With some path-breaking best practices like Individualized Corporation and flexi-timing, InterraIT has shot to fame as one of the best places to work in. In fact, InterraIT has so many other credentials to hog the limelight of the media, including Mr. Asoke K. Laha, President, MD & CTO of the company, being conferred with the IES Udyog Ratan award and recipient of Corporate & HR Excellence Awards from one of India’s leading universities.
Incorporated in 1995-96 by two extremely talented people, Dr. Ajoy K. Bose (Chairman of InterraIT) and Mr. Asoke K. Laha Â(President, MD & CTO), InterraIT has emerged as one of the leading IT consulting and service provider companies. It follows a Global Delivery Model to provide information technology consulting services to Fortune 500 companies, regardless of where its clients’ facilities are geographically located. InterraIT is also one of the largest privately-held offshore consulting companies.
Headquartered in San Jose (California), InterraIT has sales offices in San Jose (CA), Fullerton (CA), Roseville (CA), Sacramento (CA), Irvine (CA), Omaha (NE), Addison (TX), Chicago (IL), Princeton (NJ), Bellevue (WA) and Columbia (MD). The company has also its presence in Canada, United Kingdom and Japan. The company has two state-of-the-art development centres in Noida and Kolkata (India), which are the focal points for servicing its customers across the globe in North America, Europe and Asia. InterraIT has consistently and successfully provided innovative solutions tailored to a wide range of industries for its clients. InterraIT has a history of managing mission-critical and highly complex programs, while maintaining hardware and software independence.
The company’s service portfolio includes Business Consulting, Product Engineering Services, Custom Application Management, QA Testing Services and Package Solutions Management. InterraIT also provides end-to-end solutions in certain technologies, which include Enterprise Application Integration, Mobile Solutions, Open Source Engineering, Identity Management, Remote Database Management and Web Services. Having worked with customers from varied industries in the last eleven years, the company consciously aligned itself with specific industry verticals, which include Telecom, Retail, Iron & Steel, Mining, Financial Services, Logistics and Independent Software Vendors (ISVs). This has helped InterraIT in developing tremendous domain knowledge and subject-matter expertise, resulting in delivering innovative solutions and enhanced business value for its customers.
InterraIT offers a comprehensive portfolio of IT and IT-enabled services with a distinct focus on providing product engineering services, ERP solutions and web-based custom enterprise applications. InterraIT has its strength in projects in the areas of Enterprise Application Integration, Mobile technologies, Mainframe technologies, Web Services & SOA and other web-based applications, Process integration, using both Java and Microsoft technologies.
Adhering to the principle of quality of services and timely delivery, InterraIT has been able to successfully retain over 75 global clients in the last eleven years. The biggest credential of InterraIT is that about three-fourths of their revenue comes from repeat business from existing customers demonstrating high customer satisfaction. However, currently, the company has nearly 35 active clients, apart from more than a dozen domestic clients.
Asked about why India is so special to the company even though they do not have many clients here, Mr. Asoke says, “India is special to us for both emotional and business reasons. Firstly, we are of Indian origin and hence the choice of India for our operations is a natural one. Besides, India offers all the outsourcing advantages in software services space as compared to other countries. It is much more easier to seek opportunities in such a democratic set-up.”
He adds, “Both our development centres“– Noida and Kolkata – work independently as well as in collaboration to provide our entire range of services and solutions. Our Noida centre, which is the bigger of the two centres in terms of number of engineers, serves as the centre of excellence in areas such as EAI, Retail practice, Mobile Technologies and Mainframe Competency. The Kolkata centre not only provides extended support to these initiatives, but also leads the way in some other initiatives in industries such as Steel, Power & Coal, and Process Control. We employ 500-plus talented manpower.”
The global economy has grown at a rapid pace and the IT consulting and services market has expanded horizontally and vertically in various disperse geographies. So, in order to cope with the expansion, the company is also expanding its global presence in various geographies as well. Apart from increasing network of sales offices in the US, InterraIT has started servicing the European market aggressively. Mr. Asoke adds, “In the Indian operations also, we have recently added to our capacity significantly in the Noida centre by acquiring new office space. There are also plans to expand to other locations in India for which we would explore smaller towns, especially in Eastern India.”
Finally…
With so much of goodwill in the market, 2007-08 is going to put InterraIT on the high growth track. As per the company sources, the company targets to achieve a baseline growth of over 50 per cent in revenues, over the last fiscal 2006-2007. This is really optimistic, given the fact that the dollar rate is sliding and competition is very, very high. However, with the able leader like Mr. Asoke K. Laha, InterraIT will probably make it possible. Towards this, the company has already started optimizing its resource utilization and T&D initiatives to have a favourable experience mix in its projects.
