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Bala Chandra, CEO

Vernalis Systems
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Contents November 2010
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16 TOP 10 SOFTWARE COMPANIES

Cumulux Eka
Fiorano INSZoom
NetElixr Serus
Synerzip
22 TOP 20 IT SERVICES COMPANIES
Estuate Fulcrum
Ignistech Infinite

8
Lancesoft Mansa Systems
Prakat Serene
Softwarefolks Span Systems
Stratogent Tavant
Teklink Urpantech
Vedicsoft
30 TOP 5 OPD COMPANIES
Aditi
31 TOP 10 WIRELESS COMPANIES
Altierre Intellinet
33 TOP 10 MOBILE COMPANIES
Endeavour Technologies Roamware
Openstream
36 TOP 5 SEMICONDUCTOR COMPANIES
Bala Chandra, CEO
COVER STORY
AutoESL
36 TOP 5 CLEAN TECH COMPANIES

The
Gourmet
37 TOP 10 INTERNET COMPANIES
Corp-corp My bantu
Verismo Networks
40 TOP 10 SECUIRITY COMPANIES
eGestault Mentis

IT Services Provider
Quantum Networking
Alphion Aryaka

By Vimali Swamy
Fatpipe Infineta
Niksun
“Proficiency in multiple technologies and 42 TOP 10 NETWORKING COMPANIES
development methodologies, and competence Alphion Aryaka
in working with global clients from diversified Fatpipe Infineta
domains help the team melt the time zones”
- Bala Chandra, CEO, Vernalis Systems
NIKSUN
45 TOP 5 BPO COMPANIES
Omega Healthcare

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Cover Story

Vernalis Systems at a Glance

Founded: 1999
Headquarters: New York
Other Offices: London (UK), Köln (Germany),
Chennai (India)
Headcount: 120
Customers: Over 100
Verticals: Healthcare, Energy, Sports and
Entertainment, Workspace Technologies, Travel,
Banking, Compliance, and Manufacturing
Website: www.vernalissystems.com

The
Gourmet
IT Services Provider

M
By Vimali Swamy

ajor League Baseball (MLB), the highest level of pro-

fessional baseball in the US and Canada, has 30 clubs
in the league. Every month the central commission
brings out a financial audit wherein the clubs need to
report the revenue gained from all sources right from
ticket sales to the sales of food and beverages during the matches to that
from advertisements and media broadcasting.

Bala Chandra, CEO

 Though there were several ERP
and financial applications available in
the market from large software ven-
dors, there was none that suited and
understood the tasks required by
MLB. The financial application had
to be built from the scratch. Despite a
myriad of large IT services compa-
nies in the industry, today there are
only few who provide custom appli-
cation development. MLB ap-
proached Vernalis Systems, a small
IT services company based in New
York. Understanding the criticality of
the project the company, in a very
short time, built the solution. Today,
post the successful application devel-
opment work, MLB has become one
of its major customers. The history of
the company is filled with a lot of
such success stories.
Founded in 1999, Vernalis Sys-
tems is a pure play IT services com-
pany, specializing in critical custom
applications development across the
Web and mobile. Today, a decade
since its humble beginnings, the com-
pany has created a strong footprint as
a gourmet IT services provider along
with additional service lines of engi-
neering and media. They count sev-
eral large players across areas like
healthcare, energy, sports and enter-
tainment, private equity, workspace
technologies, marketing services,
emergency preparedness response,
travel, banking, compliance,
and manufacturing as their customers.
The Birth of the Company
Vernalis Systems was founded by in-
dividuals with immense experience in
various aspects of IT by having
worked in some of the major organi-
zations around the world. The team of
professionals leading the company is
composed of experts in their respec-
tive fields, having the breadth and
depth of experience that spans across
a wide technical spectrum and subject
matter expertise.
From day one, the core philoso-
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phy of the company was to build sus-
tainable systems and not body shop
like other large IT players. While in
the initial years the company started
as a consulting firm, it soon re-posi-
tioned it self as a critical IT services
provider. From servicing a few large
niche clients in New York and sur-
rounding areas the company slowly
broadened its customer base and
today it has a grip on several key mar-
kets including US, Europe, and India
in the areas of Technology, Engineer-
ing, and Media.
“Software development is a human
job and errors are inevitable. Being
open in communication from the
beginning helps forge a credible
relationship with the customers and
bridge the gaps”
The company in 2003 set up their
India operation, which serves as the
development center. “From a cus-
tomer point of view, we specialize in
critical applications. Most of the ap-
plications we develop are not cookie
cutter kind. There is a grave challenge
when it comes to just maintaining the
resource and technical competency as
the development work happens across
different platforms like iPad, An-
droid, and traditional Web application
simultaneously,” explains Bala Chan-
dra, CEO, Vernalis Systems. This is
where the company’s specialty lies in.
“We do not aspire to become a large
scale IT company but rather a spe-
cialty gourmet provider,” he adds.
Small is Beautiful
In an age where every one is aiming
at grabbing a large market share and
raking in big ‘moola’ by stepping into
every possible area of IT services,
Vernalis Systems believes in standing
apart by offering specialized critical
custom application development.
In custom applications develop-
ment, the challenge starts right from
the requirement tracking stage. Since
the requirements continue to evolve,
developing an application around it is
like ‘trying to shoot a moving target’.
Since this kind of work requires in-
depth technological expertise, one of
the biggest challenges for the com-
pany has been getting the right peo-
ple. “It is precisely the reason we
chose value and not volume in terms
of resources. We want to be the
SWAT team, where failure is not an
option,” says Chandra. Today, 11
years since inception, Vernalis Sys-
tems is 120 people strong and only
aims to scale up to 300 in the coming
years.
The Three Pillars of Business
But where it lacks in resource
strength, it makes up with the varied
technology expertise it brings to the
customers. Its three service areas are
technology, engineering, and media.
A technology neutral company, it
broadly classifies the IT business into
three segments - traditional software
development, mobile, and business
intelligence. Since the spectrum of
traditional software is very wide, the
company takes up projects only
where a packaged solution does not
fit a customer’s requirement. For ex-
ample, the company is currently de-
veloping a biometric system for a
client in Dominican Republic. Since
there is no pre-developed or packaged
software or prototype available for
their specific requirements, Vernalis
Systems has a team deployed that is
working with the client and under-
standing the project specs and re-
quirements. Today, the International
Player Acquisition System (IPAS), a
biometric system, is under develop-
ment and soon would be ready for re-
altime application.
Mobile is another area where the
company has a strong foothold, as it
constitutes about 30 percent of the
business. “We started mobile devel-
opment back in the days of PALM
and over the years we have done nu-
merous projects on Symbian and
Blackberry and today on iPhone and
Android,” says Chandra. Now it has
even moved over to developing apps
on iPad. Most of the projects in this
segment essentially involve develop-
ing key features of certain enterprise
applications as an extension on any
mobile platform.
Now with the iPhone and Android
slowly displacing Blackberry within
JV Partners
Enablement
Technology
Team
Team
Costs
Vernalis Systems Business Model
enterprises, the company too has
begun to explore opportunities in this
arena. One of the recent applications
it has built on iPhone is ‘WeCab’, a
cab sharing application for US mar-
kets that is currently productized for
New York. Quiet satisfied with the
product, the customer now plans to
extend it to other geographies as well.
For Vernalis Systems, it is all
about staying in tune with the trends
in the industry. Within just a few
“Due to the flagship BI product ‘BACPAC’,
which will co-exist with building
lateral experience access control systems and provide
in different
tremendous value additions to the
organizations by leveraging the un-
industries the tapped data potential and providing
business intelligence in helping the
company helps organization in streamlining
customers right
processes like employee on-board-
ing and exiting, workspace utiliza-
from the early tion, emergency responses, and
more.
requirement Engineering design is a separate
definition stage
thread of service line of Vernalis
Systems. Leveraging first class de-
and counsels sign facilities, equipments, and
software knowledge this division
about right tools has already made a significant mark
one can deploy to
by providing maximum design effi-
ciency in the areas of industrial ma-
lessen the cost
chinery and automation. Vernalis
Systems boasts of a team of design
and make the engineers who are highly proficient
process simpler”
in the latest engineering design and
analysis tools. This team provides
design solutions for their clients in
Germany in the automobile and
manufacturing sectors in the areas
of design adaptation, design opti-
mization, finite element analysis,
Customer
Relationship
and industrial animation for clients
like Blohm-Jung, Stuertz, Georg,
and more.
Value VS Business
Media division of Vernalis Sys-
Customer
Proposition Relationship
Segments
tems completes the triangle of their
Team
services. Ranging from designing
and developing marketing initiatives
online, using rich media technolo-
Success Revenue
gies for compelling and interactive
brand experiences through story-
months of the launch of iPad, the boarding, scripting, and character
company is already geared up with an creation, the company exploits digi-
interactive learning application for it. tal media for maximum gain.
Chandra and team have developed an Providing creative services to
interactive activity book, a story book author Marc Levy in France during
with pictures, where the story line his book launch and building rich
changes depending on the activity interactive promotional Web pres-
chosen. ence, brand building and promo-
Business intelligence is the third tion for real estate giants in India,
part of the company’s business and and a restaurant major in the US
constitutes about 20 percent of the are a few to mention about their
revenue. It soon plans to launch its creative solutions.
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Customer is King and Employees
are Assets
For Chandra, it was a conscious de-
cision to keep the company a rela-
tively small enterprise offering
niche services. But in an age of cut
throat competition, where its larger
peers are striving hard to win cus-
tomers on the basis of human re-
source and other infrastructure
capabilities, Vernalis Systems treads
a different path. “For us, it is not the
number of customers that matter but
rather the length and depth of cus-
tomer engagement. At any given
time we have 25 active projects that
vary anywhere between three
months to 2 years,” says Chandra.
“Empathy” to customers is the
underlying culture within the com-
pany. Unlike most vendors who act
on the orders of the customers, at Ver-
nalis Systems, the idea is to involve
with every aspect of the project right
from the beginning. Instead of wait-
ing for the customer to provide spec-
ifications, the company helps think
them through the requirement. Since
the company has a lateral experience
in different industries, it sits with the
customer right from the early re-
quirement definition stage and helps
them think through the process. Be-
cause of the strong technology back-
ground the company brings to the
table, it is also able to suggest the
right tools the customer can look at
deploying in order to lessen the cost
and make the process simpler. “The
involvement in client’s business is so
deep that by the time the project is
completed, they treat us like consult-
ants rather than just developers. This
is the big differentiator,” believes
Chandra.
It is this, in combination with
honesty and transparency, that has
worked wonders for Vernalis Sys-
tems. Every customer is made aware
of the fact that all the development
work is being done in its develop-
ment center in Chennai. Apart from
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the 110 engineers at Chennai, the
company has six project managers in
its US office and two in London and
Germany. These managers act as both
the cultural and business interfaces of
the company, thereby providing a
level of comfort to the customers.
While design and architecture are
done from Chennai, the managers on-
site focus on business analysis and
project management.
“Proficiency in multiple
technologies and development
methodologies, and competence in
working with global clients from
diversified domains help the team
melt the time zones”
In order to keep the communica-
tion clear between the company and
its customers, the company has de-
veloped an internal Web based proj-
ect management tool - COLLABRIA.
Since every project is a custom appli-
cation development, the requirements
keep pouring in time to time, and
hence everything about a project is
documented with in COLLABRIA.
Since everyone from customers, proj-
ect managers, developers, and techni-
cal architects have access to it, one
can monitor the progress at any given
time, thus cutting down the commu-
nication and response time between
the company and the customer. “Soft-
ware development is a human job and
errors are inevitable. Thus we believe
to be open in our communication
from the beginning thereby forging a
credible relationship with the cus-
tomers. Collabria helps bridging the
gap,” says Chandra.
The relationship that the company
has forged with its customers is so
deep that today most of the new proj-
ects come only via customer refer-
ence. A testimonial to this is reflected
in their significant client retention
rate and the fact that they have started
or are in process of starting joint ven-
tures with several of their customers.
Not only have their customers pro-
vided several credible leads that re-
sult in tangible projects, but Vernalis
Systems has also started technology
centric joint ventures with their cus-
tomers. These joint ventures span
various verticals including healthcare
services, pharmaceutical, and social
networking. Most recently, they de-
ployed a mobile application: Con-
nect5 with one of their long-standing
customers. Connect5 is a social net-
working application that rivals
foursquare. Connect5 is a location-
based iPhone application that shows
you what a venue is like and how
your friends are doing in realtime.
In order to further enhance cus-
tomers’ trust in the company, it con-
stantly conducts audits to ensure the
standards are met. Clients are also in-
vited to the company’s premises an-
nually in order to get a first hand
experience in the company’s work
culture and ethics.
While customers are the utmost
priority for the company, it is not un-
observant to the employees who are
the real assets. Even though the team
is separated geographically, the work-
ing culture melts the time zones and
distances, giving the global clients an
experience of working with one team.
Every professional in Vernalis Sys-
tems is groomed to be proficient in
multiple technologies, handling vari-
ous development methodologies,
conversant in working with global
clients from diversified domains.
With an appropriate mentoring pro-
gram in place, the management
strives hard to groom the next gener-
ation of leaders within the organiza-
tion and inculcate in them the values
it stands for. Because of the nature of
the projects and the challenges the
teams face, the company believes that
its professionals are much more ex-
perienced and industry savvy in com-
parison with current industry
standards.
“Our open and transparent way of
working means all our employees di-
rectly see and experience that their
success, their team’s success, the
client’s success and the organiza-
tion’s success are directly linked with
each other; which greatly fosters an
exceptional level of personal motiva-
tion and inspiration, which is one of
the key ingredients of our success,”
says Chandra.
This transparency, along with
their core competencies, has served
Vernalis Systems well in breaking
ground within new cultures. It has de-
veloped a significant presence in Ger-
many. The German market, a net
exporter of services, is traditionally
known for providing engineering
services as opposed to utilizing them.
Germans are also known for their ap-
preciation for dedication, commit-
ment and excellent execution.
Through a tremendous amount of am-
bitious marketing and salesmanship,
coupled with the company’s exten-
sive portfolio of success, they estab-
lished a foothold in both computer
aided engineering design and IT serv-
ices.
The Road Ahead
Today, a decade since its humble be-
ginning, the company has been see-
ing constant growth. With about a
handful of customer acquisition per
year, it ensures that the quality is not
compromised to quantity.
As the world gears up towards
taking the enterprise solutions, social
media applications, and end user so-
lutions to the mobile world heavily
supported by major players and plat-
forms, the company is making sure it
is in the right place to leverage on this
opportunity.
The challenge in custom
applications development starts
right from the requirement tracking
stage. Since the requirements
continue to evolve, developing an
application around it is like ‘trying to
shoot a moving target’
Vernalis Systems is today well
positioned to play a very significant
role in providing mobile applica-
tions, business intelligence, applica-
tion support, and engineering design
combined with media backed solu-
tions for our global customers. The
company is also playing a predomi-
nant role in building solutions that
pave way to green and environmen-
tally conscious corporate and end
user world. To provide additional
bandwidth for the increased clien-
tele and to further provide more
services to the clients, the company
is currently working on setting up
offices in the Middle East and in the
Asia Pacific regions.
Additionally, having garnered
varied business expertise, the com-
pany has launched a venture capital
fund to encourage budding entrepre-
neurs. Vernalis Systems already has
a stake in multiple companies in the
areas of logistics, infrastructure de-
velopment, and talent management.
These entities together employ over
1,000 people. “The idea is to diver-
sify and try applying the business
lessons learnt over the years, and in-
fluence these businesses in a posi-
tive way,” says Chandra.
The company actively promotes
community welfare and takes a
unique approach by providing a
platform to its staff members to con-
tribute to the different channels of
social welfare organizations. Among
several welfare initiatives, it is no-
table that Vernalis Systems has
joined hands with Rang De a non-
profit micro financing organization.
Many of its employees are social in-
vestors through Rang De in extend-
ing help to the needy. The company
not only does social investment but
also contributes its time and effort
to Rang De.
Having closely worked with en-
ergy conservation associations, Ver-
nalis Systems also has become a
well informed energy consumer it-
self and promotes energy conserva-
tion and environment friendly
approach in all possible ways in its
daily life. The company actively
promotes greening solutions and
provides subsidized technology
support to global energy conserva-
tionists.
With the ideology of not falling
into the rat race and growing at
one’s own pace instead of the indus-
try demands, Vernalis Systems con-
tinues to stand for a cause. si
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Here we are! With the much awaited annual si100 issue.
This is the 13th year we are hailing and saluting the continuing rise and glory of the Indian
entrepreneurs in high-tech industry in U.S.

