CDC software adds six new resellers

BANGALORE, INDIA: CDC Software Corporation, a provider of hybrid enterprise software applications and services, today announced that it has added seven resellers from India and surrounding countries as part of its plans to expand sales significantly in India.

CDC Software’s Pivotal CRM solutions are already used by some of the firms namely, Bharti AXA, CIBIL, Max New York Life Insurance, and TTK Services.

The new resellers for CDC Software’s solutions are Datasisar, EZone International, Nector Consultancy Services, Providence Network and Solutions, Sunbridge Software Services, UMG, Ranal Software.

The new resellers are expected to help CDC Software expand its geographic footprint in India, Sri Lanka, Bhutan and Nepal.

As part of its Strategic Cloud Investment Partner Program (SCIPP), CDC Software recently announced its investment in eBizNET, provider of software-as-a-service (SaaS) supply chain execution solutions. As part of the partnership, both the companies are expected to resell each others products.

“We believe India holds dynamic growth opportunity for the enterprise software market and we expect these new strategic resellers and our partnership with eBizNET will make a significant impact to our sales goals there in the next few years,” said Nagaraja Prakasam, managing director for South and Southeast Asia, CDC Software.

He added that new partners are expected to help open up new markets for their products in India and surrounding countries. Given their success with their Pivotal CRM products in India, they expect their other products to have similar success as they believe they meet the needs of this region.

“CDC Software believes that India and the Southeast Asia region holds significant growth potential in the coming decade, and with Naga’s leadership, we are well positioned for sales expansion there. I’m also very excited about the expansion of our Bangalore Center of Excellence which started as a development center just seven years ago, ” said Peter Yip, CEO of CDC Software.

He added that India will be the headquarters and hub for CDC Software’s south and south-east Asia operations. Indian Operations headquartered in Bangalore, will evolve from being a R&D (cost) center to a profit center supporting sales and marketing in the domestic market.

Yip reiterated that Bangalore would be a key center for global cloud computing R&D it would also be responsible for moving up the value chain in development by coming up with innovative products.

It also announced that it plans to expand its Bangalore Center of Excellence by 15 per cent this year.