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116 | Novell
India
The big news for Novell India in FY 08 was the announcement of investment
worth $100 mn over the next three years, for scaling up India operations
including R&D. The company inaugurated its new India Development Center (IDC) in
Bangalore, the largest engineering facility outside of the US. The year also saw
the revolving door effect in Novell Indias organizational structure: Revathi
Kasturi who had taken over after the demerger with Onward made way for Sandeep
Menon as the new MD.
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n
Linux business grew 70% over last year
n Relying
on SMB, banking, and government in FY 09 |
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l CEO:
Sandeep Menon l Start-up Year: 1992 l Products &
Services: SI, storage, networking l Address:
Bagmane Technical Park, D Block, Bagmane Lauree 65/1 CV Raman,
Bysandra Post, Bangalore-560093 l Tel: +91-80-40022300
l Website:
www.novell.com |
117 | McAfee
India
With a new CEO and a virtually new management team, the company exuded
aggressiveness, which got transmitted to India as well. This is expected to
start showing results in FY 09, with the company expecting to clock between
70-77% growth in India next year, a deviation from the 50% and near about growth
that it maintained last year and this year. Building the momentum for next
years growth, the company formalized alliances with two national SIs and three
more in the pipeline.
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n Entered
into a partnership with CERT-IN as its anti-malware advisory
partner
n Forayed
into the consumer business through 2 local OEM tie-ups and 2
global OEMs with presence in India |
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l Regional
Director, India: Kartik Shahani l Start-up Year:
1997 l Products & Services: Security software products,
services, R&D l Employees: 1,200 l Address:
Emgeen Chambers, 4th Floor, 10 Vidyanagri Marg, Kalina,
Santacruz East, Mumbai-400098 l Tel: +91-22-66935278 l
Fax: +91-22-26650078 l Website:
www.mcafee.com |
118 | Bartronics
India
Bartronics India, specializing in areas like RFID and biometrics, incorporated a
wholly owned subsidiary Bartronics America during the year. This bagged a
project on its patented RFID cashless transaction wristband from Comic-con
International. It also signed an agreement with LG Electronics to enable it to
deploy LGs IRIS recognition product. This ensured that Bartronics had the
entire range of T&A and access control products and solutions starting from Bar
Code-based solutions to MiFare, fingerprint, and now Iris recognition.
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n
Lowest bidder in the Bhamashah Financial Empowerment Scheme,
Government of Rajasthan
n Selected
for supply of Smart Cards to the RSBY scheme in Bihar |
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l CEO and MD:
Sudhir Rao l Start-up Year: 1990 l Products &
Services: Automatic identification & data collection (AIDC),
RFID, smart card, retail/POS l Branches: 10 l
Address: #5-9-22/B/404, 4th Floor, My Home Sarovar, Near
Mediciti Hospital, Secretariat Road, Hyderabad-500004 l
Tel: +91-40-23298073-74 l Fax: +91-40-23298076 l
Website:
www.bartronicsindia.com |
119 | KLG Systel
KLG Systel acquired a 51% majority stake in Atlantis Lab, an engineering
solutions company. This helped the company tap into the engineering services
outsourcing opportunities from countries like North America and Europe while
strengthening its base in the domestic market. It also helped the company widen
its reach in Chennai, Pune, and Bangalore, the design hubs of the country. On
the product front, KLG entered into a collaboration with SAP to develop a
solution for the power sector called Vidushi.
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n Entered
into a distributorship agreement with SAP India for the SMB
segment
n Bagged
project worth over Rs 75 crore from a leading power distribution
utility |
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l CEO:
Mukesh Arora l Start-up Year: 1985 l Products &
Services: Business Life Cycle Solutions and power system
Solutions l Employees: 452 l Address: Plot No
70A, EHTP, NH 8, Gurgaon-122004 l Tel: + 91-124-4129900
l Fax: +91-124-4129999 l Website:
www.klgsystel.com |
120 | EduComp
Solutions
A provider of IT-driven learning solutions for schools, Educomp acquired a
51% stake in the US-based Learning.com for $24.5 mn. It also formed two JVs with
Singapore-based Raffles Education to exploit the growth opportunities in the
Indian and Chinese markets. It bagged contracts from 395 schools in Rajasthan
and Jharkhand under its Instructional and Computing Technologies (ICT) program,
in partnership with central and state governments, to bridge the divide of
computer learning between the private and government schools.
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n Launched
MagiKeys for government school students to communicate on the
Web and write documents in their mother tongues
n Plans
to raise Rs 2,130 crore through the issue of securities, to fund
expansion operations |
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l CEO:
Shantanu Prakash l Start-up Year: 1994 l Employees:
3,775 l Address: 514 Udyog Vihar, Phase I,
Gurgaon-122001l Fax: +91-124-4529039 l Website:
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