DQ CHANNELS SILVER CLUB: SOLUTION PROVIDER

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Accel continued to engage itself in providing comprehensive IT services
for enterprises, and the year saw the company getting many new contracts and big orders

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Accel Frontline, the joint venture between the Chennai-based Accel and
Singapore-based Frontline Technologies Corporation, continued to engage itself
in providing comprehensive IT services for enterprises. This includes IT
infrastructure management, software services, infrastructure solutions and IT
outsourcing.

Last fiscal, the company evolved from a systems integrator to a system
provider of end-to-end IT solutions. The year went by with Accel getting many
new contracts. Significant among them were the Rs 5.4 crore contract it bagged
from the Indian Railways through CRIS to deploy about 300 ticket vending
machines; projects from the State Bank of India worth Rs 16 crore, Ericsson
worth Rs 14.7 crore and Alcatel worth Rs 9 crore.

The company also deepened its presence into the ERP space last fiscal.
Employing 2,615 professionals and operating from 100 locations, the company came
out with its IPO in Oct 2006 and got listed on the National Stock Exchange (NSE)
of India and the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE).

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The company had a turnover of Rs 220 crore for the FY ending March 2007.
Accel also indicated a fairly high employee satisfaction score.

A list of skill-sets is maintained by HR and is constantly upgraded.
Employees are encouraged to choose the technology they wish to be trained in.
The company sets aside handsome skill allowances for the same.



Profile


Chairman and CEO: NR Panicker

Start-up year: 1995

Employees: 2,065

Collaborations: Seagate, Kingston, Oracle, Brother, Trend Micro

Address: Accel House, 75, Nelson Manickam Road, Aminjkarai, Chennai - 600029

Tel: 044-23741271

Website:www.accelfrontline.com
HIGHLIGHTS
  • Came out with its IPO in October 2006
    and is listed on the National Stock Exchange of India and the Bombay Stock
    Exchange
  • Won a contract to deploy 300 automatic
    vending ticket vending machines for the Indian railways

SILVER CLUB RANK (2005-06): 2

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2.Frontier Business Systems :Sultan Of The South

Last fiscal proved to be a very good one for Frontier, which bagged many
large enterprise deals. The company also re-evaluated all business lines and
drew up a strong organization structure to enable scaleable growth

Bangalore-based Frontier Business Systems entered new frontiers of growth all
through the last fiscal and managed to clock revenues of Rs 197 crore, showing a
good 11 percent growth. Having consolidated its business in South India,
Frontier is now considering expansions into the North and West regions of the
country.

The company added new offerings like security consulting and certification to
its business, and started a new services division, while successfully launching
the ITIL training and certification in Bangalore and Chennai.

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The company also bagged many large enterprise deals from key customers that
included a Rs 28 crore project from BHEL and a Rs 10 crore project from the
Cyberabad Convention Center. The focus was also on setting up datacenters for
customers, which provided some key wins as well.

Having ventured into information security consulting and managed services
successfully, the company is now looking to scale across all regions in the
country and expects about 25 percent of their net fiscal revenues to come from
services.

Frontier also made some signi­ficant invest­ments on development of soft
skills especially for the key manage­ment team in order to help them handle
large revenue volumes.

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Drawing up three-year plans, Frontier is looking at doubling their turnover
to Rs 400 crore by 2010. It intends to open offices in West India, and is
evaluating options for services outside India.

The system integration skills have been put into use in large implementations
covering multiple IT infrastructure areas.



Profile


Director: Ravi Verdes

Start-up year: 1994

Employees: 495

Collaborations: IBM, Lenovo, Sun Microsystems, Cisco, Emerson, Citrix

Address: 18/10, Cunningham Road, Bangalore - 560033

Tel: 080-32970020

Website:www.frontierdomain.com

HIGHLIGHTS
  • Won the Best SI for India award from
    Lenovo for APAC region and became Gold partner for Citrix and Microsoft
  • Bagged large enterprise deals from key
    customers and focused on setting up a datacenter for customers

SILVER CLUB RANK (2005-06): 3

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3.PRECISION GROUP :Precise Actions

Having several vendors in its kitty helped Precision Group offer a diverse
set of solutions to its customers and having built its base in South, the
company is now targeting western and eastern regions

The Precision Group is a 12-year old solution providing firm catering to
large corporates as well as small and medium enterprises in India. It has
offices in Chennai, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Trichy, Madurai, Coimbatore and
Vishakapattinam.

Last year, the company decided to move beyond South and opened an office in
Mumbai and New Delhi.

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From clocking Rs 115 crore in 2005-06 to Rs 177 crore in the last fiscal,
Precision was one of the few companies, which registered over 35 percent growth.

