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Product Landscape 04
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Dear Participants,
Welcome to the 2010 NASSCOM Product Conclave, the Mecca for product
organisations. About 500 product startups and 900 product entrepreneurs/
intrapreneurs are present. Many more wanted to attend but as you can
imagine we are already bursting at the seams. There is palpable excitement
in the air.
India missed the dot com and Web 2.0 wave because we had a dearth of
users, investors and experienced engineers to build market leaders. But times
are different now. Many ecosystem pieces are now in place. So every new
disruption is an opportunity for product startups. We aren’t going to miss the
Cloud pradigm. Watch out for the next big Indian IT wave!
Many
This is not an ordinary conference. Every session has been carefully curated
ecosystem to deliver actionable takeways. The speakers are world-class. The topics have
been painstakingly selected by our theme co-chairs. MR Rangaswami, who
pieces are runs the famous Cloud Connect event in the US, has brought the best of the
Cloud to India. Sramana Mitra, who needs no introduction in the entrepreneur
now in place. circles, has brought the emerging Lean Startups methodology to life.
So every new There are many ways for you to interact and participate. Attend the
moderated keynotes to connect with relevant stories of real entrepreneurs.
disruption is Join the workshops to pick up practical skills from world leading experts. Have
structured meetings with CIOs, SIs and investors in the special sessions.
an opportunity Contribute your ideas in the open discussions. Come up close to technology
in geeky product demos. And let your hair down in our exciting entertainment
for product evening on the first day.
startups. We This is your Conclave. It’s been put together by your colleagues. They have
volunteered selflessly to make every facet of this Conclave come together.
aren’t going to Their boundless energy, infectious enthusiasm, and an intense desire to build
something larger than themselves is an inspiration. And an example for every
Enjoy the Conclave! And don’t forget to fill out the feedback form at the end
wave. Watch so that the next Conclave is even better.
big Indian IT
wave! Sharad Sharma
Chair – NASSCOM Product Forum
The Indian software product exports revenues grew by 4 per cent in FY 2010, to reach USD 1.14 Billion. The effects of
the recession were strong in this segment, as end-users reduced IT spending levels, which directly impacted software
product sales. Additionally the industry also took time to tailor product pricing solutions to the pay per use model that
clients preferred over the traditional license model.
The growth of Indian software product businesses in the earlier phase was constrained by a series of challenges. These
included the absence of sizeable domestic demand for software, low availability of experienced professionals, an
underdeveloped ecosystem, high barriers to entry posed by MNC incumbents, and the lack of global scale, network and
distribution capabilities amongst the Indian firms. But the past few years have witnessed a noticeable shift in the Indian
software product business ecosystem which has helped create an enabling environment for the growth of Indian software
products. Availability of VC funding, and access to mentors and incubation centres has improved significantly.
In FY 2010, the top 10 companies contributed as much as 90 per cent of the total revenues of Indian software product
businesses. This emphasises the maturity these companies have achieved by laying a strong foundation for the
business over the years. Larger companies have witnessed rapid growth, both organically and inorganically. Indigenous
software product companies have not only achieved global acceptance, some of them also rank among the global
market leaders, such as in the case of banking software. This growth has driven a non-linear increase in the revenues
of the software product industry.
The current decade of evolution for the Indian software product business industry has been the most impressive.
Many of the leading Indian software product businesses have achieved notable success in tapping global markets by
channelling their investments towards strengthening the sales and marketing, distribution channels, partnerships,
product innovation and also towards improving on the business and delivery models of the software. More recently,
they have also sought to grow inorganically by way of acquisitions, both locally and overseas. Further, improvement
across several ecosystem factors such as venture capital (VC) funding, incubation centres, increase in entrepreneurial
talent etc. have spurred start-up activity, with more than 125 start-ups being incorporated in the last three years.
This increase in the number of start-ups has been facilitated by a significant increase in funding available to product
entrepreneurs. There is a growing trend of senior management talent from MNC subsidiaries opting to take the risk
and start their own software product companies.
Traditionally, the single largest segment of software in which Indian software products have had presence is ERP
applications. The global market for ERP applications is expected to grow to USD 49.8 Billion in 2013 at a CAGR (2008
to 2013) of 2.7 per cent, providing a huge market for Indian vendors. New product start-ups are increasingly focusing
on areas such as security solutions, e-learning and business intelligence which not only provide access to untapped
markets, but also favourable exit options. SaaS and Virtualisation are impacting the growth of these categories of
software due to more cost-effective solutions becoming available.
The global business intelligence market is expected to grow at a CAGR (2008 to 2013) of 13.3 percent to reach USD 13
billion by 2013. Business Intelligence is fast becoming a strategic initiative in organisations, with concepts such as
pervasive Business Intelligence coming into focus. The Business Intelligence software providers have nurtured quality
talent in their development centres in India. It has enabled India to build a world-class talent pool of statisticians
capable of building scalable analytical and econometric models, which can be leveraged on by Indian software product
businesses.
