Accel Frontline

After two consecutive years of flat growth, Accel bounced back. Over the year it focused on strengthening its partner relationships: grew the Sun business from $6 mn the previous year to $9 mn last fiscal. The company also got into disaster recovery and business continuity services. On the services front Accel inked deals with Hindustan Times (Rs 4.5 crore), Directorate of Treasuries, Kerala (Rs 1.44 crore) and PWD, Mumbai (Rs 3.5 crore).

l CMD: NR Panicker  l Start-up Year: 1995  l Products & Services: Hardware, system and network integration, EAI and infrastructure services  l Employees: 1,782  l Branches: 46  l Address: Accel House, No 75, Nelson Manickam Road, Aminjikarai, Chennai 600029  l Tel: 23741856  l Fax: 23741271  l Website: www.accelfrontline.com

Cranes Software International

The company made four acquisitions with the objective of reaching scale, and ramping up top lines. In the process, it de-risked its business model by reducing the time spent on creating a product from scratch. It acquired undervalued products, rejuvenated them, went to pressure markets, and made them available across the world. Customizing its products to address the needs of the banking, financial and retail sector.

l MD: Asif Khader  l Start-up Year: 1991  l Products & Services: Design and statistical software products and engineering services  l Employees: 517  l Address: 4th Floor, Block- 1, Shakaranarayana Building, 25 MG Road, Bangalore 560001  l Tel: 41120000 l Fax: 41231274  l Website: www.cranessoftware.com

Tata Technologies

The internal restructuring of Tata Technologies that started earlier with the appointment of auto industry veterans in the top management culminated in 2005-06 with the Rs 400 crore acquisition of UK-based INCAT Technologies, a provider of PLM services for the auto and aerospace industries. The INCAT subsidiary in turn acquired Stuttgart-based CEDIS Mechanical Engineering, an automotive engineering and design (E&D) services provider, to expand its European presence.

l CEO: Patrick McGoldrick l Start-up Year: 1997 l Products & Services: Software and engineering services l Employees: 2,000 l Branches: 9 Address: 25, Hinjewadi Infotech Park, Pune 411057 l Tel: 66529090 l Fax: 24119035 l Website: www.tatatechnologies.com

Aztec Software Technologies

It was a great year for Aztec, now re-branded Aztecsoft. Besides a healthy topline, profit after tax also grew by 106% to Rs 37 crore, from Rs 18 crore in 2005-06. The growth was partially due to the expansion of the outsourced product development market and because the company got into independent testing services in a big way. Testing is now one third-about 35%-of Aztecsoft's total revenues, and grew by 60%.

l MD and CEO: V Chandrasekaran  l Start-up Year: 1995  l Products & Services: Offshore Product Development l Employees: 2,003  l Address: Maruthi Chambers, 17/9C, 17/4C, Rupena Agrahara, Hosur main Road, Bangalore l Tel: 25738005  l Fax: 41100587  l Website: www.aztecsoft.com

Adobe Systems

After the acquisition of Macromedia Inc, Adobe India brought Macromedia's Bangalore R&D center into its fold. The company's employee strength in the country rose to 650, after the acquisition. Adobe also shifted its Print and Classic Publishing Unit to Adobe India. Announced a preview version of its Adobe Reader in Hindi, which includes a user interface in Hindi and is developed primarily for the large vernacular audience in the country.

l Managing Director: Dr Naresh Gupta  l Start-up Year: 1997  l Products & Services: Desktop & enterprise solutions, Print, Publishing & Rich Digital Content Solutions  l Employees: 650  l Address: Adobe Towers, I-1A, City Centre, Sector : 25A, Noida 201301  l Tel: 2444711  l Fax: 91.120.2537681  l Website: www.adobeindia.com

Network Appliance

NetApp was the king of the NAS segment, cornering 72% market share. It featured among the top 5 in storage software for 2005-06. No wonder, it attracted major accounts like ONGC, Reliance Petrochemicals and British Gas as well as increased the scope of engagements with Texas Instruments, Times of India, Genpact, Aviva and JP Morgan Chase. NetApp was a popular choice among SMBs too.

l Country Manager: George Thomas  l Start-up Year: 2000  l Products & Services: Storage Hardware, software & services l Employees: 300  l Branches: 3  l Address: Golf Links Software Park, Varthur Hobli, Mahadevapura, Off Intermediate Ring Road, Bangalore 560 071  l Tel: 41843000  l Fax: 41845102  l Website: www.netapp.com