Even after a being premier enterprise partner and authorized service delivery
partner for HP; member business partner and authorized support provider for IBM;
channel partner and authorized service provider for HCL; certified gold partner
for Microsoft and Novell, strategic business partner for Toshiba, the company
still felt it was missing some piece of the solution pie. Hence it tied up with
VM Ware to concentrate more on the storage segment.

Recently, HP India opened its business solutions center in Chennai in
partnership with Precision Infomatic at the latter's premises to help customers
get an experience of the latest HP products and solutions to cater to their
business needs, specific to the operative verticals. The center showcases HP
products like servers, storage, thin clients, commercial desktops, notebooks,
workstations, commercial printers and HP genuine accessories, catering to
enterprise and mid-market businesses. Customers can witness live demonstrations
of software application on HP hardware customized to their business
requirements.



Profile


CEO: V Murali

Start-up year: 1996

Employees: 750

Collaborations: HP, IBM, HCL, Microsoft, Novell, Toshiba

Address: #22, 1st Floor, Habibullah Road,T Nagar, Chennai - 600017

Tel: 044-42199500

Website:www.precisionit.co.in

HIGHLIGHTS
  • Opened HP's first business solutions
    centre in India for SMB and enterprise customers at its Chennai office
  • Signed up with VM Ware to concentrate
    more on the storage segment

SILVER CLUB RANK (2005-06): 6

4.Team Computers :Gearing For Higher Growth

Attaining high revenues and bagging large scale projects, Team Computers
is now looking at further expanding its employee base

Crossing Rs 1,000 crore mark in turnover and improving customer experience by
a strategic relaxed focus on execution and process excellence is the target that
New Delhi-based Team Computers has set for itself. In addition, the company will
also be looking forward to improve its shareholder experience by increasing
profitability and net profit margin to 20 percent and return on net worth to 100
percent.

Some of the applications launched by Team this year include NaviQlik-a
ready­made templated plug-and-play data analytics for Navision users. It also
introduced Qlik2Collect, a set of applica­tions that help analytics for
collection agencies. Yet another product from the Team stable was HR in a Box,
which uses an engine that converts business rules into applica­tions without
extensive coding to suit the HR practices of customers. Team also opened an
office in the United States calling it Team Business Solutions LLC in 2007.

Projects undertaken by the company saw them implement business intelligence
solutions that helped Canon's manage­ment in obtaining a unified view of their
data coming from various data sources. It provided IT infrastructure, process
auto­mation and information solut­ions to Fullerton. Team also went a step
further to implement a comprehensive data analytics and reporting tool that
helped Reliance Life Insurance analyze a vast data and penetrate into the
profitable sources.

With 26 existing offices spreading across all the regions, Team Computers was
able to earn 54 percent revenues from North region while 26 percent was the
contribution from West. In addition, 16 percent came from South and four percent
from the eastern region.

SME/SMB was the vertical that brought in the highest amount of business at 51
percent contribution with the services offered to this segment. IT/ITeS resulted
in revenues close to 15 percent. Team Computers plans to expand their headcount
massively and next fiscal will see the company hire close to 400 new employees
depending upon their needs. Sales, marketing and tech support area will see
maximum number of addition.

At present, the company has 101 employees for their marketing purpose, but in
the next financial year it will be increased to 150. On the other hand, tech
support area currently has only 388 people in board and this will soon be
increased to 600. This in context of the projects the company is undertaking on
a massive scale.



Profile


CEO: Ranjan Chopra

Start-up year: 1987

Employees: 1200+

Collaborations: Acer, ADC Krone, AMP, APC, Cisco, 3Com, D-Link, Dax
Networks, Emerson Networks, Epicor, HP, IBM, Lenovo and Intel

Address: #1, Mohmmadpur, New Delhi - 110066

Tel: 011-42004200, 9810008000

HIGHLIGHTS
  • Started US office as Team Business
    Solutions LLC in 2007
  • Tied up with Epicor to expand its
    presence in North India market

SILVER CLUB RANK (2005-06): 9

5.Netlink Business System :Raising The Bar

The company acquired Imagination Infotech, tied up with Sun and executed
projects for some big names

Registering an estimated growth of 20 percent last fiscal, Netlink Business
Systems reportedly had a turnover of Rs 164 crore in 2006-07, posting a growth
of 16 percent. The company has recently acquired Imagination Infotech. It has
also tied-up with Sun Microsystems and is in dialogues to set-up an alliance
with Oracle for their currently fast upcoming versatile business solutions.

Netlink has executed projects for General Electric, Hero Corporate Services,
NIIT Group, Oberoi Group of Hotels, Bechtel, Vanguard, HCL Group, BBC, SCOPE,
Khodays, Li and Fung, Le-Meriden, Radisson, Multimedia Super Corridor, DHL, BHEL,
and other Indian and International companies.