In the past 13 years we have seen the industry evolving, growing and recouping the hunches of
recessions that marred the landscape. But nothing has stopped the Indian entrepreneur from
making it big. From the era of the mainframes to computers to the era of smart phones and
tablets, they left their mark everywhere. From the times of client servers to web based to the
cloud, foot prints are obvious and history is incomplete without them.

This year also we have carefully listed those companies which display the characteristics of
long-term visibility, sustained growth, business focus, profitability and customer and employee
value-creation. If one is giving a new dimension to online advertising, another is optimizing the
WAN through the cloud and the other has a great market share in the Value added Services
market. While some have chosen Internet to innovate and experiment, others by their sheer
customer focus and engagement models pleased the billion dollar companies.

We salute each and every one of these entrepreneurs for their leadership, and particularly for
their unrelenting dedication in building their companies. Each and every entrepreneur on this list
demonstrate the utmost passion for building lasting enterprises and exudes confidence that
they will succeed in tackling the current economic conditions.

A distinguished panel comprising of accomplished Indian CEO’s & CIO’s of public companies,
VC’s, analysts, founders of other VC funded companies including siliconindia editorial board
decided on the top 100 companies.We congratulate the 100 finalists for achieving this vote of
respect from industry leaders and wish each and every one of them a great future.
 Top 10 Enterprise Software Companies Enterprise Software

Name Founders Founded Description

Cumulux: Helping Enterprises Harness
the Power of the Cloud Computing
Connectiva Systems Provider of revenue and risk management solutions for tele-
A v i B a su
New York, NY
CEO
2001 com industry. Investors are Ovation Capital, SAP Ventures, IFC, experience at Microsoft and Oracle cloud based services and cloud man-
connectivasystems.com NEA-Indo US Ventures. Headcount: Over 400 working on delivering products like agement services.
Windows and Office. Cumulux has Cumulux was recently named by

C
A leader in the Cloud Computing governance and compliance helped over 25 Fortune 500 companies Microsoft as its “2010 Global Cloud
Pad d y S r i ni v as an
space. Recognized by Microsoft as its Global Cloud Partner of explore, investigate and operationalize Partner of the Year” in recognition to
Paddy Srinivasan
Cumulux
CEO
the Year, Cumulux has enabled over 25 Fortune 500 customers cloud computing strategies. its leadership in the space. The Cloud
Chicago, IL 2008 deploy, monitor and manage their cloud based solutions
cumulux.com
R a n j it h R a m a k r i s h n a n
proven track record of delivering business value by SaaS solu- umulux, founded in 2008 with The company offers the first gov- Computing Journal of SYS-CON rec-
CTO
tions based on platforms like Microsoft Azure, Amazon EC2 and offices in Chicago, Seattle and ernance and management platform for ognized it as a Top 150 player in cloud
Force.com. Chennai, India is a leading enterprise solutions running on the computing. With a growing customer
Cloud Computing services provider Microsoft cloud platform. Cumulux’s base and revenue, Cumulux is aggres-
Eka Software
A provider of commodity trade and risk management software
that enables businesses harness the flagship product ManageAxis is a sively growing its market footprint
Man av G ar g for global commodity markets. With 200+ member strong
Norwalk, CT
CEO
2004
team, it has presence in U.S., UK and India. Backed by G Prem- power of the cloud through their com- Monitoring, Governance and Compli- and employee base. It intends to ex-
ekaplus.com
jee Group and Nexus Venture Partners. bination of products and complemen- ance platform for cloud based applica- pand its product and cloud managed
tary services. The founders of the tions. Cumulux also offers strategic services over the next 18-24 months
A provider of enterprise middleware and peer-to-peer distrib- company are Microsoft veterans with services to enterprises around cloud by expanding its reach in the U.S. to
Fiorano Software uted systems, its event-driven SOA platform integrates apps over 30 years of collective leadership planning, economic justification of Dallas, Houston and other cities.
At u l S a i n i
Silicon Valley, CA 1995 and complex technologies into an enterprise nervous system,
CEO
fiorano.com increasing business process performance, higher message
throughput and enhancing availability. Headcount:100

C
INSZoom offers immigration practices and enterprise human
resources divisions a full range of immigration case manage-
INSZoom
U m e s h Va id y a m a t h
ment solutions. As a fully-hosted or complete in-office installa- EKA Software Solutions: Managing Risks Successfully
San Ramon, CA 1999 tion, the INSZoom platform handles case initiation, information
CEO
inszoom.com gathering, digital workflows, case submission, and submission
tracking modules to subscribers. INSZoom integrates with lead- ommodity markets are treach- and competitive advantage to the uct engineering, QA and support. The
ing HRMS including PeopleSoft and SAP. Headcount:400 erous because of their com- firms that deploy them. use of the latest software technologies
An accelerator to cloud computing. Its first solution Nephos
plexity and high degree of risk “What is required is a robust, spe- means Eka delivers against key cus-
Nephos Systems Augmenta enable organizations to seamlessly augment and se- and uncertainty. To manage this com- cialist commodity trading and risk tomer requirements such as solution
San Francisco, CA
R a n g a R a n ga c h a r i
CEO
2009 curely extend their internal datacenter into a public cloud amd plexity and risk, firms that buy, sell management system to handle all flexibility, scalability, performance
nephosystems.com to seamlessly migrate applications from their data center to and trade commodities must be able this. It is not enough to have risk and security.
the cloud.
to view and manage their physical management solely covering trading. Despite being only a six year old
NetElixir An online customer acquisition management firm, it offers commodity positions Operational, regulatory, and counter company, Eka has grown rapidly to
Ud a ya n Bo s e
Princeton, NJ
CEO
2004 end-to-end campaign management services and optimization and their total fi- party risks must all be managed on a 200 people, with customers and staff
netelixir.com technology for e retailers. nancial exposure common platform,” says Manav on four continents. Eka has received
A provider of technology and managed services for companies on a real-time Garg, CEO and Founder of Eka Soft- several awards and accolades, most
Serus
I nd u N avar
with distributed or outsourced manufacturing operations. Its basis. The right ware Solutions. notably the NASSCOM Innovation
Sunnyvale, CA
CEO
2001 SaaS solutions enable automated collaboration, execution and technology can Realizing the market opportunity, 2009 Award in the “Best Market Fac-
serus.com decision making across global supply and distribution net-
works.
provide substantial Garg established Eka in 2004 with ing Innovation - Business Model &
differentiation venturecapital funding. Today Eka is Business Process” category at the
H em a nt E l he nc e
Synerzip
CEO
A dual shore - US and India - OPD and software testing com- a market leader in software for global NASSCOM India Leadership Forum
Dallas, TX
Vi n a y a k J o g le k a r
2004 pany creating cutting-edge software products exclusively for commodity markets, well known as 2010. It has also been included in
synerzip.com small to mid-size technology companies.
CTO the provider of software for manag- 2009’s Deloitte Technology Fast 50
ing physical trading, position, P&L, program for India. Today Eka has a
Vivu
S u d h a Va l l u r u
Provider of an online video conferencing platform. Ventures
risk, logistics and finance opera- growing customer base in Europe, the
Sunnyvale,CA 2008 backed by Inventus Capital Partners with Draped Fisher Jurvet-
vivu.tv
Chairman& CEO
son and Quest Venture Partners tions for agriculture and metals mar- U.S., Asia and Australia which in-
Manav Garg kets. It boasts a team of more than cludes Hindalco, Louis Dreyfus and
150 specialists in consulting, prod- Australia Wheat Board. si

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 Enterprise Software
F
Fiorano: Home Coming
ounded in 1995 in Silicon Valley,
Fiorano is Multi-national Corpo-
ration headquartered in Califor-
nia, U.S. A leading provider of
enterprise middleware and peer-to-peer
distributed systems, Fiorano’s innova-
tive event-driven SOA platform inte-
grates applications into a coherent
enterprise nervous system that is easy to
manage, extend and adapt to dy-
namically changing business re-
quirements.
Global Leaders, including
ABN AMRO, Boeing, British
Telecom, Capgemini,
McKesson, NASA,
POSCO, Schlum-
berger, Lockheed
Martin, the U.S.
Department of De-
fense (DoD), UB
Group and Voda-
Atul Saini
fone have all de-
I
INSZoom: Immigration Made Painless
n the wake of rising security threat,
the immigration processes have only
become more complex and due to
lack of information, updates on new
policies and other immigration details,
most enterprises find challenges in com-
pliance to immigration rules as the
process is tedious and end up
spending nearly half a billion
dollars on the same. The recent
announcement by the U.S. gov-
ernment to audit 25,000 com-
panies for compliance shows
the criticality of the situation
and this is the business opportu-
nity that INSZoom banks on.
Founded in 1999 by Umesh
Vaidyamath, with of-
fices in the United
States, India and UK,
Umesh Vaidyamath INSZoom is the
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ployed Fiorano to drive innovation
through open, standards-based, event-
driven SOA applications built in just
days, yielding unprecedented produc-
tivity.
“Many of these Corporations chose
Fiorano over established vendors like
IBM, Oracle and Microsoft, often to re-
place failed projects” says Atul Saini,
Founder and CEO, Fiorano.
“Fiorano’s unique component
based, Drag-Drop-Deploy
model obviates long imple-
mentation cycles and millions
of consulting dollars that are
normally spent with mega-ven-
dor offerings. “Half the de-
velopers – Half-the-time
is our value,” claims
Saini.
“Fiorano is also
the first Middle-
ware vendor to re-
world’s largest immigration software
company, and develops immigration
management solutions for enterprises,
domestic and global immigration
lawyers based in the U.S., Canada, Aus-
tralia and the U.K., universities, health-
care organizations and non-profit
groups.
INSZoom offers a full suite of robust
web based solutions that help enterprises
and law firms across the world with
Case Management, Compliance Tools,
Case Tracking, Immigration Forms
Generator, Management Reports, and an
Address Book. Built on a DotNET plat-
form, the solution is adroitly wrapped
around the Adobe PDF for the docu-
mentation management stream flow and
can be customized according to the
client needs. Today, the company has top
IT firms like Microsoft, IBM, Wipro,
lease a Cloud ESB (Enterprise Service
Bus); The ‘Fiorano Cloud Platform’ is
now available on the Amazon eC2. It’s
all about putting power into the hands
of the business user; Companies want
results and they want it now,” states
Saini.
After having deployed Fiorano at
leading enterprises world-wide, Fiorano
is all set to replicate its success in India.
Coming out of a recessionary phase,
many of India’s large and mid-sized
companies are looking for ways to im-
prove productivity and develop an agile
business without additional expenses;
SOA is a way to streamline business
processes.
“Bangalore is now a major hub and
a key market for our expansion plans in
the APAC region,” says Saini, “We are
actively signing on system integration
partners and plan specific events in
India to educate the CIO and IT com-
munity about the benefits of SOA; Our
target - 50 Fiorano SOA Platform de-
ployments in India by year-end 2011!”
says a confident Saini.
Cognizant, and Patni among its enter-
prise clients and has successfully li-
censed out the software to over 1000
attorneys in the U.S. alone.
When it comes to immigration, to
have the right information at the right
time is very important. With the rules
and regulations changing almost every
day, it is a tedious task to keep a tab on
the updates. To address this problem,
INSZoom has developed a portal,
www.migrantplanet.com with that gives
realtime updates on immigration laws of
countries around the world. Ask Vaidya-
math about his future plans and he says,
“I want INSZoom to be the one stop
shop for all immigration solutions. A few
years down the line, I hope to help cre-
ate a system where immigrating be-
comes as simple as traveling within
one’s own country.” si
 Enterprise Software
T “P
NetElixir: Revolutionizing the Digital Advertising Industry
he evolving digital advertising
industry with.new parameters,
new areas and options make it
difficult for online advertisers to keep a
tab on their advertising ROI. From ef-
fectiveness of search engine advertising
and social media presence to gathering
actionable insights from thier digital mar-
keting campaigns, marketing head of
every business has to keep a constant
vigilto extract maximum ROI on his on-
line marketing investment. NetElixir of-
fers technology and service solutions for
online retail marketers.
Founded by Udayan Bose in 2004,
NetElixir helps retail online marketers
maximize opportunities presented by the
evolving digital marketing landscape. Its
next-gen integrated online customer ac-
quisition management and optimization
technology enables online retailers like
Oneida, K-Swiss, JellyBelly and Oma-
B
Serus: Removing Kinks in Outsourced Manufacturing
etween 1995 and 2007, the num-
ber of transnational companies
increased from 38,000 to 79,000,
and foreign subsidiaries nearly tripled,
from 265,000 to 790,000. Between 2007
and 2010, R&D outsourcing is fore-
casted to increase by 65 percent, and en-
gineering services and product-design
projects will increase by more than
80 percent. Portfolio rationaliza-
tion is eliminating SKUs
(Stock Keeping Units) al-
most as fast. All these
amalgamate is creating
constant turmoil to supply
chain executives who are
facing five major chal-
lenges — cost
containment, sup-
ply chain visibility,
risk manage-
ment, increas-
Indu Navar ing customer
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haSteaks to effectively monitor, manage,
and optimize their multi-channel online
marketing campaigns.
“Our approach is governed by a multi-
tude of factors like the online shoppers
and their engagement with retail web
properties, establishing appropriate value
of each customer acquisition channel for
a specific retail category and including
the category specific nuances among oth-
ers” says Bose.
NetElixir’s online advertising
management and an-
alytics platform,
LXRRetail, has
been custom built
for the retail indus-
try. It offers real
time, web-based man-
agement access
to retail mar-
keters of Udayan Bose
demands, and globalization. These are
exactly the challenges that Serus ad-
dresses with its wide array of solutions.
Founded by Indu Navar in 2001,
Sunnyvale headquartered Serus provides
enterprises with end-to-end Intelligent
Operations Management solutions.
When a company deploys Serus solu-
tion, it addresses an organization’s three
main points, operations, finance, and IT.
“What we do is help companies manage
their operations by running our solution
alongside their existing ERP systems, be
it Oracle or SAP, in support of the man-
ufacturing efforts that takes place outside
their four walls, which includes collabo-
ration with their extended outsourced
partners,” explains Indu, CEO, Serus.
The company’s core solution is an Intel-
ligent Operations Management (IOM)
application suite with a B2B Hub that
provides real-time data aggregation and
content management. This IOM removes
their entire online customer acquisi-
tion program – across multiple cam-
paigns and multiple channels – from a
single dashboard. With this retailers
can manage,modify and optimize all
aspects of their online marketing work
flows across search engine marketing,
social media marketing and compari-
son shopping engine marketing pro-
grams.
H0eadquartered in Princeton, NJ
with offices in Hyderabad, London,
Copenhagen and Freiburg; NetElixir
boasts of a strong management team
of experienced digital marketing pro-
fessionals, many of who have worked
for Fortune 500 firms. Over the next
few years, Bose plans to expand to
new geographies, integrate additional
online customer acquisition channels
and significantly ramp up operational
capabilities.
the need for large, complex spreadsheets
that are difficult to maintain and audit.
Serus deploys its product through a pri-
vate or public cloud computing platform
based on the client’s requirement. With
its Supply Chain solutions, it has im-
proved the inventory visibility at sub-
contract manufactures from 85 percent to
99.5 percent.
Today the company’s clients in-
clude top players like AMD, Boston
Scientific, Cisco, Flextronics, Juniper
Networks, nVidia, Thermo Fisher and
Wente Vineyards. Serus has firmed its
foothold in four major business verti-
cals; Semiconductors, Hi-tech manu-
facturers, medical devices and
consumer packaged goods. Since reces-
sion, most organizations are striving to
be lean while increasing their profit
margin. This opened a vast opportunity
for Serus and is equipping itself for this
by hiring more employees. si
Synerzip: Agile Software Development For Venture Backed Companies
ut oneself in someone else’s
foot to understand them bet-
ter” could be the success
mantra of boot strapped Synerzip, which
is on track for 70 percent growth this year
over last. In 2004, when Hemant El-
hence and Vinayak Joglekar founded the
software development firm based on
agile methodologies, they made a delib-
erate decision to focus on SMBs, espe-
cially venture backed technology
companies. They knew that their earlier
experience in handling startups, courtesy
their stint of serial entrepreneurialism
would help them to deliver on client re-
quirements. “We can easily relate to a
startup’s expectations. Today with our
agile development process, Synerzip en-
sures that the client equally collaborates
during the entire software development
cycle. Using the Agile approach, work-
A
Estuate: Extreme Service!
ppearing in the si100 list for
the second time in a row, Es-
tuate is a fast-growing global
information technology (IT) services
company based in Silicon Valley,
with a technical offshore team in
Bangalore. The company was
founded by Prakash Balebail and Na-
garaja Kini, whose motto is “Our
clients’ success is our success”. Since
its beginning in 2005, with an agile,
responsive U.S. based culture to-
gether with the strong technical off-
shore team, Estuate has delivered
high-value, cost-effective solutions to
software companies and large IT or-
ganizations.
Estuate’s key service offerings
include Oracle & IBM application
implementation, custom application
Enterprise Software
ing software is delivered to business
users in short iterations of two weeks.
These short delivery cycles allow fre-
quent feedback from business users and
a pattern of repeated testing, which ulti-
mately results in a robust software prod-
uct,” says Elhence, the CEO.
Six years since 2004, Synerzip stands
with over 40 clients and their clients
range from seed-stage start-ups to divi-
sions of public companies. They have the
ability to build the trust through
their dual-shore capabilities,
whereby the company main-
tains a 200 member team of
high caliber software devel-
opment and testing profession-
als located in India at Pune,
along with a small
team of Product/Pro-
ject Management Hemant Elhence
development, and software manage-
ment. Its Enterprise application
clients include Bechtel, Intuit, Stan-
ford University, Visa and Wells
Fargo. Estuate’s software product
development focus includes core
product development and testing,
business process integration and
technology modernization. Its soft-
ware company clients include Bech-
tel, Cisco, Intuit, IBM, Oracle,
PayPal, SRI International, Wells
Fargo, Amway, Avis, Emblem
Health, Blue Cross, T-mobile and
Travelport among others. It has also
built strong go-to-market alliances
with IBM and Oracle.
Estuate comprises of a core team
that is highly skilled in the full Ora-
cle platform, with more than 100
professionals located in US. The com-
pany plans to aggressively foray into mo-
bile application built on platforms like
Android and iPhone and also leverage on
Microsoft’s SharePoint.
Both the founders understood the
importance of expertise, courtesy their
own hands-on software development
background. They have dedicated
teams for each client, hence there is no
need of shifting personnel from project
to project, which ensures that each pro-
fessional becomes an expert in dealing
with their client requirements. Also,
in the future if a client decides to start
its own captive operation, it can trans-
fer the Synerzip team to its own entity
for a minimal price. Thus,
they are also saved from
the upfront costs of re-
training staff.
IT Services
Prakash Balebail Nagaraja Kini
man-years of experience. According
to its clients, it is this specialized,
unmatched applications technical
expertise, along with its Extreme
Service culture, that drive them to
buy its services. By bringing high in-
tegrity into all client interactions and
by listening carefully to what the
clients want, Estuate builds lasting
and trustworthy relationships with
its partners and clients that yield tan-
gible benefits in every project. si
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 Top 20 IT Services Companies IT Services

