EPiSERVER launches Asia Pacific business hub in Bangalore – India

Oct. 4, 2007 - PRLog -- Bangalore,– EPiServer, the world’s fastest growing Web Content Management Company today announces the launch of its Asia Pacific business operations.

“Our India office is an essential part of EPiServer’s global expansion strategy and shows our commitment to partners and customers in emerging markets in Asia. The Indian office will support our global system integrators and solutions partners in Asia, Middle East and American markets”, says Mikael Runhem – Founder & CTO of EPiServer AB. “In addition to this we have established a R&D team in Bangalore to support the development organization in Europe and continue the expansion of our product offering into new areas”, he added.

In addition to 2000 customers and 2900 worldwide installations, EPiServer has gathered marquee customers in India, such as NASSCOM and the Knowledge Management Community of Bangalore. Empowering global solution partners like Satyam, EPiServer is currently targeting the mid-market segment with their community and Web 2.0 functionality, which are in great demand worldwide. “We see an increasing demand for advanced web platforms such as our EPiServer CMS. Along with the Web 2.0 ideas and our own Warm Website initiative, customers like to get closer to their website visitors and serve them in new ways” informed Mikael. He said, “Our India team will be a key factor in our strategies to enhance these possibilities”. EPiServer is looking to partner with around 40 partners within the first year of operations.

Commenting on the launch of EPiServer in India, Sangeeta Gupta, Vice President from NASSCOM said, “We have been using EPiServer CMS platform and found unmatched co-operation, ease of use and a product of great standard, which has a lot of potential in India”.  

Sunny Ghosh, who joins EPiServer India as the President added, “We know that there are more than one thousand web projects that are delivered to customers in Europe every day; the demand exceeds the supply when it comes to delivering these projects. We plan to narrow this gap with the help of our large Indian partners and we foresee that India will need 300 EPiServer developers in the next 18months.” To facilitate this growth, EPiServer is simultaneously offering EPiServer Training and Certification program in India.

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Founded and established in 1994, headquartered in Stockholm Sweden, EPiServer CMS is the world’s fastest growing Web Content Management Company. With a product development and research center in Stockholm Sweden, 200 active partner companies worldwide, 50,000 Editors, 1500 projects every year and 2000 active developers within the community, EPiServer delivers their content management platform through their very competent partner network.

Website: www.episerver.com