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Azure Knowledge Corporation Category: EMERGE Growth Website: www.azurecrm.com

Company Profile: Azure has grown into a 1500-seat contact centre set up from a 150-seat facility in the last four years. A leader in Customer Care, Financial Services, Market Research and IT Services, the company has expertise in over 15 international languages including French, Spanish, German, Russian among others, and eight Indian regional languages. Azure acquired a 49 percent stake in Citizens Financial Mortgage, USA— becoming the first BPO to buy a front-end company in the US. Over the last two years alone, the company has acquired 22 customers. Key achievements: •

Since Azure operates across four distinct yet synergistic service areas, there is a clear business plan to achieve between 70-110 percent CAGR on each of the service areas using specific strategies.

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The company is expanding its delivery capabilities across eight cities in India to ensure that current and new domestic clients can be served pan-India using multiple locations in each zone.

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It is additionally expanding its delivery foot print across two international locations (Eastern Europe, and Asia-Pacific).

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The company was ranked among the 50 Best Workplaces of India for 2008 by Great Places to Work Institute, and stood among large reputed companies like Agilent, Wipro, Infosys, Google among others. It bagged the Best BPO company of Gujarat award for 2007 and 2008 (twice in a row) by GESIA; won the Best Customer Responsiveness Award instituted by Avaya Global Connect and was ranked among the Top 50 ITE companies of India by Dun & Bradstreet.

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CresTech Software Systems Private Limited Category: EMERGE Growth Website: www.crestech.in Company Profile: CresTech Software Systems is a leading Software Testing Services Organisation that provides corporates with solutions for their software testing needs, including testing tools that help them improve their Testing Process and Quality. The company’s services span various verticals such as Banking and Finance, Insurance, Media and Entertainment, Telecom, ERP and Travel and Tourism. CresTech’s range of software testing services include QA consulting, Testing services, Functional, Performance, Security, Testing of SOA-based Applications, Corporate training and software reselling. Key achievements: •

CresTech has expanded its footprint to the US and Australia, bagging repeat business from customers in these countries.

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The company, which has a vision of emerging as a knowledge centre in software testingm has stepped up its R&D & T&D Investments. CresTech’s in house team is in the process of completing the following tools: CresTech ISVTM (Integrated Service Validator); CresTech OPKEYTM (Open source KEY word driven framework); CresTech OPMONTM (Open source Monitoring solutions).

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The company has seamlessly scaled from a 25 member to a 100 member team.

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It was awarded the IBM Business partner of the year for 2007-2008.

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The company has built effective processes and infrastructure for a delivery engine. CresTech is emphasising on consistency and reliability in Service Delivery, having achieved process standardisation through key quality assessments.

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EmPower Research Private Limited Category: EMERGE Growth Website: www.empowerresearch.com Company Profile: EmPower Research is focused on providing Customised Business Intelligence, Media Services and Data Analytics. The company was founded in 2004 by MIT Sloan MBAs, former Booz Allen Hamilton consultants, and senior marketing managers at Gillette, Whirlpool and Applied Materials. Key achievements: •

The company, which began operations with a handful of analysts, has grown into a 200-trained analyst and project manager strong community within a short span of time.

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EmPower Research is providing dedicated resources for all market research needs. Some of its main areas of expertise include Retail, Consumer Packaged Products, Food and Beverage, Pharmaceuticals and Healthcare, Advertising, and Financial services.

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The company was ranked in three IAOP sub lists in 2009: Best 10 Rising Stars in Revenue Growth; Best 10 Rising Stars in Employee Growth; and Best 20 Rising Stars by Region Served: UK.

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Sangita Joshi, Co-Founder and Managing Partner of EmPower Research was presented with the Star Entrepreneur Award at the Second Indira International Summit in Mumbai on January 23, 2009

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Future Focus Infotech Private Limited Category: EMERGE Growth Website: www.focusinfotech.com Company Profile: Founded in 1997, Future Focus Infotech (FFI) began as a Business Associate of Tata Consultancy Services (TCS). Focus assisted TCS in the execution of Y2K projects, through its technical consultants. By the end of 1997, with the Internet throwing up immense possibilities, the company began focusing on Internet Technologies, netting new clients like Planet Asia, Chennaionline.com and India Cements. In 1999-2001, Future Focus continued its advent into the IT domain through Software Development services, initially in the web applications arena and later, in Client Server and related technologies. This was the period, when the company’s wholly-owned subsidiary, Focus America Inc, based out of Georgia, Atlanta was formed. Foreseeing the potential in IT Technical Consulting Services, Future Focus we went through an internal reorientation and restructuring to focus singularly on IT Technical Consulting Services and Career Management. Today, FFI is primarily into the business of IT-HR Consulting Services and Managed Solutions. Its offerings include IT HR augmentation services (branded as TechSource), Placement services in IT (TechSearch), Managed services in IT HR solutions (TechServ) and Software solutions and services (TechSoft).

