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151 | Vitage Systems
Vitage Group, started as Vitage Systems
in 1995, realized the potential of domestic IT application management and
infrastructure services, and floated Vitage Technologies to address that space
in FY 06. That resulted in a two and half times growth as compared to the
previous year. With increased focus on IT infrastructure services, Vitage
established a remote management center and got it assessed through ISO 20000-1 (ITSM/ITIL).
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Set up Enterprise Application
Group for providing business applications |
Director: Satyen Vyas l Start-up
Year: 1993 l Product & Services: IT Services, application
management services, networking & security, enterprise systems l Employees:
484 l Branches: 4 l Address: 18/1, Wellington Street,
Richmond town, Bangalore
l Tel: 22244583/22990435/22990457 l
Fax: 22244583 l Website:
www.vitage.com |
152 | MRO-TEK
It was a pretty disappointing year for
MRO-TEK as it recorded negative growth because of pricing pressure. The company
took a strategic decision to increase focus on five areasincreasing channel
partners, providing enhanced broadband management, R&D, application specific
products and solutions, and increasing customer penetration. Among major orders
was the contract from Indian Railways to implement ticket-vending
infrastructure.
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Best Vendor of the year award by
Airtel
Contract
from Indian Railways
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MD: S Narayanan l Start-up
Year: 1984 l Products & Service: Access Networking
products l Employees: 170 l Address: Bellary Road, Hebbal,
Bangalore 560024 l
Tel: 918023332951 l Fax: 918023333415 |
153 | EduComp Solutions
Educomp acquired 76% stake in ThreeBrix
e-services for leveraging its large content library for tutoring. It also signed
contracts with various state governments for computer-aided learning initiativesincluding
a Rs 13.05 crore order from AMTRON (Assam Government); a combined Rs 50 crore
order from Gujarat Council of Primary Education; and one from the School
Education Department of the West Bengal government.
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Launched an online maths website,
mathguru.com
Raised
Rs 113.43 crore through the issue of FCCBs
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| CEO: Shantanu Prakash l Start-up
Year: 1994 l Products & Services: Instructor-led content,
technology aided training workshops for teachers, e-tutoring l Employees:
1,400 l Address: 1211 Padma Tower I, 5 Rajendra Place New
Delhi 110008 l Tel: 25755920 l Fax: 25766775 |
154 | Visesh Infotecnics
The year was marked by achievements of
the JV of Visesh Infotecnics and Cyberworks Software, the company which launched
KPO operations for the US-based EcoStar Communications Corporation. The JV also
bagged a three-year contract by the UK-based SMH Marketing. The company will be
raising investment through issue of GDR/ADR/FCCBs to FII/ overseas corporate
bodies to fund its expansion plans targeted at global markets.
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Bagged a three-year contract from
the UK-based SMH Marketing |
| MD: Sanjiv Bhavnani l
Start-up Year: 1989 l Products & Services: IT Solutions
and product support, mobile telematics and enterprise software l Address:
5, Scindia House, CP, New Delhi 110001 l Tel: 41514552 l Fax: 41514551
l Website: www.viseshinfo.com |
155 | Blue Star Infotech
Blue Star used a product-based approach
to target select domains such as retail, BFSI, auto, and services in the
fast-growing Indian market. During this year, new domestic clients added include
M&M Finance, Unilever India Exports, Fouress Engineering, Houghton
Hardcastle, Elder Pharma, GTL, Unichem Laboratories, and Dempo Group. The
company also focused on developing expertise in cutting-edge technologies such
as Web 2.0 and SOA.
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Partners with Microsoft ISV NXT
Partners
with Landsteinar and Oracle India for their Retail and E-business Suite,
respectively
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| MD: Suneel M Advani l Start-up
Year: 1983 l Products & Services: Software products,
services & consulting l Employees: 1,100 (Global) l Branches:
6 l Address: Band Box House, 4th Floor, Dr Annie Besant Road,
Worli, Mumbai 40000 l Tel: 912224901870 l Fax:
912224901353 l Website: www.bsil.com |
156 | Quantum India
The global acquisition of ADIC enabled
Quantum to launch its DXi-series of solutions. Not only has Quantum efficiently
integrated key technologies from both the companies, it has also restructured
its channel network to reflect the change. Quantum acquired the StorNext storage
management software from ADIC for which it appointed Ideal Systems as its
non-exclusive distributor, with special focus on media. Both Inflow and StorIT
were also added as channel partners during the year.
