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PILOG GROUP’S JOURNEY TO EXCELLENCE: AN INSPIRING TALE OF INNOVATION AND PERSEVERANCE

PILOG GROUP’S JOURNEY TO EXCELLENCE:
AN INSPIRING TALE OF INNOVATION AND PERSEVERANCE

“Harmony, Culture, Decentralized Governance, Zero Roadblocks for Change, Ability to Prove & Improve Every Day, Non-monotonous with Highly Professional and Competitive Business Arena are few practices for our business’ growth” - Dr. Imad Syed, CEO at PiLog Group.

The success in an entrepreneurship largely depends on the clarity of the vision and consistent efforts despite obstacles. Recently, our CEO at PiLog’s group have been interviewed with the The Worlds Times. Here is the success story of our visionary leader in achieving business excellence in data management and data governance solutions. Read on.

Our visionary leader’s journey from Sr. Systems Engineer to CEO at PiLog Group for Middle East & APAC is a testament to the profound impact of education on career choices. Fueled by a passion for technology and the love for data, our CEO has led PiLog with a clear mission, achieving milestones since its inception in Quality Data and Digital Governance. Overcoming challenges with strategic vision, the company’s global presence and adherence to international standards have driven success. He shared key lessons learned, highlighting PiLog’s products, services, and competitive advantages. In collaboration with SAP, the company focuses on innovation, automation, and sustained growth, offering valuable advice for budding entrepreneurs. Our CEO’s journey is a blend of education, passion, and business excellence, shaping the success story of PiLog Group

Table of Contents

  • Forging a Path
  • PiLog Group’s Journey to Excellence
  • Dr Imad Syed’s Journey & PiLog
  • Strategic Global Footprint
  • Exemplifying Excellence
  • Demystifying Industry Perceptions
  • Navigating Career Waters
  • Revolutionizing Data Governance
  • Imad’s Insights for New Entrepreneurs

Forging a Path

The interview was started by the fundamental yet foundation question. The world times asked our CEO that how has his education influenced his career choices and growth in this industry. Our CEO answered that Harmony, culture, decentralized governance, zero roadblocks for change, ability to prove & improve every day, non-monotonous with highly professional & competitive business.

His passion for technology changes and adoption as early bird; building business driven technology excellence and Love for Data; knowledge management; employee first notion to build strong and long lasting customer business transformation

Mission and Goals had been very simple for him, with his motive to be make organizations efficient and structured to meet dynamic business & technology demand with TOP and BOTTOM line improved by min. 10-12 percent YoY and Revenue to 50 MUSD by 2025 and 100 MUSD by 2030.

PiLog Group’s Journey to Excellence

The Worlds Times asked that could our CEO highlight key milestones and achievements of PiLog Group since its establishment in the field of Quality Data and Digital Governance. Our CEO replied, Key Challenges & Effective Management:
  • Market Penetration across Geographies and Industry Sectors was one of major challenge which was well addressed with revised geographical strategies and effective partnership management.
  • Retention of knowledge base was managed effectively with career development plan; equal opportunities to progress and profit sharing models.
  • Adoption of evolving technologies and synchronization of platforms to meet dynamic customer demand and huge competition was forward thinking product release plans and improved customer user experience and limited change management
  • Business plans with short term to long term longevity & sustainability had helped business to sustain in favorable and unfavorable market conditions including that of recent COVID 19 pandemic
  • Transformation of Employees & Customers relations to experience better.

Our CEO’s Journey & PiLog

The Worlds Times asked our CEO to brief about himself and his business. Our CEO replied that Twenty-two plus years of progressive career growth from Sr. Systems Engineer to today’s CEO, Group CIO and Board Member at PiLog Group with overall experience spanning over Twenty years speaks volumes and beyond.

Led organization initiatives from front for all value management initiatives for PiLog group development and its esteem customers in go to market, revenue management, innovations, profitability, product development and corporate advisor.

Senior Executive, Digital Advisory, Visionary Leader with vast experience in conceiving & designing business, enterprise information and data quality HUB strategies for medium to large enterprises; Expertise in designing simple yet powerful strategies for data governance, management, transformation and analytics of complex system landscapes, proven track record of excelling operational efficiency & effectiveness; revolutionized the product and solution development using innovative frameworks that are agile and sustainable from the perspective of futuristic technology evolutions.

Developing & executing business strategies be it for GTM or Product or Operational management or deep & diversified Value-Engineering solutions has been core strengths over the years; Passionate to nurture, build & lead high-performance teams resulting best of both worlds in the form of Customer & Employee experience is the principle believed and proven several times by our CEO.

Conceived, Designed & Built the architecture of Enterprise solutions with state of the art futuristic technologies, Cloud based content micro-services (web services) with subscription models.

