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Nigerian Delegation Visit Tathya
August 03, 2006.
It was the best of times. It was the worst of times. That's what Dicken's wrote in his fiction "A Tale of Two Cities". But truth is stranger than fiction when it is A Tale of Two Countries. It all started with a conference call between Mr. Sumantra Sen, Senior VP and Partner of Tathya Business Services, New York and Mr. Tom Iseghohi, Executive VP, Hudson Consulting Group, New York.
From a Lecturer to a Entrepreneur - the story of a man who dared to give shape to his dream.
October 18, 2005.
From a lecturer to an entrepreneur - the story of Indranil Mukherjee's transition from a lecturer in Burdwan University to the C.E.O. of Tathya Dot Com, could inspire our present day breed of intellectuals who consider business unacceptable as a profession.
Outsourcing: Small companies facing grim battle against big players
August 29, 2005.
SMALL and medium-sized Indian outsourcing companies are finding it difficult to survive in the face of immense competition from big players in the trade, revealed a seminar on 'Strategic Outsourcing: Risk Management, Methods and Benefits' organised by Tathya.com, a city-based outsourcing service provider.
Small is big for BPOs
August 29, 2005.
The state government plans to create an interactive platform to facilitate exchange of ideas among home-grown entrepreneurs. "The small and medium segment will drive growth in the BPO industry, accounting for 95 per cent of the total investment flow. A significant portion of the state's IT revenues should also come from entrepreneurs," Bengal IT secretary G.D. Gautama said at a seminar on strategic outsourcing. The seminar also discussed ways to create long-term relationships with companies, which outsourced their work to domestic firms.
Tathya is awarded ISO 9001:2000 certification
May 31, 2005.
Tathya is pleased to announce its achievement of ISO 9001:2000 certification. The company is audited by QMS Certification Services, an accredited registrar for the International Organization for Standardization (ISO)
Free software transcending from the Geeks to the Corporates
March 11, 2003
Some time ago, I used to hear statements such as, "Free Software? Hah! That's for nerds and geeks. Not suitable for serious use." Today, it is something like, "Oh, it might be good for lesser mortals out there, but, it's still not ready for corporate use!"
Tathya bags programming contract from Israeli company
December 27, 2002
Kolkata: THE BURDWAN University entered the technological era by computerizing a wide area of administrative and academic affairs.With the aid of city-based Software Development Company,
Few words about Linux
December, 2002
Linus Torvalds, the father of Linux, while still a student, discovered a powerful operating system written in C language - Linux - which won him instant recognition and fame.
Linux hits home
December, 2002
KOLKATA has it's own Linux success story. For quite some time now, Tathya Dot Com has been at the forefront of the effort to bring affordable, innovative, customized free software to government departments and corporates, locally and abroad.
PowerCart is ready
November 27, 2002
KOLKATA-BASED Tathya dotcom Pvt Ltd. an open source software development company, is developing an Indian Linux distribution system for the small and medium enterprise (SMEs).
Tathya wins over Bengal
August 15, 2001
"Bengalis have apathy to business!!!" This statement is often made a tag with Bengalis. However, the critics stating this must have been unaware of the existence of Tathya Dot Com Pvt. Ltd.
Kolkata Man vs. Multinational Dragon
April 24, 2001
Kolkata - It is another yet unfolding story of a dream merchant who dreamt of being a successful entrepreneur. The result is Tathya Dot Com Pvt Ltd, Kolkata's leading solution provider-cum-education center for budding software professionals is cutting edge technologies.
Nigerian Delegation Visits Tathya
It was the best of times. It was the worst of times. That's what Dickens wrote in his fiction "A Tale of Two Cities". But truth is stranger than fiction when it is A Tale of Two Countries. Nigeria and India. It all started with a conference call between Mr. Sumantra Sen, Senior VP and Partner of Tathya Business Services, New York and Mr. Tom Iseghohi, Executive VP, Hudson Consulting Group, New York. Despite not being civil engineers both of them were able to build a bridge of possible business collaboration between Tathya Business Services and Hudson Consulting Group.
