Partners

Platinum Partner - Cisco Systems, Inc.

Cisco Systems, Inc. is the worldwide leader in networking for the Internet. Today, networks are an essential part of business, education, government and home communications, and Cisco Internet Protocol-based (IP) networking solutions are the foundation of these networks. Cisco hardware, software, and service offerings are used to create Internet solutions that allow individuals, companies, and countries to increase productivity, improve customer satisfaction and strengthen competitive advantage. The Cisco name has become synonymous with the Internet, as well as with the productivity improvements that Internet business solutions provide. At Cisco, our vision is to change the way people work, live, play and learn.

Since the company’s inception, Cisco engineers have been leaders in the development of Internet Protocol (IP)-based networking technologies. This tradition of innovation continues with industry-leading products in the core areas of routing and switching, as well as advanced technologies in areas such as Home Networking, IP Telephony, Optical, Network Security, Storage Networking and Wireless LAN.

With sales and marketing operations spread across key cities in India and a software development center in Bangalore, Cisco leads the networking market in core technologies of routing and switching, as well as WLAN and network security.

Gold partner - Dhanlaxmi Bank

Incorporated in November 1927 at Thrissur, Kerala by a group of ambitious entrepreneurs, The Dhanlakshmi Bank Ltd. started business with Rs. 11,000 as capital and seven employees. It became a Scheduled Commercial Bank in 1977, and in 2009, was awarded approvals by the Reserve Bank of India for opening 66 branches and 380 ATMs across the country.

The Bank’s Board of Directors is comprised of eminent professionals who provide leadership and guidance to a strong, multi skilled management team. Its comprehensive range of banking and financial services and its extensive nationwide presence through 725 outlets has set the stage for an era of unprecedented growth.

Gold partner - Patni Computers

Patni Computer Systems Limited is a global provider of IT Services and business solutions, servicing Global 2000 clients. Patni services its clients through its industry-focused practices, including banking, financial services (BFS) and insurance (I); manufacturing, retail and distribution (MRD); life sciences; communications, media and utilities (CMU), and its technology-focused practices.

With an employee strength of around 13,600; multiple global delivery centers spread across 13 cities worldwide; 28 international offices across the Americas, Europe and Asia-Pacific; Patni has registered revenues of US$ 719 million for the year 2008.

Patni’s service offerings include application development and maintenance, enterprise application solutions, business and technology consulting, product engineering services, infrastructure management services, customer interaction services & business process outsourcing, quality assurance and engineering services.

Committed to quality, Patni adds value to its clients’ businesses through well-established and structured methodologies, tools and techniques. Patni is an ISO 9001: 2000 certified and SEI-CMMI Level 5 (V 1.2) organization, assessed enterprise wide at P-CMM Level 3. In keeping with its focus on continuous process improvements, Patni adopts Six Sigma practices as an integral part of its quality and process frameworks.

Patni leverages its vast experience spanning three decades; deep domain expertise; full-spectrum services; and suites of IP-led solutions, methodologies and frameworks; in being an effective business transformation partner to its clients.

Tapas & Cocktail partner - Jabra

GN Netcom, led by the Jabra brand, continues to build on its standing as one of the world’s leading and fastest growing suppliers of hands-free communications solutions. With around 1,000 employees and sales offices around the world, GN Netcom develops, manufactures and markets a broad range of wireless headsets for mobile users and both wireless and corded headsets for contact centre, office-based and Unified Communications (UC) users. GN Netcom’s business activities also include its original equipment manufacturing (OEM) business to a wide range of global customers including mobile phone, PC and PDA manufacturers.

Jabra products have consistently received numerous product and design awards including the CES Innovation, iF product design, Red Dot Mobile Choice Best Accessory, T3 Gold, and CNET Editor’s Choice.

GN is listed on the Copenhagen Stock Exchange. For more details please see www.jabra.com

Delegate Kit Partner - Voxeo

Voxeo unlocks communications. We loathe the locks that make voice, SMS, instant messaging, Twitter, web chat, and mobile web unified communication and self-service applications difficult to create, manage, analyze, optimize and afford. Every day we work to unlock the neglected value of these communications solutions with open standards, disruptive innovation and a passion for problem solving – fueled by a company-wide obsession with customer success. We do so for more than 100,000 developers, 45,000 companies, and half of the Fortune 100 from our headquarters in Orlando, Beijing, Cologne, and London.

Visit us or join our conversations on the web at www.voxeo.com, blogs.voxeo.com, or twitter.com/voxeo

Broadcast partner - NDTV PROFIT

NDTV Ltd, founded in 1988, is India’s largest news and infotainment network. It is home to the country’s best and brightest reporters, anchors, camerapersons and producers; 23 offices and studios across the country host India’s most modern and sophisticated production, newsgathering and archiving facilities. NDTV has an unmatched track record of successfully launching three news channels in India: NDTV 24×7 is a clear leader in the English news segment, NDTV Profit, a 24-hour business plus channel, is India’s leading business news channel, and NDTV India is amongst the country’s leading Hindi news channels. It is credited with pioneering several broadcasting and programming initiatives in Indian television and has expanded into one of the nation’s biggest broadcasting houses by growing beyond news broadcasting and venturing into non news verticals. For more information visit www.ndtv.com

Media Partner - The Hindu Business Line

The Hindu Business Line, published by the Chennai-headquartered Kasturi & Sons Ltd, is the business daily from The Hindu group of publications and India’s second largest business daily. It is a pioneer in presenting business news in specialised sections and specialist pages which cover a gamut of areas ranging from corporate news and banking to info-tech and to news from the advertising and marketing world. The newspaper, which is printed across 14 cities, presents exhaustive and comprehensive coverage of the commodities markets and stock markets while its Sunday edition features Investment World, an in-depth look at the world of stock markets and investments.

The digital edition of The Hindu Business Line, or e-paper, offers the reader the newspaper itself, delivered online. For more information, visit www.businessline.in

Conceived & Incubated by - Servion

Servion Global Solutions specializes in Customer Interaction Management (CIM) solutions that help companies provide superior customer experience. With more than 400 customers and 1000 installations in 41 countries, Servion’s products and solutions handle in excess of 600 million voice / fax / ACD / Web / e-mail interactions per month.

Servion takes a consulting – led approach to optimize customer interaction for its clients, drawing from a proven combination of deep contact optimization experience, business acumen and broad Contact Center technology knowledge. Servion offers solutions across eight segments of the CIM industry (technology consulting, Contact Center intelligence and reports, agent productivity, outbound interaction management, self service, workforce management, quality monitoring, and customer behavior analytics). These solutions are offered to a wide range of verticals such as banking and finance, telecommunications, business process outsourcing, transportation, retail, and hospitality.

Servion’s CIM solutions are delivered through the company’s Consulting and Engineering arms using six different services – application maintenance, custom application development, product design and development, systems integration, managed support services, and research and development. For more information, please visit www.servion.com