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- UshaComM India Private Limited
The reorganization of the Usha Martin group’s telecom billing
software business as Usha Communications Technology Ltd., British
Virgin Islands (UCT) has led to significant growth in the company’s
business. With global focus and the initiatives of the US-based
global management team, UCT has been able to establish a presence
in the advanced markets in Europe and the United States, in addition
to its existing Asian markets. The 100% owned Indian subsidiary
of UCT is the Kolkata based Ushacomm India Pvt. Ltd (UIL), which
handles the following operations:
- Development, customization and installation of Billing and
Customer Care Software solutions for telecom operators worldwide
- Professional / advisory services to telecom operators
- Product research, competitor benchmarking and sales training
- 24 x 7 help-desk for supporting existing installations
It may be noted that, while the business has been reorganised
with US-based management and global focus, the Indian operations
account for a large part of UCT’s global operations. Product
development, client-specific customisation and installation activities
are carried out in India by UIL, under the functional supervision
of the US management, which is responsible for strategy, business
development and marketing.
UCT has placed special emphasis on training of its software professionals,
and has an in-house training facility at Kolkata known as Ushacomm
Learning Center (ULC) to upgrade employees top class into telecom
software specialists with the knowledge of next generation technology.
For the 9 months ended December 31, 2002, it has achieved an
export turnover of Rs. 411.5 million. For previous financial year
20001 – 02, the exports were valued at Rs. 567.3 million.
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- Sema Software India Pvt Ltd.
Sema Software India is an 85:15 joint venture between SchlumbergerSema,
part of Schlumberger which is a Fortune 500 global technology
services company and West Bengal Electronics Industry Development
Corporation Ltd. (WEBEL). SchlumbergerSema is a leading IT services
company with presence in over 65 countries and has over 30,000
employees worldwide. The company provides IT consulting, systems
integration, managed services and related products to the oil
and gas , telecommunications, energy and utilities, finance, transport
and public sector markets. Schlumberger common stock is listed
on the New York Stock Exchange and also on the Paris, London,
Amsterdam and the BES (Bourse Electonique Suisse) Stock Exchanges.
Sema began its Indian operations in 1997, by setting up the Kolkata
Development Centre. The major line of business revolves around
the Consulting and System Integration for Telecom, Finance, Transport
and Energy segment. The Company employees around 100 software
professionals with an average employee age of 28 years. The Company
operates from its 8,500 sq. ft office space in the second Software
Technology Park.
For previous financial year 2001 – 02, the export revenues
of the company was Rs. 144.9 million.
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- LabVantage Solutions Pvt Ltd
LabVantage Solutions, a Chatterjee Group company is a leading
global provider of laboratory information solutions, implementation
services and systems consulting. Lab Vantage has provided laboratory
information solutions to nearly 1000 companies since 1981.the
leader in Scientific Information Production. The city office is
located at Bengal Intelligent Park in Salt Lake.
LabVantage Solutions develops, markets and supports a complete
suite of software for high throughput screening, genomics, proteomics
and LIMS. In addition, LabVantage provides industry specific global
solutions for select markets including pharmaceutical research
and development, pharmaceutical contract research organisations,
food and beverage, oil and gas, process chemicals, forensics and
environmental. The company also offers the services that ensure
customer success such as industry and technology consulting, implementation
services, application training and extensive customer support
services.
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A leading IT Solutions Corporation, NIIT leverages its unique
business model and technology creation capabilities to deliver
world-class Software and Learning solutions to global customers.
NIIT was the 12th company in the world to be assessed at SEI-CMM
Level 5-quality benchmark. The global standards of NIIT’s
software development processes are also evidenced by the ISO 9001
certification from BVQI, UK. In Software, the company specializes
in the Finance, Transport and Retail domains. The offerings include
Custom Software Development & Maintenance, Legacy Modernization
& Maintenance, Enterprise Integration, Knowledge Management
and E-learning. NIIT pioneered IT education and training in India
in 1981. NIIT’s cutting-edge IT education products are delivered
through nearly 3000 outlets. The company has brought multimedia
technology and education together for the first time in India.
The West Bengal Government has entrusted NIIT with the task of
introducing computer education in 100 schools as a pilot. In the
first 10-months of operation in 2002-03, it has achieved an export
turnover of Rs. 222.1 million. During 12 months of 2001-02, the
exports were valued at Rs. 293.5 million.