Security is another key focus area for Indian product companies – With customer service levels becoming increasingly
dependent on the timely availability of the right information and internal and external threats on the incline, security
has become a key concern for CIOs globally.
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1130 – 1145 hrs Opening remarks by Sharad Sharma, Chair - NASSCOM Product Forum
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MAGADH LAWNS
8K Miles
8KMiles is an internet company that is focused on building solutions,
consulting and migration services around Cloud Computing. 8KMiles is an
Amazon Web Services System Integration partner.
http://www.8KMiles.com/cloud
harish@8kmiles.com
Adaptive Marketing
Adaptive Marketing is the Finishing school that prepares product professionals
to become truly groomed product managers through hands-on exercises, real
world case study discussions and practical best practice templates.
www.adaptivemarketing.in
pshah@adaptivemarketing.in
BMC Software
Recognised as the leader in Business Service Management, BMC offers a
comprehensive approach and unified platform that helps IT organisations cut
cost, reduce risk and drive business profit. For the four fiscal quarters ended
June 30, 2010, BMC revenue was approximately USD 1.92 billion.
www.bmc.com/cloud
Milind_Kharkar@bmc.com
Confianzys
Confianzys is a focused entity helping Technology Entrepreneurs to conceive
and build ‘market-driven’ breakthrough products and scale globally using the
Product Management, Customer Management and Marketing Management
principles.
www.confianzys.com
hari@confianzys.com
Creative Riot
TM
CREATIVE RIOT SOFTWARE
Edlog
Edlog is a learning solutions company with a focus on delivering engaging
learning solutions and content strategies that are designed to enable
organisational initiatives and drive business growth. sectors: BFSI, Education,
IT/ITES (Special focus on product companies), Retail and Telecom.
www.edlog-solutions.com
boobesh@edlog-solutions.com
Fusion Charts
FusionCharts helps you create stunning charts for web and enterprise
applications. It is the industry’s leading enterprise-grade charting component
with 17,000 customers and 330,000 users.
FusionCharts v3 http://www.fusioncharts.com
sanket@fusioncharts.com
Greytip Software
Greytip Software is an HR and Payroll Software solutions company. These
solutions are available in an on-premise and an on-demand (SaaS) model.
Greytip’s solutions are used by more than 500+ organisations and enable
processing of 3,50,000+ payslip every month.
http://www.greytip.com
girish@greytip.com
Infragistics
The world leader in user interface development tools and experts in the User
Centric Design, empowers developers to build and style User Interfaces for
developing killer apps — applications with extreme functionality, complete
usability and the “wow-factor!”
www.infragistics.com
KPrakash@infragistics.com
Hayagriva Software
Hayagriva Software is engaged in the development of products in the area of
PIM (Personal Information Management) for use worldwide. Products aim to
enhance the productivity of a computer user, and improve the way he works,
learns, or seeks entertainment.
www.yopedia.com
gautam@yohaya.com
IDA Singapore
IDA is a Singapore Government agency that aims to cultivate a vibrant and
competitive infocomm industry, through innovative infocomm technology
development, deployment and usage in Singapore.
www.ida.gov.sg
Sanjay_R_M@ida.gov.sg
Injoos
Injoos is an Enterprise 2.0 collaboration platform that fosters innovation and
improves productivity by combining the power of social networks, document,
project and knowledge management tools.
www.injoos.com
jagdish@injoos.com
Ma Foi Randstand
Ma Foi Randstad is an international HR service provider. Started in 1992,
the company has grown into a full spectrum HR services provider for clients
worldwide. Generated career opportunities for more than 3, 00,000 individuals
in 36 countries, and has worked for over 250 Fortune 500 organisations.
www.mafoirandstad.com
sandhya.raman@mafoirandstad.com
Meraevents.com
Meraevents.com, First Indian web based portal dedicated to events,
conferences, exhibitions and trade fairs. We offer many unique features,
which would change the way events are organised.
meraevents.com
naidu@meraevents.com
Microsoft
Microsoft BizSpark is a global program designed to accelerate the success of
IT entrepreneurs through software support and create a vibrant IT ecosystem
in the country. The program aims at providing Indian start-ups with software,
support and visibility at a time in their lifecycles when they are most valuable
and least affordable i.e. during their first three years, with no upfront costs
and minimal requirements.
www.microsoft.com
srikantk@microsoft.com
NavisRx
We ‘prescribe’ solutions to businesses to run their respective processes
effectively and efficiently, thereby helping them ‘navigating’ their businesses
to achieve their respective business goals.
www.NavisRx.com
kedar.bagul@NavisRx.com
Nitman Software
Nitman Software is a product development company that provides easy to
use products to simplify complex business processes. Nitman’s flagship
product Talentpool is a recruitment software for corporates in India.
http://www.nitman.co.in
shikha@nitman.co.in
Ohile Technologies
Ohile Technologies deveops and markets products and services in web, mobile
and embedded spheres. Focus: Cross Platform mobile apps in consumer and
enterprise space with web-mobile convergence.
www.ohile.com
manu@ohile.com
Posidex Technologies
Posidex Technologies helps enterprises during the process of Customer Data
Integration, Data Quality Management and Master Data Management on its
PrimeMatch™ technology platform for Entity Resolution and Analytics.
www.posidex.com
shanker@posidex.com
Ramco Systems
Ramco Systems, part of the USD 875 Million Ramco Group, is a leading IT
company focused on consulting, product and managed services business.
