Frontier Business Systems : Forging New Paths

Frontier Business Systems saw its topline grow by a mere four percent in
2008-09 over the previous year. with its revenues touching Rs 210 crore, as
against Rs 202 crore in 2007-08. However, plans are in motion to make a shift
towards becoming a virtualization one-stop shop for enterprise customers.

The company has opened an office in Mumbai to tap the opportunities in
western India. This new expansion was to focus on three key business
verticals-banking and financial services, manufac­turing and corporate.

It was also one of two channel partners in India to achieve certi­fication
for Dynamic Infrastructure, an IBM's Smart Planet initiative. It is also
recognized by VMware as first authorized consultant Gold partner in India and
was honored as its 'Model Partner' at VMWorld in the US last year.

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SILVER CLUB RANK (2007-08): 6
PROFILE
CEO: Ravi Verdes Start-up year: 1994 Employees: 525 Collaborations: Citrix, VM Ware, PlateSpin, Marathon, Cisco, Tyco, Emerson, Lenovo, IBM, Sun, Oracle, Dell, etc Address: #3 Wood Street Bengaluru - 560025 Tel: 44229191 Website:www.frontier.in
HIGHLIGHTS Inaugurated its green corporate office with a green data center Achieved an ISO 27001: 2005 certification

This aside, Frontier invested about $7,50,000 in skill upgra­dation and
certification programs of its 275 strong technical team. Services contributed Rs
30 crore to the overall revenues in 2008-09. Of this managed services
contributed Rs 10 crore while Rs 7 crore each came from systems maintenance and
integration.