To overcome the major roadblock in its progress, Nigeria has decided to explore non-oil sectors specially the BPO sector which will generate employment for the Nigerian youth and there comes Tathya. Tathya has already created a niche for itself as one of the prefered outsourcing client for both IT and ITES jobs. Tathya has already entered into a joint venture with Lazar Levine & Felix LLP, certified public accountants of international repute. The initiative of Mr. Sumantra Sen has made it possible and again within a year Mr. Sen's enterprise is again making it possible to have a collaboration between Tathya and Hudson. Today Tathya has gained a steady foothold beyond the borders of the country. In New York, Oregon (USA) and Ireland.
Hudson Consulting Group with Head Quarters in New York City is a business revitalization and transformational services company. Its vision is to consistently deliver its clients value that significantly exceeds expectations. Its mission is to immerse itself in its clients objectives and assists them in navigating through their professional and personal challenges in achieving them.
All through its dealings with its clients, Tathya's focus was on client needs and preferences. It has not only delivered what was required by the client but has also added value to it, which is why this company has been able to retain its clients. They are so impressed by Tathya's performance that some of them have become partners of the company thereby strengthening the backbone of the company and enriching its knowledge bank.
With the aim to explore possibilities of a partnership between Tathya and Hudson, a Nigerian Delegation visited Tathya Dot Com Pvt. Ltd. Kolkata from 2nd August 2006 to 5th August 2006.
The Nigerian Delegation is lead by Mrs. Gladys Modupe Sasore, Special Advisor to the president / Chief Executive Officer, Nigerian Export Promotion Council, who is responsible in driving the expansion of Nigerian non-oil exports. The idea to create a Nigerain outsourcing industry was originally conceived and sponsored by Mrs. G. M. Sasore and Mr. Tom Iseghohi.
Both Hudson as well as Tathya will benefit from this joint venture. While receiving high end IT jobs Tathya can channel a portion of its BPO jobs to its outsourcing unit in Nigeria and also train them in executing those.
In this knowledge exchange between the two teams Tathya will share its expertise and business experience that it gained in its nine years of existence as an IT and ITES company to help them understand which areas they need to focus on, foresee obstacles and devise strategies to overcome them so that Nigeria too may emerge as one of the preferred ITES destination.
From a Lecturer to a Entrepreneur - the story of a man who dared to give shape to his dream.
From a lecturer to an entrepreneur - the story of Indranil Mukherjee's transition from a lecturer in Burdwan University to the C.E.O. of Tathya Dot Com, could inspire our present day breed of intellectuals who consider business unacceptable as a profession. But this man has singularly dared to break the barriers of a false vanity and give up the securities associated with a well paid job as a lecturer to write the success story of Tathya Dot Com, a software company providing outsourced IT and ITES solutions to clients.
It all started back in 1997 when Indranil's sister Ajanta Ghosh and her husband Arun Ghosh rolled up their waning business in Bihar to try their luck in Kolkata. At that time, Indranil was teaching in Burdwan in the Statistics Department. An M.A. in Statistics, Indranil had always wanted to be a lecturer. He was naturally happy when he was offered his coveted post in Burdwan University.
But this satisfaction was short lived. Before long, he began questioning the value of the education he imparted to his students as the university churned out graduates and post graduates every year who could not make a living out of the education they obtained. Jobs were hard to obtain and the faces of his students who went about aimlessly vainly searching for a job haunted Indranil and filled him with deep despair. It was then that the germinal idea to start a business of his own to provide jobs for his students was implanted. He was interested in computers and the recognized vast possibilities offered by it. Realizing the futility of an education divorced from its practical application, he pioneered computer education in the Statistics department side by side with the university course and also brought in a computer for the aid of his students.
For some, the inclination towards business is inborn or shaped by the environment in which they are placed or grow up. For others, like Indranil, the inspiration is derived from practical necessities and considerations, experience and the urge to work independently.
Those were the days of the dot com business and when Ajanta and Arun came to Kolkata Indranil suggested that they start a small dot com business themselves. And so Tathya Dot Com was born under the proprietorship of Ajanta Ghosh. Two people, Arun Ghosh and Ajanta Ghosh and a single computer - the genesis. Indranil's contribution in the endeavor was a contouring program for the computer to draw contour maps for surveyors who were the first clients of Tathya. That was their first lesson in outsourcing. That was also a lesson in the struggle for survival as survival was the foremost concern right at that time.