Observing the surmounting business opportunities in Chennai (for its growing
automotive industry) in Bangalore (for being a software paradise) and Hyderabad
(for a major IT industry), Netlink has opened three new offices in these
locations. The company has its operations that is spread across 19 cities in the
country and has its product development facilities in Malaysia and the US.

Netlink earns a major share of its revenue from the US market, which is
followed by North India and then South India. The company is next moving towards
the Middle East market for which it claims to be moving with the right approach.

After the tie-up with Imagination Infotech, the manpower strength of the
company has shot up to 500. it is aiming to move forward with the team with a
consolidated approach.



Profile


CEO: Rajesh Bakshi

Start-up year: 1992

Employees: 500

Collaborations: IBM, HP, Cisco, Tyco, Apple, Nortel, Microsoft, Systimax,
HP, Veritas, EMC, D-Link, 3Com, CA, Raritan, Procurve and Juniper

Address: #10, Vohra House, Level 1, Community Centre, Jamrudpur, Kailash
Colony Extension, New Delhi - 110048

Tel: 011-51635101/2/3/

Website:www.netlinkbusiness.com

HIGHLIGHTS
  • Acquired Imagination Infotech and tied
    up

    with Sun Microsystems
  •  Integrated applications for 18,000
    call

    centres seats

SILVER CLUB RANK (2005-06): 8

6.Value Point Systems :Expansion On The Menu

A year of expansion for Value Point Systems, the company opened five new
branch offices, while also increasing its headcount to almost 1,000 employees

Bangalore-based Value Point Systems concentrated on expanding its presence,
both in India as well as abroad in 2006-07. As part of its geographic expansion
strategy, the company opened offices in the US, Singapore and the Middle East.
Within India, Value Point expanded to Mumbai, Chennai, Hyderabad, Trivandrum,
Kochi, Madurai, Vishakapatnam, Trichy, Coimbatore and Pune.

Last fiscal, the company posted a turnover of Rs 158 crore, up from Rs 111
crore, registering a growth of 30 percent. The company also obtained the ISO
9001 certification for sales and services, and acquired Knowledgeworks-a leading
Indian language translation services company. Its 10-year successful
relationship with HP was recognized and the company became HP's top value
partner for APJ this FY 2006-07.

Value Point also received the 'Prince of India' Award from HP for FY 2006-07.
While expanding into newer geographies, the company also grew in its manpower
strength and currently has nearly 1,000 people working within the group. Of the
total revenue of Rs 158 crore, IT/ITeS and SMB verticals seemed to be the major
contributors last fiscal, followed closely by the education sector.

While furthering all its existing relationships, Value Point also forged
relationships with Microsoft Dynamics, new ISVs and tied-up with many security
solution companies last fiscal.



Profile


Director: RS Shanbhag

Start-up year: 1991

Employees: 989

Collaborations: HP, Microsoft, Cisco, APC, Symantec, Sun, and Tyco

Address: #66 St John Woods Road, Opposite Oracle Lexington, Koramangala,Bangalore - 560029

Tel: 80-66266000

Website:
www.valuepointsystems.com

HIGHLIGHTS
  • Opened new offices in the US, Singapore
    and the Middle East.
  • Became HP's top value partner for APJ
    for FY 2006-07 and received the Prince of India award from HP for FY
    2006-07.

SILVER CLUB RANK (2005-06):13

7.Sai InfoSystems (India) :A Golden Year

Ahmedabad-based Sai Infosystems played its cards right and emerged as the
biggest solution provider in the city

2006-07 was a success story of no small proportions for Sai who leapfrogged
  from the 15th spot to the 7th spot. It also earned the distinction of being
the company with the highest growth rate, of 45 percent in this year's Silver
Club for solution providers.

The revenue for Sai Infosystems, which was Rs 87 crore for the previous year
jumped up to Rs 157 crore in 2006-07. So what were the factors that one could
attribute to such a quantum leap in the ranking for Sai Infosystems?

2006-07 saw the opening of two new branches. Also, the number of trained
employees in Sai Infosystems increased to 171. The company bagged five major
awards and certifications during 2006-07. However, the major incentive for
growth came by means of three new projects bagged by Sai Infosystems, viz, MTNL,
E-Urja and CTD. Besides this, some new products like SIS Slim PC and blade
server were also launched in 2006-07.

West obviously contributed highest to the overall revenues of the company,
bringing in 61 percent. North came up next with 35 percent.