F
Name Founder Founded Description
Cyquent
Rockville, MD S a g a r S a w a n t , CEO 2001
An IT Solutions and Services provider, for organizations in the public and the
private sector. It has 35 employees.
Fulcrum: Striving to Meet Business Needs
ulcrum is a global IT service Collaboration Technologies (IBM Web- & Customer Associate Dashboard, Proj-
cyquent.com

provider with over 750 employ- sphere Portal, Lotus Quickr and Con- ect Management Tool, Resource Plan-
A global IT services company focusing on Oracle & IBM application implemen-
Estuate
P r a k a s h B a l e b ai l , CEO tations, custom product development and software management. Customer:
ees, headquartered in New Jersey, nections, Lotus Domino, MOSS, ning Tool and Document Automation
Sunnyvale, CA 2005
N a g a r a j a K i n i , CFO Amway, Bechtel, IBM, Intuit, Oracle, Stanford University, T-Mobile, Travelport,
estuate.com
Salesforcce.com and many more. Headcount: Over 100 employees.
Fulcrum Worldwide Specializes in solving business challenges of medium to large scale organiza-
with offices in Reading UK, Nether- JBOSS, LifeRay, Joomla, Drupal), Cus- System as well as long term Managed
Short Hills, NJ R a j e sh S i n h a , CEO 1999 tion by blending cutting edge technologies with in-house domain expertise lands, Mumbai & Pune India. A Mi- tom Framework Development (Java, services engagements. “Through Busi-
crosoft Gold Partner, IBM Advance .NET, Opensource), Business Intelli- ness value Assessment, Fulcrum recom-
fulcrumww.com and collaborating with a strong network of functional industry experts.

Partner, Oracle, and Jive partner, the gence & DW, Platform Integration/Mi- mends the appropriate approach, long
Ignis
N i h a r R a n j a n S a ma n t ar a ,
lewisville, TX 1999 An engineering and technology services firm. It has around 300 employees.
company focuses on solving business gration/Upgrades, Managed Services term strategy and IT road map,” says
CEO
ignistech.com
Infinite Computer Solutions
S a n j a y G o v i l , Chairman
With main focus lies in the Telecom, Media, Technology, Manufacturing, En- challenges by blending cutting edge (NOC, 24/7/365 Support), Testing Serv- Rajesh Sinha, CEO, Fulcrum.
technologies with domain expertise in ices. Fulcrum was conferred with “Asia’s
Rockville, MD 1999 ergy & Utilities and Healthcare industries, it is a global service provider of
U p i n d e r Z u t s h i , MD & CEO
infinite.com IMS, Intellectual Property (IP) Leveraged Solutions, and IT Services.
A provider of IT solutions and services to corporate clients, it provides appli- collaboration with strong network of It has delivered various so- Best Employer Brand Awards 2010 for
Lancesoft
Herndon, VA
R a m K a ru pp u sa m y
2000
cation/systems development, management outsourcing, BI, data warehousing,
infrastructure management and production/operations support, ERP and CRM,
functional industry experts. Over the last lutions from solving complex Talent Management” held in Singa-
lancesoft.com
CEO
enterprise application integration, consulting, and quality assurance services, decade, it has worked in the space of business problems to pore and was also one of the “Top
as well as Web applications.
Higher Education, Insurance, Supply streamlining operational 10 most promising IT companies in
Chain, Manufacturing, Retail, Logistics, challenges. Some of the so- India” in si100 last year. Today,
Mansa Systems Provides Salesforce implementation, customization and integration services
S i v a D e v a k i , CEO
San Francisco, CA 2006 and force.com application development services with focus on small and mid
Aviation, Life Sciences & Media, and lutions developed are with innovative framework and
A r t i D e v ak i , VP
mansasys.com size markets. The company has a head count of 39.

Prakat Solutions
An independent services company, whose offerings include Testing Services,
has also signed multiyear contracts with Order tracking Sys- sincere efforts to meet the
various Fortune 500 companies. tems, Purchase business needs of every
Consulting and Training which span across Process Optimization, Testing and
Fort Worth, TX A n ur a d h a B i s w a s, CEO 2009
Technology. Their services are targeted at domains like telecom, Health Care,
prakat.com
Banking & Financial Services and Insurance. They have around 20 employees.
A CMMi level company driven by Planning Systems, client and thus ensuring
Serene Corporation
A ji t K u m b h ar e , Managing A systems integration company and consulting firm that specializes in the im- metrics and best practice methodology Financial Budget- ROI, the company stands
at each stage of delivery, Fulcrum offers ing system, Cus- out with its value oriented
Santa Clara, CA 2002
Partner plementation of business applications, including CRM, MDM, EAI, BI, and SaaS.
serenecorp.com
expertise around Business Consulting, tomer portal, approach towards products
Software Folks Offers IT Consulting, IT Products, Strategic Staffing and RPO services, helping Niche expertise in Portal Content and Member Portal Rajesh Sinha and services.
Iselin, NJ R o h i t M a h aj a n , CEO 1999 clients focus on their core processes and help them meet their evolving busi-

I
softwarefolks.com ness objectives. The company has about 100 employees.

Span Systems
G . L . P r a d e e p , MD
P r a k a s h G r am a , CEO
Pra m o d G ra m a ,
A growing IT Services Company with a proven track record of helping clients go
to market faster at reduced costs. It has expertise in Custom Applications de-
Ignis: Specializing in Custom-fit Services and Solutions
New Jersey, NJ 1994
gnis Technology Solutions is a and provides engineering & technol- ject matter expertise of industries it
Executive VP velopment, R&D and Product co development, Reengineering, Maintenance,
spansystems.com
N a g a n a n d D o r as w a m y Testing and Support services.
Executive VP
niche engineering and software so- ogy solutions. The technology services serves, deliverables with a high meas-
Stratogent
An IT hosting and operations firm that designs, integrates, deploys, hosts and lution provider specializing in de- it provides include IT consulting, de- ure of quality & performance, flexible
livering innovative solutions and sign & development, application man- and cost-effective engagement mod-
San Mateo, CA C h e t a n P a t w a r d h a n , CEO 2001
operates software applications in datacenters. It has 25 employees.
stratogent.com

Tavant An IT solutions and services provider employing cutting-edge and emerging services to leading organizations agement, infrastructure management els, guaranteed results to the agreed
worldwide. Their comprehensive & helpdesk, product implementation cost, time and value, detailed metrics
S a r v e s h M a he sh , CEO
Santa Clara, CA 2000 technologies to provide game-changing results for customers expecially the
M an i sh A r y a, CTO
knowledge of the avionics & aero- & support and cloud computing. Its collection and analysis, and a high de-
tavant.com BFSI sector.

space, healthcare, media & entertain- engineering services include structural gree of customer delight and long-
TekLink An implementer of SAP Solutions for many Fortune 500 Companies, it has
P a nk aj G up t a , CEO & Direc-
Naperville, IL 1998 proven its expertise acrosses many industries, including Consumer Products,
ment, banking and insurance design & FEM analysis, aerodynamic term association that goes beyond
tor Business Intelligence (BI)
tli-usa.com IM&C, Healthcare, Automotive and Oil and Gas.

TorryHarris Ra v i C h a n de r
An IT firm predominantly focussed in the middleware area and provides soft- industries helps them to understand, studies & CFD, CAM & manu- project lines, which it says are its main
create and deliver solutions that add facturing support, embedded differentiating factors.
1998 ware services to enterprise clients across different industry verticals through a
thbs.com P a ul Fr e m an t l e , CTO
combination of offshore and onsite services.
Urpantech, substantial value to their clients. software design & develop- The ISO 9001:2008, AS 9100 and
Ignis provides solutions and services ment, independent verification CEMILAC certified company has re-
Pa d N Sw a m i The company serves the staffing needs of Financial, Retail, Manufacturing,
Sunnyvale, CA 2002
President & CEO Storage & networks, Semiconductor & technology sectors for over five years.
that are completely custom-made & validation, wire harness de- cently made inroads into multiple tar-
urpantech.com

to fit their client’s needs. sign and manufactur- get markets that include U.S.,
v2soft
An IT Business Solutions and Engineering Services provider with expertise in
Bloomfield Hills, MI Va r c h as v i S h an k ar, CEO 1998
government and commercial domains. It has 300 employees.
v2soft.com
The Bangalore based ing, and technical Europe, Middle East and India. Ignis
company, founded in documentation and has plans to have offices in all its tar-
Vedicsoft B h a t Di t t a k a v i A provider of BI and Data Warehousing Solutions to customers spanning insur-
Iselin, NJ Ve n k a t Ye r ub a n d i 1999 ance, healthcare, investment banking, manufacturing, retail, telecom, govern-
vedicsoft.com Founders & Co-CEO ment and entertainment industries. Headcount: 350.
2006 by Nihar Ranjan certification. get market and to expand its presence
Vernalis Systems
New York, NY
B a l a C h a n d r a, CEO
1999
A global IT Service and engineering design solutions companydelivering critical Samantara, imple- Ignis prides globally. It seems to be well balanced
vernalissystems.com
N a n d a R aj a se k , COO costum solutions. The company has 125 employees.
ments business and itself of having to reach greater heights in the global
technology strategies Nihar Ranjan Samantara excellent sub- marketplace. si