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The DXi-series of solutions
provided flexibility between NAS and virtual tape library interfaces
Appointed
Ideal Systems as its non-exclusive distributor
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| Country Manager: Sunny John l
Products & Services: Storage hardware, software l Employees:
15 l Address: 11&12, Bellary Road, Sahakara Nagar,
Bangalore 560092 l Tel: 41735610 l Fax: 41735608 l Website:
www.quantum.com |
157 | RS Software
The turnaround story that started in
the previous fiscal continued this year too as RS Software successfully
leveraged on the competencies it built for the integration of technologies in
global payment systems. New inductions in the executive management team too paid
dividends. During the year, RS also issued right issue of shares, with most of
the funds being utilized for strengthening the marketing network and adding new
facility in Kolkata.
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Entered JV with US-based Hanover
Direct with a 40% stake
Raised
Rs 16 crore from its rights issue
|
Vice Chairman & MD: Rajnit
Rai Jain l Start-up Year: 1991 l Products & Services:
Software services and products l Employees: 449 l Address: A2, FMC Fortuna, 234/3A, AJC
Bose Road, Kolkatta 700020 l Tel: 22810106/07/08 l Fax:
22406256 l
Website: www.supertronindia.com |
158 | Gigabyte Technology
Gigabyte Technology, the JV between
D-Link and Gigabyte, registered maximum growth in the peripherals segment. On
the global front, Gigabyte announced strategic alliance with Asustek computers
for manufacturing Gigabyte branded motherboards and graphic cards. While the
national distributor for Gigabytes Intel products was Redington, it appointed
Ingram Micro as the national distributor for its AMD product range
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Launched the GA-945 S-series of
motherboards for Intel Core 2 Duo
It
also moved strong with its Intel chipset based motherboards
|
MD: Prabodh Vyas l Start-up
Year: 2004 l Products and Services: Systems and peripherals l
Employees: 26 l Address: Plot No 5, Kurla-Bandra Complex
Road, Off CST Road, Santacruz (East) l Tel: 02226526696 /
56902210 l Fax: 02226528914 l
Website: www.gigabyte.in |
159 | Micromax Technologies
Micromax decided boldly two years back
to exit from brands where margins were negligible, and not to play second fiddle
to distis. Consequently, it had two flat years, but last fiscal it finally
reaped the rewards of its strategic decisions. Not only just financial growth,
the year was also significant because Micromax became a tier-1 partner for
Lenovo. Micromax is ranked high by DQChannles as a power distributor.
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Provided fixed wireless
terminals to GSM service providers
Ranked
by DQChannels as a power distributor
|
CEO: Rajesh Aggarwal l Start-up
Year: 1991 l Products and Services: Desktops, laptops,
monitors, printers, storage devices, digital photocopiers l Employees:
52 l Address: 304, Eros Apartments, 56 Nehru Place, New Delhi
110019 l Tel: 2644755
l Fax: 26289745 |
160 | Trend Micro
Like most security vendors, Trend Micro
focused on developing the SMB market for its products. It started help-desk
service for its Worry-free range of products and services targeted at this
segment by entering into an agreement with Accel Frontline. The helpdesk will
provide technical help apart from handling other queries about products. The
company further fortified its presence by adding Spyware and Rootkit protection
tools to its Worry Free portfolio.
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Announced a new free service,
TrendProtect
Launched
InterScan Web Security Appliance
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| Country Manager: Niraj
Kaushik l Products & Services: Network anti-virus and
Internet content security software and services l Address: C-304, Ansal Plaza, Third Floor, Khelgaon Marg, Andrew
Ganj, New Delhi 110049 l Tel: 01142699000 l Fax: 01142699099 l Website: www.trendmicro.com |
161 | Google India
Google significantly ramped up Indian
domestic operations by opening an office in Mumbai and appointing a new MD. On
the engineering side, it decided to strengthen Indian operations and signed an
MoU with the Government of Andhra Pradesh to open a new R&D center that can
house 4,000 people. Google also invested in two early-stage venture capital
funds, Seedfund and Erasmic, a first worldwide.