However, Tathya has come a long way since then. It has been an upward journey of success from a tiny flat rented for Rs. 2000/= per month to an 8,000 sq feet affair on the top floor of Swastik on VIP Road, Kolkata. In addition, there are two more offices based in Oregon and New York in the USA. The total workforce in Tathya's Kolkata branch is 190 at present.
The story of Tathya is also a story of building relationships. Indranil left his teaching job at the University and joined Tathya in 1999. It was then that he met people like Patrick Baird, Miles Baumgartner and Val D'Souza on the Internet. They were among the first clients of Tathya. The company developed a car rental site for Patrick Baird, which soon became one of the foremost car rental sites in Europe.
According to Indranil, relationships form an integral part of his life, his philosophy, his business and success. This is the attitude he takes towards his clients too. Instead of trying to derive the maximum benefit for his company from his clients he looks at a business proposition from the other angle. It is the client who comes first and so he tries to deliver a solution that will bring in more returns and more benefit for the client. His logic is devastatingly simple: If you do so then these clients will give you more business in future so that your own business will increase in its own pace.
And so, his clients have stayed on. And Miles has even become a shareholder of the company. During a crucial phase last year, some of his clients had even come to his aid by investing 25 to 30 lakh rupees in the company. Tathya is firmly and securely anchored on the rock of a strong client relationship.
A workaholic, Indranil cannot dream of a day without work. To him even reading books during leisure hours is an important work. Passionately devoted to books he emphasizes the importance for business people to read more. For him, business practically involves solving problems. It is the ultimate test of one's intellectuality. And again, it is business that opens up the door to myriad thoughts, paths and solutions to a problem.
It is this thought that prompted Indranil to initially develop a website for Tathya: tathya.hypermart.com. And the search engine brought in the first outsourced jobs through the Internet.
Each year Tathya adds a new 'account' to its business. The turnover for 2004-2005 was 1 crore 20 lakhs which is expected to reach 3 crores 50 lakhs for the period 2005-2006. Firmly believing in his capabilities and adhering to his philosophy of building relationship in every phase of life, the C.E.O. of Tathya Dot Com has steadily and securely carried the company to its present position.
Instead of trying to make quick bucks, he believes in the 'slow but steady' rule in building a business. He emphatically underlines the importance of technical education and the versatility to adapt to different technologies to tap the vast human resource available in our country. With this idea, he has even set up an internal training center in his company.
When questioned whether he has deviated from the original motive with which he had started the business, he firmly denies it but adds that while it was originally a feeling of pain and despair for all, now it is frustation only for those whom he cannot include in his workforce despite every effort to raise their level of perception and performance. But he still dreams of carrying Tathya even forward. That at least will ensure more jobs for our young generation.
Outsourcing: Small companies facing grim battle against big players
The Indian Express
August 29, 2005
SMALL and medium-sized Indian outsourcing companies are finding it difficult to survive in the face of immense competition from big players in the trade, revealed a seminar on 'Strategic Outsourcing: Risk Management, Methods and Benefits' organised by Tathya.com, a city-based outsourcing service provider.
The primary objective of the seminar was to foster the exchange of ideas between providers, outsourcers, and industry analysts in the presence of people from different sections of the society.
The seminar was inaugurated by Sujan Chakrabarty, MP and was attended by GD Gautama, principal secretary, Department of IT, Government of West Bengal, among others.
"Two major problems come up in providing the job that a foreign company wants to outsource. First, there is a culture barrier, and second, there is a huge difference between the systems that govern the concerns, both Government and non-Government, in the two countries. It's difficult to overcome these problems and that is why small out-sourcing companies suffer setbacks," said Indranil Mukherjee, managing director of Tathya, which has a turn-over of Rs 1.50 crore with a staff strength of 180.
The way out is to do business with a smaller number of companies and take time to build a relationship with them. "We are against the Hyderabad or Bangalore model of aggressive outsourcing. We take time to nurture relationships with the companies we do business with," Mukherjee said.
The seminar was attended also by representatives of several US buyers.
