Hyderabad Special: Hyderabad Shining

Knoah Solutions



Knoah Solutions is an offshore

outsourcing company with multiple facilities in Hyderabad. The company

provides customer and technical support for technology products and

services. The company enables organizations to achieve quality at

competitive offshore prices in comparison to its Western counterparts.

Knoah offers support for e-mail, chat and voice communications, as well as

business process outsourcing. The company attributes its success to its

360º feedback process: to design, develop, and deliver operational

processes capable of rapid improvement and adaptability, resulting in

industry leading quality assurance and customer satisfaction.

MindGrid Technologies



MindGrid is a provider of

comprehensive IT solutions services. It addresses the needs of domains

like finance, healthcare, travel and warehouse management. According to

Sanjeev Chadda, CEO and MD of MindGrid, "The core of our solutions'

services is the same industry-best delivery process and methodology that

supports our professional services offerings. We can quickly assemble a

project team from among the best technical talent in the world for almost

any type and scale of project." The company also offers build operate

transfer (BOT) model, in which it can set up the facility and

infrastructure, staff the development center, and establish knowledge

transfer.

Choice Solutions



The company has transformed into

a complete IT solutions entity and its business portfolio includes

verticals like IT infrastructure, and services and software development.

The services portfolio includes infrastructure facilities management,

power infrastructure, and IT consulting. The company would be launching

its own brand of data center called 'Data Centers — The choice way'

very shortly. Choice has strategic business tie ups with global technology

leaders like American Power Conversion (APC), EMC2, Microsoft, Tandberg,

Symantec, and Juniper.

Mobile One



The company expects to become a

one-stop shop for enterprise mobile applications under the able leadership

of Ravi Subramanyam, who heads the company out of India. Mobile One has a

slew of enterprise mobile applications that revolves around its 'goMobile

Business Suite' that addresses areas like sales cycle management,

service management, procurement, inventory and warehouse management and

vertical solutions for automotive, pharma, chemicals and consumer

products. By deploying the best technology, services, and development

resources, Mobile One has delivered a business platform that unlocks

valuable information resources, improves supply chain efficiencies, and

builds strong customer relationships

Pramati Technologies



The company is known for its J2EE

application server expertise. This domain knowledge enabled Pramiti to

launch Middleware Works, which offers a set of enterprise-class technical

consulting and support services for organizations that have deployed

applications on middleware stacks. Pramati's product portfolio includes

application servers, component development and Web-based management

framework. The company helps enterprises to manage J2EE environments and

enables them to arrive earlier to the market, lower engineering expenses;

and finally makes them a high performer.

Sum Total Systems



Human capital is emerging as the

biggest asset in recent times. Companies are now investing in talent and

learning management systems (LMS) to efficiently administer and manage

numerous regulatory training and qualification requirements apart from

providing a platform for business transformation. Gartner positioned

SumTotal Systems, the world's biggest player in this space, in the

leader quadrant in the 2005 LMS Magic Quadrant report. According to

Gartner, leaders are vendors who are performing well today, have a clear

vision of market direction, and are actively building competencies to

sustain their leadership in the market. Another recent report from a

US-based leading research firm, Bersin & Associates, has positioned

SumTotal as the market share leader in total revenue, LMS license revenue

and customer count.

Prithvi Information

Solutions



The company started small but

scaled up fast. In just eight years, the company has grown from its humble

origins to a global entity. With top line for the last fiscal in excess of

Rs 450 crore, the company has averaged consistent growth and an impressive

list of 70 clients. The company addresses four broad areas: technology

outsourcing, business intelligence, network management solutions, and KPO.

On the verticals it caters to BFSI, life sciences, and telecom among

others. The company's global delivery center is based out of Hyderabad

and provides lower costs, and higher quality and productivity to its

clients.

SQL Star



The IT services company has a

long association with the IT education industry. SQL's offerings are

spread across three broad areas: knowledge services, enterprise services

and governance. SQL's knowledge services offerings are spread across

areas like instructor led training, e-learning, and corporate education.

Meanwhile, on the enterprise front, the company's offers include:

technology and managed solutions, quality and embedded solutions and

strategic resourcing. On the e-governance side, the company has created

customized solutions that address the entire spectrum of the IT needs of

state government.

Value Momentum



Value is a vertically focused

professional services company that addresses segments like insurance,

credits, benefits administration and pharmacy benefits management. Says

Ravi S Roa, managing director of the company: "We focus to improve

upon efficiencies and to increase effectiveness in our enterprise

functions with end-to-end solutions and services." The company's

solution offerings cut across consulting, systems integration, managed IT

services and process management services. The company has also identified

SOA as a key focus area and is aggressively building solutions on the SAO

framework.

Virtusa



A global provider of IT services

and software development, Virtusa does mission critical work out of its

Hyderabad facility. The company uses its unique 'productization'

methodology. By using this, Virtusa conceives, transforms and optimizes

the clients' information systems and brings in higher business agility

and robustness. Moreover, this methodology helps in creating and

consolidating software assets into organization specific platforms that

are leveraged across an enterprise. The methodology enables its clients to

lower their total cost of ownership (TCO) and accelerate revenue

generation by increasing business agility, streamlining redundancies, and

achieving economies of scale. The company has technology centers across

the world and provides solutions to various Fortune 1000 clients in

financial services, communications, retail and high technology industries.

Virinchi Technologies



Virinchi is an ISO 9001:2000

software technology company that focuses on two areas, products and

services. Says Viswanath Kompella, CMD, Virinchi: "We have evolved as

a global leader in providing solutions for the retail micro-lending

space." Other focus areas of the company are e-procurement, supply

chain and finance. The company recently acquired US-based Ksoft Systems in

stock and cash deal for around $2.66 mn. The company has 25 products

across areas like supply chain, enterprise e-business, life cycle

management, healthcare, private equity fund management, investigative

services and customer centric solutions.