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Google India Code Jam,
Googles high profile programming competition, saw participation of
14,000 participants from India and South East Asia |
MD: Shailesh Rao (India
domestic operations) l Products & Services: Online content
and application l Address: Google Online India, RMZ FUTURA, Block
A, Fourth Floor, Plot No 14, Road No. 2, Madhapur, Hi-tech City,
Hyderabad 500081 l
Website: www.google.com |
162 | PSI Data Systems
The company continues to invest
strongly in marketing initiatives and R&D. PSI Centers of Insight generated
eight components and frameworks during the year. The company also forayed into
the testing services market with its automated testing solution, AssetTest, with
an objective of reducing the turnaround time of testing processes. The company
is setting up a new campus facility in Bangalore. It also got assessed for CMMI
Level 5, and for ISO 27001.
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|
Offshore revenue grew by 42% over
the previous year
Software
revenue up by 18%
|
| CEO: Sampath Iyengar l Start-up
Year: 1976 l Products & Services: IT Solutions for
different sectors including banking, financial services and hi-tech
markets l Address: Sunningdale, Embassy Golf Links Business Park,
Intermediate Ring Road, Bangalore 560071 l Tel: 30558000 l Fax:
30558499 l Website: www.psidata.com |
163 | Park Electronik
Park Electronik added exclusive
distributorship of 2 companies to its kittyJapan-based Buffalos networking
products and Altec Lancings mid-to-high range speakers. Park also started
selling TVSE products exclusively during the year. However, the company also
faced a theft of Rs 26 lakh at its newly opened Nokia priority dealership
showroom at Noida. Another branch was opened at Hissar leading to a growth of
30% in the companys revenue.
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Added exclusive distributorship of
Buffalo, TVSE, and Altec Lancing
Opened
Nokia priority dealership shop at Noida
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| Proprietor: Ajaya Kumar l Start-up
Year: 1993 l Products & Services: IT hardware products l Address:
406, Eros Apartments 56 Nehru Place, New Delhi 110019 l Tel: 26293749
l Fax: 26416376 l Website: www.thecomputerpark.com |
164 | Sierra Atlantic
Sierra Atlantic Software Services
acquired UK-based Iterion. This marked the market shift from large-scale
outsourcing to business process and local domain knowledge centric outsourcing.
It extended its outsourced product development services to ISV customers,
resulting in five customer wins during the year. Internally the company expanded
by employing 450 people. Applimation Inc, the enterprise data management
solutions wing of Sierra, recorded the highest growth.
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Oracle Partner of the Year award
for the third consecutive year
Five
new Independent Software Vendor wins
|
| Founder and CEO: Raju Reddy l
Start-up Year: 1993 l Products and Services: Enterprise
application services, outsourced product development, business process
integration l Employees: 996 l Address: Sierra Atlantic
Software Services, Road # 10, Banjara Hills, Hyderabad 500 034 l Tel:
04066436000 l Fax: 0406643 6111 l Website: www.seirraatlantic.com |
165 | Affiliated Computer Services India
The company has a much larger chunk of
revenues coming from BPO than from IT services. Out of the total headcount of
4,100 people, the IT services manpower was 600 at the end of FY 07up from
about 400 a year back. The year saw ACS transferring some of its onshore IT work
to India. Unlike most other service providers, ACS does not do any ADM work out
of India and focuses on infrastructure services.
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ACS transferred some of its
onshore IT work to India |
Sr VP, Asia Pacfic & Head,
India: Aman Mustafa l Start-up Year: 2003 l Products &
Services: IT services l Employees: 600 (IT services only) l Address:
Level 2, Creator Block International Tech Park Whitefield, Bangalore 560
066 l Tel: 41190123
l Website: www.acs-inc.com |
166 | Dax Networks
Dax reworked its strategy with a focus
on small and medium enterprise business. It bagged an order from Indian railways
RISET for routing products. The company also announced its intention to create a
wireless highway in the IT corridor in Bangalore. Dax introduced intelligent
patch cords called PatchSee cords to allow the network administrator to identify
the other end of any cord.