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T H
Infinite: Untouched by Hurdles
he financial recession had a
devastating effect on majority
of the firms in the IT industry.
While most of the large corporations
hardly grew by 10 percent, the mid tier
companies were on a decline. But In-
finite Computer Solutions was an
anomaly in this pattern with the com-
pany registering a growth of 35-40
percent. The company has witnessed
growth, from $85 million revenue in
2008 to $140.9 million in 2010, out of
which 90 percent of the revenue share
was from top 10 customers which are
Fortune 100 companies. According to
Upinder Zutshi, MD and CEO of Infi-
nite, the reason for this is “A healthy
mix of Fortune 100 and mid level or-
ganizations as customers coupled with
IP based solutions in niche services
areas across select focus verticals.”
Zutshi believes this is the factor that
sets the company apart from other
L T
LanceSoft: Growing at Rapid Pace in Global IT Space
anceSoft is a recognized fast-
growth global IT company with
a record of deliveries spanning
across various verticals. They provides
advanced information technology so-
lutions and consulting services to a
host of corporate clients in the BFSI,
life sciences, healthcare, telecom, man-
ufacturing, technology, retail, and var-
ious federal, state and local
government agencies, across crucial
markets. The company provides appli-
cation/systems development as well as
contingent workforce management,
management outsourcing, business in-
telligence and data warehousing, infra-
structure management and
production/operations support, ERP
and CRM services, enterprise applica-
tion integration, quality assurance serv-
ices and web applications.
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players in the industry.
Ranked this year as the 5th Best
Employer in DQ-IDC Survey, Infi-
nite, a global service provider of In-
frastructure Management Services,
Intellectual Property (IP) Leveraged
Solutions and Application Manage-
ment Services, was founded by San-
jay Govil in 1999. With offices across
the globe Infinite’s main
focus is in Telecom,
Media, Manufac-
turing, Energy &
Utilities and
Healthcare indus-
tries.
The company
has over years suc-
cessfully transi-
tioned its
business
model to
incorpo- Upinder Zutshi
Founded by Ram Karuppusamy in
2000 LanceSoft is headquartered in
Virginia has offices in New Jersey,
Bangalore and Indore. By incorporat-
ing on-shore and off-shore delivery
systems effectively into its business
model the company managed to have a
fully productive 24-hour working
cycle, which is an advantage to its
clients. “In an ever changing world of
technology, success revolves around
people. LanceSoft attracts the best peo-
ple from the best organizations, grooms
and instills them with values we hold
high: Ethics, Trust and Relationships.
The pillars of our business model are
Customers, Employees and Partner-
ships. “Our cornerstone is Trust,” says
Ram Karuppusamy CEO, LanceSoft.
He considers the fact that 80 percent of
the company’s revenue comes from ex-
rate a strong platform for incremental
growth via scalability with its marquee
long-term clients and strategic part-
nerships, to ensure sustained revenue
growth via multiple revenue streams.
Infinite today engages with customers
using high-margin, innovative risk re-
ward, revenue sharing models, thereby
enabling closer business alignment be-
tween customer’s business and its
own.
While AMS continues to be its
core, currently IMS & IP leveraged so-
lutions are the focus areas. Company’s
IMS & IP leveraged solutions business
has gained momentum, with combined
contribution of the two service lines at
40 percent of the overall revenue.
With the world-wide industry sur-
viving recession and the outlook for
growth of the Indian IT industry look-
ing strong, Infinite is all set to outgrow
the industry average.
isting clients to be an example of the
success of this approach.
In its 10 years of working, the
company has gained several awards
and recognitions both regionally and
nationally. LanceSoft
serves marquee
clients in the For-
tune 500 list and the
list grows every
quarter. LanceSoft’s
growth over the past
years has been all or-
ganic and continues to
emphasize its
growth through
internal driv-
ers and busi-
ness units at
v a r i o u s
clients. si
Ram Karuppusamy
Mansa Systems: Focused on Salesforce Consulting Services
eadquartered in San Fran-
cisco, California with
nearshore center in Costa Rica
and offshore centers in India and
China, Mansa Systems is an enterprise
application services provider with
main focus and proficiency in Soft-
ware-as-a-Service applications imple-
mentation, cloud application
development, cloud telephony devel-
opment, data management, business
intelligence and mobile application
development. The company provides
Salesforce implementation, cus-
tomization and integration services
and force.com application develop-
ment services. Mansa Systems is the
only boutique IT consulting services
company among Salesforce.com con-
sulting partners that focuses on small,
mid and enterprise markets by having
onshore, offshore and nearshore cen-
ters for North America customers.
Prakat: Addressing Performance Engineering
he software testing market is
growing fast, not only in size but
also complexity. The big need in
the market has shifted from test func-
tionality to complexities of production
environment. Enterprises are using vir-
tualization and private clouds exten-
sively to consolidate their datacenters. In
order to deploy production applications
companies need deep understanding of
architecture, infrastructure technologies
and testing. Instead of Performance test-
ing, CIO’s now need to address Per-
formance Engineering. Anuradha
Biswas had a pristine understanding of
this when she started Prakat Solutions.
Founded in 2009, the Texas based
company’s specialty is in Cloud Com-
puting, Virtualization, Independent Test-
ing, Test Consulting and Open Source.
The company has three core offerings;
IT Services
Mansa Systems was founded in critical sales, marketing, and customer
2006 by Siva Devaki and Arti Devaki. service functionality with data migra-
Since its inception, Mansa Systems’ tion from legacy systems can be imple-
focus was always on systems integra- mented in just few business days.
tion for small to According to the
midsized businesses company its strengths
(SMB). According include deep
to Siva Devaki, SaaS/Cloud computing
founder and CEO of consulting experience,
Mansa, “It didn’t global delivery method-
make sense to butt ology, broad experience
heads with the Big Arti Devaki Siva Devaki in supporting end-to-
Five, so we targeted end processes, business
the SMB area value delivered accord-
where there was less competition.” His ing to each client’s requirements, con-
company has customers globally and sistent focus on improving system
these customers are from various in- usability, experience, execution and a
dustries like education, entertainment, most importantly their passion for ex-
professional services, semi-conductor, cellence. Mansa Systems seems to
clean energy, real estate and nonprofit. have a very clear plan for its future;
Using Mansa’s fast track implementa- Devaki is all set to capture enterprise
tion and integration packages for clients market, opening global branch offices
with less than 500 employees, business- targeting global customers.
Software Testing, Consulting and Train- engineering, quality maturity assessment
ing. The testing services include Enter- and creation of test center of excellence
prise Testing, Performance Testing, Data and domain specific test delivery accel-
Warehouse Testing, Application Secu- erators.
rity Testing and Test Automation. It pro- Prakat’s aim is to deploy a mas-
vides an end to end testing service to the sively distributed test workforce using
customers. “We realize the pains our its “test workbench” to deliver large
customers face with some of the larger projects. Their eventual vision is to
companies where they are not willing to bring together industry experts, acade-
be flexible to meet some of the critical mia, mothers taking a career break,
requirements or concerns. We have consultants, and students and effec-
also seen the increasing requests tively leverage them in a globally
from customers for taking up an distributed model. The company
end-to-end testing project where believes that U.S. has a large tal-
the platforms and tools are also ented workforce which is not being
provided by the testing tapped sufficiently. Prakat’s dis-
vendor,” explains Anu- tributed model opens up a lot
radha, CEO of Prakat. of opportunities for talented
To meet customer needs professionals in U.S., many
Prakat is now offering of whom have been hit by
end-to-end performance Anuradha Biswas recession. si
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Serene Corporation: Finding Success Through Value-Added Offering
eep domain experience and su-
perior technical expertise em-
power the consultants at
Serene Corporation. Since their incep-
tion, they have provided integrated IT
solutions and specialized implementa-
tion services to global clients in a range
of industries. With value-added offer-
ings that solve the specific challenges
presented by critical business needs,
Serene has distinguished itself as a bou-
tique player in the IT services market.
Serene specializes in the imple-
mentation of business applications,
specifically CRM, MDM and BI, in
biotechnology and pharmaceuticals; re-
tail, banking, and financial services;
high technology; home builders. In the
last 12 months, Serene has expanded its
operations in India and Australia. By
M W
Software Folks: Building a Complete IT Spectrum
any a times Mark Hornbrook,
a partner at Black Pearl Fi-
nancial, felt short of a good
help whenever he planned to outsource
some of the core responsibilities like
staffing and the payrolls. However,
things changed after the company inked
a deal with Software Folks. Now, he has
nothing to complain about, instead he
indulges in constant praises about the on
time payments and well organized in-
voicing system. Founded by Rohit Ma-
hajan, Software Folks is a certified
minority business enterprise that offers
a complete spectrum of IT services in-
cluding consulting, product develop-
ment and strategic staffing and
Recruitment Process Outsourcing
(RPO).
“We have a cost effective, scalable
business model, which provides flexi-
bility for 24x7 operations. Our strategy
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expanding its operations globally, idly delivers effective, end-to-end
Serene is helping its clients of all sizes enterprise solutions . From defining
be successful in spite of the recession. a strategic roadmap to developing
Talking about the company’s engage- operational systems and analytics,
ment model, Serene Co-Founder & Serene’s exceptionally talented re-
Managing Partner, Ajit Kumbhare says, sources provide comprehensive
“Our value added offerings and niche CRM implementation services built
solutions as well as our collaborative on a full suite of integrated Oracle
approach encourages clients eBusiness applications.
to work very closely Expanding on its partnership with
with our teams, Oracle, Serene has turned its strategic
eliminating miscom- focus to MDM and moving up the
munication and en- value chain. Further affirmation of
suring success.” Serene’s well-deserved market position
Through close comes from analyst firm Gartner,
partnership which lists Serene as a boutique spe-
with leading cialist provider of external services
software with SaaS CRM expertise in the Gart-
vendors, ner CRM Vendor Market Guide for
Serene rap- Ajit Kumbhare Software as a Service, 2010.
is to combine on shore process opti- strongly focused around playing the role
mization with selective outsourcing to of a business consultant, identifying
provide cost effective solutions to possible potential areas for IT solutions,
clients to help them focus on their core defining business goals and meeting
business and gain bottom line advan- them with technology based solutions,
tage,” says Mahajan. The collective ex- building modular, scalable and extensi-
pertise of the company can be witnessed ble IT solutions. It provides the opera-
with a glance at the Management’s tional platform for deployment of
background. Having worked with com- complex Software Products Application
panies like Wipro, IBM, Fujitsu and HP Services that gives customers informa-
and educated at FMS, Har- tion-driven advantages and focuses on
vard and Wharton the enhancing its capabilities to offer com-
management team prehensive solutions in the areas of proj-
combines cross-func- ect scheduling, project execution and
tional leadership skills project maintenance. To maintain its
with a deep under- growth the IT services firm believes in
standing of the busi- providing the right platform for the em-
ness landscape ployees to grow. It has an entire gamut
in U.S. and of facilities ranging from an employee
India. service center, training and develop-
T h e ment to savings plans and special
company is Rohit Mahajan healthcare plans. si
SPAN Systems: Client-driven Software Development
ndependent software vendors
(ISVs) are making a comeback
now with their new product
roadmaps after the downturn. SPAN
Systems, the Indian arm of the Norway
based 1.6 billion dollar firm EDB
Group is witnessing an advantageous
situation with larger pipelines.
“Our expertise in custom applica-
tions development, product co-devel-
opment, application management,
re-engineering, testing and support
services helps them to build up their
specialization across Finance and In-
surance vertical along with a focus on
ISVs,” says Prakash Grama, Co-
founder and CEO of SPAN Systems.
One of the key identifiers for SPAN
is its focus on clients and its relation-
ship with them. Their relationship man-
agement model is built to manage client
Stratogent : Taking system Hosting and Operations to New Heights
ith the mission of providing
100 percent responsibility,
99.9 percent availability, 85
percent less management overhead, and
30 percent cost reduction; Stratogent
stands out in the crowded IT services
market space. When most service
providers prefer to own responsibility
for a silo of a system, Stratogent owns
up to everything - no service gaps, no
excuses! “Partial solutions don’t not
solve a CIO’s problems”, says Chetan
Patwardhan, CEO, Stratogent.
Stratogent is an IT hosting and op-
erations company headquartered in San
Mateo, California. Stratogent archi-
tects, integrates, deploys and operates
mission-critical software applications –
24x7. Customers trust Stratogent with
operating their systems – whether in
their datacenter, Stratogent’s datacen-
ters, or in the cloud.
The company differentiates its serv-
ices by providing a blend of hosting and
relationships in a well-defined, yet flex-
ible, framework. The results of the
focus is quite visible in their achieve-
ments whereby they were ranked
among the top 20 Best IT Places to
Work For in India and they also stand
among the top 20 Global R&D Service
Providers in India.
The outsourced product develop-
ment firm provides the right tools for
clients to ensure metrics
based governance and
index based perform-
ance tracking. SPAN
provides Application
Development, Appli-
cation Management,
Testing, Legacy
Moderniza-
tion and
Dataware-
managed services, taking responsibility
for all layers of an IT environment, and
more important - information delivery
across the globe. The company has
grown organically, and two years ago
expanded offshore with the establish-
ment of an operations center in India.
Customers engage Stratogent when
they implement a new system, or are
virtualizing, consolidating or migrating
an existing system. “We engage in a
consultative mode, acting
as the trusted extension
of the office of the
CIO”, says Patwardhan.
The engagement typi-
cally ends in the cus-
tomer outsourcing system
operations to Strato-
gent. Both projects
and ongoing oper-
ations are fixed-
priced, so the
customer gets
IT Services
housing services. They have an exten-
sive expertise on all major mobile plat-
forms including iPhone, Android,
Blackberry, Symbian, Windows Mobile
and J2ME to ensure their customers ef-
fective mobilization of the applications
and production of the concepts. SPAN
brings domain expertise in Insurance,
Telecom, Travel and Finance verticals.
SPAN aligns their delivery models
and Quality requirements keeping in
mind the dynamics of the changing
and evolving client needs. They have
made significant investments to en-
hance offshore infrastructure, quality
accreditations, training and sales and
marketing initiatives. It is the strength
of their global delivery model that
enables the company to en-
gage clients in a long term
Prakash Grama relationship.
both high SLAs and solid budget pre-
dictability.
The company manages the full
gamut of enterprise applications,
ranging from Enterprise IT apps to
ERP apps to e-commerce sites to
disaster recovery sites. Stratogent is
currently present in the verticals
such as Finance, Logistics, Hi-tech,
and Green-tech; and is expanding
into verticals such as Healthcare and
Manufacturing.
Current marquee customers in-
clude Dun & Bradstreet (Finance),
Pacer (Logistics), VMware and EMC
(Hi-Tech) and Better Place (Green-
tech). Founded by experienced exec-
utives from Visa and other
venerable Silicon Valley
companies in 2001,
Stratogent is the leading
Bay area provider of
mission-critical sys-
Chetan Patwardhan tem operations. si
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Tavant Technologies: Focus on Customer UrpanTech: Providing talent to Companies in North America

