Think3 signs up with Rashi Peripherals

BANGALORE, INDIA: Think3 Inc. a global player in CAD and PLM market has announced their appointment of Rashi Peripherals as their national distributor.

Think3 Inc., pioneer in providing solutions for product development and innovation worldwide, has recently commenced commercial operations in India. The Company has a dedicated direct sales and marketing team of twelve highly experienced professionals across India.

To strengthen its reach and network in India, the company has appointed Rashi Peripherals as its National Distributor of 2D products. The company is also looking to seal a slew of partnerships with a host of VARs (value added re-sellers) as well over the next few months. The company is targeting education, engineering and manufacturing verticals, which it sees as replete with immense potential.

Rashi is one of the largest distributors in India with over 50 branches and 7000 channel partners across the country. Rashi has a good reach in the market for engineering and design products. Commenting on the tie-up, Kapal Pansari, Director-Marketing, Rashi Peripherals said, “Rashi peripherals has successfully established itself in IT (Hardware) Industry & now with Think3 we are all set to venture into software segment. Think3 will complement a part of our product portfolio further strengthening our presence in CAD industry. Since with think3’s solid history in the industry and Rashi’s geographic presence in the market it is a win win situation.”

Think3 has adopted this strategy of working with world class partners to help companies to have easy access to its market leading technology. Each partner is chosen by their capability to cover an assigned geography and provide support to their clients with great attentiveness and competence.

Think3’s partners follow a series of technical and sales training courses to ensure they can provide solutions that resolve their customer's problems. Think3 feels strongly that happy customers are the result of partners dedicated service and support. Think3 works hard to ensure that partners can grow their business by creating healthy happy clients by continuously supplying them with an evolving product line targeted at resolving customer problems.

Think3 Intel business exchange collaboration: Think3 has collaborated with Intel on its Business Exchange programme to reach out to new customers and network with new vendors through an innovative module (Intel’s portal www.bxindia.intel.com). 

Intel Business Exchange offers the latest informative resources on business solutions, making it a perfect first stop for customers/vendors to find all information to make wise purchasing decisions and use a robust online quoting system to reach solution providers.

Through this initiative, Think3’s ThinkDesign Suite will be available to all SMEs through online and offline mode. ThinkDesign Suite includes ThinkDesign Styling, ThinkDesign Engineering, ThinkDesign Tooling and ThinkDesign Professional.

Recently Think3 tied up with HP, who is their preferred hardware vendor. They will co-promote each other.

Think3’s 2D solution, ThinkDesign Drafting, offers a complete range of tools that makes it totally independent and productive. In ThinkDesign Drafting, companies find the exact 2D drawing tool they need, so that draughtsmen and designers can do their daily work quickly and well.

ThinkDesign Drafting guarantees the creation of drawings that conform to international standards. ISO, ANSI, JIS and GB drawing standards are fully supported, and each new entity is generated in conformity to user settings. Existing drawings and drawings imported via converters can be quickly and easily converted to a specific standard or unit of measurement.

“think3 is aggressively looking to establish a foothold in India after its success in China, Japan & European markets” said Tom Davis, Vice President International Business at think3. “The exponential growth in the manufacturing, engineering and education verticals presents an immense opportunity before us, which we would like to leverage and tap into. India is a key market for think3 globally and our solutions in the areas of Industrial Design, Product Design, Tool Design and PLM offer an end to end solution for this market. In fact, in that sense think3’s entry will affect the Indian market more by catalyzing more world-class product development and innovation at these companies. Over the next 3 years we see India emerging as among the Top 3 market for think3 globally. Our existing R&D/support presence in India coupled with think3’s global expertise presents a formidable combination as we enter the Indian market since we are building on a firm base.”