grep -i: lessons from Pixar

We believe to enhance growth and to inculcate a fun environment, some lessons from Pixar could be very helpful.

• Think Long term
• Creativity, Creativity, Creativity.
• Freedom. Empower employees to do whatever they want for a % of the time at your work
• Compensation. Always return a part of company earnings back to the employees. Currently flirting with the idea of 40% for employees and 60% for growth.
• Respect. Respect. Respect.
• No employment contract. No Titles. Only names on the business card.
• Keep grep-i as small as possible as long as we can.
• Passion, the ability to unleash your childlike potential

Dream like a child

Believe in your playmates

Dare to jump into the water and make waves

grep -i: contactUs

Please send all sales enquiries to:

Sales division at sales@grep-i.com or

The Information Desk at info@grep-i.com

grep -i: aboutUs

Our goal is to help companies implement IT strategies which would leverage Open Source Software for enterprise needs.

We intend to evolve to an end to end IT service provider, everything from implementation, training, support and consulting for our clients.

Problem: Existing commercial solutions represents a large share of a CIO's annual budget. This put constraints on the flexibility on IT/IS for new projects. Ability to make strategic decisions are hence limited and Vendor negotiations one-sided. Thus a traditional CIO is limited to being an operational support function unable to drive business.

Opportunity: There are a number of stable, powerful open source alternatives to the current proprietary applications in use at any organization which could reduce your total cost of ownership. Understanding alternatives helps negotiating future contracts/deals with vendors. Also the savings on the software volume licenses could be used to strategically guide business thus helping the CIO to become a strategy driver rather than a strategy enabler.

Path: Bring down total cost of ownership, system cost and implementation cost of any IT/IS system in the organization. Possibly have a single vendor for all your open source solutions with a fixed service level agreement. For this we propose a two level organization

• Development center in India: Product Development and Support using the highly skilled open source talent available in India.

• Sales, Support and Training office in Spain/UK: Sales and support office in Spain and in the UK to provide user training, support and initial sales and to be an entity legally liable to SLAs in Europe.

grep -i should be able to cover the following aspects to be an end to end service provider.

Business Analysis for IT Strategy: We would use the business analysis to provide definite and clear bottom line effects of this IT strategy change and this would be our biggest value addition in business.

Technology experts for implementation: Implementation experts trained in different open source as well as proprietary enterprise applications are a must so as to complete implementation to perfection. A high volume of knowledge base at our off-shore implementation center at lower labor cost would add significant savings to the implementation costs and hence more value is captured by our client.

User Training: Change is never easy, which is why we would offer training in the implemented technology, both for end users in using the new software as well as for the IT staff in troubleshooting and supporting the new technology.

Service contracts for support: Another essential part of our business plan would be to provide continuous support for the implemented technology and software we have implemented. This includes support for operating systems, collaboration suites, server installations etc.