According to those at the helm of affairs at Sai Infosystems, such an
exponential rise in growth can also be attributed to its expansion of call
center infrastructure. To extend this purple patch further into the year
2007-08, Sai Infosystems has well-laid plans. Featuring at the top of its
priority list is overseas expansion. At Sai Infosystems, this takes forbearance
among other things on its agenda. Also, strengthening of its managed services is
something that Sai Infosystems is looking forward to achieving in the year
2007-08.



Profile


CEO: Sunil Kakkad

Start-up year: 1992

Employees: 458

Collaborations: Intel, HP, IBM, Acer, Sun, Cisco, D-Link, Epson, Microsoft, SCO, Oracle, Zyxel, MRO-Tek, Multitech, LG, Samsung, Seagate, Avaya
Networks, Siemens

Address: Saicare, Paresh Cooperative Housing Society, Near Chaitanya Bus
Stop, Navarangpura, Ahmedabad - 300014

Tel: 079-30110400

Website:www.saicare.com

HIGHLIGHTS
  • Bagged three new projects, viz, MTNL,

    E-Urja and CTD
  • Expansion of call center infrastructure

SILVER CLUB RANK (2005-06):15

8.Allied Digital Services :Reason To Rejoice

Even though Allied Digital Services fell from #5 to #8 position in this
year's Silver Club, it has serveral reasons to rejoice

Allied Digital Services posted 44 percent growth which is the second highest
all SPs in the Silver Club. Its revenue for 2006—07 was Rs 156 crore, while it
stood at 88 the year before. The company expanded its countrywide coverage from
72 to 92 locations. An additional 422 employees were recruited into the
organization in the technical support, sales, marketing and middle management
area. Last fiscal Allied Digital also opened an office in Sydney, Australia to
tap the business potential there. It won several accolades in 2006-07 including
an award from DQ Channels as 'Most Comprehensive Solution Provider' and 'Best
Systems Integrator' by The DQ Week.

Chief project bagged by Allied Digital was the SAP Infrastructure Solution
deployed by it for 22,000 SAPs using open source operating system. This was
India's first large scale SAP deployment on a Linux platform. Besides this, it
also deployed the asset management and endpoint security solution for over
45,000 users for the ICICI Group. According to Allied Digital, this is the
largest deployment of asset management and endpoint security solution in
Asia-Pacific region using LANDesk Management Suite. Apart from these two
contracts, Allied Digital won the IT infrastructure management and IT
outsourcing contract for five years from Otis Elevators.

The year 2006—07 saw Allied tying up with vendors like Echelon for
intelligent building management system, Epicor for enterprise resource planning
and Verint for IP video surveillance and video analytics solutions for physical
security.

It has also tied-up with e-Cop to set-up e-Cop's security operations center
in India. The future looks bright for Allied Digital with new initiatives like
remote management services, TBPO etc. The company has plans to grow by 100
percent.

Recently Allied went for an IPO in the price band of Rs 170 to Rs 190 per
share. The company plans to use these funds to set up a 35,000 sq ft new
corporate office in Mumbai and expand its warehousing space across the existing
12 locations that it has. Some funds will be utilized in beefing up the internal
infrastructure including deploying ERP and VPN and sprucing up its repair
centers. Allied also plans to set up a 250-seat BPO, a network operation center
(NOC) and a security operation center (SOC) to offer remote network management
and the managed security services.



Profile


CEO: Nitin Shah

Start-up year: 1984

Employees: 1,256

Collaborations: IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Unisys, Epicor, HP, Cisco,

Stonesoft, Resilience, Nortel Networks, Novell, EMC, LANDesk, Fujitsu

Address: 77/79, Third floor, Kimmatrai, MK Marg, New Marine Lines,
Mumbai — 400002,

Tel: 022-22002020

Website:www.alliedindia.com


HIGHLIGHTS
  • Signed Echelon for offering intelligent
    building management system
  • Tied up with Epicor for ERP and Verint
    for IP video surveillance and video analytics solutions

SILVER CLUB RANK (2005-06): 5

9.PC Solutions :Aiming For The Sky

PC Solutions added several new customers taking its client list to 70 in
2006-07. The SME vertical contributed 24 percent to its overall turnover

Focusing on the changing needs of customers' helped PC Solutions carve its

way to success. This fiscal the company showed a decent increase in its revenues
registering a turnover of Rs 141 crore, posting a growth of 11 percent over the
previous fiscal. A major share of this revenue came from managed services at Rs
16.34 crore. Planning to concentrate on this service aspect increasingly, PC
Solutions hopes to grow its turnover by 50 percent the next fiscal.

Given that PC Solutions is mainly into services like that of server
consolidation, virtualization, security audits and policy implementation, the
company at present has a tie-up with all major players like HP, IBM, Lenovo,
EMC, Microsoft, VMWare, Citrix, Symantec among others. It is also a premier
partner of Cisco.