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FFI has developed and implemented an ERP, the first of its kind for the Recruitments and Consulting (resource) vertical. Future Focus has built up a battery of over 550 consultants, deploying them in more than 80 projects in India and overseas. The company is a strategic and niche partner to major IT conglomerates like TCS, Infosys and IBM, among others. FFI also serves many regional clients Capgemini, Ford Technology Services, Scope, and Ramco in India. Through its wholly-owned subsidiary, Focus America, Inc., FFI serves US-based clients like Keenan Inc. and Infosys, USA. Future Focus is providing technical services in software development and BPO to international clients through its software development centre (SDC) at Chennai. The SDC encompasses an exclusive team of well qualified and experienced IT professionals, providing offshore software development and onsite technical consulting services. Growing at a steady rate of over 30 percent YoY since 1997, and based on its Quality Certified Business Processes (QCBP), FFI has achieved a strong foothold within the IT domain. The company logged in a turnover of Rs. 49.88 crore during 2008-09. FFI has been ranked by Dun & Bradstreet, USA, the leading provider of business-to -business credit, marketing, purchasing, and decision-support services worldwide, as one of “India’s Top IT Companies” for 2007 and 2008. It has also been listed a winner in the Deloitte Technology Fast 500 Asia Pacific 2008 programme. Zinnov Research and Consulting, USA, a leading research and consulting organisation to Fortune 1000 companies, has awarded FFI the “Zinnov Excellence Award” for “Excellence in Strategic IT Talent Consulting” and the award for “Process Excellence in IT Talent Consulting.”

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GeBBS Healthcare Solutions Private Limited Category: EMERGE Growth Website: www.gebbs.com Company Profile: GeBBS is a leading Healthcare outsourcing solutions company based in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey with multiple Global Delivery Centres (GDC) located in India. The company’s in-depth understanding of the Healthcare industry enables it to provide innovative end-to-end Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) solutions to its clients. GeBBS’ service and delivery is based on its highly skilled professionals, robust processes and infrastructure, in-house domain expertise and a commitment to clients. Key achievements: •

The company’s qualified resources, robust processes, global delivery model, and domain strengths in the healthcare care segment, has given it a distinctive edge in the markets where it plays.

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In terms infrastructure, GeBBS offers a best shore model of onshore and offshore delivery capabilities, working through multiple state-of-the art Global Delivery centers based out of the US and India.

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The company has been investing not only in infrastructure, but talent development, and building domain expertise in the healthcare sector.

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GeBBS offers customer end-to-end services—the complete range of Revenue cycle management services to both physicians as well as hospitals.

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GeBBS was ranked among the top 100 healthcare outsourcing providers in the USA by Healthcare Informatics, a very prestigious industry magazine published in the country. In its 16th edition, the Healthcare Informatics 100 list ranks the top 100 healthcare outsourcing providers by revenue . GeBBS is placed at the Number 84th spot and has been named to the list since 2007.

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Hanu Software Solutions India Private Limited Category: EMERGE Growth Website: www.hanusoftware.com Company Profile: Hanu Software is a leading full-service software development and system integration firm providing business strategy, programme management, systems engineering, software development and quality assurance services. Hanu specialises in developing customised solutions, enterprise mobility applications and custom software tailored to the unique needs of customers. The company works in strategic alliances with partners looking to outsource their critical software services requirements. Hanu Software brings in a unique project delivery process based on its best practices and experience of business methods. Key achievements: •

Huna is focusing on business development and delivery. The company’s vision is to become a USD 1 billion company by 2020.

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Over the past few years, Huna has bagged several reputed accounts from the North American market (its market of focus).

It has also expanded into numerous industry verticals, addressing the needs of customers in these segments.

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LeewayHertz Technologies Private Limited Category: EMERGE Growth Website: www.leewayhertz.com Company Profile: LeewayHertz, which became operational in 2004, provides design and development resources for Web 2.0 applications and iPhone applications development. The company also offers customers consultancy and resources to build their SaaS applications on Cloud computing using the Amazon Web Service, Google AppCode or Microsoft Azure platforms. Key achievements: •

LeewayHertz was one of the foremost companies to introduce iPhone applications development in India. It is also working on other mobile application development platforms such as the Google Android and Blackberry. The company plans to address the growing market of cloud computing using resources to develop SaaS applications.

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The company was among the first few in India to register in Apple’s Developers Programme for iPhone applications development.

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It has worked with more then 50 companies based in the USA on Web applications.