GD Gautama presented the case of West Bengal as an ideal destination for outsourcers from abroad. "Very few people know the fact that Kolkata has got the highest internet penetration among all the cities of India. We have 235 IT companies working here and we believe West Bengal is going to be the ideal place for clients abroad to outsource their jobs," Gautama said.
Small is big for BPOs
The Telegraph
August 29, 2005
The state government plans to create an interactive platform to facilitate exchange of ideas among home-grown entrepreneurs.
"The small and medium segment will drive growth in the BPO industry, accounting for 95 per cent of the total investment flow. A significant portion of the state's IT revenues should also come from entrepreneurs," Bengal IT secretary G.D. Gautama said at a seminar on strategic outsourcing.
The seminar also discussed ways to create long-term relationships with companies, which outsourced their work to domestic firms. "Outsourcing projects are based on long-term relations. The idea is to add value slowly and create a strong bond. Aggressive marketing and cost cutting is not the right approach," said Indranil Mukherjee, managing director of Tathya, a city-based BPO services company with a strong presence in the SME segment.
Tathya plans to increase its headcount from the current 190 to around 800 in the next 4-5 years.
The company also expects to double its turnover to Rs 3 crore this year and will fund growth plans through internal accruals and investment from foreign partners.Regarding the factors taken into account while selecting an outsourcing partner, Kevin Payne, director of US-based A-CTI, said, "It is not the location or size of a company that matters when we consider outsourcing a project. It is important to build a team that communicates."
ISO 9001: 2000 CERTIFICATION, May 31, 2005
Tathya is pleased to announce its achievement of ISO 9001:2000 certification. The company is audited by QMS Certification Services, an accredited registrar for the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) in May, 2005. The certificate is awarded as a recognition of Tathya's commitment towards quality management to ensure customers’ satisfaction.
The quality objectives identified by Tathya to achieve customers’ satisfaction are:
- Adherence to specifications
- Adherence to schedule
- Zero defect delivery
- Customer satisfaction
- Updating expertise and knowledge for continual improvement
- Reducing non-conformance
Tathya is committed in providing its customers the best technology at affordable cost, dedicated and efficient developers and experienced project managers.
Free Software - From The Geeks To The Corporates
Financial Express, March 11, 2003
INDRANIL MUKHERJEE
Some time ago, I used to hear statements such as, "Free Software? Hah! That's for nerds and geeks. Not suitable for serious use." Today, it is something like, "Oh, it might be good for lesser mortals out there, but, it's still not ready for corporate use!" This is good progress already.
The next step in the progression is, "Well, it might be great, but I would still stick to Windows". You will be able to identify the speaker at that point, he's most likely the one with the huge IT budget.
In the meantime, IT consultants are having to defend the use of free, or open source software. We are often asked to justify its use based on Total Cost of Ownership (TCO, whatever that means). Comparing the two is like attempting to compare between soccer and cricket based on some criteria – the duration of the matches may be!
How can one compare the costs or for that matter the benefits of two such complete anti-theses?
The transition from a closed source proprietary model to the free source community-based model is a complete philosophy shift.
One of these days the corporate sector has to acknowledge the need to make strategic decisions based on unquantifiable subjectives as against quantitative indices of doubtful effectiveness.
When you ponder a shift in your IT structure, you must do so at a conceptually higher level than cost. The reason is that most of the tangible costs and benefits of a shift to the free source model may not be evident immediately.
These TCO studies can only be done post-shift not pre-shift. Suppose they calculated the TCO of Libert, Egalit and Fraternit, as opposed to the Ancient Regime while deciding to support the revolution?
The first advantage of free software is its recognition of the fact that it is illogical to believe that good engineers concentrate only at certain preferred location(s) (read companies) on this good earth.
The community is not lacking in talent and if the corporate sector acknowledges this and uses that pool of talent in it's immediate neighborhood, they themselves stand to gain the most.
If they procrastinate and keep arguing over total something of some other things, they will be helplessly mired in a very expensive and more often redundant infrastructure before too long.
The second and possibly more important advantage is that " Free is more secure. " By this I mean that a work of software gets more secure when it's source is open to peer scrutiny and modifications.
The more the software that controls my life-blood, my business, looks like a veritable black box, the more uncomfortable I get. The more the vendor tells me that they know my needs better than I do, the more nervous I should get.