100,000 users from 800+ customer organisations.
www.ramco.com
gopalri@rsi.ramco.com
SociallyOn
SociallyOn provides services to make businesses and people interact and
connect. They offer social media services and solutions dedicated to help
you reach current consumers, drive new leads, and cultivate your business
through social media.
http://sociallyon.com/
sachin@sachinmalhotra.com
SafeNet Inc.
Founded in 1983, SafeNet is a global leader in information security.
SafeNet protects its customers’ most valuable assets, including Identities,
Transactions, Communications, Data and Software Licensing, throughout the
data lifecycle. More than 25,000 customers.
www.safenet-inc.com.
Vivek.Prakash@safenet-inc.com
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Srishti Software
Srishti Software
progress through creation... Srishti Software is an innovative and rapidly expanding software house
providing leading-edge technology solutions in Content Monetisation across
all New Media (Web, Mobile, eReaders, iPad, and many more), KREATIO and
Healthcare (PARAS) domains.
www.srishtisoft.com
radhika@srishtisoft.com
Team Buddy
Team buddy Technologies LLP, is a product driven Technology Company,
owned by Core IT and Functional Professionals, successfully making the
project execution easy.
www.teambuddytech.com
asn.murthy@teambuddytech.com
Zoho Corp
Founded in 1996, ZOHO Corporation has a broad portfolio of elegantly designed
products and web services. ZOHO Corp provides solutions to multiple market
segments including OEM’s, Government, education, small and medium-size
businesses.
https://www.zoho.com/
Sudhakar.marthi@zohocorp.com
Profile Profile
CA Technologies (NASDAQ: CA) is an IT management Ramco Systems, a part of the USD 800+ million Ramco
software and solutions company with expertise across Group, is a leading IT company focused on consulting,
all IT environments – from mainframe and physical, to product and managed services business. Established in
virtual and cloud. CA Technologies manages and secures 1989, Ramco Systems is headquartered in Chennai with
IT environments and enables customers to deliver more 14 offices spread across India, US, Europe, Middle East
flexible IT services. CA Technologies’ innovative products and APAC. The company focuses on providing innovative
and services provide the insight and control essential for business solutions that can be delivered quickly and
IT organisations to power business agility. The majority cost-effectively in complex environments. Ramco has
of the Global Fortune 500 relies on CA Technologies over 100,000 users from 800+ customer organisations,
to manage their evolving IT ecosystems. Follow CA globally since inception.
Technologies on Twitter at www.twitter.com/cainc.
Ramco’s key differentiator is its innovative approach to
develop products through its revolutionary enterprise
application assembly and delivery platform - Ramco
VirtualWorksTM. Ramco Systems has seven major
product suites – Ramco Enterprise Suite, Ramco
Enterprise Asset Management Suite, Ramco Aviation,
Ramco OnDemand ERP, Ramco Business Information
Management Suite, Ramco Enterprise Process Suite,
and Ramco Mining. A strong domain knowledge coupled
with proven implementation expertise enables Ramco
to provide specialised solutions in verticals such as
Manufacturing, Real Estate & Construction, Energy &
Utilities, Logistics, Service, BFSI, Aviation, Government
and Defense.
Profile Profile
Microsoft BizSpark is a global program designed to EMC Corporation [NYSE:EMC] With 2009 revenues of
accelerate the success of IT entrepreneurs through USD 14 billion and approximately 43,000 employees,
software support create a vibrant IT ecosystem in the EMC is the world’s leading developer and provider of
country. The program aims at providing Indian startups information infrastructure technology and solutions that
with software, support and visibility at a time in their enable organisations of all sizes to transform the way
lifecycles when they are most valuable and least affordable they compete and create value from their information.
i.e. during their first three years, with no upfront costs
and minimal requirements; • Get Software: Fast and We design, build and manage flexible, scalable and secure
easy access to Microsoft’s full-featured development information infrastructures with which our customers
tools, platform technologies, and production licenses are able to intelligently and efficiently store, protect, and
of server products • Get Support: Professional support manage information so that it can be made accessible,
from Microsoft and BizSpark Network Partners around searchable, shareable and ultimately, actionable.
the world to facilitate them with a wide range of support
resources for software startups • Get Visibility: A EMC information infrastructure is used as the
dedicated Website, the BizSparkDB, which highlights foundation for implementing information lifecycle
promising companies from around the world every day. management strategies, securing critical information
Through their relationship with Microsoft and BizSpark assets, leveraging content for competitive advantage,
Network Partners, startups will achieve global visibility to automating data center operations, reducing power and
an audience of potential investors, clients and partners. cooling costs, and more. By integrating our information
infrastructure and virtualisation technology, we are
The program has impacted 1300 startups since its launch
able to successfully lead customers on the journey to a
in India since December, 2008
greener, more cost-efficient private cloud.
