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Articles from Brihat Infotech on custom ERP and CRM, AI systems, legacy modernisation and dedicated engineering teams. They draw on how the firm plans, builds and runs software for enterprise clients.

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Subjects this byline covers

  • Custom ERP and CRM cores
  • Legacy modernisation without a rewrite
  • Build versus buy decisions
  • Discovery and solution blueprints

Articles by Brihat

AI Engineering

AI in Indian manufacturing: what holds up in production

AI use cases that hold up on Indian plant floors: visual inspection, predictive maintenance, demand forecasting and document AI, with the data each needs.

8 Nov 20267 min

Delivery & Process

How to choose a software development company in India

A buyer's checklist for choosing a software development company in India: verify the firm, test the team, fix ownership terms and compare quotes fairly.

8 Nov 20266 min

Platform Strategy

Cloud migration for Indian companies, step by step

A step-by-step cloud migration plan for Indian companies: data residency, DPDP duties, MeitY-empanelled clouds, cost control and a written rollback.

8 Nov 20268 min

Platform Strategy

What drives the cost of custom software in India

Custom software cost in India depends on integrations, process, data, regulation and team model. See how quotes are built and how to compare them.

8 Nov 20265 min

Delivery & Process

DPDP compliance for your website and forms: a practical checklist

A practical DPDP Act 2023 and Rules 2025 checklist for Indian websites: notice, consent, purposes, children, retention, grievance and breach reporting.

8 Nov 20266 min

Platform Strategy

What modern hospital management software must do in India

What a hospital management system must do in India: ABDM and ABHA, NABH records, TPA and insurance billing, DPDP data protection, and a demo checklist.

8 Nov 20266 min

Platform Strategy

What an HRMS must handle for Indian payroll

A checklist of what HRMS payroll must cover in India: PF, ESI, professional tax, TDS, Form 16 and 24Q, leave rules and the new labour codes.

8 Nov 20266 min

Delivery & Process

How long it takes to build a business app, and what changes the timeline

What decides how long a business mobile app takes in India: the phases, the decisions that add weeks, and store rules you can plan for before you start.

8 Nov 20266 min

Platform Strategy

What CTO as a service is, and when to hire one

CTO as a service gives a company a senior technology leader for a few days a month. See what it covers, who needs it and what to ask for.

8 Nov 20265 min

Platform Strategy

What is EHS software? A guide for Indian plants and sites

EHS software records incidents, risks, legal duties, training and audits in one system. See what it covers under India's OSH Code and ISO 45001.

8 Nov 20265 min

Delivery & Process

Offshore engineering models: a guide to choosing

Staff augmentation, pods, offshore delivery centres, build-operate-transfer and captive centres compared on one axis, with a chooser and contract tips.

3 Sept 20266 min

Platform Strategy

Legacy modernisation: the complete guide

How to modernise legacy systems: rank them, pick one of seven approaches for each, grow around the old core, recover hidden rules and cut over in stages.

1 Sept 20266 min

AI Engineering

Enterprise AI agents: a guide to deployment

What an enterprise AI agent is, where to start, the seven controls every deployment needs and which Indian and foreign rules shape the design.

30 Aug 20267 min

Platform Strategy

Custom ERP implementation: a guide for Indian companies

A step-by-step guide to custom ERP: whether you need one, build or buy tests, what drives cost and time, data migration, rollout, GST links and ownership.

28 Aug 20267 min

Delivery & Process

How to get delivery from a team split across time zones

Distributed teams stall on slow decisions and unwritten context, not time zones. See overlap hours for UK, Gulf and US, and the habits that fix delay.

26 Aug 20265 min

Delivery & Process

The management cost of staff augmentation

The day rate is only part of what IT staff augmentation costs. See how to price your own lead's time, when it stops paying and which model fits next.

24 Aug 20265 min

Platform Strategy

Modernising IBM i and mainframe systems in India

How Indian banks, mills and distributors can modernise AS/400 (IBM i) and mainframe systems: add a gateway first, then move one function at a time.

22 Aug 20265 min

Platform Strategy

Finding the business rules nobody documented

How to find the business rules a legacy system enforces but nobody wrote down: watch the operators, run old and new side by side and log every difference.

20 Aug 20265 min

AI Engineering

Human-in-the-loop design that people use

Why AI review steps turn into rubber stamps and how to design one that catches errors: route by confidence, show evidence and track four numbers.

18 Aug 20265 min

Delivery & Process

Security and IP for offshore engineering teams

Who owns offshore-built code, how to keep production data out of reach and which Indian rules set the data boundary. Six checks to run before you sign.

16 Aug 20265 min

AI Engineering

AI in loan origination: faster files, same approver

How lenders use AI to read documents, run checks and route files while the credit decision stays with the underwriter, with a full audit trail.

14 Aug 20264 min

Platform Strategy

Which legacy systems to modernise first

Score each legacy system on running cost, security exposure, regulatory risk, change friction and strategic weight, then start where pain meets importance.

12 Aug 20265 min

AI Engineering

How to build a test set for an AI system

Build the evaluation set before the AI system: where the first hundred cases come from, what to cover, how to grade and how to use it as a release gate.