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Mynd Solutions Private Limited Category: EMERGE Growth Website: www.myndsol.com Company Profile: Mynd Solutions is a leading professional services firm that is dedicated to finance and accounting and Human Resource process outsourcing. It collaborates with clients to deliver customised business process outsourcing solutions that range in complexity from individual transaction-based functions, such as accounts payable and accounts receivable, to full-service finance and accounting, including general ledger accounting, financial reporting and risk management. Drawing on its unique history and people, Mynd Solutions has developed specific qualities that work to deliver maximum value when outsourcing finance, accounting and tax. The company provides a better way to manage important, non-core business processes owing to its experience and expertise in finance and accounting, an onsite-near shore-offshore delivery model, expertise in Payroll and Pension administration, Data Management/Validation, fixed asset management, and Manpower Outsourcing. Key achievements: • •

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Since its incorporation, Mynd Solutions has witnessed remarkable growth in revenues and new client acquisition. Today the company is 900 people strong, with a Pan -India presence and offices in Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Jaipur and Chandigarh. It also has a centrally located, state-of-the-art back-end processing facility at Gurgaon measuring around 12000 square feet. The company’s turnover today exceeds INR 220 million and its client base covers leading global companies in the telecom, automotive, retail, information technology and manufacturing sectors. In a number of its engagements, especially with telecom customers, Mynd Solutions has scaled up the value chain, moving higher, from transaction processing to analytical activities over a period of time and leveraging its manpower trained on processes. In line with its goal of being a trusted partner to customers, Mynd Solutions works closely with them, proactively developing solutions and shaping its services to reflect the changing dynamics of today's workplace. The company leverages the experience of its team and its innovative delivery tools, to develop solutions aligned to the unique needs of clients. Mynd Solutions begins the process of defining a custom solution by keeping the end result in mind. It reviews a company's current back office processes and works with its management team to identify inefficiencies, simplify and then optimise the processes. In addition, Mynd Solution's team of qualified finance professionals and functional experts help validate the defined solutions and ensure that they are in accordance with accounting and human resources regulations and standards. The company has become a data entry partner for the government of Karnataka, participating as a consortium member and winning a 15-year contract for the same. As part of this role, Mynd Solutions is converting the records of the transport offices (of the government of Karnataka) into smart card technology.

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Proteans Software Solutions Private Limited Category: EMERGE Growth Website: www.proteans.com Company Profile: Headquartered in Bangalore, Proteans Software Solutions offers specialised services in the Outsourced Product Development (OPD) space. Established in 2003, Proteans has over 300 employees and a large base of clients that include leading software companies worldwide. The company has five global delivery centres in Bangalore from where it has built over 200 software products for its clients. It has offices in the USA, UK, Norway, and Sweden. Proteans provides software research, engineering, and support services to Software Product companies across the globe. Being, purely focused on software product development, Proteans brings tremendous value to software vendors by reducing product release cycles, controlling costs, and enabling market leadership through quality and innovation. Proteans brings success to its customers through its sustained and focused environment that fosters software product research, development, and support. The company has been focusing on process improvement through distributed agile delivery methods, metrics, and governance mechanisms. Key achievements: • •

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Proteans has developed strong capabilities in the areas of Software Architecture/Design, Software Development, Software Testing and Test Automation, User Interaction Design and Usability, Performance Engineering and software product sustenance. The company has built expertise in verticals such as Banking and Finance, Higher Education, Government and Public Services, Professional Services, e-commerce and Consumer Internet. The company has helped customers within these segments through its replatforming engagements, that have driven revenues for customer organisations. Proteans has state-of-the-art delivery centres that are fully geared up to ensure business continuity. It has an ISO 9001:2000 certified process framework that enables it to deliver repeatable business results to customers.

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The company has evolved a Distributed Agile Development Model ensuring complete alignment with customer requirements. It is using Web-based tools for engagement, programme and project management with complete transparency and visibility into the project status.

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Proteans has worked with over 75 global software companies such as Microsoft Corp., Meridium (www.meridium.com), Software Innovation and CambridgeSoft. It has developed a strong presence in the Nordic region, considered by companies to be a tough market to crack.

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Shell Transource Limted

Category: EMERGE Growth Website: www.shelltransource.com Company Profile: Shell Transource Limited has been successful in establishing itself in the BPO world, with a proven track record of rendering Unique Back Office solutions to various industries. Shell began providing these services as far back as 1990, carving a pioneering path for itself in the sector. Key achievements: •

Spread across 312 locations in India through Shell Business Associates, the company has witnessed rapid growth over the last two decades.

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Shell has emerged as a 4000 + people strong organisation with strong, loyal customer base.

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By defining and designing quality processes, backed by strong quality operations, Shell has managed to diversify into different industry segments.

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The company has the largest market share in the domestic segment of BPO for Taxation, Aviation, and Banking and Finance processes.

