e-Revolution: Celebrating excellence

CHANDIGARH, INDIA: The first day of e-Revolution witnessed a special initiative by Nasscom to identify top 50 emerging companies and recognize their excellence in showcasing innovative skills to create success stories in the domestic market.

Moderated by Anupam Arya, Chairperson, Mobera Systems, the panel included Veena Mahendru, CEO, Savi Group, Ajay Sharma, CEO, Srishti Software and Santosh Choubey, Chairman & MD, AISECT Ltd.

Speaking on her journey Mahendru shared how Savi wrote its success story from USA and now in India. Along with her partner Neelam, Mahendru started Savi in 2004 to offer technology-based services to healthcare professionals like helping them analyze financial background of patients, convert documents to payments to be recovered from health insurance companies and offer services for smooth adoption of applications on electronic medical records.

The company thus enables its clients in optimizing business processes through technology and achieve better efficiency.

Realizing the digital gap that divides the rural India from availing the life transforming benefits of information technology, Choubey initiated offering IT and ITES services and education to the semi urban and rural Indian population. He modeled services based on needs specific to the remote areas and offers those from district to Panchayat level.

He has created 6500 multi-purpose centers across remotest areas in India covering 27 states and three Union Territories. These centers not only educates and train the mass on IT but has helped to develop 650 entrepreneurs in the last five years. He also wrote books in several Indian regional languages to bring IT closer to rural India. “We are also starting rural BPOs and placement services and eyeing to open 10000 centers by next year,” Choubey informed.

Sharma started Srishti in 1997 through providing technology integrating services to banking and media industries. Today the company boasts of revenue maximization and profitability through product business.

“Although we had a huge success in our services business, we met with initial failure in our product business,” said Sharma. “We then redeveloped our software, reduced some of its functionalities and repositioned it in the market. Now it’s as profitable as our services business.”

Stressing on the importance of channel network for any product business, Sharma informed how his company build its partner network across the globe, wherever his product sells.