H
Service and Employee Satisfaction
eadquartered in Santa Clara,
Tavant Technologies is a spe-
cialized IT solutions and
services provider that employs cut-
ting-edge and emerging technologies
to provide game-changing results to
its customers. Tavant’s core expert-
ise lies in Business Process Automa-
tion and Web Technology-based
complex application development. It
specializes in building solutions and
providing end-to-end services in the
domains of Aftermarket Service Op-
erations, Consumer Lending, eBusi-
ness, eMedia, Interactive
Entertainment, and Trading & Secu-
rities. The company also helps big IT
organizations mitigate latency and
expedite business processes, upgrade
technology platforms, and build
management solutions.
Tavant believes in going the extra
mile to deliver customer delight. Since
its inception in 2000, the company has
maintained transparency in all spheres
of its operations – and they call it Ta-
vant OK (Open Kitchen). This, along
with its unique global client engage-
ment, has helped Tavant ensure fo-
cused attention for its customers,
which in turn, minimizes issues and
enhances customer satisfaction. Today,
Tavant’s major clients and business
partners include Electronic Arts, Jive
Software, Fifth Third Bank, Ingersoll
Rand, TiVo, Major League Baseball
Advanced Media, New York Times
and Wolters Kluwer Financial Serv-
ices – a testimony to the success of Ta-
vant’s business philosophy of paying
focused attention to each customer.
Tavant presently has about 700
Sarvesh Mahesh
employees and is acclaimed as one of
the best employers. It has been ranked
as one of the Top 25 Employers in the
‘Best Companies to Work For’ study
conducted by the Great Place to Work
Institute in 2007 and 2009. It has also
been recognized as one of the Best IT
Employers by Dataquest-IDC for four
years in a row (since 2007).
“We are not a sausage factory, in-
stead we are an open kitchen,” says
Sarvesh Mahesh, Founder, President
and CEO of the company. “The em-
ployees are not just considered as em-
ployees but as stakeholders of the
organization,” adds Hassan Rashid,
SVP, Head - Sales and Marketing.
n todays demanding and challeng-
ing business world, to have the
right talent in its team makes a
huge difference to companies. Urpan-
Tech helps companies succeed by pro-
viding the best candidates to them.
The California based company prima-
rily works with IT Outsourcing Tier1
and Tier2 companies for the U.S. and
the global markets. The company’s
verticals include; INFRA, BPO,
Healthcare, Life Sciences, Retail and
CPG, BFSI (Banking, Financial Serv-
ices and Insurance), Hi-tech engineer-
ing, Manufacturing, Telecom, Media
and Entertainment. As an Executive
Search and Recruiting Solutions firm
its special focus is in leadership posi-
tions in Sales, HR and IT. It special-
izes in IT staffing and recruiting and
provides active and passive IT con-
sultants for its client’s full time needs.
Founded by Pad N. Swami in 2002,
the company has operation in New
Jersey, Ohio in the U.S. and also off-
shore in India. The recent global fi-
nancial recession has brought down
many consultancies but Urpan-
Tech succeeded. “I have seen
through the economic downturns
of 1993 and post-9/11. One only
needs to choose clients who are
growing and technologies that
are in demand, and have an at-
titude of never give up”
says Pad Swami, CEO
of Urpan Technolo-
gies. The services
that the company
provides include;
executive search,
Head hunting and Pad Swami
Recruiter Training. UrpanTech’s client
list includes companies with revenues
from $25 million to $20 billion annu-
ally, the leaders of their spaces. TCS,
TATA America, HCL America, CSC,
NIIT, Tavant, EMC, Bridgewater As-
sociates, Aricent, Acxiom, Xilinx,
Collabera, NESS, Polaris, Syn-
tel, and CMC are some of its
clientele.
With its management team
consisting of experienced pro-
fessionals with track records in
the industry, its nine step
methodology which brings
quality results to the client
and consultant, and its be-
lief in building lasting re-
lationships, Urpan
Technology seems to
be on a rise.

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TekLink International: High Performance Consulting Yields Big Results
ekLink International, one of the
2009 SiliconIndia Top 10 IT
Services Company, is among
the few companies that succeeded and
thrived during the financial crisis
which sunk many of its competitors.
“We have more SAP experience and
better resources than our competition.”
explains Pankaj Gupta CEO, TekLink.
“TekLink has been able to outperform
our competition for years because we
continue to service our clients unlike
our competition. We understand the
value they seek and are there to un-
questionably provide it, he adds.”
Founded by Pankaj Gupta, Tek-
Link has grown to 70 consultants by
targeting thought leadership and high
quality services. Headquartered in
VEDICSOFT: Focusing on Client Needs
ounded in 1999 by childhood Cleansing, Data Intelligence and Data Management has
Chicago with offices in For 2010 TekLink friends, Bhat Dittakavi and Scrubbing, Data helped them grow. The company’s
Hyderabad, India and Mel- expects to grow at a con- Venkat Yerubandi, New Jersey Profiling, Data clients include Abbott Labs, ASCAP,
bourne, Australia, TekLink tinuous rate of 30 percent based VEDICSOFT specializes in pro- Quality, Data PepsiCo, J.Crew and Nielsen Media Re-
has a year over year growth or more. Their leader- viding Business Intelligence and Data Integrity and search.
rate over 50 percent since ship, which is composed Warehousing Solutions to customers Data Gover- VEDICSOFT has received several
their inception in 2003. of former SAP Platinum spanning across Insurance, Healthcare, nance. business accolades such as “Inc 500:
The company specializes in consultants, business and Investment Banking, Manufacturing, Today, after Bhat Dittakavi Fastest Growing Private Companies in
SAP Business Intelligence thought leaders, allows Retail and Telecom industries. VEDIC- 11 years, America”, “News-India Times: Fastest
including SAP’s Business Pankaj Gupta them, even in rough eco- SOFT specializes in delivering Business VEDICSOFT is the leading choice for Growing 10 Asian Indian Companies in
Warehouse, BusinessOb- nomic waters, to con- Intelligence so- large clients with diversified needs in USA”, “NJBiz: Best Places to Work”,
jects and SAP BusinessObjects Plan- tinue to grow. On average, the lutions involv- Data Warehousing, Data Integration, “NJBIZ: Finest Companies in NJ”,
ning and Consolidation. Beyond SAP company adds one new client every ing Data Data Cleansing, ETL, Business Intelli- “NJBIZ: Business of the Year” to name
Business Intelligence, TekLink has ex- month. TekLink’s track record of Integration, gence and Data Analytics. Its culture of a few. Both Dittakavi and Yerubandi
panded into CRM, Basis, offshore being more nimble and smart, allows Data Analytics, transparency, family values, leadership were finalists in “Ernst & Young: NJ
services, ROAMBI and Teradata. Tek- them to continue to outlast, outrun and Data Analysis, opportunities and trust among employ- Entrepreneur of the Year”. Vice Presi-
Link generates its revenue through outperform their competition such as Data Modeling, ees are the core foundations of com- dent, Sonia Minhas was ranked as
providing direct SAP consulting serv- big IT Professional Services behe- Data Conver- pany’s growth. Dittakavi and Yerubandi, “NJBIZ: Among the best CFO’s in NJ”
ices to clients and not as a staff aug- moths IBM, Accenture, Tata Consult- Venkat sions, Data Mi- Co-Founders and Co-CEO’s, believe and “NJBIZ: Among 50 Business
Yerubandi gration, Data that the company’s focus on Business Women in NJ”. si
mentation firm to the Big 4. ing Services, Fujitsu or SAP. si

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 Top 5 Outsourced Product Development Companies Top 10 Wireless Companies

Name Founder Founded Description Name Founders Founded Description

Known for one of the best Microsoft software & applications

Aditi Technologies Altierre Corp Su ni t Sa xen a Provider of digital signage, pricing and sensor network solutions
Pradeep Rathinam development capability in the world, the company specialises
Bellevue, WA 1994 San Jose, CA Chairman, CEO & 2003 for retailers. Its investors include ATA Ventures, D.E Shaw Group
CEO in providing technology consulting and OPD. Employee
aditi.com altierre.com President and Dupont Capital Management.
strength is presently 1100.

Provider of mobile data offload solutions and network conver-

IntelliNet Technologies
infogain An enterprise IT and business solutions company that special- A nj a n G h os a l gence technology sold to the telecom industry’s leading network
Kapil Nanda Melbourne, FL 1992
Los Gatos, CA 1990 izes in superior IT architecture design, end-to-end project im- President & CEO equipment providers and network operators. It has 85
President & CEO intellinet-tech.com
infogain.com plementation, and managed services. employees
Provider of enterprise-class wireless networks to businesses and
Meraki organizations of all sizes. Its customers include MIT, Columbia
Rave Technologies Sa n ji t B i sw a s
Anand Jhaveri Provides product engineering service to ISV/software compa- San Francisco, CA 2006 Steel, ABBE Regional Libraries, ZGF Architects, and Smith Currie
New York, NY 1987 CEO
Chairman& CEO nies. The company employs over 300 people. meraki.com and Hancock LLP. The company presently has about 100 employ-
rave-tech.com ees.

A provider of RFID solutions, it delivers real-time visibility to

V2Solutions Oat Systems enterprise systems, empowering businesses in Retail, Manufac-
Vijay Shah P ra sa d P u t t a
Santa Clara,CA 2003 Specializes in providing custom-built software solutions. Waltham, MA 2001 turing, Distribution and Logistics to achieve competitive advan-
CEO VP & GM
v2solutions.com oatsystems.com tage and ROI. Its customers include more than 100 companies
among which are, Tesco, Shell, AirBus and Schiff.

Vignani Technologies Provider of low power and high performance products for wire-
Kumar V. Ramachandran Product Engineering services provider focused on enabling the
Fremont, CA 2005 Redpine Signals less applications, including products like Wi-Fi Chipset, Wi-Fi
CEO customers competitiveness Ve n k a t M a t t e l a
vignani.com San Jose, CA 2001 Modules, Wi-Fi Systems, and Wi-Fi Starter Kit and solutions like
Chairman & CEO
redpinesignals.com Wi-Fi Design Center, Reference Designs and Wi-Fi applications.

A
Aditi Technologies: Innovating in OPD Space
t a time when India was little
known for its software prod-
ucts Aditi Technologies pio-
neered the idea that great software
products can be built out of India.
Today, the company represents the best
Microsoft software development capa-
bility in the world. Leveraging a close
partnership with Microsoft across prod-
uct groups and sales & marketing of-
fices, Aditi has emerged as a partner of
choice for Microsoft clients seeking to
engineer products or application on
emerging Microsoft platforms. Driven
by a philosophy of hiring only ‘top per-
centile technology talent’ and fostering
an open culture of innovation and fun,
Aditi is one of India’s best places to
work. It leverages Microsoft as a cus-
tomer, as a channel and as a platform.
Aditi Technologies provides high-
end technology consulting and out-
sourced product development on
emerging technologies, specializing in
product conceptualization, design, de-
velopment along with offerings in Web
2.0 space. Strengthened by innovative IP
solutions and quality products and appli-
cations, the company is a major solutions
and product R&D partner for several
software and financial services firms
across the globe. Headquartered in Ban-
galore, India the company also
has offices in Seattle, Boston,
Chicago, Mountain View,
New York, and London.
Aditi’s key strategic
approach to acquire
and expand client
relationships is to
leverage its sales
engines and put in
efforts within pre-
dictably account
growth strategy. Pradeep Rathinam
With IP led sales
The company operates with 130 employees.
Provider of wireless infrastructure to the Intelligent Transporta-
Savari Networks
Rav i Puv v al a
tion Systems market. It is the chosen supplier of US DOT's
SafeTrip-21 and E-VII programs and has close partnerships with
Santa Clara, CA 2008
propositions that accelerate value real- savarinetworks.com
CEO automotive OEMs, traffic controller companies, system integra-
tors and semiconductor chipset vendors. The company has 20
ization across major platform deploy- employees.
ment challenges, we see a huge demand
for automation, decision-making and Stoke
Develops mobile broaband gateways specifically engineered to
business intelligence solutions especially SantaClara, CA
Vi k a s Va r m a
2004
enable mobile and converged network operators to maximize
CEO the economic returns of their 3G mobile networks and migrate
in progressing financial services indus- stoke.com
to 4G technologies.
try,” says Pradeep Rathinam, CEO, Aditi
Technologies.
The total global headcount of Aditi Vanu
Provides innovative wireless infrastructure solutions to enable
Va n u B o s e operators to access new markets and new revenue streams. Its
stands above 1,200 presently and has Cambridge,MA
President & CEO
1998
software radio access network (RAN) lets wireless carriers oper-
plans for an intensive hiring spree. The vanu.com
ate multiple standards simultaneously on a single platform.
company also plans to invest heavily in
talent development by implementing a Provider of fixed-mobile convergence solutions for enterprises
comprehensive plan. “We have more Varaha Systems
J og e n Pa t ha k and SMBs through channels and service providers. Their part-
Dallas, TX 2003
than doubled our investments in tal- varaha.com
CEO ners include Toshiba, Nokia,Samsung, Cisco, Vertical Communi-
ent development,” says Vineet cation and NEC.
Arora, Managing Director of Aditi.
With its flexi time and free work
Provider of video networking with a disruptive technology ad-
culture, Aditi has been touted as WiViu Technology
D r. D e b a r a g B a n e r j e e vantage. It creates and markets paradigm-shifting products for
a great place to work in. Re- Milpitas, CA
President & CEO
2008
reliably delivering video over WiFi in the digital home and enter-
wiviu.com
cently, Aditi has opened a de- prise.
livery center in Jakarta,
Indonesia. si

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Altierre: Bringing Retail Stores Into the Digital Age
Name Founder Founded Description
he U.S. retail industry spends they brought the stores into the Digi- update the product information dis-
about $40 billion every year tal Age. played on 10,000+ EPTs in less than Cellspin
and wastes thousands of man The California based company’s an hour. Altierre has also developed San Jose, CA
B ob b y Si n g h
2006
A mobile blogging application that lets allows users to blog pho-
CEO tos, audio, video, and text from the phone.
hours on the manual task of re-pric- first products were Digital Signage digital temperature tags that monitor cellspin.net
ing. Another major issue faced by the and Electronic Price Tag (EPT) sys- hot, refrigerated, and freezer cases
retailers, especially large grocery tem, wireless display devices that day and night and prevent A Mobile Unified Communication (Mobile UC) firm. It develops
Divitas Networks
chains, is food safety and spoilage. can be placed on shelves like spoilage due to temperature Mountain View, CA
V i ve k K h u l l e r
2005
corporate voice and messaging applications for business and
Manual monitoring of cooling and normal price tags. The Altierre changes by alerting managers to divitas.com
CEO places them onto a mobile smartphone under IT control.
heating units on a scheduled basis re- RF Network (ARN) is installed temperature variations via a Web
sults in problem detection long after a in every store which is con- interface, e-mail, or text messages.
malfunction has occurred, forcing the nected to a server in each Their Out-of-Stock Sensors Endeavour Software
A CMMI Level 3 assessed company, it provides niche services on
retailer to discard all food items store’s back room. monitor shelves 24/7 and Technologies A v i n a sh M i s r a
2002 mobile consulting, technology and outsourcing. The company has
within that unit. And finally, ‘out-of- This server on re- notify managers that it’s Austin, TX CEO
200 employees.
techendeavour.com
stock’ conditions which cost more ceiving pricing time to re-stock.
than $6 billion in lost sales in just the updates from the Altierre’s corporate
top 25 categories at the U.S. grocery retailers’ head- culture is innovation with
envIO Networks
store chains. Altierre entered the quarters sends customer satisfaction. The New York, NY
M ani s h J ha
2006
envIO’s patent-pending Social Genome technology helps con-
scene in 2003 to manage all three the changes via company has raised over $60 envionetworks.com
President & CEO sumers discover apps and content from the their friends.
problems. By automating price, sig- the ARN to each of million in funding and has an
nage changes, temperature monitor- the EPTs affected. excellent revenue outlook for
Anurag Sunit
ing and inventory control in retail Thus, a store can the coming years. A mobile analytics platform that provides tools for mobile app
Localytics
R aj A g g ar wa l publishers to build apps for different mobile platforms like

