Pune Mirror, an English daily from Times of India group owner Bennett Coleman & Co. Ltd, has covered e-Zest Solutions in special feature about companies that are booming in the gloom economic period. It also covered the interview of Devendra Deshmukh, Co-founder and Executive Director. The article covers e-Zest's success till date, diffrentiation, roadmap and its fture plans. Devendra Deshmukh, explained a four point success mantra that covered e-Zest's excellence in handling and communication with clients, core competency, marketing, team members.

The details could be found out at Pune Mirror's e-Zest coverage.

NewswireToday - /newswire/ - Pune, Maharashtra, India, 08/11/2008 - e-Zest has completed its eight years of incorporation on August 8, with dozens of new clients, impressive growth figures and addition of new services and territories to its portfolio during 8th year.
       
e-Zest, an outsourced software product development company, has entered 9th year of its incorporation on a very special date. On 8th August 2000 e-Zest started its business as a Pvt. Ltd. company with three founder members (Devendra Deshmukh, Amol Pande & Ashish Gupta) and hasn’t seen back since then. Year on year growing at an impressive rate it has reached today to considerable size of 150 people organization specialized in providing niche global software product engineering services to ISVs.

Against the backdrop of US slowdown, e-Zest has managed to keep growth momentum by adding newer services to its portfolio like social application development, SaaS enablement/transition consulting and implementation. It has responded forthwith to the call of Web 2.0 demands by offering Enterprise 2.0, SaaS and SOA based application development services. e-Zest has also brought European region to its radar a year before and will continue to focus on this territory.

e-Zest’s sales is moving upwards, both through existing and new clients. e-Zest has made no changes to its strategic growth plans and confident of achieving them as per timeline. e-Zest is moving ahead with its plans to expand in domestic market as well. e-Zest has always concentrated on building deep domain capabilities towards vertical growth.

Last year’s highlights includes setting up of O2Mania – Green movement initiative by e-Zest team members, partnership with Environment Group ‘Alert’ based in Pune, acquisition of major clients in e-Learning, Healthcare, Legal, Human Capital Management domains. e-Zest also ventured into LPO business through a joint venture with its existing customer.

e-Zest celebrated its anniversary at hotel on beautiful sea-shore of Konkan. It was a jam packed celebration featuring fun games, water sports, ad mad show and individual team member performances.

On the occasion of e-Zest foundation day, the directors and key members expressed their feelings and shared some wonderful moments about their experiences at e-Zest.

Devendra Deshmukh said expressing deep gratitude, “Our people are our asset. We believe our assets go down elevator every evening. I am happy to have all our team members working relentlessly for achieving client delight and ultimately for the progress of company.”

Amol Pande credited the success of e-Zest to its customer centric approach through process driven development, high level business professionalism, family work environment, and open & transparent organizational culture. All these factors along with quality selection procedures has helped e-Zest managing its attrition rate lower than industry.

Ashish Gupta explained e-Zest CMMI assessment plan for CMMI-level 3. “CMMI-Level 3 assessment is scheduled for Early 2009. Also, with more certified IT professionals hiring, e-Zest is expected to double its team size by the end of next year.”

e-Zest is confident about the 9th year of operations and is strongly poised for growth. e-Zest is committed to offer best workplace to team members and delight to all customers.

29th February is a very special day at e-Zest. Not because it is a rare day found in only leap year calendar but because we have started something constructive today at our company. We initiated Green Day!

Nature is the most important and highly neglected entity I can think off. We do nothing to preserve it; we don't feel need to preserve it. I am not any different sparing few weeks since when we started thinking of this initiative.

Rakesh, a collegue and friend of mine, and me were discussing about the manufacturing advancements happening at India and other countries. The recent vehicle that created a wave worldwide, Nano - Rupees one lac car, was center point of the discussion that day.

We thought now the people who could not think of a four wheeler even in their dreams can actually buy it and ride it. For variety of reasons people will buy it. An individual who was commuting on a motor bike soon can be found moving swiftly with his hands on a steering wheel. The chances are high that he will be driving it alone with nobody accompanying him in a car. So then a bike that gives mileage of 50 km/ltr would get replaced by a car that gives mileage of around 18 km/ltr. As a result many people would be wasting 32 km/ltr for no real benefit. Red alarm!