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Shell has expanded the scope of its offerings from non-voice to voice processes by setting up 800 additional seats across 4 leading metros.

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Wirkle Technologies Private Limited Category: EMERGE Growth Website: www.wirkle.com Company Profile: Wirkle is a leading product engineering firm focused on developing software products for mobile devices including telecom grade client/server platforms, SMS applications and Mobile Internet (WAP). The company has designed and developed products across all mobile platforms and for handsets of Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Samsung, LG, Motorola, Blackberry, Pocket PC and the iPhone. Wirkle’s expertise in the mobile space spans Consumer Mobility (Social Networking, Instant Messaging, Location Based Services, Gaming, Barcode Recognition, Payments, Backup), Enterprise Mobility (Field Force/Sales Force Automation, Security Surveillance), Multimedia Streaming (Live streaming, Audio/Video on demand) and beyond. Millions of mobile users across the globe today are using products developed by Wirkle through various carriers in multiple geographies including North America–AT&T, Sprint/Nextel, Boost Mobile; Europe–Telenor; Asia–Idea, among others. Key achievements: •

Wirkle has established direct relationships with a few Fortune 500 companies owing to its niche focus. It has also entered into partnerships with leading IT consulting firms as well as Operators/ OEMs and is working with them for long-term contracts.

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Wirkle’s platform was selected as a finalist at the Global Peer Awards hosted by Mobile Monday at the Mobile World Congress Barcelona, 2007 and ranked amongst the top mobile innovations across the globe.

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The company was awarded a US Patent for its highly flexible frameworks that enable rapid development of usable products for the mobile platform. Wirkle’s frameworks were leveraged to create a social content portal for the Mobile World Congress 2008, the largest Mobile Conference in the world. The company was a Finalist at Proto.in 2007, India’s leading forum for showcasing the best of breed start ups. Wirkle is a mobile partner of choice for some of the leading Fortune 500 firms and VC startups worldwide.

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Comat Technologies Private Limited Category: EMERGE Growth Website: http://www.comat.com Company Profile: Comat focuses on providing easy access to essential information and transformational services to Rural India. The services include: • Access and delivery of Citizen Records and Entitlement Benefits on behalf of the Government • Skills training for employment and self-employment that create local jobs • Supplemental education services to improve student grades and pass percentage • Access to formal Financial and Insurance services Key achievements: •

Comat’s services for the rural sector have helped transform the lives of rural citizens, resulting in higher economic standards and better quality of life.

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The company is delivering at the rural level through its ICT-enabled, common last mile converged platforms called Rural Business Centres (RBC), which are manned by its employees. The power of the RBCs lies in their ability to deliver Comat’s diverse sets of services using a common infrastructure that harnesses the power of technology and a local human interface.

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In Karnataka alone, the Company operates 800 centres, serving more than 50,000 rural citizens daily.

In December 2008, Comat won the first-ever Legatum Fortune Technology Prize, an award that recognises the work of “for-profit” enterprises, whose application of technology solutions foster social and economic growth, and dramatically improve the lives of poor people.

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Drishti Soft Solutions Private Limited Category: EMERGE Markets Website: www.drishti-soft.com Company Profile: Drishti is an innovator in the Communications domain. Drishti’s solutions manage customer interactions across media such as voice, chat, Web, SMS, and e-mail to enable enhancement of business process efficiencies and increase of automation via technology. The company’s customers are distributed over a wide range of industry verticals such as Telecommunications, Finance, Collections, Insurance, Market Research and BPO. Key achievements: •

Drishti has been consistently showing year-on-year growth. The company has built up a strong presence in the Philippines through a subsidiary, in addition to the US, Middle East, Malaysia, Indonesia, and Bangladesh.

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Drishti offers award-winning professional services with high responsiveness and transparency. The company’s multi-package support provides clients with the flexibility to pick-and-choose according to their specific requirements.

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The company’s innovative technology platform, Ameyo, addresses the flexibility and extensibility requirements for the next-generation enterprise. The SOA-based technology platform facilitates rapid implementation along with deployment flexibility.

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Drishti’s software-centric IP -based solutions can be seamlessly integrated with third-party devices and applications. Drishti’s solutions are innovatively packaged to suite varied business requirements of organisations of all sizes and nature of business.

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The company has been honoured with a range of awards for its ground breaking communications technologies, including the following: NASSCOM’s Innovation Award 2008; IP Contact Centre Technology Pioneer Award 2008; Member’s Choice Award 2008 (Best ACD/Switch, Best in Class Overall Category Winner, Best Outbound Solution and Highly Recommended Best After Sales Support); BPONews’ Best Contact Centre Solution 2007. The company has been a Deloitte Fast 500 company and a Red Herring finalist.

