Pentagon Systems & Services : No Looking Back

In view of the economic downturn, Pentagon Systems and Services recorded a
marginal drop of two percent in its revenue figure (Rs 108 crore) for 2008-09.

However, this negative growth has not deterred the solution providing company
and its ambitious plans to develop a team of professionals to increase customer
base by providing apt managed services. Pentagon will also be enhancing its
focus on ISV business model to reach out to more customers.

Its strategy of hiring and training personnel for marketing and successful
implementation of solution products like SAP, BAAN, VM ware implementation
helped them successfully execute several projects.

Last fiscal, Pentagon also became IBM Certified Specialist for the latter's
Dynamic Infrastructure Business. The above certification gave Pentagon the
perfect platform to reduce costs, improve service and manage risk better for
their clients.

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PROFILE
CEO: Sairaman Mudaliar, Prashant Narkar Start-up year: 1994 Employees: 220 Collaborations: IBM, Lenovo, Acer, Cisco, APC, Emerson, Juniper, Netmagic, VMware, Iron Port, Plate Spin, etc Address: #501 Pramukh Plaza, Cardinal Gracious Marg, Chakala, Andheri (E), Mumbai - 400099 Tel: 67417500 Website: www.pentagon.co.in
HIGHLIGHTS Became IBM Certified Specialist for the latter's Dynamic Infrastructure Business Focused on providing power and back-up solutions to customers

IBM also recognized their efforts and awarded them with the Best Performing
Partner West-Power and Storage- award in 2008 and Service Excellence Award in
2009.

FY 2009-10 will witness the solution provider increase its headcount in areas
such as project implementation and quality control, technical support and
customer care and sales and marketing.