The third advantage is the way Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) are handled. The free software world takes a much more rational and mature approach to the whole business, by not making a criminal out of unsuspecting individuals going about their daily grind.
The business managers already have a lot to consider without adding licensing woes and restricting guidelines. These considerations and expenses add no value whatever to the core of your business.
Finally, we come to the issue most often raised by the detractors of free software. They tell you that there is no free software proven enough and - hold your breath - secure enough to serve the corporate needs.
That is more often than not, a conclusion reached by testing a default installation of a Linux distribution and the default MySQL database. Here again you can see a philosophy shift. Free software is all about unlimited freedom in your available options and choices.
You are in no way restricted to any default install. You can hire a consultant to customize this default install to make it as fast and as secure as you want it to be. You can then propagate the "distribution" across your infrastructure.
Talk about TCO, you have just paid a one time fee to have your own operating system and database engine that is yours to keep and install and redistribute through your organization at will. You should consider adding the potential and flexibility that free source affords. Are you comfortable paying exorbitant prices for a computer platform, only to ensure that it can be setup and managed by poorly trained staff and technician " wanna - be's?
If you are ready to investigate the application of free source in your business, please ensure you are getting the whole and proper story and the right perspective – TCO or no TCO.
The author is Managing Director, Tathya Dot Com Pvt.Ltd.
Tathya Bags Outsourced Programming Contract with Israeli Company
December 27, 2002
Tathya Dot Com Pvt Ltd. announced today that the company is going to sign a contract for providing Outsourced Programming services to the Israel based Global Entertainment Services (GES). The details of the contract are still being finalized between the two companies. The CEO, Tathya Dot Com, hoped that the contract would possibly come into effect starting 1st January 2003.
Tathya will start working on the contract by writing a Windows based disk encryption utility that GES plans to market in the second quarter of 2003. The company will also take over development and maintenance of a P2P project that GES has been developing for some time.
The CEO has also commented on this being a direct and early result of the company's new initiative - from October, 2002 - in client acquisition and also stated that Tathya is confidently poised towards proceeding energetically towards the goal of expanding the Outsourced Programming business of the company much further in the coming months.
On the other hand, he has also stated that the company has made significant investments in its India based development center to prepare it for a large number of fresh long-term outsourcing clients. The company is also on a major recruitment drive at its Indian center and the CEO feels that the company will soon be ready for much larger and complex projects than they are handling currently.
Few words about Linux
Computer Tathya O Projukti, December, 2002
Linus Torvalds, the father of Linux, while still a student, discovered a powerful operating system written in C language - Linux - which won him instant recognition and fame.
An outstanding feature of this system is that you can copy and incorporate any change you wish for in this multi-user, multitasking system. And this is exactly what makes Linux the first choice of developers and even hardware companies. Everyone, from Dell to IBM is therefore keen to sell machines which already have Linux preinstalled in them. Even in India, Linux rules the arena from Central Excise to the Stock Exchange. And now even Reliance, Air India, IDBI, Times of India, Bombay Dyeing, HDFC have followed suit. The Linux flag is flying high.
But Microsoft has not been just a silent spectator to all this and the visit of Bill Gates proves it. The generous doling out of a hundred million dollars to combat AIDS is not just a Christian act from the world's richest person. Behind the façade of the good Samaritan, Gates is cleverly promoting the interests of Microsoft.
There are already six hundred thousand software developers in India and by the next year the number is going to boom so much so that India will become the Mecca of developers. And it is well known to all that the natural preference of the developer community here will be Linux.
And here in lies the reason behind Bill Gates visit to India. This battle hardened, seasoned big guy of software who had easily crushed every obstacle in his way to the top ranging from Lotus to Netscape tasted his first defeat in the hands of Linux. And remember, he's not a man to give up easily. And therefore the wooing of the Indian community, therefore the promise to develop windows in the local language, therefore the purported desire to invest in computer training in schools here. Like all other American companies, Gates too has an eye on the great opportunities and promises that the Indian, Pakistani and Chinese markets have to offer.