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Eperium Business Solutions India Private Limited Category: EMERGE Markets Website: www.eperiumindia.com Company Profile: Eperium India was incorporated in 2003 and is co-headquartered in India and The Netherlands. It is an ISO 9001 certified company with 150 employees. Since its inception, the company has been helping its customers use technologies to move the supply chain over the Internet. Eperium is a specialist in two areas, namely e-procurement and multi-channel retail management. As part of its e-procurement services, the company is enabling companies in the energy, hospitality and other verticals to undertake global e-procurement rollouts. Eperium’s expertise in this space touches contract management, procure-to-pay, strategic sourcing and procurement of temporary workforce support. In the area of multi-channel retail management, Eperium is supporting customers with enterprise rollouts of Web-based, multi-channel, multi-locale and multi-currency sell side solutions. Key achievements: • Eperium has well-defined delivery processes, proven off-shoring models with state-of-the-art infrastructure to support its endeavours in delivering higher value at lower costs to customers. The Eperium India team is focused on an agile approach, optimal utilisation of software tools and the quality of its delivery processes to ensure that its clients get their solution on time and in accordance with their requirements. •

The company has an in-house excellence centre which is constituted by business, technical and design professionals that continually evolve and enhance the quality of its solution and services and aspire to develop highly functional and flexible offerings that allow clients to maximise their online potential.

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Eperium has many years of experience and is a well-respected and trusted supplier of e-procurement and multi-channel retail management solutions and services to many leading names in the industry. The company has built strategic, long-term client relationships and is a well-recognised brand in Western Europe and the UK. Eperium is currently focused on Western Europe with special emphasis on The Netherlands, Germany, Belgium and France.

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Estel Technologies Private Limited Category: EMERGE Markets Website: www.esteltelecom.com Company Profile: Estel Technologies provides customised software solutions and associated services to mobile operators, banks and service providers in Asia, Middle East and Africa. Estel specialises in the area of Mobile Commerce and Payments and has built innovative products for the following: Mobile remittances (money transfer using the mobile); Micro banking (branchless banking for the un-banked); Mobile e-top up (any time, any where, any value, any service recharge); and Mobile banking (access bank account and transact using the mobile). The products are aimed at emerging markets, which are usually cash-based economies with fragmented distribution and fairly good mobile penetration, but poor banking penetration. Key achievements: •

Estel began foraying Africa in 2007 and now has five customers being served across four countries in the region.

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In 2008-09, Africa accounted for 35 percent of the company’s total revenues and this figure is expected to go up to r 47 percent during 2009-10. Estel has been aggressively focusing on Africa for its products, with two dedicated sales teams addressing clients in the East and South of the continent. The company participates in trade events, exhibitions and conferences to create a market pull for its products and evangelise these concepts.

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Evolutionary Systems Private Limited Category: EMERGE Growth Website: www.evosys.co.in Company Profile: Evosys is a Certified Oracle Focused Implementation Partner that has differentiated itself in the market with its personalised customer approach and commitment to quality and timely delivery. The company provides end -to-end Oracle-E-Business Suite implementation services in predominantly two countries— the KSA and UAE. Key achievements: •

Evosys has built specialisations in the Healthcare, government and Education domains.

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The company decided to enter the Middle East Market and began with a foray into Saudi Arabia and the UAE in 2006. Today, nearly 100 percent of the company’s revenues have been generated from this market.

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Evosys has rolled out its solutions in major hospitals across the Middle East such as the King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Center (KSA), the National Guard Health Affairs (a public sector company, KSA), the Abu Dhabi Health Services Company, Ministry of Health (UAE), the SAAD Group (KSA), among others.

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The company has shown a massive growth in turnover of the order of 443 percent since 2007-08.

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Grail Research India Private Limited Category: EMERGE Markets Website: www.grailresearch.com Company Profile: Grail Research specialises in strategic research including market, industry, and benchmarking analysis of leading companies and investors, across the globe. Founded in April 2006, Grail has conducted research in over 100 countries, and 30 languages. Grail Research blends the best of strategy consulting (highly custom, insightful, rigorous, trustworthy) with the best of market research (data-rich, repeatable, analytical, cost effective) to provide organisations with accurate, succinct answers to their most important business questions. Key achievements: •

Grail Research’s capabilities are particularly strong in fast developing regions such as Africa, China, India, the Middle East, and Russia. Its team has expertise in a wide variety of industries including Consumer Brands, Life Sciences, Technology and Telecom.

