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There is a continuous rise in Indian founded tech companies in the U.S. These companies have received accolades for their successful

efforts in leveraging new technologies for strengthening the economy. Indian-Americans not only have a major impact on startups, but also on the overall business climate in the U.S. These companies are not only expanding in terms of business, but also collectively generating employment opportunities for people in the country. From providing solutions to consulting, these companies have shown massive investments

in R&D, creating significant buzz in the CIO circles and also moving ahead in the market.

With an aim to be of assistance in locating such companies, siliconindia presents siTech 2015, a list of 20 Most Promising Technology Companies founded by Indians in the U.S, involved in addressing the current enterprises needs and which have the potential to be or are already market leaders. A distinguished panel comprising of expert Indian CEOs of public firms, VCs, CXOs, analysts, and siliconindia editorial board have selected these companies, which we believe will prove to be the best choice specific to your requirements.

20 Most Promising Technology Companies 2015

Company:Azur Global, Inc.

Description:A technology and management consulting firm offering IT solutions and services, management consulting, and CRM, ERP, and analytics solutions

Key Person:Ranghan Venkataraman,Founder and CEO

Website:www.azur-global.com

Editor-in- Chief

Azur Global, Inc.

Managing EditorPradeep Shankar

recognized by Magazine as

The annual listing of siTech20 represents not only the glory of 20 high value Technology Companies founded or managed by Indians in U.S.

but also recognizes companies impacting the marketplace

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the companies focused on leveraging SMAC (Social, Mobile, Analytics and Cloud) to transform from “brick and mortar” to “digital”. Azur enables forward-thinking companies take the next logical step to start using emerging technology to re-imagine all business processes for a digital era. “The digital era not only makes big bets possible but is the force that is driving innovation and new opportunities by bringing every object, consumer, and activity into the core business realm,” remarks Ranghan Venkatraman, founder and CEO. At the same time, leading businesses are making similar changes within their enterprises by digitizing every employee, process, product, and service. Azur is passionate about enabling a new digital business model that shifts the focus from selling things to selling results by leveraging the embedded software intelligence into every aspect of its business to drive new levels of operational efficiency, evolution, and innovation. “Azur wants to ensure they take their clients from “good to great” and those high performers that want to position themselves at the center of the emerging digital ecosystems,” says Ranghan.

The company is well positioned to be that partner of choice helping clients take a fresh look at their digital strategies from the dual lens of business and technology. Azur works with its clients to reimagine data by moving them from simple analysis and reporting into the world of HADOOP (for Big Data) to offer highly flexible and drill down reporting and analysis of their vast amounts of data. The company is also passionate about applying Big Data to help its clients thrive in the omni-channel world by making sure their consumers have a refreshing and unified

Azur GlobalEnabling Companies Transition from Being a Player to Game Changer

Trends keep changing. IT leaders across Retail, Manufacturing, HiTech and Telecom industries want to go beyond improving efficiencies and staying competitive to disrupt their marketplace

through technology adoption. A single idea or technology will no longer be the key to achieve their goal; they need a partner who can help deal with their big problems in their transition phase towards becoming a market disruptor. Azur, a Chicago, IL based company can be that partner of choice whose goal is to work on the hard and challenging problems faced by its clients by empowering them to ‘Change the Game’ instead of merely focusing on the status quo ‘Play the Game’ and ‘Stay in the Game’ strategies.

It was a trend not long before where most of

Ranghan Venkatraman

Being passionately curious, our workforce and the urge to find appropriate solutions for the customers are the core aspects that truly defines us

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experience. “Regardless of the channel the companies take to communicate and disseminate data, we ensure that their information is completely safe and appropriate for their business,” affirms Ranghan. “We help our clients move from having mere insights into their datasets towards actionable insights and ultimately point of action insights,” he adds.

With the staggering growth of IoT, enterprises are looking for opportunities and platforms to improve their supply chain, inventory turnaround times, personalized services and seamless customer experience. Azur complements this need of companies by aiding them to harness the benefits of inexpensive computing power, energy-efficient technology and wireless transmission protocols to create a reliable network.

Furthermore, Azur’s Business Process Optimization services aid process discovery and scoping, process modeling and design, business rules engine creation, simulation and create process workflows and workflow optimization. These tasks not only capacitate businesses to adapt to a dynamic environment and also allow enterprise-wide free flow of information. Additionally, the Enterprise Change Management service acknowledges the ‘human side’ of a company whenever, it undergoes a major technology or infrastructure change, using a three step approach—Prepare for change, Manage change and Reinforce change. Azur’s Enterprise Change Management, Enterprise and Customer Data Management, and Governance service helps companies design and deploy data management solutions, data security, cleansing, retrieval and monitoring. “Our services also allow high-end, end-to-end SAP, Oracle, PeopleSoft, and Sales Force implementation and also transitions

end user to latest solutions platform to

withstand market competition,” says Ranghan.

Azur is built on a premise

where the people apart from bringing

in expertise and knowledge of working

in IT departments of large corporations

and outsourcing services providers, are also self-

driven and passionate. The acumen and talent of its

laudable staff helps the company provide a balanced view point to customers when it comes to handling and executing business and IT decisions. “Being passionately curious, our workforce and the

urge to find appropriate solutions for the customers to make informed business decisions are the core aspects that truly defines us,” Ranghan adds.

“We are driving with our clients to take them beyond the Total Cost of Ownership into the Total value of relationship. Our partnership begins when

the contract has been signed. Our quest is to secure an A+ rating and be and the gold standard of our industry,” says Ranghan. In the past the company has never settled

for mediocrity and has only set high standards in the market by assisting customers to break the compromises they have gotten used to and steering businesses towards success and profitability. “We love to work with our clients and jointly paint and create a vision for their future,” he concludes.

Customer experience is paramount to the success of our company. We believe in

giving actionable insights to customers, which in turn boosts customer satisfaction