This year the company moved one level up in IT infrastructure and focused on
sales and solutions for ITeS, BPO, media, BFSI, services and infrastructure and
manufacturing. 80 percent of PC Solutions' customers are MNCs and the company is
aiming at providing them with best of the enterprise security solutions and
information management solutions to concretize their relationship.

Keeping in mind the exponential growth of the IT industry, the company is
focusing towards expanding its engagement with customers. With 765 employees
already on the payroll, the company plans to further increase its headcount in
the tech support area, alongside project implementation and quality control area
for the next fiscal. This is in view of both the existing projects and the new
overseas projects that the company has clinched.



Profile


CEO: Devendra Taneja

Start-up year: 1988

Employees: 765

Collaborations: HP, Microsoft, Lenovo, EMC, VMWare, Cisco, Citrix, Symantec

Address: 12, Sant Nagar, East of Kailash, New Delhi

Tel: 011-26448833, 26212444

Website:www.e-pspl.com

HIGHLIGHTS
  • Forayed into e-gov projects in 2006-07
    for

    the first time
  • Managed services contributed Rs 16.34
    crore

    to overall revenue

SILVER CLUB RANK (2005-06): 10

10.Vitage Systems :Support Matters

Realizing the potential of domestic IT application management and
infrastructure services, the Vitage Group floated a new entity called Vitage
Technologies last fiscal and established a remote management center

Realizing the potential of domestic IT application management and
infrastructure services, the Vitage Group floated a new entity called Vitage
Technologies in the last fiscal. The new entity added to the revenue stream and
the company clocked total revenueof Rs 120 crore, as compared to 104 in the
previous fiscal.

With continued focus on services, Vitage established a remote management
center and also got it assessed through the ISO 20000-1(ITSM/ITIL). This boosted
the company's confidence and it appears that service will continue to be a prime
focus for this group in the next fiscal as well.

While the IT/ITeS seemed to be the biggest revenue generator, other verticals
like manufacturing, telecom, healthcare, media, hospitality, BFSI and retail
added to the revenue figures.

Providing comprehensive support and infrastructure service to customers
continued to be the key differentiator for the company last fiscal and managed
services added to the customer satisfaction. Increased technical focus, improved
customer relationships and an efficient support team helped Vitage increase its
overall business in the last fiscal.

The company continued to build on its collaborations with IBM, Lenovo, HP,
Cisco, Systimax, Molex, Wildpackets, Nitix, Microsoft, CA and EMC while also
looking at new possible tie-ups. Currently working with almost 500 employees,
the company hopes to double its headcount during the next fiscal in order to
help it in delivering services efficiently to customers.



Profile


CEO: Satyen Vyas

Start-up year: 1993

Employees: 500

Collaborations: IBM, Lenovo, HP, Apple, Cisco, Systimax, Molex, D-Link,
Microsoft, Veritas, Vmware, Symantec, Wildpackets, Hitachi, Bakbone,
Audiocodes, Ramco and Sage

Address: Vitage Systems, 18/1 Wellington Street, Richmond Town, Bangalore -
560025

Tel: 080-22990411

Website:www.vitage.com

HIGHLIGHTS
  • Floated a new entity called Vitage

    Technologies
  • Established a remote management center

    and also got it ISO 20000-1(ITSM/ITIL) certified

SILVER CLUB RANK (2005-06): 12

11.SystemTech Inc:Alliance Time

System Tech entered into two major tie-ups. The first was with a leading
datacenter solutions provider for network power and cooling solutions, and the
second was with IBM for network and security consulting solutions

Bangalore-based SystemTech posted a growth of 15 percent in 2006-07 to clock
revenues of Rs 118 crore. Its enterprise business grew by 200 percent as
compared to the previous year. The company managed this feat by focusing on the
deployment of enterprise servers and storage products.

SystemTech had some key wins last year, which catapulted it into the big
league. It bagged a hardware solution implementation deal for an enterprise
resource planning (ERP) deployment from a leading consumer durables
manufacturing company. Another big win was a storage solution implementation
project from a mainstream IT research lab and software development company.
Besides this, the company signed up for a software licensing and implementation
deal for a property management and construction company.

SystemTech has entered into two major tie-ups with a leading datacenter
solutions provider for network power and cooling solutions, and another
partnership with IBM, a leading information security solutions provider for
network and security consulting solutions. Last fiscal, SystemTech opened
offices in Mysore and Hubli, and it is now trying to entrench itself in other
cities of south. Once it has consolidated itself in the southern market, it will
train its sights on north, where it expects good uptake for business.