Company Profile: Founded in 1975, Microsoft (Nasdaq
“MSFT”) is the worldwide leader in software, services Our differentiated value comes from: our sustained
and solutions that help people and businesses realize and substantial investment in R&D, our thousands of
their full potential. The company offers a wide range technical employees around the globe, the industry’s
of products and services designed to empower people broadest portfolio of systems, software and services, our
through great software - any time, any place and on
ability to create total integrated solutions – all designed
any device. Microsoft Corporation India Private Ltd is
by us – and our commitment to delivering the best Total
a subsidiary of Microsoft Corporation USA. It has had a
Customer Experience in this or any other industry.
presence in India since 1990 and currently has offices in
16 cities - Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Chandigarh, Chennai, EMC Corporation’s India Center of Excellence is based in
Coimbatore, Hyderabad, Indore, Jaipur, Jamshedpur, Bangalore, Karnataka.
Kochi, Kolkata, Lucknow, Mumbai, Nagpur, New Delhi,
and Pune.
Profile Profile
From Walldorf to Wall Street: The SAP Success Story Wyse Technology is the global leader in Cloud Client
Computing. The Wyse portfolio includes industry-
As the world’s leading provider of business software, SAP leading thin, zero and cloud PC client solutions with
delivers products and services that help to accelerate advanced management, desktop virtualisation and
business innovation for our customers. We believe that cloud software supporting desktops, laptops and next
doing so will unleash growth and create significant new generation mobile devices. Cloud client computing
value – for our customers, SAP and, ultimately, entire replaces the outdated computing model of the unsecure,
industries and the economy at large. Today, customers unreliable, energy-intensive and expensive PC, all while
in more than 120 countries run SAP applications – from delivering lower TCO and a superior user experience.
individual solutions addressing the needs of small Wyse has shipped more than 20 million units and has
businesses and midsize companies to suite offerings for over 200 million people interacting with their products
global organisations. each day, enabling the leading private, public, hybrid and
government cloud implementations worldwide. Wyse
Founded in 1972, SAP has a rich history of innovation
partners with industry-leading IT vendors, including
and growth as a true industry leader. SAP currently
Citrix®, IBM®, Microsoft, and VMware® as well as
has sales and development locations in more than 50
globally-recognised distribution and service partners.
countries worldwide and is listed on several exchanges,
Wyse is headquartered in San Jose, California, U.S.A.,
including the Frankfurt Stock Exchange and NYSE under
with offices worldwide.
the symbol “SAP”.
Profile Profile
Yahoo! India R&D was established with a mission to IDG Ventures India is a USD 150 Million early-stage
deliver product and technology innovation to create a venture capital fund investing in technology-related
significant business impact globally. The organisation product and services companies. The fund is part of
has invested in specialist talent in key areas like product IDG Ventures, a global network of technology venture
managers, user experience designers, architects, funds with over USD 3.7 billion under management,
developers, program managers, quality engineers, over 220 investee companies and 10 offices across Asia
service engineers and researchers, to build a world-class and North America. IDG Ventures makes investments
team in India. on behalf of its Limited Partners, including its principal
investor and sponsor, International Data Group (IDG),
Yahoo! India R&D engages in end-to-end product the world’s largest IT media company. By combining the
development from concept through launch. The IDG platform – an unparalleled combination of global
research arm, called Yahoo! Labs, focuses on basic and publishing, market research (IDC), and conferences and
applied research in the areas of next-generation search, exhibition resources - with years of hands-on experience
advertising and large-scale computing systems. in early-stage company building, IDG Ventures helps its
investee companies understand their markets better
The centre made 191 patent submissions last year and
and penetrate them faster than their competition.
has undertaken end-to-end development of more
than 20 products to provide best-in-class consumer Leading technology companies that IDG Ventures has
experiences and online advertising products for both invested in include BabyCenter, F5 Networks, Netscape,
global and emerging markets. Some of its well-known Service Metrics and VA Linux in North America and Baidu,
products include Yahoo! Cricket, OMG, Helium, Vertex, Ctrip, Sohu, Tencent and VinaGame in Asia.
NGD Marketplace etc.
Our India portfolio consists of 3D Solid Compression,
Apalya, Aujas Networks, ConnectM, iCreate, iViZ, Kreeda,
Manthan Systems, Myntra, Ozone Media and Perfint.