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The company has been targeting the Middle East region in particular, actively working with government entities in the region and supporting them in industry and cluster analysis, competitive intelligence, regular news briefs, best practice benchmarking, and knowledge management. This strategy has enabled Grail to grow rapidly in the Middle East market—it has completed more than 80 projects with the government and large private sector firms in 2008. Grail has also been targeting the South African market and been working with several organisations in the country, supporting them in executing customised surveys; data cleaning and analysis; and making recommendations, after following a thorough cross-validation process.

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Grail Research has gradually matured in the Middle East and South African markets, with approximately 30 percent of its total revenues being derived from the Middle East, and around 20 percent being generated from South Africa.

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Grail Research has offices in India (Delhi), China (Beijing), and South Africa (Johannesburg), with over 180 professionals working at these locations.

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Grail, with its unique approach to delivering strategic research, has been a Harvard Business School case study.

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Compulink Systems Limited

Category: EMERGE Growth Website: www.compulinkgroup.com Company Profile: Compulink has developed the “Whizible” suite of products to address the needs of professional services companies within the IT services, Engineering Design Services, Pharma and Clinical Research services domains. Key achievements: •

The Whizible solutions from Compulink allow customers to “orchestrate performance” in their enterprises through better decision making, alignment to corporate goals and execution that meets the quality and schedule objectives.

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Compulink has developed the Whizible™ Strategy, a platform for formulating, communicating and facilitating allocation of responsibility and the tracking of an organisation’s strategy goals (based on a performance Scorecard).

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Whizible™ Initiatives capture innovation ideas and initiatives throughout the enterprise and provide a structured workflow to evaluate these and follow through on their deployment.

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The company has also launched Whizible™ Execution, a programme and project management tool that provides an integrated approach to monitor, control and report the execution of initiatives and strategies as well as Whizible™ HCM, a comprehensive mid-market human capital management solution.

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Over 200 customers including Accenture, Wipro, the Tata Group, John Deere, Honeywell, etc. have deployed Whizible, which is licensed as an “On Premise” as well as “hosted” solution.

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Druvaa Software

Category: EMERGE Services Website: www.druvaa.com Company Profile: Druvaa has introduced a step change in data protection and backup technology. With its key technological advancement products, Druvaa is able to deliver up to 90 percent better bandwidth and storage utilisation for data backups compared to traditional solutions. This ensures faster and smoother backup for remote laptops, mobile users and distant servers. Druvaa Software is a privately held company backed by a top tier Angel Network Series. The funding was led by Accord International (HK) and the Indian Angel Network. Key achievements: •

Druvaa has launched inSync, is a fully automated laptop backup software which protects corporate data for office and remote users. It features simple backup, point-in -time restores, and patentpending data deduplication technology to make backups faster.

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Over 80 percent of corporate data is duplicated across users. Druvaa inSync uses data deduplication to save "only a single copy" of content (e-mails/docs) duplicated across users. This delivers 10x faster backup with a 90 percent reduction in bandwidth and storage. Additionally, Druvaa provides a simple, efficient and fully automated backup facility to Enterprise Laptop/mobile users

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Fifth Generation Technologies India Private Limited Category: EMERGE Products Website: www.fifthgentech.com Company Profile: Fifth Generation Technologies India, known in the market by its brand name 5G, is a boutique, IP focused, software product company, headquartered in Chennai, India. 5G has rapidly grown in the last two years (2007 -2009) with a CAGR on revenue in excess of 60 percent, a customer base across 13 countries for its products and expansion of its offices to North America (5G Automatika Ltd.). Key achievements: •

5G's focus over the last three years has been on creating value for the manufacturing domain, especially in the “Plant to Enterprise (P2E)” space. The aim has been to improve efficiency, quality, and productivity of manufacturing enterprises, by means of real-time monitoring of both production and enterprise operations and agile, real time business process integration between manufacturing applications and enterprise systems (such as SAP, IBM Maximo, etc.). All this is orchestrated by means of a user defined business rules engine.

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The company additionally specialises in product development lifecycle services for third party companies and has been providing such services in the areas of sports, law and media and advertising.

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5G has been helping manufacturing and utility companies worldwide to reduce maintenance costs, streamline production performance management, improve quality, manage mission critical operations that need an agile interaction of enterprise systems with production, etc.

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5G is marketing its offerings through its subsidiary, 5G Automatika, and has entered into an agreement with a Fortune 500 company to act as its OEM licensee for this product. Another Fortune 500 company has become a marketing partner for this product in 2008. 5G’s product has been successfully implemented in several leading global companies.

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5G has also been involved in the IP development embodied in two other products, one an embedded system product that acts as an “Actionable Intelligence Device” (the “last mile” for enterprise systems to interact with production operations), and the second, a “Plug and Play reporting Engine,” which are slated to be released to the market later this year.

The company is undertaking business intelligence and predictive analysis for large corporations and government agencies for enabling strategic and tactical analysis.

