Okta SSO rollout in India: a Pune NBFC’s audit-week story
How a 280-person Pune NBFC moved 64 business apps under Okta Workforce Identity Cloud in fourteen days to clear a DPDP audit IAM material gap. Priya’s day-in-the-life on a clean walkthrough.
Freshworks vs HubSpot for Indian support teams: a Pune SaaS CFO and CX head argue it out
Freshworks vs HubSpot for Indian support teams: a Pune SaaS CFO and CX head argue. INR math, Freddy AI bundle, three clauses that mattered.
Palo Alto Prisma Access India: the amber alert we read wrong on a Saturday afternoon
A Mumbai NBFC postmortem: a Saturday amber DLP alert on Palo Alto Prisma Access turned out to be a data scientist exfiltrating the credit scoring model in five chunks.
Acronis Cyber Protect India: a Coimbatore manufacturer’s 60 day bake-off against the incumbent backup stack
A 280 person Coimbatore textile machinery manufacturer ran 60 days of Acronis Cyber Protect vs Veeam One + Sophos. Console burden, CAD recovery, and the SKU shift that decides Year 2.
Cambium cnPilot WiFi for Indian office: an 8 branch Pune clinic weekend
An 8 branch Pune diagnostic chain swapped 22 mixed vendor APs to Cambium cnPilot e410 over one weekend for VLAN segregation before NABL.
emSigner vs DocuSign India: a Pune fintech CFO and CHRO argue it out
A 320 person Pune fintech CFO and CHRO debate emSigner vs DocuSign for offer letters, NACH mandates and vendor agreements. Pricing, data residency and the clause we added.
APC Smart UPS for Indian office: what the Andheri Friday outage taught us about runtime math
A Mumbai BPO quarter end outage and what an APC Smart UPS 3000VA actually carried. Load math, DG timing, and three changes before the next close.
Zebra handheld deployment India warehouses: what Indore taught us about firmware variants
A 3PL ops postmortem from a 12 site Zebra MC2200 rollout. Why a firmware variant slipped past SOTI MobiControl, what it cost, and four rules I would send back to Day 0.
Cato Networks SASE deployment India: a Bengaluru SaaS bake-off against Fortinet
A 180-person Bengaluru SaaS firm ran Cato Networks SASE against Fortinet UTM + IPsec VPN for 90 days. Latency, admin hours, DPDP visibility, and what we told the CFO.
MacBook fleet rollout India: 42 Macs, a rainy Saturday
A 92-person Bengaluru agency Saturday MacBook fleet rollout India: 42 MacBook Pro M4s, ABM plus Jamf, Wi-Fi bottleneck, Rs 3,630 per seat math.