Profile Profile
Comviva is the global leader in providing mobile One97 Communications Limited is India’s leading Mobile
solutions beyond VAS, enriching the lives of over 600 Value Added Service Company.
million mobile subscribers globally. The company offers
extensive portfolio of solutions that address operator One97’s Innovative mobile content, messaging,
goals of improving cost structures, enhancing customer commerce services and made-to-order network
lifecycle value and driving revenue. applications offer new revenue streams to telecom
operators. Working closely with service providers and
Comviva transforms operators’ VAS delivery by creating enterprises, it offers customer lifecycle management
solutions that optimise performance whilst rationalising and mobile marketing to enhance their profitability.
opex and capex investment. Championing speed of delivery, One97 thrives on its
widely deployed telecom applications service platform
Comviva draws on its extensive experience of deploying to deliver scalable, flexible and customised services.
solutions to operators in over 85 markets globally to Funded by Intel Capital (Mauritius) Limited, SAIF and
develop effective approaches to transforming business SVB India Capital Partners. One97 also invests and
performance. incubates new mobile technologies start-ups.
Profile Profile
Digital River Inc., a leading provider of global e-commerce Sequoia Capital India currently manages funds
solutions, builds and manages online businesses for capitalised at close to USD 1.8 billion and invests across
software and game publishers, consumer electronics venture, growth and late stage opportunities. It takes a
manufacturers, distributors, online retailers and long term view on investments and plays the role of an
affiliates. Its multi-channel e-commerce solution, which active, value added partner to entrepreneurs, business
supports both direct and indirect sales, is designed to families and management teams. Over the last 8 years,
help companies of all sizes maximise online revenues Sequoia Capital India has invested in more than 50
as well as reduce the costs and risks of running an Indian companies including Applabs, Comviva (Bharti
e-commerce operation. The company’s comprehensive Telesoft), Café Coffee Day, Dr Lal Pathlabs, Firstsource,
platform offers site development and hosting, order Idea Cellular, Just Dial, Quickheal, Shaadi.com and SKS
management, fraud management, export controls, tax Microfinance. Sequoia Capital India operates out of
management, physical and digital product fulfillment, offices in Bangalore, Mumbai and New Delhi.
multi-lingual customer service, advanced reporting and
strategic marketing services. Globally, Sequoia Capital has an unparalleled track record
of partnering with entrepreneurs to create global market
Founded in 1994, Digital River is headquartered in leaders. Sequoia Capital has been an early investor
Minneapolis with offices across the U.S., Asia, Europe in companies such as Google, Cisco, Yahoo, YouTube,
and South America. Oracle and Apple Computers. Sequoia Capital maintains
dedicated teams in the US, China, India and Israel.
Profile Profile
Google is not a conventional company, and we don’t As the world leader in user interface development tools
intend to become one. Our mission – to organise the and experts in the User Centric Design, Infragistics
world’s information and make it universally accessible empowers developers to build and style User Interfaces
and useful – requires exceptional thinking and technical that are the foundation for developing killer apps—
expertise. Google has offices around the globe, from applications with extreme functionality, complete
Bangalore to Zurich; regardless of where we are, we usability and the “wow-factor!”
nurture an invigorating, positive environment by hiring
talented, local people who share our commitment to Infragistics enables immersive user experiences and rich
creating search perfection and want to have a great time data visualization in line of business applications across
doing it. all .NET platforms — Windows Forms, WPF, ASP.NET and
Silverlight, with innovative UI components; a range of
value-added services including UI testing tools, support,
training and consulting; and UX tools-Quince and Quince
Pro.
Profile Profile
Amazon Web Services LLC (“AWS”), an Amazon.com Progress Software Corporation (NASADAQ: PRGS)
company, offers a completely new way to run virtually any provides application infrastructure software for the
business that uses technology. Since officially launched development, deployment, integration and management
in 2006, AWS has enabled developers and hundreds of of business applications. Progress Software Corporation
thousands of companies of all sizes across 190 countries has over 1,870 employees in over 90 countries and
easy access to AWS suite of infrastructure web services is headquartered in Massachusetts, USA. It has
to build their businesses and run their applications in the development centers in many countries the second
cloud. Companies incur no up-front expenses or long- largest being located at Hyderabad, India.
term commitments, turn capital expense into variable
operating expense, pay only for what is used, add or shed PSI is structured on a Centre of Expertise (COE) based
resources quickly, free up scarce engineering resources model, where groups are in line with technology
from the undifferentiated heavy lifting of running their horizontals that work on multiple products/components.
own infrastructure. AWS helps customers focus on work Present COEs include Eclipse based Development tools,
that truly differentiates their business, rather than Web based management tooling and Adapters.
worrying about the infrastructure.
Progress Software Corporation builds industry leading
Infrastructure Spanning Application Software, SOA and
Data Infrastructure. PSI has a major contribution in the
development of products which includes: Sonic, Actional,
DataXtend, DataDirect, OpenEdge and Apama.