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IntelliNet Technologies: Reducing Time to Market
ntelliNet Technologies provides
network convergence technology
and solutions to accelerate the de-
ployment of next generation applica-
tions and services. The company
works with the telecom industry’s
leading network equipment providers
and network operators to deliver high
performance solutions customized for
their needs. It offers broad applications
coverage including core network tech-
nology enablers and protocols for mo-
bility, messaging, location, charging
and policy.
IntelliNet’s Converged Data Offload
Gateway is based on an architecture that
supports multiple data offload solutions
on a single platform and enables simple,
seamless, highly secure access to sub-
scribers as they roam between trusted
mobile networks and untrusted public
networks. The Gateway is wireless in-
Cambridge, MA 2009
CEO iPhone, iPad, Android and BlackBerry. The company has around
localytics.com
255 employees.
C har l e s St e v ens
Moprise
terface agnos- Established in 1992 to deliver com- Bellevue, WA
Chairman A mobile application developing firm. One of its Moshare allows
tic, support- plex signaling solutions to the telecom- moprise.com
D av i d D 'So uz a iPhone to access SharePoint servers.
CEO
ing the two munications industry, IntelliNet has
most popular successfully delivered many mission Provides multimodel platforms and moblie solutions. Its Cue-
access meth- critical applications deployed in over 50 Openstream me+Smart Messaging CoDA Platform is a context-aware multi-
R a j Tu m u l u ri
ods – femto- operator networks around the world. In Somerset, NJ
President & CEO
1997 modal platform that facilitates single-authoring of rich-mobile
cell as well as 2008 the company acquired the assets openstream.com applications across all popular mobile phones, PDAs, tablets
available today.
Wi-Fi. More of Azaire Networks, a developer of I-
importantly, WLAN based solutions that enable mo-
as the net- bile operators to deploy multi-access Pelican Imaging
Aman J abbi
A provider of computational cameras for the smartphone market.
Anjan Ghosal
work opera- networks. Multi-access networks pro- Mountain View, CA
CEO
2008 Its investors include Globespan Capital Partners, Granite Ven-
pelicanimaging.com tures, InterWest Partners, and IQT.
tors migrate vide relief for the in-building coverage
to next generation LTE networks, the issues associated with 3G networks to
Gateway takes on the role of the e-PDG deliver the media rich mobile applica- Roamware Provides voice and data roaming solutions which is deployed in
while maintaining backward compati- tions to users over their existing broad- San Jose, CA
B ob b y Sr i n i v a sa n
2002 over 464 mobile operator networks across 154 countries and
President & CEO
bility with 2G/3G networks. IntelliNet’s band connections. Headquartered in roamware.com used by billion mobile users globally.
Accelero product suite includes Tradi- Melbourne, Florida with a development
tional (Accelero Application Develop- center located in Bangalore India, In-
ment Platform and Accelero Protocol telliNet solutions shorten time-to- TeleDNA
Pr a v e en N a l l a p ot h ul a A Mobile Data VAS Technology focused company developing and
APIs), Converged (Convero Signaling market, reduce costs, increase flexibility Bellevue, WA
MD, CEO
2001
marketing VAS Infrastructure products like SMSC, MMSC , CBC.
teledna.com
Gateway) and Next Gen (Acceler DI- and minimize risk. IntelliNet is a mem-
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context-aware, device independent solu-

Endeavour: Reducing the TTM for Mobile Apps
ounded in 2002, Endeavour is a
CMMI Level 3 assessed com-
pany, providing niche services on
mobile consulting, technology and out-
sourcing.
With a customer base spanning
across verticals like healthcare, banking,
consumer applications, mobile media
provisioning, nonprofit - health care,
mobile messaging, and supply chain,
the company specializes in three distinct
areas:
 Mobile Opportunity Assessment
– Enabling Enterprises build mo-
bility vision, strategy, short,
medium and long term roadmap for
the organization
 Mobile Software Development –
Develop applications on all the mo-
bile platforms; Apple, RIM, Mi-
crosoft, Google, Motorola Symbol,
Nokia Symbian, Samsung, Brew
 Endeavour Quality Assurance Endeavour is also working with
Labs (EQuAL) – a state of the art Technology Product companies and
mobile testing labs at Endeavour playing key role in enabling mobile
equipped with 300 devices; ability technology innovations by becoming
to test mobile applications on vari- partner to new ideas.
ety of networks, platforms and de- Since the smart phone proliferation
vices. has been rapid, organizations need to
Today, Endeavour’s clientele includes go through the painful change process
several Fortune 500 companies in- to keep pace with the same. Endeav-
cluding Dell, United Nations Founda- our foresees this as the major chal-
tion, Forbes.com, Morgan Stanley, lenge and has taken the lead in
Kimberly-Clark and building a platform which covers the
RMB. The company benefits of mobile web as well as na-
has projected two tive mobile application, using which
times growth in the the organizations can have the flexi-
past few years and bility to create mobile applications
now enjoys its position with minimum coding thereby signif-
as the select mo- icantly reducing the time to market.
bility partner The platform supports multiple mobile
of some of the platforms and we will continue to
large Fortune strengthen this platform by adding
500 enter- Jayaraman more advanced features and plat-
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Openstream: Enhanced Mobile-experience
Through Portable, Context-aware & Multimodal Solutions
ith over 3.3 billion mobile
phone users around the
world, everything is getting
mobile-enabled. With the proliferation of
the new mobile devices that combine
popular technologies like GPS, cameras,
RFID sensors and media players, mobile
users today demand easy mobile access
and enterprises need Secure-Data-
Access-Synchronization.
Founded in 1997, Openstream, with
its ‘context-aware multi-modal approach’
enables enterprises and software-devel-
opers harness the power of the mobile
revolution to intelligently communicate
and interact with employees and cus-
tomers, thereby enhancing productivity
and increasing brand loyalty. Its
CueMe+SmartMessaging Multimodal
tions which support multiple device-
form-factors and delivery-contexts for
CRM and Sales Force Automation. “This
is our key differentiating factor,” states
CoDA Platform is the only commercial
Raj Tumuluri the CEO, Openstream
context-aware multimodal platform, built
which has been featured in Gartner’s new
on open standards, that facilitates single-
report on “who’s who in Context-aware
authoring of rich-mobile applications
Computing”. Openstream continues to
that can run on all popular mobile
keep U.S as its primary market and in
phones, PDAs, tablets in
India has recently launched
the market-place.
context-aware multimodal
According to published
brokerage & trading solutions
results of a study conducted
in partnership with Omnesys
by the company, after the
Technologies.
deploying its solution en-
Openstream continues to
terprises saw 27 percent
lead the open standards efforts
improvement in mobile-
at the WorldWideWeb Con-
users’ productivity, 19 per- Raj Tumuluri
sortium ( W3C) and is one of
cent increase in customer
the founding members of the
satisfaction, and 13 percent increase in
new HTML+Speech XG and has several
service revenues.
leading Banking, Energy & Utilities and
Openstream provides open standards
Pharmaceutical companies as its clients.
based single-authored convenient-to-use,

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and Java. prises. Raghuraman forms/devices as they are launched. Semiconductor
High-level Synthesis from AutoESL: A Game-changer for Chip Design

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Roamware: Leader of Roaming Space
ounded in 2001, Roamware is a
well established voice and data
roaming solutions and a provider
of mobile financial services, the leader
in its market with its products deployed
in over 480 mobile operator networks
across 154 countries and its services
available to over three billion mobile
users globally. Furthermore,
Roamware’s mobile finance solutions
have been successfully deployed by
major banks and operators around the
world, and serve a wide range of needs
across the domains of mobile com-
merce, banking, remittances and pay-
ments. The company is the global leader
in mobile roaming solutions with an es-
timated 60 per cent global market share
of the voice and data
he theory of natural selection dic- chitecture for our tools” he adds. Harris, Alcatel-Lucent, Barco, Lock-
tates that companies that adapt As system companies look for ap- heed-Martin and National Instruments
and change will survive and plication ready hardware-software plat- have adopted AutoESL’s products. The
Roamware is the primary solution Juniper Research highlights that 3- prosper, while those who forms, semiconductor company is successfully taking complex
provider of roaming solutions for the 15 percent of international money trans- don’t will ultimately perish. companies are seeking to add algorithms into silicon, dramatically cut-
majority of tier 1 mobile operator’s fers currently handled by formal or Chip design is in the midst of new IP including processor ting down the time taken to get there and
including AT&T, T Mobile, Orange, informal agent networks will be carried a major disruptive change. cores to their platforms in is targeting a wide range of applications
Airtel, Maxis, Etisalat and Vodafone out using a mobile handset by 2015; gen- How can the industry adapt order to have some real dif- - DSP, Video, Networking, Wireless and
globally. Roamware’s product portfo- erating $1.2 - 6.2 billion in service rev- and survive this period of ex- ferentiation. System compa- High Performance Computing.
lio has over 40 so- enue. Roamware is targeting this market treme change? nies that can target these With backing from both venture
lutions across through strategic partnerships and lever- “Due to the enormous platforms with their own and corporate investors including
the GSM and aging its existing mobile operators cus- complexity of systems, the unique algorithms and take it Adams Capital Management, Xilinx
Atul Sharan
CDMA domains tomer base in over 150 countries.. trend today is toward build- to market first will win. This and National Instruments, it has
all built on the “In a market that is largely known ing application-platform oriented SoC’s is where AutoESL’s HLS technology is tapped into world class engineering
Roamware Service for its IT services capability “I am that are processor-centric, through not a key enabler – by providing fully auto- talent from across the globe with R&D
Delivery Sys- proud to be on deck of on organization only ASICs but increasingly using mated path from algorithm to silicon, it facilities in California and Beijing,
tem (SDS), that has built a world class product FPGAs,” says Atul Sharan, President & is the only solution that uniquely deliv- China. Companies that adopt new ap-
which is the suite largely out of India and has been CEO of AutoESL. “We were fortunate ers optimized Performance, Power and proaches to chip design that address
underlying instrumental in shaping the global to have some very unique technology Area — all the same time. this rapidly evolving system-design
platform for roaming business in over 150 coun- from UCLA where Professor Jason In a short time span of one-year, paradigm will survive and prosper.
all its so- tries,” says Bobby Srinivasan, Presi- Cong applied the latest computer science leading semiconductor and systems And AutoESL is a critical component
lutions. Bobby Srinivasan dent and CEO of Roamware. si principles to come up with a unique ar- companies such as Microsoft, Xilinx, of enabling this shift. si

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 Top 5 Semiconductor Companies Top 10 Internet Companies

Name Founder Founded Description Name Founder Founded Description

AutoESL Design Ve n k a t Ko l l u r i
A provider of platform based communication centric Electronic Chitika
Technologies Atul Sharan CEO A search-targeted advertising solution for web publishers. The
2006 Systme Level (ESL) synthesis tools for integrated ciscuits and Westborough, MA 2003
Cupertino, CA President & CEO A l d en Do Ro s a r i o company has around 50 employees.
systems. Funded by Adams Capital and Xilinx. chitika.com
autoesl.com CTO

e-Infochips Offers IPs and services in software products and applications, An online market place to find IT Consultants and post IT Con-
Pratul Shroff Corp-Corp
Sunnyvale, CA 1995 embedded system and ASIC/FPGA. Some of its partners are Ca- Pr a b a ka r a n M ur ug a i a h tract Requirements. The company helps IT Staffing Companies
CEO Virginia 2007
einfochips.com dence, Mentor Graphics and Synopsys. CEO to find and share the resources quickly & efficiently. It has 50
corp-corp.com
employees.

Mirabilis Design Provides systems engineering solutions for performance analy-

Deepak Shankar
Sunnyvale, CA 2003 sis, power estimation and architecture exploration of electron-
CEO Jivox
mirabilisdesign.com ics and real-time software D i a z Ne s a m on e y An Interactive Video Advertising platform used by agencies,
San Mateo,CA 2007
President & CEO brand advertisers and publishers. It has around 40 employees.
jivox.com
An Analog, Mixed Signal and RF semiconductor service
Sankalp Semiconductor
Vivek Pawar provider with the mission to serve worldwide cutomers with
Fremont, CA 2006
CEO benchmark quakity and time to market by means of innovative
sankalpsemi.com Kesdee A financial e-learning company with 700 accredited e-Learning
methodology and automation. S . L . ( S a m ) S r i n i v a su lu
San Diego, CA 2000 courses on topics like Banking, Finance, Accounting, Insurance
Chairman
SmartPlay kesdee.com and Risk Management.
Pradeep Vikram Provides vertical and end to end services in Chip Design, Mo-
San Jose, CA 2008
CEO bile/Consumer Software & System Design and Solutions.
smartplayin.com
S h i ri s h Na d k a r n i
LiveMocha CSO
An online language learning community, offering free and paid
Seattle WA K ri s h n a n 2007
online language courses in 35 languages
Top 5 Clean Tech Companies livemocha.com Se s had r i nat ha n
VP Engineering

Name Founders Founded Description

Lumoslabs An online platform for games which has scientifically designed
Ku n a l S a r k a r
Bloomenergy A clean technology compnay whose product Bloom Box is an San Francisco, CA 2005 brain training program, which improves memory and attention
K . R . S r i dh a r CEO
Sunnyvale, CA 2001 alternate source of electricity and is as efficient as the tradi- lumosity.com in the brain. They have around 10 employees.
CEO
bloomenergy.com tional large-scale coal power station

At u l K a p a d i a
Eniva Systems myBantu An online personal assistant, the company assists users with 3-
CEO Develops and manufactures energy storage systems for hy- B h a s k a r En a g a n t i
Newark, CA 2007 Sunnyvale, CA 2008 9 personalized and relevant recommendations based on its
D r. S u j e e t Ku m a r brid, plug-in and pure electric vehicles. CEO
enviasystems.com mybantu.com patent pending technology. myBantu.com is part of GloMantra
President & CTO
A provider of environmental and energy management solu-
Hara An digital marketing and technology services company It
A m i t C hat t er j ee tions, enabling organizations to manage and optimize organi- Regalix
San Mateo 2007 Vi k a s S h a r a n makes communities on the web, designs and manage market-
CEO zational metabolism – the collective resources consumed – Palo Alto, CA 2004
CA hara.com CEO ing campaigns and create multi–channel content. It has
including energy, water, waste, and carbon. regalix.com
around 150 employees.

Nexant Provider of intelligent grid software and clean energy solu-

A r j u n G u pt a simplyhired
San Francisco, CA 2000 tions—pioneering, developing, and advancing electric power G aut am G o d hw ani A vertical search engine company who are building the online
Executive Chairman Mountain View, CA 2004
nexant.com grid and alternative energy technologies and services CEO database for jobs.
simplyhired.com

Provides a complete ecosystem of products that allows utili-

B h a v e sh T. P a t e l A privately held Internet TV platform company, it develops
Powermax Global ties to build innovative, end to end smart power grids. Its Verismo Networks
CEO P r a ka sh B h a l er a o customizable end to end solution for delivering internet
Beltsville, MD 2007 products enable proactive power consumption management, Mountain View, CA 2003
R anj an Pan t Chairman & CEO videos directly to the TV without the need for a PC. The com-
powermaxglobal.com power grid monitoring, clean energy source management and verismonetworks.com
CTO pany presently has 55 employees.
more.