Intex Technologies

Delhi-based Intex Technologies is a domestic player in consumer hardware and consumer electronics. The company has 42 service centers. Its revenue grew 56% in the last fiscal with the North and West contributing nearly 62% to the turnover. Peripherals accounted for almost 84% of the revenue. Intex's net profit grew 54.5% from 2004-05. Started addressing the Eastern, especially upcountry, market with the launch of its PCs and notebooks.

l President: Sunil Sharma  l Start-up Year: 1996  l Products & Services: Computer hardware and consumer electronics l Employees: 436  l Branches: 27  l Address: D 18/2, Okhla Industrial Area, Phase 11, New Delhi 110020  l Tel: 51610224-06 l Fax: 51610190  l Website: www.intextechnologies.com

Subex Systems

Acquisition-hungry Subex was able to hold on to its margins reasonably well, as the company grew more than 50% on the profit side. 65% of its revenues came from products, up from 54% in 2004-05. The product business grew by 86% on the top-line. The $140 mn acquisition of UK's Azure, a revenue assurance company, will take care of Subex's marketing challenges abroad while also helping telecom operators establish Revenue Operations Centers.

l President and CEO: Subhash Menon  l Start-up Year: 1992  l Products & Services: Telecom software products, fraud management systems  l Employees: 325  l Address: 372, Koramangala III Block, Sarjapur Road, Bangalore  l Tel: 57598700 l Fax: 25634100  l Website: www.subexsystems.com

Supertron Electronics

Supertron's own products and services earned revenues of Rs 14 crore for the company last fiscal, while over Rs 165 crore came from agency operations. The East is the largest market for the Kolkata-based company accounting for nearly 32% of its total topline. Peripherals garnered the largest share of the revenue at Rs 142 crore in the last fiscal. SOHO remained Supertron's biggest target segment.

l MD: VK Bhandari  l Start-up Year: 1993  l Products & Services: PCs, peripherals and components  l Employees: 190 l Branches: 17  l Address: Supertron House, 2 Cooper Lane, Kolkata 700019  l Tel: 2213 1221  l Fax: 2213 0366 l Website: www.supertronindia.com

Mediaman Infotech

Mediaman's reputation as a distributor for niche products got further enhanced in 2005-06. Flash memory growth in India was phenomenal during the year, and the company made the most of it with Transcend accounting for more than half its revenues. This was followed by Bravish laptop accessories, owned by Mediaman, that had more than 800 products under its brand name. And Western Digital left Priya to tie up with Mediaman to address the external hard drive retail segment.

l MD & CEO: Dushyant Mehta  l Start-up Year: 1987  l Products & Services: Distribution  l Employees: 133  l Address: 2nd Flr, Vidhyarthi Bhavan, Tribhuvan Rd, Near Dreamland Cinema, Mumbai 400004  l Tel: 23823100/3200/8100/8200  l Fax: 23877418 l Website: www.mediamangroup.com

Frontier Business Systems

Consistent growth across the quarters helped Frontier's topline growth. Business mainly came in from its traditional forte, systems, which stood at Rs 101 crore, followed by networking at Rs 40 crore. Growth was also broad-based across the verticals, the main source being IT and telecom verticals, manufacturing, utilities and BFSI. The company plays entirely in the domestic arena. It has a customer base of 1,000 companies.

l Director: Ravi Verdes  l Start-up Year: 1994  l Products & Services: Hardware, networking, power conditioning, software, services  l Employees: 415  l Branches: 9  l Address: 18/10, Cunningham Road, Bangalore  l Tel: 22250054  l Fax: 22260729 l Website: www.frontierdomain.com

Cadence Design Systems

Cadence Design's India R&D center is the company's largest research hub outside the US. Nearly 87% of its revenues last year came from exports in customized software development across Cadence's four platforms-design verification, digital IC, custom IC and silicon package board design and software maintenance. Cadence's Noida facility has a headcount of around 555 people.

l Corporate VP & MD: Jaswinder Ahuja  l Start-up Year: 1987  l Products & Services: EDA  l Employees: 610  l Branches: 2 l Address: 57 A&B Noida SEZ, Noida 201305  l Tel: 2562842  l Fax: 2562453  l Website: www.cadence.com

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