Anantara Solutions
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| Type | Private |
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| Founded | 2006 |
| Headquarters | Chennai, India |
| Key people | Prabhat G.B, Founder & CEO |
| Services | Second Generation Outsourcing services combining Business Consulting and technologies such as Web Services, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Composite applications, Enterprise Applications including ERP, SCM, and CRM, Content Management and Portals, Utility Computing |
| Website | www.anantsol.com |
Anantara Solutions Private Limited (Anantara) is an outsourcing company with headquarters in Chennai. The company has offices in United States, Europe, Singapore and India. Anantara means "the continuum" in Sanskrit. The company was ranked among the top 10 start-ups to watch in 2008 by Mint (A Wall Street Journal joint venture).[1] NASSCOM has named the company to its IT innovation for 2007 list.[2]
The company is funded by Helion Venture Partners in a syndicate,with the other investors being Walden International, SVB Financial Group and a Europe-based venture capitalist, Christian Wedell.
The company works like a global manufacturing company. It designs solutions, buys components for the solutions from some 50 partner-network companies spread across India, China, Russia, Singapore, USA, Canada and Malta and assembles them into the final business solution. Steve Hamm, a senior writer with Business Week in a post on the Business Week blog says that the business model of the company could pose a serious challenge to the outsourcing status quo, not just in India but worldwide.[3]
[edit] Service Areas
The company offers business solutions based on Second Generation Outsourcing that combine business consulting with various technologies such as
- Web services
- Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
- Composite Applications
- Enterprise Applications including ERP, SCM and EAI
- Content Management and Portals
- Utility Computing
The company has clients in 15 countries and provides services in various verticals like
- Manufacturing
- Retail
- Logistics
- Web 2.0 and online businesses
- Media and Entertainment
- BFSI (Banking, Financial Services and Insurance)
- Software Product companies
On March 12, 2008, Anantara announced its entry into Second Life Consulting.[4]
[edit] References
- ^ Anantara is one of the "Ten start-ups to watch"
- ^ "IT Innovators 2007". Nasscom.in. 2010-03-05. http://www.nasscom.in/Nasscom/templates/NormalPage.aspx?id=53050. Retrieved 2010-08-12.
- ^ Hamm, Steve. "A new model for outsourcers: Outsourcing their work". BusinessWeek. http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/blog/bangaloretigers/archives/2007/09/a_new_model_for.html. Retrieved 2010-08-12.
- ^ Second Life Consultancy
