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IT nest in God's own country

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Shrikanth G

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SunTec Business Solutions

The first CMM Level 5 transaction billing company is a leading provider of transaction value management solutions for the telecom and financial services industries. The company's CEO, Nanda Kumar says, "We leverage our extensive domain experience, acquired since our inception in 1990, to successfully deliver timely and cost-effective solutions. Our concept of relationship-based pricing has been endorsed by industry leaders and innovators across the globe". The company's product offerings, the TBMS-T suite for telecom, and the TBMS-F suite for financial services, provide comprehensive solutions for measuring and monitoring transaction value.

IVL Group

IVL India is a 100% Software Export Company involved in developing and implementing software solutions in SAP R/3 and e-business applications. Located at the Technopark, Trivandrum, IVL provides offshore development, turnkey project solutions, and consultancy. Its products OptiTrade Exports, Imports, Excise, Insurance and Forms Tracking Add-on modules for the SAP R/3 and Oracle domains have been well received in the Indian market.

US Technologies

US Technology provides end-to-end IT services for Fortune 500 companies. It uses the hybrid global sourcing and delivery model to provide IT and business process outsourcing services through state-of-the-art facilities in Trivandrum. According to company sources, its hybrid global sourcing and delivery model allow it to start with detailed understanding of its clients' business practices in addition to understanding their technology environments. Its operational model typically includes US based senior project managers, architects, business analysts, test engineers and subject matter experts with an average of 15 plus years of US Fortune 500 or Big 5 consulting experience.

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NeST Group

A significant year for NeST, the company has consolidated its different technology activities under one company, SFO Technologies for better management control. It acquired a state-of-the-art laser transmitter/receiver design and manufacturing company in Sweden. This acquisition will help the Group to become a significant global player for laser products for telecom application with many key accounts. The second acquisition was a semiconductor emulator company in Ireland, which provides product capability to the Group for embedded services and access to many key accounts in Europe. The group entered into VLSI field by setting a modern VLSI Center at Technopark, Trivandrum and offshore VLSI Center for Fujitsu, Japan.

M-Squared Software and Services

Incepted in 1995, the company is in the field of medical transcription and software development. It provides wide range of software products and IT-based services that are designed and developed for clients across the globe. With its global presence, the company is a leading player in medical transcription services, software development and engineering services in Kerala. The company's transcription process is a quasi-hospital where it processes electronic medical reports with precision. It also customizes its transcription services to the business processes.

Calpine Technologies

Calpine is a company focused on the niche area of life sciences. The company provides solutions for biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, biomedical technologies, life systems technologies, nutraceuticals, cosmeceuticals, and food processing, environmental and biomedical devices. Jigo G. John, CMD of the company says: "We provide enterprise solutions, desktop software, scientific databases, and professional services for biotechnology, drug discovery and chemical research, including software, databases, and websites which enable customers to create, analyze and communicate chemical, biological, and scientific information more effectively."

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Allianz Cornhill Information Services

ACIS is an offshore facility and a captive unit of Allianz Cornhill insurance having IT and ITES services and functions from the Technopark. ACIS is a CMMI Level 3 company, and provides systems development and production maintenance services to Allianz Cornhill-UK on Mainframe, Oracle and Web arena. ACIS is also a pioneer in the ITeS industry in Kerala and is ISO: 9001-2000 certified for its business processes. ACIS has around 500 employees and started its operation in Technopark in 2002. ACIS COO, Rakesh Kumar Gupta, says, "We decided on Technopark for our operation by doing a due diligence on whole lot of advantages this place offers. Today, this place has come a long way and we are extremely satisfied by the facilities this place offers to the IT companies."

Geotrans Technologies

Geotrans offers IT and GIS services to clients across the globe and provides services in the areas of application development, IS implementation, location based services and GIS based portal development. The company has presence in India, the UK and Middle East and has an entirely separate, dedicated training and R&D wing. Geotrans is probably the only company in Kerala to work on elements of GIS and integrating it into conventional IT systems. The company is capable of integrating GIS with large ERP systems to provide complete integrated solution to its clients. KV Sudeep, VP, Marketing, says: "We are a one-stop shop for end-to-end mapping solutions. We ensure GIS smoothly merges into existing IT systems, thus value adding and opening up new horizons for analysis and decision-making."

IND-SIGMA Infotech

The Indian operations of the company started in 2005. It's based in Kochi Infopark and also in DLF IT Park in Chandigarh. The Indian operations of the company work closely with US development teams of the company and work on its key product, Sigma Commerce, a multi-channel direct marketing management system, and provide support to legacy products. Says Mukund Krishna, MD of the company: "We came to India to enhance our IP, and Infopark in Kochi offered us the world class infrastructure that fosters an ambience suitable for high end software development work". Through its product Sigma Commerce, the user can manage every step of the enterprise by integrating commerce, customer service and business process together.

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Toonz Animation India

A major provider of animation to top US and European producers is also South Asia's biggest animation studio. Launched in 1999 in Technopark Trivandrum, the company's clients includes the biggest names in media and entertainment like Marvel, Hallmark, Paramount, Disney, and Cartoon Network. With its international production systems, 24/7 schedules, cutting edge communication infrastructure, cost effective service pricing and advantages of time difference, Toonz has emerged as the preferred one-stop studio for entertainment majors in America, Europe and Asia.

Source: Dataquest