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iViZ Techno Solutions Private Limited Category: EMERGE Products Website: www.ivizsecurity.com Company Profile: iViZ is a leading Information Security company which offers the industry's first on-demand (SaaSbased), comprehensive, cost-effective automated Penetration Testing (Ethical Hacking) solution. iViZ has developed a unique artificial intelligence based “human hacker simulation” technology that finds all possible attack paths by which intruders can compromise a network or application. It can detect attack paths which could otherwise be missed out. It also intelligently suggests suitable remedies. This disruptive technology transforms the way security is tested and brings in “the hacker's eye view”—providing higher efficiency and ensuring better protection for organisations, governments and users from rising Internet threats. Key achievements: •

Using its hacker simulation technology, iViZ provides on-demand penetration testing for proactive security and risk management, and compliance for standards such as SOX, PCI, HIPAA or ISO 27001.

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The SaaS model provides an anytime/anywhere security testing capability to customers and eliminates the pain associated with conventional manual security testing which is time-intensive, expensive and misses out finding all attack paths.

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iViZ specialises in security testing research and has a team of highly skilled security research experts who have been credited with vulnerability discoveries in the products of Microsoft, McAfee, AVG, HP, Intel, IBM and others. iViZ also works with the affected vendors and helps in developing remediation. The research findings are published as advisories to the world after co-ordination with the vendors first.

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iViZ has Certified Professionals to deliver its quality audit service –CISSP, GIAC,CISA,CEH, BS7799 (Currently ISO27001), namely lead auditors. The company’s board of advisors includes eminent professors, prominent security audit researchers and industry professionals.

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As recognition of its efforts to deliver quality security services, iViZ h as been conferred with many awards, including the Top 100 companies in Asia by Red Herring; the Top 4 Emerging Product

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OrangeScape Technologies Limited Category: EMERGE Products Website: www.OrangeScape.com Company Profile: OrangeScape Technologies Limited is headquartered in Chennai, India. Founded in 2003, OrangeScape provides Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offerings for ISVs and Solution providers to build domain rich applications, the easiest and fastest way. End customers like the Citi Group, Unilever, AstraZeneca, Pfizer, Fullerton and 40 other large enterprises use OrangeScape’s platform. Partners such as Wipro Infotech, Team Computers and TRIAD take OrangeScape’s platform to the market. Key achievements: •

OrangeScape is enabling ISVs—looking to modernise their existing solution or build new domain rich business offerings—to develop and deploy the same solution as SaaS and on-premise software. The application deployed as SaaS runs on OrangeScape Cloud, which leverages the cloud infrastructure of Google App Engine or Microsoft Azure (planned release), to provide massive scalability and storage capacity.

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Unlike most alternatives (like salesforce.com), that are proprietary to one platform, OrangeScape’s technology has the plumbing that is required to enable the ISVs to run on different cloud platforms, or on-premise, without making changes to their solution. The application deployed onpremise runs on OrangeScape Enterprise. This runs on standard application servers on Java or Microsoft environments, with the configurable option to use popular relational databases such as Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, DB2. This helps ISVs to build a single solution and deploy it onpremise for customers who are not yet ready for SaaS.

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OrangeScape has won NASSCOM’s “Top IT Innovations” award for two consecutive years, in 2006 and 2007. In 2008, NASSCOM showcased OrangeScape as one of its three emerging product companies in India. OrangeScape was featured by Business Today as “Indian Microsofts in the Making.” The company is the only one in India to feature in Forrester’s first ever research report on PaaS. In the subsequent report by Forrester, OrangeScape has come out strongly in the vendor comparison matrix that includes Google, Microsoft, Salesforce.com and 11 others.

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PK4 Software Technologies Private Limited Category: EMERGE Products Website: www.ImpelCRM.in Company Profile: PK4 is the leader in OnDemand CRM systems for India. The company’s flagship CRM product—Impel hosted CRM—enables companies to place their customers at the centre of their business. Impel CRM allows sales executives to spend more time with customers and less on administrative work. Impel CRM helps companies increase revenues and maximise profits by increasing sales productivity, marketing efficiency and service operations. The Web -based CRM is used by sales, marketing and customer service teams across a variety of industries ranging from SMBs to large enterprises. Key achievements: •

PK4 Software’s Impel product is built specifically for the SMS-heavy, touch-centric sales processes that are typical in this market. The India-specific features in Impel include SMS integration, sales activity planning, service request management and map integration.

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Impel’s pricing model too is very affordable for Indian companies, unlike those of competitors.

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Even the smallest of organisations need some degree of customisation in the solution, and PK4 addresses this issue by combining the configurability of Impel with the use of a high throughput, low-cost customisation platform that enables the company to deliver customer-specific versions of Impel at a fraction of the cost of other solutions.