Besides expanding its offices, the company is trying to recruit. Last year
the company recruited people in its sales, services, consulting, administration
and accounts as well as logistics management divisions sales, services,
consulting, administration and accounts, as well as logistics management
divisions.


Profile


CEO: K Sai Ramesh

Start-up year: 1988

Employees: 80

Collaborations: HP, IBM, Microsoft, Lenovo

Address: #2, ST House, DNR Layout, Palace Guttahalli,Bangalore - 560020,

Tel: 080-23444715, 23342862

Website:www.systemtech.biz

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HIGHLIGHTS
  • Opened offices in Mysore and Hubli
  • Tied up with IBM for network and
    security consulting solutions

SILVER CLUB RANK (2005-06): Newcomer

12.Progressive Infotech :Exploring New Horizons

Managed services helped Progressive to post an impressive 32 percent
growth in the last fiscal. Now the company is all set to expand geographically
and will also increase its headcount in the tech support area

For Progressive Infotech a company known for technology integration and
managed services in India, growth came largely due to its overall value
proposition and geographic expansion.

Progressive Infotech registered a Rs 110 crore turnover in 2006-07. Now it
has plans to raise this momentum, and is targeting a growth of 70 percent for
the next fiscal. The fact that the company has registered significant growth is
evident in the light of its quarter-wise revenue break up. Progressive saw 17
percent contribution to overall revenues in the first quarter of last fiscal,
which rose to 32 percent in the fourth quarter.

The company opened new offices in Hyderabad and Chennai recently, and is
working on ways to expand its foothold in the southern region. It is now present
in more than 100 locations across India. The company also registered a
significant growth in the western region with 20 percent of this revenue coming
from Mumbai.

30 percent of Progressive's revenues for the FY '06-07 came from its new
customers such as NDPC, Aviva, Dabur, etc. For the next fiscal, Progressive is
looking to increase its headcount, especially in the tech support area. This is
largely due to the fact that the company is concentrating on existing projects
revolving around system integration, infrastructure management and other
deployment services.

This apart, Progressive is also trying to garner more revenues from the
western region and is expecting that the revenue contribution from North will go
down, while that of West will shoot up.



Profile


CEO: Prateek Garg

Start-up year: 1998

Employees: 600+

Collaborations: HP, Microsoft, Linux, VmWare, Citrix, Novell, Avaya Global

Address: C-161, Phase - 2 Extension, Noida - 201305

Tel: 0120-4393939

Website:www.progressive.in


HIGHLIGHTS
  • Bagged an e-government project in
    association with HP for providing infrastructure solutions and
    implementing ERP
  • Imbibed three quality standards namely
    ISO 9001:2000, ISO 20000-1: 2005 and ISO 27001:2005

SILVER CLUB RANK (2005-06): 19

13.Visesh Infotecnics :Eyeing Overseas Business

With Sify, Echostar and Living Media as its new customers, Visesh
Infotechnics will soon foray into the UK and Hong Kong markets

Planning its diversification into newer markets and launching new services
and products, enabled Visesh Infotecnics to make its presence felt. Apart from
that it also maximized returns from its business. Not only was the company busy
in implementing projects undertaken, but it also expanded its domain by entering
into contracts and clinching new tie-ups.

Working hard to build a brand name for its services, Visesh registered
revenue of Rs 110.33 crore for 2006-07, registering a growth of a 28 percent
from the year before when its turnover stood at Rs 78 crore.

Propelling this growth were the various contracts that the company bagged and
deployed. These were spread across various verticals like BPO to
telecommunication. In the last vertical, the company provided value-added
services like ringtone downloads from all GSM operators across nation.

Besides this, Visesh also offered its services in the areas of TransX CPM
application for fleet management of several BPOs including JP Morgan, V-Connect
etc. Visesh also implemented Wi-Max projects in cities such as Pune and
Uttranchal.

In addition, it managed outsourcing contracts for global technical support
for UK-based Image Anlyser. With this project in hand, the company was also
appointed the exclusive distributor for Asia Pacific initiatives and awarded
exclusive global technical support on the product by Image Anlyser. What's more,
Sanjeev Bhavnani, CEO of Visesh was also appointed as Director (Asia-Pacific) by
the company.

In the wake of these new contracts, Visesh went to make some new customers,
which included the UK's OMV, Living Media Group, Echo Star and Sify.



