Dharma launches eUnify

BANGALORE: Dharma Systems Ltd (DSL), the wholly-owned subsidiary of the US-based parent company, providing application integration technology (API) for e-business solutions, has launched its latest product `eUnify’, which will enable companies with legacy applications migrate to e-business. The product will be marketed in the US and the Asia-Pacific region, including India.

eUnify addresses the needs of large-scale enterprises effectively by integrating their existing IT infrastructure to web-enabling, a company release said.

According to DSL regional manager Rajesh Narayanan, the solution comprising a suite of products include Dharma Integrator and Dharma Applink. "Even as the product is patent pending in the US, the company has already bagged enough customers to double its turnover to dollar 12 million during the current calendar year (2000), registering a 100 percent growth."

Among the US-based OEM customers Dharma is providing eUnify include Lucent Technologies, Unisys, Compaq, Versant, Objectivity, and BMC Software. It has also roped in some of the leading application server and web integrator solution companies in the US as its alliance partners such as Bluestone, Gemstone, digitalESP, Fujitsu-Interstage, Pramati, and Lanco.

In view of its success in the B2B and e-commerce arena in the US, the company is chalking out similar business strategies for tapping the emerging markets in the Asia-Pacific region, especially Australia and India.

DSL strategic marketing manager M Muralidhar said that the subsidiary was in the process of tying up with many IT companies across the sub-continent for providing e-business solutions to their Fortune 1000 companies. "The tie-ups will be a coming together of compatible partners who will jointly offer a range of solutions to end-users. We are upbeat about the immense potential of the Asia-Pacific markets as around 65 percent of all applications with even leading enterprises are still stuck in the legacy systems, where eUnify will provide a breakthrough to turn themselves into e-businesses."

The company plans to make a similar foray into the Australian market by the last quarter of the current year. The company had so far invested around dollar 15 million in setting up and expanding its Bangalore technology development and product center. Its parent company plans to go public in the US some time next year after two rounds of private placement with venture capital funds to raise investments.