Profile Profile
Since its inception in 1986, Tally Solutions has simplified InfrasoftTech is a software products, solutions and
business processes and enhanced the productivity of services provider focused on BFSI sector. For over a
small and medium-scale enterprises with its powerful decade now, InfrasoftTech has been bringing about
business accounting and inventory management transformational change in the business models and
software. size of the enterprises it serves. An SEI CMMi Level
5 company, ISO 27001 and ISO 9001:2008 certified
The company’s tremendous progress is validated by company with product development experience of 2500+
various research agencies and media houses who have years; we have positively impacted the businesses of
named Tally as one of the fastest-growing software over 200 clients globally.
product companies in India. InfrasoftTech’s OMNIEnterprise™ suite of solution
includes – Core Banking Solution, Microfinance Solution,
Guided by its core philosophy ‘Power of Simplicity’,
Anti money Laundering Solution, Lending Management
Tally Solutions has pioneered the code-less concept in
and Islamic Banking & Finance Solution.
accounting and business management software and
continues to improve by leveraging new technologies to Our Consulting Services division delivers assured benefits
offer innovative features and capabilities. of our proven global delivery model to our customers:
The sphere of operations currently spans the Middle • In over 200 software services projects delivered in
the last five years, our customers have benefited in
East, Africa, the Indian sub-continent, Asia-Pacific and
launching improved productivity and reduced total
the UK.
cost of operations
For its simplicity in use, versatility in its technology – • We provide a wide range of services, including
Tally has been the recipient of a number of awards and architecture-based custom development and
accolades - the prestigious IT National Excellence Award; enhancement, Business Intelligence, Business
360 Magazine’s Golden Rhino Award; Franchise Award Process Management, Migration and Integration
for best in Education Coaching & Training; VARIndia Services, Content Collaboration,
Star Nite Award for Best Financial Software to name • Customer Relationship Management, Data
a few. The latest being the CRN Outstanding Channel Management, Testing Services and Application
Contribution Award 2010. Managed Services
Srishti Software
Managing Director Manager – progress through creation...
Profile Profile
Canaan Partners is a global venture capital firm Srishti Software is a leading software products company
specialising in early-stage information technology and providing cutting edge technology solutions in the twin
life sciences investments. Since 1987 Team of Canaan areas of Content Monetisation across all New Media and
Partners does not just invest money in a company but Healthcare domains.
also invest time, experience, intimate knowledge, wide
connections and team approach in every venture we KREATIO www.kreatio.in - Monetizing content across all
take on. Our goal is to create lasting partnerships with New Media (Web, Mobile, eReaders, iPad and many more)
entrepreneurs and management teams who have the
same drive to succeed as we do. • Kreatio: Platform for Web Content Monetisation,
Management and Publishing System delivering a fully
Canaan’s investment team works hand-in-hand with functional web site • RAE: Registration, Authentication
entrepreneurs to provide salient business advice and and Entitlement Rights Management for subscriptions
guidance. Each of our investors has had operating
of online media publications • LeadGen: Lead Generation
success before joining Canaan Partners. Using our
platform using contents • MSM: Micro Sites Management
collective experience in technology and healthcare, we
by non IT professionals for Events’ Micro Sites
guide our portfolio companies toward winning solutions.
Most of us have worked together for more than 10 years; • Utilises the Power of 7 and the perfect 10 monetisation
in an interconnected world, we rely on teamwork more framework providing ‘Winner’s Edge’ for our clients.
than ever.
PARAS www.parashmis.in – Healthcare Management
Venture Catalysts Information System
Canaan is committed long after the initial investment • Patient Administration System [PAS] along with, end-
and we work hard to help companies grow over time. to-end, Revenue Cycle Management [RCM] & Customer
Over the years, Canaan has invested in more than 225 Relationship Management [CRM] • Healthcare Centric
companies, many of them going on to become leaders in ERP Systems - HR, Materials, Assets, Finance & Support
their respective industries. Our investment capabilities • Ancillary Para Clinical Systems - LIS, RIS, PACS, Blood
range from USD 4 million to USD 20 million, and we Bank, Cord Blood Bank, Eye Bank, Diet, CSSD & Therapy
have the ability and the team to invest in any stage • EHR Centric Clinical Information Management System
of development from seed financings to late stage [CIMS] - Nursing, Clinician, Operation Theatre & ICUs
investments. • TeleMediCare, Disease Registry, Clinical Pathways
We were early investors in Bharat Matrimony, & ISABEL Clinical Decision Support System [CDSS]
CommerceOne, Match.com, DoubleClick, Northstart • Portals - Patient, Consultant, Public Health & eHealth
Neuroscience, acme Packet, and Peninsula Governance Framework
Pharmaceuticals, along with dozens of other market
leading companies.
Profile Profile
CyberMedia is the largest specialty media house in South SiliconIndia is a 12-year old media firm.
Asia and amongst India’s top five magazine publishers.
SiliconIndia magazine, published from Silicon Valley,
The group’s Media business includes 15 publications USA. covers business, technology and entrepreneurship.
including Dataquest, PCQuest, Voice&Data, BioSpectrum Our readership builds from CIOs, CTOs, CEOs and market
(India and Asia), Living Digital, Global Services, DQ influencers like fund capitalists, technology adopters
Channels, DQ Week (Delhi, Chennai, Mumbai and Kolkata), and analysts.