Profile


CEO: Sanjiv Bhavnani

Start-up year: 1987

Employees: 391

Collaborations: Cyberworks Software Inc, Image Analyser (UK), IBM,
HP, Lenovo, Oracle, Novell, Red Hat, Cisco, Dax Networks and Panasonic

Address: 5, Scindia House, Connaught Place,

New Delhi — 110001

Tel: 011-41514551 to 58

Website:www.viseshinfo.com
HIGHLIGHTS
  • CPM application on TransXS for fleet
    management of several BPOs including JP Morgan, V Customer etc
  • Offered VAS like ringtone downloads from
    all GSM operators nationwide

SILVER CLUB RANK (2005-06): 16

14.Silicon Integrix :Post-Merger Growth

Despite the merger of four IT companies into Silicon Integrix, the company
managed to iron out all issues and post a growth of 25 percent in 2006-07

When the four IT companies, Silicon Comnet, Integrix India, OA Compserve and
Premptive merged, it gave birth to a new end-to-end solution provider-Silicon
Integrix. But the entire merger process was so well-planned that the company
managed to post a healthy growth, rather than get in the post-merger quagmire
evident in most mergers.

Silicon Integrix touched the milestone turnover of Rs 100 crore in 2006-07,
and is planning to grow consistently and touch Rs 125 crore by the end of March
2008.

The company designed, implemented and supported data/voice communications
networks and business applications for many leading multinationals, PSUs and
Indian corporation houses. The range of services that Silicon offer are business
process management, messaging and collaboration, wireless, storage, IT security,
video surveillance, optimization, cabling and networking, datacenter and unified
communications.

Under business process management system, Silicon has developed Augment, a
comprehensive solution for rapid automation of processes. Augment Version 2.0
includes process server and document manager process developer.

Silicon has designed, deployed and managed Wi-Fi, WiMax, WiMesh, WLAN, WAN,
SDH, PDH wireless networks in licensed and unlicensed frequency bands. It has
also imple­mented both indoor and campus-wide wireless solutions, and
successfully deployed them for IIM Lucknow, Bharti Airtel, Godfrey Phillips etc.



Profile


CEO: Atul Bansal

Start-up year: 2006

Employees: 450

Collaborations: Cisco, EMC, HP, Network Appliance, Radware, Riverbed
Technology and CA

Address: Vashisht House, 7/2, 7/3, Kalu Sarai, Begumpur, New Delhi -
110017

Tel: 011-418288614

Website:
www.siliconintegrix.net

HIGHLIGHTS
  • Developed Augment, a comprehensive
    solution

    for rapid automation of processes
  • Opened two new offices in Bangalore

    and Mumbai

SILVER CLUB RANK (2005-06): Newcomer

15.Apara Enterprise solutions :Going Global

Apara Enterprise Solutions explored new avenues, both in terms of
geography as well as business lines, last fiscal. The company has opened Apara
Global Services branches in UK, Netherlands and US

The last fiscal seemed to be all about exploring new avenues, both in terms
of geography as well as business lines, for Apara Enterprise Solutions. It
opened its Apara Global Services branches overseas in the UK, Netherlands and
US.

Additionally, it invested in building an NOC for rolling out Global
Enterprise Management Services offering remote management and monitoring
services to customers in India and globally. In recognition of its work, Apara
won the Best Juniper Partner award in the ASEAN region for emerging
technologies, last fiscal.

The company hired trained and certified manpower for rolling out professional
services. Of its overall revenue of Rs 90 crore, nearly half came from the sale
of hardware and software, and a significant portion from services.



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MD: MS Sidhu

Start-up year: 1982

Employees: 170

Collaborations: NetApp, Hitachi Data Systems, Symantec, Sun, Brocade,
Juniper, IronPort, Citrix, Bluecoat, Avocent, Mirapoint, RSA and Trend Micro

Address: Oxford Towers, Suite 801, 7th Floor, 139, Airport Road, Kodihalli,
Bangalore - 560008

Tel: 080-39892727

Website:www.apara.com

HIGHLIGHTS
  • Opened its AGS (Apara Global Services)
    branches overseas in UK (London), Netherlands and US
  • Invested in building a NOC for rolling
    out GEMS Services

SILVER CLUB RANK (2005-06): 11

16.Targus Technologies :Expansion On Its Mind

Having undertaken some good projects for telecom and government, Targus
Technologies is now exploring the BPO and education verticals for which it is
following meticulously woven strategies

Touching a turnover of Rs 88 crore in the year 2006-07, Targus Technologies
registered growth of 26 percent from Rs 65 crore, of the previous fiscal. With
the objective to expand its reach, the company opened two new offices in Mumbai
and Pune last fiscal. Targus Technology also forayed into network integration
last year, and deployed some commendable projects.

One of the challenging projects that brought high acknowledgement was
Monitoring and Response System (CS-MARS) that involved the services like
penetration testing and vulnerability assessment, and was deployed for leading
telecom company and cost $75,000. Another major project was for a Chinese
company Invista where its newly opened Indian office was to be connected with
the China-based head-office and this was done through VoIP-based on routers and
IP phones.