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R. S. Software (India) Ltd. is a Kolkata Based software development
company, which started its operations in Kolkata in 1987 and is
publicly held since 1993. The company initially commenced onsite
development of software by deputing its personnel at the client’s
location. With a view to taking up software development on a turnkey
basis, the company has, over the years, augmented its hardware
and software facilities, installed high speed communication links
at its existing facilities in Kolkata and set up sales and coordination
offices at different customer locations in USA and UK.
The company, which is a SEI CMM level 4 company, has regularly
expanded and upgraded its facilities at its software development
centres, to meet the increased volume of offshore and onsite software
development. It has diversified and developed its software development
competencies from legacy code maintenance and migration to e-commerce
and data warehousing, in line with the growing requirements of
its customers.
RSL has, over the years, positioned itself in the US software
market and has established an ongoing relationship with major
corporations including American Express Bank Limited, Chase Manhattan
Bank, IBM, VISA, Morgan Stanley and Texas Instruments. The company
has acquired the necessary skills in the areas of code conversions,
maintenance, migration and re-engineering in the main frame.
The company recorded a turnover of Rs. 47 crores in the first
9 months of 2002-03. This figure is expected to touch Rs 60 crores
by the end of the financial year.
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Agilent Technologies is a HP spin-off and global, diversified
technology company focusing on high-growth markets in the communications,
electronics and life sciences industries and delivers innovative
technologies, solutions and services to a wide range of customers
in communications, electronics, life sciences and chemical analysis.
Agilent's 41,000 employees and facilities in more than 40 countries
serve market leading customers in over 120 countries. Major product
development and manufacturing sites are located in the United
States, China, Germany, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, Australia
and the United Kingdom. More than half of the company's net revenue
is derived from outside the United States. Agilent’s net
revenue for the FY 2002 has been U.S. $6 billion.
Agilent India is largely a sales and support organisation. Agilent
have operations in five cities (Bangalore, Hyderabad, Delhi, Kolkata
and Mumbai) in India with expansion plans. Business units in India
caters to the need of Life Sciences and Chemical Analysis, Communications
Solutions, Electronic Products and Solutions area. In Kolkata
it operates from its Salt Lake office, where it has own facilities
with capacity of 75 developers.
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- NetGuru Indiac. (Earlier Research
Engineers Pvt. Ltd)
NnetGuru Inc. is a global company with offices, infrastructure
and representation in over 85 countries, customer base of 19,000
B2B clients with 47,000 installations and 160,000 users worldwide
and is (Research Engineers Pvt. Ltd.), a software company based
in California, USA. NetGuru ha has set up state-of-the-art digital
animation studio facilities along with digital sound recording
studio at Salt Lake in Kolkata at an estimated cost of Rs. 155
million (US$ 3.37 million). The Kolkata facility is a complete
multi media production centre offering special effects and audio
and video services. It is linked to the California, USA headquarters
through a high speed Satellite link up. The Kolkata facilities
are equipped with the latest in hardware and software, as well
as a highly trained, talented pool of artists.
NnetGuru India (Research Engineers) was established in India
in 1996 and currently the company is developing and selling engineering,
graphics and multi-media software products. In 2000-2001, the
company has an export turnover of Rs 23 million. Presently, the
company employs around 85 software professionals in Kolkata.
Company’s export turnover in the year 2002-03 (upto January)
was Rs 3.5 million. For previous financial year 2001 – 02,
the exports were valued at Rs. 11.5 million.
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Web Development Company (WDC), a leading e-business solution
provider and an integrated internet services company, was incorporated
in June 1998. WDC offers a wide range of Internet & web related
technology solutions in India, Asia/Pacific Region and major parts
of Europe. The company is part of Sharchi group. WDC has been
closely working with IBM since its inception in 1998.
The company’s customer portfolio consists of reputed companies
like ITC, Haldia Petrochemicals, CA-TCG, Allahabad Bank, IBM Global
Services, Anderson Consulting, Duckback, Tata Steel, Lafarge,
Indian Airlines etc. WDC has revolutionised the auction system
in the country by web enabling Metal Scrap Trading Corporation’s
(MSTC) auction process. The company has already executed e-auction
worth more than Rs 9.00 crores and projects the web auctioning
turnover to cross Rs 15.00 crores by the end of current fiscal.