Voice & Data Connect, DARE and Hallsbury’s Law. The
group has twelve websites led by www.ciol.com, India’s Our India magazine, The Smart Techie, published from
largest technology website. CyberMedia Events, the Bangalore, empowers technology leaders for tomorrow.
region’s largest organiser of IT events, conducts over 100
Over the last one decade, SiliconIndia.com has emerged
events every year. CyberMedia produces two knowledge
as the most trusted source for news and information for
based weekly TV programs. CyberMedia reaches out to
professionals. The portal has a global ranking of No.4
a community of over 1.5 million people. Its brands have
in the IT News & Media category. With over 3 million
consistently been leading in their respective domains.
registered users, SiliconIndia.com is the fastest growing
Its Media Services include IDC India, the leading IT and portal and is ranked among the top 120 websites most
telecom research company in the region; and Content trafficked from India.
Matrix which provides through its operating units (TDA
SiliconIndia also organizes several events both in the
Group, Publication Services and CyberMedia Services)
U.S. as well as India. Our events have long delivered
creative custom media solutions for today’s global
clear and intelligent insight into the critical trends
marketplace ranging from global marketing programs
shaping the future of technology. Our events are an
and custom publications for enterprises to content
ideal platform for marketers to connect with targeted,
management, editorial and production services for
qualified communities of buyers and customers;
publishers.
delivering measurable results that help companies
generate leads, shorten sales cycles and grow revenues.
SiliconIndia Events, Website, and Magazine offer a
powerful combination that empowers professionals to
challenge convention and create the future.
Profile Profile
HeadStart Network Foundation is a NPO focused on the A young bunch of individuals, we are what you might want
mushrooming start-up ecosystem in India. Our objective to describe as an epitome of ingenuity. We mainly offer
is to create more start-ups and make existing ones more services in the field of Web Services and Social Media.
productive. iGenero began its quest for internet immortality in 2009.
In time, we have done loads of work and yet we manage
Start-up Saturday is an initiative within HeadStart which to regain a childlike enthusiasm for every new project
brings together the local entrepreneurial ecosystem that comes our way, each and every time. Perfection is
at a common platform on the 2nd Saturday of every something we strive for, always. We are forever focused
month across eight cities – Bangalore, Mumbai, Delhi, on creating unique and impacting spaces for companies
Hyderabad, Pune, Kolkata, Chennai & Chandigarh. to leverage and optimise their businesses online. Our
emphasis lies in creating idea based online platforms
Our online forum is one of the largest in India in terms
to enhance and deliver core business bottom lines of
of members and conversations on entrepreneurship and
organisations. From conceptualisation and designing
start-ups.
online models to developing and implementing them
The USP of HeadStart that is the primary differentiator and creating the right noise about it on the web, we
from every other similar organisation is that, we are a assist organisations in every step on the way to create
100 per cent volunteer driven movement. Every one of an effective and reliable online platform.
our volunteer has a day job and is associated with start-
ups at multiple levels.
Profile Profile
The nonprofit National Entrepreneurship Network was Tenmiles is a young and vibrant software development
established in 2003 with a mission to create and support firm based out of Chennai, India.
high-growth entrepreneurs, driving job-creation and
economic growth in India. From enabling the world’s best design agencies to
churn out great screensavers and taking away the pain
NEN represents India’s largest, most vibrant community from customer support to making conferences sell out,
of new and future high-growth entrepreneurs. Today, Tenmiles makes software that works right, looks cool
NEN’s community comprises over 512 top-tier academic and, just like superman, once again saves the day.
institutes, 1200 faculty leaders, 70,000 student
members, and the newly-launching E Clubs for NEN With a client-base extending across the world, ranging
Alumni and non-student members across several cities from small-medium businesses to Fortune 500
in India. NEN provides critical support to start-ups companies, Tenmiles develops software products aimed
and early-stage entrepreneurs through high-impact at adding value to the manner in which businesses and
mentoring; access to entrepreneurship education; fast- individuals make use of the web.
track access to incubation and funding; and learning tools
These products include doattend, an online event
and materials. In addition, NEN runs Entrepreneurship
registration service, Helpdesk Pilot, a web based
Week India, Asia’s largest entrepreneurship-awareness
customer support & ticketing application and TeamTalk,
campaign. In 2010, E Week India featured over 4500
a secure corporate instant messenger.
events engaging more than 600,000 participants.
doattend is the official registration partner for NASSCOM
NEN was co-founded by IIT Bombay; IIM Ahmedabad;
Product Conclave 2010 and was instrumental in managing
BITS Pilani; SP Jain Institute of Management & Research,
event registrations, selling tickets and providing
Mumbai; Institute of Bioinformatics and Applied
delegates with a pleasurable registration process.
Biotechnology, Bangalore.
Profile Profile
YourStory is the first comprehensive online media The CIO Association of India (CAI) is India’s leading
platform that profiles entrepreneurs from across sectors independent organisation serving the interest of CIOs
and across the country. With over 50,000 registered and IT Decision Makers in the country today. CAI serves
members, in a short span of time YourStory has become as the leading voice of the Indian CIOs with industry,
a part of Indian entrepreneurs and investors daily government, media and other bodies in the eco-systems.
read. Two flagship property of YS are TechSparks and CAI is a not for profit body.