But the greatest obstacle to implementing Linux by software companies lie in the psyche of the developers themselves. They are wary of using free software to develop their projects. They are afraid to take a chance. But remember: Nothing ventured nothing won. In the words of Sabbir Bhatia, "The greatest risk of life is not taking any risk"
One entrepreneur from West Bengal has shown the courage to step off from the long trodden path of other software entrepreneurs and dared to break away from Microsoft's hug and explore the opportunities that Linux has to offer. The CEO of Tathya Dot Com, Mr. Indranil Mukherjee has by far outshone other entrepreneurs in successfully combining Linux with Apache and Perl to design and develop software projects and has succeeded in completely computerizing the Distance Education Department of the University of Burdwan. It's certainly "One Up to Tathya Dot Com"
In his comment on Microsoft, Richard Stallman, who incidentally was on a visit to India at the time that Bill Gates was here, remarked that the effect of Microsoft on Indian schools would be as harmful as the effect of tobacco on minors.
So ask yourself, why spend thousands on an operating system when you can get it for free? This is what Richard Stallman would ask and that is what all others who have successfully used Linux would ask.
So let us dream of crossing the seemingly insurmountable barriers, and dare to do what seemed inconceivable so long and break away the barriers of our minds and walk into the new vista that Linux has opened up. Indranil Mukherjee has shown you how to do it, draw courage from his success and we are sure that you will not be disappointed.
Linux hits home
December, 2002
KOLKATA has it's own Linux success story. For quite some time now, Tathya Dot Com has been at the forefront of the effort to bring affordable, innovative, customized free software to government departments and corporates, locally and abroad. They are the champions of Linux. A recent example is Tathya's partnership with the University of Burdwan for the computerization and automation of the Directorate of correspondence course. Burdwan has stepped in to cater to the needs of those students who, for various reasons, are unable to take advantage of the University's regular academic programmes. At least 25,000 students enroll every session – a testimony to the great demand for a vital service. Students from neighboring states too join distance-learning course. As is obvious, this call for mammoth logistical organization.
Tathya developed a software system using a combination of publicly- available free software like Apache. MySQL and Perl on a Linux server for Rs. 2.5 lakh – one-tenth the cost quoted by companies who do not use Linux.
If such a large operation had to be developed using only non- free software, then the cost would have been prohibitive for Burdwan. By using free software, university authorities now have access to a world-class system at a fraction of the price.
According to Indranil Mukherjee, CEO of Tathya Dot Com, "free software provides extremely high quality service that helps to empower those communities that are priced out by the fat cats of the IT industry. The most innovative idea free software proponents bring into the IT sector is that of 'copyleft' as opposed to the existing 'Copyright'.
It is a vision constructed around the social reality of India and software and system requirements are not seen as mere pieces of technology outside the prevailing social conditions. The drive of Tathya is to become an innovative partner in the IT requirements of the client, a strategy that should open up the monopolistic tendencies of Microsoft and those who insist on using Windows. "I feel the reason behind the popularity of Linux is its simplicity, flexibility and power," says Mukherjee. "Linux is our future, get ready for it."
PowerCart is Ready
November 27, 2002
Tathya has been developing a shopping cart program that could be a powerful skeleton application to deploy an Internet Shopping Cart system easily and rapidly customize it to add any conceivable feature. PowerCart is the culmination of these efforts.
While there are many comparable products in the market, none offer such in-built customizability. This system has been developed primarily with the developers in mind who want maximum customizability to the extent that they would like to be able to tweak the code itself to add features. This is easy with PowerCart because of its strictly modular code structure and since it uses Perl that is a powerful Rapid Application Development language. PowerCart requires a Linux/FreeBSD/UNIX server with Perl, Apache and MySQL installed. A Windows version is in the pipeline.
PowerCart will currently be used by the in-house developers to build and deploy Internet shopping cart applications rapidly for the clients. However, the company also intends to sell it to developers at some later date.
Tathya has a win over Bengal
Ganashakti, August 15, 2001
"Bengalis have apathy to business!!!" This statement is often made a tag with Bengalis. However, the critics stating this must have been unaware of the existence of Tathya Dot Com Pvt. Ltd. Being successful with flying colors, the professor of statistics in Burdwan University, Indranil Mukherjee dared to dream and with full determination to make it a reality, in the year 1997, he established Tathya, initially with a single PC (386).