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Corp-Corp.com
Matching the Job and
Candidate in 30 seconds
requirement, and the system will
search, analyze, shortlist and notify the
top 10 best matched candidates in 30
seconds, thus completely eliminating
company with an employee base of 50
can increase its productivity by 10 per-
cent; it results in an increase of at least
$500,000 in its revenue in a year.
Corp-Corp.com has also successfully
hosted over 20 conferences for IT con-
sulting companies across U.S. to em-
power small business owners.
By successfully integrating com-
V
Verismo Networks : Taking TV to the Next Level
erismo Networks seeks to tomers directly and many of them are on the Internet.
change the way we experi- ready to provide their content for Verismo does not sell directly to
ence home entertainment free,” says Prakash Bhalerao, CEO, consumers but to consumer OEMs
today by enabling the convergence of Verismo Networks. who have retail or end user distribu-
broadband and entertainment. It has The solution consists tion channels. It has part-
envisioned enriching home entertain- of a CE device called the nered with several content
ment experience providing access to VuNow settop and a providers worldwide to

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Prabakaran Murugaiah
he Virginia headquartered tech-
nology firm Corp-Corp.com,
founded in 2007, has helped
several thousands of candidates to
land in a job during the worst eco-
nomic conditions in the history. Their
disruptive unique FETCH technology
connects the job seekers with the right
recruiters in less than 30 seconds. Em-
ployer as well as candidates need not
to search for a candidate or a job, the
system does it automatically like a vir-
tual assistant. If an employer is look-
the search process on the employers as
well as the job seekers side. “ Our sys-
tem can save over 30 percent of re-
cruiting time every day and that is the
need in the present day market,” says
Prabakaran Murugaiah the CEO of
Corp-Corp.
According to Murugaiah, “If the
right people are reached and utilized,
minimizing candidates’ time on the
bench, the productivity of the IT work-
force can be increased by as much as
20 percent. Besides, when client needs
are fulfilled, unproductive time be-
tween projects is cut short, improving
the bottom-line of the company.” He
panies for sharing the available re-
sources on contingency basis, today
Corp-Corp.com’s client list comprises
of over 6,000 companies registered
with them, while the website gets over
30,000 new contract jobs every month.
Even in the midst of the economic
downturn the company managed to
register significant growth every quar-
ter. Murugaiah attributes the com-
pany’s success to the innovative
technology which delivers results,
happy customers, experienced team of
employees and the customer-oriented
outlook of the organization. Corp-
Corp.com has pitched a plan for in-
creasing its global presence in the
any media anywhere in the home and
from anywhere on the Internet.
Verismo Networks is redefining the
home television experience by bring-
ing millions of Internet videos around
the world directly to your TV — all
of this without a computer.
The company was founded by
Vijay Maheshwari and Satish
Mugulavalli.“The market landscape
has changed substantially ever since
the Internet has become capable of
transport high bandwidth multimedia
content. Content providers, who ear-
lier partnered with service providers,
now want to reach out to the cus-
WEB content aggrega- aggregate content on the
tion system integrating Internet.
content from several con- VuNow today is de-
tent providers. The high- ployed for 12 months by
definition set-top several consumer OEMs
connects to the Internet and Service providers
using a broadband con- with users in over 100
nection and is able to countries. The solution
stream content from var- Prakash Bhalerao has won several awards
ious content sources such including the Best Con-
as linear TV channels, free websites sumer Product 2010, from India
like youtube, premium on-demand Semiconductor Association ‘Techno-
Hollywood movies. A multi-format, vation awards’, Best Product to suc-
multi-protocol player along with a ceed in Cable from CableLabs 2009
video search engine enables access to and Best of the best in the media cat-
a very broad range of content found egory in CES 2009.

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ing for a candidate, they can post their gives an illustration to clarify, if a coming years. Security

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myBantu.com: The All-Time Personal Assistant
oday, people are juggling with a
core balancing act. Everyone is
forced to fulfill many complex
and diverse needs like - meeting people,
planning professional team outings and
making presence at social events without
compromising on the regular chores like
taking kids to school, paying bills and
fulfilling other house hold duties. At
some point each one of us has felt ‘Wish
the day had more than 24 hours and I had
a permanent assistant with me’. Bhaskar
Enaganti was keenly watching on this
trend and readily introduced myBantu as
an online personal assistant.
This app does the role of your per-
sonal assistant, who would guide you
across all subjects however diverse they
may be. For instance whether you have
requested for the best romantic dining
place or size 10 golf shoes with soft
soles, you will get around 3-9 relevant
suggestions gathered from different
sources like web, personal networks,
blogs and even your friends’ recommen-
dations. “myBantu.com leverages “So-
cial Intelligence” –It uses different tools
like search engines, semantic engines,
Social networking sites for
sourcing relevant recom-
mendations to the users,”
says Enaganti, who is the
CEO of myBantu.com.
It is this social intelli-
gence which sets them
apart from other por-
tals like Siri.com
and Hunch.com.
Unlike them my-
Bhaskar Enaganti
Bantu maintains a
fine blend of Artificial Intelligence and
Social Relevance, whereby it fetches rec-
ommendations from the web without ig-
noring the personal opinions from
friends.
myBantu.com is Facebook centric. It
is currently available as a Facebook app,
a web app and an iPhone app, plans there
are though to extend into other smart-
phones soon. With a team of 28 people
working out of California and Bangalore,
the company has set plans for this Assis-
tant. The portal plans to acquire over 1.5
million users by 2011, and it will also
diversify from being tuned for
entertainment related needs
like - dining, movies, online
shopping to travel and
health by the end of the
fourth quarter of 2010. si
eGestalt: Unifying IT Security and Compliance Management
nformation security and compli-
ance related threats continue to be
the one constant challenge for
CIOs and with the adoption of new
practices like cloud computing, the
risk has only increased. Understanding
changing needs of the industry, Chan-
dra Sekhar Bilugu and Anupam Sahai
co-founded eGestalt Technologies.
Founded in 2009, eGestalt is a pioneer
in automation and on demand delivery
of integrated IT Security and compli-
ance management and today has its
presence both in U.S., Middle East
and Asia Pacific.
The company’s innovative Cloud
based Service offering ‘SecureGRC’
today is a world-leading, cloud based
automated IT Security and Compliance
management solution for all enter-
prises, including small and medium
businesses. It includes all security and
IT-GRC functions
that helps simplify,
reduce cost and time.
SecureGRC covers
all the aspects of
threats; internal or ex-
ternal, accidental or
deliberate, intentional Anupam Sahai
or unintentional.
“We believe SecureGRC delivers what
our customers have been asking for, an
integrated solution for security and IT-
GRC through an integrated dashboard,”
says Bilugu, Chairman and Managing
Director of eGestalt.
Since its founding, the company
has received several recognitions, most
prominent of which being voted as a fi-
nalist in the Breakthrough Technology
Vendor category by Everything Chan-
nel’s XChange Americas. “To win
recognition by the largest gathering of
IT channel partners
in the industry is a
vote of confidence in
our innovative IT-
GRC cloud solution
along with our
unique channel based
Chandra Sekhar Bilugu Go-to-Market strat-
egy,” says Sahai,
President of eGestalt.
SecureGRC is sold indirectly
through a network of channel partners
that service small and mid-size, and
large organizations. Because its cloud
delivery model reduces the total cost of
ownership by as much as 10x, the ap-
plication is ideal for all enterprises, in-
cluding SMBs. For the first time, the
channel can deliver low-cost, high-
value compliance services to their
clients with unparalleled economics
that is unprecedented in the industry. si

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MENTIS Software: Just Say ‘NO’ to Data Breaches
Name Founders Founded Description single data breach can have an Most IT security products on the access the data. The discovery process
immediate effect on a com- market are data agnostic and do not is automated so customers stay up-to-
pany’s market share, stock have any way to identify specific sets date with changes across new versions
Develops cost-effective enterprise security solutions, Apere
Apere
R a m Ja y a m offers Identity Managed Access Gateway designed to address price and even bring a company down of data that contain sensitive personal and customizations. The MENTIS
San Jose, CA
President & CEO identity and data security issues while significantly reducing as the clients lose their confidence in or corporate information about em- Sensitive Information Management
apere.com
the management burden placed on IT staff. the company and withdraw their con- ployees, customers and partners. In platform provides the foundation for
tracts. One study reports that 32 per- contrast MENTIS takes a data centric all products. Whether the need is data
Produces ready-to-deploy security solutions for IT networks
cent of customers withdrew their approach to Discover, Protect and masking, compliance readiness, audit
Celestix
Rav i Li ng ar k ar especially Microsoft Windows-based security appliances. The business from a firm after it suffered a Manage sensitive information in ap- reporting or access monitoring cus-
Fremont, CA
celestix.com
CEO
1999
company has raised $15 million private fundng till date and security breach. MENTIS Software, a plications and databases. “MENTIS tomers can implement quickly and ex-
has a customer base of over 3000. 2009 si100 company, is actively help- Sensitive Data Discovery is our key pand based on future needs.
ing companies prevent these issues differentiator”, says MENTIS announced the release
Provider of a patent-pending, cloud-computing based SaaS ap-
eGestalt
Ch a n d r a S e k h a rB i l u g u
plication, SecureGRC addresses all the enterprise needs through improved management of Parthasarathy. Discov- of MENTIS 7 at Oracle OpenWorld.
Santa Clara, CA
Chairman
2009 around information security, compliance and risk management their sensitive data. “The MENTIS ery enables cus- This release provides advancements
A nup am Sah ai
egestalt.com
President
and provides automation and integration of policy controls. Sensitive Information Management tomers to locate all of in the Sensitive Data Discovery
Headcount:40 platform includes an integrated suite the places where process and a java-based architecture
of products that help protect and man- sensitive data re- for broader platform and database
An integrated security, risk and compliance technology com- age sensitive information throughout sides and under- support. MENTIS plans to extend
pany, its flagship solution, SecureVue, is a Unified Situational
eiQ Networks
Vi j a y B a s a n i Awareness platform that brings together Configuration Audit, its life within organizations.” says stand which their database support of Oracle, SQL
Acton, MA
President & CEO
2001
Compliance Automation, Next-Gen SIEM, File Integrity Moni- Rajesh K. Parthasarathy, Founder and Rajesh K. users and Server and Sybase to include DB2,
eiqnetworks.com
toring, Removable Media Monitoring, Performance Monitoring CEO of MENTIS. Parthasarathy programs JBASE and MySQL.
and Contextual Investigative Analysis into a single solution.

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Elitecore Technologies
Plainsboro, NJ
H em al Pat e l
1999
The company under its flagship product, Cyberoam, offers in-
ternet security solution to enterprises across the globe. The
Quantum Secure: Securing and Streamlining Corporate Infrastructure
CEO
elitecore.com company has over 400 employees.
ounded in 2005, Silicon Valley- major release featuring a new, more continuing to help our customers re-
Addresses security needs of companies in all industries
headquartered Quantum Secure powerful Compliance Regulator, al- duce costs, ensure compliance and
KRAA Security
Ga r y B a h a d u r through a combination of Managed Security Services and Con- is the exclusive provider of en- lowing users to manage external/inter- lower their overall levels of corpo-
Miami, FL 2007
kraasecurity.com
CEO sulting Services in Application Security, Network Security, Op- terprise software to manage and nal regulations (such as NERC, SOX, rate risk for years to come,” says
erating System Security and Compliance measures. streamline security identities, compli- HSPD-12, TSE/SIDA) and associated Ajay Jain, President and CEO,
ance and events across disparate phys- controls in a central place; enhanced Quantum Secure.
MentiSoftware
R a j e s h K P a r th a s a r a t h y
A provider of sensitive information management solutions, the
ical security systems. Quantum Identity & Access Manager Modules; Quantum Secure now enjoys a
company has announce several new products over the last few
New York, NY
President & CEO
2004
months and is expanding support for all its products across Secure’s SAFE suite of soft- and a faster core SAFE Policy Engine very vast customer and partner base.
mentisoftware.com
major enterprise platforms. It has about 25 employees now. ware products successfully designed to improve overall perform- New customers Oracle Corporation,
addresses the challenges ance. AT&T, Visa International, AMD,
Quantum Secure
A provider of enterprise software to manage and streamline associated with operat- The company, which registered a Lawrence Livermore National Labo-
A ja y J a i n security identities, compliance and events across disparate
San Jose, CA
President & CEO
2004
physical security systems. The company's head count is at 101 ing multiple, propri- 100 percent growth in the year 2009, ratory, the U.S. Department of En-
quantumsecure.com
presently. etary physical security reported another record year at ASIS ergy, Aspen County Airport and the
Provides governance, risk assessment, and compliance man- infrastructure systems in 2010, which has included record U.S. Federal Food & Drug Adminis-
agement software solution via its Rsam GRC Platform that global corporations, air- revenues, new product announce- tration join long-time customers such
Relational security
Secaucus, NJ
Vi v e k S h i v a n a n d a
2003
helps in Assessments, Audit, Compliance Management, Enter- ports, critical infrastruc- ments, new Fortune 500 customer as the U.S. Air Force, Adobe Sys-
relsec.com
President & CEO prise Risk, Incident Management, Issues and Remediation
ture locations and additions and several new strategic tems, Baxter International, Juniper
Tracking, Policy Exceptions, Threat and Vulnerability, Vendor
Risk, and more. government agen- partnerships. “We are very excited Networks, Symantec Corporation,
Provider of industry-first multi-tenant SaaS Security, it offers cies. The com- to work so closely with such a won- First Data Corporation, San Francisco
Zscaler
cloud security for enterprises, ranging from small businesses pany recently derful set of customers, each in their International Airport and the Toronto
Sunnyvale, CA
Ja y C h a u d h r y
2008
to Fortune 500 Companies. Due to its disruptive "SaaS" ap- launched own way proving the value proposi- Pearson International Airport, enjoy-
CEO proach, Zscaler's service provides more powerful security and
zscaler.com
comprehensive reporting at a lower total cost of ownership for
SAFE 4.0, tion of our SAFE software suite to ing measurable ROI, year after year
its customers.
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Alphion: Leveraging Bandwidth Demand Via FTTx Solutions
Name Founders Founded Description
he ever-increasing demand for (BSNL), the largest government also is designed for integration into
bandwidth access via FTTx ac- telecommunication service provider in standards-based OEM platforms and
Alphion B h a r a t P. D a v e Offers a full range of communications systems, subsystems, integrated
Princeton, NJ Chairman, 2000 and discrete photonic components based on its proprietary QLight tech- cess technology lured the net- India, has selected Alphion GPON service provider networks. It is recog-
alphion.com President & CEO nology platform. working firm Alphion to strategically technology for the deployment of mul- nized for developing all-optical PON
develop its access systems, subsys- tiple play FTTx services in the west- extension solutions, which allows car-
Helps resolve application and network performance issues faced by dis- tems and integrated photonic device ern and southern zones of India. The riers to extend the reach of existing
Aryaka Networks
A j i t G u p ta tributed enterprises with its revolutionary SaaS model for application and grab a huge chunk of the market initial BSNL contract for the Alphion PON networks from 20km to 60km
Milpitas, CA 2008
aryaka.com
President & CEO acceleration and WAN optimization, offering significant cost, ease of which is expected to reach $22.8 bil- GPON equipment, the first phase of while also increasing the subscriber
use and performance advantages.
lion in 2013. The company offers a the multiyear program, will provide base by four times.
Develops and markets network appliances that provide high Internet
range of optical networking solutions services to 259,000 Fiber- Gigabit Passive Optical Network
Aspen Networks availability and peak application performance. Its products give SMBs for the rapidly emerging FTTx market, To-The-Home (FTTH) (GPON) is becoming the dominant
Santa Clara, CA
Sa ji t B ha s ka r a n
Chairman & CEO
control over their WAN/Internet connectivity, enabling them to maxi- which are meant to be used in central subscribers,” says Dr. technology for service providers de-
aspen-networks.com mize availability, minimize downtime and optimize performance, while offices, outside plants, customer prem- Bharat P. Dave, the ploying across the Americas, Europe,
controlling costs.
ises and network management. CEO and Chairman of and Asia, with revenues projected to
With a suite of products and services, it enables small to medium size
The solutions mainly cater to serv- Alphion. exceed $2 billion by 2010. Broad-
Coaxial Networks
Vi j a y S h r i v a s t a v Cable Operators and Internet Service Provider worldwide to easily de- ice providers and OEMs in the Fiber- Alphion has created a band access networks using PON
Santa Clara, CA 2001
coaxialnetworks.com
President & CEO ploy high speed internet access and advanced services such as VoIP, VoD to-the-Premises (FTTP), complete GPON tech- technology are seen as key driv-
and Wireless network over existing cable infrastructure. telecommunications, CATV, fiber nology platform ers for economic growth.
optic sensing, test & measurement, that not only GPON based networks in-
FatPipe Networks Inventor and multiple patents holder of technology that provides the medical imaging, and defense system leverages the crease service providers’
Salt Lake City, UT
Ra g ul a B has k ar
1989 highest levels of WAN optimization, reliability, security, and bandwidth markets. “Every product of our’s has most sophisti- ARPU by bundling video,
President & CEO
fatpipeinc.com management. The company has 120 employees. been widely recognized and in a recent cated industry voice and high speed Inter-
deal, Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited standards, but Bharat P. Dave net services.

