Mr. Purkayastha talked about history of company, the strategy & company profile of Calsoft, their 4Ps concept, global extensions, future lans & core competencies, customers success stories & achievements and technological innovations.
1. Please start will introducing Calsoft Labs India (P) Ltd
Calsoft Labs offers technology consulting and product engineering services globally to equipment manufacturers (OEMs/ODMs), Service providers, Independent software vendors (ISVs), Enterprisesand Semiconductor vendors in select market segments. We work with leading customers in Software-defined Networking, Computer peripherals and Storage, Consumer Electronics, Automotive, Education, Healthcare, and Enterprise software.
Calsoft Labs is one of the few product engineering services companies specialized in niche areas of Networking infrastructure, Cloud infrastructure, Mobility, Embedded systems and Industrial design.Since 1992, Calsoft Labs has delivered unmatched business value to its customers through a combination of process excellence, reusable frameworks and technology innovation.
Calsoft Labs is a wholly owned subsidiary of US$ 1.7 billion ALTEN Group (Euronext: ATE). Set up in 1988, ALTEN is a leader in Engineering and Technology Consulting with 16,000 employees in over 16 countries worldwide. For more information about our parent company, please visit www.alten.com.
2.What unique features differentiate you from competitors?
Calsoft Labs has been working with Fortune 500 and global top 100 organizations in their product engineering initiatives. We build competitive advantage for product companies by helping them to focus on core product management, while we take care of end-to-end product engineering services.
Calsoft Labs has a highly experienced multi-skilled engineering workforce with an average work experience of 4+ years with 27% of the engineering team holding Masters Degrees. Dedicated centers of excellence for NFV/SDN, Cloud and Big Data, Windows8, Mobility, Connected Healthcare, etc. helps Calsoft Labs stay ahead of the technology curve.
Our core “engineering DNA” comprising 4P’s has helped us garner long term relationships with customers and win accolades.
- Process – CMMi and TMMi compliant light weight project management processes, prebuilt industry specific solution frameworks for development and testing to accelerate product development
- Protection – Multiple levels of security to protect IPs viz., people, infrastructure and communication
- People – Strong team of 1,000+ people with expertise on domain and technology
- Partnership – Focus on long term relationship with customers through senior management commitment
Accolades:
- Among the very few companies who work from “chip to cloud” and have the ability to provide custom solutions leveraging the state-of-the-art technology platforms to address customers’ business issues
- Featured among the “Top 100 companies” by Global Services in their “GS 100 survey”
- As a testament to our product engineering capability Zinnov Consulting has rated Calsoft Labs in their Global R&D Service Provider Rating (GSPR 2013) as following:
- Calsoft Labs is an *emerging and expansive player*(with good vertical coverage)
- Featured in the *breakout zone*(almost entering into execution zone) for Telecom
- Featured in the *breakout zone* for *Computer Peripherals and Storage* on account of our R&D practice maturity, Service Breadth & Innovation, Ecosystem Connect
- Featured in the *execution zone* for *Enterprise Software development* on account of our capability to execute complete product development services as a reliable engineering partner for large and niche ISVs
- Identified as one of “Top 10” Healthcare technology solutions provider by CIO review magazine 3. What is your global presence? Can you name some of the clients
Calsoft Labs has a growing global presence with state-of-the-art product design and development centres inUSA and India, and network of sales and support offices worldwide including North America, Europe and Asia.
Calsoft Labs’ goal is to deliver value to customers as their preferred engineering partner across the product life cycle. We have long-lasting relationship with most of our customers.
We understand the importance of nurturing relationships; accordingly 85% of our revenues come from our existing clients. Some of our customers are mentioned here – http://www.calsoftlabs.com/aboutus/customers.html.
To address our clients’ business and technology needs, we have partnered with industry leading technology vendors. (http://www.calsoftlabs.com/aboutus/alliances.html)
4. What are your future plans & core competencies?
Our industry standard solutions and frameworks built by our CoEs serve as accelerators to help customers go to the market faster and achieve business agility and innovation.
We operate the following technology Centers of Excellence (CoE):
5. How closely do you work with key customers in developing perfect solutions? Can you share with us some case studies.
Calsoft Labs help its customers stay ahead of the technology curve. For more than 2 decades, our experienced project management along with the best in class Technical support expertise has helped about 300 customers develop over 1000 products.
Calsoft Labs support its customers in international development & maintenance providing near shore and offshore based cost reduction solutions.
Calsoft Labs’ Engagement Models:
Success Stories Snapshot:
6. Please update us with your latest initiatives and achievements
Our services and business solutions are strengthened by alliances with leading technology partners. Calsoft Labs’ alignment with “Chip to Cloud”ecosystem partnershas helpedour customers to create business value, reduce CapEx&OpExand accelerate time-to-market.
Alliances:
We have delivered some of the industry firsts to OEMs and Service Providers in the NISD-Networking Infrastructure and Solutions division.
- Delivered one of the industry’s first OpenFlow enabled datacenter switches
- Pioneering work in development, testing and roll-out of Virtual CPE solution, for one of the first commercial NFV deployments targeting SMB market
- Intel DPDK based VNF optimization, scaling & performance testing for NFV architectures
- Openstack based orchestration and NFV management framework integration
- Developed SDN controller extensions and SDN applications that work with OpenFlow enabled and legacy (non-OpenFlow) network elements
We have a 4 pronged cloud solutions development approach to meet customer demands to leveraging BI and analytics on cloud:
- Private cloud BI solution running with customer datacenter, Public cloud based IaaS for a BI solution
- BI/DW Platform as a Service(PaaS)
- Analytics on the cloud
- Public cloud or externally hosted SaaS BI
A company’s website is considered its virtual storefront; an essential part of online marketing strategy.In a view to align our service offerings with our customer’s technology needs, we have created dedicated Microsites across the domains-Software Defined Networking, Network Function Virtualization, Healthcare, Education, Testing, Cloud computing, Mobility etc.
- http://sdn.calsoftlabs.com
- http://cloud.calsoftlabs.com
- http://education.calsoftlabs.com
- http://healthcare.calsoftlabs.com
- http://testing.calsoftlabs.com
7. New applications driving demand for latest products, how are you keeping your solutions in pace with technology demands?
Technology changes are the norms of the day and it is very essential for any business to keep itself updated with the latest happenings in technology. ALTEN Calsoft Labs’ main focus has been on new age and game changing technologies like Network Function Virtualization, Software Defined Networking, Cloud computing, Mobility and BIG Data Analytics.
We have been in the forefront in the Network Function Virtualization (NFV) and Software Defined Networking space supporting both network equipment manufacturers and telecom operators in development, testing, orchestration, integration and operations support for new deployments.
We have dedicated and well established centers of excellence for Cloud & BIG Data and Mobility and have chalked out a well-defined, realistic strategy to grow the CoEs. We have also been developing a repository of industry specific frameworks and solution components using the latest technologies.
We have already partnered with leading SDN/NFV, Cloud and BIG DATA vendors (http://www.calsoftlabs.com/aboutus/alliances.html) to develop best of breed solutions and technologies to our customers.
Calsoft Labs is a member of ETSI NFV Industry Specification Group and is responsible for defining requirements & architecture for NFV, addressing the technical challenges and publishing ETSI specifications on NFV.
Being an active member of the NI Alliance, webuild and market innovative solutions for customers seeking to improve security, intelligence and user experience in services deployed on next-generation IP networks.