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Telecom emerged as the
largest vertical followed by government
Brought
in strategic investors to expand business
|
COO: Sudha Jagadish l Start-up
Year: 1986 l Products and Services: Routers, WLANs, VoIP,
RAS, IVRS, media converters, cabling, and switching l Address:
79, Chamiers Road, Chennai-600028 l Employees: 121 l Tel: 04424323558
l
Fax: 04424357267 l Website: www.daxnetworks.com |
167 | Targus Technologies
For widening its solutions portfolio,
Targus tied up with names like Fortinet, Oracle, Lipi Data Systems, SyBase and
Emerson. In the competitive managed service providers segment, Targus managed to
stay afloat by bagging projects from some big names. Prominent contracts include
mobile advertising project from Bharti (Rs 1.25 crore), Kirusa (Rs 1.2 crore)
and Dainik Jagran (Rs 1 crore).
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Bagged several projects
from Bharti
Three
more offices opened in Pune, Gurgaon, and Mumbai
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| MD: Col Balwinder Singh l Start-up
Year: 1997 l Products & Services: HP/IBM related high-end
solutions, Cisco related security, wireless and switching solution l Employees:
160 l Branches: 6 l Address: F-11 East
of Kailash, New Delhi l Tel: 41646541 l Website: www.targustech.com |
168 | Jetking
With the number of centers going up by
thirteen and student intake increasing by 48%, the company tied-up with Allied
Digital for student placement. What made Jetking stand out from rest was its
unique go-to-market strategy including promotion of girl students by offering a
25% discount. For improving student efficiency, Smartlab Plus, a unique training
methodology was introduced under Jetkings strategic initiatives.
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Tied up with Allied Digital for
student placement
Student
intake up by 48%, centers up by 13
|
CEO:
Suresh Bharwani l Start-up
Year: 1990 l Products & Services: Hardware and networking
training l Employees: 2,212 l Branches: 90 l Address: 401,
Bussa Udyog Bhawan, TJ Road, Sewri, Mumbai 400015 l Tel: 24156528
Fax: 24143173 l Website: www.jetkinginfotrain.com |
169 | ADC Krone
ADC Krone Indias product portfolio
got a major boost and the company looked beyond the structured cabling business,
thanks to its acquisition of Andrew. This telecom service provider emerged as a
key business opportunity for the company. The company also made good inroads
into the SMB segment and launched the TrueNet Physical Layer Management
solutions designed to cater to future needs of network managers.
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|
Acquired an additional 11% stake
in Krone India from Keonics |
MD: K Balachandran l Start-up
Year: 1989 l Products & Service: Network Infrastructure
solutions including structured cabling l Employees: 120 l Address:
B No 5812, 10 C II Phase, Peenya, Bangalore 560058 l
Tel: 918028396101/28396291
l Fax: 018023722753 l Websites: http://www.kroneindia.com |
170 | Silicon Integrix
It could be touted as one of the most
comprehensive cases of consolidation in the Indian distribution sector. OA
Compserve and its subsidiary company, Silicon Comnet, merged with Preemptive
Systems and Integrix India to form Silicon Integrix. Significantly, Silicon
Integrix retained all the existing clients of the four companies. OA Compserve
CEO, RK Malhotra, became its chairman, and Atul Bansal was made responsible for
companys business operations.
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Hunted for acquiring a
distribution company in south India
Successfully
managed post-merger blues
|
| CEO: Atul Bansal l Products
& Services: Computers, servers, peripherals, networking
products, system integration, educational services, IT consumables and
lifestyle products l Address: 16/8 WEA Arya Samaj Raod, Karol
Bagh, New Delhi 110005 l Tel: 01125731534 l Fax: 01125750384 |
171 | Omnitech
The IT Infrastructure Management
Services division in particular witnessed substantial growth during the year.
