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Anantara Solutions Private Limited (Anantara)
is an outsourcing company with headquarters in Chennai, India that
defined Second Generation
Outsourcing. 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).NASSCOM has named the company
to its IT innovation for 2007
list.
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.[1]
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.
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