WDC has just ventured into ITES segment, setting up a new company
to venture into a wide spectrum of IT related services from tele-marketing
to technology support. The new company, Christened Convergence
Contact Centre Private Ltd (CCCPL), has been set up partly with
support from Sidbi Venture Capital Fund and West Bengal Venture
Capital Fund for Information Technology, Telecommunications and
Electronics.
The operations of the Company are based in Salt Lake, where WDC
has staff strength in excess of 130 and has plans to increase
the same by another 400 in 2003. The company’s export turnover
in the year 2002-03 (upto January) was Rs 4.6 million. For previous
financial year 2001 – 02, the exports were valued at Rs.
6.3 million.
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Caltiger is Kolkata based free ISP (Internet Service Provider)
brand of M/S Patriot Automation Projects Ltd and was best known
as the ISP that offered free internet access. This model was discontinued
and the company is now paid service provider. Caltiger.com was
launched on the 10th of October 1999 and has grown into India’s
largest private ISP, with 757556 subscribers, in over 100 cities.
The current equity capital is Rs 385 million (USD 8 million).
Included amongst shareholders are SMIF’s Capital Markets
Ltd, Transatlantic Corporation Inc. (Spain), Industrial Development
Bank of India Ltd and the Industrial Investment Bank of India
Ltd. Caltiger has over 250 employees with over 100,000 square
ft. of business area.
Caltiger operates a range of Internet services, including Data
Centres, Retail and Corporate Access, International Gateways,
Unified Messaging Service, Internet Fax and Call Centres. Its
offices in 40 Indian cities cater to over 7,50,000 retail and
corporate customers.
Over time, Caltiger has transformed itself into a corporate ISP
providing many more value-added services. It has been selling
bandwidth to organisations like Indian oils, WBSEB and Saha Institute
of Nuclear Physics. Caltiger has forged an alliance with US based
Net2Phone Inc, world leader in technology to offer Internet Telephony
solutions in India to offer voice over internet protocol (VoIP),
in cafes and companies in India and offering rock bottom rates
of as low as Rs 3 per minute minute to the US from India. Caltiger
has launched a website called caltigern2p.com for the user to
buy net telephony calling cards through its network of 70 distributors
all across the country under the brand called ‘Caltiger
Net2phone’.
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The Apeejay Surrendra Group is a diversified industrial conglomerate
with interests in tea, hospitality, real estate, shipping, finance
and technology. The group has promoted three companies that run
three portals teastall.com, Oxfordbookstore.com and Stockmarkit.com.
An online tea boutique, teastall.com is the maiden online venture
of the Group, which began in the year 2000 and is the first B2C
tea boutique in the country. With years of experience behind it
teastall.com is a logical extension of the existing brick and
mortar business of tea production and exports by the Group.
The retail development activities of the Group include the famous
Oxford BookStore at Calcutta. To ensure that the Group matches
global standards in terms of quality facilities, and technology
the group launched Oxfordbookstore.com. Oxforbookstore.com is
a comprehensive and premium virtual bookshop on the net with access
to half a million quality books. The site has simplified the whole
concept of purchasing a book where book lovers can get their favourite
books delivered conveniently to their doorstep.
In order to sharpen its retail focus, the Group has launched
country's premier Internet share trading portal Stockmarkit.com.
Stockmarkit.com is an online venture of Apeejay Securities, a
part of the Group. It is a financial site that provides complete
end-to-end integration for secure electronic trading on the National
Stock Exchange. Stockmarkit.com was the first hosted online trading
site in Asia to have employed the Reuters electronic online trading
solution. The tie-up with Reuters enabled stockmarkit to offer
its clients a world-class experience of online trading. Apeejay
Surrendra Group
The Apeejay Surrendra Group is a diversified industrial and services
conglomerate, with operations in tea plantations, hotels and restaurants,
shipping, real estate, construction and financial services. The
group has promoted three companies that run three portals - teastall.com,
Oxfordbookstore.com and Stockmarkit.com.
teastall.com is the maiden online venture of the Group and is
the first B2C tea boutique in the country. With years of experience
behind it teastall.com is a logical extension of the existing
brick and mortar business of tea production and exports by the
Group.