10 Aug 20266 min

Delivery & Process

Setting up a GCC in India: the company you create

What a Global Capability Centre in India involves: the company you create, cost structure against other models, city choice, first-year sequence and risks.

8 Aug 20266 min

Delivery & Process

Build-Operate-Transfer for a software team, step by step

How Build-Operate-Transfer works for an Indian software team: what to fix at signing, the operate stage, transfer day, retention and when BOT is wrong.

6 Aug 20265 min

AI Engineering

What to record in an AI audit trail

What an AI audit trail must record to explain a decision a year later: twelve fields, versioning, retention periods in India and the EU, and privacy.

4 Aug 20267 min

AI Engineering

DPDP and AI systems: what changes in the design

What the DPDP Act 2023 and Rules 2025 ask of an AI system: purpose-limited consent, withdrawal, accuracy, erasure, breach reporting and training data.

2 Aug 20266 min

Platform Strategy

Seven legacy modernisation approaches, compared

Rehost, replatform, refactor, rearchitect, rebuild, replace or encapsulate: what each changes, what it costs and how to choose per system, not per estate.

31 Jul 20266 min

Platform Strategy

ERPNext, Odoo or a custom ERP: how to choose

ERPNext, Odoo and a custom ERP compared on licence, upgrade cost and who controls your next change, plus a counted fit-gap test that settles the choice.

29 Jul 20266 min

Delivery & Process

Who owns the ERP once it is live

Who owns an ERP after go-live: when hypercare should end, the three support models, how to handle change requests and how to keep adoption in year two.

27 Jul 20266 min

AI Engineering

Why enterprise AI agent projects get cancelled

Enterprise AI agent projects stall on missing controls, not model quality: test set, cost ceiling, action allowlist, human lane and integration scope.

25 Jul 20266 min

Delivery & Process

Big bang or phased rollout for a system replacement

Big bang or phased rollout for an ERP or legacy replacement: a decision table, the cost of each, a four-step sequence and the stop test that settles it.

23 Jul 20265 min

Delivery & Process

Building software for government tenders: GeM and GFR

What GFR 2017, GeM, MeitY cloud guidelines and STQC testing require of a software supplier, and a pre-bid checklist that turns each rule into a document.

21 Jul 20266 min

AI Engineering

AI governance for regulated Indian companies

Which AI governance rules bind an Indian bank or NBFC and which only guide it: DPDP Act, RBI directions, ISO 42001, NIST AI RMF, EU AI Act.

19 Jul 20266 min

Delivery & Process

ODC, staff augmentation, BOT and GCC compared

Four ways to add engineers in India: staff augmentation, a dedicated team, an offshore delivery centre, or build-operate-transfer into your own GCC.

17 Jul 20264 min

Platform Strategy

Connecting your ERP to the GST portals

Where ERP links to the GST e-invoice and e-way bill portals fail: the IRN in the critical path, the 24-hour window, vehicle updates and reconciliation.

15 Jul 20265 min

AI Engineering

Enterprise AI agents: where they earn their cost

Where enterprise AI agents earn their cost, why pilots stall, and the five parts a production agent needs: tool limits, lanes, logs, tests, budgets.

14 Jul 20265 min

Platform Strategy

When Tally stops being enough

Eight signs that accounting software no longer covers stock, dispatch and approvals, how to score them, and your options: extend, add billing, or build.

13 Jul 20264 min

Delivery & Process

Custom ERP timeline: five phases and what moves the date

A custom ERP runs in five phases from discovery to operation. What each phase produces, five factors that move the date and how to read a bidder's plan.

11 Jul 20265 min

Platform Strategy

Custom ERP cost in India: the five drivers

Five factors set a custom ERP's price: process variance, integrations, data, first-release modules and on-site work. Measure yours in a week.

9 Jul 20264 min

Platform Strategy

Moving data into a new ERP: where it goes wrong

Duplicate item codes, mixed units, opening stock that never matched the count: five master-data faults that delay an ERP and how to find them early.

7 Jul 20264 min

Platform Strategy

Custom ERP or off-the-shelf: how to decide

Four counts show what a packaged ERP costs you in workarounds. Then a five-year cost formula and the cases where buying the product is the right call.

20 Jun 20265 min

Delivery & Process

Why software projects fail before the code starts

Most failed builds were lost in discovery. Four questions to ask, how to write testable requirements and what a discovery phase should hand over.

18 May 20264 min

AI Engineering

Production RAG: how to make retrieval dependable

A RAG demo answers from three PDFs. A production system needs structure-aware chunking, query-time permissions, evaluation sets and fresh indexes.

22 Apr 20264 min

Platform Strategy

Legacy modernisation without a big-bang rewrite

Replace an old system in stages: why rewrites fail, how the strangler pattern works, and how a parallel run proves the new system before the old one goes.

10 Mar 20264 min

Platform Strategy

Build or buy AI: how to decide

Buy AI for common tasks, build where your process sets you apart. Three tests, five lock-in questions and the hybrid most companies end up with.

5 Feb 20265 min

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