Rakesh thought of running a campaign for awareness and I could not resist supporting the cause. We had found an aim to work for.

As I thought Devendra who has a heart for noble cause readily gave permission for promo activities within company. He promised all kind of support required including his personal enthusiasm in planning meetings.

We had got Vishant, Vijay, Debanjan, Arya, Shruti and Maithili joining the promo theme. We all met regularly to shape up the initiative.

Since it is a start of summer we decided with lower frequency i.e. every fortnight for our event. Everybody was called to come to company in any of the following mode

1. On foot

2. On bicycle (hey, I bought a new one yesterday for Green Day initiative)

3. By public transport

4. By shared transport

We also designed a promotional email. Have a look at it below. 

We wanted to keep our message simple that was to keep our nature green so we came up with 'Keep it simple | Keep it green'. We did all sort of activities for internal branding of the initiative.

Today we found that almost everybody at e-Zest contributed towards 'Green Day'. Few even chose to walk for long 8 kms. I could see that every member of e-Zest's team is really young and has a 'zest' for social thing.

In the evening we had an eye opener slide presentation screened from Rajendra's e-mail collection. Debanjan put our idea before team members and everybody has promised to observe Green Day every fortnight.

This initiative is in no way limited up to e-Zest. We would be happy if others pick up the thread and run similar initiatives at their own companies. World really needs to be green and if we do not do this now then tomorrow never comes. To keep it simple keep it green; just do it!

 

e-Zest is an ISO 9001:2000 certified offshore software outsourcing company with expertise in outsourced product development and custom software development services through global software development model. e-Zest has served 80+ industry leader clients in four continents about a decade with 150+ software professionals on board.

e-Zest offers its services to ISVs/IT services, Healthcare, Finance, Manufacturing, Legal, Education, Sports, HR & Travel business verticals. e-Zest have dedicated Microsoft , Sun & Open Source Competency Centers which focus on solutions and services on based Microsoft .NET (2.0/3.0), Sun Java EE (2.0/5.0) & LAMP respectively.

e-Zest is technology partner with Microsoft, Sun, IBM, Intel, Palm, and Citrix. e-Zest is Microsoft Gold Certified Partner with competencies in custom development solutions with specializations in smart client development & web development, and data management solutions with specialization in business intelligence. e-Zest is also Sun Partner Advantage - Associate Partner.

e-Zest Pune offshore development office (Global HQ) is a 100% export oriented unit (EOU) registered with the Software Technology Parks of India (STPI). e-Zest subsidiaries are situated at e-Zest (UK) Ltd. at London UK and e-Zest Inc. at Walnut Creek CA USA.

Beyond all these facts, what makes us different is how we add value to our clients.

 

Watch Out this place for latest happenings at e-Zest!! 

 

From 15th to 21st March 07, e-Zest will showcase its offshore software development and Outsourced Product Development Services at booth H08-11 in India Pavilion stand C 16, Hall No. 08 of Cebit 2007 specially designated for IT Outsourcing Services.
     
CeBIT is the world's largest trade fair showcasing digital IT and telecommunications solutions for home and work environments. Deutsche Messe AG has organized CeBIT in Hannover each spring since 1986.

'IT Outsourcing Services' sector in Hall 8 emphasizes growing need for external IT services, fueled primarily by an increasing concern about improving the efficiency of corporate processes. CeBIT offers an international platform bringing together suppliers and buyers of IT/Software outsourcing services. CeBIT is still the world's most popular, key meeting place for the IT/Software Outsourcing industry.

At CeBit 2007 e-Zest will be represented by its top leadership team members Mr. Devendra Deshmukh (CEO), Mr. Ashish Gupta (CTO). Also client relationship team members Mr. Umesh Kulkarni (Business Development Manager) and Mr. Satish Chavan (Lead Solution Architect Group) will be available for meeting.

e-Zest participation in Cebit 2007 will facilitate visitors (CIO, CXO of ISVs, IT managers and other IT decision makers) opportunity to understand its services, technology and business domain capabilities.