Conceived & designed the data lifecycle management processes such as iDataAcquisition, iDataHarmonization, iDataGovernance & iDataAnalytics for on-premise & on-cloud enterprise solutions that can be integrated on-demand across various platforms & operational systems.

Strategic Global Footprint

The Worlds Times asked how does PiLog’s global presence contribute to its success in delivering solutions, with resources operating in Africa, the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia?

Our CEO replied that PiLog’s simple business rules had helped it to sustain and pick up growth trajectory even during COVID 19:
  • Being sustainable, reliable and transparent in operations
  • Right and timely investment in people, process and technology
  • Having likeminded people from Board to Analyst with Zeal to learn, unlearn, perform and go that extra mile every time!!!
  • More than 40 percent of revenue is generated from existing customers showcase their confidence
  • Early adoption, innovation and business process focus applications, products and service lines.

Exemplifying Excellence

The Worlds Times asked our CEO could he provide examples of how PiLog ensures compliance with international standards for seamless content integration into platforms like SAP, S4 HANA, Oracle ERP Cloud, Maximo, and MS Dynamics.

For this our visionary leader answered that the current and near future market condition will be cautious with more and more organizations looking at opportunities to consolidate and optimize business and IT processes and investment. Though it is murky for IT products and services companies to sustain but with Innovation, Automation and Right Vision will enable IT Products, Consulting & Services Industry to blossom.

PiLog’s focus is on Data such as Master, Meta and Real Time Analytics optimization and in turn business processes that effect large industries the most on 4 M’s (Man, Machine, and Money & Material) for Extended Supply Chain & Asset Life Cycle Management.

Demystifying Industry Perceptions

The Worlds Times asked what’s a common misconception about our industry that our CEO would like to address.

This is what our CEO replied.

“PiLog’s Key Products and Services”.

Key Products:
  • Data Quality HUB including Data Harmonization, Data Migration & Governance Solution for multi domain master and meta data objects with impactful tools of Industry Standards (repository, templates), ML & AI driven and IoT enabled.
  • Business Partner Life Cycle Management (Vendors & Customers).
  • Business Performance Analytics Platform (Spend & Inventory Visibility)
  • Fixed Asset and iSPIR software.
  • Master Data and Process Maturity Assessment Software Add On (ECA, MCA, SCM, ALM).
Key Services:
  • Cleansing Services covering Cleanse, Standardization, Categorization and Enrichment of multi domain master data.
  • Management Consulting.
  • Business Process Outsourcing (AR/AP, Data Management, S2P, Category Management). Asset and Supply Chain Process Optimization.
  • Master Data and Process Maturity Assessment Software Add On (ECA, MCA, SCM, ALM).

Also, our CEO added the competition advantage against product and services.

Competition Advantage against product and services:
  • Wider market penetration (Geography, Verticals, Products & Services)
  • Stronger financial ability
  • Higher professional count across geography
  • More aggressive GTM strategies
  • Faster time to market
  • More investment on technology, innovation and reskilling

Navigating Career Waters

The Worlds Times asked our CEO that what valuable lessons have he learned throughout his career. For this, our CEO gave these key insights.

  • Transparent, passionate and vision based organization management
  • Be front runner in adoption and Go to Market
  • Having right set of business partner for your organizational growth
  • Challenges and problems will make you stronger to sustain & progress
  • Define and effectively manage value for internal & external engagements
  • Continual Investment on Innovations
  • Create a value chain within organization for better experience.

Revolutionizing Data Governance

The Worlds Times asked our CEO that in co-innovation with SAP, how does PiLog implement the SAP master data governance application and what collaborative projects or innovations have resulted from this partnership.

Our CEO replied that PiLog’s business plan for short to mid and long term is derived with controlled aggression with ability to manage effectively quarter by quarter meeting organizational objectives.

  • Improved profitability with increased automation, PCBs and per capita income.
  • Top Line and Bottom Line Improvement above market derivations & expectations.
  • Increase market penetration across geographies with strong partnership, analyst collaboration and beefing up digital marketing & sales management.
  • Extend the service line and amalgamation of products to DATA Quality HUB with modular availability to customers to pick and choose on premise or on cloud.
  • Focused Investment on Innovation Council.

Our CEO’s Insights for New Entrepreneurs

The interview was ended with the last question but not the least. The Worlds Times asked our CEO to provide a piece of advice that he would like to say to people just starting on their business journey.

Our CEO gave his two cents for budding entrepreneurs is follow simple commandments of business evolution as mentioned below.

  • Invest in Innovation powered by AI & Data Science
  • Transparent, passionate and vision based organization management
  • Be front runner in adoption and Go to Market
  • Having right set of business partner for your organizational growth
  • Challenges and problems will make you stronger to sustain & progress
  • Define and effectively manage value for internal & external engagements
  • Create a value chain within organization for better experience.