PUNE, INDIA: The partnership between ConzultZone and Extentia aims to provide a broad range of outsourcing services related to business consulting, ERP and CRM implementation and corporate training to software vendors and enterprises in the United States, Europe and Asia-Pacific region. ConzultZone plans to expand its sales and marketing offices in the United States, the United Kingdom and Europe while its offshore development initiatives will be handled by Extentia. Extentia has proven capability in offshore outsourcing services, including product engineering and migration, package implementation, customized applications and application and web development.

The joint service offerings are designed to offer potential clients an value proposition of competitive pricing, domain expertise, and depth of package knowledge combined with proven delivery capability and high quality management.

Extentia, founded in November 1999, and based in Pune, India has over 150 IT professionals, with offices in the U.S., U.K. and Germany. With a very efficient and experienced management team, Extentia has established long-term business relationships with key customers and partners across the globe. Extentia's proven skills and experience in managing large projects backed by strong internal processes will help ConzultZone deliver reliable SAP business consulting, and implementation and outstanding customer service to their clients worldwide.

Anil Visal, Managing Director of ConzultZone says, "ConzultZone has partnered with Extentia for the implementation of SAP Business One and SAP All-in-One solutions primarily for the SME market segment. While Extentia offers its expertise on .NET implementations and interfacing with SQL Server and other database servers, ConzultZone brings in many years of rich and valuable SAP business consulting experience. This venture will be complementary to both the companies' existing competencies and will prove to be a win-win situation for both of us and our customers," he added.

SAP has so far achieved phenomenal success across industries such as manufacturing, telecommunications, pharmaceuticals, transport and utilities; and across all major market geographies. Increasingly, medium sized firms looking for robust, manageable and scaleable ERP solutions look to SAP's mid-market offerings to support their growth plans.

Umeed Kothavala, Director of Extentia Information Technology said, "This partnership is an important landmark for Extentia as a part of its rapid growth strategy. In partnership with ConzultZone, Extentia will be able to meet the SAP implementation needs of small and medium customers. ConzultZone's domain expertise and knowledge of the ERP space will perfectly complement Extentia's development strengths and structured approach to project execution".

India-based outsourcing companies offer multiple advantages which include a large talent pool of qualified software engineers with high proficiency in English and other specialized skills. A strong focus on quality delivery, good infrastructure, telecommunications for software development, laws that protect customer intellectual property rights and favorable central and local government policies encourage IT services and enable Indian companies to continue to provide high quality leading-edge IT outsourcing services competitively.