Tavant sets up development center in B’lore

BANGALORE: Software solutions and service provider Tavant Technologies Inc.,

specializing on businesses to manage, streamline and enhance multi-level

distribution channels, has set up a development center in Bangalore in line with

the company's expansion plans. The company plans to increase the strength to 30

employees in 2002.

"We are excited to add highly talented individuals to our software

development team to help us extend our product footprint," said Tavant

India general manager, Anoop Goyal. "The new development center is a

state-of-the-art facility, and we look forward to executing on our strategic

vision by continuing to deliver comprehensive, scalable solutions based on the

Tavant platform to our customers in 90 days or less."

A release to the media said, Tavant's solutions are being used to improve

profitability and market share by leading global brand names that include

Ingersoll-Rand, Bobcat, Town and Country Credit and Ameriquest. Tavant is a

profitably run company that was originally funded by the founders of Junglee.com,

CDC Ventures, Ingersoll-Rand, Anthelion Capital and seasoned Silicon Valley

angel investors.

"Tavant has a strong and exciting vision," said, Tavant chief

executive officer, Sarvesh Mahesh. "The Tavant team is highly talented, has

strategic focus and is dedicated to providing our customers with robust software

solutions that improve their channel relationships, drive top line growth and

reduce costs." The new development facility in Bangalore is an important

part of the company's strategy to enhance and expand products quickly and

efficiently, which will further the company’s success in the market," he

said.

Tavant's key products include Tavant MultiChannel - an extensive suite of

sell-side channel management applications, Tavant MLC - a highly flexible

multi-level collaboration platform, Tavant InterConnect - an advanced

business-to-business interaction platform for systems and business process

integration and Tavant MultiTenant - a hosted and managed "software as a

service" for turnkey solutions.

Tavant products and solutions leverage ground breaking work done to build its

core platform that includes a multi-tenant architecture, web-services enablement,

time-based transactions, optimization and multi-level collaboration.