At the entrance of the 100ft road in Indira nagar operated a firm called TOPSYS SOLUTIONS PVT LTD in the mid 1990's and was run by an alumnus of IIT Kanpur by name Mr.Balagopal Karat an enterprising person in many ways and had skills at developing and packaging new software.He had a wide range of products one of them in the design of Electrical Layouts and another was an Accounting Software formidable in many ways called ACCOUNT-21.
I worked for a couple of months here as a consultant doing business development for the software Account-21 and was successful in selling them through software channels.I got rare insight into the accounting software market. During these times TALLY used to be the leader.I used to meet software re-sellers in Kolar,Hosur ,Mangalore ,Hyderabad etc.During my tenure here I understood there were scores of Accounting softwares in the country-numerous of them. Accounting Softwares paved way for the mdern ERP softwares of various kinds.
Mr.Balagopal Karat handled the overall operations very well. I dont know what became of TOPSYS later but is an inspiration that relatively small outfits using minimum number of people can work wonders in sectors like software where to my understanding there is more scope for developing custom-made specific softwares.
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