-based platforms which allow the users to access the products through their mobile devices. The company is planning to enter the mobile apps markets and a mobile application developer team has been formed for the purpose. We are looking to develop the existing management system software products into mobile apps too. We are also planning to develop mobile games and astrology apps.
While talking about software, security always emerges as a major concern. How do you ensure the security of your products?
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What is the response from your clients? How do you assess the prospect of tailor-made software to cater to the needs of Nepali clients?
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