53 years ago, Ashwin Dani of Asian Paints brought the first supercomputer in the country, created history by defeating ISRO.

Ashwin Dani, founder of Asian Paints, India's largest paint company, died on Thursday. Do you know that he was the person who brought the first supercomputer in the country? Yes, this was even before 'Param'.

Ashwin Dani, founder of the country's largest paint company Asian Paints, passed away today at the age of 79. His contribution in making Asian Paints the best company in its segment is often praised, but perhaps very few people know about his understanding of the use of technology.

Asian Paints was founded in 1942 by Ashwin Dani's father along with some of his colleagues. But Ashwin Dani did the work of changing the fortunes of the company. In the year 1968, he took charge of the company and emphasized on the use of technology for business like paint. Ashwin Dani is the person who gave this country its first supercomputer.

Brought the country's first supercomputer

Ashwin Dani bought a supercomputer CDC 6600 in the year 1970 to expand the business of Asian Paints. Of course it was imported from abroad, and at that time he had invested Rs 8 crore to buy it. However, with the help of this supercomputer, he got a lot of help in expanding the business of Asian Paints.

Ashwin Suryakant Dani (file photo)

The country's big institutions ISRO and IIT also got supercomputers many years later. It took several more years for the country to build its first indigenous supercomputer and it was ready in 1987.

This is how Asian Paints' business got bigger due to supercomputer

This supercomputer helped Asian Paints create the best ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) ever seen in the world. Because of this, the revenue of Asian Paints kept growing by 20 percent every year for 60 years.

In fact, with the help of this supercomputer, Asian Paints was helped in understanding the color preferences of the customers and which color of paint is in demand in the market. This supercomputer was able to predict which color of paint is more preferred in which area of ​​the country. In such a situation, the company used to plan in advance and fill the stock of paint of that color in that area.

This supercomputer helped Asian Paints in strengthening its distribution network. Today it has more than 70,000 dealers across the country.