Apara mulls global debut in Singapore

BANGALORE: Enterprise security, networking and storage provider Apara Enterprise Solutions will be going global with its service provisions by next year. According to Apara marcom consultant, Roshan BM, "There is only a sketchy outline at the moment but our intentions are clear. Though, we have not yet planned out the move in detail, we should be moving out globally sometime in the coming year."

This comes in the wake of Apara Chairman, Kumar Malavalli’s statement made in March 2003, about his intentions to take the company to the global markets. He was reported as having said that the company, which will play a part in his dream of a SAN ecosystem, would first step into Singapore followed by the Middle East.

Meanwhile on the domestic front, Apara’s newest division - voice networking has set its sights clearly on the Rs 800 crore voice market in India. "Our roadmap for the future is single minded. In the next two years time, we intend and will work towards being one of the top three systems integrators for voice networking," said Apara Enterprise Solutions, Voice Networking Business Manager, K Chandru.

According to Chandru, the division contributed eight percent of the turnover last financial year, and is expected to contribute around 15 percent for FY 2003-04. Voice networking, which was previously part of the networking services offered by Apara, was moved off into a separate division about eight months back. According to Chandru, that this was done because of the company’s confidence of the potential for growth and gain from the voice networking market in India.

"We have focused our energies on three main market segments. Unified messaging solutions in the dial tone space, looking beyond voice and enabling of email and web chat for contact centers and enterprise networks that are IP enabled. And being an end to end solution has paid off handsomely with us notching up eight customers within this short space of time," he said.

Replying to a question on the respective importance given to the three segments, Chandru placed contact centers related work on top of the list at 60 percent, messaging solutions at 30 percent and the enterprise segment at the bottom with 10 percent.

(CNS)