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Impel, the OnDemand solution, is the most complete CRM solution for Indian businesses, empowering them at every customer touch-point. Impel lets clients transform their business and increase sales and customer retention through an integrated, easy-to-use solution. Impel makes it possible for companies to share business information and provide a single, unified perspective to their customers.

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Impel's Software-as-a-Service model combines with comprehensive functionality, integration capabilities, codeless configuration and customisation and an intuitive interface to push businesses forward. Impel online CRM is a comprehensive, integrated CRM solution that provides the sales, marketing and customer service staff with fast, up -to-date access to customer information, anytime, anywhere. With Impel, the mobile CRM, clients have the ability to support their mobile workers with PDAs and mobile phones using WAP, SMS or HTML.

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Robust Designs (India) Private Limited Category: EMERGE Products Website: www.robustdesigns.com Company Profile: Robust Designs, incorporated in year 2000 in India, with offices in Singapore and the USA, is a business intelligence product and solutions company focusing on the financial services and digital media industries. Its core business intelligence platform has been deployed at over 35 sites across several countries. Notable customers include Rediff, IndiaTimes, UTVi, ICICI Lombard, Birla Sun Life Mutual Fund (all in India), the Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore, Alexandria Hospital, the National University Hospital (in Singapore) and RCE Berhad (Malaysia).The company’s recent initiatives with partners, and the delivery of targeted analytic solutions for the media and the BFSI sectors have positioned it strongly for future growth. Key achievements: •

The company has launched CUBOT (TM), an implementer-friendly product whose “tightly integrated platform” includes data extraction, data warehouse and OLAP components at the back end. The front-end components include reporting, analytics, alerts, and budgeting. This design dramatically reduces implementation time, usually completed in twelve weeks.

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CUBOT (TM) is end-user oriented and multi-lingual, making multi-country implementations a nonissue. Since it does not support any programming, managers can produce reports, perform detailed analysis, and valuable dashboards on-the-fly, without having to use technical jargon. CUBOT (TM) also has low TCO. Since it is built on an open-source platform, it delivers speed on standard, inexpensive hardware, at dramatically reduced infrastructure costs.

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CUBOT has proved itself in the market. Robust Designs has bagged over 30 customers for CUBOT, which account for around 2,500 business users and 40,000 retail users spread across countries such as India, Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam, USA and The Netherlands.

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Robust Designs has evolved a flexible business model—delivering projects directly and through partners, providing multi-country support as well as multiple pricing and purchasing options.

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Skelta Software

Category: EMERGE Products Website: www.skelta.com Company Profile: Skelta is an innovative software product company specialising in enterprise-wide Business Process Management (BPM) and Advanced Workflow solutions for small to large-sized businesses worldwide. Its flagship product, Skelta BPM is an enterprise-wide Business Process Management product which provides companies with a strong and collaborative platform to develop business applications. Key achievements: •

Skelta BPM with its unique architecture and Enterprise Console offers the advantage of a centralised standalone BPMS platform. Users can see the model, simulate, analyse processes, manage application forms and interfaces and even create fully integrated applications using the Enterprise Console and manage process and application specific artifacts for the entire enterprise.

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Skelta’s unique embeddable capabilities enable the actual application to have very contextual BPM integration. With embeddable controls for Process Modelling, Analysis, Execution, Work queues, and BAM, users can manage and control processes without ever leaving the application. This gives true agility, thereby fulfilling the promise of BPM.

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Leveraging these unique capabilities, several OEMs/ISVs have embedded Skelta’s solution as an integrated BPM offering for their products.

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Skelta was recently selected as a “Cool Vendor” in the BPM arena by Gartner. It was a 2008 American Business Awards Finalist and CODIE Awards Finalist. Skelta has also been ranked among Asia’s top 100 companies by Red Herring magazine and bagged the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 India and the Deloitte Technology Fast 500 Asia Pacific Awards for 2006 and 2007.

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Sloka Telecom Private Limited Category: EMERGE Products Website: www.sloka.in Company Profile: Sloka Telecom is a pioneer in designing, developing and selling compact and cost-effective base stations for new standards such as Fixed WiMAX, Mobile WiMAX and 3G LTE. Established in 2004 in Bangalore, the company is addressing the needs of Service Providers, OEM partners, System Integrators and small-tomedium Wireless ISPs. Currently, Sloka is directly and indirectly selling to small-and-medium WISPs and System Integrators. It has recently signed up OEM partnerships with Tier-1 and Tier-2 vendors, which will remain the company’s business model in the near future. Key achievements: •

Sloka’s product portfolio consists of all-outdoor, all-weather compact fixed WiMAX base station units and subscriber stations (CPE) based on the IEEE 802.16-2004 standard. The company’s base stations are among the smallest (