eSkye brings cheers to Bangalore

BANGALORE: Software applications provider for the global beverage industry eSkye Solutions Inc. today announced the formation of eSkye Software Private Ltd in Bangalore.

The company opened the development center to support the rapid expansion of its professional service business. In addition, the center in India will help ensure eSkye Solution clients have 24/7 support.

eSkye already provides services to hundreds of wineries and beverage alcohol distributors across the Americas, The Middle East and Asia using its existing delivery centers in Indiana and California.

“As we expand our operations into India, we will continue to invest in infrastructure and people, to provide high quality services to our clients, with increased value,” said J Smoke Wallin, founder, chairman and founder of eSkye on his recent visit to Bangalore in January 2007.

eSkye’s Bangalore operation is up and running with a core team made of up of members of the eSkye US team who have relocated and new local Indian hires. The company expects to grow its India operations significantly over the next 18 months. “eSkye India is a critical component of our growth strategy. We will continue employing and selectively hiring the best talent in the country and train them extensively. The quality of our people has been and will continue to be the key to our success. India has excellent universities and talent which will provide our fuel for growth in the future,” said Dayananda Papegowda, general manager and director of Development of eSkye India.

Daya Papegowda joins eSkye from IBM where he served as a senior IT architect with IBM SOA and eBusiness group in North America. Earlier to IBM, Papegowda was a senior technical manager with Coca-Cola and has delivered eBusiness solutions integrating their US-based B2B systems and business domains across continents and reaching worldwide consumer audience through different medias using the web as the channel.

eSkye develops, markets and deploys software applications and services for the global beverage industry. eSkye counts many of the world’s leading brand owners and distributors as clients including 5 of the top 20 world wineries, some top ten US wine and spirits distributors and 100s of smaller beverage clients.

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