Oxfordbookstore.com is a comprehensive and premium virtual bookshop
on the net with access to half a million quality books. The site
has simplified the whole concept of purchasing a book where book
lovers can get their favourite books delivered conveniently to
their doorstep.
Stockmarkit.com is an online venture of Apeejay Securities, a
part of the Group. It is a financial site that provides complete
end-to-end integration for secure electronic trading on the National
Stock Exchange. Stockmarkit.com was the first hosted online trading
site in Asia to have employed the Reuters electronic online trading
solution. The tie-up with Reuters enabled stockmarkit to offer
its clients a world-class experience of online trading.
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The Kolkata based teaauction.com is a reverse B2B auction for
tea, which provides a means between buyers and sellers where buyers
can list products or services they are looking for and the sellers
can place offers online. Launched in March 2000, as the first
digital tea exchange to enhance market access and liquidity for
all participants, teaauction.com has been able to significantly
reduce transaction cycle time and associated costs. The auction
operates under an ALL INDIA License from Tea Board, Ministry of
Commerce & Industry.
The company has a robust Back-end based on IBM technology &
DB2 tools and a strategic alliance with AW Figgis & Co. Ltd.,
a 130-year-old brokerage house in the North and TTBL Tea &
Technologies Ltd. in the South for providing affiliated services.
It is also concluding Joint Venture agreements with three other
Brokerage Houses for superior focuses and cost efficient client
servicing. Teauction.com has tied up in a strategic joint venture
with M/s Forbes & Walker in Sri Lanka and are conducting online
sales every week. It is also in advanced discussions with interested
players in Bangladesh and Indonesia for rolling out country specific
Auction Floors.
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Express Communication Pvt. Ltd. is the brainchild of a few young
aspiring industrialists and technologists. The company was incorporated
and registered as a flagship company at Kolkata in May 1999 with
XPS Online as its strategic business unit. However commercial
services of the same became operational in July 2000. Today, XPS
Online is endeavouring to become a total solutions provider. The
company has tied up with IBM as the Technology Partners and under
the guidance of spearheading leaders from IBM, Express Communication
Pvt. Ltd. is all set to march ahead.
The company is all geared up to take the challenging demands
of this Superfast Infoway with the best of available hardware.
The company’s backbone is anchored on the latest State-of-art
Servers and the various components from industry leaders like
3com and Cisco which caters to a whole lot of Internet related
services like Internet Access Services, E Commerce, Application
Services, International Gateway. Today Company is providing all
forms of Internet access i.e. thru dialup’s, dedicated leased
lines, cable and radio. Recently the company has tied up with
Vebtel a 100% owned subsidiary of Asia Telecom to provide Voice
over IP services. Other than Internet Services, Express Communication
also is significantly present in the field of Internet security,
System Integration and Managed Services. Express Communication
has taken care to ensure that the best of manpower becomes an
integral part in the process of making the venture a success.
Currently the company has 40 employees. Express Communication
with the Access Service known as XPSonline.com assures rapid and
seamless flow of valuable information. IBM has provided the entire
solution package for XPS online. The company operates from their
establishment of 6000 sq ft situated in the heart of the city
at Express Tower. The company has made a Rs. 70 million investment
in it's infrastructure to ensure that all websites are stored
on latest state-of-the-art equipment.
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Chembiotek was established with the goal of complementing the
research and development efforts of international companies. With
help of its wide skill pool and dedicated team of scientists,
the company has established research alliances with several major
companies in USA. The company is promoting basic research through
its sister organization Institute of Molecular Medicine in the
cutting edge areas of new drug discovery, molecular biology, phytomedicine
and gene therapy.
The company has craved a niche for itself in areas like Synthetic/Process
Research, Drug Discovery Research and Natural Products Chemistry
and Gene Therapy. The company operates in domain of novel routes,
process improvement and scale up, new chemical entities, computational
biology, combinatorial chemistry, lead optimization using structure
activity relationship studies.
Chembiotek caters to a wide base of international clients including
Biogen, P&G, Bayer, Roche, Pfizer and Novartis. The company
currently employs around 100 persons in Kolkata. For office space
it is occupies 5 acres of land having a built-up area of 30,000
sq ft. After an initial investment of 10 million the company is
now planning another infusion of 10 million by the end of the
next financial year.
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