Under the proprietorship of Ajanta Ghosh, Tathya was born to walk into brilliant future. With sincerity and brilliance, the staff of Tathya skipped the pace of time in making it emerge as a prosperous institution.
And to keep pace with the growth, the infrastructure too, had to be widened, with a bold decision; Prof. Mukherjee resigned from the university and indulged in full time basis, in the growth of Tathya.
Then there was no looking back. From the very beginning, Tathya gave prominence to technology. In earlier days, they focussed on software development and then with the rolling time, Tathya entered the vast area of Internet. Dotcom and Portal development was in full swing then, and they took the best possible opportunity of the hype. Tathya emerged in, displayed their technological capabilities and won over all competitions. By this time, they had developed a great deal of skill in working with esteemed overseas clients and their projects.
Although the institution was in full growth in fields of technologies and infrastructure, they preferred not to exhibit their pride and arrogance unlike others. "We know we are not the best, but we know how to improve ourselves". Organizations with a yearly income of about 2 crores, seldom are humble as Tathya is.
Within a short span of 3 years, Tathya Dot Com Pvt. Ltd has been successful in winning over applications from many a prestigious sources, which is rare to such institutions of India and abroad. The projects of USA, Ireland, South Africa, Netherlands and India, at presents count to ten. Included in these are some highly skillful projects for the advancement of West Bengal. Today even though there has been a major slowdown in the world of IT. Tathya Dot Com has still withstood the tempest, by maintaining the joint ventures with America through online links. Besides their e-commerce developments, Tathya sought to offer to the generation of youths, study materials of new science and technology. With preference being given to the upbringing of software professionals of tomorrow, Tathya claims nominal sums to bring out the merits in students, not depending on their financial standards, giving placement opportunities to their students. Tathya is sure to reach the summit of success. Bridging the gap and mounting the ladder of success, Tathya Dot Com Pvt. Ltd considers sky to be the limit.
Kolkata man vs. multinational dragon
Aniruddha Nag
April 24, 2001
Kolkata: It is yet another unfolding story of a dream merchant who dreamt of being a successful entrepreneur. The result is Tathya Dot Com Pvt Ltd – Kolkata's leading solution provider-cum-education center for budding software professionals is cutting edge technologies.
At a time when multinational software dragon is breathing fire on domestic tech firms, a software firm is gearing up to face competition from its Kolkata office. Indranil Mukherjee C.E.O of Tathya, started his career as a Lecturer of statistics at Burdwan University where he learnt of the sordid condition of students – after completing their MSc, they roam aimlessly and beg for clerical jobs.
That's when he decided to start a software Company that will provide jobs to his students. Tathya was set up in late 1997 as a proprietorship firm belonging to Ajanta Ghosh, under the technical guidance of Indranil Mukherjee, then attached with Burdwan University.It started with a PC owned by Indranil and a dial-up Internet Connection.
Indranil says; "I quit my job in October 1997 and joined as a CEO in Tathya. After that there was no looking back. We almost started from scratch and now our turnover is around Rs.1 crore."
After a brief stint in developing PC-based solutions for surveyors, the company decided to make forays into the Internet development market which was blooming at the time with portals and dotcoms coming up in dozens. Starting with only five, Tathya now boasts of a staff strength of 26 and huge array of hi-tech equipments all of which materialized due to reinvestment.
What is unique in Tathya? Indranil says, "We are not only engaged in developing e-commerce solutions and dynamic DNS server. We have also started grooming a number of young persons who are being encouraged to open their own software companies and become self-employed. We are providing them on the job training against a nominal fee."
Asked about his leisure hours, Indranil blinks but manages to say, " My only regret is that I have no time to spend with my family because I don't have any leisure hours. I only observe the rollover of day and night through my window. Like many Bengalis I love to indulge in adda. But now I have lost all contacts with my friends. If I get time, I read Bengali novels. Books help me relax after a hectic schedule which start at 8 am and continues till night."
What are his future plans? "To encourage the future generation to start with software business. For which I am ready to help them to any extent. Moreover, I like to popularize free software commonly known, as Linux I believe is more user- friendly and powerful than windows. The hype has been created by vendors and media but to start with meagre resources Linux is the best bet", Indranil says with a dash of confidence.