BANGALORE: Summit Data Products Ltd, a distributor of IT products for the print and
publishing industry, is looking to expand its operations by offering solutions for the
CAD/CAM market. "Summit has been catering to the print and pushing industry for the
past eight years. The CAD/CAM market is a natural extension of that business, we would
like to leverage our strengths in the vertical market segment," revealed Summit
managing director Rakesh Kapoor.
Summit is a national distributor for Apple, Adobe, Quark and Umax. Recently, visual
computing major SGI appointed Summit as master reseller for its new visual workstations,
which run Windows NT on Intel hardware--a major shift from SGI's Unix/RISC heritage. The
push into the CAD/CAM segment follows that tie up.
Summit has entered into strategic alliances with M-CAD majors SDRC and PTC to showcase
their software products on the SGI platform. The company will, later this month, conduct
roadshows across the country in conjunction with PTC. A similar exercise with SDRC was
concluded recently. The company is in talks with Autodesk and IBM for similar alliances.
Summit hopes to target the defence sector, engineering, design, entertainment and GIS
segments with its solutions. It has already put in place trained CAD/CAM manpower at its
offices. Other than Delhi, the company has three branch offices in Mumbai, Bangalore hopes
to earn 25 to 30 per cent of its revenue from the CAD/CAM business.