Infospectrum Acquires EKA Technologies Inc., A Leader in Geo-Tagging solutions for GIS applications

Feb. 20, 2013 - PRLog -- Agoura Hills, CA – Infospectrum, a leader in Real Time Location based Asset Tracking solutions and a provider of Enterprise Asset Management,  Maintenance, Repair & Overhaul (MRO software solution infoTRAK, announced today that it has acquired Eka Technologies, Inc. (www.ekatechinc.com) the leading provider of Geo-tagging Products and Solutions in the GIS space. The acquisition will allow Asset owners and field personnel to enhance work-flow and get visible confirmation of their Asset status, Location and Maintenance needs (predictive, planned and condition based) in  REAL-TIME. The combined offering will provide an end-to-end solution for geo-tagging, tracking, managing and maintaining of all Assets in a single application.

Commenting on the acquisition, Suresh Iyer (Founder & CEO,  Infospectrum) said “There are some really exciting possibilities for our customers when we leverage mobile Asset tracking technology combined with the existing capabilities of our complex Asset management and maintenance solution. Infospectrum has now acquired the know-how and the products to integrate geo-tagged and data-tagged photographs of Assets within infoTRAK suite of applications.  In addition, our real-time Asset monitoring solutions will include both indoor and outdoor Assets. We have been considering a move like this as part of our product road map and the acquisition of Eka Technologies, Inc., has accelerated our ability to deliver such functionality to the market.”

“This acquisition offers a tremendous opportunity for Eka Technologies, Inc. and Infospectrum, to leverage our respective technologies and expand market opportunities.  Eka has been at the forefront of providing innovative products, technologies, and solutions to enable workflow in the field of photo-GIS.  This, combined with the vast experience of Infospectrum in the field of Asset Tracking and Maintenance will be an attractive value proposition to our Customers.”   said Arun Madhav, Founder and CEO of Eka.

infoTRAK  

infoTRAK is a web based solution that can be deployed on an intranet/extranet within the Enterprise or as an “on-demand” Software as a Service (SaaS) hosted model. Used by Asset owners/operators & maintenance providers it supports their need to plan, predict, monitor  and perform maintenance on the Asset as recommended by the OEM.

infoTRAK LTM

infoTRAK-LTM  is a web based real time Asset tracking software using GPRS and LBS and most recently Wi-Fi to provide information about the Asset and a huge range of tracking parameters such as mileage, temperature, geo-position, etc.

About Infospectrum

Infospectrum offers solutions and services to companies and Government entities that own, operate, maintain, repair and overhaul high value Assets. The suite of infoTRAK solutions facilitate efficient management of all product lifecycle phases, including product build, operation, maintenance, repair and overhaul with full configuration management and costing capabilities.  Infospectrum solutions are live at many leading MRO organizations. infoTRAK LTM solutions offer real-time tracking and monitoring of Assets for Fleet management, AVL and other M2M applications.  Infospectrum is a privately held company, headquartered in Agoura Hills, California, with European offices in Moss, Norway and development facilities in Chennai, India. For more information about Infospectrum, visit www.info-spectrum.com or for more information about the infoTRAK suite, visit www.infoTRAKsolutions.com

About Eka

Eka Technologies, Inc., is a leader in geo-tagging products and solutions for the imaging industry.  Eka offers innovative GPS based products and solutions that have been widely accepted by several customers to enable their photo GIS based workflow applications.    Eka Technologies, Inc. is a privately held company headquartered in Thousand Oaks, California. For more information about Eka, visit www.ekatechinc.com

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Media Contact:

Suresh Iyer
Infospectrum
818.874.9226
suresh@info-spectrum.com

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