India is one of the few countries which provides offshore software development services to
the global market, as companies in the US mainly cater to the American market or set up
bases if they have work in Europe, says Managing Director of Fusion Software Engineering
Pvt Ltd Ramesh Santhanam.
Santhanam says that 1997-98 in particular has been exceptionally good for the company, as
it had bagged a major development order from the Union Bank of Switzerland for executing a
global IT Project Portfolio Management system, which entails formulating, disseminating,
and monitoring of information on the multi-billion dollar portfolio of IT projects and
initiative of the bank.
Santhanam says the company, which was formed in 1992, believes in short term, small team
projects, which are databased and non-generic. The only person among the founder members
to be into techno marketing, Santhanam is into strategic planning, reviewing and top-level
client handling for all key projects and clients.
He says his company is now trying to find the right partners to find business for Fusion.
On the front end it is trying to create marketing consultants and also trying to form
vendor networks.
"For instance, we tied up with Rementa Anstalt of Switzerland to set up Fusion
Technologies. Rementa, an international trading house with high contact base in Europe and
South America, has already found three projects for us."
Fusion has also taken up other projects like the Integrated Payment Services, which is an
application front-end for internal payment and accounting systems for fund transfers
through cheques, wires and Automated Clearing House. |