About iBE.net

iBE.net was founded in 2011 with one clear goal. We set out to design and build the most intuitive, elegant and well architected business software on the market today, an “Integrated Business Environment”.

With monolithic vendors like SAP and Oracle servicing the multi-billion dollar enterprises and Quickbooks (or similar packages) sufficient only for the smallest organizations, the frustration felt by the population of underserved businesses is tangible.

The founders of iBE.net have spent the last two decades working with some of the largest corporations in the world on some of the most challenging and complex implementations of packaged software. This experience has resulted the vision of a software solution that immediately fits an organization’s needs (regardless of the industry or geographic location), is fast to deploy and customize, and will keep evolving.

With this vision combined with our belief that business software is entering a period of dramatic change, the iBE.net system was born.

The iBE.net management team are all recognized experts within the field of enterprise software. Our combined experience represents every facet of enterprise software including strategy and design, development and implementation, and support and optimization.Our team, sourced globally and split across the US, Europe and India, is focusing hundreds of man-years of hard-won experience into the development of our revolutionary product.

The Inflection Point

We believe we are about to hit an inflection point. This inflection point will cause a paradigm shift in our industry, changing how companies buy and use enterprise systems. There are eight distinct trends that are pushing the market towards this inflection point. The current players have missed a number of these trends. Consequently, by heeding to these trends, we believe that we can create a revolutionary new business management system, iBE.net, the "Integrated Business Environment".

Are we correct? Only time will tell, but by sharing the eight trends that are driving our organization, we hope that you will agree with us.

SaaS/Cloud Computing: Connecting to a remote, best in class system, from anywhere, with comprehensive functionality, guaranteed compliance and 24×7 support, will have major implications on both the cost structures of businesses and how IT can be used to drive innovation, enabling new and wide-ranging processes.
Globalization: With the accelerating trend towards international business, companies are demanding multi-currency, multi-language and multi-national capabilities from their IT systems.
Social Media: People have profoundly altered the way they communicate with the advent of social media, forcing business to leverage the social interactions of their employees to drive productivity and collaboration.
Mobile: Today’s smartphones are empowering the next generation of business users, extending the reach of a corporation’s business management software, in ways that we are only just discovering.
Money: Even without the global recession, IT budgets are under pressure. Countless CIOs have told us that they must find ways "to do more with less."
Capital Efficiency: Today, efficient software development models and tools are unleashing a tsunami of creativity upon the business world, while established software vendors are weighed down by old technology and traditional processes.
Information Management: Customers are now demanding comprehensive, flexible and intuitive access to their data without the need for IT involvement.
User Experience: Improved graphics as well as advances in front end technology allow a huge level of personalization as well as a wonderful user experience.

Our Team

You can't build a revolutionary product without extraordinary people. iBE.net has attracted some of the top talent in the IT industry from around the world.

Richard Minney

Richard has eighteen years of ERP experience as a developer, architect, consultant, project manager and industry sales lead. Based in the US, Richard recently headed up Enterprise Product Innovation for one of the top-five India-based technology firms, building a business for add-on ERP software declared by SAP as "the poster-child for partner co-innovation". Richard brings supply chain, product development and service mgt. expertise especially for manufacturing, hi-tech and heavily regulated industries.

Simon Hopkins

Simon has over twenty years of ERP experience. During that time he has worked as a consultant, architect, and program manager on some of the largest and most complex SAP projects ever delivered. Simon has worked as a business manager in Asia, Europe and the USA, founding two separate businesses, leading one to an IPO and the other to an acquisition. As an angel investor and ex-CFO Simon also brings financial leadership and organizational skills to the team.

Amit Gupta

Amit has over fifteen years experience designing and implementing enterprise solutions including twelve years of ERP experience as a developer, technical architect and company founder - building up an ERP solution development and service delivery organization. As an India-based entrepreneur who has worked extensively in the US and far-east, Amit brings technical expertise and operational excellence to iBE.net's Agile-based development.

Sanjay Mijar

Sanjay has been working as a technical architect and developer for the past seventeen years. His experience spans many organizations from cloud-based technology start-ups to established ventures, where he has designed, implemented and supported everything from simple web-sites to mission critical systems supporting 20 million customers. Sanjay brings technical leadership to the iBE.net team in the areas of leading-edge technologies, methodologies and open source frameworks.

Mani Periasamy

Mani Periasamy has twenty-four years of manufacturing, supply chain management business and ERP system experience covering a range of manufacturing and distribution industries from aerospace to electronics to health care manufacturing. Based in India, Mani has worked extensively in the US, Europe and Asia and brings Manufacturing, Optimized Planning, JIT, Warehousing, Transportation and Distribution experience across a range of industrial products and complex machinery industries.

Sastry Boddapati

Sastry has over fifteen years of ERP experience in the area of logistics, especially in complex industries like aerospace and defense. Over this period, Sastry has worked in various roles ranging from consultant to solution architect. He has been leading design, implementation and support projects for complex ERP systems. He has worked extensively in the US, Middle East, India and Asia-Pacific. Originally a mechanical engineer by profession, he has worked as a maintenance engineer on the shop floor.

Christopher Sands

Christopher has been helping organizations in the US such as Intel, Motorola, Nike, Expedia and Lockheed Martin for fourteen years to build cutting-edge interactive web-sites and web-applications. Featured in Inc. Magazine in May 2010, Chris is the founder and designer of RapidTask - a lightweight task management and peer review system with more than 20,000 end users. Chris brings his skills in user interface technologies, user interface strategy and customer-centric design to iBE.net.

Harsh Chauhan

Harsh has over ten years of experience as a developer, architect, project manager, and product owner across today's leading business software companies and technologies. He was the main driving force behind the Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) solutions at SAP Labs in the role of product owner and architect. He brings deep technical and functional expertise in ERP, combined with agile software delivery and quality assurance capabilities for iBE.net's solutions.

Danna Hargett, Ph.D.

Danna is the resident science and technology expert at iBE.net and has over twelve years of experience in research and development in the Biotech and Pharmaceutical industries, focusing in infectious disease. Danna helps each client optimize our software by applying her knowledge of project development, management, and organization. Danna and her support team are able to identify and remedy problems quickly, provide personalized user training, and continually monitor user needs to ensure that the iBE.net software evolves accordingly.

Investors

iBE.net is in the enviable position of having finished two rounds of funding, even before the first release of the product. This puts the company in a wonderful position to focus on its product and customers throughout 2012 and beyond.

iBE.net is backed by a number of seasoned industry professionals and technology investors who see the potential to revolutionize an entire industry. Our investors include former CEOs, analysts and serial entrepreneurs who are excited by the destabilizing product that is being developed.

Investors have been attracted to the company based upon the track record of its founders and the talent that it has managed to attract.

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