Sociopreneurship India.
In partnership with Indian School of Business (ISB); CAI
has recently launched an independent initiative; ‘The CIO
Academy’ to create the next generation of CIOs who will
think beyond the traditional role of the IT organisation
and guide their firms towards IT-enabled business
transformation, innovation and global leadership.
Profile Profile
Indian Angel Network (IAN), India’s first and largest MoMoB is a community (an interest group) of
business angel network, brings together successful professionals interested in the mobile industry in India.
entrepreneurs and CEOs who comprise the who’s who It is registered as a not for profit organisation and
of Indian industry. They share a passion to enable more functions with voluntary efforts of participants, these
early stage businesses to create scale and value. By efforts are coordinated by the founder trustee. It is
focusing on startups, the network addresses the current recognised as a driver of an emerging mobile technology
acute lack of funds available to early stage companies. eco-system in India comprised of breed of mobile
technology entrepreneurs, global investors and the new
Indian Angel Network currently has over 130 members mobile technology adopters.
drawn from across the country and some from overseas,
including leading lights from diverse sectors (information
on www.indianangelnetwork.com). Members include
people such as Saurabh Srivastava, Pramod Bhasin,
Raman Roy, Rajiv Luthra, Jerry Rao, Ashok Trivedi,
Pradeep Gupta, Harish Mehta, Sunil Munjal, Arvind
Singhal and institutions such as IBM, Intel, Sequoia
Capital, etc. The Network has met with early successes
and has already invested in 22 companies across
sectors like IT, Intellectual Property, Mobile, Hospitality,
Education, Consumer Internet, Robotics etc. And our
investors have already started realising returns on
their investment. The last one gave 5X return on their
investment over a period of 15 months! The network has
operations in Delhi, Bangalore, Mumbai and Pune.
Profile Profile
Essentially Open Coffee Club is a global cult for people Pluggd.in (Pi) is the place to see what’s going on deep
who love start-ups to hang out and meet. inside the rice fields and animal sheds these days. We
showcase the upcoming technology and business start-
OCC Bangalore is a strong grassroots community
ups from Asia (India, China, Bangladesh, Singapore and
of aspiring and early stage entrepreneurs and
more) who have the potential to become Google(s) and
entrepreneurship enthusiasts. It is also an inclusive
Twitter(s) of tomorrow.
community platform for other key constituents: early
stage companies, established entrepreneurs / technology
Our readership is primarily composed of entrepreneurs,
companies, funds, investors and bankers, professionals
VCs, techies, Business Grads etc; and we work closely
and technologists, freelancers and consultants,
designers, media folks, students and service providers with the entrepreneurial community to help building
to the ecosystem. kickass stuff! And if you are one of those who are ticking
with energy to explode in the near future, pluGGd.in will
OCC Bangalore is a place to meet and share with your definitely find you.
peers, mutually solve problems and share joy, learn from
those you look up-to (and with others in the ecosystem),
especially with whom you are not able to reach and
connect for whatever reasons such as lack of access,
time, awareness, etc. It is also the right forum when
successful entrepreneurs and such others want to give
back to society and nurture the aspiring entrepreneurs
of immediate tomorrow.
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The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE) is a global not-for-profit BlogAdda.com is the largest community of bloggers
organisation focused on promoting entrepreneurship. in India. We provide a platform to showcase Indian
TiE helps budding entrepreneurs through advice, bloggers and help them promote to a large audience.
guidance and assistance from successful & experienced BlogAdda has features that helps bloggers connect to
entrepreneurs and professionals. other bloggers thereby forming a powerful network. For
readers, there is a brilliant variety of content aggregated
Our greatest strength is our network through 53 cities in a variety of useful forms.
in 13 countries (15 in India) with 15,000 members and
more than 2,500 charter members that consists of many BlogAdda helped organise the first ever bloggers meet
participants in the entrepreneurial ecosystem, successful with a political party on the eve of election in India and
and experienced as well as budding entrepreneurs, is also credited for the first Internet-Radio association
venture capital firms, angel investors, etc. in the country with Radio One, Mumbai for our famed
Perky Tweets on twitter that currently generates more
We make continuous efforts to interconnect this than 3000 humor tweets every week by the Indian
network that allows us to deliver real value to all our twitter users. We are among the top 50 brands in India
constituents. known for the most effective usage of Social Media and
conversations on Twitter and Facebook. BlogAdda is
The membership structure of TiE includes
associated with premier events across the country and
Charter Members, who are invited based on their
were the only Media Partners from India to partner with
accomplishments and willingness to help the next
Blog World Expo, the largest blogging and New Media
generation of entrepreneurs. The associate membership
conference at Las Vegas.
of TiE is open to anyone who pays nominal dues and
can thus access the various activities and services that BlogAdda represents the Indian bloggers and is the voice
help them become better informed and connected of Indian Blogosphere.
entrepreneurs.