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Changepond is a passionate and focused midsize Technology Services Organisation. The core team of Changepond has rich and pioneering experience in developing and marketing very large and complex enterprise applications in the global market place. Trust is the core belief of Changepond Ecosystem comprising our Investors, People, Clients and our Vendors. We believe the customer's business success is our success and our business is the facilitation. With the dizzying pace of change in the global business environment, organisations are looking for solutions and services that accurately reflect their business needs, their viewpoints incorporating innovative ideas to create new space and values for themselves. Thus we believe the Client's business needs are the major drivers for software solutions development and technology is the enabler. Explosion of software technologies and their immense benefits need to be carefully exploited and should not take undue precedence over business needs. Selection of Technology Platforms, Solution Architecture and deployment of various technology pieces need to be critically examined and selected in order to build and maintain an expandable software solutions. Also, Customer specifi c fl exible and interactive solution development and deployment models are no more a wish and are a reality. This is necessary to accommodate the changing business compulsions. We precisely follow these philosophies to provide the best possible software solutions to our clients valuing them as a long-term business asset and not a kind of quick-fix for business continuity. Changepond has inherent management strength & business wisdom and able to strike a good balance between the growth potential and business stability.

Background people come together seamlessly to service the client needs. People with

Changepond Technologies Ltd (Changepond) is a technology intensive business knowledge, execution experience and technology savvies work
software solutions company. Changepond was established in the year 2000 together in delivering the customer solutions. An inhouse technology watch
and currently employs around 450 people with a global customer base. & research team constantly

provides inputs to the delivery organisation as

The company is operating out of its own 120,000 sq. ft. facility located in well as reaches out to customers in solution architecture and technology the Chennai IT corridor. selection processes. In Changepond, people career plans are largely self driven and thus people are encouraged to chart out their own growth and Changepond has restrained from typical resource augmentation retention plan. The company also constantly endeavors to create a work.
businesses and fully concentrated on projects with end to end delivery environment for individuals from varying backgrounds to unite into a responsibility including its life cycle management. Changepond has unified customer centric team culture. executed many complex high visible projects for many of its global customers. Also Changepond provides entire life cycle management of the The offshore Focus customer applications including hosting and related management services. Changepond specialises in bringing together technology blocks.

Thus Changepond is a midsize company which works on its inherent core that can enable to assemble solutions in an interactive way along with strength to provide software solutions and its lifecycle management to its customers. These solutions are provided to enterprises, government,
global clients. healthcare, sports and manufacturing industries. Changepond carrier
out nearly eighty percent of its work from the company's offshore labs.

The company's overseas offices are based in Germany, Malaysia, located in Chennai, India, with sufficient emphasis on onsite customer South Africa, Switzerland UK and the US. facing content. Changepond has used a combination of development methodologies like Agile, DSDM etc with flexible engagement processes
Key differentiators to deliver results consistently over the years.

Changepond's inherent strength lies in comprehending the changing business situations and exploitation of the technology advancements in Future Plans designing and delivering the flexible business software solutions for the Changepond intends to strengthen its presence in the current clients. Changepond practices client specific delivery models that are geographies and grow deeper in the industry verticals already present. flexible to meet the customer needs with full transparency. The company In addition to its core business of software solutions development, deploys proven interactive software development methodologies so that deployment and life cycle management, Changepond is planning to customers are not constrained by the limitations to stretch and think aloud expand into business process and project management consulting business in the first instance. Maintainability and expandability are the corner by exploiting its experience in selected industry verticals. stones of Changepond architected solutions.

It also has plans to expand its Engineering Services business both
People in Europe and the US. Changepond is also looking at possible alliances

Changepond's people, their work culture and their attitude towards and joint ventures in specific markets and industry verticals. Customer work are the most important contributors of the company success. Besides retention and growing business with the existing customers would continue the people selection and training processes, Changepond trains its people to be a key growth strategy of Changepond. in reaching out to customers and solving their issues.

Global Enterprises are multi skilled and large organisations involved in varied businesses. There are 2 areas in ICT common across all organisations whether large or mid-size.

They are

Operational Systems
ERP, Management Information Systems, HR, Financial Systems & Reporting Systems
Specific Business process Systems
Specialized domain solutions, products, CRM & CMS

The IT environment in many international organisations comprises of an assortment of home grown and legacy applications that need to be modernized and re-engineered to support today's scale and complexity of operations. A large chunk of IT budgets get into manpower and infrastructure maintenance activities. Given the current scenarios of IT budgets getting squeezed, modernization, new solution development, extending application life cycles and maintaining them is becoming tougher. In this context, Changepond, through our experience has been able to create "customer specific engagement models" for effectively delivering the required business benefits.
Changepond has a highly successful track record in servicing and reducing yearly IT costs through creating "a multi-location extended IT team" approach. This has been our backbone in catering to large and mid-size companies, worldwide, handling multiple technologies and varied industries. Through our experience of understanding the intricate business know-how of different industries, we have been able to position ourselves as a service provider rather than an application developer.

OurIndustry Specific Offerings

Technology Modernization Services

Migrationand Yechnology Standardisation

Single Unifie dApplication Centre

Knowledge Management Systems

Reporting Systems

Generic Software Services

Contact Address

Changepond Technologies Limited
H-2 SIPCOT IT Park,
Old Mahabalipuram Road, Siruseri,
Chennai - 603103,
Tamil Nadu
Tel : 91 44 47480000
Fax : 91 44 47480003
Email: info@changepond.com
Website : www.changepond.com

Industry

Custom Application Development and Maintenance, Enterprises, Product Engineering and Product Lifecycle Management, Healthcare, e-Business solutions, Education, Portals and Content Management, Government, New Media Solutions, Supply chain, Business Intelligence, Sports, Testing and Assurance, Engineering, Enterprise Applications Services, Legacy Migration, Engineering Services.

Specialization

Contact Person

Chairman &Chief Executive Officer - S Ramachandran

Locations

Chennai, Germany, Malaysia, South Africa, Switzerland, United Kingdom, USA

Certifications

ISO 9001 : 2000

Other Addresses

Changepond Technologies
# 7, II Crescent Park Road,
Gandhi nagar,
Adyar, Chennai - 600020
Contact No : 24402315/16
Contact Person : Sunil S

Name Sunil S Telephone 91-044-24402315,65514203
Fax :24918841
Website http://www.changepond.com
Address Changepond technologies Limited
#7, Crescent Park Road,
Gandhinagar,
Adyar,
Chennai - Tamilnadu ,Indi 600020
Email sunil@changepond.com