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CEO: Col Balwinder Singh

Start-up year: 1997

Collaborations: Cisco, Molex, Oracle, Sun Microsystems, Tyco Electronics

Employees: 150

Address: F-11, East of Kailash, New Delhi - 110065

Tel: 011-41646541-44

Website:www.targustech.com

HIGHLIGHTS
  • Offered FMS to XTE, HFCL, Spice, Nokia,
    Bharti, Hutch, Nestle, IBM, Mapinfo, ICSI
  • Was appointed as Cisco Certified
    Internetwork Expert

SILVER CLUB RANK (2005-06): 23

17.Orient Technologies :Rocketing The Ranks

With several awards in its kitty and new projects coming its way, Orient
has further strengthened its position on the leaderboard vis-à-vis the previous
year

What Ajay Sawant and his team could achieve for Orient Technologies in the
year 2006-07 is noteworthy. Not only have they rocketed up the rankings, but
also there have been some truly neat achievements for the company this fiscal.

The company posted a turnover of Rs 77 crore in the last fiscal, which is a
38 percent growth over the previous year's Rs 48 crore.

Orient Technologies opened its branch in Pune last year and trained 120
employees on various technologies. This aside, Orient added VMware and thin
client technologies to its portfolio.

It certified 73 people last fiscal and also bagged awards from Citrix,
Fortinet, HP and Microsoft. But of these all, the most prestigious one was from
Citrix, since it was bagged at the APAC.

The company found several new projects landing in its portfolio last year.
Prominent among them were projects from Crisil, CNBC Newswire and Gujarat Ambuja.
Orient Technologies also lapped up good contracts from JP Morgan Chase & Co and
VSNL.

For AMCs, Orient is currently offering its support to 27 cities across India.
It has full-fledged sales and support offices in Mumbai, Navi Mumbai, Bangalore,
New Delhi, Ahmedabad, Chennai and Pune.

Orient also provides various services like help desk services, backup
management, asset management, network management, vendor management, mail
management, anti­virus management, etc.



Profile


CEO: Ajay Sawant

Start-up year: 1991

Employees: 400+

Collaborations: HP, Veritas, Fortinet, Microsoft, Sun Microsystems, Check
Point, Clearswift MIMEsweeper, Nokia and Citrix

Address: #2&3, Niraj Industrial Estate, Off Mahakali Caves Road, Andheri
(E), Mumbai - 400093

Tel: 022-67158888

Website:www.orientindia.com

HIGHLIGHTS
  • Received awards from Citrix, Fortinet,
    HP and Microsoft
  • Bagged contracts from JP Morgan Chase,
    VSNL, CRISIL, CNBC Newswire and Gujarat Ambuja

SILVER CLUB RANK (2005-06): 25

18.Omnitech InfoSolutions :Bright Future Ahead

Last fiscal saw the company launch several new products and services. The
Omnitech camp therefore had all the reasons to be upbeat

Omnitech InfoSolutions entered into a joint venture with Al Mutawa Group last
fiscal, working towards the disaster recovery center and consulting services in
Bahrain, which will fully operational very soon. Also, as a first step towards
inorganic growth, EdVenture Systems Inc (ESI) became a part of Omnitech
InfoSolutions.

These tie-ups were critical for the company as their sales turnover increased
by 29 percent. The company clocked a turnover of Rs 78 crore in 2006-07, up from

Rs 55 crore in the previous fiscal.

The company claimed that its bottom line grew by 95 percent, international
business by 90 percent, services business by 150 percent and Omnicians' team
grew by 65 percent. In 2006-07, Omnitech InfoSolutions launched several new
products and services, which included OmniMonitor-an IT infrastructure
monitoring service; build-operate-transfer (BOT), and software-as-a-service (SaaS)
models. Most of its business in the last fiscal came from the western region,
contributing 63.14 percent to overall revenues, followed by 23 percent from its
international projects.

For the next FY, Omnitech InfoSolutions plans to continue growing at the pace
it had during last year. it will continue focusing on enhancing its offerings to
create further niche markets and expertise, penetrate into new markets such as
the US, Canada, UK, Belgium and other european countries, Japan and the Gulf
Cooperation Council (GCC) countries; achieve inorganic growth through strategic
acquisitions and investments; expansion of client base through the acquisition
of new clients; and continuation of investments in R&D for product development
and technology deployment.



Profile


CEO: Atul Hemani

Start-up year: 1987

Employees: 505

Collaborations: IBM, HP, Epson, D-Link, Cisco, Intel, Tandberg, Veritas,
Citrix, CA, Matrix

Address: Omnitech House, A/13, Cross Rd No 5, Kondivita Road, Marol, MIDC,
Andheri (E), Mumbai - 400093

Tel: 022-40956666