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Gambit
A provider of network simulation tools that enhance the prouctivity of
Communications Pank aj Sh ah
1995 enterprises, device vendors, management software developers and out-
Nashua, NH
gambitcomm.com
CEO
sourcers while lowering their costs.
Aryaka: Revolutionizing the WAN Optimization Space
serial entrepreneur who has ex- managed service, Aryaka is designed for the inherent challenges of appliance-
R a j Ka n a y a Provides a WAN-optimized network infrastructure for large corporations perience running enterprises, cloud-based Application Acceleration based solutions. Enterprises looking to
Infineta Systems
CEO and help reduce network traffic by five times or more. With its technol- Ajit Gupta was quick to realize and WAN Optimization and offers cus- leverage the cloud now have access to
San Jose, CA 2008
infineta.com
K . V. S . R a ma r a o ogy, it is geared for large companies especially in financial services, re- the pain points of enterprises when it tomers cost effective, scalable, and reli- the key enabler – the network – in addi-
CTO tailers and Web properties.
comes to a need for private, secure, data able connectivity between enterprise tion to computing and storage resources.
transfer between distributed locations. locations. The software and technology Aryaka gives enterprises, for the first
Develops and deploys a complete range of forensics, compliance, secu- The application acceleration and WAN used in the Aryaka Network is propri- time, a high-performance, highly-avail-
Niksun
rity surveillance and performance management solutions for applica- optimization technology which was an etary, built from the ground up, and able and scalable, application-aware net-
Princeton, NJ
Par ag Pr ut hi
1997
tions ranging from core infrastructures to edge and branch appliance based solution had problems patent pending. work whenever and wherever they do
Chairman & CEO environments. Its patented real-time analysis and recording technology
niksun.com
enables enterprises, service providers and governments to provide se- relating to cost, complexity and man- Aryaka’s uniqueness lies in the fact business.
cure and reliable network infrastructure and services. ageability. He founded Aryaka in 2008 that its network op- The company has raised $14 million,
with this vision to resolve application erates with the ad- including Series A funding from Trinity
and network performance issues faced vantages of a Ventures, Mohr Davidow Ventures,
Pronto Networks
J as b i r Si ng h A carrier-class Operations Support Systems (OSS) that enables network
by distributed enterprises. Aryaka ap- private cloud Nexus Venture Partners and Stanford
Pleasanton, CA
President & CEO
2001
operators to deploy and manage large public WLAN networks. plies a revolutionary SaaS model to ap- combined with University. “According to statistics, there
prontonetworks.com
plication acceleration and WAN the economics are eight million office branches waiting
optimization offering significant reduce of a public cloud, to be optimized and the current solutions
An independent managed network, security and technology services in cost, ease of use and performance ad- thereby offering reach hardly five percent of the market
Virtela
Greenwoo Village, CO
Va b G o e l
2000
company providing cloud and device-based services, including MPLS and vantages. enterprises the un- size”, says Gupta. Gupta and team are all
virtela.com
CEO IP-based VPNs, Security, Infrastructure Management, and Application Instead of traditional approaches, precedented set to democratize and revolutionize the
Acceleration, to enterprise customers globally.
which use either a WAN Optimization ability to space with their disruptive technology
Ajit Gupta
Controller (WOC) or implement it as a overcome which could be easily affordable. si

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Fatpipe: Uninterrupted Wide
E
Area Networks Made Possible
very year
the cor-
porate
world loses
millions
of dol-
Ragula Bhaskar
l a r s
due to poor quality networks. Hence, it
has become an imperative to have a so-
lution which provides “reliable, redun-
dant wide area network capabilities.”
Ragula Bhaskar, President and CEO of
FatPipe Networks was quick to realize
the opportunity and went on to create
products which helped organizations
obtain highly redundant and fast Inter-
net/WAN access, as well as high secu-
rity allowing such corporations to
implement intranets, thin client, Virtual
Private Networks (VPNs), and other
Infineta Systems
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Accelerating Data Center WAN
Application Traffic
he WAN traffic between large,
critical data centers is growing
rapidly, even to the point of dou-
bling every two years or less for nearly
a third of the organizations that were
surveyed by the market research group
Forrester Research. This represents a
huge opportunity for infrastructure
companies which provide network opti-
mization products. To date, enterprise
customers had to deal with this traffic
explosion either by buying more and
more bandwidth or through limiting the
amount of traffic sent across the data
center interconnect for things such as
large-scale replication and backup. Both
have been painful options because of
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Web-based applications.
“In the technology communication
space, we saw the need for redundant
networks whereby companies don’t
have to depend on one single carrier. To
bolster our patent on this line, we came
up with more inventions. Today we
have around seven patents along with
130 technology claims,” says Bhaskar.
Founded in 1991, FatPipe’s core tech-
nology involves patented (seven is-
sued), and patents-pending methods of
transmitting data over multiple lines ei-
ther over the Internet or with direct
point-to-point connections like MPLS
and frame relay, without any coopera-
tion from the Internet Service Provider
(“ISP”).
FatPipe enables companies to ob-
tain low cost, redundant and fast Inter-
the ballooning costs incurred by the for-
mer and the increased risks borne by the
business from the latter.
Raj Kanaya, CEO, and K.V.S. Ra-
marao, CTO,
co-founded In-
fineta Systems
in 2008 to de-
velop and mar-
ket products
which offer cus-
tomers a better so-
lution to
improve
the per-
f o r -
mance
Raj Kanaya
net access, allowing them to implement
Intranets, e-commerce strategies,
VPNs, and utilize application specific
servers over the Internet or WAN. The
company’s network solutions can be
seen to be more beneficial for compa-
nies who are into outsourcing, off-
shoring, remote management, as they
have to build the trust among the clients
that networks will never be compro-
mised despite the distance. Especially,
in countries like India when the ISVs’
networks are unreliable Fatpipe’s so-
lution helps third world networks to
be transformed into first world net-
works.
Companies use Fatpipe’s multi-lo-
cation software to connect their offices
around the world via multiple data-car-
riers locally available. With its advan-
tage on the features FatPipe was able to
gain customers like the FBl and the
U.S. Supreme Court, and over 1000
other customers, with over 6000 units
installed worldwide.
of inter-data center WAN application
traffic. The product showcases an inven-
tive new network data reduction tech-
nology which is purpose-built to
accelerate data center class applications
that make up this inter-data center traffic.
Infineta’s products combine critical traf-
fic control, WAN optimization, and
multi-stage data reduction to enable cus-
tomers to significantly make better use
of their inter-data center WAN infra-
structure.
“Data center applications are enor-
mously bandwidth hungry and intolerant
of the lowest amounts of latency. It’s
more critical than ever that customers are
able to accelerate these applications,”
says Kanaya. “Enabling WAN mobility
for all forms of data center traffic – from
storage and databases to applications and
live migrations of virtual machines – will
require a high performing, high capacity
inter-data center network platform.
That’s what we deliver, ” he adds. si
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NIKSUN: Enabling Network Forensics to Know the Unknown
ost vendors are chasing
down what they know,
or investigating a series
of packets, sessions, or connections in
which they think something may have
occurred. What they cannot investi-
gate, however, is what they do not
know happened. NIKSUN captures
and stores every packet that
transverses the network so
that if needed you can go
back in time from seconds
to years to see what hap-
pened. Ability to react fast is
necessary to keep ahead of the
plethora of attacks in the new
cyber environment,“ says Dr.
Parag Pruthi, CEO and
Founder of NIKSUN.
Thus, it empowers you to
‘know the unknown’. Dr. Parag Pruthi
Securing networks has
unfolded into a huge oppor-
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Omega Healthcare: Bringing IT and Healthcare Closer
he healthcare industry in the
U.S. is arguably one of the best
in the world but the adminis-
trative aspect of the industry by far is
the most complex and difficult to
comprehend systems and processes.
The industry’s current contribution
makes up about 12 percent of the U.S.
GDP and is expected to reach close to
15 percent in less than a decade. The
IT spend in the healthcare industry is
estimated to be about 2 percent of rev-
enues whereas the financial or bank-
ing industries spends about 8 - 10
percent. The major challenges for
technology adoption in the healthcare
industry are the ever changing regula-
tory complexities and the fragmenta-
tion of the industry. Less automation
and continued demand for accurate
tunity with the appliance and software
market expected to touch nearly $7 bil-
lion in 2014. Dr. Parag Pruthi’s eyes are
quite sharp to catch on the trend. This
CEO has deliberately steered
NIKSUN, the enterprise network
surveillance solutions provider, to
grab the market through their strate-
gic acquisition of Sandstorm Enter-
prises and the release of their
new Alpine security software.
In addition, NIKSUN’s new
IntelliSeries puts the most
powerful features of their
NetDetector and
NetVCR appliances into a
small, portable form-factor to
perform “forensics on the go”.
End-to-end network security
while guaranteeing end-to-end
service delivery requires sci-
entific disciplines such as
chaos theory, fractal analytics
data to be amassed from various
sources combined with the complex
reimbursement patterns of the insur-
ance companies presents a unique op-
portunity for a company like Omega
Healthcare. The company has about
2,700 employees out of which 900 are
highly qualified medical coders.
Omega Healthcare has estab-
lished itself as one of the premier off-
shore providers of medical coding,
billing, accounts receivable manage-
ment, and healthcare revenue man-
agement. Omega’s business model is
rather unique in the industry whereby
they have no channel conflicts with
their clients. The focus on the qual-
ity of services they provide is at-
tested by their client retention rate of
95 percent.
Networking
and hierarchical distributed computing.
As these components are unified in a har-
monious and scalable manner, the com-
pany is on its way to fulfill its single
vision: to create the equivalent of Tivo
and Google for the network.
Today, NIKSUN’s solutions are
deployed in thousands of networks
throughout U.S., Europe and Asia Pa-
cific. It positions itself strongly in the
Network Forensics market in terms of
forensics, network monitoring, inci-
dent response, and reporting in a court
of law should a data breach occur. At
any given instance, for a single cus-
tomer, the company solutions’ con-
stantly process petabytes (1000’s of
terabytes) of information, which is fur-
ther analyzed, stored, aggregated, cor-
related and alarmed upon. With over
600 customers having signed up since
the company’s start in 1997, NIKSUN
has seen enormous success.
BPO
In 2009, Omega added six new
clients, but they consider it to be a
slower year compared to prior years.
But they are back in the fast track in
2010 after the healthcare reform
plans were announced and
have added 16 new
clients so far. “The fu-
ture looks very bright
with more and more
companies evaluating
and accepting use of off-
shore services as a key
part of their growth
strategy,” says
Gopi Natarajan,
CEO, Omega
Healthcare
Management
Services. si Gopi Natarajan
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Name Founders Founded Description

Provider of document unitization, document coding, data man-

CAP Digisoft Solutions agement, litigation support services, electronic data discovery
A r u n Ku m a r
Irving, TX 1999 (EDD), finance and accounting, medical document review, data
CEO
capdigisoft.com quality and audit, application and software development, and
much more under one roof. Headcount: Over 500

G op i Na ta r a j a n
Omega Healthcare An offshore provider of medical coding, billing, accounts re-
CEO
Tampa, FL 2003 ceivable management, claims processing, and healthcare rev-
A nu r ag Me ht a
omegahms.com enue management. It has about 2700 employees.
Executive VP

Provider of outsourced legal solutions. It offers under one roof

Pangea3
S anj ay K am l an i suite of legal solutions including corporate, litigation, compli-
New York, NY 2004
Co-CEO ance and IP related solutions to hundreds of clients across the
pangea3.com
globe.

QuScient Technologies
Ba b u T h i ag ar aj an Provider of knowledge intensiveBPO and Software Services for
Scottsdale, AZ 2005
CEO customers around the world.
quscient.com

Sutherlandglobal
D il i p R Ve l l o d i It collaborates with clients to help them excel in their industry
Rochester, NY 1986
Chairman& CE0 while maximizing their customer's life-time value.
sutherlandglobal.com

Netmagic raises $16 Million in

Series C Funding

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etmagic Solutions, a Managed
IT Hosting Service provider,
has raised close to $16 million
in Series C financial round lead by
Nokia Growth Partners and Cisco
Systems. Fidelity International and
Nexus Venture Partners who invested
in the company’s second round of
funding in 2008 also took part in this
round. The company will utilize this
investment to enhance its presence in
the data center market in India by
opening new centers and expanding
the existing ones. The funds will also
be used to increase investments in de-
veloping cloud computing technolo-
gies.
“We are delighted to have raised
fresh capital from Nokia Growth Part-
ners and Cisco, and their industry ex-
pertise and global experience will help
as we continue our growth in managed
hosting and cloud computing. Their
investment reinforces our industry and
technological leadership and the po-
tential for this market in India. We will
utilize this round of funding to in-
crease our datacenter footprint and in-
crease investment in R&D efforts for
our Cloud Computing platform,” said
Sharad Sanghi, Managing Director
and CEO, Netmagic Solutions.
Upal Basu from Nokia Growth
Partners said the venture firm is on a
lookout for leading technology com-
panies with significant potential for
future growth and industry leader-
ship. Netmagic has this potential and
hence the investment. Netmagic till
date has raised about $17.6 million,
which includes about $4 million from
their first round in 2000 and $13.5
million in 2008. si
Corrigendum
This is in reference to the article titled
"Driving IT Being One Step Ahead of Busi-
ness" in CIO Column published in the Oc-
tober 2010 issue of siliconindia.
We regret the following errors printed :
We had mentioned that IDEX Corp had not
gone public when Dave Kamath joined.
The actual statement should have been,
“Six years before, when he joined IDEX
Corp as its CIO, the company was working
as all other public portfolio companies,
most of the companies operating au-
tonomously with its own IT infrastructure
and support systems'.Previously Kamath
worked for SunSource Distributors Inc, not
Sunshore as mentioned in the article.

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