Apara Enterprise Solutions: Positive growth

Apara showed a positive growth in the last fiscal and attributed the same to
its continued focus on networking, storage, security solutions and services

It was positive growth for Apara Enterprise Solutions in the last fiscal. The
year 2005-06, brought in a total turnover of nearly Rs 120 crore for this
solution provider. From a turnover of Rs 89 crore in the previous fiscal, the
company showed a 35 percent growth this time around. This was a very positive
sign also because in the fiscal 2004-05, Apara had actually clocked lesser than
its previous year. Good management of it business tie-ups along with a continued
focus on its core technology areas of networking, storage and security helped
the company bounce back in terms of revenues.

A good focus on services in addition to solution providing and some credible
projects and deployments added to the growth factor. As always, Apara last
fiscal too continued its focus on business improvement, expansion and training
of manpower.

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CEO: MS Sidhu
Highlights Clocked a revenue of over 100 crore Positive growth in fiscal 2005-06 as compared to negative growth in the previous year Technology strength in networking, storage and security

Tie-ups with more strategically relevant partners and selling relevant
solutions seemed to benefit the company in a big way. While awards and
recognition also came its way, the biggest plus was an increased and continued
customer mindshare, along with enhancements in its brand share in the domestic
market. Building on services, security, storage and networking, the company also
worked on various other projects within the domestic arena.

The company claims to provide best in class solutions and consulting services
in enterprise storage, intelligent networking, enterprise security, secure
messaging and application solutions. Its ability to resolve customers'
business problems by providing simple and cost effective solutions together with
an in-depth delivery approach is helping over 400 transnational and Indian
enterprises to achieve their objectives, across various industry segments like
banking and finance, telecom, service providers, ITeS/BPO, software, energy and
manufacturing.

Apara's significant expertise across domains is allowing its world-class
talent pool to design, develop and architect customized infrastructure solutions
from its portfolio of selected industry leading products, solutions and
partners.

For businesses that rely on technology for critical operations, Apara offers
a plethora of alternatives that helps them improve efficiencies and leverage new
market opportunities. It boasts of understanding the technology and process of
managing, protecting, moving and securing data across enterprise networks,
better than any one else.

In Apara's success, lies the hand of numerous customers. People who have
been instrumental in its growth. include; ABN AMRO Bank, Accenture, Bharti
Group, Citibank, Daimler Chrysler, Ericsson, GE Captial, HFCL, ICICI Bank, Idea
Cellular, Intel, Kotak Mahindra, Motorola, Rediff.com, Reliance Infocomm, Robert
Bosch, Synopsys and Yahoo India.

The company is helping organizations focus on their core business of
harnessing business value out of the information quagmire. Thereby helping them
deliver value-based and innovative solutions to their customers.