Contus (company)
Private | |
Industry | IT Services |
Founded | 2008 |
Headquarters | Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India |
Area served | Worldwide |
Key people |
Sriram Manoharan (Managing Director) |
Website |
www |
Contus is a technology company which primarily provides mobile, web, and Cloud based solutions.[1] The company is headquartered at Chennai, India. Contus is a member of NASSCOM,[2] and the Confederation of Indian Industry.
History
The company was founded in March, 2008[1] by Sriram Manoharan and 6 of his friends.[3][4]
Operations
Contus is headquartered in Chennai, India with regional headquarters in California, United States. As of February 2014, they have 150 employees in their Chennai division.[5] They have customers in about 40 countries.[6] Their primary service of mobile application development and web products is being used by around 20,000+ users worldwide. Contus manages the entire sales process using vtiger CRM,[7] logging all communications in it.
Services
Mobile application development
Contus started as a technology company doing mobile application development.[8] as the primary service. The company’s customers include Mahindra & Mahindra Limited, Dr. Reddy's Laboratories, Cbazaar, Nato Otan, Jabong.com, and Exemplarr. Contus has developed mobile applications such as Spurfy, MobeCommerce, StuffDot, FilmKings, Life Saver, Group Clone, Win Maps.[5][9]
Web application development
Contus has been developing web applications under categories such as eCommerce, content management systems, social networking, open source servicing, enterprise solutions.[10]
Products
Apptha
Contus' product store ‘Apptha’ has been developed by them for extensions and plugins on open-source platforms such as Magento, Joomla, WordPress, Prestashop.[11] Apptha has launched 150 products on these platforms and is still working on to develop more products.
Mobecommerce
Mobecommerce is a mobile based platform for e-commerce for mobile users. In 2011, Contus was awarded by Esparks for its product Mobecommerce.[12][13]
Growth
After the first product HD FLV Player launch in 2009,[14] Contus moved to a 100 desk office in 2010. In 2011, Contus’ MobeCommerce was given an award for eCommerce startups in India by ESparks.[12] following which a full version of MobeCommerce was released. In August 2013 the company was named one of the top 10 small and medium enterprises in India by Google and FICCI.[15] Contus achieved a turnover of 70 million rupees in 2013-14.[4]
References
- 1 2 "Start-ups" Retrieved 10 January 2014
- ↑ "Nasscom","Nasscom Lists Contus"
- ↑ "Interview with Sriram Manoharan", Retrieved 6 December 2013
- 1 2 "Turn of fate makes an athlete setup an IT firm", Deccan Chronicle Retrieved 9 June 2014
- 1 2 "Economic Times. India Times","How Sriram Manoharan’s Contus became Rs 5 crore web venture" Retrieved 2 December 2013
- ↑ "Contus Gunning For The Top Spot" CIO Review, Retrieved 21 February 2014
- ↑ "Software Advice","Case-study -vtiger "
- ↑ "JontusMedia","Srimano Talks On Mobile App Development "
- ↑ "Whatech","Contus - As Per best web development Company " Retrieved 25 February 2014
- ↑ "Business World","The Apps Business "
- ↑ "Contus' New Marketplace-Apptha","Contus to launch new marketplace-Apptha" Retrieved 12 April 2014
- 1 2 "Killer Startups","A Model to Work through Challenges" Retrieved 14 August 2012
- ↑ "Killer Startups","Mobecommerce.net - Have a mobile Store"
- ↑ "Contus Support launched HD FLV Player","Contus Support launched HD FLV Player""Retrieved 21 July 2009"
- ↑ "Google, FICCI Felicitates Contus","One of the top 10 SME's - Contus, by Google,FICCI. "Retrieved 22 August 2013"