TechEndeavor Profile and Founder Interview

1. What do you do?

We are a specialist Mobility firm. We assist in mobile product engineering right from visualization of a mobile idea around a product concept to actual product development and launch. We have offices in Austin , Tx, Bangalore India, London UK and have been involved with both mobile product engineering and strategic consulting over the last 7 years. In terms of verticals we have deep expertise in Banking, Health care, Insurance, Manufacturing, Not for profit Organizations, Consumer Mobile Applications, Mobile Data Security.

2. Who are your competitors?

Some of our key competitors include companies like Sybase, DeviceDriven, Dexterra, etc

3. What makes you different than your competitors?

As I mentioned above we provide not only product engineering services like most of our competitors do but we also provide Strategic Consulting to our customers who are in initial stages of conceptualising their ideas. So in that sense we are a one stop shop for any customer who has just thought about Mobility. We work with enterprises to define their Mobility Roadmap, we provide consultation on selecting appropriate hardware and design, build, test and roll out industry strength mobile-hand-held solutions, important values before them, ROI, etc and then subsequently also help them execute this roadmap.

4. What are your or your ceo’s biggest challenges?

Some of our biggest challenges in today’s market are:

A. The most important challenge we face is to make the enterprises comfortable with the thought of using mobility. There is still lack in knowledge about what are the right set of solutions needed, which would be helpful even in future. With the ever-changing mobile landscape, enterprises are wondering as to what are the best practices that need to be followed. They are apprehensive with questions like where, when and how to start. This is where the biggest challenge lie.

B. Since every year there are a set of new devices and platforms which get added to the already existing mobile landscape. The challenge we face is to keep upgrading the skills of our team in order to be able to offer a complete solution to our customers our are looking to get the applications developed for the mass market.

6. How long have you been in business?

We have been in business since January 2002.

7. How many employees do you have?

Our current strength is 140.

8. What are your revenue estimates for 2009?

We expect to do in excess of $5Mln in the current financial year

9. Are you profitable?

Yes. We have been profitable since inception