The services business grew by 150%. Consolidating its global aspirations with
expansion in the US, Canada, UK, Belgium, Middle East, and Japan, resulted in a
90% growth in international business. The company initiated the process of
setting up of the technology center and the first disaster recovery center in
Bahrain.
|
|
Started in-house call center
Bottomline
grew by 95%
Increased
strength from 280-505
|
| MD: Atul Hemani l Start-up
Year: 1988 l Products & Services: Solution provider and
distributor l Employees: 505 l Address: Omnitech House, A13, Cross Raod No 5, Kondivita Lane,
MIDC, Andheri (E), Mumbai 400093 l Tel: 912240956666 l Fax: 912240956565 l Website:
www.omnitechindia.com |
172 | Syntech Informatics
Syntech strengthened the service
network for its own Isyn PC brand by adding 12 service locations, a call center
and web-enabled call logging systems. Besides West Bengal, it also consolidated
operations through 250 dealers across Jharkhand, Orissa and North East. Syntech
etched out a model of business diversification and bagged the license to operate
FM radio station in Siliguri as expansion plans.
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|
Entered into a strategic
tie-up with Imation as media distributor |
CEO: Milon Chakraborty l Start-up
Year: 2000 l Products & Services: Computer hardware
including servers, networking, IT services, turnkey projects, on-air
media services, PC integration l Branches: 57 l Address:
EN-27, Sector V, Salt Lake City, Kolkata 700091 l Tel: 23572616
l
Website: www.syntechworld.com |
173 | Infrasoft Technologies
Infrasofts year ended on a high note
as it won ten anti-money laundering deployment contracts globally in March 2007.
The overall annual contracts in this area were thirty. Its European route was
inorganic with its acquisition of the UK based M Consulting, a specialized
services delivery company. The company also started its sales operation in
Dubai, with the aim to focus on sales in the Middle East.
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|
Bagged
10 global deployment orders for AML
Cleared
ISO 27001 information security certification
|
| MD: Hanuman Tripathi l Start-up
year: 1995 l Products & Services: Banking solution and
products provider l Employee: 472 l Branches: 6 l Address:
6th Floor Wing A, Trade Star Building, Opposite JB Nagar, Andheri Kurla
Road, Andheri (East), Mumbai 400059 l Tel: 912266492222 l Fax:
912266492233 l Website: www.infrasofttech.com |
174 | ASUSTeK Computer
By introducing premium products in the
Indian market like the Lamborghini VX1 and the S6 Leather notebooks, ASUS aimed
to break free from its image of a motherboard vendor. Accordingly, ASUS
introduced a range of products from graphics cards, server solutions, networking
products, digital home products, PDAs to ODDs. ASUS appointed RT Outsourcing
Services as service partner for LCD monitors and notebooks, and SES Technologies
as the national distributor
|
|
Launched Digital
Infrastructure Forum in conjunction with Exfinity
Invested
Rs 10 crore in the first phase of expansion
|
| MD: Andrew Tsui l Start-up
Year: 1996 l Products & Services: Hardware l Address: 101-108
Bonanza A Wing, 1st Floor, Sahar Plaza Complex, MV Road,
Andheri (East), Mumbai 400059 l Tel: 40058923 l Website: in.asus.com |
175 | Embee Software
A whopping 100% growth in bottomline
was achieved by Embee, thanks to the contributions from Microsoft (Rs 33 crore),
HP (Rs 18 crore,) and Lenovo (Rs 7 crore). SAP was another lucrative principal
added to the kitty with its BI solution turning to be the catalyst for its SMB
success. With nine contracts, it became the first vendor from Eastern India to
implement SAP BI solutions amongst SMBs. IT landscaping was another focus area
with clients like Reliance Energy (Delhi) and Bombay Dyeing coming to the fold.
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Awarded Numara Softwares
"Best Partner for Innovation"
Completed
implementing SAP internally in the organization
|
MD:
Sudhir Kothari l Products
& Services: IT infrastructure landscaping, Volum Licensing for
Microsoft, SAP B1 business solution for SME, networking services, IT
infrastructure management l Employees: 151 l Address: 8, A
J C Bose Road, Circular Court, 2nd Floor, Kolkata l Fax: 22891741
l
Website: www.embee.co.in |
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